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More Than Words: How Parents Can Boost Their Children's Language Skills
A new study finds that parents who give 'high quality' non-verbal clues to their toddlers will help them grow their vocabularies for years to come
When Pete Densmore wants to get a message across to his two young children, he just doesn't talk—he moves, doing everything from pointing to giving a thumbs up for job well done.
"Nonverbal clues are daily routine here," said the Bartlett, Illinois dad and author of DADspirations: The 1st 100 Days of Fatherhood. His kids —a three-year-old son and 19-month-old daughter—respond more quickly and calmly when he uses hand gestures and facial expressions instead of just words, he said.
A new study finds that Densmore and other animated parents are on the right track when it comes to helping children build their vocabulary. Researchers at the University of Chicago have found that toddlers who were given more "high quality" non-verbal clues while their parents talked to them had larger vocabularies by the time they entered kindergarten.
Researchers reached this conclusion by videotaping interactions between 50 primary caregivers and their children, all aged 14 months to 18 months. To determine which caregivers provided high quality clues to their children, researchers showed 40-second clips of the interactions to a group of more than 200 adults with the sound muted. After watching the silent clips, the adults were asked to determine what words the caregivers were using when beeps sounded on the tapes.
When the adults were able to easily guess a word—for instance, the word "book" when a caregiver was pointing to a book—that was considered a high quality clue.
Researchers got their results after following up with the children three years later and measuring their vocabularies.
Though socioeconomic differences have long been known to be a major factor in the size of children's vocabularies—more educated, well-off parents typically talk more to their children—in this particular study, socioeconomic status didn't seem to impact the results.
"Parents of lower social economic status were just as likely to provide high-quality experiences for their children as were parents of higher status," said University of Chicago psychology professor Susan Goldin-Meadow, the co-author of a paper published on the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Parents who spoke to BabyZone said they weren't surprised by the study's findings on the benefits of non-verbal clues.
Celine Spino, the mom of a 4-year-old and 14-month-old in Ridgewood, N.J., said she points out objects and pictures—animals are a favorite—to her toddler all the time and did the same when her son was younger. Repetition, she said, is key.
"They're sponges," she said. "If you do something—whatever it is that you're doing—repeatedly, they're going to pick it up and they'll have the associations… they're going to get it."


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It's understandable if you think that Chip Kelly was simply using the Eagles and Oregon to leverage a better deal. And it's understandable if you believe that his intent was to end up in the NFL all along.
But the early indications in the wake of Kelly's stunning decision to leave Oregon for Philadelphia are that people around the Oregon football program were simply blown away by the news. Including one of the school's recruits.
Ducks recruit Nico Falah was stunned by the news as he sent out the following tweet this afternoon:
"Chip Kelly left?!?! He was my house 2 days ago."
While the news of Kelly's departure was certainly a curveball to the countless fans, media members, and league insiders who each had a close eye on the Eagles' bizarre odyssey to land their next coach, certainly people within the Oregon program, including its players and recruits, must be simply stunned.


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PHILADELPHIA -- Andrew Bynum still has pain in his left knee that has kept him from making his debut with the Philadelphia 76ers.
Bynum is in pain when he walks or attempts even light physical activity, except for swimming. He had been recovering from a bone bruise in his right knee and injured his left knee while bowling last month.
The 7-foot centre will have his knees examined again Dec. 20th and did not know if he'd need an MRI.
"Worst case scenario, it's another month," he said Monday night. "Best case scenario, I can ramp it up."
Bynum has not or practiced or played for the Sixers since he was acquired in the off-season from the Los Angeles Lakers. Bynum said his right knee has improved to the point where he might have been able to play. He was again listed as inactive for Philadelphia's game against Detroit with "bilateral bone bruises."
"There's nothing I can do about it," he said. "It's arthritis in the knees. Cartilage is missing. That's not going to regrow itself. Maybe in the future, next three to five years, there may be something out there that really does help. Right now, it's kind of a waiting game."
Bynum, 25, is in the final year of his contract and could sign a five-year deal worth more than $100 million in the off-season, if he's healthy. But his uncertain status could be costing the All-Star millions.
Bynum won two NBA titles in seven seasons with the Lakers. The Sixers were hoping he could help them become one of the league's elite teams.
He has tried not to think about the fact he might never play for the Sixers.
"I really think I'll be fine," he said. "If my left knee gets better, and feels like my right, I'll be playing."
Bynum announced in May, while still a member of the Lakers, that he was going to Germany in September for the Orthokine blood-spinning treatment in his knees that other professional athletes have sought. The Sixers announced before training camp that Bynum needed to delay his return to allow the effects of the Orthokine treatment to work.
The bone bruise in his right knee caused the Sixers to push the return date from training camp to the regular season and now possibly to midseason.
But the Sixers are still looking long term with Bynum, who's in the last year of his contract.
Bynum said the Sixers haven't really put pressure on him to return.
"I think initially," he said, "but then I realized more of the pressure was coming from myself. I just had to kind of relax a little bit and let this time pass."
If Bynum is cleared to resume basketball activity on the 20th, he said he wouldn't need much time before he played in a game. He's become a devoted swimmer and credited that to keeping him in shape. It's one of the few activities that doesn't cause Bynum pain.
"It's not getting worse. It's just continuous pain," he said. "I just think the bone bruise has to heal. It's a mirror image of my right knee. My right knee took four months. I think we're a little bit ahead of the curve."
It was Canada's night at the NBA Draft as four players from north of the border were selected.
1. Andrew Wiggins - Cavaliers
8. Nik Stauskas - Kings
18. Tyler Ennis - Suns
45. Dwight Powell - Hornets
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Get crackin' -- "Gangnam Style." That's the slogan of the forthcoming Wonderful Pistachios Super Bowl campaign featuring South Korean pop star Psy. The rapper achieved worldwide recognition last year for his music video "Gangnam Style," the first to hit 1 billion views on YouTube. The spot doesn't air until Feb. 3, but Wonderful Pistachios is already trying to build buzz for the campaign, namely on Facebook, where a related photo sweepstakes will kick off this week.


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Meet Our Staff at Degas House
From the moment you call or email Degas House, you become important to us. When you check into our bed and breakfast, we are happy to have you in our home, for Degas House is and always was a home, and we love having guests. When you are our bed and breakfast guests, you will receive the level of hospitality service you desire from our professional staff. We allow you the privacy you want but are here for you if you need us. Whether at Degas House for a romantic getaway or to attend an event or festival, we are here to be of service to you, but not intrude on your stay. From a glass of wine offered at check-in until a hope-to-see-you-again departure, our desire is for your Degas House experience to exceed your expectations.
Our wedding staff is confident that we can offer you an exquisite wedding with cherished memories based on the awards we have received from TheKnot.com and many great wedding reviews. Our awards and reviews are based on the level of service that we have given to brides that have been married here.
Our tour guides for the Edgar Degas House Creole Impressionist Tour have a personal interest in the information they share with our guests - they are part of Edgar Degas' family, the great-grand nieces of Edgar Degas. They may also share some of their personal stories of growing up in the family. It just doesn't get any more personal than that. Our event staff will help facilitate the successful event you want to create at Degas House and corporate clients will appreciate our professionalism.
We are happy to introduce ourselves to you so that you will have a face along with a name when you contact us.
Chevalier / Founder of Degas House
David, a former International Pilot for Delta Airlines, is the Chevalier and Founder of Degas House. Skills developed during his years of flying, such as teamwork and good communication, along with his appreciation of a unique travel experience for the most savvy and educated traveler, led him to restore and open Degas House to the public. His passion for the grand houses of New Orleans stemmed from having lived on historical Esplanade Avenue as a child in his ancestral maternal family's home, only blocks from Degas House.
David enjoys flying, travel, music, history and European beers.
Wedding and Event Manager
In Sharon's younger years, she learned the food and beverage business at the historic Brunings Restaurant on the West End of New Orleans (destroyed by Katrina). Her background led her to Degas House 17 years ago in the earliest years of Degas House. In her time at Degas House, Sharon has served in many different roles but the one she enjoys the most is working with the brides and their families and our guests at breakfast in the B&B. During Sharon's time here at Degas House, she has orchestrated and managed hundreds of weddings, to the delight of our many returning families. The mother of three adult boys, Sharon inspired two of them to enter into the culinary world themselves who, on occasion, assist her for the many events held at Degas House. In the weeks and months after Hurricane Katrina, it was through Sharon's efforts, working alongside David, that permitted many of the FEMA Historic Preservation Team, as well as evacuees, to have a place to stay with food and drink while living in a disaster area.
