Just when you thought New Year couldn’t be any sweeter and then comes the usual dead rat smell oozing out of the underbelly of the world.

According to Leonard Greene for the New York Post: The CEO of Revlon is a bigoted bully who hates “dirty” Americans, thinks Jews “stick together” and believes he can “smell” black people when they walk into a room, according to a new lawsuit.

The beauty company’s boss, Lorenzo Delpani, made the ugly comments after taking over in 2013, according to a discrimination suit filed by Revlon’s former top scientist, Alan Meyers, who says he was ostracized because of his Jewish heritage.

Delpani, a native of Italy, told Meyers he was “shocked” there weren’t more Jews at the company because the biggest shareholder is Ron Perelman, a prominent Jewish American, according to the suit.

“Jews stick together,” Delpani quipped. He also allegedly added that “thankfully,” Perelman “is not like that anymore.”

Delpani also said that he hates living among Americans, whom he called “small-minded” and “dirty,” and that he can’t wait to get back to a “real” country, according to court papers filed this week.

He later allegedly went on an “anti-American tirade” in which he said the US is getting closer to being like ISIS.

Meyers also claims Delpani made a racist comment after a meeting in South Africa, when he said he “could smell a black person when he entered a room.”

Meyers says Delpani had it out for him for having red-flagged safety issues in the production and manufacturing process.

Meyers claims he was concerned that several labs were not equipped to adequately test raw materials to satisfy Revlon’s safety standards.

Meyers, 56, who joined Revlon in 2010, was fired last month after he complained about the issues and his treatment, the lawsuit says.

Revlon spokeswoman Kiki Rees on Wednesday said Meyers was a disgruntled employee who did not perform up to company standards.

“Mr. Meyers repeatedly demonstrated critical lapses in judgment and failed to perform at the high standard we demand of our employees,” Rees said.

In the suit, Meyers claims Delpani’s tirades and tormenting eventually became outright bullying.

Meyers described one incident in October, when he allegedly was forced by Delpani to act as a human easel during a high-level meeting.

Meyers says he was instructed to hold a whiteboard, which covered his entire upper torso and head, for approximately 30 minutes.

He saw this as a demeaning gesture, he says, especially since he was supposed to be part of the leadership team.

Stress from the ordeal forced Meyers into the hospital with chest pains, the lawsuit says. He said he was fired on Dec. 10.

In his suit, he is demanding unspecified punitive and compensatory damages.

Attorneys for Meyers were unavailable Wednesday for comment.

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Reported by Dariel Figueroa at uproxx: You’d think that a make-up artist would be more conscious of how using plastic surgery to become a celebrity doppelgänger would work. It’s a relatively simple concept: you pay someone to stab, slice, and inject you until you look like the person in the photo. This 23-year old British man, though, completely misunderstood the concept. He spent $150,000 to look like Kim Kardashian, and, well, the results speak for themselves.

I imagine Jordan James Parke said something like, “I want to look like the lovechild of Kim Kardashian and Divine. Also, I’d prefer if my surgeon was partially blind,” otherwise, how the hell can someone justify spending $150,000 on plastic surgery that makes them look like their favorite celebrity in the midst of a peanut allergy attack. Here’s the list of procedures he’s had done:

• lip fillers
• cheek fillers
• Botox
• laser hair removal
• eyebrow tattoos
• veneers

And the eyebrows. THE EYEBROWS!

Somewhere in the UK is a cosmetic artist counting money, laughing at how much they got paid to use a sharpie on someone’s face. Parke claims that he fell in love with Kim K a few years ago, when he saw her on an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. “I laugh when people try to insult me by telling me I look plastic or fake,” he said in an interview with The Sun. “Do they think I’m going for the natural look? If I was, I’d ask for my money back.”

To each his own. YIKES!

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Tonight, I was honored to have seen an advance screening of the critically acclaimed movie Selma starring fellow Nigerian actor David Oyelowo as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. along side Oprah, Common, Wilkinson, Ejogo, just to name a few. Of course, better to take in the movie with such icon as Beverly Johnson. My dear friends, this is a movie for all ages and a historical one at that. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay’s SELMA tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.

Out in theaters Dec 25, on Christmas Day.

Later on Thursday, I will be attending an advance screening of Angelina Jolie’s movie “Unbroken” and will post my findings on my Facebook page shortly after 9pm. So be sure to be on the look out for that too. 😉

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A pregnant woman faces up to abortion protesters in London. I have never been this speechless in a long time. The lady in question gave the protesters a non violent educational verbal whipping like I’ve never seen before. I personally don’t have any particular opinion on abortion but I must say, this lady’s speech will have the most hardened anti abortionist thinking twice. Did I mention she’s heavily pregnant? Please watch the video below and learn….and share!

 

Folks! Words can not describe what you are about to watch. I honestly don’t think that woman could possibly be the mother of this baby getting a serious beat down like a professional wrestler. She’s either a nanny, babysitter or a family relative. There’s just no way in hell a mother who endured so much pain birthing a baby could put her young one through this torture. I bursted out crying halfway through the footage. I could not stomach watching the rest of it. Please share this, pass on the footage to others. Let us all know and learn that violently handling our young ones is simply NOT ACCEPTABLE! The woman in the video deserves to be publicly flogged and castrated by her boobs or worse! What a sad excuse for a woman!

 

This one takes the cake! Virginity testing to work as a policewoman in Indonesia. SERIOUSLY? I guess I don’t qualify. TOO BAD!

