Thursday, November 15, 2018

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  • INTENSE sweeteners made from monk fruit extract will soon be available for sale in Australia and New Zealand after an approval this week by the Food Standards Australia New Zealand...
  • WOOLWORTHS’ counter attack to the Coles Little Shop toy promotion begins today and early social media feedback is mixed. But is its success really that important? Hell, yeah! See...

    • WOOLWORTHS Group Limited is entering into a binding agreement to sell its 540 Woolworths-owned fuel convenience sites to EG Group for A$1.725 billion.

  • Initially it did not appear that the much-hyped “blue wave” would be that impressive, but since election night we have seen race after race flip in favor of the Democrats.  In...
  • Missiles continue to rain down on Israel at this hour, and even the New York Times is admitting that the region is on the “brink of war”.  On Monday, more than 300 rockets and mortar...

    • It is really happening.  At one time, the idea that large numbers of people would willingly allow themselves to have microchips implanted into their hands seemed a bit crazy, but...

  • The catch? You'll have to open up a new line and trade in an eligible device.
  • Once again, the Fortnite Battle Pass challenges have been leaked early, but one of them is impossible to figure out until they officially go live.

    • We answer your burning questions here.

  • by Paul Street Writer, Dandelion Salad The Official Website of Paul Street November 14, 2018 So often, underlying structures and institutions of oppression escape serious scrutiny...
  • Dandelion Salad With Abby Martin Empire Files on Nov 12, 2018 Since October 2017, America experienced three of the deadliest mass shootings in modern history. This epidemic coincides...

    • by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Strategic Culture Foundation November 12, 2018 World leaders gathered in Paris on Sunday under the Arc...

  • Our sun has been behaving very strangely, and this unusual behavior is really starting to affect our weather patterns.  There have been virtually no sunspots in 2018 as solar activity...
  • The pace at which things are changing is shocking the experts.  Just a few months ago, many of the experts were still talking about how the U.S. economy was “booming”, but since...

    • We have definitely deviated from the script.  According to virtually all of the “experts”, the stock market was not supposed to keep plummeting in November.  This was supposed...

      Eurasia Review



  • The Afghan government and its allies are winning battles in Afghanistan but not the war. The Afghan war started as
  • As fertility rates decline and lifespans stretch longer, societies struggle to control and make retirement benefits fair. By Joseph Chamie*

    • On November 6, while chairing a meeting of the Commission for Military Technology Cooperation with Foreign States, Russian President Vladimir

  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The “Camp Fire” is now officially the most destructive wildfire in California history. This is a tragic fact following an entire...
  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Newly elected California governor Gavin Newsom has had to declare state of emergency due to the latest unprecedented firestorms...

    • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Yet again forests in the Western US are incinerating as the US east coast is anomalously wet and cool. All official sources are blaming...

  • The number of foreign Islamic State fighters entering the Philippines is growing, and the momentum they generate among local Islamist groups may prompt them to declare a new caliphate...
  • Authorities in Austria have arrested a second alleged spy for Russia in a week, according to media reports. Several Austrian news outlets reported on Monday that police had arrested...

    • The Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Russian ambassador to Vienna on Friday, following the arrest of a retired Austrian Army colonel who allegedly spied for Moscow...

      Joniopolis



  •           You know I recently had a mastectomy. You know I find comedy in almost everything. And you know major surgery is usually done with anesthetic.  This, my friends, is the...
  •           Have you gobbled up all your Halloween candy, yet? (Note my Thanksgiving reference, now that it’s November.)          First, I want to wish a Happy Birthday today...

  • Hike-or-Treat

    16 days ago

    •           This will be a short blog because you have candy to buy and trick-or-treaters to please.  I simply have to share a hilarious thing they do in Norway.  Inside the wrapper...

      Niqnaq



  • Turkish-PKK Conflict Escalates Amid Fresh PKK Attacks South Front, Nov 14 2018 The People’s Defense Forces (HPG), a military wing of the PKK, claimed that it had attacked 6 military...
  • Trump’s envoys issue ultimata to China and other Asian countries Mike Head, WSWS, Nov 15 2018 A series of Indo-Pacific summits in Singapore and Papua New Guinea this week has been...

    • Lebanese Christian civil war foes shake hands, make up after 40 years Reuters, Nov 14 2018 Frangieh and Geagea with Patriarch Bechara al-Rai in Bkerki, Nov 14 2018 (Photo: Aldo Ayoub/Reuters...

      Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service



  • Cristiana Pașca Palmer is the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Montreal, & Anne Larigauderie is the Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental...
  • The seed was planted more than 20 years ago by a group of indigenous women who began to gather to try to recover memories from their people. Today, women are also the main protagonists...

    • IPS correspondent Carmen Arroyo interviews PETER THOMSON, United Nation’s Special Envoy for the Ocean.The post Q&A: All Sustainable Development Goals Relate in Some Way...

  • Melania Trump is not the first First Lady to influence her husband, the president of the United States. It’s not unusual, unique, or strange. Sarah Polk helped her husband craft...
  • Perhaps one day Humboldt pot will be as famous as Bordeaux wine. AP Photo/Richard Vogel Ryan Stoa, Concordia University School of Law You’ve heard of Big Pharma and Big Tobacco...

    • By ESTHER J. CEPEDA Washington Post Writers Group Columnist CHICAGO — It’s a terrible idea to make too much of the campaign victory of any politician, but an exception is in order...

  • Another day, another few thousand votes: Katie Porter is now 4,000 votes ahead in my district.
  • Voter Fraud, Explained

    11 hours ago
  • President Trump addresses the issue of voter fraud today: “The Republicans don’t win and that’s because of potentially illegal votes,” Trump complained. “When people...
  • Lunchtime Photo

    13 hours ago

    • I don’t know what this is. All I know is that it’s the last flower I have in my queue of lunchtime photos. I need to get cracking on pictures of vegetation. UPDATE: Apparently this...

      RFF Library Blog



  • Capital Alpha Partners, LLC https://bit.ly/2qwLL9z [Axios] A conservative group is releasing a report today concluding that a carbon tax would raise less revenue and cut...
  • US Government Accountability Office https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-619 Fossil fuels—coal, oil, and natural gas—will likely continue to be the major source of U.S...

    • National Research Council https://bit.ly/2EwJbu3 In the quest to mitigate the buildup of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere, researchers and policymakers have increasingly...

      RSS Feed for Author: Paul Craig Roberts



  • When the Southern states seceded, they were concerned to do so legally or constitutionally under the Constitution so that the North could not legally claim that it was an act of rebellion...
  • If you are a top ability student, but white, especially white male, you have scant chance of being admitted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, Brown, Penn...

    • How it possibly can be that the same Union army that fought to bring human rights to black slaves immediately on war's end was sent under the same generals, Sherman and Sheridan, to slaughter...

      Unexplained Mysteries



  • Astronomers have revealed the discovery of a 'super-Earth' around a star that is a mere six light years away. Believed to be approximately three times...
  • Irish aviation authorities are investigating reports from multiple pilots of a strange object on November 9th. The incident began early in the morning...

    • Scientists studying data from the Gaia satellite have identified a massive 'ghost' galaxy lurking nearby. Known as Antlia 2, the dwarf satellite galax...

      The Watchers - Editor's Picks



  • The Middle East has been hit by several waves of severe storms over the past 30+ days and registered anomalously high amounts of rain in very short periods. For some of the regions, the...
  • Professor Valentina Zharkova gave a presentation of her Climate and the Solar Magnetic Field hypothesis at the Global Warming Policy Foundation in October 2018. Principal component...

    • While Kīlauea Volcano in Hawaii is not erupting at the moment and rates of seismicity, deformation, and gas release have not changed significantly over the past week, deformation...

  • People placed on a low-carb, high-fat diet burned more daily calories, versus those given high-carb meals in a recent study.
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics says new evidence and research not only show that spanking affects a child’s brain development and increases aggression in young children as...

    • Limiting your use of Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram to 30 minutes total or less per day results in reductions in depression and loneliness, especially for people who were moderately...

  • An orderly Brexit could actually enable grand European projects such as a common army. Whether that would fix relations with the US is another matter. The post Europe Struggles With...
  • As Americans ideologically drift further apart, voting rights and voting rights initiatives receive broad, bipartisan support among the public. Will DC listen? The post Voting...

    • California Divided ; Alarm Over Talks to Implant UK Employees with Microchips ...and More Picks 11/14 The post ACLU Reveals CIA Tested Anxiety Drug as 9/11 Interrogation Tool appeared...

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