Secret trade agreement covering 68 percent of world services published by WikiLeaks

Reuters / Toru Hanai

The text of a 19-page, international trade agreement being drafted in secret was published by WikiLeaks on Thursday as the transparency group’s editor commemorated his two-year anniversary confined to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

Fifty countries around the globe have already signed on to the Trade in Service Agreement, or TISA, including the United States, Australia and the European Union. Despite vast international ties, however, details about the deal have been negotiated behind closed-doors and largely ignored by the press.

In a statement published by the group alongside the leaked draft this week, WikiLeaks said “proponents of TISA aim to further deregulate global financial services markets,” and have participated in “a significant anti-transparency manoeuvre” by working secretly on a deal that covers more than 68 percent of world trade in services, according to the Swiss National Center for Competence in Research.

Touting the deal earlier this year, the United States Chamber of Commerce said a successful TISA agreement would benefit America’s services industry and its 96 million, or 84 percent, of the nation’s private sector workers. “As its chief goals, the TISA should expand access to foreign markets for US service industries and ensure they receive national and most-favored nation treatment,” the chamber said of the deal in February. “It should also lift foreign governments’ sectoral limits on investment in services," “eliminate regulatory inconsistencies that at times loom as trade barriers” and “prohibit restrictions on legitimate cross‐border information flows and bar local infrastructure mandates relating to data storage.”
 
WikiLeaks warns that this largely important trade deal has been hardly discussed in public, however, notwithstanding evidence showing that the policy makers involved want to establish rules that would pertain to services used by billions worldwide.

“The draft Financial Services Annex sets rules which would assist the expansion of financial multi-nationals – mainly headquartered in New York, London, Paris and Frankfurt – into other nations by preventing regulatory barriers,” WikiLeaks said in a statement. “The leaked draft also shows that the US is particularly keen on boosting cross-border data flow, which would allow uninhibited exchange of personal and financial data.”
 
Additionally, the current draft also includes language inferring that, upon the finishing of negotiations, the document will be kept classified for five full years.

In Australia, journalists at The Age reported that experts say the proposed changes included within the WikiLeaks document “could undermine Australia's capacity to independently respond to and weather any future global financial crisis.”

Dr. Patricia Ranald, a research associate at the University of Sydney and convener of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network, told the paper that the documents suggest the US wants to “tie the hands” of other governments, including allied ones, by way of sheer deregulation.

“Amendments from the US are seeking to end publicly provided services like public pension funds, which are referred to as 'monopolies' and to limit public regulation of all financial services,” she said. ''They want to freeze financial regulation at existing levels, which would mean that governments could not respond to new developments like another global financial crisis.''
 
Earlier this week, US Trade Representative Michael Froman said the TISA deal was already well on its way to being put together.

"The basic framework of the agreement is in place, initial market access offers have been exchanged, and sector-specific work in areas like telecommunications andfinancialservices is in full swing,” Froman said, according to Reuters.

The document published this week by WikiLeaks is dated April 14 — two months before Froman last weighed in on the progress of the negotiations and six months after his office hailed previous re-write to the proposal. Along with representatives from Canada, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Turkey and dozens others, American policy makers will met in Geneva, Switzerland later this month starting June 23 to begin the next round of negotiations.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, meanwhile, remains confined to Ecuador’s embassy in London where two years ago this Thursday he arrived seeking asylum. Assange, 42, is wanted for questioning in Sweden but fears his arrival there would prompt a swift extradition to the US due to his role in exposing American state secrets.

rt.com 19 Jun 2014

Attorney-General George Brandis set to crack down on illegal downloading of show such as Game of Thrones

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AUSSIES may need to think twice next time they go to download the latest Game of Thrones episode or the hottest new Hollywood blockbuster. 

Monday’s season-four finale of the must-watch fantasy drama became the most-pirated program in history, with 1.5 million people worldwide downloading it illegally within 12 hours of its US screening. It is expected to attract 7.5 million illegal downloads worldwide in coming days.

Australia is the worst offender in the world when it comes to online piracy and the Federal Government has plans to crack down on the practice.

Although the government is tight-lipped on exactly what measures it will pursue, Attorney-General George Brandis says he is considering “legal incentives” for internet service providers to co-operate with copyright owners to prevent illegal sharing.

That means it could become your internet provider’s legal responsibility to try to prevent you downloading illegally, whereas currently they have no such responsibility. ISPs could then introduce a so-called graduated response scheme, which means repeat offenders could be hit with formal warnings and slower internet speeds.

When Game of Thrones’ fourth season premiered in April, more Australians illegally downloaded the program than any other nationality worldwide. Australia accounted for 11.6 per cent of the piracy and Melbourne was the worst-offending city on the globe, according to TorrentFreak.

