Tuesday, August 04, 2020

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  • Newly launched Co-Lab Pantry is an online retail hub offering high-end pantry staples, meals, drinks and experiences from Victoria’s most-loved restaurants, bars, cafes, brands...
  • A ground-breaking partnership to tackle commercial food waste in Australia is kicking some major goals by successfully selling high quality surplus food that might have otherwise...

    • Finding a snack you can trust is no piece of cake for one in seven Australians with gut issues. While most sufferers can successfully manage symptoms by following Monash’s low FODMAP...

  • Nothing that you do on your phone is private.  In this day and age, most of us have become extremely dependent on our phones, and most Americans never even realize that these extremely...
  • The economic pain that we are witnessing right now is far greater than anything that we witnessed during the last recession.  U.S. GDP declined by 32.9 percent on an annualized basis...

    • Originally, I wasn’t going to write about Joe Biden’s search for a running mate, but I changed my mind.  Most of the time running mate picks are of relatively little consequence...

  • The Apple TV Plus series will see the Hollywood star and his longtime pal Charley Boorman traversing South and Central America on Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorbikes supported...
  • The video gives a sneak peek at the upcoming Note 20 and Note 20 Ultra.

    • The Pixel 4A raises the bar for how good a budget phone's camera can be.

  • by Yanis Iqbal Writer, Dandelion Salad Aligarh, India August 4, 2020 On March 11, Peru declared a 90-day national sanitary emergency to deal with the emerging coronavirus crisis...
  • by Rainer Shea Writer, Dandelion Salad Rainer Shea: Anti-Imperialist Journalist, Aug. 1, 2020 August 3, 2020 The paradigm of capitalism and colonialism has naturally produced...

    • Dandelion Salad Space Babies on Jul 23, 2020 Marx in the House is a series that explores gentrification and housing from a Marxist perspective. In this episode we take a look at how the...

  • This is a really good time to be selling underground bunkers.  The COVID-19 pandemic, civil unrest in major U.S. cities, and concern about what else may be coming have combined to...
  • In recent weeks there has been a tremendous amount of debate about whether police departments around the country should be “defunded” or not, but what most Americans don’t...

    • For a very long time we have been warned that a U.S. economic collapse was inevitably coming, and now it is here.  Fear of COVID-19 and unprecedented civil unrest in our major cities...

  • By He Jun* After the implementation of the Hong Kong National Security Law, the geopolitical game between China and the Western countries led by the United States has entered a new...
  • Irrespective of what people may say against New Delhi’s decision to abrogate Articles 370 and 35 A, the fact of the matter is that this is a step in the right direction that was long...

    • Being in control of a sinking ship is not enviable.  Regulations previously passed have a museum feel to them, distinctly obsolete.  Directions, once dictated with confidence...

  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org While most are understandably focused on the societal changes that have taken place in recent months, existential background threats...
  • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Climate engineering operations are the single most environmentally destructive factor we face short of nuclear cataclysm. What...

    • Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Spreading worldwide like a wildfire, is it in the air? A recent headline to consider, – "Coronavirus: Fishermen test positive despite...

  • A rare declassified budgetary report shows that Israel’s primary external intelligence agency, the Mossad, has received large increases in funding since 2016. The report was...
  • The grandfather of the incoming director of Britain’s main external intelligence agency was a member of the Irish Republican Army and was awarded a medal by Irish separatists for...

    • Belarussian secret services announced on Wednesday the arrest of 33 Russian citizens, who are allegedly members of a Kremlin-backed private military firm. The government of Belarus...

      Joniopolis



  •           Not long ago I gave you the brilliant idea for social distancing—wear stinky cream or eat an onion to keep people at bay. But when people wear masks they can’t...
  •          You know that a pluot is a cross between a plum and an apricot, right?  And that the wonderful, amazing Starr family lives right across the street from me, and always shares...

  • What TV Needs

    14 days ago

    •           We’ve all been watching too much TV while cooped up during this pandemic. But even before that, I’ll bet you noticed certain problems with television shows...

