^It's not that I can't post it but it looks like the message has already been lost.

I was gonna write something about 'baaq' but now Khadar ran with it in completely different direction.

^That's not technically not the case.

The Problems of the President and the Prime Minister To their admirers the president and the prime minister showed evidence of conviction, courage and authenticity, of rising above compromise, calculation and mere politics. However, their critics argue that commitment to hold undeviatingly to a line of action, regardless of circumstance or consequences, is foolish and dangerous. They argue that Mr. Yusuf's militaristic approach is controversial in Somalia 's topsy-turvy world. "It is much safer to be feared than loved," wrote the philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli nearly 500 years ago. But even Machiavelli believed that intimidation has its limits. Just a few sentences after the famous passage quoted above, he cautioned: "Nevertheless a prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred." Sometimes it may actually be safer to be loved than feared. Someone that took risks for peace might find unexpected rewards. Largely through miscalculations and short-sightedness, the Somali government missed out on many opportunities to improve their image and articulate their policies. Moreover, unable or unwilling to acknowledge their weaknesses and shortcomings, the president and the prime minister bear a large share of the blame for the degree to which the movement to fail them metastasized. The litany of accusations against the government may be groundless, but even false perceptions can lead to awful consequences. When that much dirt is thrown, it doesn't take much to muddy the waters, especially when the target fails to defend itself. At the least, the president and the prime minister could have dampened speculations about Ethiopia and could have clearly stated their political program for the country. For almost a year we are still waiting the president and the prime minister to address the nation and put forward a clear political agenda for the nation. It might seem ludicrous to address as large and intractable a problem as Somalia 's through speeches, but often a simple sermon can help chisel away at the biggest problems. Conclusion The reconciliation process that costed tens of millions of dollars, involved hundreds of people, will ultimately come to naught if the current situation prevails. The Somali people are so overwhelmed by the daily rituals of life that they can barely think for themselves. The warlords gave them the dilemma of one alternative; follow us or the enemy clan will take over. Embracing these faulty causes they created bona fide heroes from a dearth of villains. I am not expecting that the warlords will suddenly square their shoulders and straighten their backs. But I hope that the speaker retraces his steps and God willing return to the high road. If not, just beyond the horizon, there lurks a cloud that the winds will soon bring over us with the prospect of indeterminable losses of blood and treasure. And what a tragedy that will be. Abdiweli M. Ali, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Economics Department of Commerce College of Business Administration 312 Perboyre Hall Niagara University, NY 14109 -------------------- This article was first published by WardheerNews in October 4, 2005

The speaker often repeats the mantra that Ethiopia is coming and the government has to relocate into the constitutional capital. He rehashes the relics of the past with no real platform, and is woefully out of step with today's reality in Somalia. His arguments reeks of no restraint or nuance and is prone to sound exceedingly sure of himself. His banter is hilarious if not confounding and even sometimes scary. When the president of Yemen used his good offices to breach the gap and reconcile the only two elected officials of the Somali government, the speaker first winked and noded and then decided otherwise. He asked the president to wring his hands and show remorse from his sins of asking foreign troops and relocating the capital. Maybe go a step further and flagellate himself. To everyone's surprise the president accepted all the condition put forward by the Speaker which is itself uncharacteristic of president Yusuf. People mellow out as they get older, and so I think is Mr. Yusuf. However, instead of sitting with the President knee to knee and heart to heart to talk the issuse frankly and candidly, he decided to leave the country without even notifying his host and started going around, splitting up the parliament willy-nilly. The Warlords The Gedi administration, right from its controversial beginning, was squarely in the crosshairs of the warlords. Using cloak -and-dagger ploys, they left no stone unturned to undo all the progress made in Kenya. This franchise of a clueless Speaker and callous warlords are clear and present danger, and the foremost a threat to our nationhood and the stability of the country. Their selfish narrow inerest trumps everything else. They will kill and maim just to make few pennies from roadblocking. When all the sins are counted there must be a special place in hell reserved for these nasty piece of work. The mutability of their stand is only exceeded by the duplicity of their speeches. Most of the carnage inflicted on us by these monsters may eventually be forgotten, but the postcards from the grave should stand the test of time. Amazingly, they are still part of the government. They should have been out on their ears longtime ago. These warlords and their advocates are currently basking in a false glow of success in furthering their reputation of calling the shots in Somalia. Using their tried-and-true tactics, exploiting every weakness of the government, and extracting the maximum mileage from the confusion of the international community, this lunatic fringe are currently enjoying a gift worthy of hell when the UN Security Council refused the request from IGAD states to lift the army embargo in Somalia. In every occasion they play the Ethiopian card and play it with a vengeance because it is the only card left, with sympathy for their strident clan politics now at a low point. Rest assured, we are used to their hysteria and fortunately Somalis are now fully accustomed to the false public proclamations of the warlords. It is not difficult to square their deceitful tactics with the empty tone and content of their speeches. The Pseudo-Intellectualism and the Clan-based websites Since the inception of the Somali government it was at the receiving end of countless accusations from former politicians. These restless former politicians have a tendency to make their way to whatever watering hole they can find to quench their need for a political power. These political vaga bonds are using a callow speaker without any discernible sense of history and nationhood to further their political and personal interest. Politicians who can deliver a jarring piece of wisdom is always welcome, but these armchair politicians are unnecessarily raising hackles and are heaping rancorous attacks on the president and the prime minister. Resorting to elementary mathematics suffices to refute the fallacy that underlies their condemnation of the president and the prime minister. They are congenitally incapable of proposing solutions and are just adding fuel into a bruing fire. Their arguments are based on pure animus for Mr. Yusuf and Mr. Gedi and not on the full range of the readily accessible facts. I am astounded by the fact that these pseudo-intellectuals can make vitriolic speeches and fail the occasional need expected from highly esteemed intellectuals and politicians to step beyond emotional assertions and merely state the facts. Blinded by false views of the present political situation, these self-certified do-gooders worsen the problems they endeavor to ameliorate. Too often they twist the facts to fit their personal agenda. They use the clan-based websites to relay their subjective drivel that spawns hatred and divisions. Never mind that Somali folks have less faith in a Somali news media with no valid reasons to be hate-filled and shrill.

