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Democracy, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Russia, South Africa
— I was born in a crossfire hurricane…
These are the opening words of the lyrics of the iconic 1968 Rolling Stones tune Jumping Jack Flash (Front man Mick Jagger above). Those not familiar with it—and I am sure there must be few in the forgotten corners of the planet—will recognise it by clicking on THIS link. I have personally played it on-stage more times than I care to confess.
I never knew that I was playing the likely future theme song of the investigation into President Trump's collusion with Russia in cheating Hillary Clinton out of her Ordained Victory… errr… oops…sorry… I meant to say the Report on the Investigation Into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election. I beg forgiveness from all Americans, because anyone forced to watch CNN at an airport over the past well-nigh 30 months would have thought the former was the true title of the investigation.
Enter "James Bond"
Most people seem to think it started with the appointment of Robert Mueller as Special Prosecutor in 2017, but, in fact, this really bad B-movie spy story started in 2016, long before the election and as the investigation into Hillary Clinton's server conduct came to a close. It started with an FBI investigation named Crossfire Hurricane.
I think the FBI top bunch had in mind something more like the James Bond theme, but, in their urge to exonerate Hillary Clinton and implicate the future president, they seemed to forget that Trump might win. In the end, when they failed, they put into effect Plan B, which was to destroy the presidency of the newly elected Donald Trump. For this they had to have a Special Prosecutor. And the rest is now history.
But, wait, the James Bond theme tune may yet be relevant, because it turns out Hillary's team paid for a salacious report, composed of complete rubbish, and put together by…. wait for it…. a British ex-spy with Russian contacts. He was Christopher Steele (below).
I guess I'm giving away my age with THIS theme tune. This has yet to be investigated for criminal conduct. It seemed much more important to the US Justice Department and FBI to investigate the properly elected President.
Well, after two years of putting North America through hell, during which time CNN turned themselves into the "Bile & Vomit Channel", being thoroughly incapable of disguising even the hate in their faces, we have the answer:
THERE WAS NO COLLUSION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA.
But this is where it becomes important to read once more the actual title of the Mueller investigation: Report on the Investigation Into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election. So, it was not supposed to be an investigation into whether Donald Trump is a Russian spy, as CNN would have us believe. But they were not alone. MSNBC also harped on this, and the fired Deputy-Chief of the FBI mouthed off incessantly on the subject. But, by then, he had already discredited himself as a witness, as explained by none other than Mueller.
So, where are we today?
The investigation has run its course, it has expired, and it has delivered nothing of note, except to show up various Democrat politicians as repeat liars. As to CNN, there is little that needs to be said. All intelligent people I know have deserted that channel. President Trump stands vindicated. Mueller could not find evidence sufficient to accuse the president of obstruction of justice, let alone indict him. He has left some breadcrumbs for the Democrats to keep sidetracking themselves with. The whole thing has been a thinly disguised effort to discredit the Trump presidency against the backdrop of his opponent securing resources from Russia for her campaign. Guess where the REAL collusion is. The Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, can certainly attempt to use the report to try to impeach Pres. Trump based on information insufficient to charge him with obstruction, but the Republicans who control Senate will not back that effort. Impeachment is not a legal process; it is a political process. I believe all Republicans are hoping the Democrats will try, because it will distract them and most certainly will cost them the next election. It backfired on the Republicans when they tried it with Clinton. It will backfire on the Democrats.
What do the Stones tell us about this?
So what is the state of the fictitious person who was born in the crossfire hurricane? Well, we can ask lead singer of the Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger:
I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead.
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled
How immensely appropriate! Indeed, the collusion investigation is dead. To the extent that this investigation still has any feet, they are certainly bleeding.
Who is Charlie?
Of course, I'm wondering whether ex-FBI chief James Comey styles himself in the role of frontman Mick Jagger, working up the crowd of 1,500,000 people on Copacabana Beach in the opening link. Comey has tried to work up 150 million people. But the most important question is, who is in the role of Charlie Watts, the drummer. He is the one providing the background beat of the group; the one who sets the timing – the man WHO CONTROLLED this entire edifice of lies and collusion deception. Attorney-General William Barr now has to find "Charlie".
Only crumbs remain
The Democratic Party people appear to be on their hands and knees scurrying around like cockroaches when the lights go on, looking for breadcrumbs from the report that will allow them to delude themselves further. Indeed the lyrics of the song say:
I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread.
What they really should worry about, is the first line of the last verse:
I was crowned with a spike right through my head.
Do I need to remind the reader that it was not I who decided to launch an investigation into a US presidential candidate using already discredited Russian information and call it Crossfire Hurricane. I just comment on this stuff because (1) I know the song ; (2) I know that Communist places love putting the word "Democratic" in their name to pretend to be something they are not; and (3) President Trump is the first international leader that has realised that something is wrong in South Africa. So, he gets my support.
As to the US Democrats, after this, they should never ever again attempt to lecture me on Democracy, because they clearly cannot handle it. Perhaps they should rename themselves. Oh wait, daddy never taught them how to lose like a man.
Anyway, I never really was a Stones fan.
Posted by Harry Booyens in Britain & South Africa, Farm Attacks, Land & Farm Murders, The US & South Africa
African National Congress (ANC), Donald Trump, Farm Attacks, Stuart Agnew, UK Independence Party
— Stuart Agnew is a Member of the European Parliament for the Eastern Counties (of England) constituency. More particularly, he is a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), the party formerly led by the very vocal Nigel Farage, who spearheaded Britain's agreed exit from the European Union.
He visited South Africa in the last few days, along with a European Parliament colleague, Danilo Lancini of the Lega Party in Italy. The Lega party is rapidly gaining support in the ruling coalition government. The two-man delegation met in South Africa with Advocate Anton Alberts of the Freedom Front Plus. Alberts commented that both visitors were visibly shocked at the circumstances in South Africa:
The disbelief on their faces is something that I will never forget. Even though Europe and Britain are under immense political and social pressure, they did not think that things could get this bad in a country like South Africa.
The delegation undertook to take these matters up with the EU Parliament. Mr Lancini also committed to take up the subject of the outrages in South Africa specifically with the Italian government.
It is heartening to see Europeans standing up and getting counted. Thus far, not a single North American Congressman has so much as uttered a word on the subject of South Africa. Of course President Trump has spoken on the subject, but he was met with a torrent of derision in the United States. Perhaps the situation is separating the men from the boys? Americans should take note. A few honourable Europeans and Brits are taking a stand, while the American politicians, except for President Trump and John Sullivan, his Deputy Secretary of State, are nowhere to be found.
Why the silence boys? You were quick to vote en masse to overturn president Reagan's veto of comprhensive sanctions against South Africa in the late eighties. How about you do the right thing for a change and pressure the voilently racist ANC regime in South Africa? What was that about sauce and geese and ganders again….? Need I remind you that the old National Party government did not preach the killing of Black people from a stage; but the present Black parliamentarians do exactly that regarding Whites?
Mr. Agnew has gone so far as to publicise the South African situation on his political website.
We have here a man separated from the boys, think you not?
The Mfecane: Twenty years of Hell on Earth
Posted by Harry Booyens in Farm Attacks, Land & Farm Murders, South African History, The US & South Africa
Donald Trump, Farm Attacks, Land expropriation without compensation, South Africa
—Today I make available the next chapter in my series titled Who stole the Land? This latest Chapter may be read HERE. I believe it is of paramount importance for all South Africans, and those elsewhere with a sense of justice, to make themselves familiar with the events in this chapter. I say this, because this history completely demolishes the very foundation of the ANC government's efforts to destroy the Brown and White people of the country.
It is dedicated to the most terrible twenty years in the History of Southern Africa outside the Cape Colony. It all started with the accession of Shaka to the throne of the rather insignificant Zulu nation, one of many in the constellation of Nguni people along the east coast of what is now South Africa. The consequences would be one of the most horrific periods in the history of Mankind anywhere on Earth. One has to be devoid of a heart not to have sympathy for the people affected by this horror.
It has taken a long time to put together for two reasons:
Firstly, it required considerable research and digging to find all the texts. Along with that, I have done my very best to find online accessible versions of the texts I quote in evidence. There is no use to me suggesting to an Internet audience that I have the evidence, if I cannot put it in front of their eyes. I rely on British and French missionaries for almost all the first hand evidence. Neither were well-disposed toward the White population of the region.
Secondly, there is a growing effort, supported by the present government of South Africa, to pretend the events in this chapter never even happened. The truth does not sit well with its agenda. I felt it only correct to put the hard, horrible, inhuman evidence directly where people capable of independent thought can see it for themselves.
The overall result of the events in this chapter was the effective depopulation of much of the interior of the present South Africa north of the Orange River by 1836. Only the furthest northeastern Black people in the country were relatively unaffected by the events. The effects of the Mfecane were felt almost to the equator and defined the populations of what are now the independent countries of Botswana and Lesotho.
The parallels between the histories of USA and South Africa are quite striking. However, this chapter will hopefully make it clear to Americans why South Africa's history differs profoundly from theirs when it comes to the matter of relations between Whites and Blacks. It also provides historic background to the comments made by President Trump regarding farm killings in South Africa.
South Africa : Situation Critical
African National Congress (ANC), Cyril Ramaphosa, Donald Trump, Land expropriation without compensation, South Africa
—In the 48 hours between Tuesday and Thursday of this past week, there were no fewer than five attacks on white farmers and their families in South Africa. At the same time, the leader of the third largest party in parliament, the ex-leader of the ANC Youth League/"Hitler Jugend" – Julius Malema, sings "Kill the Boer; kill the Farmer" and works up his party faithful against white people.
Expropriation of property Without Compensation
Tuesday this week the ruling Soviet-trained ANC government-controlled National Assembly (above) approved a final report by a Select Committee proposing the Expropriation of property Without Compensation (EWC : outright Theft via Democracy). "When the blood flows it will be on your hands," Member of Parliament Anton Alberts said in the direction of the ANC benches.
That Committee was chaired by Jeremy Cronin, the leading and most visible Communist in the country, and its hearings were a complete farce. It is important to note that the change to the constitution refers to PROPERTY and not to just LAND. Even former President Thabo Mbeki has called the plan RACIST.
• To implement this EWC, the original constitution agreed by Nelson Mandela would have to be changed.
• In particular, Section 25 of that Constitution dealing with property rights would need to be changed, as it protects property rights of individuals as is the case in the USA.
• That Constitution and that section in particular formed the basis of the end of White rule in South Africa. It was a key element of the 1994 deal.
• 27 April 2019 will be exactly 25 years after the election that brought Mandela to power.
• About a year ago the ANC announced that it was ready to implement THE SECOND PHASE Of its REVOLUTION. This here now is it.
The Reasoning of the ANC Government
The reason the ANC gives for implementing EWC, is that
• white people are supposedly not selling their farms fast enough to the government; and that
• white farmers supposedly own a disproportionate fraction of the land. 80-90% is often quoted; also by BBC and CNN.
• the government is also not giving the farms that HAVE been acquired to aspirant Black farmers.
• Last Friday, a rare Black commercial farmer sued the government for NOT transferring title to him for a farm he acquired via the EXISTING "willing buyer-willing seller" scheme16 YEARS AGO.
• I have it on the authority of a senior Agricultural Union Manager that the government has not transferred title to any Black farmers on expropriated land since 2009.
The government promotes, or at the very least condones and supports, the concept that
• white people are supposed "Invaders" and that they supposedly "Stole" the land;
• they "Should give it back" to its "rightful owners" who are in their view "Black South Africans"; and that
• "LAND" is the overwhelmingly big issue of the Nation
The Reality
There are four thruths involved here:
1. The truth about Land Ownership:
• White farmers own exactly 21.8% of the land in South Africa, calculated using THE GOVERNMENT's OWN REPORT and the CIA's stated surface area of South Africa.
• The vast majority of the white owned land is in the low yield semi-desert west of the country (below) – much like Southern Nevada or Southern Arizona.
• The Government owns all the well-watered old Black Homelands except Kwa-Zulu, which was put in trust for the Zulu people by the old White Gvt. in 1994 to get them into the election. Ironic, eh?
• Whites may not own farms in those Apartheid Era Black Homelands.
• One cannot raise a mortgage from a Bank against land owned by the government; keeping title from Black people therefore condemns them to failure in developing that land.
2. The truth about Arable Land:
• It is the white farmers who have developed the dry land farming country in the east since at least 1852 and turned it into the greatest cornfields of Africa.
• The Black peoples, in those areas where they did control land, never developed it. They just practiced subsistence farming.
