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Trick Daddy biography
One of the most thuggish rappers ever embraced by the mainstream, Trick Daddy broke out of the South in 2001 with "I'm a Thug" and established himself as an unlikely national superstar. Before his breakthrough, he scored a few regional hits here and there but remained largely an underground rapper. In particular, he became known for his club anthems, which were characterized by their rousing beats and his rowdy lyrics. "Nann n***a" and "Shut Up" became his best-known early successes, each featuring a feisty young rapper named Trina, who would go on to her own success in subsequent years. When Trick Daddy finally did break into the mainstream in 2001 with the appropriately titled "I'm a Thug," it came as somewhat of a surprise. No one questioned his talent, but his image hardly matched that of other mainstream rappers. He certainly lived up to his thug billing, known as much for his rapping as his trademark omnipresent grimace, bald head, prickly whiskers, forearm tattoos, and gold grill. Nevertheless, thug or not, Trick Daddy became a national superstar, earning substantial mainstream airplay and climbing atop the Billboard charts.br /br /Born Maurice Young in Miami, FL, the rapper originally known as Trick Daddy Dollars earned his stripes in 1996 as one of the lead rappers on Luke's "Scarred," the leadoff track from the former 2 Live Crew leader's Uncle Luke album. The song became a sizable hit among the booty crowd, and listeners were drawn to the remarkably fluid and quick flow of Trick Daddy Dollars. Among those drawn to him was Ted Lucas, a former concert promoter who signed the rapper to his newly formed Slip-n-Slide Records. The debut Trick Daddy Dollars album, Based on a True Story, came soon after, released in late 1997. The album sold well for an independent release, driven by some regional hits, but didn't impress too many people outside of the Miami area. br /br /A year later everything changed with the release of www.thug.com (1998). Trick Daddy dropped the "Dollars" from his name and scored himself a breakout hit with "Nann n***a," a club-banger that pitted him against a female nemesis, the then-unknown Trina. The hit spread throughout the South and even trickled out into the Midwest and Southwest, so much so that Atlantic Records took interest and signed Trick Daddy to a record deal. The first Atlantic release, Book of Thugs: Chapter AK Verse 47 (2000), fulfilled its promise, setting the stage for the rappers eventual commercial breakthrough. Driven by "Shut Up," a rowdy club hit similar to "Nann n***a" and again featuring Trina, Book of Thugs extended Trick Daddy's reputation from coast to coast and established him as one of the Dirty South's more promising talents. br /br /The big payoff came a year later with the release of Thugs Are Us (2001), the album that catapulted Trick Daddy alongside Ludacris and Mystikal as one of the few nationally championed Dirty South rappers; and it similarly catapulted him onto the play list of every urban radio station in America, not to mention MTV. In particular, the album boasted "I'm a Thug," Trick Daddy's biggest hit yet; and, more importantly, his most accessible. Despite his tattoos, gold grill, and overall thuggish aura, Trick Daddy earned mainstream airplay and climbed the Billboard charts. A year later he did so again with his fifth album in six years, Thug Holiday (2002), and its lead single, "In da Wind," perhaps Trick Daddy's most inventive work yet. Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets appeared two years later. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide


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Didas GASANA: A rational inquiry into the "Tutsi Genocide" and its declining currency as an export.
Something of fundamental importance happened last week in the Ethiopian capital Addis Abbeba. At the AU summit of heads of states, the AU peace and security commission's proposal to send AU peace keepers to Burundi was unwelcome. That's the basic message. But beneath the rejection lies a hidden message- that the world is waking up to the commercialization and politicization of a legal term "genocide". This, assuming you know what underpinned the clamor for AU peacekeepers in Burundi, which has been aptly explained on this forum.
At the center of the trajectory lies a debate- and consequent exporting of it, of a genocide- central of which is what has been referred to as the "Tutsi genocide" of 1994. After the military 1 and 11 trials at the ICTR and the BBC's untold story, the rejection of the AU PSC's proposal is yet another indictment of people benefitting from the genocide currency.
In my earlier submissions, i presented a lot of legal literature on why the events of 1994 leave grey areas subject to a rational, legal inquiry. In this note, I intend to examine the events of 1994 from the RPA/F point of view.
To get to this; we need to examine the character of the RPA from the onset of the invasion. It is almost a "judicial notice" that prior to RPA invasion, there was already deadly intrigue within the military ranks of the RPF Tutsi exile community in Uganda. It was clan rivalry that would result in the murder of the first commander, Major General Fred Rwigyema at the hands of Maj. Dr. Peter Bayingana and Maj. Chris Bunyenyezi. Why is this important? It is important because, as my good friend Kalyegira put it, if there was this level of bad blood and struggle for power within the RPF and it could result in the murder of their overall commander so soon into the war, what havoc would these ruthless men inflict on the Hutu civilians they encountered in villages as they made their way into Rwanda after October 1990?
When the RPA invaded Rwanda, they made their rationale very clear. Reported the Uganda government-owned newspaper, the New Vision: "The force which invaded Rwanda on Monday [Oct. 1, 1990] has the prime aim of overthrowing the government of President Juvenal Habyarimana…They say they are not planning an immediate overthrow but a prolonged struggle which would mobilise the people…The RPF has an 8-point programme calling for, among other things, national unity, democracy, a self-sustaining economy and an end to corruption…They said they had no plans as to who should be Rwanda's president and that the 'people will choose". The RPA further said they were prepared for a protracted war: 'We don't mind about speed, we mind about getting to the people'" (New Vision, Oct. 4, 1990, p.1, 12).
That was their first formal statement. Even the pro-RPF New Vision admitted that "its aim is to overthrow the government of President Juvenal Habyarimana." There was no mention or allegation that the Habyarimana regime was massacring or planning to massacre the Tutsi. From there, we realize that had the RPF surely uncovered any plan by Habyarimana to exterminate the Tutsi, it would have been the number one point among the eight. Yet here was the summary of the RPF's philosophy and goals and there was no single point on averting a genocide or even anything remotely to do with human rights.
Where then does genocide and death at a grisly, monumental level start, since we now know that at the time the RPF invaded Rwanda, there was no plan by the Hutu to massacre the Tutsi? Asks Kalyegira?
In late April 1994, a Kampala radio station, 91.3 Capital FM invited the long-serving Rwandese ambassador to Uganda, Claver Kanyarusoke as a guest on their Sunday evening programme, Desert Island Discs. Kanyarusoke, a Hutu, arrived on a Thursday afternoon for the recording, dressed in a dark brown business suit. At the time, the Rwanda genocide was underway and bodies were floating down the River Kagera from Rwanda into Lake Victoria in Uganda and during the interview, William Pike, then New Vision MD and co-Managing Editor of 91.3 Capital FM, asked Kanyarusoke to explain the massacre of innocent Tutsi civilians.
Kanyarusoke reminded Pike that under the 1993 Arusha peace accords between the Habyarimana government and the RPF guerrillas, Rwanda had been divided into two geographical areas of control, one for the Tutsi and the other for the Hutu. Since the world believed that the Tutsi-dominated RPF was a both a strong and disciplined force, fully in control of its area, Kanyarusoke asked, how were we to explain the fact that all the bodies floating down the river, without exception, were from the RPF-controlled region of Rwanda?
What happened in April 1994?
Stephen Kinzer, in his book about Rwandan President Paul Kagame, writes that the Habyarimana regime started killing opposition members and presumed RPA sympathizers; indiscriminately. May be or may be not. But the truth of the matter is that in early 1994, as Kalyegira aptly puts it, Kigali saw a sudden rise in violence and insecurity, with many people being killed. Leaders of the opposition Social Democrat Party and Liberal Party, as well as 2,300 other people, were gunned down in the months before April 6, 1994.
The Ugandan newspsper, The Monitor published an interview on March 25, 1994, with Justin Bahunga, who was the Second Counsel at the Rwanda Embassy in Kampala. Bahunga's answers give us a clue to what the world might be missing as to what happened in 1994. "In whose interests would the government of Habyarimana cause insecurity in Kigali"?