A Clueless Speaker, Callous Warlords, and a Confused Government By Dr. Abdiwali M. Ali June 27, 2011 Editor's Note: In line with its long-established tradition of sharing with its readers subject matters of historical, political and social significance as well as of particular public interest, WardheerNews, is pleased to dust off an article written in October 4, 2005 by the newly appointed prime minster of TFG of Somalia Professor Abdiwali Mohamed Ali. Even though the article was penned down six years ago; WardheerNews deems that it is more relevant today than when speaker Sharif Hassan, the current speaker, was tearing apart president Yusuf and Premier Gheedi's Mbagathi TFG. The same speaker, who is paradoxically now the darling of Ethiopia, brought down the most popular TFG government of premier Farmaajo , thus if Professor Abdiwali negotiates the pot holes on the road ahead or reaches the end of his political road remains to be seen. _______________________ The dust hardly settled when the critics of the government began to pick apart the fruits of the historic national reconciliation conference. Immediately a grand-design is hatched in Nairobi by the usual suspects, the warlords. They received a helping hand from an amalgamation of pseudointellectuals, a biased media, and the speaker of the parliament. Let me briefly discuss the role of each one of these co-conspirators. The Speaker of the Parliament When the warlords decided to derail the peace process they quickly found out that it is a daunting task to undo the progress made and therefore forged a collaboration with the speaker who for his unknown reasons decided to put the slowly moving wheels of national dialogue into a squeaking halt. When quislings are sought, quislings are abound and in this case the sharif showed up first. For the unsuspecting eye, this soft-spoken, smooth-talking, soothsaying, unassuming personality strikes you as “the enemy of none and the common friend of all.” But obviously there is more in him than meets the eye. Time and again we are tuned to the cliché-ridden, tired rhetoric of the Speaker. In the realm of real politics, he offered nothing of substance to the Somali people who are only lulled further into numbness by his repeated extolments regarding a bogeyman called Ethiopia. He is in violation of not only the letter of the interim constitution but certainly its spirit as well. His statements that Ethiopia is preying on us rings false and hollow in light of the self-mutilation that has been going in Somalia for the last 15 years. It is churlish to blame our self-inflicting wounds on our neighbors. For the orphaned children and the widowed mothers it doesn' t make a shard of difference whether the perpetrator is black or brown, Somali or non-Somali. As a matter of fact Somalis are today safer in Addis Ababa than in our beloved Capital (Mogadishu). Ethiopia and Somalia are neighbors and historically traditional enemies. Given the character of the Ethiopian regime, we are not fated to be friends. Yet we need not be enemies. The real enemies are the warlords who by their own actions caused an ocean of despair in Somalia.

N they were pardoned-it's mockery.

Were they in the same bed?

^What worse you have these sorts of people preaching democracy...silly things

Jb....why you cussing the man:D

looool...being honest though, before Sayid comes down with his bakoorad, I wasn't excluding from the fence sitters.

Let's be honest with each other-everyone is sitting on the fence and not moving a finger yet we have audacity to ask what will it take to unite all Somalis.

^This says something about Shiekh-he's either submissive little creature or another snake but both know nothing about Government and its Institutions.

I think it will actually be OK if someone offs these two !diots.

