The world’s most wanted cyber criminals

Cyber criminals from around the world are wanted by the FBI. These are the men highest on their hit list. Source: Supplied

 

ESPIONAGE, terrorism, hacking and fraud. These are the acts being committed by cyber criminals across the world and the FBI has a list of their most wanted. 

The FBI is known for its infamous list containing murderers, rapists and international terrorists but the bureau’s other corkboard profiles the most prolific hackers and schemers.

There are 15 faces on the FBI’s most wanted cyber criminal list with alleged crimes ranging from stealing trade secrets to stealing personal information or duping unwitting internet users to empty their bank accounts.

They hail from all different parts of the world but the one thing they all have in common is a price on their capture.

Andrey Nabilevich Taame

Wanted for reportedly stealing over $15 million through internet trickery. Source: FBI Source: Supplied

Reward: Up to $50,000

Was allegedly involved in “Operation Ghost Click” a malware that caused compromised computers to connect to the internet through servers that Taame and his co-conspirators controlled rather than a usual service provider. This meant it redirected users to websites they did not intend to visit allowing Taame to hijack this internet traffic for the purpose of online advertising fraud where a website would pay for visitors.

The FBI says Taame compromised more than 4 million computers worldwide and claimed 500 victims to steal a reported US$14 million ($A15.1 million). He was one of six conspirators and is the only one still at large.

Alexsey Belan

 

Belan holds the highest reward. Source: FBI Source: Supplied

 

Reward: Up to $100,000

With the highest bounty of all on the list Alexsey, who worked as a computer engineer, is wanted for reportedly hacking into the computer networks of three major US e-commerce companies to steal user databases, passwords and accounts, which he then sold. He has been evading the FBI since 2012 and has been known to jump from country to country including Latvia and the Maldives.

Peteris Sahurovs

 

Even a newspaper was conned by Sahurovs. Source: FBI Source: Supplied

 

Reward: Up to $50,000

Wanted for his alleged involvement in a cybercrime scheme that defrauded internet users of more than US$2 million, Sahurovs contacted an online newspaper claiming to work for an advertising agency representing a hotel chain that wanted to place an ad on the publication’s website. After using fraudulent references and bank accounts to deceive the newspaper he provided electronic files that ran on the site. He then replaced the file with malicious code which infected all users who visited the site. The malware effectively locked up users computers and prompted victims to pay US$49.95 to regain control of their computer. He repeated this offence several more times with other online businesses.

Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara

 

The “Lover Spy” hacker. Source: FBI Source: Supplied

 

Reward: Up to $50,000

In 2003 Melara ran a website that advertised software called “Lover Spy” which users could purchase to spy on cheating lovers. The program would capture everything victims typed on their keyboards as well as intercepting emails and communication from their computers. It is estimated he sold thousands of copies of the software. While the FBI claims he did not benefit from the personal information gathered the intrusive nature of the crime warrants his arrest.

Noor Aziz Uddin and Farhan Ul Arshad

 

Partner in a crime organisation across the world. Source: FBI Source: Supplied

Reward: Up to $50,000 each

The pair from Pakistan is accused of an international telecommunications hacking scheme that defrauded individuals, companies and government bodies in excess of US$50 million. It involved compromising a business telephone system which was used to generate calls to premium numbers. Victims were then billed for the calls, which were often hefty charges even though they didn’t even initiate the calls. The scheme ran from 2008 to 2012 and involved an organisation that spanned across Pakistan, Phililipines, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Spain, Singapore and more.

Bjorn Daniel Sundin and Shaileshkumar P. Jain

 

Sundin scared computer users into buying bogus software. Source: FBI Source: Supplied

Reward: Up to $20,000 each

From 2006 to 2008 Sundin and Jain allegedly took part in a “scareware” scheme that deceived internet users into believing their computers had been infected with critical errors. By hijacking the browser of users they deployed fake virus scans and system failure messages that would bombard the victim’s computer. They lured users to purchase versions of software products advertised by their company Innovative Market Inc. in order to fix the problems. Those who actually bought the fake software had their money deposited directly into bank accounts owned by those involved. It is reported more than US$100 million was gained from unwitting consumers. If anybody complained about the fraudulent software they even had in place a call service centre that would lie or provide refunds in order to prevent any reports to the authorities.