Sharon's hobbies include sewing, cooking and her expressed love of children.
Great Grand-Niece of Edgar Degas
Tour Guide, Edgar Degas House Creole Impressionist Tour
2014 marks 11 years that we have been blessed with Joanie's involvement with the Degas House team. Prior to working for Degas House, Joanie was a New Orleans City Tour Guide. Joanie also taught in elementary school for several years, which included two years of teaching at Worms Elementary School in Germany, an Army school for dependents. Her background as a tour guide and teacher has well-prepared her as our lead tour guide to showcase her family history and ancestral home.
Joanie likes running, reading and sailing.
Great Grand-Niece of Edgar Degas
Tour Guide, Edgar Degas House Creole Impressionist Tour
EMAIL: firstname.lastname@example.com
Prior to working at Degas House, Micey owned an antique and gift store called Melange which was located first in New Orleans, then in Metairie. She was also a real estate agent, worked for an oil company and a law firm. Her employment in those occupations provided her with good communication skills.
Micey is an artist and paints on canvases, enjoys restoring furniture, and makes floral arrangements for Degas House weddings and events.
Social Media Coordinator
EMAIL: email@example.com
Mae previously worked in the legal field as a secretary and paralegal and was General Manager, Innkeeper and Wedding Coordinator of The Caldwell House Bed and Breakfast. Mae owns TouchofCajun.com, an online art website, and TC Internet Marketing, a social media marketing business. Working in these industries requires creative thinking and good writing and computer skills, which prepared Mae for her employment as Social Media Coordinator of Degas House.
In her spare time, Mae likes to draw, paint, sew, as well as make arts and crafts.
Director of Tours Sales and Marketing
EMAIL: firstname.lastname@example.com
Rachel worked as General Manager of New Orleans TV prior to her employment with Degas House. Her 18 years of work in the hospitality industry in New Orleans prepared her for her Sales and Marketing position of the Edgar Degas House Creole Impressionist Tour, as well as other programs at Degas House.
Rachel's hobbies are baking, energy healer worker and Reiki angel healer.
Degas House Bed and Breakfast Manager and Innkeeper
EMAIL: firstname.lastname@example.com
Paige formerly owned Nola Moda, a clothing store in Metairie, La. The customer service and professionalism required to run her own business prepared her well for the work she does today for Degas House, as Paige is the first person our guests come into contact with when they come to Degas House.
Paige's hobbies are sewing, jogging and traveling.
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Event Sales
EMAIL: email@example.com
Cindy's employment prior to Degas House was as public relations and event director for Jose Cuervo International which fostered customer satisfaction, creativity and bringing an experience to life, attributes she uses at Degas House.
Cindy's hobbies are reading, cooking and traveling.
Rose Montross
Breakfast Cook
Rose is our Breakfast Cook and greets guests each morning with her friendly smile and disposition, then takes their orders for a delicious Creole breakfast. Rose formerly worked for a school district in Texas for 7 years as their main cook. After spending some time in Lake Charles, she moved to New Orleans and joined the Degas House staff. She mostly enjoys interacting with the guests and "filling their bellies".
Tour Guide, Edgar Degas House Creole Impressionist Tour
Prior to working at Degas House, Daneta took a tour guide class at Delgado in New Orleans and became a Certified Tour Guide. In addition to being a Tour Guide at Degas House, she does research for genealogical studies.
Daneta's hobbies are historical research, sailing and traveling.


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Even as Braves fans scream, "Do something!", it's worth noting that the test of a general manager isn't to do just anything — it's to do the right thing. And sometimes what seems the right thing turns out to be …
Mark Teixeira.
The approach of another trade deadline takes us back to July 2007. The Braves made a big move, sending five prospects to Texas for the first baseman Teixeira and the reliever Ron Mahay. On the night Teixeira joined the Braves, Tim Hudson said, "Seems like they're trying to make us win the World Series around here."
That night Teixeira hit two home runs. Soon, two giddy fans from Auburn, Ala., had written a ditty and slapped it on YouTube. Sample lyric: "The National League it just ain't fair-a/The Atlanta Braves got Mark Teixeira." Also this: "The side effect is mild hysteria/The medical reason in Mark Teixeira."
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This new course explores the physical aspects of organic chemistry. Physical organic chemistry finds application in many differing situations such as organic synthesis, chemical biology, green chemistry, catalysis, materials science and alternative energy research. The course will train the student in the scientific approach employed in physical organic chemistry. This approach involves the combined use of different techniques, such as theory, computational science, mechanistic analysis, organic synthesis and a variety of instrument-based techniques. This combined approach can then be applied to solve problems through a quantitative understanding of key processes.
Students will gain a feel for the potential applications of the techniques and approaches of physical organic chemistry and will be able to apply this knowledge to developing a quantitative understanding of reactions and proposing potential improvements to existing processes in organic chemistry, biology, biosynthesis, environmental and green processes. The acquired skills will be put into practice in a short project forming part of currently ongoing research.
The course is designed around a modular system of teaching and assessment, with modules covering the range of both theory and applications of physical organic chemistry. Three core and two optional modules are taken in the first semester (Sept - Jan), with two core and four optional modules in the second (Feb - May). The summer is then spent solely on a research project, running from June to August.
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- Mathematics for Chemists (10 Credits)
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- Asymmetric Synthesis of Pharmaceuticals and Natural Products (10 Credits)
- Mechanism and Ligand Design in Homogeneous Catalysis (10 Credits)
- Introduction to Statistical and Quantum Mechanics (10 Credits)
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- Colloquium(10 Credits)
- Modelling of Biological Macromolecules (10 Credits)
- Biosynthetic Approach to Natural Products (10 Credits)
- Bioinorganic Chemistry (10 Credits)
- Modern Catalytic Processes (10 Credits)
The summer research project (60 credits) is typically chosen from a list of options proposed by course staff, usually in an area of current research interest. More information on these areas can be found here, or on individual staff pages.
The course is taught mainly by members of the Cardiff Physical Organic Chemistry Centre. Some modules also feature specialist contributions from external lecturers from other Schools in Cardiff, from industry, and from other universities.
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The National Infrastructure Coordinating Center (NICC) is the information and coordination hub of a national network dedicated to protecting critical infrastructure essential to the nation's security, health and safety, and economic vitality.
The NICC is both an operational component of the National Protection and Programs Directorate— specifically the Office of Infrastructure Protection's Contingency Planning and Incident Management Division—and a watch operations element of the DHS National Operations Center.
The NICC maintains 24/7 situational awareness and crisis monitoring of critical infrastructure and shares threat information, in order to reduce risk, prevent damage, and enable rapid recovery of critical infrastructure assets from incidents caused by natural disasters, attacks, or other emergencies.
NICC functions include:
- Situational Awareness: Collects, maintains, and shares information about threats to infrastructure
- Information Sharing and Collaboration: Integrating and disseminating information throughout the critical infrastructure partnership network. More about information sharing.
- Assessment and Analysis: Evaluating infrastructure data for accuracy, importance, and implications.
- Decision Support: Providing recommendations to critical infrastructure partners and DHS leadership.
- Future Operations: Supporting decisionmaking for actions required 24–72 hours before and after an incident or event.
The NICC is committed to ensuring that the nation's critical infrastructure is prepared in case of a significant event, and well-informed and supported during and after the event.


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Plessy v. Ferguson: race and inequality in Jim Crow America.
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- University Press of Kansas, 2012
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Williamjames Hoffer's fresh examination of the Plessy case affords an opportunity to learn about an extraordinary time in American history, and the discriminatory attitudes of a power structure.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- Five Olympic swimmers from Louisville are encouraging students to "go for the gold."
It's part of the "Go For the Gold Day!" program, that encourages students to be the best they can possibly be.
WHAS11's Michelle Arnold reports from the Mary T. Meagher Aquatic Center, just click on the video player above and watch.