Bahunga further added: "If you want to rule, you can't rule by insecurity…So the only person who can cause insecurity is the one who wants to make a government fail."Less than two weeks later, President Habyarimana was dead in an assassination after a surface-to-air missile was fired on the presidential jet. Fighting broke out in Kigali and in many other parts of Rwanda.
Let us read the news reports of the time, starting with the French news agency AFP, in a report from Kigali by Annie Thomas: "Wednesday 13 April 1994, KIGALI – Tutsi rebels fought their way into the Rwandan capital yesterday, sending the government, foreigners and thousands of residents fleeing in fear of a new wave of tribal bloodletting. Below is the whole story:
Intense fighting rocked several parts of the city.
"The Hutu-dominated interim government fled its headquarters in the Hotel des Diplomates in the city centre 'for a more secure place', a Rwandan soldier in the hotel said. Unconfirmed reports said the week-old government had moved to the town of Gitarama, south-west of the city. As the rebels closed, residents emerged from hiding and tried to escape an expected wave of revenge killings by the Tutsi forces. 'It's going to be carnage,' predicted a Nairobi-based Rwandan diplomat.
The last foreign residents seeking to leave the city were escorted to the airport by French and Belgian paratroopers. France, Russia, Germany and the United States said they had evacuated virtually all their nationals from Kigali.
In Kampala, Christine Umutoni, spokeswoman for the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), said its forces had entered Kigali and were about to join a battalion of 600 fellow rebels camped outside the city under a UN-sponsored peace plan approved by the government and the rebels in August.
She said RPF forces were awaiting instructions to seize the capital, where she said 'government forces had dispersed, many of them surrendering with their arms to the RPF'. The rebels' entry into the city was later confirmed by the UN in New York.
The RPF has around 20,000 soldiers, against an estimated 30,000 government troops. RPF radio said advancing rebel forces had signed an agreement with UN officials yesterday guaranteeing the evacuation of foreign nationals."At this juncture, we pause to reflect.
Over the years, President Paul Kagame has railed against the UN and the world community for failing Rwanda in its time of great danger. "Where was the UN?" is a refrain we have heard countless times from Kagame in person and many of the top RPF leadership over the last 15 years.
…………………………………End of the story…………………………………………..
We now see, in the report, that the RPF's own radio station broadcast a news item saying they had "signed an agreement with UN officials yesterday guaranteeing the evacuation of foreign nationals." The UN was cooperating with the RPF, not standing by indifferently as we have been told.
Secondly, the first paragraph of this AFP report states that "Tutsi rebels fought their way into the Rwandan capital yesterday, sending the government, foreigners and thousands of residents fleeing in fear of a new wave of tribal bloodletting."In other words, as the RPF advanced on Kigali, the former Habyarimana government fled. The second paragraph shows the government, still in disarray, fleeing to a "more secure place."
Clearly the RPF was in a stronger position and was rapidly gaining the upper hand in the days following Habyarimana's assassination.Thirdly, the AFP report said "In Kampala, Christine Umutoni, spokeswoman for the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), said its forces had entered Kigali and were about to join a battalion of 600 fellow rebels camped outside the city…" The RPF was in Kigali, according to its spokeswoman, within a week of Habyarimanas death.
These news reports were written in the fast-moving atmosphere of the day, and so nobody can claim that because the AFP is a French state news agency, it was somehow doctoring its reports. However, just in case some detractors might dismiss the AFP report, is there any other we can turn to for an alternative angle to this story? Indeed there is.
The Monitor, founded by Kevin Aliro, Wafula Oguttu, James Serugo, Teddy Seezi Cheeye, Richard Tebere, Davi Ouma Balikowa, and Charles Onyango-Obbo was a decidedly pro-RPF Kampala newspaper. There can be no question about it for those who know its history.
Certainly there was a pro-RPF mood in Uganda in 1994, especially in central and western Uganda. So we can now go to a lead story in The Monitor of April 12, 1994, just six days after the shooting down of the Habyarimana plane. The story was written by Monitor reporters Steven Shalita and Dismas Nkunda:
…………………………..the he story here………………………….
"As the looting, indiscriminate killing by the Presidential Guard, regular troops and rampaging Hutu vigilantes went from bad to worse, there were indications that Kigali is about to fall to the rebel Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA).
Information reaching The Monitor from Kigali said an advance RPA force which had been infiltrated into the capital earlier were poised to take the Post Office and the Central Bank…The RPA, which said it was going into the city to restore order and rescue the battalion of its 600 soldiers who had gone into Kigali as part of the peace process, had ben giving out a call for all foreigners to leave within 12 hours if they could…
Truckloads of reinforcements for RPA rebels could be seen moving to Kigali from their northern stronghold.
By day break [April 11] RPA had easy prey of the Rwanda army. The RPA commander-in-chief Maj. Gen. Paul Kagame told Voice of America (VOA) that his troops had overrun government positions in Mutara, formerly a stronghold for the government forces…
In another interview with the BBC Swahili, Maj. Gen. Kagame boasted 'We are in Kigali and we have had very little resistance to get here.'
Hundreds of Rwanda government forces are said to be deserting to the RPA to secure positions in the subsequent government when the RPA topples the current interim government under the leadership of Theodore Sindikubwabo which was installed a few days ago. A member of the RPF Poliical Bureau (Maj.) Christine Umutoni yesterday told journalists at Speke Hotel [in Kampala] that the RPA will advance to 'crush' any forces which stand in defence of the 'hoax government' headed by Theodore Sindikubwabo, whether thos forces are local or foreign.
"If any foreign force comes our way, while we are advancing, we shall regard them as the enemy,' she said. 'We are going to crush them." Though Umutoni could not commit herself to actual distances, she said the RPA forces are 'very, very close.' So far, RPA has faced minimal resistance and has reported 3 casualties and no deaths.
Reports from Kigali say that rampant massacres by Habyarimana loyalists have narrowed to specific targets, killing whole families of people opposed to their government. The targets include nearly every Tutsi and what has been described as 'moderate Hutus.' Umutoni however told journalists that Kigali remains a horror town and condemned the United Nations for their passive role. 'The situation about massacres in Kigali now is very horrific,' she said. 'The UN has failed to control the situation.' Maj. Umutoni boasted that the RPA had been capable of taking power as far back as February 8. 'It was capable long ago…even February 8 when we were 30km from the town [Kigali].
Umutoni said the RPA was recruiting several more forces as it advanced to beef up its more than 20,000 strong man army. Commenting on the military strength of the RPA, she said their main source of armament is the Rwandese forces. "Habyarimana has always been our quarter master. Even now we are going to use those very weapons he bought."
Once again, we stop and reflect on this story by the Monitor. It is even more revealing than the AFP story.
The reports by AFP and the Monitor showed :
1) The RPF in a position of increasing strength, advancing on Kigali and at various stages of taking control or having already taken control.
2) Hutu government troops either fleeing or surrendering to the RPF and the government in disarray.
The RPF is reported to be at 20,000-strong while the rapidly crumbling government army, the FAR, is at 30,000, so the two armies are at nearly the same strength.
We see, in fact, Christine Umutoni, the RPF spokesperson, "boasting" that the RPF was in a position to capture Kigali as far back as February 1994.
Take a careful look at this Monitor news story: "The overall RPF/RPA commander, Maj. Gen. Paul Kagame talks of the RPF overrunning government bases and positions and, according to the Monitor, boasting to the BBC World Service Kiswahili service that (in his own words) "We are in Kigali and we have had very little resistance to get here."And then, we have the strange turnabout from Umutoni.
She was the first RPF official to accuse the UN of doing nothing, and yet all other reports, including one by the RPF's own radio, were speaking of an agreement between the RPF and the UN to ease the humanitarian crisis. Umutoni's comments at Speke Hotel in Kampala were the first indications of the dishonesty of the RPF. This is why it is so important for research and investigation to become a part of our societies. So much history is distorted and allowed to remain so, because we are not bothered about re-reading and re-searching what we have been told.
