News from the Propaganda War 

Open Letter from Rosia Montana
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:20:08 GMT
Read the hearfelt desires of locals about the gold mine - it may get you to think again about why you should support the mine project

Welcome News: Ban on Cyanide-based Gold Mining Rejected
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:13:58 GMT
Thank you Committee for Industries and Services of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies! 

In an Uncertain World Strike While the Gold is Hot
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:00:02 GMT
Gold is one thousand dollars an ounce - there is no better time for Rosia Montana to mine for its future

“Off with their heads” cried the Queen of Hearts read on

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” read on

Rosia Montana the Political Fooball read on

Believing one's own Propaganda  read on.

Local opposition?: A New Email Exposes Alburnus Maior's international links
A sensational email sets up some very interesting questions for those opposing the mine read on

Stopping the Mine Undermines Democracy
Environmentalist NGOs are set on destroying the prospects of the people of Rosia Montana and undermining democracy itself in Romania
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Workers World join the Deep Greens: Long Live the Socialist Museum of Romania
It seems that the modern world is confusing to some old "Marxists". 
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Harry Eyres Doesn’t Dig Mines
Unlike those living in the comfortable West who call for a curb on Industrial development and want to live a slower life, those living with poverty don’t have that luxury of choice. 
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Backlash to Gold Futures
The unlikely story of PBS, billionaire George Soros, a blogger with a bottle of poison and the Wall Street Journal
click here for responses to the PBS showing of Gold Futures



 

It's Deja Vu All Over Again!
When is a new film not a new film? When it’s a re-hash of a three year old film.

The documentary Gold Futures by the Hungarian film-maker Tibor Kocsis, aired on PBS on Tuesday August 21st is nothing more than a slimmed down version of Kocsis’s first film-fable on Rosia Montana New Eldorado. This version of his fairy story is identical to his previous attempt to hoodwink his audiences – so identical I’d say it’s over 90% the same film – into believing that this is some David and Goliath struggle of plucky local villagers fighting multi-national capitalism. The reality, as anyone who has been to Rosia Montana will know, is of a project supported by the over whelming majority of this village valley and the last best chance the village has to escape its poverty driven decline. One has to wonder why Kocsis in summer 2007 has a need to remake the film and re-heat his myths. Answers to me at Goldenmyths@hotmail.com

Gold Futures is the same old Golden Myths
A new documentary Gold Futures ignores the facts and plays fast and loose with the truth in its investigation of a billion-dollar opencast goldmine in the village of Rosia Montana, high in the Apuseni Mountains of Transylvania, Romania

The documentary Gold Futures will be aired on PBS in the USA on Tuesday August 21st.  It is essentially a re-edited version of an earlier film New Eldorado directed by the same director, Hungarian born Tibor Kocsis. New Eldorado has been shown at many International Documentary Film Festivals, scooping up awards and praise; becoming a must see for anyone with an environmentalist sensibility and those cynical about major development schemes.

for the full story click here
 

When a 96% Poll is 100% Bunk 5 February 2007
The incredible story of desperate environmentalists and an online poll.
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Two sides to every Story 15 December 2006
Article exposing BBC reporting on Rosia Montana.

Documentry Puts Activists in Their Place National Post
Article reviewing film Mine Your Own Business