But what facinates me is, how could a woman with two young children pay for a private school education for both, while she's off in some Indonesian village, studying the local culture?
Wearing strappy sandals and carrying a camera? Accompanied by three Indonesian male escorts? She's an anthropologist...sure...if you believe that, I have a bridge...going cheap.
. . . . Check out #8,809.
[Thank you, Fred Nerks.]
OK, I know that Indonesian men are not usually tall by American standards, but Stanley Ann looks HUGE next to them-—like her image has been superimposed into the picture. Something is just not right about that photo.
There is something wrong about that picture...On my computer it looks like SADO was superimposed on another picture. Not the same pixels or something. Which freeper has the technology to disect this “picture”?
Fred Somewhere is a picture of Stanley Anne in Bali. I think she is standing on flat ground or flat rock. I want to compare the 2 poses. I’ll look, but wondering if you have it.
I have another article to post after this. Both give a bit more backgound about Obama and Stanley Ann.
I haven’t had time to digest it, yet.
Long, but in their entirety. It is a google translated version. No my spelling, not my grammar:-)
Lastly..The search box gives many Obama/Soetoro hits on this site. Haven’t had time to check them all. Have to tranlate.
Iron-swordsman swordsman Nusantara
Iron-swordsman swordsman Nusantara
[Based on the Dissertation Stanley Ann Dunham, Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds, diterbikan Mizan, 2008]
Foreword by: Teguh Santosa
Students University of Hawaii at Manoa (uhm),
Student Affiliate East West Center (EWC)
“Both during the Cold War, detente period (tension relief) until now, the essence of the entire American foreign policy under the Republican and Democrat alike, that is trying to hold world hegemony and supremacy. Hegemony and supremacy was intended effect in the economic, political, and military technology. When seen from birth, international institutions like the United Nations (United Nations), World Bank, IMF and WTO in the first place designed to protect the long-term economic interests of America and its allies. “ Save Indonesia, Mohammad Amien Rais (2008)
United States is built on human values has now become an empire which, like the Roman Empire in the past, using war machines and military power to expand power, subdue and exploit the world.
When the Hawaiian-born Illinois senator Barack Hussein Obama delivered his determination to change the character of American imperialism-the tendency to expand the country’s territory by conquering nations and other countries for economic, industrial and capital-many people who asked him if he was crazy? After Obama officially nominated Democratic Party to occupy the presidency of the United States, many people are asking, this time with anticipation: Could Obama?
The book that was in the grip of this reader is not a book of sweet promise Obama delivered before the American presidential election if no gets in the way will be held a month after the book was released. In fact, this book is not directly related to the election process.
This book is taken from a dissertation at the department of anthropology University of Hawaii at Manoa (uhm) entitled Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds, dealing with a very spirited social and economic life of the iron craftsman in a village south of Jogjakarta, Indonesia .
Academic work is considered more important because the author is Ann Dunham, Barack Obama’s mother. Stanley Ann Dunham spent most of the professional and academic careers for the life of the poor, especially women, in rural Indonesia.
He was not just women who give birth and raise Obama. More than that, Ann Dunham was a friend who helped shape the discussion of Obama’s understanding of the reality of the world outside the United States. Obama makes understand and realize that there are differences on this earth, something that nature, and given, must be bridged by dialogue, not with the war machine.
“He was the most kind and generous, that I’ve ever known. This is the best thing I have, and I owe him, “Obama writes in the introduction to his memoirs, Dream from My Father, 2004 edition.
To prepare this book, the author of an intense discussion with Obama’s half sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, and Professor Alice Dewey of the department of anthropology uhm dissertation committee chairman Ann Dunham. The author agrees with Maya and Prof. Dewey, that this book can also give a picture of the triangle relationship between Obama, Ann Dunham, and understanding of multiculturalism that is needed American leadership.
