RTZ are taking the piss

Providing the Metals for the medals at the London Olympiss [their best slogan: 'Making Modern Life Work' - gee thanks]

Sturm in the South Seas

This is yet another example of the crazy lengths the worlds most grotesque mining company will go to pass off transparently laughable public relations propaganda as fact (lets just say that Rupert Murdoch is mere paper to this lot’s stone in the paper-scissors-stone game that is global plunder). For readers, BCL = Bougainville Copper. RTZ = Riotinto [...]

Avatar Trinkets

For those of you who like your anthropologists in cryo, in an incubator (online ethnography anyone), or fighting off the mining industry – as already oft-mentioned on this blog (more links below), this little cherub should set you off with oohs and ahhs. As soon as you look closely at the picture though, it will [...]

Rio Tinto are back in the ring

This from the Bogan in Bougainville: Am well behind on events here but there has been a successful appeal of the case against Rio Tinto by the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. You can read more about it here, here and here.There are three key points of note: The case is now considering whether genocide was committed [...]

Mister Pip and volunteers build a Library

Postcourier, 15 Sept 11 Arawa to get new library BOUGAINVILLE’S estranged capital, Arawa, should have a big library built by end of the year, the Volunteer Service Abroad (VSA) has announced. The Bougainville Library project is about to take another step forward when VSA volunteer Barry Binding leaves Wellington on September 20 to spend six [...]

Wikileaks on Bougainville.

From UTS: Dear Bougainville Supporters, Below are the links from Wikileaks to confidential documents about the Bougainville Class Action – Sarei vs Rio Tinto. FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF SAREI VS. RIO TINTO http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2006/09/06PORTMORESBY401.html SAREI VS. RIO TINTO http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2006/08/06PORTMORESBY319.html Contents page http://www.wikileaks.org/origin/71_0.html

Bougainvile: riotinto’s atrocities

The Australian, 16 July 2011 (warning, this is a Murdoch paper! references to Hitler and Chinese colonialism also to be taken under advisement). Battle intensifies over Bougainville copper Rowan Callick, Asia-Pacific editor From: The Australian Bougainville rebels guard the Panguna mine site in 1996. Picture: Ben Bohane Source: The Australian CLAIMS that Rio Tinto funded the civil war [...]

Riotinto Kills – that we knew, but here it is in detail.

SBS TV [Australia] – Dateline [show] on Sunday 26 June 2011 at 8.30pm It’s 14 years since the war ended over what was once the world’s largest copper mine, at Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, but Dateline has uncovered claims that the PNG government was acting under instruction from mining giant Rio Tinto, when it killed thousands of people [...]

Bougainville’s president aims to attract new investment

The Nasty Gang delegation to Bougainville – won’t step near Arawa I expect – ‘sea-change’ Mr Momis?: ABC Radio Online, 17 May 2011 The President of Bougainville John Momis told investors the peace process on Bougainville is well established and the island is open for business.[ABC] Jemima Garrett The Chairman of the Rio Tinto-owned Bougainville [...]

Sandline crisis . . . 14 years on

Tim Spicer, where in Iraq are you now? (seek him here seek him there, the bumbling millionaire mercenary with his camo-wear… this is from the PNG Post Courier today:   Retired and Former Commander of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force Major General Jerry Singirok MBE, reflects on the 1997 Sandline Crisis that grabbed the attention [...]

Bougainville

Letter from a BRA General. Monday 13th December, 2010 BRA’s stand on mine reopening Following all the media coverage in the recent weeks and the recent meeting by the so called landowners of Panguna Mine with the President for Bougainville, I would like to highlight certain issues that need to be taken into consideration before continuing discussions and [...]

Mr Pip

Radio New Zealand, 26 July 2010 Hopes Mister Pip movie will be filmed on Bougainville Posted at 03:32 on 26 July, 2010 UTC An actor and dramatist in Papua New Guinea says many locals are hoping the film, Mister Pip, to be shot on location in Bougainville. Auditions for the roles have begun in Solomon [...]

Polluters Riotinto

ABC TV – Lateline, 14 June 2010 Abandoned mine threatens environmental disaster Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 14/06/2010 Reporter: Liam Fox The Australian owners of an abandoned mine in Bougainville say it is too dangerous to return to repair leaking fuel tanks. Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: It’s been 20 years since a bloody civil war forced [...]

Panguna

Report from the Rio Tinto AGM in London on 15 April 2010 Panguna Mine, Bougainville Clive Porabou from Bougainville said that the company’s BCL subsidiary had caused massive destruction to land in Bougainville and its operations had led to a war which had cost 20,000 lives. A court case had been brought against the company [...]

Avatar and Bougainville??

Avatar and Bougainville: A Parallel History? « Tubuans. http://www.criticaltimes.com.au/news/international/avatars-secret-history-lesson-on-our-doorstep/ http://www.face21cn.cn/renleixue/anthropology/article-Avatar-pop-culture-anthropology-ethic.html http://savageminds.org/2009/12/24/avatar/ http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2010/02/23/james-cameron-the-oscars-and-the-real-life-avatar/

Riotinto deserves the pain

I’ve posted several times before on the many crimes of Riotinto – bunkered down in their London headquarters (formerly 6 St James Square, now 2 Eastbourne Terrace), they plunder the world with near impunity, though Partizans, Minewatch and this bunch of activist-lawyers (below) are keen to dent their stock. Oh, and the Chinese deal went [...]

Bougainville calling!

Here below is a little bit of madness from our friends in Bourgainville – or rather from the people at the National Business Review, so of course its mad, even if it turns out to be true. Call me. [I am adding this pic I ripped out of a newspaper in Germany in 1997 because [...]

Australian Imperialism in Asia Pacific

Closet Cleaner – notes for a talk delivered at the European Social Forum 2004. Some small updates of minimal significance inserted to acknowledge that everything is totally changed now that Australia has a new PM. For sure[2007]. Australian Imperialism in Asia Pacific Three or four major scenarios rather than a full listing of the national [...]

Rumour – evil Rio Tinto Sucked into vortex of evil – the dark side eats its own kind.

Rio shares surge amid BHP takeover rumour The Age May 7, 2007 – 5:24PM Shares in Rio Tinto Ltd surged above $90 for the first time today amid speculation that BHP Billiton Ltd could take out its rival in a $122 billion-plus deal. The stock closed up more than five per cent after Citigroup analysts [...]

The Queen’s duck

When someone mentions the English Queen, I’m afraid I always think ‘unaccountable and irredeemably wicked shareholder of major corporations of the likes of Riotinto‘ (though that is spurious rumour of course). Well this week, while Riotinto reels under the PartiZans activist intervention at its annual shareholders meeting, and while the Queen’s grandson Billy dumps his [...]