Wednesday, November 21, 2018

21 November - iGoogle Portal Tab 11

These are the feeds followed since they were on oldephartte.myopera.com


  • SURGING to scale-up from start-up, Australian drink maker Nexba is open to a distribution deal with one of the world’s beverage giants.
  • ALDI employees will have access each year to ten days of paid family and domestic violence leave as the retailer takes a stand to help drive societal change to prevent violence against...

    • RESEARCHERS are calling for screening of vulnerable older adults at risk of poor nutrition and diminished physical performance, in an effort to identify those in need of dietary...

  • What gives you a sense of meaning and purpose in life?  That may seem like a very unusual question, but I believe that it is a very important one considering how deeply unhappy our society...
  • Job cuts and layoffs are coming fast and furious now as the U.S. economy really starts to slow down.  We haven’t seen anything like this since 2008, when millions of Americans lost...

    • Have you ever had a day when your children were crying due to hunger but the cupboards were completely bare and your bank account was empty?  If you haven’t, you should consider yourself...

  • For 24 hours, you can save $23 on Activision's contender for the next big battle royale game.
  • All of Apple's new iPhones, including the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X, leave off the headphone jack. With that in mind, here's a look at several top wireless Bluetooth headphones...

    • We're tracking the best smart-home bargains from Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Fry's, Target and more. Here's our full list -- including the deals you can buy right now. Expect regular...

      Dandelion Salad



  • by Paul Street Writer, Dandelion Salad The Official Website of Paul Street November 21, 2018 “Your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings… are… a thin veil to cover...
  • Dandelion Salad “Ordinary acts of capitalism are criminal in nature. Deliberately pouring mercury into indigenous peoples’ water basins, for decades, consciously poisoning...

    • by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy November 19, 2018 WorldBeyondWar.org on Nov 18, 2018 Remarks in Dublin, Ireland, Nov. 18, 2018 Transcript: Remarks...

  • Thanksgiving week was not supposed to be like this.  Normally things are slow in the days leading up to Thanksgiving as investors prepare to gorge themselves with turkey and stuffing...
  • These large stock market declines are starting to become a regular thing, and tech stocks are getting hit particularly hard.  But we have been in a bull market for such a long time that...

    • Oil, copper and lumber are all telling us the exact same thing, and it isn’t good news for the global economy.  When economic activity is booming, demand for commodities such as...

      Eurasia Review



  • The Afghan government and its allies are winning battles in Afghanistan but not the war. The Afghan war started as
  • As fertility rates decline and lifespans stretch longer, societies struggle to control and make retirement benefits fair. By Joseph Chamie*

    • On November 6, while chairing a meeting of the Commission for Military Technology Cooperation with Foreign States, Russian President Vladimir

  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The true character of governments is becoming ever more visible as the walls begin to crumble on all sides. The climate engineering continues...
  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The “Camp Fire” is now officially the most destructive wildfire in California history. This is a tragic fact following an entire...

    • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Newly elected California governor Gavin Newsom has had to declare state of emergency due to the latest unprecedented firestorms...

  • Norway’s supreme legislature body is considering a bill that would offer immunity from prosecution to intelligence officers and informants who are authorized by the country’s...
  • Twenty-five members of the European Union have agreed to establish a joint intelligence training academy, a move interpreted by some as a concrete effort to deepen inter-European...

    • An undercover Israeli team that clashed with Hamas in Gaza on November 11 —an incident that brought the region to the brink of war— was installing an advanced surveillance system...

      Joniopolis



  •           Quick quiz: When was Joni most likely to get caught breaking a law? Answer: When she took a Sharpie pen over to the local high school at night, and corrected the punctuation...

  • Coming To

    8 days ago
  •           You know I recently had a mastectomy. You know I find comedy in almost everything. And you know major surgery is usually done with anesthetic.  This, my friends, is the...

  • Post-Halloween Irony

    15 days ago

    •           Have you gobbled up all your Halloween candy, yet? (Note my Thanksgiving reference, now that it’s November.)          First, I want to wish a Happy Birthday today...

  • China building on new reef in South China Sea, think tank says Reuters, Nov 21 2018 BEIJING – China has installed a new platform on a remote part of the Paracel Islands in the disputed...
  • ‘Obvious threat’: Russian officials warn Poland not to proceed with permanent Pindo military base RT.com, Nov 21 2018 Poland’s Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak confirmed...

