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[ittuabafarda]

Brother H.E. Dr. Sileshi bin Bekele slew it in this speech. Let's look at some of the statements in his historic speech.
1) We’re dealing with a hydroelectric dam project, which is not the first of its kind in the world. Duh No. 1 for el-Sisi and Shoukry.
2) We are building a reservoir to store water that will generate electricity by hitting turbines. Huge duh No. 2 for el-Sisi and Shoukry. He ain't done yet!
3) For context, GERD reservoir is two and half times smaller than that of the Aswan Dam. Out of the park duh No. 3 for el-Sisi and Shoukry.
When I read No. 2 and 3 I was on the floor with roaring laughter. I tell you, if I am the head of the Egyptian negotiation team I will bolt into el-Sisi's office now as we speak and turn in my immediate resignation. This Ethiopian makes me look and feel stupid, dude! I ain't taking it anymore. 'We are building a reservoir to store water that will generate electricity by hitting turbines.' This young generation of our day goes like, duhhhhhh!!!! I get it!!!!

Then he asked a question alluding to the same claim I made before. It goes 'Do Ethiopians have the right to drink from the Nile?’ Then I was overwhelmed with crushing emotion. Dragging those innocent black folks into the court for committing no crime is not fair at all and is utterly wrong. They have been called all kinds of names and were issued foreclosures one after another on their Allah gifted property. They were being insulted when they were issued the 1929 and 1959 foreclosures decided by courts they were not even given the privilege to be present at the hearings in person. The injustice of all those treaties was that they were issued eviction on the property they had already paid for in full. This impropriety makes me very, very sad more than making me mad. I guess we now live in a time in history where bullies push around or at least try to bully innocent black folks for the only ‘crime’ of working very hard. as our patriot brother stated with ‘blood, tears, and sweat’ to pull themselves out of abject poverty.

Meanwhile, I was delighted to read the statement made by the US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. She goes ‘We believe that the African Union is the most appropriate venue to address this dispute, and the United States is committed to providing political and technical support to facilitate a successful outcome.’ Such a bold declaration must applauded. Thank you Madam Ambassador! Thank you very, very much.

[DefendTheTruth]

ittuabafarda,

People say again and again that those who have knowledge can master the world and knowledge comes from, at least partly, from education. That is why many countries invest into education their resources as a means of securing their future, I think.

Both Dr. Engineer Sileshi Bekele and Madam Inger Andersen presented a compelling argument and pre-emptied any potential conviction on the part of Ethiopia's effort to overcome poverty. These are stories that can talk for themselves and they were presented by educated presenters. I took back my initial accusation against the UN after I listened to Madam Andersen. Thanks goes also to this articulate and factual lady.

[ittuabafarda]

DefendTheTruth,

Thank you for the clip. Those generous and upright black folks still have sensible people who are willing to listen to their side of the real story. Sudan may be won over once the dam is completed and start generating electricity also helping mitigate the destructive flooding problem it goes through every year. Egypt is also may be led to scale back its assault on the dam but the crying and moan will change to 'reparation'. It will come up with cooked documents show how much it lost since the dam comes into full operation. It will not stop harassing those black folk into infinity.

In another development, my friend shot me an email telling me about this so-called lobbying outfit(Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C.) is pressing the US Congress to delete Ethiopia out of the AGOA Trade Pact(African Growth and Opportunity Act). This is very crucial pact for the old country because vast majority of its industry is textile related. The removal of Ethiopia from this pact means its exports to the USA will carry heavy duty. It will be impossible to find a market here for apparel and other textile produced at those factories. That will result in job losses in tens of thousands over there. Is this so cruel or what? Most of the workers at those factories are women of every ethnic group. Humanity has just lost its senses. Here is the link I received today:

[DefendTheTruth]

ittuabafarda,

thank you very much for the link. I don't know this german sounding so called body Von Batten-Montague-York but its call seems to look like a call on Ethiopians to go and commit suicide on themselves so that others may live better in the space they would leave behind.

Ethiopians, the vast majority of them at least, identify themselves with the cause of their mother land and the call of this body is a futile exercise, I think. We have overcome much harder challenges in the recent past, so I don't think this should worry us that much.

It only shows that the instrument, AGOA, was also just a tool to advance one's own objective that can be offered at will and withdrawn when the willl is different. If it is indeed a pact then it should have been founded on some sort of principles and cemented by concrete agreements pledges from all parties of the pact.

Else, it was non-binding and I am not sure if such an arrangement could even be called a pact.

[ittuabafarda]

DefendTheTruth:

This Von Batten-Montague-York is so-called lobby outfit. At least it looks like that from what I see on the internet. Mostly he is someone who hates the old country, Ethiopia, with a passion. I thought he is some Caucasian dude by he is just as black as you and I are. He reminds me of Gitlow!!!! You know what I mean? You give him just $30,000 he can get Res 97 passed in the US Congress at a record pace. I am wondering how feels now that Ethiopia has just prevailed both at the UNSC and at The Hague during the same week? I tell you, if I were like him I would commit suicide. The country he sees as his worst enemy has just turned corners. I am very elated about that but also sad. I am sad because my black folks are being dragged into courts for committing no crime. That was after being insulted time and again with the 'Jim Crow laws' of 1929 and 1959 that forbid your and my black folks scooping even a cup of water from their Allah given river.

Meanwhile, there is one scenario that scares me most if it materializes. I have mentioned my fear a few times before. I am worried that the more the Abiy administration(it has won the majority vote now) feels cornered and threatened by the West the less and less option it will have but to throw itself into the arms of those two despots in Moscow and Beijing. If that happens, we should all expect one coup after another with more horrifying bloodletting in its trails. Abiy and his group are not a good fit either for Moscow or Beijing. They will prefer someone in their image. And that only means another spell of destructive civil wars that will drag on for years and decades. They the world is gonna see the entire 120 million people just in Ethiopia alone on the move. Such a scenario leaves me with sleepless nights just thinking about it. That is why I throw myself down and pray daily pleading to The Almighty Our Creator Not To Forsake that country whose children Had Saved both major religions(Bilal ibn Rabah, the first mu'azzin and Maryam Magdalene).

[DefendTheTruth]

ittuabafarda,

I am really not so good in politics but I have the feeling that the world order has changed, from a uni-polar world to a multi-polar one. Before just couple of decades the American government was the sole superpower, today things have changed, according to my feeling. Before few decades China was a small developing country, seeking help from the developed world, today China is a superpower, the Americans have to negotiate with the chinese, they can no more afford to give just instructions on how issues should be run.

When it comes to Africa, whether we like it or not, we are already under the influence of China, just look at the level of economic involvement of the Chinese in Africa and compare that to that of America (i. e., the US). Whether the Americans want to stay or pull back and scale down their engagement in Africa has diminished, the Chinese have already a big leap ahead of them.

I am also not so sure if the two gentlemen you mentioned are so monsters or only the way they were presented to us from the "western media" we are being fed our news from. If the chinese president is so monster then I think more than anybody the more than 1.4 Billion chinese themselves wouldn't have allowed him to stay on and "molster" them, I just feel. These are people who can influence the world itself, let alone the China proper. Why would people of that size tolerate a party that is 100 years old would rule over them without any comptetor? Are they so dumb?

The same can be said about Russia, I think. The citizens of the two countries are educated and enlightened and do know what is good for them and not. I can't say why these citizens would tolerate for so long such a monster the media (of the west) is trying to tell us.

Recently I was listening to the BBC's Hard Talk with a gentleman from China and Stephen Sacker was confronting his gast with the alleged violation of huma rights. The gast was saying there is no violation of human rights, it could be possible that we may have different perception of what could constitute "human rights". The journalist continued to press on and said specifically that there is no free speech in China, the gast also repulsed the accusation, when the journalist specifically mentioned about the banning of the BBC itself in China. The gentleman didn't wait long before confronting the journalist asking him back but your own country (UK) is also banning CGTN (the chinese global tv network) in UK, does that mean also there is no freedom of speech in UK too?

I think the journalist took back his accusation and moved on to other fields after that.

[ittuabafarda]

DefendTheTruth,

I hope and pray that either the current or any other future regime of the old country will have the wisdom to handle the 'helping' hands from Moscow and Beijing properly without being totally sucked in to be in service of their wicked ways. So far Beijing has made plausible inroads in the economies of many African countries but I don't see anyone of them being the tools yet. As you already know many African countries are being ruled by gangsters and those countries are sitting on untapped natural resources both China and Russia are salivating at. Xi and his predecessors were not leaders who suddenly fell madly in love with those black folks. They know that their country(especially China) has exhausted its natural resources after the industrialization boom since Nixon set his foot in Beijing in 1972. China must maintain the flow of raw material to keep its momentum going and Africa is the only 'wild west' readily available at a wholesale price and almost free of charge. Like you I am not well disposed in the areas international politics. I speak just from what I have seen, heard and read. I remember to what extent China was industrialized just less than 4 decades ago. I had the opportunity to travel and spend time there on business on many occasions. The first time I was there I was so incensed by the fact that I was not able to do that with my people in the old country due to the fact Mengistu and his ragtag commies were bawling about the 'dictatorship of the proletariat'. I can tell you one fact that without the vast and open market in America there wouldn't be any China that we see today. Walmart was there in earnest way back the 1980's and other big outlets including factories followed suit in droves leaving behind the rust belt we see in sadness here today. It was not only the market that was readily made available for the products manufactured at US setup factories there first in Guangdong and later on in more areas but the universities here were let wide open for tens of thousands of Chinese students mostly on free scholarships. I guess that was one of the byproducts of the then raging 'cold' war. I still remember some of my first machine operators way back then. Mostly they were locally educated and unemployed engineers who used to live on monthly government handouts(stipends), if my high mileage memory serves me right, of around 30 RMB'S(Yuans). Some of them had ended up being successful businessmen and a few of those used the first chance they got to come here and never went back. They themselves would tell you this. If the door is left wide open for everyone to leave they would tell you that 1.4 billion of them will do just that in a heartbeat. Please note that it had to take the demise of more than 50 million(some have that in upwards of 70 million) ordinary Chinese citizens between 1949 and 1989 to produce a generation of completely subdued and kowtowed citizens. Mao used to gabble up 5 million of them just at a single sitting. We can talk about this from here and now into eternity.

Finally, I thank you profusely for remaining true to our legendary tradition of being so civil during our exchange of ideas. May The Almighty Our Creator Bless You and Your Family!!!

[ittuabafarda]

Up and up!!!

[Halafi Mengedi]

The divided one ethnic Tigrigna speaking people will unite very soon and they are gone, that means Oromo is gone, Somali is gone, Beneshangule, Afar, the Agew clans are gone too. I think Sidama, Wolaita and Kefa will do the same. Gambela to south Sudan and the real Amhara will emerge without other smaller ethnics Kaba and Amhara is no longer a player in the Horn of Africa.

[DefendTheTruth]

ittuabafarda,

you are welcome, you don't have to thank me, it should have been the norm of our social fabric.

Before I may answer to your detailed anaysis, I remembered this post after listening to the following audio and thought you could also like to listen to it.