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Casino tender guidelines changes before packer bid
Government guidelines on bypassing competitive tendering were changed just before billionaire businessman James Packer put forward his proposal for a $1 billion hotel and casino in Sydney, it has been claimed.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that a clause specifying that independent evaluations were needed before a scheme could be allowed to avoid going to tender was removed on August 17.
That was exactly a week after NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell met Mr Packer to discuss the proposed "six-star" hotel and VIP gaming resort at Barangaroo, and two weeks after Mr Packer officially put forward his plan, the newspaper said.
It says guidelines in the Working with Government document requiring evaluation by the relevant government agency to confirm there would be better value for money in avoiding a tender process have now been replaced by the Public Private Partnership Guidelines, which do not include that requirement.
A spokesman for Mr O'Farrell told the Herald the changes were "minor administrative changes to keep the document up to date and relevant".
The plan has reached the second stage of the state government's "unsolicited proposals" process. A more detailed proposal from Crown Ltd is to be considered by the government panel, and if that is approved and a binding offer made, all that stands between Mr Packer and his casino dream is a vote in NSW parliament.
ninemsn.com.au 1 Nov 2012
Government corruption with businesses is a common criminal occurrence, that does not get reported on enough by the corporate media.
Discounts, favours and other bribes are exchanged between politicians and law makers to suit the corporate elite.
Criminal charges should follow these revelations, but as always, we are talking about a group of people that are untouchable by the law.
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Labor let IBM off after IT bungle on pay system
PREVIOUSLY secret papers show computer giant IBM was let off the hook over the nation's most notorious government IT bungle when the former state Labor government in Queensland promised not to sue it over the delivery of the health payroll system.
In what it described as an "unprecedented" move, Queensland's Labor opposition yesterday tabled in parliament hundreds of pages of confidential cabinet documents, revealing that while in government it had executed a "supplemental agreement" with IBM releasing the company from potential damages claims for "late and defective delivery".
The documents show the September 22, 2010 agreement came despite the government's admission its "preferred position" was not to release the company from liability.
A June 2011 cabinet submission said the state and IBM had agreed to "withdraw all current contract notices and actions", after IBM had rectified some of the system's defects.
"The agreement releases IBM from those obligations that would normally be released had the contract with IBM been finalised in a normal manner," it said.
"In addition, from October 31, 2010, the agreement released IBM from any remaining warranty obligations for the system."
The program was plagued with significant defects and overpaying staff more than $94 million.
IBM was contracted in 2008 to co-ordinate the delivery of a new Queensland Health payroll system but, against the IT giant's advice, it "went live" in March 2010 without adequate back-ups.
It led to Queensland Health's 70,000 staff being underpaid, overpaid or not paid for months.
In a departmental submission approved by ministers in September 2010, the government admitted the "high-level nature" and "uncertainty" of its original tender requirements for the payroll system meant it could not enforce the IBM contract's warranties.
A 2010 Auditor-General report found the system was 20 months late from its scheduled final delivery and was about 300 per cent over budget.
Newman government Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has declared the botched implementation will cost $1 billion and has for months demanded the Opposition release the confidential cabinet documents.
Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk said the release of the documents was a "one-off" due to the "extraordinary circumstances" of the case.
As at October 30 last year, $94.6m had been overpaid to staff, comprising $84m in salary overpayments to 68,648 staff and $10.6m in interim cash payments to 7344 staff.
A December 2010 cabinet submission also revealed some workers received emergency cash payments for their "own personal gain", despite being paid in full.
"It is both appropriate and a legal obligation for Queensland Health to act in cases of suspected fraud," the submission read.
It said 23 matters were referred to Queensland Police and two staff members had been charged. The submission said one staffer had admitted to misappropriating more than $20,000 and was convicted.
theaustralian.com.au 1 Nov 2012
Many government tenders are fraudulent with the 'winning' bid already being organised by both the successful applicant and the people in government in charge of the project.
The corporate media, terms the word 'bungle' falsifying the reality of the situation of fraud.
IBM is also responsible for a nationwide contractor payment fraud in collusion with agencies worth hundreds of millions of dollars, as detailed by corpau in a previous article.
Labels: AMI - Anglo Masonic Influence, CF - Corporate Fraud, GE - Government Exposé, Laws for Criminals, Money for Mates, Politics
Moving men caught in mistaken identity blunder – Media misinformation
The corporate media is officially a government propaganda tool, with strict guidelines to only inform the public of certain events.
In Australia the corporate media is controlled by literally three people, Murdoch, Packer and Stokes, with 70% being controlled by Murdoch.
In this article the corporate media, went on to misinform or rather leave out critical information (evidence) from the online version of its printed news in order to erase police harassment.
In order to make searches more difficult, the headlines are also changed from the printed versions, so the public cannot easily trace a story.
The online articles with relation to two removalist personnel handcuffed by police is outlined below at two different internet addresses, with identical content:
Moving men caught in mistaken identity blunder
http://www.optuszoo.com.au/news/top/the-age/moving-men-caught-in-mistaken-identity-blunder/828470
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/moving-men-caught-in-mistaken-identity-blunder-20121101-28m12.html
Two Melbourne removalists were themselves removed this morning, when police mistook them for burglars.
The men were shifting a client and her belongings from her house when a neighbour phoned police, believing the men were stealing the woman's belongings.
About 8.20am today, the removalists, from Man with a Van, were approached by police on St Kilda Road, near Fitzroy Street, after traffic was stopped.
A witness, Jo Templin, said police walked through the blocked traffic as though looking for someone.
She said that the removalists were handcuffed and police threw them to the ground. But they were later allowed to continue on.
Man with a Van general manager Matt Windsor said he believed this was the first experience of its kind for his staff and the two were "a bit knocked about".
Mr Windsor said the men were in full uniform and were shaken up at being handcuffed and put on the ground.
"Once they convinced the powers that be that they were who they were, they were sent on their way for a cup of tea and a good lie down," he said.
A police spokeswoman confirmed the removalists were mistaken for burglars and said no charges would be laid.
Another article appearing at smh.com.au with relation to the story is as follows:
Handcuffed removalist considers legal action
http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/handcuffed-removalist-considers-legal-action-20121102-28ooq.html
One of two removalists handcuffed and thrown from his work van at gunpoint on Thursday is considering legal action against police.
The men were mistaken for burglars when a neighbour of a woman moving house in Prahran called police to report the house was being burgled.
The men, working for Man with a Van, were pulled from their van on St Kilda Road about 8.20am. The company's director, Tim Bishop, said this afternoon that he was concerned about the wellbeing of his staff.
"They weren't in a good state," he said.
Mr Bishop said the police appeared to have been heavy-handed and that when the identity of his staff had been confirmed, one officer said: "Oh well, you looked kind of dodgy."
"They're humiliated by the whole episode," said Mr Bishop of his employees.
"They [police] may have been following protocol but they were taking it to the nth degree."
Mr Bishop said one employee was considering legal action and had consulted family lawyers.
He added that the effect on his company's image would be negative, particularly because many people saw the incident and would draw incorrect inferences because his staff, in full uniform, were handcuffed and removed from the van at gunpoint.
"One of the things that probably made it work out in a positive way is that the guys [staff] were so amicable; even though they had guns pulled and pointed at them and thrown to the ground, they were still compliant and did what they were told," he said. "Many wouldn't."
Mr Bishop said he was not expecting an apology from the police, but it would be nice if his staff received one.
"I don't want to vilify the police, but it did seem heavy-handed to me," he said.
But police say several requests were made for the men in the van to get out were ignored.
"One of the police members has made a risk assessment and pulled his firearm from the holster. It was not pointed at the men at any stage," said a police spokeswoman.
"Once the men complied with the police member's directions, the firearm was immediately reholstered. Two men were arrested, however were quickly released when police made contact with the occupants of the premises and were able to ascertain they were away on holiday and had people house sitting.
"Local police managers are conducting an internal review of the events and will address any learnings as they arise."
In the printed version of Melbourne's Herald Sun the article appears with the headline:
Cops on the move
The last paragraph contains the words:
Once police realised the error it is believed one laughed and said: "Oh well you look dodgy." The men haven't ruled out legal action.
This article having appeared in print now suggests that the individuals are dodgy, meaning look like criminals (exactly how do criminals look like ?), in effect opening the door to legal action against the police.
