Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama’s Indonesian connection.
Obama Barack has been democratically elected President of the US.
Quite an about face for the best democracy money can buy, in view of the Bush presidential se-lection.
But of course, corruption, collusion and nepotism is the sole monopoly of the Third World – or so the deluded denizens of the West repeat to themselves as they hug their knees, rocking back and forth – reminding themselves of how they uphold human rights equally across the board, entirely devoid of double-standards and totally oblivious to race, creed or religion.
Barrak Hussein Obama II was born to a white American Ann Dunham and Kenyan Barrak Hussein Obama Snr, in Nyang’oma Kogelo now in Kenya.
Here the Indonesian link starts.
Ann Dunham married in 1967 Lolo Soetoro, a Javanese, whose own father, in 1946 was killed along with his eldest brother were killed, after which the Dutch army burned down the family’s home. Soetoro fled with his mother into the countryside to survive. Incidentally yet more proof of Dutch war crimes – delibrate destruction of civilian property outside the scope of battle.
Pak Lolo Soetoro was an army geologist then later a government relations consultant for Mobil Oil. Obama describes Soetoro as well-mannered, even-tempered, and easy with people.

Barry Soetoro in Indonesia with mother Ann Dunham, step-father Lolo Soetoro, baby-sister Maya Soetoro-Ng.
From age 6 to 10, Obama lived in Jakarta. Age six, Obama attended the Catholic Primary St Francis di Assisi. Much was made of the lie he was educated in a Madrassa – or more accurately a pesantren – this of course was totally untrue. Obama Jnr later attended Model Primary School, Menteng and was registered as a Muslim – as his father was Muslim.
In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies. My mother wasn’t overly concerned. ‘Be respectful,’ she’d say. In the Catholic school, when it came time to pray, I would close my eyes, then peek around the room. Nothing happened. No angels descended. Just a parched old nun and 30 brown children, muttering words.
One of “Berry’s” childhood friends was Adi who often visited “Berry’s” 16 Jalan Haji Ramli house. Speaking volumes of Dutch “development” at the time the road was of this established middle-class neighbourhood was a dirt lane where Obama used to wile away the hours kicking a soccer ball.
Adi recalled Obama and his friends wore plastic bags over their shoes to walk through the muddy street during the rainy seasons.
Neighborhood Muslims worshiped in a nearby house, which has since been replaced by a larger mosque. Sometimes, when the muezzin sounded the call to prayer, Lolo and Barry would walk to the makeshift mosque together, Adi said.
His mother often went to the church, but Barry was Muslim. He went to the mosque,” Adi said. “I remember him wearing a sarong.”
Obama spent most his spare time hanging out with Adi and other friends at the home of Yunaldi Askiar, a classmate. They used to play a kind of fencing game using sticks, kick a ball up and down the narrow dirt lanes or go swimming in the river behind the school, said Askiar, 42, a car mechanic.
Obama was taller and better dressed than most kids in classes where shoes and socks were still luxuries, so he stood out from the start. As an African American, and the only foreigner, he suffered racial taunts and teasing but never turned to violence.
“At first, everybody felt it was weird to have him here,” Israella Dharmawan, his first grade teacher said. “But also they were curious about him, so wherever he went, the kids were following him.”
His friends enjoyed playing tricks on Berry: Harmon ASki recalled,
“Sometimes we’d say, ‘Barry, do you want a chocolate?’ And we’d give him a chocolate. The next day we’d give him a chocolate again. The third time we’d give him terasi (fermented shrimp paste) wrapped up like chocolate. Obama didn’t get mad. He would laugh it off.”
Ann Soetoro moved to Yogyakarta, while Obama Jnr studied in Jakarta. She was inspired by Jogja village industries, which became the basis of her 1992 doctoral dissertation.
“She loved living in Java,” said Dr. Dewey, who recalled accompanying Ms. Soetoro to a metalworking village. “People said: ‘Hi! How are you?’ She said: ‘How’s your wife? Did your daughter have the baby?’ They were friends. Then she’d whip out her notebook and she’d say: ‘How many of you have electricity? Are you having trouble getting iron?’ ”
Dunham-Soetoro became a consultant for the United States Agency for International Development on setting up a village credit program, then a Ford Foundation program officer in Jakarta specializing in women’s work. Later, she was a consultant in Pakistan, then joined Indonesia’s oldest bank to work on what is described as the world’s largest sustainable microfinance program, creating services like credit and savings for the poor.

Obama in Hawaii with Maya and Ann and maternal grand-father, shortly after leaving Indonesia.
In his tellingly-titled Memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama describes his Indonesian interlude as “one long adventure, the bounty of a young boy’s life”. But he also recalls being troubled by the poverty around him: “the empty look on the faces of farmers the year the rains never came,” and the desperation of the disabled beggars who came to the family’s door.
“The world was violent, I was learning, unpredictable and often cruel,” he writes. Obama and his mother thus we were very well acquainted with the harsh realities of indigenous Indonesians.
Fermina Katarina Sinaga, recalled yojhng Obama in her class: in the common task of class to write an essay titled “My dream: What I want to be in the future.” Obama “wrote ‘I want to be a president,’ ” she said. During a later writing assignment on family, he wrote, “My father is my idol.
The Indonesian connection for Obama and all that shaped him proving once again all things Javanese and indigenous Indonesian the bedrock for the towering monuments built on the foundations of a great civilisation.
there are some tribes who resorted to incest, when tribe members decreased due to migration into larger cities, in an attempt to germinate a ‘pure’ race. what would be better anyway: incest resulting in birth defects or homosexuality without any births at all?
