Saturday, August 18, 2018

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  Australian Food News


  • PROVING Royal Agricultural Society shows are more these days than judging sponges, the maker of an Indian and Asian food range - Turban Chopsticks - has come away with eight medals...

  • Price hike looms for vegetables: growers

    4 days ago
  • Here's why growers say vegetable prices could soar next year.

  • Wesfarmers shares soar as profit dives, Coles declines before demerger

    4 days ago

    • AT A GLANCE - Australia’s biggest company by revenues Wesfarmers Ltd posted a 58.3 per cent drop in full-year profit as shares hit an all-time high on the news...

      The American Dream



  • Ocean temperatures continue to rise, and scientists are extremely alarmed as a mass die-off of sea creatures appears to be imminent.  This week, environmental experts were stunned...

  • Ultra-Wealthy Elitists Are Having Their Brains Frozen So That They Can “Come Back To Life” 100s Of Years In The Future

    5 days ago
  • If you could live forever, would you do it? Throughout history, money has allowed the elite to buy just about anything they want – except an escape from death. Many super-rich individuals...

  • Antifa, Democratic Socialists And The New World Order All Want The Same Thing: “No Borders, No Wall, No USA At All”

    6 days ago

    • No matter how globalism is repackaged, it always smells the same way in the end. For decades, the globalists have subtly (or sometimes not so subtly) been moving us toward a world in...

      CNET



  • Exclusive: Tommy the White Ranger kicks off Hasbro's Lightning Collection, a premium line of Power Rangers figures.

  • This straight-up audiophile turntable costs less than you'd think - CNET

    3 hours ago
  • Looking to step up your vinyl game? The $999 MoFi StudioDeck looks, sounds and feels terrific -- and it’s made in the US.

  • Listening test: Sennheiser’s iconic headphone comes in for a makeover - CNET

    4 hours ago

    • The flagship Sennheiser HD 800S isn’t going away, but now with the HD 820 there’s a closed-back version. I gave it a listen.

      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...

  • The Alien Planet Lab --"Cyanide, a Deadly Poison, Was a Key Ingredient From Which All Life Originated"

    17 days ago
  • 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...

  • Kepler Supernova Extinction --"Destroyed the Nearby Star of a Milky Way Binary System"

    18 days ago

    • 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...

      Dandelion Salad



  • by William Blum Writer, Dandelion Salad Killing Hope August 18, 2018 The mind of the mass media: Email exchange between myself and a leading Washington Post foreign policy reporter...

  • We Now Live Under The Rule Of A Rentier Capitalism by Paul Street

    a day ago
  • by Paul Street Writer, Dandelion Salad The Official Website of Paul Street August 17, 2018 “Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.” This famous socialist...

  • Abby Martin and Chris Hedges: Christianized Fascism Is More Dangerous Than The Alt-Right

    2 days ago

    • Dandelion Salad Previously posted Feb. 27, 2017 with Abby Martin and Chris Hedges teleSUR English on Feb 27, 2017 For the first time in modern history, a fringe wing of Christian...

      The Economic Collapse



  • We haven’t seen carnage like this in the global financial marketplace in quite some time.  On Wednesday, U.S. stocks were down some, but things were much, much worse around the...

  • MIT Computer Model Predicts Dramatic Drop In Quality Of Life Around 2020 And The “End Of Civilization” Around 2040

    4 days ago
  • Is humanity approaching a major turning point?  A computer model that was originally developed in 1973 by a group of scientists at MIT is warning that things are about to dramatically...

  • That Escalated Quickly: The Emerging Market Currency Crisis Of 2018 Threatens To Destabilize The Entire Global Financial System

    5 days ago

    • We haven’t seen emerging market currencies crash like this in over a decade, and analysts are warning that if this continues we could witness a devastating global debt crisis. ...

      Eurasia Review



  • By Ann Garisson* He is the President of Rwanda and the current President of the African Union, feted by the

  • Trump Snubbed McCain: The Media Snubbed The Rest Of Us – OpEd

    18 hours ago
  • By Peter Certo* On an otherwise sleepy August day, President Trump signed the John McCain National Defense Authorization Act. Named

  • Mainstream Media Hypocrisy On Display – OpEd

    18 hours ago

    • Some 300 newspapers, large and small, joined in publishing, often on their front pages, editorials defending the First Amendment’s freedom

      Geoengineering Watch



  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The global burning continues in many regions, while other parts of the planet are pummelled with record flooding. How rapidly will the...

  • Geoengineering: An Interview With A US Air Force General

    2 days ago
  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Is climate engineering real? What does a former US Air Force 2 star major general have to say about this most critical issue? This interview...

  • Ten Times More Wildfires In Russian Arctic Than A Decade Ago As Ice Melts And Gives Way To Flame

    4 days ago

    • Source: The Telegraph Russia this year has suffered the most Arctic wildfires since satellite monitoring started as climate change creates the conditions necessary for blazes...

      intelNews.org



  • Relations between the European Union and the United Kingdom hit a new low on Thursday, as the European Council refused to comment on claims that British spy agencies have spied on Brexit...

  • Crowdfunding campaign seeks release of CIA’s mind control program files

    3 days ago
  • An online fundraising campaign is seeking to secure the release of over 4,000 pages of documents relating to a controversial mind control program developed by the United States Central...

  • ISIS remains strong with 30,000 members in Iraq and Syria, experts warn

    4 days ago

    • The Islamic State has recovered from some of its recent defeats in the battlefield and has as many as 30,000 committed members in Iraq and Syria, according to two reports by American...

