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Messenger: Ras KebreAB Sent: 9/26/2007 5:01:52 PM
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Blessed love

Bro, did the i have the honour of meeting a Bahtawi Nazarite ?


Messenger: ROOK FARI SELAH Sent: 9/26/2007 11:11:27 PM
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I THINK I BETTER READ THIS WHOLE THING AGAIN !!!



Messenger: ROOK FARI SELAH Sent: 9/26/2007 11:46:49 PM
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IT SOUND TO I
LIKE OLD TIME SUMTHIN DUN COME BACK AGAIN
ONE BAD APPLES MASH UP THE WHOLE BUNCH
BECAUSE THE WAR IS EVERY WHERE IN SPIRIT AND FLESH IN THESE TIMES
UNTILL AFRICA ETHIOPIA AND HER CREATORS UNITE THERE SHALL BE NO PEACE
HIS MAJESTY SOON COME AND SEKKLE THE WHOLE MATTER PSALM 87 SAYS HE SHALL ESTABLISH ETHIOPIA
NOT INI ..INI CAN DO OUR PART BUT IS HE GON ESTABLISH PEACE ISIAH 9
BUT NOW AS FAR AS YARD MAN CONCERN

I SEE THE YARD MAN DEFEND HIS MAJESTY TO THE BONE
SOME RASTA SOME BAD MAN ...
AND I SEEN MANY AFRICANS AT HOME WATCH THE SO CALL REVOLUTION AND KIK BACK WHILE RED TERROR RAN THRU THE COUNTRY KILLIN OFF THE ESTABLISHMENT THAT KEPT THEM SAFE FOR 3000 YEARS
RASTA DEHYA YARD WOULDVE BEEN MARDERS FOR SELASSIE I IN 74 KILL AND DIE FOR HIM
THATS A FACT IF THE ETHIOPIAN ARMY WOULDVE BEEN RECRUITED IN KINGSTON ,BULL BAY ,ST ANN ,PORT MORE MANDEVILLE
THERE COULD NEVER BEEN A COUP INI WOULD LAY DOWN I LIFE FOR HIS MAJESTY .....I WOULD PERSONAALLY KISS MY FAMILY AND GONE
WICH TO ME MAKES UP FOR A LOT OF THE FOLLY
PEOPLE TALK ABOUT...
CAUSE TRU
MANY THINGS INI DO AS RASTA DONT SETTLE TO GOOD WITH THE CHURCH
BUT INI DEFEND HIS MAJESTY 100 TIMES OVER THAN THE CHURCH
TRUE SOME OF INI ARE IGNORANT TO SOME THINGS HIS MAJESTY STOOD FOR
AND SAID .... BUT INI STILL HAVE FAITH IN HIM
THATS WHERE LOYALTY COME IN
WHEN YOUR LOYAL YOU DEFEND WAT AND WHOM U ARE LOYAL TOO
EVN BLIND FOLDED THAT IS PASSION SEEN
THESE ARE JUST I PERSONAL THOUGHT NOT MEANT TO ANY ONE
JUST WORD SOUND TO THINK ABOUT
IM NOT DIS CREDITING THE I IN ANY WAY IM GLAD U SHARED THE ISPERIANCE
INI
SHOULD NOW THAT IN THIS MILLENIUM
THERE WILL BE ADVERSITY GOOD PEOPLE MIXIN WITH BAD PEOPLE IS EVERY DAY LIFE EVERY WHERE
BUT WHEN THE PEOPLE THINK ABOUT JAMAICANS AND RAS' AS A WHOLE THEY SHOULD
THINK ABOUT WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE INDIVIDUALLY
NOT AS A STEREO TYPE
WHEN IT RAIN EVERY MAN YARD GET WET
LOVE
I PRAY INI CONGRESS IS DOING GOOD
I AM DEF ASKING BOUT SHASH AFTER SERVICE SAT .DAY


Messenger: Bro Dominiq Yehyah Anbesa Sent: 9/27/2007 4:27:24 AM
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Ises High

Sis Prophecy, well these things aint nothing new to anybody who knows of Shashe, deals with Shashe, has brethren in Shashe or has been to Shashe. The great Ras Nathaniel, whom I respect highly and who is a good and trusted Idren of I family where I lived in Addis, he wrote a denouncing article about the Shituation in Ethiopia years ago. He was right, because insiders have said the same things already before him. But his own Nyahbinghi House US forced him to write an apology for this article which had gone around the world.

The first Soldier who knows Ithiopia from his youths days from back in the 80s (means during Mengistu time, long before Rasta as we know it today settled in Shashe) denounced the evil runnings already more than 15years ago (this was the time after mengistu fall, when Rasta on a big scale came to Ethiopia). In those days this man was a Twelve Tribes man and that was why his insight into TTI in Ethiopia made him denounce their evil runnings worldwide. The reaction was that TTI showed "wanted" fotos of this man in nearly all their international HQs. Why? Because he told the people abroad what really happened to all their donations.

The Article of Nathaniel (which critizized mainly the Nyahbinghi, due to Nathaniel being a Binghiman) more than 10 years later summed up the whole shituation and showed the involvement of all houses (still we know who are the darkest sheeps still over all those years).