– japan low pop
– govt non-intervention of personal liberty
– nobody could dictate the life and death of others
and let’s cut the chase on the obvious questions –
Nobody permitted incest because it’s plain wrong. the whole homo-loving thing is just another farce for ppl to dictate how others should live under the hypocritical umbrella of freedom.
Hey Ross, I don,t know how any one who thinks homosexualism is ok could even debate any thing else being right or wrong, I just feel sorry for the real homosexuals, no hate as long as they leave me alone, but i do not think that a people under God should be forced to recognize those gays as a married couple.
But the people who promote that life style just because of their hatred toward God is another matter, and any one who will say they are not dangerous to children is full of it.
As far as the other matters is concerned I can not decide for sure what the word of our creator has wrote concerning it, and until i am sure, i will just stay out of it.
I think polygamy, like all other luxury goods, should be taxed heavily like that bule- marrying-locals thingy.
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I don,t know what that means except for the luxury and tax,es, but i disagree on luxury tax,es or any other kind of tax except use tax, and i will go along with income tax, but just barely.
Maybe i would make a good libertarian.
Polygamy? well every one is always doing what they can to have something extra so why not make it honest and legal?
Funny that the early life of B. Obama can be clouded in such greyness. The right-wing loons seem to suggest it leaves the Presidency open to foreign influence/blackmail.
But for such a scenario to be credible the same blackmailers would also have to have the Republican party and media in their pocket. I’d attest the only body able to carry out such a devious scheme and allow an individuAl without the most basic
citizenship credentials to become President are those behind the creation of AIPAC, and basically control American politic.
Not buying into the conspiracy theory but that’s almost the only scenario that allows a fraudelent Presidency.
If America is crazy enough to bomb or support an attack on Iran, I’ll reassess my opinion of the conspiracy
Speaking of conspiracy theories and linking to contemporary events, woe!!! That’s a goal ref, what the f!ck,Brits denied,
Great Lampard equaliser; well the Guardian claimed that the 1966 world cup final goal on the line that was given to england against Deutch, the linesman had fought against the Jerries in ‘stalingrad’
Talk about conspiracy, read the new World Order,and the book on global tyrany step by step, and yes there are loons but the biggest loons are those with their head buried in the sand and can not see whats right before their eyes.
If people would get over their hate and envie of people who has more than they do, the ones who they call rich, that would solve a lot of the problems.
Sure there are a lot of rich people who are thieves and many of them are in politics and we need to get them out, but they can not hold a candle stick to the so called poor people who are also thieves, most of them either too lazy or to cowardly to steal for them selves so they vote in the stupid liberal socialists to steal for them.
And you may think that i am not poor because i can not stand the whinning class of poor people, you would be wrong, as i was raised when poor was really poor, so i know those poor me,s pretty good, if not for some of the decent people who who were not so poor we would have starved to death.
Purba the question is not why America loves the Jewish people so much as the question is why do Arabs and Muslims hate the Jews so much. Don’t they deserve to live just as much as a billion Muslims? I don’t wish to hate anyone but it is very disturbing to see Palestinians putting suicide vests on 8 and 10 year old children, teaching the next generation nothing but more hate and violence. Americans are peaceful people for the most part. We were attacked during World War II and we responded to the evil that threatened the whole world. We did not conquer Countries and keep them we gave them back to the people who the Country belong to. If the United States wanted to take over the whole world we could easily have done it when we were the only Country with a nuclear weapon, but we did not. We are accused by Communists and leftists that we exploit poor Countries but it is not true. We buy everything we get from other Countries, for example tin from Africa is purchased and with that money poor African nations can buy food and other goods it needs to support its people. Could the people eat the tin and other minerals, no, but they have something they can sell to get the things they need to survive. Same thing with oil in the Middle East, if it was up to me I would tell the terror States and rich oil shieks to drink their oil, but we buy billions of dollars worth of petroleum, we don’t steal it. We don’t control the oil in Iraq either, I don’t even think they are a major producer for us. But to get back to the Jewish question they are the only Democratic Nation in the Middle East and they are friendly to the United States. We liberated many Jews from the death camps in Europe after six million had been killed. Do you think we should let something like that happen again? Iran’s Mullahs claim the Holocaust never happened and they vow the destruction of Israel, yet Israel is not saying it wants to wipe Iran off the face of the earth. America has come to the aid of people who want to live in peace but have been attacked by forces who are basically evil in intent. How do we know evil when we see it? Death camps, suicide bombers, ruthless killings & beheadings of innocent people, sending rockets into a peaceful countryside to kill innocent people is evil. The United States has killed people with rockets but we take every precaution possible to ensure that unarmed innocent civilians are not killed. We fight with both of our hands tied behind our back in order to do so, and cowardly and evil men know this and hide amongst civilians. If the United States where to unleash its full might and power there would be no insurgents or suicide bombers left, only ashes, we don’t because we do care about innocent lives being lost. Israel existed over 4,000 years ago in much the same area as modern day Israel does today. The Philistines also lived in areas that are now under Israeli control and they fought each other as far back as 11th Century BC, so why do the Philistines of today think that they have the only claim to the land that is now Israel? I know it is a very complicated situation and I only know some of the issues facing Jews & Palestinians, but I do know that Palestinians cheered on 9/11 and Israel stood with us. Do we need to know any more? Who cares more about human life & Peace, Israel or hate filled adults who put suicide vests on their children and fire indiscriminate rocket attacks into civilian areas of Israel? The definition of a Philistine is someone who is smug, ignorant, indifferent or antagonistic to artistic or cultural values, I guess times change but people very little. There is a saying following the practice of an eye for an eye will eventually leave the whole world blind. Someone has to say enough is enough and we are going to practice peace for awhile if only for our children’s sake. Shalom and whatever it is they say in Palestine or do they even have a word for peace?
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