Re Barrick Gold: Thank you to the anon who wrote well yesterday about Khashoggi (primarily an arms dealer, man of blood) & Bush being connected to Barrick. Munk was nothing, literally. Whoever said the other day that Munk was a big cheese is full of it. He failed, failed, and failed again. He even described himself as being a "fugitive" at age 52. Then they put him up there as the front man for the criminal enterprise known as Barrick Gold.
About 15 years ago, there was a piece in a private newsletter about the founding of Barrick. Munk, being one of the trio of evil Hungarians who "somehow" survived WW2 and "somehow" became players, apparently was allowed to name the company at its inception. Can't remember the language nuances, but maybe someone who speaks Hungarian will know. Barrick evidently means "fuck you"or a derivative thereof. Yep.
The company is a front. For long years they were one huge cause of the price suppression of the gold market (which never has stopped), by forward selling gold that they didn't have (paper transactions). This was probably the main reason for the creation of the company. From doing this and making other foolish deals, their balance sheet got worse and worse. They were going to recoup this by the giant Pascua Lama project on the border of Chile and Argentina. Big proven reserves there. Only it got shot down by environmental issues. These boned investors instituted a class action suit. What this short link doesn't mention is that the OTHER big reason the project failed was that it was stolen from the beginning, just like the Nevada project!! They stole it from a poor local and just went on like always, because of course there wouldn't be anything the peon could do, right? Right??? Wrong. He got help and sued and it went through court and he was awarded title!
Barrick has hurt people everywhere they have placed their hands. Consider that they and other big miners are salting other illicitly acquired gold in some of their mines and pretending it is local production, thereby laundering it. Mark Twain said that "a gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar standing in front of it". So true.