<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448</id><updated>2011-12-15T05:05:56.715+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Speak Out Oromo</title><subtitle type='html'>If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place."</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>68</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-3042517713172078944</id><published>2011-02-07T21:16:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-02-07T21:17:54.345+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Wikileaks: Germany describes Meles as economics...</title><summary type='text'>Wikileaks: Germany describes Meles as economics illiteratehttp://www.facebook.com/l/7aa90dC1kqe3P9-jukp641gYHyw;www.ethiopianreview.com/content/31446Ethiopia’s khat-addicted dictator Meles Zenawi likes to show off his expertise in economics to his puppets at the rubber-stamp parliament. It is always a hilarious scene when he talks about economic issues with confidence and authority while members </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/3042517713172078944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=3042517713172078944&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/3042517713172078944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/3042517713172078944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2011/02/wikileaks-germany-describes-meles-as.html' title='Wikileaks: Germany describes Meles as economics...'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-5925724083270279061</id><published>2010-08-01T17:24:00.005+03:00</published><updated>2010-08-01T17:36:27.916+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Call for Boycott Habesha owned business!</title><summary type='text'>Boycott call #2My position is a consequence of more than 100 years of debilitating occupation, the dispossession of most Oromos, Ethiopian’s continuing atrocities, and its breaches of international law and of humanitarian standards, as well as the general discriminatory nature of its system. These practices are all well documented in reports of human rights agencies, and are starkly visible in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/5925724083270279061/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=5925724083270279061&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/5925724083270279061'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/5925724083270279061'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2010/08/call-for-boycott-habesha-owned-business.html' title='Call for Boycott Habesha owned business!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-1355828412982488759</id><published>2010-04-06T21:51:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-06T21:56:36.464+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Religious faith and the Oromo struggle</title><summary type='text'>This piece of work reflects solely a personal feeling and shall never been considered a scholarly article. The Article is intended to provoke discussion among scholars and religious thinkers on sensitive subjects such as this. The benefits of religion may outweigh its negativity but the article is not about comparing its pros and cons. Religious faith is also both a matter of individual and </summary><link rel='related' href='http://yenekonjo.com' title='Religious faith and the Oromo struggle'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/1355828412982488759/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=1355828412982488759&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/1355828412982488759'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/1355828412982488759'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2010/04/religious-faith-and-oromo-struggle.html' title='Religious faith and the Oromo struggle'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-5971987480860823594</id><published>2009-10-02T15:39:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-02T15:43:49.749+02:00</updated><title type='text'>What is next?</title><summary type='text'>Most of the time we spent talking about mistakes done in the past and pointing figure to each other... That's fine as long as we are trying to learn from it and go forward but my question is what is the strategy going forward? What is in the pipe for for Oromos? Anyone any idea? How do we battle our enemies or in what front?Speak Out Oromo!</summary><link rel='related' href='http://yenekonjo.com' title='What is next?'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/5971987480860823594/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=5971987480860823594&amp;isPopup=true' title='30 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/5971987480860823594'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/5971987480860823594'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-is-next.html' title='What is next?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>30</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-4225782586049604777</id><published>2009-10-01T16:13:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-01T16:13:41.619+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Never, never, never give in or give up!!</title><summary type='text'>If you know your history, you know that the subject of this email is a misquote of Winston Churchill's speech at the Harrow School in 1941, during World War II. What he actually said was, "Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the </summary><link rel='related' href='http://yenekonjo.com' title='Never, never, never give in or give up!!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/4225782586049604777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=4225782586049604777&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4225782586049604777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4225782586049604777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2009/10/never-never-never-give-in-or-give-up_01.html' title='Never, never, never give in or give up!!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-2726293765731623765</id><published>2009-10-01T15:55:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2009-10-01T15:57:30.420+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Never, never, never give in or give up!!</title><summary type='text'>If you know your history, you know that the subject of this email is a misquote of Winston Churchill's speech at the Harrow School in 1941, during World War II.  What he actually said was, "Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the </summary><link rel='related' href='http://yenekonjo.com' title='Never, never, never give in or give up!!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/2726293765731623765/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=2726293765731623765&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/2726293765731623765'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/2726293765731623765'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2009/10/never-never-never-give-in-or-give-up.html' title='Never, never, never give in or give up!!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-2190418818468027875</id><published>2008-09-26T22:16:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-26T22:17:20.374+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!"</title><summary type='text'>Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!"By Alfie KohnNOTE: An abridged version of this article was published in Parents magazine in May 2000 with the title "Hooked on Praise." For a more detailed look at the issues discussed here, please see the booksPunished by Rewards and Unconditional Parenting.Para leer este artículo en Español, haga clic aquí. Hang out at a playground, visit a school, or show</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/2190418818468027875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=2190418818468027875&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/2190418818468027875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/2190418818468027875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/09/five-reasons-to-stop-saying-good-job.html' title='Five Reasons to Stop Saying &quot;Good Job!&quot;'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-4722479665511161175</id><published>2008-09-11T21:17:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-11T21:18:24.773+02:00</updated><title type='text'>What are you discussing these days?</title><summary type='text'>Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."Eleanor Roosevelt"</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/4722479665511161175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=4722479665511161175&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4722479665511161175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4722479665511161175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-are-you-discussing-these-days.html' title='What are you discussing these days?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-5245250442694225624</id><published>2008-09-04T21:10:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2008-09-26T22:31:44.725+02:00</updated><title type='text'>How Money Drains Add Up To $175,000 In 10 Years</title><summary type='text'>Money DrainAverage PriceEstimated Annual CostFuture Value In 10 Years*CoffeeAverage price of brewed coffee: $1.38One coffee each week day costs around $360 annually.