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It saddens one to think that corruption is like a disease, a welcome disease to many people in society, it has a habit of spreading to all regions such as Web ISP’s, the BBC and other television networks, the water companies, banks etc.   This all contributes to the acceptance of corrupt cops and Lawyers and will indeed enable them to grow larger within this public acceptance of corruption ‘ because they are all at it, aren’t they? a phrase one hears so many times.  The Government have proved this so in the recent ‘ expenses fiddle scandal’ that rocked the foundations of this elite bunch.  It hasn’t stopped their corruption or secrecy, they will adapt and carry on with a new design that they hope will not be detected so easily by the press or any whistleblower. Corruption is frequently denied yet exists in every country and there is no country or government free of it.   The freedom of information act arrived in 2005 and that is flawed by certain conditions that still prevent the public from having a right to know.  One hears the word ‘ transparency in Government ‘ — FORGET IT.   IT’S NOT TRUE.       The only reason corruption flourishes is the public, they don’t care, they don’t mind, and they too indulge in it.

Let us begin with some other major scams and obvious corruption.

‘ CORRUPTION PROBE REVEALS BRIBERY IN PRISON SERVICE ‘

A CORRUPTION SCANDAL IN THE PRISON SERVICE was revealed after it was found that inmates offered bribes of up to £30,000 to secure moves to open jails.  Three officers were suspended at Brixton Prison for accepting bribes.  Other officers at other jails have been suspended for helping prisoners escape and seeking loans from inmates.  Some officers were suspected of running drugs for prisoners and a full inquiry into the mass corruption emerging is to be investigated thoroughly by the Met Police?

Taking a risk there eh?

‘ PRISON SERVICE IN DRUGS SUPPLY TO PRISONERS ‘

CORRUPTION IN THE PRISON SERVICE revealed that 1300 officers were investigated for illegally supplying drugs to prisoners.  This works out at 13 officers in every prison.  One Officer received 18 months for supplying drugs in exchange for favours.  A woman prison officer Patricia Oillivierre was jailed for 7 years for supplying Heroine to prisoners.  Corruption Squad Officers found a substantial quantity of drugs in her car.

Recent investigations have revealed that 16 more prison officers are currently under investigation.

‘Prison Drug Problem Exposed by Whistleblower ‘

PASSING THE BUCK, TYING THE GOVERNOR’S HANDS, that’s what has led to the abuse of drugs in prisons according to an insider who worked as a Governor in the Prison system from 1993 to 1999.  He puts the blame squarely with the Chief Inspectors who ‘made a significant contribution to facilitating drug trafficking in prisons’  The Inspectorate continually criticised and undermined attempts by Prison Governors to restrict drug trafficking, especially through domestic visiting areas.  Inspectors did not approve of stringent checks as they thought it might damage ‘meaningful family relationships’ which made things more easier for the drugs to pass and the Governor unable to interfere.  They actively, through recommendations and policy changes, left a legacy of disabling staff who were keen to restrict and cut down the drugs being brought into prison. The complacency they now talk about, is the complacency they created because effective measures had no support from them.

‘ Prison Officer on Drugs charge ‘

An officer at the Lancaster Farms Young Offenders Institute has been arrested over smuggling drugs into the prison for inmates.  Sources say he is facing ten years if convicted, at present, the guard is suspended while investigations continue.

‘ Female Prison Guard in sex racket incident ‘

HMP ELMLEY is investigating claims that an officer offered sex to a vulnerable prisoner for 350 and

 took him to an empty cell.  The Prison Service confirmed that an officer has been suspended pending further enquiries.

‘ Boy thrashed with leather belt by Prison Officer ‘

PRISON OFFICER STEPHEN O’GRADY of Abbey Wood, South East London, was put on probation by Maidstone Crown Court after he had been convicted of beating a seven-year old boy with a leather belt.  He was ordered to pay £150 compensation. 

‘ Guard raped prisoner in jail ‘

PRISON OFFICER MAURICE RUTTER raped a woman prisoner while on duty at Risley Jail.  In court he did not deny a sex act took place and claimed the woman would of course report it and that his word carried more weight. However, Mold Crown Court heard evidence that Rutter from Liverpool had been accused of indecent assault by a remand prisoner separate from this current case.

‘ Female Prison Guard had sex with boy in jail ‘

‘ THE UNNAMED OFFICER was suspended at the young offenders prison at Portland in Dorset.  The Prison Governor, Susan McCormick stated that an incident of improper conduct by a member of staff and an inmate was being investigated.  The teenage boy said the guard had gone to bed with him before breaking off the relationship.

‘ Sadistic Guard whips girl in prison ‘

KINKY PRISON OFFICER PHILIP HUTCHINSON whipped a prostitute with a cat’o’nine tails type whip and then appeared at Reading Crown Court charged with inflicting actual bodily harm.  He was given a suspended nine-month jail sentence.  Ex- Army soldier Hutchinson had to endure evidence that showed him caning  victims while prisoners were handcuffed. 

‘ Three Prison Officers appear in Court ‘

PRISON OFFICERS SIMON DYKES, RUSSELL THORNE and CHRISTOPHER BEVAN faced sex charges at Guildford Crown Court. The three guards were suspended after it was alleged that over a four year period they had sex with up to nine women at Downview jail.  Ten charges of wilful misconduct in public office were read out in court relating to sex offences and sexual intercourse with women prisoners.

‘ Prisoner beaten up by three guards gets £3,500 ‘

Compensation was awarded by a judge to prisoner Desmond Preedy who sued the Home Office. Police who were first called in to investigate the claim said there was no case to answer, but Judge Hutton said there was no excuse for the Prison Officers behaviour and awarded Preedy £3,500 damages. None of the prison officers faced charges or faced a trial for any offence?

‘ Prison Governors deceive Inspectors by moving prisoners ‘

WANDSWORTH AND PENTONVILLE PRISONS were discovered to have deliberately deceived the Inspection Board by moving certain prisoners before a visit by prison inspectors.  They have been brought up on disciplinary charges and several individuals will be called in over the matter.  It once again shows that deceit will be practiced when necessary in the service and strangely enough, the board remarked that this was a silly thing to do and rather petty.  They also said it completely ruins any trust they had previously over matters concerned with care and proper rights for prisoners in their care.  Further enquiries are now expected to look into other prisons because of this.

‘ Corrupt Prison staff are on the take ‘

PRISON WARDERS MAY BE GETTING up to £3,000 a month in bribes by prisoners to smuggle in drugs a report has revealed.  It says ‘ the potential proceeds for staff are huge ‘ and prisoners are finding it easier to bribe warders for the lucrative selling in jails.  An earlier investigation into drugs coming into prisons exposed the fact that at least a 1,000 prison officers were on the take for smuggling heroine and other drugs into prisons.  Findings indicated that there was an average of seven corrupt warders in each of the 139 prisons. 

‘ Prison Warder in suicide after fling with inmate ‘

KAREN MULLINER a prison warder at Chelmsford, hanged herself after her lover an inmate, ousted pictures of himself on facebook displaying the £6,000 cash he’d managed to get out of her. She had a secret love affair with the young offender, 15 years her junior.  When he was released she left her husband and moved in with him at a flat.  The relationship soured, but the young prisoner had removed £300 a day from her account. The 21 year old refused to attend court while being held in prison where he is serving a 30 month sentence for another crime.

‘ Prison Boss and Prison Officer in court over sex with inmates ‘

DOWNVIEW WOMEN’S PRISON acting governor RUSSELL THORNE and prison officer SIMON DYKES found themselves appearing before Guildford Crown Court faced charges of having sex with four inmates which breaches the professional standard of behaviour codes in the prison rules.  The prosecutor told the jury that both men were at the centre of a corruption culture at the prison.  They are charged with gross misconduct as they gave favours in exchange for sex and lewd sex games.

‘ Female Prison Warder is jailed ‘

Warder RACHEL KLEIN of  HMP Lindholme was sent to prison for 18 months after having an affair with male prisoner Steven Chapman. The judge blasted the regime at the prison where prisoners had easy access to computer games, tobacco and telephones.  Doncaster Crown Court found the Warder guilty of professional misconduct in public office. 

‘ Prison Governor jailed over child sex offences ‘

BARRY CUMMINGS a Prison Governor at Low Newton Prison was sent to jail for 4 years after being convicted on three counts of sex offences against children.  Durham Crown Court were presented with a large amount of overwhelming evidence.  Cummings, a man with a Law degree was said to be ‘an overbearing and arrogant man’ by judge Christopher Prince.

‘ Every week one prison officer gets too close to inmate ‘

We are talking here of intimate relationships of the sexual kind — a report says more than 120 prison staff faced disciplinary action over a period of two years and nine months. Only a few were actually dismissed, and even less were subject to a prosecution.  One woman officer was imprisoned herself for erotic letters and phone calls with serving convicts, some were moved to another job and Zanib Khan a warder received a 12 month jail term after her involvement with drug dealers and robbers at the jail.  The Ministry of Justice acknowledged the problem and said they were taking steps to identify guards who were smuggling in mobile phones and other things for prisoners saying those caught would face the toughest sanctions.

‘ Prisoner dies chained to guard ‘

A terminal cancer patient/prisoner of 67, died while undergoing hospital treatment still handcuffed to a prison guard.  The Prisons Watchdog  said The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman said managers at category C HMP Channings Wood did not show the appropriate compassion or act upon medical evidence by failing to remove the handcuffs from the dying man. It is said that this is but one case out of 51 incidents in the past five years, in which the prison authorities used inappropriate levels of restraint on inmates in hospital.

‘ Prisoner Death — Wandsworth Jail Condemned ‘

WANDSWORTH PRISON has a colourful History and in the light of recent events shuns the Media Attention on Deaths in Custody.  Prisoner James Best was ‘inside’ for stealing (A Gingerbread Man – Biscuit that is), during the riots across the UK in 2011.  Apparently he grabbed one when looters hit a Bakery in Croydon.  He had up to that time been working out in Portugal, and had only just returned to Britain.  One month before the riots he had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act as it was feared he would engage in ‘self-harm’  A Jury found his death ‘preventable’ at the Coroner’s Court, and his brother said they should not have thrown him into jail.  Prison staff said he ‘was failed by the system’ — and they are part of that system, but obviously forgot when they made this observation!  James Best was apparently on remand awaiting sentence.  A Report said ‘ the assessment of the performance of the staff and ambulance service was scathing’

‘ G4S Guards in struggle arrested over death ‘

AN Immigrant put on a plane to Angola, who was restrained, handcuffed in a seat, died shortly after a struggle with two guards who were later arrested on suspicion of committing a criminal offence.  They were both later released due to a lack of evidence.  Prisoner Jimmy Mubenga was seen talking to his wife on a mobile phone according to other passengers. Some reported that he was shouting ‘ I can’t breathe, you’re killing me ‘    One nearby said there seemed to be a struggle with the guards and Mubenga was shouting, and then it all fell silent.  From that moment the guards looked worried and we all knew that something was wrong.  The plane was still on the runway at Heathrow when the incident took place.

UPDATE — An inquest as ruled that Mubenga’s death was ‘UNLAWFUL’ (July 2013)

‘ G4S face Fraud Inquiry for overcharging £50million ‘

THE G4S PRISON SECURITY SERVICE COMPANY has found itself ‘in the dock’ after it was discovered that they had been over-charging the taxpayer to the tune of £50 million.  A fraud investigation is now underway after MP’s called for intervention by the Serious Fraud Squad.  So far it has been said that G4S and Serco had been billing the taxpayer for offenders who were dead, back in custody or who had left the country. In one situation they had charged for handling 18,000 offenders when in reality it had only been 15,000.

‘Prison Brawl lasts seven hours ‘

AT A ‘GOOD ORDER’ PRISON there was a seven hour brawl which ended with two prison warders being taken to hospital.  The incident happened at Scotland’s newest prison, Low Moss said to be non violent and of good order by the authorities who put its first inmates in 2012.  Prisoners barricaded themselves in cells and for seven hours there was a running battle….it is now said to be ‘a police matter’ and investigation.  The brawl broke out just a week after a report said 165 assaults were carried out on inmates and staff in 2012.  The report also exposed the ‘inmate on inmate attacks’ and there were 140 such assaults of which 15 were serious.  Staff attacks amounted to 10, according to The Chief Inspector of Prisons, David Strang.

‘Prison Staff discovered tapping in on inmates Phone Calls to MP’s ‘

The Justice Secretary was forced to make apologies after covert phone tapping was made by staff at Prisons when inmates were making calls to their MP’s.  It was reported that this had gone on for some six years between 2006 and 2012 before being found out.  Staff were listening in to confidential phone calls on a regular basis and flouting the prisoners rights. 

‘ Home Office Pay £20,000 to visitor from abroad ‘

IMMIGRATION OFFICERS brought misery to one Christmas visitor from Jamaica who spent most of his Christmas holiday in custody, actually — 5 days!  The officers did not admit their mistake or atone for their behaviour, in fact they were somewhat above the law.  Justice Morland awarded Peter Honegan £20,000 and costs against the Home Office for the mistreatment to Mr.Honegan for false imprisonment at Gatwick Airport.

‘ Rising violence in Children’s’ Prison ‘

GANG VIOLENCE is said to be taking a hold in young offenders prisons and becoming frequent as a result of not being able to deal with it an inspection report indicates.  It says that gang members openly attack rivals and victims without fear of sanctions.  Security cameras have caught premeditated gang violence being carried out at Feltham Young Offenders’ institution,,,,, with up to two attacks a day.  300 acts of violence had been recorded by cameras in just six months before the Prisons Inspection.

‘ Jail Warder appears before the Old Bailey ‘

PRISON OFFICER Scott Chapman is accused of misconduct in public office, in that he sold stories to the newspapers concerning the two boys who killed James Bulger.  The Prison officer is said to have made thousands of pounds selling information about prisoner Jon Venables when the young man was sent to the prison where he worked.   Venables was convicted of downloading indecent pictures of children in his adult status and jailed for a further two years….it was also said that Chapman’s partner Lynn Gaffney helped him cover-up where the money came from.

‘Prisoner at Jail found dead ‘

Overcrowding was blamed on the jail death of Levi Smith who was found in his cell at Elmley Prison in Kent, bringing the death in custody rate to 7 in Kent in just one year.  This death came on the very day a report was published that was very damning about prison conditions etc.  He was found dead at 6-45 GMT and pronounced dead by paramedics who responded to the incident at the jail.

‘ Military Policeman on child porn charges is jailed ‘

MILITARY POLICEMAN CORPORAL ANTHONY ELLIS was jailed for two years for downloading child pornography.  He was held at the Hoehne Barracks, Germany.  It was found that he had nearly 1,300 images of children in deplorable positions.  He admitted making an indecent photograph of a child.  The Royal Military Police discovered his laptop after they had suspicions concerning child porn.  One spokesperson said ‘ It is depressingly prevalent in the forces.’

‘ Lawyer  defends serial drink-driving Army Officer in Cover-Up ‘

At a North London Court a solicitor insisted that an officer should be named or any history be read out if it went against his client.  The solicitor insisted it would breach security if the name of the Army Officer was known.  The court said this was beyond a private matter for the army as it involved a civilian.  The Officer was answering charges of drink-driving and causing an accident on the M3 near Basingstoke.  The collision injured the other driver and completely wrote off the vehicle he was driving.  luckily, the injured man suffered only cuts and superficial wounds and was checked out at Basingstoke Infirmary.  The court heard that this was the fifth crash by the Army Officer whilst under the influence of alcohol and there was two more cases pending.  The Army had sought to hush things up and instructed their solicitor to obstruct the court by claiming the whole thing was an army incident.  The Officer was not present in court.  Damages were awarded against the officer and a driving ban was ordered plus a huge fine.

NEW WATCHDOG TO TACKLE ARMY BULLYING?  Yet another attempt in the light of many such enquiries into this…..the 1980’s tried, the 1990’s tried…..and all went silent until now 2014…..and The Defence Secretary thinks he has it figured!  Philip Hammond is just clutching at straws and feeling embarrassed by the situation which will not go away.  A new Service Complaints Commissioner is appointed, Susan Atkins….and she says personnel will be able to bring their grievances and complaints to her.  But she is forgetting the power, or should it be, secretive power of the Army top Brass and Command….recent and old cases show that they have suppressed and interfered with outside influences….mistreatment on the field and drills are seen as character building no matter what harm they may cause…..and no Commissioner is going to change that unless they want it to.

‘ Royal Air Force in Assault Scandal ‘

RECRUITS IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE were beaten and handcuffed according to a report.  A RAF Officer and six Air Cadets were arrested after a video was seized showing two recruits in a perverted initiation ceremony.  Two 14 year old cadets were stripped naked, gagged and handcuffed.  They were then smeared with shaving cream during a 90 minute video.  The boys were attending a week long training exercise at the ST Thomas School Air Training Corps in Exeter, Devon.  The attack happened at The Royal Air Force Training Facility in Stafford.

ROOKIE AIRMAN IN TORTURE HORROR – RAF Fireman Rookie Paul Headlong told a court martial that he was stripped naked, pinned on a bed and abused by Senior Aircraftsman Don Popple during an initiation ceremony at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire. Four other Airman are to face a court martial over the incident.

‘ Anti-drugs Navy ship had drug smuggling personnel on board ‘

WREN TERESA MATOS of the ship HMS MANCHESTER was arrested for smuggling 12kg of cocaine in her locker after returning from a drugs mission to South America.  Packages were found sewn into a rucksack which would have got into the UK unseen and undetected.  Her arrest led to three London contacts being held on drug charges.

‘ BULLYING IN THE NAVY UNDER INVESTIGATION ‘ — Naval Cadets are beaten according to the report as the Royal Navy are conducting an investigation into the ill-treatment of recruits.  The Probe involved the Frigate Campbeltown, where ratings of 17 were beaten with a board.  A 28 year old junior rating was removed after the matter of ‘kangaroo courts’ with punishments came out.

‘ YOUNGEST SAILOR QUITS OVER BULLYING ‘  — 17 year-old David Allen was a cadet on the HMS CARDIFF but on its return to Portsmouth, he refused to go back and quit giving his account of bullying aboard the ship. He claimed of repeated physical and verbal abuse and being humiliated by a senior rating. 

140 INCIDENTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED TO HAVE OCCURRED IN THE MESS AT HMS CAMPBELTOWN.

‘ Cover-up lies invented by Navy ‘

It has been revealed that the Navy invented a lie that said ‘ they had found an abandoned boat with no occupants ‘ in relation to the Chandlers, a couple who were hijacked by pirates.  The real truth shows that a Navy boat was fifty feet away when the Chandlers were taken, and they saw it all happen.  It’s yet another sad and disappointing thing to find the Navy will lie and suppress the truth so readily, but as we have shown the reader — lies are done for the flimsiest of reasons, and personnel employed or recruited will stand behind that dishonesty.

‘ Royal Navy Commander is Jailed for Fraud ‘

FRAUDSTER ANTHONY GRAY a Navy Commander at Portsmouth appeared before a Court Martial on nine charges of dishonesty. He falsely claimed £53,000 so he could send his children to boarding schools. He was jailed for six months. The Judge said it was a gross breach of trust, especially as he was not entitled to the allowances. He was also dismissed from the Navy.

‘ Sailor rapes Navy Girl ‘

ABLE SEAMAN KENNI DINNELL based at Portsmouth appeared before a court martial charged with raping a wren after he’d been out on a pub crawl.  She said Dinnell was a pal of her boyfriend and as she woke from being rather tipsy, she realised it wasn’t her boyfriend and that Dinnell was raping her after her boyfriend had gone into the bathroom.

‘ Navy Officer Slaps Girl sailor ‘

LIEUTENANT COMMANDER RICHARD BIRD was court-martialled for slapping a young female volunteer aboard a training ship it was heard.  It was said to have happened when their ‘karaoke double act’ ended in discord. It was said that there had been heavy drinking on the occasion, and the lieutenant became over friendly with Catherine Bagley when they were ashore travelling to various bars, and the incident took place in St.Nazaire, Brittany.

‘ Portsmouth Navy Chief Petty Officer in Schoolboy Shorts ‘

CHIEF PETTY OFFICER ROBIN HALFORD 45, was said to have dressed in schoolboy uniform and shorts as he took part in bondage sessions for spankings when he appeared in Portsmouth Crown Court charged with indecent assault on a 36 yr old woman. Halford who had served in the Falklands with the Navy said things got rough once in a while ‘ she’d just got out of the bath and things turned a little bit ugly’

‘ Portsmouth based Sailor commits suicide over taunts and bullying ‘

The Royal Navy tried to dismiss the ‘bullying’ accusations when the case was heard at Portsmouth Coroner’s Court.  Sailor Samuel Hatton was portrayed by them as a loner who had issues and denied the bullying as normal banter among ratings!  Hatton shot himself after brooding over another recent suicide of friend Matthew Webster who was based at HMS Hurworth.  It came out that taunting by other sailors and comments ‘ Not shot yourself yet?’ incited by senior crew only pushed Hatton harder. He was based on the Minehunter Cattistock, and took the same way out as his friend.

‘ Falklands Navy Hero steals from gang of crooks he helped ‘

FORMER NAVY OFFICER DEAN PRIESTLEY appeared at Hull Crown Court was found guilty along with his wife and sons, of conspiring to convert criminal property. Priestley had helped a gang of crooks who smuggled cash into Spain from Britain.  He decided he would grab some of the £1million and went on a spending spree with his family.  The International crooks were said to have put a £5m price tag on his head when they found out, and Priestley went on the run.

‘Royal Navy Petty Officer in Court’

This case has some doubt arising out of the possibility this looks like a dud charge invented by the state — in some ways similar to the US Bradley Manning Scandal — The state says that Submariner Edward Devenney has breached the Official Secrets Act, and accuse him of being a spy in the pay of an enemy power.  He has been remanded to appear before the Old Bailey.  His brief says that the subject of the charge is not secret information but information available to the public on reasonable investigation — which we know is out there on the Web if you spend time trawling the Internet — we accessed some vital secretive stuff from a source exactly that way for an article that was denied. It took us some months and an accident to get it from a ‘disgruntled guy’ who kept a dossier of proof, and we had to track him down after he left a page up that was three years old but never deleted, easily missed…but luckily we came across it.  So we shall see how things work out, if it turns out that he didn’t we will turn our attentions on the judiciary and government services.

‘Boozy Navy — No mention in the Press?’

The reason you don’t get to know about this was soon discovered when we accessed memos from a seasoned sailor who was about to leave the Navy and had a raw deal over his pension entitlements. He said the police in Portsmouth and Hampshire had an arrangement with the council that although they would attend a disturbance at a public house, they would detain the rowdy or drunk sailors and hand them over to the Navy for them to deal with. He said most incidents of brawling, fights etc, happened with the cadets who could not hold their liquor. All incidents that happen ashore are quickly taken care of to avoid bad press and ill-feeling in Naval towns.

‘ Army in Cover-Up over destroyed and lost evidence ‘

The Deepcut Inquiry concerning the deaths of four soldiers took a turn for the worse when it was revealed that the Army had tried to conceal information and announced that potentially vital evidence had been destroyed or lost?  This case involved ‘ bullying at the Deepcut Barracks in Surrey, and the disappearance of the log-book and clothing etc.  Investigations floundered amid the army resisting outside interference, — and where have we met this kind of thing before?   — Police investigating police and resisting public interference in their affairs.

‘ Fraudster Major in £100,000 swindle ‘

ARMY MAJOR COLIN MORRIS helped himself to money out of a charity helping raise money for war heroes it was stated at Chelmsford Crown Court.  Before being sentenced to jail for three years he pleaded guilty to theft, deception and false accounting.  The major forged signatures on cheques and it was later revealed that he cashed army cheques for for training courses that he did not go to.  Other facts emerged in respect of a sexual assault at a court martial hearing in which he was found guilty.

SOLDIER LANCE CORPORAL JOE GLENTON was jailed for being absent without leave, desertion, at a trial in Colchester.

THE MARINES SCANDAL –  Many cases during the eighties and nineties concerned the arrogant reckless way the marines acted in major towns like Exmouth and other parts of Devon.  Cases of fighting and assaults appeared at an alarming rate, and these are easily forgotten by those who would like this kind of report buried.

‘ MARINES IN ATTACK ON A PRISONER ‘  –  Two Royal Marines were dismissed from the Army after attacking a man in custody.  Captain Jody Wheelhouse and Sergeant Mark Leader, commandos, one with the Arbroath Training Centre and Leader with the Lympstone Training Centre in Devon, were found guilty of assault causing actual bodily harm.

‘ ROYAL MARINES FACE COURT MARTIAL ‘ — Bullying is the charge, and one sergeant faced five charges of ill-treating soldiers, and a Corporal faced one charge of improper conduct.  The inquiry was looking into bullying at the Lympstone Barracks in Exeter, Devon. Sergeant Glyn Jones opted for trial in Exeter Crown Court.

‘ TWO LYMPSTONE COMMANDOS JAILED ‘ — Instructors, Nigel Parker and Paul Bramley were jailed for 18 months by a court martial after it heard that the two soldiers engaged in brutality on recruits.

‘ MARINES FACE COURT ‘ — LIEUTENANT MICHAEL GELDARD, SERGEANT DAVID FOGGIN and CORPORAL STEVE AMPHLET were charged with offences concerning bullying at the Commando Centre in Lympstone.

‘ SIX OFFICERS ON BRUTALITY CHARGES ‘  — KENT BARRACKS, two officers and six NCO’s were under investigation of meting out ill-treatment to eight recruits.  The incidents relate to The Sir John Moore Barracks in Kent.

‘ ROYAL HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT BEATINGS ‘  — Sergeant Brian Thomas was accused of beating recruits bare buttocks with a bat in a human xylophone style ritual.  He was charged with nine offences of cruelty and improper conduct.

‘SERGEANT ON ILL-TREATMENT CHARGES ‘  — Sergeant David Miller, Platoon Sergeant with The Devon and Dorset Regiment, was charged with assault and using C.S. gas in an appropriate manner and situation.

‘ INDECENT ASSAULTS AT THE KING’S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS’ — A recruit told an inquiry that he was subjected to degrading treatment by army instructors.  Private James Guthrie.20 years old said that he had been tied, punched and had a broom handle inserted into his anus while being held down. The accused are Private Ferguson and Smith and Reilly.

‘ SECTION 3, THE SALAMANCA COMPANY ‘ Beatings at Shorncliffe — A boy soldier of 16 was attacked regularly by Corporal Coleman who hit him with a broom handle.  Boy soldier Calvin says he now gets epileptic fits as a result of this treatment in the army.

‘ FALKLANDS CORPORAL JAILED FOR BULLYING ‘  — Corporal David Mellors was sentenced to six months for terrorising recruitsat Brize Norton, Oxon.  He was found guilty of whacking recruits with a broom handle and punching others repeatedly. 

‘ CORPORAL ‘PUNISHMENT’ IN THE ARMY ‘ — Corporal Julian Clayton was sentenced to 11 months jail by a court martial for making recruits strip naked on parade and spanking other teenage soldiers.  The Instructor at Catterick Camp in Yorkshire – the Cheshire Regiment, told the court the recruits failed to keep time and he was running out of options regarding discipline.  He faced 7 charges of ill-treatment and one of assault.

‘ BATTALION CORPORAL BULLIES JUNIOR SOLDIERS ‘  — Corporal Ian Latham was sentenced to six months jail for his part in systematic bullying of recruits at The Junior Infantry Battalion at Shorncliff, Kent.

‘ BATH REGIMENT NCO’S CHARGED WITH BULLYING’ — Sergeant John Drummond and Corporal Rashid Murphy faced a court martial over the assaults on recruits at the Junior Leader’s Regiment depot at Colerne, Bath. 

‘ ROYAL ENGINEERS CORPORAL JAILED’ — Army Instructor Corporal Paul Williams was jailed for six months after admitting to four charges of ill-treating boy soldiers.  The Corporal who meted out corporal punishment was also reduced to the ranks and dismissed from the army.

‘ FOUR SOLDIERS FACE COURT ON ASSAULT CHARGES ‘  — The four soldiers from the King’s Own Scottish Borderers – Thomas Lightbody, Peter Doherty admitted to 15 charges of assault on recruits while stationed in Germany at Verden. The other two were removed from their posts it stated.  Doherty was sentenced to 8 months and Lightbody got 12 months.  The report also went on to say that three officers including the Commanding Officer and Regimental Sergeant Major had been suspended.

‘ ROYAL ARTILLERY REGIMENT IN BULLYING INVESTIGATION ‘ — Recruit Lance Corporal Owen Babb 21, was ordered to bend over a Land Rover by his sergeant and whipped with an Ariel — ten strokes.  The incident took place at the Baker Barracks, Portsmouth — home of the 47 Regiment. The ‘kangaroo court ‘ held by the Sergeant was under investigation the report said.

ARMY PUNISHMENT LED TO MARINE’S DEATH — Royal Marine Benjamin Poole died on the hottest day of the year ‘needlessly’ because he was ordered that he must do ‘the punishment run’   He was carrying a 55lb pack on his back over a distance of 18 miles in sweltering heat 80 degrees Fahrenheit….. and when he didn’t show up a search party found him dead due to exhaustion… an MOD spokesman said it would not be appropriate to comment on the matter?

‘ FIVE SCOTS DRAGOON SOLDIERS CHARGED ‘  – At the Army Training College in Hampshire, five soldiers faced a court martial charged with ill-treating young soldiers.  Before the court were – Corporal Hosford, Corporal Mark Hey, of the Royal Dragoon Guards, Sergeant Carl Dakin of the Ist The Queen’s Dragoon Guards, Corporal Trevor Gray of the Queen’s Royal Hussars, and Corporal Brian Gildea of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards.

‘ TWO RIFLEMEN JAILED ‘  — Mark Dacey and John Puzey with the Royal Greenjackets at Bulford Camp were both jailed for 140 days.  They were charged with ill-treatment to recruits.

FORMER EX-PARA SOLDIER SELLS STOLEN GEAR ON E-BAY — Alan Peet, who had a distinguished career in the Army as a trainer to cadets, stole kit on a RAF base worth £6,500. The former warrant officer appeared before Cardiff Crown Court on charges of theft.  He was given a suspended jail sentence and ordered to do 250 hours community service with £1,000 costs.

A KINGS ROYAL HUSSAR’S SOLDIER IN GLASS ATTACK ASSAULT was let off going to jail by judge who thought it was perfectly reasonable to show anger?  Trooper Richard Evans wasn’t discharged from the Army either.  The soldier admitted to Affray and using a glass in the incident and was leniently given a 12 month community sentence by Judge Hart at Gloucester Crown Court.

A FORMER SOLDIER, Jeffrey Lendrum of the elite SAS in Rhodesia was caught smuggling £70,000 worth of illegally obtained falcon birds eggs.  Appearing at Warwick Crown Court, it was heard that the former soldier was arrested at Birmingham International Airport. Police searched his Northamptonshire garage finding equipment such as an incubator for the eggs and climbing gear used for getting at the nests. He was jailed for 30 months.

SOLDIER APPEARS IN COURT ACCUSED OF CHILD RAPE – Trooper Simon Davies from the Windsor Combermere Barracks appeared at Reading Crown Court along with his wife, Fiona.  They are charged with three counts of rape involving a girl of 13. The Household Cavalry Soldier served out in Afghanistan the report said; not that it really matters one jot.  The Ministry of Defence were quick to point out that this is a civil matter?

TORTURE BY BRITISH TROOPS INQUIRY HITS WALL OF SECRECY – Investigators trying to find out how much involvement Britain had in torturing suspects held, came to an abrupt stop as the inquiry team realised they were being ‘stonewalled’ and less than the truth was being offered. Questions were being sidestepped and others being half-answered. When certain points were being pushed, the soldiers and their command were opting to hide behind ‘ secrecy’ and whitewash invented by nations and governments to gain immunity and claim that they were not required to answer in the guise of National Security, whilst claiming at the same time ‘ we’ve got nothing to hide ‘  — what a joke, pull the other one.

UK TROOP ABUSES IN IRAQ — Hot on the trail of the above we have yet another call for an inquiry taking place at The High Court in London (Jan 2013), Lawyer Philip Shiner is representing around 200 civilians who are accusing British Soldiers of ‘terrifying Acts of Brutality’.  He says that British interrogators were guilty of unlawful killings as well as torture.  People were handcuffed, blindfolded and heavily beaten before being taken into detention.  Barrister Michael Fordham QC has said that the Royal Navy played ‘a significant role in the interrogations’  He also went on to say it was not enough to say there were ‘rotten apples and then keep the lid firmly shut’ …..quotes of ‘a few rotten apples’ is generally used in most circumstances….but we here can show that doesn’t really hold water if you glance around the files and pages….it often goes far beyond a ‘few’…..and it emerged that the MoD had already settled or just finalizing compensation for 249 claimants at a cost of £16.2 million.  The father of an Iraq teenager has accused British soldiers of torturing his son. Mizal Karim said he found marks he did not expect and his son’s jaw dislocated, his arm broken and many bruises and the evidence of him being shot in the right foot.                                                              

NB: Blogs and replies are hotly denying that troops could do that……..but most of these are from ex-troops!

BRITISH SOLDIER IN KENYA SHOOTING IS HELD — DIPLOMATIC ROW NOW ENSUES:  An Army Sergeant who was involved in a fatal shooting of a Kenyan citizen has been detained for several months since the killing, and this has now led to a row between embassies and the Foreign Office. The soldier has been named as Sergeant Madison.   Britain is trying to ‘remove’ the soldier, but the Kenyan Prime Minister said that he believed someone should be on trial where the offence was committed. meaning he isn’t prepared to let the soldier go back to be tried by a military court in the UK.  The MoD are now facing a backlash of resentment from the African People.

‘ Drunken Army Major and two soldiers cause havoc costing £100,000 ‘

ARMY MAJOR OLIVER KING was questioned by Cherbourg French Police over an incident when he and two other soldiers were arrested and held for 12 hours.  French Police Commandant Jean-Pierre Mercier said that King on the boat ‘ the British Soldier ‘ owned by the Army Sailing Association, were arrested on the marina for being very drunk and causing extensive damage as they crashed into four other boats, and there was also an accusation that they had stolen the boat. At first the major denied things, but later acknowledged taking the boat with two friends. The ASA said they had borrowed the boat without the owner’s consent and would not call it stealing. The Army said they had dealt with the matter and the damages had been compensated for.

‘ Soldier jailed for assault on hotel receptionist ‘

CORPORAL DONALD PAYNE was convicted of a war crime and was jailed for 12 months after admitting his part culminating in the death of Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist who was beaten to death in Basra in 2003. The report revealed that he died of gratuitous violence by members of the 1st Battalion Queen’s Lancashire Regiment — it is said up to 14 soldiers now face prosecution even though they have now retired and are no longer in active service.

‘ Army Officer in £220,000 fraud over school fees ‘

LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROBERT (Henry) JOLLEY  appeared before Swindon Magistrates Court charged with 22 counts of false claims for boarding school fees and education grants.  He denied 14 counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception. Prosecution for the MOD said he dishonestly obtained the money, money he was not entitled to. This was said to have happened while he was still a serving officer at  the base in Upavon, Oxfordshire and Harrogate in Yorkshire.  The Court action was brought by the MOD.  It was said he fiddled £220,000 since 2002, and forged his wife’s signature.  He admitted to eleven counts of fraud and deception, most of the cash went on the fees for his three sons at Stoneyhurst School.

‘ Children abused by British Troops ‘

Sadly we feature a report here of British troops abusing Afghan Children while in the commission of freeing them from oppression.  Two British soldiers, a Sergeant and a Private are being investigated after colleagues complained about their behaviour. Both were arrested by the Military Police and laptops seized that shows them indulging in shocking behaviour in two incidents they recorded. The pair from the 2nd Mercian Battalion Battle Group have not been named.  This report comes following an incident where four U.S.Marines videoed a 40 second clip of themselves urinating on dead Afghans.

‘ Army Cadet Captain Abuses Young Boys ‘

BRIAN COURT who was a platoon commander mainly dealing with boy recruits, appeared before Southampton Crown court on three charges of abusing several young boys in his care.  The boys aged around 12 did not appear in court and were interviewed by a video link. Court married with children was sent to prison for 4 years.

‘Queen’s Cavalry Army Guard found guilty of Assault ‘

MATTHEW COONEY of the Household Cavalry Mounted regiment was found guilty of assault despite mounting a challenge to the effect the other party were to blame. However, the court did not accept his version of the events as they gave him a suspended one year jail sentence and was ordered to pay the victim £5,300 in compensation. Lawyers for Cooney are said to be launching an appeal against the sentence. The victim was Erika Vera who suffered face injuries needing seven stitches after being punched in the face by Cooney.

‘ Former Army Captain jailed over ‘date rapes’ on Internet ‘

ARMY CAPTAIN BRIAN WITTY formerly with the Territorial Army Parachute Regiment was given an indefinite jail term by the court after he was found guilty of several horrific set attacks. He contacted his victims by Internet dating rooms and agencies which led to meetings in the public bar. Kingston Crown Court found him guilty of three rapes and one of sexual assault.  The judge branded him as a danger to women and said he must be put out of the way in order to prevent serious harm coming to anyone else. He will serve a minimum of eight years.

‘ British Soldiers Investigated over murder of prostitute ‘

KENYA — News says that the British Government are giving the Kenyan Authorities assistance into the investigation and allegations that British Soldiers were involved in the murder of a young Kenyan woman.  It was stated that some in the Kenya Prosecutors Office were annoyed at the lack of speed by the UK in the matter and time that elapsed since the discovery of her body in Hotel grounds.  It was said that the young woman was with British Soldiers quite regularly until she disappeared, and was last seen with several.

‘ Another Marines story revealed — Porn on Computers ‘

SEVEN MARINES HAVE BEEN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF MURDER — A seized Laptop Computer in the investigations of the arrested Marines has revealed Pornographic images and material discovered at the UK Base, but it has been denied that it belonged to one of the arrested marines, yet it says that this pc led directly to their arrest because they were featured on it in a video piece…..so who had what and what of the porn and the owner of the pc?  ….. a rather strange report with a link, but no story of the porn emerges at all! or soldiers.

‘ Former Soldier on Gun charge after siege ‘

Ex Squaddie Richard Pell was shot by police and under guard in hospital after an incident involving a bomb hoax and ball bearing rifle.  Homes were evacuated when cops swooped into a property at Knaphill, Surrey.  He was arrested on charges of making threats with an imitation firearm…another man was held for the bomb hoax.

‘Soldier on Rape and Sex charges ‘

BRITISH SOLDIER Edwin Mee will appear at Westminster Magistrates Court in late October on several sex and rape offences said to have been carried out on victims aged between fifteen and twenty-five…no other details were given other than he resides in Croydon.

‘ S.A.S. Soldier Jailed over Illegal Possession of Gun’

The jailing of Sergeant Danny Nightingale for 18 months over the possession of a prohibited firearm as led supporters numbering eleven, which includes a former commanding officer saying that the officer has been betrayed by the army, and that he is a victim of a monstrous miscarriage of justice. At an Army Court Martial, Nightingale pleaded guilty to the charge of having an illegal weapon – a 9mm Glock PistolIn

In a re-trial court martial he was found guilty (July 2013)

‘Military Prison Guard carries out sexual attacks on female warders ‘

ARMY SERGEANT RONNIE THOM appeared in court facing eight charges of sexual assault against three female guards. It was said in court that he boasted about taking part in threesome sex, and that he had innappropriate relations with a woman prisoner.  It all happened at the Military Corrective Training Centre in Colchester, Britain’s only Military Jail.  The offences date back to 2009 and 2010 when Sergeant Thom was a member of the Military Provost Guard Service in the position of non-commissioned officer.

ACCOUNTABILITY is not something the British Army are comfortable with, especially when you start to make inquiries about army personnel wrong-doing. They actually go out of their way to prohibit snooping into their records and say they are exempt from private and public enquiries unless ordered to do so by the MOD, and they confidently sneer and reply that they have ways of influencing that sort of action.  All in all, we found that soldiers rely on this to get them out of trouble (one we spoke to said ‘it was a family thing’ and regarded the public as ignorant claiming soldiers were special) and often cling to the belief that it will be hushed up and dealt with behind closed doors — unfortunately they are right in almost 99 percent of cases…so what we reveal is a tiny part of a fraction….but we will continue to dig behind the scenes and get some results for publication.

‘The Army High Command prevent Public Examination’

THE RAF and ROYAL NAVY responded in the same way and had similar protections and firewalls in place!

‘ The Army, Police and MI5 in ‘imposed nightmare on female Army Captain ‘

THE BREAK-IN, MI5 OPPRESSION, AND M.O.D — Carole Maychell was a Captain in the Army.  She was accused of having stolen Army property.  While she was being questioned by MI5 Officers, three in all, the Lancashire Police were breaking into her semi-detached home in Heysham, near Morecambe.  She had actually refused to sign a form permitting the search, but they went ahead having been given the go-ahead by The Army.  She was never cautioned or informed of her rights, nor charged with theft.  For three days she was interrogated.  Before Official proceedings began under the Official Secrets Act, the consent of the Attorney General is needed….it had not been given.  The High Court judges disapproved of the Army’s treatment of Carole, and the conduct of her Commanding Officer….they felt they were being pressured to go along with things which verged on the absurd.  To make things worse she was kept on remand at the prison in Colchester.  They continually blocked any requests from her solicitor Mr Porter who had a wide experience of Military Law.  ‘ They always had us going around in circles’ he said, ‘it seemed as if the C.O was an all-powerful figure, and he rejected everything out of hand’    Eventually, they dropped all charges after four months.  Carole suffered trauma and anxiety, and did not even get an apology for what they did.  ‘The Army don’t want to be seen to be giving in or losing, so they just pretend it was all routine ‘ …… Carole decided to sue the Army for compensation for wrongful imprisonment, and when that matter is concluded she is considering emigration.  She says ‘ She cannot forget that it was her own people who did this to her’

‘ The Scandal of the Army Generals ‘

AS WE CONTINUALLY SAY, CORRUPTION IS NEVER FAR AWAY — We now have Army Generals caught in a sting and on camera too — Retired Army Generals have been filmed in discussions of how to set up huge arms deals using their influence for cash!  Yes, it sounds very similar to the Politicians…..Admiral Sir Trevor Sour, Lieutenant- General Sir John Kiszely, Chief General Lord Dannatt and General Sir Mike Jackson all of whom boasted they could arrange and influence deals (for a £100,000 fee for two days work a month).  Six ex-senior officers were secretly filmed by undercover reporters…some said they could get around the rules and had access to the Ministers…all said they’d done no wrong!

‘ General gets £4 million pension as Army pleads for more cash ‘

Inequalities? there are many and its often the ones at the top of the ladder that benefit while those under suffer the cuts….. General Sir David Richards, formerly Chief of the Armed Forces will have no worry about future prospects in retirement….. according to the Ministry of Defence accounts this chief has a retirement package to the value of four million pounds….it is thought to be the largest sum ever made for a civil servant,

‘ Troops punished over Afghan Crimes ‘

BRITISH SOLDIERS appeared before a Military Court because of offences they committed in Afghanistan. One soldier was fined £1,000 after engaging with a boy of 5yrs and acting sexually.  The other soldier was convicted of racially insulting a man by photographing him with a sign around his neck which bore a racist remark.  Both soldiers remained ‘un-named’ and the second soldier was demoted in rank.

