በትርታ ይጀምራል ትር ትር ይልና ይተረታል ወይንም ይተረተራል፤

ተረት ይሆናል

With the vibration IT begins…in the vibration IT sounds…in the narration or distortion,

IT ends…TO BE –or- as a Tale ...

.......The fishes get their prey, if only YOU "move, click and tick" (say... reflect) in the aquarium. If you "play & prey (even pray)" outside the aquarium...it is meaningless ...for the fishes............

A blog for documents and studies on the development of

Human "Consciousness", to help and

promote the process of rational reflection.

*

The Highlight here will be, working towards the high objectives of harmony in the Ethiopian Social-Reality: PEACE, freedom of CULTURE, scientific PERFECTION and tolerant FAITH. Any knowledge, without the slightest touch of dogmatism; whose purpose is enlightening and freeing the human species to celebrate its full liberty and eventual perfection, is always welcome.



The Quintessence of Life

Friday 25 March 2011

"Combat Eritrea" - The "New" Social-Revese-Engineering

THIS IS ONLY A DRAFT (A beta version as we technicians call it) 

Saudi Arabia has among others a highly vested interest in the "stability" of Ethiopia. So much at stake and so high the stocks;




- the "land grabbing" in particular! (clip-part-1 / clip-part-2)


To achieve this objective, lessons from the social movement burning the North African rulers and the whole Arab World have to be appraised to contain any sign of a new regime "change"; at its source and birth before it is too late, no matter how remote and farfetched, as far as it lies in the anticipated sphere of influence, NOT ONLY BAHRAIN (hope intervention in vain).

Sociology experts have to work out a "social reverse-engineering" design. It seems a social environment is required to experiment the designed social plan. Ethiopia and its leader Melese seem to be elected for this purpose. The war rhetoric against Eritrea is the initial indication of this fact.

The lessons from the 2011 social movement are roughly: without Tunisia, there is No Egypt, without Egypt no Libya; Yemen, Bahrain, etc,. To contain and save what can be saved, a social-reverse-engineering /SRE/ (ex. rallying supporters, employing thugs & mercenaries, introducing supercial reforms, installing security forces, infiltratiion, disruption & psychological warfare, medial confusion and prohibition etc.) has to be introduced. 1. SRE for Libya, 2. SRE for Egypt, and 3. SRE for Tunisia, correspondingly for Yemen, Bahrain etc.

Notes to reflect on the social-reverse-engineering (SRE) designed for Eritrea and Ethiopia !

"Combat Eritrea"

1. War rhetoric against Eritrea,
2. Give the Eritrean regime a pretext of the best caliber (nationalism) to stifle its mass uprising,
3. Help the opposition; but make sure the strife between the Ethiopian and Eritrean democrats sustains,
4. Threaten; intervention supported by "Ethio- international" forces,
5. Frustrate any sign of "change" on this side of Mereb
6. Whistle a fake "nationalist" rhetoric against the other side of Mereb - "Shabia".

Stifling any social movement in Eritrea is the crux matter of the design, since any movement in the region will spill over to Ethiopia, and even in the Horn of Africa as a whole; like it did from Tunisia to Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Bahrain etc. Due to the geo-political and historical proximity of Eritrea and Ethiopia or the similar social-relations, there can be no doubt that any authentic social mass movement for democracy and genuine freedom beginning in Eritrea would have a tremendous "Tsunami" effect in the whole region, primarily in Ethiopia. This has to be stifled even before it is anticipated and prior to its birth. That is their point.

So the real objective of all the recent war-rhetoric is not the tyrant Isayas at all, but, if it happens to come, the social uprising against the half century rule of the dictator, which may take an unpredictable momentum any time, any soon.

With this strategy, Melesse and his Saudi mentors are "resisting the beginnings", which they missed unaware in Tunisia, to experience all the "trouble" thereafter.

