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To: TobagoJack who wrote (67858)	8/19/2005 9:43:31 AM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 74559

But you'll cover first when it goes to $110? :)

To: TobagoJack who wrote (67858)	8/19/2005 10:16:30 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 74559

Oh Mercy mercy me I remember this guy name Robert Palmer - and when he wasn't singing about women he was singing about fish full of mercury - what gives General? Things sure aren't what they used to be. Maybe all those DROOY guys counting on that IN GROUND gold being just as good as ABOVE ground gold maybe not figuring in this eh? hehe thestandard.com.hk Newmont urges dismissal of pollution case Augsut 20, 2005 United States-based Newmont Mining, the world's biggest gold miner, urged an Indonesian court Friday to dismiss a pollution case against a local unit and its chief executive, saying the police investigation was flawed. The charges relate to Newmont Minahasa Raya's tailings disposal processes, which allegedly involved dumping mercury and arsenic into Buyat Bay near the now-defunct mine in Indonesia's eastern Sulawesi region, causing health problems for villagers. The case has drawn wide attention, including from potential investors and environmentalists in Southeast Asia's biggest economy, home to some of the world's largest deposits of copper, tin, nickel and gold. Newmont denies the charges, saying a police investigation failed to include environmental experts and evidence or testimonials favoring Newmont were not included in the 72-page indictment. ``The charges are baseless and should be dismissed,'' the company's lawyer, Luhut Pangaribuan, said during Friday's trial session in Manado on Sulawesi island. ``Newmont was never given any warning by the Indonesian government during its operation.'' If found guilty, unit chief Richard Ness, a 55-year-old American, could face a 10-year jail term and a fine of around US$68,000 (HK$530,400). The company's lawyers said there is no provision in Indonesian law that makes a ``president director'' automatically responsible for corporate acts. See I like this - lock up the crook and fine HIM - don't make teh company and shareholders his shield ``If the indictment against Rick Ness is allowed to stand, every Indonesian president director should be alarmed,'' said Palmer Situmorang, a lawyer representing Ness, after the trial was adjourned until September 1. Newmont has said the indictment is legally deficient as it does not detail what Ness did wrong. Damn right, lock up them crooks, make them shake in thier boots and think PEOPLE before PROFIT. ``It's basically misapplying the law,'' Blake Rhodes, a Newmont attorney, claimed in Jakarta Tuesday. ``If there's evidence of acts or evidence of other wrongdoing, you expect these allegations in the indictment.'' The mine near Buyat Bay opened in 1996 and closed last August due to depleted reserves. The charges relate to when the mine was operational. The trial comes at a time when foreign investment has begun to revive in Indonesia, partly on promises by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who took office in October, to make the country an easier place to do business. Investors have long been concerned about corruption, legal uncertainty and bureaucracy in the country. Investment in mining has lagged in recent years. But environmental activists say miners have for too long been allowed a free hand in Indonesia. The government called for an out-of-court settlement over a multimillion-dollar civil suit against Newmont earlier this year by the environment ministry, but so far no deal has been reached. A guilty verdict would harm the firm's image in a nation where it still has ambitious plans since arriving 17 years ago. The company operates Asia's second-largest copper mine, Batu Hijau, on Sumbawa island. And Newmont's operations in Indonesia accounted for 6 percent of its global sales last year, ranking fourth out of the company's operations on five continents. REUTERS

To: TobagoJack who wrote (67858)	8/20/2005 10:40:44 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

London police make minor changes to shoot-to-kill policy <<We are going to the head of Tony Blair. Watch!>> Police on Saturday also denied a newspaper report that they had offered US$1 million in compensation to Menezes’ family. “We will not be bought off. We will not be silenced,” the man’s parents, Matozinho and Maria de Menezes, said, according to the newspaper (AP) 20 August 2005 LONDON - London’s Metropolitan Police said on Saturday that it has reviewed the use of deadly force against suspected terrorists following the killing of an innocent man, but has made only minor changes. “There has been a review. The police have reviewed the strategy and we have made one or two small changes, but the operation remains essentially the same,” said a police spokeswoman. She declined to discuss details of the changes in Operation Kratos, the force’s name for what British media call a “shoot to kill” policy. The review comes after the July 22 killing of a Brazilian man, Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, who was wrongly suspected of being a suicide terrorist. Police on Saturday also denied a newspaper report that they had offered US$1 million in compensation to Menezes’ family. “The only discussions we have had so far with the family of Jean Charles de Menezes have been about initial expenses and we strongly refute any suggestion that a figure anywhere in the region of one million dollars has been offered as compensation,” the force said in a statement. A report in Saturday’s editions of The Daily Mail said a senior officer had made an initial offer of compensation during a visit to Brazil two weeks ago. “We will not be bought off. We will not be silenced,” the man’s parents, Matozinho and Maria de Menezes, said, according to the newspaper. On Friday, a cousin of the slain man called for the resignation of Sir Ian Blair, the chief of the London force. “They have killed Jean and then told lies,” Alessandro Pereira said, shedding tears at a nationally televised news conference in London. “For the sake of my family, for the sake of the people of London, in Jean’s name I say that those responsible should resign. Ian Blair should resign,” Pereira said. Blair, who apologized for the mistaken killing, has denied there was any police cover-up or attempt to block the Independent Police Complaints Commission’s investigation now under way. Blair said he had not resisted the investigation, but only sought advice from the Home Office on how secret intelligence would be dealt with, given that the police complaints commission had a duty to disclose all its findings to the victim’s family. “What I actually said was we have a unique situation here. At that stage I, and my officers, thought the dead man was a suicide bomber,” Blair said in an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. radio. “We are in the middle of the biggest counterterrorism operation, is it wise to bring another set of investigators into the middle of that?” Blair told the BBC that police took responsibility for Menezes’ death, but he said while it was tragic it was just one death out of 57 - including the four suicide bombers. “The context here is the largest criminal inquiry in English history with 52 innocent victims dead. ... We can’t let that one tragic death outweigh all others,” he said. Recently leaked documents from the official complaints commission investigation into Menezes’ killing appear to contradict original statements by police that the Brazilian had been behaving suspiciously. On July 22, Blair told journalists that Menezes had failed to obey the instructions from the surveillance police who were following him as a suspected suicide bomber. In the heightened state of anxiety after the earlier terrorist attacks, witnesses reported that Menezes was wearing a heavy padded coat and jumped over ticket barriers at Stockwell subway station before bolting toward a train. The Metropolitan Police never contradicted those claims. However, the documents leaked to ITV News suggest that Menezes, an electrician, walked casually into the subway station and was wearing a light denim jacket. Brazil’s government said it was “outraged” by the reports about Menezes’ killing, and said it would send two officials to Britain to meet with police and the commission investigating the killing.