#Jess plays Exile Election

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I absolutely loved Matthew's ending in Chain of Thorns. I wouldn't trade it for an alternate ending. That being said, I do feel like we had a missed opportunity for the Fairchild brothers that I'd like to discuss.

I always thought that Matthew was unique partially because he was a Shadowhunter that never really subscribed to the values of a Shadowhunter. It would have been interesting to see him stripped of his marks and forced to acclimate to life as a mundane, partly because I think Cassie could have portrayed this as a positive thing for Matthew. Consider:

Matthew's secret is discovered and forced out to the Clave. Don't know how this would happen; don't care. Charlotte is pressured to take action, especially because she is the "victim" of Matthew's so-called crime and is the Consul. They try to get her to kick him out of the Clave; she can't do it, because Matthew is her son and she loves him.

Charlotte is told to either do it or step down as Consul. She chooses the latter.

Charles - who has not been blackmailed - is named the de facto Consul until all of the Belial/Tatiana-related bloodshed calms down. Because he is the temporary Consul and wishes to be in the Clave's good graces - and, perhaps, because he is angry on behalf of Charlotte - he does listen to the advisors telling him to prosecute Matthew. Matthew is stripped of his marks and thrown out of the Clave, forced to live as a mundane.

Charlotte is angry and devastated. Charles becomes Consul in the election at the price of having ostracized his mother and exiled his brother.

I have long thought that the illusion of everything he ever wanted was the most fitting ending for Charles, and I stand by that. Charles is now the Consul, but his relations with his family are exceedingly strained. He has no friends and has eradicated any chance of ever finding love in his quest for power. He is the Consul, and he is miserable. And he needs to watch Alastair thrive and live an amazing life with Thomas, and every day is a wound. But he has his ambition, and he has the life that he craved.

Back to Matthew, he doesn't just land on his feet - he does insanely well and is (after some grief and processing) happy no longer having the restrictions of being a Shadowhunter. He very quickly lands himself a part in a Wilde play - perhaps Lady Windermere's Fan would be a fun and ironic choice because of its portrayal of family. He is getting amazing, glowing reviews, and he has made excellent friends that he has a ton in common with because of his career.

Matthew still gets a novella bindup, and this is the premise: a former Shadowhunter learning what it means to no longer be Nephilim. A former Shadowhunter re-acclimating to live outside the Clave, and actively enjoying the journey.

Towards the end of the bindup, Matthew - who still misses his family and former parabatai and Shadowhunter friends - gets a surprise. James, Cordelia, Thomas, Alastair, Lucie, and Jesse all show up at one of his acclaimed plays.

Charles, who is wracked with heavy guilt after exiling Matthew, dedicated himself to pulling strings so that Matthew would be exempt from the rules stating that exiled Shadowhunters must be shunned by those in their former lives. The last scene shows Charlotte and Henry congratulating him on his successes, and Matthew - with his theatre girlfriend/boyfriend, theatre friends, and all of his Shadowhunter loved ones - are together again.

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The end of an era.

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Jess Plays Exile Election Part 23!

Ninchouji Issei will put anything in his mouth. You heard it here, folks.

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Its 11:20PM

And @jinjojess just left after recording Exile Election. There is quite a bit of translation needed for this one so she said it’s gonna be up in a day or so.

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a big part in the popularization of the “ok groomer” thing was played by the twitter account @libsoftiktok. the people behind the account have tried to portray it as being a one woman concerned citizen-type operation, like here in the new york post and here on fox, but the mask was pulled back a little by their effort to turn it into a going business by filing a trademark, because every republican op has to be a money maker. the owner is an anonymous shell corp headquartered at the law office of lally & misir; grant lally’s name is also listed on it as attorney of record. a quick search reveals deborah misir to be his wife. both are deeply tied into republican circles. if the owner is indeed a woman as implied, then misir would be a good candidate. she’s already received favourable coverage in the new york post, which described her husband as “politically connected”. however, the woman in the fox news vid is clearly not misir by virtue of comparing their voice, which can be found quite easily since misir worked as deputy assistant secretary of policy at the department of labour and chief of staff at osha under w. bush. so clearly, they’re either using a cutout for that interview or one of their staff members.

why do i think lally’s not just acting as lawyer to some hapless entrepreneur, but as part of a bigger group? because he’s a spy turned republican election operative. in his own biographical account, he worked for the united states agency for international development to help cuban opposition figures, in north ireland to professionalize loyalist gangs into media savvy political parties, in east germany in 1990 to monitor elections, and in bosnia as part of the american government’s management/privatization of that nation’s economy. usaid is often a front group for american intelligence services. aid workers are diplomatically sanctioned and have an excuse to travel around countries outside of embassies and disperse money. usaid for instance was behind the “cuban twitter” initiative in 2010 to foment an anti-government uprising. sure, lally might have been one of the actual aid workers, but he was later appointed to the board of the bay of pigs museum in miami, dedicated to valorizing the cia-backed brigade 2506. cuban exiles have played a huge role in america’s intelligence work in the country, and it’s unlikely they would be honouring an outsider with such a role. he was also on the advisory board of cuba archive, a propaganda group funded by us freedom house, another funnel for american intelligence to dispense money. finally, he was on the staff of us senator jesse helms, who worked closely as one of the cia’s faces in the senate, especially regarding iran-contra.

