To much of the world, Somalia has a fearsome reputation. It is seen as one of the most dangerous places on the planet - a failed state that is widely believed to be home to warlords, pirates and terrorists.

But in the north of the country, at least, the reality is different.

Somaliland is an autonomous enclave with its own flourishing capital city, Hargeisa. Though a long way off from receiving international recognition as an independent state, it is a haven of peace and stability when compared with the rest of Somalia.

But Somaliland has its dark side. Within living memory its citizens fell victim to the most savage of state-sponsored atrocities. General Siad Barre - the ruthless dictator who ruled Somalia from 1969 to 1991 - went to war with the clans who inhabited the area. Believing them to be supporting a rebellion against his regime, he took revenge by sending in his army with a mandate to "kill all but the crows".

The city of Hargeisa was virtually destroyed during intense and pitiless bombardment. Many thousands of people were killed or driven into exile. Barre's soldiers, meanwhile, tortured and murdered as many as 50,000 others - most of them civilians - and buried their bodies in mass graves. Now, as those who still live in this region try to secure their future, some feel those past agonies should be re-examined and those responsible held to account.

In this exclusive two-part investigation, People and Power meets a community coming to terms with the horrors of the past and joins forces with a group of forensic investigators and human rights activists attempting to bring an alleged war criminal, Yusuf Abdi Ali, also known as Colonel Tukeh, to account.



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Auto industry insiders were stunned when Caresoft, a highly regarded engineering consulting firm, tore down BYD's mass-market EV, the Seagull.

Priced around $11,000, the engineers found the Seagull to be well-designed, user friendly, rich with options, and of surprisingly high quality and reliability.

The US automakers reacted swiftly, and produced reports insisting that BYD's entrance into US car markets would be met with strong enthusiasm from buyers, and legacy carmakers would be unable to survive.

Because of the Seagull's low price point, US tariffs of 25% would be irrelevant: BYD could still make high profits even after the tariffs were paid. Or, BYD could simply place final assembly plants in Mexico and avoid them altogether. Aware of this, the Biden Administration in May jacked the tariffs up to 100%, and announced that Chinese car plants even in tariff treaty countries would be cut off from US markets.

Correction: I was wrong when I said that EV's are lighter. Apologies. I was working with three sets of notes, and the changes didn't make it over in the final draft. It was my fault. Cheers. Kw

Resources and links:

American Test Of $11,500 BYD Seagull: 'This Doesn't Come Across Cheap'
https://insideevs.com/news/710....364/byd-detroit-impo

On a collision course: China's existential threat to America's auto industry and its route through Mexico
https://www.americanmanufactur....ing.org/wp-content/u

CNBC, Why a small China-made EV has global auto execs and politicians on edge
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/2....2/byd-seagull-ev-put

American Test Of $11,500 BYD Seagull: 'This Doesn't Come Across Cheap'
https://insideevs.com/news/710....364/byd-detroit-impo
5 takeaways from Biden's tariff hikes on Chinese electric vehicles

NPR, 5 Takeaways from Biden's new tariffs on Chinese cars
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14..../1251096758/biden-ch

Associated Press, Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry
https://apnews.com/article/chi....na-byd-auto-seagull-

Forbes, China’s Seagull Leads The Way In Cheap, Well-Made Electric Cars
https://www.forbes.com/sites/j....oshmax/2024/05/14/ch

Caresoft Global, company page
www.caresoftglobal.com

BYD’s new Seagull EV shocks the industry
https://electrek.co/2024/03/22..../byds-new-ev-startin

Closing scene, Harbor, Hainan Province

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A mobile phone is sold every 57 seconds meaning that there are now more mobile phones on the planet than toothbrushes. We investigated the shameful secrets of the multinationals who produce our mobile phones. They are the big winners of the mobile revolution as their profits explode but what is the human and environmental cost in the production countries of China and the Congo?
We bring exclusive footage from inside Chinese factories where scores of children are working long hours under arduous conditions. The multinationals claim they are doing all they can, but these shocking images say otherwise. In Africa the mines that retrieve minerals essential to components in our smartphones are dangerous and unregulated. Injuries and deaths occur regularly amongst workers just desperate to support their families. Whilst in China the environmental damage has scarred the landscape, emptied a village and possibly caused severe illness among the population.
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Whether you're a believer or non-believer, when confronting bible slavery, don't let anyone throw up this ridiculous smokescreen that says that the slavery instituted in the old testament was so completely different to, say, pre-civil war US slavery.

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The usual tactic is to throw facts and rules about Israelite indentured servitude around, to throw you off the scent of a Yahweh-mandated form of slavery EVERY BIT as bad as anything we've seen in recent centuries. This line of argument is so prevalent that I'm confused as to whether its proponents actually believe it or not; but either way, this video is my attempt to inject a bit of reality into this very important area of discussion.
The god of the bible mandated oppressive life-long slavery of foreigners - pretty much a concise description of one of the worst forms of human rights abuses the world has ever had to grapple with. It's as simple as that.
No, I don't hate God for mandating slavery, and no I don't believe that God is evil for mandating slavery. I don't believe that THIS god, the absurd god of the bible, is even extant, let alone worthy of any adjectives beyond that! This god's inhumane and ridiculously cruel commands say nothing about the god that they are ascribed to, simply because they are so obviously ascribed to a god by the men in whose image this god was made.
Deal with it folks; your god is the brainchild of some particularly awful humans. The bible simply and clearly gets this very easy human rights question utterly wrong.
Abandon it, and keep looking for answers. You'll be ever so glad you did.