Although the corporate media did mention this on the smh.com.au news site, the information was curiously omitted from theage.com.au. The corporate media have overlooked this crucial paragraph from its online publication, in effect falsifying the sequence of events for ever.
The corporate media working together with police to conceal police crimes.
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Cop admits wrongdoing, but wants respect
A police officer accused of a raft of offences has admitted to wrongdoing, in evidence to the Police Integrity Commission (PIC).
Senior Constable Hoan Thien `Ryan' Pham, 31, told a public hearing of the PIC on Monday in Sydney that he supplied information from the NSW Police confidential database to his brother.
A telephone intercept of a conversation between the pair revealed that he told his brother Bankstown police were aware one of his housemates was selling amphetamines and the drug ice.
Counsel assisting the inquiry, Jeremy Gormly SC, grilled the officer over numerous allegations of wrongdoing.
"You released a piece of information that you had picked up from the confidential police information system (COPS) and passed it on to your brother," Mr Gormly said.
"That's correct," the officer replied.
At one point, the officer demanded Mr Gormly address him as senior constable because "I earned that rank".
Sen Const Pham is also accused of texting his brother-in-law, asking him to advise another man to clear out any drugs, money or stolen goods from premises that Fairfield detectives had planned to raid.
Sen Const Pham acknowledged the text came from his phone but said he did not send it and had no knowledge of the message.
The PIC also intercepted two mobile phone calls in May between Sen Const Pham and his brother, in which he asked him to stage a break-and-enter at his Lansvale home, where his brother-in-law and his de facto's parents also lived.
Sen Con Pham told his brother that his brother-in-law knew a lot of "junkies", hung out with drug dealers and had more than $100,000 in cash stashed in his wardrobe.
His brother refused to participate.
"It was an offer to your brother to engage in a break-and-enter and split the proceeds," Mr Gormly said.
Sen Const Pham said it was a joke to impress his brother.
In his opening statement, Mr Gormly stated that Sen Con Pham had been in a de facto relationship with Bich Tuyen Kha since 2000, during which time Ms Kha had married and divorced a Vietnamese national and had later married another Vietnamese man.
The first man had gained permanent residency before a divorce in 2008 and the second man's uncle had paid $30,000 to the officer for the sham marriage in 2010, Mr Gormly said.
Evidence showed neither of the men had ever lived with Ms Kha, the PIC heard.
In April this year, Sen Con Pham began an application for residency in Australia for a woman he said he had proposed to in Vietnam.
In 2006, he and Ms Kha had a large wedding ceremony in Sydney, but did not certify the marriage in NSW and were not legally required to do so.
They had a child in 2011, the PIC heard, but the birth certificate recorded Ms Kha's second husband as the father to avoid any issues with his impending permanent residency in Australia, the inquiry was told.
Sen Const Pham, who was a JP, certified the birth certificate.
He was also recorded on CCTV depositing at his local bank $18,900 in cash which he borrowed from his brother-in-law.
The hearings continue on Tuesday.
aap 29 Oct 2012
The Police Integrity Commission (PIC) is another corrupt institution, which is not an independent body, but rather working with the government.
Today, the drug industry is worth approx. $1,200 million per month, which with that sort of money buy plenty of bribes along the way.
It is not the first time nor will it be the last that corrupt police are in the drug trade.
There are far more corrupt police than reported by the corporate media.
The whole system needs to the turned upside down.
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Study scam blast from magistrate following the drug charges of eight men
A MAGISTRATE has hit out at the Department of Immigration, saying it should "take a good look at itself" after a Vietnamese man on a student visa was alleged to be involved in an international drug ring.
Nhat Pham, 31, and seven others were charged with manufacturing and trafficking large quantities of drugs after police uncovered Victoria's biggest clandestine laboratory in the western suburbs on Friday.
Magistrate Charlie Rozencwajg yesterday questioned why a Vietnamese man with a pregnant wife would be coming to Australia to study.
"It amazes me why people bother coming here on boats when all they need to do is apply for a student visa," Mr Rozencwajg said.
"If you told me the name of the (educational) institution, I bet I wouldn't recognise it."
The Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard Mr Pham, who required a translator because he doesn't speak English, was supposedly studying a business degree.
Mr Rozencwajg suggested the only link to his chosen field was the large commercial quantity of methamphetamine he was charged with trafficking.
"Is that why it's commercial?" he said.
Last week's police raid allegedly uncovered cocaine, ecstasy, heroin and cannabis and found methamphetamine worth tens of millions of dollars was being manufactured in two homes in Sunshine West.
The prosecutor said more than one tonne of precursor liquids were found when police executed search warrants at homes in Joan St and Alpini Pde, acting on intelligence from the Australian Crime Commission.
Mr Pham had an operation on his jaw at the Royal Melbourne Hospital following the arrest, the court heard.
No application for bail was made and Mr Pham was remanded in custody.
The co-accused are: Canadian national Phuon Nam Nguyen, 32; Dien Nguyen, 38, of Bossley Park, NSW; Yana Orm, 26, of Paralowie, South Australia; Somkit Chankham, 44, of Salisbury North, South Australia; Huu Thanh Pham, 39, of Bossley Park, NSW; Anousone Somchanmavong, 27, of Salisbury North, South Australia; and Vietnamese national Cuong Viet Bui, 39, of Hai Phong.
The men are back in court on March 4.
dailytelegraph.com.au 30 Oct 2012
Authorities are fully aware of the 'scam' as they support it.
It (overseas education) is a multi billion dollar industry that governments thrive on, where also businesses are set up for the brethren or colleagues of the policy and law makers.
The government chooses to turn a blind eye to the criminals it imports, as they only effect the general populous and not the untouchable elite.
Labels: ABC - Australia Backwards Country, AMI - Anglo Masonic Influence, Globalisation, Immigration, Laws for Criminals, Money for Mates, Politics
Timberlake sorry for video
JUSTIN Timberlake has written an open apology for a controversial video mocking homeless people.
On a letter posted to his website, Timberlake said he had been unaware of the "distasteful" video and did not contribute to it. He also denied the clip had screened at his wedding to Jessica Biel.
The singer said is is "deeply sorry", but defended his "knucklehead" friends behind the clip - which shows homeless people posing as Timberlake's Hollywood friends and apologising for not making his Italian wedding extravaganza.
"My friends are good people," Timberlake wrote.
"This was clearly a lapse in judgement which I'm sure no one who is reading this is exempt from. But, I don't believe it was made to be insensitive. More so, I think it was made as a joke on me not having that many friends attending my own wedding (which IS kind of funny if you think about it."
"I want to say that, on behalf of my friends, family and associative knuckleheads, I am deeply sorry to anyone who was offended by the video. Again, it was something that I was not made aware of. But, I do understand the reaction and, by association, I am holding myself accountable."
The video begins with the cheerful message, "Greetings from your Hollywood friends who just couldn't make it", and then goes downhill from there.
"Jessica and Justin, I haven't seen y'all in a long time," says a homeless man with missing teeth: "My gift is in the mail."
The spoof clip, played at Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel's multi-million-dollar wedding in Italy and leaked online, appears to mock homeless people, transvestites and street performers.
The backlash has been fierce.
The man who made it, Timberlake's real-estate friend Justin Huchel, says the video was meant to poke fun at the couple's expensive wedding ceremony but it has been widely denounced as tacky, nasty and demeaning.
Huchel's lawyers are trying to have clip taken down but the damage to the newly weds has already been done.
One of the homeless men in the video says he was paid $40 to deliver a message to the couple. He told TMZ he had no idea that he was part of a wedding prank.
"That makes me feel really bad ... that was a trick played on me," he said.
heraldsun.com.au 27 Oct 2012
Entertainment Trash at its finest.
Quite simply caught out and covered up with lies.
Not everyone is fortunate enough to be given money for the garbage they perform, from the hands of the producers.
In reality a very small man.
Labels: ET - Entertainment Trash
Ex-officer faces probe over cleaning deals
POLICE are investigating how a senior sergeant managed to award $14 million worth of cleaning tenders to a company he then joined after leaving the force.
One man whose company had bid for the tenders said the process ''stunk'', and the relationship between the former policeman and a consultant who also awarded the tenders was far too close.
