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Egyptian Aak 2017- Week 3 ( Jan 16- 22)

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Top Headlines

  • Egypt court upholds ruling halting transfer of islands to Saudi Arabia
  • Egypt extends participation in the Saudi-led coaltion in Yemen
  • 8 policemen killed, at least 3 injured in armed attack on Western Desert checkpoint
  • IMF says Egypt is progressing well with economic reform plan
  • Egypt to allow Italian experts to examine CCTV footage in Regeni murder investigation
  • Israel raises height of fence on Egypt border
  • Egypt puts a retired football star on terrorism list

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Photos | #WomensMarch across America & The World to Protest Against Donald Trump | 3CHICSPOLITICO

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Ashley Judd’s EPIC “Nasty Woman” Speech Madonna: To our distractors that insist that this march will never add up to anything….. Fuck you! …..FUCK YOU!

Source: Photos | #WomensMarch across America & The World to Protest Against Donald Trump | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Lebanon’s Security Forces Which Stopped A Terrorist Attack in Hamra Tonight Are Heroes | A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

A 24 year old Lebanese terrorist suicide bomber named Omar el Assi, from Saida, was apprehended moments before he detonated himself in Hamra, one of Beirut’s most bustling streets, right outside Costa Cafe, in breaking news out of Beirut right now.The terrorist had an explosive belt strapped around his chest. It’s unclear whether he was targeting Costa or one of the many nearby bars. Hamra is one of the most liberal places in Beirut, and attacking it is a frightening precendent in Lebanon’s constant fight against terrorists. Uncovering the attack was a coordinated effort between Lebanon’s intelligence and Internal Security forces. Tonight, they are heroes. Plenty of people are safe because of them, and for that I am forever thankful.This shows that when our security forces work together towards the one goal of keeping us safe, they can be as triumphant as this. I hope we learn from this lesson moving forward how valuable our unity is.

Source: Lebanon’s Security Forces Which Stopped A Terrorist Attack in Hamra Tonight Are Heroes | A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares

Is the GOP Trying to Kill Americans? | Dame Magazine

I’m cussing a lot because I’m furious. Like millions of Americans (despite my Welsh birth, I’m about to become an American citizen) I have never had an employer who paid for my health care. (Actually, I had one employer, who was mandated to provide me with health care for a year through the Writers Guild.) But now this kind of bullshit is back. Donald Trump and the Republicans’ attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act is not a way to curb a bureaucratic mess, but an out and out war on the American people. Because repealing the ACA would mean everyone with a preexisting condition will no longer be able to get health-care coverage. It means those of you middle-income people without health care provided by an employer, but unable to qualify for Medicare, will have to dig deep and find $200 to $300 a month to give to an insurance company who will squabble over each and every doctor’s visit, every dime you spend, every minor symptom you have.After the birth of my son and a horrible divorce, I was crippled with depression and anxiety and PTSD. I credit mental-health-care services—weekly visits to a therapist at $40 a pop even with insurance, monthly visits to a psychiatrist at $50, monthly prescriptions at $20—with saving my life. I am a healthy person. I do yoga, I dance, I eat healthy, I’m active. Being felled by MRSA, a retained placenta, mental-health issues could and would have killed me without insurance.Living in America is prohibitively expensive, and in a big city, even more so. Rent, traffic tickets, tickets for having you dog off leash, tickets for overtaking in the fast lane—it never fucking ends. I often feel like white men are masticating me as they try to suck the sinews off my bones to make stock for their fucking stew. This country is a devastating and unfriendly place to be, and yet here we all are, trying to make the best of it, faced with little choice but to wake up, day after day, work in jobs we hate for pennies our employers argue over, paying rent for homes owned by people who see us as cash cows. I knew this was happening, but the reality of it has devastated me more than I can say. In my ten years of American living, moving here during the Bush era, I began to see real change, and now I am bearing witness to a perilous plunge into a new, worse horror.We need to do everything we can to stop it. Start by picking up the phone: Call. Your. Senator.

Source: Is the GOP Trying to Kill Americans? | Dame Magazine

Pope admits to ‘darkness’ in his faith – The Local

“If I say I’m Catholic and every Sunday I go to mass but then I don’t talk to my parents, I don’t help my grandparents, the poor, I don’t visit the sick, then there’s no point,” said Francis.”In that way, we’re nothing but a Christian parrot: words, words, words.”

Source: Pope admits to ‘darkness’ in his faith – The Local

News | Embassy of the Earth

A breakthrough in science, knowledge and consciousness is beginning to unfold for all human beings. As we pay attention, we begin to experience life through new perceptions of a delicately woven interdependence, cluing us in to larger patterns and expanding our knowledge and awareness of continuous flow and change. As an ABC community these larger patterns are helping us to better grow nutritious and delicious food for the world. Simultaneously this awareness directs us to allow the natural world, our eco systems to do what they do best: protect and regulate the biosphere.The case I’m making here is that there is a profound essence in the world’s smallholder farmers, fisher folk, pastoralists, forest dwellers. They are not just food producers, they are frontline custodians of biodiverse landscapes, with them lies the true regenerative power of our societies.

Source: News | Embassy of the Earth

Egyptian Aak 2017-Week 2 (Jan 9-15)

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Top Headlines

  • Militants attack checkpoint in Egypt’s Sinai, killing 8
  • New restrictive measures to enter Sinai
  • Al-Sisi: Egypt’s counterterrorism efforts is staking a heavy toll on state sources
  • Cabinet creates protests-free zone around vital facilites
  • Egypt slams EU, UK for criticizing ruling on activists
  • Egypt’s cost-of-living soars as currency dives
  • Egypt drops case against mob that attacked a Christian woman

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Donald Trump’s inauguration concert: Jennifer Holliday backs out of performance, apologises to fans – US election 2016 – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Singer Jennifer Holliday has backed out as a performer at next week’s presidential inaugural welcome concert, saying she did not realise that her participation would be interpreted as a statement of support for President-elect Donald Trump.Holliday, best known for her Tony-winning role in Broadway’s Dreamgirls, faced pressure from her gay, lesbian and black fans when it was announced she would sing at the concert at Washington’s Lincoln Memorial.Holliday said in a statement on Saturday (local time) that she apologised for her lapse of judgment, for being uneducated on the issues and causing heartbreak for her fans.”My only choice must now be to stand with the LGBT community and to state unequivocally that I will not perform for the welcome concert or for any of the inauguration festivities!” she wrote in a letter to her fans.”Please know that I hear you and I feel your pain. The LGBT community was mostly responsible for birthing my career and I am deeply indebted to you,” she added.”You have loved me faithfully and unconditionally and for so many years you provided me with work even though my star had long since faded.”

Source: Donald Trump’s inauguration concert: Jennifer Holliday backs out of performance, apologises to fans – US election 2016 – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)