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<cite> @galbeedi said:</cite> Walee Ama Jaahil ii Tali Ama Jaray Shakaalkoo Cashaquna Galbeed Noqoy. Here is what is new in Somalilnd that the local media doesn.t cover. The Chinese are here. Since late 2013, a Chinese company has settled in Baki region of Awdal for mineral exploration. They brought heavy equipment and other tools to excavate luxury stones like Emeralds and others precious metals from the Baki district mountains. besides the Emeralds, most of their work is directed specifically to the miming of Beryllium. A metal element mixed with other compounds. First , they started hauling some of these stones directly to the ports to China for refining , but recently, they begin miming this new found metal. Beryllium (Be), atomic number 4, is a brittle, steel-gray metal found as a component of coal, oil, certain rock minerals, volcanic dust, and soil. Elemental beryllium is the second lightest of all metals and is used in a wide variety of applications. In its elemental form beryllium exhibits the unique properties of being light weight and extremely stiff, giving the metal several applications in the aerospace, nuclear, and manufacturing industries. In addition, beryllium is amazingly versatile as a metal alloy where it is used in dental appliances, golf clubs, non-sparking tools, wheel chairs, and electronic devices. To separate this metal from other stones, a huge amount of water and chemicals are needed in the miming pits. Just like the Canadian oil sand this toxic water should be sequestered or kept in a pond. This toxic ponds must be controlled and guarded from domestic animals and other wild life creatures including birds. Last month , about 300 goats and sheep's from the rural area of Baki have died after consuming some of these toxic waters. Some of us have heard or seen local people complaining about the danger of these toxic elements in their water. One of These weak Suldans was saying " Adeer Macdanta iska gurta oo , laakiin suntan naga Daaya". As usual , The minister of the Minerals Mr. Ducaale who is among the closets blood relative of Ahmed Siilaanyo, the President, signed these contracts without the knowledge of the Awdal government and people. Well, the governor of Awdal is another cousin of Siilaanyo, , which makes this a family affair to rob the region and the people. The so called tribal parliament which doesn't have any party loyalty, ethics or concern for the activity of the current government, doesn't know any thing about these contracts. There are no government oversight about the health consequences of these miming activities. Exposure to Beryllium can cause lung cancer, Pneumonia and other respiratory illnesses. Last month, the Chinese company announced that they will take out 500,000 Tons of rocks and dirt from the Baki mountains of Awdal. That means huge mountains will be exported or mined for the benefit of the Hargeisa based mafias. 1 Ton is equivalent of 1000 Kg. 500,000 x 1000kg = 500,000,000 kg. If the mafia is able to sell one dollar for every kg, they could easily make a half billion dollars. It is one of the major reasons these minister is creating a militia to protect his of shore contracts. To the surprise of the Mafia , almost all of the mineral rich area of Somalilnd is in Awdal and the eastern zone. Sheekh Samaale and the money. The finance minister who calls himself a Sheekh released the estimate of the 2015, budget. When the parliament was functioning like an opposition or an institution, ministers were grilled and questioned for the allocation and priorities of the fiscal year budget. That was when Somaliland acted as a government. Since it transformed it self a tribal entity, checks and balances have disappeared. There is no Parliament to debate, reject or even force the minister to change the numbers. In 2012/2013, the minister claimed his budget estimate to be $ 150 million. After the end of the fiscal year it ended up to be $106 million dollars. Among those numbers , 21% were foreign aid. Almost every year he adds the foreign aid money to the budget while hiding the deficit. This year he projected $252 million dollar budget. They added the budget almost $ 38 million foreign aid budget which wasn't a budgetary aid , but a direct aid for essential services like water, sanitation and education. They printed $ 80 million worth of Somalind shilling and added to the budget. They are financing their deficit by printing money to cover their short fall of revenues. In fact they could