And now again there is a new Article circulating through the Rasta world. It summs up the last 20years of Rasta in Ethiopia and leaves no stone unturned. It won't fit many people. And in Shashe it is dangerous to spread such negative informations abroad, because it means it could cut off the donation runnings.

So again, to RastafarI Worldwide, those involved, it's nothing new. In Ethiopia you just have to ask any Ithiopian what he thinks of Rasta (meaning jamaican shashe).
The thing is just, that many do not want to believe it. Sometimes this is good, because there are true soldiers still coming to Shashe who do not let anybody scare them off. They come with investment and JAH spirit, so that they try to make things better. But there are also those who just do not want to believe it. But reality hits them hard. Everyday you hear of news about a brethren being thieved, staped, beaten. You can't walk outside when it's dark. Most carry machettes and have an ak47 under the bed. You can't go to Addis for visa biz without paying a guard for your yard, and when you come back it's robbed anyway.

And now what about the Congress in Shashe?
Rumours spread a long time before the Millenium that Bobo quarreled and split and thus was not holding any Millenium Service. Everybody in Shashe knew of that. But then rumours came to I ears that they still tried to do a service. I don't know.

Well I understand that it doesn't make you polpular when you bring bad news. But I saw people going through heavy things to show those bad news abroad. And everybody who witness those things has to speak. After Nathaniel wrote his article he was threatened, we give you three days out of Ethiopia or you're dead. It's hard to believe and many just don't want.
I just feel the need to share experiences. That is why I said and pointed out, these are experiences of a Visitor, and those told to me from I brethren and family who are residents.

Selah


Messenger: Bro Dominiq Yehyah Anbesa Sent: 9/27/2007 4:34:38 AM
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Ises again

So that it's not only me saying those things, also because they had already been said, I found the original Article of Ras Nathaniel. I will show it the I them (some might remember it from years ago) although Nathaniel wrote an apology for it. Still I feel that these things must be said because they are testimnonies of witnesses. I highly apologize if this is not in Ras Nathaniel's will.

