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Reporter: A Candid one on one with LOLI :
The Good:I'm known to be complex, analytical, keenly perceptive, inquisitive, kind, hypnotic, pleasant, passionate, articulate, humorous, charming, worldly, charismatic, fair, artistic, refined, diplomatic, self-sufficient in character,and obviously, humble.
The Bad:I'm an absolute weakling, when it comes to dimples.
The Ugly:The smell of wet dog - makes me gag.
Is there any significance to your screen name?
LOLI is part of my Folki nickname (little red haired girl) given to me as a baby.
Where do you think you will go after you die?
Hopefully to the same place I was, before I was born.
Are you a snob?
Only when it comes to Cheese!
What near to impossible skills have you mastered?
English,FORTRAN/COBOL and Ballet!
What do you value most?
FREEDOM
Vintage Rammstein - Ich Will - the ultimate control freak anthem!

What keeps you awake at night?
The current humanitarian crisis, facing the worlds Roma (Gypsy) populations.
European Minorities (Roma) at risk, for Genocide.
Written by, Karola Schneeberger
Genocide Risk Status Report: 2009
Eastern Europe is deeply involved in collective, unchecked discrimination, and persecution of their Roma (Gypsies)citizens. Roma make up less than 2% of the Eastern European population, yet are blamed for 100% of Eastern European economic and social problems. Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Moldavia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Kosovo and Romania collectively abuse their Roma citizens, as the accepted social norm. Roma have not been mistreated like they are in these countries, since pre-Holocaust times.
This is an excellent video that explains the situation better than I ever could.

In the video below (crowd footage from the story above) police are attempting to prevent bloodshed, as an angry mob is attempting to attack and torch another Roma housing development. This particular incident has been flaring up, with new incidents and attempts on the same Roma community, continuously since this video was shot in November 2008.
This video shows the force of violence that the police are attempting to hold back, that would ordinarily be directed at unarmed Roma, once the mobs reach their families. Roma are frequently roused from their sleep by angry mobs of grown men, wielding guns, bricks, bottles, Molotov cocktails, knives, iron bars and torches. They violently descend on unarmed Rom, and helpless Roma women and children, and beat, kick, shoot, stab, bludgeon, cut, maim, set fires, and murder anyone they can get their hands on. Two days ago, (April 2009)members of that same violent mob came back and torched Roma homes,and critically injured dozens of Roma. This mob sent a Molotov cocktail volley into a Roma home, that set a two year old Roma child, and her parents on fire,burned down their home, leaving them all clinging to life. The little girl was severely disfigured, and burned over 80% of her body.
This type of violence is ongoing, in all Eastern European E.U. countries, as their governments try to stem the violence against it's minority citizens, mainly Roma. The majority citizens are furious, frequently attack unprovoked and riot because their governments are attempting to comply with E.U. standards, by implementing affirmative action social plans, and enforce stricter hate crime laws, to protect the civil and human rights of their minority citizens.
News Article: Hindus seek European Union intervention in Czech Republic and Hungary to protect Roma
http://www.filmyfriday.com/non-entertainment/hindus-seek-eur opean-union-intervention-in-czech-republic-and-hungary-to-pr otect-roma
Frustrated and embarrassed with the abject Roma conditions, that these countries have created for their Roma citizens, and rather than helping them, their governments, and fellow citizens are actively, and systematically implementing a Nazi type final solution, for their perceived Roma (Gypsy) problems. Roma and other minorities living in these countries, are at extreme risk for genocide.
In other Eastern European countries, most not included in the E.U. yet, the violence against Roma goes unchecked, and is even encouraged by various governments. Such as Kosovo, the majority population forces Roma to live in designated concentration camps, located in the city dump, next to sewage plants, toxic waste dumps, factory smoke stacks, power plants, on old lead mines, and next to nuclear reactors. These camps are completely without public services, housing, sanitation, utilities or running water.
Basically all there is, is open toxic waste polluted ground. People live in makeshift tents and shacks, that are built out of garbage and toxic waste materials. Their only water source, that is used for bathing, drinking and cooking, is polluted by toxic industrial waste run off. Children here die by age six, those that live past age six suffer from severe lead poisoning, and irreversible brain damage. A decade of genocidal Kosovar retribution, rained down upon their former enemy (Roma) citizens, is slowly and systematically, killing the Roma population off, as Roma are slowly poisoned to death.
Below is a Video in German, that explains pretty much what I just wrote. It shows young children forced to dig through toxic waste, all day long, breathing in toxic fumes, digging through rotting garbage, for their survival. Refused assistance and employment, and not allowed to beg, Roma (Gypsy) Adults and Children alike, are forced to spend most of their day digging through hazardous waste, and rotting garbage for food and recyclables, in order to survive. A good day of digging earns approximately one Euro, the cost of one loaf of bread. Not nearly enough to feed one person, let alone an entire family.

