Rene Rivkin - Corporate Fraud, reward.

One name that comes easily into mind when one thinks of corporate fraud in Australia is that name, Rene Rivkin.

Being a person of influence one would expect one to have friends like doctors, lawyers, judges, politicians and the like, of course naturally some if not all being part of the boys club. This becomes more evident as more sequence of events unfold.

One of Rene’s rises to fame was that of a transaction which included the purchase of a company not its worth of $3 million dollars, then insuring it for $50 million, and then burning it down, naturally collecting on the way out.

An operation of such complexity cannot be carried out by one’s lonesome, and has to involve all sorts of people. Since there was no other option, than to lodge an inquiry into the matter, prior to Rivkin’s testimony (which would implicate others, eg. Politicians, insurers, etc), he conveniently committed suicide.

One of the most important facts that the mainstream media puts an unconditional blanket on is that the Anglo-Masonic law system, together with its peers realistically ‘rewards’ those so called ‘individuals’ who commit crimes against the ‘commoners’. In Rene’s case, he defrauded the Australian public of monies, through insider trading. The punishment served on Rivkin can only be described as a joke. The court system ‘punished’ Rivkin, with a weekend jail sentence, for nine months, which was postponed most of the time, supported by claims, with a doctor’s certificate, that he was unfit to serve jail time, yet he was not unfit to commit fraud.

The banning of his stock broking license mean absolutely zero, as he could entrust anyone to carry on his business deals.

This is a classic example of how corrupt the Australian legal system is, to the detriment of the Australian public, but to the benefit of the chosen few.

some information on : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Rivkin

Corey Worthington set to star in Big Brother

Australia hasn't seen the last of suburban hell raiser Corey Worthington and his trademark yellow sunglasses — the Victorian teenager is set to appear on this year's series of Big Brother.

The 17-year-old, who gained worldwide notoriety after hosting a massive party at his parent’s house in Melbourne, is believed to have secured a spot as an intruder on the Channel Ten series, the Daily Telegraph reports.

Producers of the television show are believed to have contacted Corey after his party made headlines but his agent, Max Markson, has played down the reports.

"We had talks and there has been speculation," Markson was quoted by the Telegraph as saying.

"This is rumour and nothing more." A Channel 10 spokeswoman wouldn't confirm whether the teen would make an appearance on the show when it returns on April 28.

This isn't the first time the show is said to have been in contact with Worthington: he was reportedly offered a hosting role on the show by the producers in January.

"His fame and notoriety hasn't escaped the executive producers of Big Brother ... he would deliver the Ten demographic in droves," a Channel Ten source said in January.

But former BB runner-up Tim Brunero told ninemsn Worthington would be like "a tissue in the rain" under Big Brother's non-stop scrutiny.

"This is a guy who can't even take his glasses off, so I think he's going to last about 20 minutes under this sort of scrutiny," he said.

"So far we know the first housemate is a Pauline Hanson-supporting 52-year-old … I think she's going to make mincemeat of him."

Brunero also claimed the show would move back to its social experiment roots after last year's lacklustre episodes and ratings.

"I think it's going to be back-to-basics, Big Brother the social experiment: one thing they're bragging about is there aren't going to be any promo models or boring people," he said.

"It's not going to be as much about beautiful people and who called who a moll. "The contestants will likely be from a wide spectrum of mindsets and lifestyles, not a boring homogenous group.

"It may be making a transition from being a kids show to an adults show."

Brunero will be part of an adult-focused BB panel show Big Mouth on Tuesdays with Tony Squires and Rebecca Wilson and will also commentate on the series at his website.

ninemsn 21 Apr 2008

Just plain old Trailer park Trash, now promoted to Entertainment Trash. In reality his initial party was a failure, as it got out of control and involved police. Nothing to be proud of there. The general media is responsible for promoting this trash onto the impressionable youth of today.

