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Let’s “Focus on Relieving Tensions”, Says Chomsky. With a Global War, “We’re Done”

Paul Gregoire: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Esteemed political commentator MIT Professor Noam Chomsky has long warned that the two greatest existential threats the globe is facing are climate change and nuclear war. Although for many, the latter used to seem like a… Continue Reading →

1.7 million foxes, 300 Million Native Animals Killed Every Year: The Damage Foxes Wreak

Jaana Dielenberg, Alyson Stobo-Wilson, Brett Murphy, John Woinarski, Charles Darwin University; Sarah Legge, Australian National University, and Trish Fleming, Murdoch University. Foxes kill about 300 million native mammals, birds and reptiles each year, and can be found across 80% of… Continue Reading →

The Triumph of Death: Bruegel The Elder

Death triumphs over the mundane. An army of skeletons raze the Earth. All life is extinguished. The background is a barren landscape in which scenes of destruction are still taking place. In the foreground, Death leads his armies from his… Continue Reading →

After two years, the COVID ‘Conspiracy Theorists’ have been proven Correct

TOTT News. Two years ago — on 11 March 2020 — the coronavirus was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, and with in a matter of weeks, the entire world would be changed forever. Countries would begin to enter… Continue Reading →

In the Dark, Freezing Ocean under Antarctica’s Largest Ice Shelf lies a thriving Microbial Jungle

Sergio E. Morales, University of Otago; Christina Hulbe, University of Otago; Clara Martínez-Pérez, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, and Federico Baltar, Universität Wien. Antarctica represents one of the last frontiers for discoveries on Earth. Our focus is on what… Continue Reading →

Backstory: Excerpt

By William Ried. Ansel Tone has been named “The Golden Boy of Popular History.” He teaches propaganda at Columbia University and writes Redux Revisionist History best-sellers. His looks and family wealth help him to hawk his books on late night… Continue Reading →

Spotlight on Overdoses

An Interview with Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League CEO Jake Docker: Sydney Criminal Lawyers Blog. Despite being an abject failure from its inception, the war on drugs continues and its casualties are mounting. Although its victims are not… Continue Reading →

The wreck of Endurance: A Bridge to a Bygone Age

Hanne E.F. Nielsen, University of Tasmania and Alessandro Antonello, Flinders University Superbly clear images of the shipwreck Endurance, 3,000 metres below the ocean’s surface in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea, were this week broadcast around the world. Found by the Endurance 22… Continue Reading →

Freedom Artists: Reignite Democracy Australia

Born from the crucible of Covid oppression and Australia’s extreme authoritarian responses, Reignite Democracy Australia has emerged as a significant player in the current ferment of Australian politics, caught as we all are in an election year. A scent of… Continue Reading →

BUSTED: Australian Defence Force caught staging social media PR during Flood Recovery

TOTT News. The Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Scott Morrison have both received harsh criticism online, after locals in flood-affected northern NSW regions expose the so-called ‘help’ they are receiving on-the-ground. ASSISTANCE? Video and photos have emerged showing ADF members… Continue Reading →

‘An ever-ticking clock’: we made a ‘time crystal’ inside a quantum computer

Stephan Rachel and Philipp Frey, The University of Melbourne. You probably know what a crystal is. We’ve all seen one, held one in our hands, and even tasted one on our tongue (for instance sodium chloride crystals, also known as… Continue Reading →

Dreaming of a Free and Fair Media: When a Rolling Debate gathered a Moss

By Michael Sawyer: Michael West Media. Fifty years ago, an Australian government had big plans for the media, seeing it as biased in favour of conservatism and its ownership too narrowly held. Powerful interests saw a sinister attempt to impose… Continue Reading →

Dark Seas. Extract: Hideout in the Apocalypse.

The spooks were easy to spot. Most Australians couldn’t afford a new iPhone, and certainly not in that part of town. Old Alex felt decidedly unsafe, packed up the apartment, both glad to be out of there and angry at… Continue Reading →

A Year of Living With Discredited Mathematical Models: Best of the Archives.

By Professor Ramesh Thakur and David Redman After a year’s experience of COVID-19 worldwide, the continuing hold of discredited mathematical models regarding lockdowns remain. As well, it is increasingly evident that medical specialists put in charge of public policy ignored… Continue Reading →

Dramatic Scenes in New Zealand as Police Move In: A show of Force in Wellington.

A show of force in Wellington. New Zealand Police have launched on anti-mandate protesters today in dramatic scenes, attempting to finally end a sitting that has disrupted the country’s capital for the past three weeks. Large numbers of police —… Continue Reading →

Ukraine as a ‘borderland’: a brief history of Ukraine’s place between Europe and Russia.

