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Ukraine's presidential election: the society of the spectacle
Vladimir Zelensky
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Ukraine voters have elected a TV comedy actor as their new president. In this piece, written exclusively for the New Cold War website by our regular contributor on Ukraine, Dmitriy Kovalevich, he discusses Vladimir Zelensky's resounding victory and what this could mean for the country's fragmented political framework and its people's future.
By Dmitriy Kovalevich, Apr 26, 2019
On April 21, Ukrainian voters made their choice: the overwhelming majority elected a popular comedian and actor as the president of Ukraine. He received 73.2% of the votes – the best possible result, which should not be ignored or rejected.
Why did the people vote for him?
Vladimir Zelensky is a popular actor starring in the TV series 'The People's Servant'. His character, a former historian, suddenly becomes a Ukrainian president, initiating a struggle for the people against corrupt businessmen and IMF. In character, being a president, he refuses expensive cars preferring to use public transport. He rejects IMF debts (telling representatives of the IMF to 'F**k off!') and shoots corrupt MPs in the Parliament building itself.
This was a TV show that somehow strongly echoed with real people's desires. Both actor and character resonated with many voters; if nothing more, proving the actor's talent. This was despite the fact that Vladimir Zelensky had stressed several times during the run up to the election that he is not that character but a quite different type of person. His electoral campaign was led by popular media and show business managers.
"They voted for Putin but somehow elected Zelensky instead"
It would seem that what we are dealing with here is the unconscious desires of people who confuse the promises of a character on their TV screens with those of a presidential candidate and actor. When we feel sympathy towards an invented movie character, we tend to extend it to the actor as well. However, it is not possible for voters to accuse a non-existent character of breaking promises.
It should be noted that Vladimir Zelensky himself has not been clear about his policies. He avoided giving clear answers to urgent questions, focusing instead on criticising the current president, Poroshenko.
Meanwhile Poroshenko focused his campaign on nationalist rhetoric, anti-Russian sentiments and militarism. Poroshenko represented himself as the only alternative to Russian president Vladimir Putin. He used to say that Ukrainian voters faced a choice between him and Putin.
And he lost.
Some jokingly say that 73% voted for Putin but somehow elected Zelensky instead.
"A kind of protest"
In fact, neither of the candidates actually represented himself during the electoral campaign. Poroshenko was a 'candidate against Putin', while Zelensky was a 'candidate against Poroshenko' and the latter received 73% of the votes. It is also worth noting the regional share of votes: the current president won in the western Lviv region (in 1930s – a base for Ukrainian fascism as a part of Poland) and in some Ukrainian armed forces deployed along the frontline in Donbass. He was also supported by the majority of foreign based voters, especially in Canada, US and EU. The rest of Ukraine voted largely for his opponent – that was a kind of protest.
The real opposition in Ukraine was suppressed soon after the Maidan, mostly by the hands of far-right gangs. Real criticism of the Kiev policy was treated as 'treason', some opposition parties, including the Communist party, were banned according to the law 'On decommunisation'. Therefore, protest voting took the shape of supporting a movie character as an opposition to Poroshenko.
Other aspects contributed to his victory. He usually speaks Russian; he is from the southern Russian-speaking industrial city of Krivoy Rog (Kryvyi Rih) and certainly, as a comedian, he has a strong sense of humour. He is also of Jewish origin and pro-Poroshenko's nationalists tried to unleash an anti-Semitic campaign against him but it wasn't effective because the majority of people are tired of rough nationalism.
A lack of any experience
But Zelensky is completely inexperienced in politics. He has never worked for the public service or state apparatus. Until now, he has been an actor and an organiser of comedy TV shows. Therefore, what is more important is who stands behind him and decides the policy. Vladimir Zelensky is associated with Igor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian billionaire, who currently lives in Israel. He supported the Maidan, despite its anti-Semitic nationalism, profiting from the civil war. Igor Kolomoisky owns TV channels (which promoted Zelensky), the largest Ukrainian air-company, banks and a number of other enterprises. After the Maidan he became a business rival with the president Poroshenko, who is also an oligarch and billionaire. In fact, the elections became a contest between the two billionaires. And both of them are pro NATO. To make the 'master' of the newly elected president more obedient, the US FBI launched an investigation against Kolomoisky shortly before the elections in Ukraine.
Poroshenko's broken promises
It should also be remembered that Poroshenko won in 2014, due to his promises to stop the war within two weeks. At the time, Poroshenko was perceived to be somewhat of a 'peace president' when compared with Olexander Turchinov (unofficially called 'the bloody pastor') who came to power as a result of the Maidan coup in February 2014 and then, instead of negotiations, initiated an assault by neo-Nazi gangs on the cities of Donbass. Why did Poroshenko continue the war? Because otherwise he would have been unable to hold on to power.
