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Politics, finance and the mass media go hand in hand, as the individuals who run them are part of the elite that runs the world.
Staring in the face of evidence, without any benefit of doubt, companies blatantly lie, that they do not, for example, censor a particular topic, that covers exposing government lies, or that is unpopular with the governments concerned.
In this instance, Youtube, has a video posted by the sunshinepress, exposing the killings of people in Iraq. The video was originally submitted to Wikileaks.
In Youtube's search field, when one types the name of a video, the next best / popular option is suggested head of the person typing.
In the screenshot, after typing in Collateral Mu the letter r is totally omitted by the 'automated' search function, and instead the user is forced to choose: Collateral Music, who's video, at the time of posting, been viewed 48,971 times in 3 years, prompting a cause for concern that Wikileak's video Collateral Murder is deliberately excluded from the search engine, implicating that a call of censorship is against Wikileaks.
The world is considered a more corrupt place now than it was three years ago, a poll suggests.
Some 56% of people interviewed by Transparency International said their country had become more corrupt.
The organisation put Afghanistan, Nigeria, Iraq and India in the most corrupt category, followed by China, Russia and much of the Middle East.
Meanwhile, a BBC poll suggests that corruption is the world's most talked about problem.
About one in five of those polled by the BBC said they had discussed issues relating to corruption with others in the last month, making it the most talked about concern ahead of climate change, poverty, unemployment and rising food and energy costs.
In the Transparency International survey, political parties were regarded as the most corrupt institutions, and 50% of people believed their government was ineffective at tackling the problem.
One in four of those polled said they had paid a bribe in the past year - the police being the most common recipient.
Some 29% of bribes went to the police, 20% to registry and permit officials, and 14% to members of the judiciary.
Political parties have long been regarded as the most corrupt institutions - they topped the list in Transparency's 2004 barometer with 71%. In this year's report, 80% regarded them as corrupt.
Religious bodies experienced a sharp rise in people regarding them as corrupt - 28% in 2004 increased to 53% by 2010.
People from Afghanistan, Nigeria, Iraq and India were among those who perceived the highest levels of corruption in their daily lives.
At least half of the people surveyed in those countries reported paying a bribe in the past year.
While people from Cambodia (84%) and Liberia (89%) were the most likely to have to pay a bribe, the Danish reported 0% bribery.
Robin Hodess, Transparency's policy and research director, expressed particular concern at the figures on bribery.
"Unfortunately people's experience with bribery most often involves the police, and this is really worrying," she said.
"It's a figure that's grown in the past few years. It's nearly doubled, in fact, since 2006. Nearly one in three people who had contact with the police around the world had to pay a bribe."
By region, people in sub-Saharan Africa were the most likely to have paid a bribe (56%).
Bribe taking was least common in EU countries and North America (both 5%) - although these were the two regions seeing the biggest increase in concern about corruption.
Analysts blame this rising concern on the global financial crisis for undermining people's faith in government, banks and economic institutions.
The lobby group interviewed 90,000 people in 86 countries to compile its corruption barometer.
Poverty
The opinion poll commissioned by the BBC sampled 13,000 people in 26 nations.
One question asked people to rate which issues they saw as most serious.
Corruption was ranked as the second most important topic behind poverty.
Respondents in Brazil, Egypt, Colombia, the Philippines and Kenya were especially likely to view corruption as a very serious issue.
In Europe, Italians were the most concerned about bribe taking.
Publication of the BBC poll coincides with anti-corruption day held by the United Nations.
bbc.co.uk 9 Dec 2010
Corruption is a rife in the West as it is in the East, in Capitalistic countries as it in the Communism, except that people's perception could the otherwise.
THE ALP has secretly recorded the personal details of tens of thousands of Victorians - including sensitive health and financial information - in a database being accessed by campaign workers ahead of this Saturday's state election.
In a rare insight into personal profiling by the major parties, The Age has gained access to the database used by the ALP to tailor its telephoning and door-knocking of individual voters in key marginal electorates.
The Coalition has a database capable of similar profiling of voters, but has refused to comment or to divulge any details.
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The Age investigation has revealed how Labor is building profiles of constituents based on its communications with MPs, attendance at rallies, membership of groups, letters to newspapers and through polling and surveys.
Staff in MPs' electorate offices are believed to be primarily responsible for collecting personal information dating back up to a decade.
The system allows searches based variously on people's names, addresses and their stances on issues such as gay rights and the environment. It also enables mapping of campaign street walks, giving candidates and volunteers access to profiles on many of the people they door-knock or phone - including their voting intentions.
