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101 East - East Timor Oil - Nov 13 - Part 1

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Six years after independence, East Timor is mired in poverty. But it also sits on a future oil and gas boom. But will it be a blessing or a curse?

Fauziah Ibrahim interviews Xanana Gusmao, the East Timor prime minister.

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101 East - East Timor Oil - Nov 13 - Part 1

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  • Hey, I've been to ...

    Hey, I've been to TimorLeste before, & I really love the land, its people & the children, & I just wanna say, there is such hope for Timor to keep progressing. But you guys arguing here on which country is S**t ass & which isn't is not going to help in the progress of Timor one bit. I'm really touched to see how loyal you all are to your nation. But I think what would make more sense is to stand with dignity by your land, & not degrade yourself & not call other people names, for it does no use.

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  • At least Timor is a ...

    At least Timor is a free country! Now all Melanesians have to help them build their country!

    Mena!

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  • Oh!Sorry Big Guy!!! ...

    Oh!Sorry Big Guy!!!-But I don't think my Timorese families will ever want to be colonized by Portuguese "again"!-I was just making sure that you know how we feel about Portuguese!That's all-Peace Out- ^_^

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  • you r just a young ...

    you r just a young punk....i am portuguese and old enough tb your father. I sure do know what it is and how it was.

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  • I think you need to ...

    I think you need to spend a week with Portuguese (just like our grandparents before 1975)-Then you'll know how horrible it was living under Portuguese colonization! YOU IGNORANT BASTARD!

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  • Battle plan for ...

    Battle plan for Timor-Leste:
    - ask Arab Stations for best oil spending strategies
    - get Cuba & China for best strategies to achieve national cohesion
    - ask China to help in extensively dropping the birth rate
    - create a mixture of Cuban primary and German secondary education system
    - ask Singapore for court and criminal sentence system
    - get Germany for development assistance programs
    - DO NOT GET EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY TOO EARLY, IT HAS ALMOST FAILED EVERYWHERE A COUNTRY STARTED FROM SCRATCH

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  • or if u r a bloody ...

    or if u r a bloody natzi germany piece of S**t , I wonder what your bloody devil leader Hitler would say said to you from Hell for considering Indonesia as your Motherland. If u wanna be with Indonesia, then take ur family to there, not Us Timorese people..ok or take your Indonesia Motherland concept and stick it in your bloody Germany ass!!!

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  • Cable TV is run by ...

    Cable TV is run by Republicans. You will never get Aljazeera there. You should really subscribe to Direct Tv or the Dishnetwork.

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  • I'm timorese, ...

    I'm timorese, therefore I know what Indonesia is, It just a group of some bigs and smalls island and nations controled by javanese centralised type of administration full of rubish leadrship and corruption and unworthy human resourches!!!

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  • You should have not ...

    You should have not said this dude, you were given oportunity to interview my leaders and welcome in East Timor. You are such a piece of ignorant S**t dude. If you are an indonesian, look at your country now, it is just a piece of S**t in the world order, nobody count on your country mate, your country is not like china which is considered important to world order or like India which is the potential next superpower along with China and Russia!

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  • Oysters, Thank You, ...

    Oysters, Thank You, well put.

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  • For your ...

    For your information, East Timor did fine until the US funded invasion and genocide by Indonesia. If you somehow think that these people deserve that, or think that their poverty is their own fault, you know F**k all. This is pure American imperialism. They took it, denied it democracy, and then pretended it didn't happen. Given your comment here, I doubt you can offer a serious rebuke.

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  • As for a different ...

    As for a different prospective I welcome that you want to hear news from other nations like this you can do this on line stuff or you can go old school and use a short wave radio you can find schedules by searching short wave radio they tell you the frequency and the time to listen you can also get a radio that records the program. Good thing to learn how to do since that medium is global and free. All you need is a few solar rechargeable batteries and you are never out of touch.

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  • a retard country ...

    a retard country that should have never been cut off from the Motherland Indonesia ...stop creating this stupid micro states who will never stand on their feet and will end up in civil wars or living out of international charity

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  • return East Timor ...

    return East Timor to Portugal

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