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This food timeline started as a way to explore the revolution in Australian food that has occurred during the baby-boomers’ lifetime, but has since expanded to include more about the previous decades (and century) as well. Also included are overseas events and trends that had an impact here. The entries are brief, but there are lots of links if you want more information.

Once upon a time, the choice of drinks in your average café was limited to coffee, coffee with milk or tea (most likely made with a tea bag). Then came the latte, the abbreviated name for caffè latte (always a trap for young players who visit Italy, order a latte and are presented with a […]

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The list of invitees at the White House crypto summit illustrates the tight link between Trump and new cohort of political donors.

The post Here’s How Much the Guests at Trump’s Crypto Summit Donated to His Inauguration appeared first on The Intercept.

bonkers shit as Trump waves around a printout of one of his Truth Social posts meant to show how he purportedly gave water to California pic.twitter.com/9LTlyGhAIc — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 25, 2025 That’s incredibly dumb but then, what else is new? Remember the big water release in California Trump bragged would soon be in Los Angeles and we would never have any fires again? You know, the one that almost flooded the flood plain and wasted billions of gallons of water for nothing? Well, it started out as a DOGE thing: Representatives from the Department of Government Efficiency repeatedly pressured the head of a United States water management agency to open a major California pump system in late January, intending to release a huge amount of water south toward Los Angeles — even though the water would have never made it to the fire-scarred metropolis.

Trump is dead serious about annexing Canada. As Chris Hayes noted on his show last night, six weeks ago people would have told you you were hallucinating if you’d said that Trump would make Canada enemy number one and that the U.S. would be engaged in a vicious battle over an alleged fentanyl and illegal immigration problem on our northern border. But it’s happening. The New York Times ran down the evolution of this insane idea that has brought the leadership of Canada to the conclusion that he isn’t bluffing. It’s so ridiculous I can hardly wrap my mind around it: Mr. Trump and Mr. Trudeau spoke twice on Feb. 3, once in the morning and again in the afternoon, as part of discussions to stave off tariffs on Canadian exports. But those early February calls were not just about tariffs. The details of the conversations between the two leaders, and subsequent discussions among top U.S. and Canadian officials, have not been previously fully reported, and were shared with The New York Times on condition of anonymity by four people with firsthand knowledge of their content. They did not want to be publicly identified discussing a sensitive topic.

The sentencing of Ruben Oseguera-Gonzalez, co-leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel, will do little to stem the flow of drugs.

The post “Narco Prince” Sentenced to Life as Trump Ramps Up U.S.–Mexico Drug War appeared first on The Intercept.

. I Tyskland har den så kallade Schuldenbremse (skuldbromsen) varit en central del av den ekonomiska politiken sedan år 2009. Regeln begränsar hur mycket staten får låna, med syftet att hålla den offentliga skulden låg. Kruxet med regeln har dock varit uppenbar — den hindrar nödvändiga investeringar i infrastruktur, grön omställning och välfärd. Sverige har […]

pic.twitter.com/AMrSYRuyen Is there ANYTHING more douchey than an FBI Excecutive? This is James Dennehy who said he was going to "DIG IN" in order to resist a simple and lawful request from DOJ to hand over case information. He was also leaking info as a "whistleblower" to Corey… — Kyle Seraphin (@KyleSeraphin) March 7, 2025 His letter to the staff: All, Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did. I was not given a reason for this decision. Regardless, I apologize to all of you for not being able to fulfill my commitment to you to serve as ADIC NY for at least two years.

Un nuevo informe de la ONU se basa en un agente financiado por el gobierno estadounidense, Félix Maradiaga, que ayudó a instigar el violento golpe de Estado de 2018 para destituir al presidente Daniel Ortega.  Sin embargo, los «expertos» de la ONU se han negado a entrevistar a los numerosos nicaragüenses secuestrados y torturados por la oposición. MASAYA, NICARAGUA – Reynaldo Urbina conduce su moto por las calles de Masaya, Nicaragua, con agilidad, a pesar de tener un solo brazo. […]

The post Informe ‘sesgado’ de la ONU ignora a las víctimas Nicaragüenses de la oposición apoyada por EEUU first appeared on The Grayzone.

The post Informe ‘sesgado’ de la ONU ignora a las víctimas Nicaragüenses de la oposición apoyada por EEUU appeared first on The Grayzone.

The Dean of Georgetown Law School responds to that MAGA freak show of a DC US Attorney Ed Martin’s threat to not hire any Georgetown lawyers unless the school ends all “DEI” programs:

The book’s argument is that in straining to peer through the chaos and confusion of the world to the underlying mechanisms, too much economic thinking, both in Ricardo’s day and ours, mistook a small, unrepresentative sample as the whole picture. This has distorted the vision of generations. If your scientific ideal is a simple, logical […]

The White House proudly announces that the first-ever National Women’s Day will be held on March 8. Formerly—and badly—known as “International Women’s Day,” President Trump has patriotically renamed this holiday to honor the best women on the planet: the women of the United States of America.

