Mark's blog Articles

A way around kids' tantrums

We all know that exercising can change your mood, make you feel better, and that different exercise does different things. Runners, swimmers, game players, all do different types of activity and hav read more...

Anti alternative-health propaganda alive and well

Not content with the demolition job they did on Pan Pharmaceuticals (see Power Balance bands sham for a description of the TGA's role on Pan's collapse) Australian media continue to undermine, throu read more...

Apple succumbs to Wikileaks pressure

In an article published Dec 23, 2010, it is reported that Apple has joined dozens of other high profile companies including Visa, Pay Pal and Amazon in succumbing to pressure to black-list Wikileaks read more...

Drink spiking alive and well in Bali

I was recently speaking with a friend who has been living in Bali for many years and she told me a story that shocked me. She was at a bar with some friends, and she was introduced to an Indonesian read more...

Is this the end for News?

Can it really be true? Is it really possible that Rupert Murdoch's control over how and what a large proportion of the human race thinks and feels is about to whither? Is there really a light at the read more...

Japan's tsunami; the end of the nuclear industry?

With the spectre of a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster looming at one of Japan's nuclear power stations as a result of the recent tsunami, one has to ponder if this, finally, spells the end of the nu read more...

My fave eats in Bali

I had a few favourite eating places in Bali, where I felt most comfortable and liked the ambience, the staff, the food and the environment which separated them from lots of other places. I really read more...

Power balance bands sham

I just read the report of the ruling by the ACCC in Australia on the Power Balance Bands that have taken the sports world by storm over the past year. (see link at bottom of page) The ACCC has order read more...

The Julian Assange witchhunt

"How is it that a team of five people has managed to release to the public more suppressed information... than the rest of the world press combined? It's disgraceful." Julian Assange Everyone has read more...

Yes we Must! A response to Barack Obama

Over the course of the 2008 US [world??] presidential campaign and the democratic primaries beforehand, I often found myself in tears as I watched Obama’s speeches on the internet or on TV.  Agai read more...