$5,488GumAverage price for one pack: $1Chew a pack a day for a year: $365$5,488CigarettesAverage price for a cigarette pack: $4.54Pack-a-day smoker’s annual cost: $1,660Weekend smoker’s annual cost: $236Pack-a-day smoker’s cost: </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/5245250442694225624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=5245250442694225624&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/5245250442694225624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/5245250442694225624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-money-drains-add-up-to-175000-in-10.html' title='How Money Drains Add Up To $175,000 In 10 Years'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-6941043120314200905</id><published>2008-08-21T20:33:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2008-08-21T20:34:04.407+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Do not be shy about switching sides if that's the right thing to do.</title><summary type='text'>You are constantly evolving as a person, which means you are also constantly evolving in your opinions. Changing your mind about controversial issues or political points of view isn't necessarily a sign that you are weak or just going along with whatever someone else is telling you to believe. As long as you are revising your thoughts based on facts and not on external pressure, you are being </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/6941043120314200905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=6941043120314200905&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/6941043120314200905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/6941043120314200905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/08/do-not-be-shy-about-switching-sides-if.html' title='Do not be shy about switching sides if that&apos;s the right thing to do.'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-4016054195000468470</id><published>2008-08-19T21:17:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2008-08-19T21:30:03.469+03:00</updated><title type='text'>So, what is next?</title><summary type='text'>I strongly believe that there is some sort of change need to happen with OLF. Don’t ask me what kind of change or if the change recently happened is the right one or not. I leave these questions for politicians to decipher it. My hope after all said and done ONE strong OLF come out and will lead the Oromo people to libration or this organization will be buried in  very very deep under and will </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/4016054195000468470/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=4016054195000468470&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4016054195000468470'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4016054195000468470'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/08/so-what-is-next.html' title='So, what is next?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-4445465541983992992</id><published>2008-08-01T18:34:00.002+03:00</published><updated>2008-08-01T18:39:33.326+03:00</updated><title type='text'>The best way to defeat wayane is by dividing OLF into pieces…</title><summary type='text'>Statement of OLF Executive Committee on Unconstitutional Activities and Conspiracies Against the OLFThe Executive Committee (EC) of the OLF conducted an emergency meeting to deliberate on the currentinternal anarchic and anti organizational activities and passed the following decision.It has been observed that a clique has clandestinely been conducting destructive activities within </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/4445465541983992992/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=4445465541983992992&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4445465541983992992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4445465541983992992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/08/best-way-to-defeat-wayane-is-by.html' title='The best way to defeat wayane is by dividing OLF into pieces…'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-6239791308900950593</id><published>2008-07-30T21:04:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T21:04:47.225+03:00</updated><title type='text'>U.N. abandons Eritrea-Ethiopia peace mission</title><summary type='text'>UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to end its eight-year peacekeeping mission between Eritrea and Ethiopia.U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that failure of the mission could lead to a new war between the Horn of Africa neighbors.Council members and other diplomats said the U.N. had little choice but to withdraw its 1,700-strong </summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/30/eritrea.ethiopia.ap/index.html' title='U.N. abandons Eritrea-Ethiopia peace mission'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/6239791308900950593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=6239791308900950593&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/6239791308900950593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/6239791308900950593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/07/un-abandons-eritrea-ethiopia-peace.html' title='U.N. abandons Eritrea-Ethiopia peace mission'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-2889224788376998749</id><published>2008-06-23T22:47:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T22:48:11.509+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Just hit 'delete' and move on</title><summary type='text'>Don't fly off the handle due to any shocking news that might come your way, today -- you might be only getting part of the story, so it's very unwise to connect the few dots you've been given. Wait for this story to develop more fully over the next few days. You will probably see that not only are things more complicated than you had heard, they're also none of your business. Making assumptions </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/2889224788376998749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=2889224788376998749&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/2889224788376998749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/2889224788376998749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/06/just-hit-delete-and-move-on.html' title='Just hit &apos;delete&apos; and move on'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-5257703986487896778</id><published>2008-06-16T19:41:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2008-06-16T19:43:03.819+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Dancing around the truth is a waste of time</title><summary type='text'>The people around you today don't seem like they are saying what they truly mean -- could they be holding their tongue because they are afraid of hurting your feelings or ticking you off? When they ask you for your opinions, you don't mince words -- so why should they? Speak up and let them know that when you ask them a question, you expect the truth. Ask for this kind of honesty today -- and be </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/5257703986487896778/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=5257703986487896778&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/5257703986487896778'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/5257703986487896778'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/06/dancing-around-truth-is-waste-of-time.html' title='Dancing around the truth is a waste of time'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-6916992552838567015</id><published>2008-06-11T18:42:00.003+03:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T18:49:29.788+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Now we broke the 500 milestone. Lets get the 500 more we needed</title><summary type='text'>Thank you all Oromos and frind of Oromos who signed this petition so far. Please invite your frinds and relatives to do so...We are only 485 more signature to go. Please go to this link and sign and support your Oromo people by being voice to voice less!We signed the "IOYA CONDEMNS THE MASSACRE OF 400 OROMOS (AND COUNTING) IN WESTERN OROMIA" petition! Speak out Oromo!</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ioya-condems-the-massacre-of-400-oromos-in-western-oromia' title='Now we broke the 500 milestone. Lets get the 500 more we needed'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/6916992552838567015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=6916992552838567015&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/6916992552838567015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/6916992552838567015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/06/now-broke-500-milestone-lets-get-500.html' title='Now we broke the 500 milestone. Lets get the 500 more we needed'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-916274864199841495</id><published>2008-06-10T16:35:00.002+03:00</published><updated>2008-06-10T16:38:49.611+03:00</updated><title type='text'>7 more to go!