Four-year-old kids bullied into kickboxing

Children as young as four are being plunged into the cutthroat arena of competitive kickboxing by over-zealous parents.

A new British television documentary shows young boys and girls trading blows in the bloodsport — with many breaking down in tears as parents harrass them from the sidelines.

In one instance, five-year-old girl Miah Flanagan is seen on the Channel 4 documentary wearing large punching gloves as she sobs beside the boxing ring.

Her twin brother Kian is later shown receiving a sharp knock to the face from his kickboxing partner.

The children's MuayThai boxing bouts happen within an adult-sized boxing ring, with parents shouting tips such as "come on Princess, go forward, kick 'em, kick 'em."

The documentary is screening in Britain this week.

Britain has no age restrictions for youngsters taking part in MuayThai boxing, which is taught by over 500 registered clubs around the country.

There are also no official rules about children wearing protective headgear.

The Flanagans' father, Darren, believes the hits his children are taking now will stand them in good stead for the future.

"If someone grabs Miah when she's 15, what do you think is going to happen?" he is quoted as saying in Britain's Daily Mail newspaper.

"Miah knows all the defence moves. Anyway [she] loves it — she's like a ballet dancer with boxing gloves at the moment."

Mr Flanagan said he fed his daughter more food to bulk her up if she was facing an older or heavier opponent.

In Australia, children must be at least 14 years old to compete in Thai boxing, according to kickboxing association president Robert Murdoch.

But there are no age limits on kids taking part in other martial arts, he said.

ninemsn 21 Apr 2008

Fat corpses 'put morgue staff at risk'

Morgue staff are reportedly risking serious back injury due to an alarming increase in seriously overweight corpses.

Almost 30 percent of bodies that are submitted for autopsies are now obese, News Ltd reports.

"Autopsies have been performed on floors, or with a pathologist leaning from a ladder, or actually standing on the trolley over a body," News Ltd reported pathologist Professor Byard as saying.

Professor Byard is calling for specialist equipment to minimise risk to employees.

ninemsn 19 April 2008

Telstra to sell remainder of Kaz

TELSTRA'S long-suffering involvement with the IT services arena is almost at an end, with the telco expected to sell the final remnant of its Kaz services business in the near future.

It is understood Telstra is engaged in discussions with an international IT services firm to buy the remainder of Kaz, which was bought by the telco for $333 million in 2004, but in more recent times has been carved up and sold off piecemeal.

The deal is expected to be finalised by the end of the financial year, but a source close to the negotiations said: "I can't see it going past a month."

Over the past year, Telstra conducted a lengthy review of its Kaz business and chief executive Sol Trujillo has made it clear the business is not necessarily considered as core for the company's future.

Early last year, Telstra removed responsibility for its big four accounts from Kaz, which includes NAB, Woolworths, Westpac and Qantas. These are now managed in Telstra's enterprise and government group.

This coincided with the jobs of 650 Kaz staff being shifted to within Telstra.

Telstra is understood to have been in discussions with prospective Kaz acquirers for the past couple of months, but as these talks entered the formal stages, negotiations hung on the issue of price.

The telco is understood to be pushing for a purchase price around the $100 million mark, which would allow it to recoup its original investment in Kaz. Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Fujitsu have all been rumoured as potential bidders for Kaz.

Telstra has realised about $230 million from slicing parts of Kaz over the past couple of years, including $215 million when it sold superannuation processing subsidiary AAS in 2006.

Telstra was unavailable for comment yesterday.

AustralianIT Mahesh Sharma | February 21, 2008

Kaz imports and outsources cheap labour.

One of the easiest cheap and nasty ways to make a substantial quick profit, in the IT industry is to outsource cheap labour. Cheap labour is usually in the form unskilled migrant labour. Amongst other companies KAZ exploits the unskilled labourer.

Kaz exploited a deliberate loophole in the system, to outsource cheap unskilled labour.