Beware of the War-Mongers! The war is anticipated for the SRE against the social movement of Dignity in the Horn, which may begin somewhere in a remote vicinity of Eritrea,- the latent "Tunisia" of the Horn of Africa, as projected in the scripts of the SRE from King Abdulah's court! Eritrea, which provides the best objective conditions for an uprising.

- An autocratic rule and a one man dictatorship over five decades,
- An ideologically disoriented ruling class looming with clashes and corruption-conflicts,
- A destitute people and a highly dissatisfied youth,
- A relatively homogenous community,
- Diversity with more national coherence,
- In the low lands spiritual & cultural affinity to the Arab World; religion & language

This is a highly volatile latent fire which may ignite the whole region; "extremely precarious, if left unattended", the SRE experts would say!

Beware Democrats ! Beware of the SRE! Eritrea ! Ethiopia! It is all our Common Human Dignity - Our Fraternity -   which is at stake!

NO MORE WAR !

Thursday 24 March 2011

The Success Story has no end...

The success story reported again,

"Addis Ababa, March 23 (WIC) - Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc, a food company owned by billionaire Sheikh Mohammed al- Amoudi, said it plans to invest $2.5 billion by 2020 developing a rice-farming project in Ethiopia.
The company, based in Addis Ababa, leased 10,000 hectares (24,711 acres) in Ethiopia’s western Gambella region for 60 years at a cost of 158 birr ($9.42) per hectare annually, Chief Executive Officer Haile Assegide sai
d "  

A simple middle-class apartment in an average European city may cost $9,42 per square meter in a month, and annually this would be 12 times $9,42 per square meter.

That means, annually you would pay 12x more for the square meter than the Saudi investor does for the hectare in Gambella.  In other words with the annual-amount you pay for the square meter apartment, the Saudi investor gets 12 hectares; these are 120,000 square meters (1ha = 10,000).
If you can afford an apartment of 100 sq.meters, you would get a lease of 1200 hectares.
If you come together with 10 other Ethiopians under the same conditions, you would get a lease of 12000 hectares; 2000 hectares more than the Saudi Investor (10 000 ha.) would get.

If you have as much capital as you would pay for your apartment, it is an easy game.

If not and If you go to a bank to get the amount of capital what the Saudi Investor needs, this would amount to 10,000 x 9,42 = $ 94,200 a year. If you pay an interest of 10 % for this, it will be $9,420 per year. If you spare the extra 2000 ha. (to remain at the simple calculation),  you have enough savings to finance the interest for two consecutive years.  2000 x 9,42 = 2 x $9,420.

And at last all you need is the starting operative investment capital. A Start Capital, what a healthy nationally oriented commercial bank would be obliged to grant to its citizens. – Citizens, who are ready to work for themselves and the national development of their country.

To play with the round figures; How much?

"$2.5 Billion to Build Ethiopia Rice Farm." ...$2,500 000 000…This can make an investment of $250 000 each for 10 000 share-holders. The duration of the investment is 10 years, until 2020. In other words every shareholder needs to invest $25 000 per year on every hectare of the total of 10 000 hectares. Or one can make it cumbersome or a state-project with private holdings and a lot of combination-models are possible (1*. Given that 60% of the investment can be financed by a national development bank, the proprietors capital necessary for investment would be only $10 000 per year from each share-holder (10 000 share holders).

If you look behind the curtain; what the “big” investors are doing, is essentially nothing more than this calculation provided in all details by their canny-greedy consultants and accountants. They don’t perform miracles to get their capital out of the blues; and our big investor presumably collects also his investment capital, that he manages and administers,  from his 10 000 Saudi friends and citizens, who would employ all their influence of their King Abdullah to enforce  the protection of their investment in times of crisis, like what they are doing upto employing their armed forces in Bahrain these days - the days of social movements for Human Dignity.

Summa sammarum:
If there is the good Collective WILL, is this difficult for any state and government to organize and encourage its own citizens, to operate along this line; instead of going abroad in all directions of the globe, with “Land for Sale/ Ethiopia for Sale (clip)” shield, unless there is some hidden strategic agenda of domination etc.  – the new brand of Neocolonialism (clip).

