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For those courageous souls brave enough to look and see what is,

who are unwilling to blindly accept

the lies and rules of tyrannical authority.


Wednesday 30th January 2019


G’day,

Hope this finds you fit and well!

Here is a sampling of what crossed my digital desk over the last week.

No Pension For Pollies Till They Are 70

The Fourth Monkey

Stop the Govt spending $50m on commemorating Cooks first Voyage!

Teach Me

The Efficiency Of Government

FBI Agent Who Exposed Hillary Clinton Cover-up Found Dead

When To Trust The Government

Intolerance

Guns - Thomas Jefferson

Guns - George Washington

Guns - Charton Heston

Save Sydney Coalition

Audit the Big Four banks!

Circumhorizontal Arc (Rainbow Bridge)

Welcome to the Faulty Towers state, where any mug’s an engineer

Drug Testing

3DB Top 40 24 Jan 1969

I hope you get something from it!

Cheers!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stop the Govt spending $50m on commemorating Cooks first Voyage!
 
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An atrocious waste of money when farmers are doing it as tough as they are and people are homeless.

 
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Teach Me
 
Teach Me
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
The Fourth Monkey
 
The Fourth Monkey
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
No Pension For Pollies Till They Are 70
 
No Pension For Pollies Till They Are 70
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
The Efficiency Of Government
 
The Efficiency Of Government
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
FBI Agent Who Exposed Hillary Clinton Cover-up Found Dead
 
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The Clinton body count just keeps rising. An FBI Special Agent, who was anticipated to expose the extent of Clinton and Obama malpractice and corruption in the "Operation Fast and Furious" cover-up before a US Federal Grand Jury, has been found dead at his home. One day before he was due to testify against Clinton.

 
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When To Trust The Government
 
When To Trust The Government
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Intolerance
 
Intolerance
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Guns - Thomas Jefferson
 
Guns - Thomas Jefferson
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Guns - George Washington
 
Guns - George Washington
 
 
 

Apparently that was someon’s interpretation of what George ACTUALLY said:

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”

 
 
 
 
Guns - Charton Heston
 
Guns - Charton Heston
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Save Sydney Coalition
 
 
 
 

Over the holidays the SSC has contemplated an embarrassing litany of NSW Government Planning failures during 2018.

 
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Audit the Big Four banks!
 
 
 
 

The government should direct the Auditor-General to conduct an independent audit of Australia’s Big Four banks, in light of the collapsing property bubble to which the major banks are massively exposed.

Presently the banks are not independently audited. There is an even bigger “Big Four” that sign off on the banks’ books, the Big Four global accounting firms, an accounting cartel which audits 98 per cent of the world’s largest banks and corporations, and actively covers up the fraud and dodgy bookkeeping that has become the defining feature of the global financial system. The four firms are PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst and Young (EY), KPMG, and Deloitte.

An explosive new report commissioned by the UK Labour Party’s shadow chancellor of the exchequer, John McDonnell, called Reforming the Auditing Industry, exposes the Big Four accounting firms as complicit in the crimes of banks and big corporations. These Big Four are supposed to conduct the independent audits of companies mandated by law, but they make two-thirds of their tens of billions in revenue from consultancy services to those same corporations. The banks that triggered the 2008 crash in London and on Wall Street had all received clean bills of health from Big Four auditors—some, like Northern Rock in the UK, just days before they collapsed. The report also documents a “parade of scandals” involving UK and multinational corporations which have collapsed after being looted by their management and major shareholders, robbing employees, pension funds and small creditors of enormous sums of money owed to them. In every case, the Big Four firms covered up the looting. And the Big Four firms have captured governments and regulators, the most glaring example being their influence over tax laws, which they help to write so that they can help their corporate and super-rich clients avoid paying them.

(Click here to read the full report, Reforming the Auditing Industry http://visar.csustan.edu/aaba/LabourPolicymaking-AuditingReformsDec2018.pdf. For a summary of the report click here to read a two-page article in the 16 January 2019 issue of the CEC’s Australian Alert Service, “Criminal masterminds: the real Big Four” “Criminal masterminds: the real Big Four”, http://cecaust.com.au/aas/AASVol21No03_real-big-four.pdf, by Robert Barwick.)

The report calls for the establishment of a statutory (public) auditor, to conduct truly independent and honest audits of all financial companies and the largest corporations, to which the regulators would have complete access. It also calls for the Big Four and all accounting firms to be broken up, to end the conflict of interest of firms that audit companies also providing consultancy services.

Independently audit Australia’s banks!

The Big Four global accounting firms also dominate Australia’s financial system. Most worryingly, PwC audits CBA and Westpac, EY audits NAB, and KPMG audits ANZ. Given their track record laid bare in Reforming the Auditing Industry, the Australian government and public can have no confidence in the Big Four auditors’ reports of Australia’s Big Four banks. Last year’s banking royal commission has already shredded confidence in the major banks, proving that they are not the best banks in the world as was claimed. It’s a small step to go from lying about their behaviour to lying about their financial position, assisted by their corrupt auditors. As the four major banks control 80 per cent of the banking system, and each have over 60 per cent of their assets concentrated in mortgages, with house prices plunging the government must direct the Auditor-General to conduct independent audits of each of the Big Four, to ascertain their true financial position and the level of risk facing the Australian economy.

Such audits would also expose more details of the criminality of the Big Four global accounting firms in Australia. On 29 November 2017, the Greens and the National Party agreed to include the Big Four auditors in their terms of reference for a banking royal commission to investigate; the next day, 30 November, a panicked then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hurriedly called the royal commission with different terms of reference, approved by the banks, in which the Big Four accountants were not included.