Sun Kailiang, Huang Zhenyu, Wen Xinyu, Wang Dong, Gu Chunhui

 

Sun Kailiang was known as the captain of the operation. Source: FBI Source: Supplied

Reward: not listed

These five men were officers of the People’s Liberation Army of the People’s Republic of China and have been indicted by the FBI for 31 criminal counts including economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. They are accused of penetrating six American companies while they were involved in negotiations, joint ventures or pursuing legal action against Chinese entities. They were then able to steal private information including email exchanges, trade secrets and even design specifications for a nuclear power plant. Each member was allegedly involved in the conspiracy according to their expertise. Some would control user computers while others would intercept or send malicious emails.

Artem Semenov

 

Use of money mules helped Semenov defraud banks. Source: FBI Source: Supplied

Reward: Up to $50,000

The Russian national is part of an Eastern European crime ring and worked out of New York in an alleged operation that recruited money mules to open bank accounts, cash out unauthorised money transfers and send it overseas. He committed the accused acts through use of a fake passport and identity theft. It is believed Semenov likes frequenting casinos and may have travelled to Las Vegas.

Alexandr Sergeyevich Bobnev

 

Hacking into company accounts helped Bobnev lift some serious cash. Source: FBI Source: Supplied

Reward: Up to $50,000

Indicted in 2008 on counts of wire fraud and money laundering Bobnev also has been accused for his participation in a money laundering scheme that hacked into the accounts of investment services. He allegedly compromised the accounts and transferred funds out of the accounts where money mules would send the money back to him. In 2007 Bobnev reportedly attempted to wire over US$350,000 from accounts he infiltrated.

news.com.au 28 May 2014

There are many more 'criminal' politicians in Australia that have committed fraud against the general populous that the sum of these individuals, BUT as always there is very little one can do about these crimes.

This so called FBI list is truly insignificant to the grand scheme of things.

ANY single banker commits a greater financial fraud in one year than the combined efforts of those individuals.

 NAME      USD

Andrey    14 million
Alexsey   not listed
Petris      2 million
Carlos     not listed
Noor      50 million
Bjorn      100 million
Sun         not listed
Artem     not listed
Alexandr 350,000

Total alleged listed (known) fraud $166,350,000.

Australian businessman Richard Pratt (Visyboard) was responsible for a $700 million fraud, and yet only 'fined' $36 million by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) or approx 5% of the total fraud, also was honoured with a state funeral upon his death.

Theft, fraud and corruption can only be committed by the ones who are supported by the 'brotherhood'.

Joe Hockey video from 1987 shows Treasurer protesting against university fees

The student Joe Hockey addresses the media in 1987, while protesting against a new university fee.

Joe Hockey: We will protest for free education

Treasurer Joe Hockey backed protests against university fees as a student leader back in the 1980s. Nine News.

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It is 1987 and the Labor government, led by prime minister Bob Hawke, is introducing university fees which threaten the free universal education introduced by his Labor predecessor Gough Whitlam.

It is no surprise that students are outraged. It is a surprise to learn who rushes first to the barricades: Joe Hockey, then a 22-year-old Arts/Law student at the University of Sydney, who was protesting against the introduction of a $250 administration fee.

Fast forward 27 years and now that student is the Treasurer, who used his first budget to introduce higher education reforms that will deregulate fees and make students pay their student loans back sooner and with higher interest.

His student protest from 1987 is featured in an old Channel Nine news report, obtained by Fairfax Media, which shows him staunchly defending free education for all.

"We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education," says the young Hockey, who was the president of the Sydney University Student Representative Council.

Many education experts believe the Treasurer's higher education budget changes will cause the cost of degrees to increase to more than $120,000 and may discourage poorer people from attending university.

The measure Mr Hockey was protesting against was the introduction of a $250 "administration" fee, which he feared would threaten the universal free higher education that he and his contemporaries enjoyed.

In a 1987 article in the University of Sydney newspaper Honi Soit, Mr Hockey also criticised the same university deregulation measure his own government is now proposing.

"The Liberal Party, which released its education policy two weeks ago, promised to cut back funds to universities and, at the same time, leave the universities to charge whatever fee they wished," he wrote.

"Such a policy is suicidal for student welfare. We will have no effective voice in our own fortune."

When asked about his student protesting days on television last week, Mr Hockey said that in your 20s you complain and in your 40s, you explain.

"We obviously were concerned about the fact we were paying fees upfront which no student has to do now," he told Channel Ten.

