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Higher goals

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Higher goals

Life is BALANCE

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Life is BALANCE

PSEUDOSCIENCE

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In late modernity, global dominant interests are trying hard to establish a general motto for all human societies. One can capture this maxim, willy-nilly, as: ‘anything goes and nothing matters.’ The implied message being; at the end of the day, not much matters and one must just accept this fact of life and deal with it. Of course, this fatalistic and sinister ideology goes against the grain of history, and yet, the power that be wants to make it the premiere global religion, at this late our! Undoubtedly, it has its important strategic use for the rulers of the system. The most important being; the complete pacification of the sheeple, while at the same time bestowing an aura of invincibility to the parasitic elites and their deep state. History is always on the move, whether one notices it or not. ‘End of history’ is as absurd as humanity without its languages, but we digress!
Trying to elevate insincerity to one of the highest form of civilized values cannot be taken seriously, even by the zombified sheeple of our planet. Sooner or later, this farce will be exposed for what it is; a scheme to shut off all critiques based on rational thoughts. Nonetheless, the DS (deep state) and fellow travellers, maybe out of desperation, believe the trick might work if followed through. We beg to differ! So far, the doctrine of insincerity has managed to leverage the relativeness of human social constructs to establish certain legitimacy in some circles. However, by continuously banging on this path, the DS has initiated widespread suspicions. To recall; we have defined the deep state as the military-intelligence-industrial-banking-media-complex of empire. For instance, what is being portrayed as ‘woke culture’, to some extent, is a reflection of the not so rational strategy employed by the global power that be. Even though we have nothing against the aspirations of many who claim to uphold all that is spewed by the ‘woke culture’, there are some issues that still need interrogating. Here is the observation of the first mixed race president of the US on ‘wokism’. “I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people. If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because ‘Man did you see how woke I was? I called you out!”
The innate enemy of insincerity is sincerity, a no brainer; but the implication of this is not trivial, as it can dethrone everything that has been based on the ideology of insincerity. Sincerity underlies all science, therefore, unless science is ‘made’ insincere by hook or a crook, i.e., pseudoscience, the current system of banal ‘wokism’ might not hold for long. In our complex world system, science is no more a straightforward replicable affair. Myriad factors come into play when, for example, a complex experiment is scientifically attempted to verify claimed findings. Complexity necessitates big science and big science can be used as an effective obscurant in the ascending woke culture of the descending empire. Since big money commands big science, public/state universities have become, literally, corporate labs or campuses at the service of transnational capital. As a result, transnational capital is playing a significant role in derailing kosher science while empowering pseudoscience! It is no wonder individual researchers, not in agreement with the logic of capital, are treated as aliens from yonder!
When science is represented by big science/paid science, facts and truths tend to give way to fancy fanfares devoid of substance, which can only portend the coming of another era of darkness! Before long, the ‘witch hunt’, ‘human sacrifices’, etc., might be reincarnated in their modern equivalents. Luckily, we still have some individuals still committed to the tradition of enlightenment, always seeking scientific truth. Unlike the trashy science of the dominant interests, which is propagated by the DS/Davos crowd, for instance, the ‘Facts on Covid-19’ from the same country of Switzerland, but by the credible Swiss organization, Swiss Policy Research. Inquiring minds probably know something about ‘The Lancet’ (UK) and the ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ (USA). These are probably the two most prestigious medical journals in the world. Now get ready for the real shocker!
“The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.” Robert Horton, editor in chief of ‘The Lancet’.

Potential second telecom entrants now at liberty to express interest in February

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The Ethiopian Communication Authority (ECA) is gearing to issue an expression of interest in early February 2023 for the third telecom provider, the authority’s Director General reveals.
This comes at the back of the authority publishing a call for a stakeholder consultation process for the third telecommunications operating license on November 16 2022.
“ECA has now resumed the licensing process for a third license or the second new full-service nationwide telecommunications license,” said Balcha Reba, ECA Director General, indicating that the country has huge potential to serve an additional telecom operator. “We have invited different international consultation companies to evaluate the document,” he added.
In the overall process the regulator has been keen in inviting potential bidders and any interested parties to participate in a consultation process, and as Balcha expressed, “Preparations are underway to float an expression of Interest to bring potential investors who can acquire the third license or the second new full-service license.”
According to the stakeholder consultation document, the license will be awarded via a competitive tender process that will take place in early 2023. Similarly, after assessing the cover of all responses of stakeholders for the next one month, it will float the expression of interest on early February which will stay up for one month. With regards to other financial ventures, the prospected new entrant is said to be allowed provision of mobile financial services following its fulfillment of the requirements of the National Bank of Ethiopia.
On October 2018, the Government announced its decision to proceed with the reform of the Ethiopian telecommunications sector to further the implementation of the Government’s Economic Reform Agenda and to introduce greater competition in the telecommunications sector in the context of improving market conditions.

Balcha Reba, Director General of ECA (Photo: Anteneh Aklilu)

On June 2020, the government had floated a bid for two additional telecom licenses and on the process after selecting only one new operator ECA cancelled the other license B bid.
Following the cancellation, ECA issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the second new full service nationwide Telecommunications Service License on September 28th, 2021 and the bidding process was ongoing. However, the process was terminated in December 2021 as ECA stated that the bidding process has temporarily been relinquished as per the request of bidders. On the follow up, ECA said in a note to the industry that it had received, “concerns and requests from several prospective bidders to delay the process.”
The bid now sees its third refloat after having failed twice.
On May 31, 2021, the ECA issued Ethiopia’s first-ever competitively-tendered Unified Telecommunications Operator License (“License A”) to the Global Partnership for Ethiopia, a private consortium consisting of Safaricom (Kenya), Vodafone Group (UK), Vodacom Group (South Africa), CDC Group (UK), and Sumitomo Corporation (Japan) now operating under the name Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia.
Currently, the government is also in the process of selling a 40% stake in the state-owned Ethio Telecom.