Mr Brandis expressed his concern to a senate estimates committee that “the legitimate rights and interests of rights holders and content creators are being compromised”.

 

Games of Thrones continues to be one of the most popular targets for online piracy. Source: Supplied

 

FOXTEL FIGHTS BACK

Each episode of Game of Thrones season four has attracted about 525,000 viewers for Foxtel, including repeats, but an equal number of people download each episode illegally every week.

The pay TV provider has branded illegal downloaders as “thieves” and made representations to both sides of politics about the issue for several years.

A spokesman for Foxtel, which is half-owned by news.com.au’s parent company News Corp Australia, said the piracy scourge was a “serious problem”.

“It’s important to understand that it undermines the viability of all creative businesses,” he said.

“It’s not just an issue for businesses, it affects the livelihoods of actors, writers, directors, set designers, and everyone else involved in the production of these programs.”

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Consumer group Choice slammed Foxtel this week, telling the ABC that it only had itself to blame for the number of Australians pirating Game of Thrones because its business model was outdated.

“It expects people to pay for a whole range of products when they may want (just) one. You’re getting Real Housewives of every city, rather than just Game of Thrones, which you want,” Choice’s Erin Turner told the ABC.

Foxtel hit back at this claim, saying it fast-tracked the program, offered flexible ways to enjoy it and offered low-cost options such as the special Games of Thrones subscription for $35 a month.

“The bundled model is the one used around the world, including by HBO in the USA. Without it, many channels and programs would become economically unviable. Incidentally, it’s the same model used by publishers around the world who put content behind a pay wall, including Choice itself,” a Foxtel spokesman told news.com.au.

He acknowledged it was the responsibility of content owners to make content available quickly and conveniently.

 

Actor Claire Danes in Homeland, another popular target for online pirates. Source: Supplied

 

PIRATES IN GOVERNMENT’S SIGHTS

The government is considering ways to deter illegal downloaders as part of a review of the Copyright Act. Although it is yet to detail specific measures, earlier comments by Senator Brandis reveal the methods under consideration:

● The big stick: Speaking to the Australian Digital Alliance copyright forum in February, Mr Brandis floated the idea of a three-strikes policy or a graduated response scheme. This means customers are warned each time they are caught downloading illegally — and could be fined or disconnected from the internet altogether after three strikes

● Hitting ISPs: One option is to compel internet service provides such as Bigpond or iiNet to issue warnings to its customers. However, a landmark High Court ruling in 2012 found that iiNet was not responsible for its customers’ illegal activities

● Block sites: The government could force ISPs to block offending peer-to-peer file-sharing sites, such as BitTorrent or The Pirate Bay. The problem with this is that savvy internet user can bypass these filters with ease.

“The illegal downloading of Australian films online is a form of theft. I say Australian films, but of course, the illegal downloading of any protected content is a form of theft,” Senator Brandis told the Australian Digital Alliance forum.

“The government will be considering possible mechanisms to provide a legal incentive for an internet service provider to co-operate with copyright owners in preventing infringement on their systems and networks.

“This may include looking carefully at the merits of a scheme whereby ISPs are required to issue graduated warnings to consumers who are using websites to facilitate piracy.”

News.com.au approached the Attorney-General’s Office to comment on this story but a spokesman declined to confirm which measures were being considered.

 

With Games of Thrones over for another season, Australians have been illegally downloading Orange is the New Black in their thousands. Source: Supplied

news.com.au 20 Jun 2014

Once again , the corporate media in this case Rupert Murdoch's  News Corporation is responsible for providing false information to the general populous.

• The Attorney General in this case George Brandis is not in office lawfully.

• The Copyright Act (1968?? - not stated by news.com.au) is an unlawfully carried out Act and therefore invalid.

 

Chief Justice debate: Tim Carmody controversy may disqualify him from cases, retired QC Doug Drummond says

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 Photo: Mr Drummond says it must have been clear that questions about Judge Carmody's political impartiality could cause problems. (ABC News, file image)

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Former Federal Court judge Doug Drummond QC has warned the controversy surrounding Queensland's new Chief Justice Tim Carmody could disqualify him from presiding over high-profile or controversial cases.

Mr Drummond said litigants could raise the accusations of political bias against Judge Carmody if they wanted him removed from a case.

Judge Carmody is due to take over as leader of the state's court system next month.

He has firmly rejected claims he is politically biased for his perceived support of Newman Government policies.

But Mr Drummond said Judge Carmody's denials did not make much difference.

"It doesn't put this whole matter to rest for Judge Carmody to say... he'll be fiercely independent," he said.
"The point is if people have a justified perception he's biased, it's the same as if he's deeply biased."

Mr Drummond said Federal MP Clive Palmer's defamation battle with the Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, and possibly with Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney, could test the issue.