Mr Hockey said, in response to the unearthed footage: "My involvement in student rallies is well-documented and well-known and there was no HECS scheme at the time. We had to pay upfront without any loan scheme."

On Thursday, Mr Hockey said: ''When I was 21 I thought things would be free and now in my 40s I know they are not.''

The Treasurer brushed aside criticism that he was a hypocrite, telling the Seven Network ''fair dinkum we are a bit more mature in our debate. What we are doing now is very different to 27 years ago''.

smh.com.au 28 May 2014

Another corporate criminal that has not yet been exposed, as his work is on track for the corporate giants.

Hockey is unlawfully in power, and needs to be removed from office.

Victim’s mum outraged as youngest teen convicted of homicide to be released after a year

Victim Matthew Johnson with his mother Maria. Source: Supplied

 

ONE of the youngest teens convicted in Australia for a homicide offence is expected to be released today after 12 months in custody. 

The 14-year-old boy was originally charged with murder but faced the Supreme Court on a downgraded charge of defensive homicide after it was successfully argued he ­attacked his 37-year-old victim in defence of his father.

Matthew Troy Johnson, himself a father of three, was bludgeoned to death with a weapon that police were never able to conclusively identify — but has been ­described as either a machete or a metal pole.

The boy, who as a juvenile offender is identified only as MJ, was sentenced to three years in a youth justice centre, the maximum allowable.

But the Youth Parole Board has told his victim’s family to expect his release today.

Mr Johnson’s distraught mother, Maria, told the Herald Sun she was angry someone, despite his young age, could be ­incarcerated for just one year for killing someone.

“The justice system has a lot to answer for when 12 months for another person’s life is all that can happen to you. We have lost all faith that justice even exists anymore,” Mrs Johnson said.

“The loss of our son, brother, uncle and father to my three granddaughters has been one of the most stressful times in our lives.”

The crime occurred in ­Boronia in 2011 when an ­argument between Mr ­Johnson and the boy’s father resulted in a street fight.

MJ’s father called out for ­assistance and the teenager struck Mr Johnson, who was on the ground at the time, ­several times to the head with a weapon.

When he was sentenced in April last year, Justice Betty King said the maximum three-year sentence could in no way reflect the value of Mr Johnson’s life.

“To the family, nothing that this court says or does will ease your pain, that is understood. What I equally need you to understand is that the sentence I impose on MJ has nothing to do with the value or the importance of the life of Matthew Johnson,” Justice King said.

MJ, now 17, ­“unfortunately” had lived with the father, failed to attend about half of his school classes and was exposed to cannabis use by his father.

Justice King noted MJ had, after the offence, lived with his mother and re-engaged with school and rehabilitation ­programs.

heraldsun.com.au 28 May 2014

This is a classic example of how 'corrupt' the legal system of Australia is in that it lets out criminals into the community so that they can re-offend again, so that the business can be kept alive with new 'clients'.

Paton & Ors v Mackay Regional Council - Council Rates

Local government or municipal office 'rates' are supposed to be for people who make a living from the land, for example farmers, primary producers, etc.

Some Australians are aware that council rates are illegal / unlawful ( regarding domestic dwellings) according to the 'Constitution' but it is with the help of corrupt magistrates and judges that this fraud is perpetuated.

In a recent Queensland Supreme Court judgement made on the 30th of April 2014, the Mackay Regional Council lost the court battle against the Applicants: Ayril Richard Paton & Peter John Crossan & Maincrest Pty Ltd.

The (16 page pdf) document Paton & Ors v Mackay Regional Council [2104] QSC 75 is available for download:

NASA pulls e-book which appeared to suggest aliens may have left messages among ancient rock art

In a spin ... is ancient rock art a message from aliens, or just an example of how difficult it is to communicate over vast distances of time and space? Source: Supplied

 

Mixed messages ... this stone is an example of ancient “cup and ring” markings found all over the world. It’s meaning and purpose are unknown. Source: Supplied

 

IS this evidence of alien contact? UFO aficionados are in a spin after NASA appeared to suggest ancient rock art may have been planted by aliens. 

The NASA e-book titled Archaeology, Anthroology, and Interstellar Communication, which was issued earlier this week, details efforts in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. It has since been taken down without explanation.
But many insist it contained a real eye-opener.

The 330 page book, edited by the director of Interstellar Message Composition at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), Dr Douglas Vakoch, allegedly made the extraordinary suggestion that unusual ancient patterns gouged into rocks “might have been made by aliens”.

