BY LARRY HEDGE, EDUCATION REPORTER THE FIRST BACHELOR OF MORAL OUTRAGE will graduate three years from now if online university Welt Erwache is successful in launching its latest degree course. “Moral outrage has exploded in recent years,” according to the university’s chancellor Professor Josef Adolf. “You cannot turn your head without hearing someone or other…

FROM WARSAW POLAND’S DECISION TO halt military aid to Ukraine because, it says, it needs the equipment itself, is being interpreted by some experts as an indication that Warsaw feels Ukraine has already lost its war, and that Poland, being next on Russia’s list, is now looking to its own defence. “The Poles have been…

TECHNOLOGY DESK IT WAS ASKED a simple question. It generated an answer within seconds. Then it tore up the script. It is Khan, a quantum computer so intelligent that all the people who have ever lived on this planet would not be equal to one billionth of its brain power. It exists in a plasma…

WASHINGTON, DC AN INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING note about Russian casualties in Ukraine that found its way to President Joe Biden’s desk, has caused embarrassment among American officials when it was found to have referred to the Russians as “VC” (Vietcong). “It’s either a dumb mistake or – and this is where it gets scary – the…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY TEN CALIFORNIAN TEENAGERS who were mistakenly believed to have eaten a mother while she watched her son play soccer in Idaho, turned out to be only mugging her for drugs. The teenagers were described as “mutant zombies” by witnesses because of their “pale indifferent faces, bloodshot eyes, grotesque hair, ugly tatooes and slow…

FROM HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI … RUSSIAN ROULETTE “WE ARE ABSOLUTELY sure that the high-grade weapons NATO has supplied to Ukraine will not be used to launch an attack that Russia cannot ignore.” The NATO spokeswoman, who uttered these words in reply to a question about a forlorn Ukraine launching the kind of long-range strike on…

BELGRADE, THURSDAY “I HAVE PROVEN it by an equation. The dominant impulse of human life is a spiteful envy; its half-sibling is a determined hate. And if you dig deep enough into anyone you will find these two supping together and laughing at us all.” Recently divorced Professor Friedrich Raucous says he came to these…

WHILE THERE IS EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY, EQUALITY OF OUTCOME IN THIS AREA NEEDS A LOT MORE EFFORT, SAYS CAMPAIGNER BY EVE APPLE, WOMEN’S RIGHTS DESK WOMEN’S GROUPS HAVE recently identified what they say is a much neglected field of opportunity where men are still privileged and predominant – successful suicide. “Men have always been- and…

BY GATES JOBS, TECHNOLOGY DESK IT WAS BOUND to happen. In a finite universe there are only so many words and numbers and combinations of same. And as the demand for passwords has increased, the limits, it appears, are close to being reached. “Aside from the finite amount of words and symbols, just because there…

BY CHARLIE BROWNSNAKE IN CANBERRA A BLUE IS DEVELOPING over who exactly were Australia’s First Peoples. The Federal Government’s Voice to Parliament campaign has been run on the basis that anyone in Australia prior to January 26 1788, were, ipso facto, first peoples. “That lumps together literally hundreds of tribes and language groups, and peoples…