Having now seen, both from the AFP and the pro-RPF Monitor, that the RPF was in a position of rising strength and the remnant of the Habyarimana army and government was in disarray and either fleeing or surrendering, we come to the all-important question: What then happened? Remember, the RPF stalwarts Gerald Gahima and Claude Dusaidi had just penned an ultimatum to the UN with a clear threat: There are no Tutsis left to save and there is no need for additional UNAMIR troops to Rwanda (this writer is in possession of their letter to that effect).
It is clear that the RPF was in control, or gaining control, of Kigali and other towns and was unchallenged by the fleeing FAR government army. If, as we have seen too, the Hutu-dominated government was fleeing Kigali, the army also fleeing or surrendering, how then was this government, falling apart and fleeing, able to orchestrate a genocide that claimed more than 800,000 lives, with the 20,000-man RPF army in control or about to be, but not doing anything about it?
If Christine Umutoni told that Speke Hotel press conference that the RPF was strong enough to take power as far back as Feb. 8, 1994, what then prevented the RPA from stopping the genocide, if, as they claim, they knew of a plan by Habyarimana to exterminate the Tutsi minority? The answer begins to appear when we go to the next news excerpt from 1994.
Here once again is the The Monitor's lead story in its April 15, 1994 edition, headlined: "RPA in trouble?", written by Steven Shalita and Dismas Nkunda:
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"What is happening? Eleven days have gone and Rwandese Patriotic Army (RPA) is still in a bloody battle with Rwandese government troops for Kigali."
Parts of the Rwandese capital remain in the hands of The Presidential Guard, regular troops and paramilitary forces to former president Juvenal Habyarimana who was assassinated in a rocket attack on his plane April 6…Anxiety has gripped supporters of the RPA/F cause who view their 'delay' to capture Kigali as a sign of trouble.
On Wednesday afternoon an RPF official told a Monitor reporter at Mulindi, the RPF headquarters, that Kigali would fall in 12 hours, but it did not happen. The rebels have besieged Kigali for almost a week now but have failed to take full control.
There is an estimated force of 18,000 RPA men laying siege to Kigali on three fronts. Latest reports say that some strategic hills around Kigali such as Nyamirambo, are in the hands of RPF.
According to a military analyst, the RPF is being cautious about destroying down-town Kigali. The Monitor was told that RPA was surrounding Kigali leaving only one outlet through Gitarama that could be used by fleeing soldiers.
RPF spokesman Shaban Rutayisire told the journalist at Mulindi that "It is a question of time and tactics so that we rout the murderous Rwanda army." 'The puzzlement that Kigali has not fallen is only deepened, because the entire interim cabinet fled Kigali on Tuesday. Interim President Theodore Sindikubwabo and 19 of his ministers fled to Gitarama, 50km, south west of Kigali.
A Uganda military expert told The Monitor yesterday that with the murders of civilians estimated about 20,000 so far, most of them suspected to be pro-RPF and Tutsi, RPA has a political obligation to go in to stop the bloodletting…
Another source watching developments said "The RPA was militarily ready to enter Kigali and there is no doubt they will win the fight within the week, but they were not politically ready.
But, on the face of it, the death of Habyarimana and the blood that flowed the Kigali streets was an 'opportune time' for the RPF to enter Kigali.
He said that while RPA had support, it was not clear whether they had the majority of the people on their side; and now that they were bogged down in Kigali, the Hutu hardliners have been given time to mobilise the people with fears of Tutsi massacring them."
There we have it. The story of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in crystal clear light at last. There is no question that the RPF held the upper hand militarily by the beginning of 1994.
That much Christine Umutoni was able to tell a public press conference at Kampala's Speke Hotel. And in case we might want to dismiss her observation as that from a junior official, we have Maj. Gen. Paul Kagame's own direct and unambiguous words to the BBC Kiswahili service that "'We are in Kigali and we have had very little resistance to get here.
"Crucially, according to this Monitor news report, the RPF was so comfortably in control of Kigali a week after Habyarimana's death that they even left the road to Gitarama open so that it "could be used by fleeing soldiers."
Far from the FAR government army embarking on a mass murder of Tutsi, they were fleeing Kigali, as we have already seen and, in fact, even being helped by the RPF to escape. The comments by the Ugandan military expert to the Monitor fill in all the remaining blanks.
Here is the critical passage in the story by the Monitor on April 15, 1994: "Another source watching developments said 'The RPA was militarily ready to enter Kigali and there is no doubt they will win the fight within the week, but they were not politically ready.'
He said that while RPA had support, it was not clear whether they had the majority of the people on their side…"It confirms that the RPF was militarily victorious but, being a minority ethnic group, moreover from a foreign, English-speaking country Uganda, they could have walked into Kigali, taken control, but how would they have governed politically?
They had to develop their political standing. How? By resorting to the sinister tactics their mentor President Yoweri Museveni had employed so successfully in Luwero in central Uganda — commit atrocities against the population and then blame them on your adversary and by that make the population believe it was your enemy who carried out the massacre, so that you gain the population's support, some have argued.
And they are not entirely wrong. Many a times have I expounded Yoweri Museveni's under-graduate thesis at the university of Dar-El-Salaam where he dwelt on Franz Fanon's theory of violence. If you have been following, then you know what is being talked about here.
Enter Museveni Yoweri- The mentor
A simple question can answer all this: If Museveni used the tactics of causing havoc in Luwero, dressing his NRA men up in UNLA uniform, in order to convince the population that it was the UNLA killing them, and it worked, leading many Baganda to support the NRA, and we read that Paul Kagame was deeply influenced by the tactics and success of the NRA in Luwero, would the RPF, made up of commanders who had served under Museveni in Luwero, not resort to the tactics they had seen work so well in Luwero when it came to Rwanda?
Let's get a panoramic view of events: the RPF advances on Kigali and is within distance of gaining power by early February. When Habyarimana is killed on April 6, the government and the Hutu-majority army start to fall apart as the RPF rapidly moves in.
The RPF moves in, takes control or near control, then…..silence. It does nothing. It allows the Hutu soldiers to flee by way of the Kigali-Gitarama road.
It cooperates with the UN in evacuating all foreign nationals. They leave. The RPF is now in charge of Rwanda. But they sit….and do nothing.
For three months from April to July 1994, the RPF is in total charge of Rwanda, including the capital Kigali. A genocide starts to take place.
Bodies are scatterd everywhere. Tens of thousands float down the Kagera River into Uganda.
But this force of Tutsi exiles, most of them born in Uganda, away for 30 years, this force which says it knew of a plan by the Hutu government to massacre hundreds of thousands of Tutsi, is in full control of Kigali, as its own Paul Kagame and Christine Umutoni publicly boast, but it watches…and does nothing.
It is obvious, given all this evidence, given the fact that the RPF was part of the NRA that fought in the central Ugandan region of Luwero in the 1980s, that what was going on from April to July 1994 may prolly have been war crimes by the RPF against the Rwandans so as to have it blamed on the Hutu to acquire the much needed legitimacy.
Don't rush. Let us cast an eagle's eye on this.
Where have we heard of this guerrilla tactic before? Certainly in Luwero Triangle in central Uganda during the NRA war.
In the aforementioned book, A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's rebirth and the man who dreamed it, the American journalist Stephen Kinzer described Kagame's formative years as a guerrilla in Luwero:
"Central Uganda is a good place to wage guerrilla war. Its heartland, known as the Luweero Triangle, comprises 3,000 square miles of savannah and tropical forests. Enough people live there to provide a social base for rebels, but there are also vast empty areas where fighters can move and hide…This was Paul Kagame's home for five years. The way the NRA fought made a deep impression on Kagame. It decisively shaped his idea of what a guerrilla force should be and do. The lessons he learned proved invaluable to him when he began to forge, and later emerged to lead, the force that would liberate his homeland."
So if "The way the NRA fought made a deep impression on Kagame" and it "decisively shaped his idea of what a guerrilla force should be and do" and furthermore "it proved invaluable to him when he began to forge, and later emerged to lead, the force that would liberate his homeland," we must then go to Luwero to examine what these vital lessons were that left such a mark on Kagame that he would use years later in Rwanda.