To mark this inaugural holiday, the president is proud to announce his five-part Agenda for American Women:

1. PASSING THE ERA
For too long, American women have lived as second-class citizens, their rights assumed but not guaranteed. That changes today with the introduction of the Equal Rifle Amendment. This constitutional amendment, proposed by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene at an NRA-sponsored chin-up competition, will guarantee that women cannot be discriminated against based on sex when buying and selling rifles. President Trump firmly believes that no matter how bad they are at sex, women should be entitled to carry guns, because it makes them hotter.

The current approach to education in Australia, as reflected in the New South Wales Bilateral Agreement and national funding models, underscores an increasing reliance on neoliberal principles. These policies prioritise efficiency, accountability, and standardised performance metrics, shaping education into a market-driven enterprise where schools and students are treated as economic units rather than as participants Continue reading »

In Asian media this week: Speeches show Li is for continuity, Trump insists on change. Plus: Cambodia worse than Myanmar for online “scamdemic”; How agents exploit Indians trying for work in America; Brutal competition shapes Fantastic Four tech leaders; Prabowo sets up sovereign wealth fund; Thailand joins Beatles era. The two superpowers this week laid Continue reading »

A dozen days ahead of this Chinese New Year, a large-scale exhibition opened at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. The event, “Cezanne and Renoir Looking at the World – Masterpieces from the Musee de l’Orangerie and the Musee d’Orsay,” showcased 52 masterpieces, featuring how the pair innovatively reinvented the art of their time and Continue reading »

Elon Musk’s dream of going to Mars failed when the second Starship rocket in 2 months blew up over the Caribbean diverting airplanes throughout the area and offering some spectacular fireworks and lots of detritus falling in the ocean. You have to wonder if Musk was minding the store instead of blowing up the federal government, he’d have better luck. Musk’s philosophy behind building these starships, which he has on an accelerated schedule in order to meet his deadline of sending a manned mission to Mars by 2030, is something he calls “rapid iterative development” the goal being to build prototypes quickly and put them on the launchpad with a willingness to blow them up. Sound familiar? Unfortunately for us, a willingness to blow up government doesn’t just destroy a hunk of metal, it destroys tens of thousands of lives. Not that he cares about that. As he told podcaster Joe Rogan last week, “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit.

Following pressure from pro-Israel media and politicians, Australia revoked Hussain Makke’s visa, barring him from a scheduled speaking tour—part of a growing trend of Western governments cracking down on free speech related to Israel and Palestine.

The post Australia Revokes Visa of Muslim Scholar Under Pro-Israel Pressure appeared first on MintPress News.

The Trump administration is struggling to meet its mass deportation targets, and Erik Prince’s $25 billion private army proposal may be back on the table.

The post Trump’s Deportation Drive Stalls—Is Erik Prince’s Private Army Back on the Table? appeared first on MintPress News.

By abandoning trans rights and praising Reagan, Democrats embrace a fangless politics with a track record of electoral failure.

The post Gavin Newsom’s Cynical Embrace of the Anti-Trans Agenda  appeared first on The Intercept.

Documents released by the Covid Inquiry reveal a network of connections between senior ministers, advisers and those handed lucrative Covid contracts

You’re losing Congressional Democrats’ “protest” during Donald Trump’s marathon speech had all the impact of a Demotivational poster. That’s leadership from Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer. Punchbowl News: Earlier on Thursday, Jeffries and party leaders brought in some of the most vocal rank-and-file Democrats – including Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) – to berate them for their recent behavior. The members-only meeting was called by Jeffries, we’re told. Tuesday’s debacle, as well as the ongoing clashes between progressives and moderates inside the House Democratic Caucus, isn’t Jeffries’ fault, of course. But it is his problem. And it shows little sign of cooling off right now. That may be because Frost and Crockett didn’t come to D.C. to be punching bags. They came to fight, just what the Democratic base demands. Jeffries and Schumer came to get along. Their idea of defending constituents is holding a press conference. Holding up signs on sticks and wearing pink shirts isn’t much better.

Trump says he’s cutting aid to Ukraine to prevent global war—but his administration has doubled down on arming Israel as it openly threatens regional escalation. Will Washington be dragged into another Middle East war?

The post Trump’s New Favorite War: Zelensky Out, Netanyahu In appeared first on MintPress News.

A quarterly column, steady as ever

“And yet all his crimes seem to be a quite straightforward consequence of the way the contemporary art market operates: borderline criminality is baked in.”

Books read:

• All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art—Orlando Whitfield
• All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me—Patrick Bringley
• Other books to be discussed at a later date

Books bought: