^ why don't you give to charity?

Maqane;991781 wrote: Hi Al, hola all hi there bro, how are you? how is your project coming along? so busy these days, you know.

jumco wanaagsan akhyarta.

Suldaanka;991680 wrote: ) 3. Lion - Somali Laayaan (bahal laayaan ah) that's funny.

:p

jeudi soir y'all.

this is an excellent pic. http://somalilandinvest.net/

MODERN SLAVERY: AN INVENTED CRIME The myth of modern slavery is built on dodgy stats and political opportunism. Listening to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, I can’t quite believe my ears. The UK home secretary, Theresa May, is lost for words when questioned about her new vanity project, the Modern Slavery Bill. She acknowledges that she has no idea whether her claim that slavery is a rising crime is supported by evidence. As soon as she hints that there could be 10,000 slaves in the UK, she adds that the ‘honest position is that we don’t know whether there are fewer or indeed more victims’. But in a world where fantasy often serves as the main resource for policymaking, May’s admission of ignorance is not all that surprising. Still, we are told that the Modern Slavery Bill will be published and hastily pushed through the Houses of Parliament. Apparently speed is of the essence – there is simply no time to lose. Why? Because in a review commissioned by the UK Home Office, Labour MP Frank Field has concluded that Britain is confronted by an epidemic of what he diagnosed as ‘modern slavery’. Field speculates that there are 10,000 ‘victims’ of slavery in the UK. And that, it seems, is good enough to move normally lethargic parliamentarians into action. The guesstimate of 10,000 modern slaves has as much basis in reality as if I were to claim that there are 12,500 professional horse-thieves in the UK. This is a figure of faith, one based on the kind of quasi-religious calculation that predicted that the world would come to an end on 21 May 2011. As with rapture theology, the claims of political fantasists cannot be disproven. Soothsayers always have a get-out clause. So, too, do the moral entrepreneurs scaremongering about modern slavery. For example, the advocacy organisation, Unseen, claims that victims of modern slavery are literally unseen. And that’s good enough for the police, which is why the Avon and Somerset Constabulary has recently drawn on Unseen’s ‘expertise’ to tackle the problem of slavery in its towns. After a recent raid in which three people were rescued, Chief Superintendent Julian Moss explained that ‘some of those affected will not view themselves as victims and, even if they do, may have been unable to speak to the police or any other authorities for a variety of reasons’. So long as it is left to advocacy organisations, the police or Theresa May, and not to those rescued, to decide who the victims of slavery are, the numbers will continue to rise. What this means is that a variety of experiences – some involving physical coercion, brutal force and emotional manipulation and some simply cases of economic exploitation – are now ticked off as examples of modern slavery in future crime statistics. In this way, self-deceiving moral entrepreneurs and headline-grabbing public figures have become accomplices to the invention of a new crime. And with the creation of this new crime, there is also an imperative to find more victims. That is why the response of the Labour opposition was not to say, ‘hey, slow down, let’s think about this and get our facts straight’, but rather to demand that the Modern Slavery Bill be expanded to include ‘legal protection for child victims’. If only British parliamentarians had watched episode 25 of the Danish political drama Borgen. In that episode, Birgitte Nyborg, the former prime minster and now head of a new party, is confronted with a situation that is spookily similar to the one facing May. Copenhagen police have found three women who were forced into prostitution and there is a public campaign to criminalise the purchasing of sex. At first, Nyborg is inclined to jump on the bandwagon. But after reflection, she realises that a media-orchestrated public outcry is not a sound basis for policymaking. To her credit, she talks to sex workers and realises that sensationalist accounts of trafficking are just that – sensationalist. In the end, instead of going along with the movement for criminalising the purchase of sex, she calls for the decriminalisation of activities associated with sex workers. Regrettably, May is no Nyborg and fantasy politics are in the ascendancy in the UK. Back on the Today programme, May is asked why there were only eight prosecutions for trafficking in 2011 – after all, we are meant to be in the grip of an epidemic. I would like to think that Nyborg would have answered that maybe there were only eight prosecutions because there was only a tiny number of cases that were worthy of prosecution. But in the UK, you are not allowed to say that. Certainly not now, when a new crime - which includes a provision for automatic life sentence for offenders with a prior conviction – is about to be born. Frank Furedi’s new book, Authority: A Sociological History, is published by Cambridge University Press. (Order this book from Amazon (UK).) FRANK FUREDI SOCIOLOGIST AND COMMENTATOR ----------- http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/modern_slavery_the_invention_of_a_crime/14424#.UrGGvPQW3z4 ----------- interesting.......

slightly correction, if you will...... Alpha is not 27 but 29. thanks for editing y'all. Saffz two more complimentary statements would suffice..... p.s - walahi i got qarxised BIG time. lakinse, i'll be a sport and play along. it's my BD after all. p.s.s - i don't know whatever possessed you to start this disgusting thread. i'm not happy about this balse i will respect your freedom of expression.

dhalasho wacan y'all.

interesting article. thanks for posting.

