@SecPompeo History will judge the U.S. government and the @WorldBank's unjust intervention to deny 110 million Ethiopians an “equitable and reasonable” share of the Nile River for their development needs. @RPCoalition 1
@SecPompeo This is nothing short of condemning a black African nation and her population to abject and perpetual poverty. No one should condemn Egypt to suffer unduly, considering that 97% of its population depends on the Nile River. @RPCoalition 2
@SecPompeo Justice requires treating both nations and their 200 million + people fairly with justice the result on #bothsides. Avg world per capita electric power consumption = 3,133 kw Egypt = 1,683 Ethiopia = 69 kw. 3
@SecPompeo Frmr @WorldBank deputy global manager, Yonas Biru, wondered how Ethiopia could survive with next to nothing-electric power. “The nation rides on the shoulders and backs of women. From cradle to grave, women carry Ethiopia on their back, literally." 4
@SecPompeo Ethiopian "Girls are condemned to fetching water from miles away rather than going to school. Their mothers travel just as far and spend just as much time collecting firewood.” The GERD, Biru said, signifies “the emancipation of Ethiopian women." @WorldBank 5
@SecPompeo "The interventions by Egypt, the Arab League, the World Bank and the U.S. to delay and scale back the GERD is a setback for women. It is a revocation of the emancipation of Ethiopian girls and women" Biru concluded. @WorldBank 6
@SecPompeo Ethiopia is standing alone against the mighty forces of the U.S. and @WorldBank. Befitting of its history, Ethiopia remains unflinching with its indomitable sovereignty & unwavering spirit with its trust in what its people call “Ethiopia’s God.” @RPCoalition 7
@SecPompeo@WorldBank’s professed dream is “A World Free of Poverty.” ...is Ethiopia in the Bank’s dream? @WorldBank board of directors need to explain to over 50 million girls and women in Ethiopia why the @WorldBank stands against their economic emancipation. @RPCoalition 8
Rev. Jesse Jackson "I call upon Congress: (1) to fully restore the funding for Ethiopia; and (2) to investigate and demand information regarding the justification for halting aid to Ethiopia from both the @StateDept and @USTreasury ." @SecPompeo@stevenmnuchin1@RPCoalition END
(@SCOTUS) “is a court that is “consolidating its power, systematically undercutting any branch of government, federal or state, that might threaten that power, while at the same time undercutting individual rights.”… 1/3 nytimes.com/2022/12/07/opi…
…’This, I think, is a useful way of thinking about the current Supreme Court’s aggressive disregard for its own rules & tradition regarding case selection, methodology & precedent. The conservative majority is working to make the court the leading institution in American…
…’politics, with total control over the meaning of the Constitution & its application to American life.
Americans can & should challenge this. Here, as I’ve noted before, Abraham Lincoln is invaluable: “If the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole…
@GeosInstitute@CivilEats “...fonio had been cultivated for more than 5,000 years,” Thiam says. “I became more interested in this grain that was deemed worth taking to the afterlife by early Egyptians.”
@GeosInstitute@CivilEats “We’re working with about 1,500 farmers [in West Africa]...In most cases, the families have been growing fonio for themselves. What we’re doing differently is asking them to grow for us, not as a feed-the-family crop only, but also as a way to get some income.”
@GeosInstitute@CivilEats ‘Fonio: 1.) a climate crisis-ready crop; it grows in poor soils in drought conditions with little to no inputs. 2.) a nutrient-dense, naturally gluten-free ancient grain—perfectly suited to serve both local food security and Western health trends.’
“On January 20, 2020 the US & South Korea both discovered their first cases of COVID-19. “However, nine months later, the novel Coronavirus has claimed the lives of over 200,000 Americans and caused staggering economic damage... latimes.com/entertainment-…
“...while in South Korea, there were no significant lockdowns and, in an urbanized population of 51 million, only 344 lives have been lost. Where did we go wrong?”
The documentary promises “damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting” and aims to expose “a system-wide collapse caused by a profound dereliction of Presidential leadership.”
“In my six decades in public service, I’ve seen many changes..,Yet the most profound change...is also the saddest. It is the complete collapse in respect for virtually every institution of government and an unprecedented cynicism about the nobility of public service itself.”
“155 years after the Emancipation Proclamation and less than two years after our first African American president left office, racism still remains a part of our national life...let’s imagine the American system we might have if the better angels of our nature were to prevail.”
“because of an 18th-century political deal, those 20 states have 40 senators, while California has just two. These sparsely populated, usually conservative states can block legislation supported by a majority of the American people. That’s just plain crazy.”
Gadseel and Jose Quiñonez are among dozens of people who county prosecutors say were falsely labeled as gang members or associates by Officers Braxton Shaw, Michael Coblentz & Nicolas Martinez. All 3 are with the LAPD’s elite Metropolitan Division. latimes.com/california/sto…
When Gadseel asked why they had been stopped, @lapdmetro said they LOOKED like gang members and that they’d HEARD rumors he was carrying a weapon, he recalled. Eventually, his boss at the recycling plant came out and spoke with the officers. They let the brothers go.
According to a complaint filed by county prosecutors, Shaw, partnered with Martinez, filled out two field interview cards on July 30, 2018, that FALSELY LABELED a “Gadseel Q.” as an MS-13 gang member nicknamed “Squealer,” and a “Jose Q.” as an MS-13 gang member dubbed “Sneaks.”
...she halted in the middle of the street at about 1:45 a.m. She stood calmly, a surreal image of human vulnerability in the face of an overpowering force that has been criticized nationally by civil rights advocates... latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Before it was over, she struck ballet poses and reclined on the street. She also sat on the asphalt in a yoga-like position, facing officers, before they left...
Portland has long been loved, or mocked, for its streak of earnest but quirky organic earthiness, as portrayed in the “Portlandia” television comedy series. Sometimes the envelope-pushing forms of expression involve nudity.