The Ethical Standards Department is investigating the claims, as well as suggestions of the former senior sergeant's misconduct in receiving financial advantage.
Companies that bid for the tenders, to provide commercial cleaning at several police buildings, were told the process had been suspended in August. About half the tender packages, worth about $14 million over three years, had already been allocated.
''I've been involved in the business a long time and applied for a lot of tenders, and this one stunk,'' said one cleaner, who did not wish to be named.
''It all made sense when I found out who the copper who had been awarding the tenders had gone to work for.''
The cleaner said the integrity of the process had been compromised because of the consultant's friendship with the former senior sergeant.
The senior sergeant and consultant had awarded the tenders alongside a non-sworn Victoria Police member.
It is believed the conduct of the non-sworn member is not being investigated.
Police confirmed that an investigation was looking into the allocation of several tenders last year. ''Victoria Police is not in a position to comment any further,'' a spokeswoman said. ''We are not in a position to confirm the personal particulars of who may or may not be under investigation for any offence.''
It is believed that police were told about some concerns regarding the tenders when a cleaning company approached the police property services division in July.
The consultant, who claims to have worked for businesses and government organisations for almost 20 years on a state-wide and national basis, declined to comment, saying only: ''There's nothing to talk about, as far as I'm concerned.''
The former police officer could not be contacted.
The Age has decided not to name the former officer or consultant involved.
Police would not comment about how tender panels were selected, but said Victorian Government Purchasing Board processes were applied.
The board's 2011-12 annual report found Victoria Police had not recorded any procurement breaches that year. In most cases, however, complaints about tenders are sent directly to the organisation that has put out the request.
Grounds for complaint, according to Tenders Victoria, include possible bias towards the respondent who was awarded the contract, collusion among tender respondents, or corruption between the agency and tender respondents.
theage.com.au 1 Nov 2012
This kind of tenders fraud does not just occur in the police force, as it is widespread in government, across all departments.
Normally with the backing influence of the masonic brotherhood, the corrupt deals are kept secret.
This officer was uncomfortable to the establishment, and as a result the information 'on him' was used against him.
15-year-old girl on offender's 'sex counter'
Every time Anthony Campbell had sex with a 15-year-old girl he would proudly record the encounter on the internet using a "sex counter", a court heard today.
His victim claimed her friends saw the "sex counter" online and were upset for her.
Campbell, 22, from Hampton, pleaded guilty today to two counts of sexual penetration of a child under the age of 16.
The maximum penalty is 10 years' jail.
Prosecutor Luisa Dipietrantonio told the court Campbell had illegally had sex with the 15-year-old victim four times from June 2008 before she turned 16 three months later.
When the victim turned 16, Campbell joked, "Now you're legal".
He had been 17 at the time of the offending.
Ms DiPietrantonio said Campbell had become friends with the victim on the MySpace website.
They had sex for the first time after going to the movies in the city and returning to Campbell's home where he lived with his mother.
They had dinner together before Campbell took the girl to his bedroom and had sex with her, telling her, "It's OK, I've got protection."
The girl was a virgin and told Campbell she had never done anything like this before.
After they had had sex, Campbell ignored the girl and went into another room to play on his computer while the victim stayed in his bedroom.
When they had sex another time and the girl told him she was worried about getting pregnant, Campbell snapped at her and again went into the next room to play on his computer.
The relationship ended in February 2009 when Campbell told the girl he was tired of her.
Ms DiPietrantonio said an aggravating feature of Campbell's offending was that he did not use a condom on one occasion.
Reading from her victim impact statement, the girl, now aged 19, said she had been a loving, trusting person until she met Campbell.
She said she felt violated and believed Campbell had exploited her trusting nature and vulnerability.
"I was only a child," she said. "I will never be able to get that happy, loving innocent girl back and that is the worst feeling of all."
The court heard the victim now suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, panic attacks, chronic insomnia, and often cries for no reason.
She has nightmares about what she calls "the crime" and believes it will take her years to heal.
Judge Richard Maidment said Campbell had behaved in a thoroughly boorish, unpleasant and disrespectful manner to the victim.
The judge said Campbell knew going on to his computer after having sexual intercourse was not an appropriate way of behaving.
He said Campbell's conduct had been deliberate to "show a degree of power and contempt" for the victim.
"It seems to me he can't excuse himself from that type of behaviour ... There is an element here of exploitation."
The judge said Campbell's use of a "sex counter" at the time did not suggest there was any remorse.
Defence lawyer Sharon Lacy said it was important to note Campbell had been 17 and a child at the time of his offending.
Ms Lacy said the "sex counter" had been stupid and juvenile but Campbell claimed it was on a password-protected website.
"Sadly it's not so unusual for young males to record their sexual accomplishments in some fashion," she said.
Judge Maidment placed Campbell on a 12-month community corrections order without conviction and ordered he perform 70 hours of unpaid community work.
The judge said there was nothing to suggest Campbell would reoffend or was a risk to other vulnerable women.
Campbell had no prior convictions and good prospects of staying out of trouble and leading a worthwhile life.
"It is clear when young offenders are concerned, rehabilitation must be a significant factor in the sentencing process," the judge said.
thage.com.au 31 Oct 2012
Another example of how the Australian government supports child abuse.
What a joke to the victims, their friends and family, with the message for others of how 'lenient' the system really is.
There is no real policy to stamp out Child sex abuse or paedophilia, as claimed through the official channels.
The verdict would certainly be different if it were the judge's daughter that was the victim.
There is also a policy not to incarcerate as the jails a re literally full, which the general populous are not told about.
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Suburb contamination fear - (Government coverup)
EXPLOSIVES chemicals have polluted groundwater in part of a Melbourne suburb, with the Environment Protection Authority unsure how far the contamination has spread and residents not told of it.
The authority said it was unable to say whether the groundwater posed a health risk before new testing at the site was completed next year.
The EPA has been strongly criticised in a series of letters from state Ombudsman George Brouwer for failures in monitoring the clean-up of the former Albion Explosives Factory site, which now forms the suburb of Cairnlea in Melbourne's west.
The Ombudsman's investigation into the clean-up has raised serious questions about the performance of the EPA in monitoring how large contaminated sites are dealt with.
His letters sent in 2011 to the EPA, obtained under a freedom-of-information request, catalogue system failures at the authority, including in relation to the security of samples from contaminated sites.
''The chain of custody forms related to the validation samples collected were not complete,'' the Ombudsman found.
He also said the EPA had been unable to provide documents showing where contaminated material had been ''removed, transported and deposited appropriately''.
The Ombudsman was particularly critical of the fact the authority had engaged the same company that dealt with contamination at the site to later carry out tests there after a complaint was made about the quality of the clean-up.
''In particular, I am concerned that the validation sampling was undertaken by Golder and Mr [name deleted] with very little oversight by the EPA despite the fact that both these contractors were involved in the remedial work complained about,'' Mr Brouwer said in a letter to the EPA
The Ombudsman also questioned why a report on the condition of a contaminated soil dump at the Cairnlea site was still not completed years after the ''repository'' had been completed.
A new report detailing the extent of the groundwater pollution and the condition of the ''repository'' at Cairnlea will not be completed until next year.
The authority would not say if there were water bores used in the area, and said residents would be notified about the water contamination when it became clear if the groundwater had been cleaned up as much as possible.
Soil testing in other areas of the suburb did not return samples of concern.
In a December 2011 letter to the Ombudsman, EPA chief executive John Merritt said while the extent of groundwater contamination at Cairnlea was not known, ''monitoring of Kororoit Creek itself shows no measurable impact, that is, there has been no detection of explosives in it''.
The authority also told the Ombudsman it was trialling a new ''risk-based'' approach to monitoring of auditors and reviewing audit reports, with the criteria for review including ''high level of community interest''.
The criticisms of the performance of the EPA come as the state government is planning a multibillion-dollar development at another former munitions factory site - the 128-hectare former defence complex in Maribyrnong.
After almost a century of explosives production, about ''25 per cent of the surface area of the site is contaminated'' and groundwater is also contaminated.
The clean-up of the Maribyrnong site - planned to accommodate 3000 homes - could take up to five years and cost up to $20 million.
A source familiar with the site described the Defence Department's clean-up time frame as ''optimistic, ambitious and unrealistic''.
