October 30, 2006 • 12:27 am 0
TIME: ” U.K.-based charity Oxfam last week accused Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks of blocking Ethiopian efforts to trademark three types of coffee beans in the U.S. Starbucks denies this, but the controversy continues to percolate.”
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October 28, 2006 • 2:54 am 0
What the hell is going on? The prime minister is saying Ethiopia is ‘technically at war’ with those damn religious zelots.
What the heck is really going on? There are a number of possibilities.
1) It may just be – as it appears on the surface. We all know, ERs, not all of them by any means, but a healthy majority, get up every morning and ask themselves, … “how could we screw our neighbors to the south because we can’t seem to do anything right on our own and let’s just blame them for everything, and may be, just may be, we may be able to get back to the good old days of exchanging paper with dollars. Some of our cousins down there should be able to facilitate that once we get it going. We know that they could be quite generous. Oh, good old days, don’t you remember when we were the 6th or so, I think it was, coffee exporters in the world wihout growing a single bean here at home. We got to get back to that”
So with that fervour, they see the fools way down south, who have been fighting for, God knows how long, and say to themselves … “humm…we could give them everything they want, weapons whatever, may be some cash. To raise cash, we could just levy another $200 doallrs per head on all Eritreans who live in the states and Europe. Thank God for the janitorial services there, they will be able to come up with anything we ask of them. With that, we could just get Meles and his boys out of the way, and get, humm… may be OLF in Addis. Oh, God, that will be the day. We could just do anything if we could get those dudes in finfinne (Addis). Anything, I tell ya.”
To that end, the grand strategy may to open wars on two fronts, with Somalis down south heading up, and their own ‘crop gathering‘ force moving southbound.
2) OR it could be an attempt to change the subject by both, Ethiopian and ER governments, in collaboration or otherwise. Meles calls up Afeworke and the conversation goes like this…
Meles, “What is up, cous?” [for those who don't get the lingo, 'cous' is to mean 'cousin']
Afeworke, “What’s up, my man, how are things down there?”
Meles, “you know how it is, those jokers want to just waltz into office from their million birr mini mansions…don’t they know the kind of pain you and I had to go through for 30 odd years to get here…Are they so darn foolish to think that we would just give it up like that just for the sake of ‘democracy’….I don’t know what to think of them, man…they are just a bunch of democracy craze hooligans…can’t believe any institution would give them jokers Phd’s…can you believe that? “
Afeworke, “I know what you mean, cous”
Meles, “anyways, the reason I called is, I know how tough things are for you, and you know my situation down here as well…so you might want to think about starting something up down south with those fools. That sure will take a whole lot of pressure off our backs”
Afeworke, “Gotcha, will go with that and I will rally the suckers here…and you do the same over there also”
Meles, “will do….got to go, Azeb is bitching again…you know how that is “
Afewroke, “I feel ya…take care”
3) Or the big boys (the superpower(s)) may not be liking things brewing in Somalia, and wanted to do something about it
Oh, I don’t know…what the heck do I know?
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October 24, 2006 • 5:52 am 0
Sunday Times:”Ethiopian authorities have arrested a fugitive ex-member of dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam’s communist “Derg” regime who was convicted of genocide here, officials said.”
A nice lesson to former and current torturers, killers and thugs.
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• 5:24 am 0
Houston Chronical:”A senior leader of the Islamic militants who control much of southern Somalia urged people in neighboring Ethiopia on Monday to revolt against their government, calling it an oppressive regime led by an unpopular minority group.”
Nice try. Lets hope these religious zealots, aka Eritrea’s toy soldiers, won’t succeed to any extent.
By the way, their rhetroic sounds more like it came from their arms suppliers.
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• 3:57 am 0
Jeff S. will be spending a good deal of his time in prison thinking about the good old days.
Was he thrown out to the dogs to be made an example of? Oh, well, that is one of the risks of being CEO these days. Don’t most of them kind of do the same thing? They promote the heck out of their companies – to later drop their options like ‘it’s hot’.
Jeffy went a little further though. According to the reports, he sat on the helm of a company that “manufactured” good news at will. They created fake partnerships, moved around money from money making units to the losers to make them appear otherwise, and fudged their numbers.
Regardless of all this, hadn’t Jeffery taken a couple of steps more than our bosses, he would have been just fine, sipping a glass of vintage dom perignon in one of his country clubs, smirking at the suckers.
Filed under: Economy & Business
October 20, 2006 • 8:35 pm 0
Ok, it sucks. It stinks to high heaven.
What the hell are you doing there then, you may ask? Someone very close to me is in one of their s*&ty hospitals undergoing a treatment caused by their own gross negligence. That stinks even more.
Most Germans I see on the streets or at the hospital are pretty emotionless, machine like creators. They don’t smile or acknowledge greetings. A number of them are quit rude.
Can’t wait to get the hell out of here!
Oh, one thing I liked is their transportation system. It is simply, excellent.
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• 7:31 pm 0
AndNetwork.com:”The world’s biggest commercial aircraft super jumbo, Airbus A380, touched down at the Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa Bole International Airport Monday evening, making this Eastern African country the first African nation to welcome the most modern commercial airline in the world.”
It is exciting to be the first. It would have been more exiciting if some part of the it was manufactored in Ethiopia. Ok, some of you may smirk at that, but it will happen one day.
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October 18, 2006 • 10:34 pm 0
BBC:”Ethiopian police massacred 193 protesters in election violence last year, an independent report has claimed.”
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October 17, 2006 • 11:07 am 0
Are the ERs going to do it again?
BBC: “Eritrean troops are in a prohibited buffer zone on the border with Ethiopia to harvest crops, says Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu.”
And to do so, they needed “1,500 troops and 14 tanks”. humm…
The “crop harvesting” operation must be the reason why they are patching up relations with their ‘brotherly’ Sudanese counterparts.
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• 12:29 am 0
BBC: “The United Nations has called on Eritrea to withdraw troops and tanks it has moved into the buffer zone on its border with Ethiopia.”
I really don’t understand Ereitrians. They wanted to be on their own. They are now. Why don’t they just leave us alone and work on their development? Ok, ok, I know about the Badme thing, but they can keep on aruging their case to the world. Is incorporating that dusty town so critical for their growth? I venture to say, it is not. So they could just send out one of their talking heads whereever, and get back to work to do something ao
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