tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post4540439863051985562..comments2023-09-26T10:06:42.137-04:00Comments on easy bake coven | since 2002: Sudeaux Luxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17083310421645018042noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414689.post-468309271296681122007-09-30T16:27:00.000-04:002007-09-30T16:27:00.000-04:00Some interesting information, much of it from the ...Some interesting information, much of it from the book No Logo by Naomi Klein: <BR/><BR/>While most corporations were forced out of Burma, because of their financing of the brutal junta by American universities and other groups.<BR/><BR/>One company stayed whose single largest foreign investment accounting for half of all foreign investment was a 1.2 billion$ gas line. Which company do you ask?<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Unocal Bushes former oil company and previous employer of Hamid Karzai.<BR/><BR/>Human Rights Watch noted in it's 1997 World Report, "Unocal remained indifferent to protests." With the CEO Roger Beach telling the press "Let me say unequivocally that the only way we will leave is if we are forced to by the enactment of the law. <BR/><BR/>Source: "U.S. Oil Company Vows to Remain in Thai Burmese Pipeline Project" Deutsche Press Agentur 17 June 1997.<BR/><BR/>They even went so far as to be one of the driving forces behind an organization called USAENGAGE made up of the corporations concerned in Burma; whose mission was to suppress any opposition to corporations operating in Burma from within the United States.<BR/><BR/>"If USA*Engage had succeeded with their tactics during the apartheid years, Nelson Mandela might still be in prison," <BR/>- Simon Billeness in Silverstein, "So you want to trade with a dictator." <BR/><BR/>Protests in August 2007 began after the government increased the price of fuel. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7010202.stm<BR/><BR/>You can expect that if anything comes out of GW and Condi it's stinking rotting stench.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com