“A lot of things that Obama inherited from the mother,” said Maya. “Our mother idealistic and practical, good stories and storytelling. Obama could embrace many people because he, like mother, like the story. He dots for the story and found that a color story is another story. He raised his individual life experience into the experience of life with the American people and the world. The stories that inspired Obama. “
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But again, if Obama was able to change the character and the American political tradition? Could he do resistance from within, against the Hawkish and korporatokrat the accumulation of wealth by way of war?
After the events of 9 / 11 in 2001, writes Prof. Chalmers Johnson of the University of California in The Sorrow of Empires (2004), the American political elite began to imagine the country as the new Rome that is not bound by international law, so that they can do whatever they want, including destroying the group or anyone that they identified and creation as an enemy.
But the real character of American imperialism that was beginning to look since, at least, the Second World War ended. And the militaristic approach is one of the three main approaches used by the U.S. to strengthen its hold in a country.
The second approach is more subtle, as outlined in the book John Perkins Confessions of the Economic Hit Man (2004). Perkins was one of the “economic wrecking machine” which disusupkan U.S. government to undermine the economic foundations of developing countries, including Indonesia, and creates economic dependence on the American-controlled market. Perkins main task is to convince the political and financial authorities of developing countries to receive debt (which is disguised by the term assistance) in such a large number of financial institutions internationally American invention like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
After the amount of debt relief following hairy flower-growing where a portion of it disappear into corrupt practices, and could not be paid back, the political authority that developing countries were forced to submit, surrender, and took for granted all Americans who desire disusupkan through legal product produced legislative and / or agreed by the executive and judicial institutions.
What if the political authorities in developing countries that have remained trapped dare refuse American pressure?
They will be finished, Perkins said as he pointed out the fate of President Jaime Roldós Aguilera Ecuador and President Omar Torrijos Herrera of Panama. The two former presidents of the two countries have been caught but even still dare to oppose the American desire was killed in a plane crash so horrible. Accidents, said Perkins, engineered by the Central Intelligent butcher America (CIA), American secret service. Roldos was killed in the month of May 1981. The Torrijos died shortly afterwards, in August 1981. Perkins dedicates Confession of the Economic Hit Man for the two victims who had been a client.
Development of developing countries, designed by the economic hit men and eventually produce a fragile economic structure and the vulnerable, which if looked shiny from the outside but really is like an empty bubble that could burst at any time.
Like a glass of wine, to quote the term used by Indonesia’s senior economist, Dr. Rizal Ramli, development in developing countries and prosperity will only benefit the elite, people who have privileged conglomerates because they have a strong political relationship with the center of power. They are money machines that work behind and to encourage the survival of the political elite. The number of these groups is not much. In Indonesia, according to Dr. Rizal Ramli, though only consisting of hundreds of family conglomerates, but these groups controlled 80 per cent of “cake of development”.
The second group produced this model development process is a fragile middle class and professional groups that are not economically independent and politically. While the last group is the lower class society that there were so many, the result of the process of marginalization and neglect of the regime carried out continuously. Economic policy, politics, the law also clearly did not side with this group.
>>>>>>>>>>Now, a third approach which is used to conquer America and controlled the state natural resources is to support the authoritarian puppet government.>>>>>>>>>>>>
As a result, as Johnson wrote in another book, Blowback (2000), dictator of the American-backed puppet spread in many countries in many areas, ranging from the ruling Syngman Rhee in South Korea from 1948 to 1960 followed by the generals of the South Korean puppets thereafter, until the Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi in Iran (1953-1979), Suharto in Indonesia (1965-1998), Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines (1965-1986), including Saddam Hussein in Iraq (1979-2003) who in the early 1980s is the best skondan United States to confront Iran’s 1979 revolution.
After the Soviet Union and the communist bloc collapsed in the early 1990s, America became the only policeman of the world that de facto have full power to determine what can and can not be done by other countries. Americans freely determine who becomes their friend or foe. Each fellow will be awarded a carrot, and vice versa, every opponent will dipentung.
However, anyone who sows the wind shall reap the storm. This is blowback, the consequences are unimaginable before, writes Johnson. He borrowed the term was first used in CIA secret report after the overthrow Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953.