• In evidence: there is not a single grain silo in any of the old Black Homelands where black farmers did not hold title. That pretty much says it all.
3. The truth about expropriation:
• The estates that WERE transferred mostly decayed to nothing and lie useless and unproductive (e.g. the Lipton Tea case, etc);
• The ANC itself confessed 6 years ago that nine tenths of formerly white farms given to black communities had gone dormant; moreover
• Repeated surveys show that when Black communities are given the option of financial reward or the land as part of existing expropriation deals, they prefer the money.
4. The truthful reasons behind EWC:
• The expropriation case judges themselves complain that Black lawyers are getting rich off the state by hanging up expropriation cases.
• EWC will get the Black Government Racist Black votes and will save them having to pay for the land they want to take from Whites.
• It has nothing to do with giving Black people land; it has everything to do with visibly "sticking it to" White people.
• The farm attacks are used to scare the farmers off their land and to reduce the price they will charge for their farms.
• The threat of EWC destroys land value (who wants to buy what can be simply taken by a government) and therefore crashes the financial estates of the farmers.
• As the treasurer of the Limpopo Black Farmers Union stated several years ago already, the government is "concerned to put people on the land instead of putting farmers in agriculture" (see page 9 of that report).
Despite these four major points, the international formal media fawns on the SA government, perpetuates the lie about the land and the history, and strengthens the hand of the farm attackers, who, as a result, feel they have the tacit support of the government and the nodding consent of the world in killing white farmers.
The Deeper Plan:
• On 16 December 1971, the leader of the ANC (Oliver Tambo) stated, "The White enemy in South Africa can and must be defeated" (Sechaba, Vol.6, No.2 ( Feb. 1972). They meant it. Why would BBC and CNN be denying it now? These people, who called me as an 18 year old school kid an "enemy" because of my skin color, are now the government.
• They targeted farmers before: Page 19 of the 1986 CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate with the above cover states: "Most ANC bombings since late last year have been directed against civilian rather than government targets. A recent ANC statement specifically noted that white farmers and urban white males were considered by the ANC as part of the government's "Security forces" and were valid targets for ANC operations". My suggestion to any American reader is READ THAT HEAVILY REDACTED DOCUMENT.
Why exactly is anyone surprised at what is now happening?
Pres. Trump SHOULD be concerned
Nevertheless, the simple truth IS getting out, and it is starting to worry CNN. See Minute 1.39 in THIS interview of CNN with president Ramaphosa (above) where David McKenzie mentions it. Ramaphosa talks about a "tiny minority view". He is correct: that tiny minority is the 10% that all white people together make up of the population. And those are the people whose property he aims to take. Remember, this is the man who negotiated the old government out of power. I put it to you:
• Ramaphosa is a very competent and very dangerous man.
• He would run rings around most American politicians.
• As leader of a Party listed as a Terrorist Organization by Pres. Ronald Reagan, he commands an economy of $767 Billion USD per annum with revenues of $92 Billion per annum
• His biggest trading partner is China
• South Africa is the world's largest producer of chrome, manganese, platinum, and vanadium and the second largest producer of palladium and zirconium.
Every American's automobile has some South Africa inside it.
President Trump has every reason to be concerned about South Africa. It is time for him to fire up the key Western Countries to put a stop to this outrage.
It is also time that the Canadian Government developed a conscience on the subject. For a country that prides itself on its occupation of moral high ground, it is disgracefully quiet… It backed the ANC to the hilt. Now what?…… eh?
The World of the Black People: 1816
Posted by Harry Booyens in AmaBhulu News, Farm Attacks, Land & Farm Murders, South African History
—Today I publish the next chapter in my Who stole the Land? series. Chapter 6: The World of the Black People before the Mfecane:1816 provides the lay of the land and the distribution of the Black peoplpes of South Africa in the 1816-1822 period. The Mfecane, the Great Crushing, started in the Natal region in 1816 at the hand of the amaZulu and spilled over the Drakensberg Mountain range onto the Plains of the interior in 1822. The Mfecane itself will be the next chapter. It is after that Mfecane that the White Christian Trekkers moved into the interior. So this picture is important to understand when anyone wants to debate the matter of LAND in South Africa.
This new Chapter 6 tells the reader exactly who is who during the ensuing mayhem. The ba'Tlokwa of Chapter 6 become the dreaded Mantatee Host of Chapter 7. The amaHlubi of Northern Natal in Chapter 6 become the amaFengu (the Beggar People) of Chapter 7. Peoples who lived in a part of the country that looks like Florida in the USA, end up in places that look like Wyomng. The well laid out peoples of Chapter 6 are scrambled, in some cases to near the equator, in chapter 7. It is therefore important for the reader to understand the layout of the map in Chapter 6 before the future history of South Africa can be understood and appreciated. Chapter 7 will introduce the reader to a period of wanton murderous bloodletting, the likes of which the world had never seen before, nor since. It will be a reduction of the state of Mankind as at no other time in human history. All this is built into the psyche of South Africans of all colours, and the rest of the innocent world apparently has no clue.
It is high time they did.
It is this kind of thing that advisors to President Trump should understand. It is this kind of thing that the Western Media needs to understand before baying for the blood of Christian farmers just because they are white. It is this kind of thing that people like the moPedi* Julius Malema needs to understand before they sing, "Kill the farmer". It is this kind of thing his audience needs to understand when he tells them to kill farmers as in the video below (click on the image).
*: moPedi -a single person of Pedi descent.
I need to ask my Black friends from South Africa to forgive me if I have left out their specific people in this chapter. There are so very many, and they all suffered, but I had to make a choice as to who I focus on in order to tell the general history. Many isiZulu speaking peoples and Tswana peoples will be scattered to the wind in Chapter 7, but in Chapter 6 I could put only a limited number of them on the map, otherwise it would have obscured the map and utterly confused non-South Africans. The bloodsoaked scope of the utter hell and misery unleashed in Chapter 7 is so great that it is difficult to capture it on paper. It is a travesty that there is not a single movie anywhere that addresses it.
"We are against tyranny, and tyranny is in South Africa"
Posted by Harry Booyens in Land & Farm Murders, Race Relations, The US & South Africa
African National Congress (ANC), Donald Trump, Julius Malema, Land expropriation without compensation
These were the words of Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, while driving Comprehensive Sanctions against South Africa through the United States Congress in 1986. Those sanctions forced White Christian South Africans to submit to Black African Rule, submerging them into a Rwanda-like state. He was obviously swayed by what he saw and heard in the media, a media that has since been revealed for what it is.
Enter President Reagan
President Reagan knew better, and vetoed the Sanctions Bill, because he had access to the CIA reports confirming that Nelson Mandela's ANC was targeting civilians. I actually have a 1986 CIA report on the situation. I know exactly what it says. Pat Buchanan also resisted, but Senator Lugar (below) persisted with the help of the Media. The consequences today of his 1986 policy are also shown in the graphic.
Farm Attacks : Driving whites off the Land
Since Mandela took office in South Africa, several thousand white farmers have been murderd, often tortured to death. The graphic shows some of the victims and an informal memorial to those who did not survive. The formal media refuses to report on this. After all, surely they could not have been wrong, could they? Yes, they were and they always reported only one side of the story! And now they have to either bury the news and the truth or confess. They have decided to bury it and play deaf, dumb and blind. But Americans now know what they have with them.
No, this is not what Americans know as Eminent Domain; this is Theft and Nationalization of land to which white farmers hold formal title. In fact, most have done so for many generations. In the United States, the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment assures that a property holder will be compensated if land is required by the state under Eminent Domain. In South Africa there is an article in the Constitution that grants roughly the same rights. It reads:
Property may be expropriated only in terms of law of general application—
(a) for a public purpose or in the public interest; and
(b) subject to compensation, the amount of which and the time and manner of payment of which have either been agreed to by those affected or decided or approved by a court.
However, this week, on 15 November 2018, the South African Commission on Land Expropriation, launched and led by a senior Communist associated with Mandela's ruling ANC Party, returned a report in favor of Land Expropriation WITHOUT COMPENSATION (read "from white owners, particularly farmers"). This is the equivalent of Scrapping Just Compensation in the United States Constitution. It was a few months short of a quarter century after White South Africans accepted Black African Rule and lost all say in their own country and future.
Democracy is become Tyranny.
The process will now find its way through parliament where the ANC and its little brother, the black racist extremist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) will get the requisite number of votes to change the much lauded South African Constitution accordingly. The leader of the EFF, Julius Malema, is shown below. Click on the image to see a video of him showing what he wants done to white people. He is now to Senator Lugar, what Mugabe was to Jimmy Carter. At least Carter realised he made a mistake, but 40,000 were dead before he saw the light.
This is how Civilization ends. Not with a bang, but with a whimper, its defenders denounced by all who freeload on that Civilization and take it for granted. It is not the first time the Afrikaner has been here as a people. In 1899, a text was written by the Secretary of State of the Old South African Republic (Transvaal Boer Republic), as that country's tiny farmers' militia faced war with the mightiest power on earth, Great Britain. It would end in Concentration Camps, more than 26,000 women and children dead in those camps, and two innocent democratic republics of farming folks burnt to the ground and all farm stock killed because the farmers would not stop fighting for their independence from Britain. It was also the first nail in the coffin of the British Empire, which visibly lost its morality in the process. I quote from the text:
If the reading public believe a hundredth part of the enormities which have been laid at the door of our people and Government, they must be irresistibly forced to the conclusion that this Republic is a den of thieves and a sink of iniquity, a people, in fact, the very existence of which is a blot upon humanity, and a nuisance to mankind…In this awful turning point in the history of South Africa, on the eve of the conflict which threatens to exterminate our people, it behooves us to speak the truth in what may be, perchance, our last message to the world.
F.W. Reitz
Secretary of State for the South African Republic (Transvaal)
From his book "A Century of Wrong" (1899)
Sounds familiar, does it not? Two years after he wrote these words, on 20 November 1901, the New York Times would claim that the Afrikaner women could play tennis all day if they liked in the concentration camps. Click on that link and see for yourself. In fact, they were dying by the thousands….. but no report from the NYT on that.
What reality looked like at the time
I never thought the NYT would find itself in the same camp as Holocaust Deniers. Here is the actual reality (below): Elizabeth van Zyl in the Bloemfontein Concentration Camp in 1901, the photo taken by a British woman who actually had a soul and came to help: Emily Hobhouse. Our nation erected a Women's Memorial with a central sculpture that she sketched and we named the town Hobhouse after her. After the war, South Africans collected money for her for a house in England. She died in 1926, and her ashes were brought to South Africa and interred at the Monument.
Where else in the world is there an example of this form of national Christian gratitude to a member of the enemy? That's who we are. But today, a quarter century after getting rid of Apartheid, our closest international cousins renounce us. As a Danish professor told me to my face in 1980, "You should just die!" Apparently, nothing has changed since then.
What is the United States' Position?
The White Christians have lost all hope for a future under the U.S.S.R trained ANC in charge of South Africa. White South Africans helped the United States unquestioningly in two World Wars; my own father-in-law flew ground cover in his Spitfire Mk.9 for American soldiers fighting their way up the spine of Italy in WWII; my own uncle rode motor-bike dispatch in the same war in Italy; our pilots died along with their American comrades in Korea, flying P-51s and F-86 Sabres (below) as part of US fighter wings; we went into Angola to help the USA in 1975 at its specific request, as shown in AmaBhulu, facing the might of the U.S.S.R and its surrogates.
Now is our Moment of Need as a people and we beg Americans to show their true character and stand up for us. South Africans trust that President Trump will now assume a clear position on the matter and clarify the position of the United States with respect to the monstrous ANC and EFF and their tyranny.
My Question
What will now follow is the direct handiwork of the 99th US Congress in 1986 and Bill Clinton, who had the watch over matters from 1992 to 1996. Clinton became infatuated with the ANC's Mandela, just as Jimmy Carter had with Robert Mugabe, some 14 years earlier. We all know how Mugabe turned out, while Mandela was revealed on the night of his death to have been a Communist Party Politburo Member. The 99th US Congress had a Senate in which the Republicans had a majority, yet it voted 78 to 21 to overturn President Reagan's veto against Comprehensive Sanctions against South Africa. That was what eventually forced white South Africans into National Suicide under Mandela's ANC. And the Republican Senator who is responsible for that veto was Republican Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) who said,
We are against tyranny, and tyranny is in South Africa.
Senator Lugar eventually lost his Senate seat, but he is still alive and 86 years old. He is a contemporary of my mother, whose apartment building was bombed by Mandela's terrorists a few months BEFORE he, Lugar, made his decisions. Innocent white women and children were killed.
I should like to ask him,
Senator, were you not against tyranny, Sir? Tell us, Senator, why are you not objecting now? In 1986 you decided without having all the facts; now you have them. And you can see the consequences of your actions. What is your decision, Sir? You still have time to fix what you have done. You do NOT have to be in the Senate to stand up and get counted, Sir.


