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US envoy to Vietnam quit in protest at Trump plan to deport thousands of refugees

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Ted Osius says administration asked him to press Vietnam to accept the deportees, who had mostly fled to America after 1975

The former US ambassador to Vietnam has said he resigned last year in opposition to a Trump administration plan to deport more than 8,000 Vietnamese people, most of whom are refugees.

Ted Osius, who worked in the US foreign services for 30 years, said the Trump administration asked him to press Vietnam’s government to accept the deportees – who had mostly fled the country after the fall of Saigon in 1975.

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مسيرات العودة بغزة…كيف نجعل منها مليونيات عالمية؟

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مسيرات العودة بغزة….كيف نجعل منها مليونيات عالمية ؟

 

كما في كل مرة ، تثبت غزة لنا وللعالم أجمع، أن المقاومة حق لا يساوم عليه أمام بطش احتلال، وظلم حصار. وكما في كل مرة، تبتكر غزة في أساليب مقاومتها طرقا تعلم العالم من خلالها، أن القلوب الحرة لا يمكن استعبادها مهما ظلمها الزمان وطغى بها الأشقاء والأشقياء.

من مسيرة الحشود نحو العودة الى جمعة الكوشوك وقوفا عند جمعة رفع العلم الفلسطيني وحرق العلم الاسرائيلي. لا يمكن حتى للكاره او الحاقد او الباغض الا ان يتوقف بانبهار أمام عظمة ارادة شعب يحيا وسط سواد حياة كتلك التي غمرت السماء .

نعم يتباهون هم بالقتل والقصف وتكسير العظام ….

ويقف المتخاذلون الجبناء منا موقف المتفرج الهزيل الكاره لنفسه…

ولكن غزة في كل مرة تصر على ان تعلمنا ان الحياة ليست عبورا سهلا على أجساد ابنائها، وليست مكانا

لفت انتباهي بينما كنت أشاهد صور مسيرة اليوم، سارية يرتفع عليها علم فلسطين وكانت تحلق الى جانبها طائرة ورقية ( لم أجد الصورة فيما بعد، لربما تهيأ لي المشهد). فكرت كم كان المشهد مبهرا وتخيلت ماذا لو امتلأت السماء بالطائرات الورقية بأعلام فلسطين؟ كيف سيكون مشهد السماء لو كانت الجمعة القادمة هي جمعة الطيارات الورقية والبلالين من كل أنحاء العالم . لكل من يريدون مؤازرة أهل غزة في حصارهم الغاشم؟

ماذا لو امتلأت السماء بطيارات يحركها من الارض أطفال وشباب ونساء العالم من كل الاطياف. مشهد يبعث الامل لمن في الارض ومن ينظر الى السماء.

ذلك المشهد اليوم للعلم والطائرة أخرج الامل المتواجد في نفسي وأرجعني الى ايام طفولة بعيدة وحملني معه الى عوالم كثيرة . عالم يصدر فيه مشهد الطائرة الورقية بفعل جمعي للعالم تمسكنا بالامل رغم قتامة الحياة التي نعيشها.

مشهد نغير فيه لون السماء . نجعلها تعمل وحراك ايدي أبنائنا ، نفسهم اولئك الذين حرقوا العجلات ليصحوا العالم القريب والبعيد من غفوته وقتامة روحه.

غزة التي تعلم الحياة في كافة صورها …. مقاومتها تتعدد في صورها ….فلنستمر بالابداع بمقاومة لا نخجل أنها سلمية. مقاومة شعب يستحق الحياة ويعلمها .

 

فغزة كما قال محمود درويش:

تحيط خاصرتها بالألغام ..وتتفجر

لا هو موت…ولا هو انتحار…

انه اسلوب غرة في إعلان جدارتها بالحياة…

لأن غزة جزيرة كلما انفجرت… وهي لا تكف عن الانفجار

خدشت وجه العدو وكسرت احلامه وصدته عن الرضا بالزمن

Muslim rape-murder case in India disrupted by Hindu groups

Religious-based racism is the worst!