Peace negotiations or concessions to some regions (at least granting them the rights to decide their cultural and language policy) could lead to another coup initiated by far-right armed gangs. And the newly elected president appears to be in a similar situation. He may have won the support of the peace-loving majority but the war is led by poorly controlled armed groups. Zelensky has no such groups to rely on to disband the neo-Nazi ones. Since the Maidan coup Ukrainian policy is decided by an aggressive armed minority acting with the approval of the US.
Influence from western powers and obedience to IMF
It is highly likely that Zelensky will be merely a nominal president performing only 'ritual' presidential functions or will play the role of the president habitually uttering words written by a script writer. Apart from billionaire Kolomoisky, the script writers seem to be US politicians.
Western leaders should take Zelensky under their wing, provide strategic and technical advice, and offer to lend policy advisers who can offer their professional recommendations on defense reform, international diplomacy, legal questions and economic issues,
writes the Washington Post. And the fact that western leaders congratulated him even before the announcement of the results (unlike the Russian president), shows that they are sure of his obedience to the IMF and US, unlike his movie character. This does not imply any actual changes for the better.
A puppet or a proactive president?
The illegal Ukrainian communist organization Borotba, commenting on the elections, stresses that its results revealed no more than the people's rejection to Poroshenko's nationalism and militarism. As Borotba's statement says, the people of Ukraine hope for a better future but Zelensky seems to be no more than a nominal president with limited authority, while the real power will remain in the hands of the oligarchs. Nonetheless, people are still expecting him to deliver the real democratization of the Ukrainian political sphere, disarming nationalist gangs and private armies, the liberation of political prisoners, the denazification of the armed forces, security service and police (i.e. removing outright Nazis from the positions in army and police), and the re-legalization of the parties banned by Poroshenko's government. But we are yet to see if he is able to resolve these expectations. For him to be more than a mere puppet, Zelensky can – if he would like to of course – use the opportunity to become a real servant of the people and to improve the life of ordinary Ukrainians.
Dmitriy Kovalevich is a Ukrainian-based journalist and Left activist
April 26, 2019 Catherine Davies
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A guide to inspecting your body for melanoma and other forms of skin cancer.
Who should check for skin cancer symptoms?
Everyone should get familiar with the beauty marks and moles on their body. Individuals of Irish, Scottish, English, and Nordic descent are usually fairer, and thus more at risk for skin cancer. And if you have a family history of melanoma, or more than 50 moles on your body, see a dermatologist at least once a year, according to Brian Hinds, MD, and Anna Di Nardo, MD, of the University of California, San Diego. But if you are someone who spends loads of time in the sun, it's smart to get checked by a doctor no matter what type of skin you have. Make sure you know the skin cancer myths you need to stop believing.
The first thing to look out for when looking for skin cancer symptoms is asymmetry. If you were to fold this melanoma in half, it wouldn't match. Don't miss these surprising places you didn't know you could get skin cancer.
Notice how the borders are not sharp, like a typical beauty mark. "The borders here look clover-leafy," says Anna Pavlick, DO, a medical oncologist with NYU Langone Medical Center in New York.
If the mole's color changes from one area to the other, see a dermatologist, as it could be a clear skin cancer symptom. This melanoma's pigment ranges from dark brown in the center, to tan, to almost pink at the borders that bleed into the skin. Skin cancer can also appear black, white, red or blue. This is the worst skin care advice dermatologists have ever heard.
Melanomas are usually larger than 6 mm in size, about the size of a pencil eraser, but can start much smaller when they're first diagnosed. "Depending on the depth, how deep the mole grows down under the skin, that will dictate the surgical procedure to remove it," says Dr. Pavlick. Once the melanoma gets to be greater than a millimeter, doctors will usually take away 2 millimeters beyond the mole to ensure all the cancer has been removed.
Keep an eye out for moles that begin to look unfamiliar. Beauty marks that evolve, changing in color, shape, and size can signify melanoma. These are the skin cancer risk factors you might not know about.
In addition to the rest of your body, be sure to look over palms and the bottom of your feet regularly, according to Dr. Hinds. Moles in this area can often go unnoticed and are therefore diagnosed much later, leading to thicker and bigger tumors. Here are some other places you may be ignoring when you check for skin cancer symptoms.


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Q: Debugging a WPF application with PIX / Visual Studio 11 i´m just working on a WPF application which uses DirectX 11 to render contents.
Now the problem is, that i´m not able to debug DirectX.
If i´m using PIX, i always get an Error: 0x00000007b, that the application was unable to start (after clicking "Run Experiment").
If i´m using Visual Studio 11 and press "Capture Frame", then it runs the progressbar infinite long and after pressing "Stop Debugging" it still shows the progress bar and now the message "This application uses a incompatible DirectX version or unsupported features. The playback may is incomplete".
Why is this so? Why could my application be unsupported? Is this because of WPF?