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Check Out The Real Situation: Rasta in Ethiopia
Posted By: Ras Nathaniel I
Date: Tuesday, 5 August 2003, at 3:27 a.m.
Check Out The Real Situation: The Rastafari Community
in Ethiopia
When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we
were like them that dream. (Psalms 126:1)
Ever since the Rastafari Movement appeared, it has
demanded Repatriation the return of the Ethiopian sons
and daughters who were taken by force from Africa,
placed in chains and carried to the four corners of
the earth, particularly the Americas north, south and
central as well as Carried-Beyond (Caribbean). This
unshakeable faith in our eventual return comes from
Bible verses such as Isaiah 43:5-7.
"Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed
from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will
say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not
back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from
the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called
by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I
have formed him; yea, I have made him."
And Hebrews 11:14-16:
"For they that say such things declare plainly that
they seek a country. And truly, if they had been
mindful of that country from whence they came out,
they might have had opportunity to have returned. But
now they desire a better country, that is, an
heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called
their God: for he hath prepared for them a city"
And Revelations 14:1-3
"And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount
Zion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand,
having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many
waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I
heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne,
and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man
could learn that song but the hundred and forty and
four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth."
And many other Bible verses as well. However, the
Bible also says that When the LORD turned again the
captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. As a
newly arrived Rastafari Repatriate of seven months, I
have begun to understand this particular verse.
Like most Rastas, I viewed Ethiopia not only as the
birthplace of mankind, the Garden of Eden and the
location of the Holy Mt. Zion, but also as the
favorite place of God on earth. When Emperor Haile
Selassie granted 500 acres of land in Shashemane to
the Black people of the West, most Rastas saw this as
the fulfillment of prophecy and the defining act of
liberation from physical oppression in the land of our
captors, i.e. Babylon (the West). Because of the
divine nature of Repatriation to Ethiopia, I, like
most Rastas, were caught up in a dream , not knowing
the realities of such a mass exodus to Ethiopia.
Although reports of poverty and famine in Ethiopia are
widespread, I tended to view Ethiopia as the great
city of God and my faith destroyed any fears about
anything negative in Ethiopia.
In addition, we Rastas often say, Many are called,
few are chosen. To me, this was linked to
Repatriation. Although there are many Rastas, or at
least those who appear to be Rasta, very few actually
Repatriate. Those that do, I thought, were those who
had qualified through their livity their knowledge,
their works, their zeal, etc. Thus, I tended to think
that the Rastafari Community in Ethiopia was the most
unified, the most organized and centralized, the most
full of love and livity, anywhere on earth. Surely,
such distinguished people would know how to behave,
having the most gratitude to our God and King Haile
Selassie (or Repatriating them. But as the Bible verse
shows, I was like them that dream.
Most Rastas would be abhorred to know that right next
to the Ministry of Justice is a restaurant called
Medora s operated by Twelve Tribes of Israel (TTOI)
members. Outside it is decorated with Rastafari
images red, gold and green, dreadlocked musicians
jamming, etc. However, right next to those images are
pictures of jerk chicken and fish. On Friday and
Saturday nights, one can go to Medora s and eat all
kinds of meat and drink all kinds of alcohol while
listening to live reggae music which, I have been
told, praises Jesus as much or more than Haile
Selassie. Not exactly the kind of establishment to
best represent Rastafari livity.
Not surprisingly, those associated with Medora s
happen to also be prominent in the organization called
the Jamaican Rastafari Development Community or
JRDC. It was reported in Rastafari Speaks newspaper
and has become a common idea throughout the Rastafari
Community worldwide that the JRDC has unified all the
houses of Rastafari and is the organization to support
for good works. Even today, as I check the Rastafari
Speaks message board, there are two messages appealing
for funds to be sent to the JRDC in Shashemane or
through its subsidiary in the United States, the
Shashemane Foundation, Inc. However, as I found out
during my seven months, TTOI and the JRDC have been
involved in a more than a few scandals, including
misappropriating $50,000 in CIDA funds, and allegedly
paying bribes to Ethiopian officials, especially at
the Ministry of Immigration. No one ever hears about
these things or the lack of real Inity and
participation in the JRDC by many Rasses. Instead, we
hear of the JRDC school which, is in itself, a good
project. Thus, we stay in the dream.
Recently, I wrote a letter to the JRDC, raising the
very serious issues about their ability to lead the
Rastafari Community in Ethiopia in light of their
compromised livity and alleged scandals. They did not
respond to my letter. However, the JRDC Chariman,
Desmond Martin, in a hail of thick, rapid patois,
shouted at me in Addis Ababa s Le Notre Cafi, Ina
Jamaica . . . .Gun . . . Shot . . . Drunk I couldn t
make out all the words but the message was clear: Be
careful because we might shoot you! The reference to
drunk , I assumed, was his guilty conscious he like
other TTOI members, do drink alcohol.
This same threat about getting shot was made by the
same JRDC Chairman to another Ras a few weeks before,
and again to another Ras a few weeks after. Many
Rasses in Shashemane remember when this same JRDC
Chairmen Desmond Martin marched into the tabernacle
with his gun. Not exactly the kind of behavior one
would expect from a Leader of the Rastafari
community! These things cause one to start to wake
up from the dream which starts to become a
nightmare when TTOI members reveal that some of their
real aims are to go to Israel and that they want to
put the former institutionalized ( mentally ),
cigarette-smoking Zara Yacob upon the Throne of Haile
Selassie. This they learn from their leader and
Prophet Gad who does not hail His Imperial Majesty
or recognize him as God. Of course, all this is
ridiculously blasphemous to Orthodox Rastas.
However, this mixed-up doctrine ceases to be merely
doctrine when it threatens the safety of the whole
Rastafari Community in Ethiopia.
The current government of Meles Zenawi has said that
the Rastafari Community is free to live in Ethiopia
like any other Ethiopian, as long as it stays out of
politics. Well, that is all right with most Rasses
because the Rastafari Movement has traditionally been
spiritual and non-political. Howver, TTOI insistence