‘ Soldier charged with murder ‘

LANCE CORPORAL RICHARD FARRELL appeared in court accused of murdering fellow soldier, Geoffrey Mc Neill a member of his own unit.  Both men were in the 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment.  It was said that the body of Mc Neill was found in an accommodation block.   Farrell only spoke briefly when he stood in the dock of Telford Magistrates Court…..he was remanded in custody.

‘ Army Drug Tests prove positive in 520 soldiers ‘

A REPORT showed that in 2012 that there were 520 soldiers failed a drug test and proved positive.  Those that were revealed by the MOD were:  The Royal Regiment of Scotland — had 62 soldiers who failed the drug test.  The Royal Logistic Corps had 50 soldiers who failed.  The Foot Guards had 29 soldiers that failed.  It is stated that out of a number of 11,252 soldiers tested a small number had one or more drugs in their systems.  Most of them caught were thrown out of the army said a spokesman.

The Navy had 34 sailors prove positive in the drug tests out of 13,743.

The Royal Air Force personnel had 20 officers prove positive out of a total of 14,301.

‘ Six British troops in attack on Cop in the USA ‘

SIX SERVICEMEN and soldiers with the Royal Regiment of Scotland were arrested after a brawl involving a US Cop.  The six soldiers were part of a Rugby Team in New York during a tour of the East Coast.  It is said that the brawl continued into the outside street even after several soldiers kept on hitting and kicking the New York Cop who lay on the floor.  They did not respond to shouts from a fellow soldier to stop, and it continued.  The fight at the Mercury Bar was bloody so the Court in Manhattan heard.  Even though the Cop announced his status the soldiers told him to F-off, as they didn’t care.  The soldiers mentioned are – Private Iliakini Raderua, Corporal Thomas Shute, Private Felite Vunisarati, Private Mosese Kuruala, and Private Joeli Radua — accused of third degree assault.  A Lance Corporal Iosefo Yavala is additionally charged with second degree robbery. 

‘ Marine admits to lying to Police when interrogated ‘

An ‘Un-named’ Royal Marines Sergeant at his Court Martial admitted that he had lied to police when giving a statement because he thought his actions might have been misunderstood?  The Royal Marine appeared in court with two others charged with the murder of a suspect in Afghanistan….he said he foolishly shot a dead person!  In court the three are referred to a Marine A, B and C,   Furthermore the Sergeant only ‘assumed the man was dead’   The trial at a Military Court in Bulford, Wiltshire continues.

THE CASE ABOVE has turned into a silly one with pleas for clemency as one marine has been convicted of murder while the others ‘got off’ despite being involved in a cover-up as tapes offered up in evidence shows that the ‘shooter’ asks the others to keep quiet about it.  The Defence Secretary has naturally turned down any call for special leniency….just because he was a soldier….other silly polls conducted by the media have shown the public at there silliest as they use words like ‘he was in a war protecting British Interests’ etc, therefore he ought to be given a lighter sentence?   As one person said, it was murder and the marine knew it at the time.

The Sergeant has been named as Sgt Alexander Blackman.

‘ Former Soldiers jailed in Mosque Attack ‘

TWO EX-SOLDIERS OUT FOR REVENGE attacked a Mosque using fire-bombs after reacting to the News Item on the murder of Lee Rigby…… Stuart Holmes and Gavin Humphries were jailed by the court for six years.  They both wanted revenge on Muslims despite picking on innocent ones who had nothing to do with the Lee killing.  They both used to be stationed at Woolwich Barracks where Lee Rigby was attacked.

‘Suicide and Bullying Case rattles Army Secrecy’

ACCUSATIONS OF A COVER-UP do not go away as the family of the dead Corporal get few answers and experience stone-walling by the MoD.  The Military Police Officer Anne-Marie Ellement said she had been raped by two soldiers before taking her own life….but no one seemed to bother.  She made complaints that a campaign of intimidation and isolation had been mounted after reporting the rape in 2009…and the army declined to bring charges against the two soldiers.  New evidence suddenly appearing was brushed aside by the Mod saying that the omission of the material had been accidental?….two years later!  Their brief one Nicholas Moss claimed this didn’t amount to a cover-up!    Considering how meticulous the Army are, what does he call it?

‘British Soldier charged over bomb found in home ‘

RYAN McGEE of the Fifth Battalion The Rifles, was charged with making explosives and accused of offences under the Terrorism Act.  He was detained at the Army Base in Paderborn, Germany last year after the device was discovered at his Manchester Street address.

‘UK Soldier in KKK uniform is jailed for 2yrs ‘

TERRORIST ASPIRATIONS – SOLDIER RIFLEMAN RYAN McGEE appeared at the Old Bailey after being arrested for having weapons and bombing equipment meant for terrorist activities.  One photo found in the search showed him wearing the Klu Klux Klan outfit.  He was arrested by Military Police in Germany, and the items found were discovered in the search at his parents home.  He served with the 5th Battalion, The Rifles, an armoured infantry regiment and in barracks at Paderborn, Germany.

‘ Alcohol a major problem in the Army ‘

REPORT ABOUT BOOZY SOLDIERS — The Ministry of Defence admitted that there was a problem of alcohol abuse, and that around 1,600 serving soldiers had needed medical attention and care over excessive drinking in the past year.  The booze consumption has led to liver disease, mental problems and alcohol poisoning apart from reports of incidents where soldiers got into fights with locals and caused problems whilst intoxicated.

‘ Cavalry Captain in wine bar assault ‘

CAPTAIN JEREMY SUDLOW of The Household Cavalry admitted assaulting staff at a wine bar in Parsons Green, South West London.  He appeared before Hammersmith Magistrates court.  It was said in Court that he was with others and that the group became noisy and abusive.  He was asked to finish drinking and leave by staff, and retaliated by punching a member of staff and slapping another around the head.  He admitted two counts of assault and was fined £1,500.

‘Army Sergeant  – a bully and rapist ‘

 A RECRUITMENT ARMY SERGEANT, EDWIN MEE appeared before Southwark Crown Court charged with 17 counts of sexual assault.  The court heard how he carried out sexual assaults on eleven victims, leaving a cadet pregnant after a rape incident.  It said he preferred women between fifteen and early twenties and born overseas in particular.  Known as ‘Jock’ to his friends the divorced father of five worked at a Recruitment Centre in Cheam.

‘Boozy soldiers walk free after stamping on man’s head 18 times ‘

A COURT found it in their wisdom? to free two Guardsmen who were photographed stamping on the victim’s head eighteen times while he lay on the ground.  SCOTS GUARD SHAUN SMITH and Welsh GUARD JASON COLLINS walked free from the court in Teeside after inflicting a terrible and callous beating on an helpless civilian.  They are both said to be held in high regard by the army! who seem to put the behaviour down to the influence of heavy drinking.  The Judge at the civil trial said ‘he was taking an extraordinary decision’ in the light of how serious the case was, and hoped the army would do the right thing’……this was after the army lawyer had come to court to show glowing testimonials on both men, and said they were keeping the pair in the army!  All the Judge could do was order Smith to do community work for 80 hours unpaid and gave Collins a 12 month suspended jail sentence…. both were ordered to pay compensation of a £1,000 each.

‘ U.S.A. Corruption and bent cops are still a problem ‘

OUR COLLEAGUES who run sites on the web featuring crooked cops in different states throughout America tell us that clean up measures are in the main a whitewash and government agencies throughout the USA are in effect — ignoring the corruption or actively engaging in it.  It is a fact that bribery is the main tool in the states when it comes to the birth of police corruption and being a society based on wealth and the desire for it, it is no surprise that the U.S. has a very big police corruption problem.  We have recently mentioned a raid that exposed widespread corruption in cities of the U.S. and we know there are growing suspicions that government administration is not without its own corruption in the F.B.I. and C.I.A.  The D.E.A. cops have been known to operate on behalf of the drug barons for considerable bribes in recent years.  Denials mean nothing but that is what they come up with every time.

HUNDREDS OF U.S. BENT COPS LITTER THE INTERNET WEB PAGES they actually outdo the British cops. If one had the time it would probably go well into the thousands to download and file each story and page.

THE USA POLICE SCANDAL — It is utterly amazing to find that when you type ‘Cops harass or  Intimidate’ you instantly get page after page of such incidents involving every state throughout the US plus victims of police brutality on You Tube videos……some have been arrested and their rights abused for taking film of police, and have later sued the Police Departments and Officers…..but what comes across of a more disturbing nature is the attitude of the Police and how they don’t care about their behaviour at all…..many cops are on Web pages for robbery, fraud, intimidation, abuse and much more……but it never stops this misconduct.

AMNESTY SLAMS U.S. POLICE AND REVEALS WIDESPREAD MISTREATMENT OF CITIZENS – a damning report by Amnesty International claims that police officers are frequently violent, abusive and discriminatory.  The 150 page report issued in September 2005 shows evidence of brutal beatings by police particularly against gay men.  Dr. William Schulz, executive director of A.I.U.S.A. who conducted the report claimed that across the USA people were enduring injustices, entrapment, and trumped up charges instigated and carried out by the police.  The report titled “POLICE ABUSE AND MISCONDUCT” showed many cases of people being forced to the ground — handcuffed and kicked in the head during raids. Some cases included officers raping suspects followed by threats.  Michael Heflin said ‘ if we cannot count on law enforcement to be clean then corruption like this will continue to flourish’  — we can say that since 2005 there has been no changes and police corruption throughout the USA has indeed flourished and the departments responsible for policing have turned a blind eye to the majority of complaints lodged and, destroyed many in an attempt to cover up this behaviour by officers.

OTHER U.S.A. CASES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

LOS ANGELES POLICE IN BRUTALITY ASSAULT –  The massive corruption scandal involved twelve officers who fabricated evidence and the framing of suspects.  The affair reached a new high when officer Rafael Perez was convicted of stealing cocaine at the Rampart Division.  In an attempt to have his sentence reduced he gave the names of police colleagues who were on the take. 

Another Los Angeles Police Incident revealed that officers stormed into a cell after drinking heavily at a Christmas eve party and began beating seven young prisoners.  The Mexican American prisoners were covered with blood as a result of these outlaw officers.

THE BEATING OF RODNEY KING inflamed riots after the Los Angeles officers escaped prosecution despite the assault being shown as video evidence at a court hearing. The scandal went much further than the police expected and here is the background to this appalling case — The first instinct of the police is to cast doubt or doubt the video evidence presented (Independent eyewitness George Holliday made the video). In pursuit mode on the highways of Los Angeles, a senior officer such as a police sergeant should be at the scene so no officer steps out of line. But on this night the video showed there was a police sergeant present, policeman Stacey Koon, who failed miserably.  Rodney King suffered it was said by the hospital – 12 fractures and a broken ankle with injuries to his face, of course, the police disagreed with that?  Assaulting Police Officers – Laurence Powell, Ted Briseno and Timothy Wind were charged with criminal offences – assault with a deadly weapon and using excessive force, while Sergeant Koon was still being investigated. The FBI was called in to do their own investigation.  Regarding the Patrol cars and radios, MDT’s were used on all cars and discussions/messages were logged.  The transmission of a message at 1-12am revealed a chilling admission by one of the officers who said ‘ I haven’t beaten anyone this bad in a long time’

NEW YORK POLICE SHOOT BOY 17 TIMES — Officers David Gross and Sergeant Michael Jacobellis were put on administrative leave after shooting Michael Jones who it was alleged brandished a water pistol.

BROOKLYN POLICE OFFICER JUSTIN VOLPE confessed in court to an assault after changing his plea to guilty in a police brutality case after fellow officers testified against him.  Volpe and three other police officers were to face murder charges.  A fifth officer was also arrested in connection with the murders and the cover-up that followed.

TWO MEN BEAT UP BY BROOKLYN POLICE RECEIVE $76MILLION BY COURT.  Two men who were shot at by police in New York received a record payout that staggered the Brooklyn Authorities who almost went into meltdown. Gerard Papa and James Rampersant were mistaken for robbers when they were set upon by cops. A Brooklyn jury found the police guilty of negligence, false arrest and using excessive force.

12 COPS BEAT UP SUSPECT and were filmed doing so.  Philadelphia Police face paying out a similar payout to the Rodney King case – £2.5 million.  Victim Thomas Jones was beaten as berserk officers rained blows while a TV film crew were shooting the scene in a overhead helicopter. 

GEORGIA POLICE were filmed beating up a driver by the local TV company in their helicopter only days after a similar event.  Marshall Studdard was dragged from his car and assaulted by the patrol officers.

POLICE SHOOT DEAD UNARMED MAN — Officer Randall Kerrick a North Carolina Cop has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after shooting an unarmed black man running towards him for help!  The police victim had been in a car crash and was seeking help from the police after having crashed his car.  The incident happened in Charlotte N. Carolina.  Officer Kerrick was one of three cops who responded to a call from a woman because the man knocked on her door…she didn’t answer…and when the police arrived the distraught man ran to the police thinking he could get help……but was shot dead instead!

GOVERNOR SLAMS POLICE IN MISSOURI — The Police involved in the ‘Shooting of Michael Brown’ have been accused of launching an -over-militarised response’ to disperse protestors who wished to show their anger at yet another police shooting of an un-armed teenager.  Many people are angered by the fact that the boy suffered from several shots, not just one, and the fact the police move into a position of denial which later often becomes a cover-up and public whitewash.  The Police in Ferguson are refusing to let the Press get near and actively stopped them from reporting the situation.  Governor Jay Nixon said the ‘police video appeared to cast aspersions on the dead teenager’ in order to  take the focus of the police themselves.

USA POLICE CORRUPTION — Some History — 1970 investigations — New York Police — 20 out of 75 officers in Brooklyn took bribes. ‘Plain clothes’ Detectives took over a $1000 dollars a month in backhanders in return for turning a blind eye to crimes.  It even got to the stage were cops bribed other cops to keep investigators off their backs, and inform them when any of them were named in a likely investigation. This pervasive corruption was almost dismissed by Commissioner Murphy in 1971, but he failed to impress political leaders with his statements of ‘ traitors in uniform’.  Detectives collected thousands of dollars in bribes while the regular beat and uniformed patrolmen topped their pay packets from ordinary citizens who broke the law and were willing to pay fifty to a hundred dollars for them to look the other way.  One cop told a reporter at the New York Times – ‘ He had committed sixteen robberies assisted by eleven colleagues during his duty as a cop, and didn’t mind talking about it now he’d retired.’  Corruption among officers was set to rise to a level that almost brought down the Police Department at one time.  The Knapp Commission took over and looked at the crooked cops in two ways — one, ‘the meat eaters’ – a body of cops — mainly detectives, who wanted huge bribes and pay-offs by misusing their powers. Example Two was ‘ the grass eaters’ — a large body of cops referred to as the foot soldiers on the beat, who consumed small bribes and anything that came their way while on duty.  The main trouble here was investigating the ‘grass eaters’ as they constituted the largest number, so the majority would get away with their scams and crime. Whereas, ‘ the meat eaters’ where into big crime and big bribes, so Knapp had to form big task forces which eventually took down and netted 53 per cent of the corrupt cops at the top end of the corruption pile, which was a start, but it fell short of its target.

‘ 22 NEW ORLEANS COPS IN MURDER COVER-UP AND CORRUPTION ‘

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a major police cover-up case involving corruption hit the headlines — four cops face the death penalty and five cops plead guilty to a cover-up as six people are shot by police. Micheal Lohman, a veteran cop (lieutenant) pleaded guilty to obstruction in the investigation, and another cop to fabrication of witness statements, falsifying reports and planting evidence (a gun). It is stated that all the cops involved made up a lie to cover up the fact they gunned down unarmed civilians.  The New Orleans force is already facing a federal investigation into corruption after it was stated that it was a corruption-plagued police department. Sergeants – Robert Gisevius, Kenneth Bowen, officer Anthony Villavaso and former officer Robert Faulcon were charged initially — then in addition — Sergeant Arthur Kaufmann, and now retired Sergeant Gerard Dugue and officer David Warren. Another 13 officers have been charged with conspiracy to pervert justice and collusion. The Federal investigation has turned its focus on higher ranking officers who may be involved. There are well over 22 cops in one force under investigation or charged and there may be more to come, so what does this tell us of corruption and those who say it no longer exists in a high tech society like the USA?

25 NYPD POLICE OFFICERS ON SERIOUS CHARGES, 200 MORE TO BE INVESTIGATED – scores of cops from the New York Police Department are being charged with ‘ ticket-fixing ‘ — the probe reveals that some high ranking officers have been involved besides patrolmen and inspectors, sergeants etc, A Bronx Grand Jury are investigating into police officers fixing parking tickets for friends, relatives and politically connected people.  25 officers are on criminal charges so far, and 200 more maybe charged with disciplinary counts.

NEW YORK POLICE SERGEANT ADMITS FRAMING PEOPLE IN DRUG CASES — POLICE SGT WILLIAM EISMAN appeared in court and admitted to framing suspects on drug charges. The veteran cop said he’d faked a case of marijuana against one man, and also coached trainee policemen to falsify paperwork to sidestep legal difficulties they might encounter. He was also found guilty of lying under oath.

NEW YORK COPS FRAME MOTORIST WHO GOES TO JAIL FOR FOUR MONTHS — Yet another Scandal in USA police history among thousands more — This little known and referred to case happened in July 2011 to the resident of Rochester, Jeramie Barideaux, who was nabbed by two cops for failing to stop his vehicle before the road line. Police Officers Rob Osipovitch and Ryan Hartley falsely accused him of this offence, and he actually spent four months in prison.  The officers also invented the ‘finding of drugs and weapon’ to boost their case.  However, in Court, CCTV evidence told a different story which caught both officers out and proved that the police had committed perjury. The Judge dismissed the charges and set the man free.  On July the 19th 2012 a lawsuit was filed against The City of Rochester N.Y. Police Dept and the two police officers for damages, which we can only hope is in the millions of dollars…..for the City and two cops.

COPS AND THE ‘HOLLYWOOD BURGLARIES’ SCANDAL — Blamed on the ‘Hollywood Distraction’  250 Cops in the Hollywood Police Division were investigated, Eleven were indicted for serious criminal activities.  The story started with two ‘enterprising’ cops of long serving careers, Officer Jack Myers and Officer Ronald Venegas, both assigned to ‘burglary duties’ — that being responding to shop alarms. When it started was never ascertained, but on one such call out they entered the shop and before contacting the owner, helped themselves to goods and put them in the trunk of the police car for transfer to their own later. The Los Angeles cops not satisfied with genuine callouts, decided to smash shop windows and then wait in their patrol car for the radio call and zoom in and take the goods; blaming it on disappearing crooks.  They later specialised on video shops. Internal Affairs became interested and lay in wait on one call, both cops were arrested.  During investigations they implicated other police officers which turned into a corruption scandal that surprised the Division. Nine other cops were arrested, and one Sergeant Roger Gibson was found guilty on 13 counts of misconduct (he was caught in a hot tub with naked women in a vice operation prompted by what Myers and Venegas had confessed to). The Police Commander of the Hollywood Division took early retirement as investigators uncovered a wide range of offences, and some of the officers were transferred in the shake up and others given warnings.

THE USA’s CULTURE OF LYING COPS —Since the case of Officer Timothy Batt in 2002, when he took the witness stand at Alameda County Superior Court against his colleagues — perjury by the police is certainly not uncommon in the USA.  The Oakland Officer told the court of the misdeeds by fellow cops, four of themselves going by the name of ‘the Riders’   He confirmed that his training officer wrote a false version in evidence of a man he’d beaten — Batt told the jury how cops would stoop to anything illegal to cover their tracks because they were police officers and they could get away with anything?  Officers Clarence Mabanag, Matthew Hornung, and Jude Siapno were all charged with assault, framing suspects, conspiracy to plant drugs and falsifying reports.  A fourth cop, the Ringleader, Frank Vazquez fled before being arrested (it is suggested he was tipped off by fellow police) and was classified as a fugitive to be arrested on sight.  The police department and city had seventeen civil lawsuits filed against them after the corruption went public.

ORDEAL BY LOS ANGELES COPS AND NO APOLOGY OR COMPENSATION — A minor driving offence led to a nightmare jailing due to the Los Angeles Police Department, who are well known for their brash and methods of coercion towards suspects.  Emma Bowles found out the worst way of experiencing U.S. Justice which allows for nothing to get in the way of brutality and bloody-mindedness. She unbelievably ended up in a cell and unable to raise the bail.  The incident happened out on the Santa Monica Boulevard , she was pulled over by cops who did a check on her driving licence. Suddenly she was ordered to step out of the car, and then arrested. She was handcuffed, and what was the arrest for? apparently her registration had expired and that was a traffic violation.  She was then bundled off to jail to go before a judge the next day. She suffered a very embarrassing intimate body search during ‘processing’  — the court was cancelled the following morning which meant her spending 48 hours in the jail.  Handcuffed and waiting in the court in orange prison jumpsuit, the judge dismissed the charges and even after that she has to wait in a cell before finally being given her freedom.  What of charges against the cops? none, compensation for losing her liberty? none   she said ‘ I don’t like the legal system in the USA’ Emma is from Britain and she urges any tourists to beware the cops and forget about driving in another country.

OHIO SHERIFF OF 30 YEARS SERVICE PLEADS GUILTY TO THEFT IN OFFICE — Another Law man no doubt commended in his nine terms in office, probably referred to as an honourable upstanding citizen and bringer-in of baddies — Sheriff Gerald McFaul is now a ‘baddie’ himself.  His turn has come as they say — as he was arrested and charged with theft in office and ethics violations.  He pleaded guilty to all charges!

NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT DISBAND ‘SPY UNIT’ — A surveillance unit that targeted Muslims and monitored their movements in the community since 2003 has been disbanded,  The covert unit of undercover detectives infiltrate student bodies and mosques….looking for information, but created tensions instead according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.  The ‘Programme’ had been set up by police officials and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

LOS ANGELES COPS PAY $640,000 DOLLARS OVER ‘SPYING’ OPERATION — Cops were keeping surveillance on politicians, civil rights protestors and activists — they created the PDID which was manned by around 70 cops who were watching anyone who they could classify within their own terms as ‘likely’ — This suddenly hit the buffers as LAWSUIT AGAINST COPS arrived citing the police transgressions as violating constitutional rights; Police Chief Daryl Gates received this. He in turn knew the information was ‘sensitive’ and often came by means of the FBI and CIA.  Prominent City Lawyer Burl Pines (Civil Rights Lawyer) pushed the Superior Court to have the information made public. Resistance did come from the police, but not in time for a quantity of stuff being released via the media. The PDID claimed that the information could prove harmful if it was to be seen in the public domain.  The Police Commission on being too late (although making a successful court challenge) began to engage in ‘file burning’ — some 2 million ‘secret files’ — the police played it down by saying all but five percent of the stuff was too sensitive to be seen.  Eleven of the 70 officers were charged with ‘improper intelligence gathering’ — after lengthy argument it was accepted that there had been a violation of some people’s rights — the trial and indictments were dropped in favour of the settlement. The PDID folded and was replaced by the ATD — The Anti-Terrorist Division — new name, new folk? we will never know, but the game remained the same!!

U.S. KING COUNTY POLICE PAY OUT $10 MILLION IN EXCESSIVE FORCE CASE — U.S. Judge Stephanie Arend ruled that King County Police Deputies withheld information in the appalling case of Christopher Harris who suffered brain damage as a result of police brutality — being slammed against a wall by a Deputy of the King County Sheriff’s Office in 2009.  The Judge ordered them to pay a fine of $300,000 dollars for misconduct, and that is in addition to the Ten Million dollars damages the police had to pay the Harris Family. (Tacoma News)

EX-CHICAGO COP TURNED PROSECUTOR OPENS CAN OF WORMS AS HE ADMITS CORRUPTION IN OFFICE NAMING JUDGES AND FELLOW COPS — In what seems a local issue, ex-Chicago Cop reveals a scandal that has a huge question mark and wider implications to consider over the Judiciary, cops and every state in the USA.  James J. Costello admitted in court that he bribed Judge Daniel Glecier and Judge Francis Maher of the Cook County Circuit Court.  Both judges are on trial along with Lawyer David Dineff who has also been bribing other judges on a regular basis.  Costello said as a police officer he was suspended 19 times for misconduct.  When he became a defence Lawyer he regularly met up with judges to fix cases and do a ‘one-to-one’ deal.  He admitted when he was a cop he accepted bribes from around 40 lawyers.  The corruption began in 1961 shortly after becoming a policeman when he took bribes from traffic violators and bookies.  In 1976 on becoming a lawyer assigned to narcotics cases, he bribed Judge Wayne Olson, who was later convicted for corruption. In 1986, Costello was finally caught, tried and jailed.  But that was not the end of this story, because hot on its heels came another Chicago Cop – former Officer Peter McElligott admitted to bribing another County Cook Circuit Judge John McCollom 20 to 25 times each month. He also revealed that he handed out fifty dollar bribes to hundreds of other officers in Chicago as ‘Keeping Quiet’ payments. One more ex-Chicago Cop Officer James Fallon came forward and testified to half a dozen bribes he’d given to McCollom.  Other Judges – former Judge Allen Rosin was involved, plus Judge John Murphy who served ten years for corruption.  Judge John Divine was also convicted of court corruption along with Judge Edwin Kretske and Judge James Conon (deceased).  Judge McCollom was on trial for racketeering, mail fraud and income tax violations besides the allegations of bribery.

The above article shows the ‘tip of the iceberg’ even though the US authorities would rather you believe this to just exist in Cook County and Chicago, but that doesn’t add up, It gives a clear indication that if it happened there it could well happen in many counties and states throughout the US but remain undiscovered or suppressed. Even now they act as if this was nothing at all, which shows complacency and widespread arrogance throughout the legal authorities and a government hell bent on secrecy and cover-ups to hide corruption.

If the above happened in London, which is far bigger than Cook County, over 103 cops, 40 lawyers and 8 judges on corruption would be a massive scandal attracting world news coverage, and it’s implications would certainly rock the judiciary and the police for months in the UK; if not years, but in the USA it’s just another day!

CHICAGO COP REVEALS POLICE CORRUPTION IN CITY — Former Police Officer Lopez turned book writer has revealed how one gang (the cops he was with) were one of the most corrupt on the streets.  He admits to being drawn into the badges of dishonour and how to fabricate charges and take bribes shortly after becoming a narcotics officer.  He tells of random beatings and brutality being done by cops and the abuse of power that goes unchecked along with how to fool and despise Internal Affairs.  He says crossing the line from police officer to criminal is easy and once you are doing it you know several mates within the department are with you too. He says that once you are in there is a code of silence that keeps law enforcers untouchable!

FOUR CONNECTICUT COPS ARRESTED BY FBI — The East Haven Officers were arrested for civil rights offences including harassment and intimidation of Latino residents.  Sergeant John Miller, and officers David Cari, Dennis Spaulding and John Zullo….. one of them being the president of a local police union.  The report says they among other things, created false reports to cover up the abuses…..and no-one at the Precinct seemed to bother.

TWO BRIBE-TAKING COPS ARE NABBED — In the Queens Area, off-duty officers Robert Espinal and Danny Cano were arrested for selling accident reports in an alleged insurance scam….. they had been accepting payments for NYPD Reports.

Another New York Cop, POLICE DETECTIVE Wojcicch Braszczok…. who works undercover was arrested for an active part in an attack on a motor vehicle.

WASHINGTON DC OFFICER ARRESTED ON CHILD PORN CHARGES —  Metro Police Officer Marc Washington is accused of taking photos of a nude 15 year old girl while on duty.  It is reported that he forced the teenager to strip for the 12 photographs.

SCANDAL HITS NEW YORK COPS — A Video has revealed that a police officer placed a man in a choke hold similar to that of a recent video showing cops acting badly…..despite the move being banned as unlawful apart from dangerous.   The video that caused an outcry and the suspension of several officers after the victim Mr Eric Garner died in police custody.  This new case shows the chokehold arrest on the subway when a man is caught fare-dodging.   It says that NYPD are carrying out an investigation?

NEW BLACK YOUTH SHOOTING SCANDAL — COPS KILL TEENAGER — Yet again we have another incident were cops have killed a black man.  Police of Ferguson, Missouri have sparked outrage after shooting teenager Michael Brown 18, whilst in the back of a police car?  The St Louis County Police said that they had to use 800 cops to control the angry crowd that surrounded the police station.  It is said that the officer involved in the shooting has been put on administrative leave…. while they conduct the investigation?

COP GET OFF IN MICHAEL BROWN KILLING — Officer Darren Wilson was cleared by a judge, despite the black teenager having several shot wounds.  The verdict caused widespread anger and inadvertently revealed that the cops were ‘militarised’ and moved on the demonstrators like an army…..something the police were not supposed to be when they go around in cars with ‘Protect and Serve’ written on them.  Self-serving seems to be more apt as officers all over the USA appear on the Internet pages involved in violence, robbery, fraud and much more.  Behind the badge there lurks a crook and the number of cops listed on the Internet is alarming, and it is growing day by day.

UN SAYS US COPS PROBLEM SHOULD BE TACKLED — Even the United Nations have called for the American government to tackle the public’s mistrust in the police and law enforcement.  The Race relations issue was most concerning, especially as there was a disproportionate number of young African Americans who have died in encounters with the police.  The UN Human Rights Chief said this also applied to those in US Prisons and black people on Death Row.  UN Leader Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on the US Law enforcement to protect the rights of people to demonstrate peacefully.  

Sadly….. America have not seen the situation as a problem and ignored it for many years, so there is little hope with a country that still has ties with the KLU KLUX KLAN……thought to have vanished from History…..which in fact went underground amid the Press it got, and there were very few ever brought to justice, the police and government simply stopped looking and let them go….in order to conceal the wealthy and powerful who were holding the purse strings…..murder was possible for a price….especially if it was a black man.  Luckily in Europe The Nazi hunters never gave up on seeking out the guys who committed murder and worse, and some of those Nazi defectors fled to America where they were welcolmed.

ANOTHER BLACK SHOT BY POLICE – SHERIFF APPEALS FOR CALM — Yet another shooting, this time it is victim Cedric Bartee in Orlando, who it is said had his hands above his head when cops shot him.  Sheriff Jerry Demings called for calm as he feared the backlash from the black community.  There is already much anger of the killing of Eric Garner in New York…who was killed by officers attempting to arrest him for illegally selling untaxed cigarettes on the street.

LATEST COP SHOOTING IN ST LOUIS AGGRAVATES SITUATION — A black man shot at a petrol station by police only helped to worsen relations between the police and the ethnic groups who see the ‘bad old days’ return as if they had never gone away, but covered-up.  Officials in Berkeley were desperately trying to distance the killing from others that are proving to be explosive to the government and police.

COP LIES ABOUT SHOOTING WHICH IS CAUGHT ON CAMERA — Another Policeman has raised the temperature of credibility after claiming a self defence situation that badly backfired when he was filmed shooting the man in the back several times.  Police Officer Michael Slager was arrested after the film was shown and charged with the murder of Walter Scott a black man who was running away from the Carolina Officer.  Many are saying that without the video evidence it was more likely the officer would have got off absolutely free and his lie accepted without much question.  Slager apparently tasered the man but that didn’t stop him running away, and he then pulled his gun and shot the man in the back not just once, but several times.  It was said this happened over a vehicle check stop…. a faulty brake light!

BALTIMORE COP CHARGED WITH MURDER, FIVE OTHERS IN COLLUSION — Resulting from the death of Freddie Gray a young black man who died in custody, one cop has been charged with murder and five others have been charged with complicity in the incident.  The charges on the five were said to be second-degree murder, assault and manslaughter by Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby.  The arrest was illegal she said and his treatment at the police station amounted to murder and manslaughter.  The black boy’s death sparked riots in the city….the cops in the van claimed the boy died as an accident in the van….which was not accepted, the boy was in shackles and hand cuffs….his neck was broken!

‘LAWYER IN TWADDLE SAYS BALTIMORE COPS DID NO WRONG’ — Not unusual for Lawyers really, who play many roles in making the Legal System a farce. Police Lawyer Michael Davey (equal to a Police Federation lawyer) expressed his concerns about fairness and integrity for the six charged offices in the Baltimore killing.

AIDE TO ATTORNEY LAWYER ARRESTED  OVER FAKE COP FORCE — Branden Kiel was arrested in California for running a fake police force and impersonating the police.  The aide to The Attorney General’s Office is said to have been running a fake police force with several others, Producer David Henry and Tonette Hayes…calling it a ‘Masonic ‘buddy boys’ federation’….said to be connected to the Knights Templar ideology….from which came the Lawyers, Judges and solicitors of Modern times.  The Force claimed to have jurisdiction in 33 States and operating in Mexico City too.  Raids in the Beverly Hills district on members homes revealed ‘Officers Badges’ weapons and uniforms.

RIFF BETWEEN MAYOR AND POLICE WIDENS — The City Mayor of New York Bill de Blasio was finding it difficult to repair relations with the police as officers turned their backs on him.  This situation came about as a lone avenger took out two cops in revenge for killing two black men.   He said at a press interview, ‘Who would have thought that we would be back where we were 40 years ago’ he said as NBC reporters looked on.

COP PROBLEM NEVER WENT AWAY — The dirtiness of the US Police has never been properly exposed or investigated, and will never be due to the intervention of government officials anxious to play things down and keep a cover-up in place.  Law Enforcement relies on secrecy and being able to operate with the minimal of accountability….. and while this exists there will be cops appearing over the Internet daily, with many citizens reporting things they’d rather not be seen……but then again, they are quite blaze and this helps the arrogance.

THE PENNSYLVANIA BRIBED JUDGES SCANDAL —  District Judge Mark Clavarella and District Judge Michael Conahan faced allegations of taking around $2.6million dollars for a deal to send young offenders to private detention centres where excessive punishments were given to underage youths for relatively minor offences. This raised the suspicions of the community and raised the ugly head of ‘abuse to minors’ and what might be going on in the name of law and justice.  Another Pennsylvania District Judge, Willie Singletary was also found guilty of accepting bribes in another case. 

MORE CORRUPT JUDGES – G.Thomas Porteus Federal Judge for East Louisiana, impeached for perjury and corruption.  Samuel B.Kent Federal District Judge for Galveston, Texas, who was jailed for 33 months for deception and lies. Federal Judge Robert F.Collins was sent to prison after taking bribes from a drug dealer, and later faced impeachment charges.  District Judge Wes Teel and District Judge John Whitfield were convicted over taking bribes for favourable rulings  —- Lawyer and Attorney Paul Minor serves 11 years for bribery — District Judge Michael Murphy a leading judge at Los Cruces was indicted on bribery charges, and the list goes on….and on.

County Court Judge Dolores Briones charged with conspiracy to commit theft or embezzlement was caught up in a Public Corruption Investigation.

LAWYERGATE – THE SCANDAL The dismissal of U.S.Attorney’s by President Bush–without explanation, despite having appointed them in the first place. They were: Alberto Gonzales Attorney General of the US.  Michael Battle, Director of the US Attorneys Office Justice Dept,  Bradley Schlozman, who replaced Battle,  Michael Elston, Chief of Staff to the Attorney General,  Paul McNulty, Deputy Attorney General,  William W.Mercer, Associate Attorney General,  Robert Coughlin, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, Kyle Foggo, Ex-Director of The CIA who was jailed for fraud. Harriet Miers, Legal Counsel to Bush.

ELEVEN U.S. PRESIDENTS WERE LAWYERS — ONE OF THEM WAS CALLED RICHARD NIXON!!

THE JUDGE BORK CASE — 1987-88 — The former Yale Law School Professor Judge Robert Bork failed in his attempt to be selected for The Supreme Court despite President Reagan’s backing; the Senate Judicial Committee rejected him. He was a controversial choice in that he had followed ‘disgraced’ President Nixon’s advice to dismiss Archibald Cox, The Watergate Scandal Special Prosecutor. Two of Bork’s colleagues resigned rather than support his actions.  Judge Bork made a serious blunder of the ‘racist’ kind — in that a magazine article in 1965 he advocated that ‘whites’ should be able to discriminate against blacks (Restaurant owners should have the freedom to choose who to do business with) and exclude them. This then exposed him to the wrath of the ‘Anti-Bork’ league — Ronald Dworkin led a multi-million dollar campaign against Bork and depicted him as right wing using ‘original Intent’ constitutional theory as a mask for lawless judging. Another character of the league was actor Gregory Peck who blasted Bork in as many ways possible.

FALLING JUDGES — The impeccable Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black fell on his sword when he admitted to a committee that he had been a member of The Klu Klux Klan in the latter part of the 1920’s.   Chief Justice William Rehnquist was quizzed by The Judiciary Committee about three allegations against him — that in his position as a clerk to The Supreme Court Justice in the 1950’s, he wrote a memo arguing against a decision in ‘Brown’ to order desegregation of the schools, and that he bought and sold houses with restrictive covenants against Jews, and that he also harassed black voters in the 1960’s.

LAWYERS AND JUDGES STEAL MILLIONS OF DOLLARS – 2008 — The case that is now called ‘The Maryland Scandal’ — The not widely known CNN News Report is hidden away in the vast pages of the Internet — it says it is by Cazain — The place = Cecil County, Maryland. Crooked Lawyer William F Riddle is the ‘key position figure’ along with Riddle’s secretary Chris King. The scandal involves players a woman at Cecil Federal Savings and Loan.  It suggests Money laundering.  Court Clerk William Breuckman is accused of taking bribes.  Judge Karwacki a Circuit Judge is accused of Jury tampering. Other judges – Judge Lidiums, Judge Dexter Thompson — accused of taking bribes from Lawyer William Riddle.  Then we have property stealing to the value of $1.8million. leading onto accusations that Lawyer Roger Schlossberg was aiding and abetting Ann Mace to steal the property, and to make matters worse, a huge amount of the article is supported by victims who have connected up with the web pages to support the allegations of criminal impropriety.

COURT OFFICIAL’S WIFE ARRESTED OVER THE KILLING OF THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY — The killing of the District Attorney Mike McLelland of Kaufman County District, along with his wife Cynthia. The report says that Law Enforcement Officials are ‘trying’ to build a case against former Justice of the Peace, Eric Williams….whose wife Kim Williams has now also been arrested.  The Police are treating the case as a ‘terrorist threat to the DA’ in that they say the pair made various demands……this comes after JP Eric Williams was convicted of stealing three computer monitors from an office?

FBI SCANDALS AND CORRUPTION — The Hanssen Scandal —- Reporter Toni Locy managed to get at information that was not previously released or known when she exposed the story of 30 FBI employees who failed polygraph (Lie Detectors) tests, and no one was dismissed? The Hanssen Case exposed the fact that Russian Agents had been working for the FBI, which led onto a ‘knock-on effect’ causing embarrassment for the bureau.  ‘The Exam Cheats Case’ — FBI Director Robert Muellor said he didn’t actually know how many operatives had cheated in exams, but he didn’t deny that they had. This was in regard to techniques and surveillance on US citizens without evidence of wrongdoing.  Two Scandals, one connection: The FBI link between Penn State and U.C.Davis….. go to www.thenation.com  for more on this and other cases.

FEDERAL JUDGE ACCUSES FBI OF CORRUPTION — FBI COVER-UP:  The Justice Department came under question and a scathing attack by a Los Angeles Federal Judge — US District Judge Howard Matz, he accused the US Justice Department Attorneys of allowing an FBI Agent to present false testimony to a Grand Jury.  Also, that the agent and indirectly the Bureau inserted false statements in a search warrant application, and unlawfully intercepted e-mails between a defendant and his attorney.

FBI – 100 AGENTS CAUGHT SENDING EACH OTHER NAKED PICS — In fact 1,045 employees were disciplined in 2010 to 2012 and 85 were dismissed.  Offences detailed in a confidential internal report shows that around 36,000 staff fall short of the requirements in conduct and behaviour expected.  It mentions hiding recording devices and sending nude pictures among many other things unsuitable for publication.

FBI SECRET FILES — Attorney Jesse Trentadue filed new evidence of this in his lawsuit against the Bureau. The FBI withheld disclosure documents in the Oklahoma City Bombing Case — many questions unanswered as a cloak of secrecy shields the FBI and other Government Agencies involved.  For more on this and others, go to www.examiner.com  ‘More proof of FBI Corruption’.  It seems that the days of Mulder and Scully are here with FBI top brass acting like the enemy in devious practices, rule at any cost, and good guys in their minority suppressed in order to please the White House and Senate. The FBI more or less crashed when Hoover was found to be compromising them – by him sneaking out in women’s clothing and publicly pretending to be the scourge of deviant citizens.

FBI ACCUSED OF PERJURY — and Obstruction of Justice — in order to cover-up the misuse of FBI Computers for criminal activities by felons.  This is featured on a video showing on www.youtube.com

FBI ACCUSED OF MAJOR FIDDLE BY EX-FBI MAN: In an open letter on the Internet, Kevin B. claims he was a member of the FBI attached to the World Bank Office in Washington, and that he resigned when he discovered activities of colleagues were suspicious during an investigation.  He says his boss was ‘conniving’ with top officials to divert funds approved to settle lottery win claimants, and that there were deliberate delays over payments?  In the blog he mentions (Local and Foreign Debt) being something to do with the job….so what is going on here? (we have the full e-mail letter on file)

FBI STILL PERSECUTING UK RESIDENTS OVER OVER-SEAS HACKING ALLEGATIONS — The big Sheriff of the world strikes again with yet another attempt to extradite a British citizen. They have now got their target – Ryan Cleary 20, who they say has hacked into US TV Networks, Fox and Sony Corporations. They say he faces up to 25 years in jail if convicted, perhaps that should be when?  This all comes at a time when the FBI are being investigated themselves by two central groups, which indicates how eager they are to throw the spotlight off themselves and get enough time to have someone in government railroad any paper trails and disc evidence.

FBI ARREST FOUR COPS — In Haven, Officers – Dennis Spaulding, David Cari, Jason Zullo and Sgt John Miller are to go on trial charged with ten counts – Creating false reports to conceal their activities, false arrest of five activists, using unreasonable force and unreasonable search and seizure of items — ( Civil Rights Abuses) — it was also said these officers were a sort of cancer, bullies with badges involved in a conspiracy to corrupt justice.

NB: One minute it’s cops arresting FBI agents, then the turn of FBI agents to arrest Cops…and so it goes on.

SECRET SERVICE AGENTS INVESTIGATED OVER SEX PEST ALLEGATIONS — 64 Complaints have been lodged against US Secret Service Agents accusing them of sexual misconduct over a five year period.  A Senate Hearing were told that much of this involved suggestive e-mails with explicit sexual references, and three concerned inappropriate relationships with a foreign national…it was also stated that agents visited bars and brothels in Columbia prior to the President’s visit.

COVER UP TO SAVE PRESIDENT’S EMBARRASSMENT  — In relation to the above story, it now appears that the Sex Scandal involving agents were kept secret and handled behind closed doors in a ‘damage limitation’ exercise.  The Secret Service Agents nobbled amounted to nearly two dozen along with members of the military following the 2012 prostitution scandal.    At the time the Columbia situation was constantly denied by the White House, but new developments drawn from government documents reveal that senior aides in the Whitehouse were kept in the loop about what was going on.

