Uzbekistan seizes US mining giant’s assets

[NorthernSun]

TASHKENT • Uzbek authorities have frozen gold shipments and seized assets from US group Newmont Mining, one of the biggest gold producers in the world, over a tax dispute, the company said yesterday.

Officials are “no longer allowing gold to be shipped out of Uzbekistan and some gold has been seized by the tax authorities, along with other assets” of the Zarafshan-Newmont joint venture, documents published on its website said.

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Rest+of+the+World&month=August2006&file=World_News2006080433754.xml

I thought this was one of Rummy's rendering plants.

[xchrom]

1. oh now there's a surprise -- uzbekistan fucks us.

that people will behave badly over gold -- gasp -- i can barely contain my shock and awe.

[I_Make_Mistakes]

2. Isn't that where they boil people to death!

[xchrom]

6. lol -- sounds like heaven to condi and rumsferatu.

[I_Make_Mistakes]

9. Not meant to be funny. I saw on one of the major networks where

they said that a person was boiled from his waist down (taken for interrogation by who knows). They said the autopsy showed that he was boiled to death and IIRC it was in Uzbekastan.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

11. Yes -- as whistleblown by Craig Murray whose book has just come out

http://www.craigmurray.co.uk/index.html

When Murray published the book he intended to include supporting documentation he'd optained through FOIA. However he was threatened by the Foreign Office, the publishers bulked & he ended up putting the documents on his website. A day later, the FO were on his case again threatening legal action so he took them down, but by then a network of supporters had already archived them across the web:

http://craigmurrayfriends.blogspot.com/2006/07/fco-moves-to-obtain-court-injunction.html

[xchrom]

13. no -- i didn't think you mean to be funny.

but i can only take so much brutality -- and then i have to go in the other direction.

[0007]

14. The real solution to make one reveal those secrets that Rummy wants

[AlamoDemoc]

12. You are right....they boil people to death down there

There is picture somewhere Bush welcoming the "Boiler of Uzbekistan" to the White House.

[cliss]

15. Oh Yes, I've seen it.

Mr. Islam Karimov.....The BOILER. There are several photos. They were so interesting.

Mr. Karimov is actually quite tall, he loomed over Don Rumsfailed. He was shaking the old boy's hand with a crab grip. Rumsfailed seemed to love it.

In fact, you should have seen the faces of the people around him....bright, shiny faces with unabashed love and admiration. Douglas Feith was the most obvious. I could read Feith's mind......

[Say_What]

21. photos: Senior US Officials Cozy up to Dictator Who Boils People Alive

http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/us-and-uz.htm

[struggle4progress]

17. It was OK as long -- as they didn't mess with corporate interests.

Now, however, the ruling class will perk up its ears and notice that boiling people alive is impolite ...

[jdlh8894]

3. Kind of strange

$48 Million in taxes on a $94 Million dollar holding?

[enigma000]

4. Sorry - American loser go home now.

We screw your wife later white boy

Even George W doesn't like Uzbekistan anymore

Uzbekistan don't like you.

Duck Dff and Oie ! ! !

[methinks2]

5. so . . . Uzbec has large oil reserves . . .

and now our interests in the region are being threatened . . . let's see considering the behaviour of our current admins . . . what action do you think the admins will take? :think: :think: :think:

[Dover]

7. Hmmm...similar to what Russia did to Yukos and Venezuela did

with several oil companies, maybe this is Uzbek's attempt to nationalize their resources (gold).

Or at least the collection of taxes seem the new ploy to recover ownership for many countries wishing to be out from under U.S. controls.

[Vidar]

8. Good for them.

[Matariki]

10. i had a friend in the peace-core there

she was the only female volunteer to stick out the whole time. women were routinely spat on or had rocks thrown at them for showing a forearm or hair. sounded like a miserable, shitty place. not that that has anything to do w/ the gold thing.

[CHIMO]

16. No Politics Here

Munk's Indonesian Gold Coup

Peter Munk was in Budapest, doing the ribbon-cutting thing on what happens to be the largest shopping centre in Eastern Europe, which happens to have been built by TrizecHahn Corp., his multibillion-dollar real estate company. While in Budapest, he received a fax requesting his attendance in Jakarta one week hence to discuss Barrick Gold Corp., his multibillion-dollar GOLD-mining company. So instead of heading home to Toronto, where he was due to attend a swish roast for Barrick president Bob Smith, Munk took the company Gulfstream jet and headed for Indonesia. Peter Munk is not the type to hop-to for just anyone. But this, he knew, was big. Very big. It was not a time for lieutenants.

May 3, 1995

To assist Barrick's overseas expansion, Munk establishes an international advisory board. Its members now include former U.S. president George Bush and Paul Desmarais, Sr., past chairman of Power Corp.


http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=M1ARTM0011044

[Dover]

19. Thanks for digging that up. Of course with these guys you could

keep digging for the rest of your life and just skim the surface of their corruption.

[killbotfactory]

18. Coalition of the Willing member

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2862343.stm

[newspeak]

20. yep, one of the original "coalition of the willing"

I am so confused--let's see, we're over in Iraq because Saddam is a really, really bad man-he was our bad man, but now he's gone against our corporate interests, so he's really evil. Uzbeckistan(sp) who quells political opponents-boiling some alive--but their good cause they're with us--oh wait a minute-their BAD-cause they're leaning on US corporate interest. And, Saudi Arabia is really our friend, even though they have one of the worse human rights records and allegedly fifteen of the highjackers were Saudis. I'm so confused!!! :crazy:

[Say_What]

22. Uh, oh... will Uzbekistan be the next war du jour?

thought their US Approved Dictator and the Chimp were great buddies.