Senator Barack Obama emerged from Tuesday’s primaries leading Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by more than 100 delegates, a small but significant advantage that Democrats said would be difficult for Mrs. Clinton to make up in the remaining contests in the presidential nomination battle. Neither candidate is expected to win the 2,025 pledged delegates needed to claim the nomination by the time the voting ends in June. But Mr. Obama’s campaign began making a case in earnest on Wednesday that if he maintained his edge in delegates won in primaries and caucuses, he would have the strongest claim to the backing of the 796 elected Democrats and party leaders known as superdelegates who are free to vote as they choose and who now stand to determine the outcome… Read More >>
The biggest obstacle to the advancement of technology in Ethiopia is Meles Zenawi and his vampire regime. For example, even Somalia, which doesn’t have a functioning government, has a much better mobile phone service than Ethiopia. The Woyanne regime has made it illegal to own and operate an Internet service. The private sector is blocked from entering the telecommunication industry. Every major industry in Ethiopia is dominated by Woyanne-owned mega corporations (vampires) that are sucking Ethiopia’s life blood, with the collaboration of the World Bank, IMF and other poverty-monger international institutions.
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The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
Prime Minister Dictator Meles Zenawi has emphasized the need for governments in Africa and in other developing regions to create and develop market systems backed by appropriate technology.
In his lecture presented as part of the “African Economic and Business Summit”, Meles said low-level of technological development has been one of the major factors hampering the economies of African countries. [Meles the warlord himself is ‘hampering’ the Ethiopian and the Horn of Africa economy].
The Premier thief said the technology markets exist and operate if only governments actively and effectively intervene in such processes.
“There is no development without technological development. There cannot be a free and competitive market in the technology market because every product is unique,” Meles told the audience. (It must be a punishment for the audience to have to listen to this guy).
In the absence of such intervention, he said, there can be no technological development and hence “non-development”. (Woyanne intervention is preventing technological development in Ethiopia).
“This is the case everywhere and indeed developing countries suffer even deeper problems in technology market because of low-level of accumulative knowledge,” Meles (who expelled over 40 Addis Ababa University professors) explained.
The Prime Minister Woyanne warlord described such a situation as a “vicious circle” developing countries are caught in to date.
His paper gave an in-depth analysis of the ramifications of technological advancement or the lack of it on overall economic development of countries and their capabilities to harness global markets.
“Developing countries accumulate technological capabilities primarily through adoption and adaptation of technologies already discovered by developed countries,” he underscored.
As one of the setbacks of such processes of adoption and adaptation, he cited the costs of time and money spent on research as those who want to embark on it “will have to carry out extensive search for the best awareness and the best suppliers of the technologies”.
“Once the technology has been bought, the company and its personnel will have to learn to use it properly through learning by doing.” “This is an extensive process (of) making mistakes and learning from them,” he said.
Those who adopt or adapt any such technology, he said, will have no patent right over it. “Sooner or later, others will acquire the same technology without going through the same process by simply poaching employees of the pioneer company.” “From the point of view of the pioneer company, however, it forces the cost of introducing the technology and competes with those who copy from it without carrying the cost in time and money.” Because of “the unique nature of market failure they face”, developing countries have been intervening in technological markets even more than developed ones, Meles (the vote thief) observed.
“A Walk to Beautiful” is an inspiring documentary film that tells the heartbreaking story of five Ethiopian women who suffer from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, these women are left to spend the rest of their lives in loneliness and shame. Instead they make the long and arduous journey to Fistula Hospital in Addis Abba where they reclaim their lost dignity. The trials they endure–and their attempts to rebuild their lives–tell a universal story of hope, courage, and transformation. (Running time: 1:25). In English, Amharic, and Oromiffa with English subtitles.
A Walk to Beautiful is now showing at the Quad Theatre near New York University. The following is short trailer of the film.
A new, privately-owned pay TV service by the name of GTV- Gateway Community Television GTV is poised to enter the broadcasting market with the main objective of educating and entertaining the Ethiopian public, its senior official said on Monday.
Managing Director and founder Julian Mcintyre said the service has already be legalized by the countrys Broadcasting agency and would go functional soon.
“We have a vision at GTV to pioneer a fresh and innovative approach to television in Africa. We believe that entertainment is not a luxury but an essential part of living a full and happy life for all the people,” he said speaking at a media launch of the Pan-African service at the Sheraton Addis.
“And television is a major form of that entertainment, stimulating all of our human emotions-passion, excitement, joy, romance and awareness.” He added.
He said the Channel aims to transmit exclusive, live sports like the best of Barclays Premier League, 24 hours of news from around the world, Hollywood and Nollywood movies, including kids shows, religious programs, music and more.
The Managing Director said the company was operating in Africa and was offering the service with a charge affordable to Africans.
He said he believed the same will be true with Ethiopian viewers.
Asked on the content of the TV service the Director said the channel will not just receive programs from the Western World and transmit them in the continent, but it would also make it a point to entertain local programs.
GTV service said it will announce details of prices, channels and service offerings through Metro Plc, its official agent in Ethiopia.
“With an innovative model that champions African consumers demands, GTV is completely redefining the pay-TV market and home entertainment,” the company said in press release distributed at the event.
“Challenging existing services across sub-Saharan Africa, GTV s low level pricing and focus on customer service means that for the first time, TV viewers can get real value for money,” it added.
Woyanne receives $755 million from its international backers for a job well done of torturing, raping and murdering of Ethiopians and Somalis.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia The Woyanne beggar regime secured a total $755 million in development loans and grants from its international donors in the last six months, the finance ministry said on Tuesday.
The government also had debts worth $94 million written off, a statement by the ministry said.
“The $755 million fund secured from Ethiopia’s Woyanne’s development partners will be used to accelerate agricultural development, hydropower generation, health, education and sanitation including development of portable water in rural areas,” the statement said.
Getachew Admasu, the ministry’s head of public relations said that $414.2 million of the amount was in loans, while the rest was grants.
China, India, the Netherlands, the European Union and the U.N. development agency were among those that advanced loans for development, he said.
Institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the African Development Bank and the European Investment Bank gave grants and also cancelled debt, he said.
(Reporting by Tsegaye Tadesse; editing by Tony Austin)