BUT to be clear, the above narrative is only out of the perspective of the "investor and investment". The perception from the perspective of developing prosperity in coherence with the objective of sustaining nature and culture (the indigenous culture of the people) as a quality of life may however produce a very tragic story (clip).
 
In the context of the moment, it remains to say:

What a Success Story? 

Gambella/ Ethiopia for Sale-

During the last 20 years, every Ethiopian knows that the “melese-world-acclaimed/" "democratic election" by the ruling clique in Ethiopia has not taken place for the first time in 2010. As far as I remember this has never been traded by the Melese ruling clique, as "a five year contract with the people of Ethiopia" etc..  Moreover, the academic discourse about "Democracy" as a form of contract etc. is four centuries old, so that no one would hardly come on the notion to make this a theme of a press conference.

So why is "contract" a subject of discussion for Melese!

These days, I think when Melese is talking about "the contract“, be it remembering the crash course he made on the "Hobbes" and  "Locke’s” State;  or pedaling between "The state, is it me"?  "the king" or "the rule", there are  rather some other facts which are haunting him in his subconscious.  The contracts of the land grabbing and similar projects scattered for out-sales into the globe of investors around India, Saudi Arabia, China, South Korea, until recently even Libya and Egypt or Nigeria or  Djibouti etc. !

The subconscious, as diligent as it is in every creature makes the simple arithmetic like the above, without consulting him or his "Excellency",  and gives the notes to the conscious designated  as  a life-threatening fact, since any Ethiopian is more or less aware of this. It would thus look for a survival justification with the consequence of prattling some stuff, which would take every normal citizen by surprise:

"The five years contract I made with the people"; "I can do and leave what I like during these days!";
 
And the witty sub-conscious suggests further the soothing internal remark

„Don’t worry;  you will be relieved from the specter in five years; to win the next election again and again... and the contract is for your and your children’s whole life time ….-60 years and more!"

"You can do and leave what you like during these troubling days of year 2011; Moreover every social movement is a question of terrorism, security force, - or you can call it  - law and order; like every one of your genre does...Go ahead; tell them that you would chop their fingers (clip), if they don't  fit in the row...like the royal houses of the investors do it"!

And so the sub-conscious would delegate the conscious to spit out the context-less concepts in the realm of confusion to play the parody of the wise leader - the wise tyrant, to claim the  "honor" of the late Mubarek, who was being praised for his wisdom until very recently by almost all politicians of the "pragmatic school" from the west, the East, the Far East , Middle East and the whole Arab world as well, except his own people, to leave the polit-arena for good on the day of the "account" – 11.02.2 011  - The Dignity Day of Egypt – 

--
ከመቃብር በፊት...
ሰው ለመስራት ብቻ ከፍቀደ አየሩ
ክህነት ካላችሁ አሰቡ መርምሩ
ተራ  ከገባችሁ ዘክሩ አስዘክሩ
ያልሆነው እንዲሆን ምከሩ ሞክሩ~~~
ሽቀጣና ሽቀት እንዳይሆን ሃገሩ
አንድ ቀን እንደሆን አይቀር መቃ-ብሩ።

***
"Move, Click and Tick" in the aquarium!

*** collective
** interactive
* sovereign

(1*. 
Area/share(ha)
Operating capital ($)
Share-capital ($)
Shareholders’ number
Investment duration/year
1
2,500 000 000
250 000
10 000
10
1
2,50 000 000
25 000
10 000
1
0,1
2,50 000 000
2 500
100 000
1
0,01
2,50 000 000
250
1000 000
1
0,001
2,50 000 000
25
10 000 000
1
           





Wednesday 23 March 2011

Distortions and Interests....