</title><summary type='text'>Please go ahead and get us reach the 500 mark. Only 7 more to go... It been already more than a week to just get 500 signatures.We signed the "IOYA CONDEMNS THE MASSACRE OF 400 OROMOS (AND COUNTING) IN WESTERN OROMIA" petition! Speak out Oromo!</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ioya-condems-the-massacre-of-400-oromos-in-western-oromia' title='7 more to go!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/916274864199841495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=916274864199841495&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/916274864199841495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/916274864199841495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/06/7-more-to-go.html' title='7 more to go!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-4768664188840231318</id><published>2008-06-07T00:09:00.002+03:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T19:36:41.764+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Shouldn't we thinking about defending ourself?</title><summary type='text'>All Oromos should have the right to carry gun! If government can't protect our people we should be able to arm and protect ourselves! It is not choice anymore, it is necessity!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/4768664188840231318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=4768664188840231318&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4768664188840231318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4768664188840231318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/06/shouldnt-we-thinking-about-defending.html' title='Shouldn&apos;t we thinking about defending ourself?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rkDCAgRHLIU/SEmnrKYGSdI/AAAAAAAAAAc/bjauZaFz_uo/s72-c/Arm_oromo.480417' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-1800485685008698406</id><published>2008-06-06T23:50:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T19:36:42.002+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Help Children in Oromia</title><summary type='text'>You can help us save the lives of children in Darfur.Do it now!Contact us to find out more how you can help.Speak out Oromo!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/1800485685008698406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=1800485685008698406&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/1800485685008698406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/1800485685008698406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/06/help-children-in-oromia.html' title='Help Children in Oromia'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rkDCAgRHLIU/SEmjLqYGScI/AAAAAAAAAAU/OgGsBYm5DO4/s72-c/i-want-speakup-4oromo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-1380207398099576142</id><published>2008-06-05T14:37:00.002+03:00</published><updated>2008-06-05T14:42:41.811+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Please go out and sign this petition</title><summary type='text'>IOYA CONDEMNS THE MASSACER OF 400 OROMOS (AND COUNTING) IN WESTERN OROMIATarget:Human Rights SupportersSponsored by: International Oromo Youth AssociationDate: May 30, 2008 IOYA condemns the Massacre of 400 Oromos (and counting) in Western Oromia                                                    IOYA condemns the Massacre of 400 Oromos (and counting) in Western Oromia</summary><link rel='related' href='http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ioya-condems-the-massacre-of-400-oromos-in-western-oromia' title='Please go out and sign this petition'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/1380207398099576142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=1380207398099576142&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/1380207398099576142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/1380207398099576142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/06/please-go-out-and-sign-this-petition.html' title='Please go out and sign this petition'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-8455399981869063651</id><published>2008-06-01T07:10:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2008-06-01T07:10:46.039+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Okaaaaaaaaaaay!</title><summary type='text'>Human Rights Watch,Amnesty International USAThe Wayane/TPLF Instigated Massacre of the Oromos in Western Oromia Once again the TPLF/ EPRDF regime has deliberately organized and instigated armed attack on the Oromo. This time the   regime organized, trained, armed and unleashed  militia from Gumuz, a nation in a region neighboring Oromia from the West,  on wanton killings of the Oromos of East </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/8455399981869063651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=8455399981869063651&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/8455399981869063651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/8455399981869063651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2008/06/okaaaaaaaaaaay.html' title='Okaaaaaaaaaaay!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-905782578827866576</id><published>2007-12-30T20:02:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-12-30T20:09:02.695+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy New Year!</title><summary type='text'>I wish all the best in the coming 2008. I hope you will be more productive and more concern  about your people whom you have left behind. Let's take this new year to make a difference. Remember in thousand mile journey start with one step. Take that first steps toward any goal you have set out to accomplish in your life.Good Luck!Peace out to you!Speak out Oromo!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/905782578827866576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=905782578827866576&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/905782578827866576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/905782578827866576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2007/12/happy-new-year.html' title='Happy New Year!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-177760001613424427</id><published>2007-12-13T06:03:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-12-13T06:04:02.213+02:00</updated><title type='text'>What is wrong with Oromos?</title><summary type='text'>Starting from me, we are such a hypocritical in peoples. Wherever we go we talk about supporting each other and each others business but when it comes to practice we are not there. Starting from back home we prefer to go to the “Gurage, Tigire or Ahmara” owned business. We list all the excuse why we did not go shop from your fellow Oromo’s. That the main reason why the group of people I have </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/177760001613424427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=177760001613424427&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/177760001613424427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/177760001613424427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-is-wrong-with-oromos.html' title='What is wrong with Oromos?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-3216152576425045185</id><published>2007-09-19T00:10:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-19T00:15:06.327+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Tips to Protect Your Identity</title><summary type='text'>Useful tip to some of my Oromo friends and alike.Identity theft is a serious issue, no matter how it originates. The vast majority of online fraud is a result of a compromised personal computer - when a consumer knowingly or unknowingly discloses identifying information like their user name and password.By exercising caution and following some basic guidelines, you can reduce your chances of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/3216152576425045185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=3216152576425045185&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/3216152576425045185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/3216152576425045185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2007/09/tips-to-protect-your-identity.html' title='Tips to Protect Your Identity'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-6418833594129999413</id><published>2007-09-08T22:04:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-09-08T22:05:17.291+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Ethiopia detains 107 people over the past 2 months</title><summary type='text'>ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia has detained 107 of its citizens over the past two months without charge, according to an opposition lawmaker who said he believed the detainees were suspected of links to a southern insurgency. Opposition lawmaker Bulcha Demeksa said Wednesday he had compiled the figure of those detained since July in Addis Ababa and southern Ethiopia from reports from </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/6418833594129999413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=6418833594129999413&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/6418833594129999413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/6418833594129999413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2007/09/ethiopia-detains-107-people-over-past-2.html' title='Ethiopia