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Home»Weight Loss»How to lose belly fat»What Spices help Losing Belly Fat?
Losing body fat has positive correlation with losing belly fat. Loss of body fat also results in loss of belly fat. Foods that help lose body fat also cause loss of belly fat. In order lose fat, we do not need to consume just plain fish or chicken or vegetables. We can use spices in food. Spices can make food tastier. More importantly, spices can be great in losing body fat as well as belly fat. Following are some spices that can help shed belly fat.
Black pepper contains Piperine, which is known as 'zero belly ninja'. Peperine is a powerful compound that provides black pepper heat and taste. Tummy troubles, inflammation and multiple health conditions have been treated for centuries by piperine in Eastern medicine. Piperine may also have ability to hinder new fat cells from forming, as found out in recent animal studies. Impediment in formation of fat cell is also known as adipogenesis, which causes reduction in cholesterol level, body fat and waist size.
Polyphenols and powerful antioxidants contained in cinnamon can enhance insulin sensitivity and alter body composition. Dietary cinnamon can help decrease accumulation of belly fat, as found out in an animal study published in Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Having plenty of cinnamon with starchy meal can help prevent insulin spike and stabilize blood sugar, as found out by studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Cinnamon is also linked with appetite control and less cravings.
Chili pepper has a powerful compound known as capsaicin that is linked with suppressing appetite and reduce belly fat. Capsaicin also helps enhance thermogenesis that is body's ability to burn food as energy. Consuming capsaicin on a daily basis is also linked with abdominal fat loss, as found out in a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Consumption of just one teaspoon of mustard can enhance metabolism by up to twenty-five percent, as found out by scientists at England's Oxford Polytechnic Institute. Mustard oil is also linked with lowering visceral adipose tissue of rats, as found out by study published in the Asian Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Phytochemicals and allyl isothiocyanates in mustard seeds can be credited for flavor and zero belly fat benefit.
Chinese philosopher confusions consumed ginger with every meal. Ginger can help regulate blood sugar level and block increase in glucose levels. It has the same thermogenic or fat-burning properties as cayenne and turmeric do. It can help improve different gastrointestinal symptoms. It can help cure bellyache. Ginger may be linked with accelerating gastric emptying, as suggested by a study published in the journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Consumption of coriander in linked with zero belly effects. It's also beneficial for those who suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), as found out in a study printed in the Journal Digestive Diseases and Science.
Curry lovers are also fan of turmeric. Turmeric or yellow-orange spice is very popular for curry dishes. Curcumin is one of the turmeric's active ingredients, which suppresses blood vessels needed to form fat tissue. Turmeric is linked with lowering body fat and body weight. Curcumin is linked with prevention of obesity associated chronic disease.
Cumin adds nice flavor to any food. Consumption of one teaspoon of cumin with meal everyday can enhance burning body fat significantly, as found out in a study involving overweight women.
Cardamom is one the thermogenic spices. It raises body temperature and enhance metabolism, leading to fat burning.
Coriander seeds are rich in healthy fats, antioxidants and minerals such as magnesium, potassium, calcium, copper and zinc. It is also loaded with vitamin C and it can enhance immunity. It facilitates proper bowel movement, proper digestion and absorption, all of which, in turn, boosts metabolism and help burn calories consumed.


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Q: Problem importing geometry from CSV in QGIS I have a polygon layer (although I have also converted it to points and tried it that way). I would like to copy this layer into excel and add it back in after editing some things. I've attempted to do this by copying the attribute table, pasting it into excel, making my edits, saving the sheet as a CSV, and using "add a delimited text layer" to put it back into my QGIS project. I have not altered the "well-known text" column, and have used that when QGIS asks for the geometry (although I have also tried using the X and Y fields when attempting to do this when the layer is converted to points).
My problem is that the layer appears in the wrong place when I add it back in (the original is in New England, and the version I add back in is off the northern coast of Quebec, when compared to a Google Maps layer imported from the QuickMapServices plugin). The original layer is in the right place, before and after I add what should be its identical twin back in.
Should this be theoretically possible? And/or am I missing a step?
Other things I've tried:
Switching project and/or layer CRSs. I have not found one that fixes the problem - and in any case, the original layer is in the right place, and according to its attribute table, has the same geometry as my copied layer.
Just using a join. The original layer has one point for each geometry - I'd like to have multiple points in some locations (with the other fields differing). I don't see a way to do that outside of excel, other than manually drawing new features, which would be prohibitively time-consuming.


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Kouroumani är en ort i Burkina Faso.   Den ligger i provinsen Province du Kénédougou och regionen Hauts-Bassins, i den västra delen av landet,  km väster om huvudstaden Ouagadougou. Kouroumani ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Kouroumani är platt. Den högsta punkten i närheten är  meter över havet,  km väster om Kouroumani. Runt Kouroumani är det ganska glesbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer.. Kouroumani är det största samhället i trakten.