He said the most common and cost-effective clean-up method for large contaminated sites was to not remove the contaminated soil but instead ''shandy'' the soil to reduce contamination levels.
He said contaminated soil was also sometimes pushed to one location on the site, ''capped and called a park''.
It is not just Defence sites where the EPA will be monitoring the clean-up. The 16.5-hectare Amcor site in Alphington - also believed to be heavily contaminated - will close by the end of the year with plans to sell it for development.
One developer is believed to have proposed covering the site in cement to deal with the contamination issue.
Information has been obtained by corpau that the government has been fully aware of the toxic levels for decades.
Since this land was marked for residential development, the information concerning toxicity had to be covered up, as this would cost millions in losses if the extent was known to the masses.
There are many other examples of this kind of government cover up.
There should be an 'independent' inquiry, which would expose the individuals concerned.
Since this is a government policy to defraud and cover up, if an inquiry was to be undertaken, it would be inconclusive.
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Chauvinism prevails at home with ironing still seen as a female chore
MEN have been given a crisp thumbs down for their ironing skills from the women of Australia.
More than one in three women accuse Aussie guys of deliberately ironing poorly to avoid being asked to do it. And the wrinkly issue doesn't stop there - with a poll showing 52 per cent of women believe men would rather wear a creased shirt than iron it.University of Western Sydney sociology lecturer and author Kate Huppatz said the gender roles at home are very different from the roles we play in the workplace.
"There's more women in medicine than ever before, there's a female prime minister, but when it comes to what happens in the home there's a huge division in labour," Dr Huppatz said.
"Women still spend six times longer on the laundry than men.
"Even women who are earning more than their husbands are doing more housework than their husbands."
Dr Huppatz said we see our genders in the jobs we do and it may take some time to change those stereotypes.
"In Australia we have particularly strong gender roles, we're very slow to change," she said.
"Maybe that's because there's a strong history of mateship and the men in Australia appeal to this idea of rugged masculinity.
"There has been some change - men are doing more of the cooking than they have before."
Alex Osmond, 23, from Gordon, has no problem doing his own ironing.
"My dad is the one who irons in the family," he said. "I iron everything from my underwear to socks. Everything feels crisp and clean."
Newtown resident Ina Krasteva, 25, has given up on ironing but is well aware of her boyfriend's tactics to avoid the chore too.
"I used to iron all the time, I would do everything, all my boyfriend's clothes, my clothes, and I got really fed up with it, now everything goes to the dry cleaners," she said. "I've seen him iron once or twice four years ago, he can do it, he just doesn't want to and the excuse is I do a better job."
The Galaxy survey on behalf of Sunbeam found the results not only point to a gender divide in chores but also a generational gap of who does the most housework.
"We can see that men are becoming more involved in household chores but they're picky in terms of what they want to do, whereas women feel that responsibility to do all the chores," Sunbeam's product marketing manager Sarah Francis said.
"It was the Gen-X and Baby Boomers who spend the most time ironing, more than their dads."
news.com.au 27 Oct 2012
A nice story on an obviously 'slow news day', which is really holds very little weight.
There are many more serious issues at 'home' than the one displayed.
Just another way of keeping the masses amused.
Labels: ABC - Australia Backwards Country, AMI - Anglo Masonic Influence, Media Misinformation, Politics, WGF - Who Gives a File
Bark Hut and Ti-Tree Village holiday park in Ocean Grove forced to close because of old prohibition law
A PROHIBITION law dating back to 1887 has forced the closure of an award-winning Ocean Grove business and brought into question 39 liquor licences in the town.
Sisters Tiffany Trickey and Jodie Harvey, whose family has owned the Bark Hut and Ti-Tree Village holiday park for more than 30 years, shut their doors in April after the City of Geelong was unable to renew their land-use permits.
They could not put up the hefty fees to go to the Supreme Court to fight the covenant, which bans the sale of alcohol and could affect the 30 permanent and nine temporary liquor licence holders in the town when they come up for renewal.
Ms Trickey said it had been devastating for them.
"We've all lost our jobs," she said. "We had such a great all-girl team and we've had to say goodbye to them all."
The City of Greater Geelong discovered that 2500 homes and businesses within the original town boundary were still bound by the religious ban, which was thought to have expired when an existing restaurant sought to renew its licence.
After a four-year fight, Olive Pit cafe owner Michael Dowsley won his Supreme Court case to overturn the covenant on his property.
However, new businesses were awarded planning permits by the City of Greater Geelong, despite a covenant also existing on those sites.
Mr Dowsley said the legal costs had been up to $20,000 for something that seemingly could have been waived by council officers.
Geelong Otway Tourism head Roger Grant said the ban could have a dire impact on the town's hospitality and tourism industry.
Mr Grant questioned why some traders within the original town boundary had been refused licences, while others were allowed to trade.
In a letter to Ms Trickey and Ms Harvey, City of Greater Geelong officers indicated they would consider taking up the fight to overturn the covenant. But Geelong CEO Stephen Griffin admitted officers' hands were tied for now.
"Council is unable to issue a planning permit that would result in a breach of a restrictive covenant," Mr Griffin said.
The rule was originally enforced by Methodist Church town founders in 1887, with most people believing it had expired in 2006.
Ocean Grove Uniting Church Reverend James Douglas said some Methodists within the congregation were against the sale of alcohol in the town.
But, he said, most in the congregation supported the sale of alcohol at restaurants provided it was monitored responsibly.
"I can't speak for everyone but I don't imagine that our congregation would object to a slight loosening or a removal of the covenant and a reversion to the usual liquor licence process," Rev Douglas said.
Member for Bellarine Lisa Neville said she would follow up the matter with the City of Greater Geelong, to help local traders.
Here is an example of the Nanny State.
Old laws used against the populous, for whatever benefit to the establishment.
The general populous can also draw on 'old laws' , but no one bothers.
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Govt moves to strip rights of boat people
The federal government is to excise the entire continent of Australia from the migration zone, stripping rights from asylum seekers who arrive by boat.
The Labor caucus on Tuesday approved laws to introduce the change, aborted six years ago by the Howard government.
It was a recommendation of an expert panel headed by former defence force chief Angus Houston to which the Labor caucus has given in-principle support.
During the caucus meeting in Canberra, two Labor MPs sought assurances from Immigration Minister Chris Bowen about protecting human rights.
Mr Bowen told the meeting the laws would follow international guidelines for migration and were in line with the Houston report's recommendations.
Earlier cabinet secretary Mark Dreyfus said the government was determined to discourage people from getting on boats and undertaking the dangerous journey to Australia.
"Our policy is to do whatever we need to do to stop the dreadful drowning of people trying to reach Australia," Mr Dreyfus told reporters.
Under existing migration laws, only asylum seekers intercepted at sea or at Christmas Island, the Cocos Islands or Ashmore Reef can be sent for processing at Nauru or Papua New Guinea's Manus Island.
By expanding the migration excise zone to the mainland, the government will be reviving a plan dumped by the Howard government following a backbench revolt led by Liberal moderates.
The opposition says it will consider any changes to the legislation.
"We'll take it through our processes," immigration spokesman Scott Morrison said.
Australian Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young described the plan as a shameful piece of legislation that discriminated against some of the most vulnerable people in the region.
"This Labor government is now going to try to enact legislation that is so discriminatory and un-Australian that John Howard faced an internal revolt when he tried it in 2006," the senator said.
Cabinet minister Craig Emerson, when asked if he thought the plan would receive the backing of the caucus, told Sky News: "I'm not one who anticipates these things.
"What I am is one who joined with others in accepting in-principle the recommendations of the Houston panel as a cohesive whole."
The bill is expected to go to parliament this week.
smh.com.au 30 Oct 2012
The Australian populous is treated to reality shows with law enforcement themes, that focus on the lives of the authorities.
These shows feature criminal gangs' operations, highway patrol dealings with losers and border protection agencies work.
The mass media portrays that in the line of border security work, it is clearly mentioned that Australia does not tolerate the illegal entry into the country which tried to circumnavigate customs and immigration authorities.
Any people with criminal convictions or suspected to be not of a genuine nature in visiting Australia, are refused entry.
This policy therefore applies to the illegal smuggling and entry of 'boat people' into Australia.
