Ethiopia

The campaign is conducted largely through regime lackey-proxies, stooges and puppets. Through its minions, the regime has used the most loathsome words, inflammatory rhetoric and repugnant imagery to describe Menelik’s alleged brutality in his quest for territorial conquest.

According to Ethiopia's “Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs”, approximately 200,000 women sought employment abroad in 2012, the vast majority of them in the Middle East.

Last week the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the ruling regime in Ethiopia announced:

August 8, 2013

The Hon. John F. Kerry
Secretary of State of the United States of America
2201 C Street, NW
Washington DC, 20520

Sir,

Rush hour on commuter rail epitomizes survival of the fittest. Oblivious to color, age, pregnancy, special-needs, etc, it only knows the urgency of commuting, getting to its destination.

As my readers know, I enjoy watchin’ American diplomats chillin’ out and kickin’ it with African dictators. I like watchin’ ‘em kumbaya-ing, back-pattin’ and fist bumpin’. I have trained myself to decipher their cryptic diplomatese spoken with forked tongue.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” said Nelson Mandela. For the late Meles Zenawi and his apostles (the Melesistas) in Ethiopia, the reverse is true: Ignorance is the most powerful weapon you can use to prevent change and cling to power.

On Ginbot 20, 1983 (Ethiopian calendar 5/28/1991), Meles Zenawi and thousands of his guerilla fighters marched into Addis Ababa toting AK-47s, rocket propelled grenades and hand grenades.

Madame chair, ladies and gentlemen

Edmund Burke, the British statesman and philosopher, said ‘Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.’ We’ve heard many promises on human rights in Africa from President Obama and his administration over the past four years.