If other judges rule that Judge Carmody is disqualified from sitting on a case for apparent bias, what consequence does that have for his chief justiceship?

Doug Drummond QC

He argued it must have been clear to the Newman Government that questions about Judge Carmody's political impartiality could cause problems.

"It's going to come before the court at some stage and it's not rocket science to start to wonder about whether if Judge Carmody sits on the case, there'll be a challenge by Palmer that he at least appears to be biased in favour of the other litigants," Mr Drummond said.

"It's not rocket science to foresee that's a possible situation."

Mr Drummond said if Judge Carmody's independence was questioned, the issue must be settled by other judges.

"Other judges will inevitably have to rule on that question - they may support him, but they may not - that provides an enormous problem," he said.

"If other judges rule that Judge Carmody is disqualified from sitting on a case for apparent bias, what consequence does that have for his chief justiceship?

"How can he continue to be Chief Justice."

Judge Carmody should have 'courage' to withdraw from position

Court of Appeal Justice John Muir also weighed into the debate last night, calling on Judge Carmody to withdraw from the position.

Justice Muir is the latest in a list of eminent legal figures questioning the elevation of Judge Carmody and the impartiality of the process.

In a speech to the North Queensland Bar Association, Justice Muir said it was the only appropriate course of action, given the unfortunate way the saga has unfolded and the obvious lack of support for the Chief Magistrate's elevation to the office.

No court, no matter how dedicated its members, can perform to anything like its full potential if the Chief Justice does not have the judges' respect and confidence.

Justice John Muir

Justice Muir told his audience that by asserting his independence, Judge Carmody has engaged in conduct that called it into question.

He also argued the controversy over the appointment has the potential to adversely affect the working of the Supreme Court and weaken public confidence in the administration of justice.

Justice Muir took a swipe at Judge Carmody's bid to sell himself to Queenslanders via media interviews, saying the public had been faced with the unseemly spectacle of a man soon-to-be Chief Justice spruiking his credentials.

"The qualities of competence, independence and impartiality in a Chief Justice are even more important than they are in a puisne (junior) judge," Justice Muir said in his speech.

"Their existence is established by conduct not assertion.

"A Chief Justice may influence and guide his judicial colleagues by the moral authority he exerts, the respect he commands and by his example, never by dictate."

'Not the smartest lawyer in the room'

Justice Muir said the insights provided were less than reassuring.

 

 

Photo: Chief Magistrate Tim Carmody is due to take over as leader of the state's court system next month. (AAP - file photo)

 

He quoted Judge Carmody saying "nobody would argue I'm not the smartest lawyer in the room".

"He need not be the intellectual leader of the court, but he must command respect for his capability in discharging his judicial duties," Justice Muir said.

"He must certainly display no less intellectual rigour than the judges he leads.

"He will certainly have the respect and confidence of those he is to lead.

"No court, no matter how dedicated its members, can perform to anything like its full potential if the Chief Justice does not have the judges' respect and confidence."


Self-promotion calls independence into question

Justice Muir said the self-promotion also appeared to be meshed with the State Government's message over its decision to appoint him.

"The Chief Magistrate's self-promotion as a self-made man of humble background, accurate though it may be, meshed with the executive's message," he said.

"Ironically, the Chief Magistrate, when asserting his independence, was engaged in conduct that called it into question."

Justice Muir said Judge Carmody had no option but to withdraw from the role, due to the obvious lack of support from the legal fraternity and the unfortunate way in which the saga surrounding his appointment has unfolded.

"To take this course will require courage, but I do not apprehend that this is a quality that the Chief Magistrate lacks," he said.

Justice Muir is the 'first serving judge to speak out'

Civil libertarians say criticism of the appointment of the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is not coming from the usual quarters.

Australian Council for Civil Liberties president Terry O'Gorman has told Fairfax Radio that Justice Muir's comments are significant.

If you've got essentially a conga line of conservative lawyers saying this is a huge problem - then it follows - it is a huge problem.

Terry O"Gorman from Qld Council for Civil Liberties

"He's the first serving judge to speak out and he has in effect said Judge Carmody has no support in the Supreme Court," he said.

"If that's the case, then clearly Judge Carmody has a problem in going ahead and being sworn in."

Mr O'Gorman says many of the critics are seen as politically conservative, including retired judges Richard Chesterman and James Thomas, and former Queensland Bar Association president Peter Davis.

"If you've got essentially a conga line of conservative lawyers saying this is a huge problem - then it follows - it is a huge problem," he said.

Queensland Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says it is unprecedented for a sitting judge to make scathing criticism of the new Chief Justice.

Ms Palaszczuk says Mr Bleijie must explain his decision and he should resign.

"We cannot have a situation where we have the Attorney-General of Queensland hiding in a corner like some little school kid, unprepared to face the music and explain his fundamental decision-making process," she said.