But the storm of interest may be little more than the result of a typo or editing error. Or wishful thinking on the behalf of true believers.

DOWNLOAD A COPY OF THE BOOK HERE
 
His organisation is tasked with researching ways that alien civilisations may “create messages that could be transmitted across interstellar space, allowing communication between humans and extraterrestrials even without face-to-face contact”.

A contributor to the book, computer scientist William Edmondson, wrote: “It is helpful to review some parallels from human existence that pose problems for us today. One of these is ‘rock art,’ which consists of patterns or shapes cut into rock many thousands of years ago.”

“We can say little, if anything, about what these patterns signify, why they were cut into rocks, or who created them. For all intents and purposes, they might have been made by aliens. Unless we find a readable exegesis of them produced at the time they were made, we will never be able to say with certainty what the patterns mean.”

Not so obvious ... the concept of aliens leaving us messages in the artwork of our ancients has been around for a considerable time. Here is director Ridley Scott’s version, from the movie “Prometheus”. Source: Supplied

 

Dr Vakosh, in the book’s introduction, echoes this sentiment.

He wrote scientists must try to “recognise manifestations of extraterrestrial intelligence, even when they resemble a naturally occurring phenomenon”.

It’s a matter of mindset, he says.

“Only when people took seriously the possibility that chipped rocks might be prehistoric tools were they predisposed to look for them,” Vakoch wrote.

Note that this is somewhat different to that rock art DOES represent communication over time and space …
Contributors to the work suggest rock art instead be used as an analogy for understanding the challenge of communicating over vast distances of time and space.

‘If a radio signal is detected in a modern Seti experiment, we could well know that another intelligence exists, but not know what they are saying,’ Dr Vakosh wrote.

‘To move beyond the mere detection of such intelligence, and to have any realistic chance of comprehending it, we can gain much from the lessons learned by researchers facing similar challenges on Earth,’ he continues.

‘Like archaeologists who reconstruct temporally distant civilisations from fragmentary evidence, Seti researchers will be expected to reconstruct distant civilisations separated from us by vast expanses of space as well as time.

‘As we attempt to decode and interpret extraterrestrial messages, we will be required to comprehend the mindset of a species that is radically Other.’

news.com.au 22 May 2014

Glen McNamara charged with murder of missing student, Roger Rogerson wanted for questioning

Disgraced detective wanted for questioning

Police are seeking former NSW detective Roger Rogerson in connection to the disappearance of student Jamie Gao.

A former NSW detective has been charged with the murder of a missing Sydney university student and police also want to speak to disgraced detective Roger Rogerson over the disappearance.

Glen McNamara, 55, who was stationed at Kings Cross during the late '80s, was charged with the murder of Jamie Gao early on Monday.

Police are now searching for Mr Rogerson, an associate of Mr McNarama, to question him in relation to Mr Gao, 20.

Former detective Glen McNamara Photo: Steven Siewert

NSW detectives are flying to Queensland on Monday to talk to Mr Rogerson.

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Mr Gao, from Hurstville, has been missing for six days after getting into a white car with two men in Padstow about 1.40pm on Tuesday.

Police suspect he has got ''in over his head'' and was kidnapped and killed after arranging a ''secretive'' meeting with an unknown party.

Wanted for questioning: Roger Rogerson. Photo: Janie Barrett

Mr Gao was last seen getting into the car on Arab Road in Padstow shortly after speaking to two men, both described as being of Asian appearance. He was carrying a bag.

Mr Gao's own car, a white Nissan Silvia sedan, was found abandoned near where he was last seen. His phone, keys and wallet were nearby.

On Sunday, the head of the Robbery and Serious Crime Squad, Detective Superintendent Luke Moore, said the circumstances of Mr Gao's disappearance suggested foul play.

Missing student Jamie Gao. Photo: Police Media

Hours later, Mr McNamara was pulled over during a traffic stop at Kyeemagh in Sydney's south and he was questioned overnight before being charged with murder and drug offences.

Mr McNamara is a former investigator with the National Crime Authority and the NSW Police; he was a detective stationed in Kings Cross and Sydney's south. He gave evidence to the NSW Police royal commission about alleged police protection of paedophiles.

Mr Rogerson, 73, was a decorated senior police officer until he shot and killed drug dealer Warren Lanfranchi in 1981.

He was later accused of supplying drugs, assault, bribery and conspiring to murder, but was never convicted.

