An Australian company is bullying El Salvador Australian-owned Pacific Rim Mining is currently suing El Salvador for saying no to an open pit, cyanide-leach gold mine in the middle of one of its most pristine forests. The law-suit started in 2009, before Australia’s OceanaGold bought Pacific Rim from its original Canadian owners. But when OceanaGold took […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership
Don’t read this if you want big business to control what you see on the Internet
American ISPs can now cripple data from certain sites America recently overturned its Net Neutrality laws. Now their ISPs are allowed to de-prioritise or cripple the flow of data from certain sites. For example, Comcast (America’s biggest ISP) could choose to slow down shows from Netflix (the world’s biggest streaming TV/movies provider). This would make Netflix shows unwatchable. […]
I sent a letter to my local MP. She called me a conspiracy theorist!
Last week, I sent the following letter to my local MP, Karen McNamara, Federal Member for Dobell Dear Karen, I’m appalled by the Liberal government’s treatment of asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat. I’ve detailed my concerns in this article (which has been read by more than 27,000 people in the last month): http://www.glennmurray.com.au/australia-boat-people-illegal-policy. You’ll note […]