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The news comes after Apple reported lower than expected sales of its 2018 iPhones, amidst a global landscape of low replacement demand.
ALDI has reportedly received notable success with previous refurbished iPhones, after advertising a similar sale last year.
Further information is available on ALDI’s website here.
A Black motivational speaking in Texas says he and his wife were kicked out of a restaurant so a white customer could take their table.
Last Saturday night, Johnny Wimbrey (pictured above) and his wife went for dinner and drinks at Sambuca 360 in Plano. After they found a good table and received menus, they were approached by a manager who asked if they would give up their table, reported WFAA.
"I said, 'No, I think we want to sit here. We have a great view. It's only a table for two.' We declined the offer respectfully,” Wimbrey told the local news station.
The manager, who is also white, wanted to give their table to a white customer who is a “regular.” When Wimbrey refused to give up his seat, the unnamed manager became angry and told the couple to leave.
"You can pay the tab. You are leaving,” the Sambuca manager can be heard saying on a video Wimbrey recorded.
“Why am I leaving?” asked Wimbrey.
The frustrated manager then threatened to call the police and accused the couple of trespassing.
“I tell you to leave right now or I will call the police,” said the manager in the video.
“You need to leave now. What you are doing wrong is trespassing,” responded the manager.
Eventually the manager did phone the Plano Police, prompting the Wimbreys to leave.
"The Plano police show up. They jump out of the car and I thought what would happen if I didn't leave?” Wimbrey told WFAA.
Wimbrey, who is a world renowned author and motivational speaker, believes he and his wife experienced racial discrimination.
The popular trend among Israelis of investing in US real estate is more likely to make them losers, not winners, a report said.
With banks paying next to nothing in interest, Israeli householders are actively looking for alternative investment vehicles – a situation that numerous entrepreneurs have taken advantage of by structuring investment vehicles for Israelis to invest in American real estate. With house prices in many parts of the US stil...
But these investments, which have become very popular over the past year, don't always work out – and in fact, according to a new report by CBRE, an American commercial real estate data company that is the world's largest commercial real estate services firm, they don't work out more than half the time. According to th...
Israelis currently have about $5 billion invested in the funds that invest in US homes, mostly in depressed neighborhoods in the east, such as Cleveland, Pittsburgh, New York, and Baltimore. Most of the investments – 70% - are made via funds that are administered by a real estate management company, which either rents ...
Ads and prospectus brochures for these investment promise profits of upwards of 10% a year, but the report said that such returns were rare. Most of the investments yielded far less, due in part to management fees (for the real estate management firm, and the Israeli fund managers), while for 55% of investors, the inve...
According to industry officials, that lack of oversight has encouraged many fly by night speculators to get into the business. Many of them have no experience in real estate or financing, and they don't have resources to provide their investments with financial backing.
A protest in solidarity with the Kurdish struggle and the PKK in Sydney on July 23.
Jamie Williams, a 28-year-old Melbourne man, was remanded in custody on July 27 after being charged by the Melbourne Joint Counter Terrorism Team for attempting to leave Australia on December 28 to travel to northern Iraq and fight with Kurdish forces against the Islamic State and Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Green Left Week...
We've recently seen the Turkish government reignite its war on the Kurds for what appears to be domestic political reasons. This return to a war footing may now give the Australian government the political pretext to imprison people like Jamie Williams for life. What can Australians do about this?
Well, I think clearly we are moving to the position where the continued proscription by the Australian government of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a terrorist organisation is untenable.
I think it is increasingly being recognised that the struggle for Kurdish autonomy is one with strong historical, cultural, linguistic and ethnic bases in the same way the Tamil struggle was in Sri Lanka.
What we need to do, of course, is to agitate with our politicians that further proscription on the PKK is not warranted. As you know, the West has now provided both military and material support for the Kurdish struggle in both Syria and Iraq. So there are various tensions, inconsistencies and contradictions in our att...
You've signed a petition to remove the PKK from the Australian government’s list of proscribed terrorist organisations. What is it about the nature of the Kurdish struggle and the nature of the PKK that distinguishes them from an actual terrorist organisation?
Well, they're not a terrorist organisation to begin with. There are about 40 million Kurds spread across Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran and it is only by a historical colonial fiction that Kurdistan wasn't recognised as an independent state early in the twentieth century.
I've signed the petition because I acknowledge that the Kurdish struggle is a legitimate one based on cultural, historical, linguistic and other valid reasons and the PKK, however vilified it may have been, is effectively the umbrella representative organisation of the Kurdish people.
While there is cooperation between Turkey and the US in attacking ISIS, there is discomfort among Turkey’s Western allies about its attacks on the Kurds. Isn't it a bit contradictory for the Australian government to take such a strong stance with regard to Australian civilians assisting the Kurds, people like Jamie Wil...
Well it's full of contradictions and there's no logical analysis as to why Australia has taken the position it has. As I said, we have effectively embraced the Kurds — the whole West has embraced the Kurds in their struggle against ISIS.
