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Policing the Millennium: US Interventions in the Age of Human Rights
Posted on: Monday, January 1, 2001
Fall 1999In April 1999, as NATO bombs destroyed homes, schools, hospitals and factories throughout Serbia and Kosovo, a three-woman MADRE delegation traveled to Palestine. We went to deliver support to our sister organizations and to learn first-hand from women and families hurt by Israel's policy of house demolition. Our agenda was Palestine, but everywhere we went, people wanted to talk about Yugoslavia. "Nobody here believes that NATO is bombing to protect the Kosovars," said Rim, a young woman from Deheishe refugee camp. Deheishe, home to MADRE's newest sister organization, Ibdaa, was erected in 1948 when 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homes by the nascent Israeli army - a policy that a growing number of Israelis now refer to as ethnic cleansing. Echoing a view we heard from Palestinian farmers, political activists and high school students alike, Rim continued, "No one knows the pain of being made a refugee better than we who have been refugees for 50 years. My grandmother cannot watch the TV images of Kosovo because they bring back her bitter memories of 1948. We sympathize with the Kosovars, but that doesn't mean we are fooled into believing that the US is waging a war for human rights."
In the United States, however, many people believed just that. Even many liberals expressed satisfaction that their government was finally "doing the right thing." Earlier this year President Clinton proclaimed that, "human rights has become the soul of our foreign policy," and many people cheered intervention in Yugoslavia as evidence of his good faith. Some even heralded the NATO bombing as "the first war of globalization," inaugurating a noble new era of the US as benevolent guardian of a global morality. But in fact, the bombing of Yugoslavia embodies four long-standing patterns of US foreign policy:
- using "humanitarianism" as a smokescreen to pursue US interests
- undermining the United Nations and international law
- sidelining diplomacy in favor of force
- and supporting repressive regimes over democratic movements
The Humanitarian Smokescreen
Notwithstanding President Clinton's co-optation of contemporary human rights terminology, his sunny discourse is nothing new. In 1830 Andrew Johnson presented the Indian Removal Act to Congress, touting his policy of ethnic cleansing as a humanitarian gesture of great benevolence towards the Cherokees. In 1918 US Marines invaded Haiti, massacring hundreds, dismantling the constitutional system, enforcing massive land take-overs by US corporations, and installing the brutal National Guard, which terrorized the country for decades. This operation was designated by the Wilson Administration as humanitarian intervention. Similarly, the US invasions of the Philippines (1898), Vietnam (1954-1975), the Dominican Republic (1965), the Congo (1964), Granada (1983) and Panama (1989) as well as the US-sponsored Central America wars of the 1980's were presented publicly as humanitarian interventions.
In 1989, with the end of the Cold War (the main pretense for four and a half decades of US aggression), the "threat of communism," disappeared. But the impetus for intervention, namely, dominating the global economy, remained relevant as ever. Policymakers needed new threats to justify the massive military spending that would enable continued intervention abroad. Soon we began hearing about the lurking dangers of "terrorists," "narco-traffickers" and "rogue states." To combat these evils, the US, we were told, would have to be equipped for rapid military action anywhere in the world - maybe even in two places at once - and could not possibly risk a large reduction in military spending. (Today, "defense" spending hovers at about 80% of the Cold War average).
At home, the threats were crime and drugs, neatly embodied in young black and Latino "superpredators," (male) and "welfare scammers," (female). Conveniently, these were the same people deemed expendable as jobs, healthcare and housing were leeched from poor communities and rerouted into corporate coffers. In fact, corporate reach was extended worldwide as soon as the US could intervene anywhere without risking a Soviet response. In the 1990's, Third World countries were subjected to a barrage of neo-liberal policies (such as structural adjustment and debt servicing) that, like programs implemented in the US, benefited multi-national corporations at the expense of the poor. Countries that did not comply (Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Libya - and more recently, Yugoslavia) were designated as "rogue" or outlaw states. Their punishments ranged from trade sanctions to massive bombing. But whether the means were economic or military, US interventions in the 1990's were most often portrayed as humanitarian missions of "peacekeeping," "nation-building" or "enlargement of democracy" - all part of the awesome responsibility incumbent on the world's sole superpower.
Hype, Hypocrisy and Human Rights
In the new era of humanitarianism, interventions remain conspicuously correlated with US national interest. Consider how the language of "humanitarian crisis" is used to mobilize or demobilize public opinion and even policy. In 1994, while nearly one million people were being raped and slaughtered in Rwanda, the State Department issued a directive forbidding its spokespeople from describing the massacres as genocide. Use of the word would have obligated the US, under the 1951 Genocide Convention, to take action. But intervention, as some government officials explained quite candidly, was not in the strategic interest of the US ("For West, Rwanda is Not Worth Political Candle," New York Times, 4/15/94). In Kosovo, by contrast, US and NATO spokespeople were quick to conflate Serb counter-insurgency tactics with ethnic cleansing, and then ethnic cleansing with genocide. In early April, The New York Times even printed select portions of the Genocide Convention to underscore the need for intervention. At the same time, large-scale massacres were underway in Sierra Leone and the Congo - African countries that, like Rwanda, are of little interest to the United States. President Clinton ignored those abuses, even as he pronounced the "moral imperative" of saving Kosovar Albanians.
In places where the US contributes directly to human rights abuses, crises that might elsewhere be termed "humanitarian" are recast as ideological crusades against terrorists, narco-traffickers or rogue states. Thus, the mass slaughter of Kurdish peasants by Turkey (a NATO member and key US arms customer) is presented as a battle against PKK guerillas. In Colombia last year, many more people were killed than in Kosovo before the bombing – but by forces officially trained, armed and funded by the US. Here the killings are attributed to the "drug war" of a government doubly distinguished as the worst human rights violator in the hemisphere and the third-largest recipient of US military aid worldwide (after Israel and Egypt). In Iraq, three million people are dead because of US sanctions (while their "rogue" leader remains firmly in power). Every month another 5,000 Iraqi children die, mostly for lack of food, clean water and medicines that Iraq produced and even exported before sanctions took hold. Asked during a 1996 Sixty Minutes broadcast to comment on the children's deaths, Secretary of State Albright maintained that, "we think the price is worth it."
