Bushfire Royal Commission

RETARDED POLITICS, at its BEST!

This probably rates as one of the GREATEST waste of taxpayers dollars.

After the devastating Victorian bushfires, of which some were caused by a 'firebug' and some were caused by the lack of maintenance of power lines by the PRIVATISED electricity companies, a ROYAL COMMISSION had to occur, accoring to the state government.

In this Royal Commission, it was found that people must abandon their property, in the event of a bush fire and NOT stay behind and combat the unstoppable fire ball.

A bushfire that approaches quicker than a driving vehicle, with the intensity of a furnace, people need to be told to leave, are the findings of this Royal Commission.

What a Joke !!

It's called Darwin Awards, let nature take its 'toll' (pun not intended).

Super-hacker loses extradition appeal

Commonwealth Laws are made to protect Corporate Criminals.

The Law Makers of the Anglo - Masonic judicial empire of the UK / US / Australia and others have set up the legal system in such a manner that people (companies) that commit fraud are NOT sentenced, whilst if an individual commits a similar fraudulent activity, they spend considerable jail time.

None can be more true than of the recent case of a 'hacker' from the U.K that made his way into the government computer network, in the U.S.

In the article is stated that he has lost his extradition appeal.

In Australia, the fraudster that took the wrap (Christopher Skase - Quintex, there were politicians, lawyers, bankers, etc involved but they did NOT get named) for a BILLION DOLLAR FRAUD, escaped to Mallorca could NOT be extradited, as he bribed the local judges.

The BIG difference is that in this case an individual committed a 'crime' against an authority, whereas, Quintex's lawyers, bankers, etc committed fraud against the people, NO ONE there saw any jail time.


Reference to story:

Superhacker loses extradition appeal,

Freemason’s advantage in the courtroom

A member of the freemasons boasted how his belonging to the 'brotherhood' helped him ‘win’ a case against the other party who was not a member of the freemasons.

The brother then stated that it was already decided in the ‘lodge’ that he was to win a claim against the other party.

The method in which it was to be achieved was in the manner that a letter of the court date was NOT sent to the other party, as a result the attending party ‘wins’ by default.

This is not an isolated incident, as confirmed by the source, and is widely practiced from the lowest traffic infringement to the higher level of corporate law suits.

The mass media conveniently ommits any references to masonry, and its external influences.

Pokies money laundering and winnings fraud.

The secret dealings of organised crime generally do not make it to the mass media, and the ones that do are usually the smaller players, who are competition to the main syndicates, or just simply rogue traders.

In the world of night clubs members (girls) are ‘employed’ (not physically, but in the means of kick backs, drinks, drugs, etc) to entice patronage of a particular venue. This is a well known and practiced fact.

This is also true of in the gambling arena. An interview with a ‘patron’ revealed that their sole purpose was to ‘entice’ others to the venue. The ‘enticer’ then revealed that they are given chips to gamble with, and to register at the venue to show that there is patronage.

The networked poker machines then give out a ‘winning’ to the ‘enticer’ of which they have been given specific instructions that the money IS NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE THE PREMISES and MUST be put back into the system. The person revealed that this is how the drug money is laundered through the system.

The winnings are carefully controlled, and the significant winnings are NOT given to just anyone.

Telstra keeping us in the DARK AGES

The retail version told to the masses is that in Australia we have 'competition' is plainly a deliberate lie.

Whilst there may be companies, like : Optus (Virgin - Virtual Mobile Network Operator), Vodafone, 3, and a plethora of up and coming VMNO's, there is ONE thing in common:

They ALL use the copper that Telstra owns.

It does NOT matter how forward thinking the operators are, at the end of the day it is TELSTRA that thwarts all efforts to move technology along.

None can be better described by the following response from an internal document from a service provider with Telstra:

Our wholesale agreement is currently with Telstra. I am not sure if they
will allow for a naked DSL service any time soon. There is nothing which
I am aware of in the pipeline....

Naked DLS means that you do NOT have to connect a phone line to provide internet, a service that TELSTRA clearly dos NOT want to offer the customer.

US Marines renew ban on Twitter

The US Marine Corps has renewed a ban on Twitter and other social networking sites as the Pentagon weighed a similar prohibition over cyber-security concerns.

