Posted on 07/03/2008 4:35:19 PM PDT by SE Mom
Bump in wait for Supreme Court internal meeting on this matter on December 5th. Electoral vote is scheduled for December 15th.
bttt
Sometime during the year 2000, Honolulu named itself the “sister city” to Mombasa, Kenya.
It’s curious that Mombasa was chosen over the thousands of other cities in the world.
Did this relationship provide donations, help modernizing, record access?
Inquiring minds are eager to know. This nose smells the Gambian RAT, also known as the giant African pouched-rat, making a bonfire out in the bush.
http://www.commongrantapplication.com/grantseekers/3980/Honolulu-Mombasa-Sister-City.html
Honolulu-Mombasa Sister City (Honolulu, HI)
Excerpt:
Honolulu-Mombasa Sister City is an organization that twinned the cities of Mombasa in Kenya and Honolulu in Hawaii. Sister Cities agree to bring their communities closer, by exchanging their students, experts,citizens, in areas of culture, economics, politics and all other relevant disciplines.
Year established: 2000
History: Honolulu-Mobasa Sister City idea statrted with Mrs. Marsha Joyner, a State of Hawaii Electoral College Member, Political Actvist, and a Community leader in 1998. She wanted to bring together the people of Kenya and Hawaii.
She believed this would bring peace, love and unity among the people’s of the two countries.
Oh, you mean this Marsha Joyner?
Honolulu Star Bulletin Friday, March 12, 2004
Civil rights activist pleads no contest
Marsha Joyner’s theft nearly imperiled a condo’s occupants
By Debra Barayuga dbarayuga@starbulletin.com
CORRECTION
Saturday, March 13, 2003>> Civil rights activist Marsha Joyner, convicted of second-degree theft, is no longer president of the Martin Luther King Coalition-Hawaii as was incorrectly reported yesterday in a Page A7 article.
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin strives to make its news report fair and accurate. If you have a question or comment about news coverage, call Editor Frank Bridgewater at 529-4791 or email him at fbridgewater@starbulletin.com.
Longtime civil rights activist Marsha Joyner tearfully apologized yesterday for stealing $14,700 from her condominium association, saying there was no excuse for what she did. Joyner, a former president of the Kon Tiki ‘Ano Hou, a 48-unit building in Waikiki, pleaded no contest in September to second-degree theft.
She was accused of signing association checks without the board’s approval to a company owned by resident manager Grant Ricky Peters and to a company she owned for work that was not performed. Peters, who was also indicted for second-degree theft, has not been found.
Circuit Judge Richard Perkins, after hearing her apology yesterday, said he believed she is sincerely remorseful, and granted Joyner’s request to defer her no-contest plea for five years if she abides by court-imposed conditions. He also ordered her to perform 350 hours of community service.
Joyner, president of the Martin Luther King Coalition-Hawaii and one of four presidential electors chosen by the state Democratic Party in 1996, admitted yesterday she took money that belonged to the association 22 times during a low point in her life. “I’m very ashamed. I am deeply sorry for what I’ve done,” she said.
{snip}
“Share the wealth.”
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?057cabf2-6bf8-43e0-9088-808d28f34cb0
some snippets for your reading pleasure!
Marsha Joyner, 65, president of the Dr. Martin Luther King Day Coalition of Hawaii and high-ranking member of Hawaii’s Democrat Party, pled no-contest to second-degree theft charges, Sept. 8, for embezzling several thousand dollars from elderly tenants....
Henry, who resides much of the year in San Francisco, put up his own money to save the residents’ homes until the stolen money was repaid through the insurance claim. He also filed a complaint with the Honolulu Police Department and made over 100 calls and visits at his own expense to ensure the police department followed up on the theft. Henry was motivated by a comment made to him by Joyner, -—>who he says claimed she had too many high placed connections in Hawaii and was too politically powerful to be charged for the theft. <-——
The Honolulu Advertiser and The Honolulu Star-Bulletin with all of the documentation on the case. Both papers essentially ignored the story, and The Honolulu Advertiser topped that by endorsing Joyner over Slom in the 2000 Senate election, even with the knowledge she was under investigation for a felony.
Joyner introduces herself by saying she is a WITCH who “belongs to an extinct culture of matriarchal rule.” She also talks about the “seething revolt of men” and how in the 4th century, men “killed more than 4 million women who were healers, midwives and practitioners of earth centered or nature tied religious rituals and branded them ‘Witches,’” burning them at the stake. She blames the ills of society on a world she says is “dominated by men:
I’m still digging this one out.
She was one of the 4 Electors for Hawaii in 2000.
She is very active in Code Pink and i’ve found her here:
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAMS & COMMITTEES’ MEMBERS
MyMall-Africa
Marsha Joyner
Cyberobi Inc. (Nerobi, Kenya)
Gilbert Githere
I’m still digging this one out.
She was one of the 4 Electors for Hawaii in 2000.