in 1994, he decided like many intelligence operatives to take his work private and go into business for the republican party. he ultimately ran for congress 3 times. the first two, 94 and 96, were in a long shot heavily democratic district which spread a bit into his deeply affluent home community of long island new york. for his dirty tricks, he received the third largest fine ever given out by the fec at the time. he retreated a little, working instead behind the scenes on republican electioneering. in 2000, he used his cuban exile connections to help shut down the recount, handing george bush the election. this included direct participation in the brooks brothers riot, where republican staffers assaulted ballot counters to delay a result until the supreme court could rule in their favour. this is likely the reason why his wife had such nice jobs in bush’s administration. in later years he kept a lower profile. among others, he helped argue an anti-obamacare case in front of the supreme court. in 2014, he ran for congress a third time, but this appears to be part of a dirty tricks play on behalf of queens republican party vincent tabone in order to get his trial delayed.

ultimately, the man’s clearly a dirty player, libs of tiktok is a dark money-backed republican group, and “ok groomer” is part of a much larger republican strategy for 2022.

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Jess is Kaname Ichijou! Kaname Ichijou is you!

here’s the drawing I made as a thumbnail for @jinjojess’s brand new translation lets-play of Exile Election! it’s so so cool that she can translate games as she plays, you should watch her!!

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Andrew Young

Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. Young later became active in politics, serving first as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia, then United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and finally Mayor of Atlanta. Since leaving political office, Young has founded or served in a large number of organizations working on issues of public policy and political lobbying.

Early life

Andrew Young was born on March 12, 1932 in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Daisy Fuller Young, a school teacher, and Andrew Jackson Young, Sr., a dentist. Young's father hired a professional boxer to teach Andrew and his brother how to fight, so they could defend themselves. In an 1964 interview with author Robert Penn Warren for his book, Who Speaks for the Negro?, Young recalls the tensions of segregation in New Orleans, especially growing up in a fairly well-to-do household. He recalls his parents trying to "compensate for segregation" by providing for their children but were reluctant to help less wealthy black communities in the area. Young graduated from Howard University and earned a divinity degree from Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1955. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Early career

Young was appointed to serve as pastor of a church in Marion, Alabama. It was there in Marion that he met Jean Childs, who later became his wife. Young became interested in Mohandas Gandhi's concept of nonviolent resistance as a tactic for social change. He encouraged African Americans to register to vote in Alabama, and sometimes faced death threats while doing so. It was at this time that he became a friend and ally of Martin Luther King Jr.

In 1955 he accepted a pastorate at Bethany Congregational Church in Thomasville, Georgia.

In 1957, Young and Jean moved to New York City when he accepted a job with the Youth Division of the National Council of Churches. While in New York, Young regularly appeared on Look Up and Live, a weekly Sunday morning television program on CBS, produced by the National Council of Churches in an effort to reach out to secular youth.

Young served as a pastor of the Evergreen Congregational Church in Beachton, Georgia during 1957-59.

In 1960, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. No longer satisfied with his work in New York, Young moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1961 upon the invitation of Bernard Lafayette and again worked on drives to register black voters. Young played a key role in the 1963 events in Birmingham, Alabama, serving as a mediator between the white and black communities as they negotiated against a background of protests.

In 1964, Young was named executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), becoming, in that capacity, one of King's principal lieutenants. As a colleague and friend of Martin Luther King Jr., he was a strategist and negotiator during the Civil Rights Campaigns in Birmingham (1963), St. Augustine (1964), Selma (1965), and Atlanta (1966). He was jailed for his participation in civil rights demonstrations, both in Selma, Alabama, and in St. Augustine, Florida. The movement gained congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Young was with King in Memphis, Tennessee, when King was assassinated in 1968.

Congress

In 1970, Andrew Young ran as a Democrat for Congress from Georgia, but was unsuccessful. After his defeat, Rev. Fred C. Bennette, Jr., introduced him to Murray M. Silver, an Atlanta attorney, who served as his campaign finance chairman. Young ran again in 1972 and won. He later was re-elected in 1974 and in 1976. During his four-plus years in Congress, he was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and was involved in several debates regarding foreign relations, including the decision to stop supporting the Portuguese attempts to hold on to their colonies in southern Africa. Young also sat on the powerful Rules Committee and the Banking and Urban Development Committee. Young opposed the Vietnam War, helped enact legislation that established the U.S. Institute for Peace, established the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area and negotiated federal funds for MARTA and the Atlanta Highways.

Ambassador to the United Nations

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Young to serve as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Young was the first African-American to hold the position. Atlanta city councilman Wyche Fowler won the special election to fill Young's seat in Congress.

Although the US and the UN enacted an arms embargo against South Africa, as President Carter’s UN ambassador, Andrew Young vetoed economic sanctions.

Young caused controversy when, during a July 1978 interview with French newspaper Le Matin de Paris, while discussing the Soviet Union and its treatment of political dissidents, he said, "We still have hundreds of people that I would categorize as political prisoners in our prisons," in reference to jailed civil-rights and anti-war protestors. In response, U.S. Representative Larry McDonald (D-GA) sponsored a resolution to impeach Young, but the measure failed 293 to 82. Carter referred to it in a press conference as an "unfortunate statement".

