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so who had the government violating human rights law because they hate poor people on their 2023 tory bingo?
yeah so this piece by robert booth just got published in the guardian and it begins as such:
which is not at all surprising because yeah the government really hates poor people here. like as in one of the "solutions" to rising in homelessness in cities is to just,, buy unhoused people a one way train ticket to somewhere else.
its good to know that weve officially reached the level of violating international law. and by good, i dont know what i mean either.
anyway, booth goes on to say:
he is, of course, incredibly correct, and im highkey obsessed with him calling the welfare state "a leaking bucket".
obviously, the government gave a response of:
but did also go on to say this:
which doesnt really strengthen their argument. if anything, it actively hampers it.
it is also incredibly funny that the government's response to being accused of human rights violations due to the poverty in their country by the guy whose job involves being the go-to expert on human rights and poverty is akin to a child saying they didnt steal the chocolate that is staining their clothes and their hands and also they are still eating it.
please join me in pointing and laughing. at least, we have that.
de schutter actually offers solutions of his own within the article:
these, of course, famously being loved by tories. loved so much that they just forgot to do any of it during the last 13 years.
yeah, its been 13 fucking years.
if you dont use your vote to vote them out at the next general election, i will break your kneecaps with a rounders bat.
anyway, robert booth finishes the article off with:
and wheres the fucking lie? it hits the nail on the head so accurately, its honestly as impressing as it is depressing.
obviously, this isnt the entire article and i would implore you to read all of it.
i dont exactly have my hopes up for the government actually doing anything to effectively address poverty, but hey, you never know.
#uk#uk politics#ukpol#britpol#british politics#tories#poverty rates#the un#fuck tories#robert booth#the guardian#olivier de schutter#philip alston#universal credit#conservatives#austerity#hell country#long post
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The areas with the most mixed households were in London – Hackney and Lambeth (each at 27%), and outside the capital the most mixed households were in Oxford, Cambridge and Reading. More than a 10th of the population now live with people of more than one ethnicity.
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Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (2014)
#2014#gif#film#movie#film noir#comics#dance#black and white#Sin City: A Dame To Kill For#Sin City#A Dame To Kill For#Frank Miller#Robert Rodriguez#Jessica Alba#Nancy Callahan#Nancy#Mickey Rourke#Marv#Bruce Willis#John Hartigan#Hartigan#Eva Green#Ava Lord#Josh Brolin#Dwight McCarthy#Dwight#Joseph Gordon-Levitt#Johnny#Powers Boothe#Senator Roark
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Blonde Americans and aviators
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90's X-Men by Jeremy Roberts & Brett Booth
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Silly boys being silly boys
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Phone Booth, Portland, OR © Robert Pallesen
#Phone Booth#Street Scene#Fences#PDX#Portland#Urban Landscape#Black and White Photography#Robert Pallesen
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ONCE UPON A TIME 1.19 “THE RETURN”
#ouatedit#once upon a time#tvedit#chewieblog#userbbelcher#tvandfilm#fairytaleedit#eion bailey#august w. booth#robert carlyle#mr. gold#rumplestiltskin#cinemapix#ours#by soph#tvsource
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Was Trump's assassination attempt the first time people other than the president were also killed or hurt?
No, it definitely was not the first time. There have been a number of additional victims during Presidential assassinations or assassination attempts throughout American history.
Here are the incidents where someone other than the President was wounded in an assassination attempt on Presidents or Presidential candidates:
•April 14, 1865, Washington, D.C. At the same time that John Wilkes Booth was shooting Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Booth's fellow conspirator, Lewis Powell, attacked Secretary of State William H. Seward at Seward's home in Washington. Seward had been injured earlier that month in a carriage accident and was bedridden from his injuries, and Powell viciously stabbed the Secretary of State after forcing his way into Seward's home by pretending to deliver medicine. Powell also attacked two of Seward's sons, a male nurse from the Army who was helping to care for Seward, and a messenger from the State Department. Another Booth conspirator, George Azterodt, was supposed to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson at the same time that Lincoln and Seward were being attacked in an attempt to decapitate the senior leadership of the Union government, but Azterodt lost his nerve and got drunk instead. A total of five people were wounded at the Seward home as part of the Booth conspiracy, but Lincoln was the only person who was killed.
•February 15, 1933, Miami, Florida Just 17 days before his first inauguration, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was the target of an assassination attempt in Miami's Bayfront Park. Giuseppe Zangara fired five shots at Roosevelt as FDR was speaking from an open car. Roosevelt was not injured, but all five bullets hit people in the crowd, including Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak who was in the car with FDR. Roosevelt may have been saved by a woman in the crowd who hit Zangara's arm with her purse as she noticed he was aiming his gun at the President-elect and caused him to shoot wildly. Mayor Cermak was gravely wounded and immediately rushed to a Miami hospital where he died about two weeks later.
•November 1, 1950, Blair House, Washington, D.C. From 1949-1952, the White House was being extensively renovated with the interior being almost completely gutted and reconstructed. President Harry S. Truman and his family moved into Blair House, a Presidential guest house across the street from the White House that is normally used for visiting VIPs, for 3 1/2 years. On November 1, 1950 two Puerto Rican nationalists, Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo, tried to shoot their way into Blair House and attempt to kill President Truman, who was upstairs (reportedly napping) at the time. A wild shootout ensued on Pennsylvania Avenue, leaving White House Police Officer Leslie Coffelt and Torresola dead, and Collazo and two other White House Police Officers wounded.