detains 107 people over the past 2 months'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-2893301914100787254</id><published>2007-09-06T01:15:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-09-06T01:17:43.182+03:00</updated><title type='text'>How to manage your stress</title><summary type='text'>(RealSimple.com) -- Feeling frazzled? Try these proven strategies for controlling stress (instead of letting stress control you).You can control stressIf you feel chronically overwhelmed, try shifting your perspective. Rather than seeing stress as something on the outside pushing in, see yourself pushing it away, and consider these proven ways to get out from under its grip.Take charge"When I ask</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/2893301914100787254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=2893301914100787254&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/2893301914100787254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/2893301914100787254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-to-manage-your-stress.html' title='How to manage your stress'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-7587837796101528238</id><published>2007-09-05T18:32:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-09-06T01:14:54.666+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Charging Cell Phones (FYI)</title><summary type='text'>Charging Cell PhonesI've done this too! Never thought about how dangerous it might be!Re-Charging Cell PhonesI went to snopes.com to be sure it wasn't an urban legend &amp; it'snot. It is very true! And I do this all the time! Not anymore!!!!!!!!This seems important enough to forward to others. It's wise to be safe and safe being wise.This was also on Pittsburgh 's WTAE channel 4 News.Never, ever </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/7587837796101528238/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=7587837796101528238&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/7587837796101528238'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/7587837796101528238'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2007/09/charging-cell-phones-fyi.html' title='Charging Cell Phones (FYI)'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-5358407929457260261</id><published>2007-08-14T16:07:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2007-08-14T16:08:56.558+03:00</updated><title type='text'>What do you think of Mr. Obang Metho?</title><summary type='text'>Mr. Obang Metho Addresses Oromo Community in MinnesotaIf Woyane Can Unify, Why Can’t We?I was invited by our Oromo brothers and sisters through the Oromo-American  Citizens Council to speak at the Second Annual International Oromo Human Rights  Conference on “Conflict in East Africa and the Current Human Rights Situation.”  I was to address the subject of human rights violations in Ethiopia with </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/5358407929457260261/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=5358407929457260261&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/5358407929457260261'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/5358407929457260261'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2007/08/what-do-you-think-of-mr-obang-metho.html' title='What do you think of Mr. Obang Metho?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-4155235204174150657</id><published>2007-03-09T18:49:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-03-09T19:13:50.005+02:00</updated><title type='text'>THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES ...</title><summary type='text'>This an article one of my friend in US forward to me. I thought I would share with you guys. Might speak to my Oromo people also. Please Note: For those of you who heard it, this is  the article Dee Lee was readingthis morning on a New  York radio station. For those of you who didn't hear it,  this is very deep. This is a heavy piece and a Caucasian wrote it.Dee Lee, CFPHarvard Financial  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/4155235204174150657/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=4155235204174150657&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4155235204174150657'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/4155235204174150657'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2007/03/they-are-still-our-slaves.html' title='THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES ...'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-2941436319229854175</id><published>2007-02-21T03:07:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2007-02-21T04:00:27.111+02:00</updated><title type='text'>It's been a while</title><summary type='text'>I would like to apologize to my readers that I have been inactive for a while. I traveled to Europe and Australia, visiting  friends and relatives. It been an eye opening experience. In the process I learned more about my people. I thought Oromo struggle was only silent and slow in US, but  it looks even worse in other places. Oromos are even more divided among you name it. Oromos preferred to be</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/2941436319229854175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=2941436319229854175&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/2941436319229854175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/2941436319229854175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2007/02/its-been-while.html' title='It&apos;s been a while'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-115876987099546604</id><published>2006-09-20T19:20:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-09-20T19:31:20.453+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Why we Oromos don't think big?</title><summary type='text'>Just looking at the day to day life of Oromo people and Oromo politician, I kind of felt that, there is something is missing. May be we are not too ambitious or we would not like to pay the price. Whatever the reason behind, we are not set out to do big thing. We are lucking in thinking big. Think about your life and left me know if this is not ture.Speak out Oromo!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/115876987099546604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=115876987099546604&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/115876987099546604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/115876987099546604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/09/why-we-oromos-dont-think-big.html' title='Why we Oromos don&apos;t think big?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-115638814999916244</id><published>2006-08-24T03:55:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-08-24T05:55:50.060+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Can you do what it takes?</title><summary type='text'>Most of us know what it takes to free Oromia but do any of us willing to pay that price? I don't think so. It sad but true! Most of my fellow Oromos exactly know what it takes to win the war against neftegna but most of us are not willing to that pay price. We always expect someone else to pay this price. We expect some other poor kids to go and die for Oromo cause. Doesn't matter who you are, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/115638814999916244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=115638814999916244&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/115638814999916244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/115638814999916244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/08/can-you-do-what-it-takes.html' title='Can you do what it takes?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-115418576320316890</id><published>2006-07-29T17:38:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-07-29T18:09:23.256+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Taking a position on Somalia issue is not in the best interest of Oromo!</title><summary type='text'>I am the only one lost in the direction OLF is going or are you my fellow Oromos have the same issue. Is OLF hoping from issue to another with no clear understanding in what they are doing? I am sure many of you say, “OLF never had clear objective and direction”. I agree to that statement in part. Currently what OLF is doing is so confusing and it very hard to tell where it is heading to.  Take a</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/115418576320316890/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=115418576320316890&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/115418576320316890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/115418576320316890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/07/taking-position-on-somalia-issue-is.html' title='Taking a position on Somalia issue is not in the best interest of Oromo!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-115334593930717050</id><published>2006-07-20T00:48:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-07-20T00:52:19.326+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Why dip your F.. nose in someone else business?