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4Jul06

06 January 2007

Gerald Ford, Ethiopia, William Holden, corn ethanol

bobharris
And in 1975, Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger gave Indonesia's dictator, Suharto (who was primarily armed by the US, and who had risen to power in a massive bloodbath), the green light to invade East Timor. According to the existing records, once this small matter was settled, they then discussed how Indonesia could make more money from oil.
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Of the estimated population of 700,000, up to 100,000 people were killed in the first year. Amnesty International put the eventual death toll from the Indonesian occupation at about 200,000.


bilegrip
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..a three-month basic infantry skills course offered by the U.S. military at the sprawling Ethiopian Training Academy in Hurso.
“They are very good, these techniques that they are teaching us,” Wonderfraw said through an interpreter. “I appreciate everything they are teaching us, especially the ambush. They instruct us on how to establish it and provide security. The ambush is very interesting for me.”

Troops attached to the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa have been training Ethiopian soldiers in basic infantry tactics, officer logistics and maintenance since 2003, when the U.S. government identified the East African country as an ally in its global war on terror. Similar training programs are ongoing in Djibouti and Kenya.

During the late seventies, Ford and his best friend William Holden had planned to reteam for a third film, a Western entitled "Dime Novel".

Why I thought a couple of years ago that William Holden was still alive, I reckon I had confused him with Glen Ford, who was alive until 2006
William Holden The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955) somehow defined Hollywood machismo for my childhood mind.
South Pacific 1958 featured neither, but cemented Orientalist imagery in my junior imagination.

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the names of Hell

nytimes
January 5, 2007
..the new study by the EPI.. found that the number of ethanol plants coming on line has been underreported by more than 25 percent by both the Agriculture Department and the Renewable Fuels Association
The EPI says that 79 ethanol plants are under construction, which would more than double ethanol production capacity to 11 billion gallons by 2008. Yet late last month, the Renewable Fuels Association said there were 62 plants under construction.
..third-largest crop in 2006 of 10.7 billion bushels.
..prices of corn soaring to record $4 a bushel ..farmers are expected to plant 85 million acres of corn this year, an increase of 8 percent over 2006 ..
..116 ethanol plants in production, and the 79 under construction, at least 200 more ethanol plants, with a capacity of 3 billion gallons a year, are in the planning stages.
ethanol distilleries now running or in the works will pull 139 million tons of corn from the 2008 corn harvest, according to the Earth Policy Institute. ..
.. over half of the projected 2008 corn harvest of about 11 billion bushels.


nybooks
Against the Day - longish review

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05 January 2007

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Olongapo IMG_0715, originally uploaded by Giordano Bruno.

Louisa

03 January 2007

Saddam, Bangkok, VFA

"Ashadu an la ilaha ila Allah, wa ashhadu ana Mohammedun rasool Allah…"
"Heya hay il marjala…?"
A tremendous slap in the face for the Ba'athists, a crude insult. Just when USA|Maliki was making noises about reconciliations with the Sunni.
Such crudity is the hallmark of the "Salvador Option"
Death squads at the highest level.
I can only agree with riverbend, that USA intends chaos in Iraq.
I tend to think that USA wants to kill 1000 of its own troops per year, partly to cow and brutalise its home population. People may vote whichever way they like, but Empire will continue to grind its grotesque folly. Electricity is out in Baghdad, New Orleans and Bagong Silang this week. Empires that fail will fall, but how gruesome will be the damage?


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riverbend
This last year has nearly everyone convinced that that was the plan right from the start. There were too many blunders for them to actually have been, simply, blunders. The ‘mistakes’ were too catastrophic. The people the Bush administration chose to support and promote were openly and publicly terrible- from the conman and embezzler Chalabi, to the terrorist Jaffari, to the militia man Maliki. The decisions, like disbanding the Iraqi army, abolishing the original constitution, and allowing militias to take over Iraqi security were too damaging to be anything but intentional.

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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/12/30/the-farce-goes-on/
Barbara O'Brien disagrees:
Thomas Ricks’s book Fiasco, however, reveals the Bush Administration to be something like a perfect storm of utter incompetence. I have no doubt the plan, at least in Bush’s mind, was to have a glorious little war, kick Saddam’s ass, and go home to a victory parade.

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axisoflogic
The execution of the President. "The execution of President Saddam Hussein would be a grave war crime imputable under international law"
By Abdul Ilah Albayaty, Ian Douglas, Hana Albayaty, Dirk Adriaensens, Inge Van De Merlen, Brussels Tribunal Dec 29, 2006, 21:01

- can this snuff movie be part of Empire's plan to rid the world of Habeus Corpus?
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axisoflogic
Saddams Execution : The western anti war movement - the left boot of imperialism?
By Kola Odetola with Introduction by Les Blough
Dec 30, 2006, 05:15

Bombings in Bangkok
It was only a matter of time before bombs came to Bangkok.
It may become like London in the 70s
I recall drinking in a London pub in 79, just after Neave had got his bomb (in the House of Commons car park?) the Irish drinkers raised a joyous chant "Airy Neave, Airy Neave"
The Irish damned near got Maggie Thatcher, they had explosives in her hotel bedroom wall, but the Iron Lady doesnt sleep, she was on the crapper and survived.
If it is Southern Islamists behind the bombs, Bangkok may become an edgier place.
Still a great town.
Avoid the restaurant in Khao San where the menues are in Hebrew. Lots of young Israelis with huge backpacks. Mostly just released from military service. Not a safe place

RP hands USA soldier over to USA Embassy
But Ursua said on Monday: "We all have differing interpretations of the VFA, but in our legal system, in our rule of law, our courts have the final say and under our law, each prisoner is under the jurisdiction of the court.

"Nobody can jail a person and nobody can release a person from detention if there is no court order. That is a very basic rule in our law."
A rather dodgy trial, still one hates to see a nation suborned.
NYT mentions search engines
Powerset "questions in plain English"
Hakiaa “natural language” search engine
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and video sites
Stickam
Dailymotion
LiveLeak, based in London.. reality-based fare like footage of Iraq battle scenes


liveleak
A Shia IED disposes of a humvee

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