James Sinclair: A Friend or Foe?

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Halafu kuna uwezekano mkubwa jamaa ni shareholder wa hii kampuni. Kungekuwa na sheria ya kimataifa inayowalazimisha makampuni 'yanayowekeza' mimi huwaita 'wachukuaji' kwenye nchi zinazoendelea kuwataja mashareholders wote ambao wana nafasi za juu katika serikali za nchi hizo. Hili lingesaidia sana katika kupambana na ufisadi. Maana mawaziri na hata Marais wa nchi wanafaidika sana kama mashareholders wa kampuni hizo, lakini wenye mali (kama makampuni hayo yanajishughulisha na rasilimali) ambao ni wananchi hawaambulii chochote.
 
Ngojeeni kidogo nakuja na dat za Sinclair kwanza tusome hizi habari kidogo
Part 1

Publisher not deterred by Barrick
Releasing book today linking gold firm to alleged deaths
MARIANNE WHITE, Canwest News Service
Published: Tuesday, April 15
A small Quebec publishing house is giving the green light to a book linking Barrick Gold Corp. to the alleged deaths of Tanzanian miners in 1996, despite the threat of libel lawsuit.

Toronto-based Barrick, the world's biggest gold miner, tried to delay the publication of the book Noir Canada: Pillage, corruption et criminalize en Afrique (Black Canada: Plundering, Bribery and Crime in Africa), published by Ecosociété, by threatening a lawsuit last week.

The authors of the book - described as three academics - review a series of abuses and crimes in Africa that would have been committed by Canadian-owned mining, oil and pharmaceutical companies.

Barrick is targeted, among others, and linked to an incident in which 52 miners were allegedly buried alive at the Tanzanian mine of Bulyanhulu in 1996.

The mine was owned at that time by Vancouver-based Sutton and sold to Barrick in 1999. But the authors suggest that Barrick acted with Sutton to prepare the deposit for large-scale development.

The Bulyanhulu property in Tanzania is said to be the largest gold deposit in east Africa, containing an estimated 8.8 million ounces of gold.

Barrick was tipped off by the publisher's summary of the book posted on its website that linked the mining company to the incident. It promptly threatened to sue the publishers and authors for libel.

Although it has not yet reviewed the full book, Barrick argued in its lawsuit that the allegations are "false and libellous," were never substantiated and are defamatory.

The company also stressed that the events took place three years before its purchase of the property.

The publishing house was "shocked" by the lawsuit threat and held an emergency meeting Sunday night to decide whether to go ahead with the distribution of the 1,750 copies of the book today, as planned.

Calling the lawsuit a "means of intimidation," Ecosociété announced yesterday afternoon that it was going ahead.

"We are not going to draw back from those threats," the publishing company said in a statement. "It's a question of freedom of expression."

The lead author of the book, Alain Deneault, said in an interview that the book doesn't directly hold Barrick responsible for the incident, but rather brings together a "variety" of opinions on the Bulyanhulu case.

"We also give Barrick's point of view," he noted.

Deneault explained that the authors' goal is to shed some light on crimes committed by Canadian companies in Africa.

"It's not just Barrick. There are a lot of other cases. We are not saying that all the allegations are true, but it would be almost impossible that all the allegations were false," Deneault said.

Barrick spokesman Vince Borg said the company would review the book before proceeding with the lawsuit.

"If it repeats allegations that have no basis in truth, we'll have to consider further remedies," Borg said.

On its website, Barrick has posted a report from the World Bank's Office of the Compliance Adviser/Ombudsman, which investigated the allegations in 2002.

The CAO found that there is nothing to substantiate allegations of 52 murders at Bulyanhulu, or allegations that people in the local communities are being intimidated or undermined by anything or anyone.




Inakuja Part 2
 
Part2

The Six Million Dollar SLAPP
By Tim McSorley, May 3, 2008 Comments (4)

UPDATED MAY 5TH

Looks like Barrick Gold is following up on a previous threat:

On April 30th, Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold announced it is making good on threat of legal action against a small, non-profit Quebec publishing house. The world's largest gold mining company - which took in $1.73 billion last year - is suing Les Éditions Écosociété and the authors of the book Noir Canada: pillage, corruption et criminalité en Afrique for an incredible six million dollars - 25 times the amount the publisher says it makes in a year. The company also wants all copies of the book pulled from shelves.

