Monday, April 01, 2019

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  • The pinnacle of Australian beef was on show at Hog’s this past week when it hosted the Australian Wagyu Association’s largest-ever Wagyu Branded Beef Competition at its Cleveland...
  • GoodnessMe Box, Australia’s largest health food sampling service has launched a Kids Box so you can enjoy the unboxing experience as a family now. With a $11.95 monthly subscription...
    • Woolworths has introduced 24 new products in its Woolworths Free From and Macro Wholefood Market range. With the launch of their new products Woolworths aims to cater for the increasingly...
  • Has the #MeToo movement destroyed Joe Biden’s chances of ever getting to the White House?  In virtually all of the early polls for the race for the Democratic nomination, Biden...
  • The United States is on a path to financial ruin, and everyone can see what is happening, but nobody can seem to come up with a way to stop it.  According to the U.S. Treasury, the federal...
    • Instead of “collusion with Russia”, will the mainstream media soon be buzzing about a potential war with Russia?  The Trump administration and the Russian government are currently...
  • To celebrate International Women's Month and the opening of Captain Marvel, we've put together the best bracket since March Madness itself: Heroes vs. Villains!...
  • I ate Burger King's Impossible Whopper, made of plant meat.
    • The night wasn't dark and full of terrors on Sunday.
  • by Finian Cunningham Writer, Dandelion Salad East Africa Crossposted from Sputnik, Mar. 27, 2019 March 31, 2019 Remember the madcap scene in ‘Apocalypse Now’, the 1979 film...
  • Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Mar 30, 2019 This week Monsanto/Bayer AG was ordered by a California federal court to pay $80 million to Edwin Hardeman after a jury found...
    • by Paul Street Writer, Dandelion Salad The Official Website of Paul Street March 29, 2019 Did the Russian government make some efforts to intervene on Donald Trump’s behalf in the...
  • Just like we witnessed during the last recession, major retailers are laying off tens of thousands of workers, and it looks like this will be the worst year for store closings in all...
  • We have never seen anything like this before.  According to satellite data that was just released by Reuters, “at least 1 million acres of U.S. farmland” were covered by water...
    • According to Agriculture Secretary Sunny Purdue, there “may be as many as a million calves lost in Nebraska” due to the catastrophic flooding that has hit the state.  This is...
  • The progress of the TAPI project would largely depend on the outcome of negotiations between the US and the Taliban.
  • By Ramesh Jaura Much water has flown under the Tiber bridges since the Holy See declined an invitation in 1923
    • By Frank C. Sanchez, Weilun Lin, and Kent Korunka* The cyberspace threat exists in a realm that does not conform
  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org More and more mainstream media sources are now joining the chorus of climate collapse warnings, but their estimates of the time we have...

    • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The clock continues to tick toward midnight on Earth, but the great awakening may finally be picking up momentum. Can our collective...
  • Russia has recalled one of its diplomats from Sweden, after he was caught receiving classified information from a computer expert at a nightclub in Stockholm...
  • A former paramilitary officer in the French intelligence service, who was under investigation for allegedly plotting to kill a senior Congolese opposition figure, has been shot...
    • Members of a self-styled dissident group that raided North Korea’s embassy in Madrid last month reportedly approached the authorities in the United States, offering to share...

      Joniopolis

  •           I’m taking a break from writing about cancer (sheesh!) and moving to a more upbeat topic: Rattlesnakes.          Yessir, I happen to know more than the average...
  •           I have another blockbuster idea. It came about as I was texting our son, Brandon, and kvetching about chemotherapy. Here’s how that went:          Me: Did I tell...
  • Opinions R Us

    20 days ago
    •           Medicine is an odd field. First you have people on the other side of the world doing entirely different things for diseases, some of which do work. Then you have local Experts...
  • Remarks by Ambassador Jonathan Cohen at the UN Security Council Briefing on #Syria: https://t.co/wD42fzIGJh pic.twitter.com/OO4FQIKqJQ — U.S. Embassy Syria (@USEmbassySyria)...
  • Episode #274 – ‘CNN on Trial’ with guest Vanessa Beeley and more 21st Century Wire, Mar 31 2019 http://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17489588/episode_274_cnn_on_trial_with_guest_vanessa_beeley.mp3...
    • The AfD leader asks "Is it any wonder the British see bad faith behind every manoeuvre from Brussels?" https://t.co/hc7wtyLkiA — Jacob Rees-Mogg (@Jacob_Rees_Mogg) March 31...

      Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service

  • If the government of Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio were to be graded on their first year’s performance in office, it is likely that their report card would read, “promising...
  • This article is part of a series on the current state of civil society organisations (CSOs), which will be the focus of International Civil Society Week (ICSW), sponsored by CIVICUS...
    • Joseph Chamie is former Director of the United Nations Population Division. The post 2, 4, 8 and ? Billion People appeared first on Inter Press Service...

    The Moderate Voice

  • In an April 1st surprise, Facebook CEO and chairman Mark Zuckerberg announced today that his company will be launching a new social media platform geared towards elementary students...
  • Dumbo (2019)

    14 hours ago
  • Dumbo is worth your time and money. It is respectful of its predecessor while blazing a trail of its own and Tim Burton has done an excellent job. Aside from Dumbo, the stars of this film...
    • Squabbling over the Robert Mueller findings will run its marathon but other nations now perceive that the House’s recently-minted Democratic majority can no longer seriously...

    Mother Jones

  • This is a little offbeat, but I’m curious about something. The LA County Museum of Art wants to demolish its old buildings and replace them with a single large building. Progress...
  • In yet another shocking development, a whistleblower has told Congress that the Trump White House routinely overruled denials of security clearances: Tricia Newbold, a longtime...
    • House Democrats say they will vote this week to subpoena Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s complete report, underlying evidence, and other material—rejecting as insufficient...
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (March 12, 2019 v116, pp4893-4898; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1817380116, published ahead of print February 25, 2019) / by...
  • National Academy Press https://bit.ly/2uALB34 [Description] The American chestnut, whitebark pine, and several species of ash in the eastern United States are just a few of the...
    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (March 19, 2019, v116, pp5262-5269; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1802870115, published ahead of print October 8, 2018) / by...

      RSS Feed for Author: Paul Craig Roberts

  • As Washington's sanctions and currency manipulations constitute geopolitical crimes, Zayas asks what reparations are due to the victims of sanctions. He recommends that the International...
  • The approval rating of Putin and the Medvedev government dropped sharply in response to the recent increases in the retirement age and value added tax.Russia's economic problems...
    • President Maduro's failure to arrest Juan Guaido, the puppet chosen by Washington to be the Empire's front man in Venezuela, might spell the end of Venezuelan democracy. The Venezuelan...

      Unexplained Mysteries

  • The story of a woman who saw a ghostly figure in a frozen food aisle has gone viral on social media. Christiana Bush, who works in the bakery departme...
  • A driver who had been stopped for driving erratically was found to be sharing his front seat with a 250-pound pig. Police officers in Minnesota couldn...
    • Two controversial surgeons aiming to transplant a human head have reported spinal surgery success in animals. Xiaoping Ren from China and Sergio Canav...

      The Watchers - Editor's Picks

  • A bright fireball was seen and recorded streaking through the night sky over Florida at 03:52 UTC on March 31, 2019. The event lasted several seconds before the object disintegrated...
  • The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology has raised the alert status of Taal volcano from Alert Level 0 to Alert Level 1 (abnormal) on March 28, 2019. The last eruption...
    • 10 million people in Afghanistan (population 35 million) are facing severe acute food insecurity following 3 years of drought and recent floods. Three years of drought have contributed...
      Reporting food shortage in Afghanistan is like saying the ocean is wet.
  • An hour a week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity reduced the risk of disability, the study found.
  • The FDA first approved naloxone, a medication that can revive someone who has stopped breathing from an overdose in a matter of seconds,  in 1971.
    • One reason pancreatic cancer is so deadly is that it often isn't discovered until it has reached an advanced stage. The disease rarely causes noticeable symptoms, and there are no...
  • Jersey Pinelands Fire Contained ; Florida Bill Could Aid Domestic Violence Survivors ; and More Picks 4/1 The post The ACLU Is Ready to Spend $30M on the 2020 Election appeared first...
  • New Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh may be the new ‘swing vote’ as the court considers the constitutionality of gerrymandering. The post Kavanaugh Surprises Redistricting...
    • When it comes to election meddling, Russian interference is just the tip of the iceberg. The post With Mueller’s Report Finally in Hand, Let’s Get to the Real Issue appeared first...

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