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IG redeploys Edgal, appoints Egbetokun acting Lagos CP
Adelani Adepegba , Abuja
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has redeployed the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal.
Sources said Edgal had been directed to take charge of the Explosives and Ordnance Disposal Unit at the Force headquarters, Abuja.
Our correspondent gathered on Sunday that CP Kayode Egbetokun had been directed to take over from Edgal as acting police commissioner in the state.
It could not be immediately ascertained if Egbetokun would be made the substantive CP.
The new acting Lagos Police boss was the CP in charge of Explosives and Ordnance Unit.
He also supervised the Osun governorship election in Ikire town.
A source said, "The redeployment of Egbetokun to Lagos was part of the police operational strategies ahead of the 2019 general elections. Recall that a number of senior police officers, including command Commissioners of Police had been redeployed in the past few weeks."
Findings indicate that the police leadership had in the past weeks redeployed the CPs in Zamfara, Edo, Ekiti, Imo and Bauchi commands.
This is coming against the backdrop of the expected retirement of the IG who would clock 60 years on Tuesday.
Egbetokun served as the Commander, Rapid Response Squad, Lagos, Squadron Commander, Mopol 5, Benin, Benin City, Officer-in-Charge, Anti-Fraud Unit, FCT Command, Abuja, Chief Superintendent of Police, Administration, Lagos State Command Headquarters, Ikeja, Area Commander, Osogbo, Osun State Command, and Area Commander, Gusau, Zamfara State Command, among others.
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Egbetokun graduated from the University of Lagos, Akoka, Yaba, Lagos, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in June 1987 and lectured Mathematics briefly at Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, before his enlistment in the Nigeria Police Force.
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Abortion rights, marriage equality: The North is Now!
By Eleanor Crossey Malone Over three-quarters of MPs in the House of Commons have voted to extend abortion rights and equal marriage here via amendments to the Northern Ireland Bill. If made into law, the amendments would remove the North from the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, decriminalising abortion, in the event that Stormont does not resume by 22 ...
New assault on abortion rights in the US
By Lucy Marron In May, the Alabama legislature passed a near total ban on abortion, the most restrictive state law in the US since the Roe v. Wade ruling made access to terminations a federal right in 1973. This bill makes abortion illegal at any stage of pregnancy, except when the pregnant person's life is at risk, and it threatens ...
Brutal attack on abortion rights in the US
By Keely Mullen, Socialist Alternative (sister organisation of the Socialist Party in Ireland) In late May, the Republican-controlled Alabama Legislature passed, and the governor signed, a near complete ban on abortion. This is now the most restrictive state law on abortion in the country since the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision in 1973. This Alabama bill makes abortion illegal at any ...
International Women's Day 2019: The case for socialist feminism
By Keishia Taylor International Women's Day was established by socialist women as a day of struggle against oppression and exploitation meted out by the capitalist system. A hundred years later, we have won the vote and equal rights by law, but women continue to be at much higher risk of poverty, abuse and harassment than men. Opposing violence The ...
North: We won't wait! Abortion rights now!
In the referendum in May 2018, the Republic of Ireland saw 66.4% of the people vote Yes to repeal the anti-choice Eighth Amendment, and abortion is now freely available up to 12 weeks into pregnancy. The archaic laws on abortion in Northern Ireland have been found to breach the European Convention on Human Rights. Northern Ireland is a state where ...
Interview with Argentinian pro-choice activist
The Socialist spoke to Lucia, a pro-choice activist from Argentina living in Ireland, about the recent movement there for bodily autonomy that has seen hundreds of thousands take to the streets in recent months. What made you get involved in the movement? "I am an activist in a political organization so for several years I have been in contact with ...
Clamouring demand grows to…Separate Church & State
By Cillian Gillespie The eighth amendment, passed in September 1983, symbolised everything that is insidious and rotten in the historic tie that has bound the Catholic Church and the Southern Irish State together since its foundation in 1922. It's passing ensured that right wing, misogynistic Catholic doctrine would be written into law, equating as it did, the life of a ...
Defending ROSA & a combative Socialist Feminist approach
The historic victory for the abortion rights has been a beacon for all those fighting misogyny worldwide. Unfortunately, in this context, ROSA has been subject to a smear campaign of sorts online. Some tweets and social media posts even lump ROSA in with right wing politicians who our movement had to fight head-on for years even for the right to ...
The 8th Repealed- How Yes was won
By Socialist Party reporters The referendum to scrap the ban on abortion was easily passed with 66.4% to 33.6% on a turnout of over 64%, the highest ever for a referendum in Ireland. The result was nearly an exact reversal of the 1983 vote which imposed the ban, except nearly a million more voted this time. As the government, in ...
Socialist, pro-choice TD speaks- Interview with Ruth Coppinger
Carah Daniel spoke with Socialist Party member and Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger about the upcoming referendum to repeal the 8th and how the battle for abortion rights can be won in Ireland. Ruth was also a member of the Committee on the Eighth Amendment. What was it that brought about the committee on the 8th amendment? The Committee was set ...


