💭 The bodies of at least 46 migrants were found in the back of a hot semi-truck on Monday in San Antonio, Texas. Sixteen others, INCLUDING several CHILDREN, were discovered alive.
💭 White House: Biden not to blame for 50 dead migrants found in Texas 18-wheeler
Her comments came in response to a question from reporters aboard Air Force One Tuesday morning about the dozens of dead migrants found in a tractor-trailer in South Texas late Monday night. As of Tuesday morning, nearly 50 people had been pronounced dead at the scene.
“These deaths are on Biden,” Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) tweeted Monday night. “They are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law.”
Jean-Pierre told reporters that the White House is “closely monitoring the absolutely horrific and heartbreaking reports out of San Antonio” and that Biden is receiving regular briefings on the tragedy.
She further pledged to continue the administration’s work to disrupt “human smuggling networks” that “exploit and endanger human lives to make a profit” before defending the administration’s decision to loosen pandemic-era border protections when asked about Abbott’s comments.
“The fact of the matter is, the border is closed, which is in part why you see people trying to make this dangerous journey using smuggling networks,” Jean-Pierre stated. “Our hearts go out to the families at this time. We are going to stay focused on the facts and making sure we hold these smugglers accountable.”
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother andhold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
💭 Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court’s longest standing justice, has suggested that the case that constitutionalized gay marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges) could be overturned in the future, as we read in Politico:
Justice Clarence Thomas argued in a concurring opinion released on Friday that the Supreme Court “should reconsider” its past rulings codifying rights to contraception access, same-sex relationships and same-sex marriage.
The sweeping suggestion from the current court’s longest-serving justice came in a concurring opinion he authored in response to the court’s ruling revoking the constitutional right to abortion, also released on Friday.
In his concurring opinion, Thomas, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, wrote that the justices “should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell” — referring to three cases having to do with Americans’ fundamental privacy, due process and equal protection rights.
Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, the next step would be to overturn the law of Sodom.
💭 US Supreme Court Gives States Green Light to Ban Abortion
😈 Legal Abortion in Ethiopia Has Led to The Deaths of Mothers as Well as Babies
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on June 9, 2022
💭 Some experts say that 150,000 university students, intellectuals and politicians were killed as the regime brutally stamped out opposition groups. Human Rights Watch has described what happened in Ethiopia as “one of the most systematic uses of mass murder by a state ever witnessed in Africa.”
A Dutch appeals court has upheld the conviction and life sentence handed to a 67-year-old Ethiopian-Dutch man who was found guilty in 2017 of war crimes committed under a brutal Marxist regime that ruled Ethiopia in the 1970s
By The Associated Press
A Dutch appeals court upheld Wednesday the conviction and life sentence of a 67-year-old Ethiopian-Dutch man who was found guilty of war crimes committed under a brutal Marxist regime that ruled Ethiopia in the 1970s.
Eshetu Alemu, who was too ill to attend the appeal hearings in his case, had sought to have the 2017 convictions quashed. But the international crimes section of the Hague Court of Appeal convicted him for his part in a 1977-78 purge by the Dergue regime of former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, known as the Red Terror.
Some experts say that 150,000 university students, intellectuals and politicians were killed as the regime brutally stamped out opposition groups. Human Rights Watch has described what happened in Ethiopia as “one of the most systematic uses of mass murder by a state ever witnessed in Africa.”
Alemu was the Dergue’s representative in Gojam province in 1978 while its forces battled the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party, one of several opposition groups.
The court said war crimes were committed in the province “with the knowledge and participation of the defendant.”
According to an English-language summary of the appeals court’s ruling, hundreds of victims, many of them young students, were arrested without just cause and detained in inhumane conditions. Some were severely tortured, and the vast majority were sentenced to prison without trial. A number of the victims were sentenced to death.
“The death sentences were executed at the defendant’s direction in a brutal manner,” the court said.
