"McDonald's workers clearly aren't lovin' Trump's immigration policies,"聽聽"On Thursday, McDonald's restaurants across the United States, along with a聽, closed their doors as part of a nationwide '
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鈥淭rump鈥檚 America,鈥 wrote a leading African American journalist, Charles Blow in the New York Times, January 30, 鈥渋s not America: not today鈥檚 or tomorrow鈥檚, but yesterday鈥檚.
鈥淭rump鈥檚 America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation.鈥
There is a lot of disgust toward Trump and his white nationalist strategist Steve Bannon, former executive chairman of Breitbart News, a leading promoter of conspiracy theories and white supremacists.
I teach at Victoria University, in the heart of Footscray. Footscray is an extremely vibrant and bustling suburb with an incredible population diversity, which is also reflected in VU鈥檚 student and staff population. This diversity is a real asset to our university and I feel privileged to be able to teach in such a unique environment.
Thwe two statements below were聽released by the socialist Awami Workers Party (AWP) in response to the February 16 terrorist attack on the Lal Shehbaz Qalandar shrine in Sehwan, Sindh and the February 13 terrorist attack in Lahore. They are reposted from聽.
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The federal government announced changes to Centrelink鈥檚 controversial automated debt recovery system on February 14.
The changes include no longer demanding immediate payment from people who dispute a debt; allowing people to use bank statements, instead of hard-to-obtain payslips, to prove their income; making it easier to contact Centrelink; and allowing people to by-pass the MyGov portal to review their debt.
But unions, community groups, Labor, the Greens and GetUp! have all warned the changes do not address fundamental flaws with the system.
First Nations activist Lex Wotton has announced he will contest the state seat of Townsville as an independent in the yet-to-be-announced Queensland election.
Wotton was jailed for two years for his role in the Palm Island riots of 2004.
More recently the Federal Court found that police breached the Racial Discrimination Act after the death of Cameron Doomadgee, but the Queensland Government has appealed the ruling.
It was this appeal that spurred him into action.
The Save Our Councils Coalition (SOCC) has announced a "Put the Liberals Last" campaign in the coming state byelections in NSW, with SOCC spokesperson Phil Jenkyn saying: "They [the Liberals] will be massacred in the North Shore byelection."
The group was responding on February 14 to the decision by Premier Gladys Berejiklian to push ahead with the forced amalgamations of 20 urban councils and continue to pursue the mergers of the five Sydney councils that are currently taking legal action against the plan.
The July 15 coup attempt was a nightmare. Kurds remember the terrible army coups in Turkey鈥檚 past. After the coups, Kurdish people were jailed, killed and tortured.
Kurds are against military coups. By nightfall on July 15, the pro-Kurdish Peoples鈥 Democratic Party (HDP) had immediately condemned the coup attempt.
Kurds thought that after the coup attempt, there may be a return to the peace process.
The reasons behind this were:
In Melton, an outer-western suburb of Melbourne, Shane Gillard, a man with links to the far-right group Soldiers of Odin, used Facebook to blame 鈥淪udanese thugs鈥 for a carjacking on February 9.
However, as surfaced, the truth emerged: no Sudanese immigrants were involved, but two men had a violent altercation in a carpark before the offender, 鈥渙f Caucasian appearance鈥, stole the other's car.
Firefighters save flying foxes
Temperatures above 40掳C on February 10 and 11 were perilous for Canberra鈥檚 flying fox colony in Commonwealth Park.
Extreme heat can cause them to become distressed and sometimes die, as happened in Singleton, where temperatures over 45掳C killed hundreds of grey-headed flying foxes.
Knowing the risk to the animals, volunteers from ACT wildlife, the National Capital Authority, Jerrabomberra Rural Fire Service Brigade and ACT Fire and Rescue combined to spray water on the animals.
Vegetation creates rain. That is one of the conclusions of a review of more than 150 scientific papers on land-clearing鈥檚 impact on rainfall, conducted by Dailan Pugh for the North East Forest Alliance (NEFA). The review, , reveals how land-clearing affects rainfall and its impact on the climate.
The Coming War On China
Written & directed by John Pilger
http://thecomingwarmovie.com
Screening now, visit site for details
The Coming War on China is possibly John Pilger鈥檚 best film in years.
In classic Pilger style, the Australian-born filmmaker 鈥 responsible for dozens of films critical of great power 鈥 depicts the threat the US war machine poses in the Asian region in the context of the rise of China.
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