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and the Court remanded the case with additional instructions to the United States Attorney General, including that the BIA should
determine whether the BIA should also reconsider its denial of Nifadev’s application for withholding of removal and protection
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past persecution and because the IJ clearly misinterpreted Nifadev’s credible testimony regarding the ethnic animus of the
Uzbekistan security officials, we find that Nifadev has made out a credible case of being a refugee under the definitions of
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found Mr.  Nifadev and his witnesses to be credible but declined to grant asylum because it erroneously determined that
Mr. Nifadev had NOT suffered persecution.   Shown in photograph on the right is Mr. Mikheil B. Nifadev with Charleston
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Mr. Nifadev had NOT suffered persecution.   Shown in photograph on the right is Mr. Mikheil B. Nifadev with Charleston
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Army Chief of Staff
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                                                        THE FOOD WE EAT

As a child growing up in Malaysia, my mother regaled me with the fabulous Manchu-Han Imperial Feast.  This banquet enjoyed centuries ago during the heyday of
the Qing Dynasty of China served up in 108 dishes and consumed over a course of 3 days.  On the menu were fabulous entrees as shark fin soup, bird nest soup,
bear paw, and tiger tail and many more.  All were heartily eaten by the privileged as a token of friendship between the Manchu and Han Chinese elites.  Today,
a tourist who looks for the right place in Asia,  may sample at great expense, a much tamer replica of this incredible  extravaganza.

What people eat or do not eat  has always played a role in the currents of human history and relations between humanity.   Today Japanese sushi (raw cuts of
seafood served on rice) has become a culinary delight in the United States and serves as a bridge between us and East Asia.  Sometimes, it was not over a
comfortable dinner table brimming over with foreign cuisine.

A more relevant and terrible  example is the cause of the  Indian Mutiny, also known as the First War of Independence.   During the early 1850s, the British
introduced a new musket to its troops in India that fired a paper cartridge.  To protect the gunpowder from moisture and to facilitate loading from the muzzle,
this cartridge was coated with grease.  The soldier had to bite open the end of the cartridge to pour the gunpowder into the barrel.  Shrewd political operatives
started a rumor among the Hindu sepoys  that beef fat was used.  On the other hand, the Muslim troops were told that pork lard was on the cartridges.   These
rumors that cynically exploited fundamental religious creeds provided the spark for the cruel destruction of life and property that lasted over 2 years.

The diet of the fictitious film character Hannibal Lector notwithstanding, our distaste or even abhorrence over what other people eat retains the gut-level power
to divide communities.  Worse, it has the potential to inflame hatred and cause greater mischief amongst the hot headed.   The ongoing rumors about certain
immigrants in Springfield, Ohio,  stealing and eating the pets, that is the cats and dogs, of their neighbors is the current outrage.  In the context of the election
in November, these scape-goating memes essentially exploit vulnerable immigrants in a misplaced attempt at partisan political gain.  Such  vicious tall-tales have
no place in our political discourse.

An Opinion from Charleston C K Wang October 1, 2024
UPDATE:  
On 11/02/2024, USCIS
Re-Opened and
on 12/19/2024
GRANTED
GREEN CARDS
to Channy Heng
& her three sons
Vannak, Vandy &
Vandet
(after 17 years
the last 3 years
litigating in
U.S. District Court
which on 9/30/2024
ruled for Family)
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Meow Meow
Meow
WE ARE NOT
AFRAID
I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw  when I said it. But in my mind
it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony
and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls,  the walls had doors and the doors
were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.
And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that:
After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm.
And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through
the darkness, toward home.
Farewell Address to the Nation by
President Ronald Reagan, January 11, 1989
GOD BLESS THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL
January 20, 2025
This photograph courtesy of Charleston C K Wang, Esq.

Dear Friends of Cincinnati Sister City Kharkiv, Ukraine:

Welcome to Cincinnati, especially Christ Church Cathedral.  As an amateur military historian, I have some
familiarity with the painful history of Kharkiv in the 20th century.  The geographic location of Ukraine makes your
land open to invasion from both West and East – thus such traumatic experience over time.  Coming to the 21st
century, yes to this day now, the existence of Ukraine must concern all civilized nations in the world.

I will remind everyone, especially my fellow Americans that on December 5, 1994 was signed the Budapest
Memorandum. The signatory countries included Ukraine (Leonid Kravchuk-Leonid Kuchma),  Russia (Boris
Yeltsin), United States  (Bill Clinton), United Kingdom (John Majors).  In Budapest, the three greater powers agreed
to respect the sovereignty of Ukraine.   The
quid pro quo was that Ukraine surrendered all its nuclear weapons.  
Ukraine at that time was the second nuclear power in Europe.

In 2022, Russia reneged its promises and invaded Ukraine, committing under international law, the war crime of
aggression against another peaceful nation.  To this day, Kyiv and Kharkiv remain free because of the heroic
resistance of the people of Ukraine.  Слава Україні!  Героям слава!  Now there is serious talk of stopping military
assistance to protect the sovereignty of Ukraine.  How many more countries must dishonor the promises of
Budapest?