The marines had already banned the use of social media on military networks but issued a more detailed order this week defining which sites were out of bounds and noting possible exceptions to the rule, Marine Corps spokesman Lieutenant Craig Thomas said on Tuesday.

"These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user-generated content and targeting by adversaries," the Marine Corps said in an order posted on its website.

"The very nature of SNS (social networking sites) creates a larger attack and exploitation window, exposes unnecessary information to adversaries and provides an easy conduit for information leakage that puts opsec (operational security), comsec (communications security) ... at an elevated risk of compromise."

Those marines whose assignments may require access to social media could apply for a waiver, it said.

Marines working in criminal investigations, press relations and recruiting have a need to use social media to carry out their duties and would most likely be granted access, Thomas said.

But he said "social networking sites have always been banned in the Marine Corps".

The Defence Department, meanwhile, confirmed it was carrying out a formal review of its policies on the use of social networking sites.

In a July 31 memo, the deputy secretary of defence, William Lynn, said he had asked the Pentagon's chief information officer to draw up policy options examining the threats and benefits of so-called Web 2.0 capabilities.

The memo acknowledges how social networking sites have proved valuable for recruitment, press relations and sharing information with allies and among military families.

"However, as with any internet-based capabilities, there are implementation challenges and operational risks that must be understood and mitigated," the memo said.

The policy review comes as other branches of the armed services have embraced social media with enthusiasm, seeing the sites as a means of reaching a wider audience and spreading information within the military.

The US Army has set up a new office for online social media but the military has struggled to balance security concerns with demands to modernise its communications.

Security rules have been blamed for stifling blogging by soldiers from the battlefront, even as some senior commanders write blogs or maintain a Facebook page.

ninemsn 8 Aug 2009

One of the real reasons for STOPPING 'soldiers' from blogging at the frontline is NOT about security, BUT rather about the military propaganda machine, on e.g. how 'we' are winning the war against terror, and covering up information so the public do NOT know the truth.

The mass media 'sanitises' information, and in most circumstances 'misrepresents' actual facts on the frontline.

Woman 'plotted to kill husband over money'

A US woman who allegedly took out a hit on her new husband transferred the property deed to their townhouse into her name one day before the killing was supposed to take place.

Dalia Dippolito, 26, was on Wednesday charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder after Florida police staged an elaborate ruse to convince her that her husband Michael was dead.

She made headlines around the world when video footage showed her collapsing in tears into a policeman's arms after he lied about the supposed killing.

Now more details have emerged, alleging that Dippolito only married her husband for money and that it was her boyfriend who originally tipped off police about the murder plot.

A lawsuit tendered to Palm Beach County court is petitioning to have Dippolito stripped of the deed to the US$232,000 ($277,213) house.

"She did not love the Plaintiff and only married him to unlawfully obtain his property," the lawsuit said.

"She knew she wanted the Plaintiff dead and her representations of love and devotion were false at the time they were made.

"The sole purpose for the marriage was to convert all of his property to her own use."

Police staged the elaborate sting operation only after Dippolito's boyfriend came forward saying she had hatched the murder plot, the papers said.

The new allegations come after Dippolito, who is currently on bail, screamed a denial of the allegations to reporters following her arrest.

"I didn't do anything and I didn't plot anything," she said.

The alleged plot was foiled when the police informant met Dippolito on Saturday where she gave him a down payment of US$1200 ($1428) for the hit man to buy a handgun, according to a police statement.

She also provided photos of her husband and their home, then asked for a time for the hit so that she could get her hair done in Boca Raton to create an alibi.

On Monday afternoon, she met with an undercover police officer posing as the hired hit man, who asked her if she was sure she wanted her 38-year-old husband killed.

"Dippolito laughed and said, I will be very happy. She agreed to pay him US$3000 ($3571) when the job was done," the police statement said.

On Wednesday, Dippolito was called to her townhouse where police, including crime scene techs, were at work.

A waiting sergeant told her that her husband was dead, and she collapsed crying into his arms.

She was then taken to the police department where she came face to face with the man who supposedly shot her husband twice in the head — but who instead said her husband was alive and well in the room next door.

Dippolito was immediately charged and taken into custody.

and AAP 8 Aug 2009

Sound like anyone you know ??? !!! ???

'Baby machine' vows to run from authorities

A "baby machine" whose 13 children have all been taken into care on account of her bad parenting is threatening to flee the country so she can keep her next child.

