💭 Rattled German Chancellor Olaf Scholz had a rare outburst of anger after he was criticized for his military support of Ukraine.
The German Chancellor faced an angry crowd accusing him of being a “warmonger” over his response to Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost his cool when he faced an angry crowd heckling him over Germany’s response to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The German leader furiously responded as people shouted “warmonger” at him during a public speech.
He blasted back: “Warmonger? Putin is the warmonger!
“He marched into Ukraine with 200,000 soldiers. He’s mobilised a lot more. He’s risked the lives of his own citizens.
“While you are all shouting ‘make peace without weapons’, Putin has been assembling unbelievable numbers of tanks, rockets, ballistic missiles and he’s aimed them at Ukraine.
“And he has killed countless citizens of Ukraine, children and old people.”
It comes after prominent members of German mainstream parties have expressed alarm at a new poll that shows support for the far-right Alternative for Germany at a record high.
The DeutschlandTrend survey, conducted monthly by infratest dimap for public broadcaster ARD, that was released on Thursday puts voter support for Alternative for Germany at 18 per cent, on a par with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats. In the 2021 election, Scholz’s party received 25.7 per cent of the vote, while Alternative for Germany, or AfD, got 10.3 per cent.
“This (…) is a disaster and should be understood as an alarm signal for all parties of the center,” said Norbert Roettgen, a senior lawmaker for the main opposition Christian Democrats, whose support stood at 29 percent in the poll of 1,302 voters conducted from May 30-31. The margin of error was up to 3 percentage points.
Roettgen said his own center-right party should ask itself why it hasn’t profited as much from voters’ unhappiness at the government.
💭 My Note: I used to like Mr. Scholz for his calmness and self-control. But now …. the hypocrisy is just mind-blowing!
✞ Ukraine war: 6,000 Civilians killed
✞ Ethiopia war: Over a million Civilians killed
Hypocrisy at its best. Three weeks ago Mr. Scholz traveled to Ethiopia to shake hands with the most evil leader, perhaps, since Hitler. Yes! He shook hands with the genocidal PM Abiy Ahmed Ali who, in the past two years, has massacred and starved to death over a million Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia. What an ignorant world! What a disgraceful and dishonest behavior!
💭 Congressman Brad Sherman: Ethiopian Leaders Planned to Wipe out Tigrayn Ethiopians
“Bullets can kill in thousands – starvation in tens and hundreds of thousands!”
💭 “The #TigrayGenocide has not received the necessary attention. The number of deaths in Ethiopia far exceeds those in Ukraine. Ukraine poses issues of international borders and some other issues – but in terms of the deaths and destruction we haven’t seen anything in the wider world as severe as what is happening in Northern Ethiopia. Tigray needs more autonomy!” Brad Sherman
💭 The World’s Deadliest War Isn’t in Ukraine, But in Ethiopia
To put it in perspective, the United Nations estimates about 6,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine so far, and estimates put military deaths in the tens of thousands. Even if these estimates are low, the best available numbers suggest that the scale of death in Ethiopia exceeds that in Ukraine many times over. And yet Ethiopia has received a small fraction of attention, both from policymakers and the media.
Heuchelei von seiner besten Seite. Vor drei Wochen reiste Herr Scholz nach Äthiopien, um dem bösesten Führer, vielleicht seit Hitler, die Hände zu schütteln. Ja! Abiy Ahmed Ali, der in den vergangenen zwei Jahren über eine Million orthodoxe Christen Äthiopiens massakriert und verhungert hat, schüttelte ihm die Hände. Was für eine unwissende Welt!
💭 German Chancellor Traveled to Ethiopia to Meet Black Hitler – But The Genocider Didn’t Show up at The Airport
😢😢😢 Another big scandal / ሌላ ትልቅ ቅሌት!ዋይ! ዋይ! ዋይ! 😠😠😠
💭 Ugandan students from at least 13 universities take to the streets, protest against Joe Biden in front of their parliament, and sing, “We don’t want your pro-gay money. We want and love our country more than money.”
The protest was organized after US President Joe Biden threatens Uganda with sanctions over anti-gay Law.
💭 Uganda Passes Law That Will Impose The Death Penalty on LGBTQ+ People
🔥 Former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich discusses President Biden’s re-election campaign and Secretary Antony Blinken’s alleged involvement with the Biden family’s business dealings.
😈 Everything the Oromo Demon aka Abiy Ahmed Ali Touches Dies!
So Blinken isn’t just a war monger, he’s also an intriguer, a meddler and a traitor. Why hasn’t Blinken not been arrested yet for lying under oath?