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We were lucky enough to make it out to the first PAX East and while we missed the City of Heroes Panel, we were able to go to the meet & greet and get the highlights from Matt "Positron" Miller.
There isn't a lot of detail, but here is an overview of what was presented at the CoH Panel:
- The panel was centered around how to keep an MMO fresh and new
- History of Paragon Studios
- List of many things that went into the game since launch
- Issue 17 release in April- open beta "very soon"
- Ultra mode graphics
- New story arcs
- Revamp of Positron task force
- split into two TFs (as was always intended)
- fight at the dam
- spruced up missions to give them a new feel
- Going Rogue
- New level 1-20 experience
- The GR system itself
- Praetoria
- 4 Zones, showed some concept art
- New power sets
- Dual pistols
- if you pre-purchase Going Rogue now, then you immediately get dual pistols
- Demon summoning will be launched with i17
- again if you pre-purchase you get it as soon as it hits servers
- Demons are elemental based
- Each Fire, Ice, and ?? will be launched in sequence, kind of like the medic coming out for mercenaries.
- All new graphic models – they're not just rehashed CoT stuff
- Dual pistols
- Powersets debuted at PAX East 2010:
- Electric Control (controllers and dominators)
- Kinetic Melee (scrappers, tankers, brutes, stalkers)
- The future
- Issue 19 tentatively called "Incarnates"
- End-game system that Matt has been working on for several months.
- 10 Incarnate levels past 50 – first level will be in Going Rogue
- Hopefully all will be released with i19 (perhaps not all at the same time, but as close as possible)
- Issue 19 tentatively called "Incarnates"
- Matt was glad to finally make it to the east coast (woot!)
Just a quick plug for a web event happening next week called The Boom Effect. The event will start on Saturday, February 27th at 10AM Eastern time via UStream.
This charity drive is a live, online auction to raise money for the trust fund of Tee Morris' daughter who lost her mother on January 5, 2010. There will be at least 5 hours of entertainment hosted by Podcasting's Rich Sigfrit. We'll be in the live audience cheering everybody on, and likely on camera on the main feed as well. It's shaping up to be a really fun time. You'll be able to bid from the chat room, through e-mail, proxy-bid on the website, and I think via video or audio on Skype or UStream.
And with over 70 items up for auction (so far!!) there is something for everyone to get excited about and bid for! Everything from jewelry, to pictures, paintings by celebrities, custom music, book dedications, food, clothes, signed DVDs and books, knitwear, and even Mozart's Balls!! Seriously, go check out everything up for auction!
Hope to see you there!
It's been a long road, but we've finally dinged 50! Episode 50, that is.
In this episode we discuss:
- Winner of Knives of Artemis costume code: Flick Guy
- Free character transfers until the end of January:
- Starts:Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 8:59 a.m. PST (11:59 a.m. EST)
- Ends: Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. PST (2:59 a.m. EST)
- These are moves, not copies. You can move a character back with the same restrictions and caveats
- You cannot transfer characters between different accounts — same account only
- You can do up to 6 transfers a week. This could be anything from 1 character transferred 6 times back and forth between 2 servers, or could be 6 characters to different servers in any combination
- Cannot swap between US & European servers
- Lose Supergroup affiliation, prestige, and items
- Lose server friends list, but keep global list
- Leveling pacts will be broken
- Keep auction house items
- You may lose your character name if it is already taken on the new server. No warning is given, but you are given a free rename token. If you already have one character on the destination server you can do a name lookup check at the login screen.
- If you have a one or two letter/number name, you will loose it forever. The servers currently only allow three letter/number names.
- Character transfer tutorial
- City of Heroes® Super Booster IV: Martial Arts
- This Super Booster channels your chi while combining the perfect balance of style and power.
- Martial Arts themed costume set:
- The Martial Arts themed male, female and huge costume parts include robes, shoulders, legs, gloves, footwear, mask, belt and head pieces, as well as new hair styles, chest emblems, and weapons. Male and huge characters also have the option to select the top knot hairstyle, while females will have the option for crazy braided buns!
- Character Emotes:
- /em bringit
- /em pushup
- Costume Change Emotes:
- Smoke Bomb
- Ninja Leap
- Ninja Run power:
- Dash through the city with the agility of a ninja! Use Ninja Run to strike fear in the hearts of your enemies as you increase your run speed and leaping abilities, and the best part? It doesn't use one of your power selections!
- This purchase enables these features for all characters on your game account from level 1. Ninja Run power is available at level 4. Costume change emotes* do require that you unlock at least one additional costume slot.
Promo: The Empress Sword by Paulette Jaxton
There will be two posts for this one. In the first we bring our traditional podcastiness in audio form. As you will hear at the beginning of the episode, there is also the video version of the episode here.
Too long in the making, we are proud to bring you our Transcendence Trial tutorial. At the start of the episode Viv breaks down the basics of the Trans Trial and how we go about running it. Then we actually run through it "live" with a full team.
Sorry, no news or fluff. The contest winner will be announced in a special drop this week.
The video is available in a few bunch of different formats, listed below:
- High quality iPod formatted download (428 Megabytes, 320×240)
- High quality MPeg4 download (2.2 Gigabytes, 720×480)
- Medium quality MPeg4 download (343 Megabytes, 720×480)
- Medium quality Ogg Theora download (363 Megabytes, 720×480)
- Medium quality Flash streamed:
We'd like to thank the team members who helped us run the trial:
- Will Hudson and Tai Kitty, Heroes of the first order
- Biscuit the Mighty of the Kulture Kast
- Heather Welliver and Marc Bailey of Grailwolf's Geek Life
- Zigdon
- our son, M.
Items mentioned in the episode:
There will be two posts for this one. The first we bring here is our traditional podcastiness in audio form. As you will hear at the beginning of the episode, there is also a video version of this episode.
Since video files are so big we didn't want to clog up your podcast feed with one. Head over to the video post and you can download it in a range of formats or stream it straight from the post!
Too long in the making, we are proud to bring you our Transcendence Trial tutorial. At the start of the episode Viv breaks down the basics of the Trans Trial and how we go about running it. Then we actually run through it "live" with a full team.
Sorry, no news or fluff. Contest winner will be announced in a special audio drop this week.
We'd like to thank the team members who helped us run the trial:
- Will Hudson and Tai Kitty, Heroes of the first order
- Biscuit the Mighty of the Kulture Kast
- Heather Welliver and Marc Bailey of Grailwolf's Geek Life
- Zigdon
- our son, M.
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As an early Halloween treat, we're pleased to bring you The Zombie Connection.
Lyrics: Kim Fortuner and Patrick E. McLean
Vocals: Kim Fortuner
Guitar: Tim Dodge
Orchestra and production: Chooch Schubert
The song was originally written and recorded at Dragon*Con 2009 in about 30 minutes. Tim and Kim agreed to record clean versions of their parts and let me wrap other instruments and sound effects around them.
Here is our second to last piece of audio from Dragon*Con. This is the City of Heroes panel which proved to be a very lively discussion about the game, Paragon Studios, and various other topics.
This episode includes:
- The winner of the impromptu contest we created at the panel
- Information to enter a drawing for a Knives of Artemis costume code
- The City of Heroes Panel at Dragon*Con
Special thanks to:
- Grimthorn
- Colin Seraphina Brennan from Massively
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It seems likely that Svoboda will have a faction in the next Verkhovna Rada. That will mean additional damage for Kyiv's already dented international reputation.
- Andreas Umland, leacturer at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
A country as domestically unconsolidated and internationally non-integrated as Ukraine, a prominent ultra-nationalist party in parliament would be a dangerous luxury.
- Andreas Umland, leacturer at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
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Anything is better than the current regime which takes its orders from Moscow.
You have some serious issues with your brain cell gray matter. A Nazi-loving fascist-based philosophy of hatred for all, Poles, Russians, Jews and everyone else, except pure-blooded Galichians such as that fomented by Tiahnybok and his loyal automatons as well as their Hitlerite diaspora underlings is sickening.
I don't know what you're on about. Svoboda is a nationalist organization. Being a nationalist does not equal fascist. Anyway, what's important is why Svoboda is gaining in popularity.
You throw the words "nazi loving fascist" around quite loosely...prove what you are alleging...Russian paranoia...
"Anything is better than the current regime" ... which took its orders from the USA...