that Zara Yacob is the millennial king to sit upon
the throne is an outright direct political threat to
the current government. Thus, when TTOI did not come
to the tabernacle to chant Ises for His Imperial
Majesty 111th earthday, but instead hosted a reggae
show at their headquarters and then introduced Zara
Yacob as their guest of Honor, it caused some Rastas
to begin to worry about their safety. Why? Because
here in Ethiopia, all dreadlocked people, be they
white or black, are lumped together under the title
Jamaican Rastafari. What will happen to the
Rastafari Community when the government puts its
foot-down on those who it believes are instigating
political intrigue against the government? Not
distinguishing between TTOI and other houses, all
Rasses may get caught in the deportation/imprisonment
net. I don t think the TTOI leaders are really
concerned about how their actions are affecting the
WHOLE COMMUNITY. Nevertheless, the situation has
killed the dream and reality has appeared, more
harsh than ever.
Some might say, You are just bashing the TTOI. What
do you have against them? Well besides their
misrepresenting Rastafari, their meat-eating, alcohol
drinking, their disavowal of HIM as GOD yet still
claiming to be Rastas, and their verbal threats to me
and other Rasses- other than, that, nothing except
that when the Ethiopian Reporter newspaper went to
Shashemane to investigate certain claims that the
Rastafari Community was suffering serious problems
with immigration, the journalist, upon arriving at
TTOI headquarters, was brusquely told that they (TTOI)
don t have any problems with immigration and that
their Chariman was in Addis Ababa. And with that, the
door was closed in his face. Yet, the truth is, the
majority of the Rastafari community DOES have various
problems with the Ministry of Immigration, as is
partially documented in the IRIE STAR ORDER REPORT:
Ethiopian Immigration and the Rastafari Family
Worldwide posted at www.rastaites.com. So, either TTOI
was speaking only for itself and it may be true they
don t have problems with immigration because, after
all, they are alleged to be paying bribes or they were
speaking on behalf of the community, in which case
they openly lied. Not exactly the kind of Community
leaders I&I want or need.
Nevertheless, lest one dismiss me by saying I am
simply bashing the TTOI, I would add the other
realities which cause one to wake from the dream .
TTOI is not the only problem here in Ethiopia. To
those who have either lived or studied the history of
Rastafari repatriation to Ethiopia, it has long been
known of the real situation of The Ethiopian World
Federation (EWF) and what they have done. Of course I,
like many young Rastas, was only aware of the EWF s
glorious history preserved in books. Thus, before
arriving in Ethiopia I was an ardent supporter even
one of the leading forces behind organizing an EWF
Chapter. My EWF dream was burst, however when I was
presented with Rastafari oral history which is
richer and more accurate than the written history. As
most know, it was the mal-administration of the land
grant in the late sixties and early seventies that
caused the first serious problems on the Shashemane
land grant. Well, upon arrival I learned that the
majority of Rastafari non-EWF members view the EWF in
Shashemane today as a secret society at best and
gang at worst, mostly because of their closed-door
meetings. Although I wasn t an official EWF member
when I arrived, because I was known to be organizing a
chapter, I was allowed in to their meetings. Here I
learned that for the past three years they, the
Shashemane Local #14 have been dealing with the issue
of their charter, which is not recognized by EWF
Headquarters in New York. This is very strange because
the EWF International Organizer lives in Addis Ababa
and frequents Shashemane. So technically, the EWF
Shashemane local can t really do anything because it
is not recognized by EWF headquarters! To make matters
worse, the EWF members in Shashemane made it known
that, as administrators of the land-grant, they
decided everyone on the land grant must be members of
the EWF, forcing a sort of
organizational-gangsterism. This was quite an
arrogant offence to some who had been living on the
land grant for years. This prompted the Centenary
Committee for Rastafari (CCR) Newsletter, 11th Edition
Shashemane, Ethiopia April 2001to report that, at the
first ever public meeting of the EWF Shashemane Local,
In a series of hot exchanges from the floor, the EWF
leadership faced criticism for landlord tendencies
and exclusiveness that had limited its role in the
community. It was clear that changes would have to be
made in the vision, policy, leadership, and
constitutional interpretation of the present organ if
it was to represent I&I at the international level.
Needless to say, these changes haven t been made, and
the EWF continues to stand alone. At the end of that
meeting, one Rastafari daughter said that if the EWF
was ready to come an evict her, then OJ, her grown
sons would be waiting for them with their cutlasses!
Moreover, one can not see any effect of the
highly-touted Rally Round Shashemane project in
which Morgan Heritage produced a cd and staged
concerts in order to raise money. One has to ask,
What happened to the money? So, the reality as
opposed to the dream is that the EWF does not have any
substantial land to administrate, nor any real power
to help its members get work permits and residence
permits, most of their projects, like the Marcus
Selassie Vocational Center, lay half-done and
abandoned, and there is a lot of bad history between
the EWF and the larger Rastafari community which
doesn t make for easy unity .
The Nyahbinghi House has had its share of
dream-busters recently, too. Many of the Nyahbinghi
in Jamaica are the Suffers of the sufferers, so it has
been most difficult for them, as individuals or as a
house, to forward members. As a result, there are but
just a few elders here, and these elders, under the
weight of so much pressures, have not held their
livity. While a tabernacle has been built (not the
original one used during the Centennary I-lebrations)
and a house, too, thedaughters quarters, though
started, hasn t been completed. Also, Congo Rocky and
Mama Baby-I have gotten themselves involved in several
controversies that have weakened their ability to
rally the house. It seems that they have gotten
themselves entangled with the TTOI and have accepted
their leadership. They (Congo Rocky and Mama Baby-I)
put out the Nyahbinghi youth who have been
contributing the most strength to the house, they have
built a stage and made Nyahbinghi Ilebrations more of
a show , and the Nyahbinghi Order during Ilebrations
is all out of order! Baldheads on the harps, no fire,
the Order just isn t right and the Ises don t ride and
reach the heights. It is even being said that the
Elders have been eating fish in the House! My own
experience has been very disappointing. I expected to
see hundreds of Rasses chanting Ises, not the few
eight to twelve just like in many other places! And of
course, I expected the Ises to reach much higher
states of IRIENESS because, after all, this is the
Nyahbinghi in ZION what could be more IRIE than this?
Of course, that, again, was the dream . To be fair,
however, there are some Nyahbinghi Rasses and youth
who are struggling to hold it until such time as more
