London And Todays Times

Since the Con-dems have been in power London has been getting very expensive. Ive cut back on going out as much as before. Long gone are the days of going out for a drink on the weekends with work friends. I cant believe how much alcohol was wasted down the drain, I have no regrets as 5 years ago was the boom era and I enjoyed every minute of it; there was no spending cuts then only was simply spending and holidaying 3 times a year. So is clothes shopping, I have to walk past the lovely clothes in the shop windows that entice you to buy buy buy and even make it easier by slashing their prices. Unless I really need it I do not buy the product, I actually feel like my grand mother who watches her penny rationing like it was the war days. I am also proud of myself that I have not gone mad with all this budget cutting, I remember once upon a time when I thought if I didnt go shopping to buy a new outfit every month or go out partying, life would be depressing. Well guess what its not and Im ok, I guess as every one has also tightened their strings its not so bad, nor is it embarassing to go shopping in the reduced food section or buying no frills grocery. Theres a fight to see who can get the best items first. Yes those posh middle class white people no longer snigger at your food basket if they see a bright yellow reduced sticker on it, infact people think your smart; why should you buy full priced items when the food is going to leave your system anyway.
Then theres the high cost of transport I now walk to work I make it sound like Im being healthy by walking but really I just want to save money on transport, my legs are actually my transport and they walk like a machine. Every day I power walk to and from work thump thump as I go along. Tourists getting in my way as I swish past them. I even see a lot more black people on that barclays rent a bike, its no longer sad to ride them. Although I refuse to ride those bikes I dont care how many times Boris Johnson goes on about them.
So what do I do for entertainment now that every thing is so darn expensive in London. Well when I walk along I notice the architecture things I never bothered lookin you know there really is some nice buildings in London! I appreciate public parks more, I go there so I can get a whiff of some fresh oxygen air and admire how the lawn is well cut and bouncy to sit on. Then I just stare at tourists and old people who sit on the benches.

My attitude to work has also changed thanks to London being expensive, I actually look forward to going to work as its a form of entertainment and socialing. My colleagues are more like my friends now as I see them more than my friends, I no longer visit my friends who want to party or they themselves have disappeared due to lack of funds. So yes the credit crunch or inflation has affected Londoners life dramatically.  I have also become a lot closer to my family when all your friends have gone, all you have close are your family. I call my parents every day and talk about my day and I always answer their phonecalls. I only feel sorry for people who do not live with their partners or have a girlfriend or boyfriend because they must be so bored. I mean what do they do? at least if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend you can watch films together cook, irritate each other when theres nothing to do. I suppose those people would have to go out so they do not feel lonely and todays times mean going out = more money to be spent.

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Charities in every field now historian charities

A British charity called the Ethiopian Heritage Fund goes around Ethiopia restoring old paintings. Their view of restoring old paintings is by cleaning up the paintings and changing the paintings. They say they are preserving the ancient Ethiopian texts because somehow the priests do not do a good job of looking after the bibles and paintings, so the the experts must come and do a bit of a face lift with them you know make the paintings of the bible characters appear more European looking. They give the saints and martyrs softer features not the asymmetric sharp features associated with Ethiopian bible paintings. As well as giving the characters rosy cheeks as if they have been slapped on the faces. I find it quite shocking that one, the Ethiopian government cannot see the damage this charity is doing and two their true intentions of changing history. Lets be honest now we live in a racist society all these charities that operate in Africa are there to give Africa and black people a bad name as if they are helpless people with nothing to do but beg. Whilst at the same time make lots of money off them. Now there is also a charity set up to steal historical artifacts tamper with any good thing that comes out of Africa as if to make it look like the paintings were painted with white people in mind. Most Ethiopian and Nubian early Christians painted Madonna and child as black or dark brown not middle eastern or blond how people think they ought to look now. Back then they were black and are black that's before this charity decided to go around the churches in Ethiopia "restoring" the paintings and white washing them.
I have one word for the Ethiopian government not all charities are nice, sorry I take it back most charities are not good especially this sneaky little charity trying to change our history right under our noses. It not only effects the Ethiopians but black history in general its being demoted and changed to make it it feel like it didn't exist. Why cant they leave the paintings alone, Africans are quite capable of looking after their own historical  artifacts without the outside intervention of foreign overgrown haired old archaeologists with crap intentions.
The more people realise these charities have bad intentions the more people will look at the things they do which is messed up.

