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Crisis in Ukraine: it’s hard to tell the players, even with a scorecard, and a bunch of hyperlinks.
On that late February, 2014 weekend, just after the more than decade-long simmering crisis in Ukraine horrifyingly spilled over into the fatal shooting of dozens of demonstrators in Independence Square (or the Maidan, as it’s known) in Kiev, the country’s capital, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama and I were attentively reading Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (2012).
Or maybe Russian president Putin and U.S. president Obama were attentively reading Max Hastings’s Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 (2013) or Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan’s The War that Ended Peace: The Road to 1914 (2013) or any of a number of other recent books commemorating the centennial this year of the outbreak of World War I.
Well, let’s hope they were at least reading something about how Europe stumbled into war a hundred years ago, a war that left millions of mostly young people dead, as a result of a lethal political brew that included the nationalism of tribal nostalgia, the assertion of “big power” interests, and a host of contingent diplomatic (and not-so-diplomatic) miscalculations, all revved up by an enormous amount of mouldy rhetoric and a not inconsiderable number of political crazies and incompetents. I hope these international leaders were reading all about it because they and a lot of their colleagues seemed to be stumbling toward something very unpleasant, too. The events of the present moment, as is frequently the case, are haunted by the spectre of history from a century ago.
By the end of the first week of March 2014, Ukraine, an eastern European nation of 46 million people that borders Russia, Poland, Romania and other countries, had a new interim government, cobbled together after thousands of encamped protestors in the Maidan toppled the elected, if terminally corrupt, regime of President Viktor Yanukovych. But there was also a new provisional government, supported by Russian troops, in Ukraine’s Crimea, the plump strawberry-shaped southern appendage of the country poking into the Black Sea. What’s more, Crimea’s new government announced a referendum to determine whether the 2-million person, majority Russian-speaking, Autonomous Republic situated in southern Ukraine would separate and seek to be incorporated into Russia. While all this was confusingly unfolding, Russia, the U.S. and the European Union, in between conducting hasty diplomatic meetings in various capitals of Europe, were busily engaged in a public exchange of charges and counter-charges attempting to interpet, manipulate and maybe even resolve the crisis.
You could hardly blame the various publics of the U.S., Russia, and dozens of European countries for being thoroughly confused about what was going on and what it meant. In fact, the satirical U.S. website, The Onion, had more than an ironic point to make when it mock-reported an imaginary poll that found Americans were fiercely divided on the Ukraine question between total ignorance and sheer apathy. As the imaginary pollster quoted by The Onion put it, “We’re seeing local workplaces, friends, even families ripped in two by their desire to either ignore the whole thing completely or spout an inane, half-witted opinion on it like they’re some geopolitical expert.” As one shrewd reader of the send-up story put it, I get the joke, but it’s not so funny; i.e., The Onion account is too close to the truth to inspire mirth.
Although many of the thousands of digital respondents to the Ukraine crisis trotted out the especially tired cliche that public confusion is being caused by “the bias of the media,” especially the “mainstream” media (or “lamestream,” as its condescending right-wing critics like to call it) this really wasn’t a case where the media could be blamed for ignoring or underplaying the crucial details of the situation. In fact, this was a typical case in our attention-deficit disordered times of a surfeit of information and interpretation. And no shortage of “inane half-witted” opinions, as The Onion put it, from self-anointed geopolitical experts.
When I wasn’t busy sorting through the murky internal politics of Serbia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1914 as described in Clark’s book (as I hope Obama and Putin were also doing), I had the benefit of the opinions of every outlet on the media spectrum, from the comic relief Onion to the clump-clump rhetoric of the Workers Weekly, produced by a far-left groupuscule called the “Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)”; from the New York Times to the English-language Kyiv Post. On the plus side, the mere fact that I can plausibly imagine Putin and Obama reading such books and media outlets is one of the minor hopeful omens in the present circumstances. In any case, this isn’t a matter of media bias (unless you think that all media by definition is biased), but a question of information overload, from which one had to extract a more or less sensible interpretation of the meaning of the salient facts and views. That wasn’t, and still isn’t, easy to do.
Without pretending for even a moment to be offering answers to the famous political question, “What is to be done?”, let’s at least see if it’s possible to sort out some of the strands in this tangled web that power-hungry men and women weave. First, let’s try to identify who’s who (or some of them, anyway). For starters, begin with “the people,” the people who are making Ukraine’s would-be latest “revolution” (we’ll canvass earlier upheavals in due course).
Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale University and the author of the estimable Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), reminds us that the demonstrations in Ukraine began with the students. “The students were the first to protest against… Yanukovych on the Maidan, the central square in Kiev, last November. These were… the young people who unreflectively thought of themselves as Europeans and who wished for themselves a life, and a Ukrainian homeland, that were European. Many of them were politically on the left, some of them radically so. After years of negotiation and months of promises, their government, under President Yanukovych, had at the last moment failed to sign a major trade agreement with the European Union,” in no small part due to pressure from Ukraine’s neighbour, Russia. It was this failure to move Ukraine closer to Europe (and correspondingly further from Russia, the major power in the region) that brought the students into the square, in a movement they often called “Euromaidan.” (Timothy Snyder, “Fascism, Russia and Ukraine,” New York Review of Books, Mar. 20, 2014; see also, Timothy Snyder, “Ukraine: The Haze of Propaganda,” New York Review of Books blog, Mar. 1, 2014.)
Once the riot police attacked the students in late November 2013, a new group, Afghan veterans, “men of middle age, former soldiers and officers of the Red Army,” says Snyder, came to the square to support and protect the students. “After the Afghan veterans came, many others, tens of thousands, then hundreds of thousands, now not so much in favor of Europe, but in defense of decency,” he adds. As well, Snyder concedes, “A fraction of the protestors, some but by no means all representatives of the political right and far right, decided to take the fight to the police. Among them were members of the far-right party Svoboda and a new conglomeration of nationalists who call themselves the Right Sector (Pravyi Sektor).”
However, Snyder insists, “The protestors represent every group of Ukrainian citizens,” both Ukrainian and Russian speakers, all religions including Muslims and Jews, even young feminists and a hotline staffed by “LGBT activists.” Snyder underscores that the goal of the people on the Maidan “… began with the hope that Ukraine could one day join the European Union, an aspiraton that for many Ukrainians means something like the rule of law, the absence of fear, the end of corruption, the social welfare state, and free markets without intimidation from syndicates controlled by the president.”
Another vital strand in the who’s who of Ukraine is the 450-member Ukrainian Parliament (or Verkhovna Rada) elected in 2012, and the considerable state apparatus of bureaucracies, security, police, and military forces that it nominally controls. It’s a famously fractious institution that at various times in the past has seen everything from brawls to the usual parliamentary skullduggery of more sedate legislative bodies, and in its present form has been the theatre, since the early 1990s, of post-Soviet developments in Ukraine. (Prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine was one of a dozen-and-a-half nominally independent republics in the Soviet Bloc; such countries, however, weren’t “independent,” and were republics pretty much in name only.)
The leading party in the Parliament after the 2012 vote was the Party of Regions, the political vehicle of then president Yanukovych (who was elected in 2010), which commanded a plurality of some 200 or so seats in the 450-member body, on the basis of 30 per cent of the parliamentary vote (since the latest phase of the crisis, its numbers have shrunk through voluntary defections to about 120). The second party in the Rada is the Fatherland Party, with about 100 seats and 25.5 per cent of the vote. This is the party of former PM Yulia Tymoshenko, who emerged in the 2004 “Orange Revolution,” but was subsequently jailed for corruption once Yanukovych was elected, after she had served what most observers agreed was a spotty, ineffective term in office. Once Yanukovych was overthrown, Tymoshenko was released from jail (and is currently in Germany, receiving medical treatment). As an aside, it ought to be noted that the immediate jailing of a high official right after the expiration of her term is one of those generally bad signs that points to the instability and deeply divided character of a polity.