Only when human rights abuses threaten the interests of rich and powerful people do we start to hear about "humanitarian crises." Kosovo may be economically marginal to the US, but the "Clinton Doctrine" holds that "stability" (defined in practice as a favorable investment climate) in areas vital to the US may depend on intervention in "remote" areas. In Eastern and Central Europe, stability is derived from two policies, and NATO has been appointed the guarantor of both: 1) to prevent any reversal of the "reforms" that dismantled the area's communist governments (deemed plausible because of the sharp rise in poverty and deprivation produced by the region's shift to capitalist economies); and 2) to lock former Eastern bloc countries into a Third World economic service role of providing cheap labor, raw materials and markets to US and Western European corporations. Transferring the resources of the former Soviet Union to Western corporations has been top priority in the 1990's. Chevron, for one, has bought rights to the oil deposits of Kazakhstan, and several other companies are maneuvering for access to the vast oil reserves of the Caspian Sea.
Throughout the springtime bombing, official rhetoric flip-flopped, alternately invoking interests and values as cause for attack. As the first bombers took off, President Clinton explained that, "If we're going to have a strong economic relationship that includes our ability to sell around the world, Europe has got to be a key... that's what this Kosovo thing is all about... it's about our values" (March 23 televised address).
Conveniently, the logic of the Clinton Doctrine dictates US intervention just about anywhere. As the President explained, "Where our values and our interests are at stake, we must be prepared to [act]" (The Nation, 4/19/99). Of course, since "our values" (i.e., moral good) correlate perfectly with "our interests" (i.e., maintaining US wealth), any military intervention can also be promoted as a humanitarian mission.
Humanitarian Bombing?
One way to test the integrity of Clinton's moral claim is to look at his response to human rights abuses in Kosovo - namely, bombing. NATO's attack created the very humanitarian crisis that the US claimed it was working to avert: the largest flood of European refugees since World War II, fleeing the bombing itself as well as Serb soldiers. NATO's "high-air" strikes allowed Serb forces to plow through Kosovo unimpeded, while its spokespeople explained that it would be too great a risk for pilots to air-lift food or medicine to the battered refugees below. NATO made no provision to care for the refugees, although Commander Wesley Clark announced before the bombing that air strikes would trigger Serb retaliation against civilians. When camps were finally erected, they were administered by NATO troops, not UN relief workers. These are soldiers with no training in humanitarian assistance, whose abuses in the camps included sexual harassment, rape and trafficking women into sexual slavery in collusion with organized crime.
In Serbia, NATO created another humanitarian crisis, attacking the civilian population and killing over 5,700 people. Another 15,000 were wounded and 7,000 permanently disabled. Using planes bearing the names of Native American victims of US ethnic cleansing (Apache, Black Hawk), NATO bombed 384 schools, including 45 kindergartens; 23 hospitals and clinics; half of the country's factories and its main water treatment and power plants. The long-term impact of such destruction is visible today in other countries where the US has destroyed neighborhoods, schools and workplaces for "military purposes." In the Sudan, massive outbreaks of meningitis and other deadly diseases have resulted from the US bombing one of the country's only pharmaceutical plants. In Iraq, half of all schools remain bombed out and less than half of the population has access to potable water. A three-fold rise in birth defects since the Gulf War is attributed to the same depleted uranium shells used against Yugoslavia, where they have contaminated Europe's largest river, the Danube.
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The Rogue Superpower:
Undermining the United Nations and International Law
The US-led attack on Serbian civilians included violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention and other war crimes. In fact, as the world's leading military power, the US routinely holds itself above international law. For example, Chapter VII of the UN Charter asserts that only the Security Council can authorize a state's use of force. Yet in the past year, the US has bombed four countries (and another four "by accident") with no UN mandate. These attacks, including NATO's war, are flatly illegal. They have escalated violence, political instability, and social and ecological destruction worldwide.
US lawlessness in the international arena took root in the 1960's, when newly-independent Third World countries began challenging US hegemony at the United Nations. As the UN became less compliant with US wishes, successive US Administrations have obstructed, or simply ignored, its laws and standards:
- The US has blocked or refused to ratify many of the very instruments created to prevent the humanitarian crises that it claims to revile: the Comprehensive (nuclear) Test Ban Treaty, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Anti-Personnel Land Mine Treaty, the Declaration on the Right to Development and key socio-economic Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the cornerstone of all human rights law.
- Today, the US is pressuring other governments not to ratify the international Criminal Court, which would prosecute war crimes (including those committed by US soldiers). The proposed Court is a big improvement over the current UN Court at the Hague, which can only try governments and not individuals.
- In 1986 George Bush distinguished himself as the first head of state to be condemned by the World Court for illegally using force against Nicaragua. The US ignored this ruling.
- When expedient, the US uses the UN to further its foreign policy agenda. It has, for example, vetoed more than 40 resolutions condemning aggression by its key Middle Eastern ally, Israel.
Because the United Nations is so thoroughly dominated and disparaged by the US, some argue that the institution is simply not worth defending. In fact, the UN is not a democratic organization. Its strongest body, the Security Council, is composed of five of the world's richest countries (themselves arguably dominated by the US) and UN actions overwhelmingly reflect elite interests. But while deeply flawed, the UN currently remains our best hope for peaceful international relations. Its Charter is the only global standard for governing states' conduct. Without it, people would have even fewer protections against the abuses of government and no basis upon which to claim human rights. Those who would relinquish the UN to the arsenal of US power are most often activists from the global North, for whom life-threatening human rights abuses are a distant abstraction.
But in most communities where MADRE works, local activists know that at a time when economic, political and military power are more globalized than ever, ordinary women and men also require international mechanisms to defend their interests. Democratizing the international arena and creating the means for the world's majority to resist and replace global instruments of domination (like the World Bank and now NATO) is a long-term agenda of human rights work. MADRE's sponsorship of the Women's Caucus for Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court and our efforts to bring community-based women into the process of drafting and improving international law is part of this broader goal.
