Mark_it_8_dude: China is using the same evil tactics in northeast Africa. The gave a pittance to some of the countries to do mining and install railroads, plus China keeps all the mined resources. And here again, rather than employing local labor to build the railroad and do the mining, China shipped in thousands and thousands of Chinese people to do the work. So the locals don't have any jobs from it. Whatsmore, China's communist government is using all its people it injected into the countries to affect local elections to steer property laws their way. If you keep digging in these disgusting real world problems, China's government ALWAYS is involved.
They face SO many life challenges from sexual diseases, insect diseases, wars of ignorance and hatred, ignorance on how to do agriculture and cultivate their own land... The government should have the oil drilling companies in exchange also drill water wells, and with any money they get they should purchase and distribute those portable water filtration devices for their citizens.
12 days ago
Veevs: whats the song at the beginning lol the arabic one i like it haha weird ight
GlobalJas: I spent a year in Sudan. This is a good documentary. Of course it is easy for me to pick out the things I felt were a bit overboard, untrue or just no right. For example the attire for the Meroe Pyramids and the introduction in Khartoum. Not sure when you were there, but it was quite easy to get around. there were many "westerners" around there. Mainly UN and other NGO's of course. I heard the same thing about he oil. I was also told Darfur is what it is today because of the land and soil it has, but also because they helped the South. They used it as a stagging area to go against the North. I can go on all day about Sudan. It is a world of its own for sure.
about 1 month ago
CanDMan: Shane, as a precaution, do you send your tapes out of country as you shoot? What precautions do you take to make sure the footage 'gets out' and that if you are picked up, at least some of the footage 'gets out'?
about 1 month ago
kiko_55: another great post on the sad state of affairs in africa. your liberia videos have been pretty amazing, and this one is just as shocking/sad. have you guys ever thought of doing a documentary about angola? i visited about half a dozen countries in sub-saharan africa when i was in the navy a few years ago, and angola was hands down the worst. i'm sure there's some interesting and undiscovered stories there.
about 1 month ago
mchambers: I was there in the Chevron era (1977). It looked about the same as it does now. I made a friend at the Chevron commissary/canteen in Kadugli servicing the oil camps; the town had only beans and peanut oil to offer (just what you need when you've had the runs for 6 weeks), but the Texans in the canteen were eating Cheerios, Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee, Campbell's soup and steak, and clearly not a dime entered the local economy. The only weapons I saw were the occasional Dinka or Shilluk spear on the way south, and security was never an issue, though the uneasiness was hard to miss. I had no idea at the time that the oil and money had not really started to flow and that decades of real conflict were just around the corner. Thanks for your reporting. I agree with MikealKizza, but I appreciate your honest expression of vulnerability...
about 1 month ago
Mark_it_8_dude: How would a dime enter the local economy? What goods would the local people sell? The country's government received money for letting other countries use their land, but honestly where would a government start with people that have SO many problems?
They face SO many life challenges from sexual diseases, insect diseases, wars of ignorance and hatred, ignorance on how to do agriculture and cultivate their own land... The government should have the oil drilling companies in exchange also drill water wells, and with any money they get they should purchase and distribute those portable water filtration devices for their citizens.
12 days ago
MikealKizza: Shane, the kids in the madrasa were more curious than hateful. Keep up the good work guys!
about 1 month ago
steve77: What you saw was a minute or so of edited material. Shane preumably spent quite a bit more time than that in the madrasa. I'll trust his perception over the viewers in most cases because he was there.
about 1 month ago
listenn2slayer: funny to see a suicidal tendencies shirt in sudan
anonymous: you fucking politically correct fucks are the ones that need terrorizing. shut up, no one said anything about terrorists until you got here.
11 months ago
anonymous: Where does he call them possible terrorists? Oh, I get it, that’s just automatically implied because he’s weirded out by people whose only education consists of intensive religious indoctrination. If he’d been touring the compound of a Fundamentalist Christian sect compound and made the same remarks, would you be up in arms for the implication that they’re all a bunch of McVeighs in training?
11 months ago
anonymous: It’s funny how he choses the opening scenes to be rebels with weapons...
There is very little security, etc. in khartoum.
11 months ago
anonymous: So let me get this straight.....This white guy goes to Sudan and pretends he understands the country? In segment 1 he potrays the Muslims as possible terrorists b.c. the young study only the Quran. Even though they are orphans and have been brought into a safer communitery than Darfur.
I am white and American and have been to Sudan, this January actually. I have prayed in dozens of mosques, met both poor and rich. I have seen Southerners, met Darfuris, so if anyone wants better information contact me.
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Mark_it_8_dude: China is using the same evil tactics in northeast Africa. The gave a pittance to some of the countries to do mining and install railroads, plus China keeps all the mined resources. And here again, rather than employing local labor to build the railroad and do the mining, China shipped in thousands and thousands of Chinese people to do the work. So the locals don't have any jobs from it. Whatsmore, China's communist government is using all its people it injected into the countries to affect local elections to steer property laws their way. If you keep digging in these disgusting real world problems, China's government ALWAYS is involved. They face SO many life challenges from sexual diseases, insect diseases, wars of ignorance and hatred, ignorance on how to do agriculture and cultivate their own land... The government should have the oil drilling companies in exchange also drill water wells, and with any money they get they should purchase and distribute those portable water filtration devices for their citizens.
