Tag: Australia
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Watch What Happens When Guns Are Banned in Australia
http://youtu.be/p8RDWltHxRc “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than…
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SERCO: The Biggest Company You’ve Never Heard Of
As well as thanking God for his success, CEO Chris Hyman is a Pentecostal Christian who has released a gospel album in America and fasts every Tuesday. Coincidentally he was in the World Trade Centre on 9/11 on the 47th floor addressing shareholders. Serco run navy patrol boats for the ADF, as well as…
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Native Australians Grant Julian Assange Aboriginal Passport In Official Ceremony
JOINT MEDIA RELEASE: Indigenous Social Justice Association & Support Assange & WikiLeaks Coalition September 9, 2012 ISJA: It is with a sense of pride and complete social justice that this Association has worked with the Sydney Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition to have the privilege of successfully arranging for Julian Assange to be able to…
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Cryptoparty Goes Viral: Pen testers, Privacy Geeks Spread Security to the Masses
Security professionals, geeks and hackers around the world are hosting a series of cryptography training sessions for the general public. The ‘crytoparty’ sessions were born in Australia and kicked off last week in Sydney and Canberra along with two in the US and Germany. Information security experts and privacy advocates of all political stripes have…
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FinFisher Illegal Spyware Found On At Least Five Continents
The FinFisher spyware made by U.K.- based Gamma Group likely has previously undisclosed global reach, with computers on at least five continents showing signs of being command centers that run the intrusion tool, according to cybersecurity experts. FinFisher can secretly monitor computers — intercepting Skype calls, turning on Web cameras and recording every keystroke. It…
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Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes released into the wild
Australian research scientists have developed a strategy for fighting Dengue fever, a viral disease spread by mosquitoes that affects more than 50 million people annually and causes fever and crippling joint and muscle pain—and in some cases even death. Dengue kills FAR more people worldwide than influenza, yet it is rarely even mentioned by Western…
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Beauty in Nature: Bunda Cliffs Australia
The vast Nullarbor Plain is the world’s largest limestone karst landscape covering an area of 270,000 square km, extending 2,000 km between Norseman and Ceduna. Two thirds of the Nullarbor is within Western Australia and one third is in South Australia. The spectacular Bunda Cliffs and the Great Australian Bight border the area to the…
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David Banks
David Banks, age 55, died on May 8, 2005. Banks, based in North Queensland, died in an airplane crash, along with 14 others. He was known as an Agro Genius inventing the mosquito trap used for cattle. Banks was the principal scientist with quarantine authority, Biosecurity Australia, and heavily involved in protecting Australians from unwanted…