For the answer to that, we go — ironically (given his fanatically pro-RPF stance) — to an interview published on April 15, 2005 in the Daily Monitor by its then Political Editor Andrew Mwenda with the former President Milton Obote as he explained the Luwero killings. Said Obote, speaking in Lusaka, Zambia in Oct. 2004:
"Museveni has for the last twenty three years [2004] fought different enemies in different parts of Uganda…In all these wars, the adversaries are different, the theatre of war different, the period different. There are only two elements that are constant: Museveni on the one hand and massive atrocities on the other….It is Museveni who employs atrocities against civilians to achieve military victory, but in a more subtle way by ensuring that his adversary instead takes blame for Museveni's atrocities."
This method of fighting, where you commit the atrocities in order to blame them and have them blamed on your adversary, was the central plank of the NRA war in Luwero.
A report on this was published by the Shariat newsletter, a Kampala publication edited in the mid 1990s by Haruna Kanaabi and the late Musa Hussein Njuki.
Said the Shariat, Jan. 24, 1995: "On 6 February, 1981, Yoweri Museveni and a gang of his Rwandese cousins launched a war on the Republic of Uganda. They knew quite well that the people of Ankole where Museveni comes from could never support them in their madness which was a result of Museveni's insatiable lust for power. They went to Luwero which was a good choice because they knew it had more Rwandese than any other part of Uganda……
A few days ago through Capital Radio's "Desert Island Program", Lt. Col. Pecos Kutesa, Museveni's aide de camp in Luwero, revealed that they killed thousands and thousands of Obote's soldiers in Luwero. It is also true that they killed thousands and thousands of non-Baganda and some Baganda who could not support them. They blew up buses killing many civilians who were passing through Luwero…
…[Museveni] kept the skulls of those he killed or caused to be killed to use in his campaigns…He knew that if he could keep on telling Baganda that the skulls are the creation of Milton Obote, he could remain a hero for as long as he showed the skulls of UNLA soldiers which he now claims to be of innocent civilians — something he calls 'heroes'".
Obote put it more succinctly to Andrew Mwenda:
"At the burial of [UPC stalwart] Adonia Tiberondwa recently [on December 28, 2004], Maj. Gen. Kahinda Otafiire, for example, revealed that the National Resistance Army rebels used to wear UPC colours and then go into villages in Luwero and kill people in order to make the people think these were actions of the UPC government. Otafiire was boasting of the "tricks" NRA employed to win support in Luwero, but was also revealing the sinister side of Museveni and his insurgents… Each time there was a reported case of mistreatment of civilians by the army, we arrested those responsible and punished them severely.
"The truth is that most of the soldiers in the army who were committing atrocities were Museveni's people. And whenever we zeroed in on them, they would run to join him in the bush in Luwero. Take the example of [Colonel] Pecos Kutesa. He had an interview with William Pike on Capital Radio in Kampala in [January] 1995 in a programme called Desert Island Discs. He told Pike that he was in UNLA but as an NRA infiltrator whose mission was to undermine the credibility of the army from within.
"Pecos Kutesa's testimony is instructive of how Museveni personally orchestrated the killings of innocent people and the harassment of civilians not just in Luwero but other parts of Uganda as well during the 1980s. His testimony is also important because it fits very well with what Otafiire and Lt. Gen. Elly Tumwine have confessed. Let us listen to Pecos Kutesa, whose interview on Capital Radio Tim has kept as evidence. He told Pike that he used to be at a roadblock in Konge. As a lieutenant, he was the man in charge of that roadblock. According to Pecos Kutesa's own testimony on Capital Radio, Konge roadblock was the most notorious in harassing civilians, robbing them of their money and killing some. Kutesa says reports reached army headquarters of his harassment of the civilians and Oyite Ojok summoned him to Kampala for disciplinary action. He ran to the bush." (Daily Monitor, April 15, 2005).
From all the above quotes, we must ask ourselves the all-important question: If this is the way Museveni's NRA conducted itself in Luwero and according to Stephen Kinzer's admiring book on Kagame, the methods of guerrilla warfare in Luwero we have just read about left a "deep impression on Kagame", is there anything more to be said about the way the RPF fought its war under the command of the now Maj. Gen. Paul Kagame between 1990 and 1994?
According to the Citizen newspaper in Jan. 1991, this is late Dec. 1990 and what do we already see, long before the 1994 genocide? Reports of bodies floating down the Kagera River from the RPF-held areas.
Why do the international media, governments, historians, the ICTR in Arusha, and others not want to listen to this side of the story? Why are the Hutu being persecuted when this report plus the one on today's cover story clearly point to who it was who orchestrated that 1990-94 genocide in order to have it blamed on the Hutu?
Keith Harmon Snow, a controversial war correspondent who has worked in 16 African countries, including conflict areas in Congo, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda and Sudan and a former genocide and war crimes investigator for Genocide Watch, Survivor's Rights International and the United Nations, who has worked at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda, provides an insight in his essay in Global Research:
"The New York Times led the charge into Rwanda, and the Western media continued to beat the 'Tutsis as victims' drum roll. There was, after all, a lot of money to be made. Wall Street vultures began drooling. Military and intelligence operatives like David Kimche (Israel) and Roger Winter (USA) jockeyed for position – organizing logistics, maintaining supply chains, arranging weapons shipments – to support 'our' man Kagame and our proxy guerrilla army, the RPF. The Washington Post, Boston Globe, CNN, the Observer all described the RPF guerrillas as a highly 'disciplined' army: if any woman was raped or civilian massacred, it was an accident, a rogue soldier, and said soldier would be duly punished (of course, they never were).
Continues Keith: Paul Kagame put into practice what his teachers, the military strategists at the US Army Command and Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas (USA), taught him: psychological operations and how to overthrow a country. "As the English-speaking 'Tutsis' marched into Rwanda they conscripted and lured 'Tutsi' youth to the 'freedom' cause. These were young French-speaking Tutsis who were also subjected to Kagame's ruthless modus operandi: many of them were tortured, killed, disappeared, but many survived the initiation into the RPF. Kagame and his elite Ugandan comrades didn't trust Tutsis who had stayed behind, and they clearly sacrificed the French-speaking Tutsis of Rwanda for the cause of absolute military power."
Just as Museveni had infiltrated, massacred and terrorized Uganda (1980-1985), the RPF infiltrated soldiers disguised as civilians into Hutu villages, Hutu political parties, even into Hutu youth groups organized to defend Rwanda from the invading terrorist guerrillas. While the RPF used the airwaves to terrorize the people, scapegoat and stereotype enemies real and perceived, and whip up fear of 'Hutu power' – the same kinds of nasty propaganda, often sexualized, used by the Kagame regime to demonize its detractors from the West even today – we only even hear about 'Hutu power' hate radio, not extremist Radio Muhabura.
Keith concludes: "No such planning or organization of genocidal intent has been proven against the Hutu government of Juvenal Habyarimana – which, in any case, was decapitated on April 6, 1994 – or against the Interim Hutu government that briefly held sway after April 6, 1994, and the judges at the ICTR have found as such. There were indeed hundreds of thousands of French-speaking Tutsis raped, brutalized and massacred in what amount to very real acts of genocide in Rwanda, and these occurred over the now sacred '100 days of genocide'. But there were also hundreds of thousands of Hutus killed, and far more Hutu than Tutsi."
Don't remind me that Keith is a genocide denier. I have already heard of that. But how about Jonathan Cook- an award winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism whose latest books include "Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East(Pluto Press) and Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair (Zed Books)?
According to him, Paul Kagame, the hero of the official story of Rwanda's genocide, was almost certainly the biggest war criminal to have emerged from those horrifying events. Kagame led the Tutsis' main militia, the RPF. He almost certainly ordered the shooting down of the Rwandan president's plane, the trigger for a civil war that quickly escalated into a genocide; on the best estimates, his RPF was responsible for killing 80% of the 1 million who died inside Rwanda, making the Hutus, not the Tutsis, the chief victims; and his subsequent decision to extend the civil war into neighbouring Congo, where many Hutu civilians had fled to escape the RPF, led to the deaths of up to 5 million more.