India's latest infrastructure investment trust listing, or InvIT, was a success by most accounts, raising Rp32bn ($484m) for IndInfravit Trust. But the lack of liquidity in the secondary market has exposed it as a hollow victory. More needs to be done if the asset class is to become a viable fundraising tool.
IndInfravit, a unit of Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro, listed India's third InvIT last week. It opted for a private placement that skipped high net worth investors in favour of a direct sale to institutional accounts.
The issuer had good reasons for doing so. Wealthy investors are no longer keen on InvITs as the asset class continues to underperform. At the time of writing, IRB InvIT Fund and India Grid Trust, the only listed infrastructure trusts, were still trading below their IPO prices.
That prompted IndInfravit and bookrunners Citi and ICICI Securities to take a different approach. Instead of a regular public bookbuild, they sold a majority of the units to Germany's Allianz Capital Partners and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which became anchor investors for 55% of the flotation.
But while IndInfravit achieved its fundraising goals, the use of the private placement is clearly no silver bullet for the InvIT market.
Not a single unit was traded on IndInfravit's debut last Wednesday, and activity remained thin in the days that followed. This was, of course, the expected result, since the units were placed only with long-term investors. The lack of any retail accounts in the book led to the sharp drop-off in liquidity.
As a yield instrument, it could be argued that InvITs should trade like fixed income rather than equity. But to have daily turnover of less than 1%, as has been the case with IndInfravit, seems untenable. The regulator may need to rethink its position of barring retail investors from participating in InvITs.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has its own reasons for locking out mom-and-pop investors from the market, but as long as this is the case, the long-term development of InvITs will be hampered and they will struggle to gain wider acceptance.
If InvITs remain illiquid instruments with prices that barely budge, then they are no better than private market transactions and might as well have stayed private. Calling them "listings" is an oxymoron.
The current model works if issuers want to be "one-and-done" trades, a term for companies that raise funds at the point of listing and never tap the market again.
But this is a pity considering India's vast infrastructure funding needs, and the ability of listings to provide an additional channel of financing to shift financial risk — and burden — away from the banking sector, bond investors and the government. It is a tremendous missed opportunity.
The trajectory of India's nascent InvITs have been troubled so far, but it does not have to stay that way. Their potential stretches father than the country's highways. But the fundraising model needs retooling. It is time to take another look.


