Perhaps the time has now come for Nana Asante Bediatuo and Co to beat a path to Akyem Juaso as soon as practicable - to see for themselves the egregious destruction of the upland evergreen rainforest there: and the degradation caused there by galamsay surface gold mining operators, who are poisoning the streams there, with total impunity. (http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=151470.)
If Nana Asante Bediatuo and Co are not to be regarded by some of us, as yet another bunch of well-respected hypocrites milking the green movement, and getting undeserved global acclamation as protectors of the natural environment in Akyem Abuakwa, then they had better put pressure on Barima Kofi Osei, and his elders, to halt the illegal tree-felling that goes on at Akyem Juaso day and night, 24/7, immediately.
If it should continue to remain business as usual there, and those responsible for the serious degradation of what is one of only two upland evergreen rain forests in our country, still succeed in getting away with their crimes against humanity (which their illegal actions practically constitute), then I am afraid that some of us will have to come to the rather painful conclusion that the "traditional authorities" of the area are just another group of sophisticated dissimulators, out to promote their wealth creation agenda by stealth: under the guise of promoting conservation there - whiles in reality they are merely engaged in greenwashing.
They must remember that all it will take to expose such fraud, will be just one click of a computer mouse. With respect, this is the 21st century, not the 18th century. Today, traditional authorities only have moral authority - and even then, only as long as they are genuine and remain true to the causes they promote publicly!
The patience of some of us is begining to wear thin - and we are getting fed up with the continued destruction of the Atewa Mountain range upland evergreen rain forest. If it continues, we shall mount an international campaign to expose the outrage that is going on there - whiles some trumpet what in effect will be bogus green credentials: green credentials they do not deserve. They must simply act now to halt the destruction of the Atewa Mountain range upland evergreen rain forest. Period.
At a time of global climate change, no one, not even apparently respectable figures, should be allowed to continue milking an undeserved public image as protectors of the natural environment in the area, when in reality they do zilch to protect the Akyem Jauso rain forest. Hopefully, it will not come to that, Opanin? A word to the wise...
Hmmm, Ghana, eyeasem oo - asem ebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
PS Nana Asante Bediatuo, if you guys really want to promote sustainable development in Akyem Abuakwa (as opposed to merely talking about it!), you can contact the following: Graham Knight's DIY Solar (http://biodesign.webeden.co.uk/), Folke Gunther (http://www.holon.se/folke/), Ken Hargesheimer - MiniFarms organisation
(http://www.minifarms.com/.), the South African sustainable development organisation, Sustainable Villages Africa [SVA] (http://www.sva.co.za/.), and the Biochar Fund organisation in Europe (http://biocharfund.com/index.php.). Do study biochar too - it will blow your minds! (http://www.biochar-international.org/)
You and your cousins can help all the rural communities there create sustainable livelihoods and real wealth if you help them leverage the environmentally-friendly and sustainable development models for rural development found on the abovementioned websites. "Over to you, Joe Lartey", as we say in local parlance!
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Taking the bait! And The LIE is swallowed, hook, line and sinker ;-(
Steve wrote: "When I talk about people buying or being sold ‘absolute crap’ I’m not only talking about the material but also about the ideological. We are ’sold’ on consumerism, the wars (Iraq), elections (the presidency), all manner of things. Unfortunately, so few people see that just because these ideas are on sale, that they don’t actually have to buy them!"
