[BITList] Fwd: Re: The miners media plan

[franka]

John
They must be on the ball as it seems the video has already been deleted
frank

So this is what it is all about.

When is the Republican Party of the US opening for business in Australia?

ooroo





*Check out the video the mining industry never expected you to see:*

*http://www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan 
<http://www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan?t=dXNlcmlkPTU5OTE1NCxlbWFpbGlkPTU1Ng==>* 


You simply have to see this video to believe it.

This week mining billionaire Gina Rinehart became the largest 
shareholder in Fairfax, having already bought a stake in Channel Ten. 
But this new video reveals this move is bigger than one woman's ambition 
-- it's part of a coordinated and very deliberate strategy, with climate 
skeptic 'Lord' Monkton seen here 
<http://www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan?t=dXNlcmlkPTU5OTE1NCxlbWFpbGlkPTU1Ng==> advising 
a room full of mining executives on how the industry must gain control 
of Australia's media.

*Can you help share this video so all Australians understand what's 
really going on in the mining industry?*

*http://www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan 
<http://www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan?t=dXNlcmlkPTU5OTE1NCxlbWFpbGlkPTU1Ng==>* 


We've seen what happened in the USA when coordinated, super-wealthy 
corporate interests set about deliberately reshaping the media landscape 
to suit their agendas. It's bad news for democracy and it's bad news for 
the issues we care about. And while this most recent purchase was a 
brazen move, it's hardly the first time a mining industry executive has 
used their vast wealth to push an agenda.

Last year, Rinehart helped set up a new lobby group calling for a 
special 'Northern Economic Zone' demanding lower tax, government 
concessions and cheap migrant labor from Asia. She helped bankroll the 
campaign against Government efforts to ask the mining industry to pay 
their fair share of tax through the Mining Super Profits tax and she's 
been actively sponsoring prominent climate skeptics like Monckton, Ian 
Plimer and Andrew Bolt, who got his own TV show weeks after she invested 
in Channel Ten.

*You won't want to miss seeing what's really going on. *

*Click here to watch a recording they didn't expect you to see, and 
share it far and wide. 
<http://www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan?t=dXNlcmlkPTU5OTE1NCxlbWFpbGlkPTU1Ng==>*

Thanks for getting the word out, the GetUp team

PS: Gina could really just be the tip of the iceberg. Thirty six hours 
ago fellow billionaire mining magnate and the Liberal Party's biggest 
donor, Clive Palmer, flippantly said that he loved the idea of following 
Rinehart's lead, telling Lateline: "That looks attractive, Fairfax, 
doesn't it? Fairfax looks very exciting. You could have an east-west 
play with Fairfax. Gina should come from the west and buy 15 per cent 
and we could buy 30 per cent from the eastern side of Australia and 
really get the place humming again."^1  Get the real story and spread 
the word here: *www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan 
<http://www.getup.org.au/minersmediaplan?t=dXNlcmlkPTU5OTE1NCxlbWFpbGlkPTU1Ng==>* 


^1  ABC Lateline. Clive Palmer talks to Lateline, February 03, 2012 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-02/clive-palmer-talks-to-lateline/3808642?section=qld 
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-02/clive-palmer-talks-to-lateline/3808642?section=qld&t=dXNlcmlkPTU5OTE1NCxlbWFpbGlkPTU1Ng==>




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