CIA CHIEF IN RESIGNATION — CHIEF OF CIA DAVID PETRAEUS resigned after having been discovered in having an affair outside his marriage, which brings his career to an abrupt end.

CIA AGENT FOUND GUILTY GETS 7 YEARS — Found guilty in Absentia, CIA Station Chief, Jeff Castelli, now free will no longer be able to return to Italy, as a court in Milan has found him guilty in a case of kidnapping a Cleric from Egypt in 2003.  Should he ever be caught in the region he will go to prison immediately and serve the seven years. This decision was handed down by an Appeals Court.  (28 other Americans have been convicted in their Absentia in Italy over rendition charges).

CIA IDENTIFIED IN RENDITION — 54 Countries were tainted in covert operations of ‘kidnapping and transporting nabbed prisoners to secret prisons and locations around the world say the Open Society Foundation in New York. Over a quarter of the world’s countries provided assistance to the CIA in an extraordinary rendition programme.  Exposed by a report ‘Global Torture’ the activities of the CIA are made public, it says the USA violated domestic and International laws.

NEW CIA CHIEF KEPT QUIET ABOUT ABUSES — John Brennan who is now Obama’s choice to head the CIA admitted knowing what the CIA got up to with abuses like ‘water boarding’ but felt it was nothing he should do anything about, so he didn’t stop it.  He says he knew about the harsh interrogation techniques when he was just a member of the agency…..he claimed he was absolved of following his conscience because he was not in the chain of command at the time!

CIA History — Secret Service Assassinations of third world leaders,  The CIA asked Britain’s MI5 to help in the assassinations of third world leaders (1955-1975), but Senior Intelligence Officer Peter Wright turned down the request suggesting the CIA go to the French, ‘it’s more their type of thing’ he told them. (Spycatcher’ the book)

WHISTLEBLOWER REVEALS USA SPYING AND GOVERNMENT PARANOIA — Just as they thought they had everything figured and Bradley Manning locked away…….along comes Edward Snowden an Operative with the CIA…..who like Bradley, realised what harm the NSA and CIA were doing to democracy.  They are currently calling Snowden a ‘fugitive’ and have him at the top of the FBI wanted list, in fact they are virtually threatening countries who will not hand him over.  The UK were told to tell airlines that they would be fined if he boarded any of their airlines.  The ‘Sheriff of the World’ are actually acting very weird and getting into a state of Paranoia as they hunt for this CIA man who left the country on a holiday which turned out to be their nightmare. He said’ The NSA were invading people’s liberties around the world spying on the Internet, intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them, which poses a threat to democracy’   He also revealed that Britain’s Spy station GCHQ were assisting the CIA and NSA and running spy programmes on the UK citizens via phone and Internet.  (June 2013)

SNOWDEN REVEALS USA SECRET ‘DISHFIRE’ PROJECT — Another spying on e-mails programme that is collecting data on millions of people, and storing it.  The UK is right in there acting as co-partners…whilst pretending that they weren’t in the driving seat.  The secrets game goes on, and America are deep in it.

SNOWDEN REVEALS NSA PLAN TO  ‘BLAME DIRTY TRICKS ON OTHER COUNTRIES’ — Holed up in Russia, former CIA man has revealed another episode of ‘America’s dirty tricks’ to the public.  This sneaky one involves letting other countries take the blame…in that the NSA has a secret cyberwarfare program that can automatically fire back at cyber-attacks from foreign countries without any human involvement.  He says that this program could start a war (possibly accidentally) because the cyber attack can be launched to look as if it came from a completely innocent country, and they’d find it almost impossible to track or discover the real source.

In connection to the above article — USA SPY GETS CAUGHT IN RUSSIA — In January CIA Operative Ryan Fogle was arrested by the Russian Secret Service when he was supposedly ‘recruiting’….much of the reporting centred on the ‘amateur theatrics’ Fogle aspired to. Because of his Diplomatic Immunity the Russians handed him back over to US officials as he had been expelled from Russia.

CIA FORMER CHIEF WANTS PARDON GRANTED OVER KIDNAPPING CONVICTION — Robert Seldon Lady a former CIA man was sentenced to nine years jail in Italy, and cannot go anywhere near there because he will be arrested and taken to prison.  An Italian court found him guilty in a 2003 kidnapping, and he fled before the verdict back to the USA.  Italy has issued an International warrant for his capture and arrest.  He has requested a pardon from the country’s President saying he did nothing wrong at the time because his actions were in accordance with US and International Law in force between the two countries.

CIA AND THE RENDITION TORTURES — The sordid news took a long time to surface, and the CIA and US Govt were totally against that.  The authorities pulled a blinding stroke on how to get away with torture bringing in a law that shielded them from public inquiries…..RENDITION was brought in after 9/11…. using this event and tragedy to covertly indulge in actions of the most sinister kind.  The CIA and other Agencies claiming to be doing it in the interests of National Security kidnapped targets, imprisoned them (without any due process of law) and assaulted them ‘torture style — even sexually’ without fear of prosecution.  They were immune, and agents of these acts such as Police, Warders and Prison Governors could lie, cheat, and commit crimes against the person in secret…. and even kill them without being brought to book…. because of this law and a Government that could not be challenged.  These so-called ordinary men with families would hurt, torture and defile a suspected person in a ‘matter-of-fact’ way to get information and go to any lengths to get a confession or statement…. they were not concerned about what the public thought….. because they were not being told.

CIA INTERFERES IN TERROR INVESTIGATION — The Senate Intelligence Committee accused the CIA of interference when they were investigating ‘interrogation methods and detentions’ of terrorism suspects during the Bush Administration.  Ms Feinstein on the Committee, in an irate speech, accused the spy department of ‘silently removing reams of documents pertaining to the probe from computers that it had previously provided to her committee’s research staff to help them get the bottom of whether torture laws were broken during the interrogation of suspects.  She additionally made it known she was not happy with the CIA’s tactics of allowing one of its senior lawyers to refer to the Justice Department…. a criminal complaint against her research team alleging that they had illegally copied a confidential internal CIA review of what happened during the Bush years.  She viewed this move as an attempt to ‘intimidate’ her staff, and considered it an abuse of power.

CIA MISLEAD GOVERNMENT ABOUT INTERROGATION BRUTALITY — The Infamous CIA cannot speak the truth or even adhere to it, and were censored by the Senate Committee over it misleading the government in relation to aspects of interrogation and the use of brutality over a number of years, kept secret and often denied or played down.  It was found that the Agency concealed  the severity and politically sensitive methods of forcing prison detainees into surrender.  The Report still classified  referred to anonymity and disturbing incidents at the Agency’s secret prison in Thailand…causing some employees to leave.

CIA GET POLAND INTO TROUBLE — Judges in Strasburg ruled that Poland was wrong to allow the USA’s CIA to torture two men detained as suspect terrorists on its soil.  The European Court of Human Rights ordered the country to pay the two men a total of £180,000 in damages.  The men were held and detained 2002 to 2003.

CIA SHAMES AMERICA – BUT THEY COULDN’T CARE LESS! — Most Americans are not even bothered, their humanity and values slipped away years ago in return for greed and corruption.  The torture that has now been revealed is only out in the open because the people who did it have been granted immunity from prosecution.  So as you might just realise, owning up to these atrocities detailed in the report doesn’t really matter, a USA government will look after their own first, even if these things amount to a crime against humanity, democracy comes a poor second to those in power, and the Law is theirs to interpret and act upon as they see it with the advice of their twisted lawyers who play out the game….. and being paid with public cash…..immunity is not given to ordinary folk, it is reserved for the elite and corrupt!

The UN say these CIA torturers should face a day in court?  and say this organisation was backed at a very high administration level pointing to the Bush Administration…..but this plea is just rhetoric, these animals already have immunity.  Those who carried out the torture are probably ‘family men’ living a lie and being seen as good Joe’s in bible-bashing states…… so were the Klu Klux Klan.  Former Head of CIA Operations Jose Rodriguez said this report was like throwing him and his team under a bus…..but he hasn’t had it that lucky yet!

AMERICA SPIES ON EUROPE —  Whistleblower Edward Snowden ‘ dropped’ the USA into it again, as Germany lashed out at the US after finding out that they were labelled as ‘an unreliable ally’  The outrage has sparked an investigation into American covert surveillance (as revealed by Snowden).  France also voiced its indignation with the USA as it was told that it too was subjected to around two million such connections by the Spy program.

NSA AND GOVERNMENT SPY ON YAHOO AND GOOGLE ACCOUNTS — Spies are everywhere said one American citizen, even in your own country, and its your own elected government that is lying to its voters.  Yes, the USA are tapping into Internet accounts just about everywhere in the World (with the Search Engines help) assisted in many cases by the UK spy network GCHQ.  The NSA have as the report says secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google according to revealed communicates and documents supplied by Whistleblower Edward Snowden.  The NSA are able to collect at will – any and all information from hundreds of millions of user accounts.  When questions were put to the NSA and White House Officials, they declined to answer or comment?

NSA IN TELEPHONE SPY ACT NOT AUTHORISED —  In a Federal Appeals Court an appeal by the NSA was dismissed and their acts declared as ‘unauthorised’ by Congress.  The NSA tried to justify their plan to spy on millions of Americans collecting secretly recorded calls by citizens by bringing a lawsuit challenge to the constitution.  The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the surveillance violated people’s privacy.

AMERICAN GENERAL JOINS THE WHISTLEBLOWERS — The season is truly underway as we now have an American General — Marine General James ‘Hoss’ Cartwright under investigation for leaking secret information about the Stuxnet Computer Virus, which temporarily disabled 1,000 centrifuges used by Iran to enrich uranium. A  US planned covert and ‘classified’ cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

US GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATION PLOT — Venezuela has accused the USA government of plotting the murder of a politician in the forthcoming presidential election.  The CIA and Pentagon were accused by the acting leader Nicholas Maduro with conspiracy to assassinate an opposition leader, Henrique Capriles.

USA PENTAGON GUILTY OF BILLION DOLLAR FRAUD — But no action taken……A Reuters Investigation revealed that the US Pentagon discovered massive accounting fraud within the Pentagon itself.  They discovered unauditable legers and corrupted data etc, in the accounts leading to the disappearance of Eight Trillion Dollars of taxpayers money.  The US Government as usual, denied that it meant stealing or lies being involved, and only just agreed to the possibility of ‘some sort of profiteering’   It is being categorised down  to ‘ a miscalculation of resources’   which means, the money has gone, no one is to blame, and you can’t do anything about it!

POLITICAL CORRUPTION — Lewis Libby, Chief of Staff to Dick Cheney, convicted of perjury in the ‘Plame Affair’ who got 30 months in prison and was fined $250,000 dollars.  Alphonso Jackson Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, resigned amid being investigated.  Karl Rove, Senior Advisor to G.W.Bush was investigated for improper influence.  State Senator Joseph B Montoya was convicted of corruption.  Senator Ted Stevens for Bribery and Tax Evasion.

REPUBLICAN POLITICIAN JAILED FOR THEFT – Florida’s Former Chairman of the Republic Party, Jim Greer was sent to jail for 18 months after pleading guilty to 4 counts of theft and one of money-laundering.  It was said that he took $125,000 of party funds, and that by pleading guilty he had averted a trial that had threatened to expose the underbelly of Florida’s dominant party.  He was once one of the most powerful political figures in Florida.

PUBLIC KEPT FROM THE TRUTH — THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION — Washington Post’s Bob Woodward tells of how in 2007, Chief of Staff, Andrew Card with indirect support from other high officials in the government, made attempts to get rid of the then Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfield who knew about the secrets, and the plan to hide the truth from the US voters and citizens.  More on this can be read in his book ‘State of Denial’ Bush at War Part 3.

THE STENCH OF AMERICAN JUDICIAL CORRUPTION — One would not suppose the USA could sink lower, but it can and does.  They have now got a man who intended to honour his innocence to refute it by pleading guilty — in order to get out of jail earlier — that man, the victim, is UK Citizen Christopher Tappin extradited by the bent UK Law System on charges of helping the Iranians, and involving the supposed attempt to supply missile batteries….he has now been urged to plead guilty as they tormented him with the prospect of serving up to 35 years. To get what they want he only serves around two years and they might if they feel good, let him serve it in the UK.

THE WRIT AGAINST MAYOR TOM BRADLEY — Los Angeles. Around the Time of the Rodney King incident, Mayor Tom Bradley was up to his neck trying to squirm out of misconduct allegations. The City Attorney filed a lawsuit against him — a six count lawsuit of ‘intentionally or negligently’ failing to report at least $222,000 in financial holdings as required by the State Political Reform Act.  The Mayor agreed to pay a $20,000 fine for failing to disclose his investments…other accusations that he misused city resources prompted him to return $55,000 to ‘questionable fundraisers’  Even the FBI were looking into his dealings; especially Insider Dealings’ amid talk of his dishonesty, lying, and breaches of integrity. Mayor Bradley was never pushed out of office, he had friends!

THE JACK ABRAMOFF SCANDAL — Jack Ambramoff was convicted of mail fraud and conspiracy, he was the key figure in a corruption investigation in The White House –Officials J.Steven Griles and David Satavian, Bob Ney and nine others were arrested. Abramoff was given 6 years prison, but was released after doing three and a half years in a federal jail.

THE FREZNO COUNTY CORRUPTION SCANDAL — California FBI Agent Jim Wedick hoped he could close the case on one of the biggest corruption cases of his career — when they arrested four crooked state senators and ten other public officials.

FOR MORE ON U.S. CORRUPTION go to — www.dartmouth.edu  which relates 25 years of data state by state, and convictions from the US Department of Justice.  Another one to visit is  www.brookings.edu  tells of transparency and disclosure and the attempts to circumvent them. (Political Corruption in The United States) and finally for this paragraph — www.latimes.com  The Los Angeles Times list on US Political Corruption.

CORRUPTION IN THE USA continues with the related case of The Stanford Fraud Case involving a $7billion fraud involving cricket. The American tycoon Allen Stanford wants his trial delayed for a long time. His lawyers say that he is ill — he has been held since 2009 and it is now 2011, two years and no end in sight. He faces 21 counts of fraud. The big-time swindler ran a ‘ Ponzi type ‘ scam carried out through his bank in Antigua. This pillar of society, yes, a familiar word used before they are discovered, even had a knightood. Wikileaks released info suspecting this man was involved in a huge fraud, but of course, the Americans didn’t take any notice at the time – when it said ‘ The controversial billionaire companies are rumoured to engage in bribery, money laundering and political manipulations’ — and now this important man is at the centre of a huge financial fraud.

THE MEDICARE $295 MILLION DOLLAR FRAUD — 91 people have been arrested and charged across eight cities in the USA for ‘ false-billing’ according to news reports. Doctors, nurses and medical professionals have been involved in medicare fraud schemes stealing precious taxpayers resources it said.

THE BCCI FRAUD SCANDAL — America’s great banking scandal, regarded as the financial scandal of the century at the time.  The fraud was exposed in 1991 with the amazing abrupt closure of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.  The World suddenly received a wake-up call that banking was not what they thought, yet others had been trying to get this across.  Questions arose about the CIA and why they had not passed on their knowledge of this BCCI corruption to Government sources?  The links to terrorism at the BCCI went ignored, and even the Bank of England did not act on the strong evidence of fraud, and the inherent deceit that moved into place to cover up this story. Corruption in the BCCI was said to have begun in the 1980’s when operations within the banking system at BCCI offered Muslim Groups banking deals which resulted in a good time for terror gangs, money-laundering and under-the-table arms deals involving International Security Services, drugs, and dictators. When the BCCI collapsed it left a huge amount of small shareholders adrift….their money had been used in many corrupt schemes involving billions of dollars used in charming oil rich Arabs and making loans to Middle East concerns that had other agendas. Politicians fell headlong into the glitz and did not question the lavish spending on big business entertainment and charity events, all of which hid the real truth of BCCI’s financial scandal.

BUSINESSMAN RAJ RAJARATNAM IS JAILED –U.S. Hedge fund boss of the Galleon Group was jailed for insider trading and received a sentence of 11 years in prison.  It was said by the Judge that ‘ crimes and the scope of crimes reflect a virus in our business culture that needs to be eradicated ‘  Raj was found guilty on 14 counts of securities fraud and conspiracy charges.  It was said that 24 co-conspirators had already been sent to jail. He was fined £6.4 million and ordered to hand over £34million in illegal gains.

TEXAN BILLIONAIRE GETS 110 YEARS— accusing the Government of involvement and ruining his business in order to substantiate the charges. Allen Stanford who had a global financial empire was accused of swindling investors of around 12 billion dollars.  Houston Prosecutors were looking for a 230 year jail sentence!!

THE PRIME MORTGAGE SCANDAL has been firmly associated with the U.S. Government and the way they concealed their involvement in allowing loans with the banks to people who could not afford them, thus creating the grounds for the financial crisis that dogs the world today.  It has been revealed that they deliberately took no notice of advisors well before the matter became unmanageable. The loans far outreached what was normally expected and homebuyers without security were allowed to get into huge debt.

AMERICAN GANG BEHIND £30 MILLION GLOBAL CYBER ROBBERY: Yes, the Americans certainly have the Internet figured out….they have a monopoly over its software, search engines and much more…..so it comes as no surprise to find that an American gang made an online heist of grabbing money from cash points in many countries all over the globe.  The well trained hackers only took ten hours to make 36,000 unlimited cash withdrawals using swipe cards with hijacked data.

US — STANFORD EXECUTIVE IN $8.6 BILLION FRAUD SWINDLE — Texan R.Allen Stanford was sentenced to 5 years in jail for swindling investors in one of the biggest Ponzi Schemes in the history of the USA.  He pleaded guilty after doing a deal with State Prosecutors who’d originally asked for a 30 year prison sentence.

FAKE WINE MAKER OF ‘VINTAGE ORIGIN’ IS JAILED —- Collector and seller of vintage wine Rudy Kurniawan was jailed for ten years by the court for trading in and making false vintage wine in his Californian kitchen.  He sold the stuff for tens of millions of dollars said the prosecution.  The cheap ‘witch’s brew’ was deemed not safe or confirmed safe by the foods and drink watchdog…and the public must be protected said the judge.

US FINANCIAL GROUP IN CRIMINAL INQUIRY —  Former staff at the firm of Combined Insurance, a subsidiary of US Financial Group ACE are under a criminal investigation concerning the Australian Securities and Investment Commission over allegations that they used fake mobile phones to steal clients’ identities and maximise their commission payments.  It says that up to 60 percent of Combined Insurance 70,000 Australian policyholders could be affected by the scam.

THE LYNCH MOB techniques in the law to silence Wikileaks reminds one of the USA Racism and Prejudice that hammers down anything that might challenge its supremacy or reveal the real face and agenda of those in power. History has shown us that black people stood trial for crimes they did not commit amid bent judges, power mad lawyers and cops who made sure the evidence disappeared. Some of these innocents were executed while those who were instrumental in putting them there and covering up retired unconcerned about what they really were. Some left prison without a penny of compensation with the authorities thinking they never owed it and why? because the USA isn’t the great freedom giant it pretends to be. — it lives the lie!

CORRUPT U.S. GOVERNMENT bring bogus charges and jail whistleblower who reveals their criminal acts; they are holding Bradley Manning who supplied Wikileaks with confidential documents that showed government cover-ups, lies and deceit at the very top of the political system.  He wanted to show the world how corrupt the Americans are and what they will do to silence opposition, and being jailed has proved this beyond a doubt. The U.S. Government say it has to do with Security hoping to justify the arrest, but it merely shows you how far they will go to remove opposition to their schemes and criminal acts they wish to keep a secret.

U.S.PRESIDENT OBAMA NAMED IN COVER-UP — as he dismisses Inspector General Gerald Walpin who was investigating prominent Obama Supporter, Kevin Johnson. The tax and finance chief Walpin said this was an attempt to suppress wrong-doing by Johnson who was misusing taxpayers cash for political activities.

THE DEAL WITH CHINA THAT COMPROMISES AMERICA — Wikileaks revealed the thing that probably annoyed the USA the most, and that was the Chinese bailing out America’s Internal Debt Crisis. Before this happened leaked cables showed America increasingly alarmed by China’s increasing military power. In 2007 the little known incident of the Chinese shooting down one of their own satellites displeased the US. This led to a communicate saying America would defend its space hardware and interests. Then as if in retaliation and to show similar power, the USA shot down one of their US satellites in 2008, but claimed they were getting rid of a used and obsolete model. It was also revealed that after the Chinese bailout Hilary Clinton said in a cable, ‘How do you deal toughly with your banker’ America’s largest foreign creditor. It was also at the same time America appeased China by banning protestors on the Olympic torch journey…contrary to what it preached about freedom of expression. This was obviously to please Beijing, which it did for a while!   

AMERICA’S WAR GAMES CHINA-STYLE AND HALF A BILLION DOLLAR LOAN — Mixing it in Asia has been a side show that the US have been playing since the start of the Second World War.  They even ‘courted’ China’s leader Chou En-Lai (who along with Chairman Mao symbolized a regime of oppression and corruption). President Roosevelt showed a keenness to open negotiations with Yenan at the same time the half billion dollar deal was being given to Chungking (who was getting ammunition from Germany). Even the Nazis supplied China with sixty percent of its ammunition in 1939 when the USA’s ally Britain was at war with Germany!  Yet, there they were, the Americans backing Chungking forces with American Forces…Kuomintang were astonished to find the Americans supporting both sides and wanting Kuomintang and Chungking to be a partnership as war raged around the country. America was also mixing it with Japan before Pearl Harbour ruined the economic plans in Asia. When this happened they threw all their weight into supporting China to overthrow their aggressive neighbour…and out came another ‘lend-lease’ agreement.

WHICH STATE TOPS THE LEAGUE IN CORRUPTION? — A report says that goes to North Dakota, where Government corruption apparently oozes. Federal Agents arrested Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich after a ‘wiretap’ recorded him committing a crime. He actually ran for office in an election on ‘a clean-up’ ticket after his predecessor, Republican George Ryan was convicted in 2006 of racketeering, bribery and extortion.  Alaska booted out Republican Senator Ted Stevens who was found guilty of not declaring or reporting gifts from wealthy friends.  Louisiana Democratic Republican William Jefferson was indicted in 2007 on racketeering and bribery after investigators found $90,000 in marked currency in his freezer!

ONE MUST NOT FORGET WATERGATE when looking at the USA, it revealed corruption right at the top of government — the President, Nixon, who said he could not be touched — he was the law! and he never did a day in jail for what he did.  People around him, and that was officials like FBI and CIA subverted investigations and tried to cover up evidence in order for lies to be told to the people of America. Investigations never revealed how many people carried out covert activities to cover up the real amount of corruption, they were mysteriously discontinued. Many high ranking officials and police officers walked away from being exposed as it was best for ‘damage limitation’ and besides, some were near to pension so it wasn’t in the public interest to pursue them?

THE DANIEL ELLSBERG ‘Pentagon Papers’ which led to ‘WATERGATE’  — National Security as we now know all too well these days includes the covering up of lies, sacrificing the innocent in order to sustain those lies, and making it impossible for the truth to be exposed by virtue of laws designed to suppress and defeat challenge. This is what Daniel Ellsberg faced when he realised documents had been altered, changed, and re-presented in order to fool the Nation. He was a key worker in that 7,000 page ‘Top secret’ analysis and felt he had to expose the truth even if it meant that he could be charged with treason.  Ellsberg was incredibly lucky really, in that the Pentagon reacted like a bull out of a gate. Due to Nixon Aides, officials resorted to burglary and break-ins and were caught. The FBI aided these moves at times and became ‘jobsworths’ as they too got caught up in the object of silencing Ellsberg…but no FBI men were ever arrested or charged…neither were some policemen and Pentagon staff who stood on the sidelines knowing that senior staff were carrying out something wrong, they would have happily seen Ellsberg jailed for life…and continued their lives without a care…yet many got away with their part in the scandal, only a handful were ever charged and did jail time….such is democracy and truth!

THE RODNEY KING RIOTS —Los Angeles was burning for six days, all because justice failed the impoverished and poor besides the American Blacks. The four cops who beat up Rodney King were acquitted? despite camera footage…and that sparked the riots of the 90’s….it highlighted the corruption within the legal system and the police force, who later said the legal system did not find the cops guilty??

THE MIAMI RIOTS OF 1989 — was another Police Brutality Issue that raised questions on police tactics etc.

THE KLU KLUX KLAN were an extreme organisation led and controlled by bigoted US white males who despised the coloured race – blacks — and sympathisers with acts of murder, destruction and torture. Some were unmasked as police officers, town officials and businessmen all hiding behind masks to carry out despicable deeds that shamed America.  They burnt, terrorised and committed a sort of genocide acting much like the Hitler SS. Like their cowboy past, they lynched and executed blacks. Many of them got away without prosecution because the American Judiciary were not willing to expose who among them had assisted the massacres.

THE SHOOTING OF CIVIL RIGHTS CAMPAIGNERS — The US Government ordered police and troops to shoot civil rights marchers, which led to one of the bloodiest atrocities in the History of America, something they would prefer to forget!

USA OPPOSE BAN ON LAND MINES BECAUSE OF FINANCIAL INTEREST and they supplied these weapons that don’t just kill the enemy.  During the condemnation of land mines in Angola and other regions, in which several countries united to ban this weapon, the U.S.A. opposed the ban — largely because they were making money in deals to supply mines. The atrocities caused by these mines to civilians angered and shocked Europe, the UK who called for them to be outlawed, but the only outlaws that could be seen afterwards were the Americans!!

MANY US JUDGES ARE CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION, but too many for us to list here, (we have featured a few) — in fact, we’d probably use up all the available web size to accommodate the hundreds and thousands we’d have to list — which would include the lawyers too. It would probably make interesting and sad reading so we shall leave Wikipedia to guide you to those cases scattered all over the Internet. Many such cases involve bribes and sex scandals, but our own judges we feature have similar incidents, so we shall leave it to you to scour the internet and enjoy yourself.

JUDGE UNDER CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS — JUDGE LAYNE WALKER is facing allegations that he may have misused funds….. reports say that he is lashing out at his accusers and those he sees against him.  The County Judge of Jefferson is being investigated by the Texas State Commission and The FBI.

THE STRANGE U.S. LAW AND JUDGE JUDY SHEINDLIN — The exported show purports to be about a small claims procedure — amounts being $5000 yet, much of the material is about crimes, criminal acts such as assault and theft etc, one recently (2007)covered a young guy having set fire to a letting where he was building a marijuana farm, and had most of the stuff in place.  Yet, he was not in jail for conspiracy to supply a drug by the act of providing the means to support the growing of and the quantity beyond any personal use?  One hears about how countries should be getting tough on drugs, suppliers etc, especially the U.S. and Columbia, and this individual was just being sued for damages? others in countries like Singapore and Malaysia are serving up to 20 years for less than what this young man did…..is the U.S. really a Sheriff or just trying to make it look that way?

USA PROSECUTION LAWYER CAUGHT WITH DRUGS — A Prosecutor for New Orleans, Attorney Jason Cantrell was caught in possession of marijuana when a joint fell out of his pocket (an  unfortunate incident) in front of a cop at the Parish Magistrates court.  He was charged by the Police and suspended from his position.

U.S. SCAM LAWYERS CONVICTED OF FRAUD — In Frankfurt, Louisville, a Federal District Court convicted Lawyers William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr, of scamming 440 Kentuckian plaintiffs on nine counts including wire fraud and conspiracy.  The seven week trial resulted in the men facing up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.  In Aiken County, Lawyer Anthony Clark Odom, once the former Aiken County Assistant Solicitor General, was arrested and charged with sexual misconduct against a minor.  The victim was an undercover agent.  She said ‘he believed he was chatting up and soliciting sex from a 13year old girl’

JUDGE IN ASSAULT ATTEMPT AT LAWYER — A Florida county Judge John Murphy took a hit at the assistant public defence lawyer, because he was annoying him.  Court video caught the scene on camera as the judge threw a punch at lawyer Andrew Weinstock as they were attempting to settle a disputed trial date.   The Judge challenged him to go outside and settle it in ‘the old way’    The Judiciary asked him to step down and attend anger management counselling.

CRAZY LAWYER SHOT BY COPS IN FLORIDA — A graduate Lawyer, Myron May, was shot by the police at the Florida State University Library after he shot three people, none of whom died from their wounds.  Myron May was killed.

MANY US LAWYERS are there on the Web having committed fraud and bribery etc, too, so go to the Internet and follow the advice above if you wish to see them and have the time to read most or all of them. Just type in Bent Lawyers, thieving Lawyers, corrupt lawyers etc, and you should find a list of results…also use the word solicitor or attorney, barristers to widen your search.

P.S. There are hundreds of cops having been indicted and committing crimes also on many, many pages.

‘CORRUPTION BY THE USA OVER INTERNET POLICIES AND MEDIA POWER BACKED BY CORPORATIONS AND GOVERNMENT — Robert McChesney let fly at the U.S. Government in his recent book looking into ‘ The corrupt and Secretive Enactment of Public Policies Surrounding the Internet ‘ – Class Privilege over Democracy tells us that the United States connived within the powers of government to create myths so that the people would not look too closely into the U.S.Media System.  They deliberately gave the impression to the public of ‘ this new technology will set you free ‘ when in fact, it was meant to cut off and suppress all possibilities of informed public debate.

THE USA INTERNET GIANTS CONTRADICT US BELIEFS OF FREEDOM — Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Cisco were called into answer questions at a special Congressional sub-committee for aiding and abetting Chinese repressive policies on repression. One Chinese dissident and critic has already been jailed because of info given by one of these search engines. The committee reacted to the displeasure of Internet users who said there was double standards operating in secrecy. Capital Hill rapped the four and said they were co-operating too closely with Hu’s crackdown on China’s critics. The American slogan ‘The Brave and Free’ is not that true.

Big business, corporations, professionals and legal bodies, began to see how they could bend the meanings of ‘ The First Amendment ‘ to their advantage and undermine the balance of Citizenry power so that a fraction of the citizenry could benefit greatly, and give them undue political power.  By the same token these same people were eager to keep ‘ The Telecommunications Act of 1996 ‘ as it was so that they could benefit more as the Internet opened up more to commerce. There were no public discussions on how best the Internet could serve the people — these corporations were ‘ self-regulating ‘ without accountability, keeping for the most part very secretive while getting the nods and winks from politicians on their payroll.  Many governments outside the U.S, including the U.K. seek overall control of the Internet so that they can manipulate and suppress public criticism, investigation and free speech, because WHAT THEY REALLY FEAR IS  ‘ BEING FOUND OUT ‘

ANTI-VIRUS INTERNET BOSS JOHN McAFEE was evicted from his Oregan apartment and accused of stalking.  It is said that McAfee had fled from Belize where police wanted to interview him about a fatal shooting of a US expatriate who lived near his property…he arrived in Pacific Northwest last winter (2012).

THE PERSONAL SERVICES VICE SCANDAL USA MANHATTAN STYLE — Spanking, fetishes and sex in the USA, at last revealed as the USA have their own ‘Cynthia Payne’ — In court is a British Madam who has the goods on the super rich and officials in Government.  Anna Gristina has her black book with many names — powerful people in politics, law enforcement, lawyers and the ultra wealthy in American Society.  She was denied bail by the judge because of the possibility that others in the police or government might help her escape in order to prevent themselves being exposed and embarrassed. The ‘Madam’ is charged with promoting prostitution. She fled to Canada after a tip-off before finally being arrested. This comes after the Prostitution Scandal involving New York Governor Eliot Spitzer whose career ended abruptly. She was stated as having a brothel on East 78th Street.

INTERNATIONAL CHILD PORN SQUAD NET 222 USA CITIZENS — The Child pornography Investigation Unit along with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency arrested 222 Americans and 23 others from six other countries.  Agency Director John Morton said that although they’d arrested 23 other people from six other countries outside the US the majority of suspects and offenders were Americans.  ‘Operation Sunflower’ was ongoing for five weeks from Nov 1st to December the 7th 2012 identifying people who own, trade or produce child pornography.

AMERICAN AIR FORCE SEX SCANDAL — Air Force Training Instructor Tech Sgt Bobby Bass was jailed for six months and reduced in rank, plus a fine of $3,000.  The Military sex scandal revealed that Bass had forced recruits to stand naked as he looked on; he was found guilty of 31 charges including wrongful sex, assault, cruelty, assault and maltreatment, and dereliction of duty.  He was charged initially with male rape, but got off?

US MERCENARIES SCANDAL — Four guards who worked for Blackwater a controversial US Security Firm have been found guilty of 30 Iraq deaths.  They opened fire into a crowd of unarmed civilians in Baghdad.  Three of the men were found guilty of manslaughter, and one of first degree murder.  Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were found guilty of killing at least 12 people….and the attempted murder of 11 others.

THE MILITARY VICE SCANDAL — It has been reported that five American Soldiers are involved in a vice scandal in which Eleven Secret Service Guards were booted out of Columbia.  The soldiers have been confined to barracks after the scandal involving prostitutes became public. It has been revealed that both the soldiers and Secret Service Guards took prostitutes to their rooms, and that the five soldiers violated curfew….and this was all before Obama’s visit…..and they were there to check out security.

AMNESTY HAS RECORDED 450 DEATHS OF UNARMED SUSPECTS BEING KILLED BY USA POLICE OFFICERS IN THIS GUN-TOTTING NATION OF COWBOYS.

‘ U.S. Government and FBI in huge unreported Financial Scandal ‘

We have made great attempts to verify this story. Our source relied on a confidential letter handed to us by a Prison Warden on the Isle of Wight, a Mr Thomas Curran, who incidentally failed to turn up at a secret meeting in Portsmouth. He had previously told us he had a huge file and proof to back up his story, and that he had contacts in the U.S.  He had hoped initially that this should go to Wikileaks, but his non-appearance or receipt of the file meant that we could not forward it to our friends.  However, other lines of investigation did connect with the document and we shall now begin.  Mr. Curran said his suspicions did begin in 2008 whilst watching a BBC programme about tower 7, the third tower to come down on 9/11. He said he was shocked to later learn that tower 7 contained ‘one dreadful secret’ — files and documents of an FBI investigation of banks/financial houses that had been placed in the tower had all been destroyed, conveniently so, he said.  Mr.Curran pointed out that his relative Hugh Curran who was killed in the early hours of 14th December in Ossining, New York had money in a trust fund that was held by the Chase Manhattan Bank (one of the banks under investigation). He states he received along with others, a set of accounts regarding the financial fund – which did not ring true. Legal Representatives at the Law Firm kept saying ‘ We represent a respectable bank ‘ but  Mr Curran had no intention of signing for the release of the fund. In early December 2001 the eldest of the ‘ remaindermen ‘ pleaded for him to sign promising that as soon as they got the money they would take the bank to the cleaners. The truth began to take several years to emerge and the programme in 2008 changed it all.  When did the FBI begin the investigation? what information made the FBI investigate the bank?  Did the FBI cover-up what was going on?  Who stopped the investigation?  What happened to the investigation files, discs, computer hard drives and paperwork?  When was all the results of this investigation placed in a dept in tower 7?          He goes on to say the convenient atomising of this evidence was the work of Dick Chaney taking orders from George W. Bush, whom he believes was looking after his own interests and those of his friends on Wall St.  He says The White House Administration saw their chance to benefit from this when that fateful day 9/11 happened and the attack took out two towers, whereas a careful explosion designed to make the building fall in itself befell the tower 7 and the financial horror would be kept secret – which was very convenient for the banks who’d been under investigation?

Mr.Curran’s claims of a crooked Law Firm in White Plains led us to McCarty Fingar Donovan and Drazen, cash paid to a judge and the Estate of Margaret McKeown and the Hudson Valley Bank who made payments of thousands of dollars to Judge Scarpino in loans?  The law firm appeared before a court in a case concerning relief against McCarty Fingar who implied they had a special relationship with a judge.  She, Justice Sandra Miller denied this, but was later found to be employed by the law firm?      Proceedings involving Carvel Ice Cream Estates led to an amazing clash as Surrogate Judge Scarpino refused to disqualify himserlf in rulings regarding Frank Streng and McCarty Fingar, even after he’d finally re-accused himself in the McKeown estate for similar reasons.  In a paper report Surrogate Scarpino denied an application to disqualify himself despite the production of undisputed documents showing his rather fortunate connection with the Hudson Valley Bank, another of the banks under investigation and benefiting from the Tower 7 demise.

There is more on this and it can be accessed by going to McCarty Fingar Donovan, Drazen, in the search box on the Internet which goes much further than we have in establishing dirty dealings in the judiciary, legal profession, and Government. We only scratched the surface so it may need more excavation deep style!!

AMERICAN TROOPS POSE WITH AFGHAN BODIES — Outrage erupted on the discovery of American troops grinning as they hold up the severed legs of a suicide bomber. The troops form the 82nd Airborne Division smile happily for the camera. This follows the paratroopers in the same platoon posing with three bodies of insurgents who had fallen foul of their own bomb device. Two soldiers hold up the hand of a corpse and so it went on.

THE EMBARRASSING STAND BY RUTLEDGE AND THE TREATY WITH BRITAIN — George Washington’s nominee for Chief Justice — John Rutledge, was rejected because he opposed ‘The Jay Treaty’ with Britain in 1794. This was a treaty of Commerce and Navigation to facilitate ten years of peaceful trade between America and Britain. It specified the withdrawal of British Army Units and wartime debts to be sent to arbitration. There was also the matter of Canadian boundaries which had been fiercely contested. The Americans were granted limited rights to trade with British possessions in India and the colonies in the Caribbean in exchange for some limits on American cotton exports. The treaty was ratified on February the 29th in 1796.

IN 1947 THE USA PLACED TIT-FOR-TAT EMBARGOS ON THE UK OVER FILM DISTRIBUTION — America’s film Industry actively thwarted J.Arthur Rank from getting its films into countries and signing deals. They feared competition, much like Microsoft now, practised unfair competition tactics in order to profit from a monopoly.

USA AND THE ‘FALKLANDS’ THREAT TO UK — A report reveals that the good old USA more or less were prepared to  throw aside the so-called ‘special relationship’ in favour of telling the Argentineans that British Troops were about to come ashore on South Georgia.  Files exposed the decision by the Americans to stay neutral, which meant they could stay friends with Argentina…..said by Al Haig US Secretary of State.

THE USA LIES AND ATROCITIES — We can only feature a mere look at this as there is so much, and much of it is very disturbing…..but it happened, it is documented, some hidden, but it is here for you to see:

For American Government lies is the website  www.americancivilrightsrevew.com which details and lists what THE FBI and CIA got up to and still do.

For more facts of a truly staggering size visit  www.americanussr.com  an archive of America’s lies, treachery, torture, deceit and murder etc. 

American Atrocities in Iraq is a very disturbing and detailed work of research with U.S. Soldiers named and in some case photographed.  Go to  www.mindprod.com  – the Iraq War Atrocities by the USA.

In Korea the American soldiers regularly levelled cities, towns and villages causing great numbers of innocent civilians to die horrifically claiming it was all part of the war.

THE MY LAI MASSACRE 1968 — The worst case of American War Crimes — A company of American Soldiers murdered nearly 500 Vietnamese civilians  — note: The Court Martial Transcripts were ‘sickening’ to read — it showed the random execution of babies, men. women and children along with sexual assaults and other perverse brutalities.

Neighbouring CO LOY another village massacre had 100 citizens wiped out.

During 1965 – 1973 trials did take place concerning crimes against Vietnamese civilians — 241 cases of war crimes were dealt with and alleged against US troops.  36 court martial’s were set up — 201 US soldiers and 77 marines were convicted of serious crimes.

AMERICA’S DIRTY WARS and Practices — These are exposed on a webpage and level acts of Abuse, the framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal. the framing of Elmer Pratt — Prisoner abuse — The Bradley Manning abuses — The Lynne Stuart Case and oodles more that we cannot cover here — go to  www.projectsalam.org  for more on this.

THE AFGHAN MASSACRE 2012 —- One US Soldier, a Sergeant, kills 16 people and nine of them were children…. and three were mothers. Sixteen civilians shot at night in their beds. The rampage by a soldier stationed in Afghanistan who was there to protect them has set back relations to an all time low apart from outraging the ordinary people. There was talk of the soldier going on trial in Afghanistan where he would most likely go to the hangman.  However, it has now been revealed that the Americans have whisked him away back to the USA so as not to have a diplomatic incident over the real fact the death penalty would have been surely given in the light of this crime whether US or not….and getting that changed would have been unlikely.

U.S. AIRMAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING JAPANESE BOY — The incident is said to have happened on the Japanese Island of Okinawa, two weeks after a curfew was called on 52,000 U.S.Troops, which followed after the arrest of two U.S. Sailors accused of raping a woman.  The 24 year old Airman was said to have entered an apartment block and punched a 13 year old boy before trashing a TV set.  It says his escape went wrong and was taken to a Military Hospital.

U.S. SOLDIER ADMITS TO SLAUGHTER OF 16 CIVILIANS — A Veteran of four combat tours, Staff Army Sergeant  Robert Bales pleaded guilty to having murdered 16 Afghan citizens in cold blood.  In the Military Court it was discovered that the killings were premeditated, but in a move to avoid the death penalty a deal was made with the Prosecutor.  It was heard that he gunned down men, women and children who were completely unarmed.  The ‘decorated’ soldier is awaiting sentence from the Court Martial, and it is even said that the sentence will include the possibility of parole?

ARMY OFFICER KILLS 13 AT FORT —  A Officer – Medic Corps Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire killing 13 at the Fort Hood Centre in Texas in 2009 has had several delays which finally sees the defendant at a court martial where it is said that he has the authority to cross exam the survivors of his shooting spree….he is facing thirteen counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder.

MORE ON THE USA DOUBLE STANDARDS — The soldier has been named as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales who is now in Kansas — his lawyer has come forward with the ‘get out clause’ that of trauma and battle fatigue’ despite a US official claiming he was drunk when he went on the massacre?  However, that aside, we have uncovered a similar incident where the US removed the crew of a Military plane that crashed into a cable car in Italy killing twenty people — the crew were quickly flown back to the USA to avoid a trial and the authorities in Italy before they could do anything to hold the suspects. They later appeared in a US court and received very lenient sentences!!  — this happened in 1998.  Yet when the US demands to try others from countries like the UK etc, the extradition is granted  which clearly shows a two-faced totally different form of justice — one for its own, and another for everyone else.

U.S. IN SECRET TRIPS TO FLIRT WITH NORTH KOREA — Are the American Government running scared? or feeling rather afraid….. The Los Angeles Times reveals that two trips to North Korea have already been made as US Officials try to improve relations with the Koreans as Leader Kim Jong-un makes the Americans nervous over launch tests of nuclear long-range missiles, and openly tells the Press that the USA is a definite enemy.

THE TRAYON MARTIN SCANDAL — The US Government are reeling as unexpected reaction from an outraged public gathers momentum in Florida. At first they pondered and thought it would fade away, but not this time. Trayon Martin unarmed, was shot dead by a white man assuming status of local neighbourhood defender. He was not charged with the killing and claimed it was done in defence. Bill Lee, the Chief of Police in the Sanford Force has stepped down and calls for Commissioner Mark McCarty to resign abound as protestors mount rallies backed by the Florida Civil Rights Association. NAACP is taking statements from people who have accused Sanford Police of abuse and non-existent investigations. President Obama became involved and went on TV to give a personal statement assuring the people of Sanford that a thorough investigation would be carried out.