Omgivningarna runt Kouroumani är en mosaik av jordbruksmark och naturlig växtlighet.  Savannklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är april, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är juli, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är augusti, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är februari, med  mm nederbörd.

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Wet Bum's Julia Sarah Stone, continuing to broaden her budding acting career, plays an underage prostitute named Natalie. Preparing for a trip to Sudbury, Ontario to branch out with her abusive boyfriend/pimp, the illegal ring is uncovered by a sting; resulting in the police apprehending Natalie and placing her in foster care under the supervision of Louise (Martha Plimpton) and her husband.
Rau offers a raw perspective of Natalie's street life – allowing the filmmaker to carry over her skills as a documentarian. Key performances from Stone and Plimpton are very strong as well. The latter commands every moment she's on screen, and gets away with some sharp comebacks once Natalie – bitter and impolite – is in her care. There are also some nice turns from Michelle McLeod (Don't Talk to Irene) and Connor Price (SyFy's Being Human) as the other children under Louise's roof. These memorable qualities, however, are working within a paint-by-numbers narrative as Natalie discovers the kindness of others and her own humility.
Honey Bee is solid but, most of all, it's to be chalked up as learning experience for Rama Rau as she makes her favourable feature debut. But now that she knows how to make this "kind" of movie, here's hoping she challenges herself in different ways next time.


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While starting a new business, you would want to have an official email address which is different than the personal one. Through this, you would want to send and receive messages that relates to your business.
While having to manage multiple accounts, it can lead to errors and missed messages.
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That is a lot to maintain and manage. But, luckily there is one straightforward and easy way to do this. That way is having an email alias.
You must read on till the end to know what an email alias is, how you can get one and how it is going to help your business.
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How to Create an Email Alias in SBCGlobal Email
An alternate email that you can add to your primary email is an email alias. It is a forwarding address, like an additional nickname that can be added to the primary email.
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Another solution to this problem is adding the email address of the employee as an alias and then changing the password when they leave. Through this you get to keep the account instead of deleting it.
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Pal, I cant make my bloody head to listen to me, when it s the only thing thats been messing about. In a way you are okay, as I still can ask my brain to add 2 and 2 to make 4 but I mean I didnt even get what you were trying to say, let alone force feed my brain to behave properly.


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Manny Pacquiao vs Floyd Mayweather Jr: The Numbers Behind The Mega Fight
By WhenInManila
• February 23, 2015
On May 2, 2015, pound-for-pound greats Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr will meet for the fight that many thought would never happen. Here is a look at the numbers behind the clash of the titans at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.
The wait is finally over, and with a prize pot of over $200 million, the fight between Floyd "Money" Mayweather jr and Manny "Pac Man" Pacquiao will be the richest single occasion in the history of the sport.
Who ranks higher?
Mayweather is currently listed as No 1 in The Ring's pound-for-pound ratings, with Pacquiao occupying the No 3 spot.
Unified WBA (Super), WBC, WBO and The Ring Welterweight titles.
Their records until now:
Pacquiao: 57-5-2 with 38 knockouts, Mayweather: 47-0 with 26 knockouts;
Pacquiao: 36, Mayweather: 37
Pacquiao: 5 ft 6.5 in (1.69 m), Mayweather: 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Pacquiao: 147 lb (67 kg), Mayweather: 147 lb (67 kg)
Pacquiao: 67 in (170 cm), Mayweather: 72 in (183 cm)
Stance:
Pacquiao: Southpaw, Mayweather: Orthodox
What the Bookies say:
Mayweather is currently the 1/3 (or 1.33 Decimal) favorite to win, with Pacquiao starting the fight as 5/2 (3.50 Decimal) underdog.
Recent earnings:
Mayweather currently tops the Forbes list of the world's highest-paid athletes with earnings of $105 million between June 2013 and June 2014, while Pacquiao is ranked No. 11 with estimated earnings of $41.8 million
Purse (last fight):
Pacquiao: $23 million (Algieri), Mayweather: $32 million (Maidana II)
Biggest Payday so far:
Pacquiao: $30 million (Marquez III), Mayweather: $75 million (Alvarez);
Career earnings so far:
Pacquiao: $335 million, including endorsements, Mayweather: $420 million;
Career Pay Per View Buys:
Pacquiao: 13.6 million, Mayweather: 14.2 million
Career Pay Per View Revenue:
Pacquiao: $755 million, Mayweather: $860 million
Purse for this fight:
It is said that the prize pool will be split 60/40 in favor of Mayweather, with earnings estimated to be between $120 and $150 million for Mayweather, and $80 to $100 million for Pacquiao.
Who do you think will win this mega fight? Let us know in the comments!