The books principal author, Alain Denault, and the publishing house immediately denounced the lawsuit as a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) meant simply to silence the mining company's critics. Both the author and the publisher have pointed out that the book is thoroughly researched and relies heavily on research that is publicly available.

In the suit, Barrick claims it has been defamed by the contents of the book, and that the authors and publisher have undertaken a widespread smear campaign against the company. The book outlines alleged human rights abuses carried out by Barrick Gold in various African countries, including the deaths of more than 50 Tanzanians in 1996 and fuelling the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A spokesperson for Écosociété has called on the Quebec government to act quickly to instate legislation that would outlaw SLAPP lawsuits. Deneault and Guy Cheyney, coordinator at Éditions Écosociété, will be holding a press conference Monday, presumably to discuss their next step.
Jamani hiki kitabu ni cha kukisoma sijui kama iko English Edition.....sasa nataka tuunganishe dots Sinclair/Kikwete
 
Sasa wana JF swali linakuja nani alikuwa waziri wa nishati wakti huu wakati Huyu Sinclair akizugumza haya

Sutton Resources — statement by James Sinclair, chairman
Business Wire, Feb 3, 1995
E-mail Print Link VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 1995--
"Earlier this week I stated that the management and Directors of Sutton Resources, Ltd. are not aware of any news or information that may have caused the decline in the stock price in the markets and I would like today to again underline this point.

"Several of my colleagues and I have visited our exploration projects in Tanzania in the last two weeks and we held discussions with the official authorities. We were pleased with what we learned and we are, accordingly, very confident about the outlook.

"As I have stated in the past, it is the goal of Sutton's Board of Directors to build the company into a significant mining entity. We have a strong cash position relative to our prospective 1995 needs and we have no current plans for new financing arrangements. We have broadened our staff base with the recruitment of an outstanding engineer and we have entered into an agreement with a major investment banking firm to provide us with strategic advice as we move ahead. These developments have been reported to shareholders, but I want to stress them again today in the event that investors had not been sufficiently cognizant of these positive steps. Finally, as new data on our exploration projects is available, we will ensure that it is transmitted prudently and swiftly to shareholders."
 
Ndugu BAK..tunaunganisha dot sasa

Kwa mengine zaidi bofya maandishi mekundu


http://billywright.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_archive.html
 
Open E-mail to Jim Sinclair (sent via his Websites/Offices, including Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corp.)

To Mr. Jim Sinclair,

Recently, Sir, you released a public statement regarding the mining industry in the African country of Tanzania, that has touched off a justifiable outrage in the Tanzanian Cyberspace and in some segments of the Press.

You wrote that you've had "the privilege" of seeing the yet-unreleased Presidential report on the ailing, corruption-laden mining industry in Tanzania. People are wondering how a foreign investor was able to gain access to a report which has just been turned over to the President by an inquiry commission, before the real stakeholders of the country's Mining resources have had a chance to see it.

Such a blatant leak of a presidential report would have been a no-no in Canada or the US, where your businesses originate from. So, why lower the standards when dealing with small countries Mr. Sinclair? We may be regarded as, or I guess we are, insignificant, impoverished, little failing states on the edge of the universe, but we are not cadavers yet, and such flagrant disregard of our laws and honor of the Presidency is extremely disconcerting to some of us, citizens, albeit the President himself is not bothered, if he actually gave you "the privilege" of a peek at it!

And Mr. Sinclair, if the President or the Commission had the inexplicable "friendliness" to show you the report before its formal release to the general public, why would you disparage the people and the Commission with your thinly veiled call to the President not to follow recommendations to fix a malfeasant industry which serves but a venal few? And if you have no problem with the report's recommendations, as you confusingly wrote, why tell the President not to disturb the markets with the report's recommendations?

I just don't know who gave you the "privilege" to see this report before us, the people.

