Charlottesville riots 2017: ‘White people oppression’ Twitter thread goes viral

A BLISTERING Twitter thread about “white people oppression” has gone viral, gaining almost half a million likes.

User Julius Goat shared an image of neo-nazis brandishing burning torches at a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a suspected neo-nazi mowed down protesters on Saturday.

He followed it with a series of powerful tweets skewering social inequality and exposing the reasons behind the white nationalist backlash.

His emotive words have struck a chord around the US and across the world after 30 people were injured and one killed in a car attack on anti-racism protesters at the rally.

The Twitter user goes on to list the other injustices that white, middle-class men have never suffered from the travel ban on Muslims to police violence against black people to historic efforts to prove non-white intellectual inferiority as well as church burnings and hangings.

Then he examined the “we will not be replaced” rallying cry of the white supremacist protesters…

Julius Goat @JuliusGoat

Imagine if these people ever faced actual oppression.

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Melbourne house fire leaves one person dead

A neighbour who woke to massive flames outside his Bundoora home said “everyone was screaming” during the house fire that has left one person dead.

The blaze ended in tragedy after emergency services found a person dead inside, despite a neighbour who who desperately tried to break down the front door.

Neighbour Ramen Pannu said he woke to screaming and was confronted by massive flames outside his Gordon St home shortly after 7.30am this morning.

Source: Bundoora house fire leaves one person dead | Herald Sun

Real concerns for two Australians in London. 4 Aussies caught up in the terror attacks, PM Turnbull has confirmed

There are ‘very real’ concerns about two more Australians who may have been caught up in the London terror attack.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says the two are in addition to a woman, recovering in hospital from stab wounds, and another man who received stitches and is on his way back home.

‘There are two other Australians, so that brings it to a total of four, about whom we have very real concerns, but at this stage we’re not able to say anything more,’ he told reporters in Sydney on Monday.

Seven people were killed and 48 wounded when three men launched an attack in central London just after 10pm on Saturday local time.

Police shot the three terrorists dead within eight minutes of the violence erupting.

Candice Hedge, 30, was badly wounded when one of the terrorists slashed her throat in the attack.

The Brisbane woman is recovering in St Thomas’ Hospital in London.

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6.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia damaging buildings

A strong, shallow earthquake rocked Indonesia’s central Sulawesi province Monday evening, injuring at least three people and damaging some buildings and houses.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude-6.8 quake was centered in a thinly populated area 49 miles southeast of the provincial capital, Palu, at a depth of 6 miles…

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