The then ruling Party of Regions, and the Fatherland party, is followed by former world heavyweight boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko’s reformist UDAR party, which has 40 parliamentary seats and gained 14 per cent of the vote in its debut electoral run in 2012; then comes the Communist Party of Ukraine with 13 per cent of the vote and 32 seats; followed by the far-right Freedom Party, or Svoboda, which polled 10.5 per cent of the vote but secured 37 seats; the rest of the body is made up of unaffiliated MPs and representatives of a half dozen lesser parties with minuscule percentages of the vote. To make matters more complicated, parties tend to be weak, their memberships and representatives very fluid, and their ideologies hard to discern, other than the fact that we would describe most of the leading parties as conservative or centre-right.
If you do some Wikipedia “deep research” and are able to figure out what the various parties stand for after reading several lengthy articles about the parties and parliament of Ukraine, please put a message in a bottle and drop it in the Black Sea, for the benefit of the rest of us lesser analysts. Since nothing is obvious, I should point out that a more complete who’s who in Ukraine would require an examination of the business “oligarchs” and how their control of big chunks of the Ukrainian economy works, and how it meshes with political affairs, especially in terms of regional governmental structures. A more complete picture would do the same for Russia.
It was the fluidity of Ukrainian parliamentary loyalties that proved important in the confusion that followed the slaughter of Maidan demonstrators Feb. 18-20, 2014. With the possibility of some form of civil war, or at least further serious violence on his hands, then president Yanukovych met with foreign ministers from Poland, France and Britain (with the U.S. and Russia onsite and in the wings) and signed an emergency agreement for withdrawing riot police and holding early presidential elections, all designed to calm a situation dangerously spinning out of control. But by then it was too late. As the government situation deteriorated, Yanukovych suddenly fled the country, and the parliament (duly elected, it will be recalled) formally removed him from office, with more than 300 deputies voting for his ouster, including members and former MPs of his own Regions Party. It wasn’t a completely constitutional impeachment, but it was close, and closer to legal norms than what was happening in Crimea. (An initial account of this aspect of the story can be found at Maxim Erastavi, “How Ukraine’s Parliament Brought Down Yanukovych,” The Daily Beast, Mar. 2, 2014.)
What followed is still shrouded in considerable murkiness, certainly with respect to details, but a new regime was cobbled together on Feb. 27, mostly from Rada members. It’s an interim Ukrainian government led by Fatherland Party figures close to former PM Tymochenko, but includng a half-dozen ministerial appointees from the far-right Svoboda party, as well as several unaffiliated officeholders. (No, you don’t have to remember any of the names, and there isn’t a quiz at the end of this essay.) Simultaneously, pro-Russian nationalists in the Crimea seized control of its provincial government, backed by Russian troops, most if not all of whom were already stationed at the massive, Russian naval base on the peninsula. This is what is variously described as the “incursion,” “invasion,” or “takeover” of the Crimea by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
For those who don’t follow these matters in detail, it might be helpful to note that Crimea “belonged” to Russia during the Soviet period until it was given to Ukraine in the mid-1950s. The Russian naval base in Crimea, which provides Russia with an outlet to southern waters — the Black Sea and the Mediterranean — is legally leased from Ukraine (the lease is good until 2042), an arrangement similar to the U.S. lease of its military base at Guantanamo, Cuba. “Big powers” apparently have a fondness for bases on foreign soil. The difference between the American and Russian bases is that the Americans, befitting an empire, have a great many more of them than the Cold War-losing Russians, and that the Americans’ Cuban hosts are far more resentful about the matter than most Ukrainians and Crimeans are. By the way, the lease permits the legal presence of 25,000 Russian troops on the Crimean base, though of course they’re not supposed to leave the base to carry out military operations, such as providing muscle for independence-minded pro-Russian Crimeans. Ok, end of backgrounder, and apologies for the professorial style, an “occupational deformation,” as it’s known in the professing business.
I cite all this at length because there’s another story, a “counter-narrative” as it’s sometimes called (or even, as a politically sophisticated friend informs me, a “counter-hegemonic narrative”). This is the story told by Russian President Vladimir Putin, by a range of left and far-left groups around the globe (including that mouthful of moniker, the “Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)”), and by a dizzying array of websites, self-proclaimed thinktanks, media monitors and research outfits. The context in which these analysts and protagonists set immediate Ukrainian events goes something like this:
The United States, imperialist power sans pareil, ever since the end of the Cold War, the fall of communism and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, has been seeking to hem in and bottle up rival Russia by scooping up former Soviet Bloc states and relocating them within such Western structures as NATO, the European Union, and various other security and trade organizations under American hegemony (ah, there’s that “hegemony” word again). This strategy is sometimes described as the “military encirclement of Russia.” The extent of U.S. maneuverings, depending on the version of the narrative you’re getting, ranges from more or less standard “big power” power-politics all the way to nefarious conspiracies, funded by multi-billion Yankee dollar NGO projects in targets, er, countries of opportunity. One of those prime targets of opportunity is Ukraine.
In this version of the story, U.S. imperialism is deeply involved in what amounts to a plot to suck the lynchpin nation of Ukraine into its sphere of influence, aided and abetted by American diplomatic personnel in-country who are calling the shots, and some of their chatter has been hacked by interested parties — read: Russia — and presented to the public as evidence of American plotting, although less suspicious observers would read it as fairly normal behind-the-scenes efforts to influence events.
Within Ukraine itself, the anti-government demos of the past 3 months were, if not immediately led by, at least ultimately driven by thuggish gangs of extreme nationalist, anti-semitic (and anti-much else, from women to gays to foreigners), far right-wingers who ought to be described as “fascists.” Indeed, the events in Ukraine have been called a “fascist coup” and a “NATO/EU Ukraine coup.” A comparable set of justifications is then offered in such accounts for Russian military actions in the Crimea.
The first thing to be said about this picture is that, however much one may disagree with it (and I obviously do, or I wouldn’t be on this little soapbox), it isn’t crazy. One leading Russian history expert, Princeton and New York University professor emeritus Stephen Cohen, has recently written for the leftist Nation magazine and other venues, urging the public to at least try to understand some of this through the eyes of Putin, and how he experiences these policies as a threat. to his country’s political future. Cohen also criticizes the tendency of much of the American political and media establishment to demonize and underrate Putin. For his efforts, Professor Cohen has reaped the by now predictable wave of unpleasant vituperation. His half-century of relatively fair-minded scholarship is brushed aside, and Cohen is branded as a Putin apologist and worse.
One of the reasons this isn’t a crazy story is because there really is an American empire and it has both a long and recent history that ought to be subject to justifiable criticism, whether we’re talking about the launching of dubiously legal wars, the use of extra-judicial anti-terrorism weapons like drones, or the questionable suspension of habeas corpus for alleged terrorists who have been imprisoned offshore at America’s Guantanamo base for upwards of a decade and more. Another reason that this alternate analysis, as it applies to Ukraine, isn’t dismissable, is that signficant numbers of right-wing partisans have been active both on the Maidan and in the Rada. What’s more, they’ve secured a number of ministerial posts in the interim government disproportionate to their electoral support (while receiving 10 per cent of the vote at the last polls in 2012, they’ve been appointed to about a quarter of the cabinet positions).
