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Celebrating the life of Professor Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, husband, father, brother, an amazing intellect, one of the most original thinkers of his time, who touched the lives of so many has gone home to be with the Lord. He fought the good fight of faith – in God, in his family, in Biafra and in the rights of all people to determine their own destiny. He was a man of great integrity and honesty. It is an honour to have known and lived with Herbert. We will always cherish him. And we all shall surely see the restoration of independence and self determination of Biafra!
- His Loving Family
- Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
(John Coltrane Classic Quartet, "A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement" [personnel: Coltrane, saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Van Gelder studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, US, 6 December 1964])
John Coltrane Classic Quartet. "A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement". Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. New York: Van Gelder studio, 6 December 1964
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POINTED REMINDER: Those skirmishes in the mind of Harold Wilson's dreadful calculations during phases I-III of the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970
(Harold Wilson: "would accept half a million dead Biafrans if that was what it took... [Britain's on the ground co-genocidist state Nigeria to destroy the Igbo resistance to the genocide]" )
Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe
AT THE APOGEE of phase-III of Igbo genocide, mid 1968- autumn 1969, Harold Wilson, British prime minister and chief architect of this genocide, phases I-III, 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, is totally unperturbed as he informs Clyde Ferguson, the United States state department special coordinator for relief for Biafra – in response to the very British-coordinated premeditated genocide of Igbo people who had been comprehensively besieged, starved and bombarded by land and sea and air for 38 catastrophic months by the Anglo-Nigerian genocidists – that he, Harold Wilson, "would accept a half million dead Biafrans if that was what it took" its client and co-genocidist state Nigeria to destroy the Igbo resistance to the genocide (Roger Morris, Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy, London and New York: Quartet Books, 1977, p. 122.).
Indices of Wilsonian annihilative power
JUST who is Harold Wilson who is so contumelious to go on record to call for and execute the genocide of Igbo people of Biafra, 3150 miles away in southwestcentral Africa, 23 years after the end of the perpetration of the horrendous Jewish genocide by Germany in Europe in which the latter murdered 6 million Jews, and 20 years after the declaration of the seminal 1948 UN convention on the crime of genocide (see UN "Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide", [https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf], accessed 12 October 2017)?
1. Harold Wilson is not some dictator, some leader of a loony party, a fascist party, or anything of that political brand
2. Harold Wilson is an elected politician, a politician in an advanced western representative democracy
3. Harold Wilson is leader of the British Labour party, one of Europe's leading social democratic parties (also incorporates democratic socialists, other strands of socialists, communists, trade unionists)
4. Harold Wilson is prime minister of Britain
5. Harold Wilson is therefore not the prime minister of some "peripheral"/seemingly inconsequential country
6. Harold Wilson is prime minister of a "centre" state and power that was part of the victorious alliance that defeated a fascist global amalgam in a global war that ended in 1945 – barely 23 years earlier
7. Harold Wilson is prime minister of a "centre" state and power (sixth to occupy this exalted position since the end of the 1939-945 war) that was one of the key countries that worked on the panel that drafted the historic 1948 UN "Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide"
8. Harold Wilson's administration joins successive British governments in the past that have sought to "punish" the Igbo for the latter's vanguard role during 1930s-October 1960 in the African peoples' freedom project to liberate Nigeria, one of Britain's "prized African occupied states" from 60 years of the British conquest; previous British governments had connived at the premeditated devastating pogroms of Igbo people organised and executed by the Fulani jihadist/islamist leadership (on the ground African strategic ally of the British occupation who Wilson would soon work with to unleash the Igbo genocide) in the north Nigeria towns of Jos (1945) and Kano (1953)
9. Harold Wilson pursues his genocide drive against the Igbo steeped in that overarching ideological rubric of the expressed "diminution-of-African life" that constitutes the engaging, subjugating template of 400 years of pan-European enslavement of the African humanity in the Americas and elsewhere, beginning in the 15th century, and Europe's consequent occupation of the African homeland itself
10. Harold Wilson oversees the mass slaughter of the Igbo from his 10 Downing Street London official residence
11. Harold Wilson embarks on the savagery of this campaign by constructing an alliance of willing and ruthless pan-African constituent nations in Nigeria itself including, particularly, Yoruba, Urhobo and Edo of its west regions, Hausa, Kanuri, Jawara, Nupe, Bachama, Tiv, and Jukun of the north provinces, all loyal to and led by the Fulani, the visceral anti-African jihadists/islamists from Futa Djallon, 1000 miles away in northwestcentral Africa, who were stridently opposed to the Igbo-driven restoration of-African peoples-independence mission from the British occupation, and who had already demonstrated their expertise in Igbo mass slaughtering in the pogroms of 1945 and 1953 cited earlier
12. Harold Wilson's decree death target of a half "a million dead Biafrans" represents 4.2 per cent of the Igbo population at this time
13. Harold Wilson realises 6-9 months after his "a half a million dead Biafrans"-death decree declaration, 12 January 1970, that his co-Nigerian genocidists on the ground have instead murdered 3.1 million Igbo people – 2.6 million more or 25 per cent of the total Igbo population; definitely, the Nigerians have handsomely obliged their "massa" Harold Wilson's death decree of Igbo people...
14. Harold Wilson is not the least surprised of this outcome, thanks to British weapons his government supplied its co-Nigerian genocidists to accomplish their exterminating project – as Wilson recalls most effusively in his memoirs, published in 1971, the Nigerian military expended more small arms ammunition in its campaign to achieve its annihilative goal in Biafra than the amount used by the British armed forces "during the whole" of the 1939-1945 war (Harold Wilson, Labour Government, 1964-1970: A Personal Record, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971, p. 630, added emphasis)
15. Harold Wilson's government's diplomatic mission military advisor in genocidist Nigeria at the time, Robert Scott, acknowledges that at the height of the genocide, summer 1968-12 January 1970, their allied rampaging genocidists had turned swathes of Biafran territory into waste lands by the uncontrollable use of those British weapons that Wilson supplied so generously to them (Wilson: 630); Scott is graphically emphatic as he declares that as the genocidists unleashed their campaigns across Biafran cities, towns and villages, they are the "best defoliant agent known" (Sunday Telegraph, London, 11 January 1970)
Igbo resilient spirit
What has evidently underpinned the tenets of Harold Wilson's very brazen role as this advocate of mass-slaughtering-of-Igbo people in the world of mid/late 1960s is his sheer confidence of a stunning "victory" in his stated goal: Harold Wilson believes fervently that given all the power at his disposal, and these are indeed immense, as we have shown, he would destroy Igbo people… There is, however, one feature in this outstretched power resource, a critical one for that matter, which Wilson is not in control of. Harold Wilson has no access to the resilient spirit of Igbo people, that forte that ensures Igbo survival of the genocide.
BY SURVIVING the genocide, the Igbo have not only repudiated the gruesome Wilsonian logic of Igbo mass slaughter most assuredly, but they are poised today, 53 years later, as the Biafra freedom movement has grown inexorably, to resume the interrupted construction of their beloved state of Biafra – the Land of the Rising Sun.
(Alice Coltrane Quartet, "Lord, help me to be" [personnel: Coltrane, piano; Pharoah Sanders, tenor saxophone; Jimmy Garrison, bass; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: Coltrane home studio, Dix Hills, New York, US, 6 June 1968])
Alice Coltrane Quartet, "Lord, help me to be". Dix Hills, New York: Coltrane home studio, 6 June 1968
Morris, Roger. Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy. London and New York: Quartet Books, 1977.
UN. "Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide".
https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/unts/volume%2078/volume-78-i-1021-english.pdf, 9 December 1948, accessed 12 October 2017.
Wilson, Harold. Labour Government, 1964-1970: A Personal Record. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971.
*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019) and co-author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa (2018)
Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe
Labels: "Lord help me to be", AliceColtraneQ, Biafra, forte, Igbo genocide phases I-III: 29May1966-12Jan1970, Igbo resilient spirit, Indices of Wilsonian annihilative power, land of the rising sun, skirmishes
Year 53 – Igbo genocide and its comeuppance?
(For Biafra: ... Uzo Egonu, Exodus [1970])
BESIDES ALL the lead-countries involved in the Igbo genocide which have apparently had or still appear to have their comeuppance as a result, we demonstrate forthwith that each lead-personage and a number of others involved in perpetuating this heinous crime against humanity has had their life/life's vital interests impacted upon quite devastatingly for their roles in the genocide and in some examples have undergone a spectacular collapse.
We start with the so graphically dramatic case of Olusegun Obasanjo, one of the most viciously hate-ridden Igbophobists of the Igbo genocide on the ground assemblage in Nigeria, who the perceptive sociologist and criminologist Biko Agozino aptly reminds us of in his "Why Obasanjo may be heading to hell", http://massliteracy.blogspot.com.br/2013/08/why-obasanjo-may-be-heading-to-hell.html –accessed 18 December 2014).
1. Olusegun Obasanjo (Genocidist commander, south Biafra, who ordered the shooting down of an international Red Cross DC-7 relief-carrying aircraft to the blockaded and bombarded Biafrans near Eket, south Biafra, on 5 June 1969; for an update on this fellow, see, for instance, daughter Iyabo Obasanjo's December 2013 open letter to her father, http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/iyabo-obasanjo-writes-father-says-dear-daddy-dont-nigeria/ – accessed 18 December 2013)
(Olusegun Obasanjo: ... obusonjo genocidist commander, south Biafra)
2. Murtala Muhammed (genocidist commander, northwestcentral Biafra and commander of brigade that carried out the 7 October 1967 mass execution of hundreds of Igbo boys and men at Asaba, west Oshimili River, Oshimili Delta, Biafra)
3. Harold Wilson (British prime minister, architect of Igbo genocide from his London offices and home, 3ooo miles away from Biafra, who embarked on the Igbo genocide with the recorded death decree target of a half "a million dead Biafrans" [see Roger Morris, Uncertain Greatness: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy, London and New York: Quartet Books, 1977, p. 122], representing 4.2 per cent of the Igbo population at this time, realises 6-9 months after, 12 January 1970, that his co-Nigerian genocidists on the ground of lead-Fulani and Yoruba and Edo and Jukun and Urhobo and Bachama and Hausa and Tiv and Nupe nations have instead murdered 3.1 million Igbo people – 2.6 million more than his dreadful tally desire or 25 per cent of the total Igbo population; definitely, the Nigerians have handsomely obliged their "massa" Harold Wilson's Igbo death commission... A much perversely delighted Harold Wilson soon after recalls in his memoirs, published in 1971, that the Nigerian military expended more small arms ammunition in its campaign to achieve this envisaged annihilative goal in Biafra than the amount used by the British armed forces "during the whole" of the 1939-1945 war [see Harold Wilson, Labour Government, 1964-1970: A Personal Record, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971, p. 630, added emphasis])
(Harold Wilson: "would accept a half million dead Biafrans if that was what it took...")
4. Ibrahim Taiwo (parallel commander of genocidist brigade that carried out the 7 October 1967 mass execution of hundreds of Igbo boys and men at Asaba, west Oshimili River, Oshimili Delta, Biafra)
5. Leonid Brezhnev
6. Abdel Gamal Nasser
7. Adesanya Maja Adekunle (On the ground genocidist trooper "boy-boy" Adesanya Maja Adekunle who was engaged in the slaughter theater in south Biafra in 1968 was so enthralled by his "massa" Harold Wilson's notorious directive that he publicly reminded the world, in a news conference attended largely by British and other foreign correspondents, of the definitive goal of this genocide: "We shoot at everything that moves [in Igboland, and when our forces march into the centre of I[g]bo territory, we shoot at everything, even at things that don't move" (The Economist, London, 24 August 1968).
(Adesanya Adekunle: unleashes sheer savagery in south Biafra)
8. Yakubu Gowon (head of genocidist-prosecuting regime, Lagos, Nigeria)
9. Hosni Mubarak (Former commander, Egyptian air force [and later head of regime until swept away by the mass Egypt's uprising, February 2011] whose squadrons of pilots, loaned to the genocidists, flew Soviet-built MiGs from the then East Germany [GDR] and engaged in the cowardly carpet bombings of Biafran markets, hospitals, city centres, churches, shrines, children's playgrounds, villages, farms throughout the duration of the genocide)
10. Tony Enaharo (genocidist roving envoy)
11. U Thant (former secretary-general, UN, from Burma, contemporary Myanmar)
12. Ahmadou Ahidjo (head of regime, Cameroon)
13. Mashood Abiola (expansive weapons-contractor during the genocide who was on the verge of becoming head of regime, Nigeria, 1998)
14. Obafemi Awolowo (chief genocidist "theorist", head of finance ministry, and deputy head of genocidist prosecuting junta who desperately craved to be post-genocide head of regime, Nigeria, and desperately failed)
(Obafemi Awolowo: ... génocidaires' "theorist", accounts' sequestrator, £20.00-enforcer)
15. Gbadamosi King (genocidist air force pilot who shot down the international Red Cross DC-7 relief-bearing aircraft over the skies of south Biafra, 5 June 1969)
16. Muhammadu Shuwa (genocidist commander, north and northcentral Biafra)
17. Hafez al-Assad (head of regime, Syria, father of Bashar al-Assad)
18. Illiya Bisalla (genocidist commander, northcentral Biafra)
19. Sekou Toure (head of regime, Guinea-Conakry)
20. Houari Boumedienne (head of regime, Algeria)
21. Diallo Telli (Stridently anti-Igbo Fulani Guinea-Conakry official who was virulently opposed to discussing the Igbo genocide at any forums of the Organisation of African Unity where he was secretary general during the period. Telli was executed six years after the genocide in his Guinea state by head of regime Sekou Toure for "involvement" in a Fulani-coup attempt to seize power in Conakry.
(Diallo Telli: virulently anti-Igbo OAU secretary general, later executed in 1976 by compatriot Sekou Toure, head of Guinea-Conakry regime)
22. Ismail al-Azhari (head of regime, the Sudan)
23. Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (king of Saudi Arabia, 1964-1975)
24. Allison Akene Ayida (author of the tellingly ironic title, Rise and fall of Nigeria, 1990, co-principal secretary, genocidist-prosecuting regime)
(Allison Ayida: Rise and Fall of Nigeria [(1990] – tellingly ironical for a book title on Nigeria written by none other than Ayida, given the author's notorious role in the Igbo genocide)
25. David Cameron (Former British prime minister who, with US President Obama, imposed Muhammadu Buhari, one of the vilest Nigerian genocidist operatives throughout these 50 years of the Igbo genocide, as head of Nigeria regime, March 2015 [since taking power, the Buhari regime's military and other genocidist assets, true to type, have murdered hundreds of Igbo across occupied Biafra without any condemnation by the Cameron government]; Cameron resigned his prime minister's position precipitously on 13 July 2016 after losing the "Brexit" referendum on British membership of the European Union)
(David Cameron: ... imposes genocidist operative Buhari as head of Nigeria regime in March 2015 ... precipitous resignation as British prime minister in July 2016 after British majority electorate votes to leave the EU in a referendum against Cameron's own political goal of "EU-remain")
26. Hillary Clinton (Former US secretary of state, Obama administration, January 2009-January 2013 – remained unrelentingly adamant, throughout her tenure, of not designating the islamist, northcentral/northeast-based insurgent organisation, Boko Haram, a terrorist organisation despite the latter's murder of thousands of African peoples, overwhelmingly Igbo, during the period [it wouldn't be until November 2013 that the US declared Boko Haram "terrorist" because Washington judged the group was "{now} develop{ing} links with other {islamists} such as al-Qaeda … to wage a global jihad"]; on 8 November 2016, contrary to overwhelming opinion poll indicators and leading pundits' analyses and predictions, Clinton received a crushing defeat in the US presidential election by anti-establishment rival candidate Donald Trump – Clinton had run her campaign on a political platform billed largely on the continuation of the cardinal policies of the Obama presidency which includes its unflinching support for the Nigeria genocidist regime)
(Hillary Clinton:... unrelenting adamance ... crushing defeat)
27. Barack Hussein Obama (US President who, with David Cameron, former British prime minister, imposed Muhammadu Buhari, one of the vilest Nigerian genocidist operatives during these 50 years of the Igbo genocide, as head of Nigeria regime, March 2015 [since taking power, the Buhari regime's military and other genocidist assets, true to type, have murdered hundreds of Igbo people across occupied Biafra without any condemnation by the Obama administration]; Obama is the first African-descent president of the US republic in 233 years of existence and his unflinching support for an African-led genocidist regime in Africa waging a genocide against an African people is surely an unconscionably abhorrent tragedy of his presidential legacy)
(http://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/herbert-ekwe-ekwe-this-piece-is.html).
(Barack Hussein Obama:... imposes genocidist operative Buhari ... unconscionable abhorrent tragedy of a presidential legacy)
29. Muhammadu Buhari (Genocidist operative in the Nigeria military – right from the launch of the Igbo genocide on Sunday 29 May 1966 and during the Nigerian expansive trail of the mass slaughter of Igbo military and civilians alike in north and west Nigeria regions from 29 July 1966-5 July 1967 to encapsulate phases I-II of the genocide timeframe. During phase-III of the genocide, the invasion of Biafra, 6 July 1967-12 January 1970, Muhammadu Buhari was commander of a genocidist corps in north and northcentral Biafra, slaughtering to the hilt. Nigeria murdered 3.1 million Igbo people during these three phases of the genocide. As from 13 January 1970, beginning of phase-IV of the genocide, Buhari has adhered rigidly to or overseen the Nigeria regime's blanket policy of non-development of occupied Biafra, the regime's aggressive degradation of socioeconomic life in Biafra, and the regime's exponential expropriation of the rich oil reserves of Biafra. Biafran assets looted by the occupation stand at US$1000 billion. This monstrously programmed pillaging of the wealthlands of Biafra since January 1970 by Fulani-led islamist jihadist Nigeria and their pan-African constituent nations allies particularly Yoruba, Edo, Jukun, Urhobo, Bachama, Nupe, Tiv, Jarawa, has nothing comparable in African history. Finally, since 13 January 1970, Buhari has exhibited a calculated, deafening silence over the course of the murder of additional tens of thousands of Igbo people across Nigeria but especially in his north Nigeria homeland by regime forces/allied forces including those massacred by the Boko Haram terrorist organisation, which he and other islamist jihadists in the region inaugurated as their grand fulanisation and islamisation of Nigeria. Since his imposition as Nigeria's head of regime in March 2015 by ex-US President Barack Hussein Obama and ex-British Prime Minister David Cameron, Muhammadu Buhari's regime with his adjunct-genocidist Boko Haram and Fulani militia allies (two of the five deadliest terrorists organisations in the world presently [see Institute for Economics & Peace, "Global Terror Index 2015", http://economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Global-Terrorism-Index-2015.pdf , accessed 17 November 2015]) have murdered 3000 Igbo people in occupied Biafra. These murders have continued unabated.)
(Muhammadu Buhari: ... fiendish Igbo genocidist operative from the outset of the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966 ... Imposed as head of regime in Nigeria by ex-US President Barack Hussein Obama and ex-British Prime Minister David Cameron. Muhammadu Buhari is on course to complete his ongoing violent project of the fulanisation and islamisation of British-client state Nigeria which serves British interests in this northwestcentral Africa in perpetuity)
28. Fulani islamist/jihadist, virulently anti-African grouping from Futa Djallon highlands, northwestcentral Africa, 1000 miles from their occupied north Nigeria, who have led this genocide for the past 53 years with their very loyal pan-African constituent allies especially Yoruba, Jukun, Edo, Hausa, Urhobo,Bachama, Nupe, Kanuri, have expansively murdered and murdered and murdered Igbo most monstrously that there appears, apparently, no remaining new regions of savagery to explore to deploy in this march. Or are there?
Be marooned in this quagmire or seek freedom by abandoning 53 years of Igbo genocide
(Nigeria: mephistophelian quagmire)
EACH AND EVERYONE of these latter African peoples or nations must now know that it is trapped in the mephistophelian quagmire of British-created hotchpotch Nigeria precisely for committing this heinous crime of genocide against Igbo people, for murdering 3.1 million Igbo people in a frenzy during 44 months, Sunday 29 May 1966-12 January 1970, phases I-III, and then extending this odyssey of death by murdering tens of thousands of additional Igbo between 13 January 1970 and the present day. Each is assured that it will remain in there hopelessly indefinitely unless it, itself, abandons its half a century preoccupation to contribute its quota to wish to destroy one of Africa's most talented, innovative and hardworking peoples. Each of these peoples must know that it has failed woefully to effectuate this goal of destroying Igbo people. No one can and will destroy the Igbo. The Igbo will ever remain triumphant. Unmistakably. There is no meaningful progress for Yoruba, Jukun, Edo, Hausa, Urhobo, Bachama, Nupe, except each, individually, as a people abandons its current genocidal march on Igbo people. Anyone of them ready to accept this move forward should contact, at once, the representatives of the Biafra freedom movement and discuss the terms of such a turning point of intent. These must include full reparations on the millions of the Igbo they have murdered in half a century, the billions of US dollars worth of legendary Igbo wealth they have plundered and transferred to their homelands, and the breathtaking vandalism of the dismantling of Igbo socioeconomics. Now is the time for this dash to alternative path to redemptive justice.
IF EVER there were any doubts, the evidence from the history of the Igbo genocide, so far, demonstrates the contrary, so clearly as illustrated above with regards to the range of fates of states and individuals involved in the genocide, as particularly the references show on Sekou Toure's reprehensible execution of raving anti-Igboist Diallo Telli, the collapse of the Soviet Union, occuring within a decade of the death of Leonid Brezhnev, the unravelling of the state of Britain, the architect of the genocide, contemporaneously as the world has not known it in the past 300 years, underpinned by the staggeringly indescribable humiliation that this country has been subjected by key states and officials in the European Union over the former's quest to leave the EU following a successful referendum, and Barack Hussein Obama's appalling presidential legacy – namely, that no one, no agency, murders 3.1 million Igbo children, women and men and additional tens of thousands of Igbo in this foundational genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa and walks away free... None whatsoever...
Biafra restoration of Igbo independence
AS THE WORLD watches intensely, the now 50 million Igbo survivors of the genocide are individually and collectively involved in the current historic campaign for the restoration of their independence and justice... And Biafra will achieve this freedom and justice.
(Sonny Rollins Trio, "The freedom suite" [personnel: Rollins, tenor saxophone; Oscar Pettiford, bass; Max Roach, drums; recorded: Riverside Records, New York, US, 7 March 1958])
*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019) and co-author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, Why #DonaldTrump is #great for #Africa (2018)
Labels: "Berlin-states", "The freedom suite", 50m Igbo survivors, abhorren legacy, Agozino, Buhari: fulanisation&islamisation of Nigeria, Exodus (1970), Rollins3, Uzo Egonu, Yr53 – Igbo genocide & comeuppance?
Would British conquest and occupation administrator Hugh Clifford repeat these 29 December 1920 comments on Nigeria today, 99 years on, Thursday 10 October 2019, "Nigeria is a collection of independent states"?
ON 29 DECEMBER 1920, Hugh Clifford, the British conquest and occupation administrator in Nigeria, makes the following contribution to a "Legislative Council Debate", Lagos:
[Nigeria is a] collection of Independent … States, separated from one another by great distances, by differences of history and traditions and by … racial … political, social and religious barrier. (1)
(Hugh Clifford)
TODAY, Thursday 10 October 2019, 99 years on, would Hugh Clifford conceivably make these same assertions? If so, why? If not, why not?
(1)Quoted in George CE Enyoazu, "Sovereign National Conference – Will the people have their say at last?", African Democrat, 30 October 2013.
Labels: "The freedom suite", African Democrat, British conq&occup governor, collection of Independent states, George Enyoazu, Hugh Clifford, Legisl Council Debate: Lagos1920, Rollins3, TodayThurs10Oct2019: 99 yrs
Freedom for each and every African people from the genocidist state in Africa
IGBO and all other African peoples or nations who have lived through the terror of the post-(European)conquest state must abandon it at once to survive and advance towards the construction of higher levels of civilisation. They have no other choice. Each is a nation; they should proclaim their sovereignty today. Irrepressible Biafra spearheads this African World freedom movement contemporaneously.
Each and every constituent African people or nation, whatever their population size or wherever geography in Africa they are emplaced, can and should build this civilisation outside the existing genocide state of enthralled and degenerative union exemplified, most catastrophically in Africa by particularly three "states": Nigeria, the Sudan, the Congo-Kinshasa ("DRC").
Let Africa's constituent peoples or nations unleash a dazzling contest of creativity and progress, a continuing mutual bombardment and sharing of ideas and streams of possibilities, akin to what the world has seen elsewhere in the South World in the past 40 years – not the prevailing mass murdering campaign, mass murdering campaign, mass murdering campaign, pillaging, pillaging, pillaging, nihilism, nihilism, nihilism, being pursued with such a sheer savagery by the anti-African peoples' north Nigeria-based Fulani islamist/jihadists and their loyal Nigerian allies in Biafra…
MOST SURELY, now is the time for each and every African people in Africa to embark on this new beginning of freedom and reconstruction from a plundered history.
(John Coltrane Duo, "Mars" [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, bells; Rashied Ali, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood, Cliff, NJ, US, 22 February 1967])
Labels: "Mars", Africa peoples or nations, Biafra, civilisation of freedom, ColtraneD, genocidist state in Africa, plundered history, terror of post-(Euro)conq state
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Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is specialist on the state and on genocide & wars in Africa in the post-1966 epoch – beginning with the Igbo genocide, 29 May 1966-present day, the foundational and most gruesome genocide of post-(European)conquest Africa. 3.1 million Igbo or 25 per cent of this nation's population were murdered by Nigeria and its allies, principally Britain. Africa and the rest of the world largely stood by and watched as the perpetrators enacted this horror most ruthlessly. The world could have stopped this genocide; the world should have stopped this genocide. This genocide inaugurated Africa's current age of pestilence. During the period, 12 million additional Africans have been murdered in further genocide in Rwanda (1994), Zaïre/DRCongo (variously, since the late 1990s) and Darfur – west of the Sudan – (since 2004) and in other wars in Africa. African peoples have, presently, no other choice but exit/dismantle the extant genocide-state (the bane of their existence & progress) & construct own nation-centred states that serve their interests. He is author of several books & papers on the subject and his new book is entitled The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019).