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Nine people could face criminal charges after a major investigation uncovered a culture of corruption among NSW's local councils.
The state government will also examine legislative changes after the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) published the findings of its four-year probe into bribery and kickbacks by officials.
ICAC made adverse findings against 21 council staff and one NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) employee after they accepted gifts in return for handing out public contracts.
Those gifts included vouchers, holidays and electronic goods such as iPads and mobile phones.
There were also adverse findings against 15 staff at private supply firms who offered the gifts.
Five council staff were named in the report for filing fake invoices in return for cash payments totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"It appeared that these benefits were provided as a secret reward to public officials for ordering goods, ordering greater quantities of goods or continuing to order goods from these suppliers," ICAC said.
Nine of the 41 people named in the report will now have their cases referred to the public prosecutor, with a view to criminal charges being laid.
They are being referred to the prosecutor either as a direct result of the corruption, or for giving false evidence to ICAC's public hearings.
ICAC's investigation began in 2008 after a single tip-off from Bathurst Regional Council.
It rapidly expanded to take in staff at 88 local councils, 22 government agencies and the three private supply firms.
That number was whittled down to what was essentially a specimen caseload of 14 councils and the RTA (since renamed Roads and Maritime Services).
The 14 local authorities included City of Sydney, City of Botany Bay and Liverpool City Council, all of which employed staff guilty of taking bribes, according to ICAC.
It singled out two former storemen, Geoffrey Hadley of Bathurst Regional Council and Kerry Smith of Yass Valley Council, who are said to have issued false invoices to their employers in return for cash kickbacks.
"Under this scheme, Mr Hadley and Mr Smith received combined corrupt payments in excess of $323,000," ICAC said.
ICAC put the cost to Bathurst and Yass councils as a result of the rorts at about $1.5 million.
Responding to the findings, acting Deputy Premier Andrew Stoner foreshadowed changes to the law.
"The government will respond in terms of closing any loopholes in our local government legislation that has enabled this to occur in the past," he told AAP.
ICAC also made 15 recommendations to the local councils to reduce the likelihood of corruption in future.
thewest.com.au 29 Oct 2012
This so called 'find' is only the tip of the iceberg, literally.
Corruption of this sort in city councils has been going on for decades, and bribes do not stop with 'iPads'.
The so called 'loopholes' are created there for a purpose, but obviously the wrong people took advantage of them.
Australia in general is over governed, and local city councils should be removed.
Corrupt higher governance also allows for this type of fraud to continue.
Lets see if other local city councils will fall, probably not.
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Millennials now make up the majority of the U.S. workforce and by 2020 will account for 50 percent of all business travel spending. But millennials view of business travel is different from previous generations. For them, business travel is a lifestyle experience.
This new generation is not about finding work-life balance; they are about the work-life blend. They don't mind accessing their work life during their personal life, but they also expect to access their personal life during work. It's really not surprising that they increasingly blur the lines of business and leisure travel. Their approach is to weave leisure experiences throughout a business trip.
Millennial business travelers are prone to push the limits; in fact, 66 percent admit they are willing to bend or break the rules. They are more likely to spend more on food, room service and alcohol when they are not footing the bill. On the other hand, they also look for the best value for money. Millennials often will choose a more budget-friendly accommodation that has unlimited Wi-Fi and a good happy hour over a 5-star hotel and opt for cheaper means of transportation like Uber and Lyft ridesharing.
What does this mean for corporate travel and expense program managers?
Millennials' spending habits are not the end of the world. But it is more important than ever for travel policy to include bleisure guidelines. You need to spell out who pays for what so that you can avoid accidental misuse like out-of-channel booking expenses or intermingling of travel companion expenses with business expenses.
T&E managers also need to understand what is normal for your travelers so that you can spot the expenses that are out of balance for certain travelers. For instance, abnormally high room service charges could mean the company is footing the bill for companion meals.
There are some definitive things to watch for, but there are also some advantages of bleisure travel. Bleisure can help to prevent burnout from too much business travel with no downtime. It can also give companies that embrace it an edge on recruiting top millennial talent—61 percent claim they have the best job in the world largely due to the travel culture integrated with their position.
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That brings up an important point: the time associated with presenting a claim, collecting, assembling, and organizing medical records, histories, and explaining the causation of a wreck, normally takes a long time and a fair amount of experience to do so in a format that insurance companies both understand and recognize as valid.
Furthermore, experienced injury attorneys have a good idea of what a fair settlement amount actually is.
A lot of people get so frustrated with the process they just give up. That's too bad.
And that's one reason why retaining a lawyer can help. We help explain the process.
We do the hard and sometime tedious work behind making a claim. We take on the burden of demanding a proper settlement with the insurance company or at fault party.
Lawyers take the responsibility on of making certain the law is followed, that the responsible party is held accountable, and that the insurance company pays a fair settlement.
When legally appropriate, that sometimes requires preparing a Complaint and filing suit, and as part of the Discovery process, making demands for documents, filing requests for admissions, and taking depositions of witnesses and parties.
Whether you realize it or not, that is a substantial load and responsibility. We tell clients that the most important thing for them to do is focus on getting healthy.
That is not just lip service. Taking the time to focus on things like physical therapy, scheduling appointments, making arrangements for work and childcare for all the above, can be a tremendous job in and of itself.
Is a Recorded Statement Necessary or Required?
The quick answer is USUALLY NOT.
In fact, many insurance adjustors just flat get this wrong. While there are certain legal requirements to properly making a claim, providing a recorded statement to any carrier is rarely one of them.
People are sometimes floored to find out that insurance companies are not necessarily looking out for the best interests of the injured party.
Make no mistake, insurance companies make money protecting their bottom line.
If they can convince you to accept a very small amount quickly in exchange for a complete release of your claim, they save money in long run. Contrary to what you may see in commercials, insurance companies are in the business of taking in premiums and limiting paying claims.
It is not always a fair system.
You may be surprised to find out that a good number of "bad faith" claims are filed by the insured against their own carriers.
Even if the person whom caused the wreck wants to settle, sometimes the insurance companies just refuse to settle.
They can require a lawsuit to be filed. . .despite the fact that their own "insured" has admitted to doing something wrong and wants the carrier to settle.
We're not trying to be negative in stating this. Insurance Companies often feel people are making up claims, hoping to recover damages when they were not hurt.
Disputes arise in filing claims. It can be complicated.
Well, actually, it doesn't really "cost" anything, if you think of laying out money.
Lawyers in personal injury cases get paid if a case settles. If there is no recovery from a claim, just like the client, the attorney receives nothing.
That is what it means to be a "contingency" agreement.
Legal fees are contingent upon a successful recovery.
While some of those costs of presenting a claim may be advanced by a law firm, ultimately they are the responsibility of the client.
Those costs are often taken from the "settlement proceeds" upon disbursement of funds.
It can be a bit confusing. Talk to us. We're more than willing to explain how things work. In fact, we will give you a written contract, where everything is set forth in writing.
We want you to understand how things work and what it costs.
We do not charge to talk to you, to review a case, and to see if it makes sense to hire a lawyer.
One of the big benefits of hiring an attorney is that we take all the pressure and workload off of you for everything claims or case-related. You can focus on getting healthy or helping your loved one to recover from their injuries.
We deal with the insurance company, we get all the medical records, we have them reviewed by medical experts. We negotiate with the insurance company.
Remember the insurance company is trying to low-ball you. They may be the nicest people on the phone but they're trying to make money of off your claim by saving money on your claim.
An attorney can help you avoid making that mistake.


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The Brexit Party bus has been found abandoned in a hedge in Wales
The bus was abandoned by the driver and had to be towed away by mechanics
By Josh Barrie
Updated October 8, 2020 11:36 am
The Brexit bus was found in a hedge (Photo: Rodney Berman)
The Brexit Party campaign bus has been towed away after it was left abandoned in a hedge in Wales over the weekend, blocking a lay-by.
The open top double-decker had been out in Brecon over the weekend in support of parliamentary candidate Des Parkinson, who is hoping to win in the upcoming Brecon and Radnorshire by-election.
But the coach ended up stuck in a lay-by on the A470, a major through road in the middle of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
BBC Wales weather presenter Sue Charles spotted the tour bus mounted on a soft verge late on Sunday evening.