</title><summary type='text'>This is typical of Ethiopian government. They just run after their neighbor business when they could not come up with the solution for themselves. What is the point of Ethiopia going to war with Somali? What is in it for Ethiopia? Are they trying to be a super power of East Africa? Somalis are screwed up people and there is no solution to their problem. They are not any better than their own </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/115334593930717050/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=115334593930717050&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/115334593930717050'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/115334593930717050'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/07/why-dip-your-f-nose-in-someone-else.html' title='Why dip your F.. nose in someone else business?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114902968373177423</id><published>2006-05-31T01:54:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-05-31T01:54:43.746+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Here goes the marriage!</title><summary type='text'>The Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (CUDP) said Thursday that it was surprised to hear that the party is a member of a new front called "Alliance for Freedom and Democracy." In a statement it issued CUDP said that though the formation of an opposition front in foreign countries was not a new phenomenon, it was not involved in the formation of the new front, and so far not a member of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114902968373177423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114902968373177423&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114902968373177423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114902968373177423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/05/here-goes-marriage.html' title='Here goes the marriage!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114834939333291191</id><published>2006-05-23T04:47:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-05-23T04:56:33.356+03:00</updated><title type='text'>This is what I call it, “match made in heaven”. OLF &amp; CUD? Come on!</title><summary type='text'>Statement announcing the formation of the Alliance for Freedom and Democracy A historic meeting convened, by the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (CUDP), the Ethiopian People's Patriotic Front (EPPF), the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), the Sidama Liberation Front (SLF) and the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF), at Utrecht in Netherlands, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114834939333291191/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114834939333291191&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114834939333291191'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114834939333291191'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/05/this-is-what-i-call-it-match-made-in.html' title='This is what I call it, “match made in heaven”. OLF &amp; CUD? Come on!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114799684111909955</id><published>2006-05-19T02:41:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-05-19T03:00:41.133+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Wayane will continue to kill as long as it mean remaining on power</title><summary type='text'>This long adapted tactic manipulated by Wayane it seems working so far. The recent bombing in Finfine is a prim example of Wayane's ill-conceived tactic to silence the oppositions. The issue also looks divisive among people of Ethiopia. Half of the Average people in Ethiopia think this crime is trurly committed by oppositions.   The other half knew that this is not a work of oppositions. The </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114799684111909955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114799684111909955&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114799684111909955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114799684111909955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/05/wayane-will-continue-to-kill-as-long.html' title='Wayane will continue to kill as long as it mean remaining on power'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114735645229325946</id><published>2006-05-11T17:01:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2006-05-12T01:47:54.206+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Trickle-Up Leadership</title><summary type='text'>Trickle-Up Leadership "If people are too intimidated or too reluctant to help their leaders lead, their leaders will fail," says Michael Useem, management professor at the Wharton School and the author of a new book about how you can take control -- even when you're not in com by Bill Breenphotographs by Kate Swan from FC issue 52, page 70In a tough business climate -- and even in boom times, for</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114735645229325946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114735645229325946&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114735645229325946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114735645229325946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/05/trickle-up-leadership.html' title='Trickle-Up Leadership'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114524269121018546</id><published>2006-04-17T04:56:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-17T04:58:11.233+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Ester</title><summary type='text'>Happy Ester to all my fellow Oromos who celbrate Ester!EOF!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114524269121018546/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114524269121018546&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114524269121018546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114524269121018546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/04/happy-ester.html' title='Happy Ester'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114452419415752558</id><published>2006-04-08T21:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-04-08T21:23:14.173+02:00</updated><title type='text'>We are finally recognized as Oromo American. Hmmmmmmm</title><summary type='text'>McCollum Statement on Ethiopia's Troubled Internal SituationWashington, D.C. – Congresswoman Betty McCollum (MN-04) made the following statement on March 28th for a hearing of the House International Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Human Rights regarding the internal political situation in Ethiopia.  Following the national elections in May 2005, the Ethiopian government killed as many</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114452419415752558/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114452419415752558&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114452419415752558'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114452419415752558'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/04/we-are-finally-recognized-as-oromo.html' title='We are finally recognized as Oromo American. Hmmmmmmm'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114383074309312796</id><published>2006-03-31T20:41:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-03-31T20:45:43.106+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Now this is what I call effective leadership!</title><summary type='text'>A good friend of mien from Minnesota calls me the other day to tell me about a phone call he received from one group of OLF function. The message was left on his answering machine. He was very surprise and upset by the content of this message. The message basically states that he should not allowed or he should not be going to the meeting called by the other function of OLF that was suppose to be</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114383074309312796/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114383074309312796&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114383074309312796'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114383074309312796'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/03/now-this-is-what-i-call-effective.html' title='Now this is what I call effective leadership!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114373673406044781</id><published>2006-03-30T18:23:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-03-30T18:38:54.080+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Is the OLF taking credit for Wayane's evil conspiracy?</title><summary type='text'>The last time I visited Oromia it was a joke to blame car accident on OLF. This comes basically from the government falls propaganda that this been a norm in Ethiopia. Now it is typical for Wayane to go around and plant a bomb and blame it on OLF. The people in Oromia know that each of this blast has nothing to do with OLF or any other Oromo organizations but for Oromos it is creating negative </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114373673406044781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114373673406044781&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114373673406044781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114373673406044781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/03/is-olf-taking-credit-for-wayanes-evil.html' title='Is the OLF taking credit for Wayane&apos;s evil conspiracy?