Here is a reformed Black Irish Jew who is not any more blaming Africa for the HIV that was spread by His Irish Gay Community but still insists that the sexual habits of Ethiopians is the cause of the problem.
He even goes further and details the sexual abuse of young girls and equating it to the Female Genital Multiation of the locals. Most importantly he does not take to account the Irish Catholic Sexual Abuse bonanza that is taking place under the misfit and incompetent series of Political and Social Distabilizing charities involved in Political and Insecurity Speculations.
Should we focus on Population Control in Africa when the European Populations are being decimated by the infertility and lack of young populations. Is the real concern the diminishing and Aging European population or the sexual habits of Africans or Ethiopians in this instance.
Ethiopia contributing significantly to the Friday evening sexual bonanza that European males enjoy with the emerging Flower Market and South Africans and West Africans are crowding the Europen precious metal market to satisfy the ever increasing European female apetite for jewlery.
So, if Africans are helping their fellow European males in accessing their females why would a Black Irish Jew continue to blame Africans for their sexual success. Is this jealousy or some sinister motive to unleash another parallel rna virus like HIV that visited the Kenyan and Ugandan Red Light Districts some 25 years ago and now Black Africa is 75% infected both in Africa and America.
So should we be advocating for Family Planing and and against Female Genital Multilation rather than raising funds to save the starving chioldren? Can we do both with win-win synergy strategies?
Is Demographics the real challenge or Global Climate Change or Global Capital Market (Housing, Oil anf Food) Speculators ?
Does Mr Myers have the truth on his side or does he want Ethiopia and Africa to be the capital City of Gays who will decimate their future popoulations like Ireland and Europe is bound to do?
What is the challenge, population or greedy speculators and global pollutors that are making the planet in hospitable? Are Africans really a challenge with only one billion people when India and China combined make over 3 Billion people?
Is population explosion the real problem? Imagine where Obama will be if Mr Myers have his say and African males are all sterilized as he wants us to be? I just wonder?
Please read on and see where the issue is? at least from the Black Irish Jew Perspective?
July 25th, 2008
Harsh as they were, my views on Africa had to be expressed - Kevin Myers (Belfast Telegraph) — Last Friday week, with famine approaching yet again, I wondered about the wisdom of forking out yet more aid to Ethiopia [see here].Since the great famine of the mid-1980s, Ethiopia's population has soared from 33.5 million to 78 million.
Now, I do not write civil service reports for the United Nations: I write a newspaper column, and I was deliberately strong in my use of language — as indeed I had been when writing reports from Ethiopia at the height of that terrible famine.
Since dear old Ireland can often enough resemble Lynch Mob Central on PC issues, I braced myself for the worst: and sure enough, in poured the emails. Three hundred on the first day, soon reaching over 800: but, amazingly, 90%+ were in my support, and mostly from baffled, decent and worried people. The minority who attacked me were risibly predictable, expressing themselves with a vindictive and uninquiring moral superiority.
(Why do so many of those who purport to love mankind actually hate people so?) We did more in Ethiopia a quarter of a century ago than just rescue children from terrible death through starvation: we also saved an evil, misogynistic and dysfunctional social system.
Presuming that half the existing population (say, 17 million) of the mid-1980s is now dead through non-famine causes, the total added population from that time is some 60 million, around half of them female. That is, Ethiopia has effectively gained the entire population of the United Kingdom since the famine. But at least 80% of Ethiopian girls are circumcised, meaning that no less than 24 million girls suffered this fate, usually without anaesthetics or antiseptic.
The UN estimates that 12% of girls die through septicaemia, spinal convulsions, trauma and blood-loss after circumcision which probably means that around three million little Ethiopian girls have been butchered since the famine — roughly the same as the number of Jewish women who died in the Holocaust.
So what is the moral justification for saving a baby from death through hunger, in order to give her an even more agonising, almost sacrificial, death aged eight or 13? The practice could have been stamped out, with sufficient political will, as sutti in India once was.
And the feminists of the West would never have allowed such unconditional aid to be given to such a wicked and brutal society if it had been run by white men. But, instead, the state was run by black males, for whom a special race-and-gender dispensation apparently applies: thus the two most politically incorrect sins of our age — sexism and racism — by some mysterious moral process, akin to the mathematics of the double-negative, annul one another, and produce an unquestioned positive virtue, called Ethiopia.
I am not innocent in all this. People here remained in ignorance of the reality of Africa because of cowardly journalists like me. When I went to Ethiopia just over 20 years ago, I saw many things I never reported — such as the menacing effect of gangs of young men with Kalashnikovs everywhere, while women did all the work. In the very middle of starvation and death, men spent their time drinking the local hooch in the boonabate [buna bet] shebeens.
Alongside the boonabates were shanty-brothels, to which drinkers would casually repair, to briefly relieve themselves in the scarred orifice of some wretched prostitute (whom God preserve and protect).
