Ausma Bernot Alexander Trauth-Goik Sue Trevaskes mercatornet.com Ausma Bernot is a PhD Candidate at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University. Alex Trauth-Goik is a PhD candidate at the School of Humanities and Social Inquiry at the University of Wollongong. Sue Trevaskes is Head of School (Interim)
Joe Burton University of Waikato Senior Lecturer, New Zealand Institute for Security and Crime Science, University of Waikato As Friday’s attack by an ISIS sympathiser in a New Zealand supermarket has shown, ISIS’s extreme ideology still holds strong appeal for some disaffected Muslims living in the west. ISIS
Kurt Mahlburg mercatornet.com Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young
The Bedfordshire Fire Service has posted the following on their website to inform people about electric vehicle fires in England’s green and pleasant land. (Apologies to to William Blake.) Causes of an EV Fire Electric vehicles are powered most commonly by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The first lithium-ion battery
Yesterday’s cyber-attack on New Zealand’s telecommunications network is a clear sign the Government has failed again to protect New Zealand’s cyber borders, National’s Digital Economy and Communications spokesperson Melissa Lee says. “Alongside the recent drop of New Zealand in the United Nations ITU Global Cybersecurity Index
Last week, with little fanfare, and near-zero media commentary, Australia slid deeper into a surveillance state. The occasion was the passing of the The Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill 2021. The final bill was passed after just 24 hours. Major media outlets like the ABC ignored it. The
Brigid Magner Linda Daley RMIT University Brigid is a Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies and founding member of the non/fictionLab research group at RMIT University. Her monograph Locating Australian Literary Memory was published by Anthem Press in 2019. Linda teaches literary studies in the School of Media & Communication.
Who would have thought that Facebook would become a target of censorship, and from none other than the Biden administration? ReclaimTheNet explains. The Biden administration continues to pressure Facebook to collaborate and help it achieve its goals, one of them being to counter COVID vaccine skepticism and get more people
Jathan Sadowski Monash University Research Fellow, Emerging Technologies Research Lab and CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Monash University I’m a Luddite. This is not a hesitant confession, but a proud proclamation. I’m also a social scientist who studies how new technologies affect politics, economics and society. For
Andrew Torba CEO, Gab.com Jesus is King I woke up to another hit piece about both Gab and myself this morning. You know you are over target when you’re taking flak on a weekly basis. The funny thing is the “hit piece” actually made Gab look pretty great.
Lucia Nalbandian Ryerson University Lucia is a passionate public servant and a curious researcher. By day, Lucia spends her time with the brilliant minds at the Policy Innovation Hub. Positioned in the Ontario Cabinet Office, the Hub has four practice areas, focused on strategy and strategic foresight, systemic design and
Dr. Ananya Mukherjee University of Surrey Ananya Mukherjee is a Research Associate with the University of Surrey. She currently works on a resilience and climate change adaptation project of socio-ecological systems (food and water systems) in the global South with the University of Cardiff. Imagine if you could power your
When Donald Trump called the mainstream media the “enemy of the people”, the talking heads exploded. How dare he, indeed. But if seriously undermining America’s democracy, fomenting civil unrest and propagating known lies with the intent of undermining elected leaders constitutes an enemy of the people, then Trump was
Cheryl K. Chumley ronpaulinstitute.org US Customs and Border Patrol announced its officers at a port in Alaska recently seized thousands of fake COVID-19 vaccination cards that came from China. The seizure opens the door for government to go forward with the technological tracking of US citizens. How so? It
Every joke is a tiny revolution. This point cannot be over-emphasised. If there’s one thing authoritarians are afraid of, it’s being laughed at. Shortly after coming to power, the Nazis banned mockery of their party or the Führer. Comedian Werner Finck was arrested twice for making fun of