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The post-show applause was little more than a polite courtesy, as many audience members were left aghast at the sight of the sloppy and seemingly unfinished designs, as well as the glimpse of sequined pasties covering models' breasts as the strutted the runway in blazers which would flap open — revealing nothing underneath.
"The reviews are in for the actress Lindsay Lohan's controversial turn as a hired muse for the house of Emanuel Ungaro, and let's just say her arrival was greeted by critics as if a McDonald's fry cook had been installed as the chef of a three-star Michelin restaurant," wrote the NY Times' Eric Wilson.
WHY do people like Lindsay Lohan?? She's pointless. She's a horrendous actress and a fashion catastrophe. Even if she wore eyeglasses, she would not look smart… because she isn't smart!! I wish she would go away.


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Driver Retention: Get Shippers on your Side
October 21, 2021 • By Vesna Brajkovic • Bookmark +
If you have to make a driver wait more than an hour a day on a load, in their mind, they're not making money," explains Sherri Garner-Brumbaugh, president and CEO of Findlay, Ohio-based Garner Trucking. "They're going to seek employment somewhere else where they can drop a trailer and keep moving.
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Prepare to say "so long" to the old motto that the customer is always right. In the fleet world, where good, qualified drivers are like gold dust, fleet managers must advocate for better treatment and support of drivers when they're picking up and dropping off loads.
With spot and contract rates at record highs (albeit beginning to normalize as we head into 2022), there's no time like now to add driver needs to discussions and negotiations with new and existing shipping partners.
There are many things a carrier can do to make its company one that drivers want to come back to. Some fleets offer in-house mentorship programs, form driver advisory councils… or build a 61,000-square-foot facility with luxury driver amenities like a spa, daycare, basketball court and healthcare services.
But what happens when the driver leaves his or her base and heads to its first customer? Even the best driver retention practices can make little difference if a driver is met with disrespect or disorganization while working with customers. Negative experiences at a shipper or receiver can contribute to overall job dissatisfaction.
If the problem isn't happening in-house, is it out of a fleet's control? Not entirely.
Here are four ways fleet managers can work toward a complete supply chain that takes care of their drivers no matter the point in their journey.
1. Negotiate… and be willing to walk away.
It's a motor carriers' market right now. High demand and tight capacity, exacerbated by a shortage of drivers, means freight rates are booming.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the second half of 2020, consumer purchasing increased more than 35% above the yearly normal, explains Brent Hutto, chief relationship officer with Truckstop.com.
"This change resulted in a market that peaked at 1.8 million loads in a single day and rates of $3.17 per mile," he says.
Net profit margins for public for-hire carriers were up 2.2 percentage points year over year to 7.2%, according to ACT Research. For less-than-truckload, it was up 1.2 percentage points year over year to 4.2%.
The current supply and demand situation gives motor carriers the upper hand in negotiations with customers, which means now is the best time to make drivers a focus of the conversation. While it's not easy to talk with every customer, such discussions are essential to ensuring drivers are going to have the experience they hope for: efficient and respectful.
"It's in our best interest to have a driver-centric organization," explains Sherri Garner-Brumbaugh, president and CEO of Findlay, Ohio-based Garner Trucking. "And that's a shift in culture a little bit. We're friendly to our drivers, and the third party that's coming in to help us deliver products is, too."
To ensure that the shippers Garner works with can treat their drivers as valued partners, Garner — a five-time honoree of CarriersEdge and Truckload Carriers Association's Best Fleets to Drive For — makes driver needs a part of the vetting process when speaking with potential customers.
Some fleets — such as Central Oregon Truck Co., Indiana-based Halvor Lines, Illinois-based Nussbaum Transportation, milk and dairy hauler Western Dairy Transport, and Nebraska-based Fremont Contract Carriers — use a customer scorecard to rate loads and customers. These scores can then be taken into the next contract negotiation. Detention or dwell time is one criterion that can show a direct or indirect effect on profitability.
"The indirect effect is that drivers simply do not like waiting, especially since many of them only get paid while the truck's wheels are turning," explains Chris Henry, vice president of customer experience and recognition programs at CarriersEdge. "As a result, increased detention time will negatively affect turnover." The use of customer scorecards was mentioned by several fleets nominated in the Best Fleets to Drive For program.
These ratings are typically combined with open text comments to more specifically pinpoint the issues affecting their rating, such as access to facilities, treatment by personnel, and available parking.
Even with a vetting process or more informed negotiations, drivers may still report complaints about a shipper. Fleets must be willing to step in or step away in order to advocate for their drivers.
"If [a shipper] has a problem, and they have a receiving clerk that's a jerk, they probably know it," says Jeff Clark, who has been a truck driver for more than 30 years. It's no secret anymore who "problem" shippers are, he adds. Wait times alone (which can now be tracked more easily, thanks to electronic logging devices and other technology) can be a great indicator that something is being lost in translation.
Clark says he relies on his company's customer service reps to handle situations that may arise while picking up a load. "I'm not a customer service person, I'm a truck driver," he says, adding that it's not worth it to argue with a shipper or receiver. That's where it pays off to have a team behind the driver.
"Make sure that the driver issues are not falling on deaf ears," says David Heller, TCA's VP of government affairs. "If it's important for the driver to have that conversation, it's important that that conversation be addressed."
Garner Trucking is one fleet that doesn't have much tolerance for repeat offenders.
"If we have a poor-acting shipper, and our drivers complain about them? They're gone," Brumbaugh says. "I mean that in the most respect I can to my customers, but you have to help us retain our drivers. Our shipping community has to help us retain our drivers. We're in this together."
2. Give drivers 'the details.'
Clark says as a driver, knowing what to expect going in makes a difference in the overall experience at a shipper.
Before committing equipment to a customer, trucking companies should nail down the details of the shipping and receiving environment. These details are essential to share with drivers so they know what to expect when arriving at a location.
The National Industrial Transportation League and TCA recently rereleased guidelines on good business relations between carriers, drivers, shippers and receivers. Those guidelines advise carriers to "give clear instructions to drivers on their responsibilities for service and contract requirements expected by shippers and receivers."
Here are a few questions to ask a potential shipper:
What are the windows of shipping and receiving?
Can we drop and hook?
Is there a place to park when waiting to load or unload?
Is there overnight parking available?
What amenities are available for drivers?
Fleets should transfer this information, as they do with their typical load information, into their transportation management system.
3. Advocate for driver access to facilities.
A shipper or receiver with a secure, well-lit parking lot can be a safe haven for a driver when truck stops are miles and miles away and drivers need to take their 10-hour break. A waiting room with some coffee during long wait times can be a welcome bonus. Access to a bathroom after a driver has been on the road for hours? That's not always a given, and it can be a real problem.
During the pandemic, drivers have had even more trouble than normal gaining access to basic facilities.
High demand and tight capacity mean fleets have the upper hand in rate negotiations. It may be the perfect time to bring driver needs — like access to basic facilities — into the conversation when vetting potential customers.
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"It's been even more difficult, because that shipping community or receiving company is wanting less foot traffic on their property," Garner's Brumbaugh says. Although lack of restroom access is not a new driver complaint, she says, "COVID has exaggerated that."
When drivers don't have access to basic facilities like a restroom, or are met with hostility regarding using them, it can create an unwelcoming environment.
"We will blacklist at that point," Brumbaugh says. "That is just inhumane. This isn't the public; these are people coming in that are an extension of your company. You're not going to treat them like this."
4. Invest in time-saving equipment and technology.
A common theme in NITL/TCA's guidelines for good business relations is for all parties (carriers, drivers, shippers and receivers) to respect the time of others in the relationship.
"Finding qualified drivers operating in this industry is dire right now, so making sure that the drivers who are there are treated like human beings, so to speak, is obviously just good business practice," says TCA's Heller. "It's good for humanity, and it makes the driver feel welcomed and part of an industry that truly needs them, without a doubt. That's value number one, but [also] working in the best partnerships so that a driver's time is valued."
Drivers make money by rolling down the road, so, at the end of the day, time-saving efforts go a long way in retaining drivers and making them feel their time is valued.
"One of those places that keeps you for five or six hours? I'm not going back," Clark says.
That's why drop-and-hook opportunities are popular among drivers, and shippers can benefit if they're willing to work toward making those opportunities available, effective, and efficient.
"If you have to make a driver wait more than an hour a day on a load, in their mind, they're not making money," explains Garner's Brumbaugh. "They're going to seek employment somewhere else where they can drop a trailer and keep moving."
Drop-and-hook opportunities are popular among drivers, so many fleets seek out or prioritize shippers that offer it.
Large carriers such as Schneider and J.B. Hunt have been able to develop their own trailer-pool systems to increase their ability to offer drop-and-hook freight to drivers. But load-matching and logistics management technologies are making it easier for smaller carriers and shippers to connect on these "power-only" loads, as well.
"One of the things that's most valuable to the drivers out there today is time," Heller says. "We're not talking about expediting freight delivery, we're talking about scheduling and keeping it on time. So that that a driver can get in and out, and out to their next load, so that their time is not wasted."
By viewing shipper relations as an essential part of driver retention, a fleet can offer its valuable drivers greater support, and perhaps a greater chance of staying in the industry.
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According to the website of the Groundhog Club out of Punxsutawney, Pa., the following poetic proclamation was announced on their website Feb. 2: Punxsutawney Phil, the King of the groundhogs, seer of seers, prognosticator of prognosticators, weather prophet without peer, was awakened from his burrow at 7:28 a.m. with a tap of the president's cane.
Phil and President Deeley conversed in Groundhogese and Phil directed him to the chosen Prognostication scroll. The president tapped the chosen scroll and directed Phil's Prediction be proclaimed:
My new Knob entrance is a sight to behold. Like my faithful followers, strong and bold. And so ye faithful, there is no shadow to see. An early Spring for you and me.
Nonprofit Training
The Center for Nonprofit Communication at Drury University will conduct a free, four-hour training on Thursday, Feb. 28, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the university's new site, located at 1404 S.E. Eagle Way, Suite 8 in Bentonville.
The "Speak Up" training is designed for those associated with nonprofit organizations (including health care, education, charitable, faith-based, civic and public sector/government). Executives, staff, volunteers and board members of organizations from Northwest Arkansas and surrounding communities are invited to the session to gain valuable information on these topics: Forming clear, concise key messages, developing a message platform, collaborations through community connections and media management.
RSVP required. Register at www.npcomm.org/the-2013-nonprofit-communication-workshop or email request with name and organization to CNC@Drury.edu.
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The City of Fayetteville Community Services Division now has home energy efficiency weatherization kits available for qualifying low-to-moderate income homeowners living in Fayetteville at no charge.
The kits include compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs), a standard faucet aerator, a swivel faucet aerator, a water and energy efficient showerhead, an indoor window insulating kit, a triple-seal door sweep, two packs of weather stripping, two tubes of caulk, a hot water gauge card, a refrigerator thermometer, a wall plate thermometer, and a switch and outlet sealer kit. To apply for the program, please visit the Community Services Division at 125 W. Mountain St. or call (479) 575-8260 for more information.
The Shed is Fayetteville's newest studio and exhibition space downtown at 546 W. Center St., Unit E. It is a place for artists to show work that comes out in the making process and may have come about after starting a new direction or changes in the process. When beginning any new skill set or work, it is challenging to un-hide it from the studio and put it into a public space. This work — still new, fresh and vulnerable — is encouraged to be unveiled at The Shed. Run by Donna Smith and Angelina Bowen, The Shed encourages discussion, exchanging of skills and ideas, and the general merriment that occurs when bringing together artists from the region.
The Shed had grand opening events on Jan. 12 and Jan. 19, The Shed hosted a Pop-Up shop. And on March 2, from10 a.m. to 5 p.m., local artisans will bring in their goods and wears for another Pop-Up Shop. Already scheduled are vintage remakes from Bailey Tyler, hand-drawn patterned dishware and serveware by Angelina Bowen, handmade guitars from vintage cigar boxes by Payton Parker, and collages by Donna Smith. Madelynne Rae Products, including hand-made phone cases, notebooks and jewelry also will be featured. Check them out online at www.Facebook.com/TheShedFayetteville.
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has launched a new Web page and blog dedicated to educating small business owners about the Affordable Care Act. The new tools will serve as a gateway for small business owners connecting them with information. The Affordable Care Act has many beneficial measures, specifically for small businesses, including slowing premium cost growth and increased access to quality, affordable health insurance. SBA's new web page: www.sba.gov/healthcare.
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship are a core focus at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS). This is demonstrated through the unique Bachelor of InnovationTM (BI) degree. There are currently 12 BI degrees, spanning across the College of Business, College of Engineering and Applied Science, College of Education, and the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. This degree combines an emphasis (a major), the innovation core, and a cross-discipline core (students can choose between business, globalization, creative communication, or engineering technology). The innovation core, the heart of the BI, provides students with an experiential education in innovation and entrepreneurship.
In addition to the BI degree, our campus, through the El Pomar Institute for Innovation and Commercialization (EPIIC), regularly hosts events focused on innovation and entrepreneurship such as TEDxUCCS, Lion's Den Pitch Night, Global Game Jam, and EPIIC Nights Speaker Series. Each of these events are meant to encourage students to get involved in an innovative and entrepreneurial space, attempting to reach both students who have ideas and students who want to get involved. These are augmented by entrepreneurship classes offered in the business school for students who want to go deeper. If a startup comes out of one of these events, or if students create a startup independently, The Garage is available as an entrepreneurial workspace for students who are developing companies.
Faculty at UCCS are responsible for the innovative BI degree, but also for creating an atmosphere and curriculum that promotes innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. The curriculum developed for the Innovation Core is designed to facilitate both the mindset shift that is required for students to utilize their innate innovative abilities and the experiential learning that allows students to explore this ability with the purpose of transforming ideas into impact through the projects they work on for class.
Outside of the BI, there are few classes that are focued on innovation or entrepreneurship that are widely available. The majority of entrepreneurship classes are focused in the College of Business.
In addition to these classes, UCCS is home to both El Pomar Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship, Dr. Tom Duenning, and El Pomar Endowed Chair in Innovation, Dr. Terrance Boult, who help facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship on campus.
Within the Bachelor of Innovation™ we have two courses that teach our students about intellectual property and support our university technology transfer function. The first is Business and Intellectual Property Law. In this class, students dive into what intellectual property means and how they can protect their ideas. Students learn how to develop a patent and work together to understand how these skills fit into their futures. The second class, Technical Writing, teaches students how to research, find, and write grants, culminating in writing a real grant proposal for a real client. Both of these classes provide students with hands on experience and skills that they will be able to apply in their future careers. After taking these two classes students have a realistic grasp on what intellectual property is and how they can protect, and leverage it in their future.
In addition to the BI courses, the University of Colorado, as a system, has a Tech Transfer office which has the ability to license patents out to students to facilitate the development of a product or company around intellectual property that the University owns. This gives students the valuable opportunity to create innovations and protecting their intellectual property out of the box.
Pikes Peak Makerspace, a makerspace in downtown Colorado Springs, partners with UCCS to provide a certain number of free memberships to students every semester.
Epicentral Coworking is a coworking space that can be rented out in downtown Colorado Springs.
Peak Startup is a non-profit organization in Colorado Springs that supports entrepreneurial efforts by working with founders, hosting pitch nights and startup weekends, and facilittating education, networking and mentoring.
QUAD Innovation Partnership is an organization collaborating with the four major colleges in Colorado Springs (UCCS, Colorado College, United States Air Force Academy, and Pikes Peak Community College) to help students transfer into the working world by offering internship opportunities to work on projects important to Colorado Springs.
Catalyst Campus is a collaborative system for economic growth in Colorado Springs, they offer a coworking space, collaborative environment for inovation and entrepreneurship.
These resources can provide great value to students interested in innovation and entrepreneurship at UCCS; it is therefore critical that UCCS creates relationships and partnerships with these organizations to provide students with both opportunities and the resources to pursue innovation and entrepreneurship. Many of these relationships exist, but they could be better and more widely utilized.
At this point, the most significant point of outreach in the community at UCCS are the Innovation Teams classes in the Bachelor of Innovation. Teams of students work for clients in the community as innovation consultants for a semester, solving a problem for their client. Clients have provided a variety of projects from mobile application development to market research and business plan development.
QUAD Innovation Partnership, as mentioned above, is helping to fill this need through connecting students to relevant projects in the community outside of the university setting.
Although outreach at UCCS is currently providing significant value in the community, engagement with regional and local economic development efforts should be developed. Creating and maintaining relationships with the Colorado Springs community is critical, as the community is growing quickly, and new innovative and entrepreneurial opportunities are created through the development of empathy and intersections of ideas.
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Carla Cook (Detroit, 1962) es una vocalista de jazz estadounidense. Fue nominada a un Grammy.