So, while Putin’s account of events (and that of Western far leftist groups) is not at all preposterous, I think it’s a version that is seriously undercut by distortions. Start with empires. Naturally, like you, I’d prefer to live in a world without empires, actual, virtual or wannabe, but that’s not the world we’re living in. So, while we’re busy struggling for that other better world we occasionally believe is possible, if we’re forced to choose, I prefer empires that permit free speech, run more or less honest elections, and don’t persecute gays, women, minorities or critics of the regime. Russia’s authoritarian regime under Putin suppresses speech it finds objectionable, jails political opponents, harasses gays, etc. In global terms it is, of necessity, somewhat less aggressive than rival regimes, but if one has any illusions about its pacific character, ask Russia’s own “terrorists” in Chechnya, and other former Soviet territories.
Most of the former Soviet states have gravitated toward the European Union in the last quarter-century, and the majority of them report that their situations have in general improved over that period and they would not opt to return to the status quo ante. It’s unclear what the principled objection is to Ukraine wanting to do the same. (It will be appreciated, I hope, that I’m putting my argument in the least provocative language I can imagine. My tour through the internet on this issue reminds me that the decibel level and unassailable confidence of the literally thousands of website commentators is astonishingly uncivil, if not downright unbearable. As George Orwell once said about discussing infra-party politics on the left, it’s a “cesspool.”)
Further, the view of American imperialism offered by its opponents tends to turn the U.S. into a monolithic one-eyed beast. It takes little or no account of the reality that the United States is a deeply divided culture and has been so for the last quarter century. As well, it generally denies even the possibility that there are significant differences between the American political parties or that U.S. policy is capable of change. While I take imperialism seriously, I find this view of it less than plausible.
Let’s look at fascists. Yes, there undoubtedly are fascists in Ukraine and they’ve played a significant role in what many Ukrainians see as the present “revolution.” There are also fascists, extreme nationalists, xenophobes, and irredentists in most European countries and Russia. The percentage of French, Italian, Belgian, and Russian fascists and proto-fascists may exceed the numbers in Ukraine. It should also be noted that “fascist” is a term that gets thrown around with considerable arbitrariness. (It was a habit in the old Soviet Union and among far left groups today to apply the phrase “social fascists” to one’s closest ideological neighbours.)
Timothy Snyder says much the same thing in his recent essays. He notes that “the protests in the Maidan, we are told again and again by Russian propaganda… mean the return of National Socialism [Nazism] to Europe… The Russian media continually make the claim that the Ukrainians who protest are Nazis. Naturally, it is important to be attentive to the far right in Ukrainian politics and history,” however, that’s not even close to the whole story. The Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya offers a corollary worry about the use of such language, and she cites a statement from the literary organization, PEN Russia, which reads, in part, “We are observing a severe noetic crisis, akin to what was described by Orwell: the meanings of the words ‘peace,’ ‘war,’ ‘fascism,’ and ‘democracy,’ ‘defence’ and ‘invasion’ are shamelessly warped.” (See Sally McGrane, “The Abuse of Ukraine’s Best-Known Poet,” The New Yorker, Mar. 8, 2014.)
Some media monitor sites have been quick to accuse mainstream Western media of failing to check out the story of extreme right-wing influence in Ukraine. However, when I looked, both Reuters and the BBC carried stories worrying about precisely that issue. It may be that the media monitor sites, which don’t do any of the on the ground slogging performed by real journalists, are slightly trigger-happy, or precipitate when it comes to criticising the failures of mainstream media. Since there’s no shortage of such actual failures, it may be unwise to over-anticipate them.
There is also a complex story to tell about “nationalism,” especially in less powerful countries that have long suffered political oppression, such as Ukraine, but it’s probably well past everyone’s bedtime by now, and so we can defer that topic for another occasion.
The point about all of this is relatively simple: there’s a big difference between recognizing and worrying about the role of extreme right wing groups in recent events in Ukraine, which any sensible person ought to do, and the exaggerated description of those events as a “fascist coup.” It’s a description that’s been offered by Putin and his spokespeople, as well as by many Western leftist formations, and it’s inaccurate. Again, there are real questions here that need investigation, and I’m not brushing them aside for a moment, but I refuse to buy into a histrionic account that seriously distorts what most of us see as reality in order to denounce U.S. imperialism or justify Russian policy.
As I remarked early on, I don’t pretend to have answers to the “what is to be done?” question. That’s for diplomats, the popular masses, and various negotiating institutions to determine. One merely hopes they will do better than the politicians in 1914, whose response to a small country’s nationalism and irredentism — that of Serbia — was one of the factors that led to world war.
Similarly, predicting which of various scenarios will play out is probably a mug’s game. The one in which everyone backs off from confrontation is no doubt most desirable. Another one in which Ukraine “gets” Europe and Russia gets Crimea is probably survivable, although that’s not the way the quarter million Muslim minority of Tatars, Crimea’s earliest inhabitants, would likely see it. A situation in which Russia attempts to secure eastern Ukraine, or the country is divided in two would be clearly dangerous, if not fatal. Finally, an outcome in which the U.S. and Russia produce the threat of apocalypse is, well, let’s just say, precisely what everyone should want to avoid.
The year 2014 is one of many remembrances: the centenary of the outbreak of World War I, but also the 75th anniversary of the joint Nazi-Soviet attack on Poland that formally began World War II, as well as the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the overthrow of communism in numerous countries of the former Soviet Union.
A century on from the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that Christopher Clark memorably narrates in The Sleepwalkers, we continue to recall the quip of Austria’s most famous satirist, Karl Kraus, who liked to say that the situation is “desperate, but not serious.”
Berlin, Monday, March 10, 2014.


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Once again the referee takes center stage: Aarao doesn’t get a penalty, and Toon does – 2-0 for the guests
The FCA is governed by the Bernese Oberland in Brügglifeld. On the defensive front, the veterans fail, and in the attack, the home team misses two big chances and can complain that referee Alain Pierre put them at a disadvantage.
“Hopefully we won’t have to talk about the referee again after the game,” Fiat Chrysler coach Stefan Keeler said in a pre-match television interview. Stay with desire.
57 minutes played in a Brügglifeld refrigerator when Raul Geiger and Marco Burki face an ongoing duel. There is no proper paper between the two – then the man falls from Aarau. Not only that, the TV image consultation confirms the vivid impression: Thuner hits Aarau’s face, clearly sly manipulation. But Alan Berry, considered one of the best players in the Swiss Referees’ Guild, did not intervene.
In the second consecutive match, FC Aarau was denied a penalty kick. A week ago in Lausanne, that played no part in light of the 2-0 win away from home, but against Thun, the referee’s impact was decisive in the match: the rejected penalty breaks Arao’s induction stage after the first-half break. Before Perry’s wrong decision, he gave Bergsma and Schneider two big chances.
Then after 67 minutes it was suddenly 1-0 to the visitors. Substitute dos Santos goal out of nowhere after three FCA pros failed with Jäckle, Bergsma and Thaler. Which is the first goal since September 10, the first goal after 557 minutes. That’s an all-time record since stats (1981): Goalie Simon Enzler beats FCA legend Andreas Hilfiker, who didn’t need to reach 516 minutes behind him in the 1992/93 championship season.
But that evening, it became a side note, which Enzler would later be pleased with. For now, frustration should prevail: the frustration that Thun scored 2-0 and thus the final score after 78 minutes by Shehadeh – is also a substitute.