It shows how Labor campaign workers have access to details of private lives of voters, including information people may have intended to share only with the offices of local MPs. Database entries seen by The Age include details of a family's concern about an East Malvern man's prostate cancer, a man's financial problems after he purchased a gaming agency, a Brighton family's complaint about superannuation payments, and details of a woman's victims of crime compensation claim.
The major parties have different versions of the software - Electrac for the ALP and Feedback for the Liberals - enabling the creation of detailed, cross-referenced files on constituents.
The software attracted controversy when it was introduced in the mid-2000s, with lawyers and academics expressing privacy concerns. Both parties have defended the databases, claiming they enhance the electoral and political process. But little has been known until now about how the software is used.
Voters on the Electrac database contacted by The Age all confirmed they had not given authority for details of their political activity or attitudes, or contact with their MP, to be filed.
Sam Waszaj, of Travancore, near Flemington, expressed dismay that his correspondence with a federal minister about Medicare funding for late abortions led to a database entry.
''The minister wrote back to me and said Labor was happy to hear my concerns. But they never said to me, 'Oh, by the way, we will store this on a big database','' Mr Waszaj said.
''This is what the KGB used to do. Who has access to this information? How will it be used in the future?''
Several voters in Northcote are listed in the ''hard green movement'' due to their membership of a climate change action group. Others are listed as having passed information to their MP about ''corruption in high security prisons''.
Records are kept in marginal seats on constituents' voting intentions, including the strength of their support for a party. Those rated as ''soft'' Liberal supporters, or ''at risk'' for Labor, are likely to be repeatedly canvassed.
Exposure of these records raises thorny questions for Labor about how the information was gathered and the appropriateness of it being made widely available in the party.
Some voters whose participation in ALP polling led to their views being stored on the database said pollsters had not identified their party connection.
Despite the objections of civil liberty campaigners, such activities are not illegal. Political parties and MPs are exempt from privacy laws that restrict record-keeping by others including government departments, the police and local councils.
Liberty Victoria president Michael Pearce, SC, said yesterday The Age revelations highlighted the inadequacies of privacy laws. ''If a state or federal department or a business with turnover of $3 million or more did that they would be in breach of either the state or federal privacy acts,'' he said.
Mr Pearce said it was troubling that personal information given in confidence was being used for political purposes.
Victoria's Privacy Commissioner, Helen Versey, said she had no jurisdiction over political parties because privacy laws only applied to the public sector. But she referred The Age to the Australian Law Reform Commission's August 2008 report, which examined the use of political databases.
The commission said it was not convinced that data collection by parties should be exempted from privacy laws. It recommended that parties should tell people what information would be held about them, give them the right to access and correct such information and to take steps to ''ensure the quality and security of the information''.
Sam Morrisson, of Clifton Hill, is recorded on the Labor database as having contacted the office of her local MP, Richard Wynne, in July 2008 over concerns about the working conditions of paramedics.
''I am surprised they kept that on a central system,'' she said. ''I don't see it as sinister, but it should be a matter of course that they would say, 'This is going down on a database'.''
Elizabeth Bodkin-Moore, also of Clifton Hill, said she should have been told that a record of her emails to her MP on environmental issues would go on the database. ''At one level, I am happy with it being recorded. But I think that it is appropriate that there is some indication that it will be put on file,'' she said. ''If this stuff is being put on long-term files, who knows what will happen to it in the future.''
The Greens candidate for Northcote, Anne Frances Martinelli, is recorded as having ''attended Chandler Hwy public meeting'' in October and having written letters to newspapers about environmental issues. ''A lot of people would feel uncomfortable that this sort of information is being held by a private organisation,'' she said.
Labor state secretary Nick Reece last night defended the use of the database. ''Like all political parties, the ALP phones people as part of election campaigning. It complies with all privacy laws and other tele-marketing regulations.''
Asked about party volunteers having access to highly personal information on voters, Mr Reece declined to comment.
Liberal state director Tony Nutt refused to comment when asked about the Coalition's database and its profiling of voters.
theage.com.au 23 Nov 2010
The way of the New World Order, to catalogue EVERYONE, under ANY pretext.
It is the sheer indifference of everyone that makes this a quicker reality.
New powers to the invasion of person / property are drafted in the name of terrorism / National Security.
In general, it is widely acknowledged, that the mass media is responsible for the shaping of today's society.
With such a narrow band of ownership, it is easily conceivable that flows and trends, opinions and the general mental well being of the working classes can be manipulated by the media owners to whatever political persuasion or agenda they follow.
This is not an environment for providing unbiased media reporting.
The Australian political arena vigorously claims that it supports competition, as it is in the best interest of the consumers.
