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Australian Food News

• Freshcare introduces new QR code security

  Freshcare is introducing QR codes on certificates across all its Standards to add a greater level of security and allow users to access real time up to date information on a business’s certification at the click of a button. The QR code is embedded...

  14 days ago

• Gas chromatography high-resolution mass spectrometer offers new opportunities for analytical testing

  Analytical testing laboratories performing high-throughput analysis in the food safety, environmental, pharmaceutical, anti-doping and forensic toxicology sectors can benefit from a simplified high resolution accurate mass gas...

  14 days ago

• Science takes guesswork out of cheese production and reduces waste

  Making cheese leaves a lot to chance as a batch could be ripened for months or even years before a problem is discovered, which could send a prized batch of cheddar to be sold off cheap as an ingredient for processed cheese. It’s part of why cheese...

  14 days ago

The American Dream

• There Is A “Crisis Of Masculinity” In The United States

  When I was growing up in the 1970s, society was definitely beginning to change, but there were still plenty of men that knew how to be men.  In those days, if men wanted to be masculine that was okay.  And if women wanted to be feminine, that was...

  14 hours ago

• 10 Examples That Show How Nightmarish The Worst Border Crisis In Modern American History Has Become

  If U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel are intercepting more than 100,000 migrants a month as they try to illegally cross the southern border, how many more are able to make it through undetected?  In recent days, there has been a...

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• You Were Warned That Dust Bowl Conditions Would Return, And Now It Has Happened

  The horrific drought that has much of the western half of the United States in a death grip has already surpassed what many scientists thought was possible.  Some areas of the Southwest went more than 200 straight days without any measurable...

  6 days ago

CNET

• Motorola wants to turn your Edge Plus into a WFH machine - CNET

  Its Ready For software lets use the phone's 108MP rear camera for video calls while connected to a TV or monitor.

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• China appears to be blocking Signal messaging app, report says - CNET

  The encrypted messaging app may be the latest platform to be banned.

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• Everything unveiled at Samsung's Galaxy Awesome event video - CNET

  Samsung just announced its all-new A52, A52 5G and A72 phones at an Unpacked event. Watch a recap of the whole presentation in under 9 minutes here.

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Dandelion Salad

• Perfidy Meets Putty – Congressional Democrats Betray Voters, by Ralph Nader

  Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page, Mar. 12, 2021 March 16, 2021 Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic Party’s presidential and Congressional candidates on universal health insurance? You can forget their pledges...

  21 hours ago

• Chris Hedges: Politics After Trump

  Dandelion Salad with Chris Hedges BC Student Government on Mar 11, 2021 The event features a keynote address by Chris Hedges, followed by a discussion with the host, and then ending with a Q&A session for the audience. Don’t miss a new...

  2 days ago

• Abby Martin: A Guide to US Empire in Africa

  Dandelion Salad with Abby Martin Empire Files on Mar 13, 2021 Abby Martin speaks to Eugene Puryear to discuss the big picture of US imperialism in Africa: From the Berlin Conference to the subversion of liberation movements to neocolonial...

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The Economic Collapse

• New Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Have Been Found For The First Time In 60 Years, And This Is What They Say…

  We just witnessed one of the most exciting archaeological discoveries in decades.  For the first time in 60 years, new Dead Sea Scroll fragments have been discovered, and Israeli authorities are telling us that archaeologists will continue...

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• P1 Is Being Called “A Different Pandemic From The One We Saw Last Year”, And It Is Ripping Through Brazil With A Vengeance

  What would you do if a coronavirus that is much more contagious than regular COVID and that makes people much sicker than regular COVID started to spread all over the globe?  Well, we are being told that is precisely what is now happening. ...

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• Brace Yourselves For The Most Dramatic Shift In The Standard Of Living In All Of U.S. History

  They are assuring us that we don’t have to be concerned about “inflation” because they have everything under control.  Do you believe them?  The value of the U.S. dollar has been steadily declining for a long time, and most Americans...

  6 days ago

Eurasia Review

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  With Victoria Nuland Nomination, Biden Signals Return To Bush-Obama-Era Foreign Policy – OpEd

  By José Niño* Some things never change in American foreign policy. While there’s a lot of chatter about a “Great Reset” in terms of rebuilding society along technocratic lines in the wake of covid-19, US foreign policy appears to...