He was twice convicted for lying in court and served two separate jail terms.

Mr McNamara's Cronulla home has been searched by police and a blue Ford Falcon XR6 was seized from his premises.

Mr Rogerson's Padstow Heights home was also searched and a car, a silver Ford Falcon, was taken away.
Police also searched a storage unit at Caringbah where a boat was taken away for forensic testing.

A third car, a silver Ford Falcon, was found at another location in Cronulla. It is this car detectives believe Mr Gao got into at Arab Road last Tuesday.

Superintendent Moore said the investigations would continue.

“Our inquiries to date have led us to conclude that Mr Gao has been murdered,” Superintendent Moore said.
“While we have charged a man with murder, this investigation will continue and we may make further arrests.

“We still don’t know where Mr Gao’s body is and are strongly encouraging anyone who can help us locate his remains to contact police.”

Mr McNamara appeared in court on Monday afternoon charged with and with a major drugs charge.

Supported by his family, the 55-year-old did not apply for bail before Kogarah Local court and it was formally refused.

Mr McNamara returns to court in July.

smh.com.au 26 May 2014

Another corrupt killer cop that is / was at large in the community.

Should be locked up for life, but lets see how the corrupt legal system handles this matter.

Governor General of Australia Michael Jeffery - No Order

According to the (trusted?) source - wikipedia, Major General Philip Michael Jeffery was the 24th Governor-General of Australia from the period of 2003 to 2008.

According to the (trusted) source - Privy Council Office in London, no such Order has ever been made.

This information is contained within a one page document listed below in pdf format:



Another document worth keeping that exposes the criminal activities of politicians and law makers.

The criminal family of Queen Elizabeth II

From the rt.com article of the heading:

Prince Charles strikes another blow for the British republic

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales feeds a polar bear called Hudson as he visits Winnipeg Zoo on May 21, 2014 in Winnipeg, Canada.(AFP Photo / Chris Jackson)

There is an air of unreality to Prince Charles’ spin-squad attempting this week to prove that the future British Head of State’s comparison of Putin to Hitler, while surrounded by journalists on a royal tour was said in a ‘private conversation’.

It is not just that his views show how out of touch he and his PR team are with the nation and the real world, but Charles’ flippant remarks draw unwelcome attention to his own and his family’s close connections to Nazis, and related war-mongering.

His father Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was educated for a time in Nazi Germany and his four sisters married black-uniformed SS officers (three of them, Sophie, Cecile and Margarita, joining the Nazi party). Philip admitted to then having 'inhibitions about the Jews' to an American academic and feeling 'jealousy of their success.' Charles’ great uncle, the abdicated ex-King Edward VIII, was such a swastika-waver that MI6 had to banish him to Bermuda for the duration of World War Two, thwarting his and his Nazi wife Mrs Simpson’s attempts to join Hitler by crossing into occupied Europe.

Charles himself has come quite close to publicly endorsing Hitler’s slippery chief Architect and Armaments Minister Albert Speer by hiring Speer’s greatest devotee, Léon Krier, as his own chief architect for his Duchy of Cornwall’s extensive building projects. Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Meades in his 1994 documentary, ‘Jerry Building’ nails Krier as the ‘Speer-carrier’ and ‘Keeper of the Toxic Flame’, pointing out that every one of Speer’s creations, which include the Nuremberg rally stadium, is inseparable from the inhuman experimentation and forced concentration camp labor used to construct them.

Charles’ great grandfather George V was one of the three ‘great’ architects of World War One, the so-called ‘Cousins’ War’, four years of mindless slaughter that began exactly a century ago. With two more Saxe-Coburg Gotha cousins, George’s hapless subjects slugged it out in trench warfare with Germany’s Wilhelm II and Russia’s Nicholas II's unfortunates leaving, by 1918, a total of some ten million dead for no discernible purpose.

When in 1917 ill-mannered soldiers began pointing out that German Gotha bombers from another branch of the King’s family business were killing them, George V blithely announced that his surname was changing from ‘Saxe-Coburg Gotha’ to the more English-sounding ‘Windsor’.

Even masterpieces like Richard Attenborough’s 1969 feature film 'Oh! What A Lovely War', the BBC’s controversial 1986 drama ‘The Monocled Mutineer’ and the poetry of Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy, Worcester army padre known affectionately as 'Woodbine Willie', do not quite reflect the futility of the war and the bitterness it stirred up amongst ordinary people.