It is beyond ridiculous that this man has not been charged or impeached yet. Like the fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia, its guardian, the US government, has also collapsed.
🔥 On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken participated in a moderated conversation on the state of press freedom worldwide with Washington Post columnist David Ignatius.
During the event, members of the feminist grassroots organization CODEPINK, interrupted Blinken as he talked about press freedom.
“Excuse us, we can’t use this day without calling for the freedom of Julian Assange,” said one of the protesters.
😈 Everything the Oromo Demon aka Abiy Ahmed Ali Touches Dies!
So Blinken isn’t just a war monger, he’s also an intriguer, a meddler and a traitor. Why hasn’t Blinken not been arrested yet for lying under oath?
It is beyond ridiculous that this man has not been charged or impeached yet. Like the fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia, its guardian, the US government, has also collapsed.
💭 Kamala Harris on Tuesday delivered a word salad to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos arrived to the White House on Monday to meet with Joe Biden in the Oval Office.
Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff on Tuesday welcomed the Philippine president to their residence as part of his 4-day trip to the US.
Protesters gathered outside of the Vice President’s residence as Ferdinand Marcos met with Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris was her usual awkward self and delivered a word salad to Ferdinand Marcos.
“We have been able to continue to do the work that we have that is a priority around our mutual prosperity and security…we discussed the importance of a clean energy economy. You and I share our passion…as it relates to what we must do in terms of continuing to work together,” Harris said talking down to the Philippine president.
This woman is one heartbeat away from the presidency.
😈 Yes, Everything the Oromo Demon aka Abiy Ahmed Ali Touches Dies. All the places where the heathen invaders have migrated with the evil spirit of Waqeyo-Allah-Lucifer will be burnt and destroyed. Folks will cry and say Alas! Whoa!
🔥2.3 million people take to streets of France, riots break out. At least 540 people were arrested during riots during May Day protests against pension reforms in France More than 300 of them were arrested in the capital, said French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. 406 police officers and gendarmes were injured, 259 of them in Paris.
🔥 Hundreds of thousands of people on Monday massed in France on Labour day to vent their anger against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform, with unions vowing not to stop fighting even after the changes were signed into law.
❖ AXUM – The Capital of The Axumite Empire – Land of THE QUEEN of SHEBA – Where the Sacred ARK OF THE COVENANT is Housed.
🛑 Encircling Axumite Ethiopia 🛑
💭 Former General of the US Army Wesley Clark in 2007:
‘We Are Going to Take-out 7 Countries in 5 Years.’
Former General of the US Army Wesley Clark on the military strategy after 9/11 (Ethiopian New Year’s Day) attacks: “We are going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing it off with Iran”
A former commander of NATO’s forces in Europe, Clark claims he met a senior military officer in Washington in November 2001 who told him the Bush administration was planning to attack Iraq first before taking action against Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.
The general’s allegations surface in a new book, The Clark Critique, excerpts from which appear in the latest edition of the US magazine Newsweek.
Clark says after the 11 September 2001 attacks, many Bush administration officials seemed determined to move against Iraq, invoking the idea of state sponsorship of terrorism, “even though there was no evidence of Iraqi sponsorship of 9/11 whatsoever”.
Ousting Saddam Hussein promised concrete, visible action, the general writes, dismissing it as a “Cold War approach”.
Clark criticises the plan to attack the seven states, saying it targeted the wrong countries, ignored the “real sources of terrorists”, and failed to achieve “the greater force of international law” that would bring wider global support.
“There was no evidence of Iraqi sponsorship of 9/11 whatsoever”
He also condemns George Bush’s notorious Axis of Evil speech made during his 2002 State of the Union address. “There were no obvious connections between Iraq, Iran, and North Korea,” says Clark.
Clark points the finger at what he calls “the real sources of terrorists – US allies in the region like Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia”.
Clark blames Egypt’s “repressive policies”, Pakistan’s “corruption and poverty, as well as Saudi Arabia’s “radical ideology and direct funding” for creating a pool of angry young men who became “terrorists”.
❖ AXUM – The Capital of The Axumite Empire – Land of THE QUEEN of SHEBA – Where the Sacred ARK OF THE COVENANT is Housed
🛑 Encircling Axumite Ethiopia 🛑
💭 Former General of the US Army Wesley Clark in 2007:
‘We Are Going to Take-out 7 Countries in 5 Years.’
