Schoolgirl Erin McKernan sinks EastLink speed camera fine

THE State Government has sought a briefing on possible legal ramifications for speeding fines after a policewoman beat one of Melbourne's most hated speed cameras.

Rosebud Senior Constable Faye Pitman used the evidence of a 16-year-old work experience student to raise enough doubt that she had been travelling at the clocked speed of 106 km/h along the notorious EastLink stretch.

The EastLink cameras have angered scores of drivers who claim they have been unfairly fined.

But until yesterday no one managed to have an infringement overturned.

Have you ever been clocked doing 106km/h on East Link? Mobile pics or video: MMS us on 0404 333 444

Sen-Constable Pitman, a 20-year police officer, was in tears after the charge was dismissed.

The crucial evidence came from high school student Erin McKernan, who was in the police car at the time on work experience.

Ms McKernan, now 18, told the court she looked at the car's speedometer just before reaching the Dandenong bypass, where the camera was mounted.

She said the marked police car had been travelling at 95-96 km/h. Sen-Constable Pitman said she had been doing 98km/h.

Magistrate Gerard Bryant threw out the case, despite prosecutor Rob Taylor's argument that tests on the speed camera showed it was accurate and that evidence from Sen-Constable Pitman was "slight and unconvincing".

Police Association secretary Greg Davies said the decision to dismiss the fine could open avenues for other drivers.

Legal experts agreed the surprise victory could open the floodgates.

Prosecutors have not ruled out an appeal, but the Herald Sun believes it is unlikely.

Police Minister Peter Ryan was on the back foot last night.

"In light of today's ruling, I have sought a briefing from Victoria Police and the Department of Justice as to how this decision relates to the current legislative framework," he said.

Legal experts and police officers said the case would be a launching pad for others.

"This could open Pandora's Box for everyone else," one officer said.

Barrister and traffic law expert Michael Kuzilny said it would have significant ramifications.

"It's a really great thing. Previously, it has been impossible for people to prove that they weren't speeding," he said.

"It means there will be a floodgate opening of people challenging, and many, many more people and angry drivers questioning their fines."

Barrister Theo Alexander said the decision would likely "embolden many motorists who have been charged in similar circumstances to challenge their speeding fine".

A colleague said Sen-Constable Pitman was regarded as a careful driver who did not speed.

"She's like Driving Miss Daisy - that's why everyone's been on her side."

heraldsun.com.au 6 Sep 2011

Gambling Venue attendance fraud

Many illegitimate deals happen on the seedy grounds of gambling venues across Australia. This is a well known fact to authorities and governments alike.

In Victoria the Premier of the day, Jeff Kennett helped set up a Melbourne casino, where many crime deals have occurred, and subsequently the authorities support this money laundering business.

Gambling venues have been involved in a money laundering fraud, which involves the faking of attendees for quite some time.

CCTV cameras record the traffic, and compulsory registration of patrons coming into the venue, either for a club lunch or drinks. The gambling venue uses this information to ‘cook the books ‘, that these patrons were gambling, and in effect launder the illicit drug money.

This practice is known to authorities, but is deliberately overlooked, as these premised are employment providers, and the business owners are cronies of the politicians, law makers and others highly placed in the business community.

The newly elected Victorian police head claims that in his sights, corruption and crime will be on the list. Many are aware that corrupt police are on the payroll of well established drug gangs. Since the drug industry in Australia is worth an approximate $1.2 billion per month, there is plenty of funds to supply corrupt persons.

Smart meter shock

Family forced to move after suffering health problems

A SMART meter health scare has driven residents from their homes amid fears they are being exposed to high levels of electromagnetic radiation. 
 
A young family and another resident have fled the Keilor East street, claiming constant headaches and sleep deprivation is making their lives a misery, but authorities say the controversial devices are safe.

Marc and Maureen Florio, who have been staying with friends since Friday, said they and their four children had suffered side-effects since a neighbour's smart meter was installed three weeks ago.

Do you have a smart meter horror story to tell? Email publicdefender@heraldsun.com.au

Tests found radio frequency emissions more than 30 times stronger than "precautionary levels" in their 14-year-old son's bedroom and high levels elsewhere. All readings were within Australian standards.

"It's like an absolute nightmare," Ms Florio said.

"I do not know what we are going to do ... we are smart meter refugees."

Mr Florio said a doctor attributed constant headaches to the meter. He and his eldest son are also sensitive to other emissions.

"We are not after compensation," he said. "We just want it switched off."

Kathi Buzza, who had the meter installed, also wants the device gone.