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Arrest of temple custodian leads to confrontation between police and dozens of Hindu lawyers

When police in northern India went to court to lodge a charge sheet on Monday, they were confronted by dozens of lawyers determined to keep them out.

The lawyers were Hindus. The charges, which police managed to lodge only after calling backup, implicated eight men in the rape and murder of a Muslim child.

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Finland has found the answer to homelessness. It couldn’t be simpler | Harry Quilter-Pinner

The evidence from Finland – as well as numerous other pilot schemes across the world – shows the opposite is true. When people are given homes, homelessness is radically reduced, engagement in support services goes up and recovery rates from addiction are comparable to a “treatment first” approach. Even more impressive is that there are overall savings for government, as people’s use of emergency health services and the criminal justice system is lessened.

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The number of rough sleepers in Britain is soaring, with deaths now a weekly occurrence. It’s time we got over our prejudices

“I was born in Liverpool and grew up on a council estate. I had a clean home, toys and nice meals as a kid. When I was nine years old, the sexual abuse started. My abusers made me feel special. They gave me gifts, moneys, cigarettes and sweets. When I was 13 I ran away from home and soon found myself in the murky world of prostitution on the streets. My life was out of control.”

Related: Homelessness is now the public face of this Tory era | Polly Toynbee

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Trump’s tweets run far ahead of US military’s readiness to hit Syria | Peter Beaumont

ROTFLMAO

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Pentagon not tactically prepared to back up president’s bellicose language with US firepower

Despite Donald Trump’s tweet suggesting that a US strike on Syria was imminent – and warning Russia to “get ready” – the US naval and other forces in the region suggest his rhetoric may have outpaced military readiness for anything but the most limited action.

Trump’s tweetwhich he appeared to row back on on Thursday – appears to have given Syrian forces ample warning to move key assets, suggesting that any strike now would be largely symbolic and have little meaningful impact on the conduct of the war in Syria.

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How world’s first electrified road charges moving vehicles – video

Sweden has opened the world’s first electrified road. The 1.2-mile route, between Stockholm Arlanda airport and a logistics site, will now actively charge cars and lorries as they travel along it using an innovative energy transfer system 

World’s first electrified road for charging vehicles opens in Sweden

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Secret rightwing strategy to discredit teacher strikes revealed

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  • Manual provides ‘dos and don’ts’ for how to smear the strikes
  • Top of the list: ‘teacher strikes hurt kids and low-income families’

A nationwide network of rightwing thinktanks is launching a PR counteroffensive against the teachers’ strikes that are sweeping the country, circulating a “messaging guide” for anti-union activists that portrays the walkouts as harmful to low-income parents and their children.

The new rightwing strategy to discredit the strikes that have erupted in protest against cuts in education funding and poor teacher pay is contained in a three-page document obtained by the Guardian. Titled “How to talk about teacher strikes”, it provides a “dos and don’ts” manual for how to smear the strikers.

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Silent Tongues is one of the most wonderful live solo piano recordings ever. I once dragged a brilliant…

Silent Tongues is one of the most wonderful live solo piano recordings ever. I once dragged a brilliant biochemistry friend (who had zero training in music) into the music library and sat him down in front of a turntable – yes, we had turntables in the school library back in my days when Harrison was president). I said, “listen to this passage here…this is Louisiana boogie-woogie right here. And this passage here, there’s Bach, which is the skeleton of Bebop. This passage here….listen to the sweaty grind, it’s the furious groove of chain gang blues. There’s concurrent streams of classical, blues, and jazz history intertwined throughout.”

And just to see his face develop from furrowed confusion into a glowing bulb of recognition made it one of the most memorable achievements in my life.

Silent Tongues Full Album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VglEXrmLoC0

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/06/obituaries/cecil-taylor-dead.html

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