12 days ago
Veevs: whats the song at the beginning lol the arabic one i like it haha weird ight
26 days ago
NEOES: I KNOW. It's fucking stuck in my head!!!!!
10 days ago
MonkeyShade: F*ck profit!
about 1 month ago
GlobalJas: I spent a year in Sudan. This is a good documentary. Of course it is easy for me to pick out the things I felt were a bit overboard, untrue or just no right. For example the attire for the Meroe Pyramids and the introduction in Khartoum. Not sure when you were there, but it was quite easy to get around. there were many "westerners" around there. Mainly UN and other NGO's of course. I heard the same thing about he oil. I was also told Darfur is what it is today because of the land and soil it has, but also because they helped the South. They used it as a stagging area to go against the North. I can go on all day about Sudan. It is a world of its own for sure.
about 1 month ago
CanDMan: Shane, as a precaution, do you send your tapes out of country as you shoot? What precautions do you take to make sure the footage 'gets out' and that if you are picked up, at least some of the footage 'gets out'?
about 1 month ago
kiko_55: another great post on the sad state of affairs in africa. your liberia videos have been pretty amazing, and this one is just as shocking/sad. have you guys ever thought of doing a documentary about angola? i visited about half a dozen countries in sub-saharan africa when i was in the navy a few years ago, and angola was hands down the worst. i'm sure there's some interesting and undiscovered stories there.
about 1 month ago
mchambers: I was there in the Chevron era (1977). It looked about the same as it does now. I made a friend at the Chevron commissary/canteen in Kadugli servicing the oil camps; the town had only beans and peanut oil to offer (just what you need when you've had the runs for 6 weeks), but the Texans in the canteen were eating Cheerios, Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee, Campbell's soup and steak, and clearly not a dime entered the local economy. The only weapons I saw were the occasional Dinka or Shilluk spear on the way south, and security was never an issue, though the uneasiness was hard to miss. I had no idea at the time that the oil and money had not really started to flow and that decades of real conflict were just around the corner. Thanks for your reporting. I agree with MikealKizza, but I appreciate your honest expression of vulnerability...
about 1 month ago
Mark_it_8_dude: How would a dime enter the local economy? What goods would the local people sell? The country's government received money for letting other countries use their land, but honestly where would a government start with people that have SO many problems? They face SO many life challenges from sexual diseases, insect diseases, wars of ignorance and hatred, ignorance on how to do agriculture and cultivate their own land... The government should have the oil drilling companies in exchange also drill water wells, and with any money they get they should purchase and distribute those portable water filtration devices for their citizens.
12 days ago
MikealKizza: Shane, the kids in the madrasa were more curious than hateful. Keep up the good work guys!
about 1 month ago
steve77: What you saw was a minute or so of edited material. Shane preumably spent quite a bit more time than that in the madrasa. I'll trust his perception over the viewers in most cases because he was there.
about 1 month ago
listenn2slayer: funny to see a suicidal tendencies shirt in sudan
about 1 month ago
Constantine05: those kids all look really high
8 months ago
snocapsonballcaps: they were probably all wondering why someone would want to come INTO sudan. most everyone is trying to leave.
8 months ago
speedy: i guess i can check that off the "places to visit before i die" list.
8 months ago
RuralJuror: Go ahead and check off Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, North Korea, and Georgia too.
8 months ago
Wenz: I agree. I've heard nothing good about Atlanta.
8 months ago
speedy: i guess i can check that off the "places to visit before i die" list.
8 months ago
verbatium8: That was mind blowingly good.
8 months ago
anonymous: please i want this song of the dj brains please repair the link please
9 months ago
anonymous: You can smoke glue?
10 months ago
anonymous: you fucking politically correct fucks are the ones that need terrorizing. shut up, no one said anything about terrorists until you got here.
11 months ago
anonymous: Where does he call them possible terrorists? Oh, I get it, that’s just automatically implied because he’s weirded out by people whose only education consists of intensive religious indoctrination. If he’d been touring the compound of a Fundamentalist Christian sect compound and made the same remarks, would you be up in arms for the implication that they’re all a bunch of McVeighs in training?
11 months ago
anonymous: It’s funny how he choses the opening scenes to be rebels with weapons... There is very little security, etc. in khartoum.
11 months ago
anonymous: So let me get this straight.....This white guy goes to Sudan and pretends he understands the country? In segment 1 he potrays the Muslims as possible terrorists b.c. the young study only the Quran. Even though they are orphans and have been brought into a safer communitery than Darfur. I am white and American and have been to Sudan, this January actually. I have prayed in dozens of mosques, met both poor and rich. I have seen Southerners, met Darfuris, so if anyone wants better information contact me.
11 months ago