She is very active in Code Pink and i’ve found her here:
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAMS & COMMITTEES’ MEMBERS
MyMall-Africa
Marsha Joyner
Cyberobi Inc. (Nerobi, Kenya)
Gilbert Githere
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2135808/posts?page=137#137
>>>>Could you give more info or a link to info about the Mombasa/Honolulu liason? I don’t know what that is.
Ping
Mombasa/Honolulu info here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2040486/posts?page=6464#6464
See Gemsbok’s added posts after 6464 to see who Marsha Joyner is.
Obama: “That’s why I passed legislation to make sure that we didn’t have wrongful convictions.” (June 28th, 2007 debate)
Ok, this is nutty but follow me here.
1778 - first white man in Hawaii, British Captain James Cook.
On Cook’s third trip to Hawaii in 1779 he is killed by an angry Hawaiian mob. Cook’s corpse is highly venerated.
One of Cook’s sailors on that final voyage was George Dixon.
Fur-trader Dixon anchors off Hawaii briefly in May and June 1786, and then in the fall & winter is received warmly for an extended hospitable visit of at least two months. Dixon returns to Hawaii briefly in the fall of 1787 and leaves.
Dixon finishes his Pacific voyages and publishes his account in 1789 and basically disappears.
Is it possible that George Dixon returned to Hawaii in 1787 to find he had a child by a native woman? Did he take the wife and child (Princess Toot?) to America and assume the identity of George Toot of Pennsylvania?
George Toot had a wife named “Mary” with no further information. Their daughter was named Anna Maria Toot born “about 1787” with no details. (Anna (Maria) Toot which seemed to be a popular name among several of their descendents.) George Toot’s purported father, David Toot (aka David Dutt of Germany) died in 1792, and the records are unclear on David Toot’s children and George Toot’s life before 1793.
Was Obama’s ancestor Anna Maria Toot a mythical lost half-white Hawaiian princess? Is that where the name Toot comes from?
_________________________________
From The Sunday TimesNovember 23, 2008
Long-range love of Obama’s absent mother A cache of private letters obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the influences that helped shape the young Obama Ann Dunham's time in Indonesia was spent as a programme officer for women's work
Christine Finn in Honolulu and Sarah Baxter In his autobiographical memoir, Barack Obama’s mother is almost as distant a figure as his absent Kenyan father: America’s president-elect was largely brought up by his grandparents in Hawaii. But a trove of private letters obtained by The Sunday Times highlights her devotion to her son and her struggle to make ends meet as an anthropologist in Indonesia.
It was as a free-spirited student in Hawaii that Ann Dunham fell pregnant and married Obama’s father at 18, at a time when interracial unions were still illegal in many parts of America. They divorced when Obama was two and she later married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian. It was the start of a long love affair with his country, although the marriage did not last.
Dunham died at 52 of ovarian cancer in 1995, leaving behind a 1,000-page doctoral thesis on peasant blacksmithing in Indonesia, which friends still hope will gain her academic recognition. They believe her support for micro-financing projects and women’s work in Indonesia influenced Obama’s determination to build a grassroots campaign for president - and may yet shape his economic agenda in office.
Alice Dewey, a professor of anthropology at the University of Hawaii, was Dunham’s close friend and thesis supervisor. For her, Obama will always be “Barry”, as his mother called him. Dunham also had a daughter from her second marriage, Maya Soetoro-Ng, who is now a teacher in Hawaii.
“I have a vivid picture of Ann on a couch, Maya going and sitting on her lap and Barry, not wanting to be left out, sitting on Maya’s lap - and then all falling to the ground laughing,” Dewey said. “They were a very close family, very affectionate. She was very proud of him, talked about him and would show his picture all the time.”
Dewey has been quietly championing Dunham’s pioneering anthropology. Interviewed in her office in Honolulu after Obama’s election victory, she said: “When Barry began his campaign two years ago, I began my own to get his mother recognised.”
The three volumes of Dunham’s unpublished PhD on blacksmithing – a study of the economics of a village industry - have pride of place in her office. Dewey has also kept her friend’s private correspondence, in which Dunham wrote affectionately of her children. “Maya hates me to brag,” one letter reads, “but I am forced to mention that she made high honours this term.” It goes on to describe how “Barry is working in New York this year, saving his pennies so he can travel”.
Her son’s job, according to Dunham, was to write reports for a consultancy on social, economic and political conditions in the Third World. In those days Obama was a young radical. “He calls it ‘working for the enemy’ because some of the reports are written for commercial firms that want to invest in those countries,” Dunham wrote. “He seems to be learning a lot about the realities of international finance and politics . . . that information will stand him in good stead for the future.”
During Obama’s election campaign, Dunham was criticised for having seemingly “abandoned” her son in Hawaii while she led a freewheeling life as a perpetual student in Indonesia. In addition to pursuing her studies, she worked as a programme officer specialising in women’s work for the Ford Foundation, a non-profit organisation.
Her letters were often full of money worries - asking on one occasion whether she would have to pay out-of-state tuition fees for university or whether she might be able to get an academic job in America.