In 1979, Young played a leading role in advancing a settlement in Rhodesia with Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, who had been two of the military leaders in the Rhodesian Bush War, which had ended in 1979. The settlement paved the way for Mugabe to take power as Prime Minister of the newly formed Republic of Zimbabwe. There had been a general election in 1979, bringing Bishop Abel Muzorewa to power as leader of the United African National Council leading to the short-lived country of Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Young refused to accept the election results, and described the election as "neofascist", a sentiment echoed by United Nations Security Council Resolution 445 and 448. The situation was resolved the next year with the Lancaster House Agreement and the establishment of Zimbabwe.

Young's favoring of Mugabe and Nkomo over Muzorewa and his predecessor and ally, Ian Smith, was, and remains, controversial. Many African-American activists, including Jesse Jackson and Coretta Scott King, supported the anti-colonialism represented by Mugabe and Nkomo. However, it was opposed by others, including civil-rights leader Bayard Rustin, who argued that the 1979 election had been "free and fair", as well as senators Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (I-VA) and Jesse Helms (R-NC). It was later criticized in 2005 by Gabriel Shumba, executive director of the anti-Mugabe Zimbabwe Exiles Forum.

In July 1979, Young discovered that an upcoming report by the United Nations Division for Palestinian Rights called for the creation of a Palestinian State. Young wanted to delay the report because the Carter Administration was dealing with too many other issues at the time. He met with the UN representatives of several Arab countries to try to convince them the report should be delayed; they agreed in principle, but insisted that the Palestine Liberation Organization also had to agree. As a result, on July 20, Young met with Zehdi Terzi, the UN representative of the PLO, at the apartment of the UN Ambassador from Kuwait. On August 10, news of this meeting became public when Mossad leaked its illegally acquired transcript of the meeting first to Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and then through his office to Newsweek. The meeting was highly controversial, since the United States had already promised Israel that it would not meet directly with the PLO until the PLO recognized Israel's right to exist.

Young's UN ambassadorship ended on August 14. Jimmy Carter denied any complicity in what was called the "Andy Young Affair", and asked Young to resign. Asked about the incident by Time soon afterward, Young stated, "It is very difficult to do the things that I think are in the interest of the country and maintain the standards of protocol and diplomacy... I really don't feel a bit sorry for anything that I have done." Soon afterward, on the television show Meet the Press, he stated that Israel was "stubborn and intransigent."

After his ambassadorship ended, Young became a frequent guest lecturer at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.

Atlanta mayor

In 1981, after being urged by a number of people, including Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., Young ran for mayor of Atlanta. He was elected later that year with 55% of the vote, succeeding Maynard Jackson. As mayor of Atlanta, he brought in $70 billion of new private investment. He continued and expanded Jackson's programs for including minority and female-owned businesses in all city contracts. The Mayor's Task Force on Education established the Dream Jamboree College Fair that tripled the college scholarships given to Atlanta public school graduates. In 1985, he was involved in renovating the Atlanta Zoo, which was renamed Zoo Atlanta. Young was re-elected as Mayor in 1985 with more than 80% of the vote. Atlanta hosted the 1988 Democratic National Convention during Young's tenure. He was prohibited by term limits from running for a third term. During his tenure, he talked about how he was "glad to be mayor of this city, where once the mayor had me thrown in jail."

Race for governor of Georgia, 1990

After leaving the mayor's office in early 1990, Young launched a bid for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1990. He ran in a primary that included three former or future governors of Georgia: then lieutenant governor Zell Miller, then-state senator Roy Barnes, and former governor Lester Maddox. The field also contained then state representative Lauren "Bubba" McDonald. The first poll put Young at 38 percent to Miller's 30 percent, 15 percent for Maddox and 10 percent for Barnes with McDonald trailing at 7 percent. Young campaigned hard but by the primary, with no central message, his campaign ran into trouble against the well-heeled and prepared lieutenant governor. Miller led the primary with 40 percent to Young's 29 percent and 21 percent for Barnes, Maddox got 7 percent and McDonald rounded out at 3 percent. Future U.S. senator Johnny Isakson won the Republican nomination. After Miller's stunning and broad-based primary win, Young's race floundered. Many think he failed in his effort by trying to garner support amongst rural, conservative white voters, rather than turning out his urban and African-American base. Also, Young never found an issue that roused supporters, unlike Miller, who won voters by championing a state lottery. Miller won the runoff, 2 to 1 and ended Young's gubernatorial aspirations for good.

Post-mayoral career

Young has been a director of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, and is also the chairman of the board for the Global Initiative for the Advancement of Nutritional Therapy.

From 2000 to 2001, Young served as president of the National Council of Churches.

In 2003, Young founded the Andrew Young Foundation, an organization meant to support and promote education, health, leadership and human rights in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean.

From February to August 2006, Young served as the public spokesman for Working Families for Wal-Mart, an advocacy group for the retail chain Wal-Mart. Young resigned from the position soon after a controversial interview with the Los Angeles Sentinel, in which, when asked about Wal-Mart hurting independent businesses, he replied, "You see those are the people who have been overcharging us, and they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they’ve ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it’s Arabs."

In 2007, GoodWorks Productions released the documentary film Rwanda Rising, about Rwanda's progress since the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Young also served as the film's narrator. Rwanda Rising premiered as the opening night selection at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2007.

An edited version of Rwanda Rising served as the pilot episode of Andrew Young Presents, a series of quarterly, hour-long specials airing on nationally syndicated television.

