November 10, 2006
The Guardian - Vast property has tennis courts and golf course
- Population in poverty despite $3bn oil revenue For a man paid less than £3,000 a month, the 16 acres of mansion, designer golf course and sprawling gardens speckled with fountains in Malibu was quite a buy. The views of the ocean alone - never mind the 15,000 sq ft mansion with eight bathrooms, a pool and tennis courts - probably accounted for a good chunk of the $35m (£18m) asking price. But then Teodoro Nguema Obiang's modest salary as a minister in his father's government in Equatorial Guinea is largely symbolic, just like the elections in which his father is returned to power with 97% of the vote and the distribution of oil revenues in a country with one of the highest per capita incomes on Earth but some of the poorest people. Comment: Notice that the corrupt regime in Equatorial Guinea and the poverty of its people despite the oil riches, would not be possible with the corrupt US oil companies and the corrupt US governments with which they are closely allied. Ever wondered why America has always been "great", the "richest nation on earth", here's your answer - through the exploitation of much of the rest of the world.
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Friday November 10, 2006
Ian Black Guardian Unlimited Saddam Hussein has never met a Congolese militia chief named Thomas Lubanga, who is currently being detained in The Hague. Nor has the deposed Iraqi president been to the Netherlands or to the blood-stained Congolese region of Ituri, any more than Mr Lubanga has spent time in Baghdad or Kurdistan. But there is a link between these two men and the places where they are notorious that highlights the complex and sensitive issue of punishing the perpetrators of the world's worst crimes.
Mr Lubanga, a former leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots, is in the dock at the international criminal court, where a pre-trial hearing is now under way to test the evidence against him of recruiting child soldiers, some as young as 10, and forcing them to kill and mutilate his enemies. If charges are pressed, the ICC's first prosecution will begin within weeks. Conviction could mean a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. |
AP
Fri Nov 10, 2006 HOUSTON - Texas has awarded more than $450,000 to a man who was exonerated by DNA evidence after spending 18 years in prison for a sexual assault conviction.
Arthur Mumphrey was released from prison in January after his lawyer found DNA evidence clearing him in the rape of a 13-year-old girl. Mumphrey had been sentenced in 1986 to 35 years in prison. |
by Deborah Cole
AFP Nov 8, 2006 Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that Berlin would make the fight against global warming a centerpiece of its European Union presidency and press the United States to join the effort. In a speech at the German Council on Foreign Relations ahead of Berlin assuming the six-month presidency of the bloc in January, Merkel said the EU must lead the charge on climate protection even against US resistance.
"There should be no false modesty," Merkel said. "We must make it clear to our American partners that the approach to energy must be sustainable." |
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