According to Rudy Madanir  at Cnn: The Indonesian police continue to use a “degrading” invasive physical test to check for female recruits virginity, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has claimed. A manual examination is used to physically check for an intact hymen in the recruits, the report alleges. It is, according to the report, a long-standing part of the health check that women must undergo to be accepted onto the force.

While the virginity test is not specifically part of the required “obstetrics and gynecology” examination that female recruits are required to undergo to gain entry to the National Police, senior female officers told the report’s authors that it has long been part of the process.

Virginity a requirement

The National Police website lists the health requirements for female recruits, listing virginity as one of the requirements. “In addition to the other medical and physical examinations. Women who want to become policewomen are to undergo a virginity test. Policewomen must keep their virginity,” the informational page states. It ends the section with a cheery “thank you” and a smiley-face emoticon. Married women are not eligible to apply for service in the police force.

Police: Exams applicable to both sexes

A police spokesperson told CNN that all recruits, not only female, were subject to thorough medical tests that included examination of genitalia. “Overall, the medical and physical examination has two main objectives. The first one is to make sure that the candidates’ health and physical condition will not harm them when admitted into police force,” spokesperson Roni Sompie said. “Secondly, it is to make sure that they do not possess any communicable diseases that will not allow them to perform maximally as trained police personnel,” he said. “As to the examination of the virginity, it is just a part of the whole medical and physical test, not intended to solely seek for the virginity condition. Or it can not be put in a perspective for the sake of finding out the virginity, instead, it is for the sake of the completeness of medical and physical examination.” Sompie also said that the HRW report was incomplete because it had not sought comment from police medical authorities.

‘Discriminatory, cruel, degrading’

HRW says they interviewed several female officers and applicants, as well as police medical and recruitment staff. They also say they spoke with a National Police commission member. The officers and recruits who had undergone the test called it “painful” and “traumatic.” The report describes the test, administered by Police Medical and Health Center staff in police hospitals in the cities of Bandung, Jakarta, Padang, Pekanbaru, Makassar, and Medan, as “discriminatory, cruel (and) degrading.” One recruit interviewed by HRW for the report said: “Entering the virginity test examination room was really upsetting. I feared that after they performed the test I would not be a virgin anymore. It really hurt. My friend even fainted because… it really hurt, really hurt.” HRW called the test “subjective and unscientific.”

“The Indonesian National Police’s use of ‘virginity tests’ is a discriminatory practice that harms and humiliates women,” said Nisha Varia, associate women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch in a statement.

“Police authorities in Jakarta need to immediately and unequivocally abolish the test, and then make certain that all police recruiting stations nationwide stop administering it.”

Outside condemnation

Women’s rights advocates have corroborated the HRW reports’ findings. “Over the last 12 years, I have been visited by many police women complaining about virginity tests conducted by police department, with some of them (saying) they have suffered from trauma having conducted the test, because they felt painful and they felt ashamed of being tested. The trauma lasts even until now,” Yefri Heriyani, of Padang based Women’s Crisis center Nurani Perempuan, told CNN.

“We protest this virginity test, which is now disguised under the name ‘medical and physical examination’ … Virginity tests (are) one of the forms of sexual violence, and therefore a human rights violation. We demand an end to this practice.”

Reform attempts insufficient

Attempts to reform the physical and abolish the “archaic” test, HRW says, have failed and the use of the test still widespread. The group says virginity tests contradict internationally-agreed human rights standards. The rights organization has also cataloged similar abuses by police in several other countries including Egypt, India, and Afghanistan, and has previously spoken out against virginity tests for Indonesian schoolgirls. HRW say the report is counterproductive to the Indonesian government’s aim to recruit more women to the police force.

“So-called virginity tests are discriminatory and a form of gender-based violence — not a measure of women’s eligibility for a career in the police,” Varia said.

“This pernicious practice not only keeps able women out of the police, but deprives all Indonesians of a police force with the most genuinely qualified officers.”

 

Scandal’s Olivia Pope move over! Rihanna is ready to take over the White House! In African Ankara garb no less. Got to say I am loving this conservative Afro chic on the ever so barely dressed bajan singer. I could get used to this. Keep it up Bad gal Riri!

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Brittany Maynard, a brave and courageous 29 year old girl, diagnosed with terminal brain cancer chooses to end her life with dignity on Nov 1 –permissible by the state of Oregon. I didn’t even know such a law existed until stumbling into this moving story. I wish all of her family well and her a peaceful journey to her maker. So touching. 🙁

Watch her story in the video footage below.

What can I tell you. The 41st annual Halloween Festival Parade was off the hook! I dressed up as a Vampire photographer, complete with fangs, the real deal.  I won’t waste your time with excess blah blah here but it’s crucial to add that the lovely and talented Oscar winning actress, Whoopi Goldberg did the honors this year as the Grand Marshall. New York has no shortage of creative people and they sure showed up in thousands dressed up in every kind of costume imaginable. They definitely did not disappoint. As expected, “club” floats played music along the routes and I couldn’t help myself. Armed with my camera, I too danced my way up 6th avenue taking the pictures featured below. Click on the images to see an enlarged version. This is one of my favorite parades in the city. Please enjoy the pictures and be sure to check out the ones posted on my Facebook page as well.

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The weekend is finally here! Stepping out in Christian Dior swirl leopard print blouse and Escada sleek high waist pants complete with a vintage cape, Delvaux leather kettle bag and pagoda parasol. Of course, architectural shoes by United Nude. 🙂

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