Wednesday, October 17, 2018

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Australian Food News






  • NEWS the diva of dumplings is gracing this year’s Taste of Tasmania confirms Hobart’s annual New Year-period food and wine festival is transformed from being a dag to a darling...
  • WOOLWORTHS is putting its money where our mouths are, investing $30 million to drive supply chain innovation in the organic produce mega-trend.

    • THIS breakthrough means it may be possible to get all the nutritional value and gut health promoting fibre of wholegrain rice from varieties we prefer to eat...



  • It didn’t make many national headlines, but the proposed budget for NASA’s “Planetary Defense Coordination Office” was just increased by 90 million dollars.  At a time...
  • What I am about to share with you is incredibly disturbing.  Every year on October 31st, some of the most horrifying acts imaginable are carried out in dark corners and back rooms all...

    • Nobody should want to see Americans beating the daylights out of other Americans in our city streets, but it is starting to happen with alarming regularity.  Americans have become...



  • The China-based phone giant just one-upped Apple and Samsung with some seriously impressive new tech.
  • The smaller of Google's new Pixel 3 phones throws down against the competition.

    • Come check out some photos we took with the Pixel 3!



      Dandelion Salad





  • “We don’t think you fight fire with fire best; we think you fight fire with water best. We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity...
  • by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy, Oct. 13, 2018 October 15, 2018 David Swanson on Oct 13, 2018 David Swanson’s Remarks at the Resource Center for Nonviolence...

    • by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation October 14, 2018 The macabre case of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi...



  • It appears that a major war between Israel and Hamas is imminent.  For the past six months, Hamas has been staging violent protests along the Israeli border in an attempt to end the...
  • The bigger they come, the harder they fall.  Currently, we are in the terminal phase of an “everything bubble” which has had ten years to grow.  It is the biggest financial bubble...

    • It looks like it could be another tough week for global financial markets.  As the week began, markets were down all over the world, and relations between the United States and Saudi...



      Eurasia Review





  • In today’s volatile, uncertain and complex global economic climate, currency crises could be triggered again in ASEAN. The impact of
  • With Turkish investigators asserting that they have found further evidence that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed when he visited

    • The Constitution, Charter or Covenant of Medina pre-dated the English Magna Carta by almost six centuries. It applied to the



      Geoengineering Watch






  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org How much of what we believe is actually nothing more than societal programming from the constant parade of propaganda? How many crimes...

    • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org On Saturday, October 20th, 2018, GeoengineeringWatch.org and GEM FAIRE INC are sponsoring a Northern California climate engineering...



  • Officials in the Czech Republic have announced that the country’s spy agency headed an operation in several countries, aimed at neutralizing a cyberespionage network operated...
  • There were conflicting reports yesterday in Ankara of an alleged evacuation of Iran’s ambassador to Turkey, following credible reports of a suicide bomb attack, possibly by the...

    • The government of Pakistan has dismissed a High Court judge who accused the country’s powerful intelligence agency of interfering with the judicial process in order to rig the...



      Joniopolis





  •           Think about going through the security check at the airport.  You’ve probably taken off your jacket, your shoes, stuffed them into a plastic bin, walked through...
  •           Am I lucky or what? Not only did St. Bob send me to Scandinavia with Nicole for my birthday (I told you he was a Saint), but my long-time Swedish friend, Marianne Carlsson...

  • Norwegian Numbers

    15 days ago

    •          We’re baaack. Two glorious weeks in Scandinavia and enough material to last a lifetime. Not that this will become a travel blog. But indulge me a bit.         ...



      Niqnaq





  • The “new cold war,” censorship, and the future of the Internet Andre Damon, WSWS, Oct 17 2018 On Tuesday, the NYT published a major editorial statement warning about the “breakup...
  • British PM addresses EU summit as “no deal” Brexit threatened Thomas Scripps, WSWS, Oct 17 2018 PM May will address this evening’s EU summit knowing that Britain’s terms...
  • south front

    an hour ago

    • SAA kicks off another attempt to eliminate Daesh in al-Safa South Front, Oct 15 2018 On Oct 11, the SAA, local militias and former fighters of the FSA prepared to launch a new offensive...



      Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service





  • Although their contribution to global warming is negligible, Caribbean nations are bearing the brunt of its impact. Climate phenomena are so devastating that countries are beginning...
  • ( Ah, yes. Man is damaging the climate. We know this because the weather 100 years from now has gone to shit. )
  • U.N. Secretary-General's message on World Food DayThe post UN Secretary-General: About 820 Million People Still Suffer From Hunger appeared first on Inter Press Service...

    • Young girls sold into forced labour are the largest group of trafficking victims identified by the UN Migration Agency (IOM) in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps. IOM counter-trafficking...



  • When did you last stand in line? I mean really stand in line. It might have been the airport (average line time perhaps 15 minutes), the drug store, even in busy Manhattan, a minute or...
  • “Two princes: Kushner now faces a reckoning for Trump’s bet on the heir to the Saudi throne” — Washington Post headline, Oct. 15 Excerpted from: “Salmanella and the Glass...

    • I’m seriously offended. I’ve drawn Donald Trump about a thousand times by now and the guy has never called me to pay a compliment on capturing his likeness. But, Andy Thomas, an...



  • Trailing in the polls with three weeks before election day, Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke has his work cut out for him in his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. If he wants...
  • On Tuesday, President Donald Trump reportedly compared the treatment of Brett Kavanaugh with that of the Saudi Arabian government in the suspected killing of Washington...

    • Our commander-in-chief gave an interview to the Associated Press today: President Donald Trump Tuesday criticized rapidly mounting global condemnation of Saudi Arabia over the...



      RSS Feed for Author: Paul Craig Roberts





  • Florida residents from the eastern part of Panama City Beach to Apalachicola now know what a war zone is like. 750,000 people are without power and without water. Thousands of homes...
  • Instead of finding out whether Kavanaugh believes in the unitary executive theory that the president has powers unaccountable to Congress and the Judiciary and agrees that a Justice...

    • American news services have been consolidated into just 6 owners, and each of these has deep ties to corporate and government interests. They don't have the will or the resources to...



      Unexplained Mysteries





  • The late physicist's last book, which was published today, attempts to answer the biggest questions of them all. Hawking, who died back in March at th...
  • Four gargantuan planets have been observed orbiting a relatively young star approximately 500 light years away. Known as CI Tau, the star, despite bei...

    • A worrying new study has highlighted the catastrophic effects of global warming on insect populations. The research, which focused on the Puerto Rico...



  • At least 27 people have been killed in Europe over the past couple of days after a series of intense storms swept over the region dumping extremely heavy rain. 12 people died in Spain's...
  • Heavy rain produced by remnants of Hurricane "Sergio" hit parts of Arizona on October 13, 2018, flooding low-lying roads and closing some local streets. The remnants of former Hurricane...

    • Severe Cyclonic Storm "Titli" slammed into the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and moved into Odisha late October 10 into October 11, 2018. The storm brought winds of 150 km/h (90 mph)...



    WebMD Health





  • Researchers who analyzed data from 178 countries found that people from larger families were less likely to get cancer than those from smaller families...
  • The CDC on Tuesday reported 127 cases of a rare but devastating polio-like virus, partially paralyzing hundreds of children in 22 states. It’s the third wave of acute flaccid myelitis...

    • The Trump administration first mentioned requiring drug prices in ads in May, as part of the government's American Patients First plan to lower drug costs. In August, it began officially...



  • Friedman vs. Khashoggi on Saudis ; Trump's Budget Deficit Not So Conservative ...and More Picks 10/16 The post Sanders Tries (Again) to End Slaughter in Yemen appeared first on WhoWhatWhy...
  • Just days after WhoWhatWhy exclusively revealed that one county in Georgia is rejecting absentee ballots at a stunning rate, a lawsuit has been filed to make sure that ballots across...

    • Shocking video shows voting machines sitting in an unlocked room in a public place in Georgia’s Fulton County the day before early voting started. The post Exclusive: WhoWhatWhy...

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