I saw all this and did not report it, nor the anger of the Irish aid workers at the sexual incontinence and fecklessness of Ethiopian men. Why? Because I wanted to write much-acclaimed, tear-jerkingly purple prose about wide-eyed, fly-infested children — not cold, unpopular and even ‘racist’ accusations about African male culpability.
Am I able to rebut good and honourable people like John O'Shea, who are now warning us that once again, we must feed the starving Ethiopian children?No, of course I'm not. But I am lost in awe at the dreadful options open to us.
This is the greatest moral quandary facing the world. We cannot allow the starving children of Ethiopia to die. Yet the wide-eyed children of 1984-86, who were saved by Western medicines and foodstuffs, helped begin the greatest population explosion in human history, which will bring Ethiopia's population to 170 million by 2050. By that time, Nigeria's population will be 340 million, (up from just 19 million in 1930).
The same is true over much of Africa. Thus we are heading towards a demographic holocaust, with a potential premature loss of life far exceeding that of all the wars of the 20th century.. This terrible truth cannot be ignored. But back in Ireland, there are sanctimonious ginger-groups, which yearn to prevent discussion, and even to imprison those of us who try, however imperfectly, to expose the truth about Africa.
Belai Habte-Jesus, MD, MPHGlobal Strategic Enterprises, Inc. 4 Peace & ProsperityWin-win synergestic Partnership 4P&P-focusing on 5Es: Education+Energy+Ecology+Economy+Enterpriseswww.Globalbelai4u.blogspot.com; Globalbelai@yahoo.com C: 703.933.8737; F: 703.531.0545
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Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 3:42 PM
It is Global Climate Chane Stupid! Another famine! Is it Nature or the Generation that Failed Ethiopia?
By Addisu T
When I went back to work on Monday morning, a colleague told me about the weekend coverage of “the Ethiopian famine” on BBC to express his sympathy. He is a good person and I know he only meant well. But to be honest, this is exactly a subject that I and many Ethiopians in Diaspora dread and want to avoid. This subject hurts Ethiopians deep down to their bones. Even the well meaning sympathy and the charity at times become a pain to our consciousness.
The sad thing is that, no matter how much one tries to run away from the subject, it is difficult to escape when emaciated and shocking images of children are brought into the living rooms of millions of people through out the world.
Following BBC’s coverage, Channel 4 gave sufficient time to show the ongoing starvation in Ethiopia. As the media chases the biggest headline of the week, there is no doubt that others would follow to bring the painful and embarrassing truth to the world. Hence, there seems to be no place to hide.
Whoever asks a question about Ethiopia’s man-made trap in poverty and starvation deserves explanation. This time, no rhetorical excuses such as feudalism, imperialism, nature, too little rain, too much rain, God or “the absentee Amhara landlords” as Dr. Solomon Enquai of REST put it in the 1980’s can be acceptable.
The Never Ending Social Experiment on the Masses
To avoid the recurring starvation, the world and the rest of us want an honest discussion why Ethiopians are dying of starvation in the world where many people suffer from excessive consumption and obesity. I feel obliged to remind foreign educated Ethiopian ‘elites’ (as they would like to call themselves), their generation has been in charge of the country for more than 40 years and that there are no more “absentee landlords or backward nobilities” to blame.
Monarchy, Feudalism, peasants to individuals (not to the State) and serf-system were abolished and they are the thing of the past. Of course, “Land to the Tiller” was declared to be proudly recorded on resumes of the Ethiopia’s revolutionary generation and their comrade junior army officers.
Scientific Socialism and Communism as panacea for the oppressed was declared and now it is watered down into “revolutionary democracy”, what ever it means (may be Maoism version 3.2:).
Wealth was considered as a subversive greed and a source of all-evil to be condemned. A desire to own and accumulate was branded as anti-revolutionary and petty Bourgeoisie. So the wealth as well as the wealthy were destroyed or chased out of the country.
We had also total nationalization and distribution of wealth, which become distribution of poverty. Interestingly this generation has gone from one extreme to the other; from rounding up the wealthy and shooting them to becoming tycoons of itself among the largest starving population.
Along with these social experiments, the people were categorised and re-categorised many times along “class” as “oppressors and oppressed”, revolutionary and reactionary, colonizers and colonized, chauvinist and narrow nationalist, secessionist and unionist. You name it, we had every word from Thesaurus that is used to categorise people along their difference from primordial ethnic to conceptual abstraction.
Even God was blamed to be deposed and exiled to free the people from religion, which is branded as “the opium of the masses” and cause of starvation. Now He is allowed to return but the same generation claims to know what is best for God to get involved in selection and appointment of God’s Ambassadors on earth.
We had from Colonel Mengistu’s “Green Revolution, villagisation, and settlement” experiments to Ato Meles’s “extension programme”.
We had also from Sasakawa-Jimmy Carter’s “Harvest 2000” master plan to feed Ethiopians to Ato Meles’s “Agriculture Led Accelerated Development”. All were touted as a route to feeding the starving masses.
Lesson Learnt: the Guinea pigs are still dying
Despite all these social experiments on real people, no body has reported back why nationalisation, extermination of petty-Bourgeois, declaration of Scientific Socialism, ethnic nationalism or Agriculture led Industrialisation failed to stop starvation.
It is heart breaking to note that we still see Ethiopians on TV, facing death by starvation in the 21st century where obesity, cholesterol, high blood pressure is becoming the biggest health concern in the rest of the world, including among Ethiopian “elites” and rulers who happen to control state power and conduct these “ism” social experiments.
The big lesson we have learnt from the last 40 years half baked social experiments and borrowed rhetoric is that Ethiopia’s problem cannot and will not be solved by reciting versus from borrowed philosophy books. We know now reciting quotes wouldn’t grow potatoes.
That is why the Guinea pigs need to say, for heaven sake stop these slogans, rhetoric, hyperboles and “ism”. We heard it all for the last 40 solid years, but where is the bread? Our problems can only be solved by empowering the people to be in charges of their destiny without being Guinea pigs for semi-educated experts.
None of the rhetoric from Communism to Revolutionary Democracy, from land to the tiller to current magic potion of “nation and nationalities” did empower the people to have loaf of bread on the table, except making the generation appear civilized and sophisticated while making the vast majority of the people Guinea pigs for social experiment.
Our problems can only be solved by making ones hand dirty and digging the ground. It can only be solved by empowering citizens to work hard to accumulate assets for rainy days.
It can only be solved through open, original and critical debate rather than trying to impress the people and donors with plagiarised jargons in foreign language. We don’t need to look the answers in books or go to Russia or China to copy models. Ethiopia’s problems are unique and need someone to think to find solutions. In the last 40 years everybody was busy copying and no body was thinking.
What the people want?
Ethiopians are not demanding more from their “elites”. The people are still cheering when a rail carriage passes once in a week that was bought by Emperor Menilik some 100 years ago. The people are still content with Airlines, telecommunication, power stations, and educational system that were built 70 years before by another condemned Emperor. They see the flag and the lion on the logo to hang on to failed modernisation.
In all honesty, the Ethiopian poor did not ask like Pakistanis, Indians, or Libyans that their “elites” lock themselves up in underground bunker to develop nuclear warheads. No, no, not even a steam engine or horse-drawn carts. The people had been only asking for bread for 40 years that has never been materialised. Instead they were fed with quotes from books of Joseph Stalin or Adam Smith.
Now one can say, taxpayer’s money that was spent on educating the revolutionary generation would have been better value for money if it had gone down the drain.
None of the basic problems of the Ethiopia people, like bread, clean water, a needle, a wheel for horse drawn cart or penicillin to treat infection has been solved.
Instead, the taxpayers’ money was spent in creating egotistical and pretentious generation that spent its time promoting conflict and fighting each other to control state power to enrich and to die of cholesterol and Whisky poison.
A generation that claims to know-it-all the likes of Bertrand Russell and Mao by first name has not yet figured out where bread comes from. Despite its pretence of being “civilized” with exterior three pieces of suit, silk ties, Italian made shoes and borrowed lingo, “the question of bread” has proved that this generation is nothing but incompetent.
Still, for the poor and unfortunate Ethiopians, a loaf of bread is more precious than a life saving medicine for cancer or HIV. Bread do not need sophisticated microbiology lab to develop it like a vaccine to cure HIV. It needs a plot of land and freedom for a person to work in the fields in good and bad times. It needs the rights to be a master of its destiny but not be a peasant to the state and local authorities. It needs a right to own, develop and keep.
So why this elementary truth become the most difficult task for this generation that boasts about moving mountains, overthrowing the old order and claim to become the “vanguard of the masses?
At a risk of repeating myself, I want to remind this generation that 21st century has been a century of excess and abundance. Tones and after tons of food have been dumped in sea and landfills. The biggest killer in the rest of the world has been excess, over indulgence, high blood pressure, obesity, stroke, cholesterol. Not lack of a loaf of bread. It is only Ethiopians who are subject to such a tragedy under the leadership of the most “enlightened generation that Ethiopia ever had”.
A million dollar Question: Why are people starving?
Now we need to ask why people are dying. Is it because the country is a barren land that cannot support the growing of cereals and vegetables? Is it because the population is primitive and does not know how to farm and grow its food or lazy to work? Or is it because it is mismanaged by the so called elites that know nothing about digging or planting?
The Facts, nothing but the facts
The Country
Ethiopia is not a barren land. It is a country blessed with natural resources. It has vast amount of fertile and uncultivated land; it is a water tower of Africa with many rivers flowing through its territories to irrigate million hectares of land in Egypt, Sudan, and Somalia.
The country has vast and untapped hydroelectric, mineral and oil potentials. It has the largest biodiversity and a very diverse climate suitable for growing anything and everything all round the year. It has the largest livestock population in Africa; a large swath of savannah grazing land. It has the ancient culture, historical sites and national parks with variety of wild lives to attract tourism.