USA DEMAND PROBE ON UK BANKS SHOUTING LOUDLY TO CREATE DIVERSION — A British MP has spoken out against America saying the US is deliberately attempting to damage London’s banks in order to hide their own situation and capitalise on it.  John Mann MP said that Britain in turn should be allowed to investigate US Banks over the Libor situation, and reveal their motivations and dirty dealings. He said the UK are showing a weakness in letting the Americans do as they like because of the notion of great friendship so long as one friend is silent?

US GOVERNMENT TO BE SUED IN AIG LAWSUIT —  The US Government are to be sued by the American International Group, who were bailed out during the financial crisis.  It is seriously considering joining the $25 billion lawsuit filed by Starr International in 2011, a one time big shareholder in AIG.  The Companies accuse the US Government of too-onerous terms in the 2008/9 rescue package.

THE HIGH COST IN US POLITICIANS — It appears that around $3 million dollars of taxpayers cash was used in providing an exclusive club for the Presidents.  A new Congressional Research Service says they spent $3.7 million on the 4 living ex-presidents. In another Report covering ‘The misuse of Campaign funds’ the Conservative Republican Michele Bachman is being investigated for misuse of campaign funds, which is part of a Federal investigation.

IS THE USA CREATING A DIVERSION ON THEIR OWN PEOPLE IN ACCUSING RUSSIA OF SPYING? — America has supposedly broken up a spy network they claim work for Russia and the Kremlin…..they arrested eleven people and say the charges are of a criminal nature. They have informed the press that this group were into illegally acquiring US-made micro-electronic components for Russian military spy agencies?  This could well be a ploy by the FBI and CIA to get snoopers off their back, especially in an election year.  Both these Agencies have been known to ‘manufacture’ evidence and instigate a plot themselves.

THE PRISON CORRECTION SCHEME THAT WAS HIJACKED BY GREED — The United States Correction Corporation of Georgia is said to be the producer of manufactured goods made by prisoners who cannot be paid for their labour. This nice little earner racks in huge profits — the prison says that these inmates must not be paid because it might distract them from rehabilitation and education programmes.  Sadly, what is not made clear is that 200 teachers were sacked along with counsellors and librarians.  Prisoners who were being taught to read and write had their lessons etc immediately cancelled, and seventy percent of these were black and Hispanic inmates. It was also found out that serious corporate crime is by contrast allowed to go unimpeded despite it being rife……..yet another USA Scandal nicely tucked away.

EXECUTED TEXAS MAN WAS A JUDICIAL BUNGLE AND ERROR — News has emerged that a man executed in 1989 was not guilty of the crime — Carlos De Luna was hastily executed in 1989 after an ‘unconvincing’ trial and a ‘budget allowance’ lawyer.  A group of students led by Pofessor Liebman investigating the case by painstakingly going over all the evidence that led to his conviction and state murder, found that he could not have been guilty. The report is published under the title ‘Los Tocayos; Anatomy of a wrongful Execution ‘  Another man in prison who has died, Carlos Hernandez who looks identical to De Luna admitted the murder.  Liebman said ‘Flaws in the system wrongfully convicted and executed the wrong man, faulty eye witness testimony, shoddy representation by his lawyer and misconduct by the prosecution let this happen’    Of course as it is often said, something like this cannot be reversed or a life be given back, but compensation of around $125million dollars with an additional $23million paid to his family might teach the authorities a lesson…they can always take it out of public taxes!!

USA AUTHORITIES PAY $4.1 MILLION DOLLARS TO STUDENT LEFT IN CELL — A payout of over 4 million dollars was made to a student arrested for smoking cannabis who was left handcuffed in a windowless cell for five days without anyone attending or going to check on his welfare.  Daniel Chong was made the settlement by the US Government…..he had been taken into custody but told he would not be charged….but no-one came back to the cell….the DEA Drug Enforcement Agency settled the lawsuit on behalf of the American Government.

EXECUTED 14 YEAR OLD GETS NEW TRIAL? — A coloured boy of 14, executed in the USA seventy years ago is to have a retrial (despite the state already killing him).  George Stinney 14, was ‘convicted’ of killing two white girls it is said…..but Lawyers examining the case say that his conviction was ‘tainted’ by those wanting a guilty verdict in the Justice system and the scant evidence they provided.  He was the youngest person to be put in the ‘Electric Chair’,,,,,and even in 1944 there was an outcry over this.  To show how bad the trial was, it lasted less than a day….and because he failed to convince them where he was at the time of the killing he was found guilty….most likely because of racial bigots’….who at that time separated blacks.

Update: It was announced that 14yr old George Stinney has now received a pardon?  ‘Big Deal!’  I suppose America think they’ve atoned for what they did…….they murdered a boy…..and then give him a meaningless piece of paper issued by the the authorities!

TEXAS EXECUTES 500TH INMATE after resumption of death penalty in 1982…..The lawyer for the prisoner Maurie Levin uttered his sadness at Texas and the USA ‘I look forward to the day when we recognise  that this pointless and barbaric practice has no place in a civilized society’……sadly, civilization is not here, not with the Americans or Asian Countries…….they’ve hardly moved on from counting bricks and painting by numbers!

LOUISIANA HOODWINKS HOSPITAL PURCHASE —  Because the drug issue was ‘sensitive’ the State of Louisiana Department of Corrections (prison) bought a death penalty drug without informing the hospital that it was intended for use in a lethal injection.  They chose not to inform the hospital because of opposition and the EU withholding on these substances for killing people.

FREED INNOCENT MAN DIES ONE DAY AFTER RELEASE — Luckily for the Public Purse, David Ranta who’d spent 23 years in jail for a crime he did not commit died of an heart attack just 24 hours after his release.  The Judge reviewing his case said that ‘the police investigation that led to his conviction of the murder of a Rabbi in New York was seriously flawed’           Even though he could have sued for millions in compensation, he has been denied this and suffered at the hands of the American Judicial system and Law Enforcement…..who will quietly shove this away having escaped paying.

MAN FREED AFTER 30 YEARS — Yet another US Authorities bungle that could have seen an innocent man die.  Glenn Ford from Louisiana was freed from prison by a Judge who on reading the original court conviction found that there was a striking lack of evidence to support that decision.  It also revealed that he was at the time represented by inexperienced defence lawyers and the unconstitutional suppression of evidence by the court and prosecutors at the time, (none of whom are named).

DEATH ROW BROTHERS FREE AFTER 30 YEARS — Two brothers  were cleared of rape and murder after being convicted 30 years previously and sentenced to death.  Brothers Henry Mc Collum and half-brother Leon Brown were cleared after new DNA evidence showed they did not carry out the murder of Sabrina Buie in Carolina.   They were boys at the time the court convicted them, 19 yrs and 15 yrs……hopefully they will receive a multi-million payout from the US Government?  (perhaps a minimum of $120 million each or more)

INNOCENT MAN 30 YEARS IN JAIL IS FREED — Ricky Jackson was convicted of a killing on the testimony of a 12 year old witness who was coached by police to give false testimony.  The witness long after the trial, came forward and admitted the statement made was false.  Jackson was convicted of aggravated murder in 1975 of a money-order collector in Cleveland, Ohio.  Eddy Vernon the boy witness, now 51, confessed that he never saw the attack or killing and his whole testimony was prepared by the police.  The reason he gave for not coming forward was that the cops had said they would arrest his parents if he changed his story, and he feared that they would be fitted-up.     Well, its another payout, and at a million a year plus it should be around $35 million dollars that the US government owe him at least….or as seen before, perhaps $120 million, which is more like it.

USA LOSES OUT ON GARY MCKINNON EXTRADITION — Gary McKinnon a UK citizen has spent ten years being hounded by the USA for ‘hacking in the Pentagon’ – which could probably be done by many hackers. He did this from a small flat in Britain…never on American soil….but the FBI came after him.  Britain has at last seen sense and refused his extradition…..however, one might suggest that the USA stop bullying and concentrate on their old enemy JAPAN….in just 55 years after it was defeated, they have now become an economic giant about to surpass the USA….instead of weapons, they now have a means to give the Americans some real grief… and quite possibly they intend to do that.

USA EXTRADITION TARGETS ANOTHER BRITISH COUPLE —  Once again the US authorities have grabbed some UK citizens, claiming they were involved in a $1 million dollar expenses fiddle…..Bankrupt couple Paul and Sandra Dunham are said to be facing death behind bars in a dispute over work expenses.  They were arrested with British Police help at their home in Northampton in November 2012.  Groups against this American Anglo Agreement say that this is a civil case…which has been turned into a criminal accusation by the USA…. and apparently in 2011 Mr Dunham was indicted on 13 counts of fraud and money laundering by a Grand Jury in Maryland.  His wife was indicted on eight counts of fraud…the possible sentence being 240 years!  It is also stated that British Magistrates allowed the extradition to proceed!

THE USA AND THE EVIL THEY DARE NOT FACE UP TO — For a country that aspires to freedom and the right to express oneself, the USA come tops in bigotry.   They slaughtered Indian communities and abused the children in schools forbidding them to adopt any of their culture.  Kids were beaten and forced to swear allegiance to the American flag in classrooms, those that went against this sometimes disappeared and years later found in secret unmarked graves.  Officials on behalf of the government and agencies actively took part in these atrocities often helped by the Church.  History books were altered and many leave this part out in favour of depicting a more false and perverted face of reality.  America has done this for years and despite changes, the old America has not gone away, just hidden, and what cannot be witnessed is now cleverly covered up by the government.

CHILD ABUSE AND SEX CASE — 70 ARRESTED —  A Child sex and abuse Investigation  has arrested over seventy individuals including, a police officer, nurse and boy scout leader in the City of New York.   The Police were on the trail of those individuals who trafficked in child abuse images, downloading, exchanging and loading photos to others in the ‘underground’ network of paedophiles.  Immigration and Customs Enforcement led the investigation and ended with one of the largest round-ups of 70 men and one woman.  They seized around 600 desktop pc’s, laptops, tablets and smartphones.

NUDE VIOLINIST SUES POLICE FOR ARREST — The man 25yr old Matthew TMglej accused the authorities of excessive force and violated his First Amendment Rights and is seeking around $1 million dollars.  He was nabbed by police when he was playing his violin naked outside the Portland Federal Courthouse in 2014.

THE MENGELES AFFAIR and the AMERICANS — Dr Mengeles was the most loathed man in the Nazi Unit who performed horrific surgery on children during World War 11 at the Auswitz Concentration Camp where thousands of Jews were murdered at the orders of Hitler.  He escaped to the USA where the authorities hid him and made use of him.  He was never brought to justice because of the American intervention and even hid from the Nazi hunters who were searching for him.

US GOVERNMENT AND THE GUANTANAMO BAY SCANDAL :  A scandal that doesn’t go away despite many attempts by the USA to fob off its critics.  A hunger strike has now brought this appalling special prison back into the World headlines as it now embarrasses the Americans yet again.  The notorious detention building and site has 166 detainees on hunger strike, and the US Administration is eager to keep prying eyes and observers well away.  Reports of force-feeding are emerging as it is reported that they took 23 of the weakest prisoners and secured them to a chair by their wrists, arms, legs, chests and heads, said to be a nasty and ugly procedure of forcing a tube into the victim’s nose after gagging them and pushing it so it goes into their stomachs……resulting in blood pouring from their nostrils.  Defence Lawyers for the detained have met with resistance and silence from the US government……many of their clients have never been charged, one having been imprisoned for eleven years without a trial……….this is the true face of American Justice!

To this day the Americans are in denial over atrocities and Government wrongdoing — one angered American says only fifty per cent of Americans know the truth but prefer to ignore it and claim that it is time to move on, but to deny it is the open door that has no keeper and it is free to begin again.

America has never learned from History, it just creates more!!

THE AMERICAN CHASE FOR HISTORY & RECOGNITION — The USA has travelled far and wide to find its origins and come out in a blaze of glory, but alas, their history had no kingdoms, no grand design of honourable intentions and no real past other than migrants and the subjugation of the Indians, the true Americans.  They slaughtered most of them and took their lands, allowing a few to live on reservations, while they prospered and occupied those lands with all the entitlements……realising the only history anyone would know would be the ‘Cowboys and Indians’ tales, and shootouts, plundered gold and corporation economic power……that is what America has built itself on.

THE USA rank as one of the highest corruption capitals in regard to bent cops, lawyers and judges, and the material if it were to be placed here would go to several megabytes.

Note: What we feature here is not the full story but a mere scratching of the surface…to save on space we have created links for you to go to…..we shall look for more.

SPANISH TOP JUDGE FACES TRIAL — The Supreme Court in Spain have refused to throw out the case against their famous judge Baltasar Garzon who faces charges in two other trials. He faces accusations that he overstepped his authority— it is said he ordered an inquiry into mass killings by forces loyal to a former dictator and has violated the amnesty agreed in 1977, and that calling for such an inquiry will open war wounds. But there is a public feeling supported by thousands of demonstrators in Madrid that are demanding justice.

NB – this reminds us of the ‘Reconciliation Trials’ in South Africa when killers in Massacres and brutal Police were released from their criminal acts and confessing as part of a deal that allowed them immunity — which is by all standards fundamentally wrong — murderers are hung in some countries — so what of justice?

SPANISH DUKE IN EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL — News in says that Princess Christina’s husband Inaki Urdangarin, who sometimes uses the title ‘ Duke of Palma’ used his position to embezzle around E6million Euros in public contracts through a foundation he set up.  Strangely, the Supreme Court has ruled that the Princess cannot be tried on tax charges (immunity granted)….despite her testifying in the case.

ARGENTINEAN COP under the influence of booze, kills English tourist. Off-Duty Cop Max Martinez failed to brake in time on a busy road killing teenager James Painton who was on holiday. The cop was later prosecuted for drink/driving and speeding. 

UKRAINE POLICE GENERAL MURDERS JOURNALIST TO KILL CORRUPTION STORY — Police General Olexiy Pukach was sentenced to life imprisonment for strangling journalist Heorhiy Gongadze who was about to expose high level corruption in the judiciary, police and government.  The journalist was kidnapped in 2000 and three months later his body was found in a dense forest.  At the time the police steered away suggestions of a political murder in order to throw off any suspicions of their involvement, but this failed when the then President Leonid Kuchma was accused of his involvement in the murder on audio recordings secretly made in his office.  In Kiev, the court convicted the former chief of the Interior Ministry’s surveillance Department.

ASIA — EVIL JAIL BOSS Kaing Guek Eav now 69, the Khmer Rouge Chief Jailor who sent more than 12,272 people to their deaths, had his 2010 sentence of 35 years prison increased at the Phnom Penh tribunal. It was heard that he oversaw and watched mass torture and executions in the 1970’s.

‘ Pleasant holiday destination, or something much worse?’

THAILAND AND TYRANNY OF JUSTICE — Bangkok Criminal Courts have secured by fear — the imposition of tough laws against anyone who oppose the Royal Family be it text messaging. web blogs, signs or discussion deemed to be insulting (decided by the judges of course!) or remarks they can categorise as being contempt — the view similarly held by Singapore and China’s judiciary. They want to crush dissenters and opposition in any form. It is stated they can impose a 7 year jail term which has sparked not only fear but accusations that the ‘judges enjoy being untouchable’   It is stated under the 112 Law that a man named Somyot could get 30 years in prison for writing two published articles.  Another person, Chiranuch could get 50 years for failing to remove ten ‘defamatory’ messages posted on her website message board?    Amnesty have launched complaints over this absurd and Human Rights Abuse, so if you are thinking of going there, don’t….your holiday may turn awful.

THAILAND, BANGKOK – ARMY COLONEL AND POLITICIAN SUSPECTED IN TRAFFICKING — Two High Ranking Army Officers are to be investigated over the trafficking of refugees, and one is said to be a colonel.  Also sought by the authorities is an influential local politician who they are still looking for.  The Press indicates they have been involved in a trafficking network of taking refugees to a third world country for profit.

THAILAND JAILS DISSENTER FOR 11 YEARS — for defaming the Monarch!  The magazine editor was convicted of writing two articles the authorities deemed offensive to the Royal Family.  Many believe this was used to silence him as he was campaigning to reform the strict defamation laws aimed at suppressing comments against the establishment, and was politically motivated. Observers say that it was unlike Somyot Prueksakasemsuk to deliberately violate article 122, as he was a known journalist. They also said Thailand was increasingly becoming suppressive and heading towards a dictatorship regime……..so if you’re thinking of taking a holiday there, go West and book into a country that values freedom and rights…..do not go to Thailand.

THAILAND JAILS MAN FOR ‘INSULT’ — Yet another crackdown on free speech, as Akachai Hongkangwan gets sent to jail for three years and four months for selling DVD’s showing an Australian News segment he copied from the Internet which was deemed by the ‘oppressive’ court as offensive to the Royal Family.

THAILAND AND THE PASSPORT RACKET — Recent news highlighted the passport scam, and Thailand once again had to face its unwanted reputation as the place to get a false passport.  It appears that up to 10,000 passports are lost or stolen in the country…..and that the government sees ‘document fraud as a major security threat’   Passport scams are well known and corruption dogs the authorities, coupled with weak law enforcement some say that it will continue to be a problem.  Within hours of a passport being stolen, it is processed by the thieves and a new customer is found…..they pay the ‘going rate’ and it is used before the victim reports it being stolen….such is the speed of the scam.

THAILAND PREPARED TO HARM CITIZENS — The Army General Prayuth Chan-ocha said he was prepared to use force on the citizens and use weapons against them.  This was stated as protestors  caused the Prime Minister to flee after he was besieged by angry demonstrators who are anti-government.

THAILAND’S POWERFUL ARMY TAKES OVER — Overthrowing the Political wing, The Army imposed Martial Law and took over the running of Thailand in a dramatic takeover.  They immediately curtailed the media and took over national television etc, General Prayuth claimed he had not launched a coup but reflected on 1914 law, a time when the country was still an absolute monarchy.  He said the army intended to bring peace…..but some activists have already said this was coming long before the government problems, because the army was not being feared as much and its role was diminishing.

THAILAND JUNTA SEEKS CONTROL REFORMS — The Army despite its claim to do otherwise, is seeking to reform control and put in place former members of the Security Forces (120 Active or retired) as an interim legislature comprising of 200 people to keep a tight control over a body it will task with enacting sweeping reforms in the country.

THAILAND’S PRIME MINISTER APPOINTS FRIENDS TO CABINET — Despite things falling apart in Thailand such as the killing of two tourists with no arrests in sight or suspects, the new Prime Minister has awarded key posts in his Cabinet to friends and trusted allies in the Military, which critics says prolongs the existence of a country ruled and in the grip of a Military Power originally quoted as ‘temporary’    General Prayuth Chan-ocha announced the appointment of 11 active or retired senior Military Officials with no political experience whatsoever?  Some of whom will serve as Ministers of Justice, Education, Defence etc.

THAILAND THREATENS LANTERN PEOPLE WITH DEATH PENALTY — In a surprising move and unbelievable statement, Thailand’s Justice System say that a person sending paper lanterns skyward for good luck will face life jail terms or the death penalty.  The Police have been told to arrest offenders caught doing this.

THAILAND AND THE EMPTY VOW — As with most politicians or Military Coup leaders, a vow is not a promise nor can it be kept legally, just mere words that have little or no value.  The new PM who seized power in a Military Coup in 2014, says he doesn’t want to abuse his power and does not want to use force….all at the same time they have detained dozens of people for distributing leaflets against the coup!

THAILAND’S FORMER PRIME MINISTER TO STAND TRIAL — Thailand’s new military leaders who took over in a coup, have stirred up the political situation by announcing that former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is to be tried for her role in a rice subsidy programme set up by her ousted government.

THAILAND MAYOR AND POLICE IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING SCANDAL — Despite promises of a fair government Thailand is still easily swayed into corruption as Thailand’s Police Chief announced the arrest of a Provincial Mayor and the investigation of up to fifty Police Officers.  The powerful Provincial Mayor was not named, but the facts laid as to the reasons of the arrest. Their involvement in a human trafficking scandal spanning four Asian countries.

THAILAND’S MILITARY JUNTA PM THREATENS TO EXECUTE JOURNALISTS — The military ‘Government’ are showing their true colours the more they hold power….moving from their ‘relaxed role’ to announcing that they intend to kill journalists who ‘report dishonestly’ meaning against them or uncovering corruption of course.  He, the man behind the ‘threat’ PM Prayuth Chanocha who seized power in a military coup in May 2014 openly said they would probably execute journalists who did not report the truth……his truth of course…..journalists who watched said he delivered it without a smile….which kills the ‘joke’ theory that the government wanted known after realising what they had revealed.

THAILAND’S MILITARY COURT JAILS MAN WHO MADE COMMENTS…….As in keeping with Military Junta’s and a Dictatorship, a businessman has been jailed for 25 years for ‘defaming the Thai Monarchy’ for postings on the  Facebook site of which they cite five counts…..the man, Thiensutham Suthijitseranee was found guilty and was given five 10 year sentences, which were halved…..Observers in the West say this is alarming besides being one of the longest sentences ever given out for such an offence? and shows the intolerance and repression that Asia is now showing…..and that Human Rights are being eroded in exchange for a kind of slavery to power.

‘ A place of quiet evil and bizarre ritualistic laws ‘

MALAYSIA POLICE CHIEF IN ASSAULT CASE – Police Chief Abdul Rahim Noor admitted assaulting Mr. Anwar a former Deputy Prime Minister.  It is said the former minister was beaten up in his cell after his arrest on corruption charges. It is stated in Malaysian Law and Penal Codes that anyone committing Assault on another person faces a mandatory caning. However, this did not happen to this Police Chief, what happened was a cover-up that suspended the press from knowing the outcome. A blanket of secrecy dropped, and from sources we have discovered that the caning was removed on the directions of the Minister of Justice. It’s a case of one law for the people and one for the judiciary.

MALAYSIA BAN BOOK and say anyone distributing it will get 3 years in prison — The old Censorship game adopted by their ally and neighbour — Singapore.  The British born author Peter Mayle who is best known for his book ‘A year in Provence’ has apparently annoyed the country’s Home Minister over the sex educational book.

MALAYSIA SEEK TO DECEIVE — Malaysia, in its bid to seem more tolerant than Singapore, often ruin their strategy to deceive world opinion by doing an act that conveys the opposite.  This was blatant when they made a law ‘Making it illegal for young people to congregate in one place (no matter how innocent the reason was) in a way that offends the authorities’  Sentences are harsh, such as jail and whippings, which are often used just like Singapore!  They firmly believe that Public shaming and detention without trial keeps an orderly situation for society, (based on repression and suppression).  Strangely, they get annoyed and shout out loudly if their regime is shamed……which shows an odd sense of justice…..it only seems capable of working one way only!!

MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FINED BY AUSTRALIA — A Six million dollar fine was imposed on Malaysia’s Airline for ‘Price-Fixing’ by a court in Sydney, Australia.  They said it was linked to a huge International Cargo Cartel. At the Federal Court the Airline admitted to having colluded with other airlines on fees and other charges.

MALAYSIA IN DISPUTE WITH PHILIPPINES KILLS 14 — In a coastal village, Lahad Datu, 200 Philippines were claiming ownership of the territory, saying that Malaysia stole it from the Philippines and that they had documented proof from the late 1800’s.  The three-week stand-off ended in a bloody conflict….one that the Philippines President said could have ‘triggered an armed conflict in the region’

SOCIAL INJUSTICE PLAGUES MALAYSIA — The World Bank said policies in the Malaysian Government are causing young people to leave for a better life as they continue to fear the repressive government and harsh justice that continues to blight the future. One young University student said ‘ the harsh sentencing, floggings and repression of thoughts, movement and speech is not what we want in this technological age, especially when we see other countries enjoying lives without brutality and being on the Internet talking to each other without fear of arrest’ — The 2008 Human Rights Violations Annual Report revealed that Malaysia had its own style of ‘Guantanamo Bay’ when it was revealed that four lawyers, three of whom were English trained, were imprisoned indefinitely without trial under The Internal Security Act — it went on to reveal that Malaysia’s UMNO controlled Government had been in the covert business of deception by fabricating reports on how well everything is progressing in the responsive society in relation to economic growth and social welfare.

MALAYSIAN POLICE IN BRUTALITY ALLEGATIONS – New reports emerged on a Malaysian Youth in a police cell being tortured by Malaysian Police who poured hot water over his body, scolding him to the point of screams.  A look at recent 2001 history reveals the ethnic cleansing of Indian Malaysians suffering grievous body injuries — 5 were murdered and 100 suffered the painful atrocities at Kampong Medan — a further six Indians were shot dead by police in one single day, cause and circumstances unknown or conveniently hushed up.

MALAYSIA POLICE ACCUSED IN RAPE INCIDENT — An Indonesian Law Maker has called on his own government to sever Diplomatic ties with Malaysia over the rape of an Indonesian Migrant Female Worker at the Hands of the Malaysian Police.   The authorities in Malaysia have said they are investigating officers connected with the allegations.

MALAYSIA COURT SENTENCES MAN TO 115 YEARS — This has an ‘American feel to it’ — a Court sentenced a man of 42 convicted of four counts of rape and un-natural sex to one hundred and fifteen years in jail.

 ‘ Elephants, Bollywood and Human Rights Scandals ‘

INDIA ‘THE POLICE FRAME-UP SCANDAL’  — There is much crime in India, but this case is a travesty that puts the Judiciary in shame.  Armogam Kounder was working in Mumbai, and was considered by police as an illiterate labourer, and an easy man to frame.  He has now walked free from the jail where he spent 11 years for a crime that was fabricated and pinned on him by Police Inspector Iqbal Bargir, who committed suicide and left a note saying ‘ Kounder had been framed for the crime at the insistence and order of his superiors ‘  Inspector Bargir was in charge of a rape and murder case in 1995, when he and officers from the Oshiwara Police arrested the ‘victim’ Kounder.  He was beaten up by the police at the lock up and made to confront a crime he knew nothing about.  In order to seal his fate they took him to the crime scene and showed him the 6 year old girl who had been raped and murdered. Unbeknown to Kounder, they had snared him as they had him in the crime area and left his own prints etc at the scene. Although he tried to prove his innocence, the Judges more or less refused to listen and dismissed them before sentencing him to a life-term in prison. Prison was also unkind to him in view of it being a child crime and he suffered hatred and attacks by fellow prisoners and his jailors.  If the bent cop had not committed suicide and left a conscience note, he would still be in that prison.  His Lawyer Asim Sarode is suing the police and law enforcement for compensation for ‘wrongful confinement’

What about the ‘superiors’ in the police force that were mentioned?  What about the harm inflicted on him by police and jailors, are they being charged and ordered to stand trial?  What about the original judges who denied him proper respect and his right to present his alibi ?   NOTHING is the answer to all three….they are all above the law, because they are the law, and they are not about to compromise each other over a wrongly jailed man!!

JAILED MAN ON REMAND IS POISONED IN JAIL — Far from being secure, or safe from inmates, a suspect in a rape case, Vinny Sharma was rushed to hospital in a critical condition.  The same man has also been beaten up and thrashed by other inmates without any intervention from guards at the Prison.  His lawyer A.P.Singh says this is not the first case of its kind; earlier, another suspect in the same case was also bullied and found hanged in the same Delhi Prison in March.  The authorities absence was noted and no comment was offered.

INDIA AND 1600 STUDENTS EXPELLED FOR CHEATING IN EXAMS — A Report has revealed deviousness and dishonesty at the heart of the Education system in India.  Over 1600 schoolchildren have been expelled after being caught in an unprecedented crackdown on cheats in the State of Bihar.  100 parents were detained over helping their children to cheat — the authorities were forced to admit that the problem was widespread and that they had set up ‘flying Squads’ such as police and vigilant teachers who are helping to clamp down on cheating.

INDIA AND THE ANTI-CORRUPTION PARTY — A new party out to eradicate corruption is making a bid to form a government in Delhi.  They are pledging to end corruption in politics….. the small group have quite a climb in order to make any substantial in-roads to the country’s corruption problems say observers in India.

ANTI-POLICE PROTEST IN INDIA — Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwai who took Office, promised to sweep out corruption….. and began with the Police first.  He has accused them of targeting the poor for petty offences and refusing to combat serious crime.  He said taking money from rickshaw drivers for minor offences did nothing for trust among the poor, whereas the drug trade and rich offenders received little notice….and recent scandals only made it more necessary to begin the clean up with the police first on the list.

INDIA PREFERS CORRUPTION LEFT ALONE AS ANTI-CORRUPTION MAN IS THREATENED — India yet again failed to agree about  rooting out corruption, and the Politician Arvind Kejriwal a prominent anti-corruption campaigner was targeted for a second time and fears for his life after another attack.  As he was campaigning, he was yet again assaulted.  Reporters say that the campaign as become more toxic, abusive and violent.

INDIA — MINISTERS CONVICTED IN SCAM — Two former ministers of the State of Bihar were convicted by the court of embezzling millions of dollars during the 1990’s.  The Scam involved numerous bogus bills for cattle feed.  Opposition Leader Lalu Prasad in the wake of this case brought by the Central Bureau of Investigation, with 44 others are likely to be sentenced to three years in prison.  The Special Court remanded Prasad  into custody.

INDIA — POLICE OFFICERS ACCUSED OF HELPING GANG — The Indian police have been accused of helping the gang who raped and killed two teenage girls, two officers have been arrested and charged for refusing to investigate the disappearance of two girls who were later raped and found hanging from a tree.  Information so far says five men carried out the crimes in the Northern State of Uttar Pradesh.

HEAD OF INDIA’S POLICE BUREAU IS ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION — India’s boss of the police ((FBI) unit has been accused of corruption and malpractice…. Ranjit Sinha is reported to have interfered with inquiries relating to senior politicians and major corporations.  It is stated that he influenced an inquiry into the auction of 2G Spectrum licences held by the previous government, as well as the allocation of assets in coal mining companies.

TWO INDIAN COPS SUSPENDED — Two policeman who charged a toddler with ‘coercion ahead of a by-election in Uttar Pradesh have been suspended.  The boy was only 11 months old!  The incident sparked outrage and we are told that police in India often draw up lists of potential trouble-makers and send them to the local authorities.

INDIA’S FORMER PRIME MINISTER ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION — Manmohan Singh the former Prime Minister was served with a summons from the court to appear before them on charges of Conspiracy and Corruption.  It says that this refers to an illegal award of a coal field.  The special court which has powers to bring high profile figures before them granted under the Central Bureau of Investigations have ordered billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla and another official to stand beside 82 year old former PM Singh.

BANGLADESH — SEDITION CHARGES ON INTERNET BLOGGERS AND THREAT TO SILENCE, the ever-growing threat by Asian Countries to act against people’s views and thoughts is a menace that is stalking the free world that cries out for accountability, truth and to live without fear.  In a news broadcast it has been revealed that a Bangladesh student Molla Rana was arrested and is to face sedition charges over his blog on Facebook which referred to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.  This claim that it is conduct likely to cause rebellion is utter nonsense and the Government must have known this before allowing the police to charge him.  They say it can carry a life in prison sentence….one sees here the same attitude to criticism repeated by China and Singapore, all very anxious to control their countries (and outsiders) like dictators.  Another student, Ruhul Khandaker, who is studying in Australia is also to be prosecuted for sedition over comments on the Web, and the foreign ministry has been asked by the court to have him brought back so they can jail him! ….not much point in convicting him, that has already been decided by a law that smacks of injustice.  A third student, Nayeem Jubaer was sentenced in his absence to 6 months in jail for posting remarks on the Internet……so he will be whisked off to jail without ever having been able to have a defence……..the same rules never applied to the PM several years earlier?  

The above might seem as if it is a necessary step….but research shows another picture concerning the PM Sheikh Hasina….in that she herself was arrested in 2007 by the State Police on charges of extortion.  Despite looking every part a martyr and the ‘good guy’ of the people, the police were held back and had to drop the charge but came up with another when the Anti-Corruption Squad pursued her on a charge of taking bribes. In 2008 she was actually indicted and charged in court, but events turned strange and inexplicably they were dropped on a technical point of law by the High Court/Appeal Court saying it was an health issue and even though two members of her family were arrested too, the whole thing melted away into the oncoming haze.

BANGLADESH POLICE FIRE GAS AT PROTESTORS — Police Squads opened fire on factory workers who were protesting, using rubber bullets and tear gas on the third day of clashes.  The workers are asking for a minimum monthly wage to be raised…but the factory bosses are unwilling to increase the minimum wage the report says.

‘Singapore  friend or foe?’  (a Republic and Dictatorship)

CANING WRONGDOERS AND SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT AND JUDICIARY  What they do with the law is their own matter and many agree with caning for adults, and that cannot be ignored especially if the Singapore people want it.. To cane a child, even a naughty child is an abuse in law, and never on the bare because that is an indecent assault and the Singapore Government recognise that. Whether one agrees or disagrees with it adult males are caned naked and on bare bottoms and it is not considered an indecent assault of any kind; and they are given up to 24 strokes, severely administered.  In the West it is termed as state justified violence and assault, and a perversion of the law by the UK and USA. Being sent to prison and then being caned in this manner are two punishments, but the Singapore Government call it a ‘deterrent ‘ and say it prevents crime ( but crime still goes on, and the same type of crime; drugs and loan sharks, which raises the question – is the penalty really working?)– At first glance it looks as if this country really tackles wrong-doers, especially to Westerners and Europe where we are losing out on crime with inadequate sentencing, and one can be forgiven for thinking the caning thing is good, but  Amnesty International has lodged complaints against this country for many years who fly in the face of world opinion. Around 33 countries in the world — 6 percent, still use judicial corporal punishment, and it does have it’s support . Singapore boast ‘ ‘ A secure place to live in’ and it is secure, but not in the way they want you to believe. Unfortunately Free speech is suppressed, and many world critics and lawyers have said ‘ that Singapore uses criminal defamation laws to silence free speech and anyone who speaks out against them ‘   The sad case we came across was —  that in 2008, a Chinese worker, Han Xin Hui who left China on a cheap flight ticket looking for work and a new life in Singapore in 2006.  He was down on his luck, he was cheated and lied to while he was in Singapore. One employment Officer took his cash and passport leaving him with nothing. Then to make matters worse, he was arrested, jailed for one month and given 4 strokes of the cane on his bare buttocks for overstaying by the country he thought would give him a better deal. He said’ I NEVER WANT TO VISIT THIS COUNTRY AGAIN ‘  and this is a rather sad reflection on the beliefs of a country that could do better.

Note: Strangely the act of ABH –Actual Bodily Harm (which the cane would do) and GBH — Grievous Bodily Harm (the cane being given deliberately severe to scar and bloody the buttocks) is a crime in most countries in the civilised world — and it poses a serious question on how a state can commit such an act in the name of the law?

THE UN DEFINES CANING AS TORTURE — BUT SINGAPORE DISAGREED and claimed it had a deterrent value?

AUTHOR PROVOKES THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT – Alan Shadrake was promoting his book called ‘Once a Jolly Hangman’ — Singapore Justice in the Dock  — which looked at the career of hangman Darsham Singh the Chief Executioner of Singapore, who’d done around a 1,000 executions between 1959-2006. The book looked at the legal system around this as you’d expect from someone publishing a factual book.  The author was arrested in Nov 2010 and put in court charged with ‘ defamation — impugning the impartiality, integrity and independence of the judiciary ‘  The state Prosecutor wanted him to serve 12 weeks in prison, but he was sentenced to 6 weeks and fined. The guilty verdict had been decided well before he was in the dock his followers say, he had however committed ‘criminal defamation ‘ — The High Court Judge sentenced him for ‘ Contempt ‘ normally made for someone who does not obey a court order, but the author hadn’t had any order against him, nor appeared in court beforehand. Having looked at the book it is disappointingly thin on proof and not in the least as ‘ mind-blowing ‘ a piece of journalism one would have expected; others too have re-enforced this view, and some have challenged his accuracy and cited examples.  Many so-called supporting facts are said to be completely wrong and the most blatant issue around the author is that he openly provoked the authorities by entering the country when the consulate advised him not to. Shadrake lives in Malaysia and  the consequences were known to him, but he chose to ignore them, so in actual fact he deserved what he got. No-one for Shadrake came forward when we tried to contact them, which seems strange for some-one purporting to stand up for human rights, perhaps they are not so much into human rights and more into promoting publicity of a book for profit and gain, as the Singapore Government rightly inferred… and as we can see from the book, he chooses what to reveal and what not to… a similar  ideal to those who he is attacking.

In addition to this, we have now discovered that Shadrake like Nair has activated a Google Blog calling it ‘Singapore Exposed’ which is a crusade to get police sergeant Rajkumar, which is a desperate attempt to gain more publicity to show what a champion of justice he is……another pathetic attempt to bring down Singapore!

Singapore said that clemency in a hanging case was granted by the Ruler, but in actual fact it is the Cabinet who decides and informs him — and most of the Cabinet are pro-hanging and stand by executions being the solution.

‘THE WAR ON SINGAPORE’ INCIDENT — The Netherlands people demanded that a military force go to Singapore after the hanging of ‘national’ Johannes Van Damme, to bring the country down in 1994. It was never carried through despite the anger and resentment, two embassy diplomats were dismissed and consideration was given to ‘economically’ harming Singapore and discussed after certain law and constitution analysts indicated that ‘anything that hit trade and put the country in chaos on a large scale such as hitting financial institutions, embargos and sanctions were more likely to persuade and change minds in The Justice Department and Government — something allegedly used on other occasions when foreign nationals were in the spotlight. It was said that Germany did just that! but ever so secretly and diplomatically calling for people to refrain from criticising Singapore. Strangely when one considers the ‘Five Powers Defence Pact’ the Netherlands could have approached three signatories — the UK, Australia and NZ and Singapore would have just Malaysia on their side…so why didn’t they? — The USA would have sat back, as it condemned the Law style of Singapore and many other countries disliked them too, which led to diplomatic incidents. Much of this was never explained and the Singapore Government shouted loudly at world meetings that they had to deal with drug offences in their own way even if it upset other countries.

THE CANING COMPENSATION SECRECY — Five cases of ‘over-caning ‘ were settled in secrecy, the Government forced the claimants to settle out of court in a ‘ mediation ‘ so the people would not read how much compensation they had to pay. One claimant who got three more strokes because of a court error was said to have demanded $3million Singapore dollars, which seems fair, but they denied him this. One man got 24 strokes extra and sadly we don’t know of his claim, it was hushed up. In a democratic society there is at least one case where the state has been required to have the settlement judged in a court and the sum of damages announced, just as in police payouts…Singapore does not allow this to be known or be discussed in its Press. Not one settlement has been publicised in the Singapore Newspapers?

NB. It was revealed by a former caning officer that they receive 50 cents for each stroke of the cane they give.

SECRECY OVER CANING — It has also been acknowledged by the Singapore Prison Service that no relative is allowed to visit the caned prisoner for 15 days after the punishment; not even a private family doctor or lawyer?

Singapore’s Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong may say and believe that politics do not enter into decisions, but he cannot silence critics who have many times seen that this was the case and can probably show this — saying that the judiciary is aware of its responsibilities is not an affirmative answer— and his phrase ‘ judges do justice’ is only a line, a piece of rhetoric that fools no-one when you consider the secrecy over judicial payouts for ‘over-caning’……. below is the blatant contradiction of his statement:

Parliament is now accused of violating the Separation of Powers — Politics do enter decisions of a judicial nature — This was exposed by Lawyer Mr.Kumar who is challenging The Long Term Imprisonment Law saying it clearly violates the Separation of Powers as it involves Parliament telling the courts to impose a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in jail and three strokes of the cane. The 1998 Law was needed said Parliament, but went further by classifying drugs such as Ecstasy, Ermin and Ice — and the High Court has now to also decide if Parliament interfered by using these three specified drugs in its determination for court rulings. Mr Kumar is representing a Drugs Rehabilitation Centre Inmate who faces the sentence…..9,000 men have already been sentenced by this law since 1998.  He showed that the Judiciary was not acting impartial nor fairly.

IT APPEARS THAT THERE IS A PACT CALLED ‘THE FIVE POWERS DEFENCE ARRANGEMENTS’ which Singapore relies on — with countries – The United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia and itself, signed in 1971 to assist this Republic in a time of war or aggression. It seems rather strange that the Western countries in their belief that Singapore does not regard Human Rights at all do not pull out of this pact. The criticism levelled at the country over caning and the death penalty seemingly does not matter over commercial and financial interests.

SINGAPORE IS ALL FOR THE DEFENCE PACT BUT WILL NOT SIGN UP TO HUMAN RIGHTS — Foreigners must not forget that they must obey the law as Amnesty International can tell you. There is no Human Rights Charter in Singapore or for that matter, Malaysia, and neither country wishes to be bound by a Human Rights Charter or contract. Many attempts have been made to get them to agree to participating, but the Singapore Government declines and in some cases arrest people who carry out protests on this topic. Many visitors go to Singapore not knowing that they have left their comfortable rights and safeguards many miles away…only to find when they overstep the laws they are arrested, most likely jailed and fined, and in many cases caned in what Human Rights Judges say is ‘ a degrading punishment where one human being employed by the state, inflicts physical violence on another human being, which is an assault on his dignity and physical integrity’ ( 1950 Strasbourg Ruling in Europe).  Perhaps it is time for the West to stop interfering in Singapore’s punishment system?

FORMER SINGAPORE LAWYER ON REVENGE CRUSADE — One lawyer who now lives in America is definitely seeking to destroy the leader of the country’s government.  Similar to Alan Shadrake he goes about it on flimsy facts and little research, or for that matter, truthful research. Lawyer Gopalan Nair uses tactics which reflect on his honesty and he breaches that in true style by issuing two hoax communicates on the Internet, and admits to doing so. This in itself shows a kind of deceit that earns him the label of ‘ bent lawyer ‘ and quite rightly the Singapore Government jailed him, as they did Shadrake, for attempting to bring down the government using flimsy evidence and conjecture.  His tirade of articles on ‘Singapore dissidents ‘ is one long revenge tactic on leader Lee Kuan Yew and his family who have brought prosperity to the country and a rule of law envied by many other countries.  His cause and Crusade he says represents many dissident followers, and we tried to find some and ended up with not one favourable result. They were either invented or didn’t exist. We contacted him but he did not offer a reply and we pushed further on a message forum hoping he could justify his cause, but this was not published. And what of all these corrupt lawyers he  says? he offers none, yet he was in an excellent position to write all their names down, and know them — yet gives not the merest supporting data to even suggest this might be so. It has become obvious that although there are two sides of a story in order to analyze it he is only interested in his and winds up Singaporeans every week and month misleading them just as one would expect from a lawyer.  He says in his profile that he studied law in England, but that’s no great shakes as you can see in the ‘featured lawyers’ on this site…and he spouts about many lawyers in Singapore being corrupt, so I think we can come to decision on what he stands for quite quickly.