•November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas Texas Governor John Connally was severely wounded after being shot while riding in the open limousine with President John F. Kennedy when JFK was assassinated.
•June 5, 1968, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, California When he finished delivering a victory speech after winning California's Democratic Presidential primary, Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York was shot several times while walking through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. While RFK was mortally wounded and would die a little over a day later, five other people were also wounded in the shooting.
•May 15, 1972, Laurel, Maryland Segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot by Arthur Bremer at a campaign rally when he was running for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Three bystanders were also wounded in the shooting, but survived.
•September 22, 1975, San Francisco, California A taxi driver in San Francisco was wounded when Sara Jane Moore attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford as he left the St. Francis Hotel. Moore's first shot missed the President by several inches and the second shot, which hit the taxi driver, was altered when a Vietnam veteran in the crowd named Oliver Sipple grabbed her arm as she was firing. Just 17 days earlier and 90 miles away, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a member of the Charles Manson family, had tried to shoot President Ford as he walked through Capitol Park in Sacramento but nobody was injured.
•March 30, 1981, Washington, D.C. President Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously wounded by as he left the Washington Hilton after giving a speech. Three other people were wounded in the shooting, including White House Press Secretary James Brady who was shot in the head and partially paralyzed, Washington D.C. Police Office Thomas Delahanty, and Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy. Video of the assassination attempt shows that when the shots were fired, McCarthy turned and made himself a bigger target in order to shield the President with his own body. President Reagan was struck by a bullet that ricocheted off of the Presidential limousine.
#History#Presidential Assassinations#Presidential Assassination Attempts#Presidency#Politics#Political History#Assassinations#Attempted Assassinations#Lincoln Assassination#Assassination of Abraham Lincoln#Booth Conspiracy#Attempted Assassination of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt#FDR#Franklin D. Roosevelt#President Roosevelt#Puerto Rican Nationalists#Attempted Assassination of Harry S. Truman#President Truman#Secret Service#United States Secret Service#White House Police#Presidential History#Robert F. Kennedy#RFK Assassination#Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy#Attempted Assassination of George Wallace#Attempted Assassination of Gerald Ford#President Ford#Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan#President Reagan
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Camille (George Cukor, 1936).
#camille#camille (1936)#george cukor#greta garbo#robert taylor#margaret booth#margarita gautier#william h. daniels#karl freund#cedric gibbons#henry grace#jack d. moore#adrian#norbert a. myles#harry thomas#metro-goldwyn-mayer
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The Magnificent Ambersons(1942)
#film#the magnificent ambersons#1942#orson welles#robert wise#booth tarkington#40s#old hollywood#vintage#...
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Tiny Review: Loving Vincent 2017. MUST WATCH. For creatives, by creatives.
By itself, this is a pretty good and simple mystery story already. Add to this the inspiring message by a struggling Vincent, and this is a MUST WATCH for creatives everywhere.
The artist themes of self-doubt, struggle, misfit, obsession and love of life resonates.
Loving Vincent is a 2017 adult animated drama film written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman. It is a Polish-UK co-production, funded by the Polish Film Institute, and partially through a Kickstarter campaign. It stars Robert Gulaczyk, Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Saoirse Ronan, Helen McCrory, Chris O’Dowd, John Sessions, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Aidan Turner.
#loving vincent#kickstarter#robert gulaczyk#douglas booth#jerome flynn#saoirse ronan#helen mccrory#chris o'dowd#john sessions#eleanor tomlinson#aidan turner#animated movies#drama movies#mystery movies#vincent van gogh#2019 movies#movie review#must watch
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Great Expectations 1917 - 2023
#great expectations#olivia colman#fionn whitehead#shalom brune franklin#jeremy irvine#holliday grainger#helena bonham carter#ralph fiennes#douglas booth#gillian anderson#ray winstone#ioan gruffudd#charlotte rampling#ethan hawke#gwyneth paltrow#robert de niro#anne bancroft#john mills#alec guinness
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Terror Threads has released two Silent Night, Deadly Night designs by Casey Booth and Yannick Bouchard on T-shirts ($30) and crewneck sweatshirts ($45).
#silent night deadly night#horror#80s horror#1980s horror#linnea quigley#terror threads#casey booth#yannick bouchard#shirt#gift#80s movies#slasher#80s slashers#billy chapman#robert brian wilson
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Val crying in movies part 2 🥺
Warning ⚠️ : this one contains torture signs
Does this one count as crying?🤔🧊
Bonus: fake crying edition 😂
#val kilmer#top gun#tom iceman kazansky#iceman#icemav#pete maverick mitchell#Willow#Madmartigan#Wonderland#John Holmes#the man who broke 1000 chains#robert elliot burns#kill me again 1989#Jack Andrews#Kill me again#Prince of egypt#It's animated#But Val really cried in the booth#According to the director#Blind horizon#Columbus day#the salton sea#Let me know if I missed any other Val crying moments#Angst#emotional whump#Hurt#I love it#I hate saying it#But he looks cute even when he's crying#My gifs
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Die immer wieder ganz besonders niedliche Eheanbahnungskomödie The Matchmaker können wir diesmal als außerordentlich verspäteten Gedenkfilm für Robert Morse (hier angekündigt) und als Auftakt der Feirlichkeiten zum 90. Geburtstag von Shirley McLaine (am 24. April) verwenden, sowie als Vorbereitung fürs Musiktheater.
#The Matchmaker#Robert Morse#Shirley MacLaine#Anthony Perkins#Paul Ford#Shirley Booth#Perry Wilson#Film gesehen#Joseph Anthony
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