I would have said that the above comment applies to Yushchenko's regime. Apart from the concentration of power I would say that Yanukovych as was the case when he was prime Minister has provided stable and positive governance overall. He certainly has done a better job then Yushchenko who would have to rate as one of the worlds worst leaders. As Bob Dlyan once said you have to serve somebody.
We should not overlook the anti-Christian-Palestinian cleaning in Israel. While we are lamenting the anti-Byzantine-Christianity in Turkey, anti-Greco-Catholicism... shall I continue?
Hah! Do you have access to a television set? What about "Palestinian" crimes against Christians against Lebanon? And what the hell is the obsession with Israel?
For Every Action there is .....Reaction
The Ying needs a Yang
What goes UP must come ....
Scientific Marxism: Thesis needs AntiThesis in order to get SynThesis
Extreme Left creates an extreme ....R
"You can't keep them down on the farm
after they've sean..." Toronto!
Pro-Russian is good business for Ukraine,
while pro-Ukrainian is Nazi Soviet-disinformation.
What am I to take from this... "OPINION"?
Hoho Ukraine is anti-EU,
isn't that a step up from Little Russia?
Who's Ukraine. they are not "pro Ukrainian" they certainly do not represent the views of Ukraine. They a a minor fringe element who support base is predominately in Western Ukraine Carpathian Mountain region. They most certainly do not represent the broad views of Ukraine. Backward thinking hillbillys.
What is your opinion of the works of Vasyl Stus?
PS he's was from Donetsk.
Svoboda is a phenomenon that is not untypical for contemporary Europe
Should read...
Svoboda is a phenomenon that is not atypical for contemporary Europe
Svoboda is a phenomenon that is not uncommon for contemporary Europe
An excellent and correct observation.
A better electoral system would be to establish say 405 local electorates based on the 225 existing electoral districts with each electorate electing nine members of parliament on a 10% quota with the method of election being a preferential single transferable vote proportional representation. Under an STV voting system there is no need for artificial representation quota's. The nine member (10% quota) proposed electorates itself is a limiting barrier.
You are right, Svoboda is likely to secure increased support arising from the fall out and loss of support from the "Our Ukraine" Party. But this is a democracy and even extreme right wing nationalist opinions deserve representation if there is sufficient support.
From what I have read I am not so sure if I would go as far as characterising Oleh Tiahnybok himself by reference to various aspects of the neo-NAZIs but certainly many of his supporters and associated factions are of the fascist extreme right, trading on the "their notion" of what is and what is not nationalist pride. All nationalist parties are of concern as they seek to unit people under the banner of "National pride" and in doing so come close to promoting xenophobia and racist vilification not sound policy that is in the interest or representative of the majority. I would be more concerned by the rise of the neo-UPA which very much has its roots in support for the former NAZI party and is by its past actions into Ukrainian and anti democratic.
I think you need to also keep a close eye on the push for a first-past-the-post voting system, a system that Britain wants to abolish yet some in Ukraine think could be advantageous. This could be much more destructive then allowing minor more radical parties a voice in the legislature.
Correction: A better electoral system would be to establish a 405 member Parliament with 225 local electorates based around the current electoral administrative districts with each electorate electing nine members of parliament elected by proportional representation.
Such a proposal would be in line with the recommendation outlined in the recent PACE report.
This opinion is way over the top...to the point of being nonsensical.
The rise of the Svoboda Party is a natural outcome to the extreme
behaviour of the PoR and its ideologically driven anti Ukrainian ministers. So the rise of the Svoboda party is just the other end of the spectrum....a perfectly normal occurrence. If the PoR makes itself more pro Ukrainian in every aspect(not just catering to Russia), the population will become more moderate.
So perhaps the Svoboda party is serving a very good purpose....it'll help moderate the extreme policies of the PoR....and that is good.
Ukraine desperately needs to be a part of europe(not Russia)so that it can benefit from that association economically and in every other way. The foolish concentration on Russia(which has zero to offer Ukraine) is a total blunder. Perhaps unknowingly, Mr. Tiahnybok
is serving a very good purpose.
Nonsense Its rise has corresponded with the fall of Our Ukraine. It is a racists xenophobic ant-semitic, anti Ukraine, anti democracy fascist movement, supported by other fascists neo Nazi organisations and individuals such as Tomas Martinez from the USA and other extreme groups such as those who who committed the Oklahoma bombings. Google "Tomas Martinez fascist". Thankfully they will be marginalised with the introduction of majoritarian voting which will deny it representation and a voice.
Svoboda's positions are a natural reaction to the extreme anti Ukrainian policies of the PoR.
What did you expect?
Pary of Regions positions are a natural reaction to the extreme anti Ukrainian anti democratic policies of the Yushchhenko that destabelised the Country .
What did you expect? Same failed polcies should be retained. Lieke it or not Ukraine is better off now then it was under Yushchenko ven with Yanukovych taking a backward step in seeking constitutional change. Teh Cahanges Yushenko advocated were much worst.
If anything, the reverse is true. The activist minority of Ukrainian anti-Rusisan forces have provoked an understandable reply.
Russia has much to offer Ukraine.
Will Russia offer another Ukaz or another Holodomor?
At present, Ukraine is under Moscow rule, from which several things follow, among which are that its press freedom will continue to be strangled to the point that journalists are regularly murdered, that its elections will be fixed, that its assets will be sold off to Russia, that it will be drawn away from Europe with not the slightest chance of admission to the EU. And, oh yes, it's economy will fare as well as any European economy has ever fared under Kremlin control, as for example the economy of East Germany.
Andreas Umland pretends to be unaware of these devastating facts, and directs our attention to something utterly peripheral and trivial, which diversion suggests that he is among those who are happy to see Ukraine under Putin's control, and happy to join Putin in his incessant portrayal of Ukrainians as Nazis or proto-Nazis or quasi-Nazis.
Andreas Umland, in short, is an enemy of Ukraine, a fifth columnist, whom it is impossible to distinguish from an agent of the Kremlin. We can expect that if he chose to expound his views in Moscow, he would receive a standing ovation.
Check Umland's writings, he is totally opposed to Kremlin control over Ukraine. If anybody is a Fifth Column it is the diaspora wacko's, not Umland.
Both have faults.
Very untrue points about Russia.
The Kremlin is quite anti Russian itself. It is ethnically cleansing Russia of Russians.
The Kremlin is just a slave to America, it is completely destroying Russia from the inside out.
The fingerprints of certain elements are indeed present here.
A bit unrealistic while touching on how official Rusisa has lacked in combatting the propaganda against Russia.
Unfortunately, op-eds are a dime a dozen these days. Essentially, our posts in this group are op-eds that do not make it to the newspaper. Op-eds are like cars - you have BMWs, and you have Ladas.
Andreas Umland's op-ed is a Lada.
If so, the same holds true for a good portion of the commentary against him.
Meantime, there's valid opposition to his takes.
QUOTE: "...However, a country as domestically unconsolidated and internationally non-integrated as Ukraine, a prominent ultra-nationalist party in parliament would be a dangerous luxury..."
As if the 1932-3 genocide was not suficient Chornobyl surely paid Ukraine's dues for a ULRAINIAN IS BEAUTIFUL campaign, which can embrace even you. Yet your opinion ends with "many observers think that Ukraine is now already at the lowest point of its post-Soviet development, even more bad news might be in store for the largest country of Europe."
Back in the US... back in the US... back in the USSR. Lennon / McCartney
Umland is right. Oleg Tyahnibok sucks. He is an embarassment to the country.
There are certainly some unfortunate statements made in the article that have the fingerprints of certain elements and institutions in western Europe - and especially Germany - all over them.
Yanukonvict and his gang of criminals are responsible for pushing SNPU to this level with their anti Ukrainian/ pro Russian stance, anti democratic and pro criminal activities.I don't think they will be surprised to see a group of intellectuals in parliament, and it's about time!
If anything, it's more the other way around.
Like it or not, your folks are in the minority in Ukraine.
We don't care what you want to call them, we are voting for SNPU!Quite frankly, we are sick and tired of watching the same old criminals/Kremlin advocates, destroy our nation.It's about time someone stands up to them! Go Tiahnybok!!!