But there are other internal ramifications in Turkey with the 20 million Kurds who live there. Turkey is a member of NATO and is waiting to get into the European Union. The west wants to see it as an ally, while it also understands that the Kurdish people have the right to autonomy and self-government.
These tensions arise, but at the end of the day Australia effectively follows US and British foreign policy. If we are told to embark upon a process of proscription as we have, then we will do that. We don't assert any independent assessment of the relevance or legitimacy of the Kurdish struggle. Why else would we have...
Many people would argue that the invasion of Iraq in particular was illegal and a war crime, and there were some Australians at the time who went to Iraq to be part of a human shield protest. They weren't taking up arms but were occupying civilian buildings and making it clear they were there. Would that sort of thing ...
The real vice in the anti-terror legislation in Australia is that the net is cast so widely that it would now prohibit you supporting any self-determination struggle in the world.
You could not now, for instance, support the East Timorese people’s struggle for independence from Indonesia; you couldn't support the African National Congress; you couldn't support the Kosovars. You certainly can't support the West Papuan freedom movement. That would all be now unlawful under the current anti-terrori...
So what the legislation has done now is to effectively outlaw providing financial or other support, or advocacy on behalf of those self-determination struggles, however legitimately-based they are.
There is also an inconsistent application in all of that. We say nothing, for instance, about Australians who go and fight in the Israeli Defence Forces in the unlawful invasions of southern Lebanon and Gaza. So the real problem, the real other vice in this legislation is that it is inconsistently applied and depends o...
So, in terms of your legal perspective, how should legislation address this question of solidarity with foreign struggles?
Well, the legislation was originally passed after 9/11 and commenced in July 2002. A lot of the legislation had sunset clauses. But with bipartisan support now the legislation is being enshrined permanently, and we need to go through a process of repealing the legislation, for instance, that prohibits advocacy or suppo...
As an example there are various struggles on our doorstep — the West Papuan movement is the most obvious one. We should be entitled to support an independence struggle for the West Papuans, but as it currently stands, and in a bipartisan way, we are not entitled to do that.
So there has to be an examination of the legislation, and it needs to be pared back. George Williams from the Australian National University has said there is overreach. There has been a study in Columbia University in New York that says there's an overstatement of issues; there's overreach in the legislation and the p...
In Britain — just going back to the unlawful invasion of Iraq — there was the Chilcot Commission where Tony Blair tried to justify the invasion, even on the basis of regime change in Iraq. At least in Britain and in the US there were various commissions of enquiry.
We have nothing in Australia. We just ignore not only the political and moral reality of the unlawfulness of what we've done, but we also ignore the legal reality as well.
I have advocated, as have many other people, that those who supported the invasion of Iraq on a completely false pretext ought to be brought to account. That hasn't happened, but I remain the eternal optimist.
The Pinochet regime was ultimately brought to account, so it takes the long perseverance of organisations such as 3CR [community radio] and Green Left Weekly to play a critically important role in exposing the injustices that have taken place.
Trade unionist and former president of the Northern Territory Labor Party, Matthew Gardiner, was interviewed by the Australian Federal Police after he returned from a stint assisting the Kurds. Has Gardiner faced charges that you're aware of or is he likely too?
No, I'm not aware, and I'm not precisely sure what Gardiner did: whether he was involved in military support or in advocacy or financial support.
Williams was interviewed in December last year and not charged until July of this year. So there was a long period in which the authorities compiled evidence and they may be doing that for Gardiner.
You want the law to apply equally to all people as a general principal, but this is a bad law and it shouldn't be applied to anyone who is supporting the Kurdish struggle. The irony is that our enemy's enemy is our friend and the West is claiming that our friend is the Kurds. Curiously Britain has chosen not to charge ...
I think that's definitely true in Britain and hopefully, with more exposure and more agitation, it should be the case here as well.
The film takes an unflinching yet poetic look into the everydayness of existence in the Black Belt of America.
Director RaMell Ross presents us with the visually arresting documentary film "Hale County, This Morning, This Evening," which exposes the limitations of linear storytelling and its embodied presumptions about wholeness and totality. The film takes an unflinching yet poetic look into the everydayness of existence in th...
Although set in Hale County, Alabama, the stories and images depicted reverberate across the American South in small counties whose local economies still bear the imprint of their former plantation economies. Hale County is now the foremost producer of catfish in the state. However, Ross is interested instead in filmin...
The subjects of the film rise out of the dreamscapes created using both filmic and photographic techniques. Before meeting the members of the Hale community, we see their hands at work — anointing, caressing, rubbing and piercing — the subjects themselves not immediately the focus of the frame.
Ross disrupts our expectations of documentary-style filmmaking, as he does not interview; we as viewers walk in on already-in-progress conversations with community members. We follow the lives of Daniel, the basketball hopeful; Quincy and Boosie, the young parents; and Mary, the world-worn mother without the imposition...
Instead, we are asked to reserve judgment and fully empathize with the hopes and dreams of Hale’s residents. Ross allows his subjects to express those future possibilities with honesty, resisting the urge to tie up of the loose ends of life with classic narrative arcs.