From

Principle and Peril


"Oil-rich and strategically located, Libya is not Western Sahara or the Ivory Coast. The reiterations by Obama and his British and French counterparts that “Qaddafi must go” put Western prestige on the line. So, say events proceed as the West appears to hope and the rebels somehow manage to dislodge the colonel. Or say the US-British-French troika deals the death blow itself. What then? Who will emerge to reconstruct a strong, central state? Who will the West back from among the rebels’ disparate ranks? As the veteran journalist Patrick Cockburn contends, it is likely to be those “who speak the best English” and are “prepared to go before Congress to express fulsome gratitude for America’s actions.” One might add that they are apt to be the most willing to give favorable terms to Western oil firms for invigorated exploration and exploitation of the country’s hydrocarbon deposits. Whether scions of the royal family deposed by Qaddafi in 1969 or renegades from the colonel’s subsequent regime, these elements are sure to be heavier on opportunism than on popular legitimacy. This Libya would look nothing like the democratic state of liberal interventionist dreams, and quite a bit like post-Saddam Iraq."


***

Distortions of Dialogue

[Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan smiles with Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa. Image from allvoices.com]  
[Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Sultan smiles with Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa. Image from allvoices.com]
 "The Hignesses" smiling at the violence designed?

"I've had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can't take more.”
“You mean you can't take less,” said the Hatter, “it's very easy to take more than nothing."

Libya intervention threatens the Arab spring - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Relevant questions and  reservations:

Tuesday 22 March 2011

Awra Amba on "Spiegel"

Awra Amba's Story on "Spiegel" -  A leading German News Journal
**************
28.02.2011

KOMMUNEN

Ohne Gott und ohne Fusel

Von Buse, Uwe
Der Clash der Religionen ist einer der großen Konflikte unseres Jahrzehnts. Mitten in Afrika, im äthiopischen Dorf Awra Amba, herrscht Friede. Christen und Muslime haben dem Glauben abgeschworen, um zusammen glücklich zu werden - und es klappt. Von Uwe Buse
*
The clash of religions is one of the biggest conflicts of our century. Amidst Africa, in an Ethiopian village called Awra Amba, peace is reigning. Christians and Muslims have abjured their faiths, in order to live together in happiness -and it works. By Uwe Buse (My translation).


To read more (in German):


The Online Version:

http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-77222593.html

***
More on Awra Amba (clip):
http://vimeo.com/16997410

Monday 21 March 2011

The globalisation of revolution - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

The globalisation of revolution - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

It is high time that such essays (see link) put the role of the modern means of communications in their appropriate relations to the human agency, who are employing them to  struggle for their freedom.  
In the Interaction of MIND – Human Agency, Structure and CULTURE, the driving momentum of any social transformation or evolution, in the history of mankind, be it today or in the past, has always been the Human-Agency and not the means of communications. 
Otherwise; to mention a classical example; when workers (not the scattered peasants) stage a strike and get a better wage, it is as ridiculous as entertaining the notion that the workers succeeded in their struggle, since the firm provided them with the social context where they could work together.
*
"To listen to the hype about social networking websites and the Egyptian revolution, one would think it was Silicon Valley and not the Egyptian people who overthrew Mubarak.
Via its technologies, the West imagines itself to have been the real agent in the uprising. Since the internet developed out of a US Defense Department research project, it could be said the Pentagon did it, along with Egyptian youth imitating wired hipsters from London and Los Angeles.
Most narratives of globalisation are fantastically Eurocentric, stories of Western white men burdened with responsibility for interconnecting the world, by colonising it, providing it with economic theories and finance, and inventing communications technologies. Of course globalisation is about flows of people as well, about diasporas and cultural fusion.
But neither version is particularly useful for organising resistance to the local dictatorship. In any case, the internet was turned off at decisive moments in the Egyptian uprising, and it was ordinary Egyptians, mothers and fathers, daughters and sons, who toppled the regime, not the hybrid youth of the global professional classes." (cf. The globalisation of revolution - Opinion - Al Jazeera English)