TWO SINGAPORE COPS ON BRIBERY CHARGES — We start this selection with a ‘Sunday Star’ story of two police officers, one an inspector who were both arrested for bribery.  The sum was $13,350 dollars disguised to look like loans. They were said to have come from Triad gang members — ‘protection money’

TEN SINGAPORE POLICE OFFICERS IN BRIBES TRIAL — Illegal Gambling Boss Chua Chin Hoe was found guilty of corruption — he pleaded guilty to five counts of bribing police.  59 other charges were taken into consideration.  Among the ten officers the following were named as having taken bribes on duty and benefitting from favours such as ‘bar tabs and entertainment’ and cash bribes.  Police Superintendent Mark Koh Kian Tiong (In charge of the Secret Societies Branch of the CID), now on the run as a fugitive from justice.  Staff Sergeant Tan Chee Kwong, Staff Sergeant Chong Soon Ping, Staff Sergeant Lim Kay Heng, and Police Sergeant Teng Jing King….just five of the police, the others have been kept secret.  Gambling Boss Chua regularly entertained the ten cops over the periods 2008 and on.  The court jailed him for four and a half years and fined him $20,000. Nothing was mentioned of the trials involving the ten police officers?

SINGAPORE COP TRIES TO FIT UP SERGEANT AND IS JAILED for getting a friend to fill out a false report saying Police Sgt Ng Keng Lin had taken cash from immigrants in an arrest.  The Police Sergeant of Rochor Neighbourhood Police Centre was then accused of taking the cash after one of the immigrants said his money had gone missing. So Cop Shah Rizal Samsir got Mohd Alfia Misnan to say he had seen the Sergeant pocket the cash. The Sergeant’s colleagues at the arrest were not mentioned nor is it clear where the missing money went..if there was any. Policeman Samsir was jailed for three months.

TWO FORMER AUXILIARY COPS OF SINGAPORE HAVE BEEN JAILED for Bribery and Passport offences. Krishna Rajahran 31yrs, was jailed for 18 months, and officer Loganathan Samugan 26 yrs, was jailed for 12 months.

AUXILIARY COP Tan Yam Teck, a former Aetos officer was jailed for assisting a loan shark and illegal money-lending operation. He was jailed for 21 months and fined 30,000 Singapore dollars.

SINGAPORE NARCOTICS BUREAU OFFICER IS CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION — Staff Sergeant Lim Tian Siew was charged with four counts of failing to arrest drug offenders and that he failed to mention a $30,000 bribe made. Lim is also known as Lang Tian Siew.

COMPUTER MISUSE COP Mohammed Rahim pleaded guilty to 16 charges of using the computer database to check on a teenager. It was said at his trial that he made around a dozen unauthorised checks. He was jailed for 20 weeks and suspended from the Singapore Police Force.

COMPUTER MISUSE POLICE SERGEANT IS JAILED FOR 18 WEEKS — Sergeant Lim Ming Kian from the Central Police Division illegally accessed the computer to find out if his wife’s former lover had filed a report against him.  He pleaded guilty to 12 counts of Misusing the Police Computer.

TWO SINGAPORE CID COPS have been questioned and accused of failing to report illegal immigrants and having involvement with illegal money-lending activities which is a criminal act. CID Staff Sergeant Idris Makrob was charged with failing to report the illegal immigrants along with being in business with three fellow shareholders who were involved in illegal money lending between 2006 and 2008.  Fellow CID Sergeant Hairy Mohd Salleh was also charged.

Cop Idris Makrob the CID Police Staff Sergeant was jailed for 10 weeks.

SINGAPORE COP Mohammed A.Roslan was jailed for two months after admitting thirteen charges in relation to unauthorised use of the Police Computer to track down an ex-lover.

FULL TIME POLICE SERVICEMAN Sularman Firdaus, with the Singapore Police was jailed for 18 months for smuggling tobacco and cigarettes to prison inmates. He pleaded guilty to three charges of corruption, 2 charges being cheating– it was said he made a profit out of the illegal supply of contraband items.

SINGAPORE POLICEMAN LET LOANSHARK USE HIS BANK ACCOUNT — Cop Tan Yam Teck a former Aetos Officer was jailed by the district court for two and a half months and fined 30,000 Singapore Dollars.

SINGAPORE COP found dead after debt to loanshark and bank became too much. Aetos Policeman Lee Kong Beng was found dead with a suicide note — it was said that he owed around $40,000.

SINGAPORE COP IN COMPUTER MISUSE IS JAILED — Sheik Farsal Abdul Kader who was a Station Inspector, received a prison sentence for unlawfully using the police computer to track down a maid over a love affair gone wrong. He asked the court to take 11 other offences into consideration.

SINGAPORE POLICE SERGEANT PLEADS GUILTY — Kempong Neighbourhood Police Sergeant Anthony Wu Zhihao was found guilty of a breach o0f trust when he pocketed 435 dollars handed in when he was on desk duty and received the wallet. He was jailed for four months.

SINGAPORE EX-POLICE INSPECTOR did nine years in jail for fraud, appeared before a court for failing to honour deal with Lawyer. Former Cop Michael Ng Fook Khau was ordered to pay  Ms Chan Pui Woo $18 million dollars. It was said that he withheld background information such as going to jail and having several failed business when he went to the lawyer. he also claimed he had assets of $64 million in a UK Bank. It was also discovered that a fund he cited as guarantee was in fact fictitious. The court told him to pay the sum, the largest known. eighteen million Singapore Dollars.

SINGAPORE POLICE SERGEANT JAILED FOR 5 YEARS — Former Police Sergeant Mohammed Farsal Mohamed Yusoff was found guilty of five counts of housebreaking and theft. He asked for ten other charges to be taken into consideration.  The offences took place during Aug 2011 and up to Feb 2012 while he was with the Divisional Intelligence Branch of the Central Police Division Headquarters. He was a cop by day, and a burglar at night!

SINGAPORE POLICE SUPERINTENDENT ARRESTED IN VICE-RING CHARGES — Police Superintendent Tan Wee Kiat (also known by another name?) was arrested and charged after 80 men were brought in over an online sex ring and sex with a minor….read the SINGAPORE VICE SCANDAL for more.

SINGAPORE CNB POLICE OFFICER IS JAILED — Senior Investigation Officer Muhammad Nur Wagiyoh was jailed for 13 months by a District Court who found him guilty of five counts of misappropriating $7,000 of suspects cash…..committed around 2010.  An officer of several years, he collected the possessions on suspects and logged them, but he pocketed the money saying they’d get it back….but that never happened.

SECOND CNB OFFICER IS JAILED — Another Investigations Officer – Staff Sergeant Mohamad Hasri Haron has been jailed for 15 months for misappropriating suspect’s money.  It was revealed that he took around S$8,000 from six suspects during 2009 to 2010.  It was also said that he forged the signature of a drug offender to deceive the authorities into believing the man had got his money back.

POLICE TORTURE CLAIM is revealed in court  — Businessman Ong Su Ping claimed in front of the Judge that he had been arrested for receiving stolen goods and subjected to a ‘unnatural personal attack’ by police officers who were conducting the interrogation and interview.  He said he had been forced to consume urine and other degrading acts over a four hour period to make him confess.  The 32 year-old said since the assault he had been having nightmares about the incident. The District Judge advised the Prosecution to bring in a new Investigation Officer to take over the case and adjourned the proceedings until that matter was dealt with.

SINGAPORE POLICE IN MISCONDUCT ALLEGATIONS — Allegations of assaults and threats against the police are to be investigated by Internal Affairs according to the Straits Press.  Two ex-SMRT bus drivers have made official allegations of mistreatment during police interrogations — the men, Ling and Xiangying say they were beaten up while in custody (punched, slapped and threatened).

SINGAPORE POLICE SERGEANT HAD SEX WITH ILLEGAL WORKER — Senior Staff sergeant Lim Yew Chuan was jailed for two weeks for neglect of duty as he had not issued a warning ticket to a 29 year old woman working in Singapore illegally. Instead, he had sex with her and tried to have the thing forgotten.

POLICE OFFICER CHARGED with neglect of duty — The Policeman who was in charge of an assault case involving three expats who jumped bail in 2011, was himself charged.  The Minister S.Iswaran would only say that an internal inquiry was looking into the case and it was in the hands of the Police Disciplinary Board.

SINGAPORE SENIOR POLICE OFFICER KEPT BROTHEL TRIPS SECRET — Station Inspector Choy Ah Kiong of the Island’s CID was fined 800 dollars for police misconduct over his secret assignation with vice woman — He was accused in court of flouting the rules and regulations because he did not record interactions with a brothel owner on two trips to China.  It was stated that he had now retired from the police and was anxious to retain a pension?

EX-SINGAPORE POLICEMAN IS JAILED FOR 14 MONTHS — Former Staff Sergeant Mohd Hisham Atan was sent to prison for fourteen months by the District Court where he pleaded guilty to fabricating evidence and forging police statements.

POLICE STATION INSPECTOR IS FINED $5,000 OVER DEATH — Senior Station Inspector Goh Sien Hiang was fined and banned from driving for two years after she admitted to driving without due care.  She killed an elderly pedestrian when she drove out without looking or considering the pedestrian.

POLICE SERGEANT GETS JAIL AND CANE – Police Sergeant Kevin Wu Zhenhao was jailed for 16 months and received 3 strokes of the cane after pleading guilty to molesting a drunk woman — the event being caught on CCTV. He was also charged with 7 counts of computer misuse which were taken in consideration.

SINGAPORE COP JAILED FOR UNDERAGE SEX — Police Officer and former Port Inspector Alvin Chen Zi Yoy was caught up in Singapore’s Underage Sex scandal still ongoing…..he received a 12 week prison sentence.

SINGAPORE VOLUNTARY POLICE SERGEANT IS JAILED — Police Sergeant Jeffrey Chua was jailed for one day and fined $1,000 dollars for the abuse of his warrant card…it was stated that he had used it to get discount in a sex situation – it was said he flashed it at the club girls intimating it should get him special treatment.

POLICE STAFF SERGEANT CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION — Police Sergeant Parthiven Ramaya of the Ang Mo Kio Police Division was arrested on charges of bribery appertaining to his request for sexual favours in return for recommending leniency in the girl’s theft case.  It was stated that this extended to three other occasions.

Update: Police Staff Sergeant Ramaya was jailed for 14 months for corruption.

POLICE CORRUPTION IN SINGAPORE IS REAL, but denied by the Government, as with the above cases, if a cop can try to fit up another cop, then it must be easier to fit up civilians and foreign tourists. We were in contact with a former inmate of the Shangi Prison who confirmed this, and said that other inmates talked of being able to bribe cops until the price could not be met and they were thrown to the authorities. We asked him why he could or they could not benefit from pointing out a bent cop or guard, and he came straight back with ‘ if you accuse an officer and cannot substantiate your claim they come down hard on you saying you are lying and that gets you caned and more jail. ‘ How can you get the evidence when you’re locked up or the cops have searched your home and made things disappear?’ We were ready to question that until we got hold of the Prison Rules, and that had an offence — ‘ Making false allegations about an officer ‘ listed as a serious offence, which carries 12 of the cane, and extra prison time, so we know what our contact said was the truth. (see ten cops  taking bribes)MYSTERY SURROUNDS SUICIDE OF AUXILIARY POLICE OFFICER: A Certis Cisco Auxiliary Woman Police Officer in Singapore who worked on duty at the Supreme Court shot herself.  The 20 year old was said to have gone to the toilets and discharged a gun resulting in her death. The Malaysian’s death is being investigated.

SECOND AUXILIARY POLICE OFFICER SHOOTS HIMSELF — Thirunavukarasu Sandanasamy, a Cisco Certis Police Officer shot himself in the head with his gun just two days before Christmas.  An inquest said that among other things, he was unhappy with his job.

CERTIS CISCO INSPECTOR IN MOLEST CASE — Officer Neo Chip Wei, an Inspector was jailed for three years and ordered to receive three strokes of the cane after being convicted of molesting a 12 year old girl.

TWO CERTIS COPS JAILED FOR THEFT — Two Officers who were entrusted to transport cash to bank machines were jailed for dishonestly misappropriating $146,900.  Palwinder Singh Harjan Singh and Theywa Subramiam both helped themselves to the cash…one got 3 years jail and the other got 30 months.

THREE SINGAPORE COPS ARE JAILED FOR THEFT — The three men who were on National Service with the Police raided their own police station when the commanding officer was not there.  The burglary spree involved the theft of phones, laptop computers and pc stuff.  Muhammad Erman Iman Tauhid got 18 months prison. Vigilante Corps Officer Mohammad Yunas Aziz got 14 months, and Cop Saiful Rizam Assim got 7 months jail.

SINGAPORE FORMER COP CONVICTED IN SEX CASE — Probationary Police Inspector Daniel Ong Cher Sian received 15 months probation when he appeared before the District Court.  He was charged and pleaded guilty to committing sex offences (insulting modesty) against three women.  It was said that he had rubbed himself against them for sexual pleasure – he was described as a sexual deviant who had a sexual disorder.

OFF DUTY PROTECTION OFFICER IS JAILED — Singapore Officer Jay Prakash Jageshwar was jailed for a period of four weeks following his attack on a retired man of 69yrs.  It was said that he was annoyed and lashed out at the old man Ngoh Jat Peng hitting him and kicking him to the ground.

SINGAPORE AUXILIARY COP JAILED   — For knowingly pocketing money, Cop Mohamed Yassin Sampol was jailed for misappropriating money at a checkpoint.  He saw the money bag fall to the floor when the woman was leaving, and when she did not notice, he went and pocketed it.  He also pleaded guilty to fraudulently possessing items including 5 ez-link cards.

POLICE STAFF SERGEANT ARRESTED IN KOVAK DOUBLE MURDER — Sgt Iskandar bin Rahmat  was extradited and brought back to Singapore as a prime suspect in a double murder.  The Officer who worked at the Bedock Police Division in Singapore for 14 years was said to have been badly in debt and suspended at the time of the murders and was facing disciplinary action.

SUPPORT POLICE OFFICER IS JAILED FOR 3 MONTHS —  A Senior Support Police Officer in the Singapore Police was jailed for theft after taking four iPads.   Officer Yap Bao Fa was based at the Police Headquarters in Irrawaddy Road,…. he admitted to 3 counts of theft including the iPads that he stole in September 2012.  Four other charges were taken into consideration.

SINGAPORE POLICE CORPORAL JAILED —  ‘Demanding money by threats’ — Police Corporal Shawn Lim Zi Han was jailed for five months for trying to obtain money, $150 dollar fine, from a man whom he saw vulnerable to his position in the Law.  The Clementi Neighbourhood Police Centre Cop was called a disgrace by the judge.

FORMER SINGAPORE POLICE DETECTIVE CONVICTED OF LOAN-SHARKING — Detective Sergeant Choo Hock Leng was fined $50,000 dollars when he was convicted of loan sharking by the court.  The ‘award-winning’ cop was said to have committed the offences whilst in the Police Force and was assisted by fellow officers Senior Staff Sgt Tan Lay Hin and Sgt Goh Cheng Huat.

SINGAPORE POLICE EMPLOYEE IN MOTOR INSURANCE SCAM — Technical Support Officer Ruhaima Sinin appeared in court charged with two counts of conspiracy and cheating the NYUC Income Insurance by falsely claiming $21,887 in a staged accident.

FORMER SINGAPORE POLICE SERGEANT IN COURT — Facing 60 charges, ex cop Norazly Joihani a former Bedok Police Division Officer faces 60 ‘slew’ offences — including Forgery and Breach of Trust which he is said to have committed between 2009/10.  He was also accused of misappropriating $2,700 dollars he was entrusted with….he faces up to 20 years in jail plus a fine.

Joihani was jailed for 15 months for tampering with police reports and assignments,

FORMER COP JAILED — Ex -Singapore Policeman Ling Hock Huat was jailed for six months by the court for a criminal breach of trust.  He pled guilty to one count of corruption – he took $2,000 from a case he should have handed to his supervisors.  It was said in court that he used the money for personal expenses and to pay off a debt.

CNB OFFICER JAILED FOR THREE MONTHS — Narcotics Bureau  Police Officer Low Vins was convicted of making two false reports, said to be as a result of sheer laziness according to the Singapore Court.

SINGAPORE CPIB OFFICER FACES 21 FRAUD CHARGES – Assistant Director of the Police Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau – Edwin Yeo Seow Hiong faces 12 counts of using the proceeds of his crime for gambling, 8 counts for criminal breach of trust and 1 count of forgery.  He was bailed under the security of a $500,000 dollars bail bond.  He was charged with misappropriating 1.7 million dollars from the Anti-Bribery and Corruption Agency?

Update: Edwin Yeo Seow Hiong was given a ten year sentence for misappropriating money during 2009 – 2011.

FORMER CPIB OFFICER IN COURT — Facing charges of cheating and theft, the assistant with the Corrupt Practices Investigations Bureau was charged with 15 offences relating to cheating and theft.  Christopher Gan Boon Khong faces two counts of theft, twelve other charges relating to cheating, and another single charge of hurt relating to an assault incident.  Details point to stolen credit cards in this case.

THE CLOUD OF MYSTERY AND GOVERNMENT ‘FIXING’ OVER NARCOTICS CNB POLICE SERGEANT? — Much has been raised — just as it has been suppressed — concerning Police Sergeant S. Rajkumar whose evidence succeeded in hanging Vines Mourthi, and this was amid accusations against him for rape and sodomy prior to him arresting Mourthi in a drugs bust which had all the hallmarks of a USA Movie about Cops gone Bad!!     His trial was delayed for two years while they safely hanged Mourthi who claimed his innocence right up to the rope being put around his neck.  A Court handed Sgt Rajkumar  fifteen months, and that is from a judiciary that slams crime hard albeit petty crime or otherwise — they like making examples of criminals, but this was not done in the cop’s case, in fact there were no charges brought for rape and sodomy, they simply just disappeared off the radar. Instead, lesser ones were put in place at the hearing more less like a ‘Changeling’ — the real explanation as yet to be found.

NEW MYSTERY OF DIPLOMAT AND HOSTILE GOVERNMENT — Romanian Diplomat Silviu Ionescu claimed he was the victim of a Singapore State Conspiracy — as he is charged and tried for a second time concerning a road accident.  He claims that as in the previous case, the evidence has been doctored.  It was a fact that another charge earlier concerning motoring in a Diplomatic car, he contested a witness statement and proved he was at a meeting and not at the scene.  We contacted Mr Ionescu through a third party and found that his troubles began when he fell out with officials in Government at ‘privileged meetings’ of State.  His Lawyer replied in answer to his client’s claim of being framed saying ‘ This has to do with secret things that cannot be revealed publicly’  Mr Ionescu said he was not at all surprised they had tried to ‘fit him up’ again, but would rather they hadn’t.

SINGAPORE CNB – ERROR? OR ATTEMPT TO MISLEAD? – Three years of annual error, that is what The Central Narcotics Bureau blame on computers!  This led to drug abusers arrest figures being publicly seen as ‘falling’ when in fact they weren’t.  Many perceived that the numbers were down when used to support the crime figures as falling during the period of 2008 to 2010 inclusive. Ng Boon Gay the Chief of the CNB was publicly forced to reveal this error, and alarmingly added the words ‘ There’s no miscarriage of justice as a result of this error’  In 2008 they reported to the Singapore public that there was 1,925 drug abuse arrests, the real figure was 2,537 a rise of 25 percent in actual terms. In 2009 a Government statement said there was 1,883 arrests, but the real figure was 2,616, almost 30 percent more, and in 2010 they made claims of 1,805 drug abuse arrests, whereas the truth was 2,887, around 33 percent, showing a steady rise of drug crimes year by year. All three figures of the ‘the low kind’ were presented for three years showing wide discrepancies that would have led the public to believe in ‘the lower crime’ rhetoric claimed by The Singapore Government, and no-one would have challenged that — the blame on computer error is convenient, but over three years?

DISCLOSURE BY SINGAPORE POLICE SUBJECT TO ‘Behind closed doors decisions’ — sparked condemnation in the Ismil Kadar Case when he was convicted of murder, which was reduced to Robbery with hurt, and then cleared of any offence?  — ‘Serious Lapses’ by police — and Prosecution withholding statement evidence from Defence? led to Workers Party MP Sylvia Lim raising the matter with Law Minister K.Shanmugam…. but this isn’t all? —In another case of ‘flawed evidence’ and ‘unsafe verdict’ Asman Sanwan was due to be on the scaffold for murder — was acquitted after being on death row for two years in 2010…both these cases feature legal scandals.

PRISON OFFICER IN MOLEST CASE DOES DEAL — to save himself from becoming a prisoner!  Staff Sergeant Selvaraj Karuppiah settled the case with an apology and compensated for his offence by paying the un-named victim $10,000 dollars.

PRISON OFFICER JAILED OVER MESSAGE SMUGGLING — A Prison Officer became an inmate himself when he was found guilty of passing a message to a prisoner and taking out one….conveying unauthorised message to an inmate is a breach of the rules….Former Officer Parameswaran Servadurai pleaded guilty to two charges under the Prison Act…a third charge was taken into consideration.  He was jailed for two weeks.

FORMER PRISON OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY TO MURDER — Former Junior Prison Officer Lim Wee Thong faces the death penalty or life imprisonment with a caning for the murder of his girlfriend, who he stabbed to death.  He also admitted 15 offences of stealing from her.  His Lawyers are asking for the jail term and wish to have him assessed medically for suitability for caning.

PRISON OFFICER FINED OVER CAUSING DEATH — Deputy Superintendent Lim Kwo Yin pleaded guilty to negligence and having failed to supervise to subordinate warders at the Shangi Jail in Singapore, when they restrained a prisoner who had been sentenced to reformative training for rioting and theft.  In 2007 he was around 16yrs old when he was tried and convicted, and was released in January 2010, but was recalled to prison for failing to comply with his supervision order.  The matter of this ‘prison death’ has taken 3 years for this officer to be brought to book (not without delay and interference from the authorities), and the family have been ‘barred’ from knowing the exact circumstances……the report says that the prisoner’s mother is considering legal action against the prison.  The man’s death was worth ‘ $10,000’ to Singapore, that is the amount of their humanity!

PRISON OFFICER CASE TAKES NEW TURNING — Is it another Shane Todd Whitewash?   This seemingly ordinary case appears to be taking a more sinister twist as the truth collides with secrecy and a hurry to have this out of the News.  The Second Minister for Home Affairs S Iswaran told Parliament that the State Coroner had discontinued the inquiry saying death had been established in the Criminal Court………..yet there has been a ‘reluctance’ to release this full report of the Coroner’s Inquiry…..and a Report in The Shane Todd Case was held back when Shane’s parents tried to see it.           The death of Prisoner Dinesh Chinnaiah by Warders is being challenged by the family lawyer who points out that there had been no forensic findings on how, when and where the deceased met his death…..and the Second Minister said nothing of the news that the mother of the inmate who died after being restrained at Changi Prison has launched a court bid to have the Coroner’s inquiry into his death re-opened, (Aug 22/2013)…..is this yet another case of the Government trying to close another disturbing case that puts the Judiciary in a bad light and reveals more than they want known?

NEWS ON ‘ Prisoner Death Case’ (above) — It has now transpired that the ‘whitewash’ is complete because the Attorney General’s Chambers have stepped in and closed the new inquiry asked for…they issued a statement saying ‘ there will not be any further inquiry into the death of the inmate’

SINGAPORE POLICE IN PUBLIC ABDUCTION — Captured on camera and subject on you-tube, the Police in more than an average number are seen harassing a woman and threatening her.  The officers are asked several times to explain and say from which station they belong. None do so, as she walks along the path, and as she points out several times, no other citizen is being challenged or subjected to this intrusive behaviour.  She is manhandled by the police several times, which could be argued as assault, but the police continue harassing her claiming she is in a ‘Protected area’ which is rather ambiguous by any official standard, yet other people are in this so-claimed area, and they are not being challenged.  In the end she and a colleague are bundled off in a police vehicle. She asks why and where they are being taken to, but no officer in the vehicle seems to know, one officer tries to seize and block the man’s camera from taking pictures of them…is this natural police activity?

Incidentally, the above police incident revealed that this was a ‘Special Operations’ task force…ordered by who?

SINGAPORE POLICE HARASS SILENT PROTESTORS — YouTube showed a 2006 Protest by 4 silent protestors in Singapore displaying their t-shirts with a message demanding transparency and accountability in Singapore’s State Managed Pension Fund and other Government linked Agencies. Officers approached the four and circled them several times until Riot Police arrived in full gear to put pressure on them.

SINGAPORE POLICE ACCUSED OF ASSAULTS — ‘the Little India Riots’…… news has emerged from Workfair Singapore that some detainees have been the subject of police assaults taking place where no cameras are placed….. and strangely, the Public prosecutor has been requested to investigate the claims, much like the situation of ‘police investigating the police’ which is neither satisfactory or reassuring for justice.  In addition to this situation, the authorities have arbitrarily deported 53 ‘rioters’ without trial!

FORMER SINGAPORE COP POCKETS 100 DOLLARS IS JAILED — A police corporal who worked at the registration department of the police Cantonment Complex, Desmond Soh Wei Feng (attached to the Bedok Police Division) was found guilty of a criminal breach of trust when he pocketed $100 belonging to man held in custody….. he was jailed for three months.

SINGAPORE IMMIGRATION OFFICER GUILTY OF DISHONESTY — Sergeant Edmund Jegan Anthony was jailed for nine months for dishonestly obtaining cash for his own use from motorist’s cash cards at the Woodlands Checkpoint where he worked on booth patrol on the Singapore border.

SINGAPORE IMMIGRATION STAFF SERGEANT JAILED FOR SIX WEEKS — Staff Sergeant Khusin Zaun was sent to prison for six weeks after being found guilty of submitting false information to the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau. He was assigned to the Immigration Checkpoints Authority.

CHECKPOINT OFFICER TAKES A BRIBE — A Singapore Checkpoint Authority ICA Specialist took fees for social visit passes from foreigners entering Singapore.  Corporal Mohammed Mustaff Mohabat Ali  was jailed for 21 months by the District Court, he admitted 12 of 35 charges of corruption – he worked at the Tuas Checkpoint.

ANOTHER SINGAPORE IMMIGRATION OFFICER IS JAILED — Staff Sergeant Mohammed Saqib Mohd Ghalib who worked at The Checkpoints Immigration Authority — The Woodlands Checkpoint, admitted in the District Court to 5 charges of fraudulently forging medical certificates and making alterations without authority. 10 other charges were taken into consideration — the Sergeant who had worked with the Authority for seven years was sentenced to four months imprisonment.

SINGAPORE IMMIGRATION OFFICER IN COMPUTER MISUSE IS JAILED — Ng Chun Wei of The Border Watch Unit was jailed for two months and fined $9,000 dollars. He admitted to three charges of computer misuse and another charge of corruption involving bribery.  In addition, he asked for 21 more offences of computer misuse to be considered plus lying to the CPIB when questioned.

YET ANOTHER SINGAPORE IMMIGRATION OFFICER IS JAILED — Maznah Abdulla pleaded guilty to two charges of cheating and giving false testimony to the police.  She was involved in a car insurance sting and staged a fake accident to claim insurance money…..she was jailed for one month.

TWO MORE IMMIGRATION CHECKPOINT OFFICERS ARE JAILED — Checkpoint Officers with the ICA, Mohamed Nazrul Noor Mohamed and Lukmanulhakim Samsun were each jailed for four months for accepting bribes.

SINGAPORE CUSTOMS OFFICER CHARGED WITH FRAUD — Officer Mohamed Yusof Abdul Rahman was formally charged with corruption.  He faced 29 counts of corruptly accepting $11,400 and 103 counts of assisting fraudulent claims in refunds totalling half a million dollars.  Five others are also on trial involved in the scam.

SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT MANPOWER SENIOR INVESTIGATOR IN SEX FOR FAVOURS CASE — Senior Officer of Investigations Norezwan Em appeared in Court charged with bribery — it was said that the officer obtained sexual favours from Chinese National Liu Lihua to help her stay in Singapore.  Further testimony said that the officer also met up with her at the Oxley Hotel 88 in Geylang last year.

SINGAPORE MILITARY COLONEL IN UNDERAGE SEX TRIAL —  Lieutenant Colonel Emlyn Thomas Thariyan is accused of having sex with an underage prostitute at Hotel 81 Bencoolen — it was said that he paid 500 dollars. He is one of a number of men involved in the trials now ongoing. (Feb 2011)

GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION IN SINGAPORE — Real and identified in a leaked document — Corruption or a Dictator’s perks? — The Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement 16 detainees had been detained for their subversive activities which posed a threat to national security, and that they were not detained for their political beliefs–but this statement and claim was later rebutted by the government? Yet they went on to say 9 of the detainees were involved in Communist United Front activities in support of the Party in Malaya, which they said was committed to the violent overthrow of the Singapore Government and Malaysia — and the other seven were involved in a Marxist plot to subvert and destabilise Singapore, none of which was supported by evidence.  Around this time Seow joined the Singapore Legal Service and rose through the ranks to become Solicitor General after serving under the administration of then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, and was appointed senior counsel to a Commission Inquiry. He was later suspended from practising Law for 12 months by Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin for a breach of an undertaking given on behalf of his junior law partner to the Attorney-General at that time. He was later elected a member of the Council of The Law Society and went on to become President. This eventually led to him falling out with Lee Kuan Yew after a bitter row over the politics and role of The Law Society. He was in favour of the restoration of the role of the law society to, inter alia, comment on legislation that the government was churning out without any meaningful parliamentary debate, a role which Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew took especial dislike and exception to. Lee in retaliation drew up special legislation depriving the law society of any powers to comment on any legislation unless allowed to or sought by the government.  Seow later ran for Parliament but lost marginally. Macabre events followed when he was suddenly detained without trial and accused of having received funds from the USA and advice for the purpose of promoting democracy in Singapore. According to his released diary he had been subjected to torture, sleep deprivation and other acts of inhumanity in prison and accused of being an American stooge. Whilst waiting trial for yet another charge by Lee of tax evasion, he left the country and was convicted in his absence. All these events are said to have been politically motivated and part of a pattern of lawsuits and criminal proceedings against dissenters in Singapore.

The then former head of MI5 in the UK acknowledged that without proper balanced legislation, the intelligence and security agency becomes a repressive organ of the state at best, and this was where Singapore was heading if the Law Chiefs were not being involved in passing or debating laws of the country.

In 1996 Lee Kuan Yew and his son Deputy Prime Minister admitted to receiving discounts on purchases of luxury apartments whilst in office, incidentally supplied by Hotel Property Ltd — one director being Lee Kuan Yew’s younger brother?  with the support of Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. But no one was accused of corruption as they might have been elsewhere in the world. PAP politicians were paid salaries that superseded their counterparts in the USA or Japan?  Parliament is made up of 2 opposition members to a ruling 84 government members?  Yew controls the Press, and opposition to his rule is dealt with by fair means or foul, mostly the latter. Even today, the Judiciary is controlled by him and this is seen all too clearly in high profile incidents.

WHO  IS THE REAL LEE KUAN YEW? and what does he stand for?  Conflicting and contradictory is certainly one of the answers…and this is yet again revealed by something that happened in 1986.  ‘ Lee Kuan Yew and the Special Branch Officer’  — A Mr.Yong? who claims there was gross dishonesty practised by Lee, not once but twice.  The Special Branch man apparently worked as an undercover agent for The CIA..all with Lee’s knowledge in 1961 where the story actually began. There was a disagreement about PAP policy that was seen to be oppressive, especially as they would dock civil servant’s pay if they didn’t cooperate.  The second fallout and mistruth is somewhat more serious. This happened at The Select Committee hearing of the Legal Profession (Amendment) Bill on the 9th October 1986 — and that this officer officer had been asked to quit as Director of The CPIB in connection with the investigations of four detectives by the CPIB following an Official Complaint by the then Solicitor General, Mr.Francis Seow.  The Officer was accused of helping out his friend Mr.Francis Seow, and having the four detectives dismissed. He said the accusation was a figment of MM Lee’s imagination, and that he was able to prove that he had been appointed Director of the ISD following his time spent in the CPIB — The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau — he says these are glaring examples of the recklessness of MM Lee Kuan Yew who had little regard for the truth!!

Confusing? yes, but there’s no smoke without fire, and somewhere in there lies a truth possibly more shocking if it were known. The central players here, The PAP, Lee Kuan Yew, CPIB, and ISD (Internal Security Department) and CIA make for a very toxic combination. Mr.Yong, being with the ISD does not bode well either as you will see in the article ‘ The Evils of Singapore ISD’ …and the above article could well be ‘ a fallout and tiff finally revealed’

SINGAPORE AND BRITAIN COLLUDE TO DESTROY OPPOSITION — In 1963, Britain conspired and collaborated with the PAP and Lee to crush the opposition.  These ‘secret’ documents were revealed by Poo Soo Kai who uncovered de-classified British Archive documents relating to ‘Operation Coldstore’ in which the British were to assist the PAP crush the opposition before the 1963 General Elections.  Many of the Opposition were arrested under the ISA and held in detention without trial, many were tortured, and Lee approved it, once saying that ‘the biggest punishment a man can receive is total isolation in a dungeon, black and complete withdrawal of stimuli, that is real torture’ this is real detention for all prisoners without exception………Britain backed Lee Kuan Yew.

SINGAPORE COLLUDES WITH MALAYSIA TO HELP DESTROY BRITISH ‘ATROCITY’ SECRETS — The Singapore Government waved through several lorries through its border checkpoint in the knowledge they were carrying British Government ‘secrets’ that must be destroyed and incinerated at the Singapore Naval Base.  The secret material had it been seen would look bad for Britain — it travelled down from the British High Commission in Malaysia.

THE SINGAPORE MYSTERY MONEY — The question ‘ask Mr Goh Chock Tong about the missing S$17million dollars of taxpayers money’ seems to have angered the Singapore Government into libel claims etc, according to an American Observer USA student Bryan Murphy — And by all accounts they have never answered this.

In 1995, Deputy Chief Mr Choy Hon Tim was jailed for 14 years for taking 14 million Singapore dollars in bribes for giving out privileged information — he was a chief executive of the National Water agency.

SINGAPORE SLIDES UP TO FIVE IN CORRUPTION STATE CHART after being a relative No 1 least corruption country, meaning that it has lost it’s claim to being at the bottom of the league which is measured in opposite ends. However, it is Singapore claiming it and publishing it through its Government owned paper The Straits Times which it controls, so it’s claim to be more cleaner can be treated with a pinch of salt, as this is more likely a government publicity piece of propaganda. It says it has been polled by the Transparency International? saying Government corruption is getting less, and there is no real proof of this, and this press piece does not alter that.

JOURNALIST SAYS REDUCED CORRUPTION CLAIM BY SINGAPORE IS A JOKE — Thai Correspondent, John Symons says that the rating by the Transparency International Group is absolutely farcical and could never be calculated when no free press exists…the state is holding all the cards and can make up anything it likes. He says Whistleblowers are not protected as they are in democratic countries, and they could face imprisonment.

A case in point supplied by a contact points at the matter of Singapore Technology being blacklisted by India in a Corruption Probe to Sin City? (we have no details as yet of that but will persevere and investigate it)

SINGAPORE CORRUPTION only Hidden, not resolved despite claims by Minister — Harchand Singh, a former Branch Union Official with Semco (co-owned by the Government) says that corruption was routine government business engaged in by the PAP – The Peoples Action Party. He says he saw this over and over again until he made the mistake of upsetting one man — Chua Eng Boon who received promotion. Singh says that Corporate life has long been corrupt but few people ever dare to speak out, and those that do are in big trouble. He tells us of how he was a union man from 1987 to 1998 and during that time he saw many ‘kickbacks’ usually ten per cent of the contract agreed. Singh, who is a Singaporean, says his days were numbered when he had an exchange with Boon who threatened him. In retaliation and in the heat of the exchange, Singh said he would expose the corruption and had the documents,…and then came the attempts to frame him, so Singh quickly removed himself and the evidence, which we hope to look at as we contacted him and are waiting to discover more.

SINGAPORE PAP — THE SINISTER TOOL OF SUPPRESSION — Silencing the opposition or free-willed seems to be regular sport for the Singapore Government in its misuse of the law for its own purposes and not that of the general people. Defamation has been on a tortuous route through the judiciary and is being used like a gun or knife to wound all dissenters alike. An article recently found says that Joshua B. Jeyoretnam who was with the Workers Party was repeatedly sued by the Government and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong who it says sues individuals and others. A rebuttal issued by Singapore’s Press Secretary to the Minister for Information, Communications to the Arts — Peer M.Akbur in the Wall St Journal defending defamation actions sets about trashing the facts regarding date of the original article and spouts about the honour of protecting free speech by using defamation cases to support it which is nonsense. The Press Secretary makes no comment on the many times it was used — as it was in the Shadrake Case and The TRE-meritus actions. No mention is made of having to apply for permission to speak in public or the fact that police are sent to covertly listen in at meetings with a view to arresting or bringing defamation suits against anyone who seriously contradicts the PAP.  There is one decision only in the court, that of the Judge in sole authority (there are no juries at all in any court) and the Government have that sown up…so the conclusion is obvious. Alarmingly, Joshua was accused of saying words in an article in Tamil? a language he neither understood or could write!! so one has to question whether this really constitutes ‘evidence’ and legal proof he did it, and that would not stand up in a International Court, the prosecution would have to show reasonable cause to suspect or educational evidence to support the theory he was able to understand it and write in Tamil.. Peer M.Akbur says the article at the time was found to be defamatory? and damages awarded with an apology….but this refers to the article he did not write which may have been so proved….but it appears the prosecution in Singapore has to prove very little if nothing but the mere suggestion the defendant is guilty!  This article is in support of his son Kenneth Jeyaretnam of the Reform Party who wants to see true democracy for Singaporeans.

THE P.A.P. was formed in 1954 by an Englishman! later to be headed by Lim Chin Siong, Lee Kuan Yew and Fong Swee Suan — to bring about independence for the small Island State. Britain declined this at the London Constitutional talks, but by 1959 it was achieved but at a cost – Lim attacked Communist ideals; the Singaporean Chinese which did him harm in the long run. What followed were allegations of civil rights violations and people being detained without trial. Lee Kuan Yew won the day and many critics said the PAP had rejected Western Liberal Policies in favour of something more authoritarian. But Independence had been granted and that was it.

P.A.P –‘Not so popular now, it lost ground and face when it only got 67 per cent of the vote in 2006  — Reuben Wong said the electorate were obviously responding to a lot of public unhappiness!!

SINGAPORE POLITICS ENTER ‘DIRTY TRICKS PHASE’ — Hougang residents accused the PAP of penalising voters because they decided to vote for the opposition.  Allegations of dishonesty were levelled against the Workers Party over the candidacy of Mr Png Eng Huat, who said it was an attempt to discredit them.

P.A.P. ATTACKS ON CANDIDATE designed to destroy his credibility — Recent history reveals the case of James Gomez and the ‘ dirty tricks to smear his reputation’ actively carried out by PAP — aided by Lee Kuan Yew and Wang Kan Seng,  The incident revolved around an election form that PAP made an issue out of firing up the PM Lee Kuan Yew to call Gomez ‘a liar’ — going onto publicly to say that James Gomez had ‘perpetrated a dirty trick’ when no such evidence proved it so.  But being Prime Minister, Lee didn’t have to prove that, challenges against Lee always fail. His Deputy Prime Minister Wang said Gomez ‘showed blatant dishonesty’ — again without proof, and would never have to do so. The ‘acid criticism’ by PAP during the election continued and gathered strength, saying that Gomez did not submit the required form, a form he didn’t need to submit. He did claim to submit a registration form, but PAP said he hadn’t.  The Government STRAITS TIMES joined in under the agreeable eye of the PM and ran more than a dozen stories to harass Gomez. It only stopped when PAP Officials began to realise it was provoking a backlash that looked set to turn on them. The Singapore Government however, continued to harass Gomez and had his passport seized when he tried to return to his job in Sweden. To make their point they had police question him for eight hours according to sources, but the Government refused to confirm this.

P.A.P MISDEEDS –  Internet Singapore Activist says a long list of misdeeds by the PAP were given to Minister Heng Swee Kiat…..but nothing came of it.  At a meeting, National Conversation, it was found that it excluded opposition members or bloggers….and appeared well supported by PAP Supporters.  They claimed the meeting was ‘inclusive’      President Tony Tan claimed his best achievement in one year was going to watch the Olympics in London!

PAP AND THE TOWN COMPUTERS? — Why did the PAP relinquish ownership of the computer and financial system and how much did they sell it to AIM for? these questioned are now to be raised in a long awaited investigation that a Minister has called for.  The background of this is somewhat puzzling. It is assumed that the system was probably developed with taxpayers money by the 14 councils, with mutual input and support from tax payer-paid town council staff, unless, and it’s hard to believe — the PAP paid for the development of the system.

PAP often make demands on other countries to observe human rights, but their past records are dismal.

It is also said by opponents, that the PAP control the elections…….and they may well have a case!

SINGAPORE’S SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE RESIGNS IN DISGRACE — Speaker in the Government House, Michael Palmer made it known at PAP Headquarters that he was resigning his post in Government due to being discovered having a ‘extra-marital’ affair, and he took full responsibility for the grave mistake.  The Government and MP’s were shocked it is said by the news and sudden resignation.

SINGAPORE FORMER MP CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION — Choo Wee Khiang a former MP was accused in court of a Criminal Breach of Trust — he is accused of taking part in a conspiracy to secure payment for a trainer who was secretly engaged in another job while taking money for the one he was contracted to (moonlighting)… Three other charges of Corruption have been deferred for a later court date.

Money-laundering convictions in Singapore by Industry and Financial institutions were two a year in 2008 and have risen.  Singapore’s bank secrecy laws have attracted evaders and money laundering in recent times. An audacious banking scam by Jeanette Ang engaged in fraudulent bank transfers to Singapore from the US led to her being jailed for 9 months, and on another note, Peter Madhaven – first independent director of a financial Institution was jailed for breaking Singapore Securities Laws. Three Singapore companies involved in an elaborate ‘kickback scheme – bribery’ to do with Apple are under investigation, but the country’s Anti-Corruption Bureau are not saying they have opened such an investigation and are remaining secretive about the matter.

SINGAPORE, THE DIPLOMAT, AND UNAUTHORISED GOLD? — A tale of one North Korean Diplomat who was able to, with no indifference from Singapore, travel with $1.4 million in gold to Bangladesh.  It is without doubt that ‘rich’ Singapore know of the sanctions against North Korea, especially as the International Finance System had barred North Korea from money dealing in the International money markets.  Yet, this Diplomat Son Young Nam – first secretary of the North Korean Embassy in Dhaka was able to board a plane in Singapore carrying this gold and take it to Bangladesh….in order to sell it for hard currency (as it is suggested).        The Government of Singapore considers itself tough on crime and claims to have a rigorous customs system, catching people, jailing and flogging them etc, yet a diplomat from North Korea slips through unchallenged?  But on the other hand, Singapore is known for its love of wealth among the rich and in government, and they do business with people like Mugabe…….?