please look below at the so called work completed more like bodged work!

ethiopianheritagefund.org/completed.html

The rise of the Pentecostals

I’ve noticed a rise in the Pentecostals everywhere you go, you see these smug grinning people who wear suits and brag about how free they are and how god saved them before they were lost now they found themselves. I am a Christian an Orthodox Christian now they may be a little dated and have not embraced modern technology yet to throw themselves at people at how wonderful being a Christian is but why should they? Their religion started when Jesus went up to heaven and his apostles travelled around Greece and the Middle East and Nubia to spread the world of the gospel. It continued since then and has plenty of followers in Greece, Egypt, Russia and Ethiopia. The reason why I love being an orthodox Christian is it is a historically correct form of Christianity that has not been edited and altered to serve another purpose. The Pentecostal religion was born to make people into workers who slaved away and gave all their money to the church. It did kick start the industrial revolution, most governments in Western Europe loved the economic aspects of the religion and encouraged it. It cannot be seen as a proper religion as no religion should mix with business that’s just a phony attempt to con people with their money. It has generated a lot of money they even preach how wealth is a sign of prosperity that God would admire which is completely un Christian and false. These people go to the church screaming and jumping up and down and describe it as speaking in tongues! Going to these churches is no different to going to a nightclub must you dance and shout and scream to speak to God? How very unclassy and shameful. Another thing about Pentecostals I cannot stand is how conceited and arrogant they all are and look down at everyone who doesn’t wear a suit to church and screams at the top of their lungs at services. God is the one that judges all of us on judgment day who are these people to judge us because we are not part of their multi million dollars organization.


Another emphasis I cannot stand about Pentecostals is their hate for Mary Mother of Christ they disregard her as a no body. She is Jesus Christ's mother, how would Jesus feel about the way they view his own mother? Mary is an important figure in Christianity you cannot speak ill of her which they do so upfront and its so wrong.

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Ethiopia and its gift of the Nile

Egypt is threatening Ethiopia with war if they use the Nile under a new agreement reached with the Nile basin countries. The countries around the Nile basin include Kenya, Tanzania Burundi, Rwanda, DRC and Ethiopia who all jointly agreed on using the Nile for irrigation under a new treaty.

According to Egypt, Ethiopia would be breaking the 1959 Treaty. That treaty is the continuation of the Nile water agreement of 1929 – brokered by the British when they were the colonial power. Egypt was guaranteed 48bn cubic meters of water. Following the 1959 deal, which did little more than reaffirm Egypt and Sudan's right to a majority of the Nile; this was increased to 55.5bn cubic meters, while Sudan is allotted 14.5bn cubic meters.

Egypt and Ethiopia share a long history of wars from ancient to the time Egypt was occupied by the Greeks, Turks followed by the Arabs. Our present similarity may have watered in modern times, however the river Blue Nile from Ethiopia following has not changed. The ancient Egyptians called present day Ethiopia the land of the Gods, as they depended on the water and silt Ethiopia gave them. They even had an ancient measuring device along the river banks to measure the height of the river and the silt levels.

Ethiopia throughout the years defended its territories from ancient invaders and colonial invaders to Arabs. Ethiopia was delayed with modernizing in the 20th century due to two world wars and in the 80’s had to deal with a civil war and an attack from Somalia as well as famine.

While the world was concerned with providing food aid to Ethiopia no one gave them the solution to be self sufficient and use their resources. Ethiopia’s image was blown up as a poor country locked in a time zone; no one acknowledged the gift of the majority of the Nile it gave to Egypt. Egypt was associated with the Nile exclusively as if it flowed upstream from the air and made use of it by themselves.

During the cold war, there where systematic political games being played on Ethiopia by foreign powers for their own purposes. Egypt supported any of Ethiopia’s political enemies and terrorists to cause instability in the country to continue using the Nile in peace. Now there is peace in Ethiopia, it is very worried so is trying to cause further chaos and instability; by encouraging separatism and ethnic tension amongst the tribes.

