Saturday, April 04, 2020

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  Australian Food News



  • Nestlé Australia has announced it will donate a minimum of $2 million inproducts – $500,000 each fortnight – over the next two months to Australians who need it most. Extending...
  • Australia’s largest specialist messaging provider MessageMedia has today launched a free assistance package to support Australian cafes and restaurants switch to a takeaway...

    • The ACCC will not oppose the proposed acquisition of Jewel Fine Foods (in voluntary administration) by Chef Fresh Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Coles Group. Jewel Fine Foods (Jewel), which...

  • It is starting to look like there will not be a return to normalcy for a very long time.  Even though about half of the world is currently under some sort of a “shelter-in-place”...
  • It wasn’t supposed to happen this rapidly.  It seems like the coronavirus pandemic has been raging in New York for a really long time, but it was only just over a month ago when the...

    • More than 1,000 Americans died from the coronavirus on Wednesday.  As you will see below, that now makes COVID-19 the third leading cause of death in the United States on a daily basis. ...

  • White noise gets the claim to fame, but you can fall asleep to rainfall, forest sounds and more with these sleep machines.
  • iCloud folder sharing may not sound sexy, but it's the best way to share files if you have an iPhone, iPad or Mac.

    • Here's a look at our most important stories of the week ending April 4.

      Dandelion Salad



  • Dandelion Salad sub.Media on Mar 28, 2020 This April 1st, millions of people won’t be able to afford their rent. But together we can get through this. Reach out to your neighbours...
  • by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation, Apr. 1, 2020 April 2, 2020 Dozens of U.S. government-chartered flights...

    • with Michael Parenti Writer, Dandelion Salad Originally posted Nov. 27, 2011 “And they launch military spending programs that have transformed the United States into a permanent...

      The Economic Collapse



  • Approximately ten million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits over the past two weeks.  To put that in perspective, the all-time record for a single week before...
  • In all of U.S. history, we have never seen a spike in unemployment like we are witnessing right now.  Last Thursday it was announced that more than 3.2 million Americans had filed new...

    • With each passing day, it seems like the forecasts for the rest of 2020 are just getting worse.  Initially, most of the “economic experts” on television were warning that the...

  • The global spread of COVID-19 exposes the strong nationalistic tendency in the European Union and the United States and – The post China’s Medical Diplomacy: How To Turn A Black...
  • Ever since the coronavirus began its alarming global spread, those who work with, and on behalf of prisoners have been The post The Coronavirus And Guantánamo’s Extraordinarily...

    • By Frank G. Hoffman* There are fervent debates today about strategy, especially U.S. grand or national-level strategy.1 The study of grand The post The Missing Element In Crafting...

  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Unprecedented events are rapidly unfolding all over the globe. Is Nature to blame? Or are the primary causal factors directly related...
  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org So many factors are so far past the breaking point. How can we know the true extent of what is unfolding around the world? For so many, the...

    • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org What has happened to our once brilliant blue skies? How many have noticed the change? Why are skies now so often filled with the lingering...

  • The intelligence agencies of Israel are playing an increasingly important role in the Jewish state’s effort to combat the effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic in its territory...
  • The United States Intelligence Community has concluded that the Chinese government intentionally withheld and even fabricated crucial data about infections and deaths from COVID-19...

    • The National Operations Center of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is relocating to an emergency facility after a member of its staff tested positive for COVID-19...

      Joniopolis



  •           I have the absolute best way to ensure social distancing during this pandemic . No joke, this will work every time.  If you can make yourself stinky enough, people will...

  • Ideas R Us

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  •           A couple of weeks ago, before the Coronavirus postponed church meetings,  I got a text request that I’ve never gotten before. I was asked to offer the innovation in Sacrament...

    •           Have any kids who think they’re comedians? Dutiful mom that I am, I called or texted each of my four to see how the Coronavirus was impacting their work.           ...

      Niqnaq



  • NHS staff supplied with out-of-date face masks with stickers over expiry dates Olive Loveridge-Greene, Independent, Apr 4 2020 Two more recent stickers were used to cover the original...
  • the troughers

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  • UK corporations scramble for coronavirus bailout funds Paul Bond, WSWS, Apr 4 2020 The financial measures of governments globally in response to the coronavirus pandemic are laying...
  • shit, meet fan

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    • Deaths from COVID-19 in New York State double in three days Bryan Dyne, WSWS, Apr 4 2020 The number of deaths caused by COVID-19 in New York State has doubled in the past three days, from...

  • Suppose we wanted to estimate how many car owners there are in the UK and how many of those own a Ford Fiesta, but we only have data on those people who visited Ford car showrooms in the last...
  • Martin Khor Kok Peng passed away just after the end of the first quarter of 2020. He leaves behind an unusually rich legacy. Atypically for people mainly working in the worldideas...

    • As the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow, concerns are simultaneously growing about the current and long-term effects this will have on certain demographics — specifically...

  • by Ken Stone Times of San Diego An obscure Washington state group has become the first in the nation to sue Fox News over its coronavirus coverage, asking a state court to keep the cable...
  • Crowds and critical thinking tend not to go hand in hand. That observation has been made by scholars throughout the centuries. Take for example this passage from the 1914 work Cyclopedia...

    • "We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors," Capt. Brett Crozier, Captain of the Theodore...

  • On Friday morning, doctors, nurses, and other employees of Partners HealthCare, the largest health care system in Massachusetts, received an email from the company informing them...
  • When the COVID-19 crisis hit the restaurant industry like a wrecking ball, chefs in Winston-Salem, NC, banded together to address two problems at once. In suddenly idle kitchens...

    • Cristan learned last month that the bustling Oakland restaurant where he made craft cocktails for 12 years was ceasing “non-essential” functions and shifting to takeout and...

      RSS Feed for Author: Paul Craig Roberts



  • Too bad the West was focused on war, privatization, and paper profits for the one percent. We are now paying the cost of our erroneous public policies. These costs will rise as various...
  • Diana Johnstone's book is far more than a memoir. It is a history that has not previously been written. If you want the truth of the last 60 years in place of the contrived reality constructed...

    • Years of quantitative easing had loaded so much money into stock and bond prices that stock price/earnings multiples and bond prices were far too high by any normal and reasonable...

      The Watchers - Editor's Picks



  • Scientific research into the Sun's effects on life on Earth has yielded results that may surprise you. Over a century ago, the Soviet-era scientist Alexander Chizhevsky conducted...
  • Another intense Kona Low hit Hawaii on Saturday, March 28, 2020, causing major flooding in Kauai island and bringing the total March rainfall amount to nearly 2 032 mm (80 inches)...

    • Orchards in several regions of northern Italy sustained major damage as a result of the Arctic cold outbreak which started affecting parts of Europe on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. Unfortunately...

  • The goal of the tools is is to help people “self-triage,” find out if their symptoms may by consistent with COVID-19.
  • Suspending the usual review and evidence requirements for official statements, the AHA/ASA issues emergency guidance on treatment of acute stroke during the COVID-19 pandemic...

    • These are the coronavirus stories you need to know about today.

      WhoWhatWhy



  • Reading Time: 5 minutes The plague still lives in many animals deep in the woods. What if floods and fires drive these animals into your neck of the woods? It may already be happening...
  • Reading Time: 4 minutes Activists and fair maps advocates have a plan to protect the integrity of the 2020 census amid the coronavirus pandemic: encourage everyone to complete their...

    • Reading Time: 2 minutes Corporate Media Ignore International Cooperation as Shortcut to Coronavirus Vaccine ; Wisconsin’s Primary Next Week Is Going to Be a Catastrophe ; and...

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