Inevitable Withdrawal: The US-Taliban Deal
It took gallons and flagons of blood, but it eventuated, a squeeze of history into a parchment of possibility: the Taliban eventually pushed the sole […]
AIM Extra
Medieval combat for ‘the Palace letters’ (part 3)
By Dr George Venturini On 20 October 2016 Professor Hocking applied to the Federal Court of Australia for the release of a bundle of letters […]
The Last Humans on Mars ..
(Author: I’m currently working on a Space Elevator article, however, since Mars is all go at the moment I’ve dug up an old article of […]
Tradition, Marketing and Blacked Cognac
The moment the liquid hits the mark, lips on the balloon rim, the hand having swirled the mellow colouring to life, the throat anticipates. It […]
PHP and all that jazz
You’d think that having a website built would be the end of it. But no. The platform you build it with – in our case […]
Medieval combat for ‘the Palace letters’ (part 2)
By Dr George Venturini The coup had been long in the making. A full nine months before the 11 November dismissal, and eight months before […]
Polishing Turds: Lord Bell’s Public Relations Revolution
“Morality is a job for priests. Not P.R. men.” (Tim Bell, New York Times, Feb 4, 2018). Lord Bell is dead, but his public relations […]
Medieval combat for ‘the Palace letters’ (part 1)
By Dr George Venturini 2. Medieval combat for ‘the Palace letters’ So, was Prince Charles just a visitor to Australia in November 2015? Interpretations of […]
Some simple questions for Scott Morrison that nobody has thought to ask
What else but Scott Morrison’s belief in the words of Donald Trump would have been the inspiration behind his decision to expose Australian troops to […]
Justifications for Inequality: The Neuroses of Kochland
One of the brothers Koch, David, has shuffled off this mortal coil, and the pious few looking at his passing may well think he is […]
The Naming Industrial Complex: The Stupidity of Smart Devices and Smart Cities
Insentience cannot have intelligence, but the modern public relations revolution would have you think otherwise. Smart phones, smart bombs, and, it follows, Smart Cities (capitalising […]
Charles III
By Dr George Venturini Charles III ‘Australia Day’ is time for bombastic rhetoric. In 2017 then Prime Minister Turnbull took the occasion for the customary […]
Imperial Sentiments: Donald Trump, Greenland and Colonial Real Estate
Haven’t the critics worked it out yet? US President Donald Trump chugs to the coal of nonsense that may come in the wrapping of some […]
Faith and rational thought
If I believe (and I am really wary about using the word!) about anything associated with ‘religion’, it is that those who seek power have […]
A conga line of bludgers: Prince Charles (part 8)
By Dr George Venturini On 11 and 12 February 2015 Charles visited Saudi Arabia for the twelfth time since 1986. He had been there in […]