Today, despite standing against the Nazis in World War Two, Her Majesty’s government and armed forces, who all swear allegiance to the Queen, are backing most of the dictators and despots around the world. From President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka with the blood of 40,000 innocent Tamil civilians on his hands, to King Abdullah's brutal Saudi regime which still practices public beheadings. Charles’ tongue always speaks for the world leaders Amnesty International tells us are the bad guys, but he is looking to make money with them, whether through real estate or arms.

The Prince of Wales, Prince William, Princess Diana and Prince Harry attend the Heads of State ceremony in Hyde Park to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of VE Day in Hyde Park May 7, 1995.(Reuters / Dylan Martinez DM)

 

 

Are we witnessing the death throes of the British monarchy?

It started thirty six years after the bloodthirsty Knights Templar warrior-bankers were disgraced and dissolved, a new order of 26 ‘knights’ were initiated in 1348 that have dominated the British crown ever since. The Order of the Garter consists of two conjoined cells, each of thirteen knights that advise and ‘protect’ the monarch and heir apparent.

Because of their obsessive secrecy and lack of transparency over the centuries those appointed to these knights have become the very antithesis of Medieval chivalry, a lethal mixture of yes-men, and devious chancers who would sell their own mother to get a seat, and a cut of the rent, at the top table.

Nothing could illustrate more clearly the British monarchy’s distain for their poor subjects than Henry VIII’s asset seizure and eviction in the 1530s of around ten thousand monks from Britain’s monasteries. Since the days of Alfred the Great these holy orders had been providing a backbone of education and healthcare to the nation, but to Henry they represented a kind of Vatican fifth column, daring to question the wisdom of his break from Rome to form his independent Church of England.

In 1638, with special pleadings from Archbishop Laud, Charles I addressed the privatization of land, enclosure, by fining rich merchants and parliamentarians who had evicted villagers from collectively managed open fields. Only ‘freemen’ owning land worth over 40 shillings a year could vote so the merchants had effectively been voting themselves growing land the poor needed to feed themselves.

Charles I, perhaps bravely, perhaps foolishly, tried to buck the trend of the creeping privatization of land, but the merchants secretly organised against him, launched the English Civil War and he lost his head in 1649. The merchant classes were now firmly in power and ready to bring their new-fangled capitalism to the world.

The meddling ‘black spider’ prince

Whether Charles’ meddling in politics today is for good or ill in Britain we can only guess because he spends hundreds of thousands of pounds, even more than he spends on PR, on confidentiality lawyers to stop the British public finding out. Not only has he been shown to be secretly vetoing legislation passed by parliament which he doesn’t like but sending regular hand-written ‘black spider’ directives to Secretaries of State.

Charles’ lawyers have fought a four year battle against Guardian journalist Rob Evans to keep these communications secret, arguing that as a private citizen he is not covered by the Freedom of Information Act. So far he has succeeded in keeping these directives, which professor of constitutional law at Manchester University Rodney Brazier modestly described as a 'constitutional innovation', secret.

How the nation is to deal with Charles' secret stretching of what is expressly a non-political office, in a way that his mother Queen Elizabeth rarely appears to have done, hangs in the air like a constitutional bad smell. If his mother’s rare missive to the Labour Home Secretary demanding the arrest of radical Muslim cleric Abu-Hamza are anything to go by Charles’ letters would be revealing indeed.

Don’t mention Diana

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales gives a speech as he visits Stevenson Campus Air Hanger on May 21, 2014 in Winnipeg, Canada.(AFP Photo / Chris Jackson)

Visitors to Charles’ country estate, Highgrove House in Gloucestershire, are disappointed to find all traces of Princess Diana are notable by their absence, even from the gift shop where she would no doubt turn a handsome profit. Despite William and Harry doing much of their growing up here their mother’s name, image and memory has been entirely expunged.

This is a pity since Diana and the boys spent many of their happiest times in and around the market town of Tetbury, nestling as it does in the heart of the Cotswolds countryside.
On Sunday mornings in the late 1980s and early 1990s Diana could be spotted with young Princes William and Harry slipping into the back rows of St Mary the Virgin and St Mary Magdalen Church after the service had begun to avoid attention, looking for all the world like just any other young mum with her boys. After church they'd cycle back down country lanes back to Highgrove, a couple of miles south of the town.

