All posts tagged: Witnessing

The moment I knew: After witnessing trauma at a refugee detention centre, we held each other and cried | Australian lifestyle

The moment I knew: After witnessing trauma at a refugee detention centre, we held each other and cried | Australian lifestyle

Published by Sam Flores

I met Rohan in 1998 in Lismore, New South Wales, where we were both going to university. Before that, I’d noticed him around town in his sarong and peacock feather earrings. He was distinctive and slightly dandyish, sometimes wearing dresses on campus. I had another partner at the time but our mutual friend introduced us, and Rohan and I became housemates. We bonded living together and hosting dinner parties, where we’d talk about life and politics well into the night. I was intrigued by his friends. One time Rohan invited a member of the Black Panthers to come and stay at our house. After that year in Lismore, Rohan went to live on Lamb Island in Queensland and we lost contact. Then in 2001 we reconnected at a May Day rally in Naarm. We went to see his friend’s folk punk band Mutiny playing at the Tote hotel and, because I was living nearby, I invited him to stay over. In those days lots of friends stayed in my bed, partly for convenience as I …

60% Of Voters Believe France Is Witnessing ‘A Replacement Of The Population By Non-Europeans’

60% Of Voters Believe France Is Witnessing ‘A Replacement Of The Population By Non-Europeans’

Published by Jenni Sidey

Via Remix News, A new poll from the presitigous ifop polling firm shows that a large majority of French citizens believe in a core tenent of the Great Replacement. Specifically, 60 percent of French people told ifop they believe we are witnessing “a replacement of the French population by non-European populations, mainly from the African continent.” The poll also found that 66 percent see it as a bad development, compared to 9 percent who see it as a good thing. Two weeks ago, Marion Maréchal, leader of Identité Libertés, posted to X: “60% of French people think that we are witnessing ‘a replacement of the French population by non-European populations mainly from Africa’ according to @IfopOpinion. To our greatest misfortune, our rulers are among the 40%.” Analyst Paul Cébille, from the Hexagone Observatory, posted the same line. 💥📊 Chiffre choc passé inaperçu⤵️ 🔸60% des Français pensent que l’on assiste à “un remplacement de la population française par des populations non-européennes principalement issues du continent africain.” 🔸Et 66% y voient une mauvaise chose, contre 9% une bonne. IFOP, …

We’re Witnessing A Massive Surge In Parental Estrangement, And So Many Boomer Parents Still Don’t Get Why

We’re Witnessing A Massive Surge In Parental Estrangement, And So Many Boomer Parents Still Don’t Get Why

Published by Jenni Sidey

It’s no secret that family life has taken a nosedive in the United States in recent years. Not only are people not looking for a spouse and eschewing children, but families are no longer as tight-knit as they once were.  Most families in the United States remember when eating Sunday dinner was a bare minimum for interaction. Today, we’re lucky if we sit down for a meal at all — even with immediate family members like our parents. But that’s not the only thing happening. Throughout the United States, a growing number of people are estranging themselves from their parents. Some simply go no-contact and refuse to speak to them again.  Others go so far as to get legal documentation to sever their ties with their parents — a move often done to shield themselves from financial obligations related to caretaking or burial. Most of the movement to cut ties with parents stems from Millennials and older Gen-Z. It’s a trend that flies in the face of traditional values, an act that would have been …

Dallas athlete returns home after witnessing strikes in Tehran

Dallas athlete returns home after witnessing strikes in Tehran

Published by Sam Flores

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Thousands attend funeral for Iranian commanders 00:30 U.S. strikes over a dozen Iranian mine-laying ships 00:32 Now Playing Dallas athlete returns home after witnessing strikes in Tehran 01:16 UP NEXT Approximately 140 U.S. service members wounded in Iran war 00:31 UAE video shows Iranian drones being destroyed 00:23 Fire breaks out in Tehran after reported airstrike 00:24 U.S. to launch ‘most intense day of strikes’ on Iran 00:45 Rescue workers search rubble after airstrike in Tehran 00:31 Netanyahu says there is ‘more to come’ on Iran 00:27 Australia grants asylum to five Iranian soccer players 00:50 Who is Iran’s new supreme leader? 01:40 Trump threatens more strikes if Iran halts world oil supply 00:58 Blasts spotted in Beirut as Israel continues strikes 00:19 Celebrations in Tehran as new Iranian leader selected 00:30 Seventh American dies from war with Iran 01:32 Video shows fires in Tehran amid strikes on oil depot 00:23 Iran says it has reached a ‘consensus’ on a …

We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower

Published by skeptic

But it’s the international friendships where one can most clearly see the costs mounting in real time. Just look at the statements coming from that mountain redoubt of global capitalism at Davos: Canadian prime minister Mark Carney—the leader of our closest ally and largest trading partner, whose military is now modeling doing battle with the US across what has long been the world’s longest unguarded border—got a standing ovation for a speech in which he proclaimed, “Let me be clear: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” Or take European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, who essentially called for independence from the United States. This is the end of the world as we have known it for 80 years—all for reasons that will confound future political scientists and historians. There is no strategy behind this exercise in superpower suicide other than the president’s own narcissism, greed, and his general frustration at never being respected by the elites whose favor he desires more than anything. At one level, Trump’s January rampage …