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Offshoring in Rwanda isn’t a ‘dead cat’ to distract from Partygate, it’s just plain inhumane | Moya Lothian-McLean | The Guardian

 Barely had news of the Home Office’s draconian immigration deal with Rwanda broken on Thursday when it began to be proclaimed a political diversion. Journalists and MPs alike invoked the tired image of a “dead cat”, the phrase associated with the strategist Lynton Crosby to describe the act of wilfully talking up one hot-button issue to divert attention from another. Members of the public took to social media to agree that, yes, the plan to process certain asylum seekers in offshore centres, thousands of miles away, was indeed just an attempt to push Partygate off the front pages.

Except, this explanation doesn’t really tally. Attempts to “outsource” asylum applications have been in the works for nearly three years. Negotiations with Rwanda reportedly took place over eight months. The plan forms a key part of the breathtakingly inhumane plank of immigration policies the home secretary Priti Patel is introducing – a cruel (and illegal) attempt to make an already hostile environment completely unliveable. So why the conviction that this latest proposal – hardly shifting criticism away from Boris Johnson, who took ownership of the policy – is not a means to an end, but a smokescreen to shield him?

The spectre of the dead cat has been everywhere during Johnson’s tenure as prime minister. Writing in 2019, the historian Charlotte Lydia Riley implored commentators to cease proclaiming every political happenstance to be a dead cat. “The idea that there must be a clever plan behind political campaigns also shows our desire to believe that there is someone, somewhere, in control,” she wrote. “But in truth, politics is messy. Nobody is in control. The world is not governed by clever people doing clever things.”

Source: Offshoring in Rwanda isn’t a ‘dead cat’ to distract from Partygate, it’s just plain inhumane | Moya Lothian-McLean | The Guardian

At least thirty-seven dead Parents of Russian sailors aboard the Moskva leak information about their sons killed in Ukraine’s missile strike — Meduza

The source told Meduza that the bodies of those killed were sent to Sevastopol in Crimea on April 15. Over the weekend, the mother of a sailor who survived told Novaya Gazeta’s new European edition that “roughly 40” were killed in the attack on the Moskva.

Meduza’s source says another 100 sailors were injured, and multiple people aboard the ship are still missing, though it’s still unclear how many sailors are still unaccounted for. In total, there were about 500 people aboard the ship, the source told Meduza.

Officially, Russia’s Defense Ministry has acknowledged no deaths among the crew of the Moskva.

Source: At least thirty-seven dead Parents of Russian sailors aboard the Moskva leak information about their sons killed in Ukraine’s missile strike — Meduza

Marii Freire Pereira

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Muitas mulheres não denunciam os seus agressores por medo.

No meu entender, esta é até uma ação “natural “. Afinal, a passividade feminina é algo cultural. A mulher foi educada para saber obedecer o marido ao invés de questionar. Todavia, o problema da violência, não se resolve com o medo, nem com o silêncio.

Um dos mecanismos para diluir o efeito da violência na vida dessas mulheres,é procurar trabalhar mecanismos que sejam capazes de abrir espaço ao diálogo. É sim,um trabalho de conscientização- que permite à sociedade confrontaro problema, e não neutralizar.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Criação: Marii Freire Pereira/ Via- Facebook

Santarém, Pá 18 de abril de 2022

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Don’t Wait ‘Til It’s Too Late!!!

We really need him in jail…

Filosofa's Word

In conversations with friends, I have often said that the only way to ensure that the former guy cannot take over the nation following the 2024 presidential election is to ensure that he cannot be on the ballot.  There are only two ways to do that:  his death, or his imprisonment.  If we fail to keep the name “Trump” off the ballot, this nation will no longer be a democratic republic.  Full stop.  Robert Reich agrees, only he states it far better than I could …


Why it must happen soon: The United States vs. Donald J. Trump

Merrick Garland must do it now, before it’s too late

Robert Reich, 18 April 2022

On Friday, Trump endorsed J.D. Vance in the Ohio Senate Republican primary. This follows his endorsement of Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s Senate Republican primary and Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate race. The press has framed these…

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Former Congressional Candidate (Republican) and Indiana Casino Executive Plead Guilty to Crimes Involving Political Contribution Schemes | OPA | Department of Justice

According to court documents, John Keeler, 72, of Indianapolis, former vice president and general counsel of gaming company New Centaur LLC, funneled $41,000 in New Centaur corporate funds to Maryland-based political consultant Kelley Rogers and an entity under his control for the purpose of contributing the funds to the Greater Indianapolis Republican Finance Committee to benefit the Marion County Republican Central Committee. Keeler then caused New Centaur to falsely report the political contribution to the IRS as a deductible business expense.

In addition, Darryl Brent Waltz, 48, of Greenwood, a former Indiana State Senator and 2016 candidate for U.S. Congress, pleaded guilty last week to funneling $40,500 in illegal conduit contributions to his 2016 congressional campaign. Waltz and Rogers directed corporate funds from New Centaur into the Brent Waltz for Congress campaign through several straw contributors and through Waltz himself. Waltz also lied to and misled federal authorities who were investigating the illegal contributions.

 

Source: Former Congressional Candidate and Indiana Casino Executive Plead Guilty to Crimes Involving Political Contribution Schemes | OPA | Department of Justice

Luzon February 1945 (1)

Pacific Paratrooper

Entering Manila

The 6th and 8th Armies on Luzon were repeatedly in close and brutal combat with the Japanese.  By dawn on 4 February the paratroopers ran into increasingly heavy and harassing fire from Japanese riflemen and machine gunners. At the Paranaque River, just south of the Manila city limits, the battalion halted at a badly damaged bridge only to be battered by Japanese artillery fire from Nichols Field. The 11th Airborne Division had reached the main Japanese defenses south of the capital and could go no further.

The U.S. on Luzon

Regarding Manila as indefensible, General Yamashita had originally ordered the commander of Shimbu Group, General Yokoyama Shizuo, to destroy all bridges and other vital installations and evacuate the city as soon as strong American forces made their appearance. However, Rear Adm. Iwabachi Sanji, the naval commander for the Manila area, vowed to resist the Americans and countermanded the order…

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Schwinn Sting-Ray guide and history

Frugal Average Bicyclist

The Sting-Ray is the best-selling bike that Schwinn has ever offered. The style of bike started in California with kids modifying their bikes to look like motorcycles with 20-inch wheels, long seats, and ape hanger handlebars. It didn’t make the 1963 catalog, but it started with a sales ad in 1963 and is referred to as a 1963 ½ model.

1963 Schwinn Sting-Ray Ad

The first Sting-Rays had a 20” steel cantilever frame with 20” wheels, banana seat, coaster brake, and butterfly style handlebars. A really unique looking bike for most people when they saw it the first time. Schwinn called it a bike with a sports car look. The short wheelbase and small tires gave it a quick turning radius. Despite the small wheels, it is still a full-size bicycle. Original colors were flamboyant lime (green), red, and Radiant Coppertone.

Model J38 suggested retail price of $49.95

Original years…

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