የወሊድ መቆጣጠሪያ ሴቶቻችንን እያጠቃብን ነው (Updated)

“በፊታችሁ ሕይወትንና ሞትን በረከትንና መርገምን እንዳስቀመጥሁ እኔ ዛሬ ሰማይንና ምድርን በአንተ ላይ አስመሰክራለሁ፤ እንግዲህ አንተና ዘርህ በሕይወት ትኖሩ ዘንድ ሕይወትን ምረጥ“ [ኦ. ዘዳግም ፴:፲፱]

የእግዚአብሔር ቃል እንደሚያስተምረን ከፍጥረታት ሁሉ በእግዚአብሔር አርአያና አምሳል ተፈጥሮ ሰውን አመስግኖ ክብሩን ወርሶ እንዲኖር የተፈጠረ ክቡሩ የሰው ልጅ ሲሆን፤ ፈጣሪው እግዚአብሔርም እንደዚህ አክብሮ የፈጠረውን የሰው ልጅ ዘሩ እንዲቀጥል ፈቃዱ ነውና “ብዙ ተባዙ ምድርንም ሙሏት” በማለት የበረከትን ቃል ለወላጆቻችን ለአዳምና ለሔዋን ሰጥቷልና ፅንስ ከእግዚአብሔር የሚገኝ ፍሬ በረከት ነው።

መጽሐፍ ቅዱስ ለመጀመሪያ ጊዜ የሰው ሕይወት የሚጀምረው ከተፀነሰበት ጊዜ ጀምሮ መሆኑን ቢገልጽም ብዙ ሰዎች ግን ይህን የተፈጥሮ ጸጋ በመቃወም በራሳቸው ስሜት፣ በኃጢአትና፣ በድንቍርና በመጓዝ በብዙ ሚሊየን የሚቆጠሩ ሕፃናትን በአሰቃቂ መልኩ ከእናታቸው ማሕፀን በውርጃ መልክ ወጥተው እንዲሞቱ ያደርጋሉ።

‘ዮሐንስ‘ ገና በእናቱ ማሕፀን ሳለ የተሰጠውና ያገኘውን እውቀት ከ1450 ዓመታት በፊት የነበረው ኢትዮጵያው ቅዱስ ያሬድ፡ “ዮሐንስ ከእናቱ ማሕፀን ዐወቀ፤ ሰገደ ዘለለም” በማለት የፅንሱን ዐዋቂነት ይህ በመንፈሳዊ ጥበበ የተራቀቀው ሊቅ ቢያስተምርም፡ ሌላው ዓለም ግን ለብዙ ሺህ ዘመናት ይህንን ባለመረዳት እንደ እንግሊዛዊው ፈላስፋ ጆን ሎክ፡ “ሕፃናት ምንም የማያውቁ እንደ ባዶ ነጭ ወረቀቶች ናቸው፤ ከተወለዱ በኋላ በሂደት ከማኅበረሰቡ ጋር በሚያደርጉት እንቅስቃሴ ዕውቀትን እያገኙ ይሄዳሉ” በማለት ልክ እንደ ሌሎቹ ‘ሊቅ ነን፡ ሁሉን እናውቃለን‘ ባይ አውሮፓውያን ዓለምን ሲያታልሉና ወደሳሳተ አቅጣጫ ሲመሩ ቆይተዋል።

የእነዚህ ትዕቢተኛ አታላይ “ሊቆች” ልጆች የእግዚአብሔርን እውነት ለዘላለም መሸፈን እንደማይችሉ በመረዳት፡ አካሄዳቸውን እየቀያየሩ በአሁኑ ጊዜ ሞኝ ወደሆኑትና ወደ ደንቆሩት እንደ ኢትዮጵያውያን ወደ መሳሰሉት ሕዝቦች እየተጓዙ የእፉኝት መርዛቸውን በመርጨት ላይ ይገኛሉ።

“እከሊት መኻን ሆነች፣ እርሷንማ አስወረዳት! እንትናየማ ‘በዚያ በሽታ‘እኮ ነበር ያረፈችው!” የሚሉት አሳዛኝ ዜናዎችን መስማት በጣም የተለመደ ሆኗል። ነገር ግን ይህን ዓይነቱ አሳዛኝ መከራ እንዴት ሊከሰት እንደበቃ ወይም ጉዳዩ ከምን ጋር የተያያዘ ሊሆን እንደሚችል ለማወቅ ብሎም መከራው እንዳይቀጥል ችግሩን ለመቅረፍ ምንም ዓይነት እንቅስቃሴ ሲደረግ አይታይም።

ብዙዎቻችን ምንም አስከፊ ነገር እንዳልተፈጸመ፤ አላየንም! አልሰማንም! እያልን እራሳችንን በማታለል ነፍሳችን ቀስበቀስ ተመንምና እንድታልቅ ማድረጉን መርጠናል።

እራሳቸውን ለባዕዱ የዲያብሎስ ኃይል አሳልፈው የሰጡ ወይም እንዲሰጡ የተደረጉ ፀረ–ኢትዮጵያ ግለሰቦችና ድርጅቶች በሕዝባችን ላይ እጅግ የሚያሳፍርና የሚያሳዝን ተግባር በመፈጽም ላይ ይገኛሉ። የሕዝባችንን ቁጥር ለመቀነስ፤ ቀስበቀስም ኢትዮጵያውያንና ኢትዮጵያዊነትን ለማጥፋት ተልዕኮ ካላቸው ጠላቶች ጋር በመተባበር በተለይ የደከሙ/የወደቁ ክርስቲያን ኢትዮጵያዊያትን በመመረዝ፣ ‘በማኮላሸት‘ እና በመግደል ላይ ይገኛሉ።