Migrants, usually from IT churning countries, migrate to New Zealand. Since the migration laws between Australia and New Zealand are more lax, they then make their way into Australia, via the New Zealand back door. They are then employed at KAZ at a cheap rate, then outsourced at a premium. KAZ usually employs these people in the ‘fish bowl’ or data centre, so they are out of sight of the general public.

The cost of cheap unskilled labour has many pitfalls, one being that the customer usually pays for the mistakes that are being made. This is very evident, and most customers are very aware of this fact.

KAZ has not had any new clients in two years, and their stock values have dropped from $1.40 to $0.12, reflecting the confidence of the industry in KAZ. KAZ also struggled to make 5% profit in such a lucrative market. KAZ is a running joke in the IT industry.

read more at http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/922176.html

What Rubbish: Councils Monitor Your Trash With RFID

Residents in NSW's Randwick Council received a lovely gift recently - fancy new bins for their rubbish and recycling. 78,000 of them, in fact.

No it wasn't a misguided attempt to swing votes by lavishing gifts on the electorate. It was a way of introducing RFID tags onto the bins so that the council and their waste management contractor could spy monitor the amount of rubbish and recycling being done throughout the area.

Randwick isn't the only council using the technology - Ryde council introduced RFID tags on their bins back in 2006.

The trucks that collect the rubbish weigh the bins as they empty them, and then use the bin's RFID chip to monitor the households waste and recycling quantities.

Despite fears that the councils will use this information to raise waste management fees and spy on residents, they claim that "bin weight data will help identify average bin weights by type and suburb. This information will also be used to develop waste education material." They also say that only the councils themselves and their waste management contractor have access to the data.

Potentially, this is a great use for RFID technology if it results in increased recycling and less household waste. But is it possible for a government agency not to use all that detailed information for evil? We'll just have to wait and see whether prices go up for waste management in these new tech-savvy councils.

smh Jano Gibson, 14 April 2008

Avril Lavigne stuns home fans with Canada bungle

Fans at Avril Lavigne's Canadian homecoming were left stunned after the singer displayed an embarrassing lack of geographical knowledge.

Lavigne, 23, shocked concertgoers at her Montreal show by incorrectly stating what province she was in.

"I love you Montreal, I'm so happy to be back home … in Ontario, Canada," Lavigne said to the crowd.

Montreal is actually a city in Quebec.

The 'Sk8er Boi' singer, who grew up in the Ontario province of Belleville, dropped out of school at 16 to record her first record.

Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron experienced similar embarrassment when she referred to the Turkish city of Istanbul as Budapest three times in an interview in January.

Lavigne was widely ridiculed last year when she told the world's poor to be thankful they "all have clean drinking water".

In a cringe-inducing list of Ten Commandments published in British music magazine Q, Lavigne said "It's important to be thankful, even if you're poor."

"I mean, we all have clean drinking water — well, okay, not people in the developing world," she said.

The millionaire pop star also detailed her humanitarian efforts in the wake of Hurrican Katrina.

"I am a very giving person. When the hurricane thing happened I went to my closet, filled six boxes of stuff and said to my assistant, 'Take it to Katrina'!" Lavigne said.

msn 4 April, 2008

Just another fine example of uneducated Entertainment Trash. It doesn't matter how much money you make, what's more important is that you are supported by people who make more money of you.

Man plunged to death in 'party violence'

Violence at a birthday party led a man to fall through a window and plunge four metres to his death, a Melbourne court has heard.

Albert Snowball, 22, of Perth, died after he fell from a window during a fight at a warehouse in Brunswick in Melbourne's north on November 27, 2005.

Boxer Khalid Baker, then 18, and his co-accused AB, who cannot be identified, are on trial in the Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to his murder.

In his opening address, crown prosecutor Peter Rose SC said Baker and AB had been involved in violent and serious unprovoked attacks at the party that night.

Mr Rose said Mr Snowball was on the stairway landing when he apparently said something to enrage Baker and his friend Ali Faulkner, causing them to rush upstairs towards him.

