Greetings and Rastafari Blessings,

HIM: "A nation can make rapid economic growth only when it makes use of foreign economic and technical aid and, if the people make every effort towards the proper exploitation of their natural resources."

Question: How has the Rastafari Nation been able to secure foreign economic and technical aid?

On the Eve of the Ethiopian Millennium, Some Governments of the Earth are making a big to-do about the so-called 200 year abolition of the Criminal Atlantic forced displacement and enslavement of I&I from Africa to the west in the MAAFA - the Afrikan Holocaust.

While these governments are paying lipservice and mis-educating the world about what really happened, where is the Rastafari Nation at these world events and at these world forums to give the Judgment sound and wordsoundpower?

Some of the governments SAY that they want to do something to repair the damage that is a coninuing legacy of the Criminal Trans Atlantic forced displacement and enslavement.

I&I don't expect them to come up with the solutions needed for I&I Afrikan people. So that is why Pan Africanists from around the world are gathering in Barbados at the end of August for the Bicentennial Global Dialogue on the Slave Trade, Reconciliation and Social Justice. Including among these Pan Africanists are Lord Anthongy Gifford, Dr. Abdul- Raheem Tajudeen, Professor Leonard Jeffries, just to name a few of the more than thrity Pan African professors, activits, and other personas that will be addressings Government officials, AU, EU, and OAS officials, and various banking institutions. Included among the panelists and invited guests are fifteen Rastafari sons and dawtas that have made very significant contributions to the Rastafari Movement over the last thirty years, both Elders and Youth. It must be noted that the Rastafari Movement has been in the forefront of demanding REPARATIONS and REPATRIATION over the last fifty years!!!

What I notice is that certain Elders in the Rastafari Movement are beginning to speak about this event and posting messages on the internent. Without naming names, these Elders give the impression that the Rastafari people who