    • Israeli consulate goes after RT America reporter over Gaza tweets RT.com, Nov 21 2018 The Israeli consulate in Boston has sent angry messages to an RT Pindostan reporter following...

      Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service



  • Mahawa Kaba Wheeler is Director for the Women, Gender and Development Directorate, Bureau of the Chairperson, at the African Union CommissionThe post Women Must be at the Heart of...
  • Economic inequality – involving both income and wealth concentration – has risen in nearly all world regions since the 1980s. Gross economic inequalities moderated for much...

    • I recently connected with Felix Dodds and a colleague of his Chris Tomkins about the development around how the Blue Economy prior to the Kenya Government’s international conference...

  • WASHINGTON — President Trump is surrounded by fools. There’s that fool William H. McRaven, Special Operations commander of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and the other...
  • Statement from President Donald J. Trump on the Fifth Avenue Shooting America First! The world is a very dangerous place! I have created millions of jobs, raked in trillions of dollars...

    • The post Cartoon: Trump’s Thanksgiving Pardon appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

  • Utah is one of the reddest states in the country, but not too red to embrace the kind of redistricting reform pushed by progressive voting-rights advocates around the country. After...
  • This story was originally published by the Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US East Coast has been provided a firsthand reminder of...

    • You’ve heard the stereotype: Canadians, bless ’em, are the politest of people. When we Americans think about (ah-boot?) our neighbors to the north, we often think they profusely...

  • Energy Transitions Commission http://www.energy-transitions.org/mission-possible [Axios] Officials from several oil, power and industrial giants say in a new analysis that...
  • Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis/ by David Schlissel and Dennis Wamsted https://bit.ly/2A6B4z7 [Politico’s Morning Energy] Carbon-capture and storage...

    • Niskanen Center https://bit.ly/2qRoi34 [Executive Summary] This policy analysis develops a rationale for a carbon tax based on two key insights from the work of Ronald Coase. The...

      RSS Feed for Author: Paul Craig Roberts



  • For eight years Julian Assange's life has been lived in a Kafka Police State. He has been incarcerated first under British house arrest and then in the Ecuadoran Embassy in London...
  • When the Southern states seceded, they were concerned to do so legally or constitutionally under the Constitution so that the North could not legally claim that it was an act of rebellion...

    • If you are a top ability student, but white, especially white male, you have scant chance of being admitted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Penn...

      Unexplained Mysteries



  • SpaceX' upcoming BFR or 'Big Falcon Rocket' has been renamed to reflect its lofty interplanetary ambitions. Designed to be a fully reusable launch veh...
  • Two members of a British music group are planning to build a pyramid out of bricks containing human ashes. The peculiar endeavour is the brainchild of...

    • For thousands of years, termites have been constructing a vast network of mounds in northeastern Brazil. The monumental structure, which dates back at...

      The Watchers - Editor's Picks



  • A large waterspout formed near the coast of Marmaris, southern Turkey on November 21, 2018. At least one boat sank and more were destroyed in the mooring area. There were no reports...
  • Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico is showing signs of increased activity since November 19, 2018. The Alert Level remains at Yellow, Phase Two (middle level on a three-color scale)...

    • A severe storm produced spectacular waves across the Canary Islands over the weekend, especially on the northern coast of Tenerife where dozens of people have been evacuated from...

  • Healthy people usually recover from E. coli within five to seven days, but it can last longer -- and even be deadly -- for already-vulnerable people who are elderly or have chronic disease...
  • Traveler's diarrhea is the most common travel-related illness, the FDA says, affecting up to 40% of travelers worldwide annually.

    • Smoking among teens dropped off dramatically after e-cigarette use became more widespread in 2013, according to one new study. This is counter to previous arguments that electronic...

  • Trump Statement on Standing With Saudi Arabia ; Julian Assange Isn’t Worth It ...and More Picks 11/21 The post 85,000 Children Under 5 May Have Died of Starvation in Yemen War appeared...
  • It’s been 55 years since JFK was gunned down in Dallas. Russ Baker and two other well-respected researchers discuss what they’ve learned since then — and what remains in the...

    • The first move for the Democratic House may not be subpoenas or investigations, but rather passing voting rights legislation. The post Democratic House’s First Step: Voting Rights...

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