elders can forward to firm it up.
I would be remiss not to mention the other major
house, the Ethiopian African Black International
Congress (E.A.B.I.C.)/Boboshanti. Their presence is
the least visible, however their influence might,
perhaps, be the most important over the past few
years. Upon waking from my dream I learned that a
group of about seven Bobos were here and that
zealousness led them to some behavior that became an
offense to the government, who promptly deported them.
Government officials actually picked some of them up
and drove them to the Kenyan border they were so tired
of them! Only one of their members remained, who got
an inspiration to work with the farmers directly. This
led to a good relationship with the local kebelle
(farmers association/government) who allowed him to
get a piece of land in a new section not a part of the
original land grant. This became an opportunity for
Rastafari, who had lost all but 11 acres of the
original 500 acres. Today, about 70 Rasses have gotten
land through the certain Rasses efforts with the
kebelle Rasses of all houses who pay a relatively
small amount of money (backpay) to the local farmers
who have held the land since the time of the Derg.
However, no land was being sold the farmers who held
the land needed something to be able to return to
where they came from, and if they hadn t held the
land, it would have been seized by the government.
Unfortunately, some short-sighted Rasses thought that
land was being sold and fought against this
development, leading to yet another division. The EWF,
in particular, played a hypocritical role and was
accused of unfair, deceptive discriminatory land
administration , stating publicly that land is not
for sale while at the same time recruiting NEW EWF
members from Barbados to come and buy land in order to
inappropriately regain and monopolize control over
the land instead of administrate it legally through
the proper functioning of the EWF Constitution.
As if this wasn t enough, Priest Kenny was murdered in
Shashemane in April, 2001. When I arrived in Ethiopia
at the end of 2002/early 2003 I was warned about a
next Ras who was leaving the Nyahbinghi late at night
who was beaten along the road. Recently a next Ras was
beaten who later died in the hospital. Security is a
very serious issue here. During Empress Menen s
earthday ilebration, one Rastafari daughter had her
house broken into and her luggage stolen. Two nights
before His Majesty s 111th Earthday, a Ras had his
front gate stolen. The night before His Majesty s
111th Earthday, his neighbor s house was broken into
and the Ras s laptop, passport, bank book and other
items were stolen. As if that wasn t enough, many
Rasses have been visited by officials who have
halted and/or sabotaged their work (building their
houses) demanding fees to continue the work. Much
construction has been stopped midstream for lack of
money to pay these fees. So, all in all, one can not
even rest in order to keep dreaming .
Now, I can already hear ones and ones ready to fight
against I for writing this article. I can hear the
criticisms Why am I dissing Rasta? I am only giving
Babylon ammunition against Rasta! I must be a
Rasta-imposter informant for the FBI/CIA! I am
fostering yet more division and discouragement. What
can I say? I did not DO all those things which I am
writing about, neither was I happy to learn of them,
nor did I take them too easily. The last thing I
imagined doing was writing such things about Rasta in
Ethiopia! However, I am not here to serve men, I am
here to serve I God and King Haile Selassie which
means defending TRUTH and RIGHTS. So, if the real
situation, the truth, shatters the dream , well then,
I am to be counted as shooting down the dream!
And speaking of shooting, I can hear others saying,
Do you want to get shot? They will kill you for
writing that. Etc. etc. Well, all this may be true.
Truth-tellers have always been targets. Marley,
Malcolm, Rodney . . . . Weren t the prophets of old
stoned? Wasn t Kiddus Immanuel crucified? Yet, what is
death to Haile Selassie? If the pen is mightier than
the sword, then I have fired a few shots already. But
I have fired these shots at the dream , to kill it,
not at anyone in particular, not even the JRDC
Chariman Desmond Martin. If there is an ounce of truth
in him, he will be offended, yes, for the truth is an
offence. But he will also be set free, for the truth
shall set you free
All those who know me know that I am a proud Ithiopian
of the Rastafari faith, devoted to serving His
Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie I by using all
my talents and education, as each one of us must, for
the upliftmant of the Rastafari Family worldwide and
the fulfillment of Rastafari unfinished business which
is Repatriation. All who know me know I have devoted
my life since being called towards this fulfillment.
So why am I writing these things? Because right now,
Repatriation, the successful development of I&I, and
thence, the rest of Africa, through the successful
development of the Shashemane land-grant, is being
threatened by a number of wicked forces, chief among
them IGNORANCE. When the LORD turned again the
captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. We
must come out of the dream and understand what the
real situation is here in Ethiopia/Shashemane. Only
then can we confront reality with real solutions. And
what are the solutions? RIGHT NOW WE NEED A MASSIVE
INFLUX OF RASTAFARI PEOPLE OF HIGH LIVITY, COMMITMENT,
AND CAPTIAL, TO DRIVE OUT THE CORRUPT. Yes, simply
put, that is the solution. Without a massive number of
strong Rasses who can hold a high livity and manifest
transformative works, the imposta-Rasta, the corrupt,
have an open field to operate, and this is making it
difficult for Rasses now and in the future. Theft will
stop when I&I numbers increase. Corruption will stop
when right overtakes might. Transformation and
prosperity will take place when heartical ises rise up
ina oneness. The Africa of Tomorrow will be built when
we, the creators of Shashemane, successfully build the
model city. Who will heed the call? I don t know.
However, TRUTH must be revealed, and it is hoped that
those who do heed the call will no longer be like
them that dream.
What Our country needs now is an increase in the
supply of trained and skilled manpower, men, of
professional integrity.
--H.I.M. Haile Selassie I, July 16, 1969
A qualified man with vision, unmoved by daily selfish
interests, will be led to the right decisions by his
conscience.
--H.I.M. Haile Selassie I, July 2, 1963
A hungry person cannot be appeased by merely being
told about his hunger, similarly, what Ethiopia needs
is not a person who can talk about her problems but
someone who is determined to serve her with
enthusiasm, re-inspired by her long and glorious
history and spurred by the present gap. This can best
be manifested not in words but in deeds. Your
conviction to help the country must be demonstrated in
your determination to work. To do that, you must,
instead of working for personal ends, toil for the
community and common results. This would in turn call
for dedication to live, work and serve in the rural
areas where it is less comfortable. This again would
be seen in the fruits of your undertakings and not in
what others say about them or see in them.
--H.I.M. Haile Selassie I, July 6, 1970