In an emotional speech during his initial trial that led to his 2017 conviction, Alemu accepted blame for crimes by the Dergue but told judges he did not personally commit them.
Alemu was tried in a Dutch court because he moved to the Netherlands in the early 1990s and was granted Dutch citizenship in 1998.
Mengistu now lives in exile in Zimbabwe. He was convicted in absentia by an Ethiopian court in 2006 of genocide and later sentenced to death.
ስለ ጨፍጫፊው እሸቱ አለሙ ዛሬ የወጣው መረጃ ላይ፤ ““One of the most systematic uses of mass murder by a state ever witnessed in Africa….Mengistu now lives in exile in Zimbabwe./በአፍሪካ ውስጥ እስካሁን ድረስ በመንግስት ከታየ የጅምላ ግድያ ስልታዊ አጠቃቀም አንዱ..…መንግስቱ ዛሬ በዚምባብዌ ይኖራል” የሚለውን ሳነብ ደሜ ፈላ፤ በበቀልና በፍትህ ተጠማሁ!
💭 History repeats itself: Fascist A. Ahmed’s Last Days Are Like Dictator Mengistu’s | History Repeats Itself
🔥 Amhara & Oromos bombing Tigray, Using Rape, Hunger & forced resettlement (Mengistu did it back then, Ahmed will do the same now) as a Weapon against People in Tigrayfor the past 130 years:-
😈 Menelik ll: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Haile Selassie: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Mengistu Hailemariam: Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
😈 Abiy Ahmed Ali ´= Half Oromo + Half Amhara = Oromo (Crypto-Muslim / Man of the flesh)
[Galatians 5:19-21]
“Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
🔥 Amhara & Oromos bombing Tigray, Using Rape, Hunger & Forced Resettlement (Mengistu did it back then, Abiy Ahmed is doing the same now) as a Weapon against People in Tigray for the past 130 years:-
👉 1. Menelik II. (1844 – 1913)
The Great Ethiopian Famine of 1888-1892
The great famine is estimated to have caused 3.5 million deaths. During Emperor Menelik’s Reign, Tigraywas split into two regions, one of which he sold to the Italians who later named it Eritrea. Only two months after the death of Emperor Yohaness lV , Menelik signed the Wuchale treaty of 2 May 1889 conceding Eritrea to the Italians. It was not only Eritrea that Menelik gave away, he also had a hand in letting Djibouti be part of the French protectorate when he agreed the border demarcation with the French in 1887. Some huge parts of Tigraywere put under Gonder. The Southern part, places like present day Alamata, Kobo etc were put under Wello Amhara administration.
👉 2. Haile Selassie (1892 – 1975)
In 1943, at the request of the Emperor Haile Selassie, the Royal British Airforce bombed two towns – Maekaelle and Corbetta. Thousands of defenseless civilians lost their lives as a result of aerial bombardment. It is recorded that ‘on 14th October [1943] 54 bombs dropped in Maekaelle, 6th October 14 bombs followed by another 16 bombs on 9thOctober in Hintalo, 7th/9th October 32 bombs in Corbetta’.
Between 2 and 5 million’ people died between 1958 and 1977 as a cumulative result. Haile Selassie, who was emperor at the time, refused to send any significant basic emergency food aid to the province of Tigray,
👉 3. Mengistu Hailemariam (1937 – )
1979 – 1985 + 1987
Due to organized government policies that deliberately multiplied the effects of the famine, around 1.2 million people died from this famine. Mengistu & his Children still alive & ‘well’ while Tigrayans starving again.
👉 4. Abiy Ahmed Ali (1976 – )
2018 – Until today: over 500.000 already dead. 😠😠😠 😢😢😢 Unlike the past famine there is no natural or man-made drought, rather, Abiy simply uses war and hunger as a weapon. Abiy Ahmed sent his kids to America for safety, while bombing & starving Tigrayan kids!
