💭 Sinn Féin spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Defence, John Brady TD, spoke today of his concern at the ending of the five-month cease fire in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
The launching of a fresh offensive by Eritrean and Ethiopian government forces in Tigray awakens fresh fears of a return to the human rights abuses which haunted the conflict prior the cessations of violence earlier this year.
The Wicklow TD said:
“I want to express my deep concern at the fresh outbreak of violence in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
“Prior to the ending of the cease-fire, following the attack by Ethiopian government and Eritrean forces, Tigray had witnessed a swathe of human rights abuses, including murder, forced displacement, and sexual abuse.
“There have been several aerial attacks on the Tigray capital Mekelle, with ground fighting also taking place in Southern Tigray.
“The Ethiopian government and Tigray leadership must redouble its efforts to restore peace immediately, to create the space to find a solution to the two-year old conflict.
“For two years we have witnessed gross human rights abuses taking place during the conflict in Tigray.
“Millions of people have been displaced, alongside the thousands of innocent civilians who have perished.
“According to the UN Refugee Agency, some nine million people across the Tigray, Amhara, and Afar regions of Ethiopian have suffered from severe food shortages, lacking access to adequate food.
“The situation is compounded as a consequence of the drought which is impacting across the whole of the Horn of Africa.
“The international community must act immediately to ensure that the fresh outbreak of violence is brought to an end immediately.
“Ireland has a long association with the Tigray region, which was the at the centre of the Famine in the 1980s which inspired Live Aid.
“I want to call upon the Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney to act immediately, to use the Irish government’s position on the UN Security Council and the EU to demand that the international community respond immediately and decisively.”
💭 China’s Drought-Stricken Sichuan Jolted by Deadly Earthquake
At least 46 people killed by 6.8-magnitude earthquake
Shaking damages houses, triggers landslides and disrupts power
💭 Southwest China Quake Leaves 46 Dead, Triggers Landslides
At least 46 people were reported killed and 16 missing in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Monday, triggering landslides and shaking buildings in the provincial capital of Chengdu, whose 21 million residents are already under a COVID-19 lockdown.
The quake struck a mountainous area in Luding county shortly after noon, the China Earthquake Networks Center said.
Sichuan, which sits on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau where tectonic plates meet, is regularly hit by earthquakes. Two quakes in June killed at least four people.
The death toll rose to 46 with 16 missing as the search for trapped people continued Monday night, state broadcaster CCTV said.
Earlier, authorities had reported 7 deaths in Luding county and 14 more in neighboring Shimian county to the south. Three of the dead were workers at the Hailuogou Scenic Area, a glacier and forest nature reserve.
Along with the deaths, authorities reported stones and soil falling from mountainsides, causing damage to homes and power interruptions, CCTV said. One landslide blocked a rural highway, leaving it strewn with rocks, the Ministry of Emergency Management said.
Buildings shook in Chengdu, 200 kilometers (125 miles) away from the epicenter. Resident Jiang Danli said she hid under a desk for five minutes in her 31st floor apartment. Many of her neighbors rushed downstairs, wary of aftershocks.
“There was a strong earthquake in June, but it wasn’t very scary. This time I was really scared, because I live on a high floor and the shaking made me dizzy,” she told The Associated Press.
The earthquake and lockdown follow a heat wave and drought that led to water shortages and power cuts due to Sichuan’s reliance on hydropower. That comes on top of the latest major lockdown under China’s strict “zero-COVID” policy.
The past two months in Chengdu “have been weird,” Jiang said.
The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a magnitude of 6.6 for Monday’s quake at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). Preliminary measurements by different agencies often differ slightly.
China’s deadliest earthquake in recent years was a 7.9 magnitude quake in 2008 that killed nearly 90,000 people in Sichuan. The temblor devastated towns, schools and rural communities outside Chengdu, leading to a years-long effort to rebuild with more resistant materials.
🔥 California Heat Wave: How Hot Will it Get? – USA TODAY
A dangerous and sweltering heat wave will continue to consume much of the western U.S., especially California on Friday through the Labor Day weekend, the National Weather Service said.
Temperatures in the mid- to upper 90s and lower 100s will result in widespread daily records each day for much of the region, the Weather Service said.
The National Weather Service said notorious hot spot Death Valley soared to 124 degrees Friday, nearing the hottest September temperature ever recorded on Earth of 126 degrees. The hellish location already holds the record for the world’s hottest temperature of 134 degrees, set in 1913.
About 50 million people, mostly in the Western U.S., were under excessive heat warnings and watches along with heat advisories on Friday. Nearly all of California is under an excessive heat waring.
Elsewhere, many monthly temperature records are likely to be broken in inland areas of California, according to UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain.