THE ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMITTEE in their quest to root out corruption have got so zealous that it has turned on them, and they are finding themselves under allegations of corruption, which is bringing a sharp focus on ‘ who ‘polices the police? and who ‘polices the corruption investigators? This kind of thing is not new, many bodies in government that set up these departments finally have the finger of corruption pointed at them. Anyone who investigates corruption needs to be free to go after colleagues or higher ranking officials, and one can see that in Singapore this is not done without trouble and undue influence to suppress such investigation which in turn will ultimately involve corruption — corruption that will inevitably be denied, but we’ve heard that before many times. Their Standards Committee will have to be changed if it is to be believed to be honest.

MYSTERY OF THE FUND MISAPPROPRIATION — As Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s lawyers refuted Mr Roy Ngemg’s claim that his blog post about government transparency and accountibility, not about the unlawful misappropriation of Central Provident Fund savings……unwittingly shines more on the latter and where has these missing funds gone?

BODYGUARD TO SINGAPORE PM IN FRAUD CASE —  A former Aide to PM LEE KUAN YEW was accused of a criminal breach of trust and fraud amounting to $50,000 by an Ex-Cop who claims in a police report that he was misled into putting the money into an ‘investment vehicle’.  One is also led to believe that the bodyguard to the PM — Mr Anathan Thillagan was a policeman considering that the Ex-Cop Mr Sugendran referred to him as a fellow officer in his statement.  (Nov 26/2014).

THE EVILS OF SINGAPORE ISD — Internal Security Department — Detention without trial — torture denied? all done in prison and overseen by the ISD. We look to the work of Singaporean, Chee Siok Chin who wrote a small investigatory book called ‘That we may dream again’ in 2009. He set out to discover the tactics and behaviour of this Singapore Unit the ISD and interviewed detainees in 1987 who were bullied and persecuted by their own government.  Mr.Lee Hsien Loong was the Deputy PM at that time, and publicly stated ‘ The Government does not ill-treat detainees; it does however, apply psychological pressure to detainees to get at the truth?’ — but this appears to be ‘rather economical with the truth’ as we reiterate the story of one detainee, Vincent Cheng who said he had great anger for the injustice of the whole incident, and that the perpetrators have not been brought to account for their deeds.  ‘Operation Spectrum’ was said to be ‘Political Rape’ by those who opposed oppression, and Cheng was arrested in that sting. he said ‘I cannot forget or forgive them. The harsh treatment meted out to me in prison to extract information was inhuman — I was put in a freezing room, slapped and suffered beatings, including a savage blow to his abdomen. Another detainee, Kevin De Souza told about the many strip searches, blindfolds being put on, sleep deprivation, slaps to the face, unnatural treatment invented to humiliate and cause pain, televised interviews, solitary confinement and long term incarceration without trial.  Another detainee, Ms. Tang Lay Lee confirmed the torture meted out to detainees.

Detainee Dr Lim Hock Siew was in prison for 19 years — detainee Chia Thye Poh was in prison for 32 years!!…………THE HISTORY OF SINGAPORE THAT DISGUSTS…….Dr Lim Hock Siew Opposition Member was in jail for almost twenty years, seven more than a life sentence!  He was detained under the powers of the ISA and arrested by police and thrown into jail without a trial…1963 to 1982.  Lee Kuan Yew was in power, and like the actions of a dictator he would not tolerate any kind of challenge to his authority.  The Authorities demanded that Siew sign a statement saying he had repented, but he refused and was detained for a further 10 years. At the time of the demand he was told that Lee does not like to lose face.  The1963 General Election was rigged by The British and PAP.  Because he wouldn’t co-operate, Siew was ordered to appear before the Advisory Board, chaired by High Court Judge Winslow and a lawyer called Elias, and he was brought into court wearing handcuffs.  The Charge sheet was blank, and he was told to plead guilty…he refused saying this hearing was a disgrace to the concept of Law and Justice. The Lawyer said he could be charged with contempt and jailed! but he was already in jail.  Siew was not a convict, his crime was to disagree with the ruling party, and he was labelled a dissident. But this did not stop them from sending him to nearly every prison on Singapore.  In 1973 they tried to force him into ‘manual labour’ meant for convicts who did awful crimes, he refused.  They then sent him to one of the worst detention places, The Central Police Station which was infested with bugs and had hardly any light.  He was put into Solitary Confinement and subjected to torture, both physical and mental.  He had no right to a lawyer, they kept telling him ‘this is the law’ no matter what he requested.  His case or lack of it, never appeared in the newspapers, they had suppressed the incident on the orders of the Government.  In a video of him speaking to an audience on the Internet he says that ‘Politicians in Singapore enjoy the highest pay in the World, and the longest prison sentences in the World are meted out to those who challenge their views or system’………..

..interestingly today, anyone caught in Singapore copying or distributing this BANNED video is threatened with a fine of S$10,000 or two years in jail.   to see that video and see more of what is going on in Singapore that they don’t like you to know, go to www.singaporerebel/blogspot.co.uk  and got to right of page to scroll down to the article EX-Political Prisoner Speaks Out……the video….and watch in amazement at what the Singapore Government was prepared to do to those it did not like.  any difficulties search for Singapore Rebel…and it will get you to the Wikipedia page.

‘HUMAN RIGHTS’ A SORE ISSUE WITH SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT — Intervention by the Singapore Government has caused the cancellation of the ‘opening’ of the ‘Handa Centre for Global Governance and Human Rights’ at the Law School of Singapore Management University – a report says, and the issue is over ‘Human Rights’ in the title.  Our source says that members of the Government have taken a dislike to this being paraded publicly.

THE SECRECY OVER THE CANING ERROR certainly indicates a huge flaw in the honesty of the Judiciary and Government.  Making it a condition that no-one knows what was paid out in compensation to 21 yr old Dickson Tan (who got 3 strokes more because of a court error) gives rise to asking how many other secret deals are done in other areas, and those in turn being kept from the public they serve, which is in fact corruption. If there is no openness, accountability or transparency in Government payouts of this insignificant nature, how can they be trusted with the nation’s taxpayers cash?  they might be doing deals with rogue businessmen and bent lawyers of which one Singapore ex-lawyer said there were many, and possibly judges, the list could be huge and no-one would be the wiser with a government that does deals behind closed doors and demands they are kept secret!!

‘SPANKING IN SINGAPORE’ — Indeed, and rather unbelievable in some ways, or does the judicial caning ethos encourage a public liking for it?  We came across a site called TOPIX a Singapore Forum where people discuss and get rather high on corporal punishment in Singapore.  We’ve covered the Spanking and Caning Vice in Europe, the UK and America, but didn’t expect to find it in Asia and especially not in a punishment regime of Singapore or one the Singapore Authorities condone, but I guess it happens everywhere on this globe – Earth.

We have uncovered more on this at ‘YouTube’ which has several spanking and caning video clips featuring Singapore youth, Malaysia youth, Chinese youth and Asians embracing corporal punishment — so what does that tell us??   ( emerging news in on an online vice ring in Singapore involving around 80 males)

SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT CANING CULTURE CORRUPTS YOUTH — A vice previously blamed on the West who banned corporal punishment in prisons and school by 1986, is flourishing and enticing Singapore men and boys to try it for themselves without going to prison or committing an offence!  Our Investigator visited the site Facebook and quickly found many guys swapping photos of caning and spanking — many being from Singapore, Malaysia and China. Besides other fetish devotees they chat about it and link each other to the You Tube videos which in the main come from Asia. Our Investigator with difficulty chatted online to one 21yr old Singapore lad who said he got the interest after his school group visited the prison and were conducted to the caning area and were shown canes used and where males bend over for punishment. He added that quite a few school pals were secretly eager to bend over the frame and try it — but they didn’t want to be in court first or sentenced. He also said the cane was at his school for boys up to 19, and after his visit when he was 14, he sometimes looked and held the schoolmaster’s cane and fooled about with mates and then rushed back to his desk as the master returned. The only thing he said was a put off, was blood-letting as experienced by the actual prisoners who suffered shock and trauma while cuts were ‘bleeding profusely’ during their caning……..February 2012.

TWO SENTENCES FOR ONE CRIME IN SINGAPORE? — Years ago, the Singapore Government claimed that caning was not part of the sentence when ordering a caning along with prison…and claimed it was a kind of deterrent for assault crimes so that the offender might feel the pain they had caused…..But now in 2015 due to an appeal hearing the Government and Judiciary have openly declared that ‘CANING IS CONSTITUTIONAL’ and may be given to a prisoner convicted of an offence, thus proving that there are two sentences on one crime, a thing they have denied for a long time.  They defend this action as not breaching Human Rights and International Law and deny that it is torture! when administered to a secured prisoner on a frame….they also say it doesn’t come under International Law…..and that Singapore has the right to flog prisoners in a manner they deem fit besides jailing them for years on the same offence…..logical? definitely not….but Singapore is still a ‘veiled’ dictatorship.

WEBSITE MOUSE TR Emeritus some sort of socio-political site has grovelled before its PM who threatened to sue them for defamation, and as we already know, Singapore is good at that. Unbelievably they claim the status of being a people’s voice and despite calls from its supporters has already printed a rebuttal of the piece claiming no responsibility for others views and content plus condemnation for anyone that issues statements that criticize. Richard Wan needs to watch out for moving carpets and the fences he cannot sit on.  This site hardly ranks as a bastion of freedom and should be exposed for the fraud that it is. They claimed apologising over every defamative remark would cause difficulties in running the website — but gave way again reducing them down to being another government stooge and puppy to be trained and kept in line. Can’t they see that they have been nicely pushed and positioned into the subservient situation their readers are annoyed about!!

SINGAPORE INTRODUCES CENSORSHIP ON NEWS WEBSITES — The Government in its manic desire to silence criticism is introducing licences on news websites, so as to tighten its grip on what can and cannot be said or broadcast.  Any news website having 50,000 hits a month will have to obtain a licence to operate, they will also have to remove content not approved within 24 hours….or suffer penalties.

STUDENT MADE TO APOLOGISE FOR WEB BLOG REMARKS — Even though student Reuben Wang 17, was not repentant even 24 hours later, this changed after ‘ The School counselled him’   Many students on the Netizen supported his claims but thought his choice of words wrong, and fellow student Kwan Jin Yao said the criticisms were valid but were obscured by the liberal use of expletives and profanity. The ranting was the result of being in a student meeting when Deputy P.M. Teo Chee Hean was attending. Reuben said he was angry at the way the Deputy Prime Minister was dodging difficult questions by turning the questions back onto the students.

MORE CENSORSHIP, SUPPRESSION ON WEB CARTOONIST — The Singapore Judiciary in the face of The Attorney General’s Chambers have threatened web cartoonist Chew Peng Ee (Leslie Chew) with jail and ‘forced’ him to apologise over publishing a cartoon strip considered by the government to be ‘scandalizing the judiciary of the Republic of Singapore’  they say he has committed contempt in four cartoons he put on the web in 2011 and 2012, three of them about the perceived unfairness of the courts when imposing punishment (he’s right on that as our many articles testify to)…observers say it is yet another sign that Singapore is becoming more increasingly intolerant of criticisms and opponents to it’s style of dictatorship government.

‘RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH AND EXPRESSION IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE RIGHT SAYS SINGAPORE — The Singapore Authorities revealed their true face yet again in the defamation and contempt case against blogger Alex Au who is challenging the Constitution.  The Attorney General’s Chambers have been given permission by the Island Republic Leaders to take legal action against the blogger over an article they say is offensive in which he states   their is wrongdoing by senior Judicial Officials!

THE PM Lee Hsien Loong gets a salary of 3.8 million Singapore Dollars!! one of the highest paid salaries known.

Whilst on the subject of websites — We have picked up on the fact that the hackers Anonymous have shown that Singapore are backing the ACTA Bill — a bill and legislation to curb Internet freedom by internationally imposing sanctions on ISP’s and casual web surfers…. would you believe it, Singapore wanting to curb freedom!!

DOUBLE STANDARDS AT SINGAPORE PRISON AND PUBLIC LIE — The Shangi Prison Service boasted in its ‘Public Lie’  the following in one of it’s public statements — that in jailing offenders they are ‘ fulfilling the multiple goals of punishment, incapacitation, deterrence and most difficult of all — that of rehabilitation — reformation and reintegration into society?  Yet we find that a man who committed a criminal breach of trust involving less than ten thousand dollars and went to prison 25 years ago (1986) — discovered that the Council for Estate Agents (Watchdog) queried his criminal record just when he thought he’d left that all behind in order to get on in life as a good citizen.  The authorities claim officially to help and rehabilitate offenders to have a normal life when prison ends, which is called The Yellow Ribbon Project — yet they allow a man who has paid his penalty to be hindered and subject to humiliation 25 years later, what happened to ‘ the second chance?’   The Singapore Government talks about honesty and openness, but don’t deliver.

ADVERT BY SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT FOUND TO BE OFFENSIVE — This sort of ties in with the above and really clarifies this admirably. The Singapore Ministry of Community Development have been attacked by caring Singaporeans for putting out an advert that ‘perpetrates prejudice and discrimination of ex-offenders (prison), victims of abuse and people on low incomes’. It is stated four posters published in the media put these people down as not worth caring about, and should turn their back on to be excellent citizens.

THE SINGAPORE ISD and ISA —  ‘Detention without Trial ‘ – The Evil not talked about — The Republic of Singapore as it is better known from the the 60’ and 70’s, a time when Singapore and torture was challenged and exposed by Amnesty International.  A story involving British participation and the leader Lee Kuan Yew and PAP….a story that reveals real evil, that to this day has not gone away.  The ISD – Internal Security Department of Singapore was run from a very unassuming little address in Whitley Road, The Heritage Centre, where one finds the Detention cells and brutal regime staffed by Ghurkha Mercenaries who did the dirty work of using torture to extract manufactured confessions.  They enjoyed no interference from normal laws, the powers they had were extreme, and they could order the police to carry out their commands without question.  People, or suspect victims were snatched in 4 am and late-at-night raids so that it avoided public query or interest. They were taken to the ISD and placed in cells to be held for 30 days and interrogated remorselessly with torture (teams were on a shift basis), and only allowed 30 minutes a day to wash or use the toilet.  The ISA law was written up by British Lawyer Hugh Hickling in 1960 outlining detention without trial, methods of interrogation and the rule 74 where the suspect could be detained indefinitely and have no access to a lawyer or see relatives… a law so oppressive and monstrous, which proved ideal for Lee Kuan Yew (1959) in silencing the opposition — he loved the idea of keeping a prisoner in a black cell, without light or anything….that was real torture! he said.  Prisoners were kept in a cell 5ft by 7ft with no windows and the lowest watt of lighting possible….talking and singing was absolutely forbidden….penalties were harsh, such as two victims received — a broken jaw and their teeth smashed (Pang Hee Fat and Chien Tuan Sin).  After 30 days they were transferred to prison still without a trial and kept there ‘unless they confessed’              The Government would only release them if they signed and admitted their wrongdoing, so that they could tell the public and World that the accusations were true!    Many prisoners received electric shock treatment at the hands of the ISD………The Internal Security Act and Banishment Act derived from British Colonial Legislation was used many times to silence critics, dissenters, protestors and opposition groups…..these people had no recourse to legal safeguards nor any opportunity to challenge their accusers and allegations…..they were simply grabbed and disappeared off the streets and their homes.  The Newspapers couldn’t cover the incidents, they were forbidden, and Government controlled.

 Lee Kuan Yew became Prime Minister in 1959…..and this all happened on his say watch……and he ruled for many years, even in 2008 he invented the position of Minister mentor to his son Lee Hsien Loong who took over and gets a salary of around $2.6million dollars which is not far short of the $3.870 for the PM position.  The President monthly pay was $119.520……and the PM monthly pay was $115.950.

INFO on ISD detentions are in the main kept secret and little or no publicity is given to this on their Website, and omits any reference to anything to do with the 1963 to 1980 situation, and researchers say that the police were used as a tool to crush dissenters under the ‘Authoritarian Regime’…………. which still exists now.

SINGAPORE LAWYER JAILED FOR 9 YEARS – Tan Cheng Yew stole 4.8 million Singapore Dollars from clients. He was found guilty of deception and accused of perpetrating a series of scams, and travelled on a false passport to resist capture and extradition. Yew had been on the run for 6 years — the Prosecutor said the lawyer remained unremorseful.

Jail term increased for Lawyer Tan Cheng Yew — prosecutors increased his sentence to 12 years and dismissed his appeal saying the former sentence was ‘inappropriate for the crime he committed’  (Nov 30th 2012)

FORMER SINGAPORE LAWYER JAILED AND DISBARRED – Gopalan Nair fled to the U.S. after being jailed by the authorities for flouting the ethics of the Law Society and being found guilty of defaming the judiciary.

SINGAPORE LAWYER STEALS S$68,000 — David Khong was convicted of stealing from a property transaction.

SINGAPORE LAWYER IS SUSPENDED FOR 1 YEAR — Udayasurian Sidambaram stole S$100,000of client cash.

SINGAPORE LAWYERS charged with misconduct — Ang Chin Peng and Martin Decruz Lawyers of 18 yrs experience are to face a tribunal for overcharging clients — they will face three Judges at the Apex Court.

SINGAPORE LAWYER FOUND GUILTY — Leonard Loo was found guilty of serious professional misconduct. It was stated that he had mismanaged client funds and faced 14 charges, 9 of them for breaching professional rules. They said he had been criticised by judges for his tardiness and being ill-prepared to meet his responsibilities to his clients.

SINGAPORE LAWYER Glenn Knight was convicted of graft in 1992 when he was Commercial Affairs Department Director — he was disbarred in 1994…..and returned in 1998!

SINGAPORE LAWYER in $1.2 million fraud.  Mustaffa Abu Bakar was found guilty on eight counts of misappropriating money — criminal breach and misuse of client cash. He has wound up his firm and left law.

SINGAPORE LAWYER Ms Selena Chiong Chin May, a lawyer of some sixteen years experience, was found guilty of gross misconduct in that she faced five charges of misappropriating $12,900. The judge said she had an ‘attitude problem’

SINGAPORE LAWYER RAPPED OVER CLIENT LOSS of $223,000. Mr.K.Jayakumar Naidu faced four charges of misconduct after failing to protect a bed-ridden client’s interests. He was ordered to pay costs and faces being struck-off according to the report.

SINGAPORE LAWYER FIRM IN ‘CLIENT GROOMING SCAM’ were punished by a tribunal. Mr.Yap Kok Kiong, Mr. Michael Chong Wai Yen, Mr. Kenneth Tan Chong Peng and Mr.Siow Jit Thong were suspended and the head of the firm was struck off.  It was stated that they paid the firm Asprez S£680,000 to steer conveyancing clients to them.

SINGAPORE LAWYER FACES FINE FOR IMPROPER CONDUCT — Mr.Manickavasagan, who boasts of being in the profession for 24 years faced a disciplinary tribunal for pulling out of a case on the 11th hour without proper consideration and failing to adhere to the standards required.

SINGAPORE LAWYER GUILTY OF MISCONDUCT — Dixon Ng, a lawyer of 17 years experience was accused of falsely billing a client for $100,000 to help a Cambodian Political Party in a Port development plan — he is currently serving a 2 year suspension for faking court papers and deception.

SINGAPORE LAWYER FIGHTS COURT OVER EXTENSION –Lawyer Tan Cheng Yew was found guilty on four counts of cheating involving a sum of $4.8 million — the court is seeking to extend the penalty already given.

SINGAPORE LAWYER ADMITS GROSS MISCONDUCT — Lawyer Anand Kumar Beldar admitted to billing a client for $112,000 when he only did $48,000 of actual work. The tribunal ordered the lawyer of ten years standing to be struck-off. He was a former partner in Sadique Marican & ZM Amin.  Another lawyer in the same firm, Zulkiffi Amin absconded with ten million as we featured.

SINGAPORE LAWYER OF 26 YEARS IN MISUSE OF CLIENT ACCOUNT — Lawyer John Tay was fined $15,000 after being found guilty of placing $5,000 from his client into the office account, which constitutes a breach of the solicitors’ rules. The court said this was a serious matter, a matter where a solicitor is usually suspended? but they decided dishonesty was not proven!

SINGAPORE STRUCK OFF LAWYER FINED $4,000 — Low Yong Sen was suspended in 2008 for overcharging clients and in 2010 he was struck off the rolls. But he appeared again in court for practising without a certificate after a client complained and evidence showed that he signed as a witness on a deed as ‘advocate and solicitor’

SINGAPORE LAWYER IN UNDER-AGE SEX SCANDAL CASE — Lawyer Gwee Hak Theng, a former Deputy Public Prosecutor, found himself appearing from the dock in court charged with paying $300 dollars for sex with a 16 year old girl in Greylang……this is one of the many cases involved in ‘the under-age vice scandal’ now ongoing.

Update: Judge says that the former prosecutor has a prima facie case to answer, and is to stand trial.

Lawyer and former DPP Spencer Gwee Hak Theng was found guilty by the court (July 12th 2013)

SINGAPORE LAWYER TOOK $400,000 FROM CLIENT ACCOUNT — Lawyer Tan Tiong Hian. alias Raymond Tan was not charged with theft from the client when it was reported that he appeared in court, no, the 17 years experienced lawman was said to have committed four counts of misconduct!  He was found guilty of breaching the rules and was disbarred. — following that report it now states that he was back in court and charged with 31 counts of ‘ criminal breach of trust’ and was accused of misappropriating $1.4million dollars from his clients in 2009/2010, and there was an additional charge of forgery!….’all very strange….and legally disturbing’

…..Lawyer Raymond Tan Tiong Hian was jailed for 6 years for criminal breach of trust in that he did unauthorised transfers and used pre-signed cheques on 31 occasions to benefit himself and take $1.49m of client money.

SINGAPORE LAWYER GUILTY OF MISCONDUCT — Lawyer James Wan appeared before a court in connection with a $450,000 dollar gift from a client that was not disclosed for a number of years, and only during an audit of his accounts.  He pleaded guilty to professional misconduct at the hearing — it was said that he did not tell the client who gave him the gift that it had to be done after advice from an independent legal source.

Lawyer James Wan was struck off the Rolls……the court found that he dishonestly misled the client.

SIX LAWYERS DISBARRED OVER MONEY OFFENCES — The Singapore Supreme Court said that six lawyers were struck o0ff for over-charging and pocketing client money. One was runaway lawyer Zulkiffi Mohd Amin who took 10.6 million dollars from his firm over a period of 11 months — this compared to the 12 million dollars taken by Lawyer David Rasif in 2007. They ‘officially’ said there were 10 cases involving 11 lawyers.

SINGAPORE DEPUTY PROSECUTOR ACCUSED OF MISCONDUCT — Defence Lawyer Mr.Zero Nalpon has filed for a court order to investigate his complaint of misconduct against a State Prosecutor who was not named!

FIFTY MEMBERS OF LAW SOCIETY WANT AN ANSWER — In connection with the above, a group of fifty lawyers are pushing the Singapore Law Society for a satisfactory explanation and are to file a motion to hold a special meeting.  They want answers over the incident with Mr Ravi and Prosecutor Wong Siew Hong — there has been no explanation at all from the Society and members are not happy with this.

PROBE INTO JUDICIARY PROSECUTOR IS REFUSED! — Lawyer Zero Nalpon failed to get an inquiry over the misconduct of a DPP Lawyer because Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong decided he had not made a case for this action to be approved — strangely, this is the first time such an action as ever been brought, therefore the outcome is not all that surprising? especially in Singapore.

SINGAPORE JUDICIARY IN CONSPIRACY TO MUTE ‘ROGUE’ LAWYER — The story of Lawyer Ravi and the Law Society took another disgraceful turn in that they are now seeking his removal from practise using ‘ his fitness and health’ to his disadvantage if they can in order to bring him down.  They are hoping that this move will succeed so that they can ‘determine if he’s fit to practise law’ and have insisted he is examined — this comes at the same time and definitely in retaliation for him intending to increase his claim for damages from the Law Society.  An Inside contact says that the judiciary are finding his recent move annoying and want rid of him.

SINGAPORE LAWYER DISBARRED over complaints — Leonard Loo Peng Chee was charged with misconduct and was struck off the Rolls by three Judges who sat to hear the tribunal case.  It was said the lawyer failed to turn up at the hearing — there were 86 counts of misconduct and 14 complaints from clients plus accusations of dishonesty. It was stated that the lawyer of 15 years did not comply with court directions.

SINGAPORE LAWYER SERVES WRIT AGAINST LAW SOCIETY LAWYER — Solicitor Louis Joseph served a letter of demand against the Law Society’s Lawyer Wong Siew Hong seeking compensation for defamation against his client — solicitor Mr Ravi, well known in Singapore.  Mr Joseph said he was also seeking an apology too.

SINGAPORE LAWYER STOLE S$864,000 DOLLARS FROM CLIENT — Lawyer Mustaffa Bakar deliberately took client funds to the amount of 864,000 dollars. He was found guilty of professional misconduct.  The court says he now faces being ‘struck-off’ — Bakar it was said, even produced a ‘bouncing cheque’ to the client.  In 2011 he was declared bankrupt, and in February he was accused of misappropriating S$1.2million and faces criminal charges.

UN-NAMED LAWYER RAPPED FOR MISCONDUCT (Jan 2013) — A female Lawyer faces a fine for advising a client not to disclose sum of $1.4million in bank deposit box, the matrimonial assets in a divorce case.  The report says she did not promptly disclose the information as required and now faces a tribunal court.

SINGAPORE LAWYER MISAPPROPRIATES $1.2Million from Client Account — The District Court jailed Lawyer Mustaffa Abu Bakar for four and a half years after he admitted 4 charges of criminal breach of trust, it was said that he was now bankrupt.

SINGAPORE LAW FIRM IS SUED OVER BOGUS PROPERTY DEAL – Law Firm Vision Law has been accused of conning a couple out of around  $100,000 dollars, and say that Vision Law misrepresented the deal to buy a property — the owner of the aforesaid property stated they had not granted anyone an option to buy.

SINGAPORE LAWYER ROBS FROM CLIENT ACCOUNT — Fun Huay Yew was jailed for 5 years for taking the sum of $650,000 dollars from a client account belonging to Toshiba, and putting it into the firm account.  It appears he withdrew the sum and then deposited the money held for a civil case against a Malaysian Company in his firm’s account.  The District Court decided this was a criminal breach of trust, and not one of mere misconduct.

SINGAPORE LAWYER IN BID TO SUE DISABLED MAN IS REFUSED BY COURT — Lawyers RIAZ LLC took over a client (Raj Singh Shergill) from another lawyer….the client was in a serious crash that left him severely mentally damaged…. Riaz was at the High Court suing the man for money that he was unable to get from others.  The Judge found it an impertinence to heap their financial loss on a man they knew could not fend for himself or take on the complexities of the law, he was a victim….the Judge threw out the claim.

LAWYER SUED FOR NEGLIGENCE — Mr Johnny Cheo Chai Beng of Cheo Yeoh Associates was ordered to pay $841,000 Singapore Dollars to the relatives of an Indonesian Businessman after botching a will  which became invalid.  The Judge found the Lawyer showed a lack of competence allowing only one signature on the will when in Law it required two.

FORMER DISTRICT JUDGE CHARGED IN SEX FOR GRADES SCANDAL — For the first time we now have a judge on trial (The search for misconduct judges is always nil – because they are hidden and unavailable) — National University Law Professor Tey Tsun Hang was identified by 23yr old Darinne Ko Wen Hui when charges were filed against the former District Judge who is accused of having sex with a young female in return for good grades on two occasions — He has now been formally charged with six counts of corruption.

”” THE STRANGE TRIAL OF THE EX-DISTRICT JUDGE……..Proceedings in the what has been called the ‘ Sex for Grades Trial’ against Law Professor Tey Tsun Hang are getting more bizarre!  The whole thing is turning into a fiasco, maybe intended?  Hang is defending himself and attends in full court wear….. it now turns out that he will not cross examine CPIB Officers he accused of attempting to coerce him into making a confession? which doesn’t add up at all……he feinted in court, apparently on the final day it is said!…..is there something else going on here? is he now aware that he is ’tilting the judiciary and judges’ and needs to pull back and not embarrass them…..in return for what? …….. a matter of Asian Honour?…….. and a dismissal of the case against him?

Update:  Tey Tsun Hang is found guilty on six counts of corruption.

SINGAPORE JUDGE SHOULD HAVE STEPPED DOWN IN CASE — An- un-named Judge was rapped by an Appeals Court after they freed a jailed father.  They came to the decision that the Singapore female Judge should have recused herself from presiding over the child custody case, because she had been ‘so heavily’ involved in the child wardship case that her objectiveness had ceased to function when she jailed the man for contempt.  As per usual with the judiciary, her name was not disclosed and there is no mention of any sanctions being decided against her despite the fact she took someone’s liberty and being ‘a chosen one’ she has immunity granted by the Attorney General and Government.

SORRY STATE OF LEGAL PROFESSION — This item seemed to disappear as one tried to get at it, apparently, one Singaporean Teo Soh Lung made this claim after reading an article by Alex Au called ‘The Ghosts of Absent Lawyers’.  Lung says – ‘the sorry state of the legal profession has been in existence for decades — it used to have a few human qualities ‘ obviously referring to the state’s over-riding power which caused a riff between the Law Society and Politicians that revealed state interference getting the upper hand in court decisions and law.

SINGAPORE JUDICIAL SYSTEM NOT AS SAFE AS CLAIMED — Past claims of the judiciary being above reproach and the jailing of those who have ‘libelled’ its ‘good name’ — who now must be feeling angry as recent cracks in the legal profession suggest that they had good cause to claim it but could not prove it…now finally hear that — The Lawyer Ravi (August 31 – 2012) is seeking a court order TO HAVE ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS OF THE LAW SOCIETY OF SINGAPORE EXPELLED and a call for new elections.  In a written summons issued he accuses the Law Society of pursuing various judicial and extrajudicial actions against him with malice, bad faith, recklessness and negligence in breach of Statutory and Common Law duties owed to him as a practising member of the Bar.  He said their recent actions concerning the medical checks and actions to have him removed within the Law Society has tainted every member….. suggesting that a ‘clean-up’ is necessary.

SINGAPORE – LAW FIRM CLERK IN ASSAULT AND INDECENT EXPOSURE – JAILED — Rick Tan Eng Lam was a Clerk at a City Law Firm, he went on a drinking binge with friends only to end up being arrested and charged at the police station. However, he then walked out and stood in the middle of the road, dropped his pants and underwear and then spat at officers who promptly arrested him…… the court jailed him for a month.

SINGAPORE LAWYER GUILTY OF TAKING CLIENT MONEY — Selena Chiong Chin May who holds the status of solicitor and barrister was found guilty on six counts of a criminal breach of trust.  The lawyer of 18 years was found guilty of misappropriating $12,900.

Lawyer Selena May was sent to jail for nine months for embezzling client money (Aug 2013)

LAW FIRM PARALEGAL CHEATS LAWYER — Paralegal Jeremiah Aloysius was jailed for a day and fined a total of $25,000 for giving false information to the police and cheating a lawyer at Surian & Partners of $27,990 in 2006 when he was working for the law firm at China Town Point.  He pleaded guilty to 5 counts of cheating and lying to the police in 2010.

LAWYER SUSPENDED FOR MISCONDUCT — Lawyer Mr S K Kumar was suspended for three months by the court for failing to communicate with his client and keep her informed on the sale of her house.  The Judge told him it was wrong to delegate communications through a non-legal member.

TWO LAWYERS FACE MISCONDUCT TRIAL — Singapore Lawyers Mr Manjit Singh and Mr Sree Govind Menon will face a Disciplinary Tribunal after their final attempt to escape was dismissed.  Their last appeal to get the proceedings against them failed despite the plaintiff in the case of a $1.6 million dollar claim withdrew.  But the Law Society ignored this and continued, and so did the Chief Justice on the second attempt to derail the case.

LAWYERS LEGAL SECRETARY JAILED FOR STEALING — Misappropriation of $214,000 and using counterfeit stamp certificates the court report says.  Juliana Abu Bakar received a jail sentence of 30 months and 6 weeks besides being convicted of three other charges concerning property transactions.

FORMER NEA LAWYER Chia Kok Peng was found guilty and jailed for 11 weeks for having sex with an underage girl.  It says he is the 36th defendant in the ‘underage sex trial scandal’   who paid for sex, and that he was a lawyer with The National Environment Agency in Singapore.

BARRED LAWYER BEFORE THE COURT — Disbarred Lawyer Leonard Loo Peng Chee was struck off for misconduct in 2012…when he faced 86 instances of misconduct including dishonesty.  He now faces charges of illegally representing 8 individuals.

SINGAPORE’S ASSISTANT LAW PROFESSOR FLOUTS THE LAW — Law Professor Peter Soosay assaulted a cab driver over a fare charge of 20 dollars, bloodying the driver who later needed stitches and hospital treatment.  He knocked the man to the ground and punched him several times.  The Taxi driver said he could smell alcohol on his passenger before the man boarded the taxi.

SINGAPORE’S ATTORNEY GENERAL’S CHAMBERS CONFUSING ROLE EXPOSED — Political and strange, as the highest legal office sends warning letter to film-maker who interviews striking SMRT drivers He Jung Ling and Liu Xiang Ying who made allegations against the police that they were assaulted in an attempt to get a false confession.  The letter says  the AGC considers the interview and videos could interfere with the court and create prejudice which amounts to contempt of court?  It also shows the prejudice of the legal profession here as we look at something else they did.  Chico Chin a demonstrator says the Attorney Generals Chambers tried to bankrupt her in 2006 over her human rights protests urging the high court to fine her $50,000…..which in most countries would be a tort of law and illegal move which in the first example would inhibit Press Freedom.

SINGAPORE’S ATTORNEY GENERAL DOES NOT LIKE THE INSINUATION ?  — Not surprising really, as the Singapore regime were reminded about the ‘mysterious Shane Todd Death’ which they had hoped to bury.   Shane’s parents in the USA claim that 2 pieces of evidence were ‘quickly’ disposed of to prevent further DNA testing.  The Singapore Attorney General reacted fiercely saying that the towel and strap were destroyed as a matter of ‘protocol’ rather than the cover-up that was claimed…..the family still maintain he was murdered by persons unknown and that a cover-up was instigated in order to protect another agenda the government had.

SINGAPORE JUDGE’S BIAS TOWARDS BRITISH QUEENS’ COUNSEL — Singapore openly showed their contempt again for other countries, and amazingly enough this time, it was Britain, a country that helped them gain independence, and they were proud to tell the World they based their law on Britain….but a criminal case involving The City Harvest Church and a  big amount of money gone missing revealed their true nature.  As with the Shane Todd Murder case and the Chinese Military Technology connection which triggered their refusal to allow the FBI to investigate, they have now, or rather Judge Rajah has refused to admit London’s Q C Jonathan Caplan, saying the locals are okay for this….yet we find defendant Chew Eng Han went to seven legal eagles in Singapore (SC’s) and they declined to defend him…..so he contacted the UK’s Barrister Jonathan Caplan who agreed…….typically, this shows that Singapore is not what it claims to be, there is something nasty lurking!

SINGAPORE ARREST PROTESTORS WHO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE INJUSTICE OF THE ELITE GETTING HIGH MINISTERIAL SALARIES AT THE EXPENSE OF LEAVING THE POORLY PAID IN THE GUTTERS.

IN SINGAPORE YOU NEED A PERMIT TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC, you could find yourself arrested for saying things about the government or police, so be careful because this situation of repression has been likened to China, with some saying it is a little piece of communist China practising in the old ways. This is supported by the fact that Singapore’s opposition —party member Dr.Chee Soon Juan Secretary General of the The Opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) was convicted by the Government controlled Judiciary of ‘speaking in public without a permit’ and was subsequently jailed for it.

UNIVERSITY MAN FLEES AFTER BEING ACCUSED OF ‘REMARKS IMPUGNING THE JUDICIARY’ — This 1994 case should receive more International attention so here it is — Christopher Lingle spent 20 years in Singapore never anticipating the day he would become ‘a fugitive’ because of something he said and printed. He was a fellow of The National University of Singapore.  He had to resign and leave quickly amid charges being brought by the Police and Judiciary for ‘Criminal Defamation and Contempt of Court’  His alleged crime was that he wrote an article in response to a commentary that was published by The International Herald Tribune. The article was a general statement about repressive tendencies in some Asian Regimes, but there was no particular country mentioned. This criticism as we have seen no matter how slight, is not tolerated by Singapore more than anywhere else, except China perhaps. The Police from The Singapore Criminal Investigation Division interrogated Christopher several times, and it was obvious to him they were intent on getting him. Christopher did not wait for the court date to arrive and an almost undoubtedly — a prison sentence…. as he now a wanted fugitive. Singapore couldn’t have done more to prove the point they wanted to deny.

What we can see from the above account is that although Mr.Lingle did not specify any repressive Asian State or Country, the fact that he lived in Singapore was enough for the Authorities to assume it meant them. Legally, this is absurd…at best it’s speculation and conjecture. In most countries this would be ‘an abuse of process’ and be thrown out.  Even if the police came forward and said they suspected it might mean? the CPS would be ashamed to follow this up. It’s like accusing someone of ‘he was thinking of robbing us, he didn’t say so in so many words, but you’d better charge him with doing so, and jail him as a lesson to anyone else thinking of it’   A jury would have no hesitation in throwing this out….but then again, Singapore does not have a jury system or allow one to be involved in its system of law….it has a sort of appeal system, but there are few winners!

THE ‘JAMES MINCHIN’ CASE and his deportation over his book on Lee Kuan Yew ‘No man is an Island’ 1987. His deportation came swift as the angered Lee made his move.  Lee wanted to silence him, and there was only one method he used with foreigners.  Minchin wrote in his book ‘ from early times Lee Kuan Yew has shown aggressiveness, which was often discussed by many who tussled with him and watched him grab for power.  An old family friend said of Lee, ‘he would hit anybody’  This book ‘A study of Singapore’s Lee Kean Yew’ certainly offended him.  Minchin went on ‘ Since attaining office he has tended to indulge his instinct to bully and demolish.  The need to flee from untenable situations have been reduced and dignified by the mechanism of physical or mental withdrawal, power mostly removes the humiliation of being ‘bested’.  He quoted the following story of a former newspaper owner now retired, who was having an audience with  Lee, and apparently having not towed the line, Lee leaned over, grabbed him by the collar and said ‘ I’m a thug, you’re a thug, and as one to another, you’ll do what I say’  

Deportations of foreigners, lawyers assisting the Democratic Party in the 1990’s was kept fairly quiet due to the Internet not being in the position as it is now.  They were detained in rooms at the Airport and disallowed from the use of phones and made to board the next plane home.  Some were interrogated by The Secret Police, often for several hours before being deported.  The intimidation of the Immigration Police, and Officers from the ISD was commonplace.

FORMER SOLICITOR-GENERAL FEELS WRATH OF PM LEE:  Francis T Seow thought he knew Lee Kuan Yew quite well, after all, he was in the high position of Solicitor-General in Singapore…..he watched others around him being targeted by the PM never thinking it might come his way.  But it did, when a case he was given involved the Malaya-Singapore Airline.  This is 1988, and Jerry Fernandez the Airline Secretary ‘maligned’ the Chairman of MSA, who was a close friend of PM Lee.  Fernandez fled to Britain when he became aware of a plot to get him using trumped up charges became evident.  The Government and Law Minister insisted that they bring him back for trial and told Seow to issue extradition papers.  Fernandez resisted the order and it was some while before Britain could assist their ‘pal’……but they did……and Fernandez was sent back to Singapore.  The lawyer acting for Fernandez wet to see Seow and applied for bail…..Seow on reflecting the proceedings could see no objection and released Fernandez on bail.  All hell broke loose as soon as the news got out,  the Law Minister and the PM’s Office were greatly annoyed….and so was PM Lee.  Seow knew that an ‘extraordinary amount of money had been spent on trying to get this man did not equate with the vague charges’ — he did what he decided was right and wanted to halt the expensive waste of resources.   This encounter was to lead to a direct attack, little did he expect that ‘trumped up charges’ would see himself arrested and jailed.  While representing a fellow lawyer detained by ISD and under the Internal Security Act….Seow having seen the PM’s fury inventing charges found himself charged as an agent for the USA (Lee Kuan Yew hated the Americans), he was quickly detained without trial for ‘alleged collusion with the CIA’…….he now knew what it was like to be a prisoner of the PM……he recalls a conversation which he had with Lee…..when Lee said he’d rather be feared than loved.  Seow himself  saw the dangers and fled to the USA, and lives there now…..he knows if he ever went back he’d be thrown in jail…….in the States his phone was tapped and surveillance was carried out by the Singapore Government.

PROTESTOR JAILED FOR PROTEST — Chinese Worker Yang Wei working in Singapore made a peaceful protest over a pay dispute with his employer by climbing to a position where he could voice his complaint to the public. His Lawyer insisted a fine would suffice in court, but Judge Low Wee Ping jailed Yang Wei for 5 weeks saying that this kind of behaviour would incite others to do likewise and a deterrent sentence must be imposed.  I think this says it all about the Singapore Judiciary and confirms that free speech isn’t allowed and innocence disregarded.

SINGAPORE BLOGGER Jiana Lai was arrested by police as she entered the Fairmont Hotel.

SINGAPORE PLAYS THE PERSECUTION CARD — Incident at The MacRitchie Reservoir and Merlion Statue Show 2005 — Ms Ng Chye Huay and Ms Chen Lu Jin were arrested as they practised Falun Gong’s exercises at Singapore’s Esplanade Park. They had been trying to raise the awareness of The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong. Many said they had been wrongly accused and found guilty for ‘assembly without a permit’ and ‘possession and distribution of VCD’s’ without a MDA certificate. What happened subsequently at the court raises much doubt about judicial impartiality. The Judge imposed a disproportionate fine absolutely designed to outway the pettiness of the charges. They pleaded not guilty and filed an appeal, but the Judge set aside due process and jailed them both for 24 weeks each!

SINGAPORE THREATENS MARCHERS AND ACTIVISTS — Marchers and peaceful activists wanting a fairer society actually based on democracy, are being threatened and investigated by the police. YouTube shows several of those individuals who have bravely expressed their views, are being visited by the Singapore Police.  One Activist said that when you are put in front of the court for protesting, the Government Judges are throwing out human rights and supporting the accusers. And what crime has the protestor committed?  ‘To participate in a peaceful march for democracy’…..and what happens to the protestor, they are fined or jailed.

SINGAPORE REPRESSION CONTINUES — Singapore continually claims it is fair and a good place to come to, but recent news showing that Four men accused of being ringleaders involved in a SMRT Bus Strike ( 6th Dec.2012) are facing charges and jail terms for asking for better wages and living conditions!  One unrepresented Driver Bao Feng Shan has already been jailed for six weeks….and 29 other bus workers have been deported, or as they put it — repatriated!    171 bus employees stayed away from work on a two day strike to protest about how they were treated and the authorities are planning to punish them too..  What appears condemning of this authoritarian country is this –  Senior District Judge See Kee Oon agreed with Prosecutors for the need to give out a deterrent sentence ‘ The Courts must send a strong signal in sentencing to ensure that others are not emboldened towards attempting similar displays of disaffection over employment terms of conditions’…….two other workers on a Construction site, who were owed wages made a protest on two tower cranes, were grabbed by Singapore Police……….this is real proof that Singapore does not condone a ‘free society’ and persecutes to the point of imprisonment those that do not fall in line with their regime (as the Judge expressed ), which it certainly is. The Judiciary is certainly carrying out the wishes of the Government…rather than the independent claims they make to the Press.