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114357591819305968</id><published>2006-03-28T21:41:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-03-28T21:58:38.210+02:00</updated><title type='text'>How long we are going to be acting as outsider?</title><summary type='text'>How long are we going to act like outsider?To me Oromo are getting more and more frustrated and exclude themselves from actively participating in the political process of Oromia and Oromo organization outside Oromia. I know someone is going to jump on my throat for suggesting to take political part in Ethiopia empire. But the truth is if we like it or not our participation is a key to defeat </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114357591819305968/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114357591819305968&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114357591819305968'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114357591819305968'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/03/how-long-we-are-going-to-be-acting-as.html' title='How long we are going to be acting as outsider?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114306457681386831</id><published>2006-03-22T23:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-03-27T03:54:52.773+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Are we run away from Oromo issues in the name of religion?</title><summary type='text'>I said YES and I would like to know if someone would think otherwise. I am up to hear your take on this.Speak Out Oromo!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114306457681386831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114306457681386831&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114306457681386831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114306457681386831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/03/are-we-run-away-from-oromo-issues-in.html' title='Are we run away from Oromo issues in the name of religion?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114287257517057079</id><published>2006-03-20T18:32:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2006-03-20T18:36:15.186+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy first day of spring</title><summary type='text'>For Oromos living in US today is the first day of spring and I wish you all the best and may Oromo God give you a courage to stand up and speak for the voice less. Be a voice for the voice less brother and sister of yours you left them behind. Speak out Oromo!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114287257517057079/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114287257517057079&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114287257517057079'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114287257517057079'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/03/happy-first-day-of-spring_20.html' title='Happy first day of spring'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114174658506846983</id><published>2006-03-07T17:47:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-03-07T17:49:45.066+02:00</updated><title type='text'>An Oromo Quote</title><summary type='text'>"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure"                                                     Author unknown</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114174658506846983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114174658506846983&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114174658506846983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114174658506846983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/03/oromo-quote.html' title='An Oromo Quote'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114161889871652629</id><published>2006-03-06T06:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-03-06T06:21:38.736+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Oromo you are only responsible for your happiness!</title><summary type='text'>We Oromos spent quite sometime to please other people. We in general think we have some sort of responsibility to take care of other people and other people feelings. If you see a group of 5 people sitting at the coffee shop and if one ended up being non-Oromo speaker we chose to speak with the language that person speaks. We go extra mile to accommodate that individual. We think we have some </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114161889871652629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114161889871652629&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114161889871652629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114161889871652629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/03/oromo-you-are-only-responsible-for.html' title='Oromo you are only responsible for your happiness!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-114136248743247966</id><published>2006-03-03T07:02:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-03-03T07:08:07.446+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Why Oromos are not speaking out against genocide in Oromia?</title><summary type='text'>I see a news about Oromo student and peace loving human being killed here and there in Oromia but I do not hear any outrage from either the so called Oromo organizations or media. I am the only one puzzled by this or there are other Oromo individuals like me. If you happen to be there please say to me few words!Speak out Oromo!</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/114136248743247966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=114136248743247966&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114136248743247966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/114136248743247966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/03/why-oromos-are-not-speaking-out.html' title='Why Oromos are not speaking out against genocide in Oromia?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-113837962176933438</id><published>2006-01-27T17:42:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-01-27T18:33:41.826+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Who are you to criticize Ali Birra’s recent move to Oromia?</title><summary type='text'>In most Oromo discussion board I read people bad mouth Ali for moving back home or for his interview with addis tribune. Some of the criticism are baseless and far from the truth. No one know what Ali’s real motivation to move back home. For him this might be strategic move. Ali is a timeless inspiration to Oromo people. He touched and thought most us by the way of his songs. He has been </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/113837962176933438/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=113837962176933438&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/113837962176933438'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/113837962176933438'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/01/who-are-you-to-criticize-ali-birras.html' title='Who are you to criticize Ali Birra’s recent move to Oromia?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-113635004644828644</id><published>2006-01-04T06:47:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-01-04T06:47:26.463+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The biggest threat!</title><summary type='text'>The biggest threat to Oromo liberation comes from within.It's not Wayane government evil operation or Naftegna's movement to take a turn.It's not even Oromo political or Religious organizations.The most immediate, persistent, avoidable threat to your liberation is YOU!You are the only one who can keep yourself from participating in Oromo movement. From stopping your voice heard when your fellow </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/113635004644828644/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=113635004644828644&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/113635004644828644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/113635004644828644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2006/01/biggest-threat.html' title='The biggest threat!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-113380402165739737</id><published>2005-12-05T19:05:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-12-05T19:33:41.670+02:00</updated><title type='text'>So what have you done 2005 as an Oromo Individual?</title><summary type='text'>The New Year is coming shortly and this is a time to look back and reflect what we have accomplished through out the year and plan for the year 2006. I am not interested to know your personal success. What I would like to know is how your personal success is translated in helping your community or in helping other Oromos. What did you do to advance Oromos cause? Did you just talk about it or did </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/113380402165739737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=113380402165739737&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/113380402165739737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/113380402165739737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/12/so-what-have-you-done-2005-as-oromo.html' title='So what have you done 2005 as an Oromo Individual?