At Disney World’s Epcot Center in sunny Orlando, Florida, crowds of well-fed, smiling children and their parents dressed in bright summer cottons, crowd into the Universe of Energy attraction. There, surrounded by a dizzying array of special effects, they are treated to “Ellen’s Energy Adventure,” featuring a very young Ellen Degeneres and Bill Nye the Science Guy, who take them on a tour of the wonderful world of energy – a crowd-pleasing experience complete with life-like dinosaurs.
A world away in the jungles of Sumatra in Indonesia, a bone-thin family of Aceh natives squat inside their tiny hut clad in worn rags, waiting to eat their meager midday meal. Suddenly, Indonensian soldiers burst through the door screaming “Where are the men? “ They are looking for members of GAM (Gerakan Aceh Merdeka, the freedom movement). There is a terrified scream as one of the men seizes a tiny baby from the arms of its mother. He dashes the child to the ground outside the hut. In an act of hideous brutality, he pours the boiling water used to prepare the family dinner over the screaming child. No one is allowed to go to the baby’s aid. The next day at sunrise, after the soldiers have left, the baby dies. What do these two seemingly unrelated and grossly different scenarios have in common? They were both “sponsored” by Exxon. MORE ON http://www.country-liberal-party.com/pages/Pan-Americanism.htm
