Grappling with the complicated legacy of an unexpectedly
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Please. I’m begging you. I’m hearing a LOT of talk on social media saying that people cannot possibly ever vote for Biden because of his position on Gaza and his alleged failure to erase all the student loans. When questioned they say it won’t be their fault if Trump is elected because Biden refused to do what they want him to do. Yes, we’ve been here before. I’ve had these arguments before, particularly in 2000 and 2016 when we all saw what was coming, But the consequences were never as clear or as horrifying as they are now. He’s a fascist and he’s learned that he can get other fascists to help him. Here’s just one example that should make everyone’s hair stand on end: Sure, you can write this off as a wingnut hyperbole. But they are drawing up plans. And the entire GOP establishment is complicit in the planning. You don’t even want to know what he plans to do with climate change and guns.
On BBC The One Show, Russell T. Davies and David Tennant had some interesting things to say about the Doctor Who 60th-anniversary episodes.
Aileen Moreton-Robinson in her book The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty presents a collection of essays on race, dispossession and sovereignty. She argues that ‘the thread that weaves the chapter(s) together is the intersubstantive relations between white possession and Aboriginal sovereignty’. Moreton-Robinson’s position aligning with the aim of the book as written by a critical Indigenous scholar is clear and well-defined through a wide range of issues that are addressed in each of these essays. Thus, there are a number of avenues that a commentary on this book can take – I choose to focus on two main broader themes in relation to solidarity and power.
The aim of this book is to reveal how racialization is the process by which whiteness operates possessively to define and construct itself as the pinnacle of its own racial hierarchy.
CHEERS of “Hear! Hear!” emanated out from those gathered at the annual Coffs Harbour Regional Landcare Awards last week, with many dedicated volunteers recognised for their multi-layered work for various Landcare groups. Almost 80 members and visitors attended the presentation at the North Coast Botanic Garden in Coffs Harbour on Thursday 9 November. Advertise with...
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TWO photographers from Coffs Harbour have been named as finalists in the Your Health Link National Photographic Competition. More than 900 entries from across Australia have been narrowed down to a strong field of finalists across four categories: high school, primary, mobile and open. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for...
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THE Great Southern BioBlitz (GSB) is back for its fourth year, with the local region gearing up to make the most of this citizen science flora, fauna, fish and fungi data recording project. The goal is to encourage awareness and engagement amongst individuals, groups and government in our environment. Advertise with News of The Area...
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How relishing uncertainty can make us better thinkers and neighbors.
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ARTISTS in the Garden (AITG) is taking a break as the directors review the event format. A free and inclusive art experience, with all forms of artistic expression welcomed, AITG has been enthusiastically supported by the community since its inception. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us....
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32 year-old Sunshine Coast based courier, Jarred Jones, was left shocked and dismayed upon the realisation that he was in fact a toolie. Mr Jones had been travelling to the Gold Coast based annual drink and drug fest ‘Schoolies’ for... Read More ›
He has to joke about it. And he should do it a lot.
Rep. Lois Frankel, a staunch Israel supporter, quietly left the Congressional Progressive Caucus amid an internal split over Israel’s siege on Gaza.
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Amazing what happens when you help turn a monster into a star The Washington Post reports on the befuddlement of the former Trump administration figures who have revealed his ignorance and corruption who can’t figure out why he’s still so popular with the base: John F. Kelly, the longest-serving chief of staff in President Donald Trump’s White House, watches Trump dominate the GOP primary with increasing despair. “What’s going on in the country that a single person thinks this guy would still be a good president when he’s said the things he’s said and done the things he’s done?” Kelly said in a recent interview. “It’s beyond my comprehension he has the support he has.” Kelly, a retired four-star general, said he didn’t know what to do — or what he could do — to help people see it his way. “I came out and told people the awful things he said about wounded soldiers, and it didn’t have half a day’s bounce. You had his attorney general Bill Barr come out, and not a half a day’s bounce. If anything, his numbers go up. It might even move the needle in the wrong direction.
Business records show that Sen. Joe Manchin’s longtime associates from West Virginia are helping oversee his daughter’s new centrist nonprofit.
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Every Thanksgiving, I watch the greatest comedy of all time: Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It’s beautifully written, intelligently directed, and the cast is absolute perfection. There’s just one thing that always bugs me.
Why didn’t eagles take them to Chicago?
You wouldn’t believe the rabbit holes I’ve been down searching for some kind of logical solution to this gaping plot hole. Many people say the blizzard in Chicago would mean the eagles couldn’t land safely at O’Hare. Others say the title Eagles, Eagles and Eagles isn’t nearly as memorable. These feeble attempts at clarification are the very definition of clutching at straws. Alas, the PTA fandom has yet to provide me with the answers I seek.
“Today I serve my country. And the question I have for you, Anthony Albanese is, ‘Who do you serve?’” – David McBride On Monday November 13, I joined the throng of media and David McBride supporters, crowding the courtyard outside the ACT Supreme Court. It was the start of The Afghan Files prosecution of military whistleblower Continue reading »
At the end of October, three weeks after the brutal Hamas attack on Israeli civilians and soldiers that killed around 1200 people, US President Joe Biden said that he still firmly believed in the justness of the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians. Two states for two peoples. “There’s no going back to the status Continue reading »
If I had lived under a siege all my life in a tiny open air prison camp – if I had no hope for the future – I too might be tempted to violently resist a brutal, unrelenting and illegal occupation, which is my right under international law. In recent decades citizens of liberal democracies Continue reading »
Peak Palestinian advocacy organisations condemn allegations against visiting UN human rights expert. The Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA) and the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network (APAN) condemn the statement circulated by the Australia Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) in response to the National Press Club address by the visiting UN Rapporteur on the situation Continue reading »