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Crypto industry's advocates have no illusions that a Bitcoin Exchange Trading Fund's (ETF) or other similar applications will be treated on priority. The forced closure of federal agencies like Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had put key developments on hold during the longest government shutdown (from December 22,2018 to January 25,2019 ) in US history. This has caused a delay in regulatory approvals for Crypto investment products, product launches and has made companies to pull back their proposals as well. The SEC and the CFTC now have five weeks of work to catch up on.
Also, 4500 employees were now returning to their positions at home office and 11 regional offices and will be publishing their statements in coming days with regards to their plans.
The shutdown has other consequences as well. Like this reopening may be a short one. The agreement between Congress and U.S. President Donald Trump is temporary, and if the two branches of government cannot agree to a permanent budget and a compromise on the proposed border wall by February 15, the government will shut down again.
"Without the comfort of knowing that the political climate will be calmer for the indefinite future, there will be companies that seek to avoid domiciling themselves in the U.S. or will de-risk themselves by avoiding serving U.S. customers … Those companies that are committed to the U.S. will also face challenges."Ehrlich added.
And according to Templum Markets ,CEO Vince Molinari informed CoinDesk that the SEC "made an incredible effort to keep up with their immense workload" ,but given how few staffers were on duty during the shutdown (fewer than 300), a 21- day reprieve would not "materially affect " the agency's backlog.
This would surely take some time to get sorted and to run normally back again.