Conducting audits of the private banks was once a standard function of the Auditor-General. It was recommended in the report of the 1937 Banking Royal Commission, and first legislated in the 1945 Banking Act, and reaffirmed in the 1953 and 1959 Banking Acts. It remained a function of the Auditor-General until the establishment of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) in 1998, when the Financial Sector Reform (Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act amended the 1959 Banking Act to allow APRA to appoint any firm to audit the banks. And which auditors has the failed and discredited regulator APRA chosen to use? You guessed it—the Big Four.

The reason the 1937 Banking Royal Commission report recommended the Auditor-General regularly audit the private banks was so the government bank, the Commonwealth Bank, would know if it needed to take over a failing private bank to protect its deposits, by either fixing up the private bank or closing it down and taking over its customers. Australia must face the reality of likely banking failures today: Australia’s banks are more exposed to the collapsing housing bubble than their US, UK, Irish and Spanish counterparts were in 2008, when they were wiped out in large numbers. No other banks in the world have come close to having 60 per cent of their loans in mortgages; before their crashes, US and UK interest-only lending peaked at 25 and 18 per cent respectively of all mortgages, compared with almost 50 per cent in Australia in 2016; and Australia’s household debt at 190 per cent of household income is much higher than in those other countries in 2008.

The Citizens Electoral Council has issued a five-point program for Australia to survive economic catastrophe, which includes a call for a moratorium on home and family farm foreclosures, to stop the banks from executing a US-style mass-eviction of homeowners in a housing crash. The policy would require the government to take the measures recommended by the 1937 Banking Royal Commission and know if it needs to take over the banks to protect the public’s deposits, and either reorganise them or shut them down. Accurate audits of their books are therefore essential.

Demand your MP support independent audits of the Big Four banks!

Forward this release to your local MP and Senators with the message that they must demand an independent audit of the banks. (Follow up with a phone call to make sure they received it.)

Labor MPs especially should be challenged: with the ALP expected to win the election this year, will they follow the lead of their UK counterparts and take on the real Big Four, or will they let this global criminal racket go untouched?

 
 
 
 
Circumhorizontal Arc (Rainbow Bridge)
 
Circumhorizontal Arc (Rainbow Bridge)
 
 
 

Extremely rare atmospheric phenomenon called rainbow bridge or circumhorizontal arc: when the sun is at least 58º above horizon and ice crystals in clouds form rainbows

 
 
 
 
Welcome to the Faulty Towers state, where any mug’s an engineer
 
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Tuesday’s interim report on the twice-evacuated Opal tower, by engineering professors Hoffman, Cart and Foster, tells us the building is structurally sound, in that it (probably) won’t fall down, but has major damage. Two causes are pinpointed: faulty design, using lower-than-required safety factors, and poor construction, deviating from both design and good practice.

The building, as you know, is pretty ornery to look at. A green glass faceted triangle far taller than any neighbours, its look of soulless oppression is relieved only by a number of tall “slots” or “vertical gardens”, walled in six-storey pre-cast load-bearing concrete. It’s in these walls, and the beams supporting them, that the damage has principally occurred.

But what’s fascinating about this appalling concatenation of errors and deceits is the degree to which it is systemic. We don’t know how widespread building disasters are because no-one is collecting data, but as the UNSW City Futures Research Institute recently wrote, our “system allowing defective apartment buildings” creates huge social and economic risks for the new compact city.

 
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Drug Testing
 
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Drug Testing

I’m going to have my say about DRUGS and testing them to make it “safer” for users at music events.

Un-friend me if you want; try and argue with me if your have to. But, I’ve seen the effects drugs have on people, throughly, from both sides of the fence.

Back in the day I took a LOT of drugs. Many of you would be surprised by this. When I quit I spent years helping many people get off them and detox on a full-time basis.

So, I consider myself very well experienced and knowledgeable in the area.

The pills some people are wanting to test are made of chemicals, fundamentally they are poisonous. Just because they are tested and passed by some “arbitrary” standard doesn’t mean they aren’t harmful.

Overdosing can happen to anyone at anytime. An overdose is caused by the bodies system (the kidneys) releasing too much of the chemical into the body’s system rather than detoxifying and expelling it from the body. This can happen to a long time user or a first time user.

It really has nothing to do with the “quality” of the drug; it has to do with how the individuals body copes with the poison. The affects a person feels, aka the “high” is caused by poisoning the body.

What’s really needed is EDUCATION.

Those calling for drug testing are uneducated and quite frankly irresponsible—not unlike the makers and dealers themselves.

Proper education is what’s needed. When that’s in place the DRUG USE WILL DROP to the point that only those interested in either killing themselves or killing others by supplying the poison will take them.

I understand and appreciate that some drugs are needed for medical reasons and I’m not opposed to them.

 
 
 
 
3DB Top 40 24 Jan 1969
 
3DB Top 40 24 Jan 1969
 
 
 

Many of these I could sing along with!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Until next time,
dream big dreams,
plan out how to achieve them,
be continually executing your plans,
enlist people to your causes,
travel and/or read widely, preferably both,
all the while observing what you observe
rather than thinking what you are told to think,
think well of your fellow man,
take time to help your fellow man,
he sorely needs it and it will help you too,
eat food that is good for your body,
exercise your body,
take time to destress,
and do the important things
that make a difference -
they are rarely the urgent ones!

Tom

 
 

Most of the content herein has been copied from someone else. Especially the images. My goodness some people are talented at creating aesthetics! The small bits that are of my creation are Copyright 2014-2018 © by Tom Grimshaw - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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