Sidelining Diplomacy, or:
"What's the use of having this superb military
. . . if we can't use it?"
This question, posed by Madeleine Albright in 1993, neatly embodies the Clinton Administration's approach to the use of force. The bombing of Yugoslavia was presented in the US as a last resort. But even a cursory look at events leading up to March 24 indicates that the US pursued a violent course all along. The Rambouillet talks, which lasted less than three weeks, were more a platform for US intimidation than for diplomacy. The State department's ultimatum to the Serb delegation was, "sign on or be bombed," while the Kosovar delegation was prodded to accept the Accords by Secretary Albright's increasingly shrill warnings that without the KLA on board, NATO could not initiate the bombing. The Accords themselves effectively codified a US/NATO occupation of Yugoslavia, prompting speculation that the US deliberately set untenable terms that Milosevic would reject in order to then justify bombing. The KLA, for its part, signed on to Rambouillet only once it was clear that Milosevic would refuse the deal.
Some argue that the US was intent on a show of NATO force just prior to the Alliance's 50th Anniversary Summit in April. In fact, the bombing was used to inaugurate NATO's new post-Cold War mission as a global police force and to argue a need for more military spending. The corporate media did its part by reporting that Milosevic refused to negotiate. Erased from this version is the Serb delegation's counter-offer to the US at Rambouillet: a peaceful settlement monitored by UN forces and far-reaching autonomy for Kosovo (which had been the main Albanian demand until Madeleine Albright hinted at Rambouillet that KLA leaders could hold out for full succession). Authentic negotiations are, by definition, a volley of offers, counter-offers and compromise. But in this case, Serbia's very attempts at diplomacy were deemed grounds for war. The scenario recalls Saddam Hussein's offer of a diplomatic (and many argue quite workable) solution to the Gulf crisis before the US bombing of 1991. His proposal was rejected by the US, which then cited "Iraqi intransigence" as cause for launching the Gulf War. The initial terms of settlement offered by both Saddam Hussein and Milosevic are not very different from those reached after Iraq and Yugoslavia were virtually decimated by the US.
But why would the US use force unnecessarily? As Noam Chomsky explained in an interview with MADRE, "When involved in a confrontation, you use your strongest card to shift the confrontation to the arena in which you are most powerful. The strong card of the United States is the use of force. That's perhaps the only realm of international relations where the US has a near monopoly." In fact, since the end of World War II, when the US achieved military preeminence, it has become the world's leading international aggressor. Diplomacy, by contrast, is a weak link for the US. Its foreign policy serves mostly to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a small elite. This is an unpopular project and difficult to implement through negotiations, which are more vulnerable to public opinion than, for example, top-secret decisions to deploy bombers.
Subverting Democracy
By the same token, authentic democracy in countries where the US seeks to exert influence is inimical to US foreign policy. If the majority of a country's population were to take part in meaningful decisions about national policy (let's consider that a working definition of democracy), it is unlikely that they would choose to direct their natural resources, labor and economic markets to benefit US investors - especially at the expense of their own health and welfare. Ideally, governments with which the US has friendly relations will be like the US itself: technically democratic, with much-touted two-party elections and a mostly disempowered population. But where a veneer of democracy is not practical, the US supports despotic regimes, as long as they suppress local movements against US exploitation. The list includes Indonesia's Suharto, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Zaire's Mobutu Sese Seko, the Philippines' Marcos, Haiti's Duvaliers, Nicaragua's Somoza, the Dominican Republic's Trujillo and Panama's Noriega. These rulers fell out of favor only once they exhausted their usefulness as enforcers of US policy. When genuinely democratic governments have threatened US interests, the US has backed their overthrow, as in Iran (1953), Guatemala (1954, 1963), the Dominican Republic (1963, 1965), Brazil (1964) and Chile (1973).
In Yugoslavia, as elsewhere, the US has undercut democratic forces and fortified repressive leadership. One casualty of the US/NATO bombing was Serbia's democratic opposition, which was badly undermined when all Yugoslavs were called on to close ranks in the face of US attack. The movement's demise was of little concern to US policymakers, who have been working since the early 1990's to prop up a parallel "opposition;" one that would restructure the Yugoslav economy according to a neo-liberal model. In July 1999, Senator Jesse Helms announced a bill to channel $100 million "to 'promote democracy and civil society' and increase radio broadcasts by Voice of America and Radio Free Europe" in Serbia (New York Times, 7/24/99). The proposal is part of a larger policy of "democracy promotion" in the Balkans and throughout Eastern Europe. Here, the self-serving conflation between the language of values and interests is blatant, as "democracy" has been made virtually synonymous with market capitalism.
The Contras of Kosovo
In Kosovo, the US thwarted Ibrahim Rugova's non-violent Kosovo Democratic League for 10 years. At the 1995 Dayton peace conference, for example, US negotiators betrayed the League's demand for autonomy in order to reach a deal with Milosevic. By weakening this moderate movement, the US helped give rise to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a violent, ultra-nationalist group demanding total secession from a multi-ethnic Yugoslavia. In the US, the KLA was classified as a "terrorist organization" as recently as February 1998. But by mid-year the US was arming, equipping and training these forces, whose tactics include: massacres of civilians; targeted assassinations of anti-secessionists, including Albanian Kosovars; forced conscription; heavy reliance on foreign mercenaries; extortion of money and property from local Albanians; and burning and looting the homes of political opponents.
At Rambouillet, Secretary Albright openly backed the KLA in usurping the leadership of the Albanian delegation from Rugova's democratic faction. KLA operations, like those of the Nicaraguan contras and Haitian paramilitaries, are widely reported to be financed through drug money. Central to their program is ethnic cleansing of the Serb and Roma minorities from Kosovo. Immediately after NATO's bombing, the KLA fomented chaos and violence throughout Kosovo. The strategy, coined by Germany's Nazi Party in the early 1930's, is typically fascist: generate a desperate desire for security by inciting terror, then win popular support through "crackdowns" that prove your capability (and brutality) to guarantee much-needed law and order.