“Operations that produce blowback is usually kept secret from the American public and their representatives in Congress. So, when the civilians (U.S.) an innocent victim of a counter-attack launched by the other party, at first they could not put the attacks in context or do not understand the previous events that drive the action was retaliation, “wrote Johnson.
From this perspective, Johnson considered that the events of 9 / 11 really is the blowback from covert operations (covert operations) mujahiddin the CIA arming Afghanistan and Muslim militants from many countries to deal with the communist Soviet Union and the center expanded in Central Asia in the era of 1980 — an.
Unfortunately, the group that Hawkish and korporatokrat in the White House using the events of 9 / 11 as a tool to justify their actions to polisional Afghanistan (2001), and Iraq (2003). War, for them, has become an industry that provides tremendous economic benefits, so they do not care about the result and kerugiaan incurred by the victim in the war, the people who are not sinful, and the young Americans who support a blind American patriotism.
That night, when Obama delivered his political speech in Democratic National Convention in Colorado, Just Foreign Policy (www.justforeignpolicy.org) notes, at least 1,255,026 Iraqis have died since the U.S. invaded that country. The Anti-War (www.antiwar.com) predicts no fewer than 4150 U.S. soldiers were killed and about 100 thousand others injured in the Iraq war. In addition, according to the National Priority Project (www.nationalpriority.org), America has spent at least 550 billion dollars for military operations in Iraq.
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Stanley Ann Dunham was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, November 29, 1942. He was an only child pairs Amour Stanley Dunham and Madelyn Lee Payne. Stanley’s name was given his father so wanted a boy. Throughout the Second World War, his father joined the Army, while his mother worked at the Boeing plant in Wichita, Kansas. After the World War, Dunhams family moved to California, Texas and Seattle, Washington. In 1959, the family decided to move Hawaii Dunhams, who in that year officially became the state of the 50 United States.
In the Republic of Aloha, Stanley Amour worked as a marketing staff at a furniture store. As Madelyn Lee mounted his career at Bank of Hawaii, until in 1970 he became one of the women who sat in the chair the vice president. Stanley Amour is by Obama called Gramps, died in 1992 and was buried in Punchbowl National Mausoleum, in Honolulu. While Madelyn Lee Dunham who was called Toots is still settling in Honolulu.
Ann Dunham followed his parents’ After he graduated from Mercer Island High School in Washington in 1960. Once in Hawaii, he continued his education at the department of anthropology uhm, where she later met and fell in love with Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a student majoring in home economics from the Kenya Luo tribe who is also the first African students studying in Hawaii when it was.
Desire Ann Dunham and Obama Sr.. building mahligai households had opposed both families, especially families Obama Sr. in Kenya. In a letter, Obama Sr’s father., Onyango Hussein Obama, not willing to say if the blood mixed with the blood descendants of white women. But Obama Sr. insisted. Their marriage took place on the island of Maui on February 2, 1961. Soon after, August 4, 1961, Obama Jr.. Born in Honolulu.
Obama Sr. in 1963. continued studies at Harvard University, in Massachusetts. He left Ann Dunham, and their only child is only two years old. After earning a master’s degree in economics in 1965, Obama Sr.. returned to Kenya. In the early 1970s, he had a chance to see Obama Jr.. in Honolulu. It was their last meeting. Obama Sr. in 1982. killed in an accident in Kenya.
In 1967, Ann Dunham married to Lolo Soetoro, uhm geography student from Indonesia who met at the East West Center (EWC). In the same year Ann Dunham and Obama followed Lolo to Indonesia. Maya Soetoro-Ng, fruit and Ann Dunham married Lolo was born in Jakarta on August 15, 1970. A year later, after four years living in Jakarta, Obama returned to Hawaii, continue their education at Punahou School in Honolulu.
Ann Dunham second marriage did not last long. In 1980 she and Lolo agreed separation. They kept in touch well into the Lolo died in January 1987.
Jakarta and Indonesia is home to Ann Dunham a professional career. Between January 1968 until December 1969 he worked as assistant director of the American Institute in Jakarta, Indonesia. Then between January 1970 until August 1972 he became one of the director of Education and Development Management (LPPM). One task is to supervise the publication of educational books and management.