Theresa Winters, from Bedfordshire in southern England, is now pregnant with her 14th child but faces having it removed by social workers within two years.

The unemployed 36-year-old has never been allowed to keep any of her children because of neglect.

But now she is threatening to leave the country with partner Toney Housden — who is also a long-term welfare recipient — so that she can retain custody of her latest infant.

"If we had the money we would go tomorrow — then these people wouldn't be able to touch us," she said.

"People think we're bad parents but we're not, we have changed ... since we had the first five babies, anyway.

"No one has given us a chance since then."

Mr Housden claimed the couple didn't want to "scrounge off taxpayers' money" but also complained about a lack of assistance from the government.

"We want to work and do the right thing but we don't feel we're being given a chance — we are not being given the support we need from social services," he said.

"If we could leave the country we would: then we would grow up like a real family and keep our baby."

Ms Winters previously told The Sun she deserved the chance to start a new family.

"We're not giving up, for every child they take away from me I'm going to have another one," Ms Winters said.

"We are being treated like murderers ....we so desperately want to be a little family."

Ms Winters has admitted social workers probably made the right decision to take away her first 13 children but said she had now "calmed down".

The heavy smoker had her first child when she was 19 with her ex-husband Wayne Redding.

Their daughter was taken away after the couple was accused of neglect, as were their next two children.

After divorcing Mr Redding, Ms Winters then went on to have 11 children with her current partner Mr Housden, four of which were found to have a rare and degenerative condition.

One of the children has since died, and the rest — except one boy with cerebral palsy — have been adopted out.

Ms Winters said she was still traumatised by the memories of when her children were taken away.

"I will be sitting in the hospital and a nurse will come and take the baby away — it’s devastating," she said.

Ms Winter’s sister, Louise Walls, said she had no sympathy for her.

Speaking to the Daily Mail newspaper, Ms Walls said her younger sister’ actions made her feel "physically ill".

"Whenever I have asked her why she keeps getting pregnant when she knows the baby will be taken off her she says, ‘I don’t give a s***, I just want the government to pay for them’," she said.

ninemsn

Trailer Park Trash breeding like a rodent.

Where sterilisation will be of benefit to the environment, and humanity.

Melbourne - 180 days of water left

On the weekend of the 26th of July, the mass media (Herald Sun) reported in it's Sunday edition that the city of Melbourne (Victoria) has ONLY 180 days of water left.

This was also reported via the TV 'Current Affairs' programs.

FACT: Australia is one of the driest places on the planet, and this is a well known fact to all authorities.

FACT: During the lifetime of every living Australian, there is ALWAYS a 'drought' in EVERY decade in one form or another.

FACT: In the last generation (25 years) Melbourne's population has increased 30% with NO additional provisions for water storage capacity.

FACT: After the privitisation of Melbourne's water in the early 1990's not ONE single dollar has been spent on INFRASTRUCTURE as it has been previously spent, when it was run by the government.

FACT: The current government is 'waiting' for the spring rains to occur, am occurrence that NEVER fills the dams to the required levels.

It is NOT the 'drought' that has lead to the shortage of water, but rather the LACK of involvement by ANY government (Liberal or Labour) to spend on infrastructure, that will ultimately lead to the public footing the bill for water or paying exuberant amount to private companies for water (e.g Coca-Cola Amatil - who buy their water for $1.40 / 1,000,000 litres), that will be resold to the public.

The current companies that charge for water, are doing so frauulently as they ar e NOT providing the water, just a bill, as the government has to provide water for it's people, a task in which it has clearly failed.

Supermarkets to squeeze farmers as margins fall

Australia's big two supermarkets will safeguard their huge profits by paying farmers less for their produce in coming years, experts have warned.

After years of growth, retail margins - the difference between prices paid for goods by shops and the prices they are sold for - are expected to fall from around 4 percent to between 2 and 3 percent, according to a leading economic forecaster.

"The spending binge is over and now retailing is on a lower margin, lower growth basis," said Dr Frank Gelber, chief economist at BIS Shrapnel.

This means supermarket profits will be under threat and farmers and other producers will be forced to make up the shortfall, avoiding the need for price rises on the shelves.