On January 22, 2008, Young appeared as a guest on the television show The Colbert Report. Host Stephen Colbert invited Young to appear during the writers' strike, because, in 1969, Young and Colbert's father had worked together to mediate a hospital workers' strike. Young made another appearance on The Colbert Report on November 5, 2008, to talk about the election of Barack Obama to the presidency.

On January 9, 2015, Young gave the keynote address at Vanderbilt University's Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Day. The theme was "Dismantling Segregation: Race, Poverty, and Privilege", and Young spoke about his experiences in Selma, stories of traveling with King, and his advice to the next generation of leaders.

Personal life and family

Young has four children with his first wife, Jean Childs, who died of liver cancer in 1994. He married Carolyn McClain in 1996.

In September 1999, Young was diagnosed with prostate cancer which was successfully removed with surgery in January 2000.

Books

An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. (January 1998);

A Way Out of No Way. (June 1996);

Andrew Young at the United Nations. (January 1978);

Andrew Young, Remembrance & Homage. (January 1978);

The History of the Civil Rights Movement. (9 volumes) (September 1990);

Trespassing Ghost: A Critical Study of Andrew Young. (January 1978);

Walk in My Shoes: Conversations between a Civil Rights Legend and his Godson on the Journey Ahead with Kabir Sehgal. (May 2010) ISBN 978-0-230-62360-6;

The Politician. (2010)

Writings

Young, Andrew, Harvey Newman, and Andrea Young. 2016. Andrew Young and the Making of Modern Atlanta. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press.

Awards and honors

Presidential Medal of Freedom;

France's Légion d'honneur;

The NAACP Springarn Medal;

Four Freedom Award for the Freedom of Worship;

More than 45 honorary degrees including awards from Dartmouth, Yale, Notre Dame, Clark Atlanta, Emory, Oglethorpe University, Lakeland University and the University of Georgia;

1995 Eagle Award from the United States Sports Academy. The Eagle Award is the Academy's highest honor and was awarded to Young for his significant contribution to international sport.

Honorary Co-Chair of the World Justice Project;

2005 "Louisiana Legend" by Louisiana Public Broadcasting in Baton Rouge, along with timber industrialist Roy O. Martin, Jr., comedian Kix Brooks, and the Louisiana State University athletic legends Paul Dietzel and Sue Gunter

2010 Heroes, Saints and Legends Honoree, given by the Foundation of Wesley Woods;

The 2011 Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award, for his involvement on Look Up and Live;

2012 Georgia Trustee. Given by the Georgia Historical Society, in conjunction with the Governor of Georgia, to individuals whose accomplishments and community service reflect the ideals of the founding body of Trustees, which governed the Georgia colony from 1732 to 1752.

Places named after Andrew Young

In 1999 Georgia State University in Atlanta renamed its public policy school the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies to honor Young.

International Boulevard, near Centennial Olympic Park, was renamed Andrew Young International Boulevard, in honor of his involvement in bringing the 1996 Summer Olympics to Atlanta.

The Andrew Young Center for International Affairs at Morehouse College was named after Young.

The Andrew and Walter Young YMCA, the only full-service YMCA operating in Southwest Atlanta, is named after Young and his younger brother.

A Delta Air Lines Boeing 767-300ER bears Young's name in recognition of his civil rights achievements.

In popular culture

Young is played by Andre Holland in the 2014 film Selma.

Wikipedia

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Events 2.11

660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. AD 55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor. 244 – Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha (Mesopotamia). A mound is raised at Carchemish in his memory. 1177 – John de Courcy's army defeats the native Dunleavey Clan in Ulster. The English establish themselves in Ulster. 1534 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England. 1626 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia and Patriarch Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the Ethiopian Church, and Catholicism to be the state religion of Ethiopia. 1659 – The assault on Copenhagen by Swedish forces is beaten back with heavy losses. 1790 – The Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, petitions U.S. Congress for the abolition of slavery. 1794 – First session of United States Senate opens to the public. 1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal. 1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry is accused of "gerrymandering" for the first time. 1823 – Carnival tragedy of 1823: About 110 boys are killed during a stampede at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta, Malta. 1826 – University College London is founded as University of London. 1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La fille du régiment receives its first performance in Paris, France. 1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata receives its first performance in Milan, Italy. 1855 – Kassa Hailu is crowned Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, by Abuna Salama III in a ceremony at the church of Derasge Maryam 1856 – The Kingdom of Awadh is annexed by the British East India Company and Wajid Ali Shah, the king of Awadh, is imprisoned and later exiled to Calcutta. 1858 – Bernadette Soubirous's first vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lourdes, France. 1861 – American Civil War: The United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state. 1873 – King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates. 1889 – Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted; the first National Diet convenes in 1890. 1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria. 1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos. 1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), is elected President of Germany. 1929 – Kingdom of Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty. 1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers. 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot". 1939 – A Lockheed P-38 Lightning flies from California to New York in 7 hours 2 minutes. 1942 –World War II: The Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore. 1943 – World War II: General Dwight D. Eisenhower is selected to command the allied armies in Europe. 1953 – U.S.President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. 1953 – The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel. 1959 – The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South, which will later become South Yemen, is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom. 1964 – Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus. 1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters. 1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place. 1978 – Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. 1979 – The Iranian Revolution establishes an Islamic theocracy under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. 1981 – Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers. 1990 – Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner. 1990 – Buster Douglas, a 42:1 underdog, knocks out Mike Tyson in ten rounds at Tokyo to win boxing's world Heavyweight title and cause the largest upset in sports history. 1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. 2001 – A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star. 2008 – Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack. 2011 – The first wave of the Egyptian revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak and the transfer of power to the Supreme Military Council after 18 days of protests. 2014 – A military transport plane crashes in a mountainous area of Oum El Bouaghi Province in eastern Algeria, killing 77 people. 2015 – A university student was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women. 2016 – A man shoots six people dead at an education center in Jizan Province, Saudi Arabia.