It is a beautiful and blessed country with all sorts of national resources if there was a generation that wants to make its hand dirty and develop her. No, no, that is not a priority. The generation has to dispel published and unpublished works of Joseph Stalin, Bertrand Russell, and Mao first. If disagreement arises over translation, there is no other option but to fight until the last man and his gun is left. That is more important to this generation.
When it feels enlightened, the generation has to spend all its energy in ridiculing Ethiopia, in working hard in convincing the whole world that Ethiopia is a ‘coloniser’ and a menace to everyone. Hence, it has to devote all its resources solve “the question of Ethiopian’s clonisation of Eritrea” and neighbouring countries. If anyone disagrees with this contention, then it has to fight it out until the last revolutionary man and his gun is left on the face of the earth. No it is not the question of bread but the issue whether Ethiopia is an Empire state, a nation state or a prison of states that primarily preoccupy the generation.
Oh I forgot! Of course the generation has to take part in solving global warming, in patching the hole in ozone layer and in writing treaties on equitable distribution of the black hole for the benefit of all nations, nationalities and the people of the world. Growing potatoes has never given anyone such self-importance and in any case can wait until the “question of space law” is ratified.
The question why this generation is so obsessed with self-importance and in keeping an exterior civilized appearance while people are dying of starvation is mind boggling. The future generation may need to set up an institute to study it.
The People
The country cannot blame its population because inhabitants of this country were pioneering of civilization and farming for thousands of years and they had survived for centuries without Western or Eastern education or more appropriately mis-education.
They have been farming and breeding animals for thousands of years. They had laws, orders, and social systems. They had moral, ethics, and religions to regulate the balance between people and nature. The people of this blessed land had been writing and publishing books for thousands of years addressing philosophical, religious, and astrological constellations.
The Elite
What I said about the country and the people are irrefutable hard facts. Why is that the generation that had never scribbled a single original work or has grown a flower in its backyard could be allowed to patronise and claim to educate the people? Does speaking English make oneself an expert in everything?
Ethiopia is neither poor nor the population need to be clothed, settled, and educated to learn farming and animals’ husbandry. Paradoxically, 21st century is the time when Ethiopia opened its door for outside influence and modern education.
With it, it unfortunately produced egotistical good-for-nothing generation. Those who have gone through modern education boast about their achievements on their business cards with prefixes such as BA, Eng. MBA, MSc, PhD, and Professor. Despite all accolades from Western institution, Ethiopians life sustaining calorie consumption has gone down to a level where people die of starvation.
The old social system that was blamed for starvation by the generation is long gone. The past cannot be blamed for the current starvation. But, the problem has been recurring many times in the last 40 years in spite of the generation’s obsession to experiment with new jargons and borrowed rhetoric from foreign lands to address a simple question.
In the last 40 years, many countries have transformed themselves from poor and bottom of human development index to prosperous, industrialised and developed society. There was more than enough time for those who want to use their brain and hands to work and solve the question of bread. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen.
Putting in perspective why people are starving
An adult needs about 2000 calories to have a healthy life style and kids about 1200 calories for a healthy growth. Having more calories without having physical exercise could lead to being fat with all the consequence of health problems. Having fewer calories per day leads to losing weight and becoming thin. But in the short term, an adult can survive with as low as 600 calories per day consumption. People die of starvation when they do not have anything to eat to support basic metabolic activities.
To simplify things, let me explain what 600 calories mean. 1 gram of bread contains about 4 calories. Hence, 600 calories can be obtained by eating about 150 grams of bread a day. Fatty food contains twice the amount of calorie. For example in 1 gram of fat, there is about 9 calories.
To put it in perspective, a medium size big Mac sandwich is 540 cal, medium fries is 300 and medium coca-cola is about 210. That means one medium meal at MacDonald is more than 1050, which is enough to keep a person alive for two or 3 days. A Starbucks large white chocolate mocha with whip contains more than 500 calories, which is enough to sustain life for a day.
When we come back to our main point, a person can live with 150 grams of bread or 150 grams of wheat “Kolo”, or a bit of bread, cabbage, or beetroots. Mind you, that is what it takes to save life, not expensive antiretroviral drugs.
Why then a country with large fertile land, abundant water resources, very well educated or (mis-educated elite that is capable of splitting atoms with its rhetoric), very favourable and diverse climate to grow everything conceivable on this planet, huge bio-diversity, the largest livestock population in Africa and with billions dollars of foreign aid money failed to provide at least 150 grams of Kolo for its law abiding and dying population? This is the a million dollar question that Ethiopia’s rulers and elites need to answer.
This time we have to be honest to stop running away from this subject out of embarrassment to discuss and find solution. Denials will not solve the problem. The elite may hide behind fortified villas, 4x4, Armani suit, silk ties and crocodile shoes to convey an outward image of progress but that cannot save us from inward humiliation.
Every where else necessity has been a mother of invention, but with us, it has rather been a mother of rhetoric. So it is time to wake up and smell the coffee. There is no much time left; this generation has a short time to solve this problem or be remembered who talked too much to pass the begging bowl for its children.