Despite their ruthlessness, the KLA first made US headlines, not as a "terrorist organization," but as a band of gallant, if roughshod "freedom fighters." As Diana Johnstone, former European editor of In These Times, has pointed out, the group's image underwent a make-over once State Department and Pentagon officials assessed that the KLA could effectively fill the foreign policy vacuum still gaping after the end of the Cold War, and help to stimulate new defense contracts. The key was to present the group in the fashion of the day: as a human rights rather than a nationalist cause. The humanitarian spin enabled NATO to bill itself as the defender of an oppressed minority, thereby launching its new mission as the world's self-appointed guardian of human rights.
Lost in the media glitz - and even in most serious public debate - was any distinction between human and national rights; between self-determination and separatism. National independence is not a magic formula to be instantly endorsed whenever it is invoked. Even when a group is oppressed by its government, breaking off to form a separate state is not necessarily the best solution. Rather, each claim for independence should be evaluated according to whether it would serve the needs of the majority of those caught in the conflict. Where sovereignty would enable people to protect human rights and create a more equitable distribution of resources and political power, we might well support it. But where, as in Kosovo, calls for independence emanate from a reactionary group with a fascist structure and a feudal social vision, we should endorse alternative solutions. In Kosovo and Serbia, a democratic alternative is embodied by MADRE's sister organizations, Motrat Qiriazi and Women in Black. These are women fighting for a non-nationalist, multi-ethnic and democratic solution to the crisis in Yugoslavia.
Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention
Given the historical record of the US, and the corporate ties that bind those who direct foreign policy and those who profit from warfare, any US claim of humanitarian intervention is suspect. In NATO's "humanitarian" war, Serb military violence became a pretext for the US to assert its dominance over Europe and establish NATO as its global strike force. But the cynicism of NATO's mission does not negate abuses committed against Kosovar Albanians. Like human rights violations everywhere, these were serious crimes that warranted international attention. No situation justifies indiscriminate bombing of civilians. Nevertheless, there may be times, like Rwanda in 1994, where military action is necessary. If we want to hold US policymakers accountable to human rights standards and international law, we need to evaluate each potential intervention on its own terms, prioritizing the needs of those communities most threatened by the crisis. Some basic questions serve as a starting point:
- Given that few political problems can be resolved by either force or foreign pressure, will military intervention actually have the capacity to remedy the problem at hand?
- Will force be used only as a last resort and at a minimum needed to deter greater destruction?
- Is the local population calling for foreign military intervention?
- Will the intervention be conducted through appropriate international bodies and sustained by a high degree of multi-lateralism, including across the divide between the global North and South?
There is, of course, no easy formula for foreign policy or morality. But the next time that "ethnic conflict," "evil dictators," or "narco-guerillas" are presented as grounds for military action, we should consult the lessons of NATO's war against Yugoslavia.
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The camo trend has been around for awhile and I personally thought that I would never get on board. I pride myself on not succumbing to every trend that comes along; sure, I dabble in many trends every year, but ultimately try to stay true to my own personal style. I suppose that camouflage jeans are now part of my style--the neutral color is hard to stay away from and to be honest, they fit pretty well into my arsenal.
How about you--are you on board the camo-train?
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Simply Camouflaged (See Jane Wear....Last)
22 comments
- Carly Cross said...
I am not on board with the camo trend, but I am absolutely on board with your berry-colored flats! Darling.
- August 12, 2013 at 1:34 AM
- Natali said...
Great pants and bag!
- August 12, 2013 at 1:37 AM
- Mira said...
Yes I'm on the camo trend since the beginning. Probably obsessed. You look gorgeous. I need the pants too.
xx Mira
- August 12, 2013 at 1:40 AM
- Closet Fashionista said...
Those pants are a great fit on you! I like camo, but it has been around so long that I don't know I would call it a trend anymore, hehe. I used to have some camo pieces but have grown out of them
- August 12, 2013 at 5:11 AM
- Kimberly said...
I bought a camo jacket a while back and absolutely love it...just ordered these same pants last week - can't wait for them to arrive! :)
- August 12, 2013 at 7:02 AM
- Chandler said...
I never thought I'd be into the camo trend either. But I love the hunter green and I have so many tops of that color and I'm loving the pants in your post! I might have to find a pair and try it out.
- August 12, 2013 at 7:53 AM
- apartment-wife.com said...
i woke up this morning and read that the two new trends are banana leaf print and camouflage -- i'm going to look like a jungle woman for sure :) no, seriously, i like the look, and it makes me excited for fall :) hopefully you'll pair it with something else soon?
- August 12, 2013 at 7:59 AM
- carrie s. said...
Yes, I too never thought I'd like camo pants - but I bought the same exact pair from the Gap in the spring and have been wearing them nonstop! Totally versatile, easy to wear, and oh so comfortable!
- August 12, 2013 at 8:01 AM
- Collections said...
Lovely. The jeans are awesome and it's good you got on board with the trend because you look awesome!
- August 12, 2013 at 8:17 AM
- Ladies in Navy said...
you look lovely!
kw ladies in navy
- August 12, 2013 at 8:48 AM
- Lyndsay said...
I love your flats and Chloe bag. I haven't gotten on board with the camo trend, yet, but it looks great on you!
- August 12, 2013 at 9:21 AM
- Chelsea said...
I think these camo pants look great on you Anna! I haven't taken part in the trend yet, but it's not for lack of searching for the perfect pair...
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- August 12, 2013 at 9:51 AM
- Rebecca Spencer said...
I may not get on the camo bandwagon, but sign me up for those Joie loafers!
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- August 12, 2013 at 10:03 AM
- Caroline said...
I don't think it's a look for me, but I'm really liking camo on you!
- August 12, 2013 at 10:33 AM
- Caitlin Elizabeth said...
I'm not a big fan of camo but that is a great outfit!
- August 12, 2013 at 12:38 PM
- Leah said...
Love that Chloe bucket bag!
- August 12, 2013 at 4:51 PM
- Cmichellestyles said...