Sadly, the multitudes have sold out ;-(
The multitudes have taken the bait which is "ease of life", so-called, and The LIE was swallowed(believed),
hook(money),
line(education/religion),
and sinker(technology) ;-(
This place they call the u.s. of a. is the "bait"master and they catch their "fish" in every nation of this world ;-( Yet in england, france, germany, japan, etc, in all nations of this wicked world, there are those who have become disciples of the "bait"master and they also have found other "waters" in which to catch their "fish" ;-(
And so it is that today there are multitudes in every nation under the sun that have taken the bait(ease of life), and swallowed(believed) the hook(money), the line(education/religion) and the sinker(technology) ;-(
Tempted, hooked, reeled in, and held captive as they but serve "time" in the prison that is this wicked world ;-(
Simply, they could not withstand the media blitz(krieg), and their "imag"ination got the best of them ;-(
Some two thousand years past The Truth bore witness to the fact that, “the WHOLE world is under the control of the evil one”! (1John5:19) Yet, the "fish" continue to seek out that "good" place in the world, when in Truth the world today is but the product of mankind's "imag"ination, a dry and thirsty land of mirages, nothing but shadows ;-(
And in this wicked world, "image"s abound and are worshipped ;-(
So why receive that which is of mankind's "imag"ination?
Even when such is supposedly "free" there will always be a price to pay, for mankind's "imag"ination is destroying and perverting that which is of Creation(land, air, water, creatures, vegetation, Light, Life, Truth, Love, Peace, Hope, Grace, Faith, etc.) ;-(
Consider the time when there were no radio's, no tv's, no movies, no newspapers, a time when there was no way yet "imag"ined and then manufactured, that would allow someone to publish or display the vain "imag"inations of mankind to the "masses". Sadly those who rule in this wicked world, and who control the "media", consider the "masses" to be but the M in E=MC(squared);-(
And yet today, here i am publishing(sharing) that which i believe to be from the heart, The Spirit within, not the vain "imag"inations of my fleshly mind. i can but hope that which i share is from The ONE whose voice i have heard and whose Power i have experienced in The Miracles of deliverance that set me free, free from the “I” in me!
The ONE who revealed the lies that are of this world, it's 'god', and it's systems of religion, as i received evermore "a love of The Truth". The ONE WHOM i know and believe is the Giver of Life, The Only True GOD and Father(Creator) of ALL!
Father Help! and HE does.......
Do you feel as i feel? Do you wonder just what’s real?
Do you see the little child? Do you see them running wild?
i see their doubts and i see their fears, i see their hurts and i see their tears.
Now could be that's what i look to see, Yet what i see is real to me.
Now am i alone to care and cry? Or must i close these eyes and surely die?
Sadly, the children, or those who once were called children, today are referred to as "kids" ;-(
Sadder yet, the reference is true ;-(
Baby goats abound because their 'parents' feed them all sorts of "trash", and so it is that as they grow, they "eat" any and all things, no matter the dis-eases(no-peace) that causes them to be pill pushers, peer pleasers, or worse yet slaves of the media ;-(
"Where have all the children gone? long time pa-as-sing" ;-(
Progress? Yes things are getting progressively worse and worse ;-(
The Hopi people of AZ once believed "A Simple and Spiritual Life is the only Life that will survive".
Sadly, not long ago, it seems the last "hostile" Hopi, "hostile" meaning against "progress" so-called! The last "hostile" Hopi passed away a short time ago, and the remaining hopi, remain in name only, for they have given up and given in to "progress" ;-( Hope is there are yet hopi who still believe they will once again "see" their "True White Brother", Whom i believe to be The Messiah.
Thankfully Hope IS Alive!
For Miracles do happen!
Hope is there would be those who would take heed unto The Call of Our Father(Creator) and "Come Out" of this wicked world and it's systems of religion, for they will no longer have their portion with those who are destroying and perverting that which is of Creation(land, air, water, creatures, vegetation, Light, Truth, Love, Peace, Hope, Grace, Faith, etc.)!
And for those who have embraced "mother earth"?
Hope is they would also experience ONEness as they embrace Their Father, The Only True GOD(Great Spirit), HE WHO is Creator(Father) of ALL!
Peace, in spite of the dis-ease(no-peace) that is of this wicked world and it's systems of religion, for "the WHOLE world is under the control of the evil one"(1John5:19) indeed and Truth.......
Truth is never ending.......
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