In a letter to the chairman of the anthropology department at the University of Hawaii, she explained she had to put her own studies on hold to pay for Obama’s. “The major reason for the delay in my return to Hawaii [was] the need to work to put my son through college,” she wrote. “I am happy to say that he graduated from Columbia [University] in June, so that I am free to continue my own studies.”
She was in her element conducting fieldwork among village artisans, Dewey recalled. Previously unpublished photographs show her in flowing batik skirts among Indonesian peasants. Pictures of Obama’s mother were shown at an academic conference on her work at the University of Hawaii in September, attended by her daughter.
“I was sitting here squirming,” said Soetoro-Ng. “I really have a hard time after all these years looking at images of my mom without crying, especially now when so much is happening. There are so many reasons I want her to be here to offer guidance and love.”
Soetoro-Ng believes her mother has had a lasting impact on Obama’s politics and outlook. “We were both so incredibly fortunate to be raised by a woman who was at once really local in honouring and respecting local ways to do things and at the same time truly global in her thinking,” she said.
Dunham also instilled habits of hard work in her children. Dewey recalled that when the family came to stay, she would often be up at 3.30am, working on her own studies. “Ann made every minute squeak, she got so much out of it. But she didn’t appear burdened. Barry has that same characteristic.”
When Obama lived with his mother in Indonesia, she used to wake him at 4am to study English, telling him: “This is no picnic for me either, Buster.”
Obama returned at the age of 10 to live in Hawaii with his grandparents but continued to spend Christmas and the summer holidays in Indonesia. He spent more time with his mother than it appeared, according to Dewey. “It was similar to being sent away to school,” she said.
At 14, he went to Punahou,a prestigious private school in Hawaii. His teenage growth spurt amazed his mother. “She was stunned. She went to pick him up at the airport and looked in the crowd for a child, and suddenly this figure loomed over her. I don’t think she ever got over it,” Dewey said.
A fortnight before the election, Obama took a break from the campaign trail to visit his ailing grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, whose death was announced the day before his victory. He said that his mother had died from cancer before he had a chance to see her one last time. “I want to make sure I don’t make the same mistake twice,” he said.
His mother’s initial treatment appeared successful, but she died within 10 days of the cancer’s recurrence. “I think Barry, like me, hadn’t realised how quick it was going to be,” Dewey said.
She believes Dunham’s work will shape Obama’s presidency. “When I look back over Ann’s work, I can see how much she worked from the bottom up. She found out what people needed and how to help them. She got advice from the grassroots, just as Barry is starting to do. He gets a group of specialists together and they all sit down and talk and come up with a solution.”
The first chapter of Dunham’s thesis is about to be published in Indonesian, with a quote from Obama’s memoir, Dreams from My Father. “I know that she was the kindest, most generous spirit I have ever known and that what is best in me, I owe to her,” he wrote.
Dewey hopes an English version will follow. In the meantime, she thinks of her friend “up there” on a cloud with “Toot”, Obama's grandmother, saying, “Go, Barry, go!”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5213328.ece
FWIW
third hand info - but interesting:
ILBlue
“reposted from forum at WND
RE: his adoption is also an issue
Posted by graydog on Nov 21, 2008 10:06
I read a post on this website about 3 months ago that was posted by a retired INS agent who worked when Obama came into the united states. He distinctly remembered Obama because of his ’slick’ manners and speech. The agent says that he went back into the INS files and found the information and that Obama came into the USA on a FS-1 passport/visa. FS-1 is a foreign student visa classification, not a US citizen passport. So, who out there can get into the INS files and find Soreto/Obama’s record of entry into the USA. Who can???? ”
Does this make any sense or is this just a rumor ? found this reposted on a blog WND comment section.
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/alert-its-not-the-birth-certificate/#comments
Interesting find.
and when she took him to live in Hawaii, she said 'you will like not having to get up at 4am any more' (paraphrased)
but what he didn't explain was the reason for the early rising. 4am is the time of the first muslim prayer.
Thanks, Fred Nerks. It is interesting.
Alot of people have been wondering for quite some time whether Barry Dunham Soetoro Hussein 0bama is an illegal alien.
for the record:
Link to WND comment:
RE: his adoption is also an issue
Posted by graydog on Nov 21, 2008 10:06
http://forums.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=235&pageNo=12
FWIW:
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR NON-US CITIZENS WHO ARE NOT PERMANENT RESIDENTS OF
THE UNITED STATES
Non-U.S. citizens need a student visa to enter or remain in the U.S. to attend school. The Form I-20 allows
students to apply for the F-1 Student Visa. I-20s are usually issued by Harvard College in June. If you need a
Form I-20 to obtain a passport earlier than June, please give us sufficient notice and we will issue the
document in May.
**If you are not a U.S. citizen/U.S. permanent resident, please complete this form and return it by May 1.
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic143234.files/2012/visa-survey-2012.pdf
Thanks, Lucy
Ping
Thanks also to Fred Nerks for posting that very interesting information.
Even his Kindergarten files are suppressed or sanitized!!
Unbelievable
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