t: About Shashemane Controversies
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 18:56:36 +0000
(please post to Rastafari Speaks Message Board)
Jubilee Greetings and Blessings to the Rastafari Family Worldwide 1,248
days
before the Ethiopian Millenium (September 11, 2007).
I am emerging from deep Iditation as a result of a council session on
April
9, 2004, initiated by Ras Wayne and attended by Elder Ras Marcus along
with
other Rasses previously known to I and whose counsel I have trusted and
benefited from.
The purpose of the council session was
1) to reconcile issues outstanding from an email I posted to the
Rastafari
Speaks message board in August 2003 entitled “Check Out the Real
Situation:
Rasta in Ethiopia”; and
2) to thereby bring a healing within the Rastafari Family Worldwide.
I have accepted the following:
1) That there is not enough evidence to prove that the JRDC and its
chairman
Desmond Martin mis-appropriated CIDA funds ($50,000) or has paid any
“gubu”
(bribes) to Ethiopian officials.
2) That in the process of dealing with the controversies surrounding
the
Eldership of Congo Rocky and Administration of the Nyahbinghi Order in
Shashemane, several people are hurt that the legacy of Elder Congo
Rocky may
be unfairly defined by these limited controversies that I made public;
3) That I have not met the highest standards of objective reporting.
4) That there is widespread damage done to the Rastafari Family
Worldwide as
a result of #1, #2 and #3 above.
5) That it is necessary to resolve these matters if the positive works
which
I am doing are to be given their full, due attention.
It is my wholehearted desire that during this very serious time of
world
emergency (911) that I&I are able to collectively work together and
through
Repatriation, collectively inherit I&I Ivine heritage as Ithiopians.
Therefore, I humbly and wholeheartedly ask forgiveness from the
Rastafari
Family Worldwide for the damage and hurt that I caused.
That greater good may come of this, I offer to help a more qualified
journalist selected by the Rastafari Family Worldwide and approved by
Frontline Distribution (publishers of Rastafari Speaks newspaper) to
get
licensed with the Ethiopian Ministry of Information so that the
Rastafari
Family Worldwide can benefit by having a Secretary/Reporter stationed
at the
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)/United Nations Media Center and
able to
report on various meetings of the African Union, ECA and UN meetings
pertaining to Africa and Africa’s development.
To seal up, I wish to say that Jubilee Consciousness during the
Commemoration of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I First Visit to
the
United States demands that every and all good faith efforts to
reconcile
past differences and disputes among I&I must be made. Jubilee Grace is
non-partial. Jubilees are special times when sins and debts are
forgiven,
rest, grace and mercy from HIM is abundant. I&I must offer on the
Jubilee
Alter real offerings of reconciliation as I&I Father freely gives to
I&I.
I&I simply must reconcile and Inite if I&I are going to escape the Rev
18:4
plagues in Babylon, having “come out of her.”
Most Heartically and Raspectfully,
Ras Nathaniel

