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IKEA denies alleged use of Cuban prison labour

Reports earlier this year indicated that IKEA officials in West Germany contracted East German state companies that used prison labour to manufacture some of its products in the 1980s, Caribbean 360 reports.

Global furniture giant IKEA has denied reports about the possible use of Cuban prison labour to manufacture goods for…………..

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theblackme:

News from Germany. An appeals court has ruled that “skin color alone is insufficient grounds for a police spot check,” reports Der Spiegel.

The case was brought by a 26-year-old Black university student who was born in Germany and is a German citizen. The ruling was made October 29 by the Higher Administrative Court for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Koblenz………..

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Why Che’s daughter fights to preserve his image as idealistic revolutionary

Forty-five years after Che Guevara’s death, his daughter, Aleida, talks with Tracy McVeigh of London’s Guardian about growing up in the shadow of a world-famed leader. She has the eyes of her father, a gaze that became an emblem for the 20th century. She also has his deep sense of social injustice, but Dr Aleida Guevara has always had to share her “papi” with the world. While she doesn’t mind the……..

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“Reincarnated” traces Snoop Lion’s Rastafarian Awakening

The documentary screens at Toronto International Film Festival and Karen Bliss has reviewed it for Rolling Stone. Here is her review. Follow the link below for more. The marijuana smoke-filled opening of Reincarnated, the documentary chronicling the personal and spiritual evolution of rapper and one-time gangbanger Snoop Dogg to reggae artist and Rasta Snoop Lion quickly cuts to shots of a bonfire and singing. The context isn’t revealed until near the end of the film, which screened Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival. As Snoop’s journey to find…….

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kilele:

A very common scene in the Egyptian weddings, a man playing “Mezmar” (a brass musical instrument that looks like a trumpet, a traditional one, probably appeared first in upper Egypt).

Photo by Marwa Morgan

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“349. La Danse Des Almees (Algeria)” taken by Alexander Leroux

(via algerianculture)

theblackme:

3-Part BBC Documentary ‘Racism: A History’ Narrated By Sophie Okonedo

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Balotelli hit by fresh race row

An Italian regional councillor has sparked a race row after he posted on his Facebook page a picture of footballer Mario Balotelli working in fields as an immigrant worker. Paolo Ciani, 51, of the right wing Future and Liberty party, mocked up the photograph which showed Balotelli, 21, wearing his Italian shirt and……….

FUCK THIS. He chose these arseholes over his country of birth. He’s their best Talent in Years and instead of giving him all the love they can find, they keep giving him every pile of bullshit they can find.  hope He wins everything he can and they achieve nothing.

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Kelis In Asos Sequin Striped Dress At Cannes - fail!

thisisjamaica:

YORK, Westmoreland — Eleven-year-old Ricardo Dove was shot dead by gunmen who invaded his home in this quiet farming community on Monday night.

A distraught Robert Dove told the Jamaica Observer yesterday that some time after 11:00 pm, he was asleep in his bedroom when he heard an explosion coming from the room occupied by Ricardo and his younger brother.

The grieving father recounted that as he called Ricardo’s name and got a faint response, there came another explosion.

He then rushed to his sons’ room where he saw the younger one standing on the bed, trembling and Ricardo’s lifeless, bloodied body sprawled on the bed beside him.

“As I tried to take my younger son off the bed I heard a barrage of gunshots outside,” he recounted.(read more here)

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thisisjamaica:

Beauty Queen Babymama Drama

BEAUTY QUEEN babymama drama is hardly new to Jamaica or to the Caribbean—as Dave Rodney writes in this article for Jamaica’s Gleaner. Unmarried queens have been quietly having their babies for decades, long before the appearance of Facebook. Sometimes, the pregnancies were met with raised eyebrows and other times, nobody seemed to notice. Eventually, the dust settles and all the queens move on to lead happy and productive lives with their prosperous and talented offsprings. In the ’60s and ’70s, male politicians generally had the first pick of local beauty queens for wives, and many high-profile Jamaican politicians were beneficiaries of some of Jamaica’s most bewitching beauties. The queens back then pretty much adhered to the established social order of marriage first, then………………………

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there are 4 kinds of people. Human Beings. Sheep (follow follow) goats (the unthinking ‘smarts’) and Cows ( The Ignorant Army).

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- spawnofhumanbeings

My Naija kin is spitting knowledge ooooo

theblackme:

Singers Brandy and Monica cover Ebony Magazine June 2012 , Monica wears a neon yellow suit and Brandy wears a pink halter top dress.

other-wordly:

pronunciation | \snol-E-‘gost-er\

theblackme:

AFRICA: South Africa arrests 600 police officers for corruption.

Johannesburg – More than 600 South African Police Officers were arrested in South Africa’s Gauteng province since April 2011, the provincial police commissioner has said.

Lt Gen. Mzwandile Petross told newsmen in Pretoria on Wednesday that many of the arrests were attributed to tip-offs from members of the community.

“If there is one thing the people of this province are sick of, it’s corruption in the police.

“It’s good news that 600 police have been arrested because the communities are working-in-glove with the people you trust,’’ Petross said.

He said the South Africa Police Service (SAPS), was not shy to investigate and arrest those within its ranks who could not be trusted.

Petross said that there were also concerns about criminals operating in private security companies.

“I shudder to think how many who don’t take the police oath are involved in crime,’’ he said.

He said the majority of crimes committed by police officers related to fraud and corruption. (NAN)