In particularly poignant is when one of the little boys is asked what he wants to be when he grows up. He replies, his eyes filled with childish faith and hope, that he wants to live in Germany. This minority child, should be sharing in the same hopes and dreams, as his fellow citizens. Even at this boys tender age, he already knows, that he is being pressed to leave his country, being purposely excluded,and that he will never share in the advancements and prosperity, of his homeland.
The infant mortality rate, lead and mercury poisoning,depression, still births, miscarriage, birth defects, death during childbirth, tuberculosis, child mortality, suicide and cancer among Roma, and their children, is over 70% higher, than for any other Europeans. Constantly scorned, degraded and bullied by society at large leave Roma children psychologically maimed and scarred. Most Roma children growing up under these hostile and abject conditions, show signs of depression by age 3, have active symptoms of avoidant and other social anxiety disorders by age seven, by age nine Roma children begin to entertain suicidal thoughts, and with the onset of adolescence, seriously.
This should not be happening to children anywhere in the world, especially not in Europe!
Every single Roma has a home country where they are being denied their citizenship, and even the most fundamental in human rights. Kosovo for instance is already committing genocide, considering the abject toxic living conditions that their trapped Roma have been forced to live in, for over a decade.
Here is some additional reading, written by an award winning journalist, in regard to Roma toxic living conditions.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/europe/090414/gypsies-rel ocated-un-remain-toxic-land.
Many Roma lost what little they had to the burdens of recent wars and conflicts, that they did not create. Many where given only minutes to flee their homes, before they were torched and burned to the ground. When Kosovo Roma tried to flee their war torn countries, along with the other refugees, they were turned away at all borders,and refused entry, humanitarian aid and asylum.
Many Roma were trapped in Kosovo, and classified as enemy combatants. Their property was confiscated, and their land rights rescinded. Roma are homeless and forced to squat on toxic waste land to survive. With no place to go, and no country willing to take them in, they have been subjected to the wrath of the victorious ruling class, and forced to live in these inhumane conditions, for over a decade now.
Roma everywhere are presently being evicted off of their own lands. In many Eastern European countries property used to change hands by way of a simple handshake. While this still goes unchallenged for the majority population, when it comes to Roma citizens, they are forced to present deeds and titles to property that has been handed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years. If they cannot present the required paperwork, they are evicted as squatters. Being illiterate and without legal clout, Roma inheritance and lands, are being robbed right out from under them.
The police are corrupt and extremist minded, rendering Roma vulnerable to frequent attacks, such as rape, child molestation, assault and robbery. Roma are afraid of law enforcement,so most crimes committed against them go unreported. Extremist mentality, corruption and greed dictate that Roma, be pressed into leaving the homelands, even when there is no active political conflict.
Government is difficult to navigate through, for even the most astute citizens. The corruption rate stands at over 50% in most Eastern European countries, corruption is rampant in every aspect of business, and on every level of government,including the postal service and police. There is a zero service aspect in industry, no entrepreneurship, massive gridlock and red tape, and just about any business transactions require additional bribes, to be paid to government officials. Roma lack the wealth, civil rights, savvy, political clout and often the education necessary to successfully navigate in such an environment.
To top off their abject living conditions, Roma are persecuted, beaten, stoned, discriminated against, openly scorned, and violently opposed and interfered with, when they attempt to assert their natural rights of survival. As seen in the Mob video above, where even the police were viciously beaten and attacked, while attempting to protect Roma human rights.
As modern times and society encroaches on Roma (Gypsies)their traditional life style is seen as primitive and tribal. Roma find themselves increasingly at odds with society as every aspect of Roma traditional life is being criminalized. In most of the former Soviet Block countries Roma have been kept in a time warp, they are segregated and denied equal access to housing, benefits, and are segregated into substandard education, or are denied even primary grades of education. Roma are trapped into a rigid system of apartheid, as they are discouraged from mingling with majority society, and at times not permitted to enter parks, shopping areas, stores, restaurants or public buildings.
The social peer pressure to discriminate against Roma is such, that citizens who want to help, must be secretive, and donate items in covert ways. Good hearted citizens will drive to the city dump where Roma live, and pretend to dispose of refuse, in order to leave donations of food, clothing and recyclable goods. Just as during Witch Hunts of centuries past, ordinary citizens will spy on each other, video tape good Samaritans, and inform on each other, in order to harass persons who assist and help needy Roma.
Police Brutality is the norm for Roma of all ages. Below was a video that is now being hushed up, after making world wide news. In this leaked video (one of six) it showed Slovak Police abusing and humiliating a group of young Roma Boys. The Slovak Police first set police attack dogs on the youths, forced the boys to beat each other up, and finally to strip naked, to expose their genitalia, an assume humiliating positions, for the camera. The video won't play, but as one can see, the first frame of it, is still frozen into this posting.