Thanks to the Chinese who have remained neutral, have agreed to help fund Ethiopia with the building of the dam on the Nile basin; when Western bank lenders refused Ethiopia like a parent refuses his child for candy. The only thing that is stopping the construction now is Egypt and the Northern administration of Sudan threatening war.

My question is what right has Egypt got to try and get the upper hand and say the colonial treaty signed in 1929 must be upheld in 2010? How does Egypt explain such a selfish attitude of threatening war on a developing country that just got out of a drought and threaten to cut aid for the other countries that depend on aid from Egypt? The fact of the matter is, these African countries rich in resources such minerals and fertile lands but poor due to civil wars want to be self sufficient and use their resources. Why do foreigners get uneasy when African resources are used by their own people? Is there a law that sates diamonds can be mined by black people but must given to the Lebanese, Belgian or French company? Oil must only go through Arab countries and owned by European companies like BP who are happy to help the community by building one water tap.

Rivers that pass through African countries cannot be used by black African countries. Newly independent African countries had been brain washed by their former colonial powers so much they accepted the unjust treaties put in place to make generations of Africans poor and dependant on food aid. As soon as a couple of African countries rally and demand to use their God given recourses, they get bullied with war threats with the backing of rogue states. Will Egypt defend the 1929 treaty to USA?

Barack Obama who is half Kenyan wrote in his book ‘Dreams of my father’ about his grandfather’s struggle against colonialism and being imprisoned for believing in freedom. I doubt Barack Obama will defend a colonial treaty that did not involve a free Kenya and other Nile basin countries. How about the African Americans or ‘Afrocentrics’ described by critics, who are having an increased interest in the motherland. Rastafarism is a growing trend which sees Ethiopia as Zion against Babylon. Other groups will have a say such as the Hebrew Israelites and the Kemets who follow the ancient religion of Egypt and believe the ancient Egyptians were black like the rest of the African countries.

The black Egyptians called Abbay’s the name of Ethiopia’s blue Nile waterfall are marginalized and have lost their land and are treated like second class citizens by the majority Arabs Egyptian.

Egypt has always denied they are African but do not mind using African resources. In times of trouble they would rather side with their Arabian relatives than side with their African slaves neighbors. This exploitation and inconsiderate use of resources must stop, Africa had been suffering from the after effects of slavery and colonization for too long. This treaty established in 1929 is a relic of the past era and its up to African countries collectively to rip it up and demand change.

Negative views of Ethiopia and Ethiopian people by the media

As a second generation Ethiopian citizen who lives in Europe I am astonished by the negative articles on Ethiopia. If you Google Ethiopian children you will get a list of websites dedicated to the saving and feeding of Ethiopian children. Then you will get 20 pages full of my new Ethiopian child I adopted or how to comb your Ethiopian orphan’s hair? You then google Ethiopian women and you get lots of articles on Ethiopian women being raped in arab countries and committing suicide. Now I know that there is an element of truth to it but it is as if the negative stereotype of Ethiopia and Ethiopians is blown out of proportion. Every body has something to say about Ethiopia but the Ethiopians never have a say why is that? Ethiopian people are generally conservative closed people who do not let foreigners in their circle, so I think the mystery of them makes a lot of people assume things about them. We as Ethiopian people must fight back at their ridicules exaggeration that all Ethiopians were starving at one point in their lives or are all victims of child brides. People just give their opinion on cultural practices without seeing it from an objective view. I don’t condone child brides but most of the people in the countryside have been living that kind of way since biblical times, people cannot expect them to change overnight.


Ethiopia was late to modernize due to centuries of wars on several fronts. Why can’t people allow Ethiopia to modernize in its own time without constant scrutinies from modern countries who watch write countless degrading shameful negative articles? Everybody seems to want to save Ethiopia from all sorts of famine if there happens to be no famine then they create the image of a famine so people could donate to their nonprofit organization. It seems that if there is a positive article written about Ethiopia the NGO and charities rally and dismiss it by bringing a negative article to light. These organizations cannot promote any positive views of Ethiopia as they know that Ethiopia will get tourists and then no longer need no more aid and handouts which the charities are very happy to handle as it means they also get paid large sums of money to. The charities create negative bad stories on Ethiopia to continue to get large donations from unsuspecting donors who think Ethiopia is a pit of hell riddled with disease and poverty and children who want to be adopted.