From his own experience covering Israel-Palestine, he says: "I can guess what happened. The reporters on the ground feared straying too far from the consensus in their newsrooms. Rather than telling their editors what the story was (the model of news production most people assume to be the case), the editors were creating the framework of the story for the reporters, based on the official narrative being promoted in political and diplomatic circles. Correspondents who cared about their careers dared not challenge the party line too strongly, even when they knew it to be a lie."
Are we still in doubt at what happened?
The Hutus have pleaded innocence but world opinion refuses to believe them. May be the world is right. I don't claim to be right or wrong but rather making a rational inquiry.
In Dec. 2005, a British-based team of investigators, the Sanders Research Associates, published a report that questioned the basis for apportioning blame for the 1994 Rwandan genocide. We already discussed the Stam and Davenport report about the numbers of the dead; supported by the 1991 government census that clearly make the numbers of the Tutsi dead an impossibility.
But there is as well the Sanders report, which stated thus: "There is a stunning lack of documentary evidence of a [Habyarimana] government plan to commit genocide".
There were no orders, minutes of meetings, notes, cables, faxes, radio intercepts or any other type of documentation that such a plan ever existed. The ICTR, needless to say, confirmed this in military trials 1 and 11. In fact, the documentary evidence establishes just the opposite." (View from Rwanda: The Dallaire Genocide Fax: A Fabrication, Sanders Research Associated Ltd., December 1, 2005).
Of paramount importance is not only the fact that this story is being revisited but the fact that its export base is declining, as we saw last week in Addis Abbeba. But how about for the sake of historical clarity for the sake of a genuine co-existence between Rwanda's bi-polar divide? Unless the right questions are asked, the past is blurred and the future is constructed on lies. It's nigh that right questions should be asked at 10 Downing Street and the Pentagon. Till then!
Didas Gasana
This entry was posted in Genocide, Human rights, Justice, News on April 23, 2017 by Chaste Gahunde.
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Jonathan Hall of Bordeaux tells members of the Public Works Committee that local landfills are much closer to capacity than previously thought. "Where are you going to put it?" he asks.
NASHVILLE, TN – Metro council will soon decide whether to adopt a 1989 state law that allows cities and counties to vote on landfills before the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) grants them operating permits.
"I have no faith in TDEC, they take filing fees, they don't really do anything. I have no faith in their abilities," said Councilman Nick Leonardo at a Public Works Committee Meeting on March 28.
"In about five years the landfill in Rutherford County is going be full and we are going to be here to address an issue and that is what are we going to do with our waste?" asked Leonardo.
Nashville's household garbage is hauled to Rutherford County, some is hauled to Logan County, Kentucky and some is trucked to a Benton County landfill in Camden. That landfill has been the subject of lawsuits and allegations of collusion between operators and TDEC officials like TDEC Commissioner Bob Martineau. He worked with Michael Stagg, the lawyer for Environmental Waste Solutions, which owns the Camden landfill.
Leonardo proposed a bill to adopt the so-called Jackson Law February 7. The measure was tabled but will be brought back before the council within 90 days. It needs 27 council votes to become law.
Fifty-five Tennessee cities and counties have adopted the Jackson Law. Under its provisions, if the city council rejects a proposed landfill TDEC cannot overrule it. If the Metro council adopts the law by a 2/3 vote, Metro Nashville would be the largest local government to adopt the law in Tennessee.
Several Bordeaux residents spoke in favor of the Jackson Law because its adoption would put decision-making in local hands.
"The current system doesn't do it," said Barry Sulkin, an environmental consultant who used to be the state's chief water quality officer.
At last weeks Public Works Committee meeting Sulkin outlined the history of the Southern Services Landfill off Briley Parkway that is now owned by Waste Management, Inc.
"Southern Services originally put it in there without permit or zoning," said Sulkin.
Sulkin said the landfill has expanded multiple times in 5-acre increments until it reached its current size of 80 acres.
"Oil got pumped into the river; it never did get cleaned up. …The city said it was out of their hands, the state refused to help. So there's something wrong with the current system. Metro really doesn't have a voice in it," he said.
Leonardo doesn't want Southern Services to expand and the company says that site will be full in about eight years. The only other dump in Davidson County is C & D Landfill in Hermitage. Owner Dell Binkley said his 60-acre site sits between railroad tracks and the Stones River. There is no room to expand. Binkley said the site will close down in 6 months because it will be full.
Dan Lane lives in Bordeaux and served on the Regional Solid Waste Board for 17 years. He favors the Jackson Law. "I truly believe we have to step up as individuals and as institutions and take care of our own waste," he said.
Lane voted to deny Southern Services an expansion permit but a court later reversed the Solid Waste Board's decision and TDEC granted the company an expansion permit in 2005.
While courts have overruled the Solid Waste Board and TDEC in the past, Leonardo says that would be unlikely if the city council adopted the Jackson Law. The council could use the law to prevent a new landfill anywhere inside the county's borders and even one mile beyond county lines.
Environmental lawyer Elizabeth Murphy says adjacent counties could put a landfill right on the border but by invoking the Jackson Law, Davidson County could block it.
"If you have it, Nashville gets to look at the plans, gets to have a public hearing, they get to find out is this going to affect us or not. That is a provision that is pretty important and gives Nashville a lot of protection. You can't get it anywhere else," she said.
If the council approves the Jackson Law, it will become effective immediately and companies that apply for permits to open a new landfill would have to meet eight criteria.
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Despite the Jackson Law, city officials in Camden, have not had much luck regulating their landfill which has a TDEC permit to accept special waste.
"I think there's great misunderstanding about landfills," said Murphy. "That it's a hole in the ground, it stinks a little but we gotta have them and they don't do any harm. Completely untrue," she said.
Murphy said that when landfills take in special waste they eventually leach toxic liquid into the groundwater. She says even after toxic dumps are closed down, they continue to leak. The leachate must be hauled off and it can cost millions of dollars to dispose of it properly.
The two Davidson County landfills accept construction and demolition debris but neither takes household garbage, food waste, or hazardous materials like heavy metals or barrels of toxic waste.
"If you are trying to deal with a problem that is costing millions of dollars, you might start looking at dumping it in the dark…and they are doing it," she said.
She noted the case of one trucker in Camden who was dumping leachate out along the road until he was eventually caught. There's big money in toxic waste and Murphy says TDEC's permits are for sale.
"These are the problems that nobody thinks about at the front end," Murphy said.
"Special waste is coming into these landfills legally. TDEC takes the permit money and says 'go right ahead'. They take it because they make money on the front end; counties and cities pay long-term on the back end," she said.
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@citycrypto all those coins mentioned are privacy-focused coins - so the government don't like not being able to trace money..
I think you are very right admin, it appear that these numerous coin that are just starting up has hidden agenda and your thoughts fit in here.
It's a welcome development for Binance. I think the most important thing here is the ability to maintaining good cyber security. Fight hackers to standstill and Binance will go to the moon.
He's got nearly a million followers, (https://twitter.com/officialmcafee) and each tweet seems to generate hundreds of retweets. Advertisers often pay $1 per click so I don't think $100,000 per tweet is too far off the mark.
I think generally he has made a name for himself, and so ,100000$ mark is still affordable for many startups.
@wisecrypto Yep. I do not have a ton invested in crypto now, but it is definitely something to think about in the future if I decide to put more $$$ into coins.
@citycrypto Agreed. It is a slow process now but once crypto starts hitting the mainstream it will take off.
@joes That's a good question. So how would somebody, if they wanted to, go about scamming one of these vendors if they were to accept the payment before it is confirmed? Is it possible to get a transaction denied/unconfirmed on purpose?
@joes Yeah I think if a major video game developer or publisher creates their own little token or whatever, that might become the first dominant gaming 'coin'.
But as far as using an established cryptocurrency (not some sort of 'token') I think ones like Ethereum or NEO might be the most popular ones to integrate.
@joes Yeah right now it is not a huge issue but governments are starting to catch on and are preparing for a crypto-savvy population.
@joes Yep. Plus a lot of people are just kind of mad that they as "investing/finance experts" weren't one of the early adopters.
@joes True. It's not a huge deal to me, I mean I see where they're coming from and you make a good point. I'd definitely say the majority of the ones being advertised like that are basically scams.
@kotik085 Thanks for your post - however I don't understand it... can you translate to English?