Most rural Roma are still illiterate, while the rest of their fellow citizens are presently enjoying a 93% literacy rate. This lack of education, makes it impossible for Roma to defend against exploitation. Even under the best of conditions, it is hard to survive in their own advancing countries. Rather than help their Roma citizens adapt, these countries harass them, make survival impossible, and press them into exile. When Roma arrive in their host refugee countries, they come unskilled, uneducated, illiterate and as desperate beggars.
While Roma (Gypsies) everywhere are still being persecuted and discriminated against, in most countries Roma have been allowed some measure of integration with majority society. However, Roma coming out of the former Soviet Block countries have been held back, a century or more, in time. It will be very difficult for Roma to adapt, more so, difficult for their host society, to accept and understand them. Additionally, Roma will be unable to speak their host society language. This is why minority citizens and Roma need to be allowed to remain in their own homelands, and why a forced Affirmative Action Plan should be implemented.
Life is extremely dangerous for all Roma (Gypsies)living in ANY of the former Soviet Block countries. As the worldwide economic crisis spreads, and tensions flare, defenseless Roma are frequently made the target of racist scorn and xenophobic violence. Even the most rapidly advancing new EU countries, are in the process of systematic ethnic cleansing, by means of collective social pressure on their Roma citizens, forcing them to flee their homelands.
Numbers of Roma asylum seekers attempting to escape racist and xenophobic violence is at an all time high. As seen is in the recent news stories coming out of Germany and Canada.
Source:
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090531/roma _refugees_090531/20090531/?hub=TorontoNewHomehttp://www.spie gel.de/international/germany/0,1518,628530,00.html
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/03/Czech-Gypsy-editor-se eks-Canada-asylum/UPI-75061244071715/
Roma are fleeing for their lives. Presently countries like Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Slovakia, Moldavia, Albania, Serbia and Bulgaria, and especially Kosovo, and the Czech Republic,are past stage 6 on the genocide watch list, in regard to xenophobic and racist violence, directed at their Roma(Gypsy) citizens.
Patience is wearing thin for Eastern European Roma refugees everywhere. As seen in Italy in 2008. Discrimination against Roma in all Eastern European Countries has also spiked, as Roma refugees are due to return to their now peaceful homelands. Former Soviet Block countries do not want to take their Gypsy citizens back, and are using hostility, open acts of aggression, social scorn and pressure, to harass those that are left, into leaving, and discouraging those that are presently in other countries, from coming back.
Consequently Roma (Gypsies) and other minority groups are fleeing their homelands,in record numbers, trading slum life in Eastern Europe for abject conditions in wealthier countries. They flood out of toxic Eastern European slums, and arrive in affluent Western European countries in shocking human condition, and not equipped to compete in modern European society. This mass of humanity coming out of deplorable conditions, is met with shock, anger, bigotry, disgust and revulsion.

