Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Juan Carlos Formell dies aged 59 after suffering a heart attack onstage during his NYC show
Formell, who was the son of musical legend Juan Formell, was nominated for a Grammy in 2000 for his debut album ‘Songs from a Little Blue House’
He was performing in the Bronx when he had a heart attack
Juan Carlos Formell, the renowned Cuban singer and songwriter, has died at the age of 59.
He died after suffering a heart attack onstage at the Lehman Center for the Performing Arts in the Bronx, New York City on May 26.
Formell, who was the son of musical legend Juan Formell, was nominated for a Grammy in 2000 for his debut album ‘Songs from a Little Blue House.’
He fled from Cuba and moved to New York in 1993, and following his father Juan Formell’s death in 2014, he took over as the bassist in his Afro-Cuban band, Los Van Van.
Los Van Van’s drummer is his brother Samuel, his sister Vanessa is on vocals.
“Our country is going to hell. The world is already laughing at us,”
Former President Donald Trump is delivering remarks from Mar-a-Lago in Florida following his arraignment in New York City on Tuesday.
Trump slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as a “Soros-backed prosecutor” who “campaigned on the fact that he would get President Trump.”
“A local failed district attorney charging a former President of the United States for the first time in history on a basis that every single pundit and legal analyst said there is no case—there’s no case,” Trump said. “But it’s far worse than that, because he knew there was no case.”
“Our justice system has become lawless,” Trump said. “They’re using it now, in addition to everything else, to win elections.”
“We are a nation in decline. And now these radical left lunatics want to interfere with our elections by using law enforcement. We can’t let that happen,” he said during his 25-minute address.
Trump described the time since his exit from office as “the most embarrassing time in our country’s history.” “With all of this being said, and with a very dark cloud over our beloved country, I have no doubt nevertheless, that we will make America great again,” he said in the speech, his first since being arraigned on Tuesday.
“This fake case was brought only to interfere with the upcoming 2024 election and it should be dropped and immediately,” Trump said.
💭 WTC Lightning Strike an Ominous Portent after NYC Exhibits Zelenskyy’s Satanic Pentagram
💭 George Soros says he did not fund Manhattan DA Bragg campaign and accuses the right of focusing on ‘far-fetched conspiracy theories’ after Trump indictment
– Billionaire warmonger George Soros says he does not know Alvin Bragg
– Trump allies have repeatedly described Manhattan DA as Soros-funded
– But Soros says he never contributed to his campaign
💭 Donald Trump’s Trouble is Linked to The Biblical Ark of The Covenant and Ethiopia
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on October 10, 2022
💭 የኒውዮርክ ‘ሃላል’ የኬባብ ሱቅ በአሜሪካውያን ወጣቶች ጥቃት ተፈጸመበት
[Isaiah 14:12-14]
“How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
Lucifer, son of the morning = הֵילֵל בֶּן–שָׁחַר (literal meaning – Morning star son of black [as in just before the dawn]) – pronounced helel ben shahar
👹 Lucifer in Hebrew is pronounced heylel.
☆ Heylel means:
“Morning star” in Hebrew הֵילֵל
“Light Bearer” in Latin
☪ “Crescent Moon” in Arabic هلال (copy and paste this into Google images and you’ll get a crescent moon)
👉 If you type into Google translate, hilal bin shahar (هلال بن شر) you’ll get Crescent Moon son of Evil!
☪ The crescent moon is the symbol and the image of Islam.
Arabic uses metathesis (vowel substitution and same consonant shuffling) to generate variations of the same theme. For example, the same is done when transliterating Hebrew word for “Festival of Lights” Hanukah, or Hanukkah, or Chanukah. In Arabic, a great example is Mohamed, Muhammad, Muhammed, and Mahomet. Metathesis first starts in pronunciation. For example in English, the proper pronunciation is “TO”, but most Americans say “TA”. “LATER” but most say “LADER”. UK English still spells it CENTRE but is pronounced CENTER which is the American spelling.
Hilal means Crescent Moon
Halil means Crescent
Halal means [appearance of] New Moon
Ahillah means Crescents
Khalil means Friend (Kh being a hard H) (the moon being a “friend” of those at night
Allah is the moon-god and is the great Hilal in the sky. Ibrahim was a “friend” of Allah the moon-god, and Ibrahim pilgrimage was to Haran, the City of the Moon. (A rip off story of Abraham.)
Hilal – hard “h” sound – means “dwellings” and another word for the Kaaba (black cube building in Mecca) and the crescent-shaped wall on northwest side of the Kaaba is called Hatim.
Ihlal is the name of a ceremony around the Kaaba
Hilah means Ruse and is the means which one can circumvent the sharia’a law.
Halal meat that has been processed correctly by killing while invoking the name of Allah and killed with a crescent-shaped knife – Halal means the food is permissible to eat and is stamped with a crescent symbol. During the hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca), the sacrifice is to be made facing the crescent-shaped Hatim wall.
💭 Venezuelan migrant family — including pregnant mother — turned away from NYC shelter
A young Venezuelan migrant family was left in limbo this week after being bussed to New York City from Texas — only to be told they were “ineligible” for shelter because they lacked proper documentation.
Dailin Rojas, who is 6 months pregnant, told The Post she was given the run-around after being told her family didn’t have the required documentation to allow them to stay at a homeless shelter in Jamaica, Queens.
Despite having stayed there for several weeks already, a distressed Rojas, her husband Johandre Merchan and their 3-year-old son were ordered to start the entire application process again.
“We were shocked. It’s not easy here,” the frustrated husband told The Post. “I was thinking a better life, better treatment, but it’s not easy.”