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  First Quad Leaders Meeting: An Agenda Beyond Security – Analysis

  Besides vaccine diplomacy, this Quad meeting deliberated on matters like climate change, and critical and emerging technologies. By Premesha Saha In a first, a virtual meeting of the leaders of the Quadrilateral (Quad) was held on 12 March...

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  WTO Chief Faces First Test Over Generic Corona Drug Patent – OpEd

  By Lisa Vives* The first African woman to lead the World Trade Organization (WTO), Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is facing her first test of leadership as the leaders of poor and rich nations spar over the rights to generic versions of the COVID-19 vaccine...

  13 hours ago

Geoengineering Watch

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, March 13, 2021, #292

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Denver, Colorado, is the latest target of engineered winter weather. The global climate engineering cabal is unleashing the full fury of patented chemical ice nucleation cloud seeding processes...

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  The Dimming, Full Length Climate Engineering Documentary

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org GeoeongineeringWatch.org is pleased to announce the release of our groundbreaking documentary that conclusively exposes the existence of global climate engineering operations. ...

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  Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, March 6, 2021, #291

  Dane Wigington GeoengineeringWatch.org Due to all the societal lockdowns many are struggling to keep food on the table, even in first world countries. Adding to this equation are crop losses from rapidly increasing climate calamities...

  11 days ago

intelNews.org

• Nashville Christmas Day bombing was not terrorism, FBI concludes

  A MAN WHO LAST December detonated a massive bomb in Nashville, capital of the American state of Tennessee, was not motivated by political ideology, but by paranoid alien conspiracies, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation...

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• US designates two African armed groups as foreign terrorist organizations

  THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT of state has designated two armed groups, based in Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as foreign terrorist organizations. In a statement released last week, the US Department of State identified...

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• Israel behind mysterious attacks on Iranian oil tankers, report claims

  THE ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE SERVICES are behind a series of mysterious attacks that have damaged Iranian oil tankers in the past 24 months, according to a new report that cites sources in the international shipping industry...

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Joniopolis

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  How's That Again?

               Advertising fascinates me. For example, I recently saw an ad on Facebook for a neck cream. It said, “Your neck will turn heads!”          And I thought, Don’t all necks turn heads?  Isn’t that their primary...

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  What Are You Famous For?

             Five years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a blogabout what it could mean if someone “pulled a Joni.”           I hinted at some possibilities, but didn’t actually want to know the truth.  And now THREE friends...

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  The Shot Not Heard Around the World

             It started as a scavenger hunt. St. Bob called all different places, trying to get the COVID vaccine. Everything was booked up solid, except for one lab an hour away.  “I’ll take it,” he said.          ...

  15 days ago

Niqnaq

• burn it down

  Britain’s secret political police Asa Winstanley, Declassified UK, Mar 16 2021 Metropolitan Police headquarters in Westminster. (Photo: Leon Neal) In Dec 2018 I received a text message that changed my life. It read: “Do you know anyone...

  20 hours ago

• little england, or fawlty towers for real

  The Brexit deal was astonishingly bad, and every day the evidence piles up Polly Toynbee, Groan, Mar 16 2021 Now we know that British exports to the European Union plummeted by a cataclysmic 41% after Brexit on 1 January, what next? This is not...

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• south front

  Armenia & Azerbaijan Launch Ramp Up Forces Near Karabakh South Front, Mar 16 2021 https://southfront.org/wp-content/uploads/video/16.03.2021_IMR_Karabakh.mp4 The Azerbaijan Armed Forces are carrying out a large-scale operational...

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Inter Press ServiceInter Press Service

• Every Girl Can’t Be a Scientist Until We Make Big Changes

  Over a month ago, the world celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. But the celebrations ring hollow when there’s still been no meaningful progress in the representation of women in the research sciences field. ...

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• ‘Living Hell’ – Concerns Mount over Dramatic Deterioration in Yemen Conflict

  The United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen has warned that the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, is rapidly deteriorating as Yemenis, including women and children, face hunger, injury and death. Martin Griffiths told a UN Security Council...

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• Failing to Collect Data About Women is no Trivial Offence

  The writer is Global Editor in the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's Communications Department* The post Failing to Collect Data About Women is no Trivial Offence appeared first on Inter Press Service.

