New Gold (NGD): Business as usual in Mexico

The normal high standard of reporting by Al Jazeera is found in this report that comes along with this video....

....about the controversial Cerro San Pedro mine operated by New Gold (NGD). Al Jaz gets all sides of the argument onto tape in three minutes (bar the company's, who refused to be interviewed) as it talks to locals for and against the mine which, as the report points out, is operating illegally according to Mexican law.

Here's the link to the report. My thanks to reader 'TS' for the headsup on this, as giving all sides of a story is the way to do these things. Kudos AlJaz

Argentina never changes

Back at the time of the Malvinas/Falklands war, the military dictatorship in power in Argentina famously organized a "donate for the war effort" campaign. Old ladies innocently sent in their jewelry and cash by the bucketful and millions upon millions of dollars worth of items were collected under the whipped-up jingoistic fervour......and never seen again. They certainly never got as far as the undernourished, underequipped and innocent lambs sent to the slaughter by the scumbags in power and most believe it all ended up in the back pockets of the military generals and then whisked offshore before their time was up.

The memory of that story came back today. In this post on September 8th, we reported on the devastation wreaked by a tornado in the poverty stricken northern region of Misiones Argentina. The town of San Pedro was ripped apart (see photos in this post), eleven people died and there were hundreds of injuries, light to serious, among the population.

Sure enough, the Klishtina gov't organized an emergency fund. Sure enough, the generous spirit of solidarity that exists among the people of Argentina kicked in and some $600,000 was raised.
Here we are one month later and the governor of San Pedro reports that the sum total of 70 bundles of clothes and one television is all they've seen in the way of aid. So once again we have to ask the people that run Argentina, "Where has all the money gone you lying, thieving, corrupt, self-serving pieces of shit?".

Argentina is not a serious country.

Tornado in Argentina: Ten dead and over 50 injured

Sad to say, this is not some sort of spoof.

In the early hours of this morning, a tornado (a rare thing indeed round that way) ripped through the town of San Pedro in the Misiones region of Argentina (its northernmost tip, see map) and left 10 people dead and over 50 injured. Check out a video display on this page over at Clarín for evidence of the devastation.

Knowing the area personally (from an extended stay a few years ago) and the wonderful, generous people that live there, my heart goes out. Those of you sitting in the twister zones up North have a better idea of what these people have just been through.