Hitler’s Limousine for Sale with Pharoah-Like Curse

Posted by Matt in November 23rd, 2009 | no comment

Published in Off-Topic, Adolf Hitler, Car Expert, Cars For Sale, Cars Sale, Chequered History, Classic Car, Curse, Investor, Limousine For Sale, Mercedes Limousine, Monster, NAZI, News International, Online News, Shell, Spiegel, Spiegel Online

A Russian investor is about to pay millions for a Mercedes limousine believed to have ferried Adolf Hitler. The classic car expert who tracked it down, Michael Fröhlich, has told SPIEGEL ONLINE about its chequered history — and says a pharoah-like curse may be attached to the five-ton monster.
Nazi Cars for Sale: Russian Investor to [...]

How the oil curse went global | Foreign Policy

Posted by Matt in October 19th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Oil, Abandon, Amy Myers, Corruption, Curse, El Gamal, Foreign Policy, Governments, Incentives, Jaffe, Mahmoud, Massive Influx, Middle Eastern Countries, Neighbors, Oil Wealth, Patronage, Receipts, Regional Real Estate, remittances, Sectors, Stock Markets

The resource curse has gone global.
For years, oil wealth was mostly a danger to those, paradoxically, who possessed it. Resource-rich Middle Eastern countries, and their labor-exporting neighbors, failed for decades to invest adequately in their people or to diversify their economies. A massive influx of oil receipts and worker remittances discouraged investment in sectors conducive [...]

Nigeria’s oil curse

Posted by Matt in June 1st, 2009 | no comment

Published in Africa, Oil, African Man, Audience, Blood Diamond, Cinema, Curse, Diamonds, Government Forces, Lagos Nigeria, Laughter, Leonardo Dicaprio, Leonardo Dicaprio Film, Oil Wealth, Old Man, Photos, Rebels, Sierra Leone, Surveys, Vicious Civil War, Violence

The story in photos behind the fight for Nigeria’s oil wealth.
During a scene in the Leonardo DiCaprio film “Blood Diamond,” an elderly African man surveys a village destroyed in Sierra Leone’s vicious civil war and laments the violence tearing his country apart as rebels and government forces fight for control over access to diamonds and [...]

The Curse of Oil Wealth

Posted by Matt in May 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Oil, Caspian Basin, Chad, Conflict, Correlation, Countries In Africa, Curse, Diamonds, East Timor, Internal Strife, minerals, myanmar, Oil And Gas, Oil Wealth, Ross, Southeast Asia, Violence

And the correlation between oil and violence is likely to grow stronger, since as Ross points out, countries in Africa, the Caspian basin, and Southeast Asia will soon become “significant oil and gas exporters. Some of these countries, including Chad, East Timor, and Myanmar, have already suffered internal strife. Most of the rest are poor, [...]