Can learning more about yourself land you a promotion—or a new job?
Personality tests like this one pictured here can help boost your career or help you determine if a change in career is needed.
Marilyn T. Smith, 64, hadn't taken a personality test in decades. But she used them to learn more about herself when she sought career counseling from the Boston-based New Directions five years ago. A longtime employee of Hanover Insurance Group, she was tapped to help sell off the firm's life insurance division. At the end of her two-year contract, she'd be out of a job, so she negotiated for help plotting out her future. She knew she'd be changing careers eventually; she hoped taking a pulse on her strengths and interests would help her land a new job that capitalized on both.
Personality assessments cover a lot of ground, but all aim to identify your strengths, weaknesses, temperament, and your style of leadership. Some of the most popular tests, including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, or MBTI, convey an "I'm okay, you're okay, we're just different" take. Others, such as theHogan Personality Inventory, can deliver messages test takers may not want to hear. Geared for workers already in a job, these tests note strengths as well as shortcomings and classify test-takers as a "high," "moderate," or "low" fit for specific jobs.
But no personality assessment test defines your destiny. For one thing, they aren't always dependable indicators of performance or attitude according to Mary Lee Gannon, executive coach and author of Starting Over. She has hired people who fit the qualities of a superior sales team member but struggled to juggle multiple projects.
"For people who aren't already sure of their personality strengths or purpose, these are useful tools for improving self-understanding," Gannon says. Most highlight core themes—learning and leadership style, emotional intelligence, attitudes, behavior, values and strengths.
Can personality tests make your employees more productive, make you happier at work, or identify your next career move? It depends. By identifying your natural tendencies via psychological assessments, you can focus on what you're inclined to excel in—and target areas you may be able to work on.
For job seekers, knowing your personality strengths can help you improve (or avoid your weaknesses) and help you present your abilities to employers. Self-awareness can help you connect with others while you network and tell your story in interviews. It's like being able to speak the HR team's language.
Understanding the patterns and unconscious decisions you make every day is illuminating for longer-term planning, too. For career changers—and anyone who wants to re-examine their direction and refocus their working goals—this self-information can help you plot out what's next.
That's just what Smith did with hers. Career coaches reviewed the tests she took on her own time and recorded their results review session on CD, so she could listen to it in her car and internalize it.
"I'm a teacher, a nurturer and I have driver abilities," she says. "And even though I wanted to be a leader, they told me I should run a department of no more 500 people. That made sense to me. I like to know the people I'm working with as best I can." When the time came to leave Hanover, she felt comfortable stepping out and into academia: She now heads up information services and technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Should You Work With a Coach?
Luckily, you don't need to land outplacement support or take out a small loan to find out more about yourself. You can take some personality tests online for a fee ranging from $30 to $150 at www.capt.org. The Klein Group Instrument (KGI) focuses on leadership and participation in teams, for $30. At the higher end of the range is MBTI, a psychological assessment restricted to use by "certified professionals." The $150 cost includes the online test plus a one-hour phone session with an MBTI professional and materials to learn more about your type. Others, including the Hogan test, require a professional psychologist to administer them, so consult a coach for help.
To start, Gannon says job seekers may benefit even more from evaluating their core values first. She suggests several free resources and exercises on her website. Those listed under "Begin with Strengths, Vision Values, Purpose" identify the core gut checks she runs all clients through. It's time well spent.
That can be a helpful reminder, especially for people who have been out of work for a while. Gannon says they are hungry to do something to land their dream job. They also have lots of energy; they just don't know what to do with it.
She says many smart self-starters will find value in a professional baseline test as long as they dedicate time to additional research about what their results mean. But Smith, for one, believes it's worth the investment to hire a pro to not only help you decipher your results—but to put them into the context of your own career.
Life Reimagined has a plethora of quizzes and personality tests available for readers to learn more about themselves. Check out our work and career programs to help you find balance on the job.