Interesting. Crypto is a lot more relevant now than most investors think. Robinhood has a ton of users so if they make it easy to invest in coins it'll definitely help get more $$$ into crypto.


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June 3, 2019 • By Kate Ferguson
Last year, in Moraga, a town in the San Francisco Bay Area, a 19-month old toddler was accidentally left in a parked car for several hours by a family member. The child died of heatstroke caused by the nearly 130-degree temperature inside the vehicle, according to news reports.
Research shows that the amount of time a youngster spends in excessive heat can raise his or her temperature to above normal and trigger hyperthermia, a life-threatening condition that may result in organ failure and death if left untreated.
Although many people may not understand how someone may forget a child in a hot car, "the human brain is flawed," says David M. Diamond, PhD, a neuroscientist and professor of psychology at the University of South Florida, and a noted expert on memory.
Diamond says that while driving, an adult's brain may switch into an auto-pilot mode that doesn't include the child. "It actually happened to me," he reveals. "I was very fortunate that my wife was there to remind me that the child was there. I never would have thought that I could have left a child in a car."
Diamond says the first step to help prevent children from dying of heatstroke in vehicles is for parents to accept that this tragedy could happen to anyone.
Additionally, leaving an important item, like a purse or a phone, in the backseat could help remind caregivers that a child is strapped in there.
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4 Communication and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Case Study.DeRuyter, Frank; Donoghue, Kathleen A.
5 Developmental Apraxia and Augmentative or Alternative Communication--A Case Example.Culp, Delva M.
8 Early Cognitive Skills as Prerequisites to Augmentative and Alternative Communication Use: What Are We Waiting For?Kangas, Kathleen A.; Lloyd, Lyle L.
9 Effects of Simultaneous Communication in a Child-Directed Treatment Approach with Preschoolers with Severe Disabilities.Kouri, Theresa A.
10 Forum: A Proposed Model for Augmentative and Alternative Communication Evaluation and System Selection.Woltosz, Walter S.
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14 ISAAC Governance and Committee Activities: Core (or Basic) References on Augmentative and Alternative Communication.Windsor, Jennifer; Lloyd, Lyle L.
15 Overview of Nonelectronic Eye-Gaze Communication Techniques.Goossens, Carol A.; Crain, Sharon S.
16 Strategies for Involving Parents in Programs for Young Children Using Augmentative and Alternative Communication.Berry, Judy O.
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Hello, Kaleigh. And welcome to the show.
Kaleigh:
Yeah, this is super awesome. And I'm pretty sure the audience is going to love it, because we have a super interesting topic, which is content, content strategy, and you are the master of content here. So my first question to you would be what's your process of creating a sound content strategy, and what, in your opinion, should marketers start may be thinking about when they are about to create their content strategy?
Yeah, so, unfortunately, I see a lot of marketing teams who have a sizable budget, but they don't have a strategy. So I think getting a documented plan in place is definitely the first step, because without that, you're almost throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks, and it's just kind of ad hoc. There's no real intention behind the things that are being created. Often, there's a lot of disjointedness. So you have a lot of different writing voices and styles, and not a lot of clear objectives around what it is exactly you're trying to accomplish.
I typically don't help with the strategy piece myself. I have a person that I refer that work out to. But I will say that when people come back to me and they have the strategy piece in place for their content work, it's very obvious what kind of a shift has happened. So they have a much clearer grasp of what their objectives are, what their goals are for the content that they're investing in. They have much clearer writing briefs. So on the assignment basis, there's a lot more detail around, okay, here's what we're trying to accomplish. Here's who we're writing for. Here's what they are struggling with. Here are the questions we need to answer for them.
So it's just a lot more detailed and defined as opposed to here's a topic. Here's the keyword that we're hoping to tackle in this piece of content. Run with it. It's just a lot more strategic. And so having that big picture vision for what you're trying to do and what you're working towards goal-wise, can be a make or break thing when it comes to content marketing. And unfortunately, so many people just skip this piece of the puzzle.
Right. I really love the idea of having a plan in place, and I do agree that definitely marketers should really think long-term, and have this big picture vision before they are creating their content strategy. Could you please elaborate a bit more on the plan itself? What are the content types that should be included in the strategy? What are the different parts of the plan you should pay attention to?
And also, how can these different content pieces support each other? So say if I'm hosting a podcast, and then I would love to also create some content on the blog, some more content about our product on the website, how can these different pieces of content support each other?
Yeah. So there are a few key components that I see in a really solid strategy. A big part of it is often customer research. So being really clear about who the audience is that you're writing for, what they want to know about, what questions you can answer: what are the obstacles getting in the way of purchasing the product, or trying the product for the first time? So a lot of that is a matter of focus group work, or talking to existing customers one-on-one and getting answers to those questions. So there is a little bit of a research piece that's involved with developing a really effective strategy.
Other things that I see are what you spoke to, about what are the different ways we're going to package content? So it's not just about blogs or email marketing. It's often about how are we going to repackage the existing material we have and get as much mileage as possible out of those assets? So for example, say you have a podcast. The podcast is great, but only 37% of people like to listen to podcasts within your audience, just as an example, random number I'm throwing out. So you still have this wide demographic of your audience who maybe wants a different format.
So what I would say is that the strategy would suggest, okay, well, let's turn this into a narrative-style blog post, that's recapping all of the main topics covered within the podcast. And then let's make a Twitter thread out of it, and let's also create a graphic-based video for YouTube. So you're basically accommodating all the different consumption preferences of your audience, through one core piece of content. And you're just getting a lot more mileage out of repackaging into different formats or mediums or channels.
The other thing too, I think that is a huge part of a really strong content strategy is an editorial calendar. So what's the publishing cadence? What's the content mix, or are you doing a long-form post every Tuesday, and then maybe an email summary on Fridays? Just really getting consistency figured out, and establishing a manageable and realistic publishing schedule so that your audience knows they can consistently count on you putting out fresh, valuable material. I think that those are the big three things that stick out in my mind.
Right. And so you mentioned the content calendar. Could you please tell us more about that? So if you're planning on maybe repackaging a certain piece of content or creating a new piece of content, how would you decide which piece of content and maybe what content form you'd like to work next? Because marketers are always limited with time, so you do obviously everything at once. So how would you prioritize these content productions? And maybe you could tell us more about the metrics you're taking into consideration when making these decisions.
Sure. Yeah. I think a lot of companies will look to metrics, performance indicators, to figure out which pieces are worth repackaging. If you find that there's one particular blog post that's getting a ton of traffic, or you had a really popular podcast episode, those to me are clear indicators that they're getting traction, they're resonating, that would make for a viable play to repackage it and to represent it. Or even maybe it's just a matter of updating it down the road. Giving it a slight refresh. Revisiting the topic, adding to it. Building on the existing SEO that you have.
So I think that there are some really just basic metrics you can look for, as far as what is our best content? What's performing really well? Number one is social traction. So is it getting a lot of social shares? Are people talking about it? Are you getting clicks and traffic from places like Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn? And then the other thing is, as far as if you're putting it in a newsletter or something like that when you look at the statistics on performance for the email, was there a particular article that stood out and got more clicks than the others? Is there one that you had a lot of follow-up questions about? Maybe people wrote back and replied to the email and said, "I want to know more about X." And it's related to a particular topic that you covered.
So a lot of it is involved with listening and just really being attentive to the questions that naturally arise when you share things. But sometimes, it's a matter of diving into the data and figuring out, just performance-wise, what's resonating.
Right. Now, let's talk about diving into the data a bit more. Do you have any reports in place that you're typically looking at, that are covering how your content is performing? And another question I had here was what are the data sources you are typically including in your reports? Because you mentioned that if you're repurposing content, you can spread the word about it on social, include it in your email. Maybe you repurpose a podcast into a blog post. So in other words, where's the data coming from? What metrics should you be looking at, and how often should you be looking at these reports?