      Joniopolis



  •           I am so cutting edge, such a trendsetter, than I’ve been writing lyrics for Bob Marley and Ariel Pink.  Okay, I’ve been doing it after they already had the...

  • Sprucing Down

    11 days ago
  •           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

    18 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...

      Niqnaq



  • QED Kofi Annan Colonel Cassad, Colonel Cassad, Aug 18 2018 In his 81st year of life has died the former UN Sec-Gen Kofi Annan. His “reign” at the UN in the years of absolute hegemony...

  • afghanistan

    7 hours ago
  • Taliban attack on Afghan city deepens crisis of puppet regime in Kabul Jordan Shilton, WSWS,, Aug 18 2018 The battle between the Taliban and Afghan government forces for control of...

  • our scintillating crew

    9 hours ago

    • Israel’s official propaganda app is retweeting an article by far-right British gossip blog Guido Fawkes attacking Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen over her interview defending...

      Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service



  • Kofi Annan was a guiding force for good.  It is with profound sadness that I learned of his passing.  In many ways, Kofi Annan was the United Nations. He rose through the ranks to lead...

  • Use of Water for Electricity Generation Triggers Outcry in Mexico

    19 hours ago
  • One of the fears of the people of the Sierra Huasteca mountains in the state of San Luis Potosi in northeast Mexico is the construction of combined cycle power plants, which would threaten...

  • Chairman of the Geneva Centre highlights the need to protect civilians in armed conflicts

    a day ago

    • On the occasion of the 2018 World Humanitarian Day – observed annually on 19 August -, the Chairman of the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue Dr. Hanif...

    The Moderate Voice



  • The post Cartoon: John Brennan appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

  • Trump craves good press from the ‘fake news’ media – just look at his White House newsletter

    4 hours ago
  • Joseph Graf, American University School of Communication Mainstream press coverage of President Trump has been unfavorable. Thomas Patterson found that 80 percent of stories...

  • These Men and Women Do Not Need a Military Parade

    a day ago

    • The brave men and women in our Armed Forces do not need a $92 million self-aggrandizing military parade. What they need is more respect for those fighting the wildfires out West. Airmen...

    Mother Jones



  • Michael Williams, a Republican state senator from Georgia, went on TV Saturday morning and declared that he would be upset if Donald Trump spewed racial slurs. That may seem simple...

  • A Top Trump Fundraiser Is Reportedly Under Investigation

    2 hours ago
  • Prominent Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy is under investigation by the Justice Department, which is seeking to determine if he sought money from foreign officials in exchange...

  • ICE Detains Man Driving His Pregnant Wife to the Hospital

    4 hours ago

    • A California man just wanted to stop for gas as he drove his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth. Instead, Joel Arrona is now in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement custody...

      RFF Library Blog


    • 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...

      RSS Feed for Author: Paul Craig Roberts



  • Is Capitalism Killing Us? Paul Craig Roberts Ecological economists, such as Herman E. Daly, stress that as the external costs of pollution and resource...

  • The Self-Imposed Impotence of the Russian and Chinese Governments

    5 days ago
  • The Russian and Chinese governments are in Washington's hands because Russia and China, thinking that capitalism had won, quickly adopted American neoliberal economics, which...

  • The Law As Weapon

    5 days ago

    • The trial judge has twice criticized the prosecutors, asking them on one occasion if they had any evidence of successful fraud. In other words, the judge can tell the difference between...

      Unexplained Mysteries



  • Scientists have discovered that the Moon may not be the only natural satellite in orbit around our planet. According to a new study, several small ast...

  • You can now buy a holographic 'wife' in Japan

    9 hours ago
  • The Gatebox virtual assistant takes the form of a holographic anime girl who you can interact with. Voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Apple Si...

  • Universe may be teeming with water-worlds

    15 hours ago

    • Scientists have determined that a significant percentage of planets in our galaxy may be covered in water. The discovery is important because is incre...

      The Watchers - Editor's Picks



  • A very bright fireball, at least 40 times as bright as the Full Moon, streaked across the night sky over the U.S. Southeast at 05:19 UTC (12:19 CDT) on August 17, 2018. The event lasted...

  • Unexpected surge of water vapor in the mesosphere, prolonged noctilucent clouds season

    2 days ago
  • During the first half of August 2018, reports of noctilucent clouds to Spaceweather.com have tripled compared to the same period in 2017 and researchers at the University of Colorado...

  • The Watchers News Brief: August 15, 2018

    3 days ago

    • Tropical Storm "Leepi" makes landfall over Kyushu, Japan Tropical Storm "Leepi" made landfall on the Japanese island of Kyushu on August 14, bringing heavy rain and strong winds...

    WebMD Health



  • Having breakfast before a morning workout triggers the body to burn more carbohydrates during exercise and also speeds digestion afterward, a small British study finds...

  • Contact Lens Stuck Under Woman's Eyelid for Years

    a day ago
  • Doctors determined she had a cyst. When they removed it, the cyst broke open and revealed a hard contact lens, according to a paper published recently in the journal BMJ Case Reports...

  • 'Right' Amount of Carbs May Help You Live Longer

    a day ago

    • Researchers who followed more than 15,000 people in the United States for a median of 25 years found that moderate consumption of carbohydrates (50 to 55 percent of calories) was associated...

      WhoWhatWhy



  • 2018 has been a good year for marijuana legalization. And it may only be getting better come November. The post More Marijuana Legalization Coming — Could Trump Be On Board? appeared...

  • Latest News: August 12 – August 15

    19 hours ago
  • The post Latest News: August 12 – August 15 appeared first on WhoWhatWhy.

  • August 15-16

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