Yet, at the same time the governing bodies are doing very little, very slowly to make this a reality, i.e its actions are quite the opposite.
Laws are passed immediately to nab speeding motorists in ever more ingenious ways, claiming it's to the benefit of the public, but laws concerning anti-competitive behaviour or fraud (which are ALSO to the benefit of the public - but detrimental to their business colleagues) , are deliberately slowed down in parliament.
Fraud and Anti-Competitive behaviour, is to the benefit of the local and global business community, who's members are cronies with the politicians, law makers, bankers, etc.
The general theme is that it MUST be mandatory to the detriment of the masses or canon fodder, as referred to by the ruling elite.
The role of the mass media is to keep the 'peasants' amused, with senseless news, using shock tactics on stories, and mindless entertainment.
Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES can the mass media be used in incite knowledge, that will empower the masses.
It is irrespective of any of the individuals personal agenda for creating social networking sites, blogging stores, video 'tubes', in the end, their goal must unified, to DUMB DOWN the masses.
In the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies, a Media Mogul Elliot Carver, uses his mass media empire to keep the plebs amused.
Meet the backyard boffin who developed his own computer program to turn the tables on the big power companies. After suspecting he was being ripped off he analyzed his own meter - and is claiming every bill they sent him was wrong.
You can download a free trial, or purchase the program for $99.95 at the website below -
However it is important to note that its results can not be used to claim a refund from your energy provider.
Here is another media article, that has a 'slight' inaccuracy.
The unnamed power company, has issued a FRAUDULENT BILL.
IF an individual claims a fraudulent amount i.e. produces a fraudulent receipt, and is found out criminal proceedings are taken against them.
IF an individual does not pay to a company, legal action can be taken, and a criminal proceedings, including jail are a real option.
The video also mentions that you as a consumer cannot make the electricity company pay you back for the difference of the fraudulent bill they sent you.
The legal system is deliberately set up to the detriment of general populous, with no repercussions against the companies involved.
This is deliberate consumer Rip off at its best.
The suggestion to change from the company, made by the presenter is nothing more than a farce.
The suggestion to take legal action would be more appropriate, but you cannot say that in the Australia's biased mass media.
The above titles is a play on words straight from a sketch from the comic genius of Benny Hill.
see : http://www.theonion.com/articles/british-government-releases-scandalous-benny-hill,848/
Unfortunately in the Real World, the implications of such a word is far from a belly laugh or even a slight chuckle.
In very short summary, Julian Assange is in British custody, after an incident that involved an alleged rape in Sweden to which legal proceeding began after he published leaked U.S. documents.
It is a well known fact within the political / financial arena that any act of insubordination is met with retaliation, that can also be an act of a character assassination.
An interview by corpau has shed light that some politicians are held to ransom, by information held on their families, will be made public, if they do not listen to the orders from members of their (masonic) lodge, or their workplace leaders to which they must adhere to the political agenda irrespective of their personal views.
It is not uncommon for new arrivals into Scientology to disclose their deepest and darkest secrets in confidence as part of a healing process, which are secretly recorded and used as blackmail at a later date.
Not distracting from any legitimate and heinous act of rape or the like, just like possession of narcotics, it can be quite easily forged. The onus is solely upon the defendant to prove otherwise, which irrespective of truth, can be judged in favour or against.
Many an analysis on Julian Assange has been written of late, and one can clearly deduce that he is of a greater than average intelligence level.
Dealing at such a high level of politics, it would be frivolous to dismiss that any act of retaliation would not occur, or even not difficult to predict that an allegation of such nature as has happened would surface.
The mass media circus of the dismissal of President Clinton from his workplace, was centered around a consensual sexual act that happened in the workplace.
How many 'affairs' happen in the workplace, and the people involved, their employment is NOT terminated.
The Victorian Premier Mr. Steve Bracks, resigned from politics after his son was behaving inappropriately.
On the plus side, the legal eagles have opened up a precedence across the entire European Union against alleged rapists to their expedient capture and bringing to justice in the respective country.
This should be the beginning of a new age to the end of the SEX TRADE of (also underage) Slavic teenagers between the East and the West, by the relevant mafias.
The United States of America will undoubtedly step up the prosecutions against these individuals or smuggling rings.......
unless of course they are financing the operations.
But that could be a whole new leak......
It is now easily obtainable knowledge that the Russian Revolution was financed by WALL STREET.
It is now also knowledge accessible to the canon fodder, that the Nazis were financed by the Bush family, Rockefellers as well as other prominent banks like Chase.
Not anywhere in the forbes list of billionaires does the name Rothschild appear.