We cannot have a situation where we have the Attorney-General of Queensland hiding in a corner like some little school kid, unprepared to face the music and explain his fundamental decision-making process.

Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk

Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie and Premier Campbell Newman have been unavailable for media interviews today.

A spokesman for Mr Bleijie says Judge Carmody has the keen legal knowledge, administrative skills and integrity that are essential qualities for the role of Chief Justice.

At a function on the Gold Coast, Queensland Treasurer Tim Nicholls tried to stay out of the controversy.
"I'm not prepared to weigh into that matter - that's something for the Premier and the Attorney-General - they've made statements on it," Mr Nicholls said.

"I'm looking at making sure that we can afford to provide law and order, that we can provide more police."

New Chief Magistrate announced

Meanwhile, the State Government has appointed a new Chief Magistrate to replace Judge Carmody.
Current Deputy Chief Magistrate Ray Rinaudo will be promoted to the role when Judge Carmody takes up his new position.

Mr Rinaudo has served as a Queensland Magistrate for nine years.
Leanne O'Shea will replace him as Deputy Chief Magistrate.

abc.net.au 20 Jun 2014

Every single person who sits in a place of business called a 'court' who is called a judge/magistrate/judicial clerk, etc is there UNLAWFULLY and therefore a criminal.

This is a fact that the corporate media does not report on.

Australia's judicature is a 100% corrupt organisation operating fraudulently.

The corporate media's silence on this matter is proof that they support this corporate fraud.

Police hit with 661 criminal charges

Victorian police officers have been charged more than 600 times with criminal offences including drug trafficking, rape and possession and production of child pornography since 2006.

Figures obtained under freedom of information show that internal police investigators charged a total of 177 officers with 661 offences from July 2006 to June 2012.

Police Association secretary Greg Davies, when asked about criminality in the police force, suggested there might have been a failure to spot the ''bad eggs'' at the recruiting stage but said more than 99 per cent of officers were hard-working and honest. ''The data shows that [criminality] is at a constant rate. You'd prefer it was zero but at least it's not increasing,'' he said.

Mr Davies said the association had a $22 million legal representation fund.

The figures show that internal investigators charged 30 officers with 133 offences in the year to June 2012, the most recent period for which figures were available. A total of 16 per cent of the charges were the result of public complaints, compared with 57 per cent in the year to June 2007.

Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Professional Standards Command Emmett Dunne said: ''Victoria Police has an uncompromising stance against officers who break the law. Any officer found guilty of a criminal offence is subject not only to the punishment of the courts, but also thorough internal investigation and a range of sanctions including dismissal.

''Victoria Police has around 13,000 operational police members and each year has more than 750,000 … interactions with the community. While the number of complaints arising from those interactions is a low percentage, we take all complaints very seriously.''

Criminologist Ian Warren said that, historically, criminal charges against corrupt police were rare, so greater oversight by Professional Standards Command could be seen as having a preventative effect.

''The real problem arises when the corruption is widespread and there are no formal measures to keep it in check. These figures suggest the ethical standards department is taking corruption seriously,'' said Dr Warren, senior lecturer in criminology at Deakin University.

theage.com.au 17 Mar 2013

The amount of corrupt criminal cops in Victoria is astounding.

The whole slate should be wiped clean and new police personnel put in place, BUT is it very doubtful that this will occur, given the fact that the CEO (head of police) Ken Lay is part of the corruption

As long as the police reign in 'speeding' criminals, (people who travel 1km/h or 0.62mph over the speed limit in their automobile), then all is well.

Victoria Police is a (criminal organisation) company that operates for profit, which has nothing to do with serving or protecting the public, as thought by many, NOR being subservient to the reigning monarch Queen Elizabeth II.

The new breed of billioaires

The new breed of global billionaires will come from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Source: Supplied

JAKARTA, Nairobi, Ordos, Mumbai.   

They might not quite have the ring of London or New York but these could be the billionaire playgrounds of the future, if a recent wealth report is to be believed.

International development company Knight Frank’s 2014 Global Wealth Report analysed the views of more than 23,000 ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWI) with a combined value of $1.5 trillion on everything from where they come from to how they feel about the economic climate.

It found the face of the ultra-wealthy is set to change drastically, with the biggest growth coming from the Middle East, Latin America and Africa which have already more than doubled their number of UHNWIs in the last decade.

Nairobi is set to be an economic powerhouse of the future. Pictured, fans react to the opening match of the World Cup. Pic: Tony Karumba.Source: AFP

While London and New York are still home to the largest number of billionaires, most of the growth in the last year has come from outside the US and Europe. The most important cities for growth in 2013 were Jakarta (up 38 per cent), Dubai (up 17 per cent), Dublin (up 18 per cent), Sao Paulo (up 13 per cent) and Nairobi (up 5 per cent).

