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Between 1998-2011 child poverty plummeted. Under Clegg and Cameron it’s soaring.

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UK today)

Suffer little children, suffer.

According to figures released by the Child Poverty Action Group:

  • Child poverty reduced dramatically between 1998 and 2011 when 1.1 million children were lifted out of poverty.
  • But under current government austerity policies, child poverty is rising dramatically with an expected 600,000 more children living in poverty by 2016.

Bloody well serves those pesky kids right for f*cking up our economy with their dodgy interbank lending rates, high risk derivatives markets and out of control hedge fund leverages.

A heavy dose of poverty will soon sort them out.

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Source: Child Poverty Action Group

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Lady Gaga’s ARTPOP Gets Censored for the Middle East

The mind cannot be censored – although the censors can imprison themselves

A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

Like her or hate her, there’s basically no escaping her especially if you tune in for 10 minutes of local radio. Lady Gaga is gearing up to release her upcoming album which she has titled: ARTPOP. A few weeks ago, she revealed the album’s title to be the following:

ARTPOP

Pretty weird, right? It’s not like you’d expect anything less from her at this point though. However, Middle Eastern countries are getting a different and censored version of this same cover, which was just released and is the following:

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They’ve increased the dimension of that ball in front of her, whatever it might mean, to cover her breasts. They’ve also colored her legs black in order to give the impression that she’s covered up.

And yes, Lebanon is one of those countries as is evident by the Lebanese iTunes Store.

I really don’t get this. Did local authorities tell her…

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“Life Bar” Gemmayze asks guests to dress as maids

The side of Lebanon – we’d like to pretend does not exist… but they can be as elitist and racist as many other cultures…

Hummus For Thought

“This Friday Night, Be Sinkara or Milenga.. Be Soumatra or Domma.. Create your own Maid Costume, Speak Like them and look like a Philippino, Bengladish, Sri Lanka or any maid you want and definitely win 100$ in cash. They do work all the month to get it.. Imitate them and win it in some few comedy moments.”

We really can’t miss an opportunity to be disgusting can we? A friend of mine just sent me an article by The Daily Star showing the following headline:

“Beirut bar cancels event inviting guests to dress as domestic workers”

The Anti-Racism Movement revealed the bar to be “Life Bar” and this is the original description in their Facebook event:

“They do work all the month to get it.. imitate them and win it in some few comedy moments”

This isn’t some cultural-themed party precisely because there is no such thing as a “maid culture”…

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Egyptian Aak. Week 44

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Main headlines

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  • Senior Muslim Brotherhood figure Essam el-Erian is arrested in Egypt
  • Brotherhood figure Essam al-Erian

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Can’t snark this: Wuhan couple married for 75 years pass away within 15 hours of each other: Shanghaiist

Can\’t snark this: Wuhan couple married for 75 years pass away within 15 hours of each other

With some of the stories coming out of China about love and marriage these days, it’s easy to become cynical about this topic. You may now take the next 5 minutes to be a softie. A Wuhan couple in their 90s and who have been married for 75 years passed away within 15 hours of each other at the end of October, Wuhan Evening News reports.

The man, 92 and his wife, 93, left six children — the oldest being 75 — and 15 grandchildren behind. The two, who met in an arranged marriage, were described to have had a respectful and happy marriage. In what is an epic case of over-achievement, not only did the two manage to bring up their children through the most tumultuous years in recent Chinese history, send them to school and survive the decades immediately post-1949, they also managed to bring up 12 of their 15 grand kids.

via Can’t snark this: Wuhan couple married for 75 years pass away within 15 hours of each other: Shanghaiist.