The irony of fate: Alan Perry’s second hit was preceded by the whistle of a penalty kick from Alan Perry. That’s right, because FCA defender Marco Thaler explodes in the middle of the crowd after Hafnar’s corner kick. It’s still bitter for Arau, because he wouldn’t have gone this far if Perry had decided a penalty for Keeler’s side before the goals were conceded.
Speaking of bunker: After the first defeat since August 27, he can’t blame his team. She gets up again after the counter-attack and is again unlucky when Konos hits the post. Instead, it should be allowed to ask if the FCA coach has shown a good hand in his selection of personnel: for the injured Rrudhani, missing everywhere, bringing in Keller Schwegler, in the attacking midfield, Sneijder is allowed to do so again. The match passed on Schwegler, even looking like a loser in the first half. Sneijder is clear, but often does not bring the ball to his teammate from a promising position and gives a great chance shortly before 0:1.
Aarau – FC Thun 0:2 (0:0)
Brugglifeld. – 3,560 spectators. – SR: Perry. Goals: 67, Dos Santos 0-1. 78 Shehadeh (Foul penalty kick) 0:2.
Arao: Insler; Geiger, Thaler; Bergsma, Konos; Schwegler (67. Njie), Jäckle; Balage (Arator 88), Schneider, Spadanuda (Avdeli 67); Almeida (78. Juano).
Thon: Zesweiler. Dorn, Havinar; Burke, Schopbach; Hasler, Ruth (Shehada 58); Kerimating (70 Castruman), Carlin (58 dos Santos), Dzonlagic (Ndongo 58); gerendt.
Comments: Arao without ammeter, Gashi, Colako, Rodani, Thyson (all injured) and Senyurt (not on the team). Thon without Sutter (suspended), Vatkic, Herzl, Rodlin, Schweizer (all injured), Ahmet and Vasic (both not included). – 89 after a Conus shot. Warnings: 11. Enzler, 61. Geiger, 63. Hasler, 71. Dos Santos (all malevolent play).
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As the summer winds down and I start planning my Fall wardrobe, I’m overwhelmed by thoughts of how to create a wardrobe on a budget. This week, we have a ton of posts on how to find great style within a budget. Fashion Pulse Daily gives us the top denim looks under $50 and The Recessionista is reporting Anna Wintour is heading to Macy’s for Fashion Night Out. Enjoy!
Links à la Mode : Sepetember 3rd
- 39th and Broadway – – The horrific treatment of young girls working behind the scenes in the fashion industry!
- A typical Atypical – – a summary of vintage eras and style history
- Bonne Vie – – Bamboo: Eco-friendly, or Green Disaster?
- Confessions of a Fashion Editor – – Interview with alternative model, Khrist!
- Debutante Clothing – Q&A with Fashion Scholar and Historian Heather Vaughan
- Decline Designs – – Can you go a week without wearing any black?
- Fabulous Finds and Co. – – Lily Cole is ready for her close-up
- Fade to c5c5c5 – – fashion, art and interpretation
- Fashion For Writers – – feel good fashion from the Clothes Closet
- Fashion Pulse Daily – – Need jeans for fall? Check out Fashion Pulse Daily’s top picks, all under
- Fasshonaburu – – ponders exactly why September is the most important month in fashion
- fête à fête – – Givenchy’s romantic Les Poetiques Fall Le Makeup Collection
- Friend in fashion – A Sydney Story: a bridge climb, shopping and a proposal!
- Grechen’s Closet – Why I support independent designers
- Idiosyncratic Style – – A Fit of Inspiration: John Bender – Stealing style from the Breakfast Club’s resident bad ass
- Jewelrywhore – – Reviews Anna Sheffield for Target
- Retro Chick – – DIY Jersey Spaghetti Scarf Necklace
- Style Margarine – – 9 Reasons why we need to over dress
- Stylist Diva – – Unique, Modern Plus Size line with an Edge – Carmakoma.
- The Coveted: – – Review & Makeup Lesson Video of Guerlain Fall Collection
- The Recessionista – – Anna Wintour a Recessionista? She’s Heading to Macy’s Queens for Fashion’s Night out Sept. 10


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text: Angel Hair Zucchini Pasta with Marinara Sauce Enjoy this served with cracked black pepper and an abundant sprinkling of ready-made vegan Parmesan. This recipe makes plenty of sauce. Use the leftovers as a dip or in any recipe calling for marina, including conventional pizza and pasta. You may freeze it, but it would lose some nutrients. INGREDIENTS: The Pasta: 4 zucchini, about 1 1/2 pounds The Marinara Sauce: 1 cup sun-dried tomatoes 6 Roma tomatoes, seeded and chopped (6 cups) 1 1/2 tablespoons fine minced onion 3 small cloves garlic, crushed 1 1/2 tablespoons minced fresh basil leaves 1 1/2 tablespoons minced fresh oregano 1/2 teaspoon solar-dried sea salt (or substitute of choice) (see Note) Pinch of pepper 1/4 cup Pine Nut Parmesan (see Basic Nut Cheese recipe) or purchased vegan Parmesan cheese (see Note) INSTRUCTIONS: For the pasta: Transform the zucchini into noodles, ideally by using a spiral slicer, the Saladaco (see Note). You may also use a fine julienne slicer, such as the attachment in food processor, but the noodle shapes will not be as thin or fine. For the sauce: Place dried tomatoes in a deep bowl and add warm water just to cover. Let stand for 15 minutes. Pour softened tomatoes into food processor and puree. Place fresh tomatoes in a colander to allow any remaining liquid to drain. (Drink the wonderful juice or add it to another recipe.) When the tomatoes are thoroughly drained, put them in a food processor outfitted with the S blade, and pulse to chop. Do not over-process; the mixture should be slightly chunky. Add the sun-dried tomato mixture, onion, garlic, basil, oregano, salt and pepper, and pulse to mix. Let the sauce sit for at least 10 minutes to allow it to thicken. If it is still too wet when you're ready to assemble the pasta dish, drain off a little of the juice. Pour the sauce over the spiral-cut zucchini, top with vegan Parmesan, toss and let stand for about 5 minutes for the flavors to fuse, and serve. Serves 4 Note: The Saladaco is available on the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute Web site, visit rawfoodchef.com; or call (800) 816-2319, or (707) 964-2420. Vegan Parmesan substitutes are available at most natural food stores under various brand names. Solar-dried sea salt is available at natural food stores. PER SERVING: 100 calories, 5 g protein, 16 g carbohydrate, 3 g fat (0 saturated), 0 cholesterol, 211 mg sodium, 4 g fiber. Basic Nut Cheese A high-power blender yields smoother cheese. INGREDIENTS: 2 cups raw almonds or cashews or macadamia nuts (see Note for special preparation instructions) 1 cup or more Rejuvelac or 1 cup or more purified water and 1/4 teaspoon probiotic powder (see note) Solar-dried sea salt (or other salt) to taste 2 tablespoons light miso (optional) 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast (optional) 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg (optional) INSTRUCTIONS: Prepare your choice of nuts according to one of the instructions in the Note below. Blend the prepared nuts and Rejuvelac in a high-powered blender, adding more Rejuvelac if necessary to achieve a smooth, creamy texture. Add the salt and blend in the miso, yeast and/or nutmeg, if using. If making cashew cheese, scrape into a bowl and skip the following draining and weighting steps. If making almond or macadamia cheese, line a pint-size (or larger) strainer (a plastic berry basket works great), with cheesecloth, allowing several inches of the cloth to drape over the sides. 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Otherwise, soak macadamia nuts for 6 hours and drain. For cashews: You can use unsoaked, raw cashews if you have a high-powered blender. Otherwise, soak cashews for 2 hours, rinse and drain. Rejuvelac is a bottled, fermented beverage made from wheat and rye sprouts. If you do not wish to use Rejuvelac, substitute 1 cup purified water with 1/8 teaspoon of probiotic powder per cup of Rejuvelac specified in recipe. Rejuvelac and probiotic powder are available at natural food stores. Note: Celtic or solar-dried sea salt is available at natural food stores. PER 2 TABLESPOONS: 105 calories, 4 g protein, 3 g carbohydrate, 10 g fat (1 saturated), 0 cholesterol, 2 sodium, 1 fiber. Italian Pesto Almond Torta This layered savory dish is made from vegan almond cheese. "I guarantee that if you make this for your guests, they will not guess it is raw and will doubt it is vegan," says chef-founder Cherie Soria of Living Light Culinary Arts Institute. INGREDIENTS: 1 recipe Almond Cheese including optional seasonings (see Basic Nut Cheese recipe) The Basil Pesto: 1 cup basil leaves tightly packed 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil 1/4 cup pine nuts 1 clove garlic 1/2 teaspoon Celtic salt or other solar-dried sea salt INSTRUCTIONS: For the basil pesto: Place the basil, olive oil, pine nuts, garlic and salt in a food processor and puree, leaving it a little bit chunky. Chill for at least 1 hour. To assemble the torte: Prepare a 3-cup mold by draping it with damp cheesecloth. Evenly pack 1/3 of the almond cheese into the bottom of the mold. Next, layer 1/2 of the pesto on top of the cheese. Firmly pack pesto into place. Evenly pack 1/3 of the remaining almond cheese on top of the pesto. Firmly pack the cheese evenly in place. Repeat with remaining layers, ending with a layer of cheese. Chill the torte for 1-2 hours before turning upside down on a serving plate and carefully removing the cheesecloth. 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Hey, you know who goofs on his political opponents and their families all the time based on their physical appearance? Jon Stewart does…