MORE: Who will be the world’s first trillionaire

In the next decade the number of Africans with more than $100 million (known as centa-millionaires) is set to rise by 50 per cent. The continent is also expected to be home to 38 billionaires and grow at a faster rate than most of the world’s developed nations.

The report also found Asia will remain a huge force in global wealth, home to all but one of the top 25 cities for growth in UHNWIs over the next decade. The fastest growing countries include Vietnam, where the number of people with more than $30 million in assets will grow by 166 per cent. Indonesia (144 per cent), along with Cote d’Ivoire, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Indian Tanzania, Ethiopia and Ghana — albeit off a low base.

Ho Chi Minh City is set to experience the most growth over the next decade when it comes to UHNWIs. Pictured, Hotel Rex in Ho Chi Minh City.Source: Supplied

Rapid growth in Vietnam is partly due to a relaxing of foreign investment rules that allow greater foreign ownership of listed companies and efforts to move the economy away from agriculture and towards industry and manufacturing. It’s a similar picture in the billionaire stakes with Indonesia, India and China leading the charge.

Former Goldman Sachs chairman Jim O’Neill said the changing face is part of a global shift driven partly by demographics. He dubbed the emerging economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey the MINTs with “fabulous” demographics that can help accelerate economic growth.

“They not only have big populations, but there’s a balance between young and elderly ... This means they don’t need to do that much to grow by even faster rates in the decades ahead.”

London is home to the most billionaires at present, but that is expected to change.Source: Supplied

China will also remain a huge force, with the number of billionaires growing by 80 per cent in the next ten years, according to the report. Mr O’Neill said economic growth around seven per cent means the country is effectively adding $1 trillion to its economy every year, the equivalent of adding another Germany or Japan by the end of the decade.

Changing wealth patterns have also influenced spending habits. The Middle East, Africa and Latin America are taking the lead in terms of demand for foreign education, luxury spending and property investment.

Rolls Royce CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös said the company’s record performance in 2013 was driven by growth in luxury markets, with sales up 17 per cent in the Middle East and 11 per cent in China, plus strong sales in Japan, Istanbul, Beirut, Lagos, Hanoi and Perth.

For most of the world’s wealthy their home is still a major investment — accounting for up to 30 per cent of their wealth in some cases. Cities are the most popular spot to live although vineyards, rural retreats and ski chalets are popular as second investments.

Mexican telecommunications tycoon Carlos Slim is already one of the world’s richest men.Source: AP

The rich are also getting richer. Three quarters of those interviewed said their fortune had grown over the last year, while just four per cent said it had fallen. The stock market is still their favourite way to make money, with 70 per cent saying they would increase their share holdings this year.

In terms of risks, the ultra-rich thought their main barrier to wealth creation came from global economic conditions (33 per cent) local economic conditions (19 per cent) and local political situation (18 per cent). One of the respondents, Lord Harris of Peckham who is a successful entrepreneur based in the UK said he is taking less risks in the current climate. Although Malaysian steel magnate Tan Sri A K Nathan said he plans to expand across the region in the years ahead.

Take a look at projected growth figures from Knight Frank across the next decade:
Ultra high net worth individuals ($30 million plus)

Africa - up 53 per cent
Asia - up 43 per cent
Australasia - up 18 per cent
Europe - up 21 per cent
Latin America - up 42 per cent
Middle East - up 35 per cent
North America - up 20 per cent
Global growth - up 28 per cent

Centa-millionaires (more than $100 million)

Africa - up 51 per cent
Asia - up 52 per cent
Australasia - up 20 per cent
Europe - up 22 per cent
Latin America - up 44 per cent
Middle East - up 36 per cent
North America - up 20 per cent
Global growth - up 31 per cent

Billionaires

Africa - up 52 per cent
Asia - up 66 per cent
Australasia - up 19 per cent
Europe - up 25 per cent
Latin America - up 45 per cent
Middle East - up 35 per cent
North America - up 21 per cent
Global growth - up 38 per cent

news.com.au 19 Jun 2014

Another bit of misinformation by the corporate media.

The allegation here is that (one of) the world's richest person is Carlos Slim.

The corproate media does NOT mention the (trillion dollar) fortunes of the Rothschild's banking dynasty.

Conspiracy Theory?

Kissing, cuddling child not sexual abuse ‘as I would understand the term’, says Marist Brother Anthony Hunt at royal commission

Brother Anthony Hunt, former superior of the Marist Brothers Community in Lismore, said he had never reported the behaviour of serial paedophile Brother Gregory Sutton (pictured). Source: Supplied

THEFT? Now that’s a crime. But what about child sexual ­assault? No way. 
 