claim 300 million dollar budget while printing money fro thin air. What they don't understand is over printing of these useless money will create inflation. If meticulous bookkeeping and audit are done, their whole revenue will not be more than $ 80 million. The office of the minister of Finance is allocated himself a whooping $306,000 dollars. He is also guaranteed expenses for travel, fuel, car, house and other allowances. They allocated almost eighty million dollars ($78million), for employee salaries. for the last two years, they hired more employees than the combined number Somaliland governments hired for the last twenty years. The ministry of finance alone hired 1468 people , most of them from the sub clan of the minister. No one knows how they are hired or what kind of service they provide. The Somalia of the eighties where everyone claims to be tribal, when I finished high school , we were about six thousand students, who competed for 1000 positions of the university slots. While people were always added after the fact, those of us who succeeded were selected by merit. Although everyone came to Mogadishu for education and jobs, the country was huge for different opportunity. Here everyone is under the mercy of the Hargeisa Oligarchs. The youth who graduated from these mushrooming universities are dying in the high seas to find opportunities while they spend millions for non existent services. The palace is allocated more than 9 million dollars , while 11 million were allocated for development. During Rayale administration, the palace was allocated 1.2 million dollars. Waa qaataaye qaado. Fill up the jails. These Awdalites complaining about the jailing of city counsel members, youths and others, must understand the value of self determination and freedom. Didn't they hear last week about minister Hersi Gaab describing how he was chased by a tank in late eighties. He was a young teenager who never saw any compact or war, yet in order to boost his standing , he claimed to have been a member of SNM. So, these Awdalites must accept the jails, if they want to be part of the heroes of the Awdal revolution. If history is the lesson, Siilaanyo will create and nurture the Awdal " Jabhad" without the effort of those who desired. In the eighties, SNM was small movement, but their ranks were increased by the action of the governors, military leaders and internal security apparatus, by persecuting the masses. The latest moves by Siilaanyo doesn't surprise me. About forty armored technical have left the Khaatumo region this week and are heading to Awdal. More troops have relocated in the border area of the province. Some have described Somalilnd as the sick man of the horn of Africa. A wind of change is blowing. I believe that if Awdal people want to go their separate ways, there are easy steps that may hasten the divorce. For example: The recognized elders, Suldaans with Ugaas, can hold a grand conference whit in Borama city limits and decide collectively the proclamation of the separation Awdal. They can't force hundred's of thousands of people if they make their decision collectively. Mr Galbeedi, I am no supporter of Silaanyo, Kulmiye, or any other political entity or personality in Somaliland but I feel obliged to correct few serious errors in your comment. 1. 500,000 tons of dirt and rocks does not equal 500,000 tons of metals or gemstones. Only a tiny fraction of what is excavated will be useful material. 2. A kilo of rock and dirt cannot be sold for one US dollar so your figure of half a billion US dollars is absurd. 3. 500,000 tons of rock and sand is more like a termite hill than a mountain. Given that a small 64 Cu ft. sandstone boulder on average weights about 4.5 tons, the Chinese will excavate the equivalent of 100,000 boulders or a few descend truck loads of rock and dirt. To put things into perspective, the Pyramid of Giza is estimated to weight about 5.9 million tons which is 12 times what the Chinese company is proposing to dig out. 4. The extracted minerals will not be sold at the market price to the Chinese investors. At best what the government would get as a share will be between 5% and 10% of the market price of the minerals. The remaining 90% plus of the market price of the minerals covers the industrial processing, transportation, marketing, storage, packaging, taxes, company profits, middlemen, etc. My only worry about this mining business is its environmental impact on the area and the negative effects it might have on the health and livelihood of the locals.

