Mag 'pulls out of wedding deal'

Controversial radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands and his fiancee Tamara Jaber have reportedly lost out on $200,000 magazine deal to sell their wedding pics, with a lack of guest celebrities rumoured to have sunk the deal.

Sandilands had in July negotiated to sell New Idea magazine the exclusive rights to cover his wedding next Friday, with the radio star believing the lucrative deal was all stitched up.

But New Idea has pulled the plug at the last minute, the Sydney Morning Herald reports, citing insiders as saying the magazine had gone cold over the lack of a celebrity-filled guest list.

Kevin Rudd and his wife, Therese Rein, and Nicole Kidman had originally been invited to add the necessary glitz for the occasion, the newspaper said.

But all three declined to attend the extravagant do — which includes nine bridesmaids for Jaber and at which the couple will be carried on thrones.

Woman's Day and OK magazine have stepped in to strike a new deal with Sandilands, but the contract is reportedly only worth half of what New Idea had originally been willing to pay.

While Australia's A-list celebrities have snubbed the chance to see Sandilands and Jaber get hitched, there could more than a few average Joes in attendance.

On its website, OK magazine is running a competition giving away 10 double passes to the wedding.

ninemsn 20 Sep 2008

'the couple will be carried out on thrones' - WTF are they anyway??? !!! ??? Serious delusions of Grandeur. Nothing more than just wanna be's as illustrated by his record label "KING KYLE" records.

Nothing more and nothing less than gutter trash entertainment (?? !!) nobodies.

Magazine apologises over McCain photos

The editor of a top US current affairs magazine has vowed to send an apology letter to John McCain after a photographer he hired to carry out a photo shoot with the Republican presidential candidate doctored images to portray him as bloodthirsty — literally.

Atlantic Monthly editor James Bennet says Jill Greenberg "behaved improperly" and will not be paid for the session, but has come under fire for hiring the well-known critic of President George W Bush to carry out the shoot.

Greenberg took several moody back-lit pictures of McCain that she later superimposed with a shark's mouth dripping blood.

She captioned one "I am a bloodthirsty warmongerer" and another "I will have my girl kill Roe v Wade", reference to running mate Sarah Palin's anti-abortion stance, and posted them on her website.

"She has violated the terms of our agreement with her, of our contract with her so we're taking steps," he told Fox News.

"I mean, this photographer went in there under our auspices to take a cover shot for us … but while she was there she behaved in an incredibly underhanded and unprofessional way."

But Bennet has come under fire for not checking the photographer's credentials.

Greenberg came to prominence in 2004 for her photographic exhibition "Four More Years", where she displayed toddlers apparently crying at the prospect of a second Bush presidential term.

She later admitted making the toddlers cry to get the visual effect.

Greenberg also claimed she doctored the image used by the magazine on its cover to make McCain's skin and eyes look bad, but Bennet stands by the image choice.

ninemsn 16 Sep 2008

As a general rule US Politics is not usually entertained, as it is beyond the scope of this blog, BUT the temptation of this article proved too great to resist.

McCain has the (Anglo-Masonic) makeup , and the Warmongering (Many documents now reveal that, Bush's family financed the Nazi's in Germany, together with banks like J.P Morgan) attitude to be the next leader. Obama has a 1 in 5 chance of making it, this time around.

It has been proven that Bush obtained power fraudulently, yet there is nothing ANYONE can do.

He is part of a global military and economic oppressive power (dictatorship). Amongst other things, it is a government that supports the production and distribution of drugs in Afghanistan, via Military channels.

The rights of the citizen of the U.S. are being eroded away, and forcing them into slavery, via the new ACTS. The current constitution will be changed in the years to come, to the detriment of the people.

Deportation order 'revoked after donation'

Former immigration minister Amanda Vanstone reportedly overturned a deportation order against a suspected Melbourne mafia identity after a large donation to the Liberal Party.

The order was revoked 14 months after a large donation was made to the Liberal Party by the man's brother, an alleged Calabrian crime figure, Fairfax newspapers say.

Four Liberal MPs in two states lobbied or contacted Ms Vanstone about Francesco Madafferi's case, Fairfax says.

Madafferi's brother, Antonio, donated $15,000 to the Liberal Party in September 2004 and a further $7,500 in June 2006.

Ms Vanstone granted the visa in November 2005.

However, Fairfax says there is no evidence to show that the donations influenced any decision-making by Ms Vanstone or encouraged any of the politicians to contact her about the case.

But it says the case raises questions about the appropriateness of political parties accepting donations from those seeking favourable visa-related decisions or access to politicians.

Madaferri was ordered to be deported to Italy on character grounds in 2000 by Ms Vanstone's predecessor, Philip Ruddock.

His alleged serious and repeated criminal activity in Italy in the 1980s and his status as an illegal immigrant who had overstayed his tourist visa in 1989 were cited as reasons.

Madafferi, 47, was charged by federal police last month in Melbourne in connection to a syndicate allegedly involved in the world's largest seizure of ecstasy.

20 Sep 2008

Just another example of how corrupt politicians are.

In this case this information has made it out into the public eye. There is NO excuse for this kind of action. Everyone has a price, and in the case of Vanstone, a few thousand, not much cheaper than a high class whore and definitely LESS SATISFYING.

The drug industry especially of this calibre is well known to people higher in the hierarchy. The couriers and dealers that are shown to be caught are only the small fry.

The producers are well known to the people in power, and as a general rule LEFT ALONE

It is a well organised industry that involves, politicians and law makers and enforcers alike. It is the rogue newcomers that are caught / disposed of.

Workers reject Telstra contract offer

Telstra workers have voted to reject a new work contract that unions say would reduce wages and conditions for new workers.

Unions and Telstra have battled for months in the Australian Industrial relations Commission (AIRC) and the Federal Court over Telstra's plan to replace outgoing Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) with a new standard contract in its wholesale and service advantage divisions.

Last weekend, the AIRC ordered Telstra to put the new deal to the vote with workers.

The company announced in a statement on Tuesday that eligible employees voted against the agreement "by a narrow margin".

"Employees will remain on the terms and conditions of the current Telstra enterprise agreement," the statement said.

ACTU assistant secretary Chris Warren said the vote was a "stunning rebuff" for Telstra.

"Telstra workers have been treated very badly by the company's management and it is no wonder they have rejected this non-union job contract," he said.

"Telstra employees have been denied their right to union representation and subjected to almost every trick in the book by management.

"The company's job contract would have turned new employees into second-class workers ( SLAVES) with reduced entitlements to paid overtime, no guarantees of annual pay rises and reduced redundancy."

But Telstra denied ( no one EVER admits ) disadvantaging workers and accused unions of turning the contract issue into a means to influence the federal government's industrial relations policies.

"The ACTU and unions have clearly used this process to pressure the government on policy and, as a result, they have created significant industrial relations uncertainty" a spokesman said.

2008 17 Sep 2008

Maybe the unions should take a look at the EXISTING Telstra Work Contracts. These contracts have been in existence for quites some time, and state that Telstra WILL NOT PAY for your hours worked, whilst simultaneously making huge profit on YOUR WAGES.

This has already been reported here :
http://corpau.blogspot.com/2008/09/telstra-wages-fraud.html