የህክምና ተቋማት፣ የ ‘ቤተሰብ መምሪያ‘ ማዕከላት፣ የዜና ማሰራጫዎችና ማተሚያ ቤቶች ታይቶ የማይታወቅ የፀረ–ህይወት የቅስቀሳ ዘመቻ በአሁኑ ጊዜ በማካሄድ ላይ ይገኛሉ። የመድኅኒት ቤቶቹ፣ ቴሌቪዥኑ እንዲሁም ታክሲዎችና አውቶብሶቹ ሁሉ በስዕሉ ላይ የሚታዩትን ማስታወቂያዎች በብርቱ መልክ እያሰራጩ ዕውቀቱ የጎዳለውን ሕዝብ በመበከል ላይ ናቸው።

ለምሳሌ እታች በእንግሊዝኛ የተጠቀሰው የወሊድ መከላከያ ክትባት (Depo-Provera) ምን ያህል ጐጂ እንደሆነ፤ እንደ ኤችአይቪ ለመሳሰሉ ተላላፊ በሽታዎች በይበልጥ እንደሚያጋልጥ፣ የአጥንት በሽታዎችን እንደሚያስከትል እንዲሁም የጡትና የጉሮሮ ነቀርሳዎችን ሊያመጣ እንደሚችል አሁን በደንብ ይታወቃል። ‘ተማሩ‘ የተባሉትና በቂ መረጃዎችን በቀላሉ የመሰብሰብ እድሉ ያላቸው ግለሰቦች፡ በተለይ የዲያስፖራው የህክምና ባለሙያዎች እንዲሁም ምርምሮቹ በሚካሄዱባቸው የትምህርት ተቋማት ተበታትነው የሚገኙ ኢትዮጵያውያን ሁሉ ከዚህ ተንኮለኛ “የቤተሰብ አጥፊ ፕላን” ጀርባ ምን ዓይነት ሤራ እንዳለ በግልጽ ለማየት ይቻላቸዋል። ታዲያ ይህን መሰሉን ጉዳይ እንዴት በዝምታ ሊያልፉት ቻሉ?

ወደ አገራችን በረቀቀ መልክና በድብቅ የገባው ይህ የፀረ–ህይወት እንቅስቃሴ ከ1970ዎቹ ዓመታት ጀምሮ በትጋት እየሠራ እንደሆነ ባለሙያዎች ይናገራሉ። ከኢትዮጵያ ሌላ፡ ይህ የቤተሰብ አጥፊ ፕላን በጥቁር አፍሪቃውያን ላይ ብቻ ነው እየተካሄደ ያለው። ከሦስት ወራት በፊት ለንደን ከተማ ውስጥ ይህን አስመልክቶ እን ቢል ጌትስ አዘጋጅተውት በነበረው ስብሰባ ላይ ተገኝተው የነበሩት ከሳሃራ በረሃ በታች የሚገኙት አፍሪቃ አገሮች ሲሆኑ፤ የሰሜን አፍሪቃና አረብ አገሮች ጭራሹን አልተሳተፉም። 85 ሚሊየን ሕዝብ የሚኖሩባት በረሃማዋ ግብጽ የሕዝብ ቁጥርሽን ቀንሽ የሚል ሃሳብ ቀርቦላት አይታወቅም፡ እንዲያውም ምዕራባውያኑ የእርዳታ ገንዘቡን ያለ ምንም ቅድመ ሁኔታ በደስታ ይሰጧታል፤ የኢትዮጵያንም ውሃና አፈር በነፃ ታገኛለች፡ ጦረኛ የሆኑ ልጆችን መፈልፈሏንም ያለምንም ተቃውሞ ትቀጥልበታለች። ከ 1ቢሊየን በላይ የሕዝብ ቁጥር ያላት ህንድ እንደ ዶፖ ፕሮቬራ የመሳሰሉትን የወሊድ መከላከያ መርፌዎች ከልክላለች (እ.አ.አ በ 2002 ዓ.ም)

አዎ! የዲያብሎስ ሠራዊት ኢትዮጵያውያንን በረሃብ፣ በበሽታና በእርስ በርስ ጦርነቶች እንዳሰበው/እንዳቀደው ለማጥፋት አልተቻለውም፤ ታዲያ አውሬው አሁን ውስጥ ሠርጎ በመግባት መርፌንና፤ (“መድኃኒት” አልለውም)መርዛማ‘ቅመሞችን‘በነፃ በማደል መጠራጠር የተሳነውን ወገናችንን ወደ ወጥመዱ ለማስገባት እየሞከረ ነው።

ወገን፤ እህቶቻችን፣ እናቶቻችን፣ ጓደኞቻችንና ሚስቶቻችን እንደ ዓይጥ ተቆጥረው የህክምና ሙከራ ሲደረግባቸው እያየን እንዴት ዝም እንላለን? ይህን ይህን መሰሉን አስከፊ ሥራ ለማጋለጥ ካልተነሳሳን ከእንስሳ በምን ነው የምንሻለው?