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THE OSWALD HANCILES COLUMN

Foday Sankoh Fooled Super-Educated Tejan Kabbah

The transition to the world hereafter of the First President of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone, Alhaji Tejan Kabbah, presents a wonderful opportunity for our nation to do some serious analysis of the president who governed our nation during its Darkest Hour.  Engineer Andrew Keili writes in his column, PONDER MY THOUGHTS, a Christian-moving eulogy on  the late president fondly called ‘Pa Kabba’;  and stated that “this is not the time” for criticism  of the late President – implying: it is the time for traditional soaring and tear-inducing sentiments. Hmmmm!!  The local print media has this week been inundated with ‘Tributes’ to Pa Kabbah . A lot of the  praise showered on   the late president are true -  indisputable. Pa Kabba did great things in institution building, and as Kalilu Totangi wrote, his ‘inclusive cabinet’  - embracing people from all nearly  the tribes equitably  - has been unparalleled in our history.  

Kandeh Yumkella’s Outlandish Hyberbole

Some of the ‘Tributes’ could leave a critical reader bemused or, indignant, however.  Kandeh Yumkella, who hails from the Northern Province district of Kambia, which was also Pa Kabba’s home district,  raised  doubt as to his grasp of World History in his use of outlandish hyperboles in his Tribute; excerpt here:  “Through his leadership as President of the Republic, and supported by the clergy....civil society and the international community, his government asked us to forgive each other and even allowed the RUF to form a party, similar to Mandela forgiving the Afrikaners.... He would be remembered as our own Abraham Lincoln.....” If we are not too much traditionalists in Sierra Leone,  African Patriots would voice their reprehension at  Yumkella drawing a  parallel between  Pa Kabbah and Nelson Mandela – the same way the US Special Envoy to Africa, Rev. Jesse Jackson, had likened Foday Sankoh to Nelson Mandela after the carnage of Foday Sankoh in January 6, 1999, as reported in Pa Kabbah’s autobiography. Tejan Kabbah was never even close to Nelson Mandela in ideological stamina and moral stature!!

  Mandela was the soul and symbol of a four hundred year struggle against informal and institutionalized racism  by whites against blacks in South Africa; even while jailed for 27 years, Mandela resisted the pressure of the greatest powers in the world at that time – Great Britain, United States, etc. -  for ‘Constructive Engagement’ with successive racist Afrikaner governments. Tejan Kabbah, even as a free man, a sitting president, caved in too easily to pressure from the international community, and, was so easily outwitted by the almost illiterate Foday Sankoh again and again; and, the Lome Peace Agreement that Kabbah signed with Sankoh in 1999 was more a ‘Capitulation Treaty’ than a ‘peace agreement’ – capitulation to one of the worst forms of evil ever perpetuated by a warring group in human history.

  RUF Evil: Hands are cut, ears and noses amputated.....

  Read Pa Kabbah’s own support of my above position in his autobiography, ‘Coming Back from the Brink in Sierra Leone’, on Page 106: “Following his visit to Sierra Leone in June 1998, the late Sergio Vieira de Mello who was the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, said that the situation to some extent reminded him of the mayhem committed by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. He added: ‘I have close to 29 years experience in these conflicts.  I have not seen something like this before.  There is a pattern of cruelty against civilians without discrimination, including children.  The pattern is one of amputations, of lacerations, of maiming of civilians – men, women of any age, including children...Hands are cut, ears and noses amputated....’.” (More analysis on the Lome Peace Treaty later on).

  Kandeh Yumkella: Playing Politics with his ‘Kabbah-Tribute’

Of course, Kandeh Yumkella apparently has an underlying purpose in this sentence in his Tribute: “Some vilified him, and claimed that he was ineffective and had destroyed their party (forgetting that the only time the party showed a national character with a landslide victory was in 2002, mainly because of Pa Kabba’s Northern roots and national appeal...)”.  Let me ‘translate’ that line for you, readers: Kandeh Yumkella is saying there: ‘SLPP, elect me, a Northerner from Kambia  as your presidential candidate in 2018, and, like Pa Kabbah, I would win the elections for you’.  Ha...ha...!! Clever...clever!!!

Momodu Koroma’s Spurious   Security Boast!!

Alhaji Momodu Koroma, foreign minister in Pa Kabbah’s government, and running mate to Solomon Berewa in the 2007 elections, a former university professor, has a Tribute with professorial style extolling Pa Kabbah’s “SECURITY ENVIRONMENT”, which I excerpt as follows: “He (Tejan Kabbah) managed to assemble a disintegrated, ill-equipped, demoralized military outfit into a National Army capable of defending the national sovereignty ....For the first time in the history of Sierra Leone, he crafted a National Defence Strategy, he established a National Security Council....that produced the National Security Office (ONS) and the Central Intelligence and Security Unit (CISU) overarching security and intelligence gathering architecture that blanket  the whole nation....”.  What could have been deliberate obfuscation by Momodu Koroma was the absence of DATES in the ‘security  and INTELIGENCE feat’ of  Pa Kabbah’s government.  I assume he ‘forgot’ to read Pa Kabbah’s autobiography.  I now humbly quote  relevant pages for him.