Driving through the Brecon Beacons tonight. Was expecting a few by-election posters, but surprised to see what looked like a Brexit Party bus, crashed into a hedge. Got out to check all was ok. No one around, just an abandoned bus, doors open, side-on, blocking a lay-by… pic.twitter.com/8VwvEeZjlO
— Sue Charles (@Sue_Charles) July 27, 2019
https://twitter.com/rosskempsell/status/1155446054889897986
Crashed into a hedge
She tweeted: "Driving through the Brecon Beacons tonight. Was expecting a few by-election posters, but surprised to see what looked like a Brexit Party bus, crashed into a hedge. Got out to check all was ok. No one around, just an abandoned bus, doors open, side-on, blocking a lay-by."
The vehicle was eventually recovered on Sunday morning, having been inspected by mechanics. It caused minor traffic delays and was seen by Joanne Godding while being towed away.
"The bus was being towed by a truck," Ms Godding told i.
"It came down the A470 onto the Coryton Roundabout and then headed either directly towards Cardiff or up onto the M4, headed west – we were going the other way so can't confirm which road it took."
A picture paints a thousand words. The Brexit Bus has broken down outside Brecon. #libdems @DoddsJane pic.twitter.com/gtthxfRJG0
— David Chadwick ???? (@dave4britain) July 28, 2019
Travelling in reverse
James Wilson said he was the man tasked with rescuing the stranded bus after speculation over what had happened took hold.
But the Brexit bus had apparently been stuck for some time. Journalist Ross Kempsell claimed it had been stuck since Friday, while removal company boss Derek Jeffs told Wales Online he had seen it stranded on Saturday afternoon.
Mr Jeffs said: "It looked as if the bus had turned into the layby but there wasn't enough room to turn it around. However, the driver couldn't reverse because the road dipped down.
"The driver was still in the cab and he didn't look best pleased."
10 out of 10… I recovered it this morning myself!
— James Wilson (@Jhwilson2039) July 28, 2019
Not that I'm aware
Cause for by-election
A by-election was triggered in Brecon and Radnorshire after Conservative MP Chris Davies was caught falsifying expenses and lost his seat following a petition by voters.
Mr Davies, who has apologised, has been put forward by the Tories to stand for his former seat. He was out campaigning on Saturday with Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Liberal Democrat Jane Doods, Labour's Tom Davies, UKIP candidate Liz Phillipe, and Lady Lily the Pink of the Monster Raving Loony Party, are also vying for the constituency office.
Both Dyfed Powys Police and the Brexit Party have been contacted for comment.

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Manifested Dreams: Last minute entry for Mrs. B's 31 days of Halloween!
Last minute entry for Mrs. B's 31 days of Halloween!
Grah, it's been a mad house around here lately. I'll try to get a real update up soon! Moving threw a monkey wrench into my plans.
I'm in love with this pendant, nough said.


I don't see my favorite director in the index! Where are they?
Black Women Directors, which started as a Tumblr in 2015, is not meant to be an exhaustive list. I have always viewed this platform as something ongoing, an ever-growing archive of Black women and nonbinary filmmakers and their work. If you don't see your favorite director, fear not! They will be added; just keep checking back. I should also note that at the moment, Black Women Directors is run by a staff of one, so while the additions may not be instantaneous, they are always coming! If you have suggestions, please contact me or hit me up on Twitter or IG: @blkwmndirectors.
I am a black woman/nonbinary filmmaker who wants to be added to the index. What should i do?
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I have an opportunity and I want to hire a black woman director. how do i go about contacting them?
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Can Your Metabolism Affect Weight Loss?
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The Metabolism Diet. Sounds kinda scary doesn't it?
Relax, this is a fairly simple plan created by a person who actually went to medical school.
The plan is a 7-day diet that is designed to speed up your metabolism (rate at which you burn calories at rest). According to the plan, if you eat certain foods in certain quantities at certain times, you should be able to boost your calorie burning and lose weight.
The diet was created by weight loss specialist Dr. Scott Rigden with the release of the book: Eat Right for Your Metabolic Type.
The author believes that that there are five different metabolic types. All of these require a specific dietary and lifestyle pattern in order for people to achieve and maintain their ideal weight.
Thank goodness exercise is recommended on this plan. Specific exercise advice will vary depending on which category the dieter is deemed to be.
The recommended foods consistent to all types are fruits, vegetables and lean meats.
Exercise is an integral part of this plan.
The book is written in an academic fashion. Some may find it boring in parts.
No research backing up claims.
This diet can be expensive as it recommends supplements and powders. Also, it restricts a lot of food which we know is very tough on most people. However, it does include meal plans, recipes, and exercise.
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CAMERA Op-Ed: When PBS Met Hosni Mubarak
By: Andrea Levin April 20, 2001
Every weeknight, PBS's Charlie Rose sits at a round oak table and interviews some of the most influential people in the world. The setting is informal but the discussions typically serious. Middle East leaders and analysts are regular guests on the prestigious television program. Although he is renowned for both his Southern civility and intelligence, a recent April 2nd interview with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt betrayed a sharp lack of awareness of basic information about Egypt, Israel, and the Palestinians, and a deference to his guest that crossed into outright sycophancy. Although Mubarak has spent two decades as the unelected dictator of the region's largest Arab country, one where civil liberties are severely limited, where the Christian minority is endangered by growing persecution, where the government-controlled press spews venomous antisemitism, Holocaust-denial, and attacks on America, where long efforts by Israel to normalize relations have been met with hatred – Charlie Rose either ignored such unpleasant realities entirely or touched on them with the greatest discomfort and haste.
In some instances, Mubarak uttered bald falsehoods – and Rose was silent. Mubarak was unchallenged when he declared that, regarding the holy places in Jerusalem:
…before 1967 there (was) free access for all people – Palestinians, Jews, Moslems, everybody could go there. So if it is going to be given back to the Palestinians I think there will be no problem about Jews to visit their holy places, or Moslems or Copts or Christians or other religions.
An interviewer may not be able to question every obfuscation by a guest, but such lies should have been challenged. The claim that Jews and Christians had free access to their holy sites in Jerusalem when Jordan occupied the eastern side of the city is absurd. Jews were unable to pray at the Western Wall or to enter the Temple Mount for 19 years. Israeli Christians too were severely limited in their access to holy sites.
But the interview got worse. Mubarak, a veteran handler of Western journalists, anticipated being asked about the virulent government-controlled Egyptian press, and so he took the offensive, charging that religious Israelis have defamed Muhammed. Only then did Rose broach, in notably stumbling language, the delicate matter of the Egyptian media. He asked:
Do you know what they write in Egyptian papers, about the anti-Israel diatribes? Even the secretary of state was attacked in Egyptian newspapers. They called him, you know, about the yarmulke and said the so-called Holocaust.
An unperturbed Mubarak interjected, "Charlie, Charlie…you know we have free press." Although Egypt has nothing of the kind, Rose promptly agreed: "Right."
Even more astonishing was the American interviewer's response to Mubarak's rejoinder that the Israeli press contains "nasty words" against Egypt. "It's equally bad," Rose agreed. No impulse to put a guest at ease can justify such craven denial of the truth. Attacks on Islam and Arabs equivalent to the persistent pattern of anti-Jewish diatribes in the Egyptian press simply do not occur and are not part of the culture of the Israeli media. Moreover, in Israel a diverse and genuinely free press exists, as Rose well knows but evidently could not bring himself to say. In Egypt, where newspaper editors are appointed by the government, the fulminations against Israel, America, and the West are not simply a spontaneous reflection of a public inflamed with hatred; they are a governmental expression.
Appeared in the Jerusalem Post on this date.
Review of 60 Minutes' "Israel's Hit Squads"
Thumbs Up to William Safire
Andrea Levin Andrea Levin is the Executive Director and President of CAMERA. She writes and lectures widely on media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict and its impact on public opinion. Her columns and articles have appeared in numerous publications, including the Jerusalem Post, Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune, New York Post, New Republic, Editor and Publisher, Middle East Quarterly, National Post and Commentary.
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Happy Holidays! It's that time of year again, when all the little kiddies (and big ones too) gather round the tree and sing carols. And who doesn't like to decorate for one of the best holidays of the year? Get in the spirit with a merry kitchen and a Holiday dishwasher cover. Bring the holidays to life and don't forget your supplies: carrot, coal, scarf and a big top hat!


