Monday, February 18, 2019

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  Australian Food News


  • January 15th 2019 , Copenhagen, Denmark The international bakery company Lantmännen Unibake has completed the acquisition of the Australian pastry manufacturer, Bakery Du Jour...
  • Leading industry group Australian Organic announces new board appointments and General Manager. Bernadette Favis, former corporate lawyer and founder of Cocolife, and Leo Watling...

    • McDonald’s Australia has commenced their planned three year national expansion, with 45 new restaurants approved nationwide, and refurbishment plans for many current locations...

  • On Wednesday, the House and the Senate both passed a massive 1,159 page spending bill that they were given less than 24 hours to read.  There was a concerted effort by the leadership...
  • The meteoric rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other young progressive politicians has led many to believe that the American public must be warming up to socialism.  But what...

    • Almost everyone that goes out to visit one of our major cities on the west coast has a similar reaction.  Those that must live among the escalating decay are often numb to it, but most...

  • Jeph Loeb, Marvel's head of television, writes a letter thanking fans for enjoying the Netflix shows.
  • Pages on current affairs and history collected tens of millions of views in the past few months, CNN reports.

    • YouTube's most subscribed channel might have found some big reinforcements.

  • by Paul Street Writer, Dandelion Salad The Official Website of Paul Street February 18, 2019 A Wannabe Strongman’s Brown Menace Straw Man Everyone with five functioning gray cells...
  • by David Swanson Writer, Dandelion Salad Let’s Try Democracy February 17, 2019 Redacted Tonight on Feb 14, 2019 David Swanson visits VIP this week to discuss the upcoming ‘No...

    • Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Feb 16, 2019 The Iran nuclear deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), between China, France, Russia, UK and USA, represented...

  • All over America retailers are going bankrupt and closing stores.  Of course this has been happening for years, but as you will see below the numbers have dramatically escalated...
  • This just shows what can happen when you let crazy people run a state for several decades.  In the 1960s and 1970s, the possibility of moving to the west coast was “the California...

    • Our health insurance system is theoretically supposed to prevent Americans from going bankrupt when they are hit by huge medical bills.  But in case after case, that is simply not...

      Eurasia Review



  • The migratory birds escaping the Siberian cold and finding shelter in the mossy and pine forest sof Mount Pulag have
  • At the present time, the latest month for which the U.S. Department of Energy publishes the number of barrels per

    • Genocidal crimes don’t occur by chance and require years of preparation. The rationale for justifying such horrendous crimes is often

  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The Earth changes that are unfolding, and the speed at which they are unfolding, are unprecedented in the history of our planet. As...
  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Erratic and unprecedented weather is radically increasing all over the world. Though  there are countless forms of human activity...

    • Dane Wigington geoengineeringwatch.org Climate engineering operations continue to intensify around the world, as are unprecedented weather related catastrophes. The environment...

  • A senior counterintelligence official in Belgium’s external intelligence service is under house arrest on suspicion of sharing classified documents with Russian spies, according...
  • An investigative website has linked a graduate of an elite intelligence academy in Moscow with the attempted assassination of a Russian former double spy in Britain last year...

    • An American intelligence officer, who held the highest level of security clearance for over a decade, defected to Iran in 2012 and has been spying against the United States ever since...
      (  You might note that is the same country that Ronald Reagan made famous over supplying arms which ended up in U.S. backed 'guerilla movements' - sounds like ISIS - in South and Central America. Israel was involved.  Are there sucker bets available from people who think that was a one-shot affair ? )

      Joniopolis



  •           Charles Kuralt was a popular TV journalist years ago, and many of us recall his “On the Road” segments for The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.  He always found...
  •           I’m not sure why going to the vet has to be so funny.  I just know that often it is.           The veterinarian where I take our hooligan animals is usually...

  •   Niqnaq



  • Press review: Idlib in Astana’s crosshairs and Maduro’s talks with Pindostan TASS, Feb 18 2019 Russia, Iran, Turkey planning mop-up operation in Idlib Nezavisimaya Gazeta...
  • south front for monday

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  • Military Situation In Syria (Map Update) South Front, Feb 18 2019 Coalition helicopters evacuated large amount of gold from Daesh-held pocket in the Euphrates Valley, according...

    • Imperialist conflicts dominate Munich Security Conference Peter Schwarz, WSWS, Feb 18 2019 The Munich Security Conference, which ended yesterday, laid bare a capitalist world...

      Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service



  • Branislav Gosovic worked in UNCTAD, UNEP, UNECLAC, World Commission on Environment and Development, South Commission, and South Centre (1991-2005), and is the author of the recently-published...
  • Roma, a 2018 Mexican film written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón, is currently on a triumphal journey through the world. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the best...

    • IPS correspondent Busani Bafana interviews UNA MAY GORDON, Principal Director, Climate Change Division, in Jamaica's Ministry of Economic Growth and Job CreationThe post Q&A...

  • Imagine that I am a seafaring tyrant who has moored my galleon off a large island. Through my telescope, I see a healthy population creating wealth and improving their lives through...
  • President Donald Trump, former President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, during the funeral for former President George H.W. Bush. AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool...

    • WASHINGTON — It was a fine day for a national emergency. There was no sign of alarm as administration officials and journalists assembled Friday in the Rose Garden under a perfect...

    Mother Jones



  • Today is Presidents Day, so I scoured my backlog of photos for something that related to presidents. I came up empty. Totally empty. So instead, here’s a pretty picture of sparkly...
  • David Roberts has a point here: Adding to this: a list of your favored policies is not a “plan.” A plan involves a way of inspiring thousands of people to organize & take action...

    • I don’t want to think about real presidents today. So instead let’s have a fun survey of fake presidents! Someday, perhaps, Hollywood will make a few movies that star women as president...

  • Clean Air Task Force https://bit.ly/2S1CAJA [Axios] One of the biggest concerns about the use of technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions is that it would displace renewable...
  • Breakthrough Energy Coalition http://www.b-t.energy/ [Climate Wire, sub. req’d] Driving deep reductions in U.S. carbon emissions by midcentury requires accelerated investment...
  • The Green New Deal

    10 days ago

    • US House of Representatives via NPR https://n.pr/2teCgNA [Axios] …Some of the resolution’s top-line goals include… Achieving net-zero U.S. greenhouse gas emissions through...

      RSS Feed for Author: Paul Craig Roberts



  • A full court press is taking place in Florida today (Presidents Day) with Republicans, Democrats, expatriates from Cuba and Venezuela and the fascist warmonger ministry of propaganda...
  • Disunited America

    a day ago
  • Identity Politics gives us not only fake news but also fake history. Histories have been made up in order to instill a victim consciousness in women and blacks, the better to teach gender...

    • Whose interests are served when Pelosi sells out health care and Pompeo sells out peace?

      Unexplained Mysteries



  • Two geneticists have been working on a plan to use genetic modification to stop the disease from spreading. Responsible for 435,000 deaths in 2017 alo...
  • Conspiracy theory videos on YouTube may be playing a significant role in convincing people that the Earth is flat. In the age of orbiting satellites...

    • Fossil spiders discovered in South Korea still have glowing eyes despite being over 110 million years old. Unearthed in the Jinju Formation geological...

  • Russian Astro and Geophysics satellite named after 18th-century scientists Mikhail Lomonosov, also known as MVL-300, has reportedly detected a previously unknown physical phenomenon...
  • After days of extremely heavy rain falling over Queensland, Australia this month, Flinders River has grown to a 'mega river' and is now 60 km (37 miles) wide in some of its parts. This...

    • Heavy rains and convection across eastern and northern parts of the island of Kauai, Hawai‘i resulted in multiple reports of very heavy rainfall and flooding on April 14 to 15, 2018...

    WebMD Health



  • "Just because we detect HPV DNA in the hand doesn't necessarily mean the viral particles are viable or that there is enough to cause an infection," the study's lead author says...
  • As he began to get various vaccinations, media reports about him multiplied, and so did the requests for information and guidance, questions and comments...

    • Men in their 40s who can do more than 40 push-ups at a time have a 96 percent reduced risk of heart attack, stroke and heart disease compared with men who did 10 or fewer...

  • Agency Hid Tesla Crash Data for Two Years ; Portland Police Colluded With Right-Wing Extremists ; and More Picks 2/18 The post GAO Report Greenlights EU-Style Internet Privacy Laws...
  • With a horde of Democratic presidential candidates running, ranked choice voting could change the tone of campaigning, and provide a fairer distribution of delegates. The post...

    • Texas led the way, but expect more false claims of voter fraud from the White House and Republican-controlled states ahead of the 2020 election. The post Is the GOP Trying to Gaslight...

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