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More than 1/3 illicit drugs sold on the dark web contain unexpected substances

March 5, 2024 - 16:11 -- Admin

RMIT University Media Release   Testing of illicit drugs bought online found 35% were not what they said they were, highlighting the urgent need for more local drug testing facilities in Australia to prevent harm and overdose.   The RMIT-led study analysed 103 illicit drug samples sourced from the now-defunct dark web forum Test4Pay in collaboration…

Climate pollution is “cooking” the Reef with law reform needed

March 5, 2024 - 15:44 -- Admin

Climate Council Media Release THE CLIMATE COUNCIL is sounding the alarm on a severe bleaching event unfolding across the Great Barrier Reef, with new vision showing the damage that stretches more than 1100 kilometres from Lizard Island to the Keppel Islands. Marine heatwaves are bleaching swathes of the Southern Great Barrier reef white, which have…

Traditionalism: the belief that could doom us all

March 5, 2024 - 11:22 -- Admin

It can be difficult to understand what connects free market devotees, white ethnostate militants, Christian Nationalists, tech bros and mere conservatives in the West. One concept that can help understand their rough alliance is traditionalism. In fact it draws together an international contingent that shares goals and enemies, shaping domestic and foreign policy against the…

Mistakes, Misfiring and Trident: Britain’s Flawed Nuclear Deterrence

March 4, 2024 - 15:06 -- Admin

Nuclear weapons are considered the strategic silverware of nation states. Occasionally, they are given a cleaning and polishing. From time to time, they go missing, fail to work, and suffer misplacement. Of late, the UK Royal Navy has not been doing so well in that department, given its seminal role in upholding the doctrine of…

The biggest loser

March 4, 2024 - 12:34 -- Admin

Despite the headlines on Sunday morning, it seems that the vast majority of the attendees at Mardi Gras last weekend were in fact ‘feeling the love’ police said the overall behaviour of 120,000 spectators and 12,500 participants on Saturday night was “pleasing”. There were no major incidents other than the arrest of the seven men…

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The Borderlord: Chapter Two

March 4, 2024 - 12:03 -- Admin

By James Moore   Anyone who knows the Texas and Mexico border in any manner even approaching familiarity, would have laughed in D. Trump’s face during his news conference at Eagle Pass. Technically, there was nothing news worthy about his appearance on the banks of the Rio Grande and he did not answer questions. Instead, he…

Dunkley sends all of us a message.

March 3, 2024 - 23:52 -- Admin

“ If you live in Frankston, and you’ve got a problem with Victorian women being assaulted by foreign criminals, vote against Labor. “If you do not want to see Australian women being assaulted by foreign criminals, vote against Labor. Send Labor a message.” Labor easily wins Dunkley, increasing its primary vote to forty per cent.…

New Zealand is under siege by the Atlas Network

March 3, 2024 - 10:35 -- Admin

Just as the Atlas Network-connected Advance body intervened in the Voice referendum in Australia and, in recent weeks, a bye-election, similar organisations spawned from the American model are distorting New Zealand’s politics from within as well as from without. One of the key researchers into the Atlas Network, Lee Fang, observed that it has “reshaped…

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