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Disney's VR Studio offers us a peek inside the ongoing development of Pirates of the Caribbean Online with VP Mike Goslin. Mike walks us through the process of becoming a pirate, commenting on the strength of the franchise, and the supernatural elements that make PotC one of a kind among MMORPGs.
"Mike Goslin, President, VR Studios: The biggest difference between this game and other MMOs is that the pirate-themed world we are designing will feature some supernatural elements that are unique to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise: defending your ship from sea monsters, fighting skeleton pirates, and casting voodoo spells. We will also include the classic pirate activities: epic sea battles, searching for buried treasure, playing dice and cards, and carousing in towns."
Read the full interview to learn more about Pirates of the Caribbean Online. When you're done, head over to the forums here at Ten Ton Hammer and let us know what your thoughts on this game are.
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To celebrate America's Black History Month, James Evans of Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and scholars Keisha A. Brown and Ruodi Duan have compiled a "Reading and teaching guide to the history of Black and African American connections with China." It's a directory of writing on the subject, and includes work on Langston Hughes in Shanghai, photos — including of Paul Robeson meeting Chinese opera singer Méi Lánfāng 梅兰芳, journal articles about racism and popular culture in China, and about characters ranging from W.E.B. Du Bois to the Black Panther Party's Eldridge Cleaver and Elaine Brown to civil rights leader Robert F. Williams.
Keisha Brown, who has a special research interest in Sino-Black relations, took time to answer some questions for SupChina on subjects including scholarship, Black History Month, and racism.
SupChina: You are assistant professor of history at Tennessee State University (TSU), the alma mater of Oprah Winfrey, right? You're a historian of modern China, and one of your major interests is what you call Sino-Black relations. Can you tell us about the study of Sino-Black relations and what drew you to it?
K.B.: Yes, Tennessee State University is an institution whose notable alums include Oprah Winfrey, Wilma Rudolph, and many, many others.
Sino-Black relations analyzes the politics of Chinese identity and Blackness as well as the broader diasporic ideas and implications of exchange and contact historically between these peoples to understand the racial, gender, and class apparatus at work in trying to unpack and identify the other, specifically the Black other in Chinese spaces.
I was drawn to this area of study initially based on my own experiences in China. I had the opportunity to travel to China for the first time in 2001 at the age of 16. It was during that trip where I initially became aware of how my Blackness was a source of curiosity. Another defining moment for me was during a trip to Hangzhou in 2005 while I was studying abroad for a semester in Shanghai. Myself and three white classmates boarded a boat to ride down West Lake and enjoy the scenery. After boarding, the boat operator asked where we were from. Each of us, in Mandarin, replied America. What made him pause was not that we spoke Chinese, but the fact that I said I was American. He was not convinced, even after my classmates and I were insistent that I was in fact American. Why, in the 21st century, was it difficult for him to reconcile me being Black and American? This exchange really made me think more critically about the global circulation of ideas of race and the performativity of race. In conducting preliminary research into the manifestations and understandings of race as it relates to the foreign other, particularly the Black other, I located the works of Du Bois, such as "The Vast Miracle of China" and "Our Visit to China," pieces that recount his trips to China with his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois. From there, I located a host of other African Americans living in Maoist China and became increasingly interested in this topic.
Are there many other scholars working on similar subjects, and what is the state of the scholarship?
The body of scholarship is steadily growing. As the blog piece demonstrates, there are many scholars currently producing scholarship on this and related topics. As such, there is a wealth of information in various formats that can be accessed. The blog is a great starting point and touches upon many of the seminal works that have illuminated these moments and transnational exchanges.
One of my first foreign friends in China when I arrived in 1995 was from Sierra Leone, an entrepreneur named Turay. He used to say that although there was racism in China, it was very different from discrimination against Africans in Europe and the U.S. Whereas many Chinese people will casually use words with racist connotations, and cheerfully watch racist TV commercials for dishwashers, in day-to-day interactions, he was always treated as a "foreigner," not as a black person or member of a subclass, which is how he often felt in his travels in the West.
Does this make sense to you? Does any of your research look into the different racisms of China and America / the West?
Yes, this does make sense. Future research, as I further develop Sino-Black relations scholarship, does examine these various manifestations of racism and related discourses. Existing Asian American Studies, Afro Asian Studies, and Critical Race scholarship also grapples with these complexities.
How did the project "Teaching China Through Black History — A Reading and Teaching Guide to the history of Black and African American connections with China" with the Fairbank Center come about?
After the publication of an article in 2016, I was asked by James Evans of the Fairbank Center to write a post about the publication for the blog. It was that previous collaboration that led James to reach out to me and Ruodi Duan (who also previously wrote a post for the blog) concerning his idea of doing this project for Black History Month. Ruodi and I supplied the information regarding relevant sources and James did an amazing job showcasing the scholarship. The result is a great research and teaching resource.