   If “Security” was ‘Pa Kabbah’s No 3 Priority in March 1998, what would have happened on ‘J-6’?

 Pa Kabbah was returned to power  from exile in Guinea in March of 1998 after the people had resisted the AFRC/RUF junta and Nigeria-led ECOMOG troops had routed them from power.  On Page 93 of  Tejan Kabbah’s  autobiography he wrote: “ I was terribly upset when I later visited parts of the city and saw first-hand, the damage that the AFRC/RUF junta had caused the past ten months.  It appeared as if I was attending a wedding and a  funeral concurrently”.  Back in power in March, 1998, Pa Kabba wrote in his autobiography that “National Security” would be his “Number 1 priority”.

 Tejan Kabbah was silent in his biography about what exactly he did to give vim to his security PRIORITY, apart from acknowledging on Page 98 that...” The security situation was still fluid.  The pro-junta forces had been defeated, but, not eliminated.  They continued to pose a major threat to the security and stability of the nation.....”.

On Page 107 of his autobiography, Pa Kabbah appeared like a so-called surgeon specialist who would not save the patient, but, would act like a pathologist, doing post mortem on a dead patient; he writes: “ Apparently, they had also used weapons they had hidden in several parts of the  city during their joint AFRC/RUF illegal regime. As the coup leaders had done in 1997, the rebels opened Pademba Road Prisons and freed hardcore criminals to bolster their ranks.....I was again devastated.  The first thought that went through my mind was ‘Oh no, not again. I felt worse than on 25 May, 1997....”.  Where was the ‘security and intelligence apparatus’ which Momodu Koroma so glibly wrote about in his tribute?

 Foday Sankoh and Tejan Kabbah: who was cleverer?

 Between Tejan Kabbah and Foday Sankoh who could be described as cleverer in this ‘self-prosecution’ of Pa Kabbah on Page 108/109 of his autobiography when he met Sankoh, a PRISONER, on an ECOMOG warship  on January 6, 1999: “ His  (Foday Sankoh) initial behavior on seeing me was rather theatrical. As soon as our eyes met his… he began to ‘apologize’, shedding crocodile tears.  ‘Oh my brother’, Foday Sankoh said, ‘I am sorry; I have let you down, please forgive me’.  Then in the next breath,, he whispered to me: ‘Are my boys in town?’.  A few weeks earlier Sankoh and I had spoken and he had assured me of his fullest cooperation....”. (Just like Pa Kabbah’s military senior brass had assured him on May 23, 1997, that ‘everything was alright’. No coup!! And the May 25, 1997 took place – with the support of Kabbah’s military chiefs who had given assurances.).

  Kandeh Yumkella  brought in ‘fresh evidence’ to indict  Pa Kabbah thus: “ My trip to Sierra Leone on January 4, 1999, with Special Envoy, Ambassador Okelo to warn Pa Kabba about the impending advance of five rebel squads on Freetown...”. So, like with the May 25, 1997 coup, Pa Kabbah knew, was warned, about RUF/AFRC advance to invade the crammed city of Freetown!!!  

  Posthumous ‘Criminal Negligence War Crimes Trial’ for Kabbah

 In 1998, I used to report, and do columns for, Pios Foray’s THE DEMOCRAT newspaper.  I did several front page stories as was told to me by a white-haired RUF defector  – of the RUF burying alive 7 teenage males and 7 teenage females in Kailahun, etc.  I did a front page story when the RUF attacked Kabala in the North, in which I also interviewed  my paternal cousin, Melvin Caulker, then, District Officer of Koinadugu, who had been captured when the RUF took over Kabala town;  with the banner headline, ‘FREETOWN NEXT’.   By late November, as Secretary General of the All Political Parties Youth Association (APPYA) then, I had gotten the approval of the Nigerian-born Chief of Defence Staff, General Maxwell Khobe, to have Freetown youth given military training to defend Freetown.  That led me to Alithur Freeman,  and Arthur Harvey, as Coordinator and Chairman of the Civil Defence Unit (CDU) – from there, the drivers’ union, petty traders’ organization, National Union of Sierra Leone Students (NUSS)… formed the budding CIVIL SECURITY MOVEMENT (CSM). On January 5, 1999, at about 6p.m., at the Atlantic Hall of the National Stadium,  forms were distributed to leaders of the diverse organizations to give to their membership willing to do MILITARY TRAINING with the army. January 6,, 1999...the AFRC/RUF struck!  I lived a stone’s throw from State House. I could have been dismembered.  I escaped – by God’s grace.  Thousands were NOT so lucky – murdered; mutilated; raped; abducted. Invaluable over-a-hundred-year-old-‘Krio Houses’ – some 4,000 estimated historic houses  – were burnt down by the rebels. After ‘peace met Tejan Kabbah, Tejan Kabbah sacrificed his most senior war commander, his deputy defence minister, HINGA Norman, to an international criminal court. Pa Kabbah is going to face a posthumous ‘People’s Trial’ for ‘Criminal Negligence’ during our war years.  The ‘case’ against him I envisage would be easy – since Pa Kabbah has provided a plethora of indicting words in his own autobiography. Stay tuned.

