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Originally Posted by wow
East Timor's blood, Australia's oil.
Today, East Timor is the poorest state in Asia. It could be one of the wealthiest. The reason is oil.
by Jeffrey Smith and David Webster August 25, 2003
Four years ago this month, East Timor voted for independence following a quarter-century of brutal foreign occupation. Invaded and occupied by Indonesia in 1975, it finally took its place as the first independent state of the new century. Whether that independence will be secure depends on an economic question: who will control the offshore oil of the Timor Sea?
Today, East Timor is the poorest state in Asia. It could be one of the wealthiest. The reason is oil: billions of barrels in untapped reserves in the Timor Sea. But the ownership of that oil is in dispute. The international community once again holds the key to East Timor's fate.
One of the main countries that sold out East Timor in the past is Australia. Today it is doing much the same thing in a battle over ownership of East Timor's offshore oil.
Petroleum revenues, says East Timor's Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri, “will finance our future and allow us to wean ourselves gradually from the generosity of international donors.” The country's budget now relies heavily on foreign aid. Oil offers a way out: offshore reserves in the Timor Sea are worth as much as $30-billion (U.S.) over the next 30 years. East Timor need not continue to be the poorest country in Asia, a ward of donor states; it can be self-sufficient based on wise use of oil revenues.
But the power to decide lies not in East Timor, but in Australia. And Australia is playing hardball with its smaller neighbour. “We are very tough,” Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told Alkatiri. “We will not care if you give information to the media. Let me give you a tutorial in politics — not a chance.”
The Aussie arrogance is disgusting and evil.
More reasons to hate Aussies.
The Iraqi people hate Australians for pulling out of Iraq and supporting the Al Qaida.
Aussies have ruined their reputation around the world and are hated.
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No, it's
worse than that WoW.
America's lickspittle little Aussie lapdog is guarding YOUR oil from the Indonesians under direct order from Waspington.
Do yourself a favour and acquaint yourself with
some of the facts of the East Timor oil rip-off before you, as usual, uninformedly shoot your mouth off.
Otherwise I totally agree with you. We play a Jack Elam-like deputy sherrif that does the dirty work for the Seppo's in South East Asia and the South Pacific.
I am utterly fucking disgusted how we suck Seppo arse for the miserly leavings from our master's table .