Thanks to Tim R. for coding the English subtitle track.

Thanks to those who responded to my blog post requesting help with reading materials. Special thanks to Dr. B Cargill (Asst Prof. of Classics and Religious Studies, UOI) for valuable guidance in the final stages of writing, and for the "job creators" line!

Amongst other sources I used:

Avalos, H. (2011) "Slavery, Abolitionism and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship: Reflections about Ethical Deflections"
Accessed Dec 2012 at http://www.bibleinterp.com/art....icles/ava358013.shtm

Copan, P. (2011) "Does the Old Testament Endorse Slavery? An Overview". Enrichment, Spring 2011

Jewish Virtual Library. (2008) "Slavery: Biblical Law"
Accessed January 2012 at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrar....y.org/jsource/judaic

Path Of The Beagle (blog) has an informative series on Bible slavery, starting here:
http://pathofthebeagle.com/201....1/09/10/invitation-t

Unbelievable? Episode: "Does the Bible condone slavery?" 19 June, 2010.Debate: David Instone-Brewer, vs. Bob Price. Moderator: Justin Brierley
Accessed and available via iTunes podcast.

Deem, R (2011) "Does God Approve of Slavery According to the Bible?"
http://www.godandscience.org/a....pologetics/slavery_b

Section 1 of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution reads:
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

I had to leave out "male and female" in my recounting of Lev 25:45-47; I had a gag about Yahweh being an equal-opportunity enslaver but it got taken out along the way, and it flowed within the video much better with that left out.
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Ghana made an announcement about automobile manufacturer -Toyota - setting up an assembly plant in the country, and this got a lot of people talking. From our business desk, we had Nasiri Agbalaya speak on the effects of this on the economy of Ghana and West Africa at large.
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Bla Xit family this is a Bla Xit message with a difference. I am adding information below about his project which sounds excellent. Please remember to please share, smash the like button and comment down below. This is what he had to say:

I am really good at non-verbal communication as opposed to a direct one. I have a good heart and felt that I have a calling to use technology to help out in this turn of the century. You can say that if there is one thing I understand: It will be technology. More especially making software and hardware come together. I am African born and I have been living in the USA for a very long time. I have a plan to move back to Africa in the next 5-7 years we are proud of Africa. I carried out an interesting research and challenged the best of the best with my findings. None responded to the challenge. I was able to reverse engineer the current status quo PKI (symmetric and asymmetric) and developed a new encryption standard for anyone who wants to use it. I have also entered for 3 patents in the USA:End-point to end-point cryptographic system for cloud, internet of things and mobile devices (ECSMID)This is just data security (2048 bits of data encryption) for all mobile, pc, cloud machines and internet of things.Industrial Internet encryption system (IIES)The is high encryption (2048 bits) for standalone system and hardware like MCU, IoT and cyber physical to prop security of industry 2.0Distributed ledger system for electronic transaction (DLSeT)This standard has 2048 bits encryption which can be applied to protocols use for building emerging market internet and digital currency . The idea is to protect the information in the region used and prop smart cities defense against parametric footprints left in headers and metadata of users. Again it will also extend and replace the status quo (crypto currency) which requires mining, centralization and open to 51% or sybil attack.Now that all these are done, it is imperative that you and all other African descent know about this. Let me be inspired by all and inspire the young generation to carry the baton in further research. The new Africa must have a ‘Great Sahara-Firewall ‘ to guide its data so that our life in the continent will not be predictive as the one we live here. I have re-engineered the encryption to wrap around all internet communication of a secure continent.This is the harbinger of what must come to past. I am done with empirically creating the awareness effortlessly among the oppressors who ignores the potency for fear it will disembowel the ban-aid empire of cyber security here in. I am sorry I was a poor communication in the past. My aim is to do better as I excel with respect to my roots.I called on Bla Xit family to get the attention of the African testers and developers in joining the task force of researching, implementing and deploying this contribution. My wish is to build something that an African team can stay proud off. We must build with our hands to become relevant. Something we can rely on to protect us. https://github.com/jumezurike/....backend-master-lokdo have established ICO-HUBI to support the unification and/or merging of indigenous technology into a center of innovation. I have also created the documents with local attorney to allow diasporas to join in this effort. Any African descent who plans to bring their business to African, can join ICO-HUBI to gain bargaining power and operate before CAC registration in Nigeria. By so doing We can be viable and stronger to build an ecosystem of technology. As a result of lack governmental help this is necessary to keep the indigenous technology withing the continent. This principle could duplicated anywhere in Africa too.ICO-HUBI has 3 companies to date:Lokdon Legtech (solving legal issue with technology)BVI Media (Put to scope the local events)OVUS Electric (power generation and robotics) We need at least 7 more indigenous tech business esin order to fully establish the ecosystem.We are doing the best we can to help these wasting talents in the best way possible. I am building an application with our cryptographic technology to facilitate the funding for all these. https://www.lokdon.com/documentation. There is the preview of what I am working on. This will allow them to raise funds on their own from diaspora.I will add anyone (developers) interested as a contributor as long as they understand programming languages like c/c++, java, python, c# etc,.. More so, we kindly request 1000 testers from your channel who will help us with the much needed testing of the new Lokdon$ application. We will compensate these with 6 months free use of the application’ premium features.1. Crowdfunding2. Encrypted SMS and payments3. Secure eWallet4. Secure individual cloud storage5. Secure business cloud storage If you could help Josiah please get in contact with Blaxithome@gmail.com

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The Gullah Geechee language is spoken by descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to the coastal South. Now, the language is being taught at Harvard University.

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