  9 hours ago

The Moderate Voice

• FOLLOW THE DRIP (Cartoon and Column)

  Rudy Giuliani was nominated for a Razzie Award for his appearance in the second Borat film. It was for the scene where he takes what he believes is an underage girl from Kazakhstan into a hotel room for drinks, lays down on a bed, and sticks his hand...

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• Biden vows Russia’s Putin will ‘pay a price’ for election meddling: ABC News

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin will face consequences for directing efforts to swing the 2020 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump, and that they would come soon. “He will pay...

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• Apparently, college students are pseudo-adults.

  Apparently, college students are pseudo-adults. That is one conclusion that one can reach upon reading the 16 March 2021 USA Today story “‘Feels like I’m being punished’: College kids describe feelings of FOMO during spring break”...

  18 hours ago

Mother Jones

• What We Know About the Atlanta-Area Massage Parlor Shootings

  Eight people, including six Asian women, were killed late Tuesday after a gunman opened fire inside three massage parlors in the Atlanta metro area. Authorities have yet to identify a motive, but the shootings, which happened within the span...

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• The Most Radical Republicans Aren’t in Congress, They’re in the State Houses

  Erika Geiss felt a tinge of déjà vu on January 6. She watched in horror and disbelief as thousands of rioters—driven by Trump’s big lie that the 2020 election was fraudulent—scaled the outer walls of the US Capitol and violently forced...

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• “The World Tried to Make Women Like You Wilt. You Didn’t”: How Maria Garcia—and a Whole Generation—Are Honoring Selena and Finding Themselves

  Anything for Selena is more than a podcast about the iconic 1990s superstar Selena Quintanilla; it’s a nine-part series about belonging. It’s Maria Garcia’s journey of discovering what it means to love and mourn Selena, and what looking...

  6 hours ago

The Watchers - Editor's Picks

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  Tsunami forecast model animation: Three tsunamis in one day from the Tonga-Kermadec subduction zone

  The Tonga-Kermadec subduction zone is a convergent boundary where the Pacific is subducted beneath the Australian Plate. It extends northeastward from New Zealand, through the Kermadec and Tonga Islands, and terminates just south of the...

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  Study provides evidence of a magnetic field anomaly in Southeast Asia 800 years agojavascript:;

  An international team of researchers has discovered evidence of a magnetic field anomaly in Southeast Asia roughly 800 years ago. The researchers conducted an archaeomagnetic study on an iron-smelting site from Cambodia, an area currently...

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  Mekong River drops to critically low levels

  The Mekong River water levels in Thailand have fallen to critically low levels, posing a serious threat of severe drought during the dry season. The water levels are dropping faster than in previous years due to the construction of dams in Laos...

  7 days ago

WebMD Health

• Brain Exercises: Can They Help Older Adults?

  You see the ads for puzzles and apps that promise to help your brain work better and hold off dementia. Do they work?

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• My Life With Rheumatoid Arthritis

  Their diagnosis is the same, but their experiences are unique. Follow Andy, Ryn, and Molly as they share stories from their lives with RA.

  18 hours ago

• How I Found the Right Rheumatologist for Me

  RA is a chronic condition that I will live with for the rest of my life, and I knew that I needed a doctor who would patiently walk me through the steps for managing it.

  18 hours ago

WhoWhatWhy

• Facebook Faces Regulatory Backlash Over Australia News Ban

  Reading Time: 7 minutes After Facebook blocked news in Australia in response to requirements to pay media for content, several countries may introduce similar laws to curb its power. The post Facebook Faces Regulatory Backlash Over Australia...

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• How a Hacker Hijacked All My Texts for $16

  Reading Time: 2 minutes Diplomats Warned of Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab ; Officers Who Danced at a BLM Rally Stormed the Capitol ; and More Picks The post How a Hacker Hijacked All My Texts for $16 appeared first on WhoWhatWhy...

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• COVID-19 Worldview: Mexico Struggles to Vaccinate Residents

  Reading Time: 2 minutes Now a country with the third highest COVID-19 death rate in the world, Mexico faces an increasing demand for vaccinations without a working distribution plan. The post COVID-19 Worldview: Mexico Struggles to Vaccinate...

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