"Another emerging problem for Ukraine's future international reputation..." (blad, blah, blah). I would say the problem is 'progressive' lecturers who teach at respected institutions who have little understanding of the dynamic of actual Ukrainian society and it's history and try to understand it by incorporating views from history of people who wanted to subjugate Ukraine. Furthermore, with this feeble understanding they try to explain to the Ukrainian people how they would be better off doing things 'their' way or the way they perceive to be correct.
While it may be true that some representatives of Ukraine's nationalist movements may be over the top but to denounce all patriotic Ukrainians as fascists, as you imply, is about as ignorant as the point you are trying to make. Patriotic Ukrainians will make their decisions on who will lead them once they regain control of their country. Unfortunately, Ukrainians have not had control of their country for a very long time and to regain it methods will have to be used that you may not agree with (or do agree with yet will not admit so because they are against your agenda).
Do not also make it appear as Europe is the be all and end all model of Democracy because that is about as laughable a statement as anyone can make. How are Greece's France's democracies working out with rioting going on in the streets. This will soon be occurring in more European nations as well.
Ukraine has a much more Democratic tradition when Ukrainians actually ruled themselves than any European country. It is the times when foreign powers seized control of Ukraine that democracy disappeared.
"It (OUN) is an outspoken advocate of an uncritical heroization of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists – an interwar and World War II ultra-nationalist party tainted by its temporary collaboration with the Third Reich, as well as its members' participation in genocidal actions against Poles and Jews, in western Ukraine, during German occupation."
Genocidal actions against Poles and Jews-really, what kind of unbiased opinion is this from someone who sets himself up as an external expert on Ukrainian matters. Umland is a hypocrite. He states that Svoboda is uncritical of the actions of OUN but he is clearly uncritical of the widespread view that OUN committed genocidal actions against Poles and Jews. The OUN tried to protect Ukrainians from the butchery of Poles, Nazis, and Bolsheviks against Ukrainians. If the Poles, Nazis, and Bolsheviks had not invaded Ukraine there would not have been an OUN. And this German has the nerve to lecture Ukrainians about racism!
You don't think they got carried away?
Most Ukrainans don't think so highly of them.
Furthermore, your own leader just stated that having foreigners that have not assimilated to their new countries' ideals and values is an utter failure that is now threatening Europe.
The same is true of Ukraine and it's so called 'minority rights' movements which are currently the majority in government. They are not for minority rights but for the subjugation and eradication of Ukraine as a nation. If you believe fighting against this is fascism then you really are in the wrong business.
I wonder how the average European will feel when say, muslims, demand that an arabic language becaome a state language in their country on par with say German or French and that all movies in European languages must also be shown in Farsi or Urdu with French or German subtitles. I am pretty sure that would never be allowed to happen.
You don't understand... Germany can afford having this kind of statements made by its top politicians and refusing for instance opening Turkish-language schools for millions of Turks that live there - it is a "civilized" country after all ;) Someone else doing this would appear as extremely xenophobic and uncivilized...
Very true!
As one of the Svoboda partys leaders explains in this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQhiDBIEaYI, Europe now is losing its identity - do we want the same?
It is very important to learn from others mistakes.
I enjoy what she says about our flag: it is yellow and blue. Then you put some pink on it, grey, black, orange, red... Is it still the Ukrainian flag, or has it lost its original identity? ;)
If svoboda will adjust to a more pro russia position there is room at the table for them.POR= party of reason.
The same can be said of Kuzio, Motyl, Umland and a host of others.
And there Mr. Umland is your answer. In order for Ukrainians to be accepted at the table in their own country they are told they must adopt a more pro-russian position.
On the issue of OUN activities during WW II, see the articles by one of the foremost scholars on this topic, Prof. John-Paul Himka:
- "Ukrainian past and Ukrainian future" at http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/83452/
- "The Lviv pogrom of 1941" at http://www.kyivpost.com/news/opinion/op_ed/detail/83019/
Just because someone writes some articles and a couple of books does not mean that they are "one of the foremost scholars on this topic".
I find it very interesting that you cite a "scholar" who supports your opinion yet overlook all those that do not support your opinion. As a teacher you should be providing documentation and sources from both sides and letting your students form their own opinions and not citing one version of events and trying to form the opinions of your students for them. That is exactly what fascists do.
I could have also referred to Prof. David Marples (Alberta), Dr. Per Anders Rudling (Greifswald), Dr. Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe (Greifswald), Prof. Frank Golczewski (Hamburg), Dr. Kai Struve (Halle), Dr. Franziska Bruder (Berlin), Dr. Ivan Katchanovski (Lutsk) and several other scholars (with neither a Ukrainian nor a Russian "patriotic", i.e. apologetic/propagandistic, agenda) who have commented, in similar vein, on the OUN. However, they did, as far as know, not recently write for the "Kyiv Post" - which is why I mentioned only Himka's recent "Kyiv Post" articles below. I do not see much gain in taking seriously and quoting publicists who obviously follow other than epistemic aims with their publications (and whose academic credentials are sometimes missing).
Your aims also seem far from epistemic. It seems your list of scholars have ethnic origins stemming from the supposedly aggrieved and therefore their neutrality on the issue may also be questioned.
You seem to leave out all mention of NKVD squads (which are documented in the released SBU files) which were ordered to pretend to be OUN and UPA members and commit atrocities to discredit them.
And isn't it like an academic to say someone who doesn't have the abbreviation Dr. before his name does not have academic credentials. Bravo, you are now in the same intellectual class as Yanukovich, which is not surprising as you seem to share the same views of history and Ukraine's place in it.
An overrated point.
OUN/UPA did their share of atrocities.
A generally stated and vaild point.
The author is just another bullshiter. Normally it is recommended to have a bit of an insight into something before starting to write or even speak of it... I guess it was for that alleged collaboration of OUN with the Germans that some key OUN members were sent to nazi concentration camps.
I bet you it is for this kind of reasoning that one might end up in Kyiv-Mohyla academy after Harvard and Oxford :))))
Get real!
Kaminski was murdered by the Nazis while heading an SS unit involved with some atrocities.
Rohm was no angel as well.
In order to better understand Mr. Umland's credentials this is what he lists as part of his resume:
"List Moderator & Site Administrator
The Russian Nationalism Web Group
(Research industry)
September 2007 — Present (3 years 2 months)
A website and mailinglist for those interested in the past, present and future of Russian nationalism. It publishes the biweekly "Russian Nationalism Bulletin" (news items, journalistic features, primary sources, recent publications) and monthly "Russian Nationalism Listserv" (calls for papers, conferences, workshops, study programs, research projects, etc.): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/russian_nationalism/"
I think it is obvious how neutral he is on this issue and where he gets the bulk of his research material.
But what is "obvious" from that? That I am a Russian nationalist? Here you can find extensive Russian assessments of the depth of my allegiance to the Eurasian empire: http://evrazia.org/search.php?query=%D3%EC%EB%E0%ED%E4&x=0&y=0
It's a stretch to call him "neutral."
"trans-regional, pan-ethnic patriotism"
Andreas, Ukraine already had that - it was called the soviet union, and the only nationalism that was allowed was Moscowcentric, Russian language based authoritarianism - homo sovieticus.
Tyahnybok is not "anti-semitic" nor is his party a "radical right."
Now, it's true that there happen to be quite a few Jewish people at the top of the oligarch/government list in Ukraine, and they haven't been too beneficial for Ukraine. Themselves, yes - Ukraine, no. Pinchuk is one of them. There are others.
That's doesn't make Tyahnybok "anti-semitic."
Standing up for Ukraine as an independent, free, sovereign, democratic country is not "radical right."
But under the soviet view, that kind of standing up for Ukraine, and its language, was verboten "nationalism" (spit fiercely here, and fly into an uncontrolled rage if you are a homo sovieticus and have been brainwashed to hunt down and kill "nationalists").
I think that you are distorting the views of Svoboda, and of Tyahnybok.
It's happened before.
1. But what do you propose to do with the millions of ethnically non-Ukrainian citizens of Ukraine? Ukrainianize, stigmatize, disenfranchise, ghettoize, deport....? Ukraine IS a multi-ethnic country - whatever the historical reasons for that. This is why a party like "Svoboda" threatens the existence of the Ukrainian state, and is probably welcomed heartily by some people in Moscow.
