'ArtM72' pid='29938' datel Wrote:
'Getitrt2' pid='29932' datel Wrote:"suggestive of corruption at the core of this company"? Really??? In what way? How in hell would you put that interpretation on it?
First, I do not believe IOC to be corrupt, but four years of reading blogs have certainly provided plenty of examples of people who believe IOC and its owners and their associates as being corrupt. My implicit point was simply that a pretty basic instinctive question is why hide something unless you are doing something that's "wrong" according to common social/political/business mores? Maybe Hession and his team have been hired to make the switch from the open air deals of Mulacek and his people to under the table off record deals more befitting traditional PNG political culture and those who have dealt for decades in the Middle East. I don't know obviously, but that certainly is a possibility.
Just offering it all as a possibility, the truth of which is today not knowable.
You did not address my first two questions.
What is it you think they are "hiding", beyond maintaining appropriate confidentiality of the parties and negotiations?
That is NOT why Hession and his team were hired, and I think it "certainly" is NOT any reasonable possibility and even ridiculous to think so.
You do not believe IOC to be "corrupt", but perhaps doing something "wrong" and/or immoral? Say what? You see no contradiction or double talk there? I think you are engaging in inappropriately negative and ludicrous raw speculation that you have no foundation for and does not belong on this forum, to the point of wondering about your motives more than about those of IOC. "Just offering it all as a possibility, the truth of which is today not knowable", as you say.