The Terrorist Inside Robin Williams' Brain - Neuroskeptic

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2016/09/29/the-terrorist-inside-robin-williams-brain/#.V-15ZJMrIkg

Barnaby Joyce identifies himself as a corporate whore. Scumbag politicians with corporate agendas.

Barnaby Joyce identifies himself as a corporate whore. Scumbag politicians with corporate agendas.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/29/is-this-a-new-low-politicians-using-a-natural-disaster-to-push-a-fact-free-agenda

Privatisation has damaged the economy, says ACCC chief

http://www.smh.com.au/business/privatisation-has-damaged-the-economy-says-accc-chief-20160726-gqe2c2.html

Malcolm Turnbull's broadband plan is incoherent

http://www.afr.com/technology/web/nbn/malcolm-turnbulls-broadband-plan-is-incoherent-20160928-grq4oe

The Proper Channels For Whistleblowing Still Mostly A Good Way For Messengers To Get Shot

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160924/07302535609/proper-channels-whistleblowing-still-mostly-good-way-messengers-to-get-shot.shtml

We just had five 1,000-year floods in less than a year. What's going on?

https://www.edf.org/blog/2016/09/01/we-just-had-five-1000-year-floods-less-year-whats-going

Bludger corporations

Bludger corporations
http://www.michaelwest.com.au/pwc-gives-bludgers-a-lesson-in-corporate-welfare/

Study finds industry funding could lead to bias in artificial sweetener research

https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/study-finds-industry-funding-could-lead-to-bias-in-artificial-sweetener-research

This Page Lets You Disable a Lot of Google's Activity Tracking

http://lifehacker.com/this-page-lets-you-disable-a-lot-of-googles-activity-tr-1787078927

Immigrants Don’t Steal Jobs or Wages. Billionaires Do.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/09/25/immigrants-dont-steal-jobs-or-wages-billionaires-do

The rise and rise of tabletop gaming | Technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/25/board-games-back-tabletop-gaming-boom-pandemic-flash-point?cmp=oth_b-aplnews_d-3

Pope: Irresponsible Journalism Is A Form Of 'Terrorism'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/pope-journalism-terrorism_us_57e42348e4b0e80b1ba0e4a8?section=

Christian Porter's welfare figures are designed to shock.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2016/sep/22/christian-porters-welfare-figures-are-designed-to-shock-pay-them-no-respect

Seems all of NSW politics is toxic.

Seems all of NSW politics is toxic.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-22/liberal-party-received-unlawful-donations-electoral-commission/7869824

Introduction to Big Data

http://haifengl.github.io/bigdata/

Aliens?!

Aliens?!
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-hold-media-call-on-evidence-of-surprising-activity-on-europa

Australia does not have a welfare problem. We have a poverty problem | John Falzon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/20/australia-does-not-have-a-welfare-problem-we-have-a-poverty-problem

Disreputable Washington Post

Disreputable Washington Post
https://theintercept.com/2016/09/18/washpost-makes-history-first-paper-to-call-for-prosecution-of-its-own-source-after-accepting-pulitzer/

Celebrating the One Percent

http://www.unz.com/mhudson/celebrating-the-one-percent/

Kick Malcolm out.

Kick Malcolm out. He's not governing for the people, but for the corporations. Note that Labor is equally at fault here.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/malcolm-turnbull-urges-us-to-ratify-trans-pacific-partnership-in-face-of-populist-protectionism-20160919-grj8c8.html

Emmys 2016: Tatiana Maslany wins for Orphan Black (finally)

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/18/12965764/tatiana-maslany-emmys-2016-orphan-black-award-win

How a union ripped off the workers

http://www.smh.com.au/comment/how-a-union-ripped-off-the-workers-20160915-grgr5m.html

NSW Labor calls for corrupt politicians to be stripped of taxpayer-funded super

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-19/nsw-labor-wants-corrupt-mps-stripped-of-super-payments/7856982

If you eat junk food, smoke then you are giving corporate stooges your money.

If you eat junk food, smoke then you are giving corporate stooges your money.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/312894.php

America’s press is dead. Long live the billionaires.

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/donald-trump-mark-cuban-peter-thiel-free-press/

Crisis looms as Australians look to ditch private health insurance

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/crisis-looms-as-australians-look-to-ditch-private-health-insurance-20160916-grichb.html

UN human rights office calls on Australia to end offshore detention | Australia news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/17/un-human-rights-office-calls-on-australia-to-end-offshore-detention

How global warming stacks up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gHUHoqBn-Y&feature=youtu.be

Snowden’s Zachary Quinto Explains Voting Machine Hacking in 2 Minutes

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/zachary-quinto-explains-voting-machine-hacking/

Harvard study: Political 'dysfunction' crippling U.S. economy

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/political-system-economic-competitiveness-harvard-study-228192

Government Surveillance Poses Cyber-security Threats, ISPs Say

http://www.eweek.com/security/government-surveillance-poses-cyber-security-threats-isps-say.html

10 times Pauline Hanson got the facts wrong in her maiden speech

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/thefeed/article/2016/09/15/10-times-pauline-hanson-got-facts-wrong-her-maiden-speech

New study finds link between the way people walk and aggression

http://www.psypost.org/2016/09/new-study-finds-link-way-people-walk-aggression-44954

Bob Katter says two but I say THREE!

