Friday, January 17, 2020

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  Australian Food News



  • FoodLegal has announced its next FoodLegal workshop on #TrendingClaims, in both Sydney & Melbourne. The workshop should be of great interest to all food marketers, product...
  • 2019 Australian Masterchef winner Larissa Takchi has collaborated with the world’s best mustard, Maille to create the world’s first black forest mustard macaron which will...

    • Tim Tam,Australia’s number one chocolate biscuit, is bringing the flavours of Australia and New Zealand into a new range of biscuits that will be available in stores nationwide...

  • Does life after death really exist?  The answer to this question has fundamental implications for every man, woman and child on the entire planet, and yet most people don’t spend...
  • In recent years, so many Americans have become completely obsessed with the ups and downs of the political world, but meanwhile our nation as a whole continues to swirl even further...

    • “Blue moons” don’t come along very often, and many are wondering if the “blue moon” that we will witness just 3 days before the presidential election in November is significant...

  • NBCUniversal has entered the streaming race, bringing NBC shows, big movies and even the Olympics to cord cutters. We have the full rundown (including what you get for free)...
  • The filmmaker's show Lost Vegas features digital art and pieces specifically designed for the Neon Museum. The exhibition has been extended through April 12...

    • The Neon Museum has extended "Lost Vegas," an exhibition curated by the filmmaker, through April 12.

      Dandelion Salad



  • by Michael Parenti Writer, Dandelion Salad Originally published August 29, 2013 January 17, 2020 The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington—in which Rev. Martin Luther King...
  • by Rainer Shea Writer, Dandelion Salad Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, Jan. 13, 2019 January 16, 2020 Being anti-war does not equate to being anti-imperialist. Being...

    • by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy January 14, 2020 South Korea cannot choose to make peace with North Korea without the consent of a foreign power that...

  • On top of everything else that has happened so far in 2020, a very mysterious “SARS-like virus” that doctors have never seen before is causing grave concern among global health...
  • There has never been a time in modern human history when our planet has been changing as rapidly as it is changing right now.  The sun is behaving very strangely, freakishly cold weather...

    • When we get to a point where literally just about everything can be done more cheaply and more efficiently by robots, the elite won’t have any use for the rest of us at all.  For most...

  • Tim Anderson’s Axis of Resistance takes on the leftist position of ‘a plague on all your houses’. Yassin Al-Haj Saleh, ‘the intellectual The post Axis Of Resistance...
  • By Dr Nazir Ahmad Mir* In its ‘Naya Pakistan’ poll manifesto, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had stated that they The post Pakistan Media Under Stress: Imran Fails...

    • By Cole Baker On August 2019, a gunman entered a Walmart in El Paso, Texas and opened fire, killing 22 people. In The post The Growing Threat Of Ecofascism – OpEd appeared first...

  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org While many are going about their daily routines, huge swaths of the world are being permanently transformed by unprecedented wildfires...
  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The climate science community is increasingly calling for massive global climate engineering / solar radiation management operations...

    • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The new year has arrived, a renewed power structure push for global conflict has come with it. Each passing day on our planet is increasingly...

  • Iran has issued a warning against Greece, saying that it will retaliate if the United States attacks the Islamic Republic using its military bases on Greek soil. It is the first time...
  • There was chaos in the Sudanese capital Khartoum yesterday, as hundreds of members of Sudan’s intelligence agency staged an armed uprising against the country’s new government...

    • In a move that surprised observers, the intelligence chiefs of Turkey and Syria —two bitter rivals in the ongoing Syrian civil war— met in Russia on Monday. The meeting was held...

      Joniopolis



  •           A common complaint on my childhood report cards is that I talk too much. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?  Okay, of course you can believe it. This chatty tendency of mine has bugged...

  • Heads Up

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  •           Every year there’s a funniest, weirdest, or most treasured Christmas or Hanukah present, right?  This year our son, Brandon, had been telling a client about his...

    • I don’t get why I have to have a rodent-themed Christmas. Last time I told you our new tradition was having a surgery-themed Christmas. But the longer tradition involves rats and...

  • Sci-fi magazine pulls story by trans writer after ‘barrage of attacks’ Alison Flood, Nazi Groon, Jan 17 2020 A science fiction story that repurposed the transphobic meme “I...
  • Nul points for Britain in the EU revision bong contest Fintan O’Toole, Nazi Groon, Jan 17 2020 There will be no chimes at midnight. Anglican vicars have declined the suggestions...

    • Top Brazilian paper reveals Bolsonaro government’s terror plot against Venezuela Ben Norton, The Grayzone, Jan 17 2020 Brazil’s right-wing government helped support military...

      Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service



  • Bijal Brahmbhatt is Director, Mahila Housing Trust The post Empowering Women in Poor Communities & Building Resilience Against Climate Pressure appeared first on Inter Press...
  • Nepal’s future may not be in hydropower, as most assume, but actually in the dung heap. A new industrial-scale biogas plant near Pokhara has proved that livestock and farm waste...

    • The United States and 18 other UN member states have come under fire for denying a woman’s legitimate right to “bodily autonomy”—the right to self-governance over one’s...

  • Trump just added two prominent lawyers to his impeachment defense team. Is this the A Team? WASHINGTON — President Trump plans on adding former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr...
  • Robotics have simplified many processes for decades, but recent advancements are allowing businesses to use robots in far more applications than ever before. One such innovation...

    • The people who care for America’s elderly face numerous challenges daily, and getting paid for the labor they’ve performed shouldn’t be one of them. However, according to...

  • Selena Gomez is back, and she’s vying, again, for a number one hit this week with Rare. It’s been rightfully hailed as her best work yet, and it’s basically like listening...
  • The Green New Deal, the climate-change-fighting policy framework proposed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) nearly a year ago, laid down bold...

    • On January 3, after U.S. military drones assassinated Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Donald Trump began fumbling toward war with Iran, Sen. Bernie Sanders posted an anti-war...

  • It was the allied deception that coerced Germany into the Versailles Treaty that made WWII inevitable.
  • There is no doubt that truth is an endangered species. It has always been endangered, but the technology today provides control powers even beyond George Orwell's imagination...

    • The high tensions caused by Washington between the US and Iran are to blame for the Ukrainian airliner that was shot down.

  • A team of researchers working at Google's Mountain View research center has developed a new weather forecasting model that allows for near 'instantaneous' forecast, as shared by...
  • A new eruption started at Fernandina volcano (Cerro La Cumbre), Galapagos, Ecuador on January 12, 2020. The last eruption of this volcano took place from June 16 to 18, 2018. The island...

    • Taal volcano in the Philippines started erupting at 06:04 UTC on January 12, 2020, for the first time since 1977. The volcanic ash cloud is reaching up to 16.7 km (55 000 feet) above sea...

    WebMD Health



  • Research has shown that young men with fevers had increases in their resting heart rate of about 8.5 beats per minute (bpm) for about every 2-degree Fahrenheit increase in body temperature...
  • The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any developed country, and African American women like Kira are overly affected

    • Many of the donor kidneys that are discarded each year in the United States could instead be effectively transplanted, a large new study suggests.

      WhoWhatWhy

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