SupChina: For our non-American readers, what is Black History Month?
February is Black History Month. Originally founded as Black History Week in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Black or African American History Month is a time of reflection, recognition, and celebration of the Black American experience. Engagement is multifaceted and ranges from civic involvement and lectures to enhanced social awareness. For me, Black History Month means embracing both trial and triumph. What I mean by that is the Black American experience is one that is afflicted by sustained and systematic trauma, beginning with chattel slavery. And still, African Americans have survived, thrived, contributed to, and shaped America politically, socially, economically, and culturally.
For more information about the origins of Black History Month, please refer to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
What can generalist China students, scholars, and interested persons learn about China through this project?
One of the strengths of the project is that both generalist and specialists alike can gain information and insights. For the generalists, this blog post is an entry into the growing scholarship on this topic which expands prevailing narratives concerning Chinese history.
You and the Fairbank Center have put a lot really interesting material online for this project. But if you had to recommend just one thing to read, what would it be?
This is a tough question. It is hard to chose only one. The best way to approach these suggested readings is to start from a point of interest, whether that is history, art, or literature. It really depends on the individual interest. But all of the texts listed are worth reviewing.
Keisha A. Brown is an Assistant Professor of History at Tennessee State University in the Department of History, Political Science, Geography, and Africana Studies. She graduated with her bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and earned her doctorate from the University of Southern California. Dr. Brown specializes in East Asian history, specifically modern China. Her research and teaching interests include comparative East Asian histories, postcolonial theory, transnational studies, world history, and race and ethnic studies. Currently, Dr. Brown is a postdoctoral fellow in residence at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University for the 2018-2019 academic year.


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Ones to Watch: Food and drink pros with promise
By April Seager • Photos by Brian Fagnani // June 30, 2009
A recipe for success? Eh, these people don't need one. Introducing three fresh chefs, two sprung farmers, a cool brewer, a goddess of wine and a mixologist with intoxicating skill. All of them have time and talent on their side. We can't wait.
ADAM ALTNETHER
Why to watch him: He's a mini Gerard Craft.
Adam Altnether is young enough to think he's old. Kitchen mates at Benton Park's Niche Restaurant call the 23-year-old "Mini." The precocious cook from South County (he entered the Culinary Institute of America at 17) couldn't recall the origin of his nickname and quickly ran out of theories. "I don't know if it meant mini Gerard or mini … " In about a year's time, he went from arranging produce for Niche executive chef Gerard Craft to acting as the James Beard finalist's sous chef. Altnether was all of 21. His culinary bond with Craft cemented over watermelon foam – that detail he remembered. Currently, his workdays last between 16 and 20 hours. "If you analyze it, it's miserable," he said with an uncomplaining grin. He also noted another endurable downside to his momentum-blessed career. "One thing I got tired of hearing – it doesn't bother me anymore – is that I'm Gerard's favorite." Well, is he Craft's favorite? "You'll have to talk to chef about that."
Why to watch him: Ingredients, ingredients, ingredients.
The otherwise unpretentious Jon Olson self-identifies as a food snob. "I only like pretty cauliflower," he told a vendor at Land of Goshen Community Market in Edwardsville. Zigzagging between stands, Olson handpicked fresh miscellany including apricots, field mix and chiogga beets. "We've been juicing beets to make a beet risotto," said Olson, who works under chef Kevin Willmann at Erato on Main. In late May, Olson returned to the ingredient-driven restaurant after taking eight months off to stage and work at Otom in Chicago and Rainbow Lodge in Houston. Working with cutting-edge techniques made him realize that superior ingredients are where it's at – and will always be. Before making his rounds at the Goshen market, Olson had also stopped by a few farm stands. At one, he triumphantly discovered a source for figs, fresh supplies of which prove hard to find. If everything goes as planned, Olson will never wield a can opener again. "I guess I'm snobbish like that."
ANGELA ORTMANN
Why to watch her: She can pair wine with anything.
Angela Ortmann is part educator, part party host and 100 percent STLwinegirl. Earlier this year, the certified sommelier took the plunge into self-employment, building an all-occasion business around food, wine and savoir-vivre. "Why not do a wine tasting with your pedicure?" said Ortmann, who blossomed into a hospitality professional during a four-year stint in San Francisco. And since you're making an afternoon of it, why not let Ortmann cook, say, a three-course meal? The fact that Ortmann doesn't have a bottle inventory enables her to organize each dinner party, art opening, corporate lunch or – who's in? – spa session around a fresh cache of wines. She likes what you like. "The first thing I always tell people is that wine is subjective." That said, she might convert you. "My mother used to only drink Boone's Farm with ice. Now she complains it's too sweet and doesn't have any body and wants a glass of Pinot Noir at room temperature."
CORY SHUPE
Why to watch him: He's bringing bologna back.