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Petal Children's Taskforce
Petal Children's Task Force
314 S. George Street Petal, MS 39465
The Petal Children's Task Force was formed in December of 1989 by Petal residents and friends Demaris Lee and Jessie Rowell. The event that set in motion what would eventually become the task force was a single needy family. The two women purchased food and Christmas presents for the family with money from their own pockets. While they didn't advertise what they were doing, the women said requests for help continued to come in. While visiting these families to bring food and other necessities, the women often saw various sad situations. Children in deplorable living conditions, sometimes with no bed to sleep on, and houses with only a wood fire for heat in the winter are just a couple of examples. For almost a year, Demaris and Jessie tried to meet the needs of local families on their own, but in 1990 they received their first donation, $500 from the Chamber of Commerce. This was soon followed by several other donations from Petal businesses.
The women began speaking with local clubs and organizations, and soon the task force grew into a full-time organization. From a meager pantry at a local church, to space provided at the Center for Families and Children in Petal, the task force continued to grow. Eventually, a board of directors was organized, and the Task Force gained much support from the Petal community.
Even as the Task Force grew, its mission remained the same, to provide for the children of Petal and act as their advocate when no one else could.
Today our work continues. Through the generosity of Asbury Methodist Church, we now have our own space at the Lighthouse Mission site in Petal. And with this most recent blessing, we have been able to become a true Emergency Food Bank for all of the people in Petal. We now provide food assistance to anyone in need in the Petal area, including those who do not have children in the Petal School District.
Ms. Jessie Rowell passed away in early 2010, but we know she would be very proud of how far we've come, and we continue to serve the people of Petal to the glory of God and in honor of Jessie and the work that she and Demaris began.
Monday-Friday 9-3pm
© 2021 by Petal Children's Taskforce Proudly created with Wix.com