In a remarkable admission to the child sex abuse royal commission yesterday, the former deputy head of a Marist Brothers high school said he had not considered it a crime in the late 1980s.

Brother Anthony Hunt, formerly at Trinity Catholic College at Lismore and once superior of the Marist Brothers community in Lismore was asked if he was “being serious”.

Brother Hunt, 72, was quizzed on allegations against paedophile Brother Gregory Sutton, a teacher at St Carthage’s Primary School at the time.

He said that he had been concerned at Sutton’s apparent immaturity but did not think it had been a sexual ­assault when told Sutton had kissed and cuddled one pupil.

Commissioner Jennifer Coate, of the Family Court, asked Brother Hunt if he had understood child sexual ­assault was a crime when he was deputy at St Mary’s Lismore and then when it merged with Trinity, from 1984 to1988.

“At that time I did not ­associate it with the word ‘crime’,” Brother Hunt said.

Justice Coate: “Did you know theft was a crime?”

Brother Hunt: “Yes. Yes, certainly.”

Justice Coate: “Had you heard the word ‘paedophile’?”

Brother Hunt: “No. I had not.”

Justice Coate: “ ... despite you reading newspapers and watching television, it had never come to your attention that you saw any person charged with sexual assault ­offences against children?”

Brother Hunt: “I don’t specifically remember but I can’t rule it out.”

Justice Coate: “Is that a ­serious answer to the royal commission?”

Brother Hunt said he ­regretted not doing more about Sutton at the time.

The commission has heard he did not report Sutton ­because he did not think he had any specific allegations.
Brother Hunt said he had not been concerned when Sutton set up his train set in the laundry behind the monastery where four or six boys often gathered to watch the trains and he had “certainly not” seen any boys in Sutton’s room.

In 1997, Sutton was jailed for 12 years after admitting 67 counts of child sexual assault.

Brother Hunt was told yesterday that one boy was abused in Sutton’s bedroom while a 10-year-old girl was abused on the table next to the train set.

The inquiry continues.

dailytelegraph.com.au 18 June 2014

Another matter where the criminal action of child abuse most likely will go unpunished by the Australia's corrupt legal system.
 

Vic transport dept in corruption probe

VICTORIA'S anti-corruption watchdog will investigate how lucrative contracts to build transport infrastructure were awarded to companies with ties to public servants. 
 
THE Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) will examine contracts awarded from 2007 to 2013 for projects including the construction of new railway car parks, and the supply and installation of bus infrastructure.

It is alleged the companies involved were established, or controlled by, current or former Department of Transport (DOT) or Public Transport Victoria (PTV) workers.

A statement posted on the IBAC website says its Operation Fitzroy investigation will examine systems and controls in place at the DOT and PTV concerning procurement.

It will also focus on "instances of officers of the DOT, and PTV, providing benefits to themselves, their family, friends or associated and other conflicts of interest".

Public Transport Minister Terry Mulder has acknowledged the investigation into his department.

 "The IBAC was established by the Victorian coalition government to investigate allegations of serious corrupt conduct," Mr Mulder said on Wednesday.

"It is not appropriate for me to provide any comment on the current investigation being conducted by the commission."

The IBAC was established in February 2013 to investigate allegations of serious public sector corruption in Victoria, and Operation Fitzroy will be its first to include public hearings. The hearings will begin on July 21.

news.com.au 18 Jun 2014

Corrupt dealings in 'government' have been going on for decades, but no action has been taken.

There is very little doubt that the anti corruption will ever get to the bottom of the matter, as some of the state's largest projects are entered into with corrupt dealings with enormous payments of bribes.

Australian Judges are FRAUDS, LIARS, CRIMINALS, TRAITORS & FOOLS.

FRAUDS: 
Federal Judges must be appointed by the Governor-General and State Judges by the State Governors who must have been appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. However, Privy Council and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in London confirm that the Queen does not and can not appoint the Governor- General nor the Governors because she is the Head of State of the United Kingdom and has no executive powers exercisable in the Commonwealth of Australia.

Therefore, any appointments made by these false representatives of the Queen are also fraudulent and those “Judges” have no authority or jurisdiction, whatsoever.

LIARS: 
Common Law demands that an essential element in the creation of a contract is “certainty of terms”. Variable interest rates render a contract void for uncertainty because “variable” means “uncertain” and “certain” means “not variable” (Oxford English Dictionary). However, Australian Judges say and maintain that variable interest rates are indeed certain. That is a lie with which they conceal the illegality of variable interest rate loan contracts.

CRIMINALS: 
Australian Judges conceal 2 major counts of fraud committed by Banks. The first is the fraud of variable interest rate loan contracts (above) and the second is the fact that Banks create money for themselves “out of thin air” and inject it into the economy as loans, which they recoup with interest. These fraudulent practices by the Banks amount to hundreds of billions of dollars and have resulted in the illegal dispossession of homes and businesses as well as bankruptcy, family breakdown, suicide and hardship to many ordinary Australians. Australian Judges aid and abet in this atrocity.