After tonight’s Daily Show, we can add Jon Stewart to the ever-growing list of people who can’t help but wonder if Marcus Bachmann, husband to Republican presidential candidate Michele and runner of a pray-the-gay-away facility, may be a little light in the loafers.
OMG I’m so offended! How would Jon Stewart feel if somebody did that to him?
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Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian.
In 2000, Stewart married Tracey McShane, his girlfriend of four years. The couple met on a blind date set up by a production assistant on Stewart’s film, Wishful Thinking. On June 19, 2001, Stewart and his wife filed a joint name change application and legally changed both of their surnames to “Stewart.”
I know what you’re thinking: “But maybe she just had a bad day. Or maybe she just ate dinner (or three)”. WRONG.
I’m sure she was prettier before she had kids, but that’s like saying a used car was nicer before it got driven off a cliff.

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This book deals with the complex and changing U.S. relations with India and Pakistan in the sixty years since World War II. It carries a series of brief sketches on how twelve U.S. presidents, starting with Franklin Roosevelt, perceived and dealt with South Asia. The author proposes that though there are broad historical patterns in which the policies and decisions of these American presidents can be classified, yet their unique personalities and ideological predispositions also played a role in the political choices they made. Since none of them ever had any substantial experience with South Asia prior to assuming office, probing the reasons for their preferences and decisions is an enlightening and interesting exercise.
With the unfolding of the South Asia policies of the new U.S. President, Barrack Obama, this book will provide the much needed background study to the readers.
SAGE Publications; May 2010
- ISBN: 9788132105503
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- Title: The South Asia Story
- Author: Harold A Gould
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Delightful and engaging, this slim and pithy first-hand account of the way the US’ South Asia policy has been taking shape over the decades under successive American Presidents, could be described as a small but revealing window to the "goings on" in Washington with regard to India and Pakistan. While enabling the reader to place the US’ relations with India and Pakistan in a historical perspective, the work opens a door of investigation to a host of issues currently punctuating the interstate relations of this region.

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This will probably interest all those non-US citizens who wonder whats up with the two-right-wing-party state of affairs in the US, like myself.
With polls showing voter frustration with "politics as usual," the Dole Institute of Politics hosted a day of programming devoted to the discussion of third party alternatives to the Democratic and Republican Parties.
In this first program a panel of academic experts examined the history and potential for third party success in coming elections.
Participating in the program was: Lisa Disch, professor of political science at the University of Minnesota and author of The Tyranny of the Two-Party System.
John H. Aldrich, the Pfizer-Pratt university professor of political science at Duke University and author of Why Parties?
J. David Gillespie, professor of political science at the College of Charleston and author of Politics at the Periphery.
Bob Beatty, professor of political science at Washburn University and expert on Kansas' own "three party" system.
Jonathan Earle, author of The Free Soil and Republican Parties in 19th Century America, and interim director of the Dole Institute will moderate the discussion.
The evening panel featured the first visit of former CBS News anchor Bill Kurtis, KU alumnus and host of numerous A&E crime shows, to the Institute since its dedication in 2003. This panel featured David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute; Unity '08 founders and political veterans Doug Bailey and Gerald Rafshoon; Richard Winger of the Coalition for Free and Open Elections; and Micah Sifry, author of Spoiling for a Fight: Third Party Politics in America.
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Skip to comments.Bush v. Gore judge: Your evidence, Mr. Obama
Posted on 05/31/2012 6:26:26 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
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Then why was it used on a U.S. passport application form??
That used to be true.
If you look at the passport article it states, place names and state relationship.
She placed Obama and soebarkah (son of) Lolo Soetoro.
Paraphrasing because I can’t remember the exact wording. It is here but I can’t get into the website right now for some reason. webofdeception.com/obamamotherpassports.html
Maybe you're not understanding ... this was a U.S. passport application, not an Indonesian passport application. The person(s) processing it wouldn't likely speak Indonesian. So again, why would she do this on a U.S. passport application if it's not part of how he was being formally identified??
The attorney for the defendant, Obama, states he will not participate or provide subpoenaed material.
The Georgia Secretary of State says such action will be at the attorneys and his clients peril.
The hearing proceeds with the only evidence and testimony presented being against the defendant.
One week later, the Judge finds in favor of the defendant.
Don't get your hopes up.
So he's going after the two parent rule. The sticking point in the definition may be the naturalization period and the status of children born in the country during naturalization because it affects both Rubio and Jindal who were born here during their parents' naturalization. Obama's father on the other hand never naturalized and was always a foreign national.
I don’t. I’m very well aware of the track record of the lack of conviction from the US courts.
Could be... he's a flaming OBot off his medication, and is fearing what Arpaio has on Obama who will expose him around mid-June. So village OBot, Foggy of Fogbow.com, is feeling that his delusional world could be coming to an end.
I felt very alone back in 08 when I realized that Zero was not an NBC. In October of 08 I was hopeful that Congress would do it's duty. See link in comment here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2890122/posts?page=93#93
As time has passed we have been thinking it will break open any day now, and we have been disappointing. But I think we are at a point now where it is simply getting too big to ignore. Millions of Americans now know he is a fraud. Congress may have to deal with this before the election.
“Absent legal discovery of evidence challenging authenticity of either of Barry’s BCs, under the full faith and credit clause, a federal judge would be compelled to accept a certified copy of a BC from HI, either COLB or LFBC...”