This couldn’t be far from the truth, Ethiopians are patriotic people who love their country and are working hard to shake off the hunger label attached to their country. Ethiopians are excelling in setting up businesses abroad with the intention of going back to their country to re-build. Ethiopians pay a big attention to their families and fathers play a big role in families. The women are independent and strive for a better life which is why they emigrate to countries study or work for a couple of years and save enough money to set up their own business in Ethiopia.



Instead the media views these women going to Arab countries as helpless women trafficked to work as slaves and prostitutes. It’s very easy to stigmatize women and call them prostitutes, especially if they are black but to call a whole race a prostitute is quite shocking and racist and must be challenged. These women seek their fortune abroad like every other immigrant in history for a better life, most economic migrants have always been men but when they see women economic migrants they assume the worst and call them prostitutes. I am not denying there is no prostitution, prostitution exists in all societies but you cannot call a whole sector of immigrants’ prostitutes.



I think people should challenge stereotypes and views that are written about certain members of the community, as people write such assumptions because those people who it is written about do not have the guts or resources to make a stand against such views. This is why certain people drill it into peoples head that Ethiopia is poor the people are poor a million times, at least we need to give people something new and interesting to read about and challenge this dated stereotype.

One Female Black Singer At A Time Please We Are British!

I am shocked and concerned at the lack of black female singers in the UK at the moment. There are so many talented singers in the UK but they are not given any chance by the record industry because they dont fit the stereotype. The ones that are allowed to release records are mixed raced singers who dont speak oftern such as Leona and Corrine who are timid creatures with no backbone that dont pose a threat to mainstream white British media. Now come on now how can anyone consider Leonna Lewis black she has an essex accent looks like she crys every 5 minutes and instead of lashing out at that crazed fan who punched her she started screaming. A real black woman would have got up picked up her stilletos and started beating the so called 'fan'. Going back to my point one singer Alexandra Burke was given the priveledge of a record deal thanks to the Xfactor.The girl is very talented and her not winning or being passed through the next round at Xfactor would  have caused race riots as her talents speaks for itslef and she is pretty. You can see the judges knew how talented she was, but were not happy about a black girl from the hood getting all that fame and attention. The British music industry is closed industry as in they want to control who goes to number one who succeeds hence why there is so much crap in the radio. Due to the recession the industry had to listen to supply and demand and sign the grime artists that they so hated and tried to ruin their livelihoods, by banning any of their live concerts using the police. What has happned now is these grime artists are getting richer as they write and produce their own songs so most of the profits go to these inner city grime artists which must really annoy the record labels. Alexandra burke is representing for the the black female in the UK who are sick and tierd of seeing Jordan and cheryly cole on the magazines. Alex is not very much liked by the media they often write about her private life such as who she is dating how poor she used to be this is due to the lack of succesful black female singers in the UK, in order to be succeful you must not have an opinion be a doormat and must follow the crowd. Estelle who is doing very well in America often talks about her struggles in the UK how record bosses wanted to change everything about her from looks to her music, she felt unaccepted and not wanted. When somone is telling you everything about you is not right this must discourage a lot of black female singers from even trying. Estelle left the UK at the right time and has never looked back but most up and coming black singers do not have the opportunity to go to New York. You do then have those that try and impress the white record bosses and resort in wearing ridiculas outfits such as VV Brown. I do not for one minute think that girl wants that pathetic fringe no black person can walk down the street with that thing on their forhead and expect to live. Its disgusting how they forced that girl to make that ice cream quiff of hers her trademark, I dont see it catching on but this is the price she pays to be a singer. The record bosses also do not understand her voice is soulfull it does not go with the rock songs they are giving her, she sounds odd and looks odd she should be herself and tell them to wear socks with sandals if they wish. Whatever happened to the likes of Neneh Cherry she had so much attitude she doesnt seem the type to be told to wear one of the Queens guards hats, she has he rown style and rythem. We need more independant black female artists there is a world demand for the its just a shame there is no demand for them on their own home turf.