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and particularly in Eritrea, where Pres. Isayas Afewerke is almost certainly in failing health, if not already dead or incapacitated.

This is a very grave prediction or plan. It can't be an innocent mistake.

I concur with you, Mr. Revulsion. There were other 'predictions' too, courtesy of American Ambassador to Eritrea (Wikileaks), few years back. I don't want even to make you yawn with 'the Iraqis will greet us with flowers'. Suffice to say, the 'prediction' would be valid as long as the clairvoyant is some sort of ferenji ..... This might soothe you to fall asleep....

¶1. (C) Asmara is awash in speculation about domestic instability stemming from food shortages, economic decline, and stepped-up repression from the Isaias regime. In an isolated society with no media freedoms, Eritreans depend on "bado seleste," (akin to the grapevine or bush telegraph) for information deemed too sensitive or negative to appear in the regime-run media. The velocity of bado seleste news about splits within the regime and mounting public dissatisfaction is at its highest point in over a year. This buzz is a reflection of increased desperation among normal Eritreans hoping for signs of change. It also causes increased skittishness among regime insiders as they become increasingly concerned about their physical and job security.

¶2. (SBU) Given Post’s limited ability to track down the origins of widely circulating "reports," Emboffs take a cautious approach to single-source unverified information. Much of the content of bado seleste news, including material appearing in exile websites, is conjecture, anti-regime propaganda, or exaggeration, although some of these stories may be based on at least a kernel of truth. Recent examples include:
– Major General Filipos was the target of an unsuccessful assassination attempt near the village of Nefasit.
– Major General Tekle, yielding to public protests and mutinous troops, has ignored orders to ban the movement of foodstuffs and other goods in southwestern Eritrea.
– 25 members of the Eritrean Navy, including 3 captains, deserted to Yemen in speedboats.
– Iran will take over facilities in the southeastern port city of Assab, including the defunct oil refinery. An Iranian or "Arab" submarine recently visited Assab. – 58 members of the Air Force, including 11 officers, deserted en masse in October.
– Other members of the Air Force mutinied after defying orders to relocate from Asmara to Massawa.
– Troops publicly executed by firing squad a number of elders in the south-central town of Segenetti following public protests.
– Information Minister Ali Abdu has suffered a nervous breakdown; Finance Minister Berhane is abroad for a liver transplant. – Army majors entered Asmara with a column of troops and paid "night visits" on regime insiders, warning them to reverse course to save Eritrea.
– The governor of Debub province (south of Asmara) had to call in troops to quell protesting farmers who had overcome local police after being told they must sell their crops to the government at far below market prices. 300 farmers were arrested.
– A private militia called "Way of the Revolution," run by the chief of Isaias’ Praetorian Guard, Colonel Tesfaladet, has clashed with garrison troops deemed dangerously sympathetic to the local populace.

revelations,

demo yemoa ambesa degafi honk? whatever happened to aapo/ aeup? i ain't know the prince was such a good compiler. God bless Google LOL

Dedebu~

Are you saying Eritrea will be able to challenge the US in military confrontation as Iraq? Just asking so we all can understand your statement.

I concur with you, Mr. Revulsion. There were other 'predictions' too, courtesy of American Ambassador to Eritrea (Wikileaks), few years back. I don't want even to make you yawn with 'the Iraqis will greet us with flowers'. Suffice to say, the 'prediction' would be valid as long as the clairvoyant is some sort of ferenji ..... This might soothe you to fall asleep....

¶1. (C) Asmara is awash in speculation about domestic instability stemming from food shortages, economic decline, and stepped-up repression from the Isaias regime. In an isolated society with no media freedoms, Eritreans depend on "bado seleste," (akin to the grapevine or bush telegraph) for information deemed too sensitive or negative to appear in the regime-run media. The velocity of bado seleste news about splits within the regime and mounting public dissatisfaction is at its highest point in over a year. This buzz is a reflection of increased desperation among normal Eritreans hoping for signs of change. It also causes increased skittishness among regime insiders as they become increasingly concerned about their physical and job security.

¶2. (SBU) Given Post’s limited ability to track down the origins of widely circulating "reports," Emboffs take a cautious approach to single-source unverified information. Much of the content of bado seleste news, including material appearing in exile websites, is conjecture, anti-regime propaganda, or exaggeration, although some of these stories may be based on at least a kernel of truth. Recent examples include:
– Major General Filipos was the target of an unsuccessful assassination attempt near the village of Nefasit.
– Major General Tekle, yielding to public protests and mutinous troops, has ignored orders to ban the movement of foodstuffs and other goods in southwestern Eritrea.
– 25 members of the Eritrean Navy, including 3 captains, deserted to Yemen in speedboats.
– Iran will take over facilities in the southeastern port city of Assab, including the defunct oil refinery. An Iranian or "Arab" submarine recently visited Assab. – 58 members of the Air Force, including 11 officers, deserted en masse in October.
– Other members of the Air Force mutinied after defying orders to relocate from Asmara to Massawa.
– Troops publicly executed by firing squad a number of elders in the south-central town of Segenetti following public protests.
– Information Minister Ali Abdu has suffered a nervous breakdown; Finance Minister Berhane is abroad for a liver transplant. – Army majors entered Asmara with a column of troops and paid "night visits" on regime insiders, warning them to reverse course to save Eritrea.
– The governor of Debub province (south of Asmara) had to call in troops to quell protesting farmers who had overcome local police after being told they must sell their crops to the government at far below market prices. 300 farmers were arrested.
– A private militia called "Way of the Revolution," run by the chief of Isaias’ Praetorian Guard, Colonel Tesfaladet, has clashed with garrison troops deemed dangerously sympathetic to the local populace.