In 1973 Ann Dunham returned to Hawaii with Maya to complete the master’s degree in anthropology majors uhm. In 1977 he returned to Jakarta and worked as an instructor at the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), and a year later became a consultant in the office of the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Jakarta. Between October 1978 until December 1980, Ann Dunham a USAID rural development consultant in the Ministry of Industry. At this time, Ann Dunham often visit remote villages in rural Central Java to help groups of poor women she met there.
Done with USAID, between January 1981 to November 1984 Ann Dunham became supervisor of women’s empowerment program in development at the Ford Foundation office in Jakarta, South East Asia. Together, among others, Dr. Pujiwati Sayogyo from Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Ann Dunham develop research projects on women in the agricultural sector.
Between 1986 to 1987 Ann Dunham worked as a rural development consultant in Pakistan. In a program funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that he joined the design Microcredit schemes for women and crafters in the province of Gujranwala.
In 1988 Ann Dunham returned to Indonesia. This time he became a research coordinator and consultant at the Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI). As a consultant, Ann Dunham joined BRI train employees in seven provinces, to help prepare Microcredit schemes for the poor, analyze data, to provide recommendations to the leadership of BRI. He finished tuganya at BRI in 1992. In the same year he returned to Hawaii to defend his dissertation.
After the walk off the field of anthropology Ph.D., Ann Dunham in 1993 to research and policy coordinator for Women’s World Banking (WWB) in New York. He participated in preparing the policy development program with 52 international institutions in 40 countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America are affiliated with the WWB. Ann Dunham also played in the Conference on Women held in Beijing UN in September 1995.
Toward the birthday-53, dated 7 November 1995 Ann Dunham died of ovarian cancer. When Ann Dunham last breath, Obama was at his side. He was in Chicago, campaigned for a public position in the city. Obama arrived in Honolulu after his mother’s body was cremated.
In the memoir, Obama recalls his mother as a strong woman, hard worker who has a concern for fellow human beings, friends, and family-woman.
“Ten years of his life is spent doing things that enjoys, traveling the world, working in rural Asia and Africa, helping women buy a sewing machine or cow’s milk, or help that can be educational handle their lives. He gathered friends, whether from high social class or low, walked away, looking at the moon, along the traditional markets of Delhi or Marrakesh. She wrote reports, read novels, encourage their children, and dreamed of the presence of grandchildren, “wrote Obama.
One morning not long after Ann Dunham’s body was cremated, with relatives and close friends family Dunhams, Obama and Maya spread their mother’s ashes on the southern coast of Oahu Island. The wind blew the ashes into the Pacific Ocean, toward Indonesia.
Honolulu,
Ann Dunham: A Personal Reflection
Alice Dewey and Geoffrey White
http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/News/Announcements/2008/dunham.html
Excerpt:
Alice Dewey: Well, first there is the matter of her name. Stanley Ann Dunham is her birth name. Her father had wanted a son so they called her Stanley. Then she got married and her name was Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama until she married her Indonesian husband and became Mrs. Lolo Soetoro, the old Dutch spelling.
Everybody in Indonesia knew her as Ann Soetoro. She moved to Indonesia because she married Lolo Soetoro, a Javanese. But she soon came to love Java and the arts.
She was herself a craftsman and weaver. She taught weaving and just loved it. Most of her clothes were Indonesian. Java was as much her home as Honolulu. Ideally, she moved back and forth.
She’d be in Indonesia for a few years and then she’d get home sick for Honolulu and move back here for some months to pursue her studies, see her parents and friends, and then back to Java because she’d get homesick for Java and also need to earn money.
*snip*
So she was constantly in and out of these villages and adding new ones and going out to the outer islands. She eventually set up microcredit schemes all over Indonesia as well as in Pakistan and Kenya.
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Your comment, Fred, and this one are the first mentions
I’ve heard that Stanley Ann Dunham Obama Soetoro was actually ever IN Kenya.