2. As far as I can see "radical right" might be a term with which at least some of the leaders of "Svoboda" would actually be happy.
3. Tiahnybok not an antisemite? In 2004, he was kicked out of the "Nasha Ukraina" parliamentary faction for antisemitism. Note, for example, this statement by Tiahnybok: "Anti-Semitism is not a free-standing phenomenon, but derives from Semitism. When, after the Chernobyl nuclear station accident, radiation levels rose sharply, steps were taken against that radiation, which seeped out everywhere. [...] That's how it is with anti-Semitism: it's a reaction to rising levels of Semitism in society. And no government can do anything about it, even if they shut down all insititutes of higher education. The word Semitism itself is a phantom, a mask, that doesn't really mean anything. An anti-Semite is one who dislikes Semites. Arabs also belong to the Semitic family - the biggest anti-Semites in the world."
I would like to know what People like Elmer and others classify as being "Ukrainian' The fact is Ukraine has a diverse range of ethnicity in its citizenship. Every person who is a citizen of Ukraine has equal rights there should be no discrimination. Such policies as are promoted by the Ultra right Nationalist are not proponents of democracy. Democracy is about recognition of citizenship not ethnicity.
Tiahnybok represents a small sector of Ukraine'selectorate. I will give him one thing. He is a support of a Parliamentary system of governance.
If you do not know the meaning of the word UKRAINIAN then I suggest that you read some non-kremlin books.
1. I don't propose to do anything with the millions of ethnically non-Ukrainian citizens. Neither does Svoboda.
But all of the ethnically non-Ukrainian citizens have to realize that they now live in Ukraine - not the sovok union, or Russia.
And certainly noone is proposing to ghettoize, or deport anyone. Ukrainians voluntarily leave Ukraine because of all the sovok relics in and close to government who have raped, robbed and pillaged Ukraine, who have made a cancerous system of corruption endemic in Ukraine, leaving nothing for people except poverty and misery and the desire to leave Ukraine for a better life in Europe, the US, Canada, or even, voluntarily, for prostitution out of Odessa to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere.
If you are talking about language, then in fact, in Ukraine, the official government language is and ought to be Ukrainian. Other than that, people are free to engage in whatever language they want.
Just as in Poland, government officials speak Polish - except when they go to Pinchuk's stupid YES party, er, conference, where, out of courtesy to the other appearing on the Savik Shuster show, or on Big Politics, Kwasniewski spoke Russian.
But even Russians from Russia now have the courtesy to listen to Ukrainians speak Ukrainian in Ukrainian - latest example, the Big Politics show, where the author of a new "anthropology" on Tymoshenko - from Russia - listened very gladly, as indicated by her, to Ukrainians speaking Ukrainian.
It's not Svoboda that threatens the existence of Ukraine - it's people like Yanukonvikt and his mafia gangsters, who are selling Ukrainian assets to Putler and his Russian oligarchs, who are giving up Ukraine's sovereignty to Putler and Kremlin with all sorts of "cooperative spheres" and consultations, and worse. And who are destroying media freedom, who think that Khoroshkovsky's huge conflicts of interest are OK, who are doing everything they can to torpedo elections, who are packing the Ukrainian Prostitutional Court and every other court with "judges" who will read their scripts.
The list goes on.
2. Radical right is not accurate, nor have I seen Tyahnybok or anyone else actively seeking such a misnomer.
The current political theory in some circles is that the Kremlin actually lends support to Svoboda in order to sabotage Tymoshenko on the theory of "anyone but Tymoshenko."
Such is byzantine political thought in Rasha and Ukraine.
3. Tyahnybok is actually right, in the sense that Jews are not the only semitic people. And Arabs and others are, in fact, anti-Jewish. As far as anything else, please provide a link to any of Tyahnybok's statements which indicate that he advocates harm to Jews.
Andreas, you're going to have to do better than that if you want to stigmatize and destroy Tyahnybok.
But first of all, you have to understand all of the damage that sovok relics did, and are still doing, to Ukraine and every other country. But especially to Ukraine.
Until you understand that, you will not understand Svoboda.
And you will continue to have it backwards, thinking that Svoboda will somehow do "damage" to Ukraine, when in fact, the damage to Ukraine has been done and is being done by Kuchma and his progeny, including Yanukonvikt, Azarov Azarovych, Kolesnikov, Pinchuk, Akhmetov, and so forth.
It's folks thinking like yourself who lack a reality check of the past and present circumstances on the territory of contemporary Ukraine.
Any problems with the anti-Russian activity within Svoboda?
Besides being inaccurate, this take of yours is a minority view in Ukraine.
You are wrong. According to the UN, Ukraine is a mono-ethnic country - over 70% of the population belongs to one ethnicity. Also, almost 97% of the country is of Slavic origins, and 99% of European origins.
Of course, we have minorities, and we deeply respect them! They should be represented at the national level beyond doubt.
What will we do with minorities? Watch videos and find out! =)
At least, I do not seem to the only one worried. See
«Свободі» не місце в демократичній опозиції - Тарас Кузьо http://blogs.korrespondent.net/celebrities/blog/taraskuzo/a26252
And the response by Andrij Illenko:
and others:
Andreas, with all due respect - Miroshnychenko does not count, he is a Party of Regions mouthpiece, and he does not know anything.
My hat is off to you, however, for providing the deschenko Live Journal link for the Svoboda view.
The young man who appears on that link has actually also been on the Shuster show and several other political talk shows, and he lambasts Dr. Taras Kuzio (and I do respect him, by the way), among other things, for this:
ані Олег Тягнибок, ані "Свобода" ніколи не були учасниками блоку "Наша Україна".
"neither Oleh Tyahnybok nor Svoboda were ever in the Our Ukraine bloc."
Now, your comment below states that Tyahnybok was kicked out of the Our Ukraine bloc. How could that be?
I don't want to get bogged down with Our Ukraine - they did not do a good job of upholding the Orange Coalition, especially with odious pigs like Plyushch and others, who did everything they could to subvert the Orange Coalition.
Be that as it may - may I recommend to you Dr. Kuzio's article on the several types of nationalism?
I notice that yet another one of your articles has been posted by the Kyiv Post - this one in The Globalist.
Andreas, I'm with you all the way about the anti-democratic moves of Yankonvikt and his gangster government.
It is a serious problem.
But to add Svoboda to that - well, I respectfully disagree.
And by the way, the Kuzio article that you link to has this:
що її фінансує Партія регіонів заради дискредитації та роз'єднання демократичної опозиції
The Party of Regions is financing Svoboda in order to discredit and break up the democratic opposition.
Which, of course, is the byzantine politics of Ukraine and Russia to which I referred in my earlier comment.
That carries no weight with me, because of the pissing and shitting contest between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko while the Orange Coalition supposedly had the majority.
Andreas, the gangster mafia government of Yanukonvikt is the problem here - not Svoboda or Tyahnybok.
what about the anti-democratic moves of Yushchenko and his efforts to destabelise Ukraine's successive governments.
It was a serious problem. Yushenko betrayed democracy in Ukraine and in teh process has set it back decades.
Andreas In that case Elmer does not count either, he is a Yushchenko supporter.
Yushchenko contributed to anti-democratic activity.
St least Yanukovych is more in sync with the view of most of Ukraine's population.
With all do respect, Taras Kuzio is a person who rarely visits Ukraine, and has no idea how anything is on the ground. He isn't exactly the best person to gather information from.
All of my family is supporting Svoboda. They are not racist and have many non-Ukrainian members.
Sorry, but Ukrainians simply don't want everything the EU has. We want to work with the EU and get close to them, but we don't want gay parades, millions of completely foreign immigrants (as Andreas president even said - multiculturalism has FAILED), we want to keep our language, culture, traditions in the face of globalization!
Watch these English langauge videos about Svoboda and you will see the true reason this party is the fastest growing in all of Ukraine for the past 5 years.
Btw, Svoboda has VERY close ties to Ukrainians abroad, all through the diaspora, even in Andreas homeland, Svoboda has an office and works there with Ukrainians. In USA too, Canada, Britain, etc...
For the purpose of being accurate, one shouldn't primarily rely on him.