In the visual world Ross creates, there is still room for the unexpected and for magic. Shadows sweeping across floors or walls introduce characters. Sometimes natural light transitions into artificial light, and a doorway transports the viewer to another space and time entirely.
Ross presents time as flexible, moving rapidly but also slowly. Time-lapse sequences are used to demonstrate the fragility of life, while other scenes are drawn out to slow down perception and develop in the viewer an appreciation for each moment we have.
Three apartments sustained fire damage, Morristown Fire Chief Robert Flanagan said. The smoke spread throughout the 10-unit building.
MORRISTOWN — A kitchen stove fire spread to the ceiling of a two-story apartment building on Flagler Street on Thursday morning, damaging several of the 10 units and displacing all of its residents.
No injuries were reported in the fire, which was reported shortly before noon, Morristown Fire Chief Robert Flanagan said at the scene.
"It started on the upper floor in apartment 6, in the kitchen area," Flanagan said as some residents were briefly allowed into their units to recover some belongings. "It seemed that food on the stove ignited the wall behind it, it went up through the wall and attic, which is common in a building like this."
Three apartments sustained fire damage, Flanagan said. The smoke spread throughout the building.
"Because of the common attic, the smoke got everywhere," Flanagan said.
Building resident Natalie Smith said she left that morning for a doctor's appointment and when she came back an hour later, the entrance to the parking lot was blocked by emergency vehicles.
"I found out one of the apartments was on fire and that it spread to the ceiling to some other apartments," said resident Natalie Smith, who estimated she was gone for an hour. "I don't know anything else about it except we are going to be displaced for a while until they fix it. We're going to be out for a while."
Another resident, Said Ali, was home when the smoke entered his end unit.
"Look at this, I can't stay," he said, pointing to holes in the walls and ceiling of two bedrooms and a bathroom, where responders fighting the fire broke through from the other side.
The response from the Morristown Fire Department, located right around the corner, was swift, but the persistent fire took about 20 minutes to chase down and extinguish, Flanagan said.
By the time firefighters arrived, all the residents had exited safely "without issue."
Building inspectors were still on the scene at 2 p.m. to assess the damage, but the fire is not under investigation or considered suspicious, Flanagan said.
The apartment sits next door to the nonprofit Morristown Neighborhood House, which operates a preschool. Students there were briefly evacuated as a precaution, but quickly returned and resumed their regular schedule, CEO Patrice Picard said.
The fatal police shooting of an unarmed man in a Los Angeles suburb two years ago followed an erroneous police dispatch after a bicycle was stolen. A lawyer for The Associated Press and two other news outlets says the public has a right to view the video.
Riverside County authorities say three children were hospitalized after being attacked by a dog belonging to a family friend.
A new study finds San Francisco is losing rent-controlled apartments almost as fast as it is adding new affordable units.
Authorities say a drone temporarily halted air tankers that were fighting a wildfire on the edge of the San Bernardino National Forest. It was the fourth time in the last month that the spotting of a drone over a California wildfire prompted the Forest Service to ground the firefighting planes.
After a five-year hiatus, “Heroes” is soaring into Comic-Con to win back fans. The superhero series about everyday folks with extraordinary powers debuted at the pop-culture convention nine years ago and went on to become a TV phenomenon. Now a new version is coming to TV.
Three elderly people were injured after a bus collided with a tree outside of Leighton buzzard yesterday.
The incident happened on Stoke Road at around 4.20pm.
A eyewitness told the LBO: “The wall and fence of property is down.
An East of England Ambulance spokesman confirmed they had attended the scene.
He said: “We were called to reports a bus had collided with a tree on Stoke Road, Leighton Buzzard yesterday.
“An ambulance attended and treated three elderly patients with minor injuries.
A Beds Police spokesman added that the vehicle had been recovered and the scene was clear by 6pm.
Moguls: Britteny Cox (AUS) has qualified for the medal round.
Canada's Justine Dufour-Lapointe with an impressive 22.44 to take the lead. Dufour-Lapointe now is a lock to win a medal, with two more skiers coming up.
Now it's time for Chloe Dufour-Lapointe.
Chloe Dufour-Lapointe finishes with a mark of 21.66. Both Canadian sisters will medal. Now it's up to Hannah Kearney, Team USA's last chance to medal.
Hannah Kearney records an unreal 21.49a, taking home the bronze medal for Team USA.
19 year old, Justine Dufour-Lapointe from Canada, dethrones the reigning Olympic Champion Hannah Kearney to capture the Gold in moguls.
Woo hoo way to go Dufour-Lapointe sisters. Gold and silver!!!! Canada is so proud of you!!!!
Congrats to the Canadian Dufour-Lapointe sisters on winning Gold and Silver in women's Moguls!! #TeamCanada #WeAreWinter .
Congrats @HK_Ski for winning bronze! We are proud of you and the way you represent Team USA.
Heather McPhie is in sixth place after her 18.85 run.
Meryl Davis and Charlie White earn 10 points for the ice dance.
Team USA's Anders Johnson (107.9) and Nicholas Alexander (100.7) have qualified for the next round.
Team USA sits tied for third place.
This whole "day off" business is killing me. I wanna ski.

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