Locals say the threesome made a sport of evading royal protection squad police officers who were supposed to be following them at all times but whom the princess saw as ‘claustrophobic’, putting up a barrier between them and passers-by. Diana insisted on bringing the boys up ‘to see themselves as the same as everyone else.’ Teaching them to talk in a down-to-earth, relaxed way with the public.

But after the adultery with Camilla and subsequent divorce, Diana was now a ‘problem' for Charles and the Queen. According to Australian investigative journalist John Morgan they set up what they called the ‘Way Ahead Group’ (WAG) to manage the three fold ‘Diana problem’.

Firstly her anti-land mines campaign was threatening arms company profits both in France and Britain, then she was using the British press to successfully assert herself as a national figure and finally WAG meetings became more urgent because Diana was about to announce her engagement to Dodi Al Fayed, meaning William and Harry might be about to get a Muslim stepfather.

In Morgan’s 2012 book 'Paris-London Connection, The Assassination of Princess Diana', John Morgan says evidence revealed in the two police enquiries and inquest suggested the Queen and Prince Charles tipped the wink to Britain’s Foreign Intelligence Service MI6, that if Diana were to have an ‘accident’ nobody at the palace would mind.

Keith Allen's 2011 documentary 'Unlawful Killing' which examines the decade late Diana inquest, proves beyond doubt that her death was no accident. But the film has not been shown on TV and been suppressed online and in the cinemas by the deep-pocketed royal lawyers. It may never now be shown in Britain.

Charles is descended from the other Vlad, from Transylvania

Charles is of course responsible for none of his royal predecessors' turbulent history but like anyone else he can and should choose his own way. The path of secrecy and the PR wall he has attempted to construct around himself simply will not wash in today’s connected world, serving only to alienate him from most of his 65 million subjects.

However the Putin Nazi lie has gained unhappy momentum because Britain's three party leaders have shown contempt both for the constitution and public by backing the prince against the facts and the national interest.
What they have shown by weighing in to support Charles' slur against Russia is that Britain's ruling elite, including the arms manufacturers, can be dictators deciding in private meetings amongst themselves what foreign policy to pursue. Even in election week our so-called top politicians don't have the backbone to stand up to the establishment, however brazen the lies.

Outside his charmed circle, Charles’ ungracious remarks will persuade very few here in Britain. They demonstrate both a perverse underplaying of the 25 million Soviet dead of World War Two and a further move toward nuclear war today in Europe. The party leaders have also refused to recognize Charles' own government and armed forces’ backing for the post-coup Ukrainian government, key ‘Right Sector’ elements of which proudly sport pictures of Nazis such as war criminal Stepan Bandera on their Kiev walls.

Charles does not understand, as his mother appears to have done, that he cannot have it both ways as Head of State and as a politician. Charles’ devil-may-care remarks have invited disdain for him at home and for Britain abroad. Ironically, for the man who is proud of his Transylvanian ‘Dracula’ ancestry, being descended from the fifteenth century despot Vlad the Impaler, they represent one more nail in the coffin of the British monarchy.

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

rt.com 23 May 2014

 

Qld MP quits Newman government

THE Newman government has lost a fifth MP since its resounding 2012 election win. 
 
Its vast majority shrunk again on Friday when maverick MP Chris Davis resigned from parliament without a courtesy call to the premier.

The first-time MP and former Australian Medical Association Queensland president was sacked as assistant health minister last week after clashing with colleagues over changes to the state's corruption watchdog and new individual contracts for doctors.

Dr Davis said he had stood on some powerful toes and was partly demoted because he raised concerns with the premier about looming changes to political donations.

His dissatisfaction came to a head on Thursday night, when he told parliament he couldn't support his government's policy to remove caps on political donations and raise disclosure thresholds.

He left the chamber before the laws were voted on.

While Dr Davis says his demotion was a catalyst to his immediate departure from politics, the accumulation of controversial legislation had weighed heavily on his conscience.

At the same time as his resignation, he released polling showing the majority of voters in his Stafford electorate backing him and believing he had been unfairly treated.

"The passage of recent government legislation affecting critical aspects of our democracy goes contrary to my value system and that of the majority of my electorate," he said in a statement on his website.

"I would never have stood for parliament on such a platform, nor do I believe I would have been elected."

The LNP will now have another by-election battle, after suffering a 17 per cent swing against it in the Redcliffe poll just three months ago.

Mr Newman found out about Dr Davis' resignation about the same time as the media and says he would have appreciated a phone call.