Ethiopian Medical Journal recently published a shocking analysis from Dr. Calum Miller pointing out that the legalizing of abortion in Ethiopia in 2005 did not result in a decrease, but rather an increase of maternal morbidity and mortality
Miller conducts extensive research in three African nations, with Ethiopia selected as a case study.
In a letter to the Ethiopian medical journal, Miller wrote, “Rather than being a silver bullet to reduce deaths from abortion, abortion legalization has resulted in a vast increase in the number of abortions, without any appreciable decrease in abortion mortality or maternal mortality. There is some evidence mortality, and certainly, morbidity, have even increased since legalization.
“Ethiopia’s progress in reducing maternal deaths has been considerably less than expected, especially with respect to abortion,” Miller continued.
“It is possible that, as in other countries, a disproportionate focus on family planning based on inflated claims of abortion mortality has diverted resources from emergency obstetric care and thereby failed to reduce maternal mortality more significantly.”
The Ethiopian Penal Law on Abortion, Art. 528, Section II, stipulates punishment for those who endanger the life of the unborn. However, revisions were undertaken in 20005 by the Ethiopian Ministry of Health to conform Ethiopia’s abortion legislation to the fifth Millennium Development Goals (MDG 5) of the World Health Organisation (WHO). This was out of step with dominant conservative public sentiment as well as the explicit anti-abortion position of the highly influential Orthodox Church in Ethiopia.
Cited in an essay published by St. Paul Hospital Millennium College in Addis Ababa, posted on 17 Jan 2022, a group of 12 leading Orthodox Christian and Muslims stated their support for the defense of the right to life. The Christians declared:
Man (person) is created in the image and likeness of God. Human life begins from conception biologically and spiritually. No one has the authority to take the life of an innocent (God’s creature). Killing God`s gift that is innocent is morally unacceptable. Therefore, abortion is wrong and condemned because it is a grave sin.
“The Orthodox Christian faith leaders follow a closed door policy on the matter of induced abortion,” wrote the essay’s author, Demelash Bezabih Ewnetu.
💭 Talks and performances by the wonderful Lucy Kassa at the Oslo Freedom Forum
👉 Courtesy: Oslo Freedom Forum
Lucy Kassa is an Ethiopian investigative journalist who has reported extensively on the war in northern Ethiopia. Her articles in publications including Al jazeera, LA Times, The Telegraph and The Globe & Mail among others have drawn global attention to the atrocities perpetrated against civilians by all belligerents. Despite suffering physical intimidation, death threats and ongoing online trolling and smear campaigns, she continues to report stories bringing attention to the victims of war.
💭UK Monkeypox Alert as Health Chiefs Detect Another Four Cases of Killer Virus With no Links to Africa — as Gay and Bisexual Men are Urged to Look Out for ‘Unusual Rash’
New patients are gay or bisexual men from London with no travel links to Africa
Two knew each other but not linked to early cases in sign of community spread
Rare viral infection kills up to one in 10 sufferers and spreads via bodily fluid
(Michael Snyder via ZeroHedge) Monkeypox is a disease that I have been monitoring for quite a while now. It is not supposed to spread easily from human to human, and hopefully that is still true. But human cases are now popping up in the UK, and authorities are not exactly sure how it is spreading. As we have seen with COVID, deadly diseases can mutate in dangerous and unpredictable ways. And as we have also seen, a handful of human cases can ultimately turn into a worldwide pandemic. So we should definitely keep an eye on this alarming new outbreak in the UK, because it could potentially become something much larger.
On Saturday, health authorities in the UK announced that two more human cases of monkeypox have been confirmed…
Two more cases of rare viral monkeypox infection have been diagnosed in England, health authorities said on Saturday, adding that they are not linked to one reported a week ago.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the latest infections involved people living in the same household and an investigation was underway into how they contracted the virus.
But these two new cases did not have any contact with the first case that was confirmed on May 7th.