YSHIELD general manager David Mould, who tested the Florios' house, recommended the smart meter be removed.

He said while readings were within Australian standards some people appeared sensitive to weaker emissions and he recommend lower levels as per European guidelines.

Power company Jemena said tests of the meter and another across the road had shown no problems. Other residents had not expressed health concerns.

The Baillieu Government has ordered independent checks to allay concerns about potential health risks from smart meters.

A spokesman for the Energy Minister said testing so far showed they had complied with standards and emitted weaker electromagnetic emissions than other sources such as baby monitors and mobile phones.

MAXIMUM READINGS AT THE FLORIO HOME

CHILD'S bedroom, 182 (5 precautionary guidelines)
DOWNSTAIRS study, 167 (10 precautionary guidelines)
MASTER bedroom, 130 (5 precautionary)
UPSTAIRS kitchen, 114 (10 precautionary)
UPSTAIRS table tennis area, 101 (10 precautionary)
Source: YSHIELD. Density measured in microwatts/m2. Precautionary figure based on guidelines from Building Biology and Ecology Institute, Germany.
RADIO FREQUENCY EMISSIONS
Normal distance from a smart meter 50
Immediately next to a smart meter 88,000
Standing near an operating microwave oven 100,000
Wi-fi wireless routers, laptop computers, cyber cafes 100,000-200,000
Mobile phone at head up to 300,000-100,000,000

Source: Silver Spring NetworksPower density measured in microwatts/m2

heraldsun 1 Nov 2011

The installation of Smart meters is another government sponsored rort.

The public are being 'duped' into installing meters on their property, where there is no obligation under any law to comply as such.

This is purely a money for mates business proposition, that will not benefit the public in any way.

One excuse given is for it's 'green' properties, which is utterly a downright lie.

Parents slam spin king Shane Warne over junk-food ads

SHANE Warne has come under fire for promoting junk-food to impressionable children.

McDonald's use of cricket legend to push its chicken pieces and the Kellogg's 4D Choc Bar ad outraged The Parents' Jury, a group of 5000 parents and grandparents.

The jury's annual media campaign targets food companies which advertise their products to children.

Mother-of-two and jury member Natalie Wischer slammed Warne's involvement with McDonald's and said there was no place for junk-food advertising in sport.

"I am disappointed Shane Warne, who is such a role model to kids like mine, has chosen to be associated with McDonald's," Ms Wischer said.

The group of health-conscious parents said Kellogg's used dishonest advertising to promote sugar-laden cereal.

Kellogg's Nutri-Grain cereal, marketed as an energy-packed breakfast for boys training as ironmen, has been named the most shady advertising campaign by The Parents' Jury.

Jury manager Corrina Langelaan said the aim of the group was to fight back against the marketing techniques of the food industry.

"The industry may be getting smarter about getting around its self-regulatory code, but parents tell us they are fed up with unhealthy food advertisements being shown during their kids' favourite (TV) programs," Ms Langelaan said.

Kellogg's said in a statement it has made "significant changes to the way we work" in recent years.

"We now focus much of our efforts on promoting healthier cereals such as Sultana Bran, Mini Wheats, Just Right and All Bran," the statement said.

"Our advertising is aimed at parents so that they can make informed choices about the best foods for their family."

news.com.au 8 Nov 2011

A surprise entry for the category 'Occupational H'S', as traditionally this is seen to bee a domain occupied by females.

Good ol' newly touched up, Warne prostitutes himself to anyone who throws the cash.

McDonald's is widely regarded as the Junk Food Kings who's products are detrimental to the consumers, being responsible for diabetes, obesity and cancer.

Inquiry hangs over former Victoria Police detective Bill Nash

A FORMER Victoria Police detective has been under investigation for three years over a story published in the Herald Sun.

Former detective senior sergeant Bill Nash said his career remained tarnished by corruption authority inquiries over the leak.

Mr Nash was assigned in 2003 to review a police taskforce investigation into Denis Tanner, a former police officer suspected of murdering his sister-in-law, Jennifer Tanner, and transsexual prostitute, Adele Bailey.

He found taskforce head Insp Paul Newman and Sen-Sgt Marty Allison should have been charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice, concluding they dishonestly strengthened their case against Denis Tanner in a number of listening-device and telephone-intercept affidavits. Neither was charged.

When part of his report concerning non-prosecution of the case was published in the Herald Sun in 2008, Mr Nash said he became the subject of an investigation, which remains unresolved.

He said he did not leak the information to the paper but the damage had been done.