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Noise Compensation Policy
§ Mr. Henderson
asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he has now completed the review of noise compensation policy; and if he will make a statement about the implications of the review generally and in the vicinity of RAF Leuchars particularly.
§ Mr. Freeman
The review of the Ministry's policy for providing sound insulation grants and compensation for noise in the vicinity of military airfields is complete. Certain changes have been approved bringing my Department's policy broadly in line with that applying to major civil airports. These changes were announced in an answer given by my hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement to the hon. Member for Banbury (Mr. Baldry) on 14 November 1985 at columns260–1.
The most significant change as far as RAF Leuchars is concerned is the reduction of the qualifying level for sound insulation grants. I shall be announcing an extension to the existing noise compensation scheme at Leuchars shortly.
Back to Ferranti Computer Assisted Command System
Forward to Armoured Divisions


Researchers from Michigan State University and the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan discovered eight new rare isotopes of the elements phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, scandium and, most importantly, calcium. These are the heaviest isotopes of these elements ever found.
This watercolor by ninth-grader Alexandra Tarasova shows how a teenager sees the experimental figure. Credit: Alexandra Tarasova, Holt High School.
Banner image: Researchers from MSU and the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan have discovered eight new rare isotopes, including the heaviest known calcium atom, calcium-60. The illustration shows a plot used to identify the different nuclei produced in the measurement. Z is the number of protons and A/q is the ratio of the number of protons and neutrons over the charge. The calcium isotopes are indicated from the last stable calcium-48 out to calcium isotopes that can only be reached with FRIB. All nuclei to the right of the red line have been observed for the first time in this measurement. Credit: National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.