NB Amnesty International called on Singapore to stop these restrictive laws and defamation suits to gag and muzzle critics…..but apparently this is ignored by the regime.

SINGAPORE LAW SOCIETY IN TROUBLE — In 1986 October, The Law Society was said to be ‘deficient in handling eleven complaints’ at a Select Committee Hearing.  A year later in 1987 there was talk that The Law Society dare not utter a word of protest against the Government.

SINGAPORE SNUB THE INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION — In the 2008 meeting in which Lawyers from most countries met, representing Law Societies and Bar Associations including the Singapore Judiciary, it was openly stated that ‘Singapore goes beyond recognised constraints and provisions that allow the restrictions of freedom of expression beyond these limits — and are inconsistent with established customary International Law and should be repealed.  ‘ Defamation Laws (Criminal and Civil) are tightly drawn together and used in connection with its constitution in that a person sentenced to 1 year in jail or fined $2,000 dollars or bankruptcy (and the disproportionate court awards can easily bankrupt the opponent), is not eligible to stand for election in Parliament for 5 years, thus enabling these defamation cases to have the potential and prevent Political Opponents from standing for Office. The Association was also alarmed at the way PAP Officials initiated a series of defamation cases against Opposition members and never lost a case!!  Singapore is a member state of the UN, and is bound by the UN Charter to respect fundamental Human Rights…even though they failed to ratify the treaty…They denied and dismissed the Associations views and said they were Protecting the values of Singapore!!..and will rule and adjudicate as they wish even if the International Arena disagrees with it.

CANING COUNTRIES JUDICIAL MEETING — Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei collectively met for their second judicial conference. 60 judges met at the Supreme Court of Singapore hosted by Singapore’s Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong. Malaysia Chief Justice Arifin Zakaria said whatever happens in Singapore will have an influence in Malaysian Courts — we will share common practices and see how best we can improve on them. Probably more caning offences to be drawn up for their common practices, and more control of freedom in their penal codes?

Worldwide Civil Society Groups were outraged by the Singapore Government who banned 20 delegates who were to attend the annual Bank/Fund meeting — Singapore went further in its annoyance tactics by restricting freedom of expression and the right to assembly — Singapore they said ‘ is a secure haven with no respect for human rights and civil liberties’

SINGAPORE – WHAT PRICE IS JUSTICE? — Anyone embarking on the task of taking a civil suit to The Appeal Court has to find a staggering S$20,000 dollars as a deposit (Lawyer Mark Goh remarked in 2009 – Only litigants of ‘high net worth’ or those who have means to lodge an appeal can do so) ‘Seeking Justice now has a higher price tag’.   Strangely for a country eager to show strength in their belief in justice, not all that long ago (referring to the World Bank) Lee Kuan Yew said ‘ It makes the hopeful assumption that all men are equal, that people all over the world are the same. They are not!’  If this Singapore leader really does not believe that all men are not equal, how does his government strive to build a nation ‘based on justice and equality?’ when he denies it exists.

WHAT JUSTICE? a blog in January 2015 mentions the case of a 71 year old man who was sent to jail for 4 weeks for causing $100 worth of graffiti, and a teenager who vandalised a rooftop with graffiti who got 80 hours of community service and put on probation for 15 months.  The blogger goes onto say that he remembers the Chief Justice in Singapore who made boast of his quality of justice relied on the situation that he was ‘satisfied with his breakfast’ on the day he was in court?  and furthermore it goes on to say this same Law Maker loaned his lecture notes to ‘a Prime Minister’ when they both were studying at Cambridge in the UK….somewhat now categorised as cheating had it been discovered.

THE MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE IN SINGAPORE  — A report revealed that a man was jailed for 9 years and given six strokes of the cane on conviction for alleged trafficking of Cannabis — 15 years later, the conviction was overturned by Justice V.K.Rajah on appeal on the basis of a lack of evidence provided by the prosecution at the time(1992). The court’s decision was purely based on him being ‘urged’ to plead guilty at his trial and an inadequate representation. We tried to trace the outcome in respect of compensation, but found this ‘not available’ and the judge, but were denied this line…its almost as if it didn’t happen…..but what it proves is, he would never get back the nine years lost, nor reverse the severe traumatic caning…and Singapore doesn’t care!

MISCARRIAGE No2 SHOWS UNETHICAL PRACTICE BY POLICE AND PROSECUTION — The case of two men who were convicted of robbery and murder, were eventually overturned, and odd job man Mr Ismil was cleared of any offence by the Judge.  The case had alarming revelations — A) Serious Lapses by the Police in that they were rapped for not following procedure in recording the statement made by the victim’s husband who told them he saw only one man in the flat during the fatal robbery.  B) Prosecution Lawyers were criticised for not making known to the Defence Lawyers the statement made by the victim’s husband. Even during the appeals the state prosecutors did not come clean and thought it best to reduce the the conviction to robbery with hurt knowing at this stage that the two brothers were not in the flat robbery. The Appeal Court and Law Minister Shanmugam have now said ‘ the police must disclose all evidence to prosecutors’ he seemed to leave out the inclusion of the Defence?  and the fact that the Prosecution did know, but chose to conceal it in this case.

SINGAPORE TRIES TOO HARD TO APPEAR BENEFICIAL — Firstly, when one reads their reply to the ‘White Paper on Repression of Political Freedom in Singapore’ by Amsterdam and Peroff — a Canadian Law Firm, it comes across as Pompous. It reels of the why and wherefores citing law sittings and judicial clarification, and a rather dry account of how it had to because? and propping this up with assertions that the people were behind them without as they often mentioned ‘ any shred of proof’ and why so? because they know the public will not speak out against them for fear of judicial backlash of course. It is indeed a strange Government that wants total control without challenge. The Dr Chee Soon Juan saga reveals a government out of control, one seeking to have him committed. because he does not represent their ideals. Dr Chee joined the SDP in 1992..he has been in and out of jail for violating rules on public speaking, fined for selling a book on the subject of oppression in Asia. Fined for writing an article…and jailed for attempting to attend an International Democracy Conference. He openly challenges PAP because he is against the enforcement of Singapore’s unconstitutional laws.  Prime Ministers have sued him and he has been prosecuted for speaking in public without a permit…he’s been bankrupted by his own country’s government!  One is left with the question, Why all this effort to convict one individual?   Why is a state that is now so wealthy and law conscious so eager to spare no effort or money in silencing its critics?

SINGAPORE’S LOWER CRIME RATE DUE TO TOUGH LAW DOES NOT ADD UP — Singapore’s Judiciary and Government continually contest that ‘they are revered by the world for their low crime rate and protection for citizens because of their unyielding tough sentences ‘ Yet close scrutiny (and our inside contact in Singapore who says the crime figures are actually rising as seen in a internal memo) and research, reveals in their own admissions that Drug crimes continue with the young doing more, and in just a two day period they seized S$290,000 worth of drugs. Which was followed by the biggest bust so far, estimated at $644,800 being 2.9kg of Ice and 450g of Heroin.  Recent reports show that they have more ‘repeat offenders’ despite the harsh punishment  (More than half of the prison population in 2011 were repeat offenders who have been in jail five or more times)– the DPM Teo Chee Hean has said they are considering the parole system instead of the ‘one-third off the sentence for good conduct’…and that three groups of high-risk repeat offenders are being put onto a mandatory aftercare scheme which is compulsory in order to combat the problem. Ng Boon Gay of The Narcotics Bureau announced in February that 26 Drug Syndicates were being busted every year; one every two weeks! Loan-sharking is virtually a weekly crime with raids being carried out netting several at a time. These offenders do destruction to property, intimidate and harass victims (the public) including assault…then there is the regular bag snatch thieves and several guys arrested for ‘modesty crimes’ which carries prison and caning…..yet the claim that citizens have protection and it is a safer city are still peddled in the face of this……I don’t think someone having their door set alight, paint being used to write slogans and being punched will agree in certain areas of Singapore (a small State).. As for the rest, cops have committed crimes, lawyers have been caught, and business corruption exists even in government departments as we have shown……it’s time for the Justice Minister to stop this moral high ground as a reason for repressive government  policies……..as they would say in court ‘your argument is flawed’

OBSESSION WITH JUDICIAL PUNISHMENT AND DRUGS BLIGHTS SINGAPORE IMAGE — Regular visitor from the UK to Singapore, Dr Reece Walker has told the public that Singapore’s  draconian antidrug laws and policies on severe punishment like canings and executions for drug dealers isn’t working and they know it. He confirms what our insider says, and confirms that heroin, ecstasy, methamphetamines and marijuana are all available if you have the money and are prepared to take the risk of using drugs.  He says the drug trafficking in both Singapore and Malaysia is controlled by gangs who are violent when they have to be. All couriers hired are replaceable if caught and if executed, another takes their place so that there is no interruption to the supply.

NB: ‘ENHANCED PUNISHMENT’ apparently a person charged in court can be liable to enhanced punishment?  there is no such law or amendment in British Criminal Law, to which Singapore claims to go by, nor is it known in the International Law….we tried to find it….and there is no law in Europe allowing ‘enhanced punishment’…..and furthermore, what is it and what does it mean?   Dr Reece Walker is quite right about Singapore’s warped laws.

THE CASE OF THE 13YR OLD AND SINGAPORE MORAL OUTRAGE VS NEAT DEFLECTION TRICK — January has started with a ‘Public Conundrum’ — 13yr old student from India kicks out on webpage ‘mouthing off’ on a Facebook Blog.   Aditya Bhatia (the name he used) posts bomb threat and says he hates Singapore and criticises the government, and says he’s gonna take big revenge?       So the Singapore Police arrest him under a sort of terrorism law and threat to Singapore…carrying a long jail term. The boy is 13, and words are the only thing they have as evidence…….what bomb?  could he really get one?….very doubtful….where are the elements for this serious crime? a crime that hasn’t taken place. Some Singaporeans (locked into flogging) have suggested caning and jail…which is not surprising from a State that clings to the ancient past of punishment and torture, yet welcomes a cash society into profit and wealth and silicone city lifestyles of the future. They laughingly fall back on the claim that they use the cane for violent crimes of hurt….yet a recent case of two men arrested for ‘illegal departure’ carries 6 months jail and at least 3 strokes of the cane…. where is the element of violence here?  nowhere, yet in another case a man gets 6 months jail for beating a 12 yr old boy with a belt causing serious hurt over a long period of time……there was no order made to cane the offender? yet in this latter case there was violence….so it doesn’t add up….what judicial reasoning can say this is justice.  Aren’t they just going after the boy because he has upset others, and the mob want revenge….and the government see this as another opportunity to curb another critic? even though he is only 13.,,,,it’s time Singapore stopped this piece of theatre.

DEMOCRACY! the words emblazoned on ‘the vandalised’ War Memorial — Singapore says they will spare no effort to get the culprits and deal with them severely, yet sadly they miss the point — just as the case above, the young want a change and they want better rights and a different justice system….the defaced 1914-1918 Cenotaph at Esplanade Park may be shocking, but its significance to youth now might have been better if the authorities conformed with Human Rights…and let them have a say without being arrested and detained.

NO DEMOCRACY IN SINGAPORE — The Republic does not allow it.  To muster support for a cause whether it is political or not comes under tight police scrutiny in Singapore.  The suppressive reign backed by swoops and police terrorist activities make ‘canvassing’ for support against unfair laws almost impossible.  The proof of this came to light when Mr Ghani stopped over in Singapore on May the 2nd on his campaign tour from Malaysia; the Singapore Police filed a report against him.

SINGAPORE GENERAL CRIME RAID BY POLICE NETS 150 PEOPLE — On the small island state of Singapore, police in an island-wide operation taking around 18 hours arrested 150 people, who were charged with crimes such as drugs, gang related offences, illegal betting, immigration etc.  Reported on June the 10th 2012, it was said to have involved The Narcotics Bureau, Police and Customs.

SINGAPORE announces fall in crime rate as they fix the figures — and finally admit that ‘youth crime’ is on the increase.  They also say that this is in the area of ‘assisting loan sharks’ but neglect to mention the drug situation and leave that out of their report.  (we have already seen the rise in youth drug taking and supplying earlier and mentioned this with an official verifying the rising trend back in 2011/12 — see ‘More Singapore Youth on Drugs’)

MORE CRIME IN THE ‘LOW CRIME SOCIETY’ where crime is claimed to be down because of harsh penalties — Another 200 people were arrested in suspected drug offences in a 5 day operation in Singapore (Aug 31 – 2012) 17 of whom were arrested for drug trafficking — drugs to the value of $159,000 dollars were seized.  In a separate Loan Shark Operation, police arrested 22 men and women during a 10 hour operation.  14 were males aged between 24 and 62yrs, this operation was done between Tues, Wednesday and Thursday in the last week of Aug.

SINGAPORE DRUG CRACKDOWN NETS 84 SUSPECTS — Despite claims of low crime and the harsh penalties for drug offences, in October 2012, eighty-four suspects were arrested in a five-day operation on the island state. 84 drug offenders were arrested by the CNB who grabbed S$54,000 worth of drugs, Other cops arrested 21 suspects for various offences in the Greylang area….and another police department arrested 81 people for offences of Public Order, illegal employment and immigration…..186 people in just a few weeks in an island area of 28 miles by something?……and they still maintain they have a low crime rate!

ALL NOT WELL IN SINGAPORE  – their claims of tackling crime have hit another barrier, Drug arrests are up four times more than it was seven years ago despite the death penalty and caning — The government are now having to increase the jail time and make it 30 years plus 15 of the cane — two new offences put into the penal code are: the illegal recruitment of the young into the drug trade — and those who throw parties and organise gatherings that have drugs will now face 20 years jail and 10 of the cane (16the Oct 2012)  This does not come as a surprise to us as we’ve seen the figure of drug offences rising among the young…increasing the penalties only shows that Singapore’s tough justice isn’t what they claimed it to be nor is it a deterrent to criminals!

EVEN MORE DRUGS CRIME – SINGAPORE CNB POLICE carried out a five day island raid and arrested 96 suspects and seized S$25,900 dollars worth of drugs – heroin, Ice, Cannabis, Ecstasy and Erimin-5……which rather blows the theory of ‘severely punishing drug offenders’ will lower this offence…this is Dec 14th 2012.

SINGAPORE CNB ARREST ANOTHER 231 PEOPLE — For various crimes around the Island State. 138 men and 93 women were arrested aged 15yrs to 69yrs…..after an Island operation which started on the 18th Dec 2012 ending on the 20th Dec, netted the 231 suspects — 149 of whom were suspected of loan-sharking activities, illegal money lending and runners and harasses.  82 of the total were grabbed in a raid on entertainment outlets, coffee shops and youth hangouts.  The raids were carried out by the CID and CNB, and Singapore Customs.

Later news — 20 more people were arrested on Friday Dec 21st in a 17 hour operation by police.

Year end news on crime — 14 more people were arrested in a 10  hour operation by the CNB on the 29th of Dec. The anti-crime raids in the Eastern side of Singapore (Geylang – East Coast Park) netted suspects involved in loan sharking, drugs, secret societies and contraband.

This brings the total of such raids in the last few months to having arrested 897suspects on one small island!

The Drugs bust situation rolls on into 2013 with the Singapore CNB seizing 1.4 kg of heroin at the Immigration Authority Tuas Checkpoint when they arrested a Malaysian Courier bringing in $160,000 dollars worth of drugs.

SINGAPORE LOWER CRIME RATE CLAIMS– HIDE DRUGS RISE: The Singapore Prison Service are currently in self-congratulate mode (Jan2013), but this was not the whole picture — the number of people admitted into drug rehabilitation has more that doubled according to the recent figures — in 2010 there were 688 prisoners, but now in 2012 there are 1,384…and a great number of them are between 21yrs and 30yrs of age.

New Year’s Eve brings more DRUG ARRESTS — 113 Suspects were arrested by the police and CNB in a three day operation….they seized quantities of heroin, Ice, Ermin-5 and Ecstasy valued at around $57,000 ( 31/12/2012)

1st Feb -2013 CNB DRUG RAID SEIZES BIG HAUL OF DRUGS — The Police and CNB say they netted a quantity of different drugs – 1kg of Heroin, 68g of Ice, 188 Ketamine, 450 Ermin-5, and 98 Ecstacy tablets….they did not however, disclose the number of arrests or suspects?

90 MORE PEOPLE NABBED IN DRUG RAID (21/2/2013) — SINGAPORE CNB arrest 90 suspects during an 18 hour island wide operation.  Police and Narcotics officers seized $180,000 dollars worth of heroin and 300grams of Ice and took into custody a 34yr old man for drug trafficking; 200 police officers were used in the operation.

85 SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN TWO-DAY ISLAND WIDE RAID — (4/3/2013) – SINGAPORE CNB along with police went on a two day operation which netted $15,000 worth of drugs including 117g of heroin, 14g of Ice, 25g of cannabis and a small quantity of ketamine.

340  SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN ANTI-CRIME CRACKDOWN — Singapore Police in an island-wide operation to stop crime (May 20 – 23rd 2013) caught 340 people, of which 190 were suspected of being involved in loan shark crime – there were 200 men and 140 women.

92 MORE DRUG SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN 3 DAY OPERATION — The police and CNB scooped up drug hauls valued at $214,000 and $113,000.  They seized 1.3kg of heroin,  1.7kg of cannabis and 330 Ermin -5 tablets…and 912g of heroin and 514 g of cannabis. on June the 10th.

SINGAPORE CNB POLICE grab drug haul of heroin valued at $200,000…. 1.9kg were seized (June 22/2013)

108 PEOPLE ARRESTED IN POLICE OPERATION — (July 6th) the CNB and Civil Defence Force arrested 21 men and 87 women on suspicion of vice related crimes, drug offences and gang involvement.

21 SUSPECTS ARRESTED in an 18 hour police operation on the Island State targeted drug-related, gambling and other criminal offences (July 10th)

SINGAPORE DRUG ARRESTS ARE MOSTLY REPEAT OFFENDERS — Yes, contrary to the lies and propaganda peddled out by the Singapore Government in support of caning and long prison terms, in the first half of 2013 the drug offences arrests were 1,790 according to released figures… yet in the same period in 2012 it was 1,731 showing a deterioration in their deterrent effectiveness as repeat offenders are being sentenced a second time after having received a caning and jail and are back for more of the same!

SEX WITH MINORS CRIMES INCREASE IN SINGAPORE — Devastating figures emerged to reveal that sex crime had increased especially with minors.  12 convictions were recorded in just 6 months of 2013, whereas in 2012 there were only 13 for the period of 12 months.

PAEDOPHILES DISCOVERED IN ONLINE INVESTIGATION — Several Singapore citizens have been nabbed in a USA sweep of the Internet child sex abuse operation launched over a 5 week period.  The task force targeted online sexual predators and abusers who not only perpetrate, but produce and trade in child pornography. Some of those caught were teachers and clergy!

SINGAPORE VICE SCANDAL HITS PURITAN IMAGE — We made mention to this earlier when around 80 men were taken by police for questioning over under-age sex. It has now hit the roof and looks set to be a major embarrassment to the Government and Singaporean Society, especially in the light of the above article of a low crime society.  This was hidden just after Christmas, and by February arrests were being made as small groups were appearing before the courts. The under-age online call-girl operation has now sparked disquiet and involves law enforcement and many representing lawyers who are preparing cases. Of the 46 so far named, they include a Police Superintendent, Teachers, businessmen, civil servants, a Naval Officer, Lawyer and Military uniformed officers so far…. namely, Singapore’s economic and political elite. Prominent high society figure Howard Shaw is mentioned in the list, along with school principal Lee Lip Hong who was jailed for 9 weeks for his part.  Calvin Yew Boon Liat, Sing Kok Wee, Ng Guan Mean, Choo Yao Chuen, Kwah Wee Nam, Emlyn Thomas Thariyan, Raziuddin Mohammed Naseem, Lim Kok Tong, Chua Ren Cheng, Koh Zi Yang, Kelvin Peck Yong Li, Pyi Kyaw Han, Foo Kim Meng, Frederick Chen Kwek Kwong, Reyner Desugndo Suhartonou, Nguyen Van On, Chia Kok Peng, Low Teow Guan, Danny Wang Wee Jin, Tan Wee Kiat, Tan Wei Siong, Tan Kok Wee, Choong Sin Jian, Loh Ben Ni, Koh Ching Shyang, Qiu Wen Bo, Ken Sim Choon Wee, Desmond Quek Jin Yang, Leu Xing-Long, Ong Chee Wah, Wong Yih Yong, Chiang Meng Chuan, Lee Vin Sen, Atet K Sianandar, Lee Ching Hsuin, Fong Kok Liang, Chan Wei Kiat, Louis Lee Lip Kien, Wilson Oei, Yap Eng Kian, Goh Wee Seong, Teon Nai Jin, Juerg Buergin and Edward Whistler Goh, with more to be announced!  Squeaky clean Singapore doth protest too much!

SINGAPORE PM LEE SAYS THEY MUST TIGHTEN UP ON CORRUPTION? — he said this in the light of recent cases involving the CPIB itself and senior officers.  He pledged there would be no cover-ups!  but a cover-up would never be known to the public, so this pledge is rather futile and meaningless without accountability.  This speech at a public forum is of course – Propaganda — to throw off the recent scandals including the sex scandal and the CPIB.  He repeated the tired claim that Singapore is regarded as one of the least corrupt nations in the World? — his words, the world does not share his view at all……this is the same man that said there was no corruption and crime was low.

THE UNMENTIONED RISE IN CRIME — THE PERVASIVE COMPUTER CRIMES — Despite the continuous claim of a lower crime rate (always aimed at drugs and the Geylang area where the poor live), Singapore, the small Island State, play down and hardly admit to a proliferation of computer crime that is fast growing in this country.  The KPMG audit firm looking into fraud (computers) identified that in 2004 — 19 percent of firms reported computer fraud, and by 2007 it had gone up to 59 percent — emerging as the fastest growing and pervasive category of fraud — it also has the second highest number of ‘ Cyber Bullying’ cases — Some 25 per cent of Singapore students out of 3,488 said they had been bullied online. Since 2007 it has been identified as a major player in computer crime throughout the World.

THE CASE SINGAPORE HAS TRIED TO GAG — The authorities have said nothing and pretend that this story of a ‘Man who may have been murdered in connection with military technology’ does not exist, but it does, and we have the paperwork:  18/2/2013 — US Citizen, Shane Todd was in Singapore working at a government research institute working on a high electron mobility transistor, an amplifier with commercial and military applications, one partner in this is the Chinese Company IME and Huawei  (said to be a security risk by USA Law makers). Shane Todd before his sudden death, told his parents he was worried because he was being asked to do things with a Chinese Company that made him uncomfortable, and felt he was being asked to compromise American Security and could harm National Security.  He said he was quitting IME and had given a period of notice.  Shortly before he was due to leave Singapore, he was found dead.  He was found by his girlfriend who said he was packed for leaving, 48 hours later the parents arrived to find the death scene did not look anything like what the Singapore Police had written up.  From that moment, things got more bizarre, the parents approached IME and after a frosty reception, Lawyers for them said there would be no more contact!  Suddenly, the research Institute director Dr Kwong calls in co-workers who worked alongside Shane and told them they were not to discuss anything with outsiders or reporters?                Police who were called to the death scene quickly took away his computers and hard drives.  The FBI, considering it was a US Citizen, offered to help investigate, and the police turned them down twice!  Shane had been sending messages about ‘the theft of Military sensitive technology at the Institute’ indicating he was in mind to be a whistleblower, he’d been working there 18 months and knew much about what was happening. The Institute of Microelectronics is Singapore’s high profile scientific research company….and Shane was an Electronics Engineer.  The Singapore Police said they’d kept the FBI informed of the ‘murder’ investigation.            It was said that the Singapore Government and other other bodies began to ‘stonewall’ any attempt by outside investigators…..The Financial Times Investigators who did much of the work, Raymond Bonner and Christine Spolar kept up the pace as long as they could following any and every lead, much to the annoyance of The Singapore Government and police……Shane had five folders on his hard drive labelled IME….his father on entering his son’s death scene found Shane’s back-up external hard drive and had it analysed….it showed thousands of work files were transferred to the pc hard drive that day….and the Todd’s are willing to hand the Singapore Police a copy of what they have provided the Singapore Police send them a copy of all of the files on their son’s laptops they seized…and have custody of…..an inquest is to be held in March.  The Financial Times says there are serious discrepancies in official accounts surrounding this death of a US citizen, and it raises serious questions about relations Singapore and China….and additionally the USA and Singapore?

Case Update on Shane Todd — TWO AMERICAN SENATORS BLOCK FUNDING TO IME IN SINGAPORE —  After the mysterious death of Shane Todd (who was found hanged, claimed by the Singapore Authorities as suicide until defence marks were found on Shane’s wrists etc, proving he resisted and struggled), The Singapore Government said they were deeply disappointed at the USA when Senators Baucus and Tester introduced legislation to block US funding to IME until Singapore allowed the FBI to go in and investigate — and have full access to all evidence and records held by the Singapore Police.

Update: The Todd family walk out on case and dismiss their legal team — as case in court begins to look ‘rigged’ by government and judiciary.  Certain evidence is being redefined to look like ‘suicide’ despite alternate views pointing to ‘suspicious unexplained events’ that are being side-stepped.  The Todd’s are convinced that a ‘whitewash’ is being done about their son’s murder so that Singapore can throw off the China connection they desperately want to bury…..they flew back to the USA before the end of the Inquiry.

PS It will not surprise you to know that has suggested earlier, this case has been whitewashed and thrown to the sidelines amid denials and government rhetoric……which has been expected right from the beginning.

SINGAPORE ACCUSED OF REFINING STOLEN OIL FROM NIGERIA — here’s a little item that sneaked its way to us — which does not help Singapore’s claims of no corruption!  — The former Nigerian Presidential Advisor has openly stated that 180,000 barrels of stolen Nigerian Oil each day, is being bought and refined by Singapore Industry. (Oct 2012)

SINGAPORE RATED AS ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST ‘INFAMOUS’ TAX HAVENS — Tax dodgers and avoidance find a suitable home in Singapore, which has been graded as one of the seven best places for the rich to get their tax down (reported 30/3/2013).

SINGAPORE GROUP LIAISE WITH NORTH KOREA SECRETLY — While the International Community was being threatened with a near state of war by the North Korean Junta…. a secret committee of Singapore Young Professionals from The Choson Exchange were regularly sending members to build economic ties with them as they had many similar goals and idology.

SINGAPORE CORRUPTION — HISTORY REVEALED – Wherever corruption is on Singapore we will find it….and this next selection in addition to what you can already see certainly blows the myths that this government issues…….. ‘The Patrick Tan Affair’ The son of a prominent figure in Government circles was given special privileges — according to a report he didn’t meet with the National Service requirements…but was still given an honour and fast-tracked into positions that nobody could figure out why………we then have the secretive case of ‘The Helicopter Bribery Scandal’ when Eng Heng Chiaw appeared in court for offering a Defence Ministry Official a $500,000 bribe.  The ‘sensitive’ trial was held behind closed doors…and was deemed ‘classified’ by the Singapore Government….. we come then to ‘The National Kidney Foundation Scandal’ in July 2005, which still has repercussions today.  The NFK corruption case netted the Chief Executive Officer T.T.Durai who was charged under the prevention of corruption Act……in 2006 a civil action was lodged with the court for damages of $12 million which included him and four others. All of which, came to be revealed because of a failed defamation case!  Before all of this…14 civil servants including statutory board officials were charged with various offences in 2005…..and even in 2003  there were 32 civil servants caught and charged with corruption.  ( for links to this article go to  www.littlespeck.com  )

SLEW OF SINGAPORE CORRUPTION SCANDALS — Highlights a growing problem in Singapore says a report at Aljazeera. com.  They say that many Singaporeans are alarmed at the surge of Corruption cases now happening through the courts and fringe media…..but some see it as a sign of their justice system working?  It says that Singapore said nothing when the International Community discovered that a Global Crime Syndicate responsible for rigging 100’s of football matches including World Cup qualifying rounds, plus Champions League matches was being run by a Singaporean who they did not touch!   The City Harvest Church Case of misappropriating $50 million is another.  Pop star Sun Ho’s husband Kong Hee is charged with fraud and siphoning off millions, some of which supported her career and failed album.  The year long corruption investigation ended with their trial on the 22nd with six Church leaders in the dock…..Sun Ho complete with bodyguards went to the first day of the trial to support her husband.  We also have the ‘Under Age Sex trial’ netting over eighty males….most of whom are getting prison sentences……..but despite this, Singapore is keen to classify it as ‘not that bad compared to other countries ‘……..even a Dr Wolfgang Sachsenroder, a visiting Politics Professor at the Institute of South East Asia Studies, prefers to categorise it so — ‘ Corruption in Singapore has not yet reached a stage where the Public should be alarmed ‘   Yet, Georgia Funn, Administrative Clerk for the Court (18th May) says these corruption trails have shown what kind of country Singapore has become……’The five C’s of Singapore’ seems to have got a new C…. and that is corruption, and that is nothing to be proud of ‘

SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT OWN ‘ THE STRAITS TIMES ‘ and is controlled by the authorities…The Government have the power to hire and fire.

SINGAPORE ALLOWS ‘MONSTER CROOK’ MUGABE of Zimbabwe in for medical check-up and treatment. See the ‘MUGABE AND THE HISTORY OF EVIL’ article lower down the page for common friendship links and ideals with the Singapore Government.

SINGAPORE SHIPPING COMPANY FINED £20,000 with £50,000 costs by U.K. Court — Pretty Time Shipping — a Singapore based company went on trial at Southampton Magistrates Court for illegally discharging a quantity of palm oil into the sea close to the Isle of Wight. They at first denied all knowledge but later changed their plea.

CORRUPT POWER GRID OFFICER TAKES BRIBE — An officer with the Power Grid of Singapore received 4 weeks in jail and was fined $1.600 dollars after he was found guilty of taking a bribe of 800 dollars from Ng Ah Tai at Ley Choon Construction in return for withholding the truth in the form of a report.

SINGAPORE CITIBANK IS BEING SUED FOR £8 MILLION POUNDS..88 year old businessman Le Seng Hoan and Indonesian trader, has accused the bank of making false and misleading statements, and exerted undue influence on his investment decisions, which has resulted in a loss for him.  This sounds very much like the FSO Fraud cases and recent bank activity in the UK, which has swindled customers out of many millions in recent months.

CORRUPTION PROBE BY SINGAPORE CPIB — Singapore Civil Defence Chief Peter Lim and Central Narcotics Bureau Director, Ng Boon Gay have been suspended   and are being questioned after allegations of serious misconduct were made in connection with alleged corrupt practises. Both of them have been bailed in separate investigations — the government have asked the people not to see too much into this??

GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL IN CORRUPTION PROBE as Deputy Director is accused of soliciting a bribe from a contractor.  Peh Chew Seng head of Projects and Developments at Tan Tock Seng Hospital was bailed in a surety of ten thousand Singapore Dollars and will appear in court at a later date.

CHAIRMAN OF SINGAPORE STARTECH stole S$29 million in a bank swindle with five accomplices. Saw Chee Keang fled to China after jumping bail in 2003. He returned to Singapore in September 2011 and gave himself up as he was a wanted fugitive. He with others cheated Maybank and the DBS Bank. Startech was a Sesdaq listed Company. He is hoping to get a reduced sentence by returning.

LAND AUTHORITY EXECUTIVES JAILED FOR CORRUPTION — Two Senior executives were jailed for cheating the government out of 12 million Singapore dollars — a report announced — both were not named. …… We have traced a case of two land Authority Directors who stole 12.2 million dollars — named as nKoh Seah Wee and Christopher Lim Chai Meng, both convicted of fraud and money laundering, so these could be that case. Koh was the Deputy Director at the Singapore Land Authority Technology Department and Meng, a Manager at the SLA. It was revealed that they had created false invoices. Koh faced 249 counts of cheating and other offences, revealing a huge elaborate fraud. Koh drove an expensive Lamborgini and invested in property, which was not picked up by the CPIB or Internal Staff, even though he was seen in it away from the Company?

SINGAPORE’S RE-ASSESSMENT OF CORRUPTION FOR IMAGE —  Moving the goalposts for gain is not new, and Singapore obviously do not believe in the ‘a spade is a spade’ argument, and this certainly applied to the ‘Corruption Perceptions Index’ when they decided it must drop from 5th to 7th position.  Two high profile cases, one concerning The Singapore Civil Defence Force Commissioner in the ‘sex for contracts’ scandal and the Assistant Director of the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) for misappropriating 1.76 million Singapore dollars.   Amid a corruption case of Teh Cheang Wan caught taking cash from contractors in his Ministry of National Development Office, we see his appeal of 2014 when the judge said his actions did not amount to corruption because there was no ‘third party’ to induce him.  This same assessment was given to an IKEA food service manager…. when the same judge, Justice Choo Han Teck said again there was ‘no third party’ inducement — yet he had ripped off the company.  In another case involving the Judiciary this time, and the Legal Profession — a complaint against Solicitor Alvin Yeo involving ‘overcharging’ legal fees while representing The Medical Council — the judge ruled there was ‘no professional misconduct’ as he did not prepare the invoices.  And in another strange case of the law being able to interpret how it sees fit — we have solicitor Yang Yin who is involved in filing court papers demanding access to $1-13 million in cash while at the same time he is facing ‘a criminal breach of trust’ charge for misappropriating $500,000 dollars in 2010 and another count of $600,000 dollars in 2012?  Will this be seen as ‘no third party inducement’ and another case of corruption being re-classified in the interest of Singapore’s Government and elite?

A source revealed that Government Agencies — M.D.A — M.O.E. — M.T.I. and Mindef were found to have serious lapses on financial accountability by Auditors — The M.D.A. was said to be a serial offender and had failed Audits several times. The Education Ministry was rapped for paying out too much on equipment, and the Defence Ministry carried out a wrongful certification for a consultancy project parting with an advance of S$289,499 to the Defence Science and Technology Agency?

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT SENIOR OFFICER JAILED FOR CORRUPTION — A senior officer with the National Environment Agency in Singapore was given 36 months in prison for corruption.

EMPLOYEES OF NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL CHARGED WITH THEFT — Three men were charged with taking $800,000 from the Traffic Police Bank accounts over a period of several years.  Honourable Secretary General Siu Chin Hwee and two others — Saidon Hassan and David Kan Tuck Pui appeared in court.

SINGAPORE FINANCIAL ADVISOR GOES TO JAIL FOR SCAM — Edwin Lim Gee Chai cheated clients out of $265,000 in an Investment Scam. He pleaded guilty to cheating and forgery charges and was sentenced to 22 months in prison. Police Investigators said that he confused the trail by accusing colleagues in the firm of Elpis of being involved.

MINISTRY INVESTIGATOR IS JAILED FOR ACCEPTING SEXUAL BRIBES — Senior Investigator Norezwan Em an officer at the Ministry of Manpower, admitted to three charges of corruption, in that he accepted sexual favours in return for issuing an extended stay permit in Singapore.  He was jailed for eight months.

EDUCATIONALISTS CHEAT BANKS OUT OF S$2.5 MILLION — Private School owner Benny Yap Chee Mun and Go Boon Chai were jailed for 5 years after running a loan scam aimed at three banks. It was said that Chai was learning business studies and learned enough to figure how to get loans fraudulently with Mun’s cooperation.

FORMER MINISTRY OF AFFAIRS ‘PROTOCOL’ CHIEF GUILTY OF FRAUD — Lim Cheng who worked in the Public Service for 38 years gave into greed, and submitted false expense claims, faced 60 charges of fraud when he appeared in court.  He was found guilty on ten counts.

SINGAPORE BUSINESS WOMAN FINED $250,000 FOR MARKET-RIGGING OF SHARES — Lee Siew Ngan was fined by the court for conspiring to prop up share prices in her company along with associates, two dealers — Frank Ng Poon Khiana who was fined $200,000 and accomplice Kelvin Ng See Kim who was fined $180,000.

SINGAPORE FORMER CIVIL DEFENCE FORCE CHIEF FACED 10 COUNTS OF CORRUPTION — The former Chief Peter Lim Sing Pang was facing charges referring to ‘sex for contracts’ in the island corruption case.

THE APPLE KICKBACK CORRUPTION PROBE IN SINGAPORE — USA grab Singaporean Andrew Ang of Jin Li Mould Manufacturing and American Paul Shin Devine to face civil suit in US Court. The case is said to involve bribery and US$ 1 million concerning the trading of confidential information on products in exchange for cash. Two other Singaporean Companies — Glocom/Lateral Solutions and Fastening Technologies are named in the corruption scandal. The Singapore CPIB were said at the time to be evaluating the case.

SINGAPORE ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICER JAILED FOR CORRUPTION –Oh Hian Kee faced 15 charges of accepting bribes from Mr.Tan Boon Gee of Mincon Engineering. Kee, a Senior Technical Officer was found guilty and sent to prison for 3 years.

SINGAPORE TOWN COUNCIL PROPERTY OFFICER JAILED FOR BRIBERY — Former Civil Servant Mohd Nor Atan pleaded guilty to five charges of corruption and accepting $3,700 in illegal payments. He was jailed for six weeks.

SINGAPORE ‘SUNSHINE EMPIRE FRAUD’ — Two Directors go to jail for scamming $180 million in 26,000 package deals in a scheme they knew would fail, yet still grabbed the cash.  James Phang Wah and partner Jackie Hoo Choon Cheat got 9 years and 7 years respectively.

SINGAPORE LOAN SCAM of $63 million by banking executive Winnie Goh Li Ching leads to jail, along with two accomplices in the corruption fraud.  She pleaded guilty to 33 charges of fraud, she was the banking executive with the OCBC Bank. The scam involved forgery and deceit carried out by the three — Accomplices Lau Thuan Heng and Siti Rahayu Masud were all jailed for 5 years.

SINGAPORE CIVIL SERVANT POCKETS PUBLIC CASH — $617,000 to fund his lifestyle.  Liew Chee Meng was with the Home Affairs Ministry of Singapore, and it was his job to buy gift vouchers for prizes in the competitions run by the Ministry.  He forged e-mails to look as if he had been grant authorization in a very elaborate plan. He was jailed for 8 years and 8 months.

SINGAPORE’S SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL IN BRIBERY CASE — Ho Sze Khee was the Assistant Manager at the firm where he was arrested for corruption. He was charged with three counts of accepting bribes to the tune of $157,508 dollars.

SINGAPORE OLYMPIC TENNIS CHIEF IN CORRUPTION CHARGE — Choo Wee Khiang a silver medallist in the 2008 Olympics is accused of taking bribes between 2003 t0 2005.

SINGAPORE MINING BOSS IN $1.8 MILLION CORRUPTION CASE — Willy Teo See Khiang was charged with 127 counts of aiding and abetting an employee to falsify invoices for the purposes of cheating the firm — Phosphate Resources.  He was accused of taking bribes from Tan Tuck Soo of Assets Shipowners — he will appear in court later.

SINGAPORE COMPANY DIRECTOR IN COURT — Director Lee Chiang Theng pleaded guilty to 33 charges out of 100 for manpower offences.  He was jailed for four weeks — he failed to pay foreign workers, 7 of whom did not have a valid work permit.

PONZI SCHEME FRAUD MAN IN SINGAPORE GOES TO JAIL — The Investment scam was run by Dickson Tan Jing Yun who sucked in punters to his $6 million dollar fraud which had fifty members.  The scheme ran like the pyramid system which cheated the members like an elaborate confidence trick. He was sentenced to 6 years.

SINGAPORE SECURITY BOSS IN $15 MILLION BANK RIP-OFF — Lee Chin Khuay, the director of Gatekeeper Resources was jailed for one and a half years for defrauding banks. He made 117 bogus applications using fictitious invoices and was also accused of laundering funds.

SINGAPORE AIRLINES PRICE-FIXING CASE TO BE HEARD IN AUSTRALIA — The ACCC’s purge on stopping Cartel misconduct which is damaging and unlawful because it harms competition, and unnecessarily raises prices for consumers has yet to prosecute Singapore — it has already penalised eight international airlines. Australia said the ‘racket’ must be quashed, and Singapore Airlines will appear before the Federal Court.  The Australian Regulators fined Singapore Airlines Cargo a massive $11.75 miilion dollars over its price-fixing conduct — the airline admitted breaches under the Australian Trade and practices Act in the Federal Court.

SINGAPORE AIRLINES FINED — A South African blog has revealed that a price-fixing scandal has resulted in the National airline being fined around $3 million.

50 MILLION DOLLAR CHURCH FRAUD IN SINGAPORE — The City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee, along with four others, John Lam Leng Hung, Tan Ye Peng, Sharon Tan Shao Yuen and Chew Eng Han faced court after having been charged with the misuse and fraudulent use of $50million from the Church’s Building Fund, which then went into a sham investment scheme.  The five are said to be facing long jail sentences.

SINGAPORE BUSINESSMAN ENTERS GUILTY PLEA TO CORRUPTION –  Former Vice President of the Singapore Press Holdings (Newspaper Group) was charged with taking bribes amounting to $83,500 dollars and the misappropriation of $23,095 dollars worth of vouchers — he is charged with corruption an criminal breach of trust. Executive Peter Khoo Chong was with the newspaper group for 22 years.

SINGAPORE EXECUTIVE JAILED FOR BRIBERY – Alex Chee Eng Huat was sent to prison for two months for Corruption — after accepting $67,000 dollars for awarding a contract to the ‘right applicant’

SINGAPORE AND CORRUPTION VISITS THE COURT AGAIN — Former Chairman of AEM-Evertech accused the co-founder Chief Executive Ang Seag Thor as the master behind the corrupt activities exposed — Tok Kian You was jailed for 12 months and fined $60,000 for corruption and bribery.  Ang was fined $200,000 for corruption and bribery that was aimed at the firm STS Shenzhen — ST charges of altering accounts and $1 million kickbacks were mentioned in the court trial.

SINGAPORE SEA FREIGHT DIRECTOR JAILED FOR CORRUPTION — Former Director Tan Tuck Soo of Assets Shipowners and Managers, was fined $30,000 for giving bribes to an agent of the Australian registered Phosphate Resources (PRL) and jailed for four weeks.

SINGAPORE IKEA MANAGER IN CORRUPTION BRIBES CASE — Said to be one of the biggest Private Sector Corruption Cases involving $2.3million dollars, Manager Leng Kah Poh was jailed for 98 weeks after it was revealed that he took bribes……and was fined the same amount of $2.3m.

SINGAPORE WEALTH AND SUCCESS IS BUILT ON CHEAP LABOUR — Foreign mostly, according to a study done by one of its own officials turned dissenter and the people’s mouthpiece.  He says that although Singapore is about twice the size of the Isle of Wight off the South Coast of Britain, is by all accounts overcrowded — and this works to the advantage of a wealth seeking Government who put money before its people (not the rich ones it protects) and can just about put a high price on anything — often boasting about its remarkable success in the finance market — while leaving the poor, of which there are many (mainly kept in the social housing area of Geylang where the Druggies operate along with the loan sharks and red light district).  Singapore is considered one of Asia’s richest and most expensive countries (where dissenters are not allowed), they made their money on the back of the poor in the deceitful knowledge of knowing the less fortunate could not react or retaliate against a brutal law system and the connivance of a dictatorial republic regime.