የሚከተሉትን መረጃዎች ለሚመለከታቸው ወገኖች ሁሉ በሚያስቆጣ መልክ የማስተላለፉ ተግባር የያንዳንዳችን ብሔራዊና ሰብዓዊ ግዴታ መሆን ይኖርበታል።

ለምሳሌ፤ በውጭ ኃይሎች ‘ግፊት‘ኢትዮጵያ ውስጥ ከተቋቋሙት ድርጅቶች መካከል “DKT Ethiopia (DKT/E)” የተባለውን የፀረ–ህይወት ዘመቻ አራማጅ ድርጅት ብንመለከት፤ ሥራውና ዓላማው ምን እንደሆነ በደንብ ለመረዳት እንችላለን። ድርጅቱ የሚናገረው ሌላ፡

የድርጅቱ ወቅታዊ ድህረ–ገጽ ላይ የሚከተሉትን ነጥቦች እናያለን፡

“DKT Ethiopia (DKT/E) prevents HIV and unwanted pregnancy in Ethiopia. Active since 1990, DKT/E ensures a consistent supply of and promotes high quality condoms, contraceptives and other health products throughout Ethiopia.” (ሳይንሳዊ የምርመራ ውጤቶች ይህን አባባል ሙሉ በሙሉ ይፃረራሉ)

“From 2002 – 2008, DKT/E distributed approximately 80% of all condoms in Ethiopia. DKT/E also distributed 45% and 41% of oral contraceptives and depo provera, respectively, and accounted for 44% of CYP over this period.

“DKT/E works with the Federal Ministry of Health, Federal and Regional HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Offices (HAPCO), and Drug Administration and Control Authority (DACA)”

DKT/E is funded by The Royal Netherlands Embassy, Irish Aid, the Department for International Development (DFID), the United Nations Fund for Population, and an Anonymous donor.”

“Most of the world’s health problems can be dramatically reduced by relatively straightforward behavioral changes, such as using condoms and other birth control devices in family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention. Social marketing is a key means of achieving this change.”

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(የህክምናው ዘርፉ ተመራማሪዎች ከላይ የተሰጠውን መግለጫ ሙሉ በሙሉ ይፃረሩታል። መጽሐፍ ቅዱስም ይህን በግልጽ ይቃረናል።”

““የአመለካከት ለውጥ” በማድረግ የወሊድ መቆጣጠሪያና ኮንዶምን መጠቀም አለብን” ይላል ድርጅቱ። በጣም የሚገርም ነው፤ ትውልዳችን የመጣበትን ከፍተኛ አደጋ ለማስወገድ ወጣቶች የአመለካከት ለውጥ እንዲያመጡና ራሳቸውን እንዲቆጣጠሩ የእግዚአብሔርን ቃል ከማስተማርና ለትዳር አጋራቸው በፍቅር ታምነው እንዲኖሩ ከማስረዳት ይልቅ እነዚህን የመሳሰሉት ድርጅቶች “በኮንዶም መጠቀም አደጋ የለሽ ወሲብን ለመፈጸም ያስችላል” በማለት ወጣቶች የኮንዶም ባርያ እንዲሆኑ ሰፊ ቅስቅሳና ዘመቻ በመጠቀም ኅብረተሰቡን ወደ አጕል አቅጣጫዎች እየመሩት ነው።

ሃቁን ለመናገር አገራችን ለተደቀነባት ለዚህ ከባድና አሳዛኝ አደጋ መልሱ ያለው መጽሐፍ ቅዱስ ላይ ብቻ ሲሆን፡ ይኸውም ከጋብቻ አስቀድሞ ከማንኛውም የግብረ ሥጋ ግኑኝነት ራስን መጠበቅና፤ በቃል ኪዳን ጋብቻ ውስጥ ከገቡም በኋላ ለትዳር አጋር ፍጹም ታማኝ ሆኖ በመኖር የእግዚአብሔርን ሕግ በመጠበቅ ብቻ ነው። የአውሬው ልጆች ይህን ስለሚያውቁ እራሳቸውን በአግባቡ ይጠብቃሉ፣ ዲያብሎስ አባታቸው ለእግዚአብሔር ልጆች ካዘጋጀው ወጥመድ ይርቃሉ። የወደቁ ክርስቲያኖች ግን አምላካቸው ያወጣላቸውን ሕግጋት በመርሳትና እራሳቸውንም ባለመግዛት አውሬው የሚቆፍርላቸው ጉድጓድ ውስጥ ሲገቡ ይታያሉ፡ ይህም በጣም ያሳዝናል፡ያስቆጣል።

ክቡራን አንባቢያን ይህን የ PDF መጣጠፍ ጊዜ ወስዳችሁ በትዕግስት እንድታነቡ በትህትና እጠይቃለሁ

My previous post on the subject: Injected Contraceptive Increases AIDS Risk for African Women

Some astonishing notes:

• One in five black teenagers using birth control in the US uses Depo-Provera, a far higher rate of use than for white teenagers. One activist, Dorothy Roberts, claims this is because black teenagers are disproportionately targeted for the least safe contraceptives.

• The Canadian Coalition on Depo-Provera, a coalition of women’s health professional and advocacy groups, opposed the approval of Depo in Canada.

• Since the approval of Depo in Canada in 1997, a $700 million class-action lawsuit has been filed against Pfizer by users of Depo who developed osteoporosis.

• In response, Pfizer argued that it had met its obligation to disclose and discuss the risks of Depo-Provera with the Canadian medical community.

• In 1994, when Depo was approved in India, India’s Economic and Political Weekly reported that “The FDA finally licensed the drug in 1990 in response to concerns about the population explosion in the third world and the reluctance of third world governments to license a drug not licensed in its originating country.”

• Some scientists and women’s groups in India continue to oppose Depo-Provera. In 2002, Depo was removed from the family planning protocol in India.

• Depo-Provera is also used with male sex offenders as a form of chemical castration as it has the effect of drastically reducing sex drive in males.

• One way Depo-Provera works is by reducing a woman’s chances of ovulating. However, since it changes the lining of the uterus, it also can cause early abortions when breakthrough ovulation occurs.[1] With perfect use the effectiveness of the shot in preventing pregnancy is very high—about 99 percent. But with typical use 3 percent of women become pregnant each year.

