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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Whitewashing by brown hands – sister-hood magazine. A Fuuse production by Deeyah Khan.

Kendall Jenner on the cover of Vogue India’s tenth anniversary edition is the tip of the iceberg. There are more disturbing goings-on in India and colourisation. The colour-struck media industry is seeking to destroy the idea that brown skin is beautiful by integrating more foreign actresses who have only the skill of light skin, through promoting skin whitening creams via Bollywood heavyweights and devoting entire shows to the idea that nobody would ever consider a darker skinned girl beautiful.Before we can confidently wage war on the lack of diversity in Western countries, we must work together to ensure that brown countries aren’t the first to jump at the chance to wash out brown beauty and talent.

Source: Whitewashing by brown hands – sister-hood magazine. A Fuuse production by Deeyah Khan.

Burma leader on historic first visit to Sweden

“We have tried to solve this for 70 years. We have made some progress, but there is still much left to do,” Aung San Suu Kyi told media at a press conference alongside prime minister Stefan Löfven.The leader of the National League for Democracy and State secretary who became an International symbol of peaceful resistance following years of house arrest, defended what many have said has been her silence while human rights abuses were allegedly committed by the military against the Rohingya Muslim minority last year.Explaining why she rejected a United Nations probe into alleged human rights abuses, Aung San Suu Kyi said it would have inflamed ethnic tensions between Buddhist Burmese and the Muslim Rohinya minority.”It would have created greater hostility between the different communities,” the 71-year-old told reporters in Stockholm.

Source: Inoreader – Burma leader on historic first visit to Sweden

Inoreader – Monday Open Thread | Update on the Legislation Evil Known As Trumpcare- Fighting the Senate

The Legislative Evil known Trumpcare is going forward in the Senate.I will remind you, now, and always…Trumpcare is a TAX CUT BILL MASQUERADING AS A HEALTHCARE PLAN.THE TAX CUTS DECIMATING MEDICAID are the foundation to giving tax cuts to millionaires and bilionaires.They want to cut 880 BILLION from Medicaid..then LIE that cutting 880 BILLION from a program WILL NOT MEAN CUTS IN SERVICE?THE EVERLOVING PHUCK??!!?They are going to STEAL HEALTHCARE FROM THE MOST VULNERABLE IN ORDER TO GIVE RICH PEOPLE A TAX CUT. They are crafting Trumpcare in the Senate, in secret, with no hearings.

Source: Inoreader – Monday Open Thread | Update on the Legislation Evil Known As Trumpcare- Fighting the Senate

We Don’t Need Megyn Kelly To Shine a Light On a Dumpster Fire | Dame Magazine

The way Jones sees it, shadowy groups within the U.S. government orchestrated—or at least refrained from preventing—the 9/11 attacks, the Boston Marathon massacre, the bombing of Oklahoma City’s Murrah federal building, and the mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. He has even suggested that President Obama was responsible for the 2013 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. When Jared Lee Loughner went on his January 2011 rampage in Tucson, killing six people and severely wounding U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), Jones told Rolling Stone: “This whole thing stinks to high heaven. … My gut tells me this was a staged mind-control operation. The government employs geometric psychological-warfare experts that know exactly how to indirectly manipulate unstable people through the media.”Kelly’s assertion that many don’t know him is probably true. He only has around 600,000 followers on Twitter (though that number will likely jump post NBC interview). And even though that may be true it is irrelevant. In fact, it is actually a good thing.Shining a light? Honestly, Kelly missed the boat on that one. Jones has been outed, debunked, marginalized, and ridiculed into relative silence. And anyway, according to Jones’s divorce lawyer the Alex Jones on Infowars is just a persona, a character:

Source: We Don’t Need Megyn Kelly To Shine a Light On a Dumpster Fire | Dame Magazine

IRIN | Cholera can kill quickly. In Yemen, it’s taking one life an hour – Thanks to #TraitorTrump ally Saudi Arabia at war against Yemen!

Cholera is now killing more people than bombs and bullets in Yemen, in a raging outbreak that is out of control thanks to the inability of the country to cope after more than two years of war.According to the latest (and always growing) numbers, 923 people have died of cholera in Yemen since the end of April, 532 in May alone. For comparison, the UN recorded violent deaths of 98 civilians in May.When IRIN first reported on Yemen’s cholera outbreak in the middle of last month, it was bad: hospitals in the capital of Sana’a were overflowing, and humanitarians were racing to contain the disease.

Source: IRIN | Cholera can kill quickly. In Yemen, it’s taking one life an hour

The Week in Egypt: Week 23 ( June 5-11)

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Top Headlines

  • Egypt will transfer sovereignty of two islands to Saudi Arabia, which had been blocked in court, following parliamentary approval
  • Arab powers, including Egypt, list 59 individuals as Qatar-linked terrorism supporters
  • Egypt authorizes Greece to sponsor Egyptians expats in Qatar
  • Egypt inflation eases for first time since currency float

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Ex-U.S. Attorney Bharara tells of ‘unusual’ calls he received from Trump | Reuters

The third call, however, came two days after Trump’s inauguration. That time, he said, he refused to call back.”The call came in. I got a message. We deliberated over it, thought it was inappropriate to return the call. And 22 hours later I was asked to resign along with 45 other people,” he said.

Source: Ex-U.S. Attorney Bharara tells of ‘unusual’ calls he received from Trump | Reuters

Inoreader – The Empire State Building Was Constructed Incredibly Fast, It Was Built In Just 13 Months!

When he drew up its plans in 1929, architect William Lamb of the firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon is said to have modeled the Empire State Building after Winston-Salem, North Carolina’s Reynolds Building—which he had previously designed—and Carew Tower in Cincinnati.

Source: Inoreader – The Empire State Building Was Constructed Incredibly Fast, It Was Built In Just 13 Months!

Nevada Man Accused Of Making Death Threats Against Lawyers Suing Fox News: Gothamist

The Times reports that the NYPD was able to use phone records to track the calls to Amico’s Las Vegas home and sent a pair of officers to Nevada to arrest him back on May 10th, but Amico barricaded himself in his house and was only arrested after a five-hour standoff. He was then extradited to New York on June 8th.Wigdor L.L.P. is representing 11 employees in a racial discrimination suit against Fox News in which the employees allege that executives and supervisors ignored their complaints of racially discriminatory behavior at the company.

Source: Nevada Man Accused Of Making Death Threats Against Lawyers Suing Fox News: Gothamist

A Physicist was Mansplained Her Own Work Onstage Until an Audience Member Had Enough and IntervenedThe Ladies Finger

Holt’s behaviour, before being interrupted by Talkington, is a classic example of mansplaining – men believing that they know better than women for, well, not-very-good reasons. Soft examples of sexism like this are often as dangerous as the more overt kinds. But it’s heartening that we still have people willing to stand up against it.

Source: A Physicist was Mansplained Her Own Work Onstage Until an Audience Member Had Enough and IntervenedThe Ladies Finger