Baker then began violently attacking Mr Snowball, while Faulkner was restrained by an onlooker, he said.

AB joined in the attack, punching Mr Snowball repeatedly, he said.

Mr Rose said one or both of the accused pushed Mr Snowball, causing him to tumble out of the window and hit his head on the footpath four metres below.

He was rushed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a critical condition suffering severe brain damage from a fractured skull. He died two days later.

Mr Rose described the attack as "furious and sustained", saying the pair acted together to seriously injury the victim.

He said AB told police he was just a metre away when he pushed the victim. While he knew there was a window behind him, did not believe he would fall through.

AB's lawyer Bill Stuart said his client, who was drunk at the time, told police he was just breaking up a fight and did not mean to injure Mr Snowball.

"This guy came up, started yelling at my friend. My friend was trying to hit him. I broke it up," the accused told police.

"It was wrong that I pushed this guy but it was a fight. I was trying to break it up because it would've led to something else if I would've left my friends there."

Mr Stuart asked jurors to consider what caused Mr Snowball to fall out the window, whether the fall was accidental, whether AB intended to cause inflict serious injury or was just a "peaceman" caught up in a fight.

The trial before Justice Simon Whelan continues.

©AAP 9 Apr, 2008

Give us more TpT !! Lets import them from other countries, because they don't breed quick enough here.

Father, daughter incest pair 'lived under same roof'

An ex-wife of the South Australian man who had a baby with his daughter has rubbished claims the pair had almost no contact for 30 years.
Dorothy Deaves told ninemsn John and Jenny Deaves, who have now had two babies together, lived under the same roof when Jenny was a 15-year-old girl.
John and Jenny claimed in an interview broadcast on 60 Minutes that they began a sexual relationship after Jenny tracked down the father she had never known.

But Jenny attended Dorothy and her father John's wedding reception in 1984 and stayed with them for a week, Ms Deaves claims.

The 69-year-old said Jenny stayed with them four times during their marriage, which collapsed after the father-daughter duo took a trip together to Dubbo in 2000.

Dorothy said both father and daughter broke up with their marriage partners after the Dubbo visit.

"I'm devastated — he has hurt me terribly," she said.

"It was hard to face for a long time.

"It's one of those things everyone's so upset about."

John and Jenny Deaves were found guilty last month of a single charge of performing an act of incest with the other.

Court documents show that the first child the pair conceived in 2001 died soon after being born from a congenital disease. They now have an apparently healthy nine-month-old baby girl.

The sentencing remarks show the pair were charged with two counts of incest in 2007 after police were tipped off about their relationship following an investigation by the Department for Families and Communities South Australia.

The pair were initially bailed on the condition that Mr Deaves have no contact with Ms Deaves or their child — a condition the judge said drove Mr Deaves to attempt suicide twice.

Judge Millsteed described the incestuous relationship as "unacceptable" but not one where a father “violated his daughter and used his position of authority to take advantage of her powerlessness".

The judge said he took into account the consensual nature of the relationship and the fact it didn't involve exploitation when recording a conviction. The pair were placed on a three-year $500 good behaviour bond, with the condition they don't have a sexual relationship. Mr Deaves told 60 Minutes sex with his daughter was "fantastic" even though he initially thought it was wrong.

"Emotions take over, as people no doubt realise, there are times during your life where emotions do rule the heart, it rules the head," he said.

"I knew it was illegal, of course I knew it was illegal but you know, so what."

The two reunited 30 years after Mr Deaves — who was once jailed for armed robbery — separated from his daughter's mother. Ms Deaves said soon after meeting her father again, she began to see him as a man first and a father second. "I was looking at him, sort of going, oh, he's not too bad," she said.

"Like you might look at a man across the bar at a nightclub."

South Australian police refused to comment on reports the pair were being monitored.

ninemsn 7 Apr 2008

Nothing magical, nothing mysterious, just old simple TpT.