Befürworter wie Kritiker internationaler Handelsabkommen warten derzeit mit Spannung auf den für Ausgang einer Klage der seit 2013 zum australischen OceanaGold-Konzern gehörigen kanadischen Minengesellschaft Pacific Rim gegen den mittelamerikanischen Kleinstaat El Salvador. Von dessen Steuerzahlern will Pacific Rim 301 Millionen US-Dollar Schadensersatz, weil das Land dem Unternehmen den Goldabbau nicht gestatten will.
301 Millionen Dollar – das erscheint in Deutschland nicht wie eine besonders große Summe. Dafür könnte man hierzulande nicht einmal eine halbe Elbphilharmonie bauen. Für die Steuerzahler in El Salvador ist die Summe dagegen beachtlich: Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt des Landes beträgt nämlich nur 24,3 Milliarden Dollar – und der Staatshaushalt umfasst lediglich 4,2 Milliarden Dollar. Da schmerzen auch die sechs Millionen Dollar an Steuergeld, die El Salvador bislang alleine an Prozesskosten aufwenden musste. Zum Vergleich: In Deutschland, wo jährlich 2.737,6 Milliarden Euro erwirtschaftet werden, läge die vergleichbare Forderung bei 33,91 Milliarden Euro.
Im Boden von El Salvador werden trotz intensiver Suche der Konquistadoren noch 1,4 Millionen Unzen Gold vermutet - außerdem beachtliche Mengen an Silber und Kupfer. Allerdings könnte den Bürgern des Landes durch einen Abbau ohne entsprechende Schutzvorschriften langfristig mehr Schaden als Nutzen entstehen: Als es 2008 in San Sebastián wegen solcher Schäden zu einer "Wasserkrise" kam, stoppte der damalige Staatspräsident Antonio Saca die Vergabe neuer Genehmigungen zum Abbau von Bodenschätzen. Dieses de-facto-Moratorium erhielten seine beiden Nachfolger aufrecht.
Das durchkreuzte die Pläne der Firma Pacific Rim, die 2002 die Erlaubnis zur Erkundung der Goldvorkommen El Salvadors bekommen und 2004 eine Genehmigung zum Goldabbau in der Nordprovinz Cabañas beantragt hatte. 2009 verklagte Pacific Rim die salvadorianische Regierung vor dem International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) der Weltbank - und zwar nicht nur auf 77 Millionen Dollar Schadensersatz für die Investitionen zur Erkundung der Vorkommen, sondern zusätzlich auf 234 Dollar wegen entgangener Gewinne.
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Catch-22 (4/10) Movie CLIP - I'm Desperate (1970) HD [2:40]
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Hochgeladen am 23.11.2011
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
When Yossarian (Alan Arkin) is injured, his desperation to leave the military is increased.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing missions, but publicity-obsessed commander Colonel Cathcart (Martin Balsam) and his yes man, Colonel Korn (Henry), keep raising the number of missions that Yossarian and his comrades are required to fly. After Doc Daneeka (Jack Gilford) tells Yossarian that he cannot declare him insane if Yossarian knows that it's insane to keep flying, Yossarian tries to play crazy by, among other things, showing up nude in front of despotic General Dreedle (Orson Welles). As all of Yossarian's initially even-keeled friends, such as Nately (Art Garfunkel) and Dobbs (Martin Sheen), genuinely lose their heads, and the troop's supplies are bartered away for profit by the ultra-entrepreneurial Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight), Yossarian realizes that the whole system has lost it, and he can either play along or jump ship. Though not about Vietnam, Catch-22's ludicrous military machinations directly evoked its contemporary context in the Vietnam era. Cathcart and Dreedle care more about the appearance of power than about victory, and Milo cares for money above all, as the complex narrative structure of Yossarian's flashbacks renders the escalating events appropriately surreal. Confident that the combination of a hot director and a popular, culturally relevant novel would spell blockbuster, Paramount spent a great deal of money on Catch-22, but it wound up getting trumped by another 1970 antiwar farce: Robert Altman's MASH. With audiences opting for Altman's casual Korean War iconoclasm over Nichols' more polished symbolism, the highly anticipated Catch-22 flopped, although the New York Film Critics Circle did acknowledge Arkin and Nichols. Despite this reception, Catch-22's ensemble cast and pungent sensibility effectively underline the insanity of war, Vietnam and otherwise.
CREDITS:
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Cast: Alan Arkin, Anthony Perkins
Director: Mike Nichols
Producers: John Calley, Martin Ransohoff, Clive Reed
Screenwriters: Joseph Heller, Buck Henry
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CLIP DESCRIPTION:
When Yossarian (Alan Arkin) is injured, his desperation to leave the military is increased.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing missions, but publicity-obsessed commander Colonel Cathcart (Martin Balsam) and his yes man, Colonel Korn (Henry), keep raising the number of missions that Yossarian and his comrades are required to fly. After Doc Daneeka (Jack Gilford) tells Yossarian that he cannot declare him insane if Yossarian knows that it's insane to keep flying, Yossarian tries to play crazy by, among other things, showing up nude in front of despotic General Dreedle (Orson Welles). As all of Yossarian's initially even-keeled friends, such as Nately (Art Garfunkel) and Dobbs (Martin Sheen), genuinely lose their heads, and the troop's supplies are bartered away for profit by the ultra-entrepreneurial Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight), Yossarian realizes that the whole system has lost it, and he can either play along or jump ship. Though not about Vietnam, Catch-22's ludicrous military machinations directly evoked its contemporary context in the Vietnam era. Cathcart and Dreedle care more about the appearance of power than about victory, and Milo cares for money above all, as the complex narrative structure of Yossarian's flashbacks renders the escalating events appropriately surreal. Confident that the combination of a hot director and a popular, culturally relevant novel would spell blockbuster, Paramount spent a great deal of money on Catch-22, but it wound up getting trumped by another 1970 antiwar farce: Robert Altman's MASH. With audiences opting for Altman's casual Korean War iconoclasm over Nichols' more polished symbolism, the highly anticipated Catch-22 flopped, although the New York Film Critics Circle did acknowledge Arkin and Nichols. Despite this reception, Catch-22's ensemble cast and pungent sensibility effectively underline the insanity of war, Vietnam and otherwise.
CREDITS:
TM & © Paramount (1970)
Cast: Alan Arkin, Anthony Perkins
Director: Mike Nichols
Producers: John Calley, Martin Ransohoff, Clive Reed
Screenwriters: Joseph Heller, Buck Henry
WHO ARE WE?
The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans.
und wie geht es weiter?
Haben wir in 20 Jahren dann Kriege, um die Beschlüsse irgendwelcher Schiedsgerichte umzusetzen?
Riding the bomb [3:12]
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