People are starving and as they say charity begins at home. What about the elites taking a practical action for the first time. What about donating your silk ties for charity to feed a starving child? I wonder how many of the political leaders, academic, government officials, opposition leaders, elites or “vanguards of the masses” would give up their silk ties or black label whisky to save a child. I bet it is very few indeed!
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From: Belai FM Habte-Jesus
Subject: Re: Can a Black Irish Jew Learn that Coffe is not made by Starbucks?or lamb chops by Tesco?
To: kmyers@independent.ie, Globalbelai@Yahoo.com
Cc: nwMariam@yahoo.com, "Asratie Teferra"
Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 3:37 PM
Last week an article in the Irish Independent (“Africa is giving nothing to anyone – apart from AIDS” by Kevin Myers) hit a new low in Irish journalism. It was racist, offensive and deliberately intended to cause outrage and to provoke, and Mr. Myers' admission that his article would win no friends did nothing to moderate the disgust anyone would feel on reading such rubbish. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech or expression. It is a classic case of total irresponsibility, calculated to give journalism a bad name. It is no surprise that the Immigrant Council of Ireland is planning to make an official complaint about its publication which clearly appears to breach Irish law under which it is an offence to publish or distribute written material if it is threatening, abusive or insulting and intended to, or is likely to, stir up hatred. This is in fact an article that might, indeed should be ignored. It deserves to be buried. However, in its accusations that Africa only survives by help from the outside world and then wastes it on increasing its population, it does use Ethiopia as an example. Mr. Myers claims that Ethiopia is “vastly over-populated, environmentally devastated and economically dependant”, aligning himself with those who have been trying to get restrictions on aid to Ethiopia. He refers to the “self-serving generosity” that has been one of the curses of Africa, sustaining political systems that would otherwise have collapsed and has been inspiring Bill Gates programme to rid Africa of malaria, which he describes as “one of the most efficacious forms of population control now operating.” Evil is not a word to be used lightly but it seems appropriate here.
It is also appropriate to note that Africa, and Ethiopia, bears little relationship to the continent Mr. Myers portrays. In the last five years, Africa as a whole has achieved over 5% average growth, and last year, ten African states had a growth rate of over 7%. Ethiopia at 9.5% had the highest rate of any non-oil economy. In fact, over the last five years Ethiopia has averaged double figure growth, and despite the problems of this year, caused by drought coupled with the sharp international rises in oil and food prices, will still manage nearly 11% growth this year. A joint UN/African Development Bank statement in June noted that industry grew at 11% of GDP in 2006-07 and manufacturing at 10.5%; agriculture at 9.4% in real terms. Last year saw the fifth good harvest in a row. Exports increased by over 18% in 2006-07 to $1.2 billion, and are expected to rise to $1.8 billion this year. Growth has benefited from investment in infrastructure supported by donor funding, and paradoxically electricity shortages in May and June (due to shortages of water) underlined the enormous increase in demand produced by development. All these are not merely abstract figures in government or donor balance sheets. Subsistence farmers are being drawn into the commercial economy. The agriculture sector, helped by institutional reforms and increased infrastructure is becoming more resilient, even though this year there has been an increase in numbers needing food aid following poor belg rains. In the Amhara Regional State, for example, there has been a 25% increase in land under cultivation, from 2,900 to 3,700 hectares in the five years to 2006. Since 2002, the number of jobs in the region has risen by nearly half a million, 52,000 in industry last year alone. 45% of the region now has access to pure water, 1645 villages have telephone links and there are some 80,000 mobiles in the region. Primary school enrolment reached over 90% two years ago, and the region now has five universities, five agricultural colleges, five teacher training colleges and three technical colleges. There are 2283 health clinics (up from 421 in 1991), 168 health centres (39 in 1991) and 17 hospitals (9 in 1991). The Somali Regional State has some 1,000 primary and secondary schools, five colleges and a university. There are six hospitals and over 250 clinics and health centres. It, too, is benefiting from the substantial investment in telecommunications infrastructure; one recent project has been the connection of more than 600 secondary schools to the Internet. Similar statistics could be adduced with respect to all other regional states.
The Government’s primary concern remains the war on poverty, and the key objectives of the Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP), covering the period 2005/06-2009/10, to achieve sustained, robust and pro-poor economic growth to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, one of which is to halve poverty by 2015. This is showing positive results. The proportion of people living in poverty declined from 44% in 2000 to 39% in 2005, and both urban and rural poverty indices have fallen. PASDEP aims to reduce this proportion to 29% by 2010. It is undeniable that a great deal remains to be done. Ethiopia is deeply appreciative of the generosity of donors. It does, however, put aid to good use. It is on track to achieve most MDGs and to lift Ethiopia into the ranks of middle-income countries within the next two or three decades.
