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

Netanyahu threatens crackdown on Israeli Arab areas | News | DW.COM | 03.01.2016

{They – Arab-Israelis are citizens for now – until…?}

“Whoever wants to be Israeli must be Israeli all the way,” he added.

Source: Netanyahu threatens crackdown on Israeli Arab areas | News | DW.COM | 03.01.2016

Qaeda Affiliate Uses Video of Donald Trump for Recruiting – The New York Times

In addition to footage of Mr. Trump, the video, which is 51 minutes long, included excerpts from speeches by Malcolm X and unnamed white supremacists, as well as footage of white police officers, African-Americans protesting police brutality and African-American men in prison. Some appeared to be performing Islamic prayers.Using footage of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American member of a Qaeda affiliate who was killed in an American drone attack in 2011, the video also said the United States was gripped by a “malignant hatred” of Islam. It warned American Muslims that “there are ominous clouds gathering in your horizon.”

Source: Qaeda Affiliate Uses Video of Donald Trump for Recruiting – The New York Times

This year’s neglected migration crises

201512211815170752t.jpg In 2015, all eyes have been on the Mediterranean and Europe’s so-called migration crisis. But people are being displaced in many other corners of the world away from the media’s glare. According to the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, this year is likely to see worldwide forced displacement exceeding 60 million for the first time. Here are six under-reported migration stories.

Miners’ Hall, Runanga, ca 1910 by National Library NZ on The Commons

Photographer: James Ring
Miners’ Hall, Runanga, ca 1910
Dry plate glass negative
Reference No. 1/2-179351-G
Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

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Francis Joseph Glacier, 1906 by National Library NZ on The Commons

Photographer: James Ring
Francis Joseph Glacier, 1906
Albumen print
Reference No. PA1-o-436-16-2
Photographic Archive, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand

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