Add to that the 20,000.00 illegal immigrants from impoverished areas of India, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Turkey, Africa, Pakistan and Afghanistan per year, who claim to be Roma (Gypsies) in order to beat immigration quotas.
Heaped on top of this already unfair Western European taxpayer burden, are an additional 30,000.00 illegal Sub-Saharan West African and North African migrants, who swim to shore in Italy, and then make their way, to take up illegal residence in Western Europe, every year.
When seen from a Western European Taxpayer's perspective, Europe is being invaded by hordes of needy, desperate, starving, unimmunized, parasite infested, uneducated, illiterate, and unskilled foreigners,who will never leave.
Western Europe is being overwhelmed by survivalist motivated refugees, who bring with them social unrest, desperation based crime, and staggering health, education, welfare and social program costs, that Western European Taxpayers did not create, but are expected to absorb.
Germany for instance, is bursting at the seams, as is Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Holland, France and the UK. The presence of the more primitive, refugee minority groups, and Roma (Gypsies), are making life difficult for the indigenous, and established minority and Roma citizens, as social impatience, harassment, discrimination and scorn directed at the immigrant minority refugees, is transferred over to include the established minorities, and Roma citizens.
There is no valid need, or reason for Western Europe to have to take in, the undesirable minority citizens, and fringe groups, of these archaic minded countries. Especially since there is no military conflict at present. Former Soviet Block countries are suffering from Zero population growth, their death rates exceed their birth rates by close to 5% in some countries, and the average age of child bearing women is over 40. Source: U.S. State Department.
Some Eastern European countries are considering importing citizens from other countries, to make up the difference! These countries (Romania) should be grooming and educating their own minority citizens, to fill vacant citizen positions, rather than taking in non European Union (Moldavia)foreigners. While they seem eager to import other Eastern Europeans, these countries have made no effort to take in Refugees, who are escaping genocide in Darfur.
Former Soviet Block countries need to be held responsible for the costs, that their cast off minority citizens are bringing to Western European Tax payers. If they have to pay, they may opt to keep their minority citizens happy, and at home. What Eastern European countries want, is continued inclusion in the EU. This desire may be the only tool that might motivate their citizens to extend equal human rights to their Roma, and other minority citizens. It would help, if the world collectively, forced the offending countries to honor the previously agreed upon repatriation effort, and affirmative action plans, that would help Roma return, and reclaim their homelands.
What it all boils down to is the majority citizens of all offending countries. These countries desperately need to implement a zero tolerance policy, and severe criminal penalties for anyone who engages in racial, and ethnic hate oriented harassment,crime,and especially harsh penalites for anyone involved in mob attacks.
Additional reading and viewing on the current struggle of the Roma:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Zinnamongirl http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7618399.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6155642.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7734494.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7591669.stm
http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/
http://www.errc.org/
What makes you sad?
The Holocaust

What would you do different in your past?
I would spend less time at the gym, and more time in school, and with my kids.
Your top 2 beauty secrets
1.) Sleep
2.) Laughter
Have you ever wanted someone you couldn't have?
I'm not attracted to men who don’t find me absolutely adorable.
Your Mantra?
It’s not where you come from, its where you're going.
How would you change the world as we know it?
Global Equal Rights, would stop Diasporas and curtail mass migrations. Nobody should ever be forced to flee their own homeland.
Pet Peeve
People who become abusive @ssholes, when they drink.
How do you describe your style?
Cosmopolitan / Citizen of the World
Gypsy Swing
Do you believe in revenge?
I believe in Litigation.
Favorite saying?
TIME Wounds all Heels
What is your natural hair color?
Zinnamon

What do you think makes people lie?
FEAR

Sum up your current mood in three words.
Creative, nostalgic and BLESSED.
Your standing Pizza order?
Hand tossed, wood fired, goat cheese, tomato and fresh basil!
Favorite swashbuckling scene ever?
Princess Bride - between Inigo and Westley!
First things you notice in the opposite sex?
Their intellect, sense of humor, eyes, voice and smile.
Favorite places you have visited?
Munich, Paris, Alaska, Rome, Banff, New York City, Honolulu and San Diego ... There are too many to list. I love to travel, so it's all good!
Favorite Shakespeare quote?
"When he shall die take him and cut him out in little stars and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night." Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene II
Do you think that dreams come true?
The "careful what you wish for" kind tend to come true in my life.
What makes you happy?
Memories of my Opa (Grandfather). Jonny Depp is the spitting image, of my Opa.

Obsessions?
Crème brûlée
Coolest stuff to luck into at the Thrift store?
Golden Age comics, gourmet kitchen gadgets, and vintage clothing.
Favorite Gummi Candy?
Coca Cola Bottles
Jelly Belly flavors worth digging after?
Buttered Popcorn, Jalapeño, Piña Colada
What would the "Genetic Paparazzi" find in your DNA?
100% Pure Euro Mutt!
Western European - German 30%
Northern European - Scandinavian 22%
Southern European - Italian 16%
Eastern European 15%
Sephardim 10%
Ashkenazim 5%
Asian 2%
My beautiful step cousin!

Yep, there is saw dust running in my blood, lion tamers and Pirates too!
Name 1 song that always makes you want to dance?
Israeli Fingers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ilzUrNRkkc

Margret Almer - Kuckucks-Jodler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk5WCTRYIQ8

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