It’s New Year’s Day! Didn’t we just have one? - » The Australian Independent Media
We’d all like to take big steps, but we’ve seen how hard that is. Nonetheless, we will never stop trying. Not here at The AIMN. Not here with the tenacious, gutsy group of writers we have. Not here with the fabulous group of commenters and readers who demand less inequality.
At times it must feel that we’re losing the battle. But we’re not. We’re only just getting started
To all those who have come with us this far – and who will march in solidarity with us again in 2018 – may you have a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year.
Michael and Carol.
Unlike Andrew Bolt, some online commentators show they care for their readers and show respect for those that support them.
News Corp 2014 and Rupert Murdoch's innate bigotry and lack of humanity.
#1 TOP IA STORY OF 2017: HELEN CALDICOTT: The Fukushima nuclear meltdown continues unabated
The radiation measurement was 530 sieverts, or 53,000 rems (Roentgen Equivalent for Man). The dose at which half an exposed population would die is 250 to 500 rems, so this is a massive measurement. It is quite likely had the robot been able to penetrate deeper into the inner cavern containing the molten corium, the measurement would have been much greater.These facts illustrate why it will be almost impossible to “decommission” units 1, 2 and 3 as no human could ever be exposed to such extreme radiation. This fact means that Fukushima Daichi will remain a diabolical blot upon Japan and the world for the rest of time, sitting as it does on active earthquake zones.
Remember when Andrew Bolt anti-renewable energy crusader in his total ignorant bravado said Fukushima and Chernobyl were two destinations where he would holiday. The same stupid statement a Monsanto Roundup salesman made on TV and then ran for his life in embarrassment when asked to prove his point. Andrew Bolt didn't have to run he simply didn't have to go on holiday. Flagging his ignorance so moronically in public isn't unusual for Bolt as he often does with his lack of expertise on Climate Change and declaring that he's more indigenous than most Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
Monsanto Lobbyist Runs Away When Asked To Drink 'Harmless ...
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A controversial lobbyist who claimed that the chemical in Monsanto's Roundup weed killer was safe for ..."The Day The Music Died" - » The Australian Independent Media Network
With sweeping new powers, that man – Immigration minister Dutton – has deported hundreds of permanent residents in numbers not seen since World War 2. Cases are emerging in the media of non-citizens, who have families here and have lived here since childhood, being deported for a range of minor offences including driving without a license and road rage.
Where then would that have left people like The Easybeats’ singer Stevie Wright – already drug addicted in the early 70s and charged with housebreaking and arrested for heroin abuse? Or Bon Scott, Scottish-born AC/DC vocalist, who served 9 months in juvenile detention for unlawful carnal knowledge, escaping custody and theft? Or the stream of expatriate European musos who came to the attention of the law?
The Countdown phenomenon could never have happened in our current political climate, and certainly not in the reign of heartless right-wing Immigration minister Dutton – a bitter ex-cop. In 2017, many of those key players of that burgeoning Aussie music scene would be in immigration detention, torn from their families and facing the prospect of deportation. Many ironically would be imprisoned in Villawood Detention Centre, the very same ‘hostel’ where The Easybeats first met many years ago.
Following the release of their international hit ‘Friday On My Mind’, The Easybeats gave an English radio interview, only to be mildly offended when the interviewer referred to them as an English band. ‘We’re Australian!’ they retorted loudly. ‘Three of you are British and two of you are Dutch,’ countered the interviewer, ‘What exactly makes you Australian?’‘The music!’ they replied in unison.
You’ve been watching Countdown 2017 and this is the day the music died. Goodnight Australia.
+972’s Story of the Year: The trial of Dareen Tatour | +972 Magazine
For the past year and half, a strange and disturbing drama has been playing out in a Haifa courtroom. In the defendant’s seat is a poet, on trial for a political poem she wrote, performed, and published on Facebook. Whether she goes to prison for publishing that poem rests largely on how the judge ultimately interprets a few words translated by a policeman whose main qualification is that he studied Arabic literature in high school.
All that — along with decades of policies meant to ensure there is only space for one national identity in a state that, whether its leaders want to believe it or not, is bi-national — set the stage for the arrest and trial of Dareen Tatour. Her story is a sign, symbol and symptom of the authoritarian tendencies rising in Israel and around the world. Her story is the story of potentially liberating and empowering technology being subverted by state authorities in order to oppress and suppress. Hers, unfortunately, is the story of 2017.
"Freedom of Speech" and boistrous Crusader and pro-Israel advocate remains silent on on the issue in Israel
Lorde, New Zealand targeted in pro-Israel Washington Post ad - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
When the Israeli State uses it's influence against non citizen's rights to free speech and personal freedoms. Unlike Israel Lorde will not claim victimhood and will survive with larger audiences due to this type of advertising . Lorde thanks Israel for it's attention to it's successful BDS action.
"A pro-Israel organisation has used a full-page newspaper ad in the Washington Post to call singer-songwriter Lorde a "bigot" and accuse her home country New Zealand of "growing prejudice" against the Jewish people."
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