Tasmanian Times
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1.6KShocking violations of live export rules
Pics: The sheep in Pakistan. Aircraft transport … many have died on aircraft because of a ventilation failure. As the Abbott government...
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This is how empires collapse
This is how empires collapse: one complicit participant at a time. April 23, 2014 “ICH” – “Of Two Minds” – Before an...
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Historic rally in Tasmania’s Upper Florentine Valley
World Heritage Forests In Danger Almost 2000 people have rallied today in the Upper Florentine Valley to defend World Heritage listed forests....
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Lest We Forget indeed!
Only 8 years before the ANZAC’s set off for Gallipoli, these Aboriginals were in Police Custody, 1906. Their crime was fighting against...
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Selling state assets is ideology rather than logic
Pic: State asset: Hydro’s Gordon dam Privatisation: Broader issues Privatising public assets is back on the agenda with Treasurer Hockey reigniting the...
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The Lives of Brian
For six years I sat within meters of the late Senator Brian Harradine. Along with a few Greens and One Nation, the...
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The Mass Mobilization of Populations
Image from Snoopman … which also has Lorde’s censored speech on corporatized totalitarianism : https://snoopman.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/lordegrammyspeech.pdf Shaping corporate totalitarianism out of democratic ideas...
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Much learning does not teach understanding
Polumathie noon ou didaskei. Heraclitus (DK B40) Much learning does not teach understanding, else it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras; and...
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MH 370 debris … ? Just as John Hawkins predicted on TT … ?
Debris washed up on the coast of Western Australia, have raised hopes it may be from the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370:...
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Can we divorce theology from politics?
Allegory to separation of church and state, 1905. How free from a religious or sacred dimension is our political system? The West...