I think that’s correct. But since Hawaiian officials have already said that the data on the COLB and on the LFBC match what’s in their records, it seems to me that the best way to counter that is by coming up with admissible evidence that Pres. Obama was born somewhere other than Hawaii.
I wonder, is the Arpaio posse working on that?
Where is this passport? I have not seen it.
This is the only one I know of. http://is.gd/NGf7Wd
It reads, amend to include or (exclude) children. She excluded son (Soebarkah) She was not applying for her sons passport renewal. Just hers.
Soe Bar Kah means literally Who is this, but the son of Soetoro. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2728155/posts
“I wonder, is the Arpaio posse working on that?”
Arpaio and Zullo have alluded to “traveling” to numerous locations perhaps including foreign locations in pursuit of evidence.
The problem with foreign birth evidence, such as Kenyan evidence, is that under the rules of evidence a foreign BC must be authenticated by the authorities of the country of birth and testimony of Kenyan officials would be very problematic either way given the traditions of corruption and jockying between pro-Luo and anti-Luo factions.
Or that his masters will be displeased with him for failing to stop the rebels.
But not so much the Canadians, which is the direction I lean.
I’ve seen so many of these subpoenae which are just forms printed out by Taitz. Do we know if the judge actually signed off on this?
“...a foreign BC must be authenticated by the authorities...”
I agree, and obtaining a valid Kenyan BC might be something that occurs relatively late in the process.
Still, as far as I’m concerned, there are plenty of details yet to be established. I mean, why the assumption that a Kenyan birth must have taken place in Mombassa? Is there reason to believe that, or is it just something someone said that caught on? What about the means of travel in 1961? Can’t any part of the journey be reconstructed?
I know these are tricky details to uncover, but it’s been four years and I’m not aware of any serious effort to do it. If Trump is really interested in putting up money to help Romney, it would be relatively cheap to hire a couple of hot-shot investigators who might finally get somewhere.
If you are suggesting that Soebarkah was not a name but some sort of comment on the form, you are confused. Soebarkah was the Indonesian name for the child Obama. It is common in Indonesia to have a single name.
I have come to the conclusion that all the main stream media (including FOX) have there reputations riding on them not finding out the truth. Just look at how many newscasters that say Obama is a natural born citizen. If and when the truth ever comes out a lot of these guys will have it hanging over there heads for life.
“Here is an idea for Trump if he wants to show up Obama...”
Well, feel free to suggest it to Trump, but to me that looks too much like one more publicity stunt, just the kind of thing that makes people say, why not put the money into a real investigation and come up with solid facts?
The people that need to be convinced want to see legal evidence. Trump should support an investigation that will turn up credible, admissible evidence — and, in my opinion, there is little to be gained at this point on the Hawaiian end. Evidence needs to be found concerning his birth elsewhere, Kenya or wherever it was.
Corsi claims the grandmother said in clear Swahili that Barry was born in Mombasa while his mom was visiting the grandmother's relatives there.
Corsi also published in his book images of claimed secret Kenyan government documents describing how when the government conducted a search for Barry's BC, the Mombasa birth record files were stolen for the dates surrounding the dates of the expected birth.
Other Kenyan docs published by Corsi show that the Bush Administration had requested the search for Barry's birth records in Kenya. Perhaps that was as a result of his extensive history of claiming to have been born there.
How much of this ever ends up in federal court remains to be seen.
“There have been long threads with claims of evidence...”
Yes, that’s exactly my point. There are “claims of evidence,” and they can be found on “long threads” here.
Can’t the evidence be tracked down? Can’t it be documented? Can’t the good, solid stuff be separated from the garbage so that there aren’t long threads with claims of evidence, but rather a concise presentation of nothing but solid, irrefutable evidence?
Why has no one done that? What’s so friggin’ hard about it? I honestly believe that if Trump wanted it to be done, it would be done. This is not a big job for a competent investigator, especially if the preliminary work has already been done.
Do you have a link to that information?
Which information? The first part is on the records you have already seen. The second part is personal knowledge. I can try to find a link if you like.
Here you go. Took about five seconds to find it on Google:
Yes, that’s the one I was referring to. It doesn’t ask for a relationship. That section is specifically for children. The passport application is a U.S. application. Soebarkah, Soetoro and Jakarta are the only “Indonesian” words on there, so there’s nothing her that would presume that it’s not part of how the child was identified ... i.e., a name or nickname.
I know. That's why the "mood music" link was to Ray Charles singing "Georgia On My Mind."
This elegantly circular argument between the "Birthers," and the "Constitutionalists," should keep you busy until the cows come home, Uncle Sham. It is also, IMNSVHO, the crux of Team Obama's strategy for de-fanging the issue of constitutional eligibility. Obama cannot prove he was born in Hawaii. Apparently, we can't prove he wasn't. He has admitted that his father was a foreign subject. "But without a genuine BC," you say, "how can we figure out exactly who the papa was?"
Rather than rule one way or tother, the courts, up to and including The Supreme Court have decided that the whole issue isn't worth their time. Sheriff Joe has proof of documentary chicanery ... but nowhere to take it. In the meantime Rubio and Jindal are being bruited about as VP candidates. That, IMNSVHO, means that neither party is interested in constitutional eligibility at this time.
Suffice it to say, that with 5 months to go until the election, this whole fandango just might be a classic misdirection, a waste of bandwidth, and a tremendous gift to Obama's re-election campaign. Just what is a reasonable fellow to do?
IMNSVHO, fuggedaboutit. Let's concentrate on job 1,
In re: We have yet to see a valid document
TRUE.WE have yet to see one, yet those in authority to challenge the documents have accepted them. Perhaps, just maybe, I hope, that after the Magic Marxist Mombasa Mulatto leaves office, the black-robed bumkissers of our judicial branch will bestir themselves to look at the ENTIRE citizenship issue ... after that is, they feel the threat of "urban unrest" has past. For example, IMNSVHO, the consummately stupid and pernicious custom of awarding citizenship to the offspring of those here illegally, the children of legal non-citizen residents, or the children born to visitors on a tourist visa, has absolutely no basis in law.
If, in fact, he has been since day one, our entire government has been stolen from us.
The states vary as to how they address this issue but in general have been far too lax. I don't know about Florida, but it seems anyone can run for anything and get away with it unless a challenge is put forth from the citizens or opponents, etc. This is opposite the way it should be. Challenges, and with them, the burden of proof, should be from those seeking placement upon the ballot. This way, the the eligibility issue would be legally addressed PRIOR to allowing someone on the ballot, whatever the office, especially the office of President.
If they won't do this they could pass a "Usurper Protection" Law which would require verification of compliance with the Twentieth Amendment, Section 3 before any signed legislation is obeyed by the state with such a law. This would make certain that Congress was doing its duty as well as protect that states citizens from the actions of a usurper. Since such a law would essentially be supporting enforcement of the Constitution, I don't see how it could be ruled unconstitutional.
So Obama used his adopted name “son of Soetoro” in Indonesia? I wonder if that is the name on the passport he used no one is allowed to see.
The argument should be between the "qualified" or "failed to qualify" part of the Twentieth Amendment, Section 3. Yes or no, did he, or didn't he? Our members of Congress need to be asked this question and provided an opportunity to show we the people why the answer is what it is. "I don't know" is an answer breaking their oath of office. "No, he didn't" is an answer that they have not only broken their oaths of office but have been complicit in committing treason against their country.
Sheriff Joe needs to question the entire Arizona congressional delegation and get their answers to the "qualified" or failed to qualify" question. Put John McCain first in line.