Safferz;991326 wrote: What's there to do in Hargeisa to celebrate? I just finished my semester and I'm getting my nails done this afternoon, then treating myself to Thai food and a movie tonight thanks for the congratulatory hambalyos. it's been noted. i'm a year older and a lot wiser. it was a great year.

it's my birthday tomorrow. maxa tala ah?

Khayr;991312 wrote: Alpha, Power is all consuming. Did you think Silanyo would be any different? Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh akhi Khayr, indeed, it's a great shame you've been pursuing ''the Saffz'', to engaging in serious discussions, abti. as you'll no doubt be aware.....i'm obsessed with power. one day Alpha will rule. do you think Alpha can do it?

President Siilaanyo’s tyranny inducing civil war in Somaliland “I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” - Thomas Jefferson. “I am handing to you a stable and a united country. I wish you will pass it to your future successor in a similar state” - Dahir Riyale Kahin Why Somaliland is ripe for rebellion: Citizens respect the rule of law when they can be confident that those with the power to enforce our laws do so fairly. When the government fails to respect the rule of law and imposes its whims on the people then it should expect people to rebel for not fairly applying the rule of law. Courts by its sentence or lack there of send a clear message to the public whether the rule of law is sham or respected. From these messages the public is the final arbiter whether such courts of law are kangaroo or pillars of justice. Arbitrary arrests and suffocation of the free press, travel ban on opposition parties, unrestrained corruption and targeted killings are the whole marks that induce rebellion and civil war. The fragile situation in Somaliland is first and foremost a story of calculated systemic violence under Siilaanyo’s leadership where instead of being the first to intervene in confrontations, very often he is the first to feed the fodder to the fire. What he says becomes the rule of law; it ossifies and limits his future rooms of maneuver. The rise of targeted killings: A recent phenomenon in Somaliland is targeted killings committed by members of the Somaliland police. The first targeted killing occurred on April 24, 2013 when two masked gun men attacked Hubaal newspaper offices and shot at the manager, Mr. Alooley, luckily the shots missed and one of the gunmen was apprehended. Unfortunately the assailant turned out to be a police officer and was recently released by one of Siilaanyo’s kangaroo courts. In the second targeted killing Mohamed Farah Kabileh, an outspoken critic and a Member of Parliament was shot at near his house and the culprit was captured a few days later. It turned out the perpetrator was also a police officer. The third targeted killing was on Vice Chairman of the ruling Kulmiye party and it occurred on November 11, 2013. The perpetrator was also captured. These events validate the emergence of new systemic violence under the shadows of President Siilaanyo’s leadership. This is a dangerous threat to the overall security of Somaliland. With the tribes awash with weapons it will bring about revenge killings that can not be stopped once they start. Conclusion: Siilaanyo’s aggressive posturing against opposition parties and the press has amplified the rising tensions, and raised the risk of escalation. The concern here is that if current trends continue it will have a big impact on our security and stability and along with it will wane investor interest in Somaliland. What we are witnessing is the beginning of the end of Somaliland lead by no one other than president Siilaanyo. His engagement in divisive politics, suffocation of and the arbitrary arrest of the free press, introduction of travel ban on opposition parties, and the emergent targeted killings all point to the road that leads to civil strife. Saeed M. Timir 12/14/2013 ---- http://somalilandpress.com/president-siilaanyo%E2%80%99s-tyranny-inducing-civil-war-in-somaliland-46954 ---- excellent piece on the wrongs of the Kulmiye Zionist criminal regime!

''Wax Qof Qaban Kara ayaa Qaran ka dhintaa'' - Cali Maxamed Warancade (Wasiirka Arrimaha Gudaha JSL) discuss. thoughts welcomed.

DoctorKenney;991295 wrote: The books which have had the deepest impact on me were The Quran The Autobiography of Malcolm X Animal Farm 1984 Life of Pi How an Economy Grows and why it doesn't Self-Reliance (it is actually an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson) Media Control (Noam Chomsky) i'm surprised there isn't any Islamist literature, here.

N.O.R.F;991168 wrote: All he did was free South Africans from apartied. I mean, thats nothing! that's a little mean.

that's funny.

good morning i'm at the office.

Xaaji Xunjuf;991251 wrote: Thailand bangkok is nice , but some areas are full of rats. :p have you been, abti?

Safferz;991161 wrote: Where is Haatu yare? I am concerned... yeah! where is he?

AfricaOwn;991162 wrote: Have you traveled to Thailand-Malaysia-Cambodia for at least a month stay? What was your experience like? Please tell us about it. I am bag packing to go there in January so I'm curious. you must be the first habar qaloocian to travel beyond Sanaag, ma istidhi?

black economic empowerment? haters are gonna hate.

Safferz;991117 wrote: King Bey retired Sasha Fierce in 2010, la soco. I'm still not emotionally prepared to comment on the new album, I had to cancel the entire weekend to work through all of my feelings and take this in properly. Lawd hammercy. when i said.....''i wonder how this latest development will change proceedings for certain individuals'', i wasn't talking about you, ma garatay? :mad: your comment is nonetheless granted.