Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker
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Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker
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#2It isn't explicitly stated, but it does seem to be implied that the captain and shipping company conspired to file a false police report to ensure the stowaways would be removed from the ship.
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#3It isn't explicitly stated, but it does seem to be implied that the captain and shipping company conspired to file a false police report to ensure the stowaways would be removed from the ship.
Maybe it was the best possible solution since no ports would allow them to leave in a more normal way?
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#4It isn't explicitly stated, but it does seem to be implied that the captain and shipping company conspired to file a false police report to ensure the stowaways would be removed from the ship.
Maybe it was the best possible solution since no ports would allow them to leave in a more normal way?
Seems reasonable. Having a ship be trapped at sea is a huge cost, it’s understandable that the crew gets stressed out as supplies are running low.
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#5This is hard to read using Chrome on my Pixel 7. The site is too wide and I can't zoom out
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#6This is hard to read using Chrome on my Pixel 7. The site is too wide and I can't zoom out
Same on iOS. It only happens after reading for a while, so I assume it’s being caused by an ad.
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#7This was a good article. Also available in podcast form: https://overcast.fm/+G2W1mXPTY
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#8Straight out of John Howard’s awful playbook, using human lives for political ends.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Overboard_affair
> The Children Overboard affair was an Australian political controversy involving public allegations by Howard Government ministers in the lead-up to the 2001 federal election, that seafaring asylum seekers had thrown children overboard in a presumed ploy to secure rescue and passage on 7 October 2001.
Or had they?
> The Australian Senate Select Committee for an inquiry into a certain maritime incident later found that no children had been at risk of being thrown overboard and that the government had known this prior to the election. The government was criticised for misleading the public and cynically "(exploiting) voters' fears of a wave of illegal immigrants by demonising asylum-seekers".
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#9Thought it would be Tampa affair.
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#10This is hard to read using Chrome on my Pixel 7. The site is too wide and I can't zoom out
Looks fine in Firefox for Android (with or without uBlock Origin on).