Such behavior is the type of Superpower hegemony that is decried around the world. It's the type of paternalistic thinking that's giving America, and it's cronies a bad name. It provides excuses to those who cause destabilizing atrocities we are seeing around the world!

Some of us were just puzzled and dismayed.

Sincerely,

Kuhani Mkuu,
Concerned Tanzania Citizen.

 
Just to add to your information Tanzanian Royalty Exploration mwanahisa wao mkubwa wa kibongo ni Joseph Kahama, mtoto wake Sir George Kahama. Go figure.
 
Kuhani Mkuu.. naomba barua yako hiyo email.. tuifanye an official position of JF na tuitume kwa jina la JF (kama bado hujaituma).. kama tayari I would suggest kila mwanachama atie sahihi hiyo barua na kuituma and overflood TRE mail boxes... we the people have to be heard...
 

Mkuu heshima mbele kwa hiyo e mail,action kama hizi ndizo tunahitaji hapa JF...Hawa watu wanaonekana ni powerful kuliko hata serikali yetu. Wanapewa info kwa ajili ya kuwafurahisha wanahisa.....wanatapa kuwa wana ardhi Tanzania....hii ndio ukoloni mambo leo....hali inatisha sana yaani ukienda deep zaidi into Sinclair/Kikwete hali inatisha nimesoma kipande hiki chini kwenye website hii hapa chini halafu nenda kwenye hizo links zengine

http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/barrick_gold

 
Asante Bubu kwa kuwekea hii makala hapa lakini shukrani zangu za dhati zimfikie popote pale alipo mwandishi halisi wa makala hii Bi Lulu wa Ndali Mwananzela, Mungu aendelee kumjaza ujasiri na hekima za kuendelea kufanya upembuzi yakinifu kama huu.
 

Wandugu JF, naomba tuunge mkono barua ya kupinga tukio la mmiliki haki za utafutaji Madini Tanzania, Jim Sinclair, kupewa ripoti ya tume ya uchunguzi ya Rais wakati Wananchi bado tunaisubiri, na - kusugua pilipili kwenye kidonda - Sinclair kumdokezea Rais wazi wazi asifuate mapendekezo ya kurekebisha hitilafu za Sekta ya madini, ambalo ndilo lilikuwa lengo la kuundwa tume ya Rais!


PETITION: Mr. Sinclair should not have access to privileged government information before the Tanzanian General Public and must stop divulging the same; He should, forthwith, stop telling the President not to follow presidential commission's recommendations:


Dear Mr. Jim Sinclair,

Recently you released a public statement regarding the mining industry in the African country of Tanzania, that has touched off a justifiable outrage in the Tanzanian Cyberspace and in some segments of the Press.

You wrote that you've had "the privilege" of seeing the yet-unreleased Presidential report on the ailing, corruption-laden mining industry in Tanzania. People are wondering how a foreign investor was able to gain access to a report which has just been turned over to the President by an inquiry commission, before the real stakeholders of the country's mineral resources have had a chance to see it.

Such a blatant leak of a presidential report would have been a no-no in Canada or the US, where your businesses originate from. So, why lower the standards when dealing with small countries Mr. Sinclair? We may be regarded as, or I guess we are, insignificant, impoverished, little failing states on the edge of the universe, but we are not cadavers yet, and such flagrant disregard of our laws and honor of the Presidency is extremely disconcerting to some of us, citizens, albeit the President himself is not bothered, if he actually gave you "the privilege" of a peek at it!

And Mr. Sinclair, if the Commission or the President, whose praise you lavishly sing, had the inexplicable friendliness to show you the report before its formal release to the general public, why would you disparage the people and the Commission with your thinly veiled call to the President not to follow recommendations to fix a malfeasant industry which serves but a venal few? And if you have no problem with the report's recommendations, as you confusingly wrote, why, then, tell the President not to disturb the markets with the report's recommendations?

We just don't know who gave you the "privilege" to see this report before us, the people.

Such international, self-serving influence peddling is the type of superpower hegemony that is decried around the world. The type of paternalistic thinking that's giving America, and her Western cronies, a bad name. It provides excuses to those who cause destabilizing atrocities we are seeing around the world!