• Few drugs have a more controversial history than Depo-Provera. In the 1950s a scientist for the pharmaceutical company Upjohn was experimenting with the hormone progesterone, and he created depomedroxyprogesterone acetate (Depo-Provera). By 1960 the company received FDA approval for the drug as a treatment for endometriosis and habitual miscarriages. However, ten years later the FDA revoked this approval because there was no evidence that the drug worked. Instead it seemed to cause heart defects in babies.

Pharmaceutical Industry: Practicing the most stark acts of corporate inhumanity

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Kenyan Conference Challenges Aid Agencies’ Focus on Contraception

A series of speakers challenged Western relief agencies for their fixation on family-planning efforts, during a conference on bioethics and fertility held at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya.

Robert Walley, the founder of Mater Care International reported that 330,000 mothers die in pregnancy every year worldwide, but more than 90% of those deaths are easily preventable. He denounced agencies that focus on preventing pregnancy rather than helping these women in need.

Dr. Henrietta Williams of Nigeria, the president of the Catholic Doctors association of Nigeria, also spoke on the problem of maternal mortality, noting that only 7.9% of the UN’s aid budget is devoted to maternal health, while millions are spent on contraceptives. Pregnancy is safer than abortion, she argued, when women receive proper care.

 

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Girls of 13 given birth control jab at school without parents’ knowledge

Girls as young as 13 are receiving birth control implants at school without the knowledge or consent of their parents, a survey by The Daily Telegraph has revealed.

The survey found that school nurses have provided contraceptive implants or injections to girls between the ages of 13 and 16 on more than 900 occasions over the last two years.

13 year olds have been given the implants or jabs on more than 20 occasions, and an additional 7,400 girls aged 15 have undergone the procedure at local family planning clinics.

Confidentiality

Under rules on “patient confidentiality”, teachers are prohibited from obtaining parental approval before offering the procedure, which involving placing hormone-releasing implants into pupils’ arms to stop pregnancies for up to three years.

The NHS service, provided in schools across Bristol, Northumbria, Peterborough, Co Durham, the West Midlands and Berkshire, is part of a wider strategy to reduce teenage pregnancy rates. But Anthony Seldon, the Head teacher of Wellington College, criticised the practice stating:

“Anything that trivialises or treats [sex] as something mundane or easy, particularly for young people, is damaging their ability to grow up and to properly form a loving lasting relationship.

“It devalues sex, it makes it like an ordinary, everyday thing like going to have a McDonald’s.”

Illegal

Dr Peter Saunders, CEO of the Christian Medical Fellowship, warned that sex before the age of 16 is illegal and “to facilitate such behaviour behind parents’ backs is unprofessional, irresponsible and morally wrong”.

The number of pupils who have made use of the service is likely to be even higher since full records have not been maintained by many NHS trusts, who claim that making the information public would also constitute a breach of patient confidentiality.

Andrea Minichiello Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, said:

“This service usurps the role of parents, who have the primary responsibility for their children’s education and who have the right to raise their children in line with their moral values and convictions.

“Making contraceptive services available to young children at such ease will only increase levels of promiscuity with damaging and far-reaching consequences.

“Children need to be protected and made aware of the benefits of abstinence until marriage.”

 

Source: Telegraph

 

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Hurricanes: Nature and Nature’s God

“The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.” [Nahum 1:3]

“The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they can’t speak. They have eyes, but they can’t see. They have ears, but they can’t hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.Those who make them will be like them; yes, everyone who trusts in them.” [Psalm 135: 15-18]

“The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, [Revelation 9:20]

My note: I was thinking about the above Bible verses lately – and this particular image which captivated New Yorkers exactly proves those words. The man-made collapsed crane which is now called, ‘Hurri–crane’ is dangling over New York City – while real state tycoon, Donald Trump ‘could see the crane from his apartment window’. Coincidence? Can he see it now? Well, hopefully he is not going to fire someone over this – I assure him that King Kong was not there.

It’s of course, a horrible tragedy what we are witnessing in and around New York these days. Hurricane Sandy, which disrupted the lives of millions of Americans this week, is “a reminder of what the world really is like. Sandy is short for Cassandra, the Greek mythological figure who epitomizes tragedy. The gods gave Cassandra the gift of prophecy; depending on which version of the story one prefers, she could either see or smell the future. But with this gift also came a curse: Cassandra’s warnings about future disasters were fated to be ignored. That is the essence of this tragedy: to know that a given course of action will lead to disaster but to pursue it nevertheless.

The so-called superstorm flooded New York City and battered much of the East Coast. At press time, the storm had killed at least forty-three people and caused an estimated $32 billion in damages to buildings and infrastructure—figures expected to increase in the coming days.

While affluent people can usually insulate themselves from the ordinary effects of nature, we are all ultimately vulnerable, as New York Mayor Bloomberg rightly said yesterday: “I think people don’t understand just how strong nature is”.

Somewhere in the future, each of us has an inescapable appointment with irresistible force. For each one of us, the waters will someday rise, the winds spin out of control, the roof will come off the house and the power will go out for good.

May God have pity on the souls of those who died, and may The Almighty help the victims of those who were lost to move on and readjust their lives.

 

Nature and Nature’s God

While the lights went out across Manhattan tonight, and the city that calls itself the capital of the world was cut off from the mainland as flood waters thundered through its streets, many people around the world watched the spectacle and were reminded just how fragile the busy world we humans build around us really is.

Manhattan is one of those places where nature seems mostly held at bay. Except for the parks, oases of carefully preserved nature deliberately shaped by the hand of man, every inch of the city’s surface has been covered by something man-made. The valleys have been exalted, the mountains laid low and the rough places plain.