 (The article above was published in several newspapers in Sierra Leone a week or so after the death of former President Tejan Kabbah.  The ‘whiff’ in the political air in the country makes this piece highly relevant today. It appears as if the ‘Book Mentality’ governing elite of Sierra Leone are at it again.   “Those who do not remember the past, are condemned to repeat it” – George Santayana).

‼🇸🇱Very Relevant for 2019 Sierra Leone ‼🇸🇱🇸🇱🇸🇱

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Henrikh Mkhitaryan was never really a Jose Mourinho player at Manchester United - Alice McKeegan

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho had finished his pre-Arsenal press conference at Carrington and as reporters filed out of the press conference building around half-an-hour later, buses began filing past to ferry the United players to Stockport Station for their train to London Euston. Passing them in the opposite direction was a sports car driven by Henrikh Mkhitaryan, headed for his city centre apartment and another weekend on the sofa rather than the bench.

As predictions go, Zlatan Ibrahimovic's August assertion this would be 'the season of Mkhitaryan' was up there with Michael Fish's 1987 October weather report, and Ibrahimovic could feasibly follow Mkhitaryan out of United later this year, reducing the Mino Raiola stablemates at Carrington by two.

Mkhitaryan produced some great moments in a United shirt. His impact at Hull on his first meaningful league appearance knackered the promoted side and suggested United finally had a proficient playmaker 13 years after they missed out on Ronaldinho. His form between November and February was scintillating, a mix of spontaneous ingenuity, matchwinning moments and superb selflessness.

Mkhitaryan finishes his last United league appearance

"I would like to wish Henrikh all the success and happiness that I am sure he is going to get," Mourinho said on Monday. "He is a player that we will not forget, especially for his contribution to our Europa League victory." Mkhitaryan ended his first season with a Europa League final goal, a triumph all the more poignant since he struck on the anniversary of his grandmother's death.

Yet doubts had begun to surface. During Mkhitaryan's first exile at United, there were whispers Mourinho was open to selling him in the winter transfer window but by the start of January, Mkhitaryan was an indispensable first-teamer.

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Mourinho can be a capricious coach, having sought reassurances over Victor Lindelof two months following his arrival and despaired at Luke Shaw this season before they enjoyed mini revivals. He also bemoaned a supposed 'lack of creativity' after seven matches in charge, despite reinforcing the attack with Mkhitaryan, Ibrahimovic and Paul Pogba.

Mkhitaryan, like Shaw, is an unabashed introvert and Mourinho is a coach who bonds with extroverts. Mkhitaryan's personality was moot until Pogba succumbed to injury, then it became apparent just how much he was dependent on Pogba.

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Supporters may not give two hoots about the Europa League Player of the Season award but there was genuine surprise within Mkhitaryan's camp that Pogba, who had scored half as many goals in the competition, received the accolade instead of him and Mkhitaryan played the politics as badly as he did at Chelsea in October.

As Armenian captain, Mkhitaryan had to choose three nominees for the Fifa coach of the year award and omitted Mourinho, electing Real Madrid's all-conquering Zinedine Zidane, Monaco's Leonardo Jardim and Juventus's Massimiliano Allegri. Perhaps another sign that their relationship wasn't as strong as it could have been.

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Mourinho was maybe lenient with Mkhitaryan during his 'disappearing' acts. When he was benched at Huddersfield in October, he was sent on at the pause with United 2-0 down and started the following Premier League fixtures against Tottenham and Chelsea, which was the nadir. Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher opined United played 'with 10 men' and Mkhitaryan was properly dropped two weeks later for Pogba's return in the win over Newcastle.

Mkhitaryan started two of the last 17 and lasted 45 minutes on his final outing against Derby, when Mourinho insisted his half-time withdrawal was 'unfair'.

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He was maybe the only one who felt that way. Mkhitaryan's recent crossing, for a player initially signed to reinforce the right flank, would not have looked out of place in the Bebe Crossing Show on YouTube.

In his last week, United ensured Mkhitaryan was omitted from a photocall with NFL players and Mkhitaryan was excluded from jesse Lingard's Instagram takeover. It was the kindred introvert Anthony Martial who included Mkhitaryan in a 'winning team' photo for his Instagram account, which Mkhitaryan quickly re-grammed.

He seemed happy not to be isolated.

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Roger Wilkins: A Man of Honor for a Tempestuous Time by Robert Borosage

Roger Wilkins has left us, just after his 85th birthday. A great champion of social justice, proud father and good friend, he will be missed.

Born into an educated middle class family, Roger was raised with high expectations. His father, business manager of the Kansas City Call, a black weekly newspaper, passed away when Roger was eight, but had already impressed upon his son the importance of education and a love of language.

“Great things are expected of you,” he wrote the 2-year-old in a letter, “Never, never forget that.” Roger’s early mentors included his uncle Roy Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall, when both were leading the NAACP’s fight to end racial segregation.

Educated in public schools in New York City and Grand Rapids, Michigan, Roger attended the University of Michigan, earning BA and law degrees there. In 1960, the excitement of the Kennedy election lured him to Washington and public service.

At a remarkably young age, Roger ascended to the highest circles of government, rising to Assistant Attorney General as Lyndon Johnson was forging the greatest era of liberal reform since FDR. In his autobiography A Man’s Life, Roger wrote of the harsh pressures, the intended and unintended racial slights, and internal struggles and insecurities of that heady position.