We were extremely puzzled and dismayed! Mr. Sinclair, whatever privileged information you might have from His Excellency, we ask you to refrain from discussing or distributing to the public as long as that information is not available officially to the general public. If you don't halt your public dissemination of privileged information you might have, we will consider that to be a clear and present assault to the dignity, independence and honor of the Tanzanian people and our way of life.

We will consider you not as a friend to our country and Tanzanian people but an emerging and obvious threat to our quest for equality, dignity and prosperity or us and our posterity. In our own way we will mount a PR offensive against you and the presence of your investments in Tanzania, till you apologize for this and halt your offensive actions. This we will do.

Sincerely,

Consortium of concerned Tanzanian Citizens,
Organized by : JamiiForums.com


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Tunaokubaliana, tutume hiyo barua mpaka Server lake li-crash!

Kampuni yake Tanzania:
[B]investors@TanzanianRoyaltyExploration.com[/B]


Kampuni Mama yake, Jim Sinclair Mineset:
[B]information@jsmineset.com[/b]
 
Ninaomba kila mtu mwenye uwezo na anayekubalia na sentiments ya barua hii aicopy na kuituma kwa Sinclair... we need to overflood his email box with this letter hadi atoe maeleo next week. Calling people to action.
 
Can you please put his E-mail address?

Kumbe makaburu wanaishi na kulala Ikulu?
 
Mzee Mwanakijiji said:
Ninaomba kila mtu mwenye uwezo na anayekubalia na sentiments ya barua hii aicopy na kuituma kwa Sinclair... we need to overflood his email box with this letter hadi atoe maeleo next week. Calling people to action.
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Tunafikiria (activists friends) hii barua by registered mail sooner than later.
 
Halafu tunatakiwa tukaitume kwa watanzania wote wenye mail, hii ni dharau kubwa sana
 
Mzee Mwanakijiji said:
Ninaomba kila mtu mwenye uwezo na anayekubalia na sentiments ya barua hii aicopy na kuituma kwa Sinclair... we need to overflood his email box with this letter hadi atoe maeleo next week. Calling people to action.
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email address yake ni ipi? Pia kuna haja ya kupata email address ya Ikulu, ofisi ya waziri mkuu na spika wa bunge nao pia tuwatumie barua hiyo.
 
Huyu Bw anafanana na Mtoa rushwa fulani Hayati Mwl. JKN alimuongelea kwnye one of his speach.

Nyrere was very clear of how to deal with such idiots. Alidhibiti huyo Bw. Once and for all!!

It is my hope kuwa Kikwete will not take this matter lightly. Tunataka President aone kuwa tumeona hicho kinachoendelea hapo..na aone kuwa we cant go on like this.

Haiwezekani...haiwezekani kabisa kuendelea na michezo hii. Lazima kuwa na miisho amabayo iko very clear... ya vitimbi akama hivi ..hasi inapokuwa ni kwnye rasilimali za Taifa.
 
kakindomaster said:
Halafu tunatakiwa tukaitume kwa watanzania wote wenye mail, hii ni dharau kubwa sana
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And you know what? .... It works.

Kumbuka ile email ya meremeta na deep green.... Ilisambaa kwenye kila email ya mtanzania mbaka bafuni.... AND?

They complained!

Kuonyesha kuwa ..? walifikiwa na ujumbe..na Mpaka leo kishindo cha mereremeta na deep green.. hakijamnaymaza...wala kutulia.

It works lets do it! so lets Fw FW FW FW and FW it!
 
Mzee Mwanakijiji said:
Ninaomba kila mtu mwenye uwezo na anayekubalia na sentiments ya barua hii aicopy na kuituma kwa Sinclair... we need to overflood his email box with this letter hadi atoe maeleo next week. Calling people to action.
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Hili halina ubishi litafanyika kwa ufanisi wa kiwango cha juu kabisa.

SIN..' Clair!

Kaa mkao wa kula..because all the forces from now onwards are directed towards you until you stop SINING... to the inocent Tanzanians.

We respect our President ..do you?
 
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