I am however curious what you are worried about Mr. Umland? That if Ukrainian patriots take over their country that they will rampage through Europe and Russia exterminating Jews like Germans did? That they will do the unthinkable and make Ukrainian politicians speak Ukrainian in Parliament? That they will make Ukrainian the more prevalent language in Ukrainian schools? My God!!! How deplorable that would be.
Your "patriotism" is short-sighted: "Svoboda's" rise will deepen the already worrying divide of the country. It is a party that - whatever the reasons - causes fear and disgust in the East and South of Ukraine, and will mobilize russophones there. Its electoral usefulness for the Party of Regions has been argued in many publications. See for instance this last piece in "Ukrainiski tyzhden" (hardly a pro-Russian periodical): http://www.ut.net.ua/art/165/0/4438/ Guess who will be the main benefactors of "Svoboda's" rise, its repercussions in the East as well as South, and the resulting further weakening of Ukrainian state unity?
I think you underestimate the Ukrainian people.
The Savik Shuster show has audience meters, in which audience members who are selected to represent a cross-section of Ukraine provide instant feedback while any particular guest is speaking. The feedback is also broken down by categories, geographically, politically, etc.
Savik also asks questions of the audience - before and after the show.
Time and time again, audience members have changed their opinions after being provided with information.
Khoroshkovksy, Yanukonvikt and his gang know that information is key. And one of the big problems in Ukraine is that people in the East and South are being fed information which is totally different from information provided elsewhere.
And this carries over from the myths and fairy tales propounded by sovoks, who politicized history in order to hide their own crimes.
Misinformation even carries over to this day, Andreas:
Your statement, and Kuzio's: "Tyahnybok and Svoboda were kicked out of Our Ukraine."
Tyahnybok and Svoboda were never members of Our Ukraine.
Tyahnybok has appeared on many of the political talk shows in Ukraine repeatedly.
I have yet to see the bogeyman that you make him out to be - or that unknown "russphones" in Ukraine make him out to be.
I still don't see a link to the supposedly terrible statements or positions of Tyahnybok and/or Svoboda that are going to be the "ruin" of Ukraine, beyond what Yanukonvikt and his gangster mafia are doing to Ukraine.
And we happen to agree about Yanukonvikt and his mafia, and what they are doing to Ukraine, Andreas.
Incidentally, if you go over to the Foreign Notes blog of October 23, 2010, you will see what Yanukonvikt is personally doing to Ukraine - he is making sure they know how to steal.
There is a reference to an article about how his 2 boys, one of whom is a worthless twit in the Parliament, and occupies a seat in Parliament for some unknown reason, just managed to buy a substantial amount of land for rock-bottom prices.
The "stole it fair and square" - all approved by the Donetsk City council.
And you're worried about Tyahnybok, while Yanukonvikt teaches his sons how to continue the Ukrainian mafia tradition - right before local elections?
Disinformation - more than mere political ads - is still a big industry in Ukraine.
There is no need to add to it.
Shuster has carried on like a dupe at times - not too different in manner from some others taking different positions.
Andreas, I fully agree with you. the ultra Nationalist movement is not about promoting democratic values. They represent less then 5% of the citizens of Ukraine. They offer nothing constructive and push xenophobic hatred and vilification. Keep up the good work and we wsih you all the best on your new position. The future of Ukriane is in the hands of the next generation.
I hate to break it to you since you are obviously such a learned man with his pulse on the nation but Yanukovich along with Tabachnyk, Azarov and their cronies are the ones who are deepening the divide. It is human nature to defend oneself when attacked.
It is the aforementioned that are trying to eradicate the Ukrainian language and it's history. It is also the FSB that is actively fomenting disunity with its agents in Ukraine.
Paranoid and inaccurate.
Consider the actual background of the "Ukrainian language and it's history."
Please note the absurd logic of the kremlin:
1862 - The Circular also stated that "no separate Little Russian language ever existed, doesn't exist, and couldn't exist", but permitted publication of literature in the Ukrainian language.
1876 - The Circular also stated that "no separate Little Russian language ever existed, doesn't exist, and couldn't exist", therefore, the kremlin completely prohibited something that did not exist?
Sir, with all of your clearly superior knowledge, would you be able to explain this?
Savik Shuster asks: is Ukraine for Ukrainians 1) Nazism, 2) Patriotism, or 3) Nationalism.
Why did both eastern and western Ukraine give very similar answers, with almost no one saying it was Nazism, and the vast majority of people saying it was patriotism?
As we see in this video, there is clearly no (real) divide in Ukraine, and slogans such as "Ukraine is for Ukrainians" actually UNITE the country.
Kyiv can orient to Moscow or pay the price.Be reasonable you ukrainians it will go better for you.The west is not going to come to your rescue.
Contrary to Kuzio, Yanukovych hasn't carried on like a Russian puppet.
Yushchenko was more of a puppet to Soros types.
Andreas I would be interested in the thoughts and views of your students to the current system of governance and whether that support the presidential or parliamentary model assuming that the parliament was a functional and representative bobby. Do they understand the functioning of the various system of governance? It is worth noting that PACE has on a number of occasions called for Ukraine to adopt a full parliamentary model. Yanukovych in the past had supported this move but now it looks like a return to the days of authoritative government. A step in the wrong direction. The problem as I see it is that Yushchenko and his supporters wanted a presidential system on.y of they could determine who was president. If your going to advocate a system of governance it must be based on the principles or fairness, equality and representation not who is most likely to win office junior a given system. A parliamentary system of governance provides a greater level of protection, accountability and balance of power
This week, my articles on exactly this issue should come out in in English in "Open Democracy," and in Ukrainian in "Ukrainskii tyzhden" (as well as perhaps the "Kyiv Post"). What my students exactly think on that - I do not know. I am teaching different topics.
By any chance, are you aware if the website you will be working with - Open Democracy - is funded, or connected to George Soros?
That site has a definite ideological bias which is open to legitimate criticism - which many of its supporters aren't so open minded about.
O. Tianybok is a traitor whose designer suits are paid for by Russian oligarchs. His job is to damage Ukraine's image and split the nation between east and west.
I am not a big fan of Mr. Tiahnybok but to label him a traitor before people like Yanukovich, Tymoshenko, Pinchuk, Akhmetov and co. is definitely misguided. While he may be ambitious and have views which are a bit more to the right than what most people deem normal he still wants a free Ukraine where Ukrainians can thrive and live happily without the intrusion of external forces of other nations upon them which is more than can be said about the other names mentioned.
Ukraine's negative image is being formed solely by Yanukovich and his FSB controlled government. Mr. Andreas mentioned how no one is covering Svoboda and the radical right in his opinion piece so if that is the case how can they be giving Ukraine a negative image? Well other than him denouncing them along with OUN and UPA.
I am also kind of curious why his ilk does not use eyewitness accounts of Jews who actually served in OUN and UPA during the war? Perhaps that does not fit in with his view of what happened and their eyewitness testimonies carry less weight than an impressionable, frightened 10 year old boy who probably saw NKVD agents doing their job.
You raise trivial points.
Some Jews were in the Nazi movement.
The issue being the ability to separate the isolated instances with the greater contrasting difference.
A burial of a Jewish Ukrainian Galician Army soldier Yu. Litvack.
http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/picturedisplay.asp?linkpath=pic\B\U\Burial of Jewish UHA soldier.jpg
Yeah right!
That's why his org. has a decidedly anti-Russian take.
On "Svoboda" and the Party of Regions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2nqZ-JgNOY
Andreas, seriously, if it is indeed you - you have got to do better than this.
Some old fart claims that he was standing in line for election money, in 2007, and Tyahnybok was standing behind him, and therefore, the Party of Regions is financing Tyahnybok.
The old fart was at an oblast meeting in Ternopil.
Ukrainian politicians are master liers - especially the old sovok relics, like the old fart, who have no soul, no conscience, no morality, no nothing.
During the last elections, Yatseniuk was supposedly financed by the Party of Regions, by Firtash, and goodness knows who else.
Seriously, Andreas - одна баба сказала, один дядьо сказав just doesn't work.
Not for any type of credible article.
@elmer - Mr. Umland has written a bunch of articles and books, he is a respected scholar, he is progressive, he is, well, he is infallible.
This is a guy who writes that Medvedev is very similar to Gorbachev. He moderates and administers a Russian nationalist website. w3hat more does one need to say...