Yeah, so most of the reporting and data diving is done by the internal team that I'm working with. So since I'm a freelance writer and not so much a content strategist, oftentimes, it's just information that's being relayed to me. I can tell you though, that in my personal writing and podcasting work, the data that I look at is coming from a source like Google Analytics. Or I use Squarespace for my website, so I'll look at the built-in Squarespace analytics. I will look at social statistics that are tied into my personal Twitter account, to see what the top Tweets are and what's getting the most link clicks, what's getting the highest engagement rates.
So a lot of the time, it is built-in reporting based on the platform that I'm using. And so I know that for the internal content teams that are getting really deep into the data, they use a lot more advanced tools. And they just pass on that expertise to me, based on what their internal goals are. But on a really basic level, for an independent creator like me, sometimes just using the data that you have on hand is a good jumping-off point. And you can run with what you find there.
Can you also maybe add a couple of points about the data you're getting from the teams if somebody is commissioning an article? So what are the metrics you would love to see, and what is all the information about the customer you would like to maybe get in addition to this one? So what are the questions that you typically ask the teams that are asking you to write blog posts? Are there some critical pieces of information that you would like to know? If so, what are these?
Yeah, so the customer personas are a big one. I really want to know who their target demographic is, who their ideal customer is. And usually, that, as I said, comes in the form of customer personas. For me, the data that I love to get from internal teams, as far as performance indicators, are things like how many clicks did this blog post get in a 30-day window? So what's the traffic looking like? What's the social traction looking like? So how many social shares across platforms? What's the engagement rate across social platforms?
I think traffic is usually the biggest success indicator when it comes to blog content because not everybody is going for lead gen when it comes to blog content. Sometimes it's more educational, it's more SEO-oriented. So keyword ranking is another metric. If there's a particular term or phrase that we've been working on targeting in a piece, I want to know how we're performing on that. Where are we coming up in organic rankings? What number are we sitting at, and the results? How's that evolving over time?
Not every team will share those metrics with a freelance writer. But I feel like the teams that do and the teams that I work with on a long-term basis, that really adds a lot to our engagement of working together on a long-term basis. It makes me more of a partner, and it helps me really have a good indicator of what's working versus what's not. And so we can leverage that and build on it, moving forward in our working relationship.
Right. And I really like the partner approach here, because I definitely think that it's key to the success of the team if you're working together and share a common goal. One thing I was also super curious about was keyword research. So after you've received a brief, together with a perfect customer persona from the team, how do you do the keyword research? So what's your process of coming up with a good outline of the blog posts, based on keywords? And maybe you could also share what data you're looking at, and what tools you're using for the keyword research.
Yeah, every team I work with is a little bit different. I would say about 90% of them though, have an SEO person in-house, who's doing a lot of the heavy lifting for that work. And it'll just be built into the brief that I'm provided when I sit down to write. So they're doing a lot of the technical SEO pieces and then I'm just executing.
But I will say, one of the tips that I have found really effective is if I'm given a keyword or a keyword phrase to target within a specific piece, what I will do is I will go into Google and just type a question related to that, into Google. And see what the People Also Asked questions are, that naturally come up with that. And I'll use those as guidance for the headings within the piece that I write. So that's a just easy way to really help boost that SEO work that you're doing in content writing, is to address those commonly asked questions within the piece that you're doing.
Also, very effective to have a frequently asked questions section within a blog post, especially if it's a really long-form piece, where you're taking a deep dive on a specific topic or keyword. I know that people on the teams that I work with use a wide variety of tools, that includes everything from Moz to Sumo. I mean, there are all kinds of things that they use, and it just varies on what their goals and preferences are as far as tools go.
But like I said, it's different for everyone. And most of the time when that work is done, it's handed off to me, which is great. And it makes things a lot more smooth when it comes to the workflow side of things. But I'm really just executing on an SEO expert's guidance.
That makes total sense. Another thing I would also like to know, you mentioned there are some best practices you were using. But what are the typical mistakes marketers run into when it comes to keyword research, and maybe putting together their first draft for the blog post?
I think a lot of times people want to just really hammer on a keyword. And so they'll stuff it into the blog. It'll be very unnatural. It'll be very obvious that they are working on targeting a specific keyword or keyword phrase, and it just doesn't read naturally or organically. And so that's a problem.
I think the other mistakes I see are maybe just being too general, so staying on the surface level with things. I feel like going deeper into a topic, really getting into the details and providing contextual examples, providing quotes from experts on the topic. So not just writing about the term itself, but really adding a lot of value to the conversation around that topic, is what writers should be striving for when executing an SEO-oriented content piece.
Thank you so much, Kaleigh, for joining us today. Where can the audience learn more about you if they'd like to? And maybe you could also mention the new service you're working on.
Yeah, so I am on Twitter. My username there is @kaleighf. My website is kaleighmoore.com. The new service that I'm working on is related to this conversation we've had today. It's called contentremixed.com. And what we do is we take podcast or audio recordings, and turn them into narrative-style blog posts. So again, it's a play at repackaging existing content. We have writers who don't just do show notes and do word-for-word transcripts, but rather turn it into a readable, enjoyable article with a little bit of a narrative spin on what was covered in the podcast. So that's something new, just early stages with that, but excited to get it out there.
That sounds fantastic. And again, thank you, Kaleigh, so much for joining me on the show today.
Yeah. Thank you.


A Republic, Not an Empire is Pat Buchanan's erudite and eloquent plea for a new American foreign policy. To avoid a future of endless war, he offers a new policy rooted in America's greatest traditions.
This is the story of how American statesmen, through vision and courage, quadrupled the size of our Republic in a single century to create the most remarkable nation the world had ever seen. This is also the story of how twentieth-century presidents abandoned George Washington's "great rule" – to avoid permanent alliances and stay out of foreign wars – and led this country into global conflagrations that changed America and the world forever, and not always for the better.


Ordinary kids: extraordinary powers: amazing adventures. The fantastic Shapeshifter series continues with Dax and his friends settling into their new secret hideaway in the Lake District. The whole place has been fortified so that the Children of Limitless Ability won't ever be under threatagain. After dodging death once too often for his liking, Dax is looking forward to a quieter time - building a tree house in the grounds and shifting to a fox or a falcon and exploring the countryside. But all is not well in the spirit world - strange messages are coming through and Dax, Gideon,Lisa and Mia must once again join forces. Could the messages be coming from Luke and Catherine, Gideon's dead brother and sister? Perhaps they're even still alive? In which case, they have to rescue Luke from Catherine's evil clutches - but is Dax really a match for her?With appeal for both boys and girls, this is a fast-paced action adventure about contemporary children with super powers, told with award-winning Ali Sparkes's humour and lightness of touch. Perfect for fans of Alex Rider, Robert Muchamore's CHERUB series, and Young Bond.


It has taken us late six nights, but we have finally seen all 32 teams play. After what has been a great start to the World Cup in Brazil, here is a look at which teams have started well, and which have failed to impress. Here are the Top 5 Best and Worst Performances so far, with honourable mentions.
Netherlands (5-1 vs. Spain). After winning the last 3 major tournaments and being top of the Fifa World Rankings, Spain were bound to be amongst the favourites for the tournament. On the other hand, the Netherlands had taken a relatively inexperienced team to Brazil, and on the back of a group stage exit in Euro 2012, were underdogs not only in this game but to even escape their difficult group alongside Chile. However, exceptional performances from Robben, van Persie, Daley Blind and Villa's Ron Vlaar amongst others, saw them run rampant.
Germany (4-0 vs. Portugal) Like the Netherlands, Germany were facing their toughest group opponents in the opening game. Germany dominated Portugal even before Pepe 'did a Pepe'. With two comfortable games left for Germany, they can look forward to the knockout stages and perhaps look to rest a few key midfielders. However, Hummels, who was comfortably second best player on the pitch vs. Portugal, is potentially out for a game or two. Luckily, Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't play for the USA or Ghana.
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1-2 vs. Argentina) One of the surprise performances of the tournament so far. Having dominated the Argentinian midfield and defending remarkably in stifling Messi, Aguero and Di Maria, Bosnia were somewhat unlucky to end up losing. They showed tremendous spirit at 2-0 down after Argentina's formation change opened up the game, and with Nigeria and Iran involved in a drab 0-0, Bosnia should expect to qualify if players such as Lulic and Pjanic continue from where they left off in the Argentina game.