Belai Habte-Jesus, MD, MPHGlobal Strategic Enterprises, Inc. 4 Peace & ProsperityWin-win synergestic Partnership 4P&P-focusing on 5Es: Education+Energy+Ecology+Economy+Enterpriseswww.Globalbelai4u.blogspot.com; Globalbelai@yahoo.com C: 703.933.8737; F: 703.531.0545
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Subject: Re: Can a Black Irish Jew Learn that Coffe is not made by Starbucks?or lamb chops by Tesco?
To: kmyers@independent.ie, Globalbelai@Yahoo.com
Cc: nwMariam@yahoo.com, "Asratie Teferra"
Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 2:39 PM
Exchanging psychotic words and ideas does nothing else than bring wars and further poverty. If we want to address the issue of Mr Myers ( an unusual Jewish name by the way for an Irish) let us write ourselves or publish an article about what we contributed to the West, which by the way included black Africans which have introduced shoe machines for the West, traffic lights for their cars and blood transfusions for their soldiers in the field! This we do without mentioning Myers or whoever. These people are similar to mass murderers who want recognition; in this case by shooting from the barrel of a pen!!! Mr Myers may also be a Black Irish and is writing out of frustrating xenophobic personality! ! Read the following http://wiki. answers.com/ Q/What_does_ 'Black_Irish' _mean However we should really examine ourselves clearly as to why we are always in the same quagmire and not progressing as other nations such as the South Asians and the East especially china and the Indo-Asians? We can not raise "Cain" every time someone writes derogatory comments about Ethiopians Africans etc. Maybe we can learn something from the Australians New Zealanders Brazilians and other new countries instead of complaining constantly!! Maybe every African has what I call "Chieftain Mentality" that is peasant to Leader ? and the reason we can easily be shipped as human cargoes or Mineral and Resources Cargoes. How many of you who have shipped yourselves into slavery to the West (now a days you call it career or work) turned to your roots and helped the foundations of your countries the children? Every kid born since 1974 is now 40 years old at most. Imagine what the difference would have been??? Act now and help those who are helping and supporting orphanages and schools. Stop bickering overtime some European writes about our inadequacies? ?Basliel Wolde Gabriel
-- AddisuTadesse@ aol.com wrote:
FYI: Was sent to Impendent Ireland. Lamb Chops Come from TESCO, nothing to do with the poor Sheep. A reply to Kevin Myers ““ Africa is giving nothing to anyone – apart from AIDS” *Addisu Tadesse, Having read a column written by Kevin Myers with sensational title of “ Africa is giving nothing to anyone – apart from AIDS” I felt like replying immediately. Just for sanity check, I forward the article to a friend and told him my intention of writing a reply to his demeaning remarks. After reading the article, my friend called immidately and said, “Don’t!”. Surprised, I asked why not? “You are wasting your time” was his reply. Feeling bemused, I said, what is wrong with educating another misguided soul about Africa . And continued to20say, there are many people out there, with narrow tunnel vision of the world, that need to be educated. Whenever possible, we African, have a duty to put everything in perspective to avoid misrepresentation of the reality. “Well, then…if you have time let me tell you” said my friend. “Mr. Kevin Myers could be either attention seeking individual, like those guys who appear on Jerry Springer shows to say “Darling I was born a man”, or someone who has a closed mind, who would never understand”. “Reading into the article” my friend added “Mr. Myer is probably the latter than the former” And continued saying, “let alone educate him with your single reply, you may even apply for a planning permission and build school on Mr. Myers head. And yet, I can assure you, he wouldn’t still get it” Then without stopping, he continues to elaborate what he meant. He said “Mr. Myers may jump out of his Egyptian cotton bed sheet and have a quick shower and dry himself with fine cotton towel. Then he is more likely to brew an Ethiopian coffee to walk him up. Followed by a toast with Ivory cost’s chocolate spread. He may even afford a Ghanaian Gold necklace or Angolan Silver cuff lings. Then he may drive his 4x4 made of Iron, Cobalt, copper and titanium mined in Africa and roll himself comfortably using Liberian rubber. Despite price hike, he has to stop by shell station to fill his car with Nigeria petrol to pollute the planet and make it inhabitable. At break time, he may smoke Zimbabwean tobacco, sweeten his tea with Madagascar sugar. And still he wouldn’t see Africa. After having a well marinated and spiced meal with Kenyan Chile, he might finish off with banana milkshake and tropical fruits to add few pounds to his, most likely, an overweight stature” All the way, he can’t possibly see Africa until he snuggle back in to his cotton bed. Not because Africa has nothing to give to Mr. Myers --apart from AIDS - but he refused to see it”. “In conclusion” my friend said “Mr. Myers is, like those kids who think lamb chops come from Tesco and has nothing to do with the woolly sheep”. Indeed, bless him. At that point, it become clear to me that it is better to have a laugh about it than engage in serious discussion to educate Mr. Myers -what Africa has to give to the world to import AIDS. It become so clear to me that there is no point in mentioning more than 15 million Ethiopians are engaged in coffee farming to produce 100 thousands of tones of coffee, that he enjoys everyday, which earn them less than 300,000 dollars on world market. After paying for sacks and shipping there are left with nothing, to keep them going through the year. It is become obvious that it would be a waste of time to explain to him that the aid that the 54 plus African countries had received in the last 20 years wouldn’t possibly match the 20 billion euro economic aid that Ireland had received from EU alone. Ireland got these money to bring Ireland to the standard of the rest of Europe, and yet, Mr. Myers, question the morality of saving a child in Africa through changes collection in churches. Since the likes of Mr. Myers are obsessed with self-aggrandization and righteousness for dropping few changes in the begging bowl, he could only see begging bowl of Africa , not what is in his fruit bowl. Of course, how could he possibly see that every commodity he overindulge and pollute the world was farmed or mined by those “wild-eyed” children, who may grow up to have other wild-eyed kids to support cheapest supply of goods. No point to direct him to Pereto's economics that 80 persent of the world has to support the other 20 in the world. Bless him, lamp chop come from Tesco and has nothing to do with the poor sheep. July 15, 2008
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--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Belai FM Habte-Jesus
From: Belai FM Habte-Jesus
Subject: Can a Black Irish Jew Learn that Coffe is not made by Starbucks?
