Mining magnate Clive Palmer, one of Australia's richest men, devised a $10 million Christmas bonus for his workforce - in recognition of the Yabulu nickel refinery's stunning turnaround....

(Well he can spare $10 mill when is worth billions and makes him seem charitable, nice boss instead of the notorious prick he is usually known as...

Clive Palmer is a billionaire ie one thousand millionaire $1,000,000,000 plus. So he gives away less than 1% of his wealth that is $10,000,000 and this is Scrooge style nice xmas news spin? If he gave his mine over to the workers who created his wealth, or a $billion to the local indigenous landowners whose land he plunders then that would be news... )

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1418276/Boss-gives-workers-a-Mercedes-for-Christmas

SBS = Some Billionaires Spin/story

meanwhile http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/spies-infiltrated-victorian-desalination-plant/story-e6frf7kx-1225955317621

Video here of the Japanese vessel hitting the whale saviours' vessel in the Southern Ocean.

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related: http://www.brisbanepowerhouse.org/events/view/the-trial-of-the-catonsville-nine/ http://www.theactorsgang.com/home.htm

CULVER CITY, CA - On May 17th, 1968, two Catholic priests, and seven Catholic activists including a nurse, a nun, an artist and four others all walked into the selective service office Local Board 33, located in the Knights of Columbus building in Catonsville, Maryland, grabbed hundreds of 1-A draft files and burned them with homemade napalm in protest against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The publicity and news coverage from the ensuing trial was instrumental in galvanizing the American anti-war movement.

The 4 horsies of the Shopocalypse Capitalism, limited resources, climate change, overpopulation of plunderers & politicians.

Fears for the world's poor countries as the rich grab land to grow food John Vidal 3rd July • UN sounds warning after 30m hectares bought up • G8 leaders to discuss 'neo-colonialism' The acquisition of farmland from the world's poor by rich countries and international corporations is accelerating at an alarming rate, with an area half the size of Europe's farmland targeted in the last six months, reports from UN officials and agriculture experts say. read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/03/land-grabbing-food-environment

related: "Unequal power relations in the land acquisition deals can put the livelihoods of the poor at risk. Since the state often formally owns the land, the poor run the risk of being pushed off the plot in favour of the investor, without consultation or compensation." http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/03/africa-land-grab

ORGANISE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY Right to Farm! Right to Feed! Right to Eat! http://viacampesina.org/main_en/ Telephone +62-21-7991890