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Hôpital Montfort Implements Novari Health Surgical Wait List Management System
KINGSTON, ON – Novari Health is pleased to announce it has completed another successful implementation of its surgical wait list management and eBooking technology. Hôpital Montfort of Ottawa is the latest Canadian hospital to implement Novari's surgical and endoscopy access to care technology.
The Novari ATC software has gone live at Hôpital Montfort. The technology is being provided as software as a service (SaaS) to the hospital and all surgical and endoscopy offices. The system provides surgeons and their office staff access to a standardized electronic wait list management system and the ability to electronically coordinate the scheduling of surgeries and endoscopy procedures with the hospital. The software enhances the ability for collaboration and management of pooled lists of patients waiting for surgery as well as supporting a regional view of the demand for surgical and endoscopy services.
The Ontario Ministry of Health, Ontario Health, and hospitals across the province have been working to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients waiting for surgery. Having a modern wait list management system complements these efforts for all patients including those waiting for surgical and medical consults, surgery, and other procedures.
Novari Health's innovative and unique access to care technologies are live and being implemented at dozens of hospitals and regional health authorities across Canada.
"As post COVID-19 recovery efforts move forward, surgical and endoscopy services at Hôpital Montfort have an integrated solution that facilitates patient referrals, booking and wait time coordination with existing regional and provincial resources, including the Province's Wait Time Information System." – Philippe Marleau, Vice-president, Quality and Patient Support Services and Chief Information Officer, Hôpital Montfort
"Our technology is now supporting Hôpital Montfort as they, like hospitals across the country, work to improve access to care for patients waiting for scheduled surgeries. The Montfort clinical, project management, IT and administrative teams worked alongside their Novari colleagues to see this important project through to a successful conclusion." – John Sinclair, CPHIMS-CA, President, Novari Health
About Hôpital Montfort
Montfort is Ontario's Francophone academic hospital, offering exemplary person-centred care. Affiliated to the University of Ottawa, the hospital serves over 1.2 million people in Eastern Ontario, in both official languages. The daily actions of the Montfort team are guided by compassion, respect, mutual support, excellence, and accountability. In 2021, it was named one of the world's top 1000 hospitals.
About Novari Health
Novari Health designs, builds, and implements award-winning enterprise scale SaaS solutions that improve access to care, coordination of care, and the delivery of healthcare services. Based in Kingston Ontario and with offices in Vancouver, Australia, and New Zealand, Novari has become one of the largest Canadian based digital health solution providers. ISO 27001 certified, Novari Health is a Microsoft Gold Partner, with software solutions hosted on Microsoft Azure Canadian and Australian cloud data centres.


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Equal Rights = Human Rights, by Haydin
Over the past year, I have been voicing my opinion on this topic. It's not because the majority of my friends are gay - yes, that does play a big role - but because I don't like seeing people feel like no one is out there that is on their side. Everyone needs an ally, and I have dedicated myself to a lifetime of providing that support.
It's amazing what this campaign has grown into. For me, it's not just about equal rights, it's about human rights. I feel like we still shouldn't be living in a world where people are so afraid of who they are, that they would make the ultimate sacrifice... their life. Nothing is more precious than life, and I would love to see this problem decrease. And it's not just for the LGBT community... it's for all those out there who feel they are too different to be accepted. Whether it's because skin color, body image, sexual preference, etc.
No one deserves to live in fear. Life is too beautiful for that.
- Haydin B., Straight Ally!
Beautifully put, I love the end especially. :)
Caitlynne Carroll 11/15/2014 02:50


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Detroit Parents Need To Understand The Importance Of Baby Teeth!
Today's Allen Park children's dental blog focuses on the issue of caring for baby teeth. Why would you take care of something that's just going to fall out and be given to the tooth fairy? It's a good question and it has a even better answer.
Dearborn, Allen Park, and Detroit parents shouldn't feel like they are wasting their time because baby teeth are more important than many people might think. Baby teeth are needed to keep the proper amount of space available for the permanent teeth that will come in later.
Baby teeth are also invaluable in the development of clear speech. This is especially important for Allen Park parents who are dying to know what their child means when they point to something repeatedly and say 'scklash' or 'grag-grag'.
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The long side of the yard is 65 feet. I was thinking of putting in garden boxes, spacing them far enough apart that I can plant fruit trees in between. I want to get dwarf or semidwarf varieties of apple, peach and cherry trees. I plan to learn how to prune them so they stay fairly compact while still giving us lots of fruit.
Is this a good idea? Or should I plan to have the garden boxes all together and put the fruit trees together? The short side of the yard where I can put garden boxes is 37 feet, so I do have space there. I want to keep the center of the yard open for grass, plus we will be putting in a play set with sandbox and a fire pit area. I do have some flexibility as we haven't done anything yet--we're in the planning stage.
I can post pictures later if this will help you visualize what I'm talking about.
Well, I was trying to put a pic of what we've done in our in-town backyard, but am having trouble getting that to work. Anyway, we built a garden bed around the periphery of the back half of the back yard. So it's like one big garden bed about 2.5 feet wide (didn't want it too wide since we can only reach it from one side. Then we have some freestanding garden beds in the yard (also back half--tried to leave the front half for dogs and kids to use as well as putting up the pool in summer). We never had success with fruit trees prior, so this time we planted them in the garden bed on the periphery, and the enriched soil seems to be helping them. They've grown well this time. In that bed, we have an apple tree, two peach trees, and two cherry trees (one tart and one sweet). Nearby, but not in a bed, we have a second apple tree for pollination. In the front yard, we have a large old mulberry tree that came with the place and produces well. We added two pear trees last year, and a self-pollinating plum tree just last weekend.
P.S. Just wanted to add that the only downside I've really had as to having the garden towards the back of our yard (which is about 60 feet wide) is the occasional time when I need to water with the hose. Got to have a long hose!
Updating to say I got pics to work!
If you plant the fruit trees near the garden beds, I would make sure to plant accordingly to take advantage of the shade they provide at certain types of days since some crops like partial shade. My main issue though would be cleaning leaves out of the garden beds when they fell, LOL.
We have a section that is fenced off for the garden. Not sure how big the area is.. I will have to measure it sometime.. kinda curious to know now. I planted everything in the ground last year and did well but I want to get it more organized and not have to weed the garden so often so I am going to put in my garden boxes this year. I plan on re-fencing it nicely but that may be a fall project. What is up now was there when we bought the house last year and it works but doesn't look nice. I am researching options because I want it to be functional AND pretty. All of our fruit trees are in the rest of the yard. We have a cherry tree, peach, plum, pomegranate, dwarf orange, fuji and gala apple and fig. I plan on adding a couple meyer lemon trees this year too.
I am mulching my beds with leaves (per One Yard Revolution's ideas) so it's not an issue. They provide a cover for the soil and the worms love to eat them. I just have to brush them to one side while planting, then return them to place after.


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Do Muoi
Do Muoi (born 1917) was made prime minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in June 1988, capping a 35-year career in the state bureaucracy. As prime minister he became increasingly identified with the forces of conservatism at the highest level of leadership. In 1991 he became secretary general of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
In what was called the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's (SRV) biggest leadership shake-up in five years, Do Muoi was elected the Communist Party's General Secretary replacing Nguyen Van Linh, 75, in 1991. The election on June 27, 1991 replaced seven of the 12 men in the ruling Politburo and a similar personnel housecleaning took place in the party Central Committee. Like Linh, Do Muoi advocated reforming the marketplace without fundamentally altering the political system. Party officials made clear that Linh was retiring because of poor health and was not being ousted. Do Muoi told journalists at the time, "our party and our people will follow the way of socialism, of Ho Chi Minh, as the sole correct way.
Do Muoi had been the prime minister since 1988. Until then, he had maintained a somewhat low public profile, confining his activity either to technical administration of economic programs, such as increasing commercial trade, or as a trouble shooter dealing with some crisis condition. His constituency within Vietnam's Leninist political system was drawn from the state bureaucracy and from the middle cadres corps.