To: kmyers@independent.ie
Cc: nwMariam@yahoo.com, "Asratie Teferra"
Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 2:25 PM
Good governance needs to reach out to Futures Market and Futures NGOs in Developing Countries. The world economy is collapsing because of few criminal futures market specultors that circumvent the legal framework for managing risks and threats to the global market. In the QUANGO (Quasi Non Governmental Organizatioins) that are infiltrated by counter-intelligence and at times criminal anarchic elements, developing countries are being intentiionally disestabilized under the banner of human rights and freedom of expression double and triple geopardy strategies. Just imagine NGOs in America trying to destabilize the nation and the Police and FBI watching them march onto the White House to take power. Just imagine the Freedom Marchers of Martin Luther King standing marching on the White House or Congress to burn it down and the FBI just watching it happen for the sake of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International banner of protecting Hitler's luetenant of genocide in Lain America? Just imagine who is crying foul when Good Governance demands of transparency and accountability is declared, the anarchists in Tora Bora or the Terrorrists in Somalia and Eritrea, No, it is Human Rights Watch Quango in Washington that is making noice.Why not rename your outfits as Anarchists Watch International! Just imagine what the Futures Market Speculators of Criminal Sub Prime Mortgage Bankers did to the housing market and the Food and Oil Speculators are doing to the Energy Market. Now the QuaNGO outfits are trying to do the same. We all need to be compliant to the rules of Good Governance that is transparency and accountability! Why not Good Governance standards for Human Rights Right Watch Group, humans as well as capital need good governance Please read www.globalbelai4u.blogspot.com for further information.Belai Habte-Jesus, MD, MPH Global Strategic Enteprises 4 Peace & ProsperityGlobalelai@yahoo.com
Belai Habte-Jesus, MD, MPHGlobal Strategic Enterprises, Inc. 4 Peace & ProsperityWin-win synergestic Partnership 4P&P-focusing on 5Es: Education+Energy+Ecology+Economy+Enterpriseswww.Globalbelai4u.blogspot.com; Globalbelai@yahoo.com C: 703.933.8737; F: 703.531.0545 Africa is giving nothing to the world apart from AIDS? I found this rather disgusting and callous article amusing. Let us examine the facts in detail with questions. Who gave AIDS to Africa in the first place? Remember the prostitutes centers of Nairobi and Uganda who reported AIDS after American tourists from NY and LA, mostly Irish Gay and Drug dealers! I found the article very interesting and thought provoking and wondered to ask the following questins! 1. Who gave AIDS to Africa in the first place? Is it not the Military Complex Research Establishment and thethe Irish Amernican Gay and Drug Dealing Community in LA and New York Gay Community? 2. Who is sending the Guns, that kill all Africans in the incesant civil wars and some coups organized in Seychelles, and Guinea more recently? heck your facts, does Africa produce these guns? 3. Who is sending money and resources to the foolish youth of Somalia and Eritrea to wipe out their own citizens, is it not the Arabian Terrorist Network and their Oil Rich Sheikedoms? 4. Who is abusing our children in the name of Catholic Charities is it not the Irish Catholic Charities that are profaning our kids in the name of charities? 5. Who is intentionally feeding revolutions and counter revolutions in the Horn is it not the Superpowers of Russia and the West? and the foolish Irish Pop stars and their surrgoate Catholic Gay Charities who abuse our chilren? 6. Who is sttealing the African Coffee for peanuts and selling them at the high cost is it not the Irish American Starbucks and the like, etc/ 7. Who is benfiting Africa or the rest of the world from the Gold and Diamond Mines in South Africa and West Coast.now the Oil from Nigeria and Sudan? 8. What built the British Empire and now the West Colonial Powers, is it not African labor and African resources? Ask our African American and African British Citizens/ 9. By the way did Africa go to Europe or Arab land to colonize or these people came to come and colonize Africa? Even now who is making 80% of the AID devoted to Africa under the USAID and European Commission? Who is really makng money Africans or the incompetent Western Charities? Do we really need them? 10. Who is responsible for Global Climate Change that is causing the greatest threat to humanity, Africans or the West? Some where this fools who write such one sided and glib stories should be be educated about the facts and put their stories in context and trust others will answer some of these questions and write a more detailed letter to the editors of these journals. I cannot accpet the fact, oh! we are to blame stories... The Global Climate Change that is the main cause is not due to African activities at all, if you see the literature and science and even watch Al-Gores Fild on Global Climate Change. I challenge this