Those who live and do their business there pay very little attention to the natural world most of the time. It can be hard to get a taxi in the rain, and the occasional winter snowstorm forces a brief halt to the city’s routine, but the average New Yorker’s attention is on the social world, not the world of nature. What’s happening to your career, your bank account, your friendships and loved ones, the political scene and the financial markets: those are the concerns that occupy the minds of busy urbanites on their daily rounds.

Into this busy, self involved world Hurricane Sandy has burst. Sharks have been photographed (or at least photo shopped) swimming in the streets of New Jersey towns; waves sweep across the Lower East Side; transformers explode on both sides of the Hudson as salt water surges into the tunnels and subways. For a little while at least, New Yorkers are reminded that we live in a world shaped by forces that are bigger than we are; tonight it is easy to identify with the sentiments in John Milton’s paraphrase of Psalm 114:

Shake earth, and at the presence be aghast

Of him that ever was, and aye shall last,

That glassy floods from rugged rocks can crush,

And make soft rills from the fiery flint-stones gush.

Soon, though, the winds will die down and the waters recede. The bridges will open, the roads will be repaired, the water will be pumped from the subways and service restored. New Yorkers will go back to their normal pursuits and Hurricane Sandy will fade into lore.

But events like this don’t come out of nowhere. Sandy isn’t an irruption of abnormality into a sane and sensible world; it is a reminder of what the world really is like. Human beings want to build lives that exclude what we can’t control — but we can’t.

Hurricane Sandy is many things; one of those things is a symbol. The day is coming for all of us when a storm enters our happy, busy lives and throws them into utter disarray. The job on which everything depends can disappear. That relationship that holds everything together can fall apart. The doctor can call and say the test results are not good. All of these things can happen to anybody; something like this will happen to us all.

Somewhere in the future, each of us has an inescapable appointment with irresistible force. For each one of us, the waters will someday rise, the winds spin out of control, the roof will come off the house and the power will go out for good.

We can protect ourselves from a storm like Sandy by taking proper precautions; at the Mead manor we have candles, firewood and food stocked against the possibility that our power will go out. But one day, dear reader, a storm is coming which neither you nor we can survive. The strongest walls, the sturdiest retirement plans stuffed with stocks and CDs, the best doctors cannot protect us from that final encounter with the force that made and will someday unmake us.

Coming to terms with that reality is the most important thing that any of us can do. A storm like this one is an opportunity to do exactly that. It reminds us that what we like to call ‘normal life’ is fragile and must someday break apart. If we are wise, we will take advantage of this smaller, passing storm to think seriously about the greater storm that is coming for us all.

A grand and powerful woman I once knew died after two encounters with cancer and a devastating stroke took her from the realm of normal life into the storm tossed waters that surround us all on every side. She’d never been a religious woman and, growing up in a segregated South where so many churches and churchgoers defended a brutal system of institutionalized injustice and cruelty, she was always a rebel against the conventional piety and ritualized religious life she saw around her.

But late in her life when the winds around her howled and the dark waters were rising, she was driven to face the truth behind the illusions and the pretense, and told the person she loved best in all the world that “I’ve made my peace with God.”

That is something we all need to do. It involves a recognition of our helplessness and insufficiency before the mysteries and limits of life. Like the First Step in the Twelve Step programs, it begins with an acknowledgment of failure and defeat. We each try to build a self-sufficient world, a sturdy little life that is proof against storms and disasters — but none of us can really get that done.

Strangely, that admission of weakness opens the door to a new kind of strength. To acknowledge and accept weakness is to ground our lives more firmly in truth, and it turns out that to be grounded in reality is to become more able and more alive. Denial is hard work; those who try to stifle their awareness of the limits of human life and ambition in the busy rounds of daily life never reach their full potential.

To open your eyes to the fragility of life and to our dependence on that which is infinitely greater than ourselves is to enter more deeply into life. To come to terms with the radical insecurity in which we all live is to find a different and more reliable kind of security. The joys and occupations of ordinary life aren’t all there is to existence, but neither are the great and all-destroying storms. There is a calm beyond the storm, and the same force that sends these storms into our lives offers a peace and security that no storm can destroy. As another one of the psalms puts it, “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Accepting your limits and your dependence on things you can’t control is the first step on the road toward finding that joy.

Via Meadia hopes that all our readers survived Hurricane Sandy with their lives intact and their property whole. And more than that, we hope that our readers will take the opportunity that a storm like this offers, step back from their daily lives, and reach out to the Power who plants his footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm. Getting the right connection with the highest power of all not only gives you a place of refuge when the big storm finally comes; it transforms daily life and infuses ordinary occupations with greater meaning and wonder than you ever understood.

The world needs people who have that kind of strength and confidence. Storms much greater than Sandy are moving through our lives these days: the storms shaking the Middle East, recasting the economy, transforming the political horizons of Asia. It will take strong and grounded people to ride these mighty storms; paradoxically, it is only by coming to terms with our limits and weakness that we can find the strength and the serenity to face what lies ahead.

 

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Saudi Embassy Linked With Terrorist Funding in Ethiopia

My note: Not surprising, at all! What’s irresponsible and disgraceful is we still send our beloved sisters, export fresh fruits and vegetables to the twisted satandom of Saudi Arabia. How is that possible?

The wife of a senior Ethiopian politician was on Monday charged with funneling money from the Embassy of Saudi Arabia to Islamist terror groups, at a hearing at the Ethiopian Federal High Court, on Monday.

