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Myanmar's Suu Kyi: Rohingya Situation 'Could Have Been Handled Better'

Under international pressure over alleged genocide by Myanmar's army, the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi acknowledged Thursday that her country's treatment of its Rohingya Muslims "could have been handled better."

Speaking at a World Economic Forum meeting in Vietnam, Suu Kyi also struck a defiant tone when a moderator asked her about two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar. She said their case "had nothing to do with freedom of expression at all."

It was a rare defense from Myanmar's soft-spoken leader, now 73, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She spent nearly 15 years under house arrest at the hands of a repressive military junta, during which time she became one of the world's most famous political prisoners.

However, her reticence on both the fate of the Rohingya and the jailed journalists has been condemned by human rights groups and one-time admirers worldwide.

Nobel Peace Prize is done for tbh.

See also: Aung San Suu Kyi defends jailing of journalists in Myanmar: 'They have every right to appeal'

Previously: Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar
Reuters reporter says Myanmar police planted 'secret' papers
World reacts to sentencing of Reuters journalists in Myanmar

Apple is happy to use women and people of color as art, not authority

"Apple's boardrooms look nothing like its advertisements."

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He's gay, believes in God, and voted for Donald Trump. Here's why a top VC says being an outsider has paid off in Silicon Valley.

• The venture capitalist David Blumberg is a white man in Silicon Valley, and still he says he's a minority.
• In addition to being a supporter of President Donald Trump, the investor is gay — he has two children with his partner — and has a strong faith in God.
• Blumberg said that after coming out as a Republican more than a decade ago, he "got dropped from a lot of cocktail-party lists."
• But being an outsider has its advantages, he says.

President Trump, who just five months ago said he wanted “to get out” of Syria and bring U.S. troops home soon, has agreed to a new strategy that indefinitely extends the military effort there and launches a major diplomatic push to achieve American objectives, according to senior State Department officials.

Trump agrees to an indefinite military effort and new diplomatic push in Syria, U.S. officials say

Actors and fans defend 'Cosby Show' actor after articles job-shame him for working at Trader Joe's

An honest man doing an honest day's work used to be something to be celebrated in America. But it didn't seem like it -- over the Labor Day weekend, of all times -- after actor Geoffrey Owens was spotted at a Trader Joe's in New Jersey, bagging groceries.

It all started with an article in the Daily Mail late last week. A customer at the store in Clifton, New Jersey, spotted Owens -- best known for his role as son-in-law Elvin Tibideaux on "The Cosby Show" -- working as a cashier and snapped a picture.

The image became the basis for the Daily Mail's story under the job-shaming headline, "From learning lines to serving the long line!" The details in the story were just as insulting: "Wearing an ID badge bearing his name, the former star wore a Trader Joe's T-shirt with stain marks on the front as he weighed a bag of potatoes."

The story exploded on social media over the holiday weekend after Fox News picked it up and tweeted out its own version. But the articles seemed to produce a flood of support for Owens, as well as a conversation about job-shaming and classism. Other actors, as well as fans, defended him.

Geoffrey Owens' message to job-shamers: Honor the 'dignity of work'

Leave him alone, he's not a rapist.

It's OK to job shame anyone working at the Daily Mail.

If you are defrauding the American people by disguising your own orders as the President's you are a criminal! If you want to be part of the 'resistance' stand and be counted like a man!

The piece suggests America is currently under a "two-track presidency." If President Trump wants to do something the people in his administration think is good, they go along with it. If he wants to do something they think is bad, they find ways around it. This is in keeping with what the Bob Woodward book excerpt revealed: Senior officials are taking things off Trump's desk to keep him from seeing them.

Nobody who’s part of the real resistance should be celebrating this. If you work in this administration and carry out any part of Trump's agenda, you are enabling him, not undermining him. If we have a president so incompetent that his most trusted advisors have to play peekaboo to preserve national security, then those people should be working to get him out of office, not just spare us from his cruelest impulses.

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If they really believe there's a need to subvert the president to protect the country, they should be getting this person out of the White House. But they're too cowardly and afraid of the possible implications.

No, anonymous Trump official, you're not 'part of the resistance.' You're a coward

Black Strap Molasses (song)

The song's lyrics discuss popular health foods of the time. The verses make "absurd" claims about the supposed benefits of these foods, and the chorus runs:

Black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread
Makes you live so long you wish you were dead
You add a little yogurt and you'll be well fed
On the black strap molasses and the wheat germ bread.

One contemporary review interpreted the lyrics as referring specifically to the "Live Longer" diet advocated by nutritionist Gayelord Hauser. Hauser, labeled a "quack" by the American Medical Association, gained widespread popularity in the mid-twentieth century promoting "wonder foods" including blackstrap molasses, wheat germ, and yogurt, as well as brewer's yeast and powdered milk. He was known as a nutrition guru to many Hollywood celebrities.

