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

My Skin Horse

Nighttime Rendezvous - Painting by Jennifer Morrison Nighttime Rendezvous – Painting by Jennifer Morrison

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

I didn’t blog last week because I was traveling. Without down time and solitude, I can’t write. The hurly-burly of the world is just too much to allow me the sort of silence I need to ruminate and sort myself into language. However, I dreamed of words — I sorted and culled and braided language — as I dawdled in airport lounges and coffee shops and diners. I thought about the clear beauty of the city skyline in Seattle, about all the ways…

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Ranbaxy calls back cholesterol drug in US – The Times of India

Ranbaxy Laboratories, facing a host of regulatory issues, has recalled over 64,000 bottles of the generic version of a cholesterol-lowering drug, Lipitor, in the US after a dosage mix-up was detected. It recalled the tablets of atorvastatin calcium after a pharmacist found a 20mg tablet in a sealed bottle marked for 10mg tablets, the US Food and Drug Administration said on its website.

Ranbaxy, India’s biggest drugmaker by revenue and majority owned by Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo, confirmed the recall of select batches of the drug. But it said the company had not received any product complaints. The recall is being conducted at the retail level. A company spokesperson said Ranbaxy is proactively recalling the lots out of an abundance of caution, keeping the safety of its patients in mind and with the full knowledge of the US FDA.

The recall is the latest in a series of problems to hit Ranbaxy, which has had all its domestic units banned from sending drugs and ingredients to the US, its biggest market.

via Ranbaxy calls back cholesterol drug in US – The Times of India.

Hunger strike by 750 immigrants at Washington state detention centre | World news | theguardian.com

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has confirmed that 750 detainees at the Northwest Detention Center in Washington state have refused to eat and say they are on a hunger strike.

via Hunger strike by 750 immigrants at Washington state detention centre | World news | theguardian.com.

Rebel filmmaker & music producer Deeyah shares life on International Women’s Day | WNN – Women News Network

My family was different; our parents own struggles for freedom had given us a measure of liberty, but still, in extended family and community gatherings, there was a palpable sense of us and them, West and East: two worlds in collision, and I was crushed between them.

In those days, there were few ethnic minorities in Norway. I was called Paki and Black Bitch in the streets of Oslo, and in school the friendships I found were with other outcasts. Although a quiet student, if one of my friends were threatened, I defended them with all my strength. One of the closest and most precious friendships was, and remains, and will always be, the one I share with my brother Adil, who is now a well-known actor. Even today, we share our frustrations and hopes in the same way as we used to, back in that small room in Oslo.

via Rebel filmmaker & music producer Deeyah shares life on International Women’s Day | WNN – Women News Network.

Activists march in Beirut against domestic violence | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR

activists marking International Women’s Day held a march in Beirut Saturday and called for the adoption of a draft law to protect women from domestic violence.

More than 2,000 men and women took part in the demonstration organized by the anti-gender-based violence group KAFA, marching from Beirut’s Mathaf area to the Justice Palace.

via Activists march in Beirut against domestic violence | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR.

Middle east – Video: Egypt expels female activists on way to Gaza Strip – France 24

Egypt on Friday deported dozens of female pro-Palestinian activists who had hoped to travel across the border to the Gaza Strip to celebrate International Women’s Day there.

The women, numbering around 100 in total and mostly from the Europe and the US, had flown to Cairo with the intention of entering the Gaza Strip through Egypt’s Rafah border crossing.

However, they were unable to make it any further than Cairo International Airport after Egypt denied them entry to the county. After staging a sit-in at the airport, the activists were sent back to their home countries by the Egyptian authoritities

via Middle east – Video: Egypt expels female activists on way to Gaza Strip – France 24.

Arab Activists Against Domestic Violence in Lebanon #ProtectWomenLB #March8

Hummus For Thought

We are 15 Arab bloggers, intellectuals, activists, and dreamers currently meeting in Amman for the #ASM14 Social Media training and workshop organized by 7amleh in coordination with the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) and 7iber. We just have a message to all those joining the KAFA protest today at 2pm against Domestic Violence in Lebanon, and to all those fighting injustices against women worldwide.


Farah from Palestine Farah from Palestine

Minem from Palestine Minem from Palestine

Hannah from Palestine Hannah from Palestine

Myself from Lebanon Myself from Lebanon

Alaa from Lebanon Alaa from Lebanon

Manar Manar from Palestine

Tala from Palestine Tala from Palestine

And finally, a group picture:

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Shhh! Don’t tell MI5 but here’s a Russian spy with his ‘good friend’ Boris Johnson

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the Tories!)

Further to revelations that Cameron’s Tory Party is trying desperately to hide its extremely close relations to Putin’s United Russia Party…..

Tories desperately try to hide their close links to Putin and his United Russia Party

…. here’s a photo Boris Johnson won’t want you to see:

Boris with Russian spy

Sergey Nalobin – on the left – is a pro-Putin Russian intelligence agent based at the Russian embassy in London who was exposed as the main agent charged with forging contacts with leading UK politicians.

Sergey’s ‘good friend’ on the right is apparently quite an important figure in the Tory Party.

Shhh! Whatever you do – don’t tell MI5!

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Related articles by Tom Pride:

Tories desperately try to hide their close links to Putin and his United Russia Party

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