Habiba Mohammed, wife of former Minister for the Civil Service Junedin Sado, was one of 29 Muslim activists accused of criminal conspiracy to commit unspecified acts of terrorism — charges that could attract the death penalty.

Those arrested were accused of belonging to, or supporting, the “Solution Seekers of the Muslim Community’s Problems”, a group that the prosecution contended is a terrorist organization. Lawyers for the accused denied the charges.

A predominantly Christian country, Ethiopia has positioned itself as a bulwark in the U.S.-led war on terror in East Africa and has promulgated laws, such as the anti-terrorism proclamation 652 of 2009, which have an unusually broad definition of terrorism.

According to the prosecution, Ms. Habiba allegedly tried to steal 1.5 million Ethiopian Birr (approximately Rs. 45 lakh) from the Islamic Council of Ethiopia. He also allegedly received more than 50,000 ETB from the Saudi Arabian Embassy to fund “illegal activities” amongst Ethiopia’s Muslim population.

She was arrested in July this year and the money was recovered from her car, according to local media reports. The Embassy of Saudi Arabia could not be reach for comment.

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Christians Persecuted Throughout The World

Imagine the unspeakable fury that would erupt across the Islamic world if a Christian-led government in Khartoum had been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Sudanese Muslims over the past 30 years. Or if Christian gunmen were firebombing mosques in Iraq during Friday prayers. Or if Muslim girls in Indonesia had been abducted and beheaded on their way to school, because of their faith.

Such horrors are barely thinkable, of course. But they have all occurred in reverse, with Christians falling victim to Islamist aggression. Only two days ago, a suicide bomber crashed a jeep laden with explosives into a packed Catholic church in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 100. The tragedy bore the imprint of numerous similar attacks by Boko Haram (which roughly translates as “Western education is sinful”), an exceptionally bloodthirsty militant group.

Other notable trouble spots include Egypt, where 600,000 Copts – more than the entire population of Manchester – have emigrated since the 1980s in the face of harassment or outright oppression.

Why is such a huge scourge chronically under-reported in the West? One result of this oversight is that the often inflated sense of victimhood felt by many Muslims has festered unchallenged. Take the fallout of last month’s protests around the world against the American film about the Prophet Mohammed. While most of the debate centred on the rule of law and the limits of free speech, almost nothing was said about how much more routinely Islamists insult Christians, almost always getting away with their provocations scot-free.

Innocence of Muslims, the production that spurred all the outrage, has been rightly dismissed as contemptible trash. What, though, of a website such as “Guardians of the Faith”, run by Salafist extremists in Cairo? Among many posts, it has carried an article entitled “Why Muslims are superior to Copts”. “Being a Muslim girl whose role models are the wives of the Prophet, who were required to wear the hijab, is better than being a Christian girl, whose role models are whores,” it declares. “Being a Muslim who fights to defend his honour and his faith is better than being a Christian who steals, rapes, and kills children.” Hateful messages breed hateful acts. Is it any surprise that mobs have set fire to one church after another across Egypt in recent years?

The deeper truth masked by all the ranting – and, it should be added, by the blinkers of many Western secularists – is that Christians are targeted in greater numbers than any other faith group on earth. About 200 million church members (10 per cent of the global total) face discrimination or persecution: it just isn’t fashionable to say so. In 2010, I set out to write a chronicle of anti-Christian persecution on several continents. Published in my book, Christianophobia, the results of my research are even more disquieting than I expected.

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Christian Preacher Blames Sodomites, Obama and Romney for Frankenstorm

My note: Today, Ethiopians are marking their national flag day — and somebody has chosen to paint the tropical storm, above, in the Ethiopian flag-tricolor. Well, NASA seems to have discovered the birthplace of most of these Storms and Hurricanes. For now, dear Americans, please stop performing satanic rituals like “Halloween” — and repent!

God is systematically destroying America. Just look at what has happened this year

There was an incredible heatwave and drought that destroyed massive amounts of the crops.

This drought has not let up and now covers about 65 percent of the country. The drought triggered record forest fires in the West.

The East was not affected by the drought, but now the most powerful hurricane on record is heading directly towards Philadelphia and New York City. It could do catastrophhic damage to the entire Northeast!

If you add the area of the drought and now the hurricane together, it would be about 80 percent of the country! As I said, the Holy God of Israel is systematically destroying America right before our eyes.

Just last August, Hurricane Isaac hit New Orleans seven years later, on the exact day of Hurricane Katrina. Both hit during the week of the homosexual event called Southern Decadence in New Orleans!

Hurricane Sandy is hitting 21 years to the day of the Perfect Storm of October 20, 1991. I write about this in my book as America Has Done to Israel. This was the day that President George Bush Sr. initiated the Madrid Peace Process to divide the land of Israel, including Jerusalem. America has been under God’s judgment since this event.

Both of these hurricanes were caused by freakish weather patterns that came together to create Twenty-one years breaks down to 7 x 3, which is a significant number with God. Three is perfection as the Godhead is three in one while seven is perfection.

It appears that God gave America 21 years to repent of interfering with His prophetic plan for Israel; however, it has gotten worse under all the presidents and especially Obama. Obama is 100 percent behind the Muslim Brotherhood which has vowed to destroy Israel and take Jerusalem. Both candidates are pro-homosexual and are behind the homosexual agenda. America is under political judgment and the church does not know it!

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Managing Anxiety as Hurricane Sandy Approaches

One of the problems with the buildup to weather-related dangers like Hurricane Sandy is that even while we are being told what to do to prepare for the situation, our anxiety is being increased by the reports of the terrible damage it is going to do.