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These things are still uptodate.

Selah


Messenger: Ten Sent: 9/27/2007 6:08:34 AM
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Blesed Love
Aya so since Ras Nathaniel wrote this apology letter, has everything been swept under the carpet as though everything is irie in Shashemane? Surely there are Elders from the Council that have been there and see wa'gwan. How can a Rasta settlement be a gangster's paradise at the same time? Its hard to believe no action's been taken to correct this, why? The words Ras Nathaniel selects from HIS Majesty are most appropriate and these ring most true for I in this case:

"A qualified man with vision, unmoved by daily selfish
interests, will be led to the right decisions by his
conscience. " --H.I.M. Haile Selassie I, July 2, 1963

Hail HIM, Rastafari
JAH BLESS


Messenger: ROOK FARI SELAH Sent: 9/27/2007 9:34:57 AM
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I DONT DOUBT THESE THINGS CONCERNING EWF AND TTOI
THAT WAS ALOT ,,,WOW
AND THE STEALIN
ANY WHERE THERE IS POOR PEOPLE THERE WILL BE A THEIF OR THEIVES
IT IS UN FORTUNATE BUT TRUE THAT CRIME OCCURRS EVERY WHERE ESPECIALLY WITH IN RASTAFARI THIS SOUNDS TERRIBLE TO LIVE IN ZION, THE SAME WAY OR WORSE THAN IN BABYLON
CAUSE AT LEAST IN BABYLON BINGHI IS BINGHI YOU KNOW FIRE, MANY PEOPLE NO STAGE "NO SHOW"
AND TTOI
I AM NOT SURPRISED ...THEY STARTED UP TOWN COLLEGE STUDENTS BUISNESS MEN ":THEY HAD THE BOOKS"
LOOK WHAT THE STUDENTS DID TO HIS MAJESTY IN ETHIOPIA WHOM HE HAND PIK
AND IM NOT SUPRISED ABOUT THE CONGRESS BEING OVERZEALOUS
IN FACT THATS WHAT I LOVE ABOUT INI
INI BUN THE FIRE
NO MATTA WHO OR WAT THERE ISD NBO COMPRIMISE WHO GOD IS
THATS WHY THE BOBO LIVE GOOD VERY GOOD IN GAHNA WHERE THEY ARE LOVED
AND ADORED
GAHNA BLACK AFRICA IS ALSO ETHIOPIA
ONLY BABYLON BOARDERS DIVIDE
ANY WAY
IM NOT SUPRISED WHO ARE THE KING PINS OR DONS IN THE ROBBING OF MAMA ETHIOPIA AND MAKIN THE PLACE RUN DOWN BADNESS
BUT MY CONCERN IS THIS OUT OF ALL THE REGGAE SUPERSTARS
ALL THESE YEARS SHOULD HAVE CAME TO ETHIOPIA PUT THE MONEY TOGETHER AND SEE TO IT THAT THE DREAM IS ALIVE WELL AND IN PREPERATION
IM NOT GONNA CALL NAMES THEY KNOW WHO IS RICH
THEY SHOULDA CAME AND STAYED TILL
INI PALACE BUILT ROADS PAVED JUST MAKE SAH A GOOD PLACE TO BE
BECAUSE WAT STOPS POVERTY CRIME IS ENDING POVERTY
IF THEY CAME PERSONALLY
NO ONE WOULD HAVE A CHANCE TO SWINDLE DONATIONS JUSS COME IN AND BUILD
RASTAFARI NEED INI OWN SECURITY FORCE
THE 10 MILLION U KNOW WHO GOT FROM THE HIP HOP WORLD COULDA
COULDVE WENT TO REAL DEVELOPMENT
NOT A DONATION THATS PASSED DOWN TILL NOTHINGS LEFT
ANY WAY REGGAE ARTISTS WHO DEFEND SHASH SO MUCH SHOULD BE BUILDIN THERE THATS ALL THEY SING ABOUT
AFRICA THIS AFRICA
THAT
ITS
BECOMING ANNOYING
ALL THIS TALK AND NO ACTION
BIG UP TO THOSE WHO HELPED BUT THER WAY IT SOUNDS
NOT MUCH OR NOT ENUFF HAS BEEN DONE
TO SECURE SHASHAMANE


Messenger: Bro Dominiq Yehyah Anbesa Sent: 9/27/2007 11:06:13 AM
Reply

Ises

The thing is, just because Nathaniel wrote an apology doesn't mean those things never happened. This is what Nathaniel witnessed and why he wrote this article.

But this article is just one of many, and maybe just the most prominent.

You ask why Rasta doesn't change those things. Well I don't know. But the thought comes to my mind, IF Rasta wanted to change those things, IF rasta never wanted those things to happen, they would never have happened. Those involved love it like it is. They do not see any need for change, in fact they FEAR anyone who wants to change that and threatens their lifestyle. It's like Nathaniel said, it's not unusual to see them smoke cigarettes, drink alk, eat meat, flirt (and more) with ethiopian girls. WHY should they want to change that? It's clear they don't want, and that's why Shashe won't be able to recover itself. That is why Nathaniel, like all true Soldiers, call for NEW Idren who come with livity, capital, and HIM Spirit. But you need many of them, because some single ones won't be able to stand against the masses.

Don't get me wrong, there are so many loving and blessed Idren in Shashe. At least those that I know, and I am sure there are even more. But all of them are victims of the jamaican bizness. And if not directly(being threatened and attacked) then indirectly through the hate which the inhabitants have against "all jamaicans" (means all dreadlocks and rasses).

THAT's the real situation Nathaniel was talking about, and it is still like that, at least this is how I witnessed it and how I was told.

I learned a lot during my time in Ithiopia. In fact it just confirmed my Iditations which I had a long time now.
Rasta must get itself clean from the "jamaican cancer". Rastafari International and Ithiopia need BIG People, BIG in finance, willpower, spirit and livity. I n I need people about whom NO Ithiopian ever again makes fun (let alone hate and hostility). If we represented His Majesty, the people would respect us like they respected His Majesty. If Rasta did good to bring betterness, the people would love I n I like everybody loves people who do good and bring betterness.

Even if I was completely wrong. Even if I had absolutely NO internal insight in RastafarI in Ithiopia. Even if I am just a damn fool who talks bullshit because he knows nothing what hes talking about.
Even if it was like this, the expression on the faces of the people when they see Rasta is the mirror of decades of Rasta presence in Ithiopia and speaks judgement of Rasta in ithiopia. let it be said.