Pâté, coppa, pancetta and – if Cory Shupe has his druthers – bologna. As chef de cuisine at Five Bistro, which recently relocated from The Grove to The Hill, Shupe cooks the gamut of haute cuisine. Yet his culinary obsession is meat. "Tony always wanted to do charcuterie here, and I kind of took it on as my own project," Shupe said, referring to his boss and mentor Anthony Devoti. Shupe is especially alert to the nuances of pork. "It has different flavor profiles and textures depending on whether it's the shoulder, the head, the loin – there's nothing better than a pig." Currently, Shupe is doting on a bone-in prosciutto. "I don't know how it will turn out – it's just an experiment." He also has meaty plans for Five's casual sibling Newstead Tower Public House. "I want to do bologna, all-beef hot dogs and pastrami for the pub. I think people could have fun with it."
AUGIE ALTENBAUMER
Why to watch him: Craft beers are his new line of work.
Thanks, recession. After a round of layoffs left Augie Altenbaumer jobless last year, the award-winning homebrewer turned beer into a full-time career. While working as a do-it man at The Schlafly Tap Room (where he still moonlights), Altenbaumer upped his brewing credentials through an online course offered by the Siebel Institute of Technology. Now he's head brewer at The Stable brewpub in Benton Park. Altenbaumer the amateur brewed ales. At The Stable, he's concentrating on German-style lagers. His petite fleet of tanks includes one for storage that's striped with masking tape and marked with hand-written gallon lines. "We'll probably put something more permanent up there, but that got us going," he said. The Stable's list of house brews is currently a quick read: helles, Märzen. Look for zoigl, an obscure, malty German brew, to start flowing later in the year. Thanks again, recession.
JEFF AND GREG PARKINSON
Why to watch them: They have room to grow.
There's something new under the sun at Moder Valley Nursery: food. Over the last year, brothers Jeff (left) and Greg Parkinson have started using organic practices to cultivate around a dozen varieties of fruits and vegetables including watercress. Previously, the Parkinsons devoted their 80-acre operation in Byrnes Mill, Mo., to herbs and landscape plants. Now they grow it all – not to mention more and more. "We've added a greenhouse every year for the last five years," said Greg Parkinson. "That means we can grow tomatoes, lettuce and other vegetables during the winter." Moder Valley, which is part of a 600-acre sprawl owned by the Parkinsons' relatives, debuted at the Maplewood Farmers' Market in January and has continued to set up its stand through the growing season. The Parkinsons also sell at the market in Byrnes Mill. What's next? Higher volumes of blackberries and raspberries along with an inaugural harvest of blueberries.
T.J. VYTLACIL
Why to watch him: His retro cocktails are your future.
Three years ago, T.J. Vytlacil didn't know the recipe for a Negroni. Now the debonair barkeep and consultant devises classic-style cocktails of his own. Thanks to mentor Ted Kilgore, a local mixologist of national relevance, some of Vytlacil's creations have landed in editions of high-profile handbooks Food & Wine Cocktails and Mr. Boston: Official Bartender's Guide. Of course, not every drink has been a dandy. Take, for instance, The Apothecary, a heady, medicinal blend of a dozen ingredients. "It was … interesting," Vytlacil said. Now his ingredient lists max out at six. "It gets to the point where the flavors start to cancel each other out." Always thirsty for more, Vytlacil has been working with Kilgore on opening a private cocktail club where he will serve St. Louis, among many other fineries, a mean Negroni – equal parts gin, Campari and sweet vermouth.
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Under Trump, Neocons Push for Massive Military Spending and Global Domination
Mike Ludwig,
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Congress is working to spend more on bolstering military capabilities than it has in years, but that's not enough for neoconservative war hawks who see escalating global military might as central to protecting national interests, despite years of seemingly endless war.
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an influential neoconservative think tank with close ties to the architects of the invasion of Iraq and other Bush administration wartime policies, released a report last week calling for a sweeping expansion of the nation's global military footprint and budget increases at the Pentagon that would exceed congressional caps by $672 billion over the next five years.
Daniel Gouré, a conservative commentator and vice president at the Lexington Institute, called the report a "must read for Trump's national security team." The report could have considerable influence on the White House, which issued an executive order in January directing federal agencies to "pursue peace through strength" by rebuilding and modernizing the United States armed forces.
In fact, Vice President Mike Pence gave a speech at AEI on Tuesday, declaring that the Trump administration is working with Congress to pass the "largest investment in our national defense since the days of Ronald Reagan."
The Trump administration has struggled to build a cohesive foreign policy around a president who campaigned on quasi-isolationist themes but has since raised international tensions with explosive rhetoric and bombastic tweets, and staffers often look to think tanks and the military itself for guidance. Trump has already placed military generals in top cabinet positions and left the armed forces with considerable decision-making power over how to proceed with the war in Afghanistan.