Sometimes our brain, in its frozen state, leads us to a sense of helplessness, hopelessness and/or apathy. “I can’t do anything about it, it’s too big for me, might as well just accept it,” are all reactions to that frozen brain.

As we prepare for the frightening day and night to come, it is worthwhile to take a moment to stop and think about what we might be reacting to. When a newscaster says, “Stay tuned as conditions continue to deteriorate and this potentially life-threatening storm moves closer to landfall,” it is normal to feel a heightening of anxiety and a growing sense of fear. But if we ask ourselves several questions, we are likely to both lower our anxiety and increase our preparedness.

1. Are you or anyone you love in physical danger?

2. What can you do to get yourself and loved ones out of danger?

3. What else do you need to do to protect yourself and your loved ones?

4. What do you need to do to prepare for the potential damage in both the short and the longterm?

After you have asked yourself these questions and have responded to them – taking action to get out of a danger zone, to protect your home as best as you can, to follow all of the guidelines for preparing for the situation, then ask yourself if this is an old or familiar set of feelings. Are you feeling like you did at some times when you were a helpless child? And are you really as helpless now as you were in whatever that old situation was? What else do you need to do to make sure that you and your family will not be helpless and in danger?

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Love & Faith Will Boost Your Energy

YOU LEAK ENERGY EVERY TIME YOU:

1. Focus on regrets, resentment, or anything which exerts energy fretting about the past.

2. Focus on fears, worries or anything which exerts energy being anxious about the future.

3. Spend time with people who don’t support or believe in you – or worst yet make you doubt your full power.

4. Complain, gossip, scream, hurt someone, devalue someone, lie to someone, cruelly judge someone, feel shame, feel guilt.

5. Eat or drink foods and beverages which don’t digest well with your particular physicality (i.e. dairy, carbs, wheat, gluten, sugar, alcohol – whatever your specific food or beverage kryptonite might be.)

6. Sit around, inactively, not doing anything which makes your heart and soul race with joy.

Truly – all of these things wind up lowering your energy. If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it’s because you’re making yourself sick and tired – by engaging in too many energy leaking things.

YOU INCREASE ENERGY EVERY TIME YOU:

1. Focus on sharing love, learning lesson, finding meaning, feeling a purpose, expressing gratitude, harnessing faith, valuing kindness.

2. Focus on being fully in the present moment, living at the speed of life, fully enjoying the people and events around you.

3. Spend time with people who support you and believe in you – and inspire you to believe in your ability to pursue your dreams and grow in new, exciting ways!

4. Eat and drink foods and beverages which increase your energy – like fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, appropriate protein for your body/belief system, caffeine in moderation, and lots of fresh pressed juices daily.

5. Speak positive words, share compliments, offer help, inspire others, express gratitude out loud, make someone feel loved, encouraged someone to be their most authentic self in your company, encourage yourself to feel confident to be your most authentic self wherever you go!

6. Do activities you’re passionate about- which make your heart and soul feel perky – including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

Truly – all of these things wind up re-energizing you. So if you’re feeling low on energy – just do an energy-booster from this list!

Again, it doesn’t matter how brilliant, talented, kind, funny, loving or loveable you are! If you feel exhausted, depleted, worn out, frazzled…you won’t be able to fully bring your awesomeness into your career, your relationship, your parenting, your happiness – and all of these aspects of your life will suffer!

So stop leaking your energy! Start boosting your energy instead. Because it’s true: whoever has the most energy wins!

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Novartis Flu vaccines banned by some European countries

“I was recently told by a wise Ethiopian monk that he had a warning dream 20 years ago to tell folks that they should avoid taking vaccines completely”

Health regulators in Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Spain imposed an immediate ban on Novartis AG’s flu vaccines Thursday after possibly contaminated flu shots were found in batches in Italy,

 

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Globalism Is Killing Us All

In the past, diseases like tuberculosis and malaria have been number one health concerns around the world.

But not anymore.

In today’s world, globalization is the number one health risk facing humanity.

A new study released this week by the Blacksmith Institute reveals, for the first time ever, the impact of industrial pollutants on communities across the planet. It found that industrial waste dump sites containing toxic horrors like lead, mercury, and chromium, poison more than 125 million people in 49 different low and middle income nations around the planet. And the authors of the study say this is a very conservative estimate and likely even more people are sickened by this rampant industrial pollution. In fact, the report says that industrial pollution is now a bigger global health problem for the world than malaria and tuberculosis.

Just look at what’s happening in places like Zamfara, Nigeria. It’s a state without children – or, at least, very few children walking around.

Why? Because hundreds of children who work in gold mines are exposed to high levels of lead.  Back in March of 2010, the organization Doctors Without Borders arrived on the scene in Zamfara and found that hundreds of children had died from lead poisoning and thousands more were diseased by it.  Mortality rates in some villages were as high as 43%.

This is a genocide carried out by transnational corporations that have no restraints on how they operate in what were once sovereign nations. And ultimately, this is a consequence of globalism.

Plain and simple, globalization is the empowering of transnational corporations and the neutering of sovereign governments to keep their populations safe from these transnational corporate behemoths.

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Keys to Powerful Living: Love

 

“Love indeed bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

Love is something each of us wants, but many never find: genuine love. All around us we can see an endless pursuit of love. We look for it everywhere: in our homes and families, friendships, dating relationships, marriage and religion. But what is love, and where can we go to find lasting love for our lives?

What is Love?

Love is often described in terms of feelings. But true love — what the New Testament writers called agape love — is not based on feelings at all. Agape love can change your life and set you free. And it all begins with a decision you must make.