Molasses.

Folks, I've been watching Brett's hearing. And Senator Cornyn from Texas -- great Republican of Texas -- said something so interesting about our Senate. Something I hear from a lot of people. He said the Mob rules it. Mafia guys, if you're listening, we need Brett in that seat!!! oann.com/sen-cornyn-slams-democrats-for-mob-rule-during-kavanaugh-hearing

Folks, I don't know why my Journal looks so STRANGE. There must be something VERY SPECIAL happening with the cyber. And my cyber guys have the day off -- very special day for them and for America. Which we call Labor Day.

Big thanks to General Austin Miller & Gen. John Nicholson from my Army. For working very hard with NATO to Keep Afghanistan Educated!!! NATO says, "oh, let's not fight, let's teach." And they're doing a beautiful job. Believe me, I love the well educated!!! pic.twitter.com/ffvgDKj92A stripes.com/miller-replaces-nicholson-as-us-allied-commander-in-afghanistan-1.545575

Thoughts & prayers for our great, and very brave solider who was wounded in Afghanistan on Monday. And for the family of our amazing soldier that was killed that day!!! foxnews.com/us/2018/09/03/us-service-member-in-afghanistan-dead-in-apparent-insider-attack-on-monday.html

My beautiful military -- not NATO, that's so important -- is fighting very hard to beat ISIS in Afghanistan. And, everywhere. Big victory, my guys whacked one of their top leaders, he was called Abu Sayeed Orakzai. Good riddance!!!! foxnews.com/world/2018/08/26/leader-isis-affiliate-in-afghanistan-killed-in-us-drone-strike-officials-say.html

Previously: NYT: #MeToo Leader/Victim Settled With Her Own Accuser

Just some further developments.

Italian Filmmaker Wears "Weinstein is Innocent" Shirt on 'Suspiria' Red Carpet

Her father directed the original film. The article discusses Italian attitudes towards #MeToo.

Asia Argento's Episodes on Parts Unknown No Longer Streaming After She's Accused of Sexual Assault

CNN has stopped streaming episodes of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown that include Asia Argento after a sexual assault allegation was made against her.

“In light of the recent news reports about Asia Argento, CNN will discontinue airing past episodes of Parts Unknown that included her, until further notice,” a CNN spokesperson tells PEOPLE.

Argento, 42, appeared in the Rome and Southern Italy episodes of the show and directed a Hong Kong episode, during which Bourdain said, “To fall in love with Asia is one thing. To fall in love in Asia is another. Both have happened to me.”

A Buenos Aires episode, which did not feature Argento, was also removed from CNN Go for unspecified reasons, according to BuzzFeed News which was first to report.

Leah McSweeney and Asia Argento’s war of words could escalate

When Penthouse columnist Leah McSweeney lambasted Asia Argento last month in a column called “Can We Talk About Toxic Femininity?,” she was hit with an angry legal letter from Argento’s team, she said.

McSweeney posted the letter on Instagram after she wrote in the opinion column that Argento, who has accused Harvey Weinstein of rape, instead “had a sexual relationship with Weinstein, which resulted in a transactional, consensual union, because — let’s be honest — that’s how Hollywood works.”

Rose McGowan Says Asia Argento Admitted to Sleeping With Young Actor

Rose McGowan, one of the leading voices of the #MeToo movement, said Monday that her partner had exchanged text messages with the actress and director Asia Argento in which Ms. Argento said that she had indeed slept with the actor Jimmy Bennett — an act that Ms. Argento recently denied.

In a lengthy statement, Ms. McGowan also said that her partner — the model Rain Dove — told her that in text messages, Ms. Argento had said that she had been receiving unsolicited nude photos of Mr. Bennett since the time he was 12 years old and had not informed the authorities or told him to stop sending the photos.

So she did the deed, but little Jimmy may have been thirstier than he remembers.

Rain Dove speaks out about Asia Argento allegations

Argento complained, Dove told CNN, that she was being extorted for money by Bennett and initially denied having sex with him. Argento later contradicted herself in an alleged text exchange with Dove, which Dove shared with CNN.

"The Public knows nothing, only what the NYT wrote. Which is one sided. The shakedown letter. The horny kid jumped me...," an alleged text from Argento read.

"So it was rape? Or an attempted sexual action?" Rain Dove replied in a text viewed by CNN.

"I had sex with him it felt weird. I didn't know he was a minor until the shakedown letter," Argento allegedly wrote in response.

2013 photo, with comments

Damage control:

The future of #MeToo: 'The movement is bigger than Asia Argento'

And finally, some real cheese.