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package com.intellij.psi.util;

import com.intellij.lang.ASTNode;
import com.intellij.lang.Language;
import com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger;
import com.intellij.openapi.project.Project;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.Comparing;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.Key;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.TextRange;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFile;
import com.intellij.psi.*;
import com.intellij.psi.meta.PsiMetaData;
import com.intellij.psi.meta.PsiMetaOwner;
import com.intellij.psi.scope.PsiScopeProcessor;
import com.intellij.psi.search.GlobalSearchScope;
import com.intellij.psi.search.SearchScope;
import com.intellij.util.TimeoutUtil;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * @author yole
 */
public class PsiUtilCore {
  private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getInstance("#com.intellij.psi.util.PsiUtilCore");
  public static final PsiElement NULL_PSI_ELEMENT = new PsiElement() {
    @Override
    @NotNull
    public Project getProject() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    @NotNull
    public Language getLanguage() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiManager getManager() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    @NotNull
    public PsiElement[] getChildren() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement getParent() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    @Nullable
    public PsiElement getFirstChild() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    @Nullable
    public PsiElement getLastChild() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    @Nullable
    public PsiElement getNextSibling() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    @Nullable
    public PsiElement getPrevSibling() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiFile getContainingFile() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public TextRange getTextRange() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public int getStartOffsetInParent() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public int getTextLength() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement findElementAt(int offset) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    @Nullable
    public PsiReference findReferenceAt(int offset) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public int getTextOffset() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public String getText() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    @NotNull
    public char[] textToCharArray() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement getNavigationElement() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement getOriginalElement() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean textMatches(@NotNull CharSequence text) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean textMatches(@NotNull PsiElement element) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean textContains(char c) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public void accept(@NotNull PsiElementVisitor visitor) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public void acceptChildren(@NotNull PsiElementVisitor visitor) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement copy() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement add(@NotNull PsiElement element) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement addBefore(@NotNull PsiElement element, PsiElement anchor) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement addAfter(@NotNull PsiElement element, PsiElement anchor) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public void checkAdd(@NotNull PsiElement element) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement addRange(PsiElement first, PsiElement last) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement addRangeBefore(@NotNull PsiElement first, @NotNull PsiElement last, PsiElement anchor) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement addRangeAfter(PsiElement first, PsiElement last, PsiElement anchor) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public void delete() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public void checkDelete() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public void deleteChildRange(PsiElement first, PsiElement last) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement replace(@NotNull PsiElement newElement) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isValid() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isWritable() {
      throw createException();
    }

    private PsiInvalidElementAccessException createException() {
      return new PsiInvalidElementAccessException(this, "NULL_PSI_ELEMENT", null);
    }

    @Override
    @Nullable
    public PsiReference getReference() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    @NotNull
    public PsiReference[] getReferences() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public <T> T getCopyableUserData(Key<T> key) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public <T> void putCopyableUserData(Key<T> key, T value) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean processDeclarations(@NotNull PsiScopeProcessor processor,
                                       @NotNull ResolveState state,
                                       PsiElement lastParent,
                                       @NotNull PsiElement place) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public PsiElement getContext() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isPhysical() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    @NotNull
    public GlobalSearchScope getResolveScope() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    @NotNull
    public SearchScope getUseScope() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public ASTNode getNode() {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public <T> T getUserData(@NotNull Key<T> key) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public <T> void putUserData(@NotNull Key<T> key, T value) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public Icon getIcon(int flags) {
      throw createException();
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isEquivalentTo(final PsiElement another) {
      return this == another;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
      return "NULL_PSI_ELEMENT";
    }
  };

  @NotNull
  public static PsiElement[] toPsiElementArray(@NotNull Collection<? extends PsiElement> collection) {
    if (collection.isEmpty()) return PsiElement.EMPTY_ARRAY;
    //noinspection SSBasedInspection
    return collection.toArray(new PsiElement[collection.size()]);
  }

  public static Language getNotAnyLanguage(ASTNode node) {
    if (node == null) return Language.ANY;

    final Language lang = node.getElementType().getLanguage();
    return lang == Language.ANY ? getNotAnyLanguage(node.getTreeParent()) : lang;
  }

  @Nullable
  public static VirtualFile getVirtualFile(@Nullable PsiElement element) {
    if (element == null || !element.isValid()) {
      return null;
    }

    if (element instanceof PsiFileSystemItem) {
      return ((PsiFileSystemItem)element).getVirtualFile();
    }

    final PsiFile containingFile = element.getContainingFile();
    if (containingFile == null) {
      return null;
    }

    return containingFile.getVirtualFile();
  }

  public static int compareElementsByPosition(final PsiElement element1, final PsiElement element2) {
    if (element1 != null && element2 != null) {
      final PsiFile psiFile1 = element1.getContainingFile();
      final PsiFile psiFile2 = element2.getContainingFile();
      if (Comparing.equal(psiFile1, psiFile2)){
        final TextRange textRange1 = element1.getTextRange();
        final TextRange textRange2 = element2.getTextRange();
        if (textRange1 != null && textRange2 != null) {
          return textRange1.getStartOffset() - textRange2.getStartOffset();
        }
      } else if (psiFile1 != null && psiFile2 != null){
        final String name1 = psiFile1.getName();
        final String name2 = psiFile2.getName();
        return name1.compareToIgnoreCase(name2);
      }
    }
    return 0;
  }

  public static boolean hasErrorElementChild(@NotNull PsiElement element) {
    for (PsiElement child = element.getFirstChild(); child != null; child = child.getNextSibling()) {
      if (child instanceof PsiErrorElement) return true;
    }
    return false;
  }

  @NotNull
  public static PsiElement getElementAtOffset(@NotNull PsiFile file, int offset) {
    PsiElement elt = file.findElementAt(offset);
    if (elt == null && offset > 0) {
      elt = file.findElementAt(offset - 1);
    }
    if (elt == null) {
      return file;
    }
    return elt;
  }

  @Nullable
  public static PsiFile getTemplateLanguageFile(final PsiElement element) {
    if (element == null) return null;
    final PsiFile containingFile = element.getContainingFile();
    if (containingFile == null) return null;

    final FileViewProvider viewProvider = containingFile.getViewProvider();
    return viewProvider.getPsi(viewProvider.getBaseLanguage());
  }

  @NotNull
  public static PsiFile[] toPsiFileArray(@NotNull Collection<? extends PsiFile> collection) {
    if (collection.isEmpty()) return PsiFile.EMPTY_ARRAY;
    //noinspection SSBasedInspection
    return collection.toArray(new PsiFile[collection.size()]);
  }

  /**
   * @return name for element using element structure info
   */
  @Nullable
  public static String getName(PsiElement element) {
    String name = null;
    if (element instanceof PsiMetaOwner) {
      final PsiMetaData data = ((PsiMetaOwner) element).getMetaData();
      if (data != null) {
        name = data.getName(element);
      }
    }
    if (name == null && element instanceof PsiNamedElement) {
      name = ((PsiNamedElement) element).getName();
    }
    return name;
  }

  public static String getQualifiedNameAfterRename(String qName, String newName) {
    if (qName == null) return newName;
    int index = qName.lastIndexOf('.');
    return index < 0 ? newName : qName.substring(0, index + 1) + newName;
  }

  public static Language getDialect(@NotNull PsiElement element) {
    return narrowLanguage(element.getLanguage(), element.getContainingFile().getLanguage());
  }

  protected static Language narrowLanguage(final Language language, final Language candidate) {
    if (candidate.isKindOf(language)) return candidate;
    return language;
  }

  public static void ensureValid(@NotNull PsiElement element) {
    if (!element.isValid()) {
      TimeoutUtil.sleep(1); // to see if processing in another thread suddenly makes the element valid again (which is a bug)
      if (element.isValid()) {
        LOG.error("PSI resurrected: " + element + " of " + element.getClass());
        return;
      }
      throw new PsiInvalidElementAccessException(element);
    }
  }