Fresh Row Between President Sharif and Speaker Hassan over Possible Farmaajo Successor Hiiraan Online Monday, June 20, 2011 Mogadishu, Somalia (HOL) - The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia on Monday reportedly postponed a function in which the executive authorities were expected to name a new prime minister after Sunday’s resignation of Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo. Government sources told Hiiraan Online that a fresh disagreement between president Sharif and Speaker Hassan may have led to the postponement of an anticipated announcement of a new prime minister for Somalia. In the early morning hours on Monday, the president and the speaker were locked up in a meeting at government headquarters in the capital Mogadishu. The two were said to have been conversing over the probable successor for the premier’s office. Public relations officials of the government have invited the local media for the faltered naming ceremony which was delayed due to what internal sources said was a ‘fresh row’ between the speaker and the president that cropped up yet again. "We noticed enraged speaker Hassan coming out of the office of the president and immediately boarded his vehicle. We were later told the anticipated naming function was delayed” one Mogadishu-based reporter told HOL. Local reporters who were invited and were present for the function said some government officials told them that it appeared the two Sharif’s failed to agree over who should take over the vacant office. Some reports indicated that the president proposed the name of the acting Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali who took over office on Sunday. The speaker was seemingly opposed to the president’s proposal. This latest emerging row between the president and the parliament speaker is a testimony to the endless political undertones that have marred the fragile western-backed government. Persistent squabbling between the president and the speaker has hampered the efficiency of the interim authority where the two executive officials are embroiled in a heated political standoff that many analysts described as a very unfortunate one for Somali where a two-decade conflict still continues unabated. Hiiran.com

Xaaji Xunjuf;729552 wrote: He is lucky he is not executed N we could thank God you have no power over anything.

^Do you think the two illiterates can tell the difference trusteeship and sovereignty? This would be good moment to ask, what does being a Somali actually means?

In other news, Maayarka Magaalada Laascaanood Oo Xabsiga La Dhigay Maayarka Oo Lagu Eedeeyay In Uu Abaabulay Shirar Ka Dhan Ah Qarannimada Somaliland Laascaanood (Somaliland.Org)- Maayarka magaalada Laascaanood Axmed Aw Daahir Xasan ayaa xabsiga loo taxaabay, isla markaana laga qaaday xilkii Maayarnimo ee uu hayay. Xadhiga Maayarka ayaa ka dambeeyay kadib markii lagu soo eedeeyay in uu ka dambeeyay oo uu abaabulay shirar ka dhan ah qarranimadda Somaliland, iyo taabo galka nabadgelyada gobolka Sool. Guddoomiyaha Gobolka Sool Cabdillaahi Jaamac Diiriye oo aanu caawa khadka Telefoonka kula xidhiidhnay ayaa noo u xaqiijiyay xadhiga iyo xil ka qaadista Maayarka. “Warkaasi wuu jiraa, waa la xidhay maayarkii xilkii uu hayayna waa laga qaaday, shalay makhribkii ayaa Ciidamada Boolisku xidheen oo ay ka soo qabteen gurigiisa oo ku yaala magaalada Laascaanood.” Ayuu yidhi guddoomiyaha gobolka Sool Cabdillaahi Jaamac Diiriye, isaga oo hadalkiisi sii watayna waxa uu intaa raaciyay “Maayarka la xidhay waxa lagu soo eedayay falal ay ak mid yihiin in uu uu abaabulay shirar ka dhan ah qaranimada iyo jiritaanka Somaliland, amaanka iyo xasiloonida gobolka iyo musuq maasuq baahsan oo ka jira dawladda hoose ee magaalada Laascaanood,” Wararka kale ee naga soo gaadhaya magaalada Laascaanood ee xarunta gobolka Sool ee la xidhiidha xadhiga Maayarka ayaa sheegaya in tuulada Karin oo 70 Km Laascaanood ka xigta dhinaca magaalada Garoowe uu kulan qarsoodi ah kula yeeshay guddoomiye ku xigeenka kooxda nabaddiidka ah ee SSC Cali Sabaray iyo wasiirka qorshaynta maamul goboleedka Puntland Maxamuud Bisin. Wararku waxa kale oo ay intaa ku darayaan in uu Maayarku magacaabay 21 xubnood oo uu ku tilmaamay guddida nabadgelyada magaalada Laascaanood, kuwaas oo dhawaan si cad ugu baahiyay qaar ka mid ah shabakadaha wararka hadalo ka dhan ah qarannimada Somaliland iyo xasiloonida gobolka Sool. Waxa kale oo lagu eedaynayaa in uu si cad u diiday in uu wada shaqayn la yeesho weftigii ka socday xukuumadda iyo golayaasha qaranka oo ku sugan magaalada Laascaanood. Cumar Maxamed Faarax Somaliland.Org/Hargeysa cumarmfaarax@hotmail.com

^N just when I thought you are making some sense, you veer off the road.

Though there is alot to be desired about Faroole's administration, I think we have to be realistic and understand the limitations of an entity like Puntland.

^They couldn't be any worse from the administration that handed over Hooyo Samsam to the tigray.

Cheers

^Touche'

Press Conference

Axmed-InaJaad;728578 wrote: adeero is right, we fought for queen n spilled blood, we are her children n she needs to take us home n recognize us. Another one for the record:D