However, Do Moui is blamed for what was deemed one of the greatest tragedies in Vietnam; the "Destruction of Capitalism". On March 23, 1978, Do Moui sent 60,000 youth groups throughout Vietnam to close down the businesses. An estimated 35,000 businesses were closed in just one day. Thousands of business owners committed sucide and thus began the exodus out of Vietnam by boat. By US estimations, since then, over 2 million Vietnamese became 'boat-people" and about 400,000 perished at sea.
Do Muoi's earlier service had been chiefly in the economic sector. In the early years, the late 1950s, this stood him well and enhanced his reputation as a manager and problem solver. After the Vietnam War, in the last half of the 1970s, however, he became deeply involved in the unsuccessful amalgamation of the two economies, North and South. As deputy prime minister with the title Director of Socialist Transformation of Private Industry in Southern Vietnam (March 1975) he was in effect the czar who jammed together the socialist and capitalist economic systems. His detractors later asserted that he, more than any other individual Vietnamese, was responsible for the country's postwar economic failure. His defenders argued that he simply shared the blame equally with other top leaders. Even his severest critics, however, always treated Do Muoi with respect, regarding him as an incorruptible disciplinarian who faithfully held high the banner of Communist Party idealism, one who properly was widely feared by the corrupt, the incompetent, and the slack.
Do Muoi was born in Dong My village (Thanh Tri district) on the outskirts of Hanoi on February 2, 1917, into what his official biography terms a "poor for many generations" family. He appears to have had little if any formal education—his official biography makes no reference at all to schooling—and quite probably he had less than five years in school. During World War II he was imprisoned by the French in Chi Hoa prison, Hanoi. Here he was thrown in with famed Vietnamese political prisoners, probably his chief educational experience as colonial prisons were the "university" for most Asian revolutionaries.
According to his official biography, Do Muoi became politically active at the age of 14 when he joined the antifascist Popular Front. His occupation at the time was as a house painter. He joined the Indochinese Communist Party in 1939, was sentenced to ten years in prison by the French in 1941, and escaped (or was released) in 1945.
He joined the Viet Minh in its war against the French and began service in Ha Dong province. During this war he held a succession of provincial level posts, achieving the equivalent rank of brigadier general as the People's Army of Vietnam's top political commissar. He was in command of the occupation of Haiphong at war's end.
Do Muoi's first post in the new Democratic Republic of Vietnam government was vice minister of commerce (1956), and there followed a series of assignments, chiefly in the domestic trade sector. He was politically inactive, out of the public eye, from February 1961 to November 1967. Western intelligence attributed this to poor health, not an entirely satisfactory explanation.
In 1969 he was assigned to the building and construction sectors. He was the Vietnamese liaison official with the USSR team that built Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum in Hanoi and with the Cuban team that built Hanoi's Thanh Loi hotel. He became vice premier in December 1969, a Central Committee member and Politburo alternate-member in March 1982, and a full Politburo member and Central Committee secretary in 1986; he was elected to the National Assembly in 1980. In the 1980s he was identified with the Council of Ministers (vice chairman in 1981), with one of his chief administrative tasks the supervision of the purge of incompetent and corrupt party cadres, part of the party's broader effort to restore its lost luster and reputation. In 1991 he was elevated to secretary-general of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
Do Muoi's public image was avuncular, as a serious, dedicated, honest government official. He carried the appearance of solid orthodoxy, one committed both to the orthodox Marxism-Leninism and to the pre-modern Vietnamese traditionalism. He seemed to regard Marxism-Leninism as a logical extension of the centuries-old Vietnamese value system. His public statements were in straightforward language unadorned by literary style or subtlety of thought. His doctrinal orations were punctuated by moral exhortation and in substance chiefly were restatements of party lines and state slogans. His economic philosophy, judged by his many speeches on economic problems, was what could be termed original Stalinism—that is, he believed in primary concentration on heavy industry, large-sized agricultural production units, highly centralized planning, use of moral exhortation more than individual incentive as chief motivating force, and a minimal role for the market in economic activity.
Although a little-known figure abroad, Do Muoi traveled extensively in Vietnam, probably was more tireless in stumping the boondocks than any other Hanoi leader. He also traveled extensively abroad, but almost entirely to socialist countries in search of economic aid.
Little is known about his personal life. At some point he was married, as it is reported that his wife died late in 1992. What her name was, when they were married, or if they had any children has not been disclosed. In July of 1996, Do Muoi's term as general secretary was extended. He declared, according to the New York Times, "I belong to the party and the people. The party and the people tell me what to do."
Further Reading on Do Muoi
There is little published information on Do Muoi. See his biography in the Yearbook on International Communist Affairs 1989, edited by Richard Staar (1990); "Hanoi Assembly Elects a New Prime Minister" in the New York Times (June 28, 1988); "A Premier Candidate" in Far Eastern Economic Review (June 23, 1988); and "Vietnam Picks a Disciplinarian as Premier" in the Washington Post (June 23, 1988).His recent political activities are recorded in the LA Times] Albright Outlines U.S. Terms for Closer Ties With Vietnam on June 28, 1997, Vietnam's Premier Becomes Party Chief; Communists: Do Muoi advocates market reform without greatly altering the political system on June 28, 1991; SOUTHEAST ASIA; New Blood, Same Policy Likely at Vietnamese Party Congress on May 17, 1991. Many of his speeches and political activities are broadcast on Radio Free Asia.


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Lao banana workers sickened by chemicals used on farms
0 Published: 30 May 2018
Posted in: China Laos
A Vietnamese-owned banana farm is shown in southern Laos's Savannakhet province in an undated photo. RFA/VD
RFA 2018-05-30
Lao workers at Chinese-operated banana plantations are falling ill in large numbers from exposure to chemicals used on the farms, with many suffering from respiratory or liver problems, sources in the Southeast Asian nation say.
Lao government orders began closing down the environmentally destructive farms in the country's northern provinces in January 2017, with the ban shuttering the commercial operations when their contracts expire and forbidding new contracts from being signed.
In the Maung Sing district of northern Laos's Luang Namtha province, meanwhile, at least 20 banana workers, many already having left their work on the farms, come each month to the local hospital for treatment, a hospital official told RFA's Lao Service.
"The chemicals affected their health after they had worked for even six months or one to two years in the fields," RFA's source said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Now they have liver problems, and are chronically tired and fatigued when they come to us, sometimes with related diseases."
Pregnant women working in the fields are especially at risk from chemical exposure, the hospital official said, adding that many go into labor prematurely, sometimes giving birth to deformed children.
One woman, a resident of Maung Sing, fell ill two years ago after working for a year at a Chinese banana farm in northern Laos's Phongsaly province, a village health worker told RFA, also on condition he not be named.
Though the company released the woman from employment when it was clear that she was sick, "they have said they are not responsible for her illness, and she is only receiving basic health care from her district," the source said, adding that the woman is still gravely ill and not expected to survive.
In a 2016 report, the most recent available, by Laos's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, six Lao farm workers died of pesticide or herbicide inhalation during the period 2012 to 2015, with three deaths reported in Champassak province in the south, and two in Xieng Khouang province and one in Bokeo province in the north.
Safety assurances doubted
Meanwhile, four or five banana workers at a Chinese plantation in Muang Nan district in northern Laos's Luang Prabang province were left covered in rashes after falling ill in December and are being treated in a local hospital, a district health official told RFA, speaking on condition of anonymity.
As many as a hundred others in the district may also be ill but are not seeking treatment, she said.
Bananas are now farmed in six northern provinces of Laos, in four provinces in the central part of the country, and is four provinces in the south, with other farms growing sugarcane, melon, cabbage, lettuce, and other crops.
All use polluting chemicals, sources say.
And while banana farming is slowly being phased out in the country's north, Lao authorities granted a large concession in May to a Vietnamese company growing bananas in southern Laos's Savannakhet province for export to Europe and Russia.
Government assurances of protection from chemical pollution at plantations in the south are widely doubted, sources say.
Illnesses and deaths have long been reported among Lao workers exposed to chemicals on foreign-owned farms, with many suffering open sores, headaches, and dizzy spells, sources told RFA in earlier reports.
Chemical run-off from farms has also polluted many of the country's water sources, killing fish and other animals and leaving water from local rivers and streams unfit to drink, sources say.
Reported by RFA's Lao Service. Translated by Sidney Khotpanya. Written in English by Richard Finney.
Original source: RFA


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