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-113237270699254651</id><published>2005-11-19T05:57:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-11-19T06:05:47.596+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Call to Intervene in the killing ...</title><summary type='text'>Call to Intervene in the killing, disappearance and detention of the Oromo people in the Empire State of Ethiopia.Click here to sign the petition</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/113237270699254651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=113237270699254651&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/113237270699254651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/113237270699254651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/11/call-to-intervene-in-killing.html' title='Call to Intervene in the killing ...'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-113193714280301102</id><published>2005-11-14T04:06:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-11-14T23:54:39.886+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Amharanizing Ethiopia is not a solution</title><summary type='text'>CUD and its supporters think lasting solution for problems in Ethiopia will be solved by Amharanizing everything. Their slogan is one language, one religion and one ethiopia, which translate to Amaharic, Orthodox and an Ethiopia the ruled by Amhara respectively. This is the same theory that they have been preaching for the last hundred years.Let me tell you friends, either tigere or amahars are </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/113193714280301102/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=113193714280301102&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/113193714280301102'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/113193714280301102'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/11/amharanizing-ethiopia-is-not-solution.html' title='Amharanizing Ethiopia is not a solution'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-112835098438654455</id><published>2005-10-03T16:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2005-10-03T16:49:44.400+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Hate???????</title><summary type='text'>One thing I noticed feedback to the issue posted in this blog are always taken as negative. Some of the neftegnas visited this website think I or other Oromos leaving comments about issues are filled with hate to other ethnic group in Ethiopia. To me they are missing the point or just do not want to accept the fact.I know truth is always hard to swallow it. It is like “koso” medicine. It will get</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/112835098438654455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=112835098438654455&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112835098438654455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112835098438654455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/10/hate.html' title='Hate???????'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-112696860558746870</id><published>2005-09-17T17:18:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-09-17T17:50:05.593+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Surprise Surprise!!!!!!!!!!!</title><summary type='text'>I have been talking to my fellow Oromos during the election and after the election what the next move for Tigre. I have been saying all along Meles will change his position about Oromo opposition group. That became reality last week. Meles now know that aligning himself with Amahars did not help for his ambition to stay on power for as long as he can. He had been attacking Oromos and any Oromo </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/112696860558746870/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=112696860558746870&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112696860558746870'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112696860558746870'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/09/surprise-surprise.html' title='Surprise Surprise!!!!!!!!!!!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-112412590835594885</id><published>2005-08-15T19:26:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-08-15T20:11:48.383+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Who is Oromo's Enemy?</title><summary type='text'>I have spent quite sometime just visiting most of Oromo website and discussion forums. It is sad to learn that 99% of the time Oromos are spending time just fighting and insulting each other. Oromos are so polarized by region, religion and ideology. Oromos from specific region think they are the only genuine Oromos. Others, are either nefxeenyaas or diqaallaa. Islam Oromos think they are the only</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/112412590835594885/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=112412590835594885&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112412590835594885'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112412590835594885'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/08/who-is-oromos-enemy.html' title='Who is Oromo&apos;s Enemy?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-112179274024693444</id><published>2005-07-19T19:59:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-07-19T20:05:40.253+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Call for Boycott Habesha owned business!</title><summary type='text'>Boycott #1My position is a consequence of more than 100 years of debilitating occupation, the dispossession of most Oromos, Ethiopian’s continuing atrocities, and its breaches of international law and of humanitarian standards, as well as the general discriminatory nature of its system. These practices are all well documented in reports of human rights agencies, and are starkly visible in the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/112179274024693444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=112179274024693444&amp;isPopup=true' title='55 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112179274024693444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112179274024693444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/07/call-for-boycott-habesha-owned.html' title='Call for Boycott Habesha owned business!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>55</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-112170164780965312</id><published>2005-07-18T18:47:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-07-18T18:47:27.820+03:00</updated><title type='text'>What are we doing in Eritrea?</title><summary type='text'>I do not understand the notion of OLF leaders seeking refuge in Eritrea. Haven’t they learned from 1991 mistake? Eritrea is not a country that helped undermine the Oromo struggle by siding with Wayane? How soon we forgot what happened to us? Just for the sake of self respecting and for the respect for the Oromo people should we dump this people?        I seem to have more question than answers. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/112170164780965312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=112170164780965312&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112170164780965312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112170164780965312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/07/what-are-we-doing-in-eritrea.html' title='What are we doing in Eritrea?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-112135753138865521</id><published>2005-07-14T18:45:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-07-14T19:13:10.833+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Who is GRILLED?</title><summary type='text'>I saw "BBC grills Meles to embarrassment" heading in most of Ethiopians news site and went out to watch both Meles and Hailu Shawel interviews online.  Both were interesting interview and the hardtalk host did a good job pushing both sides to the limit. I was impressed by the interviewer. He did all his homework before he sat to talk to those guys.       My impression was, if we say Meles grilled</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/112135753138865521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=112135753138865521&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112135753138865521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112135753138865521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/07/who-is-grilled.html' title='Who is GRILLED?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-112120826751363384</id><published>2005-07-13T01:44:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-07-13T01:51:50.336+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Since when we are so liked by Habesha?</title><summary type='text'>I do not know if you guys noticed but this days most of the articles or comment posted in the most of Ethiopians website seems to be authored by Oromos. The articles are in general support CUD and other habesha point of view. We Oromos clearly know that the use of Oromo penname is designed to make it sound like Oromos are in support of CUD and current Habesha movement.Why they think this evil </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/112120826751363384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=112120826751363384&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112120826751363384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112120826751363384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/07/since-when-we-are-so-liked-by-habesha.html' title='Since when we are so liked by Habesha?