By the way if my political opponent was handing out cash I would send all my supporters to take said cash and have them vote for me anyway.
The main practioners of the political technology - to slander opponents comes from Yushenko supporters. They use the tactic of gang bangs, abuse and villification. The likes of Tomas Martines, Nestor Richard and others who have successivly destrtoyed publis discussion and English forums on Ukraine. They are the most oiffensive and opponents of free speech. They even tried to distrupt Kyiv Post wth their abuse bit thanksufully they have failed. They destroyed ForUm and Ukraininsko Pravda and their attacks on Taraus Kuyzio were appauling. Now they just swallow in theior own gang wank pretending to be the voice of informed opinion. nWhich they are not never were. all they achived was to bring the publications and themself and Yushenko into disrepute. I do not think Yushchenko supported their views but he was tainted by them.
Kuzio has contrbuted to such manner.
He has his faulty biases as well.
Elmer, I quite agree with you! This is a well-known trick of political technology - to slander opponents. The lie is told, it is spread by certain people, and many ordinary citizens will be deceived. Method of NKVD.
I only wonder how much some analysts from abroad are paid to remain so naive? Or are they really so naive, to put it mildly?
Method of some pro-Bandera types too.
Well isn't that funny
"One babushka said, one uncle said" is
the methodology applied by a certain hypocritical
in his rantings and ravings
on the Kyiv Post board.
Nationalism versus Citizenship
Much of the debate in Ukraine is about the perceived notion of "Nationalism" and ethnicity, the us versus them argument.
Russia is not a threat to Ukraine, it is Ukrainians and their political leaders that undermine Ukraine's stability and prosperity. Their political leaders. sadly, have failed to represent their Citizens. Instead they seek to promote division based on ethnicity.
The concept of Nationalism more often then not divides a nation as opposed to uniting its people. One mans notion of National values is another mans vilification. Exactly who is Ukrainian and who is not? And should it matter? No more is this divide greatest then in the Language debate. Nationalism is more often than not used to rally the troops when those that promote it as a political tool have nothing else to unite the nation or offer as an alternative policy to secure support. It is for this reason Ukraine remains divided.
Ethnically Ukraine encompasses many nationalities and ethnic groups. It is the centre of the European continent after all. The various ethnic groups include: Tatars, Hungarians, Polish, Romanians, Swedish, Germans, Austrians, Russian and Hutzals. In many ways it is its diversity that makes Ukraine and should be what unites Ukraine. Nationalism is good for promoting various culture but it is dangerous when used as a political tool.
What Ukraine today needs is to develop a sense of Citizenship and the values that come with a democratic society that engages and seeks to unit all its citizens. I'ts Citizenship that is the most important and from a sense of Citizenship and National pride comes recognition of cultural values which includes all languages.
Democracy is not based on nationalism it is based on universal suffrage, Citizenship and representative governance.
The sooner the political debate in Ukraine can begin to focus on Citizenship the sooner Ukraine can put and end to division and move forward as one nation. one state with a reverence for human rights and democratic values.
In Ukraine, when people speak Ukrainian they are accused of being "nationalist" - and fascists. Which is exactly the old sovok propaganda line.
What language do they speak in the parliaments of
We won't mention Rasha, because Rasha is a fascist state and not a good example for anyone, even if they do invent lies such as "managed democracy."
Somehow, in Ukraine, I haven't seen anyone making claims in Ukraine for Swedish to be an official language of Ukraine.
It's always - Rashan.
Or, maybe Ukraine should just do like the European Union, and everyone can wear headsets for translating all of the Hungarian members of the Ukrainian Rada. -:)))
Yes, you're right about the sense of citizenship.
But citizenship does not exist in a vacuum.
And it certainly won't be developed under Yanukonvikt and his government gangsters, who view government as their own personal plaything, as the master, and not the servant, of the people.
All of my family is supporting Svoboda. They are not racist and have many non-Ukrainian members.
Sorry, but Ukrainians simply don't want everything the EU has (and judging by public opinion), most countries in the Eu also don't want to be there). Croatia, Poland, etc were all in similar circumstances - pseudo-patriotic parties (in our case tymoshenko or yuschenko) bringing the country into the eu only to completely liberalize it and begin destroying its traditions. We want to work with the EU and get close to them, but we don't want gay parades, millions of completely foreign immigrants (as Andreas president even said - multiculturalism has FAILED), we want to keep our language, culture, traditions in the face of globalization!
Watch these English langauge videos about Svoboda and you will see the true reason this party is the fastest growing in all of Ukraine for the past 5 years.
Btw, Svoboda has VERY close ties to Ukrainians abroad, all through the diaspora, even in Andreas homeland, Svoboda has an office and works there with Ukrainians. In USA too, Canada, Britain, etc...
Why is nationalism rising and growing - confidently defeating all barriers in its way - throughout the entire world?
Tyahnybok about minorites. Where is the racism?
Tyahnybok about democracy - nationalists are the truest democrats.
Liberal Ukrainian politicians dream: a Ukraine with no Ukrainians
Tyahnybok regarding prostitution, sexual perversions, drugs, etc:
Andreas, I'm personally in a huge favour of "No platform for fascists". I would not even respond to them, because when one does respond to them it may seem that their rubbish is meaningful, but it is not.
Well then I guess you must be against Mr. Umland administering and moderating a Russian Nationalist website!?! Or are Russian nationalists not fascists in your eyes and only Ukrainian ones?
Stop it, Umland is an obvious opponent of Russian nationalism. You might as well accuse Obama of being a KKK member, that would have about the same level of logic.
He doesn't seem to be bothered much by Svoboda's anti-Russian activity.
They neither can "stop it" nor understand what Russian Nationalism Yahoo-group is about. They have to use Google search, but curiously enough they actually have to have brains to perform such an activity.
No need to be insulting.
The rubbish comming from two sides are answered at this thread discussion:
Re: Anton Shekhovtsov -- Of course, I agree, but not all and may be not even a majority of the commentators and supporters of "Svoboda" are fascists. Therefore some exchange may make sense, even if that is not quite an academic sort of discourse here....
PS: On the antisemitism of Tiahnybok (here "Tiagnibok"), see:
Nice, Mr. Andreas is talking down to non-academics now.
And here's the video of that Tyahnybok's speech -
He was campaigning for Yushchenko then.
That basic premise holds true of among the groupings of patriotic Russian and pro-Russian Ukrainian elements.
This point gets downplayed when compared to the notion that not everyone in Svoboda is an extreme crackpot.
I can't believe some of these comments against Umland.
recommends this important study by Ivan Katchanovski: Terrorists or National Heroes? Politics of the OUN and the UPA in Ukraine (2010 CPSA Conference) -- http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2010/Katchanovski.pdf
There has been enough study elsewhere to successfully debunk the pro-UPA/OUN drivel making the rounds.
Written decades ago, Gerald Reitlinger's The House Built on Sand, is a detailed overview of this and other issues.
Andreas, if you're still monitoring -
here's a link to the latest Open Access - Відкритий Доступ - program.
Andrew Ilienko from Svoboda appears on the program.
Along with Zatulin from Rasha.
The title of the program is
Ukraine is not Russia - life after elections (or literally, how to live after the elections)
The strongest reason for the people to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny of government. Thomas Jefferson
Tyahnybok is a weak-minded fool.
I support Israel, and I'm a Ukrainian Nationalist. I don't care if that makes me a "Zionist servant", because Ukrainian nationalists were associated with the Jewish nationalist movement.
He supports the "Palestinians" (fake ethnic group) because he is so angry at Israel because they don't recognize the Holodomor. Well, Mr. Tyahnybok, in case you've failed to notice, the entire world with the exception of a few countries, does not recognize the Holodomor.
No Arab nation, including "Palestine", recognizes the soviet butchery-genocide known as the Holodomor.
Israel organized medical treatment there for Ukrainian children, who were victims of the Holodomor, thanks to efforts from Ukraine's modern hero, Mr. Moysey Fishbein.
And why is VO "Svoboda" not supporting America and the West? They are anti-Russia and the solution to the genocidal, crazed moskali.
So in short, if you are a Ukrainian nationalist like myself, who is pro-west, which should only make sense, please vote for the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.
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