In its obituary, the New York Times wrote, “Mr. Wilkins had little personal experience with discrimination.” In fact, Roger bore the scars from making his way in overwhelmingly white circles of power.

As the civil rights movement drove change from the streets, Roger became its advocate and translator on the inside. There he pushed against the arrogance, ignorance and complacency of the powerful. On the streets, he was often scorned as a token or a sellout. The pressures took a toll on him and his family.

In that crucible, Roger learned first hand the truth about social change. As he wrote,

The civil rights progress of the Kennedy and Johnson years was not made because enlightened public officials perceived a need and took the lead. It was made because an energized interracial civil rights movement defined the issues, mobilized public opinion and forced the White House to act.

After a stint running domestic programs at the Ford Foundation, one of the most powerful African Americans in the philanthropic world, Roger joined the editorial board of the Washington Post, and found his true calling as a writer and journalist. At the Post, his editorials, the reportage of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, and the cartoons of Herbert Block on the Watergate scandal that drove Nixon from office earned the paper the Pulitzer Prize. From the Post, Roger moved to the New York Times writing editorials and opinion pieces.

In these rarified positions, Roger pushed against the conventional limits. He called for bold action when caution was too often the watchword. He mentored and protected younger African Americans trying to navigate their way. He pushed hard to open doors and knock down barriers.

“In a sense,” he wrote, I have been an explorer and I sailed as far out into the white world as a black man of my generation could sail.” “I could not stand white people shutting doors in my face, so I pushed through plenty of them.”

After he left the Ford Foundation, more blacks, some women and some younger people were put on the board. Mac Bundy, its president, said, “I didn’t know one man could change an institution as much as Roger did, but he did it.”

At the Justice Department, he was called the “conscience” of the Department. Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee credited him for helping him to see the need for more racial opening at the Washington Post. At the Times, he joined a successful affirmative action lawsuit that drove change at that institution even as it burned his own bridges there.

He was, in his heart, a man of the left. In 1982, he joined the Institute for Policy Studies that I then directed. In Reagan years, IPS was like a candle flickering in a harsh wind. In many ways, Roger was more comfortable standing against that gale than he had been in the high offices of government. He joined the Nation’s editorial board. He contributed his stature and his wisdom to friends and advocates from the Children’s Defense Fund to the NAACP, where he became publisher of its Crisis Magazine.

He galvanized the Movement to Free South Africa, organizing daily civil disobedience before the South African embassy in Washington, inspiring the young and the famous to demonstrate and get arrested. He then helped organize Nelson Mandela’s historic trip to the US after his release from Robben Island. Eager to touch the next generation, he became a prestigious professor at George Mason University, inspiring students with his learning and his humanity.

Few have provided greater insight into how racism has scarred this nation. Few wrestled so fiercely with the contradiction between the nation’s ideals and its flawed reality. In his book, Jefferson’s Pillow, Roger offered a raw-to-the-bone portrait of a black man reckoning with the slave owning founders of our nation, the contradictions of a Jefferson, carried as a young boy on a pillow by a slave, writing that “all men are created equal.”

Roger’s integrity would not allow him to simply whitewash the Founder’s acceptance of slavery. His knowledge was deep enough to understand that blacks had helped build this nation from its beginning, even supplying a good portion of Washington’s troops. His mettle was strong enough to claim for African Americans a place as patriots, not exiles, in their own land.

“In a culture that batters us,” he wrote, “learning the real history is vital in helping blacks feel fully human. It also helps us to understand just how deeply American we are, how richly we have given, how much has been taken from us, and how much has yet to be restored.”

For those blessed to have Roger as a friend, he was a mensch. He was the best man at my wedding, and my best friend for over 30 years. He provided wisdom, guidance and cover for projects we launched together. He brought me into the Jesse Jackson campaign in 1984 and we worked together in the historic 1988 run.

We shared stories and jokes; he had a big and wonderful laugh. Our families traveled and played together. My daughter remembers Uncle Roger as the one who always gave her a kiss on the cheek and told her she was beautiful.

Words fail to give full measure of the man – statesman, journalist, writer, philanthropist, activist, organizer, professor, father, husband, friend. He fought with demons his entire life. “My life wasn’t always neat and tidy,” he wrote, “and I didn’t always do the right thing,” but… there were some good things.”

He met the test that he reported Thurgood Marshall wanted applied to his own life: “I hope they’ll say,” referring to future generations, “he did the best he could with what he had.” Roger Wilkins, a man of honor in tempestuous times, surely did that.

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Yo guys, reminder that EE is on hiatus until I have time to knock out the end of the game!

See you soon!

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Jess Plays Exile Election Part 21

Sorry guys I forgot to upload this on Wednesday!

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*angry voice* HEY JESS, WHERE IS THIS WEEKS EXILE ELECTION?!

Yeah yeah...sorry guys. That's completely my fault, not hers. I was supposed to upload the video but I've been SUPER busy preparing for my mom who is visiting Japan for a week. Sorry everyone and sorry @jinjojess. I'll get the video on the YT channel tonight (Japan time)

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I'm gonna be stuck at work for awhile...

Got a bunch of crap dumped in my lap at work and going to be stuck here awhile sorting it out, so EE will have to happen on Thurs this week guys.

- Jess

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When is the next part of exile election?

This is a good question! I’m not 100% sure. @jinjojess