It's worth pointing out that it's not inherently dangerous (or even expensive) to travel between North Africa and Europe - lot's of middle class Europeans do it for their holidays. The reason tragedies like this occur is that European immigration and border policies make it impossible to migrate legally, or even migrate *illegally* but in a safe way. These policies place desperate migrants into the hands of people traffickers who are unable to guarantee safety at best, and are dangerous criminals at worst.
"About 500 migrants are feared to have drowned after the boat carrying them from Egypt to Malta was apparently rammed and deliberately sunk by people-traffickers, an intergovernmental group has said." Guardian
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What does it say about the state of Israeli democracy that soldiers who blow the whistle on illegal activities carried out by the IDF are themselves threatened with criminal sanction?
"Forty-three Israeli military intelligence reservists who signed a letter refusing to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories have been denounced as criminal by defence minister Moshe Ya'alon, as the country's political and military leadership turned its fire on the refuseniks." Guardian
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So apparently it's still standard in the US military to refer to enemy-controlled territory as "Indian Country"... Jacobin
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"compared with white families, black families place an even greater emphasis on following the rules and obeying authority. Given the disproportionate consequences black youth face for their transgressions, this differential is hardly surprising. Yet the disseminators of this lie persist, attempting to convince the nation that African Americans are (“culturally, not biologically!” they hasten to add) simply unable to assess even the most brutally obvious consequences of their actions on their lives." Jacobin
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Not a perfect article, but it does illustrate the harms caused by legalisation (as opposed to proper decriminalisation) of sex work, and how often legalisation is driven by the desire of middle-class residents to "clean up" an area as opposed to actually helping sex workers.
""We used to have so-called '10-euro hotels' in Vienna — small, self-organized establishments close to the street walker's patch where sex workers could take clients and 20 minutes cost €10," Knappik said. "The fee was paid by the customer, rooms had showers and bathrooms, and the situation was generally safe because other sex workers were present."
The solution in his eyes is not to install wooden carports in the outskirts, but to let sex workers return to those downtown locations where they have been working safely for decades. "We are against centralization and ghettoization," Knappik said. "Street prostitution was made impossible in 2011 and now we are offered a 10 percent improvement. We want to go back to the start. The women have to be able to stand in front of the love hotels downtown."" Vice
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If anyone needs an insight into South African road etiquette...
“The light turned green and they were still crossing. He didn’t hoot or nudge them gently with his bumper. Thank goodness that the Metrobus driver behind him mounted the pavement and drove around him, scattering the pedestrians. Of course, the bus wiped out and took out some other cars but I managed to shoot through the intersection before the police cordoned off the road. Otherwise I would have missed my yoga class.” ZA News
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"The average price of a London home is now up to £514,000 — $833,000 at current exchange rates — which is clearly far more than the cost of constructing a decent place for a family to live. Under the circumstances, you'd think there would be a huge opportunity here, with tons and tons of new-built flats under construction in London and selling for £400,000 a piece and the city's population booming. But it doesn't happen because of planning and zoning restrictions. The dynamic leaves the city with a few signature prestige projects like the Shard under way in London, but nothing like the kind of mass construction of mid-rise middle class housing that there's robust market demand for." Vox
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I'll get to writing, just as soon as I've finished reading this... Atlantic
"About 500 migrants are feared to have drowned after the boat carrying them from Egypt to Malta was apparently rammed and deliberately sunk by people-traffickers, an intergovernmental group has said." Guardian
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What does it say about the state of Israeli democracy that soldiers who blow the whistle on illegal activities carried out by the IDF are themselves threatened with criminal sanction?
"Forty-three Israeli military intelligence reservists who signed a letter refusing to serve in the occupied Palestinian territories have been denounced as criminal by defence minister Moshe Ya'alon, as the country's political and military leadership turned its fire on the refuseniks." Guardian
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So apparently it's still standard in the US military to refer to enemy-controlled territory as "Indian Country"... Jacobin
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"compared with white families, black families place an even greater emphasis on following the rules and obeying authority. Given the disproportionate consequences black youth face for their transgressions, this differential is hardly surprising. Yet the disseminators of this lie persist, attempting to convince the nation that African Americans are (“culturally, not biologically!” they hasten to add) simply unable to assess even the most brutally obvious consequences of their actions on their lives." Jacobin
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Not a perfect article, but it does illustrate the harms caused by legalisation (as opposed to proper decriminalisation) of sex work, and how often legalisation is driven by the desire of middle-class residents to "clean up" an area as opposed to actually helping sex workers.
""We used to have so-called '10-euro hotels' in Vienna — small, self-organized establishments close to the street walker's patch where sex workers could take clients and 20 minutes cost €10," Knappik said. "The fee was paid by the customer, rooms had showers and bathrooms, and the situation was generally safe because other sex workers were present."
The solution in his eyes is not to install wooden carports in the outskirts, but to let sex workers return to those downtown locations where they have been working safely for decades. "We are against centralization and ghettoization," Knappik said. "Street prostitution was made impossible in 2011 and now we are offered a 10 percent improvement. We want to go back to the start. The women have to be able to stand in front of the love hotels downtown."" Vice
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If anyone needs an insight into South African road etiquette...
“The light turned green and they were still crossing. He didn’t hoot or nudge them gently with his bumper. Thank goodness that the Metrobus driver behind him mounted the pavement and drove around him, scattering the pedestrians. Of course, the bus wiped out and took out some other cars but I managed to shoot through the intersection before the police cordoned off the road. Otherwise I would have missed my yoga class.” ZA News
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"The average price of a London home is now up to £514,000 — $833,000 at current exchange rates — which is clearly far more than the cost of constructing a decent place for a family to live. Under the circumstances, you'd think there would be a huge opportunity here, with tons and tons of new-built flats under construction in London and selling for £400,000 a piece and the city's population booming. But it doesn't happen because of planning and zoning restrictions. The dynamic leaves the city with a few signature prestige projects like the Shard under way in London, but nothing like the kind of mass construction of mid-rise middle class housing that there's robust market demand for." Vox
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I'll get to writing, just as soon as I've finished reading this... Atlantic
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