<cite> @Odey said:</cite> Now that the interior Minister of Somaliland " Warancade" has publicly declared that Somaliland is part and parcel of the Federal Nation Of Somalia, can we now expect you die hards here of SL extraction to see the light of day and stop this madness http://www.kalshaale.com/ and of course I expect you all to start claiming this video was somehow doctored and therefore not authentic, but it is there for all to see! I think we are going in circles now :-D

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> Why are we even in that country? Honestly, Somalis in Kenya should start to think of a long-term exit strategy to leave that shi**ole of a country and invest in Somalia instead. Somalis aren't treated well in Kenya at all. I've had relatives arrested and interrogated for no reason, and thousands of Somalis have been abused/raped/incarcerated in Kenya by the Kenyan Police Force. Kenya isn't home. And the racism that Somalis experience in Kenya is 10x worse than anything we could possibly receive in a European or Asian country. Let's cut our losses and move on Did you forgot that Kenya controls a sizable portion of the Somali territory and population? :-D

If the Kenyan police is assassinating "terror suspects" then the real terrorists do have a justification to assassinate members of the Kenyan police force. I am sure when few of them are killed, the rest of them will be hiding for their dear lives. However, I think it is in the Somali peoples' best interest to work with the Kenyan authorities to fight terrorism and extremism together and promote peaceful co-existance in the country.

Silaanyo must be pissing in his pants now that he realised he got on the wrong side of the Awdalites :-D

The minister just pointed out how the koonfurian administration views Somaliland, which is a view I do not care about.

<cite> @Nin-Yaaban said:</cite> Look at 'em Sheydaamo, and Bahalo. Those are the faces of EVIL, ladies beware. Loool :-D

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> Most of the development which goes on in Hargeisa, is done by PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS, not the government. Private, patriotic Somalis are the ones who invest in Hargeisa or Mogadishu. They're the ones responsible for all the progress , not the leaders or so-called "Presidents". Whereas the leaders step in and claim credit for projects which were carried out by private organizations or corporations. Malistar always posts pictures of how much progress Mogadishu is going through, but he declines to mention that Culusow isn't responsible for this progress. If anything, he's hindering the progress from taking place faster. The current situation in Hargeisa and Mogadishu is directly the fault of god-fearing Somalis choosing to not get involved in the affairs of their own country. I know dozens of upright, moral, intelligent, and god-fearing Somali men who would do a far better job of governing Somalia than our current crop of leaders. Yet these men choose to stay out of the spotlight. They choose to not get involved and this inevitably leads to unqualified men like Culusow gaining power. This isn't even about tribe, I personally know several Somali men who hail from Culusow's sub-clan, who are far more qualified to be President than he is. We need to be more alert. We can't just expect the situation to fix itself, and every upright and god-fearing Somali man should pressure his clan elders and use whatever leverage he can to help change the situation in Somalia Drkenny, the God-fearing men in Hargeisa and Mogadishu do not get the support they need to lead and change their society. Very few if any would support their mission. In our barely Islamic communities, for one to get to the top, one is expected to lie, bribe, make false accusations, take false and insincere oaths in the name of Allah, break promises, slander opponents, create problems and conflicts in the society, create mistrust and enmity among the people, use tribalism at every opportunity, support every wrong-doer who joins their ranks, etc. Now tell me who in their right mind would so openly repel against the Almighty Lord just to be a president or get some other office?

So what is the purpose of this mashruuc? Is it just an attempt to "Islamatise" the gaalo bikini contest aka miss world?

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> Strange how Somalis keep electing the worst possible leaders to govern their country. Whether its in Hargeisa or in Mogadishu....the game continues. While the honest, patriotic Somalis tend to choose to stat away from politics and all that buuq, this gives the most corrupt Somalis the space and ability to maneuver their way into power. "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."-- Edmund Burke There is very little faith in and fear of Allah in every Somali community. That is why the bad people keep getting power. No God-fearing Muslim will ever give his or her support to a known munaafaq.

Mr Oodwayne even if Kulmiye is voted out next year, the alternative governments which would take its place will be just as useless, clanish, and corrupt as the one we have now. I really have very little faith in any of our politicians. May Allah help us.