Rojas and her family are among a growing number of migrants forced to contend with shelter ineligibility because they can’t provide the documentation – such as past housing history or proof they are a family unit – that is usually required to be admitted to a city shelter.
Another two busloads of migrants arrived at Manhattan’s Port Authority Friday morning — adding to the hundreds that have been shipped off by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott as part of an ongoing political spat over President Biden’s border policies.
Mayor Eric Adams has previously insisted that all migrants would be welcome in the Big Apple — regardless if they have the correct documentation.
Gonzalez said the family’s plight was in direct contrast to Adams’ stance.
“What the mayor and the commissioner are saying is not true.” he told The Post.
😇 Today, according to the Ethiopian calendar it’s Saturday, August 14, 2014 – Saint Abuna Aregawi commemorated on this very Day.
💭 Ladies and gentlemen; I swear to you; If America does not stop supporting the evil fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia – and if it does not refrain from its diabolical plot to disintegrate, weaken and destroy the historical Christian-Zionist Ethiopia – then, mark my words, the state of Texas would become the first state to secede from the National Union of the United States of America very soon.
☆ TExas
☆ TEgray (Tigray)
☆ TEdros (Tigray Native)
☆ TEsla (Besides, Elon Musk owns Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH = Ethiopia)
👉 Elon Musk’s ranch and his SpaceX Starbase are located in Texas.
💭 Author Sir Salman Rushdie, whose writing has previously led to death threats, has been attacked on stage at an event in New York state.
He was about to give a lecture when a man stormed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and began punching or stabbing Sir Salman as he was being introduced, according to an AP reporter who was there.
The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.
“Hawk Newsome, the co-founder of the Greater New York chapter of Black Lives Matter, was a speaker and denounced the international communities silence. He said if the victims of the mass killings and rapes were white, there would have been an intervention by now.“
About 1,000 people who hail from Ethiopia’s Tigray region braved the New York chilly temperature to converge on the United Nations Thursday to denounce the invasion of their region by federal troops, which occurred about 100 days ago.
They gathered across from U.N. headquarters at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in Manhattan.
The protest, billed as “100 Days of Genocide,” brought Tigrayans from allover the U.S., with some flying in from California. While most demonstrators delivered denunciations against Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and his ally Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, others drove a convoy of cars draped in Tigrayan colors, in New York’s streets. The drivers blared horns while repeatedly “Stand With Tigray,” and calling Abiy and Afwerki “murderers.”
Abiy has laid siege on Tigray, cutting off communications, including a total internet shutdown as well as transportation stoppage. Agricultural production has been disrupted in the region due to the war, which reportedly including bombing of civilians by the Ethiopian air force. Without food shipments, there are reports of ongoing mass starvation deaths, including of children. As many as 4.5 million people could face starvation if the blockade doesn’t end, demonstrators said. Tigrayans make up about six million of Ethiopia’s 112 million population.
The demonstrators’ demands include: the immediate creation of a humanitarian corridor to shipment of food, water, other relief supplies, and physicians into the cordoned off war zone; withdrawal of Eritrean troops that have intervened to support Abiy; and, an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of alleged crimes against humanity by the federal Ethiopian soldiers, and the Eritreans.
There have been widespread reports of atrocities, including weaponizing rape, the use of starvation to punish people in the Tigray region, and the indiscriminate killing of unarmed civilians by federal soldiers, and the Eritrean military. There are also reports of targeted infrastructure damage, including attacks on ancient churches and mosques.
Ethiopia and Eritrea once fought a very bloody, bitter war, over disputed boundaries. The two nations were then in a state of cold war for decades, with borders closed. When Abiy was appointed interim prime minister in April 2018, he surprised many people by opening up the political space in Ethiopia and reaching out to Eritrea’s ruler Isaias Afwerki to normalize relations. As a result of his trailblazing ways Abiy was awarded the nobel peace prize in 2019. Many of his critics now believe the prime minister repaired relations with Eritrea knowing all along that he’d need them to side with him in an attack against Tigray that he’d long planned. Some are now demanding that the nobel prize award be rescinded.
Many demonstrators held placards emblazoned with photos of Afwerki, with the words “Wanted—War Criminal.” Other posters read, “Stop War On Tigray,” “#Tigray Genocide,” “Stop Killing Innocent People,” “Stop Tigray Genocide,” “Time To Arrest Abiy Ahmed.”
The Eritreans have also built alliances with local activists. Hawk Newsome, the co-founder of the Greater New York chapter of Black Lives Matter, was a speaker and denounced the international communities silence. He said if the victims of the mass killings and rapes were white, there would have been an intervention by now.
A spokesperson for Americans who are former Peace Corps volunteers in Ethiopia also denounced the blockade and called for humanitarian aid to be allowed.
A Tigrayan-born New Yorker, a design associate at an architectural firm, shared the reasons why he joined his compatriots at the protest. “We want Eritrea to get out of Tigray. We want our women not to be raped. We want our churches not to be bombed. We want them to be places of worship, and we want our mosques not to be bombed,” he said.
Charlotte Phillips, an American activist with the organization Brooklyn For Peace, who held a sign that read “Abiy Ahmed: End the Tigray War, Famine, Killings, Looting,” denounced the invasion of Tigray.
“What’s happening in Tigray is totally unacceptable. We want the Security Council to get the U.N. to stop it,” Phillips said. “The international press has not been allowed to go in to report. There has been no access to humanitarian aid and this also is unacceptable.”
“We’ve heard of murders, of rapes going on, of violence against civilians by the Ethiopian soldiers and Eritrean soldiers,” she added.
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