Gambella/Ethiopia for Sale

Ethiopia at centre of global farmland rush 

What an out sale....This makes any Ethiopian sick;  even the one with the slightest love and a remote concern for the homeland :

The Guardian,

                    
 

Ethiopia is one of the world's largest recipients of humanitarian food and development assistance, last year receiving more than 700,000 tonnes of food and £1.8bn in aid, but it has offered three million hectares (7.4 million acres) of virgin land to foreign corporations such as Karuturi.
"It's very good land. It's quite cheap. In fact it is very cheap. We have no land like this in India," says Karmjeet Sekhon, project manager for what is expected to be one of Africa's largest farms. "There you are lucky to get 1% of organic matter in the soil. Here it is more than 5%. We don't need fertiliser or herbicides. There is absolutely nothing that will not grow on it.
"To start with there will be 20,000 hectares of oil palm, 15,000 hectares of sugar cane and 40,000 hectares of rice, edible oils and maize and cotton. We are building reservoirs, dykes, roads, towns of 15,000 people. "This is phase one. In three years time we will have 300,000 hectares cultivated and maybe 60,000 workers. We could feed a nation here."
Sparsely-populated Gambella is at the centre of the global rush for cheap land, precipitated by the oil price rise in 2007/2008, when many countries racked by food riots encouraged their farmers to invest abroad to grow food.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/21/ethiopia-centre-global-farmland-rush?CMP=twt_gu

Yemen's Turn: An Overview

Yemen's Turn: An Overview

YEMEN

YEMEN - What next?

Yemen's Turn: An Overview


“The Yemeni people is fed up with Ali Abdallah Salih”

How-it-started-in-yemen - from-tahrir-to-taghyir?

It is a matter of Hours - He leaves!

**** 

2011- TUNISIA 's Dignity YEAR
*
11 0220 11 - EGYPT's Dignity Day
 *
????????- Yemen's Dignity Day
*
????????- Libya's Dignity Day

 ******

TOP

Print this post


Popular Posts

A Flash of the Day (Archive)

1. Working on the big "GOOD SENSE": The sense of Beauty.
( via cf. "The Logic of Sense" /Deleuze) (9/2010)

2. በትርታ ይጀምራል፤ ትር ትር ይልና ይተርታል ወይንም ይተረታል ወይንም ተረት ይሆንና ይተረተራል፤ ተረት ይሆናል።(9/2010)

3. Degrading the other to "none-will" is inhuman and counter productive... The human point is to come to a common "Big-Will"(10/2010)

4. The "inner universe" (mystics) to the "outer universe" (physics) is allegorically related as the conscious mind to the virus in the human body. (6/10/2010)

5. Feeling is the language of the "inner Universe". Music/arts is the interface between the "inner" and "outer" universe.

6. Demoralization is a disgusting political tool -an expression of inhumanity employed in a social evolution, indicating the inhumanity of the employer! A disaster! (7/10/2010).

7. "In Girard's language, the law order is "mythical" and as such obeys the logic of the founding murder." (cf. Peter Robert Stork; 2005)

8. "Wenn sich zwei streiten, freut sich der Dritte"/
When two people quarrel, a third rejoices... This will be a legacy; and in the 21st century, "Wenn sich zwei einigen, freut sich der Dritte" may take over. /A mutual understanding of two people rejoices the third/.

9. My quotation of the Day (8.11.10):

Baldwin’s thought: ("The Baldwin effect")
“It is as inexorable as the colour of his eyes and the shape of his nose. He is born into a system of social relationships just as he is born into a certain quality of air. As he grows in body by breathing the one, so he grows in mind by absorbing the other.’ (Baldwin, 1906: 69-70)

10.
If "I AM" the observer (the conscious entity) so that the quanta of matter/mass (the wave function) would collapse to be a particle /the particle object), enhancing IT to the phase of THE Existing Reality.
Couldn't I -The Self- hope and help the spiritual energy/ my consciousness/ as well, to extend the transformed energy /After Life/to collapse into that existence of "THAT Beyond" Life (1). Life pertaining to "intelligent" energy (spiritual beings in the sphere of the Akashic Field), as the reflection of the "intelligent" matter or mass (human beings in the sphere of "thermodynamics" or gravity ). 17.11.10

*
(1) like J.Wheeler's Model of "the participating observer" in the Universe.