Charles Bird, vice president of the National Farmers Federation (NFF) told ninemsn farmers were bracing for a battle with supermarkets.

"We know from history that retailers won't bear that cost and they'll do everything within their power to make up that margin elsewhere - that rings the alarm bells for us," he said.

"Most of the time, and history has proven [this] to be the case, the farmer is the one that gets squeezed at the bottom."

A combination of booming retail sales, debt-fuelled spending and a strong Australian dollar, which lowered the cost of imports, created a retail boom in recent years, allowing retailers to increase margins and profits.

The two supermarkets have used the wider margins to fund aggressive discounting that has, in some instances, made it impossible for other retailers to compete. Lower margins would make it more difficult for the big supermarkets to undercut rivals.

The two major supermarkets have enjoyed steadily rising EBIT (earnings before interest and tax) margins in their food and liquor divisions since 2000, with Woolworths' margin peaking at close to 6 percent in 2006-07.

A spokesman for Coles denied the company was selling producers short, but admitted there could be issues for farmers.

"Coles' EBIT-to-sales margin is barely 3 percent compared to EBIT-to-sales margins among food processors and manufacturers of between 10 and 20 per cent," the spokesman said.

"This confirms that Coles is not ripping off farmers or customers - if that is occurring, it is happening in other parts of the food supply chain."

A source who works for a company that supplies one of the big supermarkets with poultry products told ninemsn the big players' market dominance forced suppliers to cave in to price demands.

"One big supermarket came to us demanding we supply at a very low set price and my initial response was to say no," the source said.

"I was informed their response was: 'If you don't supply at this price we will simply take the business to other suppliers who will gladly fill the gap'. It was pure and simple blackmail."

Experts believe the only suppliers immune to these tactics are very large corporate suppliers with all others being forced to accept lower prices for their produce when retail margins shrink.

"Yes indeed, that is how it works," said Geoff Cutler, a retail consultant with detailed knowledge of the subject. "Only a very strong supplier like Coca Cola can withstand this margin pressure."

A spokesman for Woolworths denied the claims and added that an enquiry by the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission found that major supermarkets do not buy enough produce to control the market price.

The Coles spokesman added that price pressure on farmers was not solely due to the supermarkets' desire to keep retail prices low.

"Some farmer margins have been squeezed because of drought, rising input prices, excessive debt, rising processing and distribution costs, and not just pressure from consumers to keep prices low during the recession," he said.

But Mr Bird disagreed, saying farmers were being squeezed while others profited. Woolworths made a profit of $1.29 billion last year, while Coles' profit was $792 million.

"What we have seen in the past few years is that prices were going up in the retail sector — the cause was quoted as being the drought, fuel costs or the margins getting skinnier," he said.

"But the fact was that the farm gate prices were going down even when the retail price was going up, so there's no relationship between the retail price and the farm gate price. Somewhere in the middle is where the profit is being made and the farmers aren't sharing in that."

Sources backed Mr Bird's claims, adding that most suppliers have no option but to deal with the supermarkets.

"The supplier has no choice but to supply and suffer the financial loss themselves while Coles increased the shelf price and kept the profits," said one source, speaking on condition of anonymity. "It was supply or die."

"The suppliers had no choice but to supply and suffer the financial loss themselves while Coles increased the shelf price and kept the profits," said one source, speaking on condition of anonymity. "It was supply or die."

Dr Gelber said many primary producers that supplied Woolworths and Coles were less than happy, despite the supermarkets' use of farmers in mass media advertising.

"You've seen the adverts with happy farmers in them - they must be actors because there's no happy farmer I know that sells to the big supermarkets."

When asked what NFF members made of the ads, Mr Bird told ninemsn: "They would view it as advertising for convenience".

The NFF has been lobbying for more transparency between the retail pricing of goods and the prices paid to producers at the farm gate.

"There's a lot of smoke and mirrors about how costs are apportioned after goods leave the farm gates. We understand that there are costs - we have those costs too," Mr Bird said.

"But at the pointy end of the retail chain the retailers say they are getting squeezed and put the price up but they're not paying us any more at the farm gate."

Mr Bird said he did not believe the supermarkets were open to more transparent pricing.

Neither Coles nor Woolworths responded to the question of whether they would consider more transparent pricing.

Stuart Fagg, money.ninemsn.com.au 22 Jul 2009