Tuesday, September 11, 2018

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  Australian Food News



  • ARE you going this week to Australia's premier food industry event?
  • NUDGING people to feel either higher or lower in socio-economic status, for example through social comparison or marketing messages, could influence levels of meat consumption...

    • THE coffee pod is banned in some places yet it belongs to a market worth more than $10 billion a year. There's an eco-friendly middle road.

  • We are filling up our oceans with trillions of extremely small pieces of plastic, and in the process we are literally killing off entire ecosystems.  But because it is a very gradual...
  • The worst drought in years in the western half of the United States has sparked hundreds of wildfires, has crippled thousands of farms, and has produced what could ultimately be the...

    • An old television broadcast from 1973 has been discovered that warns that things will start getting really bad on this planet around the year 2020 and that our current civilization...

  • New iPhones, Apple Watch Series 4 are widely expected, and we could see new iPad Pros, too.
  • It has all the stuff you'd expect from a high-end ultraportable plus a clever hinge design makes working anywhere a little more pleasant.

    • Get a second screen under your fingers with this touchpad-turned-touchscreen

      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 Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Sputnik, Sept. 8, 2018 September 10, 2018 At the Tehran summit on Friday, Iran’s Hassan Rouhani and Russia’s...
  • with Howard Zinn Writer, Dandelion Salad September 9, 2018 “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only...

    • Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Sep 8, 2018 Sociologist Nisha Kapoor in her new book Deport, Deprive, Extradite – 21st Century State Extremism argues the extradition...

  • The latest forecast is projecting that Hurricane Florence will strengthen “to near category 5 strength” before it makes landfall in the Carolinas, and it is being called “a...
  • The middle class in America is being systematically eviscerated right in front of our eyes.  I don’t normally do this, but today I want to share with you an email that was recently...

    • Are we on the verge of another great financial crisis, a devastating recession and a horrific implosion of the global debt bubble?  On my website I have been relentlessly warning...

  • “The President is a puppet of Vladimir Putin!” That sums up the revelations of the just-released blockbuster movie “Active Measures.”
  • Afghanistan has suffered negative economic growth after the withdrawal of large portion of international coalition forces. Also, a new report

    • Who in US presidential history even comes close to Trump? While corporations run America for all intents and purposes, it

  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The relentless burning of Earth’s remaining forests is accelerating. Forests that are not burning are dying. While environmental...
  • Duty To Warn A Serious Warning About the Toxicity of Aluminum-Adjuvanted Vaccines – Especially for Infants and the Elderly By Gary G. Kohls, MD – Duty to Warn editor – 9/01/2018...

    • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The changes unfolding on our planet are profound and many. How much longer can the epidemic of normalcy bias be maintained? When the...

  • A group of German radicals planned to assassinate Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in East Germany in 1989, thus triggering a Soviet military invasion of the country, according...
  • United States President Donald Trump authorized American officials to attend secret meetings held by Venezuelan military officers who conspired to launch a military coup against...

    • Sergei Skripal, the Russian double agent who was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent in England earlier this year, worked with Spanish intelligence after his defection to...

      Joniopolis



  •           What do you think of when I say the 1920s?  Flappers? Gangsters?  Then you’d be right on the money to attend the recent charity gala where St. Bob and I, plus...
  •           I wish this weren’t true.  Something fell out of my pants in the middle of an intersection.  No, it wasn’t ants.  That would have been a blessing, right?  Plus...

  • Truly a Fan

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    •           You know how, sometimes, when you give a gag gift it turns out to be the favorite thing?  This happened recently for St. Bob’s birthday.  Thanks to side effects from...

      Niqnaq



  • For all those who have been away celebrating Rosh Hashanah which began Friday. Mr Danon joined you. Tashlikh (Hebrew: תשליך‬‎ “cast off”) is a customary Jewish atonement...
  • Mosul reconstruction to give UNESCO window to revive fortunes John Irish, Reuters, Sep 11 2018 PARIS – UNESCO wants to use the reconstruction of Iraq’s second city Mosul as a way...

    • Turkey warns attack on Idlib would cause humanitarian disaster Tuvan Gumrukcu, Reuters, Sep 11 2018 ANKARA – A Syrian government offensive in the country’s northern region...

      Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service



  • Dr Palitha Kohona is former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations & former co-Chair of the UN Adhoc Working Group on Biological Diversity...
  • In 2009, the world economy contracted by -2.2%. Growth in all developing countries declined from around 8% in 2007 to 2.6% in 2009 as the developed world contracted by -3.8% in 2009...

    • Sir Richard Jolly, an eminent development economist, is Honorary Professor, former Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, and UNICEF...

    The Moderate Voice



  • The post Cartoon: 9/11 appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
  • Who doesn’t remember what they were doing 17 years ago today as the first fragmentary reports dribbled out about one aircraft and then a second hitting the Twin Towers of the World...

    • WASHINGTON — President Trump’s antics in his “Crazytown” White House inevitably dominate the headlines. Meanwhile, however, his wrongheaded policies are damaging far...

  • This story was originally published by Reveal. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Park officials scrubbed all mentions of climate change from a key...
  • This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and the New York Times. One of the world’s top breast cancer doctors failed to disclose millions of dollars in payments...

    • The way things are shaping up, it’s a fair bet Chicago’s next mayor will be a woman of color. The question is, “Which one?” Mayor Rahm Emanuel stunned the city last week when...

  • he Russian Government and President Putin are coming under pressure not from US sanctions, which are very good for Russia as they force Russia into independence, but from Russian...
  • Caitlin Johnstone warned us that the liberals were going to make a hero out of warmonger John McCain. All morning long NPR has been conducting eulogies for warmonger McCain, who is...

    • Russiagate is an orchestration. It is the response of the military/security complex to Donald Trump's presidential campaign statement that he intended to normalize relations...

      Unexplained Mysteries



  • Scientists exploring one of the deepest parts of the ocean have discovered three new species of snailfish. Despite the freezing temperatures, extreme...
  • Military scientists have created a brain interface that can enable a person to control drones with their mind. The impressively sophisticated system m...

    • The SpaceX CEO continues to maintain that the world we see is nothing more than a computer simulation. What if we told you that the world you live in...

  • Most of South Africa's Western Cape was blanketed in snow over the weekend, causing temporary road closures and providing a new and snowy environment to animals not used to such wintry...
  • Very heavy rainfall caused violent flash flooding in the town of Cebola, Spain's Toledo province on September 8, 2018. While there were no injuries or fatalities reported, the infrastructural...

    • A severe thunderstorm hit parts of Crimea on September 6, 2018, dumping heavy rain and producing a rare huge waterspout tornado. The waterspout formed in Feodosia, also called Theodosia...

  • In a head-to-head comparison, a modified tai chi program reduced falls in seniors nearly a third better than an exercise regimen that combined aerobics, strength training and balance...
  • The new anti-addiction drug is a fast-acting form of buprenorphine, which helps control drug cravings, CBS News reported.

    • Drugs like K2 and Spice have been linked to a string of dangerous side effects. Learn what risks these drugs can cause.

  • With non-US internet users barred from at least one of the electoral websites in the ultra-hot state of Georgia, it may be Georgians abroad — not would-be hackers — who are locked...
  • How US Misleads on Afghanistan ; Israeli Army Kills Another Unarmed Palestinian Youth ...and More Picks 9/10 The post Who Knew a Trade War With China Could Be So Complicated? appeared...

    • Democrats tried to expose some of his more conservative views, but Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh hid behind the fine print. The post The Kavanaugh Hearing: Beyond the Soundbites...

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