Monday, July 22, 2019

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When Salt Was Traded for Gold: The Salt Trade of West Africa that Built Kingdoms and Spread Culture

You have to wonder if these people* know what Australian conditions are -  so much desert.

  Australian Food News


  • After a spectacular debut in Brisbane last year, Food & Hospitality Queensland returns to the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre from 4-5 August, featuring over 150...
  • Australia has committed to the World Health Organisation’s target of a 30% reduction in the average population salt intake by 2025. Learn the nine steps for reducing salt in Australia’s...

    • Buderim Ginger is very proud to have been announced as the winner of the prestigious 2019 Queensland Business History Award at the Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame induction...


  • It has become exceedingly clear that if the U.S. and Iran go to war, the entire region is going to be set ablaze.  Iran has already threatened to hit Israel extremely hard if the U.S...
  • Has a war between the United States and Iran become inevitable?  That is what some in the mainstream media seem to be claiming, but let us hope that is not true, because such a war would...

    • It has been more than 10 days since southern California was hit by the two largest earthquakes that the state has experienced in decades, and yet the shaking refuses to stop.  In fact...


  • Henrik Fisker maintains the car's starting price will be below $40,000.
  • The phone app's new filter makes you look 30 years older.

    • I'm not crying, you're crying.


  • Dandelion Salad US Peace Memorial Foundation on Jul 16, 2019 Dr. Michael Knox addresses Peacestock during an event on July 20, 2019. For more information on Peacestock, please visit...
  • Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges RT America on Jul 20, 2019 On Contact host, Chris Hedges talks to Kerry-Anne Mendoza, editor-in-chief of The Canary. Created just five years ago...
  • Rise and Resist!

    3 days ago

    • by Rivera Sun Writer, Dandelion Salad July 19, 2019 Fiery. Evocative. Uplifting. Fiction meets reality in these impassioned and hard-hitting essays on love, courage, politics...


  • The U.S. military is following many of the exact same patterns that we witnessed during our previous wars in the Middle East, and that even includes setting up shop at a key military...
  • Why aren’t more Americans concerned that we could be on the verge of an apocalyptic war with Iran?  If there was still any doubt, what happened on Friday made it exceedingly clear...

    • Could it be possible that we are on the verge of the next “Lehman Brothers moment”?  Deutsche Bank is the most important bank in all of Europe, it has 49 trillion dollars in exposure...


  • Japan goes to the polls on 21 July to elect half the seats of the Upper House. From all indications,
  • The South Asia region was nuclearized in May 1974, when India exploded its nuclear devices. But again dangers were multiplied

    • The recent decision by the Chief Statistician of India (CSI), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), taken at the


  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org The global climate engineering operations continue unabated. Geoengineering Watch examines satellite imagery from all over the planet...
  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Is there evidence to indicate that climate engineering operations manipulated hurricane Barry? Available data makes clear the answer...

    • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Science studies have now confirmed that billions of nanoparticles are building up in our hearts and brains. What is the primary source...


  • Since the election of President Donald Trump, the issue of border security between the United States and Mexico has been a major topic of national debate. But is the incessant focus...
  • The spy agency of South Korea has dismissed media reports that North Korea had several of its top nuclear negotiators executed or sent to labor camps, but has not rejected rumors of...

    • A Swiss court has ordered the extradition to the United States of the brother of one of the world’s leading biochemists, who spied on a British pharmaceutical firm to help a Chinese...


      Joniopolis




  •           You’ll like this because it makes perfect sense. The necktie originated during a war. And, if you’re like many men today, you would kill not to have to wear a throat-pinching...

  • Driving Miss Crazy

    13 days ago
  •           I once received a delicious compliment. I had zipped into a parallel parking spot downtown where some young men were standing nearby. “Wow,” one of them said, “you...

    •           Don’t even get me started on graffiti. Okay, too late. I’m on a roll. There are about 12 billion reasons why I hate graffiti. Think I’m exaggerating? It costs 12...