My final humble observation is this:  if conventional military aid is stopped for Ukraine, the West and Ukraine must
see to restoration of the
status quo ante Budapest.  This means to restore Ukraine as a nuclear power in the name
of her sovereignty and survival as a free nation.  Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

Respectfully submitted, an Opinion by
Charleston C K Wang, February 4. 2025

Postscript:  In the event that Putin succeeds in swallowing Ukraine, there will be Russian nuclear weapons placed
there willy-nilly.  This will further endanger other neighboring nations and further upset the balance of power in
Europe.  Beyond Europe, loss of Ukraine to Russia will seriously destabilize world peace.  2/14/2025.
VISITORS FROM UKRAINE SERVE GUESTS OF THE 5000 CLUB
OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHDERAL IN THE CITY OF CINCINNATI
Courtesy of the Cincinnati-Kharkiv Sister Cities 2/4/2025
MAY MR. CHARLES OTIS CLAY. JR. NOW REST IN PEACE
THIS GALLANT AFRICAN AMERICAN U. S. MARINE
& VIETNAM COMBAT VETERAN
HAS DONE HIS DUTY TO COUNTRY AND FAMILY
HE IS REMEMBERED FONDLY
HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2025 OF THE SNAKE
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                                  A CONVERSATION WITH GEORGE ORWELL (ORWELL SPEAKS IN ITALICS)

Now, it is noon hour.  I look out the picture window of that old farmhouse called Barnhill nestled in windswept Jura, an island in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.

   It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Quite puzzled, I muse to myself -  must be spring forward time, or something.  I say aloud in an uncertain voice, “I say, George, is it time to cancel daylight saving time?  We
really do not need this fiction anymore, in America that is!”   

   In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.

Irritated, I rebut with the words of that English bard William,  “Truth is truth until the end of reckoning!”

   In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

I muse - did George say 'revolution?'  I reply,  "George, did you say something about revolution?"

   Every joke is a Tiny Revolution.  One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

Uh, uh we are stuck in a rut of politics.  I  try to steer our conversation away from hard boiled politics for which Orwell is famous onto a more pleasant pastoral plane,  “How
are the animals on the farm getting along today, George?”

   All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

I muse - George is stuck on politics this morning all right.  I sigh and say aloud,  “George, please explain, I am confused.”

   Four legs good, two legs bad.

I cut in, “Ah, Animal Farm!  Indeed, in American politics we speak of elephants and donkeys too.”

   Four legs good, two legs better.

George just contradicted himself.  Exasperated, I move on  back to a more serious theme , “How can this War end?”

   The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

I muse – for once George seems to be making some sense or is he?  I say aloud , “Really?"

   The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

I muse incredulous – is George out of his mind?  I repeat a little louder, “Really, George?”

   War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I muse – what’s this?  I say aloud, “George are you telling me self-defense is invasion, invasion is self-defense?”

   Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

I muse – George actually agrees with me!  Or does he?  Intrigued, I say aloud, “George, tell me more!”

   Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

I repeat even louder, “Oh.  Really?”

  
 And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Now I am at a loss for words …..

   
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

I am now able to ask,  “George, are you serious?”

   
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Unsettled, I am compelled to demand, “George, are you out of your @!&!! mind?  Do you really mean it?  What are you saying?”

   
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Happily, it is now half past twelve and time for sandwiches, scones and a nice cup of tea at farmhouse Barnhill.  After all is said and done, tea is one of the mainstays of
civilisation in this country and causes violent disputes over how it should be made!

George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, India, is one of the greatest English language writers of the twentieth century.   He obtained an elite
education culminating with a King's scholarship at Eton.  He skipped university and instead became an Imperial police officer in Burma which at that time was a part of the
British Raj.   After six years, he resigned to become a journalist.  
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) was his first full length work recalling his early years as a writer,
and the essay
Shooting An Elephant (1936) was the most memorable of the essays on life in Burma.   He volunteered to fight in the Spanish civil war against the totalitarian
forces (Fascist and Stalinist).  He was shot in the throat, only to survive the ordeal.  In 1939, Orwell published
Homage to Catalonia which focused on the fragility of truth
during war and objective reporting in the face of political propaganda and manipulation of news, and ultimately, of truth.   Throughout these years Orwell struggled with
chronic lung illness.   During World War II, he continued to write critical political works against totalitarianism.  After the War, Orwell published his masterpieces, the dystopian
novels
Animal Farm in 1946 and 1984 in 1949.  He succumbed to tuberculosis on January 31, 1950 at the age of 46.  The word Orwellian has passed into the English
vocabulary.

An Opinion March 25, 2025.  Charleston C K Wang is a lawyer in Cincinnati.  He grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and studied at the secondary school Victoria Institution
where he was a Nugent Walsh scholar.  There,
Animal Farm was required reading. He first read 1984 while a freshman at the University of Delaware and has read it mamy
times again.        
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