So authorities are in a race to figure out how they could have contracted it.
Mathematics prove that you can put the world’s population in the state of Florida, easily.
Although some climate change activists claim overpopulation is a serious problem that contributes to global warming and must be curtailed, investor and business giant Elon Musk said it is a “false impression” that there are too many people in the world, and added that the “Earth could maintain a population many times the current level.”
During a recent interview on WELT, German publishing titan Mathias Dopfner said to Musk, “You once told me about population decline — the decrease of reproduction rates, birth rate — is one of the most underestimated problems of our times. Please explain.”
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, said, “Yes. Most people in the world are operating under the false impression that we’ve got too many people. This is not true. Earth could maintain a population many times the current level. The birth rate has been dropping like crazy.”
“So, unfortunately, we have these ridiculous population estimates from the U.N. that need to be updated because they just do not make any sense,” he said. “You can look and see, what was the birth rate last year, how many kids were born, and then multiply that by life expectancy – okay, so that’s how many people will be alive in the future.”
“Is the trend for birth rate positive or negative?” said Musk. “It’s negative. And that’s the best case, unless something changes for the birth rate. Take Japan, for example. I think the population is roughly 110 million. But last year, if you take the number of children born times the life expectancy – 85 years, very impressive life expectancy – then Japan would have, I think, around 68 million people, roughly half of the current population.”
“That doesn’t tell the whole story because you have an upside-down demographic pyramid,” Musk added. “We already have an upside-down demographic pyramid, where there’s a lot of old people, very few young people. So, the upside-down demographic pyramid is unstable.”
Un informe de Amnistía Internacional y Human Right’s Watch denuncia una operación sistemática y altamente organizada para vaciar la zona de ciudadanos tigriñas. Se calcula que unas 700.000 personas han sido expulsadas de su tierra en esta región de Etiopía
Las masacres de civiles, el hambre obligada, las violaciones en grupo. Lo ocurrido en el oeste de Tigray trasciende los horrores de cualquier guerra: esa violencia extrema sedimentada en el caos y los círculos viciosos de crueldad y venganza. Más que producto de la impunidad y la sangre caliente, los excesos encajan en una campaña diseñada para expulsar a los tigriñas de su tierra. Para limpiar étnicamente esta fértil área y repoblarla con oriundos de Amhara, extensa región al sur de Tigray. Este es el principal hallazgo de un reciente informe con título explícito: We will erase you from this land (Os borraremos de esta tierra).
Los investigadores de Amnistía Internacional y Human Rights Watch fueron atando cabos mientras entrevistaban a los tigriñas que, poco después del inicio del conflicto, empezaron a llegar a Sudán. Vetadas en Etiopía, ambas organizaciones han tenido que conformarse con los testimonios –recogidos durante más de un año– de 400 refugiados que abandonaron su país rumbo al oeste. Material suficiente para concluir, sin fisuras de duda, que en Tigray occidental se ha orquestado una operación sistemática de limpieza étnica. “No son solo crímenes de guerra, sino crímenes contra la humanidad, los más graves, según la legislación internacional. Es otro nivel”, afirma Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, investigador de Amnistía Internacional y coautor del estudio.
La intrincada red de culpables –y las dificultades para tejerla con precisión– revelan la complejidad de la guerra en Tigray, un conflicto que ha ido congregando, en un campo de batalla ilimitado, a ejércitos regulares (de Etiopía, pero también de su vecina Eritrea), unidades paramilitares regionales y milicias variopintas. Todos ellos con sus respectivas cabezas pensantes, dando órdenes en la retaguardia. Y azuzando rencores identitarios, con frecuencia en torno a disputas fronterizas sin zanjar.
