Corporate profit

#IdleNoMore – Transnational Indigenous Solidarity

#IdleNoMore is a growing movement of indigenous activism that started with Canada's First Nations taking a stand against a long history of systematic, institutionalized abuse from the Canadian authorities.

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January 22, 2013

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Australian Aborigines / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / First Nations/Indigenous / Government / Human Rights / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Shared humanity / West Papua

The Medusa – the price we all pay for political corruption

Let us venture to advance another truth, a truth useful to the Minister himself. There exists among the officers of the Marine, an intractable esprit de corps, a pretended point…

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December 6, 2012

Accountability / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Environment / First Nations/Indigenous / Genocide / Government / Human Rights / Law / Mining / Neo-Colonialism / Rule of Law / WA government / Yindjibarndi

Another Whistleblower Drops FMG Mining Deal Bombshell

Bulletin from the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation regarding FMG.

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November 1, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Commonwealth Government / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Democracy / Equality / Ernst & Young / Government / Hypocrisy / Law Enforcement / Rule of Law

The real problem with hypocrisy – it knows no honour

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera One of the first Communist texts I read, following the French edition of Quotations from…

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July 19, 2012

Art / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Genocide / Human Rights / International Law / Mining / Rule of Law

“Freeport is a symbol of everything that is wrong with Papua”

PT Freeport Indonesia's newly appointed president director, Rozik B. Soetjipto, announced this week that the company is willing to renegotiate its contract with the Indonesian government for the continuation of…

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July 14, 2012

Accountability / Cathal Lyons / Corporate profit / Corruption / Democracy / Ernst & Young / Human Rights / Law / Rule of Law

Cathal Lyons –V– the Hyenas of Capitalism

To penetrate the basic human predicament is more important than to fly to the moon Friedrich Durrenmatt Swiss-German playwright and novelist I’ve spent the last few days reading through the…

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July 11, 2012

Accountability / Cathal Lyons / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Disability / Discrimination / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Law / Rule of Law

Ernst & Young, the slippery eel in the hands of the law

Business is no place for friends and it doesn’t matter if you’re in Canberra, London, New York or Moscow. Whilst Cathal Lyons as the Managing Partner of Operations and Chief…

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July 8, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Genocide / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua

The limits of Shiva’s dance: West Papua, Australia’s role in genocide

West Papua is being exploited for it's resources, environmentally polluted and it's people fail to benefit from the profits.

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July 5, 2012

Assimilation / Corporate profit / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Equality of opportunity / Genocide / Human Rights / Law / Mining / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

Law is The Law, but not if you’re an Aborigine

For an Aborigine, who has obligations to the land, the concept of Terra Nullius is both foreign and irrelevant.

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June 22, 2012

Accountability / Australian Federal Police / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Equality / Globalisation / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Law Enforcement / Mining / Respect / Rule of Law

70 butchered Congolese: a small price to pay for our blood copper and silver!

It will be a marvellous thing – the true personality of man – when we see it. It will grow naturally and simply, flower-like, or as a tree grows. It…

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May 31, 2012

Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Environment / Genocide / Human Rights / Indonesia / Mining / Pacific Neighbours / Shared humanity / West Papua

Portia’s Lament: Western greed and the death of the indigenous cultures of West Papua

Fragments from the Alfoxden Notebook There he would stand In the still covert of some [lonesome?] rock, Or gaze upon the moon until its light Fell like a strain of…

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May 9, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Australian Federal Police / Australian Labor Party / Corporate profit / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / International Law / Justice / Law Enforcement / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law

Mob rule and the ‘gentle’ nations of the West

You can talk a mob into anything; its feelings may be – usually are – on the whole generous and right; but it has no foundation for them; you may…

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March 28, 2012

Accountability / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Equality / Globalisation / Human Rights / International Law / Rule of Law / Shared humanity

Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority, the concept of corporate accountability

This case arises from the petitioners’ claim that Azzam Rahim was detained, tortured, and killed by “the security forces of the Palestinian Authority” in late 1995, around the time the…

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March 7, 2012

Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Environment / Genocide / Human Rights / International Law / Law / Law Enforcement / Mining / Rule of Law

Corporate crimes against humanity a product of our global economy

Crimes against humanity, torture, prolonged arbitrary detention, extrajudicial executions -- all of those human rights norms are defined by actions. They're not defined by whether the perpetrator is a human…

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March 1, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Government / Human Rights / Indonesia / Mining / Racism / West Papua

Copper and gold: the blood diamonds of West Papua

Ernst & Young has its fingers in projects that disadvantage Indigenous people across the world, including in West Papua.

