{"id":239,"date":"2007-03-01T23:17:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T14:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombathole.com\/dili-gence\/?p=239"},"modified":"2007-03-01T23:17:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T14:17:16","slug":"the-fan-is-blowing-brown-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"The fan is blowing brown again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been heating up across the board.\u00a0 I will list what I think is fueling the current trouble :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the death of 2 Timorese at the airport IDP camp on Friday<\/li>\n<li>Major Alfredo&#8217;s actions at the border posts and subsequent stand-off with the ISF<\/li>\n<li>the apparent support by the local Same population for Alfredo<\/li>\n<li>media reports here that cover the entire spectrum of statistical possibilities for describing the background to an event<\/li>\n<li>the rice shortage<\/li>\n<li>the Presidential election politicking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Australian government has raised their travel advice to LEVEL 5 which must be getting close to &#8220;please leave&#8221;.\u00a0 I received a message from a mate who received a message from a work colleague suggesting a major bust-up in the Delta 4 area tonight and some more trouble in Bairo Pite.\u00a0 I have heard the tell-tale sounds of choppers to the west as Delta 4 is just to the east of the Comorro River a few kms inland.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I heard a gunshot earlier but I dismissed it as nothing at the time.\u00a0 At night-time, there is almost no noise at all in Dili (except in a power cut) and with the roads deserted, a gunshot sound could travel a long distance.\u00a0 I know the chopper sound does.<\/p>\n<p>A dead give-away of trouble was the fact the day guards at the compound did not go home and are staying the night.\u00a0 This has not happened in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Notes :<\/p>\n<p>ISF &#8211; International Stabilisation Force (I was calling it Security not Stabilisation)<br \/>\nSame pronounced &#8220;sarm-ay&#8221; not &#8220;s&#8217;may&#8221; or\u00a0 &#8220;saym&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been heating up across the board.\u00a0 I will list what I think is fueling the current trouble : the death of 2 Timorese at the airport IDP camp on Friday Major Alfredo&#8217;s actions at the border posts and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/?p=239\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dili-gence.wombathole.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}