11. Forget Time! And mind Your Mind only (24.11.10).
I.e. "Talk about "time out of mind"!"(1)

(1) http://www.megafoundation.org/CTMU/Articles/Time.html

12. Wikileaks in Amharic philo-play:

የዊቂ -ሊቅ ሰዋ ስው ...ባልታወቀ ነገር፤ሊቅ ፤ቂል ፤ ቅልቅል ፤ ቅል፤ ቀላል ቂል ወይስ ....በቃኝ ብሎ፤ ቅንጣት ቅብ -ብቅል ቀልቦ ፤ወደ ብቃት ሲቃ፤ ሲግዋዝ ይሁን ፤ ሲያንቀጠቅጥ ወይስ ተቀላቅሎ ሲያንቀለቅል።ያልታወቀ ነገር።
02.12.10

13. Gates and Centres:

Life , nature and actually the whole Universe know nothing about Top and Bottom or Up and Down. There are just centres in reality. Centres and Centres with all of them having their Gates, Gates leading to the Centres. What is wrong with mankind, always with the tick for tops and bottoms or ups and downs and not centres, but fixed to the gates, without the moral courage to move towards the centres -to build the symphony
- the symphony in the SPHERE.

The SPHERE:

- The SPHERE of IDEAS is THE WORD of the SOURCE. THE WORD - The PLAY where this ASHORE and that BEYOND of the HARMONY is eternally tuned to exist in the SYMPHONY of ALL, flowing and floating like in the "Ballet piece of Joseph Strauss " -the Dynamiden Waltz- with every being offering its harmonious "musical touch". (cf. The Harmony Model)

Morning, 03.12.10



ሰው በምግብ ብቻ አይኖርም....ወሎ


14. መቃብር ላይ የሚፃፍ /+++ተጨማሪ!/


መቃብር ላይ የሚፃፍ (ከርፖርተር የተገኘ)


ጥብቅ ማሳሰቢያ ሸክላን ለምትሠሩ፤
እዚህ መቃብር ላይ አፈር አትዝገኑ፡፡
ሲነድ ሲቃጠል ሲጨስ በመኖሩ፣

ሲቃጠል ለሚኖር፣
ለጀበና መሥሪያ አይሆንም አፈሩ፡፡

+++
(አንድ ከሚመለከተው የተጨመረ!
ከመቃብር በፊት)

ሰው ለመስራት ብቻ ከፍቀደ አየሩ
ክህነት ካላችሁ አሰቡ መርምሩ
ተራ ከገባችሁ ዘክሩ አስዘክሩ
ያልሆነው እንዲሆን ምከሩ ሞክሩ
ሽቀጣና ሽቀት እንዳይሆን ሃገሩ
አንድ ቀን እንደሆን አይቀር መቃ-ብሩ።

Michelle Holliday's Humanity 4.0 

15. Human DIGNITY:

21st century is the era of Liberation Movements for Human Dignity, encompassing all other Movements, to make them superfluous – non-dogmatic, non-religious and non-ethnic with the great Common Collective Will for Human Empathy!

11 0220 11 - EGYPT's Dignity Day, the Landmark for a radical break with all Tyrannies!

Thanks to Tunisia -The Heroic Pioneer of Freedom!

እንደዚህ ሆነና ...እስኪሆን ይሆናል!

Meditational

__________________________

Total Pageviews

Statement of Principle

Life is a jewel, a gift of the Absolute, which compares and equals nothing, other than its own defence and purpose:


HARMONY



Dedicated for all who suffered and lost their lives for the well-being of Ethiopia