Very Pretty!
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- August 12, 2013 at 6:50 PM
- Jackie said...
I don't have any camo this time around because I have taken part in the trend before. They are pretty neutral and I love your outfit. Since those pants are from Gap, I'm surprised I don't have them already :P
xoxo Jackie
- August 12, 2013 at 10:33 PM
- super chic mom said...
I got into the trend first with Zara jeans and then got the gap camo jacket. I think when it's done right it is so chic! Love how you paired the red loafers...unexpected but they totally work!
- August 13, 2013 at 8:40 AM
- lainie said...
We're on board with the trend, and kind of love the crazy pink version of this pant too. We just tagged in on Scoutfit - looking forward to seeing it go on sale!
- August 13, 2013 at 8:27 PM
- Niki Caron said...
That's it! I need a pair of camo pants immediately. Love this look!
- August 14, 2013 at 1:44 PM
- kateprs said...
I am on board with camo, I even have a pair of skinnies, but I don't wear them that often. I love them but feel out of place wearing them. Those shoes are perfect :) Following you via bloglovin now!
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nice article, you are explaining about basic seo techniques which are not using by the seo companies.they are making mistakes in optimization. The result is clear. they got failed. This is more important for client that check the details of company before hiring.
6 SEO Company FAILS
I originally wanted to write a post showing examples of really bad SEO and highlighting some of the worst offenders. However, I decided it wasn't fair to single out websites and criticize their SEO. After all, not everybody claims to do this for a living.
But what about those who do?
In my opinion, if you claim to do SEO, you better have your house in order. I decided to look for examples of SEO companies who have done a poor job implementing even the simplest SEO techniques. I used only sites from the TopSEOs 50 "Best" SEO Company Rankings, since these companies are claiming to be experts in the industry.
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Duplicate Content
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Bad Examples: http://www.first-page-seo.com/ and http://www.outrider.com/
Optimized Title Tags
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Bad Example (no keywords): http://www.thinkbigsites.com/
Bad Example (same Title on every page): http://www.first-page-seo.com/
Robots.txt Uploaded
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Google Analytics Installed
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Bad Examples: http://www.first-page-seo.com/
Additionally, I found some SEO companies were still using the old code for Google Analytics, which has a lot less functionality.
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Bad Example: http://www.directhitsolutions.com/index.php/our-blog
SEO Best Practices
OK, so this last point strikes a nerve with me. Going through the list, I came across http://www.peakpositions.com/, which had a pretty well optimized link portfolio. Unfortunately, after running it through Open Site Explorer I saw that it was anything but natural. This company has hidden links in their clients' websites pointing back to their own website, with perfectly optimized anchor text for terms like "search engine optimization." I can't determine whether this was done with or without their clients' knowledge, but one thing is certain; it is definitely not an SEO best practice. Google is not stupid; they can tell when a link is hidden.
Just some of the hidden links back to this SEO firm can be found by going into the source code of the following pages:
- http://www.tobefast.com/ – organic seo
- http://www.cruisebrothers.com/ – search engine optimization
- http://www.swiftsystems.com/ – search engine optimization seo
- http://www.ferris.edu/associates-degree-architectural-technology.htm – search engine optimization
Potential clients searching for SEO services need to be smart about which company they hire, Never trust a single source like TopSEOs, which may have ulterior motives in their rankings (i.e. money). In fact, judging from some of the low prices for the companies I mentioned above, I would say you get what you pay for.
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Nicely spotted - everyone makes mistakes :-) A little off-topic, but I would like to specify that DC is not just www vs non-www - especially blogs should be careful about categori-pages listing entire articles and that sort of thing.
Your last point's first example does not contain a hidden link (tobefast.com). I spotted it just before the footer (as I know most SEO'ers put their stuff in the footer.) Have a look again. It's not hidden from the eye at all. It's there and you can read 'Search Engine Optimisation' without having to go into the source code. If it doesn't look like a link but you can still see it, then it's surely not a hidden link. Hidden content is when it's blended in with the background. Correct me if I'm wrong but I see no fault within the first example. The second example, however does indeed contain a hidden link. (cruisebrothers.com)
When I started reading this I thought, great, another guy talking about h1 tags and I already know and practice this. Then as I kept reading I realized it was a different post. You're right about SEO companies putting their links in clients' websites. This happened to one of my clients. Her website was a mess. The only links that worked led to her SEO company's website, even links that were supposed to be for interior pages led to the SEO company. I was shocked but after reading this I see it is a common practice. Hmmmm..... My recent post Facebook Video Chat How to Chat on Facebook
Very nice article, What do you think of google panda? Our site Vab Media which does seo, web dseign and social media just got ranked from a pr3 up to a pr5. Some say pagerank deosn't matter for serp, i agree conversion rates, bounce rates and loading speed are important factors as well. i wanted to know your thoughts. Also i liked that point about title tags being under 70 characters. One of our seo competitors in Santa Cruz that claims to be a seo guru has a home page title of 109 characters. thanks for the post Greg. Question for you is it characters with spaces or with out? My recent post Google is always changing and evolving, are you?
How does getting hacked affect your SEO? lol
Christian, you're very good at putting out the edgy stuff. Have you submitted these sites to the SEO Fail blog? http://www.seofailblog.com/
You are right Juanne. I actually had to look a few times before I finally saw it. Good call.
Bruce, it definitely doesn't help. lol Looks like I was hacked this morning, I have a lot of work to do tonight.
David, no I didn't, I actually forgot about that blog while writing this post. To be honest I mainly just feel bad for these companies (with the exception of the last). I hope their websites are just under construction and these changes will be made soon. My main beef is with a website like TopSEOs which claims to rank SEO companies. A lot of small business trust a website like this and have no idea those ranking are paid for. It can hurt these business financially and gives our industry a bad name.


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A fabulous, romantic dish for two - and it's quick and easy! I adapted the recipe from a Junior League of Lafayette, LA recipe; they say that it is the creation of Sous Chef Bryan Richard of Chez Marcelle. The original recipe calls for an entire stick of butter, but I think you'll agree that 3 tbsp. is plenty. If you like Amaretto, you'll love this! It can be served with angel hair pasta, but I like to eat it without so as not to interfere with the delicious flavors.