She did it because Lolo Soetoro was the Indonesian legal adopting father of litlle barry bastard mooselimb commie. She put that title on the form because Barry was LEGALLY the adopted son of Lolo Soetoro.
We are witnessing the SCOTUS of the pirate Roberts kicking the bastard can down the road. The plan appears to be to allow some challenged to little barry’s eligibility to proceed, slowly, until the election is over, the swearing in aof another President has happened and thus the eligibility of the past occupant is a mute point. Don’t expect the Roberts court to uphold or defend the Constitution when he was placed at the helm for the specific reason to circumvent OUR Constitution as the new world order takes gradual control of America via fiat treaties and fraudulent rulings. we will be maneuvered into the same usurpation now in evidence in the EU if we do not stop these traitors. Look at traitors like Trent Lott and how he has sold US out to the UN Treaty of The Seas! What must the democrats and their power bosses hold in a file that makes Trent Lott so easy to flip to their NWO agenda? RINOs will be the aide de camps for the democrat abortion of the Republic.
There is sufficient doubt ... DOUBT ....NOT exactly PROOF ... that this strange fellow who is living in the White House may not be as advertised. That alone is enough for any state AG, or SoS to simply do his job and ask for the fellow to come up with some bona fides.
The fact that this was not done in 2006,2007, 2008, and is not done now is the cause of this problematic person in office.
Twentieth Amendment, Section 3. Yes or no, did he, or didn't he?
Uncle Sham, this simple-enough question has been put to innumerable REPUBLICAN elected officials ... by me among others ... and the answer is quite reliable.
They all reply, with a straight face, "He was born in Hawaii," as if the Constitutional Requirements somehow involve sun, sand, surfing and tiny bubbles in the wine.
In the meantime, the country is going to hell in a handbasket and the topic is off limits.
This document is what is missing, has always been missing, and has been the driving force behind all these digital compilations the WH has tried to pass off as "copies of the BC on file."
Unfortunately, the courts in which the fakes have been presented, tend to accept them!
One more time for Rio Linda: What Team Obama presented was not a "Certified Copy of a Birth Certificate on file in with the HIDOH."
What Team Obama received from HI was a digitized collection ABSTRACTED from data on file at the HIDOH. It was an ABSTRACT. An abstract is not legally the complete record. Therefore it is not as legally demanding as a "Certified Copy of a BC on file." What Team Obama released was a copy of some, or all of that abstracted data, digitally reassembled by the WH to look like a Birth Certificate.
Think of a DIY Car Title. You take the VIN from one file, the make and model from another, the year and color from yet another, the former owners from somewhere else, the state seal from some dog license or other. Then using your trusty MAC, you cut and paste all of this on an official background scanned in from another document, or from safety paper. Hey-ho. From 15 yards away, looks a whole lot like a car title!
Try that at your DMV!
Stolen as surely as November 22, ‘63 but by a different group. It’s almost apparent that the KGB may have installed an agent in the White House with the assistance of certain folks from Hyannisport and Chicago.
“That’s why I’ve been making the point that the best way to cast doubt on the Hawaiian BCs is to present solid evidence showing that he was born somewhere else.”
That’s a terrible point. That’s the same thing as asking to prove a negative.
Do you think a Kenyan birth certificate would fly? Even if you had THE REAL one, you wouldn’t have standing to present it in court.
sten has it exactly right. The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, as in effect in 1961 when Barack Obama II was born, required ten years residence in the United States, five of which were after the age of fourteen, for a U.S. citizen married to an alien to impart her (or his) U.S. citizenship to their foreign-born child.
U.S. citizen Anna (Dunham) Obama was 117 days short of the residence requirement for imparting her U.S. citizenship to her Kenyan-born child with non-U.S. citizen Barrack Hussain Obama, Sr..
The Coast Province General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya, Certificate of Live Birth, procured by Lucas Smith, has no apparent disqualification.
The purported State of Hawaii Department of Health COLB (Certification, a computer abstract) and long form Certificate of Birth are each littered with such obvious fakery that one doubts the competency of the likes of Jess Henig and Joe Miller. One can get better documents for $100 from José in Tijuana or Manuel in Juarez, with a Social Security Number that will pass e-Verify thrown in for a few dollars more.
You wrote, “Just what is a reasonable fellow to do?”
Get a sturdy old barge, stock it with enough food and water for years, gather one’s immediate family, and embark onto the Pacific to search for some enchanted uncharted island where Western (Christian) Civilization can be nurtured and maintained until the Lord returns?
It worked for Noah... and I don’t know what else to do.
For years, praying has certainly been a bust.
Hawaii having been an independent Kingdom in ye olden days, this endows those claiming to have been born there with mystical powers over the finite universe, which Obama has now demonstrated to my ample satisfaction.
Chief Justice Roberts explained this all to me before I blew town. It's the Kahuna Klause of the Konstitution. This will all be made clear to you during La Presidencia of Marco Rubio, (VP Bobby Jindal). Except for vicious racism, both of these worthy gentlemen could have been potentially born in Hawaii, which ipso facto, QED, makes them Natural Born Citizens.
Me? I shall be delivering pizza in Townsville, Australia in my Holden van.
Well then, now we could try fasting. BTW, I tire of your negativity. If a gay Indonesian cannot become POTUS, what then is the point of the United States of America?
In the meantime, if you want the best pizza in Townsville Australia delivered to your door, please call.
I hope you can learn the Australian language...
All I can find on the Florida 6/18/2012 hearing - no news stories and the article itself doesn't seem to hint when a ruling might occur, just that the parties can submit more arguments ... Sigh.

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I made the mistake of looking at the analytics of this blog. Woof. Aside from about 10 of you, no one reads this. And while I rationally know that, it still sucks. I know its not personal and thats fine. What I find more interesting is how it affects my mind. That the measuring is the pain of it. When you know how many people are reading (or not reading for that matter) It can do a number on your brain and motivation. Sort of gives you a window into why rich people want to keep getting rich. If the score is being kept by how much money you make, then you play to the score. That’s the game. That’s the high score you go for.
I remember playing video games and seeing a high score change and you’d play until you beat it. You’d play to the score.
Another thing I think about is how our world is being shaped by the measured. Time spent, return on investment, widgets sold… if it can be measured, we play to it. I think there is a danger in the measuring of everything. It’s a little bit of the scourge of the modern world. The more you measure, the more you end up racing to scale, and racing to lowest price and quality.
Something to think about.

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Ottawa, Ontario – Transport Canada has issued its latest recalls, which may affect some Ford and Volkswagen vehicles.
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Vehicles affected: 13,865
On certain vehicles, the factory-installed Continental ContiTrack tires may experience uneven wear, vibration, or particularly under condition of overloading or under-inflation in high ambient temperatures, separation between the belt edges which could lead to tread detachment. Dealers will replace the affected tires.
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On certain vehicles, the converter box is protected by the same fuse as the horn and anti-theft alarm system. If the fuse is blown, the converter box would disconnect from the power supply. This in turn shuts off applications such as the engine management system, lighting system and wipers. Should this occur when the vehicle is being driven, the engine would stall and the headlamps and wipers would turn off. Dealers will separate the wiring for the horn and theft protection from the power supply of the converter box, and route the wires to separate fuses.


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Dear Fellow Sunshine Coast Residents:
As we head into our second week of intensive COVID-19 preparations, we would like to acknowledge the incredible job that our fellow physicians, fellow healthcare workers and other essential service providers have done this past week. Thank you for giving up your time and energy to help our community prepare for this pandemic and prevent COVID-19 infection and spread. Thank you for volunteering for jobs that will put you at greater risk. Thank you for coming together and encouraging and supporting our community as we face the coming storm together. We are proud to be associated with such an amazing group of strong, courageous, caring and giving people.
In the space of a week, physicians and staff have worked together to transform the hospital and our medical community in preparation for COVID-19. Our medical clinics have switched almost exclusively to virtual care to help protect our staff and patients. We have created a Respiratory Assessment Clinic with an associated outreach clinic to help ensure that only the patients who are most severely affected are seen in the Emergency Room. The Respiratory Assessment Clinic will also keep our regular clinics safe for our most vulnerable patients who do need to be seen in person.
At the hospital, we have instituted new protocols and procedures to ensure that our staff and patients are as safe as possible during this crisis. Our operating room has been reduced to emergency surgeries only and our recovery areas have been repurposed to provide additional inpatient beds. We have created a dedicated COVID-19 ward in order to help prevent COVID-19 infection from spreading to other areas of the hospital.
There is still much work to do in the little time that we have left and we know that we will have to adapt and learn as we go. We also know that we are lightyears ahead of where we were a week ago, and that we have given ourselves a fighting chance to help our community as much as we possibly can through this time.
We also want to extend a big thank you to everyone in the community who has sent words of support and encouragement, who has offered to help in any way possible, who has made huge sacrifices in their personal and professional lives to help our community prepare for COVID-19. It will likely be a very tough road ahead, but if we all continue to work together and support each other, we will get through it and come out the other side stronger than ever. You are superheroes!
As you are all aware, the number of known COVID-19 cases has continued to rise across our health region and across Canada, this despite the fact that we are now only testing a small subset of symptomatic patients. Current data would suggest that our curve is currently following that of Italy’s and unless we take extreme measures now, we will not be able to contain it. Wash your hands!
To date, we have only talked about what may come in very general terms, but we think it is time to speak bluntly about the impact that COVID-19 may have on the Sunshine Coast. While the data coming in from around the world is incomplete, it does give us an idea of infection rates, the amount of time it takes for the number of infected patients to double, and how each age group will be affected.
Because none of us have immunity to COVID-19, except for the few that have already had it and recovered, almost everyone who is exposed to it will get it. This means that of the approximately 30,000 people on the Coast, 27,000 of us will probably contract COVID-19 at some point. Keep your distance!
The vast majority (estimates suggest 80%) will have mild or even no symptoms at all, but a significant number will become more severely ill. Given our population demographics, that could be 5,000 people or more. Of that 5,000 a significant number will require medical care, including hospitalization for oxygen therapy or even life support and transfer to an ICU. Self-isolate if you get sick!
Based on world-wide data, it appears that the number of COVID-19 infected patients doubles approximately every five days if nothing is done. This means that the number of people with COVID-19 will double every five days if we don't take action now to prevent that. If we assume that we are a week or two behind North Vancouver, the entire Sunshine Coast would be infected in another 57 days (mid-May). Stay home!
At the same time, again assuming we are a week or two behind North Vancouver, this would mean that we presently have less than 100 people infected with COVID-19 on the Sunshine Coast. If we all act now, we still have a chance to contain COVID-19 and protect our family, friends and neighbours. Order online or by phone!
The reality is that it is very possible that we will lose hundreds of our community members in the coming months. We have the ability to save some of you who become severely ill, but only if we have the resources to do so. If we don’t slow this down, there will be very little that we can do. Please do everything you can to prevent COVID-19 from spreading and help save the lives of those you care about!
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Originally from: Lexington, KY
Now reside in: New Orleans, LA
Birthday: September 16
How did you get started playing an instrument?
My mom told me I was going to study violin at the age of 4. I hated it for 7 years until I got into CKYO (Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra). Then I really started loving it and realized my calling in life. I’ve wanted to be a musician since I was 11. I am so grateful to my parents for making me stick with it!!
How long have you performed with ROCO?
Off and on since Season Number 1.
What do you do musically when you’re not playing with ROCO?
I teach violin at Loyola University New Orleans and play in the James Carter String Quartet which is made up of the other string teachers at Loyola. I am also one of the founding members of Music Alive Ensemble in New Orleans.
What are you listening to on your IPHONE/mobile music device?
I’m in the car ALOT with three children, playing taxi. So I listen to lots of Joni Mitchell, Stephanie Jordan, some rap and r&b, lost of jazz and lots of classical.
Interests outside music:
My outside interests usually involve spending time with my family (three children and husband). I spend the few minutes that I have to myself working out. It keeps me grounded. I also like to read when I can find the time.
What makes ROCO special to you?
ROCO saved me after Katrina. It made me feel like I could find one thing that was almost normal in my life when nothing else was.
What makes Houston unique and inspiring for you?
Houston reminds me a lot of New Orleans. I just really love coming to play with great musicians from all over and making beautiful music. The food is pretty amazing too.
Amy Thiaville is a Professor of Violin at Loyola University, a member of the James Carter String Quartet, River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston Texas, Penisula Music Festival in Door County, Wisconsin and a founding member of the Music Alive Ensemble in New Orleans, Louisiana. In addition, Mrs. Thiaville is the former Concertmaster of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra .
Amy began playing the violin at the age of four. In high school she studied with Daniel Mason, Professor of Violin at University of Kentucky. Ms.Thiaville received her Bachelor of Music degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied with Professor Vartan Manoogian. She also played in the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Madison Symphony. She then went to Yale University where she earned her Master of Music degree in Violin Performance under the direction of Professor Sydney Harth, and Professor Erick Friedman. While at Yale Mrs. Thiaville was also a member of the New Haven Symphony and studied chamber music with the members of the Tokyo String Quartet. After graduating from Yale, Amy won a job with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra where she was a member for fifteen years. Mrs Thiaville has performed as soloist with the LPO including Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending, and Mozart Symphonie Concertante.Amy has also been active with master classes and solo recitals at various universities and cities throughout the United States.
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what are the most important variables in sleep health, low sleep fragmentation, low AHI or high oxygen levels?
I noticed my health became much worse as my O2 went down from 92 to 75, but the low AHIs don't seem to mean much in terms of feeling good the next day if my sleep is fragmented and I don't get enough therapy
I also have been using settings of IPAP/EPAP that are 4cm apart like 15/11 but I found that I got the lowest fragmentation when I used a 16/12 setting but the machine data on Encore said that I had an average IPAP/EPAP of 11/8
Low AHIs will usually indicate good oxygen saturation, unless there is an underlying lung disease which causes the low saturation levels in spite of low AHIs. The final aim is to have good oxygen saturation levels and sound sleep. Sometimes it may need supplemental oxygen therapy.
thanks very much! I'm still suffering with headaches and hypopneas/central apnea. I still have bad brain fog and exhaustion
I sleep better with lower pressure around 12/8- I was prescribed 18/14 by the lab but I always wake up after 1-2 hours on that pressure. I also feel better on the lower pressure.
can an auto cpap really treat centrals/hypopnea? or is the bipapst the best for centrals? thanks!
Central sleep apneas are caused due disorders or lesions in the brain. The peripheral system does not get the right impulses for respiration and hence the stoppage of respiration. As a result the person is aroused from sleep. For central apneas therapy is by treating the underlying cause and again SV BiPAP, could also be effective as it is pressure support ventilation. With improvement in oxygenation the other symptoms may resolve.
I'm finding that sleep medications and the bipap help like zolpidem and restoril, but I'm still wheezing after 4 antibiotics and prednisone
I read that on DTI MRI people with sleep apnea have brain damage or lesions in the brain
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