  /**
   * @deprecated use CompletionUtil#getOriginalElement where appropriate instead
   */
  @Nullable
  public static <T extends PsiElement> T getOriginalElement(@NotNull T psiElement, final Class<? extends T> elementClass) {
    final PsiFile psiFile = psiElement.getContainingFile();
    final PsiFile originalFile = psiFile.getOriginalFile();
    if (originalFile == psiFile) return psiElement;
    final TextRange range = psiElement.getTextRange();
    final PsiElement element = originalFile.findElementAt(range.getStartOffset());
    final int maxLength = range.getLength();
    T parent = PsiTreeUtil.getParentOfType(element, elementClass, false);
    T next = parent ;
    while (next != null && next.getTextLength() <= maxLength) {
      parent = next;
      next = PsiTreeUtil.getParentOfType(next, elementClass, true);
    }
    return parent;
  }

  @NotNull
  public static Language findLanguageFromElement(final PsiElement elt) {
    if (elt.getFirstChild() == null) { //is leaf
      final PsiElement parent = elt.getParent();
      if (parent != null) {
        return parent.getLanguage();
      }
    }

    return elt.getLanguage();
  }

  @NotNull
  public static Language getLanguageAtOffset (@NotNull PsiFile file, int offset) {
    final PsiElement elt = file.findElementAt(offset);
    if (elt == null) return file.getLanguage();
    if (elt instanceof PsiWhiteSpace) {
      final int decremented = elt.getTextRange().getStartOffset() - 1;
      if (decremented >= 0) {
        return getLanguageAtOffset(file, decremented);
      }
    }
    return findLanguageFromElement(elt);
  }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


However, any parent who wants to see violation reports filed before the website was created must contact the state and file a formal records request. Macco, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in November, is offering six apartment complexes, three office parks, a freestanding office building and 12 acres of vacant land in Oklahoma City, and seven apartment properties in Wichita for a combined $85,975,000. Last fall, First Enterprise Bank sought foreclosure on several Macco owned properties, including two of the office parks and one of the Wichita apartment properties, but the dispute was settled by mid October. I have personally managed many of these properties in the past and know firsthand that they would make a great investment for the right buyer. Some of the locations are phenomenal, Dirkschneider said. Two of the Wichita properties are on the Arkansas River down.
Dr. L. Carol Scott said. "Part of the reason we not near the top of the list, is because we don license all of our child care.
point out some changes being made. "They are making good progress. I want to give them credit for that," Scott said. The biggest improvement, according to Scott, is a Puma Ignite Proknit recently launched state web page where parents can search for "new" daycare inspection reports. Admittedly, it is a big step.


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L'Union Clodiense Chioggia S.r.l. Società Sportiva Dilettantistica, conosciuta come Union Chioggia Sottomarina o Union C.S., è una società calcistica italiana con sede nella città di Chioggia, nella città metropolitana di Venezia.

Dal 2019 porta l'eredità storica del "Chioggia Sottomarina", società che aveva chiuso l'esercizio sportivo otto anni prima. Il nome Union C.S., ancora molto usato dai tifosi, deriva da "Union Clodia Sottomarina", denominazione che detto club possedette dal 1971, anno della sua fondazione, al 1989.

Storia

Il calcio a Chioggia prima del 1971

La società nasce nel 1971 dalla fusione delle due squadre cittadine di Chioggia: i biancazzurri del Clodia dei fratelli Bruno e Dino Sartore, e i neroverdi del Sottomarina, dell'omonima frazione.

LU.S. Clodia era nata nel 1920 disputando nel secondo dopoguerra, tra gli altri, un campionato di Serie C, tre campionati di IV Serie e tre di Serie D; tra le sue file giocarono anche Aldo e Dino Ballarin, componenti del Grande Torino che perirono tragicamente nel disastro di Superga. Ben più recente la storia dellU.S. Sottomarina, che si costituì nel 1959 ma che conobbe una rapida ascesa alla fine degli anni 1960, conquistando prima la promozione alla Serie D e l'anno seguente quella in Serie C. Saranno poi tre i campionati di Serie C disputati, l'ultimo dei quali si concluse con la retrocessione.

L'Union C.S. (1971-2011)
In quel 1971, con entrambe le squadre in Serie D, si decise di operare la fusione dando vita al F.B.C. Union Clodia Sottomarina. La nuova società adottò i colori granata in memoria del Grande Torino e dei fratelli chioggiotti Ballarin, che ne fecero parte. Artefice di questa ripartenza dai dilettanti fu Teofilo Sanson, appassionato di calcio e imprenditore nel campo del gelato, che con l'aiuto di Franco Dal Cin riuscì a riportare la Serie C a Chioggia. Successivamente Sanson si trasferì a Udine e, senza di lui, il declino granata fu rapido. Con una doppia retrocessione nei campionati 1976-77 e 1977-78 i granata si ritrovarono nelle categorie regionali.

Solo sotto la presidenza di Franco De Paolis riuscirono a risollevarsi, tornando nel 1985 a disputare il Campionato Interregionale. Nel 1989 la società cambia il suo nome in S.S.C. Chioggia Sottomarina; gli anni 1990 vedono i granata tornare nelle categorie inferiori sino a scendere in Prima Categoria. La risalita inizia nel 1995, con la nuova denominazione A.C. Chioggia Sottomarina, quando nell'arco di quattro annate i granata vincono tre campionati. Da ricordare la stagione 1996-97 nella quale, oltre a vincere il torneo di Promozione, i granata riescono a primeggiare anche nella fase regionale della Coppa Italia Dilettanti, 2-1 alla Bassano Virtus in uno Stadio Appiani stracolmo di 4500 spettatori, venendo poi eliminati nei quarti di finale dal Gubbio (1-0, 2-4). Una risalita merito del presidente Gianni Pagan e che vede i granata tornare stabilmente in Serie D.

Dopo alcuni campionati di metà classifica, nel 2006-2007 conquista un terzo posto che vale l'accesso ai play-off, dove viene eliminato dal Carpi (1-2). Nell'annata seguente migliora il suo risultato conquistando il secondo posto e arrivando anche alla finale della fase a gironi, dopo aver eliminato il Città di Jesolo; la finale non gli è favorevole, dato che viene sconfitto in casa dalla Sambonifacese per 1 a 0. Il secondo posto permette però ai granata di poter giocare il primo turno della Coppa Italia 2008-2009: in apertura di stagione i granata affrontano il  venendo però sconfitti dai romagnoli per 3 a 1. L'annata vede un Chioggia Sottomarina per la terza stagione consecutiva qualificato ai play-off; vince la fase a gironi eliminando in trasferta prima l'Eurotezze e poi l'Union Quinto, ma nella fase nazionale viene eliminato nel triangolare che lo vede opposto a Viterbese e Renate. I risultati conseguiti gli valgono una nuova partecipazione, nella stagione successiva, alla Coppa Italia.

La stagione 2009-10 si apre ancora con una trasferta nella Coppa Italia nazionale, avversario dei granata è la Cremonese che passa il turno vincendo 2-0. I play-off vedono il Chioggia Sottomarina vincere nel primo turno in casa del Fossombrone (1-0) ma sconfitto ancora dal Carpi, 3-1 nella finale di girone. Dopo tante annate chiuse ai play-off, il campionato 2010-2011 vede il Chioggia Sottomarina in grande difficoltà societaria con un piazzamento finale a metà classifica. La crisi nell'estate 2011 non trova sbocchi e il Chioggia Sottomarina non riesce a iscriversi alla Serie D.