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The Big Day is finally here for both Louisville and Jeffersonville! I'm sure many of you, like myself, thought it'd be a never ending project, but we were proven wrong and now it is time to celebrate. The long awaited Big Four pedestrian bridge will be having its rededication ceremony this Wednesday at 5:00 pm.
The celebration is going to begin with a parade starting on both sides of the bridge. Mayor Fischer and Governor Steve Beshear will lead the Kentucky side and Mayor Moore will be leading the Indiana side. "Families, joggers, bikers, and everyone who loves the bridge are invited to participate and decorate their bikes, wagons, strollers, etc. Participants are asked to line up on either ramp," as stated in Mayor Fischer's announcement of this big celebration. The two parades will meet in the middle for the rededication ceremony.
"This is a day that has been long anticipated and it will be remembered for even longer, especially by the young people taking their first trip across the bridge," Governor Beshear said in the announcement. The celebrating isn't expected to end after the parade though. Following the parade will be the WFPK Waterfront Wednesday on the river on the Louisville side. This concert is open to the public and will be featuring the Old 97's, The Whigs, and Dawn Landes. Meanwhile on the Indiana side, downtown Jeffersonville's bars, restaurants, and businesses will be staying open even later.
The wait for this bridge has been worth it. The Big Four Bridge is already a hit, especially with the sun coming out. A high volume of people already enjoy running, walking, and biking on the bridge. The bridge gives a great opportunity for Louisville citizens to venture to downtown Louisville and vice versa. "Whether you want a beer, or an ice cream cone or to do a little shopping, downtown Jeffersonville is ready to make your trip across the bridge even more fun, no matter which side you start on," says Mayor Moore said on the announcement. Don't miss out on this mile stone for two cities and one bridge!
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Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 will reportedly be given an official release date this weekend at New York radio station Hot 97's annual Summer Jam concert in New Jersey.
While details are scarce, an announcement is set to take place Sunday (June 7).
Jay-Z will release his Blueprint 3 album on September 11 on Roc Nation with distribution through Atlantic Records, numerous sources have confirmed. A formal announcement is expected Sunday on New York radio station Hot 97 and at the station's massive Summer Jam concert in New Jersey at Giants Stadium. (Billboard)
Reports of Jay calling on Atlantic Records for help with the project was announced via Twitter earlier this week by label rep Sam Crespo.
"@Missinfo: Hey we have Jay-Z Blueprint 3 album, going thru Atlantic," Crespo wrote, unmodified. "1 album to be released September 11th anniversary of 1st Blueprint album." (Nah Right)
He later posted a correction via his Twitter page.
"Correction, people, Jay-Z release is on RocNation, we're assisting in marketing and promotions. D.O.A. comin soon." (Nah Right)
Diddy has also taken part in Jay's business moves with reports of him persuading the rapper to involve Warner Music Group.
Looks like Jay-Z's new Blueprint 3 album will go to Warner Music Group after all, though his Roc Nation label is still headed to Sony. Our old pal Roger Friedman reports that Warner had Jay-Z's pal Sean "Diddy" Combs convince him at a recent Lakers game to re-join former IDJ colleague Lyor Cohen for the album, which he bought back from UMG for $5 million. It's apparently a one-off deal, just for this recording. (Hits Daily Double)
This year's Summer Jam will be highlighted with a variety of performances.
Hosted by comedian Tracy Morgan, this year's line-up includes Mary J. Blige, The-Dream, Jim Jones, Juelz Santana, Elephant Man, Young Jeezy, T-Pain & Friends, Jadakiss and surprise guests. (The Angie Martinez Show)
No further information has been announced regarding The Blueprint 3.
Summer Jam 2009 takes place Sunday, June 7 in New Jersey.
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System admins routinely refer to documentation for help with obscure command line options. In this month's Admin Workshop, we examine the programs and formats behind the command line documentation you read everyday.
Most Linux users end up at the command line sooner or later. Command line programs are typically more flexible and efficient than their point&click counterparts. But they do have one disadvantage: innumerable options and parameters that nobody can remember. The expansive list of options often associated with a command line program makes detailed and accessible documentation invaluable to any administrator. Documentation should avoid complexity: sophisticated presentations are definitely not the kind of reference you need for software applications, and most developers prefer not to waste time prettifying their documentation. These pragmatic considerations have brought forth several forms of online documentation that represent different compromises between readability and ease of creation.
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New SSL Attack Lets a Malicious Listener Steal Session Cookies
New flaw in an old encryption scheme leaves the experts scrambling to disable SSL 3
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Lennart Poettering wants to change the way Linux developers talk to each other.
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Enterprise giant frees itself from ink and home PCs (and visa versa).
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Mozilla's product think tank sinks silently into history.
Internet Giants Launch Collaboration to Improve Open Source
TODO group will focus on open source tools in large-scale environments.


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US researchers demand cell phone safety tax
A US senate subcommittee was told this week by cellphone safety researchers that more money is needed to research cellphone safety, ideally through a $1 tax on every mobile-phone bill. The usual suspects turned up to present evidence to the Subcommittee on Labour, Health, and Human Services, which was sitting to consider the …
Absolutely brilliant
Where criminal masterminds fail to find opportunities to line their own pockets* you can always rely on government officials to do so.
>ideally through a $1 tax on every mobile-phone bill.
Even better, that's on every bill, not every phone.
*Because if passed, as sure as day follows night and night follows day, some of that tax will find its way back to them.
"a more productive way to spend their time"
yeah on the phone getting a nice dose of BRAIN CANCER....
not that anyone would notice, since most of them have a brain the same size as Homer Simpons! and are sooo old they should all be in a geriatric ward anyway.
how in gods namer do they elect such idiots..... oh yeah calling on god et.al
a Muppet could do better....
Could we have a scream Icon?
Nobody cares...
...except hypochondriacs and crystal-toting people afraid of the "electromagnetic waves" (hurr!).