La investigación apunta directamente a las fuerzas especiales de Amhara y los milicianos de Fano, un grupo político-militar originario de la misma región. Pero su estrategia de terror, especifica el estudio, ha contado “con la aquiescencia y posible participación del Ejército etíope”. No se ha podido probar, hasta el momento, que los gobiernos (federal de Etiopía, regional de Amhara) hayan dictado desde sus despachos el desplazamiento de tigriñas. Aunque las férreas medidas para silenciar Tigray entero invitan a la sospecha.
“La región lleva 17 meses sin internet, y sin teléfono desde junio del pasado año. También se ha cortado la electricidad para que la gente no pueda cargar sus dispositivos y grabar o tomar fotografías”, detalla Laetitia Bader, directora de Human Rights Watch en el Cuerno de África, quien añade una lógica consecuencia: “Cuando nos reunimos con refugiados en Sudán, esperábamos que tuvieran fotos o vídeos de lo que habían presenciado; no tenían nada”. Bader explica que el Gobierno etíope sigue sin permitir el acceso de periodistas a la zona. Y da largas sine die a las peticiones de una investigación independiente sobre el terreno. “La constante es negarlo todo en un marco de minimización sobre lo ocurrido”, señala.
💭 Nobel Laureate vs Nobel Laureate | Blocking of Food Distribution in Ethiopia
👉 Nobel Peace Laureate Abiy Ahmed Using Hunger as a Weapon.
👉 Noble Peace Prize = License for Genocide
👉 የኖቤል የሰላም ሽልማት = ለዘር ማጥፋት ወንጀል ፈቃድ
Last year’s Nobel Peace Laureate Abiy Ahmed Ali is blocking this year’s Nobel Peace Laureate’s The World Food Program’s (W E P) food relief in Ethiopia.
💭 It’s The Weeknd! Superstar Singer Becomes World Food Programme Goodwill Ambassador
💭 Record-breaking vocalist and songwriter inducted into ‘W E P family’ at special ceremony in Los Angeles
Award-winning Canadian singer The Weeknd, who holds the record for the longest-charting single in the US, has joined with World Food Programme (W E P) as a Goodwill Ambassador.
“The UN World Food Programme is doing urgent and important work to change and save lives on a daily basis and I feel passionately about addressing world hunger and helping people in need,” he said, accepting the honour at a special ceremony in Los Angeles yesterday (7 October).
The Weeknd has been a passionate advocate and generous supporter of humanitarian causes throughout his career, donating more than US$3 million to various organizations in the past year alone. Most recently, he gifted US$1 million to W E P’s relief efforts in Ethiopia following months of deadly violence.
As the son of Ethiopian immigrants to Canada, the conflict deeply affected him, he has said, and ultimately this moved him to deepen his relationship with W E P. “Our partnership is an authentic extension of all our efforts and intentions to help those in need and bring an end to so much suffering,” said The Weeknd (born Abel Tesfaye).
W E P Executive Director David Beasley said: “We are thrilled to welcome The Weeknd to the W E P family. His compassion and commitment to helping the world’s hungriest people is truly inspirational.”
Beasley added: “Every night, 811 million people go to bed hungry, and another 270 million are marching toward starvation. This is just not right and we have got to speak out and act today to save lives. We need everyone to come join our movement to end hunger – it is all-hands on deck to avoid a global catastrophe.”
The Weeknd, known for hits such as ‘Starboy’ and ‘Take My Breath’, joins an international roster of ambassadors including Kate Hudson and Michael Kors, who lend their voices to support W E P’s mission to end hunger. The organization provides lifesaving food assistance to more than 100 million people in 80 countries.
W E P USA chief Barron Segar said: “Whether he is performing or speaking out about global hunger, The Weeknd’s voice is powerful and inspiring, only matched by his dedication to helping people around the globe. We are honoured that he has joined our mission. He will undoubtedly inspire the next generation of humanitarians in the fight to ensure no man, woman or child goes to bed hungry.”