Bob Katter says two but I say THREE!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-15/divide-queensland-into-two-states-says-katters-australian-party/7847436
http://imgur.com/gallery/jH6dm

Extremist Leader Of Radical Group Attacks Australian Values

http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2016/09/15/extremist-leader-radical-group-attacks-australian-values

Japan Repeatedly Falsified Whaling Reports

http://www.seeker.com/new-investigation-finds-japan-repeatedly-falsified-whaling-reports-2004275176.html

Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/sugar-industry-bought-off-scientists-skewed-dietary-guidelines-for-decades/

Government handing out huge contracts to private companies, keeping it all offshore, providing a substandard...

Government handing out huge contracts to private companies, keeping it all offshore, providing a substandard service, and bringing in laws to imprison anyone who blows the whistle.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-14/peter-dutton-defends-immigration-department-in-wake-of-audit/7844534

Face the facts: competition and profit don't work in health, education or prisons | John Quiggin | Opinion | The...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/12/face-the-facts-competition-and-profit-dont-work-in-health-education-or-prisons

Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research

https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-research/

Attorney General Admits To Personally Offering $370,000-A-Year Job To Party Donor

https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/attorney-general-admits-to-personally-offering-37?utm_term=.nd9R7aalBv#.xeERoppDzd

The historic truth about science fiction from H. G. Wells to Star Trek

http://www.nature.com/news/the-historic-truth-about-science-fiction-from-h-g-wells-to-star-trek-1.20540

As in Australia, the US now arrests journalists for covering government atrocities.

As in Australia, the US now arrests journalists for covering government atrocities.
http://m.democracynow.org/web_exclusives/2990

Australian Politics

Australian Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knob-rB35AI

'I wish now I'd shot more,' says whistleblower vet

http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/liveexport-whistleblower-vet-i-wish-now-id-shot-more-20160901-gr6fka.html

New game delivered! By Max Temkin via KickStarter.com (his $55K goal reached $1.48 million)

New game delivered! By Max Temkin via KickStarter.com (his $55K goal reached $1.48 million)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxtemkin/secret-hitler/description

Get rid of the NSW commies!

Get rid of the NSW commies!
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-05/nsw-greens-civil-war-intensifies-jeremy-buckingham-reform-call/7814678

Underground Airlines is one of the bleakest alternate histories ever

http://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/09/underground-airlines-is-one-of-the-bleakest-alternate-histories-ever/

Waiting for the hammer to fall.

Waiting for the hammer to fall.
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/science/asteroid-named-freddie-mercury-mark-queen-singers-70th-birthday/

How you are being robbed by multinationals

http://www.theage.com.au/comment/how-you-are-being-robbed-by-multinationals-20160901-gr65ql.html

The much harsher politics of Australia.

The much harsher politics of Australia.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/03/nauru-fiasco-serves-to-confirm-danish-groups-suspicions-of-australian-tactics?CMP=soc_567

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I can imagine that this sort of law will start to take hole world wide, eventually.

I can imagine that this sort of law will start to take hole world wide, eventually. If you smoke and/or are overweight then you're going to have to fund you own health costs completely.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/obese-people-and-smokers-banned-from-routine-surgery-as-nhs-attempts-to-cut-spending-costs-a7223731.html

Turnbull is all about the science and innovation.

Turnbull is all about the science and innovation.
But he has to cut taxes for some reason,
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-03/federal-funding-cancer-facility-adelaide/7811552

The great 'Shoppies' union sell out

http://www.smh.com.au/interactive/2016/shopped-out/

Philosophy should be integrated into everyday life, the failure lays at the feet of Philosophers who isolate the...

Philosophy should be integrated into everyday life, the failure lays at the feet of Philosophers who isolate the subject and themselves into academic ivory towers, making esoteric what should be commonplace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum3k-Wglfw&feature=youtu.be&t=5s

Queensland police accused of abusing social advocate's privacy

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-02/renee-eaves-police-file-accessed-14000-in-claimed-privacy-abuse/7807868

These data retention spying laws was never about terrorism, but about squashing dissent, attacking political targets.

These data retention spying laws was never about terrorism, but about squashing dissent, attacking political targets.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160829/06300835377/australian-government-using-data-retention-law-to-seek-out-journalists-sources-hunt-down-whistleblowers.shtml

White nationalists use Twitter with ‘relative impunity': report

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-whitenationalists-twitter-idUSKCN1173J7

Judge: This exposing of rich people's corruption must be stopped!

Judge: This exposing of rich people's corruption must be stopped!
https://www.rt.com/usa/357918-guccifer-jail-clinton-email/

These charts clearly show how some Olympic swimmers may have gotten an unfair advantage

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/09/01/these-charts-clearly-show-how-some-olympic-swimmers-may-have-gotten-an-unfair-advantage/

Digital Photography

https://sites.google.com/site/marclevoylectures/home

Hillary and the Clinton Foundation: Exemplars of America’s Political Rot

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/29/hillary-and-the-clinton-foundation-exemplars-of-americas-political-rot/

Living With a Climate Skeptic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT8dy1zaT6s

Slower, more expensive, later. Thanks LNP.

Slower, more expensive, later. Thanks LNP.
http://www.innovationaus.com/2016/08/Telstrafication-of-the-NBN-grows