He says because there were no health or family reasons for the departure Dr Davis should have served out his whole term.

"We have done everything we can to accommodate his concerns within the team," he said.

"We have no problem with members speaking out on occasions when they are passionate about things.

"The LNP is a team that permits people to cross the floor and he could have done that last night."

Mr Newman has two candidates in mind to run in Stafford but said it will ultimately be up to the party.

Maxillofacial surgeon Dr Anthony Lynham has already been selected for Labor.

Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says Dr Davis' resignation was a vote of no confidence in Mr Newman's leadership.

The Labor leader downplayed her party's chances of regaining Stafford, which the LNP holds by a 7.1 per cent margin.

"We need to restore honesty and integrity back into Queensland," Ms Palaszczuk said.

Clive Palmer Tweeted that his party will contest the by-election but he is calling on the premier to hold a general election instead.

smh.com.au  22 May 2014

The Queensland government is a corrupt government in power.

Every single politician is part of the fraud against the general populous.

The truth is coming out, BUT the corporate media is not conducive to reporting this.

Poorest families pay most in budget

The GST debate

Politicians shouldn't rule things in or out but participate in a mature debate says Nationals MP Andrew Broad.

• The figures Joe Hockey didn't want you to see
• Budget 'unfair', says former finance head

The poorest 20 per cent of Australian families will pay $1.1 billion more into government coffers than the richest households as a result of the budget, highlighting the huge inequity in the government's four-year blueprint for fiscal repair.

New analysis from the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) has crystallised how heavily the burden of budget consolidation has fallen on those less well-off, especially if they have school-age children.

NATSEM divides the community into five segments, or quintiles, each with a little over 2,500,000 families. It finds the poorest 20 per cent - those with $35,000 or less in disposable annual income - will forgo $2.9 billion over four years, thanks to a raft of changes to family benefits, pensions and other payments.

By contrast, the wealthiest 20 per cent of households - earning $88,000 or more after tax and benefits - will suffer a $1.78 billion hit, some 40 per cent less than the lowest income families.

Overall, those in the lowest sector see incomes fall by an average of almost 2.2 per cent while it is only a 0.2 per cent decline for those in the highest quintile.

The government has defended the budget cuts, saying it has spread the burden by imposing a budget repair levy on people earning more than $180,000. But its impact on household finances is minimal, costing someone on a $200,000 annual salary only about $400 per year. Moreover, the levy only lasts three years.

The budget papers of Treasurer Joe Hockey dropped the tables of how families are affected, which have been a constant since 2005.

According to NATSEM, in 2017-18, the year the levy will expire, the richest quintile of households will be better off by $825 million, the only cohort ahead at any time, thanks to the budget.

The NATSEM analysis calculates the impact of the budget changes on household finances over four years, incorporating reforms to welfare, pensions and taxation, including abolishing the carbon and mining taxes.
It does not include, however, the cost of the $7 Medicare co-payment to families, roughly estimated at between $200 and $300 per household each year.

Illustration: Matt Golding

The study also finds:

■ More than one third of the budget cuts - $6 billion - fall on the middle quintile of households, earning $45,000 to $63,000.

■ Families with school-age children are the hardest hit. Across all income groups, they will lose $15.9 billion over four years, more than 90 per cent of the total.

■ Low and middle-income sole parents suffer worst of all, losing between 10 and 15 per cent of their annual income - $4000 to $6250 - on family earnings of less than $60,000 by the time the changes to welfare take full effect in 2017-18.

■ The burden rises sharply for families with children over the four years of the budget. For example, a sole parent earning $60,000 with children aged eight and 12 will lose $1808 in annual income in 2014-15 and $6278 in 2017-18.

Low- and middle-income earners, especially those with school-age children, are hit hardest as the family tax benefit for single-income families is abolished and indexation is curbed.

Peter Whiteford, of the Australian National University's Crawford School of Public Policy, said there had not been a budget that hit the poor so hard, at least since the Fraser government.

NATSEM was commissioned by the ALP to do the modelling, but is an independent organisation that has done work for a variety of groups, including the Coalition, in the past.

smh.com.au 22 May 2014

One small fact that the corporate media, politicians and law makers are NOT letting out of the bag is that GST collected is unlawful, and that the Australian Tax Office (ATO) is NOT a legal entity.

These facts are not being publicised, as this is a form of control over the herd population.

There is plenty of case law that supports this.