Biografía
Nacida en 1962 en Detroit, Míchigan, cuando estudiaba en el Instituto Técnico Cass toca el bajo acústico en la orquesta escolar, estudia voz y piano en los fines de semana y canta en el coro de su iglesia. Un hermano mayor la introdujo al jazz. Cook escogió la voz como su instrumento de elección y se hizo discípula del su ícono de jazz Eddie Jefferson, el fundador de una técnica de canto llamada 'vocalise' donde un cantante pone letra a un tema instrumental famoso.

Durante esta época ella y su amiga cercana Regina Carter acarician sueños de llegar a ser músicas de jazz; Cook como cantante y Carter como violinista. A instancias de Carter fue aceptada por la Universidad Nororiental en Boston, Massachusetts.  Mientras estudia en la Nororiental estaba en contacto cercano con Carter (quién estudiaba en el Conservatorio de Música de Nueva Inglaterra y Cyrus Chestnut, un pianísta de jazz que estaba estudiando en la cercana Escuela de Música Berklee.  Después de graduarse en la Nororiental en 1985, Cook se queda en Boston preparándose para una carrera de cantante de jazz en Nueva York.

En febrero de 1990 se traslada a Nueva York y trabaja como profesora escolar y vendedora de libros durante el día y cantando por la noche. Después viaja a Europa y desde 1993-1994 Cook trabaja como vocalista e instructora en la Jazzschule en Basilea, Suiza, y la Jazz y Rock Schule en Friburgo, Alemania.  Regresa a Nueva York dos años más tarde y trabaja como cantante con la Lionel Hampton Orquesta y la George Gee's Make Cree Ballroom Orquesta.  En 1998 firma con el sello MaxJazz y publica su primer CD, 'It's All About Love', con gran acogida, incluyendo una nominación al Grammy a mejor jazz vocal. Su segundo CD, 'Dem Bones' (un tributo a todos los trombonistas que han trabajado con ella en los grupos de Lionel Hampton y George Gee), publicado en 2001, fue también un éxito y recibió una gran crítica de Down Beat, la principal publicación de jazz. En 2002 publica su CD 'Simply Natural', el cual estaba inspirado en su amor por la belleza encontrada en naturaleza.  En 2011 su versión del tema de Roberta Flack "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" fue incluida en el álbum del percusionista de jazz Steve Kroon titulado 'Sin duda'.