The only reason I support Somaliland is the believe that Somaliland as a political entity could be a winning formula for our people and lift millions out of poverty. But sadly it seems that we have learned nothing from our turbulent history and as a result foolishly allowed few self-serving satanic men to divide and corrupt our society. In its current trajectory, Somaliland is probably going nowhere.

<cite> @somalee said:</cite> And what were the contributions of this particular community with regards to the fighting of the injustices of Siad Barre? Do you know what side of the fight they were on? And what their suldaans used to say those days? It does not matter what side they were on during our fight against Siyaad Barre or what their sultans used to say about us 23 years ago. What matters now is that every community in Somaliland is treated fairly and the national resources shared equally among them. If what Galbeedi said about the situation in Awdal is true then I will be the fist man to support their fight against mistreatment by others. And if they can't get justice peacefully they should break away from Somaliland and bring it down, I would hate to see a re-incarnation of the oppressive, corrupt, and divisive kacaan 23 years later in another form and with a different name.

<cite> @DoctorKenney said:</cite> Only a complete and utter narcissist like Alpha would have a forum page dedicated solely to him, where he chats nonsense for 834 pages. And this thread has been going on for TWO YEARS. Alpha uses this forum and this particular thread to feed his ego, that's all. I can see right through this character. Saaxiib you are right. Alpha's monumental ego is unnatural and unsustainable :-D He is the only guy in SOL's nearly 23 million strong population to set up a temple in the form of this cantarbaqash thread for the self-glorification of his very questionable online character.

I don't think that name is at all difficult to pronounce. The guy has reading problems because saying that that Thai name is as straight forward as any Indian or other Asian name. He would indeed struggle if he was asked to say this name: http://www.presstv.com/detail/2014/11/26/387574/zimbabwe-what-next-after-mugabe/ Watch it from 02:00 minutes :-D

<cite> @somalee said:</cite> Thank you Mr Erdogan, your intentions are pure and good. Now lets hope Qoslaaye doesn't use these nephews of his to bomb an 'enemy' clan. Lool :-D I think before any bombing raids are carried out, he has to deal with the minor problem of finding fighter jets given their high prices and the on going UN sanctions .

Alpha these are the sort of exclusive stories and tabloid editorial which made you a celebrity journalist in SOL's Fleet street :-D

Lool the title :-D Mr Axmad why don't you tell these maamullo to let Addis and Kampala do the talks on their behalf?

<cite> @Alpha Blondy said:</cite> Oi, do you mean to tell me you can read the quran. Don't insult my intelligence, abti. the only things you read are glossy magazines. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL How dare you insult me!!

<cite> @Alpha Blondy said:</cite> rageedi....... Can you elaborate?

Mogadishu will prosper if the HAGs there continue playing their cards well and tell the world that they rule "Somalia" whilst they spend every dollar given to them in their city and their region. Why should they really care about Puntland and other places if that means sharing the aid given to them in the name of "Somalia" and the other benefits of having the capital city?

It is a clear tyranny hostile to anything Islamic but the answer this awful problem is surely not terrorism or a regression back to stone age.

<cite> @CidanSultan said:</cite> I don't know any of the people that were killed. And it's wrong if they were innocent. I don't think you or I are in a position to argue this former soldier turned aid worker was innocent or not. I don't know him and you don't know him. Volume 9, Book 88, Number 185:Narrated Abu Musa:The Prophet said, "Near the establishment of the Hour there will be days during which (religious) knowledge will be taken away (vanish) and general ignorance will spread, and there will be Al-Harj in abundance, and Al-Harj means killing."

<cite> @somalee said:</cite> Succeed or secede? The man can't even correctly pronounce what he's trying to say. Besides that, why is an opinion of a Borama man even important to begin with? The opinion of the people of Boorama is of course vital in any national debate but the opinion of some qurbojoog like the African American in this video counts for nothing indeed.