After a lifetime spent in the industrially hazardous environment that is the city & workplace and having partaken of the fat-accumulating-chemicals bandwagon of the foodchain, I'm just worried that my cancer will be a long, lingering one.
Sod that... tax the effing hysterical morons who believe in this electrosmog bullshit
I don't see why taxpayers' money should be spent researching stupid conspiracy theories promoted by a bunch of internet loonies and their gullible moron followers.
science education is clearly failing some people
" Linda Erdreich, of Exponent's Health Sciences Center for Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Computational Biology, was asked if she could prove that mobile phones don't cause cancer. She couldn't, since one can't prove negative statements, but the admission still provides more evidence for the prosecution."
Actually, it isn't the "negative statement" that is the problem it's the "prove" part. We scientists normally never actually prove anything. We may find evidence to support a hypothesis, but proving that there can be no evidence to refute the statement is more difficult. One needs to find just a single example that contradicts a hypothesis to refute it (assuming that one is using sound scientific techniques of course).
So yes, it would be next to impossible to "prove" that mobile phones don't cause cancer, just as it appears to be pretty difficult to prove that they do!
Tax on Pillows....
...each morning I wake up, one side of my face is warmer than the other. I've done a tiny bit of research that proves it is the side in contact with the pillow. Now as everyone sleeps, I need you to prove sleeping doesn't give me cancer.
So I propose a tax on sleeping of a mere 10c / 10p per person, per night.
This would go to line my pockets, sorry fund my research into the effects of sleeping on a pillow has in regards to cancer (Oh Aids and err swine flu as well).
Ionizing radiation
Gamma radiation also causes sllight temperature rises, but can very easily become fatal. So the temperature is not what kills you: but we already knew it.
It has been proven that GSM radiation doesn't have enough power to break ADN and ARN chains, and this is the main "prove" that handset makers use to say that it is safe.
But.. the question is.. can the radiation from a GSM phone alter the way the ADN and ARN replicate? experiments differ here.. some say "yes", other "no" and some others "maybe". My educated guess: yes, it is carcirogenic.
Here we go again...
I remember a big stink in the US back in the 70's and 80's about power lines causing cancer. It got louder and louder and more and more "studies" were cited that even I began to think maybe there was something to it. Then a number of rigorous studies were done and found no correlation between power lines and cancer and the whole thing died away. You can still find people to this day who believe it was all a big conspiracy and that power lines do cause cancer.
Not too long ago there were people claiming that WiFi hotspots caused problems. That didn't go too far since the power levels were so low compared to, say, power lines. They then came up with some story about how some people were sensitive to EM and it was causing these special people problems, giving them headaches and stuff. They then took a bunch of these people and put them in a room turning low level EM emissions on and off and having them say when they were being affected. Not one of the test subjects managed to have symptoms matching the EM turn on at a rate higher then random guessing would indicate.
I am inclined to believe that cell phone cancer scares will follow the same pattern.
FUD, Rinse, Repeat... Profit!
Funny how all the studies on this subject in the 90's failed to find correlation and petered out around the turn of the century. I guess we have nothing better to do in these bountiful times but to chase this windmill. Again.
BTW, I suspect radiation from the sun causes cancer. I propose a $1 tax on all short pants, short-sleeve shirts, bathing suits and sunglasses to fund my research into this terrible threat.
based on the posts above I submit the following my research. and I am surprised that no one else has posted it yet.
Sexual gratification is usually based in some form of friction, friction causes heat, enough heat can damage the skin, damaged skin can have damaged DNA/RNA chains, damaged DNA/RNA can have faulty replication, faulty DNA/RNA replication is the basis for most cancers. I therefore submit that a shagging tax be instituted at a mere 1c/1p per shag per person and that the proceeds be forwarded to my shagging research foundation. My hypothesis is that the lovely bird has a greater risk of developing some type of friction related cancer and my research will focus on finding a suitable anti-cancer lubricant that is especially effective on the loveliest of all birds. Of course after I run out of suitable volunteers maybe a fine for those who meet the qualifications but have not yet participated in the research.
mines the one with astroglide and a carton of durex in the pocket.
Pet peeve time
"no discernible affect on the brain"
What's up with wrongly using the verb "affect" instead of the noun "effect"? Quite common Anglophone mistake, with these two homophones, and one that quite annoys this Latin language. C'mon, how hard is it to get it right?
Unless you mean that there no discernible liking for the brain, in which case I might complain about your choice of preposition. :-)
But who am I to talk about prepositions, the bane of the non-native speaker, in any language...
@Chris W
Chris, you say "Where criminal masterminds fail to find opportunities to line their own pockets* you can always rely on government officials to do so."
Oh, you Pollyanna, you!
Gunvernment officials *are* the larcenous mastermind overlords. The criminals outside of gunvernment are too stupid to get elected, appointed, or hired by the State. Would you care to hazard a guess as to how many orders of magnitude State predation exceeds private predation?
200 million
Assuming a low 200 million mobile phones used in the USA, that's $200M, per month! Do they really need that much cash?
I think research into the possible health risks of technologies is absolutely essential, but basically the research has already been done and the result is there is little to no risk in mobile phones. Either find something new to research, or go out and get a job like the rest of us.
reserach payement for 2009
As of today i owe you 3p for the year to date 2009.
It's in the post.
Another tax???
For those of you not in the US, there's like an extra 15% markup or more at the end of your US cell phone bill. There is one particular tax (can't remember the name now) that's supposed to go into some fund that no one ever collects from the cell phone companies but you get charged nevertheless..and it's alot, like $3.50 or so such nonsense. So more taxing, get the fsck outta here!
Whose money are we taking about here?
"The call for a levy on every mobile phone bill was proposed to the subcommittee by Devra Davis, of the University of Pittsburgh. She thinks the industry has a responsibility to fund the kind of research she happens to be doing."
A levy on phone bills isn't "the industry funding research", it's the end user funding the research. If the Industry has aresponsibility to fund the research, then levy the phone companies profits.
