Gold magnate complaining about "Rogue" NGOs

Neoliberal governance needs 'Partnership and participation", and this implies the mutual acceptance of certain degree of agreements on basic common principles, lines defining who is in or who is out of the "partnership". Once NGOs are confronted with the offer of
partnership by big businesses and government institutions, one key question is: will the participants of the "partnership" accept the rules of the market and profit? And if not, will they then be labelled 'rouges','deviants','terrorists',and crim-
inalised accordingly? In this video, gold magnate Peter Munk talk to FT and call them "rouges".

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Where do you put in the annual report that you paid Laurent Kabila $7 million in "back-taxes" in 1997 before he was in office ? Petty cash ? Bribing or financing war ? Unlike corporations NGO's can't intimidate TV networks to censor documentaries, or use political influence to stop government investigations. See AlJazeera, OECDWatch. Last of the Robber Barons, control-freak to the core.

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You won't get transparency from corporate culture. They will do whatever every other company is getting away with, and money talks. They scammed Tanzania into believing Bulyanhulu operated at a loss. Still waiting for transparency. How come shareholders sue Barrick ? When will they tell shareholders they don't even own the mineral rights to Mina Pascua in Chile ? Congo was "off-the-books".

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I guess if you keep repeating something, at least some people will believe it.

"When we go into any country, regardless how lax their regulations are regarding pollution and the environment, we will adhere... to domestic standards." Of course, Canadian "best practice" isn't exactly ideal anyway...