  • So @AlanDuncanMP has resigned. Wonder if his replacement might offer us greater clarity and honesty on #IntegrityInitiative? Especially given we now have confirmation that far...
  • extremists

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  • ‘Jihad Squad’ Facebook Post by Republican Group Leaves Democrats Outraged, Prompts Calls for Apology Sputnik News, Jul 22 2019 Illinois Republican County Chairman’s Association...
  • bloodthirsty beasts

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    • Iranian Troops Use Photos Of Trump And Netanyahu As Training Targets South Front, Jul 21 2019 The Pindo-Iranian standoff is developing not only in the military and diplomatic sphere...


      Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service




  • “Part of the beauty of me is that I’m very rich.” “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”                                      ...
  • Finland has garnered attention for its top-notch education, and the newly appointed Minister of Education for Finland is planning to continue with the success of her country’s...

    • The United Nations, which has been tracking both the successes and failures of its highly-ambitious Agenda for Sustainable Development, has warned that “progress has been slow”...


    The Moderate Voice




  • If only we could send them back. Republican lawmakers have long cut profiles in cowardice during the Trump presidency, but never before have the consequences of their leadership...
  • The post Send her back! (Cartoon) appeared first on The Moderate Voice.

    • Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., respond to remarks by President Donald Trump...


  • President Donald Trump’s racist comments directed at four congresswomen of color have spawned escalating social media attacks on the group known as the Squad, sometimes advocating...
  • “Mindset training” is a trendy practice designed to help students—especially marginalized students—do better in school by teaching them that their brainpower is not...

    • The Trump era has been a bonanza for investigative journalism and Democratic fundraising. But it’s also inspired a host of opportunists who have capitalized on fears about Trump...


      RSS Feed for Author: Paul Craig Roberts




  • "Western civilization" is creating new victim groups so rapidly that older victim groups are becoming victims of the new.
  • President Trump might be his own man, but not when it comes to John Bolton and Israel. Trump is their man, and is again being manipulated into starting a fisticuffs with Iran...

    • The latest case of academic persecution is Laura Tanner, a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant in the Department of Feminist Studies at the Santa Barbara campus of the University...


      Unexplained Mysteries




  • The wreck of the last US warship to be sunk off the east coast during WWII has finally been discovered. When the USS Eagle PE-56 went down off the coa...
  • Mission planners at NASA and ESA have determined the orbital path of the upcoming lunar Gateway. 50 years on from Apollo 11's historic landing, mankin...

    • A fascinating new study has highlighted just how sensitive, yet finely tuned the human brain actually is. In a recent experiment, scientists used a te...


  • Violent explosive volcanic activity started at Peru's Ubinas volcano around 07:35 UTC (02:35 local time) on July 19, 2019. The Geophysical Institute of Peru (IGP) recommended raising...
  • Mild eruptive activity which started at the New Southeast Crater (NSEC) on July 14 gradually intensified on July 18, INGV reports. Frequent ash emissions, producing only minor anomalies...

    • At least 123 people were killed, tens of thousands are displaced and at least 6 million affected in seasonal floods affecting India and Nepal over the past 10 days. The death toll is...


  • Federal data show an increased cancer risk to neighborhoods across the country around plants that emit a gas called ethylene oxide, which is used to sterilize medical equipment...
  • Across two-thirds of the United States, over 115 million Americans live where some level of heat alert is already in effect, and 290 million will see temperatures soar past 90 degrees...

    • Pot use and pregnancy hardly go hand-in-hand for health reasons, but more American women are using marijuana just before and right after they become pregnant, new research warns...


  • Reading Time: 1 minute Gerrymandering expert David Daley explains the connection between partisan redistricting and Trump administration efforts to add a citizenship question...
  • Reading Time: 3 minutes While many Americans are dreading the prospect of a second term for President Donald Trump, maybe they should be even more worried about a narrow Trump loss...

    • Reading Time: 3 minutes The struggle over every inch of land in Palestine has led to decades of conflict and could ignite the entire region at any time. Two videos explain one aspect...

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