Fees Taxes and Condoms
Fed Universal Service Charge
Regulatory Charge
Administrative Charge
CA State P.U.C. Fee
Some cities in my state chargers %8 sales tax.
I ordered cell phone and Verizon had listed on the order sheet it said taxes and fee can add up to %3 of the bill.
Actually, one CAN prove a negative.
A proof by contradiction can suffice to prove a negative by showing that assuming the positive results in an impossibility.
@ Rob Campbell
> Actually, it isn't the "negative statement" that is the problem it's the "prove" part. We scientists normally never actually prove anything. We may find evidence to support a hypothesis, but proving that there can be no evidence to refute the statement is more difficult. One needs to find just a single example that contradicts a hypothesis to refute it (assuming that one is using sound scientific techniques of course).
Err, Rob, that is "proving" the hypothesis, since "to prove" in this context actually means "to test"!
Someone's been GMing up new cash-cows, I see.
If it is such a health risk, surely the private health insurers should be rushing to fund research as part of their being pro-active in reducing potential future claims against them.
re: Here we go again
Weren't CRT VDUs supposed to bring about all sort of harm as well? Just another health scare that faded into oblivion once they found something else to be scared about!
Pint, because alcohol is the only medication that cures scary fears.
pay as you go...nuff said.
(PS.. what about microwave ovens? .....1p tax on steak & kidney pies? )
Flame, cos i'm a tad more worried about lithium ion batteries and sudden car accidents.
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that should be %32 not %3
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Ah yes, Spring in Canada!
Sun, freedom and possibilities.
Have you ever heard of the sport of Freediving? what about Riverboarding? Now is the perfect time to try out a new adventure or perhaps something tried and true. Just try something!
Here are some spring adventures that I discovered from coast to gorgeous coast and in between. One of these is sure to appeal. Just add water!
Riverboarding: Typically the domain of whitewater kayakers and rafters, the thrills of navigating whitewater rivers have attracted a newcomer: riverboarding. Believed to have originated in Europe, it has evolved and made its way to Canada. Using a buoyant board adapted for this use, a riverboarder lies prone on the board while holding on to handles; fins are worn to steer through currents as the boarder rides downriver. This exciting full-body workout requires you to be fit — and a good swimmer. Try the Ottawa (Ontario) and Capilano Rivers (Vancouver). Esprit; Capilano Riverboarding.
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New Shelves, New Bathroom
Hey, I put up our new String® System Pocket shelves! Leah bought them for me for Christmas (probably because she wanted them too). What do you know, they look great. The installation was super easy but it didn't come with any mounting hardware so I had to use my own. NO PROBLEM.
PROTIP: color the screws black with a Sharpie paint pen.
The bathroom is really starting to come together. The first thing I accomplished, when we moved in, was tearing down the disgusting old bathroom mirror cabinet and putting up a new IKEA LILLÅNGEN (the obvious cheap non-offensive choice). The white cabinet looks great alongside the black shelves with the black and white tiles. The Cochran and Perry nudes add some nice bright color.
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Planning 2012
I am an obsessive planner, list maker, crosser-outer, and writer-downer of everything I do and have to do. I've always kept a Moleskine planner, but when I saw this bright, color blocked 2012 Daily Planner by Julia Kostreva, I had to switch over. At first its size was a bit daunting, as I'm used to pocket-sized, but I soon grew to love the ample spaces for each day, the big monthly calendars, and the extra blank pages for notes. The year has still just begun, and you can pick up your own planner by Julia (in any of 5 cover designs!) here.
It's been about 2 months since I moved here so I decided to take my camera out on a walk and snap some photos around my new neighborhood. I took a 6 mile walk from my house in Bushwick, up to Greenpoint, down the East River waterfront and across the Williamsburg Bridge. This is my first roll I've taken in New York, click here to see them all. When I moved here, I shot around thirty rolls of film on my cross-country road trip. I'm slowly sifting through them and posting new photos weekly on my personal blog. Eventually I'll have all of them on Flickr.
Ferret Fun
Last week we had a visitor. Our pal, Chelsey, had some traveling to do so she left us to pet sit her ferret, Bijou, for a whole week. He is the sweetest and cutest animal I've ever met. I had never seen a ferret before but I was really surprised by how mellow and friendly he was, I miss him already.
If you don't follow us on instagram, here are some of Bijou's best moments:
Collar & Scarf
I've been waiting for a long time to show off my hammered brass collar by Young Frankk. Christine Young is the girl behind Young Frankk, and even though we've never met IRL we have this special bond because we both went through the Parsons Illustration Program. Young Frankk jewelry has been all over the best blogs and pretty internet girls recently, and I'm always so excited to see another young person like myself making it happen.
I wore my collar today with my favorite chiffon scarf and my fungi printed dress (which is pretty much the way it's supposed to be worn, as you can see here). I've been looking for more things to do with the scarves now that I have so many, and this head scarf tutorial I found is perfect.
You can see more of Christine & her work on her Etsy, Pintrest, and Tumblr.
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This is pretty much my favorite lunch and it's simple. We are lucky to have a great tortillaria around the corner where we pick up fresh corn tortillas. Just add pinto beans, tomato, onion, cilantro, avocado, queso fresco, Tapatio & lime. Boom. It's not the perfect taco but it reminds me of San Diego a little bit.
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Morning Light
The kitchen has become the center of life around here. The office is still a wreck and our living room chairs don't have cushions, so after breakfast we just set up computer camp at the table. The kitchen gets beautiful light every morning and we've filled it with plants, fresh flowers, and our favorite candles. A painting by my mom (titled "Bootsie at the Egyptian", a cat that lived at the Egyptian apartments with her in San Diego, well before I was born) hangs on one wall.
Other stuff, mostly plant-related: A few Boskke hanging planters hang next to the best plant-printed mirror we found at the thrift store. And tons of little plants in pots and jars. I love vintage milk-glass jars as mini planters (there are a ton for sale on Etsy). My mom made the ceramic goldfish planter. We also recently replaced our terrible temporary Ikea chairs with some great old Thonet-style bentwood chairs.