Mr Nash said he had kept the victims, who were former police members, fully updated on the progress of the investigation.

He said this was done to ensure the alleged victims did not accuse the force of a whitewash of the matter.

"It was provided as feedback under the Victim's Charter," Mr Nash said.

The information was later published.

Mr Nash said he was disgusted at not having received his certificate of service because of the probe, which he said should have been sorted out either way by now.

A Victoria Police spokeswoman would not comment as it was a "personnel matter".

heraldsun 29 Aug 2011

Another story of corrupt police, that the government not only hides, but also supports via the corrupt court system, with the lack of incarceration time.

Top Cop promises gloves coming off

The new head of police state Victoria, Ken Lay promises to tackle crime, motorists being high on the agenda, according to a news report from the 15^th of November.

As reported by the Herald Sun, the official priority hit list is in the following order:

1). Domestic Violence

2). Cybercrime and fraud

3). Organised crime

4). Street violence assaults

5). Solving Hodson murders

6). Fixing police I.T. system

His election as Top Cop comes in the wake of his two predecessors leaving under disgraced circumstances.

Victoria’s previous Top Cop, Simon Overland was linked with providing fraudulent information, and allegations of involvement with the drug syndicates. As yet no formal charges have been laid against Overland.

Overland was given the position, after his predecessor, Christine Nixon, was given the tile of Top (female) Dog, without the qualifications or experience necessary, giving the phrase ‘Money for Mates’ credibility.

She left under disgraceful circumstances, when the state of Victoria was under emergency, during the bushfires, she nonchalantly disregarded her role, attending a formal function, whilst the emergency services, including the police were working overtime.

The Herald Sun has published his weak educational achievements, which consist of a Diploma in Police Studies, together with a Bachelor of Arts.

Organised crime, which includes the drug gangs is a large contributor to other crimes committed. The industry is worth an approximate $1.2 billion per month, yet the news media rarely reports on $200 million dollar drug hauls, which should happen on a weekly basis, and not on monthly or two monthly cycles.

Many police, politicians, law makers, high profile business leaders are involved in the slae or use of illicit drugs, yet the government deliberately turns a blind eye.

The leaders have again demonstrated that a ‘Money for Mates’ system is alive and strong within the police state of Victoria.

Bank House mortgage fraud

Australia’s banking community is largely referred to as the “Big 4”, meaning the large four banks. The profits they post, can range from $4-5 billion annually for each of the banks.

Banks are in the business of making money from your money, but there are other methods in which revenue is gained, which the majority of the population may not be aware of.

An essential part of the business plan of the banks is something called the Mortgagee’s Auction. A mortgagee’s auction is when the lender is no longer able to meet the banks monthly repayments, which results in the bank taking possession of their property, and recovering the costs of the balance of the loan.

Banks are involved in a large scale land grab fraud against consumer, a fact which is curiously out of the media spot light.

Banks have figured out a while ago that one of the easiest ways of obtaining cheap property is for customers to default on their loans, allowing the banks to grab the property (legally), and pass it on to their employees in another fraud.

Many Australian’s have lost their home through this fraudulent practice, which has not been stopped by law, a deliberate move to the detriment of the community

Given a customer’s earnings, the banks allow a certain amount to be borrowed based on a formula that indicates that the customer can not only successfully service the loan, but also is able to sustain themselves financially within the community.

Banks have done away with this model of business practice, and now offer loans to clients, that are not able to service them. The banks knowing this fact, wait for the customer to default on the loan within a certain amount of years, collect the property at a fraction of it real market value.

When lending out to domestic clients, the loan procedure passes through three stages of approval before it makes it to one of the manager.

In a recent matter, one of the ‘Big 4’ banks approved a home loan of an elderly person, which could result in their home being sold from under them, unbeknown to themselves.

This matter is currently in the hand of a high profile Australian law firm.

Naturally the bank will never be charged with fraud.

Government Water fraud cover-up

The Australian government is involved in a multi-billion dollar fraud, falsified water figures, and money for mates contract deals that is being covered up, and ‘overlooked’ by mass media agencies.

The government has been caught out providing fraudulent information, regarding the crime statistics in Victoria, and as a result the disgraced Police head Simon Overland resigned as top dog. No further news to the masses has been given into any convictions of fraud or any other criminal activities of Mr. Overland.

There are many other government cover ups of fraud that the media does not report on.

In the eastern southern state of Australia, Victoria and its capital city of Melbourne has seen heavy rainfall for approximately the last two years, in which there also occurred floods.