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-112105146503738956</id><published>2005-07-11T05:19:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-07-11T06:22:17.256+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Hailu Shawel is a MORON</title><summary type='text'>I think Hailu Shawel is got it write this time. He said people of Ethiopia have two faces. That exactly what I am trying to tell peoples for a long time. You can see multiple personality of this guy in this interview. This guy is monsters in a baby cloth. If this guy is unleashed he will murder people. He will turn this Empire into to a blood shade. Forget about Rwanda, it will not even close for</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/112105146503738956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=112105146503738956&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112105146503738956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/112105146503738956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/07/hailu-shawel-is-moron.html' title='Hailu Shawel is a MORON'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-111971126060388944</id><published>2005-06-25T17:15:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-06-25T17:59:29.226+03:00</updated><title type='text'>"if you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your ...</title><summary type='text'>"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live", Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary", Malcolm XI have recently run into this great quotes. Let me rephrase this, I have been made aware of this two by one of my fellow Oromo. This is something, it speak to us directly. Do we have something to die for or are we ready to die</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/111971126060388944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=111971126060388944&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111971126060388944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111971126060388944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/06/if-youre-not-ready-to-die-for-it-put.html' title='&quot;if you&apos;re not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your ...'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-111956529361751751</id><published>2005-06-24T01:16:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-06-26T07:05:01.156+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Do we know what we want? Do you know what we want?</title><summary type='text'>What do Oromo people want? Independent Oromia? Autonomous Oromia? Or just live with Ethiopia the way it is currently?So, how about you? Tell me what you take on this? Then I will tell you what I think!/Speak Out Oromo</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/111956529361751751/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=111956529361751751&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111956529361751751'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111956529361751751'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/06/do-we-know-what-we-want-do-you-know.html' title='Do we know what we want? Do you know what we want?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-111945446245502584</id><published>2005-06-22T18:15:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-06-26T07:06:00.116+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Oromo, what are you upto?</title><summary type='text'>My people,This is not a time we can relax and sit back. I am not seeing any activity on Oromos behalf. Where are all those Oromo organization out there? Why I am not hearing their voice? This is a time to standup face reality. This is not a time when we can relax and watch TV or just eat hamburgers. People back home are waiting to hear something from us.Why any Oromo political party did not pass </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/111945446245502584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=111945446245502584&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111945446245502584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111945446245502584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/06/oromo-what-are-you-upto.html' title='Oromo, what are you upto?'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-111936618893614944</id><published>2005-06-21T18:01:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-06-21T18:13:43.300+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Wild animals live in Oromia are more compassionate toward Oromos than Amaharas whom we brought them to our home as ‘Gudifachaa’.</title><summary type='text'>Please read this heart warming story.Police: Lions free kidnapped girl        &lt;!-- date --&gt;  Tuesday, June 21, 2005; Posted: 9:39 a.m. EDT (13:39 GMT)ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Police say three lions rescued a 12-year-old girl kidnapped by men who wanted to force her into marriage, chasing off her abductors and guarding her until police and relatives tracked her down in a remote corner of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/111936618893614944/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=111936618893614944&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111936618893614944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111936618893614944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/06/wild-animals-live-in-oromia-are-more.html' title='Wild animals live in Oromia are more compassionate toward Oromos than Amaharas whom we brought them to our home as ‘Gudifachaa’.'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-111935892354698570</id><published>2005-06-21T15:36:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-06-21T16:02:04.526+03:00</updated><title type='text'>Wake up Oromo!</title><summary type='text'>I am always convinced that it is wrong for Oromos being ruled by minority people from Abisiniya. This is also true in the eyes of any majority people ruled by minority.  This idea is simple and straight forward. There are many so called Oromo organizations try to make it complicated this issue when they bring it forward to Oromo people. To me this issue has been clear and straight forward. I run </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/111935892354698570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=111935892354698570&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111935892354698570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111935892354698570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/06/wake-up-oromo.html' title='Wake up Oromo!'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-111928106951282072</id><published>2005-06-20T18:22:00.001+03:00</published><updated>2005-06-20T18:24:29.513+03:00</updated><title type='text'>CUD (Amahara) are killers. Will kill all Oromos ...</title><summary type='text'>Dear my Oromo people!  Let me remind you one more time. CUD is a death machine. If it is unleashed  it will kill millions of Oromos. This is not just to make you scared or to label  this organization with bad reputation but to just give you a fact. Take a look  at Ethiopian history starting from Minilik time. Since then there was not time  they have stopped from killing Oromos and taking Oromos </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/111928106951282072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=111928106951282072&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111928106951282072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111928106951282072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/06/cud-amahara-are-killers-will-kill-all_20.html' title='CUD (Amahara) are killers. Will kill all Oromos ...'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13642448.post-111868550408838219</id><published>2005-06-13T20:56:00.000+03:00</published><updated>2005-06-13T21:01:13.573+03:00</updated><title type='text'>CUD is nightmare for Oromos</title><summary type='text'>This groups are very dangerous in every way to Oromos and Oromo struggle.  Here is why:    1) They wanted to redraw Ethiopia map. Possibly changing to older version of the map. Which will divided Oromos into smaller subset. Which will give the legitimacy to abolish current Oromia state. That will included get rid of "Qubee". All this reveres Oromo struggle backward a century again.    2) This </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/feeds/111868550408838219/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13642448&amp;postID=111868550408838219&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111868550408838219'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13642448/posts/default/111868550408838219'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://oromia.blogspot.com/2005/06/cud-is-nightmare-for-oromos.html' title='CUD is nightmare for Oromos'/><author><name>OROMO</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry></feed>