The AEI report is also intended for the Republican-controlled Congress, which is working this week to reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The legislation outlines defense spending for the next fiscal year, and the bills would authorize up to $640 billion in base defense spending and an additional $60 to $65 billion for overseas combat missions in countries, such as Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
The bills would provide $30 to $40 billion more than President Trump originally requested, but that's not enough for the neocons. AEI argues defense spending should be increased to $679 billion in 2018 in order to provide "credible down payments on rebuilding the armed forces."
The US already spends more on its military than any other country by a long shot. The Pentagon accounts for more than half of discretionary domestic spending, which is the money allocated by Congress each year. When the costs of incarceration and drug and immigration enforcement are factored in, the US "militarized budget" sucks up 64 percent of discretionary spending, according to the National Priorities Project.
However, AEI and other conservatives argue the armed forces are worn out and in need of new weapons and technology after two decades of what Gouré calls "continuous operations," during which time potential enemies in other nation-states have bolstered their own defense forces. Of course, the wear and tear on the US armed forces is partly due to the fact that they've been busy fighting seemingly endless wars in the Middle East that were launched by neoconservatives in the first place.
So, where do neocons propose that the money for military improvement come from? AEI argues that domestic programs such as Social Security and Medicare "eat up" too much of the nondiscretionary budget, and Congress should shift some of this money to overseas military deployments in order to achieve its "three theater strategy" for asserting US power across the globe.
In order to protect the US from an apparently evolving assortment of vicious enemies around the world, AEI says the policymakers must return the military to "a much more robust permanent forward posture" and move away from "rotational deployments" in three main global "theaters" where US interests lie: Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Protecting the homeland and US economic interests, according to AEI, requires building a larger empire abroad.
Isolationists and anti-war activists on both the left and right see a glaring hole in this logic. They argue spending huge sums of money on the military leads to unnecessary and violent entanglements overseas and creates more enemies to fight in the future. For example, the chaos caused by the war in Iraq created a breeding ground for ISIS (also known as Daesh). This locks the US into a brutal cycle of bloated military budgets and seemingly perpetual war-making.
As news broke this week about the CIA expanding its bloody and covert missions to hunt down the Taliban in Afghanistan, Matthew Hoh, a senior fellow with the Center for International Policy who resigned from a State Department position in protest over the Obama-era escalation in Afghanistan, said current CIA operations are "direct descendants" of US-sponsored death squads in Latin America and Shia torture and murder militias in Baghdad.
"The results will assuredly be the same: war crimes, mass murder, torture and the terrorization of entire communities of men, women and children in their own homes," Hoh said in a statement. "This will lead to more support for the Taliban and a deepening of the war in Afghanistan. The CIA should ask itself, where has this worked before?"
Congress had a chance to reinsert itself into this debate last month, when Sen. Tim Kaine and Sen. Rand Paul introduced an amendment that would have sunset the authorization for the use of military force Congress gave the White House after 9/11. This would have forced Congress to debate overseas military operations individually, deciding on a case-by-case basis whether the US should have boots on the ground in countries like Syria and Afghanistan. However, the Senate rejected the amendment by a vote of 61 to 36.
Instead, Congress shapes military policy through defense authorization and appropriations bills each year, which leaves lawmakers quibbling about the number of battleships and fighter jets to buy, and whether a new "space corps" should take over military operations in space. Lawmakers tend to fight for policies that benefit defense contractors in their home states, which spend millions of dollars every year on lobbying and campaign contributions.
The NDAA only authorizes military spending; it will take a budget bill to actually allocate money to the Pentagon. In order to do this, Congress must decide whether — or by how much — it wants to increase funding for the military, and come to a compromise on lifting self-imposed spending caps before the end of the year. This will give Democrats a chance to push for increases in spending on domestic programs. Few Democrats have come out against massive military spending, despite protests from the left.
AEI and Gouré — and arguably the Trump administration as well — see a disconnect between policymakers and the military. They say elected politicians expect the military to defend a broad range of US interests and security commitments across the globe, but fail to provide the armed forces with the resources needed to adequately address them all. Short of a "tectonic shift" in the way politicians define our national interests, Gouré writes, the only choices are either to sustain a military that can defend those values or "to prepare for a long twilight struggle."
Fearmongering by neocons about threats to the nation's future is nothing new, but what about a "tectonic shift" in how policymakers define US interests abroad? Such a change could de-escalate and eventually end years of unceasing and murderous warfare. Congress could embark on that shift tomorrow by refusing to pay the tab and redirecting those tax dollars back to its constituents.
Mike Ludwig
Mike Ludwig is a staff reporter at Truthout and a contributor to the Truthout anthology, Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? In 2014 and 2017, Project Censored featured Ludwig's reporting on its annual list of the top 25 independent news stories that the corporate media ignored. Follow him on Twitter: @ludwig_mike.
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