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...have ExxonMobil to thank (or blame) for it. The U.S. giant got hammered by investors following its first-quarter earnings report. Profits were $13 billion, but production was falling. Yet in Canada, Exxon has muscled aside some of its Syncrude partners and parachuted in a new management team to meet aggressive expansion targets. "Everything up here is American, pretty much," says an oil worker earning $130,000 a year, a fairly typical salary in Fort McMurray, which has earned the nickname Fort McMoney because it has the nation's highest average income. The timing seems right for Canada too. Carpenters...
...doesn't dispute the facts, the interviews with Douglas Dalton, Polanski's lawyer, and Roger Gunson, Assistant District Attorney (described in the film as being "37, a Mormon, and the only member of the D.A.'s office who didn't have sex with an underage girl") aptly pin the blame on showboating judge, Laurence J, Rittenband. The film is a fascinating portrait of a artist whose life was stranger than any of his films, and whose sins were minor compared to those committed against...
...angry disillusionment of South Africa's poor has another very visible symptom: some of the world's worst violent crime. South Africa's police have been quick to blame the riots on the same criminals who, every 24 hours, murder an average of 52 people in South Africa. President Thabo Mbeki, whose official residence in Pretoria was burgled in May, has acknowledged the threat inequality presents, but insists his government is bridging the divisions of the past. More than a million new homes have been built since apartheid ended in 1994, and Mbeki has now named a high-level government...
...fighting worsened the humanitarian situation there. Some residents have complained that the Mahdi Army's grip on Sadr City, where U.S. and Iraqi forces previously did not go, has left them struggling to get what little of the basic services are available in the area. "You can't just blame the government for the shortages of services," said Haithem Hamid, another Sadr City resident. "Most of the blame goes to the Mahdi Army, which controls the economy and the social services, even fuel and local contracts. Anyone who defies these people will be harassed...
Arpenti said center-left local leaders share much of the blame in not tackling the problems of trash, unemployment and poor public services. Meanwhile, the mob syndicate in and around Naples, known as the Camorra, has long infiltrated the trash-collection business, turning big profits and creating environmental hazards. For more than a decade, a mix of criminal influence, government inaction and not-in-my-backyard opposition to expansions of landfills have caused on-again, off-again scenes of huge piles of trash in city streets. Estimates are that some 3,500 tons are currently waiting to be cleaned...