See:
What is the net worth of the Rothschilds: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread211313/pg1
History of the House of Rothschilds: http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Rothschild.htm
Why does the Rothschilds name NOT appear in the FORBES list of billionaires ??? !!! ???
In the mass media, it has been revealed that real estate agents fudge the figures in terms of sales.
In every state of Australia, realtors are required to lodge their sales figures to the respective state's authority (e.g. REIV - Real Estate Institute of Victoria).
The figures are then collated, and as a result all sorts of statistics are formed. Statistics include house pricing trends, and actual house prices.
The claim in the mass media is that for the previous month approximately the sale of 90 houses has been omitted from reports.
Barry Plant Real Estate Agents, have published a house price contrary to the wished of the owners, and at a price lower than what the owners have stated they wanted.
The instructions given to Barry Plant, were clear and concise.
Barry Plant has chosen to ignore the customers requests, instead publishing a price for the property it desired.
The occurrence of fraud in Australia, is a common as it is anywhere in the world.
Depending on the mass media's agenda not all crimes are reported.
THE federal Labor MP Craig Thomson's mobile phone records, driver's licence details and credit card vouchers with his signature show he used a Health Services Union credit card to pay for the services of a Sydney escort agency, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.
The court was hearing legal argument in a defamation case brought by Mr Thomson, the Labor member for Dobell, against Fairfax Media, publisher of the Herald. The paper last year published allegations concerning the use of a credit card issued by Mr Thomson's then employer, the Health Services Union.
Fairfax's barrister, Sandy Dawson, told the court credit card statements for $2475 and $385 in Mr Thomson's name showed two entries in the name of Keywed Pty Ltd Restaurant in Surry Hills, on April 9, 2005 and August 16, 2007. That company name was linked to the escort agency Sydney Outcalls, he said, and it was not unusual for adult services to make the entry on financial records ''look like a culinary experience rather than a more sensual one''.
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The credit card vouchers for the transactions were issued in Mr Thomson's name, were signed and noted a driver's licence number. According to subpoenaed RTA records, a licence with that number was issued to Mr Craig Robert Thomson of Bateau Bay. NSW drivers' photo licences can be used to verify a person's identification.
Mobile phone records for a number listed as Mr Thomson's on a 2006 union press release showed two calls to phone numbers associated with the escort agency, Mr Dawson told the court.
Around midnight on April 8, 2005 and on August 16, 2007 the records show a call to a number listed on the internet as belonging to the service. The records of August 15, 2007 also show calls placed in Bateau Bay in the morning as Mr Thomson had ''plainly come down the Pacific Highway down from Bateau Bay … to Sydney'', Mr Dawson said.
According to documents filed with the court, the calls were made to telephone numbers for ''Sydney Escorts - Room Service'' and ''Sydney Escort Connections'', both apparently associated with the Sydney Outcalls escort agency.
Mr Thomson has strongly denied using the credit card to pay for the services of an escort agency or other adult services. In court yesterday his barrister repeated his denials that he had signed the credit card vouchers or used ''the services in question''. ''These facts are hotly contested,'' Sue Chrysanthou said.
Mr Dawson alerted the court to the records, contained in an affidavit filed in court, when arguing Fairfax had properly sought an order for costs relating to dispute in the process of discovery for the defamation hearing.
Mr Dawson said Mr Thomson had supplied only an ''unverified list'' in which he listed no credit card documents for discovery.
But Mr Thomson's barrister responded by saying Fairfax had acted unreasonably and its original motion for discovery was ''ridiculous''. Ms Chrysanthou argued Fairfax was trying to ''bully and harass'' Mr Thomson and ''take advantage of their superior financial position and resources''.
''We never defended the motion … We just wanted the matter resolved, we just wanted the proceedings brought on,'' she said before Registrar Christopher Bradford, who reserved his decision on the application.
Mr Thomson is suing Fairfax over a series of articles dating from April 2009, claiming, according to his statement of claim, he has been defamed by suggestions he had been guilty of using his HSU credit card fraudulently and he had dishonestly used his employer's credit card to pay for the services of prostitutes.
Fairfax denies defamation and says the articles are true.
smh.com.au 7 Dec 2010
Another case of misuse of public monies.
If a member of the public defrauds the government, jail is a real alternative.
If a member of the government defrauds the public, rewards are given out.
JULIA Gillard has failed to name any Australian laws broken by the controversial WikiLeaks website or its founder Julian Assange.
Western governments have called for Mr Assange to be stopped as WikiLeaks continues to publish more than 250,000 confidential documents from the United States State Department.
But asked directly what Australian laws had been broken by either WikiLeaks or Mr Assange, an Australian, Ms Gillard said the Australian Federal Police were investigating.