Agape love is a decision to consider the needs of others ahead of your own needs … to live sacrificially … to give without demanding a return … to overlook an offense. Most of all, agape love is a decision to receive and respond to God’s love. For all our efforts to love others will not bear fruit unless we are responding to His love. As the Bible says, “We love, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).

Thus, our understanding of love begins with perhaps the most frequently quoted verse in the Bible, John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

This is what the Bible calls being “born-again” or born from above.” In this new-birth experience, God reveals His incredible love to you. This miracle will produce in you a new nature that will allow you to love others like never before — regardless of their response to your love.

New birth is just the start. To grow in love we must continue receiving God’s love and forgiveness (see  Luke 7:47). Listen to the apostle Paul’s prayer for the Christians in Ephesus: “that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to al the fullness of God: ( Eph. 3:17B-19).

Not only do we need to be “rooted and grounded” in God’s love for us, we also need an ever-increasing comprehension of His love toward us.

As we experience God’s love and respond in love, we will be transformed into His image. We will also be fulfilling His greatest command: to love God and our neighbors (Mark 12:29-31). This love must inevitable overflow into actions (1 John 3:13). Ultimately, the verifiable witness of our love for each other will prove to the world that we are truly disciples of Jesus (see John 13:34).

While agape love is not based on feelings, the feelings of love will often follow true expressions of love. As our lives begin to demonstrate the “fruit of the Spirit: (love, joy peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self- control). our emotional state will undoubtedly change for the better. But we must not seek after the emotions. Instead, seek first His kingdom and “all these things: will be give to us ( Matt. 6:33).

Overcoming Barriers to Love

Even with an understanding of love, we often find it difficult to overcome barriers to love. These barriers often arise from our experiences in the past: the hurts, wounds, rejections and disappointments that left us unable to give or receive true love.

The key to overcoming the barriers of the past can be summed up in one word: forgiveness. By asking the forgiveness of those we have offended — beginning with God — and then forgiving those who have offended us, we move beyond the cycle of bitterness and enter into the realm of God’s agape love.

Our own self-centered desires — pride, envy, jealousy and conceit — often separate us from God’s true love. This barrier of self can be overcome only through repentance, by turning away from sin and asking God’s forgiveness for selfish desires and actions. As we humble ourselves before the Lord and receive His forgiveness, we will find freedom to look beyond our own needs and reach out to those around us.

Finding True Love

The search for love begins with our relationship with God. If you are looking for true love, open yourself up to the One who loves you more than anyone else in the whole world. God loved you so much that He gave His only Son, Jesus. Call upon Jesus Christ now. Allow Him to reach out and touch you with the agape love that comes from the heart of God. Repent and ask His forgiveness and receive it in faith (  Romans 10:13; 1 John 1:8-9; John 1:12). Ask Jesus to baptize you (fill you) with the Holy Spirit ( Luke 11:13).

As you grow in your faith, let God unfold His great love for you every day. Then, reach out in the practical ways to those around you — family, friends, co-workers, neighbors — and thereby demonstrate the love you have received from God.

Finally, pray and ask God to fill you with a new understanding of love: “Father, I believe You love me. The Scripture says I can love You because You first loved me. I thank you for Your love. Fill my heart in a greater way that You ever have before. Fill me with the Holy Spirit and love. Help me to grow in Your love and let me show Your love to people all around me. Thank You, Father. In Jesus’ name. Amen.”

God’s Word on Love

“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another” ( 1 John 4:7-11).

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Addis Abeba: Best in Travel 2013 – Top 10 cities

A ccording to the popular travel website, LonelyPlanet.com  the thriving metropolis of Addis Abeba — a groovy city that takes pride in its multifaceted assets —  is one of the top 10 city destination that is worse visiting in 2013.

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All Eyes on Waldeba Monastery

The Franco-German public-service cultural television channel, “arte” just broadcasted a film about the famous Ethiopian monastery, Waldeba. This fascinating video about the monastery of “Waldeba” in northern Ethiopia depicts the lives of around 1000 monks and hermits.  Last year, the monastery opened its gates to foreign camera crews for the first time.  The privilege of shooting this film had French filmmaker, Jean-Louis Saporito and researcher François Le Cadre.

The 1500-year-old Christian manuscript, “The HYPERLINK “http://ethiopianheritagefund.org/artsNewspaper.html”Abouna GaHYPERLINK “http://ethiopianheritagefund.org/artsNewspaper.html”rima GospelHYPERLINK “http://ethiopianheritagefund.org/artsNewspaper.html”sHYPERLINK “http://ethiopianheritagefund.org/artsNewspaper.html””,  the world’s oldest Christian book that could only be touched by the monks was displayed in its entirety for  the very first time.

 

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IMF: Ethiopia Nee! – Egypt Yeah!

 

Ethiopians, solely Ethiopians are helping  to build the future of their country by contributing to the realization of the Grand Renaissance Dam project which is expected to cost around US$4.7 billion – the IMF, the world Bank and other Western bodies rather prefer to go on with their century-old bias against Ethiopia.

A couple of weeks ago the IMF practically told Ethiopia to stop the Nile Dam Project. On the other hand, IMF now considers  loaning $4.8 billion to Muslim Brotherhood’s Egypt.

I always ask myself – – when international organizations like the World Bank and IMF try to have such widespread influence and control – could countries like Ethiopia exercise any economic independence at all?

How long do they keep making the same old mistakes ignoring all those historical warnings?

As one wonderful Ethiopian observer once said: “Failure by masters of this world to heed to those warnings or, in defiance of them, to continue to engage in participating in the conspiracies of Ethiopia’s sacrilege or destruction in any way by any nations or group of nations, secular or religious, will surely result in committing the perpetrators themselves to another destruction of unprecedented nature and magnitude.”

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