TRAITORS: 
Australian Judges swear to well and truly serve Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second and to do right to all manner of people without fear or favour, affection or ill-will. In the Queen’s Coronation Oath, she promised to execute Law and Justice with Mercy in all her Judgments. Apart from the Queen being the Head of State of a foreign power, Australian Judges betray that allegiance and betray the Australian People through their Corruption and the denial of Justice.

FOOLS: 
Listed in Australia’s Constitutional Enactments are Magna Carta 1297, Petition of Right 1627, Habeas Corpus 1640 and Bill of Rights 1688 which guarantee the Right to Trial by Jury – the denial of which is punishable by 5 years imprisonment (Imperial Acts Application Act 1969, section 43). Bill of Rights 1688 actually says that “counsellors, judges and ministers” who “subvert and extirpation the laws and liberties of the kingdom” are “evil”. All evil-doers are fools.

- Written by John Wilson, http://www.rightsandwrong.com.au

Queen Elizabeth II signature on oath - Invalid

Aside from the fact that Queen Elizabeth II is an illegitimate monarch, a document that is purported to be her oath to the Commonwealth, that carries her signature indicates that the oath is invalid.

According to law, for any document to bear any legal status, it must contain a signature that follows the content of the document, at the end of the document's content.

The document (titled Exhibit 1) is the oath by Queen Elizabeth II where the Queen's signature appears at the top of the document.

This action invalidates the legality of the document.

See illustration below:

Noosa tollbuster Bob claims fees are not consitutional

 

TOLL WOES: Bob Jarvis beats Motorway toll as the case against him is withdrawn from court. Geoff Potter

NOOSA fish and chip shop owner Bob Jarvis may be the ultimate tollbuster after two charges of non-payment for using the Gateway Motorway were withdrawn.

Mr Jarvis maintains the method of payment for tolls is unconstitutional and was planning to argue his case in court when the Department of Transport and Main Roads emailed him to say that they would be offering no evidence and would request the court formally dismiss the charges.

This ex-Noosa councillor and shrewd "bush lawyer" believes the state backed off prosecuting him because he knows the Australian Constitution "backwards" and had them dead to rights.

The Noosa News points out that Mr Jarvis's arguments were not tested in court so this is not a legal precedent.

If Mr Jarvis's arguments hold any legal water then millions of dollars of revenue from tolls could be at stake unless the toll operators go back to the old system of charging via onsite toll booths.

Despite Mr Jarvis's written requests, the department legal officer handling his case has not revealed why the toll charges were withdrawn.

The alleged toll breach stemmed from a tollway trip he made on the Gateway Motorway on July 11 last year.
Mr Jarvis was issued with a court summons in March for unpaid toll movements at the Murrarie South and Heathwood West toll points and on December 20 last year he was issued with a demand to pay $140 for failing to comply with a toll demand notice.

Mr Jarvis elected for a court hearing which was set down in the Holland Park Magistrates Court for September 21 this year.

"I thought because they had so much evidence - photos with my number plate on it, everything - I thought if I'm going to go to court I'm really going to have to fight," he said.

"I told them in my letters that 'you must have a copy of the Australian Constitution with you' and 'you must have a copy of Chapter 5 The States Section 115 and you must read it'."

He argues that section which states: "A State shall not coin money nor make anything but gold and silver coin a legal tender in payments of debts" means the only legal tolls are those that allow for coin payments.

"I just don't pay tolls. I just don't believe they're legal," Mr Jarvis said.

"I mean I used to pay tolls when there were coin baskets there, but now they've actually added on to the toll fees a video fee.

"They are actually charging you for the cost of operating the toll cameras on top of the toll fee.

"I reckon if nobody from now, never paid a toll, if they all just said 'go jump in the lake' then all of that toll system would be abandoned. It's too hard to go back to the old system".

Mr Jarvis asked the department legal officer to respond to his view that under the constitution: "you can only get money for a service at the start, during, or at the end while using a commodity, or service, or purchasing goods at the point where that is occurring".

"You can't send them somewhere else to pay for that service," he said as is the case with etoll payments.

"In other words you can only make that person pay a toll when they start on the toll way, during their journey on that toll way or at the end of their journey.

"The thousands and thousands of dollars they spend on cameras could be then spent on upgrading the roads."

A Department of Transport and Main Roads spokeswoman said the department cannot disclose information about infringement notices for privacy reasons.

 However it has communicated its reasons for the decision to discontinue the charges with Bob Jarvis, denying the toll charges were under a legal cloud.