Cook actúa con sus grupos, más notablemente 'el Quinteto de Carla Cook' y como solista invitada con otros artistas que incluyen a Eric Reed y sus amigos Regina Carter y Cyrus Chestnut (ambos luminarias actuales en el mundo de jazz).

Discografía
 It's All About Love (MAXJAZZ, 1999) with Daryl Hall, Kenny Davis, Regina Carter, Cyrus Chestnut, Andy Milne, George Gray, Jeff Haynes, Billy Kilson
 Dem Bones (MAXJAZZ, 2001)  with Craig Harris, Fred Wesley, Tyrone Jefferson, Cyrus Chestnut, James Genus, Jeff Haynes, Billy Kilson
 Simply Natural (MAXJAZZ, 2002)  with Kenny Davis, Bruce Barth, Cyrus Chestnut, Billy Kilson, Steve Kroon

Referencias

Cantantes de jazz de Estados Unidos
Nacidos en Detroit

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What could possess a man to attempt to massacre a crowd?
The tragedies light up our headlines. A movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newport, Connecticut. A summer youth camp in Norway. The finish line of the Boston marathon.
He is mad. He wants revenge. He wants to teach them a lesson. Most deeply, he wants justice.
It's simple enough, why. It's because he has been let down by his society, disappointed and frustrated. He does not have what he feels entitled to having, whether he was promised it as a child, or expected it as what life fairly "owes" him. He does not have the recognition, power, fame, or ease that he expected. He "knows" that his life is wrong. It is not how it should be, and he cannot make sense of it. He cannot see that he is not alone in this. He does not recognize or care that other people have disappointments just like his. Life shouldn't be this hard, he thinks. For some reason, he cannot comprehend or accept reality, that he is not perfect and his life has problems. The life he expected or anticipated and his life are not the same. He suffers for this, deeply grieved and daily irritated, and he sees himself alone and shunted by society. This builds over time, aggravated by increasing isolation and by people minimizing his pain (intentionally or not) with careless words and by treating him like dirt (or like less than a god). He learns to blame them, and his irritation grows. He may say nothing about any of this. To whom would he confide, who could understand?
The result: make them suffer. Kill as many people as he can. Make them feel his pain. Hurt them where they are most vulnerable. This is different from a terrorist attack, which is most often politically motivated. He wants them to suffer for suffering's sake. He wants them to die for death itself. He needs them to pay. And he has held this feeling in himself for so long that he is in no hurry now, when he has passed the tipping point from agony to a will to act. He can take the time he needs to plan. He can wait for the right moment. And when the time is right, or when another trigger comes, he acts. People ask, "why?" but it's not too hard to understand. The need for what he sees as justice against an evil and disappointing society has grown and overwhelmed even his own desire to stay alive.
The solution: He needs people to come beside him and help him up, encourage him, love him, and make him feel like a useful, contributing member of society, or like he is human. He needs to learn to give and be appreciated. He needs something or someone that makes him feel like he belongs and he is one of them. This could be as simple as a hobby or club that gives him a glimmer of the life he thought he could never have. It could be love, or a pet, or anything that breaks through the shell he has built that makes him see the world as him, the unjustly forgotten and mistreated, versus them, who have collectively done this to him and shoulder the blame. It must include other people, though. He will not, indeed he cannot, change on his own.
Possible signs?: he is inflexible in some ways. When something new goes wrong, he does not care or he gets very mad. He lets go of all the dreams he once had or gets mad when other people are successful or praised or celebrated. He has trouble forming emotional bonds or understanding grief in other people.
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Supporting our International Community During Difficult Times
UC Davis Global Affairs launches Global Community Emergency Fund crowdfunding campaign to help scholars and students in need
This past year, we have witnessed many natural disasters and human-made crises, including those in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iran, Myanmar, Philippines and Ukraine. Many long-term, tragic struggles have also continued, such as those in Congo, Lebanon, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, to name a few. These disasters and crises have destroyed the livelihoods and hopes of many and have impacted numerous students and scholars at UC Davis.
"UC Davis is a global university, welcoming more than 10,000 international students and scholars each year. These international students and scholars are an invaluable part of our community," said Joanna Regulska, vice provost and dean of UC Davis Global Affairs. "Unfortunately, some of them have been impacted by disasters and crises around the world and they require critical support. This is why we launched the UC Davis Global Community Emergency Fund in 2021."
Funds donated to the Global Community Emergency Fund support immediate and essential needs for UC Davis community members, including housing assistance, transportation, utilities, and other basic living expenses and/or educational expenses. Donations can be made at the campaign website crowdfund.ucdavis.edu/globalcommunityemergencyfund.
The Global Community Emergency Fund is run by a team from across UC Davis including School of Law Associate Dean Beth Greenwood, and from Global Affairs Vice Provost and Dean Joanna Regulska, Associate Vice Provost Michael Lazzara and Senior Immigration Advisor Kim Haky. This team works together to distribute funds and notably was able to double the impact of donations made last year by leveraging matching funding opportunities and working with numerous organizations.
"Our most urgent need at this time is to support UC Davis students, scholars and their families affected by crises, and to be ready for when the next disaster strikes," said Greenwood. "A gift of any size can bring help, security, aid, stability and hope to our UC Davis global community."
The UC Davis Global Community Emergency Fund campaign runs until October 31 and has a goal of raising at least $5,000. For more information on this Fund and how to support its efforts, contact Ali Loge, asloge@ucdavis.edu.
This article was initially published in the Davis Enterprise.
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Canadian Border Chief Denies Ordering Records Blackout in Huawei CFO Detention
December 11, 2020 December 11, 2020 DARRYL GREER
Canada, extradition, Huawei, Iran, Sanctions
FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2020, file photo, Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, who is out on bail and remains under partial house arrest after she was detained in 2018 at the behest of American authorities, leaves her home in Vancouver, British Columbia, as she heads to B.C. Supreme Court for a case management hearing. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (CN) — A retired Canada Border Services Agency regional director denied ordering staff not to create records that could be subject to public information requests in connection with the detention and arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou at Vancouver Airport in December 2018.
Meng is fighting extradition to the United States to face an indictment in New York on fraud charges related to a 2013 meeting in Hong Kong in which U.S. authorities say she misled an HSBC executive about Huawei's dealings in Iran through a subsidiary which the U.S. says was a violation of its sanctions on Iran.
Roslyn MacVicar, the former regional director general for the border agency who retired this past march, testified Friday in the ongoing extradition hearings and Meng's subsequent claims of abuse of process by Canadian border guards and law enforcement.
Under questioning from Meng's lawyer Mona Duckett, MacVicar said she never told staff to avoid taking notes and creating additional records in connection with the case out of fear of being subject to Canada's Access to Information and Privacy Act.
A border agency chief had testified earlier about a direction given to gather information about the events, but not create more records, with Duckett suggesting that MacVicar handed down the order out of "fear of them being disclosable." Duckett also suggested the direction was to avoid documenting that the border agency had mistakenly handed over passcodes to electronic devices taken from Meng during her immigration and customs exam.
"I would never say that. I did not say that and it's inconsistent with anything I've ever said in my capacity as a public servant. I can't comment on how somebody heard something that I said, but I would not have said that," MacVicar testified.
Duckett noted the passcodes had nothing to do with the extradition warrant, and the issue was a sticking point since it was an "illegality" and breach of Meng's privacy. Moreover, she highlighted how no records of the breach exist within the agency, probing MacVicar about when she found out about the breach, which she characterized as a "significant issue."
"There's not a single piece of paper within the CBSA that documents that those passcodes were given over to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, are you aware of that?" Duckett asked. "Do you know of a single piece of paper that exists?"
"I am not," MacVicar replied. "I don't."
"Did you create one? You knew about this problem?" Duckett pressed.
"I did not," MacVicar answered. "I don't know when I was aware of that."
"You were aware before you retired, right?" Duckett said.
"Correct, but I don't know when. I can't comment on when," MacVicar replied.
Earlier Friday, the court heard from the border agency's passenger operations chief Nicole Goodman, who faced a grilling from Duckett over her lack of notes surrounding the events of Meng's eventual arrest. Goodman told the court that, in hindsight, she wishes she had taken notes to parse out the timelines, though at the time she believed Meng's exam was "routine."
"At the time when this exam was taking place, to me it's just another exam and to me it's routine. This aftermath, to me, is extraordinary that I'm testifying on a national security exam because I deal with them all the time," Goodman testified. "This is like a regular practice for me, or for my team or my operation because we have thousands of people that come in daily and we screen all those people, so would I wish I had notes now? Absolutely, but at the time I never would've envisioned that I would be here."
Duckett asked: "But in the aftermath of this high-profile case when everyone's asking questions, that's when you're told not to create notes, right?"
Goodman said no one said anything about notes specifically.
"It was more creating additional records because I had never taken any notes up until that time anyway," she testified. "I was relying on my emails, but I will concede that it would've been beneficial for myself to have that time, absolutely."
Duckett asked Goodman whether not creating records was an attempt to "recast the true facts of what happened."
"Any questions that were ever asked of me I provided truthful and accurate information," Goodman answered. "So I can't speak to this and I don't know if anything was recast because everything that I provided to my senior officials and to the Department of Justice is truthful and accurate, everything that I can recall."
She added she believed everything was done in good faith "and executed as we knew best."
But she did acknowledge the sharing of Meng's passwords outside the border agency was "inappropriate," and said it was "daunting" to face questions from superiors in Ottawa in the aftermath of Meng's arrest
The hearing resumes Monday.
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Im Jahr 985 eignete sich Herzog Otto, der aus dem Geschlecht der Salier stammte, an verschiedenen Orten am Ober- und Mittelrhein Besitz des Klosters Weißenburg an. Dieser Vorgang ging unter dem Titel Salischer Kirchenraub in die Geschichte ein, auch wenn es sich tatsächlich weniger um einen "Raub" als vielmehr um eine vom Kaiser und der Führungselite des Reiches abgesegnete Besitzumverteilung handelte.