Death Valley inched toward breaking the highest September temperature ever recorded on Earth, reaching a sweltering 124degrees on Friday. The record is 126 degrees. Forecasters cautioned that Death Valley’s famous Furnace Creek thermometer could produce even higher readings.
“That’s not the official thermometer – so that would actually not be used to set the records,” said Brian Planz, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Las Vegas. “Little to no relief from the heat overnight will only increase the heat stress and create a potentially dangerous situation for sensitive individuals,” the Weather Service warned.
The Capital Weather Gang said, “Close to 38 million people, the vast majority of them in California and Arizona, are predicted to experience highs hitting the century mark in the coming week.”
AccuWeather chief meteorologist Jonathan Porter said: “The risks associated with this heat wave are even more concerning than other heat waves because this will be happening through the Labor Day weekend, a holiday weekend when many people are spending additional time outdoors and may be less aware of the heat risks.
“The heat wave will be notable due to its persistence – day after day of extreme heat with temperatures, in some locations such as California’s capital of Sacramento, near or exceeding 110 degrees for three or more days in a row,” Porter said.
“Extreme caution” is advised for people who go outdoors, the Weather Service in Sacramento said.
Wildfires and power outages were high on the list of concerns among California officials on Friday.
In California, wildfires chewed through rural areas north of Los Angeles and east of San Diego, racing through bone-dry brush and prompting evacuations.
In northwestern Los Angeles County, the intense Route Fire near Castaic raged through more than 8 square miles of hills containing scattered houses late Wednesday. Traffic was snarled on Interstate 5, a major north-south route running through the fire area. Containment was estimated at 37% Friday morning.
Wednesday, seven firefighters fighting the blaze in triple-digit temperatures were taken to hospitals for heat-related illness. All were released.
More than 1,500 people had to evacuate eastern San Diego County when the Border 32 fire erupted Wednesday, eventually hospitalizing two and destroying 10 structures. As of Friday, the fire remained at just under 7 square miles and containment increased to 20%. And in Northern California, a fast-moving fire forced at least 5,000 residents to evacuate and threatened hundreds of homes after the blaze spread to 500 acres in about an hour, the Siskiyou Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
State officials hope to avoid rolling blackouts by asking residents to voluntarily use less power, even as the heat tempts Californians to crank up their air conditioners.
“One of the big unknowns in this (whether blackouts will happen) is that we also expect wildfires,” said Daniel Kammen, an energy professor at the University of California, Berkeley: “And wildfires will cause us to have to shut down certain transmission lines, de-energizing them to prevent wildfires.
“Then we could get into a situation where those rolling brownouts, we call them, when they’re scheduled, we tell people in advance. But right now, none of them are anticipated,” Kammen told USA TODAY.
Is Moses’ Ark of the Covenant in the Bible [Old Testament] a superweapon? It brought plagues upon enemies, won battles, smote impure men who gazed at it, shot jets of fire from its base, and may have caused earthquakes in Israel. It was so great it even represented God himself.
✞ Relevant 16th century spiritual phenomenons:
The Germans, The Turks, The Portuguese, The Somalis, The Oromos, The Muslims and Ethiopia:
💭 Was Europe’s Millennial drought in 1540 caused because of the genocidal war that anti-Christ Ottoman Turkey-backed Muslim Adal Sultanate waged against Christian Ethiopia? (1529–1543)
❖ Why was Martin Luther interested in Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Christianity?
❖ How might Ethiopian Christianity have influenced the Protestant Reformation?
☪ Anti-Christ Turkey’s Muslim Agent in Ethiopia, Al-Ghazi Ahmed Gragn dared to attack The Holy Axum Zion church (where The Biblical Ark of The Covenant is housed)
☪ Al-Ghazi Ahmed Gragnwas shot and killed in 1543
❖ Martin Luther died in 1546
💭 Is Europe’s current devastating drought caused because of The Christian Ethiopian –Adal (Anti-Christ Ottoman Turkish) War (2020–) ?
👉 History repeating itself:
In 2018 Edomite Western Romans and Ishmailite Eastern Turkish, Arab and Iranian agent Abiy Ahmed Ali came to power.
After receiving the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Abiy Ahmed Ali, who – like his predecessor Ahmed Gragn – is supported by Turks, Iranians, Arabs and Western and Eastern nations, started a genocidal war/ Jihad against Northern Christians of Ethiopia. Since the start of this Jihad, million Christians have been massacred. There has been an ongoing pattern of fascist Oromo army of current Ethiopia, Arab supported Eritrean and Somali forces targeting ancient Christian religious sites in Tigray for desecration, looting, and massacres. Cherkos Church in Zalambessa, Debro Damo monastery, and Mariam Dengelat Church are among the several places of worship that were violently targeted. The massacre at Saint Mariam Tsion church in Axum is one of the deadliest events of the Tigraygenocide thus far.
Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)
For Luther, the Church of Ethiopia had more fidelity to the Christian tradition, and the practices mentioned above were marks of this fidelity. Thus, the Church in Europe needed to be reformed in the direction of the Church of Ethiopia. Possibly for Luther the Church of Ethiopia was proof that his reform of the Church in Europe had both a biblical and a historical basis. What seems clear is that Ethiopian Christianity played an important role within Luther’s writings
The Ethiopian–Adal War, also known historically as the Conquest of Abyssinia, was a military conflict between the Christian (Ethiopian Empire and Medri Bahri Kingdom) and the Muslim Adal Sultanate from 1529 to 1543. Ethiopian troops consisted of Amharas, Maya, Tigrayans, Agaw people and Tigrinya people. Adal forces were mainly made up of ethnic Somali, Harari, Afar, Argobba, Hadiya, and the now extinct Harla ethnic groups, supplemented by Ottoman Turkish and Khaleeji musketeers.
Between 1529 and 1559, the Somali military leader Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi defeated several Ethiopian emperors and embarked on a conquest referred to as the Futuh Al-Habash (“Conquest of Abyssinia”), which brought three-quarters of Christian Abyssinia under the power of the Muslim Sultanate of Adal. With an army mainly composed of Somalis and later Galla-Oromos, Al-Ghazi’s forces and their Ottoman allies came close to extinguishing the ancient Ethiopian kingdom. However, the Abyssinians managed to secure the assistance of Cristóvão da Gama’s (Traveller Vasco Da Gama’s son) Portuguese troops and maintain their domain’s autonomy. Both polities in the process exhausted their resources and manpower, which resulted in the contraction of both powers and changed regional dynamics for centuries to come. Many historians trace the origins of hostility between Somalia and Ethiopia to this war.
In 1543, Ethiopian Christians were able to defeat the Somali and Oromo Muslims with the help of the Portuguese navy, which brought 400 musketeers led by Cristóvão da Gama. On February 21, 1543, Al-Ghazi Ahmed Gragn was shot and killed in the Battle of Wayna Daga and his forces were totally routed. The Ethiopian/Portuguese force consolidated their victory by ambushing and destroying a second force under one of the Imam’s subordinates. This turned the war around. The surviving Somalis were forced to withdraw from Ethiopia, leaving both kingdoms severely weakened.
Aftermath
Because the participants in this conflict weakened each other severely, this provided an opportunity for the Oromo people to migrate into the lands south of the Abay east to Harar and establishing new territories.
A number of contemporary accounts suggest that the plague arrived in the Mediterranean via either the Ethiopian kingdom of Axum, or Axumite-held territory (which included much of southern Arabia at this time), so transmission via the Red Sea, from East Africa, or Southern Arabia seems likely.
Around the middle of the sixth century there was a dramatic climate shift; John of Ephesus, a sixth century historian, described it, “the sun became dark and its darkness lasted for 18 months. Each day, it shone for about four hours, and still this light was only a feeble shadow” . Procopius also described the incident which took place in 535 and 536 C.E., writing “the sun gave forth its light without brightness like the moon during the whole year” . Tree ring analysis shows an extended period of cold indicated by extremely narrow growth rings between 536 and 545. The narrow growth rings correspond to a decreased growth rate that would be expected with a global temperature decrease of approximately 3 °C . This mini nuclear winter is believed to have been caused by a comet hitting the earth or the eruption of a massive volcano, possibly Krakatoa . This cold period was accompanied by wetter than usual weather in several parts of Eurasia and was followed by drought. This disruption of weather could have weakened the population through crop failures and famine, and made the people more susceptible to plague.
This weather pattern also could have brought wild rodents harboring plague into close contact with rodents associated with human habitation, and thus provided a link to people. Fleas require warm (18-27 °C) moist (greater than 70% humidity) conditions to develop. The cold temperatures and crop failures of the sixth century would retard flea reproduction outdoors, but also could have driven rats and fleas inside homes and horrea, to warmer temperatures and food sources. The plague is believed to have started in the area around Ethiopia, near a known plague reservoir in an area that is normally fairly dry. The increased rain and flooding might also have driven wild rodents from their burrows in or near river banks into close contact with human dwellings and house rodents.
Wars, grain storage, and bread dole were not unique to Justinian’s reign, and therefore were not likely to be the reason a plague pandemic occurred while he was in power. The dramatic shift in climate from 535 – 540, a factor completely out of Justinian’s control, is more likely to have set the stage for the plague to jump from animal reservoirs to humans. Justinian’s horrea,trade routes, and supply lines most likely influenced the extent of the pandemic even if they did not cause the pandemic.
👉 Anti Ethiopia Conspiracy Can Cause Universal Cataclysm as Ethiopia is a Biblical Nation Under the Almighty Egziabher God
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