 "We can advise the reasons for withdrawing the charges were not related to the constitutional law issues alleged by Mr Jarvis," she said.

 "The department maintains the ability to charge tolls and how they are charged is lawful and consistent."

noosanews.com.au 1 Nov 2012

Another fraud committed by businesses.

This fraud is also current for Victoria.

Facebook opens ports for authorities to hack computers

It may be widely accepted by computer users, that the term 'hacking' may have several definitions, of which one would be that of:

 - illegal or unauthorised access to networks and/or computers.

It can also be accepted that if a user is caught in illegal access to computers/networks they are most likely to be prosecuted and incarcerated.

It must also be noted that the term 'authorities' is loosely used as it describes a plethora of companies or businesses rather than any 'official' lawfully formed government institutions, especially when used in context within Australia.

Facebook works together with 'authorities' in providing information both officially, and covertly (without the user's knowledge) to various businesses within government.

The 'smart phone' version of the application has access to the user's microphone and cameras in order for the operator at the other end to record audio and take images/video all without the user's knowledge.

From the Personal Computer side, in order for the operators of Facebook to access the user's computer, have access to files and to be able to download them, all WITHOUT the knowledge of the user the following 'ports' are opened:

C:\Users\nebula>netstat

Active Connections

...

Protocol_Local Address:Port Number_Foreign Address_State

TCP 127.0.0.1:49784 nebula-PC:49785 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:49785 nebula-PC:49784 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.5:51526 74.125.196.125:5222 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.5:52976 syd01s18-in-f22:https ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.5:52992 edge-star-shv-03-nrt1:https ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.5:53027 channel-proxy-shv-13-prn1:https ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.5:53045 syd01s18-in-f14:https ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.5:53174 ec2-54-225-165-57:http ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.5:53177 59.167.18.9:https TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.0.5:53182 syd01s18-in-f2:https TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.0.5:53184 syd01s18-in-f2:http CLOSE_WAIT
TCP 192.168.0.5:53186 ec2-54-225-165-57:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.0.5:53187 ec2-54-225-165-57:http ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.5:56072 channel-proxy-shv-06-frc1:https ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.5:65420 tf-in-f188:5228 ESTABLISHED

Table author: Conscious Entity

Hillary Clinton laughs about helping accused child rapist

Hilary Clinton discusses helping accused child rapist Thomas Alfred Taylor walk free in the 1970s in old audio interview. Courtesy University of Arkansas Libraries.

 

Haunted by the past ... an audio recording of Hillary Clinton laughing about an old child rape case has resurfaced. Source: AP

 

IN A newly discovered audio interview Hillary Clinton laughs as she details how she got a plea bargain for a man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl, even though she seemed to think he was guilty. 

In 1975, the same year she married Bill, Ms Clinton (then 27-year-old Hillary Rodham) agreed to serve as the court-appointed attorney for Thomas Alfred Taylor, a 41-year-old who was accused of getting the child drunk and raping her in his car.

In the recordings, intended for an Esquire profile that was never published, Ms Clinton casually explained how she got her client to walk free.

HILLARY’S VERDICT ON JULIA AND MISOGYNY
 
“It was a fascinating case, it was a very interesting case,” Clinton said in one of the interviews, which the Washington Free Beacon dated between 1983-1987. “This guy was accused of raping a 12-year-old. Course he claimed that he didn’t, and all this stuff.”

She added, laughing: “I had him take a polygraph, which he passed — which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs.”

Ms Clinton could also be heard laughing as she discussed the crime lab’s accidental destruction of DNA evidence that linked Taylor to the crime.

 

The early days ... former Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary celebrate his victory in the Democratic run-off in Little Rock on June 8, 1982. Source: News Limited

 

“You know, what was sad about it,” Ms Clinton said, “was that the prosecutor had evidence, among which was [Taylor’s] underwear, which was bloody.

“The crime lab took the pair of underpants, neatly cut out the part that they were gonna test, tested it, came back with the result of what kind of blood it was what was mixed in with it — then sent the pants back with the hole in it to evidence. Of course the crime lab had thrown away the piece they had cut out.”

Ms Clinton said she got permission from the court to take the underwear to a top forensics expert in New York to see if he could confirm that the evidence had been invalidated.

“The story through the grape vine was that if you could get [this investigator] interested in the case then you had the foremost expert in the world willing to testify, so maybe it came out the way you wanted it to come out,” she said.

The investigator said there was not enough blood left on the underwear to test, which ultimately caused the Arkansas judge to offer Taylor a plea deal.

Taylor, who died in 1992, pleaded to unlawful fondling of a child and was sentenced to one year in prison, with two months reduced for time served.

The Hillary Clinton tapes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e2f13f2awK4

news.com.au 17 June 2014

Sociopath leaders that are of similar ilk to the Nazi Germany rulers.