Selah


Messenger: ROOK FARI SELAH Sent: 9/27/2007 11:09:47 AM
Reply

JAMAICAN CANCER
WOW
MAN IS MAN AND OUT OF ALL CHRISTIANS THAT U KNOW BESIDES HIS MAJESTY ARE HOLY ....NONE.....
JESUS SAY THAT... SO NOW THAT ITS PUT LIKE THAT
MAN IS MAN
AND MAN FLIRT
SOME MAN SMOKE SOME MAN AND DRINK SEEN
RASTA CRISTIAN WHO EVER
AND ETHIOPIA OUT SIDE OF SHASH IS A MESS
COMPLETE MESS POLITICALLY AND OTHER WISE
I AGREE THAT MAN SHOULD TRY TO DO BETTER BUT ETHIOPIA IS NOT GONNA BE THE PEACE LOVIN NEW JERUSALEM TILL HIS MAJESTY COME WIPE OUT THE WICKED OF THIS EARTH PERIOD
NOW I KNOW ETHIOPIA HAS MORE CRIME AND DEATH RAPE AND PROBLEMS ALONG SIDE FROM TYRANNY
THAN IN LIL SHASHAMANE FROM THE HAND FULL OF YARD MAN DEH .....
FROM THE LIL JAMAICAN POPULACE COME ON
THIS WAS A LIL FAR
"JAMAICAN CANCER"
THIS ACTUALLY SHOWS HOW JUGDEMENTAL SOME ETHIOPIANS ARE TO PIK APART EVERY LIL THING ABOUT A PEOPLE
BASED ON ACTIONS OF SOME RASTA AND BLAME THE WHOLE COMMUNITY
THAT MY FREIND IS CALLED PREDJIDUCE
NO DIFFERENT THAN HERE I BABYLON
EVERY WHERE YARD MAN GO
LOOK IN CANADA
THEY SAY THE SAME THINGS
OH JAMAICANS ARE COMIN" THEIR BAD, MURDA RAPE DRUGS
U CANT CALL IT A JAMAICAN CANCER
U SHOULD TAKE THAT BACK RESPECTFULLY
MY BROTHER
BECAUSE IF U COME TO CANTON
U WILL SEE
THE MINORITY OF CRIMINALS HERE GIVE THE MAJORITY INI A BAD REP
I OVER STAND SHASH IS NOT HEAVEN
YET
BUT IT WILL BE WHEN SELASSIE I COME HERE AND LIK BABYLON
MANY MORE WILL SUFFER MANY MORE WILL HAVE TO DIE DONT ASK ME WHY
THINGS R NOT THE WAY THEY USED TO BE
....HON BOB HEAR THOSE WORDS
LOL I NEVER QOUTE BOB
BUT THAT JUSS CAME TRU
AND I MET SOME ETHIOPIANS IN COLOMBUS
AND ORLANDO AND ATLANTA
AND I NEVER MET ANY ONE LIK THE DEAR BROTHER RAS KEBRA
ON THIS FORUM
EVERY ONE I TALKED TO
IMEDIEATLY LOOK CRAZY FUNNY WHEN THEY SEE I SELASSIE I SHIRT AND TURBON
AND NOT BECAUSE THEY AFFILLIATE I AS JAMAICAN BUT BECAUSE
THE KING BRINGS
SOME WAT OF A SUPERSTICIOUS VIBES I SEEN IT IN THEIR EYES
FEAR AND RESTLESSNESS
ADONIS SISTER WALKED AWAY AS SOON AS I APPROACHED HIM
HE SAID HIS MAJESTY TO SOME IS HE WHOS NAME SHOULDNT BE SPOKEN
ETHIOPIA SEEN INI DEFEND HIS MAJESTY
NO COMPRIMISE REGAURDLESS OF FLIRTIN OR EVEN AGUINESS
INI
DONT PLAY AROUND WHEN IT COMES TO THE DIVINITY OF SELASSIE I
PERIOD
AND SOME ETHIOPIANS
I DONT KNOW WAT THEY FEEL... GUILT
FOR REMNOVIN THE CHURCHICAL STATE POWER OF THE OLDEST MONARCHY IN THE WORLD AND TRADING FOR
THIS MOKERY OF A GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHED AFTER THE DERG
LOOK PON MELES
WHO SAID "REMEBER HIM AS DEMOCRAT"
I REMEBER HIM AS AMURDERER AND TYRANT KILLIN SCHOLL CHILDREN
NOT MUCH DIFFERENT THAN MENGITSU
SO BEFORE ETHIOPIA ATTACKTS INI
FOR INI FAULTS
GET IT TOGETHER INI ARENT EVEN ALLOWED TO SPEAK BOUT POLITICS IN ETHIOPIA IF ANY ONE SHOULD BE OFFENDED OR PREDJIDUCE IT SHOULD BE JAMAICANS COMING HOME TO ZION AND FINDING BABYLON SHITSEM



Messenger: Bro Dominiq Yehyah Anbesa Sent: 9/27/2007 11:32:36 AM
Reply

Blessed Love

I try to choose my words carefully and not get wrong.
In Ethiopia Jamaica is Shashsmane (more exactly Melkauda). I do not come to disrespect Jamaica or RastafarI Roots in Jamaica. In Ethiopia Jamaica does not stand for an Island, but for a lot of negativity and wickedness. Jamaica is Babylon, but in todays reggae-rasta hype many people don't wanna hear about that and many Rasses don't take that so seriously. For decades I n I Elders struggle and suffer and die to leave Jamaica behind and repatriate to Ethiopia.
But when you check the Shituations, most of the real sufferers and Incients never got the opportunity to see Zionland. And most of those who had the oppertunity and really made the trod, had no interest in leaving jamaica behind, but behave like a jamaican settlement inna kingston style which looks down on the native Ithiopians like the imperialists.
Jamaica became a synonym for all those things that Ithiopians reject.
The people MUST make up their mind. Do they want to be Jamaicans or Ithiopians. Do they want to be RASTAFARI or hippie reggae dreads.

Selah


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