Former General of the US Army Wesley Clark on the military strategy after 9/11 (Ethiopian New Year’s Day) attacks: “We are going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing it off with Iran”
A former commander of NATO’s forces in Europe, Clark claims he met a senior military officer in Washington in November 2001 who told him the Bush administration was planning to attack Iraq first before taking action against Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.
The general’s allegations surface in a new book, The Clark Critique, excerpts from which appear in the latest edition of the US magazine Newsweek.
Clark says after the 11 September 2001 attacks, many Bush administration officials seemed determined to move against Iraq, invoking the idea of state sponsorship of terrorism, “even though there was no evidence of Iraqi sponsorship of 9/11 whatsoever”.
Ousting Saddam Hussein promised concrete, visible action, the general writes, dismissing it as a “Cold War approach”.
Clark criticises the plan to attack the seven states, saying it targeted the wrong countries, ignored the “real sources of terrorists”, and failed to achieve “the greater force of international law” that would bring wider global support.
“There was no evidence of Iraqi sponsorship of 9/11 whatsoever”
He also condemns George Bush’s notorious Axis of Evil speech made during his 2002 State of the Union address. “There were no obvious connections between Iraq, Iran, and North Korea,” says Clark.
Clark points the finger at what he calls “the real sources of terrorists – US allies in the region like Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia”.
Clark blames Egypt’s “repressive policies”, Pakistan’s “corruption and poverty, as well as Saudi Arabia’s “radical ideology and direct funding” for creating a pool of angry young men who became “terrorists”.
❖ Aksum, Also Called Axum, is The Ancient Capital of The Aksumite Empire, Situated on The Present-Day Tigray Region of Ethiopia
The Aksumite Empire emerged in the former historical kingdom of Dʿmt, first documented in a trading guide called the ‘Periplus of the Erythraean Sea’ from around the mid-1st century AD.
According to the Periplus text, the position of the Aksumite Empire in international terms, played an important role in the transcontinental trade route between Rome and India from an early stage. Aksum was sufficiently remote never to have come into open conflict with Rome, nor suffered from punitive expeditions from nearby kingdoms such as Egypt or Meroë.
The Aksumite Empire began to mint coins from about AD 270, mimicking the design of traditional Roman coins with a bust of the ruler in profile. Coinage gave the Aksumite economy a central emphasis from which every aspect of the state’s functions could operate, with the Aksum monetary system of coinage linked with that of the Romans and Byzantines for trade.
The Empire extended across most of present-day Eritrea, northern Ethiopia, Western Yemen, and parts of eastern Sudan. The Aksumites developed a civilisation of considerable sophistication, and a unique alphabetic system called the Ge’ez script (also known as Ethiopic), evolving into an abugida segmental writing system.
The Empire was centred on the capital of Aksum near the base of the Adwa mountains, situated to control both the highland and coastal regions of northern Ethiopia.
Water appears to be an important element to the Aksumites, as the name of Aksum is thought to be composed of two works, ‘ak’ and ‘shum’, the first of Cushitic and the second of Semitic origin, roughly translated as ‘water’ and ‘chieftain’.
The city reached its apex during the 3rd and 4th century AD by the construction of monumental royal tombs, each marked by a huge monolithic stelae. The stelae were ornately carved with false doors and windows, the largest of which measures 33 metres in height (comparable in size to the larger obelisks of Ancient Egypt), supported by a massive underground stone counterweight.
In the centre of the city was the Ta’akha Maryam, a giant 6th century palace complex that covered an area of 103,334 square metres, much larger than many contemporary palaces found across Europe at the time.
To the west is the Dungur, known locally as the Palace of the legendary Queen of Sheba. The Dungur was a multi-storey palace complex that dates from the 7th century AD, covering an area of around 3,250 square meters.
How widespread the city was formerly is not yet known, but it has been assumed that less permanent habitations were constructed around the substantial dwellings of the Ta’akha Maryam, the Dungur, and other large structures such as the Enda Sem`on and Enda Mikael as described in the 15th century ‘Book of Aksum’.
The slow collapse of the empire started around the 7th century, further escalated by the Persian presence in the Red Sea that caused Aksum to suffer economically. The population of the city went into decline due to intensive farming that caused severe erosion, in combination with a loss of the international profits generated from the exchange network it had developed over the centuries.
The Aksumite Empire ended with the last King, Dil Na’od who was defeated by his former General Mara Takla Haymanot, founding the Agaw Zagwe dynasty. According to legend, a son of Dil Na’od fled in exile, whose descendants eventually overthrow the Agaw Zagwe and established the Solomonic dynasty around AD 1270.
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