Irish state broadcaster RTE is reporting that the “Strofades IV” - a boat hired by Ken O’Keefe and other sane and rational lovers of the international limelight to bring aid to Gaza - is steaming back to Greece from the Libyan port of Derna with the self-righteous ones as unwilling passengers. Why? Because the ship’s captain got tired of being given the run around instead of his agreed fee. Check this story out too for further amusing background.
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On Tuesday afternoon I was walking home from the Acoyte subway station when I happened across the aftermath of an arrest. There were three police patrol cars, six or seven cops, a bunch of onlookers and the two arrestees. The cops were variously smoking, talking into their radios and writing in notebooks. At their feet - on the street, not on the pavement - two adult males lay face down. They had their hands cuffed behind their backs. The onlookers gaped. It was cold for Buenos Aires in spring and raining lightly.
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