Croatia (1-3 vs. Brazil) In a similar way to Bosnia, Croatia surprisingly dominated the favourites and hosts of the tournament, Brazil., for long periods. Modric was excellent, but with Mexico drawing against Brazil last night, Croatia may need a win to qualify. But based on their first performance, they might just have it in them, particularly with Mandzukic now back from suspension, who is sure to help Croatia be more clinical than they were against Brazil.
Italy (2-1 vs. England) After witnessing Costa Rica's shock 3-1 win over Uruguay, the winner of England vs. Italy could almost guarantee themselves a place in the last 16. Dominating England in the quarter final of Euro 2012, Italy again showed mental toughness and won the midfield battle, with Andrea Pirlo again sparkling. Italy have the highest pass success of 93.2%, of any side so far, and any team will find it difficult to get the ball off of Pirlo and co.
Chile For 15 minutes against Australia, Chile, and in particular Alexis Sanchez, were outstanding.
Colombia Big things are expected of Colombia, and a 3-0 win against a team who kept 8 out of 10 clean sheets in qualification (Greece) is about as good a start as Colombian fans could have hoped for.
France A routine win against Honduras with 71% possession (the highest so far of any team) was not surprising (despite France tending to be very inconsistent), but sets them in good stead.
USA Incredible determination to beat Ghana after a late Ayew equiliser leaves Group G wide open.
Costa Rica All England fans are grateful for beating Uruguay. Let's hope we still are grateful in a week from now.
England Perhaps bias is coming in here, but I thought England were excellent. After a diabolical World Cup in South Africa under Capello, and an uninspiring Euro 2012 which included the Pirlo masterclass mentioned above, England doubled their shot count (18 shots in 90 minutes vs. 9 in 120 minutes) compared with 2 years ago, and although clear defensive frailties are there for all to see, England have pace and creative threat all over the pitch – Raheem Sterling in particular was exceptional. The most surprising stat of all so far is that England have the third highest pass success rate of any side – almost unheard of for an England side to keep the ball against strong opposition!
A much needed change is needed with regards to Rooney – two touches in the area for a 39 goal international striker is an issue that Hodgson needs to address for Thursday. But after witnessing Uruguay's performance against Costa Rica, England fans should be more optimistic than they are currently.
Spain (1-5 vs. Netherlands) 3 consecutive tournament wins, no goals conceded in the last 10 knockout games, and world number 1, Spain looked to have started well with an Alonso penalty. But with an ageing Casillas and Xavi and some diabolical defending, Spain now have a deciding game against Chile. While only 4 out of the last 46 teams who have lost their first game going on to get out of their group, Spain should be confident that the last team to do it went on to win the tournament.
Portugal (0-4 vs. Germany) Portugal looked clueless. After relying on Ronaldo in the play-off double leg with Sweden, Paulo Bento doesn't seem to have discussed options that don't involve passing the ball to the World Player of the Year. A half-fit Ronaldo, who put in 100% effort despite being visibly frustrated, being Portugal's sole chance of qualifying leaves the door open for USA after their win over Ghana.
Uruguay (1-3 vs. Costa Rica) Uruguay are in trouble. Before the tournament, Costa Rica were expected (perhaps naively) to pick up 0 points, but the seeded team were poor in possession and created little (only 9 shots in total). With Luis Suarez fitness news unconvincing, it'll take a big performance from Cavani and co. to beat England.
Nigeria (0-0 vs. Iran) Nigeria needed to beat Iran to have a realistic chance of qualifying. But with only 10 shots despite 69% possession and being full of decent Premier League players, current African Cup of Nations winners Nigeria now come up against an in-form Bosnia and one of the favourites Argentina. Good luck!
Japan (1-2 vs. Ivory Coast) Japan conceded the most shots per game (21) and also, despite being an attacking team under Zaccheroni, had the third fewest shots of all first round games (7). Unfortunately for Japan, Greece and Colombia are arguably better in defence than Ivory Coast.
Honduras. 4 shots on goal all game. Fewest possession of any side in the first round. Honduras were unsurprisingly poor, and justified being the outsiders to win the tournament.
Argentina. For the first half against Bosnia, they were outclassed. Argentina looked lethargic. However, a formation change from 5 at the back to 4 (why 3 CBs and a deep-lying Mascherano was felt necessary against just Dzeko, only Sabella knows) saw Messi unleashed behind a front 2, and much better things are now expected.
This includes games after the first round of games. Aussies vs Dutch was in the second round of games.


Timepieces from the house of Roberto Cavalli incorporates some of the label's signature elements like snake patterns, diamond accents and animal prints. This watch from the house features a fashionable rounded brown dial with a 'snake' motif cleverly positioned on the bezel of the dial. It comes with snake-shaped hands and features a belt wrist strap which is finished with a buckle closure. This statement-making watch is sure to garner a lot of compliments.


The temperature has dropped and it is now nicely cool for my first autumn in Adelaide. Is it me or has everyone here been dressing up more now that it's autumn? Maybe there's something about layering that has got everyone more inspired to play with fashion.
Say hello to my first autumn outfit post and coincidentally my first blog post featuring the streets of Adelaide.
These photos were shot in the city. It's quite picturesque there. If only I wasn't too lazy to lug an SLR around. Adelaide, it seems, is a quiet place to settle - peaceful, with accessible beaches, and a city just a bus ride away. It's definitely not for those who thrive in the busy, fast-paced areas. But for me, at this time in my life, it suits me just fine. Find me on Instagram to follow along on my journey.
Adorable! So sweet and feminine, love the yellow shirt.
Such a sweet and charming outfit. Yellow and black looks so great on you.
That outfit is so cute! Your dressing is perfect!
Also, how far away are you from the beaches in Adelaide? Have you checked any out? Are they amazing?
Lovely! Thank you for sharing this to us. Hopye you have an awesome Wednesday!
Love your blouse, great outfit!
Love your cardigan! So stylish and comfy!
Would you like us to keep in touch by following eachother on GFC?
You look fantastic! Love those stockings!
That yellow top is very nice on you! :) Glad you are enjoying Adelaide and the autumn weather :) Hope you had a great weekend!
As always an excellent post, I'll write down everything. You're always an inspiration to me.
That cardigan looks so cozy and perfect for your dropping temperatures! This is such a sweet look!
That shirt is so pretty !
This is a really lovely autumn look and yellow fits you so well!
Pretty look.I love black and yellow. The boots also made this outfit.


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Displaced renters camped out in front of their former residences. Photo by Miami Workers Center.
More than 60 households—mostly elderly Latino/a renters—living in the Civic Towers apartment complex in Miami's Allapattah neighborhood have been stranded and homeless for over a week since Hurricane Irma evacuations forced them from their homes. Early Wednesday morning, at around 4am, they were forcibly removed from the site of the complex after Senator Marco Rubio and Mayor Tomás Regalado visited.
Yesterday, they set up a tent city to draw attention to the atrocities they are enduring and provide some level of decent shelter for one another.
"The city and federal government are not providing housing for our people. It's up to us to ensure our people have some level of dignity and shelter. Housing is a human right," said Marcia Olivo of the Miami Workers Center, which is helping to support the families of Civic Towers.
Civic Towers was purchased in February of this year by Redwood Housing Partners, a California based real estate investment firm. Nearly all of the units are project-based Section 8 units, providing vital, affordable housing to Miami's low-income residents. Since Hurricane Irma, HUD has declared the units unsafe for habitability, but little has been done to allow residents in to the building to access their belongings. The landlord has refused to pay for hotels, and local hotels are not accepting vouchers. Renters are now increasingly concerned about deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and having their children taken from them by the state.
The families are working with the Miami Workers Center (MWC), a grassroots racial, gender, economic, and housing justice organization that is coordinating community recovery efforts as part of a coalition. The coalition has put out a call for donations of tents, air mattresses, fans, water, sanitary products, and financial contributions to support the families.
This crisis at Civic Towers is part of the larger housing crisis of displacement and rising rents that is wreaking havoc in working class and communities of color throughout Miami and Florida.


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