Information obtained from various sources indicates that the government has falsified water storage facility levels, over many years in order to justify the business case for building a desalination plant, simultaneously exponentially raising the price of water, whilst pushing the blame on ‘the drought’, an event which is beyond the control of governments.

The government has deliberately prepared an environment, in which there was to be a lack of water, which would necessitate the need to build a desal plant, at the expense of the taxpayer.

Town planning, roads, and water storage facilities in Victoria have been handled by a government institution called the MMBW (Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works), which was also responsible for the building of dams that catered for the rising population.

Since the global policy is for all government and public utilities to be held in private hands, Victoria’s water utility has been sold.

Since the sale of this utility, there has been no expansion of infrastructure, even though there has been a rise of approximately 30% in population over the past generation, in Melbourne.

In every decade there exists a mini drought, as well as wet periods. These events are cyclic and also follow 50 and 100 year patterns, a fact which is well known to authorities.

The majority of the masses are not well educated in these matters, and the government has taken advantage of this, by promoting via the mass media that we are in a drought, at the same time building car washes.

Soon after the infrastructure has been established, and various stages of drought have been announced, it was made law that it is illegal to wash the car at home, for water conservation purposes, and it had to be washed at the car wash.

It was also illegal to water the lawns, and gardens, etc. Whilst this was going on governments were watering their nature strips, lawns, etc, flaunting the law in front of the general populous.

The government told the masses to wash their cars at car washing facilities, as this would save water. This was far from the truth, as the water used by the car washing businesses, came from the tap which supplied the same water to domestic clients, and was Not recycled, as depicted by the government.

Interviews of many business owners indicated that it was a government scam, which made many owners wealthy and was not about water savings.

Given that there is a deliberate cover up of fraud especially if emanating from governments, there will be no Royal Commission or independent inquiry to the dealings and the defrauding of public funds by the Victorian government.

Currently Melbourne is under Stage 2 water restrictions, which should have been lifted a while ago, given the official dam capacity levels.

Another clear indication of just how corrupt the government really is.

TV ads - News you can trust

A recent barrage of advertisements on Australian television, states that the news brought to you is from news desks that you can trust.

This is a new propaganda machine started by the major networks (authorities) in order to win over the general populous into believing that the information provided is true and accurate.

News media companies are conducive to government policies and agendas that are represented by the government of the day. This holds true for all types of governance from Aristocracies, Democracies, Dictatorships, Monarchies Oligarchies, throughout the Eastern and Western political worlds.

The bias of the mass media in modern society has been well documented by sociologists, scholars, and to a lesser extent, politicians and lawmakers.

The news media is often caught out not reporting accurately, either intentionally or in unwittingly, not only by the masses, but also by other institutions and/or government departments.

An example of inaccurate reporting is that of by the government’s police media liaison office, which in many cases provides misleading information with regards to matters of criminal conduct by either individuals or associated gang members. This is a well known fact to the personnel involved within the departments.

One strict agenda of the mass media, is to keep the general population entertained, rather than educated. One method of achieving this is to keep the masses entertained with trivial matters, simultaneously dumbing down the viewer.

Media outlets work hard to provide entertained that is of little value to the social and moral well being of the community at large. This is done on purpose to lower the values of the general population, which in order creates social unrest, which is a diversion from attentions being focused on the corrupt dealings of politicians and governments.

Both governments and the media moguls conspire to provide misleading information to the masses.

Police harassment claims scam

Police have been involved in a harassment claim scam that has cost the taxpayers millions of dollars in false claims, in cahoots with magistrates under the watchfull eye of the disgraced Victorian Police top dog Simon Overland.

Information has been obtained from a reliable source, that Victorian police have worked together with corrupt magistrates in scamming the public's funds with false claims of harassment.

The manner in which it was done, was that the police would conceal Personal Video Recorders (PVR's) and record the alleged harassments. The claims would then follow the standard procedure until they would reach the courts, and payout were awared to police.

This scam would become so rampant that the police heads would tell the officers to stop this kind of practice, as it was getting out of control.

Police constantly liaise with the mass media, to determine which stories make it out into the public arena. Stories are also printed which are deliberatley inaccurate, in order not to inform the populous of the real nature of an incident. This is practiced more widely than the public is aware of.

The politics is to only inform the general populous of certain matters only, whilst covering up others. This is a strict policy that must be adhered to, and must not be broken via the official channels.

The media bosses are responsible for the reporting of the stories, irrespective of whatever information is obtained, which must not make the light of day until approved behind closed doors. This is done at either the lodge level or the political level.