Revelation is village idiot #2. OJ , jilu is in good company.

W'qaw, Conformist, Ghion

Just watch! It won't be long before you and the woyanes will be hugging and singing kumbya right here on this forum. If not, you are not as smart as you have convinced yourself to be!

Reviewer, I noticed the stuuupidity of Reveletion and the agony under which he must be suffering from when I saw his comments above. But I decided to ignore it for it is not worth writing back when they try twist the obvious. But, like I said in other thread, the question whether Isaias is alive or dead has nothing to do with the burning issue of the day as far as Ethiopia and Ethiopians are concerned. Why aren't we told of the status of the midget who has been ruling the country for some 20 years? That is our right to know for it affects us one way or the other. But Isaias, while many of us admire the man, he does not come to this picture for we are not accountable for him. But the Reveletions and others in this forum want to mix oranges and apples for, frankly, they are confused and as far as I am concerned, they are good for nothing cyber warriors.

W'qaw, Conformist, Ghion

Just watch! It won't be long before you and the woyanes will be hugging and singing kumbya right here on this forum. If not, you are not as smart as you have convinced yourself to be!

Reviewer, I noticed the stuuupidity of Reveletion and the agony under which he must be suffering from when I saw his comments above. But I decided to ignore it for it is not worth writing back when they try twist the obvious. But, like I said in other thread, the question whether Isaias is alive or dead has nothing to do with the burning issue of the day as far as Ethiopia and Ethiopians are concerned. Why aren't we told of the status of the midget who has been ruling the country for some 20 years? That is our right to know for it affects us one way or the other. But Isaias, while many of us admire the man, he does not come to this picture for we are not accountable for him. But the Reveletions and others in this forum want to mix oranges and apples for, frankly, they are confused and as far as I am concerned, they are good for nothing cyber warriors.

The inferiority complex stricken revolutions, the Ugum shabo, is already singing 'Amhara' already.

A literal snake oil salesman is exalted for scribbling something that stimulates the appetite of exiled feudal lords itching to restore the now-deposed Imperial power, and hope to enjoy the lifestyle of white former colonial masters and the perks associated with ruling Ethiopia in favor of multinational oil companies that are drooling over the prospect of controlling the Ogadeni vast oil fields.

Word to the wise: It was Serbian ethnic superiority complex which led to the ethnic fragmentation, or balkanization, of the former Yugoslavia.

Awash~
we are waiting for you in another thread eko! Please go there with your lions!

W'qaw, Conformist, Ghion

Just watch! It won't be long before you and the woyanes will be hugging and singing kumbya right here on this forum. If not, you are not as smart as you have convinced yourself to be!

Reviewer, I noticed the stuuupidity of Reveletion and the agony under which he must be suffering from when I saw his comments above. But I decided to ignore it for it is not worth writing back when they try twist the obvious. But, like I said in other thread, the question whether Isaias is alive or dead has nothing to do with the burning issue of the day as far as Ethiopia and Ethiopians are concerned. Why aren't we told of the status of the midget who has been ruling the country for some 20 years? That is our right to know for it affects us one way or the other. But Isaias, while many of us admire the man, he does not come to this picture for we are not accountable for him. But the Reveletions and others in this forum want to mix oranges and apples for, frankly, they are confused and as far as I am concerned, they are good for nothing cyber warriors.

The inferiority complex stricken revolutions, the Ugum shabo, is already singing 'Amhara' already.

A literal snake oil salesman is exalted for scribbling something that stimulates the appetite of exiled feudal lords itching to restore the now-deposed Imperial power, and hope to enjoy the lifestyle of white former colonial masters and the perks associated with ruling Ethiopia in favor of multinational oil companies that are drooling over the prospect of controlling the Ogadeni vast oil fields.

Word to the wise: It was Serbian ethnic superiority complex which led to the ethnic fragmentation, or balkanization, of the former Yugoslavia.

Revelation is village idiot #2. OJ , jilu is in good company.

ሆዳም ትግሬ

Revelation is village idiot #2. OJ , jilu is in good company.

ሆዳም ትግሬ

L!strow, hoden megemetun betetew yeshalhal............tagay Jilu.