By Sheila Fitzpatrick, Australian Catholic University One interpretation of the name “Ukraine” is borderland. This needs to be taken seriously. Borderlands are all about diversity and competing understandings of community and nation. They are always mixtures of people with different… Continue Reading →

Jumpers at the Currumbin Valley Rock Pools: The Photography of Russell Shakespeare

“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” Leonardo da Vinci The Currumbin Valley Rock Pools are about five minutes… Continue Reading →

Public Health Erred on the Side of Catastrophe

By Brian McGlinchey: Brownstone Institute. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, proponents of lockdowns, shelter-in-place orders, mask mandates and other coercive government interventions have characterized these measures as benevolently “erring on the side of caution.”  Now, as the grim toll of those… Continue Reading →

Listening to Everything: How Sound reveals an Unseen World

Lawrence English, Griffith University. Vision is often regarded as first among the human senses, as our eyes are the way most of us come to know the world. However, vision has its limits. Even now, as you use your eyes… Continue Reading →

Men Go Mad In Herds: Covid Is Over – It’s Time to Move On.

By Jorg Probst. Featured Artist Ludwig Meidner. After two years, I declare Covid over, at least for me. It’s time to move on.  Over the last two years, I dedicated many hours reading, researching, and writing on my own blog about Covid…. Continue Reading →

Consciousness: How the Brain Chemical ‘Dopamine’ plays a key role – New Research

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Christelle Langley, Emmanuel A Stamatakis and Lennart Spindler, University of Cambridge. Consciousness is arguably the most important scientific topic there is. Without consciousness, there would after all be no science. But while we all know what it… Continue Reading →

The Day the Australian Flag Became the Yellow Star.

By Michael Gray Griffith: Café Locked Out. We set this image up. The day before we had stood before the doors of Parliament with all our flags and banners and t-shirts with messages that all read Freedom. But today we… Continue Reading →

Sidney Nolan, the painter who re-envisaged the Australian landscape

Julie Shiels, RMIT University. Review: Sidney Nolan: Search for Paradise, Heide Museum of Modern Art. A Sidney Nolan retrospective is being held in a contemporary Eden in the Melbourne suburbs — the place where the artist’s own search for paradise… Continue Reading →

Australians are Still Unaware of how much Data Facebook is Collecting.

TOTT News. Australia is ranked amongst the top ten countries which have no idea how their data is collected by Facebook. In April of 2018, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the social network collects data from people online even if they… Continue Reading →

Unfolding Catastrophe: Australia. Extract. Part One. The First Draft of History.

Photography by Dean Sewell THE THINGS HE REMEMBERED MOST STARKLY from the early months of the Covid Era were empty trains churning through the night, a sense of threat as everything was altered, military helicopters hovering over a deserted Sydney… Continue Reading →

Panic Merchants, Be Gone… Covid is just Another Virus

By Professor Ramesh Thakur: The Weekend Australian. From the very start of the pandemic, a small but critical minority of us has argued that irrespective of the paths taken to get there, the end state will be living with Covid-19… Continue Reading →

What’s an LRAD? Explaining the ‘Sonic Weapons’ Police use for Crowd Control and Communication

Lawrence English, Griffith University. At vaccine mandate protests in Canberra last week, police used powerful loud-hailing devices called Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) to address protesters. While some protesters claimed they were injured by the “sonic weapon”, those reports are inconsistent… Continue Reading →

The Burning Ghats of Varanasi: Photography by Russell Shakespeare.

People crawl across India to die in Varanasi for one reason: according to the Hindu faith if you die there, on the edge of the sacred Ganges River, you will not be reincarnated. The cycle of life, and therefore of… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Conservatives Peddle Themselves as Good Economic Managers. You’ve Got To Be Joking.

By Alan Austin: Michael West Media. The Coalition as “superior economic managers”? The data demonstrates the polar opposite. Alan Austin looks at the leading measures of economic performance over 10 years and finds Australia has slumped sharply against other nations. The bright… Continue Reading →

A Strong-eyed Style: What makes Australian Muster Dogs Unique

Melissa Starling and Claire Wade, University of Sydney. The recent ABC TV series Muster Dogs has brought into sharp focus the incredible skills of our working stock dogs. It’s not just their sensitivity to livestock movement that makes them so… Continue Reading →

An “Open Letter” to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison from the World’s Most Powerful Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch. What Happens When the Public Realise It Was All For Nothing???

As the Covid story collapses worldwide, and jurisdiction after jurisdiction abandons all Covid restrictions and mandates, leading newspapers around the world, many of whom played a key part in panicking entire populations, have begun an intense period of naval gazing…. Continue Reading →

Australia Unveils National COVID-19 Genomics Surveillance Platform: The Merging of Genomic Analysis and Government Data Monitoring.

TOTT News Researchers have unveiled a nationalised genomics surveillance platform that will enable real-time sharing, analysis and reporting of COVID-19 pathogen genomic data. Australian researchers have unveiled a nationalised genomics surveillance platform that will enable real-time sharing, analysis and reporting of… Continue Reading →

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