i have a question to the prime minister as you know our people is based on agriculturfe and most of the people alomst all are living below poverty line what are the measures taken to change theier living standard conserning the farmer.

I have added the templates for "Needs Attention" and "Neutral Point of View." Gyrofrog 18:48, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Removed POV content (which bordered on vandalism). Thus I'm removing the "Needs Attention" and "Neutral Point of View" templates. Also added link to EPRDF article. Gyrofrog 00:36, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Would the prime misnister argue his father Negadras Zenawi was once involved as an informant to the enemy(england colonialist)and he got crowened by the U.K because of this and his faher had to flee to Eretrea because Tigrian women refused to marry him because of this cercumstance Meles is half Eritrean and half Ethiopian and that is whay he is wabbling when it comes about the future of those two countries?

I have reverted this article, thus removing the edit submitted by 149.99.45.38 at 00:02, 25 Jan 2005. Note that this is very similar to the edit submitted by 192.30.202.9 at 23:09, 14 Jan 2005, so it's happened before and I'm afraid it will probably happen again. (See my edit under "Needs Attention/POV.")

I am giving this person (or persons) the benefit of the doubt by not considering this to be outright vandalism, since it actually does pertain to the subject of the article. (If anyone thinks I am being overly generous in this regard, please let me know.) I was actually ambivalent about deleting the entire edit, because it might not actually be vandalism.

However I am not so tolerant or generous that I would bother cleaning up the inflammatory epithets, POV, and multiple errors of grammar and spelling just to "balance" the article's POV. If the person(s) who submitted this edit would get a username, refrain from using descriptions such as "Uncle Tom," and engage the other users here at the discussion page, than I might feel differently. Gyrofrog 19:32, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• Once again, I have reverted 149.99.45.38's vandalism. I have reported this user at WP:VIP. Gyrofrog 00:07, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Asking to see if I'm the only one, but when viewing this discussion page, the "article" tab at the top says "progpaganda" and when viewing the article it says "trash". siafu 05:35, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't see it. I even tried changing different display skins. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 06:03, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I have a feeling the person messing up with this article is from Ethiopia. I can't even believe someone would raise such a childish topic that the guy is not circumcised. I really hated this kind of thinking, really backward and i am not trying to be an elitist here. I am from Kenya, and let me tell you, most of my fellow Kenya's are completely brain dead. Basically, there are prepared to vote in a murderer, if the only other option is circumcised man. I have never fugured that out

In his book Globalization and its discontent, page 27 Stiglitz says the guy is trained as a doctor, but have also put a lot of hours to formally learn economics. For those who are asking what he intends to do for the poor, look elsewhere please. I think that question should be directed to IMF. According to Stiglitz, and i quote "Meles showed that, with the right policies in place, even a poor African countries could experience sustained growth. After years of war and rebuilding, international assistance was beginning to return to the country. But Meles was having problems with IMF" end of quote.

See IMF suspended its programs in Ethiopea because of actions that they guy took to mitigate poverty. For example, he paid up a loan to an American bank early. His reasoning was, since the interest the government was earning from reserve was less than the interest the govenment was paying for the loan, why not use the government reserve to pay up the US bank loan immediately. Very sound financial decision. Believe it or not, this was one of the reason to can the Enhanced structural Adjustment facilities program. This is not in Stiglitz book, but my guess is, IMF was not happy because when the loan was cleared asap, the US bank lost a chance to earn a comfortable interest

This book is full incidents like this. Brother, before you go nailing this guy, look for "Globalization and its discontent" and you will find yourself looking at the world in a completely different perspective. The world is more complicated than it seem on first look. I was like you sometimes back.