Regent, Duke Divinity, Baylor: they’re bona fide trenchmouthed, snake-handling, inbred rollers from the bible belt. They can’t enslave ’em any more so they try to get ’em down on their knees to an imaginary massa. These trypanosomes infest the fucking continent, making sure the next war will be a religious war. I love to see that astonished look on their cyanotic severed heads.

Posted by: …—… | Feb 2 2009 21:41 utc | 3

http://www.middle-east-online.com/ENGLISH/?id=30160
and
http://www.africanleadership.org/

Posted by: outsider | Feb 2 2009 22:03 utc | 5

Africa’s revenge:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200902020470.html

Posted by: outsider | Feb 2 2009 22:24 utc | 7

that was me w/ the second comment
recommended outside reading material on sudan / darfur
THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA: Darfur–Intervention and the USA

This meticulously-researched work gives the history of Sudan, and especially the Darfur region, in relation to U.S. and Western objectives, discussing, at length, the immensely harmful role the U.S. played in Sudan in the 70s and 80s through Washington’s support of repressive regimes in Khartoum.
Alongside this, some of the more dubious aspects of the Save Darfur Movement in the U.S. is examined, such as the sidelining of Muslim and Sudanese voices, the lobbying for questionable goals, and the perceived support of the Bush administration’s policy objectives. Considering, in the end, how activists concerned with playing a positive role might engage the movement.
Finally, the authors also assess the analysis presented of the Darfur conflict by those on the radical left and evaluate the merits of their opposition to the use of UN peacekeepers on anti-imperial grounds.

the book is more footnotes than text, thus frustrating to read since you have to continuously flip back & forth, but it is a good primer on the u.s. in darfur
and mahmood mamdani’s new book, due in march
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror

From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis.
In Saviors and Survivors, Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987—89) between nomadic and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a severe drought that had expanded the Sahara Desert by more than sixty miles in forty years; how British colonial officials had artificially tribalized Darfur, dividing its population into “native” and “settler” tribes and creating homelands for the former at the expense of the latter; how the war intensified in the 1990s when the Sudanese government tried unsuccessfully to address the problem by creating homelands for tribes without any. The involvement of opposition parties gave rise in 2003 to two rebel movements, leading to a brutal insurgency and a horrific counterinsurgency–but not to genocide, as the West has declared.
Mamdani also explains how the Cold War exacerbated the twenty-year civil war in neighboring Chad, creating a confrontation between Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi (with Soviet support) and the Reagan administration (allied with France and Israel) that spilled over into Darfur and militarized the fighting. By 2003, the war involved national, regional, and global forces, including the powerful Western lobby, who now saw it as part of the War on Terror and called for a military invasion dressed up as “humanitarian intervention.”
Incisive and authoritative, Saviors and Survivors will radically alter our understanding of the crisis in Darfur.

here’s a very good essay excerpted from the book at the nation
The New Humanitarian Order

Posted by: b real | Feb 2 2009 22:27 utc | 9

Weatherford got kicked out of Sudan. Those in-kind contributions are common when organizations leave in a hurry – somebody just says to their expat friends come and get it, because fixed assets are fully depreciated after a couple months of dust storms and nothing much is worth shipping home. Looks more adventitious than sinister in this case. About the cash, who knows, presumably they had a safe too and you can’t embezzle more than $10K per head back through customs.

Posted by: …—… | Feb 2 2009 22:53 utc | 11

& if the world was not so violent – some of it’s cruel would be funny, funny as hell. god tv loyal to it christian zionism & also to its scams & frauds – ginding even newer ways to screw people – were scamming money with 1,000,000 trees for israel – some fevered idea of one of their publicists i imagine – their gospel of prosperity goes well with guns – just like ol’ time religion

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Feb 2 2009 23:31 utc | 13

bill #10 wiki

Sudan controversy
Weatherford International Ltd. was identified, by the Sudan Divestment Task Force (SDTF), as one of the “HIGHEST OFFENDERS” in the quarterly “The Sudan Company Report” dated August 31, 2007.
As of April 11, 2008, The SDTF has removed Weatherford International from the Sudan Company Report and states: “Weatherford International Limited (United States)—company withdrew from Sudan in March 2008, and has donated its in-country equipment and provided additional equipment, supplies, and funding to Thirst No More, a humanitarian organization operating in Sudan.”
A Dubai-based subsidiary of Weatherford International Ltd. has operated within Sudan, although United States sanctions forbid US companies from operating in the country, foreign based subsidiaries are permitted to do business there.[2] In September 2007 Weatherford announced that it would cease operating in countries sanctioned by the United States.

more

It is still unclear whether Weatherford was operating illegally in Sudan (Commerce and Treasury officials are investigating whether the company broke sanctions regulations). The company used a loophole in U.S. sanctions laws – used also until recently by Halliburton (HAL, Fortune 500) in Iran – which allows U.S. companies to operate in embargoed countries, so long as no U.S. citizens are involved, and it operates under a foreign subsidiary. Weatherford’s Khartoum operation was part of its Dubai subsidiary Weatherford Oil Tool Middle East – one of hundreds of Weatherford entities – and was run by an Egyptian citizen. When Fortune visited the office last July its staff insisted it had no connection with the U.S. company, despite using Weatherford’s red logo and posting photographs of Houston executives on its wall.
For Weatherford – a $6.5 billion company – the Khartoum operation was too marginal to risk the bad publicity, first in Fortune, and after that from the Washington-based Sudan Divestment Task Force, which placed the company on its worst-offenders list. “It was apparent it was not popular,” says Burt Martin. “We decided to focus on business which was not a distraction.”
The move has transformed Weatherford’s image among activists from bogey to good corporate citizen. The Task Force’s advocacy associate Max Croes says Weatherford’s decision to withdraw from Sudan and donate to Darfur relief “has been one of the best success stories involving a corporation.” Unlike drilling for hydrocarbons, no one can complain about water gushing out of the ground.

Posted by: annie | Feb 3 2009 1:55 utc | 15

they are Baptists, dear Watson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_General_Convention_of_Texas

Posted by: outsider | Feb 3 2009 11:19 utc | 17

“”It is registered to one Craig Miller under a PO box in Briggs, Texas””
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http://www.charity-charities.org/charityinfo.php?ID=322053&page=1
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CRAIG MILLER EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
PO BOX 370
BRIGGS, TX, 78608-0370
Contact: CRAIG MILLER
Employee Identification Number: 710774001
Foundation Type: Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public.
Activity: Described in section 170(b)1)(a)(vi) of the Code.
Activity: Evangelism
Organization Type: Corporation
Asset Amount: $141,004
Income Amount: $2,381,195
Form 990 Revenue Amount: $2,329,778
Organization Type: Religion Related, Spiritual Development N.E.C.

Posted by: Dede | Feb 3 2009 14:38 utc | 19

they are scam merchants who are also engaged in a political project which has its roots, its contemporary roots – in the gospel of prosperity. mostly their aid is nothing of a kind – it is a cover mostly to seed more money from its public(s) & to try to annexe space that would be normally taken by genuine ngo’s. they are scoundrels & are at the very opposite pole from what was once called liberation theology. the very opposite

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Feb 4 2009 0:14 utc | 21

Thanks esp. Fred – good work – the Sudanese government is right to throw such bums out. I wonder how many more are there.

Posted by: b | Feb 4 2009 6:38 utc | 23