W E P said via a press release: “The continuous record-breaking of charts, sales and streams, headlining the biggest festivals and stadiums in the world including this year’s Super Bowl, and his ever-mysterious public persona, have combined to establish The Weeknd as one of the most compelling and significant artists of the 21st century.”
💭 Abuses “amount to crimes against humanity as well as war crimes,” according to a report from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.
Widespread abuses against civilians in the western part of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have charged in a new report.
The crimes were perpetrated by security officials and civilian authorities from the neighboring Amhara region, sometimes “with the acquiescence and possible participation of Ethiopian federal forces,” the rights groups say in the report released Wednesday.
The abuses are “part of a widespread and systematic attack against the Tigrayan civilian population that amount to crimes against humanity as well as war crimes,” the report says.
Ethiopian federal authorities strongly refute allegations they have deliberately targeted Tigrayans for violent attacks. They said at the outbreak of the war in Nov. 2020 that their objective was to disarm the rebellious leaders of Tigray.
Ethiopian officials in Addis Ababa, the federal capital, and in Amhara didn’t respond to requests for comment on the allegations in the rights groups’ report.
The report, the result of a months-long investigation including more than 400 interviews, charges that hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans have been forced to leave their homes in a violent campaign of unlawful killings, sexual assaults, mass arbitrary detentions, livestock pillaging, and the denial of humanitarian assistance.
Fighters loyal to the party of Tigray’s leaders — the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF — also have been accused of committing abuses as the war spread into neighboring regions. Fighters affiliated with the TPLF deliberately killed dozens of people, gang-raped dozens of women and pillaged property for a period of several weeks last year in Amhara region, Amnesty said in a report released in February.
The new report by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International focuses on attacks targeting Tigrayans in western Tigray and describes them as “ethnic cleansing,” a term that refers to forcing a population from a region through expulsions and other violence, often including killings and rapes.
Publicly displayed signs in several towns across western Tigray urged Tigrayans to leave, and local officials in meetings discussed plans to remove Tigrayans, according to the report. Pamphlets appeared to give Tigrayans urgent ultimatums to leave or be killed, the report says.
“They kept saying every night, ‘We will kill you . Go out of the area,’” said one woman from the town of Baeker, speaking of threats she faced from an Amhara militia group, according to the report.
Western Tigray has long been contested territory. Amhara authorities say the area was under their control until the 1990s when the TPLF-led federal government redrew internal boundaries that put the territory within Tigray’s borders. Amhara officials moved swiftly to take over the region when the war broke out.
The outbreak of the war “brought these longstanding and unaddressed grievances to the fore: Amhara regional forces, along with Ethiopian federal forces, seized these territories and displaced Tigrayan civilians in a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign,” the report says.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken asserted in March 2021 that ethnic cleansing had taken place in western Tigray, marking the first time a top official in the international community openly described the situation as such. That allegation was dismissed by Ethiopian authorities as “a completely unfounded and spurious verdict against the Ethiopian government.”
The new report corroborates reporting by The Associated Press on atrocities in the war, which affects 6 million people in Tigray alone.
In June Ethiopia’s government cut off almost all access to food aid, medical supplies, cash and fuel in Tigray. The war has spilled into Amhara and Afar regions, with Tigrayan leaders saying they are fighting to ease the blockade and to protect themselves from further attacks.
Facing growing international pressure, Ethiopian authorities on March 24 announced a humanitarian truce for Tigray, saying the action was necessary to allow unimpeded relief supplies into the area. Trucks bearing food supplies have since arrived in the region.
The AP last year confirmed the first starvation deaths under the blockade along with the government’s ban on humanitarian workers bringing medicines into Tigray.
Estimated tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war. But there is little hope for peace talks as Ethiopian authorities have outlawed the TPLF, effectively making its leaders fugitives on the run.
Among their recommendations, the rights groups call for a “neutral protection force” in western Tigray, possibly with the deployment of an African Union-backed peacekeeping mission, “with a robust civilian protection mandate.”
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