Gli anni della "Clodiense" (2011-2019)
Nell'estate del 2011 il Sottomarina Lido, club appena promosso in Eccellenza veneta (fondato nel 2006), opera una fusione con il Chioggia Sottomarina non iscritto in Serie D, ponendo alla società il nome Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Clodiense, non accettato dalla tifoseria organizzata della vecchia Union C.S. perché non legato alla tradizione granata. Dopo un incontro chiarificatore del nuovo presidente Ivano Boscolo Bielo con il gruppo ultras granata nel novembre 2014, non è stato raggiunto un accordo fra le parti, che sono rimaste ferme sulle rispettive posizioni. Quindi, sebbene la nuova Clodiense, promossa nel 2012 in Serie D, abbia in comune con il vecchio Chioggia Sottomarina i colori sociali e la rappresentanza territoriale, non avendone mantenuto ufficialmente la tradizione storica non è stata più seguita dal movimento ultras della cittadina veneta.

La rinascita della Union (dal 2019)
Dopo otto anni passati dalla Clodiense in Eccellenza e in Serie D con uno sparuto pubblico al seguito, il 1º giugno 2019, al termine di un dialogo promosso dall'assessorato allo sport del comune di Chioggia, sempre fra ultras granata e società, lo stesso club modifica il proprio logo, rendendolo più simile a quello di tradizione unionista, e la propria denominazione in Union Clodiense Chioggia S.S.D.. La città e il tifo organizzato tornano quindi a seguire in massa la squadra.

Cronistoria

Colori e simboli
L'Union Clodiense scende in campo indossando una maglia granata. Come simbolo, la società ha un leone rampante di fronte ad un cavalluccio marino. Il simbolo tradizionale è un leone rampante rosso in campo grigio.

Stadio
Il campo di gioco del club è lo stadio comunale "Aldo e Dino Ballarin" di Chioggia. L'impianto offre una capienza di 3.622 posti totali, oggi ridotti per la chiusura della curva sud

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Competizioni nazionali

1972-1973 (girone C)

Competizioni regionali

1998-1999 (girone A)

1984-1985 (girone A), 1996-1997 (girone C)

1995-1996 (girone D)

1996-1997

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According to the Obama administration, the biggest lift to the balance sheet comes from the Federal Reserve's intervention during the financial crisis, which the White House now expects to turn a record profit of $179 billion by fiscal 2015. During the crisis, the Fed took extraordinary measures through quantitative easing, buying up Treasury bills, mortgage-backed securities and other debt to inject money into the economy. It's made a profit through the interest earned on such purchases.
Weil argues that the returns on the Fed's bailout shouldn't be counted as profit. The central bank simply printed money to buy up the debt during QE1 and QE2, and then the government just paid the interest payment back to itself. "The payments from the Fed eliminate an expense for the Treasury. But to call them a gain for the Treasury is circular. The Treasury hasn't made a profit. The transactions are a wash, economically," he argues.
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I was driving home on a recent rainy Saturday night. The city's downtown holiday lights were going up. Car and pedestrian traffic was heavy, manic and unaware; just a dress rehearsal, of course, for the nightmare weeks coming after the Thanksgiving observance, but tense and nerve-jangling nonetheless. When I popped on the car's radio to drown out yelling people and blaring horns, I heard the strains of a Celtic song, Scottish or Irish, I did not know for certain. The sound of the fiddle, so characteristic of Celtic music, so beautiful, yet so full of sadness, washed over me with a wave of familiarity, as if I was actually at the ceilidh where the recording took place.
The ache I was feeling has a name; it's called nostalgia.
Nostalgia comes, as so many of our words do, from the Greek – a combination of nostos, meaning "homecoming," and algos, meaning "ache." So, nostalgia is, literally, an ache of longing for a time or place that has sentimental weight, like home.
When I post photos of long-gone San Francisco (e.g., Playland-at-the-Beach) on this blog or to my facebook account, as I am sometimes wont to do, that's an expression of my nostalgia for a hometown that doesn't exist anymore in the way it did when I was a kid. Funny, then, that I would feel the same ache from Celtic music but feel it, I did.
My nostalgic connection to Celtic music is somewhat similar to the feelings I have for Washington, DC and North Carolina in the spring and, to a lesser extent, Philadelphia in the fall, but at least I actually lived in those places and still have actual friends and memories I closely and warmly attach to each.
No, as I think more about it, this may all be traced to the particularities and peculiarities of my family history.
It was almost a century ago that all four of my grandparents left (or were forcefully uprooted from) all the people and places they held most dear in the world. They came to a wholly unfamiliar place, amidst mostly unfamiliar people and customs. So, as American as they became over time – and they did, in fact come to be more American than Greek by the ends of their lives – they still must have been mightily torn by the competition bewteen the pull of their old land and the push of the new.
Is this familial inheritance the reason that, even though I dearly love my hometown, I so often look over my shoulder at other places and fondly remember the people of my long-gone past? Is it the reason music that's really not my own sometimes feels so close to the bone?


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Happy two-year anniversary to Brian Austin Green and Sharna Burgess! The actor, 49, celebrated two years since he and his girlfriend started dating in a sweet new Instagram post, with her cuddling up to his three kids with Megan Fox, plus his four-month-old son with Sharna, 37. He also wrote a touching tribute to his girlfriend along with sweet family photos, shared on Sunday, October 16.
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The first photo featured the Dancing With The Stars pro cozied up with Brian's sons with his ex-wife: Noah, 10, Bodhi, 8, and Journey, 6, with Sharna and Brian's son Zane in the center. The second photo featured the mom lovingly gazing at her son. The third photo featured Brian and Sharna in a hot tub with all four of the kids again, and the last shot was a sweet photo of Sharna cradling Zane as they slept on the couch.
In the caption, Brian reflected on going on his first date to meet Sharna for coffee, and how glad he was that they both hit it off. "My god am I thankful every single day for that. You are a light in my life, our kids lives, and the most amazing person I have ever met. The life that we have created and continue to create is better than anything I ever thought was possible," he wrote. "I love you."
Sharna made her own Instagram post with a slideshow of Brian, where she wrote that her boyfriend "keeps getting hotter" in the caption. She also commented on the Knots Landing star's post with a loving message. "This is so beautiful," she wrote. "2 years ago all my dreams came true, I just didn't know it yet. Now I do."
Brian and Sharna go shopping together in April. (@CelebCandidly / MEGA)
Other than Brian's son with Sharna and kids with Megan, he also has an older son Kassius, 20, with his ex-girlfriend Vanessa Marcil. Brian also opened up about whether he and Sharna had plans for more little ones in a July interview with Entertainment Tonight. "I have five kids, and we joke about the fact that I already had a station wagon [before Zane], so now I have [to get] a Yukon Denali," he said. "I think I'm done at five." He also admitted that that decision could change. "I'm not saying never," he said.
Brian and Megan were married for 10 years, before splitting up in 2020. It's clear that the exes have a strong co-parenting relationship going, and Sharna admitted that she'd reached out to Megan after the two saw each other at a restaurant. Sharna said that the Jennifer's Body star "really appreciated" the message in an episode of The Viall Files. "'I'm around your kids all the time. If you ever want to know anything about me or if you ever want to get coffee, let me know,'" Sharna said she wrote. "'They are amazing kids. I love them and if there's any way I can support in being part of this situation, let me know.'"
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