“The foundation stone of it is an illegal act,” Ms Gillard told reporters in Canberra.
But the “foundation stone” was the leaking of the documents to the website, not the publishing of the cables.
“It would not happen, information would not be on WikiLeaks, if there had not been an illegal act undertaken,” Ms Gillard said.
Mr Assange's lawyers have said they are considering defamation action against Ms Gillard after she accused the whistleblower of “illegal” conduct over the leak of US documents.
However Jennifer Robinson, one of Mr Assange's legal team, this morning conceded that taking action against Ms Gillard for potentially defamatory comments was no longer a priority.
It is widely assumed the man responsible for the leaks is a US soldier who is already imprisoned for previous leaks.
“It's grossly irresponsible and anybody who looks at the pages of today's newspaper and sees that things like critical infrastructure lists are being put on WikiLeaks ... would understand how grossly irresponsible this is,” Ms Gillard said.
A classified cable listing infrastructure critical to the US was published by the site yesterday.
The list included some Australian-based infrastructure including the already widely known undersea telecommunications cable - the Southern Cross Cable.
Opposition legal affairs spokesman George Brandis accused Ms Gillard of being “clumsy” with her language on the issue of illegality.
“As far as I can see, he (Mr Assange) hasn't broken any Australian law,” he told Sky News.
“Nor does it appear he has broken any American laws.”
Senator Brandis, a Queen's Counsel, called for any debate about the publishing of the cables to have a well-defined understanding of the difference between something which appeared to be morally wrong and an act which was illegal.
“As far as I can see, nothing Mr Assange has done does break the law.”
theaustralian.com.au 7 Dec 2010
So as of the above mentioned date, from the Highest Australian authority, Mr. Julian Assange, the Prime Minister, together with consultation from Her (legal) advisers has given assurance that NO LAW has been broken.
Truly a remarkable step forward in legalities against Mr. Assange.
Consequently if Mr. Assange would return to Australia, he would be walking a free man.
Alarm bells should have been ringing for the staff of Vince & Eddie's Italian restaurant when news broke that Lady Gaga had bought the place. After all, here is a woman who regularly flaunts OH&S requirements by: disdaining to wear pants; whose experience in food preparation is dressing herself in meat to go to award ceremonies - not choice cuts, either. But perhaps most tellingly, she is someone who thinks people will want to eat food called ''GaGa's Bad Beef Burgers'' - and pay for it.
''That got a few laughs but she was dead serious,'' a source told Famous. Which, to be fair, might not have been immediately apparent to those present at GaGa's first staff meeting: she had turned up with a lobster on her head, NW claimed.
After telling all that their uniforms were to get edgier (read: smaller and less comfortable) and free concert tickets for staff were off the table, she closed the meeting with a burp.
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''She apologised, but it was still gross,'' a source said. Such are the unpleasant, surprises that await when someone famous for something decides they would be brilliant at something else, too.
Madonna is opening gyms, so you, too, can be like the woman with whom an encounter, as Guy Ritchie once put it, was like ''cuddling up to a piece of gristle'', reports Who.
And Lindsay Lohan thinks the best way to relaunch her career is to host her own talk show, especially since an Oprah-shaped void is just about to open up once the Australian tourist retires, NW says.
''She wants to start filming as soon as she's released from rehab in January,'' an iron-clad, unimpeachable but anonymous source told the mag.
But as Halle Berry well knows, you do not always get what you wish for. Famous reports the Oscar winner is unhappy her daughter, Nahla, is hanging around her ex's girlfriend Kim Kardashian, an entity usually described as a reality TV star, but apparently referred to (not inaccurately) by Berry as a ''party girl and publicity hound'' who is only famous because of a sex tape, but who now wants to try her hand at playing stepmum.
''Kim tells friends she's found her baby daddy,'' reports NW of the relationship with Gabriel Aubry.
As in setting up restaurants and relationships, so with all in life. It pays to know your limitations. Which is why Katy Perry does not wear one of her many on-stage lycra outfits to Starbucks. ''They have an expiration date and that's why I'm wearing them now, at 25,'' Who quoted her as saying.
smh.com.au 7 Dec 2010
Another Trailer Park Trash Entertainer, that has to 'shock' to entertain rather than on the merits of her voice / piano skills.
The politics is simple in that the mass media put this 'entertainer' on a pedestal, giving the air time she does NOT deserve.
Behaviour like this only degrades the minds of the impressionable youth of the canon fodder (goyim).
Politics, finance and the mass media go hand in hand, as the individuals who run them are part of the elite that runs the world.