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February 22, 2012

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Culture / Discrimination/Racism / Environment / Equality / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / Justice / Law / Racism / Rule of Law / West Papua

The Jayapura Five: Our choices and actions do affect the lives of others

Little fly, Thy summer’s play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance And…

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February 21, 2012

Accountability / Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Ernst & Young / Genocide / Globalisation / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Justice / Law / Mining / Political theory / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua

Genocide in West Papua, collective responsibility and the role of Ernst & Young

The TNI under Suharto was seen as different from other armies because: Indonesian army sees itself as quite different from other armies in the world, because it was never created…

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February 4, 2012

Accountability / ACT Government / AHRC/HREOC / Corporate profit / Corporate responsibility / Corruption / Discrimination/Racism / Diversity / Ernst & Young / Former Commissioner / Government / Human Rights / Hypocrisy / Justice / Law / Racism / Respect / Rule of Law

Ernst & Young, the silence is deafening!

Following is a response to the statement published by Ernst & Young. People with things to hide generally sneak around, aiming to placate those who can advance their situation. They…

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January 5, 2012

Accountability / Arc of instability / Asia-Pacific / Corporate profit / Corruption / Democracy / Discrimination/Racism / Equality / Human Rights / Indonesia / International Law / Justice / Neo-Colonialism / Pacific Neighbours / Racism / Rule of Law / Shared humanity / West Papua

The Lombok Treaty: a win for self interest over justice

Australia placed its own interests before those of West Papuans, favouring its relationship with Indonesia over those of an occupied people.

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December 19, 2011

Accountability / Australian Labor Party / Corporate profit / Corruption / Culture / Environment / Equality / Human Rights / Justice / Law / Mining / Rule of Law

FMGL versus YAC – is the truth really out there

As most readers of Blak and Black, indeed as most readers of any daily paper in Australia will be aware there has been an ongoing dispute between Fortescue Metals Group…

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November 24, 2011

Watershedd on Sixteen Dollars for a Fossil: Homer’s The Odyssey
Oh, just a little!
Kelly Conrad on Sixteen Dollars for a Fossil: Homer’s The Odyssey
I didn’t realise that you were that big a fan of Homer.
Watershedd on Testimony
I like this poem very much, Bakchos. The concept of dislocation Heaven is most disquieting.
UK Time Insider on Sir David Attenborough: A Century of Wonder
This account of Sir David Attenborough's family life and private character makes a useful contrast with the quieter academic path…
Bill Wheatley on Testimony
Powerful words old friend.
Bakchos on Humbug in the Emerald City: Trump, the Populist Wizard
Agree Hakeem!

Corporate profit

#IdleNoMore – Transnational Indigenous Solidarity

The Medusa – the price we all pay for political corruption

Another Whistleblower Drops FMG Mining Deal Bombshell

The real problem with hypocrisy – it knows no honour

“Freeport is a symbol of everything that is wrong with Papua”

Cathal Lyons –V– the Hyenas of Capitalism

Ernst & Young, the slippery eel in the hands of the law

The limits of Shiva’s dance: West Papua, Australia’s role in genocide

Law is The Law, but not if you’re an Aborigine

70 butchered Congolese: a small price to pay for our blood copper and silver!

Portia’s Lament: Western greed and the death of the indigenous cultures of West Papua

Mob rule and the ‘gentle’ nations of the West

Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority, the concept of corporate accountability

Corporate crimes against humanity a product of our global economy

Copper and gold: the blood diamonds of West Papua

The Jayapura Five: Our choices and actions do affect the lives of others

Genocide in West Papua, collective responsibility and the role of Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young, the silence is deafening!

The Lombok Treaty: a win for self interest over justice

FMGL versus YAC – is the truth really out there

RAMSI - the scion of the juggernaut of greed

AFP accused of fabricating evidence, yet again

Moti affair

Moti affair

Moti appeal exposes mixed loyalties and judicial corruption

Moti end game

Letters to the editor: Article by Bakchos

Co-operate or else! AFP thuggery for a white Australia

The strange case of Bill Johnson, a study in neo-colonial hypocrisy

Neo-colonialism in the Torres Strait

Moti and other affairs

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