generation to seek for the facts and not accept whatever is printed by Irish Catholics who benefit from the bones and blood of our poor by keeping 80% of the charity money! Could we have a more just and effective governance? Yes, but the system does not allow Africans to succeed. We see it here in America where Obama with all his talent and connections is facing the strongest critics and distractors from Reverends Wrigjht and Jackson who are pulling down their own person. African scholars should not pull down their poor governements to please those who throw peanuts at us. We should demand long term strategic development resources and talents and not peanuts. We do not need charities but enterprises, please read www.globalbelai4u.blogspot.com on how to convert Charities into Enterprises, and guess what all the Foolish Irish Charity workers will be out of work and they will not have the nerve to insult us as well. All the same, long term strtegies for development and enterprises and diversificaiton of our failing farming enterprises should be the goal. Let us face to the facts, MSF and Catholic Charities who are abusing our kids sexually and then writing such diplorable articles are no the way forward. Let them treat their own HIV and Drug victims in Ireland1 Let us focus on our own short and long term strategies and avoid these loony charities of doom all together! with regards Dr B
I foudn this rather shocking perspective from an Irish American forwarded to me. Imagine, the Clan and the Racist Irishman showering his igrnorance and crude diatribe about why not to assist Ethiopians starving. I could not beieve it! I could not help, but share it with this crowd because this is the only crowd who is raising money to support Starving Ethiopians and yuo might want to tell him why? I could not help read with pain and disgust and let us see what he will get from this crowd. We need to educate the McGills of Minnestora and K Myeres of America who are actively campaigning to dmage Ethiopia's image and her potential. I believe this is as important as raising money since bad stories like Lou Dobbs of CNN on immigration, David of Jewish times and then Nairobi reporter of New York Time can damage millions of people across the world and we need to act soon. with regards Dr B First a response from Zegeye: Dear All,
We should all email this idiot to let him know that Ethiopia is the origin of humanity and Coffee. Ethiopia, Uganda, Angola, Kenya and Tanzania, are some of the major producers and exporters of Coffee. Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria are major producers and exporters of Cocoa, which is used in the production of chocolate and other confectioneries. Sudan, Chad and Nigeria produce 95% (nienty-five percent) of Gum Arabic (a natural gum aslo known as gum acacia), which is used primarily in the food industry as a stabilizer. Africa also produces and exports differnt varities of spices, which are used in the food processing industry.
The United States imports 25% (twenty-five per cent) of its crude oil from Sub-Saharan Africa - (this does not inculde the import from Libya and Algeria). And this will increase in the years to come. In addition Africa produces and exports strategic minerals, such as Uranium, Titanium etc., and precious metals, such as gold, silver, copper etc., to the World, particulary to the United States and Western Europe.
This is only the tip of the ice berg. It we take time and do an extensive research we will find out that Africa produces and exports raw materials and primary goods to the world market in large quantities. These are the raw materials and primary good that are processed and sold in the world market by the United States, Europe and Asian countries - China, Japan etc.
Thank you.
Zegeye
Belai Habte-Jesus, MD, MPHGlobal Strategic Enterprises, Inc. 4 Peace & ProsperityWin-win synergestic Partnership 4P&P-focusing on 5Es: Education+Energy+Ecology+Economy+Enterpriseswww.Globalbelai4u.blogspot.com; Globalbelai@yahoo.com C: 703.933.8737; F: 703.531.0545
--- On Thu, 7/17/08, Million Kibret
From: Million Kibret
Subject: [Addis-Ababa-university-Alumni-Network] Fw: Independent.ie: Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS
To: Addis-Ababa-university-alumni@yahoogroups.com, "Abebe kebede"
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 3:20 AM
Dear All, I am forwarding you an amazing article on the current and recurring Ethiopian drought. Please follow the link hereunder. Regards, Million.
--- On Thu, 7/17/08, kmconsult@ethionet. et
From: kmconsult@ethionet. et
Subject: Independent. ie: Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS
To: milkib@yahoo. com
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008, 12:00 AM
A friend (kmconsult@ethionet .et) has sent you an article:
Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS
http://www.independ ent.ie/opinion/ columnists/ kevin-myers/ africa-is- giving-nothing- to-anyone- -apart-from- aids-1430428. html
Hi ,
I am forwarding you an interesting article on Ethiopian famine.
Regards,
Million
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