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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 10:06 PM
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Barrick's plans to "relocate" three glaciers
Edited on Sat Apr-12-08 10:06 PM by seemslikeadream
This is a year old but interesting because they're in the news today
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3150321


http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=class&type=185&class=21&offset=5
CorpWatch has been tracking Barrick elsewhere in the world, most recently at its Pascua Lama project in Argentina.

Barrick's plans to "relocate" three glaciers - 816,000 cubic meters of ice - by means of bulldozers and controlled blasting, is seen by mine-opponents as symbolic of the company's utter insensitivity to the environment. As headwaters for a water basin in an arid region receiving very little rainfall, many opponents are gravely concerned for the ice. They say the mechanical action involved in moving the glaciers will irreversibly melt much of it, jeopardizing a delicate ecological balance further downstream.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 10:08 PM
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1. That's F'ing madness
We don't deserve this planet.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 10:10 PM
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2. This is all getting so bizarre
Edited on Sat Apr-12-08 10:13 PM by seemslikeadream
Edward Neys, former U.S. Ambassador to Canada is chairman of Burson-Marsteller. He is also a director of Barrick Gold Mining. George Bush Sr. just before leaving office gave Barrick $10 billion in gold mining rights on US public land for $10,000. Then he got a job with Barrick as an international consultant.





http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x528992
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 10:13 PM
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3. Do these people care one fucking thing about their own children?
Seems not. We had better teach our own children well how to survive these corporate idiots. God, and I was so looking forward to retirement. So much work to do still.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-13-08 08:56 AM
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10. THEY have bunkers!
;-)
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 10:17 PM
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4. Huh?
You have a bunch of links in your post, but I can't find one that refers to relocating glaciers.

:shrug:
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 10:19 PM
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5. this one
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=class&type=185&class=21&offset=5

The Curse of Gold

Posted by Sakura Saunders on February 28th, 2007
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 10:20 PM
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7. Okay, thanks
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 10:19 PM
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6. Nevermind.
I dug through them and found it.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 10:20 PM
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8. It was the one right above the quote
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 10:27 PM
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9. advisory board includes Sir George Bush. Barrick Gold
http://www.aboutsudan.com/action/geopolitical/executive_outcomes.htm

Executive Outcomes ties lead to London and Bush

by Roger Moore and Linda de Hoyos

Exposes appearing on both sides of the Atlantic on the mercenary group Executive Outcomes, threaten to blow the lid off the British intelligence nexus already identified as responsible for the February 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, and for the current cataclysmic destabilization of Africa on behalf of circles associated with the Queen of England's Privy Council and Sir George Bush.
The exposes appeared in the French daily {Le Figaro} on Jan. 16, the {London Observer} on Jan. 17, and the February issue of the American magazine {Harper's.}
Executive Outcomes is the mercenary arm of a vast
network of British-South African corporations dealing in gold, diamonds, and oil, primarily, but not exclusively, in Africa, that come under the umbrella of Strategic Resources Corporation, headquartered in Pretoria, South Africa. Described universally as an ``advance guard of a corporate network that includes mining, oil, and construction companies,'' Executive Outcomes is active in 13 African countries, including Uganda. For its services, it demands a lien or franchise on the exportable raw resources, particularly mineral wealth, of the client country--in the same fashion as the British East India Company of the 18th and 19th centuries, which in turn functioned as the ``advance guard'' of the British monarchy.
Executive Outcomes was incorporated offshore, on the Isle of Man, in 1993, by Anthony Buckingham, a British businessman, and Simon Mann, a former British officer, the {Observer} reported, based on a leak to it from British intelligence. Buckingham is also chief executive of Heritage Oil and Gas, which in turn is linked to the Canadian firm Ranger Oil. Other firms operating out of the same headquarters in Chelsea Plaza 107, London, include Branch International Ltd. and Branch Mining Ltd.
Preliminary investigation by {EIR} has further determined that Executive Outcomes lies at the heart of the British monarch's raw materials cartels and secret intelligence operations, in conjunction with Bush's rogue apparat:
Through Sir David Steel, a former leader of the Liberal Party, Executive Outcomes and, presumably, its deployment, is a subsumed operation of the Queen's Privy Council. Steel is a close friend of EO's Buckingham, and is on the board of directors of EO's sister firm, Heritage Oil and Gas, according to {Le Figaro.} In 1977, Steel was inducted into the Privy Council, making him the youngest member of Britain's highest-level policy-making body.
The links between Executive Outcomes and Ranger Oil point to operational ties with the Bronfman family of Canada, whose scion, Edgar Bronfman of Toronto Broncorp, sits on the board of directors of Ranger. Recently, the Bronfman family merged its mammoth real estate firm, Trizec, with Barrick Gold, whose senior advisory board includes Sir George Bush. Barrick Gold is deeply involved in northeastern Zaire, where it has purchased 83,000 square kilometers of land. Zairean sources report that the so-called Zairean rebel Laurent Kabila is no more than a mercenary for Barrick and Anglo American Corp., sponsored by the British Crown-backed Ugandan and Rwandan militaries. Executive Outcomes, {Le Figaro} and other sources further verify, is deeply entrenched in Uganda, the key British marcher-lord state in the region.
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