  • Billionaire-funded regime-change lobby group "Human Rights Watch" is a total fraud. Its executive director @KenRoth just tried to blame the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon on Hezbollah...
  • How Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam became Egypt’s Nakba David Hearst, Middle East Eye, Aug 4 2020 Disaster struck not so much with a bang, but with a trickle. At first, Ethiopia denied...
  • tik, tok, boom

    6 hours ago

    • Banning TikTok reflects Faschingstein’s cowardice Global Times, Aug 3 2020 As TikTok’s global market influence was skyrocketing, the company was suppressed by the Pindo government...

      Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service



  • Tijjani Muhammad-Bande is President of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly and Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations. The post The UN General...
  • Long ago, I was reviewing the offer of readings on the Internet, as a break from the search for academic sources for one of those articles with which to comply with professional rules...

    • After decades of impressive growth, for the first time, Southeast Asia is experiencing a drop in measured human development. The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic will...

  • Recent reports of delays in service by the U.S. Postal Service have prompted concerns that mail-in voting and absentee ballots will be undermined by the new Postmaster General and...
  • As a young service member stationed overseas, the venerable Stars and Stripes, a “military newspaper” that traces its roots back to the Civil War, was my connection – my lifeline...

    • Madrid (AFP) – Spain’s former king Juan Carlos, at the centre of an alleged $100-million corruption scandal, has reportedly fled to the Dominican Republic after his shock announcement...

    Mother Jones



  • “Cat on a Patio, 2020.” On a technical note, this is a panoramic shot. I took the picture of the cat and then lowered the camera to take a close-up picture of the bricks. The two frames...
  • In his 1954 memoir, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong paints a vivid portrait of the 1918 pandemic and the connective tissue of solidarity, resilience, and stamina...

    • After hearing Donald Trump blather away about how great the United States has done in its battle with COVID-19—based on a completely meaningless statistic—perhaps you’d...

      RSS Feed for Author: Paul Craig Roberts



  • Defense attorney and constitutional scholar John Remington Graham maintains that despite being two separate countries with different cultures and legislative interests, North...
  • The Missouri Compromise was put in place by statesmen determined to keep the North and the South, two separate countries with different legislative interests, in a state of even power...

    • In place of a media, a media that our founding fathers relied on to protect our society, the United States has a propaganda ministry whose sole purpose is to destroy our society...

      The Watchers - Editor's Picks



  • Series of powerful eruptions were recorded at Nishinoshima volcano over the past couple of days. On August 3, 2020, the Tokyo VAAC warned about a volcanic ash plume that rose up to 4...
  • Scientists developed a new physics-based technique that successfully predicted seven of the Sun's largest flares from the past solar cycle, out of a set of nine. With further improvement...

    • Crop yields for major crops such as apples, blueberries, and cherries across the U.S. are being limited by a lack of pollinators due to the decline of the wild bee population, according...

    WebMD Health



  • The U.S. has now reported more than 4 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
  • Paramedics, who are often the first to see sick patients, are at far greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 than others, the researchers said.

    • The national survey by Ohio State Wexner Medical Center of 2,000 people found that 56% changed their social media habits because of tensions brought on by current U.S. events...

      WhoWhatWhy

  • Reading Time: 2 minutes Census Cut Short a Month ; People Live Longer in Blue States Than Red ; and More Picks 8/4 The post This Tool Could Protect Your Photos From Facial Recognition...
  • Reading Time: 15 minutes An in-depth look at why evangelicals are Trump's most unwavering supporters, and their plans for making Christianity great again. The post Why Are White...

    Scientists Have Backed Away From the Worst-Case Climate Scenario — and the Best One, Too

    a day ago
    Reading Time: 2 minutes In Portland, Getting Out of Jail Requires Relinquishing Constitutional Rights ; Georgia Camp Outbreak Shows Rapid Virus Spread Among Children ; and More...

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