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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Viva o agora — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

O que você tem feito de extraordinário agora? O que você feito de bom para viver o presente? A vida é essencialmente composta de momentos. O que tem feito hoje para aproveitar o momento presente? O nosso caminhar é a grande estratégia de conquista. A inquietação terrível, ou o desejo de voltar às coisas passadas, […]

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Will He Or Won’t He? Should He Or Shouldn’t He?

Filosofa's Word

The great debate these days seems to be over whether Attorney General Merrick Garland will, or should, charge Donald Trump for crimes committed while in office.  You all know my opinion:  charge him, convict him, put him in a cell and throw away the key!  But, there is more to consider and political author/journalist Bill Press assesses it in his latest column …


To charge or not to charge?

Bill Press, 28 July, 2022

To charge or not to charge?

For months in Washington – whether over breakfast at the Four Seasons, lunch at The Palm, or dinner at Café Milano – the only topic of conversation has been: What’s Merrick Garland up to? Is the Justice Department conducting its own investigation of possible criminal activity related to Jan. 6? And, if so, how high would it go? All the way to Trump? Why hasn’t he already filed charges? Or…

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Sunak’s plan to criminalise ‘hating Britain’ is a throwback to empire | openDemocracy

Now Sunak wants to extend the reach of Prevent even further. Of course, subjecting everyone who speaks ill of Britain to a ‘deradicalisation’ programme is entirely unworkable. Social media is awash with people expressing their rage at ‘rainy fascist island’. As Andrew Neil’s recent diatribe in the Daily Mail points out, some of them even publish in The New York Times.

The idea may be unenforceable, but perhaps enforcement is not the point. While the immediate purpose is to give Sunak a push in the polls by flinging some red meat to party members, the larger game here is to feed the culture wars by any means necessary. For all of the talk of freedom of speech, this government operates only through scripted set pieces. Sunak’s latest announcement is one such attempt to stage a culture war spectacle, but these rhetorical games have real consequences.

Even if this rebooted sedition law never makes it into the statute books, the very fact of resuscitating this idea will draw even more people into the orbit of Prevent. After all, Prevent does not work on the basis of intervening in genuine threats – there is already plenty of legislation that can be used to prosecute conspiracy. Instead, it relies on prejudice, paranoia, and rumour. If speaking against the nation becomes associated with extremism, more referrals will follow, using even more spurious ‘evidence’, even if the law itself remains unaltered.

Source: Sunak’s plan to criminalise ‘hating Britain’ is a throwback to empire | openDemocracy

जीत / Win

Kaushal Kishore

चलो किसी की हंसी नहीं उड़ाते
लेकिन हम हंसे सबके साथ,
चलो किसी को हराते नहीं
पर सबको जीतने की कोशिश करते हैं…

😊😊😊😊😊😊

Let’s not laugh at anyone
but laugh with everyone,
let’s not defeat anyone
but try to win everyone…

–Kaushal Kishore

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Tip Your Cap

just drive, will you?

Baseball lost a great one Tuesday. Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, the voice of the Dodgers for an incredible 67 years, passed away at the age of 94. In his memory, I’m repeating a post from 2016, when Vin retired. So long, Mr. Scully, you were the best. Larry

 

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The end of an era is upon us, sports fans.

Vin Scully, legendary baseball announcer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, is retiring this season, after an astonishing 67 years in broadcasting.

Sixty…seven…years. Let that sink in for awhile.

Nobody has ever done his job so well, for so long. Nobody even close.

It makes me envious of Dodger fans. He’s more than just their announcer. He’s more than just their buddy, inviting them to sit back and enjoy a ball game with him.

He’s their dad, the one with all the memories of former Dodger heroes like…

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Victor Hugo

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” A sociedade humana não lhe tinha feito senão mal: nunca lhe encarara senão o rosto carregado a que ela chama justiça, e que mostra àqueles a quem fere.”

Victor Hugo. Os Miseráveis

Fonte: ” Os Miseráveis ” Tomo I, parte primeira, livro segundo, cap VII. ( O Âmago da Sesesperação) sobre Jean Valjean, o condrnado das galés

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Marii Freire

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Santarém, Pá 3 de agosto de 2022

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Presa Ingênua

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Muitas mulheres em nome do amor que dizem ter por seus parceiros, suportam todo tipo de situação. Elas deixam ser quem são, para viver totalmente para os seus parceiros/ parceiras. É a mulher desinformada que também é chamada de presa ingênua, que suporta ficar anos numa relação familiar fracassada. Do amor, a cura das feridas, essa mulher acredita que todas as respostas que precisa na vida, sempre virá do parceiro, ou seja, ela tem total dependência desse homem. Diz-se que, simplesmente, ela se abandona, deixa de viver para viver para a outra pessoa.

A mulher que se afasta dos próprios caminhos, que põe a sua vida nas mãos de quem diz amar, ela é ingênua, pois “se acostuma com tudo, até com a violência “. Dentro de situações abusivas por exemplo, esse parceiro manipula essa mulher, comete erros imperdoáveis, e lança sobre ela toda culpa. E, por incrível que…

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