Geschichtlicher Kontext

Im Hintergrund des sogenannten Salischen Kirchenraubes stand, dass Herzog Otto im Jahr 985 zugunsten des Luitpoldingers Heinrich das Herzogtum Kärnten abtreten musste (jedoch als "Herzog von Worms" den dux-Titel behielt). Als Ersatz dafür erhielt er verschiedenen Besitz in seiner angestammten Heimat, im Wormsgau, sowie überhaupt am Mittel- und auch am Oberrhein. Aufkommen dafür musste vor allem das Reichskloster Weißenburg (obwohl es in die Streitigkeiten der damaligen Reichspolitik keineswegs verwickelt war). Wahrscheinlich ging dieser Vorgang so vor sich, dass das Kloster gezwungen wurde, einen Teil seines Besitzes an Otto I. als Lehen zu vergeben. Was aus der Sicht des hohen Adels nur eine Umverteilung von Reichsgut war und jedenfalls mit Einwilligung oder sogar auf Anordnung der kaiserlichen Vormundschaftsregierung geschah (Kaiser Otto III. war damals noch ein Kind), erschien aus Sicht des Klosters verständlicherweise als ein Raub.

Die Annalen des Klosters Weißenburg halten für das Jahr 985 fest, Herzog Otto I. sei mit Gewalt in Weißenburg eingefallen und habe "Ortschaften verteilt": "Otto dux, filius Cuonradis ducis, istud cenobium, id est Wicenburg, vi invasit, loca distribuit". Ende des 13. Jahrhunderts, als das Kloster Weißenburg bereits einen großen Teil seines Besitzes verloren hatte, ließ der damals amtierende Abt Edelin ein Verzeichnis des noch vorhandenen Besitzungen anlegen ("Codex Edelini" oder "Liber possessionum Wizenburgensis" genannt; heute im Landesarchiv Speyer aufbewahrt). Darin wird auch der 985 verlorene Besitz aufgezählt, offenbar in der Erwartung, ihn zurückzugewinnen (im Vorwort jenes Codex sprach Abt Edelin die Erwartung aus: "Wenn die Außenstehenden Kenntnis von unseren Besitztümern haben, werden sie es ohne große Gewissensbedenken nicht mehr wagen, solche zu besetzen und die, welche gegen alles Recht und Gerechtigkeit solche in Besitz haben, können sich jetzt anhand dieses Verzeichnisses umso leichter vergewissern, dass sie endlich in sich gehen, an ihr Seelenheil denken und das Eigentumsrecht unseres Klosters anerkennen"). Dieser Wunsch des Abtes sollte sich freilich nicht erfüllen – der dem Kloster 985 entfremdete Besitz kehrte nie mehr als Eigentum in die Hand der Weißenburger Mönche zurück.

Der tatsächlich bereits auf das Jahr 985 zu datierende Vorgang wird im Codex Edelini fälschlich auf das Jahr 991 bezogen und wird wörtlich als "oppressio" (Unterdrückung, Zwang) bezeichnet. Der vollständige Text dieser Notiz lautet:

Umfang des "Kirchenraubes"

Mehrere der hier genannten Orte berufen sich auf diese im 13. Jahrhundert niedergeschriebene Liste als den ältesten urkundlichen Nachweis ihrer Existenz.

Kaspar Brusch gab 1551 an, Herzog Otto hätte das Kloster im Jahr 985 erobert, zerstört und niedergebrannt und Abt Sanderadus sei gewaltsam vertrieben und durch den Abt Gisillarius ersetzt worden: "Accidit sub huius (sc. Sanderadi) gubernatione ut Dux quidam Otho, Conradi Ducis filius, coenobium Weissenburgense invaderet, diriperet & exureret anno 985 & Abbate Sanderado expulso Gisillarium quendam Monasterio tandem præficeret." Ebenso meldete Johann Friedrich Schannat im Jahr 1723: "sub ipso (sc. Sanderado) quidam Dux Otto Monasterium Weissenburgense incendio delevit Anno DCCCCLXXXV". Ob es wirklich zu derartigen gewaltsamen Vorgängen im Kloster gekommen ist, scheint aber fraglich, möglicherweise handelt es sich hierbei um Übertreibungen aus späterer Zeit.

Literatur
 Hermann Graf: War der Salier Graf Otto von Worms, Herzog von Kärnten, unter Ausnützung der Schwäche der Reichsregierung eine Raffer von Reichsland und ein Räuber von Kirchengut? In: Blätter für pfälzische Kirchengeschichte 28 (1961), S. 45–60.
 Jean Rheinwald: L' abbaye et la ville de Wissembourg. Avec quelques châteaux-forts de la basse Alsace et du Palatinat. Monographie historique. Wentzel, Wissembourg 1863 (Nachdruck: Res Universis, Paris 1992).
 Hansmartin Schwarzmaier: Herzog Otto von Worms, der "Kirchenräuber". In: ders.: Von Speyer nach Rom: Wegstationen und Lebensspuren der Salier. Sigmaringen, 1991, S. 28–37.

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I've traveled throughout Central America and Panama is one of my favorite countries - though I never experienced deserted beaches like this!
Nothing better and cuter than a sleeping baby. Panama is my last country to go to in Central America!
Love it...always amazing to me to see how kids can really sleep anywhere! We haven't done in traveling in Central or South America YET...but hope we can make it with our kids in the future. Looks like a lovely beach walk.
They sky is beautiful in that picture! I am glad you got to have a cerveza and some quiet time!
This is the first time I've seen your blog, and I really love the progression of those pics and the cute catch at the end which all parents can smile too.
great shot of exhausted child. Sweet!
Oh man, I remember that little slice of heaven of a sleeping child in a carrier. And to be on a beach! Lucky you!


Carolyn J. Phillipy, 86, of Peru, passed away at 10:25pm on Sunday, February 10, 2019 at Blair Ridge Health Campus.
She was born in Kokomo on September 8, 1932 to Paul and Mildred (Christner) White. She married Connie M. Phillipy on October 20, 1950. He survives. A member of the Bunker Hill United Methodist Church, Carolyn retired as the head dietician at Peru Community Schools. She was also an extremely talented self-taught cake decorator.
Carolyn is survived by her husband, and their children: Deborah (Joe) Dawalt of Peru, Teresa "Terri" (Jon) Hoke of Tucson, AZ, and Scott Phillipy of Muncie, IN. Also, five grandchildren: Nathan Dawalt, Adam Dawalt, Sean Baker, Heather Ferrari, and Sarah Phillipy; as well as six great-grandchildren. Also surviving is a brother Ronald (Sandy) White of Kokomo, and sister Rebecca (Tom) Bender of Bunker Hill.
Visitation will be held from 10am – 11am on Friday, February 15, 2019 at the Bunker Hill United Methodist Church. Funeral service will follow at 11am, with Pastor Evan Strong officiating. Burial will take place at Ever-Rest Memorial Park, Logansport, Indiana.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Bunker Hill United Methodist Church.