SINGAPORE PRESIDENTIAL POWERS ARE ‘MUTED ‘ BY GOVERNMENT — Minister K.Shanmugam made it plain that the newly elected to be President cannot publicly challenge or speak out against the Government without acting against the Constitution, Law and Foreign Affairs. He can only act and speak as advised by the Cabinet, as he will not hold any executive power, which means he is a mere puppet whose strings are controlled by those who want no changes.  The last elections were in 2005, and now Businessman Andrew Kuan of the JTC Corporation wants to be elected.  He has been around the island talking to local people saying he wants to hear them and be the next ‘ People’s President ‘  He also stated that he wants to share the ‘ unfiltered voices’ of Singaporeans — which indicates that the Government put pressure on critics and suppress any real opposition to their decisions, hence the fact he could do very little for changing things…especially not in Law or the the Constitution, which in fact that people’s voices will be just as ‘filtered’ as they were before…

SINGAPORE EX-NNP PARTY MAN SAYS Any civilised Society should accept and embrace a brutish Government – these were the strange but true words of Calvin Cheng…which rather explains why Singapore is like it is.

CLAIMS OF CLOSENESS OF TIES BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND USA ARE RATHER FLAWED, and we give you the following reasons: Foreign Minister to Singapore, K.Shanmugan is in America making claims that the USA have a special bond between them — (we saw such claims in the government paper The Straits Times, but it has suddenly disappeared on their on-line edition) because they now have warned the USA not to use rhetoric and words of condemnation on China suggesting this could cause strife in Asia (this coming on the heels of the USA and UK calling China and Russia despicable at a UN Meeting over Syria). Singapore needs trade with China so the reason is plain to see.  We now see more on why Singapore and the USA could not be the buddies as hoped;

America 1993 and the outrage over Michael Fay, further outrages concerning other American citizens treated to Singapore laws — Amnesty and the Foreign Office US are collecting data on human rights infringements every year and are the only ones able to record what is happening in the country’s system of punishment. Singapore claimed victory over the Americans by caning Fay — saying that they’d seen this mighty power cringe and walk away with its tail between its legs.

Philippines relations were strained with Singapore, and they vented their frustration at their own government who they requested should take action against Singapore after Flor Contemplacion’s hanging….diplomatic relations broke down for three years …. even today, that anger still exists against Singapore.

Australia was furious with Singapore – Attorney General Philip Ruddock condemned the Singapore Authorities saying the hanging of Australian born Nguyen was a barbaric act — Singapore rejected five pleas for clemency — one  was from John Howard the Prime Minister of Australia.

Singapore and Australia it is said — are in a joint defence pact and have been bowing to each other as a recent meeting (Sept 2012) indicates. How quickly the Aussies forget, and play politics — and how nice for Singapore to know it has them at its feet — its intentions have been seen for many years as its arrogance grows stronger.

The Netherlands were another country that positively hated Singapore and its people called for armed response against Singapore — we have featured that article earlier.

So this chummy claim can only be based on arms bases, business investments, strategic ties and little else as we bring you some facts and history related to how China fits in with Singapore from the 1990’s to now:             Mr Shanmugam, who says that the law in Singapore applies to everyone as he pals up to China can be explained quite simply — China has great holdings in Singapore, in other words — leverage!   HPL — Hotel Properties Ltd are a Chinese Corporation owned by Ong Beng Seng — they have a huge portfolio of properties in Singapore including 50 per cent of HRC Holdings backed by Chinese Business Groups. Another Chinese mogul is the Salim Group owned by tycoon Liem Sioe Liong — it is known as an investment vehicle — and runs the United Industrial Corporation Property development — Singapore Land Subsidiary being one of the largest property firms in Singapore. One can plainly see why China is more important to the Singapore Government.

One thing Singapore keeps quiet about is — China said in the 1990’s ‘ The jewel in the Chinese Crown is Singapore ‘ which seems to explain why they so readily come to China’s aid.

More on the above — SINGAPORE SITS ON FENCE AS IT STIRS UP CHINA — US WRATH — Despite his visit to the USA –Minister Shanmugam has been at it again, —On his recent visit to Beijing, China where they are praising him for ‘ticking off the Americans in his warnings of rhetoric and anti-Chinese dialogue — he appears to be playing both sides. Neighbours to Singapore have stronger views on China — The Philippines’ who are not buddies with Singapore have allowed the US to build up a greater Military Presence on seeing China expanding its territorial claims in the South China Seas!!  It may come to ‘choosing sides’ warns Asia — and Singapore may end up in the mud…and instantly lose three members of the 5 members defence pact – maybe they know that considering their new move to closer military ties with Malaysia?  see below.

At the present Singapore are enlarging their defence capabilities with Malaysia, and only Malaysia?? Could this be to get ready for China’s bid to take the Spratly Islands in The South China Seas?  Trouble has been going on there recently with China reasserting itself, and its new found strength of ‘muscle flexing’ in the area, after all, they have been wanting these 60 strategic islands for many years because China considers control of the South China Seas as an essential prize they must obtain for military and mineral reasons (oil rich deposits). Singapore obviously wants to be assured of a ‘friendly relationship’ in that event, but at the same time have a plan B. which is a sort of ‘ wait to see which side wins and then join them because you supported them anyway ‘

SINGAPORE ACCUSED OF MEDDLING IN THE SPRATLY ISLANDS — The Philippine Star revealed that Singapore was meddling in the issue of the Spratly Islands — an issue involving China. It claimed that Singapore had no business in the Spratlys because it is a non-claimant country — 4 main and two others — Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, and the Philippines along with Taiwan and China have a legitimate claim — so why does Singapore want to be included?  In 1998 a regional code of conduct was established within the South China Sea in order to create peace and security.  Suddenly, Singapore steps forward wanting to be involved directly in the activities of the islands (there are already 10 signatories to the declaration). Is it seeking to get in and benefit from the oil and mineral rich area for nothing?

SINGAPORE GETTING READY FOR WAR? — The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has made a report claiming that Singapore is the 5th biggest arms buyer in the world…as it buys a range of Artillery Rocket Systems, Fighter Jets, Battle Tanks and Seahawk Naval Helicopters. One has to look at recent activity in the Singapore Government and meetings held. It’s a small place to be buying so much in the weapons of destruction area…..one doesn’t spend huge sums on arms in a peaceful country to just look at….they are clearly bought for a purpose other than just defence….are they planning to give assistance to one of their treasured neighbours?

‘Singapore Getting Ready for War’ part two –strange developments — Singapore seems to be playing a strange game as it now warns of a US-China War, Singapore’s Defence Chief Ng Eng Hen was in Washington on the 4th of April urging the US to have more engagement in Asia and referred to the US as a ‘Resident Power’…he made much of the US-China Conflict and told some he was very concerned about a war,,, yet we suggested and worked out that Singapore held this knowledge many weeks ago as it became engaged in arms buying and cementing closer ties with China, as you can see from our articles. Is this Singapore climbing into bed with both sides in a bid to benefit either way?

SINGAPORE RESORTS TO MUTE LEGAL JARGON AGAINST REUTERS REPORT — The Reuters report on Singapore allowing Iranian Cargo to pass through its port cannot be all wrong as they indignantly protest and claim — the fact they have retaliated with issues such as ‘confused several important legal points’ only tells one that they are looking to interpretation of the law, and anyone who has studied law knows that this means whatever a judge may choose in his opinion from a choice of several other meanings, The fact that they rebut the report on Iran Sanctions being breached shows how sensitive they are right now over the China issue.

SINGAPORE MAKES WAVES — Indonesia says Singapore has refused to ratify an extradition treaty with them until they get their way over a defence pact. Indonesia say they rejected a proposal that Indonesia’s Military have a say over the scope of naval exercises by Singapore that are held on Indonesian territory as part of the pact.  Indonesia wants the ratification of the extradition treaty because it says it wants to track down fugitive business executives who owe money to the state and ran down over the border and into Singapore. 18,000 Indonesian key clients with more than a $1 million reside in Singapore and have assets of 87 billion dollars. Of course, the Singapore government denies everything said and have blamed it on Indonesia!!

SINGAPORE PLAYS THE JAPANESE CARD! — Having extolled their relations as chums of China, just how far one will go to profit by a situation has arrived in Singapore — in that they have now announced friendly bilateral defence ties with Japan…..their one time enemy, and still in conflict with China….another great pal of Singapore!

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES — Interestingly, and possibly another missing piece in the jigsaw, we have noted that China is introducing an Internet search engine in Singapore! — Baido Lab with the Singapore R & D Agency – A*Star….concentrating on?  yes, you might have guessed it — a search engine allowing users to conduct searches in the southeast Asian language. ( Another aspect could be to identify protestors and bloggers who criticize both countries, something very likely)   You might ask is this odd? but consider this, in the region — China claims that Asia countries primarily use the Chinese language…Singapore have English, but appear to be turning away very covertly and backed by China to do so. It was once acknowledged that Singapore was  previously known as ‘a Chinese run island’ – and this subtle move certainly indicates something more than what it pretends. Singapore is cosying up to China as we have shown — is China about to wage a land grab and begin the next war situation with Singapore on its coat-tails?

Interestingly in addition to Minister Shanmugam’s China friendship — 3 years earlier, Lee Kuan Yew brought China’ s wrath upon the country when he suggested on behalf of the Singapore people that Asia needed the USA. 

SINGAPORE ANGRY OVER ‘LEAK OF SECRECY’ attack Taiwan Press for report on the secret Military Meeting involving Taiwan’sd Minister of National Defence, Kao Hia Chu, which has now led to a suspension of military cooperation. Singapore was said to be unhappy that this meeting had been revealed. The Taiwan Newspaper retaliated by saying ‘Singapore have a cheek in trying to control outside journalism — they kick up a stink if anyone tries it with them’companies as a way of possibly laundering drug money? What is now known is, that the Singapore Authorities did nothing to deter this?   Another sad and disturbing fact is — It was also a known thing before the millennium that arms dealing and an arms industry is a Singaporean speciality — European arms made under licence went to regimes like Pol Pot and Sadam Hussein….British manufactured arms went on to buyers through Singapore with false end use certificates.  Arms for Iran were secretly sent via Singapore, and in 1990, BMARC secretly supplied a shipment of arms and ammunition to Burma through Singapore — it was openly said that Singapore was ‘an aid in a time of need’ and was twice this for SLORC…Singapore is considered an important ‘back door’ for regimes in need of weapons.

MALAYSIA ACCUSES SINGAPORE OF INTERFERENCE — This time it is Singapore doing all the denials, as it emerged that some of its Foreign Affairs Officers (Diplomats) were present at the Bersih Protest Rally in April at Kuala Lumpur. Some reports say that two or three officials were taking sides, but the Singapore MFA said they were not trying to interfere in Malaysia’s Domestic Policies and that the delegation were simply – ‘impartial observers’  (the government line)

SINGAPORE ANGRY OVER ACCUSATIONS OF BEING A REFUGE FOR ‘DIRTY MONEY’ AND FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE — Eric Tan Chong Sian, Director of Singapore’s Corruption Investigation Bureau refuted claims made in the Jakarta Post – the 11th of Sept — that said Singapore was a safe haven for criminals with their ill gotten gains.

SINGAPORE IN TENSION WITH INDONESIA OVER AIR POLLUTION — News that Singapore were angry with the smog that engulfed the Island Republic State in its worst air pollution in sixteen years led to a diplomatic tiff as the plantation firms in ‘slash and burn’ land clearing in Indonesia caused the region’s air to be thick with smoke.

SINGAPORE AND WIKILEAKS — ‘The Revelations’ — From the 251,000 cables released, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia were shown not to be that open or truthful — what they admit to on a ‘specially prepared’ forum is an exercise in cover-up and carefully fed statements.  Three of Singapore’s Ministers — of the Foreign Affairs Ministry were revealed to have secretly trashed Malaysia in 2008 and 2009. Peter Ho, Bilahari Kausikan and Tommy Koh made remarks concerning the Malaysia Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim saying that he’d been set up by the government on ‘sexual perversion’ charges and that Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak could face a murder charge (of Mongolian Transalator Atlantuya Shaaribuu), plus the the possible issue of fleeing Chinese Malaysians ‘overwhelming’ Singapore in the event of unrest and a purge on them. Even comments about Malaysia being a corrupt country were published as spoken by Singapore diplomats in communicates.

THE SINGAPORE BLOG AND DISSENTERS MYSTERY — Myth or Manufactured?  — We have at several times tried to track down this band of protestors — but alas, they disappear.  We tried one recently, the mystery CPIB man who blogs as —  Singapore Recalcitrant….and got nowhere….and again with Gerry Heng…who featured on blogs……but all our e-mails bounced and came back…..so where are these people…..and what’s their game?

SINGAPORE NEA THROTTLES THE THE LIFE SUPPLY OF SMALL BUSINESS —The National Environment Agency uncaringly hit a Street Vendor with a rent rise that smothered the entrepreneur to bankruptcy. Chenwh492 as he names himself for safety reasons was appalled when the NEA arbitrarily increased his father’s food stall at Old Airport Road by 36 percent (nearly a thousand dollars to fifteen hundred) a price he couldn’t afford. He says the letter of notice was callous and impolite and did not take into account the circumstances of the vendor. They indicated that he ought to find alternative locations…..and this was after building up a life-supporting business for three years in that area. This doesn’t convey a picture of Singapore fairness, furtherance of opportunity or economic pride for everyone they boast about…this is the other side of that one-sided coin.

DEAF EARS IN JUDICIARY as foreigner pleads against sentence for man who robbed his flat — David S Powell lived and worked in Singapore for two years, and on returning from a trip, found his flat had been burgled. He was told by the police the robber had been caught and was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 10 strokes of the cane.  Mr Powell saw this as excessive and the caning as barbaric, and went to appeal to have this sentenced reviewed because he was the so called wronged citizen, but was told it had nothing to do with him and that the man had been caned and would serve the sentence.

SOME ‘HOME TRUTHS’ ON SINGAPORE — Singapore is about twice the size of the UK’s Isle of Man or Isle of Wight, about twenty miles long and eight to ten miles wide, not big at all for a country….yet, a lot has gone on over the years, some things never revisited such as — Their connections with Burma in the 90’s when it joined ASEAN, which is primarily devoted to making money, and has hardly any interest in Human Rights or Democracy. Burma is in fact very keen on enriching the drugs trade, and Burma is one of Singapore’s biggest investors. It is said, the sanctimonious Lee Kuan Yew is often lecturing the world on Moral Purity of Asian Values and the need to engage constructively with oppressive regimes (such as Burma) — is at best a joke, and a poor one at that. In 1996 when Lee was in overall power, the Bangkok NATION reported that Burma’s drug lords — Ling Ming Xian and Lo Hsing-han who head the major multi-million drugs trade in Upper Burma, frequently made visits to Singapore  and set up

THE BLATANT CONTRADICTIONS:

It is said that Singapore’s real achievement is ‘Social Control and its Attendant Fear’ making democratic debate impossible.  They have a great desire for oppressive uniformity — a trend the regime has responded to with relish and aggressive support — The Racial Harmony Act prohibits sermons on social and political issues saying they are irrelevant?    What one can easily identify here is numerous contradictions to what they preach and what they do….they hang druggies, yet deal with drug producing countries…they appear to embrace ties and tourists and despise violence…yet cane over-stayers and immigrants who haven’t raised a fist to anyone? Another conflict in their claim of ‘the cane is there for violent crimes’ is absolutely flawed by a 2013 case of two thugs, Hock and Chong 46 and 41, (both within the caning age of 18 to 50) were described as ‘being one of the worst cases of violence against a public transport worker in Singapore (and several passengers on the bus) — the level of hooliganism was appalling, audacious and shocking’ said the judge, but they both got 15 months jail (no caning)….yet the authorities say the reason they must add a caning is because of violent crime?  One recent case involving two suspects in Drug Trafficking ended up with one going to the gallows and the other getting life imprisonment and 24 strokes of the cane? (what the caning serves to do is mindless, he’s no threat to the public he’s serving life in jail, so it could not be seen as a deterrent to him)  Muhammad Ridzuan Md Ali 28, is going to hang, his friend, Abdul Haleem Abdul Karim 30 is getting life in prison (plus the cane) and they are both guilty of the same crime.  He appealed to Judge Tay Yongkwang to be fair and let him hang alongside his friend….the Judge said ‘the court dies not have complete discretion to do whatever you want me to do, you have a certification from the Attorney General’s Chambers — your friend does not’   Yet, Changes in the Law in 2012 gave Judges the discretion not to impose the death penalty on drug couriers….. so yet again we find the Judiciary being steered by the Government…. and….the claim to keep the cane doesn’t add up!

THE SINGAPORE ACTIVIST MYSTERY — When one trawls the Internet Pages and eventually finds the bloggers and dissenters putting up videos and other material, The Democratic Party being a huge contender here, one quickly accepts something is going on……even if it isn’t……one of several of those people ‘want the outside international community to take notice’……but,,,,,we tried to make contact with these so-called ‘urgent cries for help’ and we found ‘no one’……not a single reply……..having thought about it, it could well be the PAP inventing an opposition so that they remain in power and create a sort of enemy to fool the citizens into trusting the PAP absolutely…..much like the Police and Security services using deflection methods to hide covert operations.

ANIMAL CRUELTY CASES ON THE RISE IN SINGAPORE — THE SPCA say that according to new figures, animal cruelty has gone up by a fifth in 2012 and looks set to rise further.  Last year there were 1,017 reports of abuse against animals, some beaten to death, legs cut off, poisoned and cats slashed.

SINGAPORE COPS CARRY GUNS — Unlike the British, Singapore follows the USA tradition of Gun Law, which could make a visit more dangerous……and it ties in with their penal codes and why they are heavy on anyone carrying a replica or fake gun.

MORE SINGAPORE YOUTH ON DRUGS according to figures issued on users after increased arrests — the age of drug users is said to be rising with the teens in Singapore — up by 45 per cent (Singapore Press 2012) Drugs and the death penalty have stirred up ill feelings and is condemned by the UN — but research tells us that most of this drug trafficking comes via Burma, a country that strangely has some influential business deals with Singapore?

FOOTBALL MATCH-FIXING RING ARRESTED — Based in Singapore, Fourteen people have been arrested in the global (International) football match fixing network…..run by leader Dan Tan Seet Eng. The ring was first discovered by the Europeans who told Singapore that they had found the ring operating there.  It took mounting International pressure to get the Singapore Government to do anything…as they didn’t feel the need to get involved and Tan just laughed the matter off.  It now appears that 12 men and two women have been arrested.

EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS DON’T MEAN MUCH SAY SINGAPORE MINISTERS —  In a reversal of the many cries throughout the years for students to excel and grab certificates and degrees — Ministers turn back the clock!   NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MINISTER Khaw Boon Wan said ‘ You own a degree! so what? You can’t eat it if that cannot give you a good life, a job…. it’s meaningless ‘     EDUCATION MINISTER Heng Swea Keat said ‘ That a good qualification alone does not guarantee a career, let alone a job ‘    ACTING MINISTER FOR SOCIAL AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT Chan Chun Sing said ‘ Soft skills, not a degree, are the most important thing for young people to learn ‘

A   UK Diplomat said the ideals of Singapore is to make money first and foremost, and that meant preferring to forget that a Foreign Power provided the set-up for the acquisition of wealth. Some who see the Singaporeans are repelled by their self-righteousness based on nothing but deceit. The thing often not mentioned is the shame of 1942 and Singapore’s surrender….the appalling military disaster and shameful disgrace in Britain’s Imperial History. The British had a duty of defending Singapore, not only because of Britain’s ‘other interests’ but the British Might that suddenly vanished. The hollowness of Britain’s promise was laid bare and exposed…so much so that today, no Singaporean mentions February 1942.  They lean more towards the USA who rode in, and with the Atomic Bomb brought down their captors the Japanese…..and strangely enough, the USA does all it can for Japan these days to ease their conscience of that decision to nearly obliterate that country…to end a war.

SINGAPORE HIDES BEHIND PROPAGANDA – Singapore may show off its cars for the wealthy and make claims that it is a rich man’s paradise — but behind the facade of lies it hides the simple truth ‘that is a con’  the country or better described as ‘dictatorship’ is corrupt and this corruption has been aided and abetted by the UK, Australia and New Zealand to a greater or lesser extent — reason being?  that it suits their governments to see it like this.  This country ignores its stand on ‘torture’ — the added torture of prisoners, which it clings to as ‘Internal Affairs’ and its Secret Police State that can do anything without fear of being brought to book — Yes, its Security Police besides locking people up can force confessions using any means….the Government interferes with the Judiciary and the AGC do as they are told.  They have recently hidden facts in a Prison Death Case and closed the inquiry….luckily they are now being sued over the dead prisoner….and then there was the ‘Shane Todd’ case which was closed by the government amid accusations of their arms links with China and a firm dealing in secret projects….. Singapore may look clean and prosperous, but one should look at how it came about.

SINGAPORE, WHERE THE POOR LOSE OUT….in fact they’re priced out….they have no say really…and the very wealthy get more rich.  A Report has just announced that Singapore is now the World’s ‘most expensive’ city to live in.  The wealthy are actually increasing, but only in the stockbroker financial belt….which the Singapore Government encourage.  The survey (2014) concluded after looking at 131 cities, that it is the most expensive place to run a car (and quite a number have Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Rolls Royce)…where the cost of living has risen quite rapidly…..and where the rich dictate the laws and who they want shoved out of the country.

NB; most of the featured crime – corruption, police, lawyers etc was taken from just a 3 to 6 month period, and that is high for a colony area which is in fact city size and a little bit more – now turned state and country.

SINGAPORE HAS NOT RATIFIED THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS — MAKING RESTRICTIONS   ENFORCEABLE — SINGAPORE’S RULE OF LAW IS NOT FOCUSED ON DEMOCRACY.

TO BE FAIR TO SINGAPORE, CORRUPTION EXISTS IN ALL GOVERNMENTS AND POLICE…….BUT SINGAPORE DENIES THIS…………They are not alone!

Note: What we show here is not the full story but a mere scratching of the surface…we will look for more. 

Twelve related articles of note: — (1) Professor Hussein Alatas made the observation that corruption is least pandemic in Malaysia since Independence in 1957. He goes on to say corruption has definitely been growing especially in public office, customs, police, the courts and various Ministries.

(2) ‘Singapore should cease violating fundamental rights citing self serving Historical and Cultural excuses that only tarnish its global image’ — Report by The Human Rights watch, New York. February the 3rd 2011.

(3) Singapore’s Government says it’s laws are protecting the people and its culture — the sacrifice of certain freedoms for the good of the economy and prosperity requires a strong law,  — this strangely echoes what Adolf Hitler said ‘  The individual is nothing. The group is everything — When group rights get the upper hand, gone are the ‘inalienable rights’ given to the individual by his Creator’

NB: Hitler says he drew his inspiration and belief in the above from The American Declaration of Independence?

(4) Lydia Loh of the Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office, an agency of the Singapore Government, has denied Activist Dr Chee Soon Juan permission to leave Singapore to go to a conference in Oslo.  He was invited by The Oslo Freedom Forum in connection with The Human Rights Foundation to speak over three days – the 7th,8th and 9th of May. The operators who have booked his passage say he is being penalised for criticising the Singapore Authorities.

(5) One Singaporean observer said ‘ This obsession with flogging is a real sickness in Singapore in epidemic proportions, and because of this, has become a pariah internationally ‘

(6) It is said Singapore suffers from the ‘Kiasu Syndrome’ = ‘Afraid to lose out, or fail’

(7) Singapore have no studies published, nor release any statistics on punishment, prisoners and the judiciary, but the judicial system grants the police absolute power.

 (8) Singapore in meeting with China again discussing Maritime Law Enforcement in the South China Sea! — Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean went to Beijing to meet Communist Party Member czar Zhou Yongkong of the Politburo to discuss security– law enforcement, cyber crime and maritime law enforcement — which points to recent aims of Singapore to crush dissenters via the Internet with partners, China, who are equally disposed to the same ideal, and for the same reasons — plus maritime discussions, which points to China’s activity off the Philippines and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and their intentions of getting them,  and as we have already seen; Singapore’s interest in trying to be involved commercially despite not being a signatory to that treaty …repressive law, well, both of them indulge in that.  Lastly — The English and Chinese language in Singapore that nicely places them in a position to benefit from both the West and East in the event of a war that Singapore expects- (see Getting ready for war part two – Singapore Defence Chief Ng Eng Hen in Washington)

 (9) Singapore has three Judicial Acts that allow immediate detention without trial — The Internal Security Act, The Criminal Law Temporary Provisions Act, and The Misuse of Drugs Act vehemently and rigorously applied by the Police of Singapore.

(10) Singapore makes ‘minor’ changes in Death Penalty Law — claiming they wish to appease ‘modern day thinking’  — so they claim?  However, they still remain ‘doggedly’ steadfast to the idea that Judicial Murder is a good thing — it is quite clear there are no Christians in the Singapore Government and Judiciary or the people for that matter — In the Bible the fifth commandment says ‘Thou shalt not Kill’ — but they have their own perverse version handed down by the ancient Gods of The Rising Sun.   Lastly, their ancestry, mostly from China, murdered and butchered many without ever being hanged…so murder is one of their traits, yet they act as if murder now should receive the death sentence when their relatives engaged in it like a way of life.

(11) Singapore and China get together to build strong bilateral relations between each other — indeed, a meeting with China’s Security Chief Zhou Yongkong and Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister looks very cosy and more than just a coincidence? They claim they can learn from each other, and why is that? China’s recent mood is convincing us all that a war looms, even Singapore said that. China thinks nothing of intimidating its rivals and shows a willingness to bully anyone especially as its economic power builds…it is for this reason alone that the threat of war is certainly real, and will come. It is said by a few Western journalists now focusing on China and its recent behaviour, that it is becoming a dangerous nation…and although Singapore is not willing to admit it, they and other nearby Asian countries are hitching themselves to US defence. Japan has already installed new US anti-missile radar systems! and of late, there has been several defence drills involving US troops in Asia and around the South China Seas.  America has already confirmed they have sent several battleships to the region.

 (12) Singapore is in the United Nations? — it maintains the right to cane and flog prisoners? — it signed up to the United Nations Human Rights Convention against torture? or did it?  — we see Jamaica has abolished whipping of prisoners as ‘degrading punishment — an anachronism  which violates Jamaica’s International obligations and was preventing  the government from ratifying the United Nations Convention on Torture — which tells us they were unable to join unless this practice was abolished…..yet Singapore continues to use it….so how did they get in….and why were they allowed to override the convention requirements?

NB: While Singapore continues to cane….think on this — Dr Maggie Atkinson (Anti-smacking of children) says that Physical Chastisement is an abuse and a criminal action, and that ‘You are forbidden from striking another adult and from physically harming your pets under British Law and in many other countries in the civilised World’  Dr Atkinson is The Children’s Commissioner for England who says allowing children to be smacked is wrong and morally unjustified as the Law says hitting another is assault and criminal.   Singapore modelled its courts and justice on British Law, yet orders the assault to be carried out on defendants found guilty of certain crimes along with a jail sentence……..why isn’t Dr Atkinson and other campaigners taking Singapore to task Internationally? and why isn’t this seen as ‘indecent assault’ when they strip prisoners naked to be thrashed while up to seven others are in the room watching as the caning is being administered….are we looking at money, power, and politics?

(13) After a lull or brief stay on executions, SINGAPORE HANGMAN begins again, as two men were hanged in July 2014 returning the status quo and indulging in canings too.

14) LEE KUAN YEW Dies — and interestingly, a Western newspaper article sums his life up as ‘ he traded freedoms for prosperity and a nanny state that flogged prisoners, granting powers of detention that were unlimited in their application allowing a brutal security regime to quell those who questioned it and took anyone to court for comments contrary to his rule.  It was also mentioned that his ‘vindictiveness bordered on vendetta situations’ and that as a child he was denied a pet canary so he plucked out all of its feathers to get back at his parents.  He once pioneered human rights and attacked detention without trial prior to becoming the PM, and said repression is a habit that grows, and later strengthened detention and brought in strict repression along with a tight reign on law and the citizens……that only Hitler could admire (and Mugabe of course).

PS. If you are thinking of a holiday in Singapore, take these two points into consideration, 1) their culture may be quite an eye-opener despite the English Language being spoken  2) there are dangerous snakes at large anywhere on the Republic Island State — a Deadly Cobra was faced off by a cat in their Labrador Park area of the City……..other snakes have also been known to be coiled up and asleep in door wells and apartment blocks.

And lastly, Singapore is not good for your health.

Request — We tried to obtain some documents from an ex-prisoner in Singapore who said he had proof of an historic secret war crimes abuse by Singapore Officials and the Government….and it suddenly ceased after he sent us our required proof of one document which had enough for us to continue….we should like him to reconnect with us using our agent in Singapore.

One MEP urging Europe to sort itself out says we should all in the west beware of the ‘rise of Asia’ ?

PS: Singapore is about the size of The Isle of Man, and if all of what we listed on this republic happened there, there would be a government change and a scandal that would not be tolerated or allowed to continue!

Need some info about ‘hidden war crimes’ and Singapore…..somebody must have some stuff they hid.

‘The Desperate Situation and Lawless Law of Africa ‘

SIX SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE OFFICERS ARE SUSPENDED AFTER FILMED BEATING – Johannesburg police were filmed as a result of a documentary which was not supposed to feature this kind of thing.  Mark Reynolds a police spokesman said that six white officers have been suspended and charged with assault and intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE DETECTIVE ON ATTEMPTED MURDER CHARGE….yet he is involved in the detection of the ‘Pistorious Murder Case’  Hilton Botha a lead Investigator has now been taken off the case because charges relating to an incident in 2011 when he was accused of opening fire on a minibus full of passengers (then dropped under strange circumstances) have now been reinstated by The National Prosecuting Authority on the 4th of February just 10 days before he was assigned to the Pistorious Case.  They told the Press that Officer Botha has now been suspended while they proceed with the charges against him.

News Update: it now appears that Detective Hilton Botha has resigned from the force claiming ‘ that he has been stitched-up by colleagues and the police command’ and hung up to dry.  (This could indicate like Britain, that he will escape charges when Officers can use ill-health etc to resign and offences are dropped in recognition of it)

EIGHT AFRICAN POLICE OFFICERS from Gauteng are to appear before magistrates on charges of stealing alcohol. The eight policemen are to be tried at Potchefstroom Magistrates Court. It appears that a Senior Policeman driving past the officers saw them loading the crates into police vehicles having taken them from a truck. An officer from the South African Police Service found them loading the beer after claiming it fell from a truck, a truck they were following. The driver of the truck stopped after another vehicle owner said that his load was being grabbed by the cops, and the truck driver rang for police back up. All eight were arrested at the scene.

THE EVILS OF ZIMBABWE – Another Caning Country like Singapore, but in respects of Death — far worse. This brutal regime fronted by MUGABE is a blot on this Earth that should be engulfed in fire and burnt to ashes.  This African hell hole with its torture camps manned by soldiers of the army murder citizens without any fear of going to the gallows where they should be. Ordinary citizens found guilty of murder are hanged without the slightest blip from the judiciary,, but the judiciary cannot touch army personnel or put them on trial for committing atrocities. Soldiers laugh and admit freely they shot and tortured victims, and why can they do that — because the judiciary and police force is corrupt from the core. MUGABE has got away with genocide and laughed at the whole world, and opinion is that he will never stand trial for anything. The PF who pretend to consider human rights in the area and monitor the ‘blood diamond ‘ situation ignore reports and are now prepared to let this man trade on the open market despite the atrocities…..all for money, because that is how Governments measure human existence.

ZIMBABWE SENTENCES MAN TO 290 YEARS IN PRISON — Said to be a ‘record sentence’ a court in Zimbabwe actually  decided to sentence a rapist to 290 years in prison,,,,,,,,awarded by a Magistrates court!

ZIMBABWE EX-LAWMAKER ON PORN CHARGE — A former Congressman from the USA appeared in court for possessing pornography.  Mr Mel Reynolds is also on another charge of breaking the country’s immigration laws.

MUGABE – A HISTORY OF EVIL — Robert Mugabe the State President of Zimbabwe — his notorious Fifth Brigade troops all trained in Asia’s North Korea, responsible for the slaughter of 1500 Ndebeles. Mass torture in Zimbabwe jails as reported by Amnesty International: victim’s heads forced into a waterproof canvas bag full of water — tightly tied around the neck until they choked or vomited to death. Repression -a lawless dictatorship — bankruptcy and slaughter — all these things said in 1989 and Mugabe is still wielding the power.  Those convicted (without evidence) of political and economic crimes are publicly flogged or executed — Mugabe’s Government —(1) controls the newspapers, radio and television.  (2) it tolerates no criticism.  (3) those that dare to do it are rounded up, secured with rope or handcuffs, shackles, bound and beaten with canes in prison.  (4) They are then sent to re-education facilities and programmes to eliminate deviants and dissenters of the ruling party.  Similar in some ways to how Singapore does things when one considers (1)  (2) and  (4) — the beating part is additional and a deterrent.  (Mugabe is welcomed into Singapore quite regularly — see the Singapore article)

MUGABE said ‘We have to ensure that our society is rid of those undesirable elements whose own attitudes militate against the attainment of unity’    —- another ideal that Singapore subscribes to.  It vaguely feels and smells like ethnic cleansing hiding behind a different brand name.

AFRICA’S POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST PEOPLE IS STILL ON THE UP — From 2009 to 2010 there were 1,667 cases of assault by police in Africa. The Independent Complaints Directorate with the help of David Bruce, compiled figures that were higher than 2008 to 2009. Bruce had been investigating cases lodged against the SAPS, and also revealed that one of the leading causes for this was criminal members joining the police and infiltrating the force for their own pleasure and gain. This report was issued on 26/5/2011.

OTHER CANING COUNTRIES IN AFRICA ARE – UGANDA – BOTSWANA – KENYA – JOHANNESBURG – All of these countries have no regard for human rights, and are ruled by despots and dictators who are in the main, corrupt and evil, and until the west wake up and stop worshipping position, power and money…these things will continue as they have done….death and violence is what they deal in, life and decency means nothing.

NIGERIAN COURT ORDERS 20 STROKES TO GAY MAN — a Bauchi Court sentenced a homosexual man to twenty lashes….. Mubarak Ibrahim faced being stoned to death by the Islamic Court, but because the ‘ offences’ took place seven years earlier…corporal punishment was given to show leniency!

UGANDA ANGERS USA AND OTHERS — The International Community reacted angrily at the decision by its President to introduce an ‘anti-gay Bill’ to punish and outlaw those with leanings towards homosexuality within the country.  In an already ‘anti-human rights’ country soaked in corruption, President Yoweri Museveni signed a Bill publicly  which can jail ‘an offender’ for up to 14 years…..it was leaked that the original sentiments of the legislation was intent on bringing in the death penalty.   Sweden has threatened to cut aid, which has also been put on the USA agenda.

CORRUPTION A WAY OF LIFE — South Africa is riddled with corruption in every form from murder to inter-government ministers etc,  A recent Channel 4 programme showed murder being committed by villagers without any law being present.  It also showed housing officials taking bribes,,, and denying it, which comes as no surprise.  One top Party official became aggressive when he was questioned over how he’d suddenly got rich, showing Mugabe qualities of threat.  One is always hearing of denials by countries regarding corruption, and it doesn’t wash.  Ourselves and Wikileaks are dedicated to exposing this until this world wakes up and owns up to its many crimes, and pays for those crimes.  All these regimes and countries hide behind lawyers and judicial systems that are not fit for purpose, and until they go there will not be one honest society or people.

AFRICA BLOOD DIAMOND TYRANT FORMER PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA IS JAILED —  Charles Taylor Former President was sentenced to 50 years in jail by The International Court in The Hague for war crimes, and crimes against the people. The atrocities were enormous and numerous, all of which he denied of course.  All of his brutality happened during the 11 year war in Africa. Sadly unlike those he had murdered, he will spend the rest of his life in the comfort of a UK Prison and not on the rat infested bare floor of a cell like those he incarcerated.

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE CHIEF EUGENE DE KOCK, Hitman and leader of a death squad was convicted of murdering five African National Congress members. His trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court lasted 18 months and he faced 116 counts of attempted murder and fraud. The report states that he carried out the campaign between 1985 and until 1994 — he was known as a police colonel of the South African Police — one of the highest ranks.

Update: PAROLE DENIED TO DE KOCK — Former Head of a covert police murder squad, that tortured and killed many people, was denied parole because the families of those who were killed were not consulted, which is part of African Law.  De Kock apparently confessed to murder and other crimes and was given a life sentence.   The case highlighted the need for other officers who should have been punished to be tried, but got away with it because of the ‘reconciliation move’ that allowed many killers to own up and move on with their lives….which really flies in the face of justice…..this same country hangs murderers for less crimes without hesitation, why should ‘Historic killings’ be different?

Update: Unbelievably, De Kock is seeking parole, which is something his victims never got when he killed them.

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SHOOT AND KILL 34 IN MINES MASSACRE — Mineworkers protesting about pay and conditions were gunned down by a unit of cops who murdered at least thirty-four men and injured seventy eight others,  They claimed they ‘were under threat of their lives and it was a safety issue’  — this battalion of police officers were dressed in full combat gear like soldiers and had automatic weapons — the mineworkers had stones, sticks, and alleged knives?

MASSACRE AND THE POLICE FIT-UP — It has emerged that the police have been accused of planting weapons at the scene of their killings to justify any court inquiry. It is said that two photographs of the scene immediately after and later are different, the later ones show weapons next to corpses.  Photographs taken earlier show the same corpses with no weapons!  Human Rights Lawyer George Bizos has accused the police with tampering at the scene of the crime.  ‘There has been a deliberate attempt to defeat the ends of justice after the events took place’ he said.

COMMISSION SAYS THE POLICE LIED OVER MASSACRE — The President’s Commission has now come to the conclusion that the police lied about circumstances surrounding the events of the Miners being massacred.  It was found that police withheld documents and falsified statements (and evidence) to make out that the South African police acted lawfully when they didn’t.  They put forward the lie that they acted in self-defence, but this is no longer accepted by the Commission.

NO ONE CHARGED OVER MINERS DEATHS — In 2012 34 miners were killed by government police with dozens of others injured.  18 months has passed since false promises were made about carrying out a proper investigation into why armed police killed so many, and then went on to tamper with the crime scene.  There has been no indication that the Commission will go after the police chiefs or officials who gave the orders to shoot and kill.

SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE IN ‘MURDER’ ACCUSATIONS — Police were caught on a phone camera dragging a taxi driver tied to the back of their van, and was later found dead in a police cell…….seen all over the world, the South African Police find accusations of corruption and murder being more credibly laid at their doors.  News broke saying that a murder investigation has begun over evidence showing a taxi driver being assaulted and dragged tied at the back of a police van.  The film shows at least 4 police officers involved who tie the man to the van and the police van drive off pulling him along the ground.  27 yr old Mido Macia was later found dead in a police cell two and a half hours afterwards.  under questioning, the officers made no reference to the tying and dragging incident (because they were obviously unaware or blasé about phone videos) and concocted lies about a gun and a struggle which they instigated………24 hours later a Police Chief announced that 8 police officers had been suspended as was the Police Station Commander.

It is said in an update that 9 police officers have been charged with murder in connection with the taxi driver.

DEATHS IN POLICE CUSTODY were 860 in 2009/10 compared with 695 in 2003 to 2008…..and the Independent Police Investigation Department (IPID) say they are currently investigating 720 new cases of suspicious deaths.

NIGERIA ILLEGALLY DETAINING PEOPLE — Reports are being read accusing the Nigerian Authorities of Execution and Torture — AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL have said the African Country are holding hundreds of people in inhumane conditions without access to lawyers etc, and they are merely suspects.  They are being held without any criminal charges, and some have been summarily executed by Security Forces.  People held have been shackled for days wondering or awaiting their turn to be beaten in order to get a confession.

NIGERIA MILITARY DETENTIONS — 100’S DYING — Amnesty International announced in a report that hundreds of people are dying in detention — from starvation, shootings and suffocation.  The Nigerian Forces Crackdown as claimed the lives of 950 people who died in military custody in the first six months of 2013.  A source said apart from what is known, others grabbed have simply disappeared!

KENYA’S GOVERNMENT IS SUED OVER POLICE BRUTALITY —  Following the Elections in 2007, the Government of Kenya is being sued by 4 Human Rights Groups and the families of seven people shot dead by Police — The Law Suit has been filed by the Law Firm Nderitu Partners Advocates.  Records of this period show that police shot dead 405 of the 1,100 people assembled at the elections….and many were shot in the back.

KENYA POLICE IN BRUTAL BEATING OF BRITISH CITIZEN — Reports say that British National Alexander Monson lay dying on the floor of a Kenyan Police Cell in the coastal town of Uganda three years ago after a beating by police while in custody.  It says that officers ignored him and his pleas for help and denied him medical help said a friend at an official inquest into the circumstances of how he died.  The incident which was kept quiet by the authorities happened in 2012 one May night (the 18th).  Pathology said he had died from a severe blow to the head…..he was apparently brought into the police station for a cannabis charge.  The family say that police began a cover-up and despite other actions no one was charged at the police station……..not really a surprise there!

BURUNDI -AFRICA — THE JUDICIARY APPROVES LAW TO FORCE REPORTERS TO REVEAL SOURCES — Seen as a move to really protect government officials and police etc, taking away Press Freedom.  Recent events have shown this country very fond of jailing journalists (several)…..they are also threatening reporters with financial penalties.  Rights Watch see it as the Law being able to nip in the bud any investigation they see as harmful to the government by gagging reporters.

KENYA POLICE ACCUSED OF ABUSING REFUGEES — Human Rights Groups have accused the Kenyan Police of massive abuse against Somali Refugees; that they indulged in rape, beatings and extorting money from them.  This happened when Kenyan Police arrested over a 1,000 asylum seekers from Somali. 

KENYA’S POLICE ATTACK PROTESTORS — Citizens protesting about Politicians’ wages were brutally beaten by Riot Police in Nairobi.  The aggressive cops set about beating 250 protestors with batons, used tear gas and water cannons.  The group of protestors were outside Parliament when the squad of Riot Police came rushing at them.  Some people were seen to be bloodied after falling to the ground still being beaten by police officers who continued hitting them mercilessly.   It is stated that Kenya’s politicians are amongst the highest paid in the world despite obvious poverty their citizens endure.  Salaries such as $126,000 (£82,600) are paid to some MP’s and middle ranking ones earn $78,500 (£51,500) and at the lower scale salaries are $1,700.

KENYA’S DEPUTY PRESIDENT MUST ATTEND HAGUE TRIAL — He has been told that he must attend his own trial throughout rather than pick and choose.  Deputy President William Ruto was told by The International Criminal Court that he cannot be excused unless the court grants it.  He is accused, along with President Uhuru Kenyatta of orchestrating violence during the 2007 elections which resulted in 1,200 citizens being killed.

MINISTER IN KENYA IS SACKED AFTER MASSACRE — More dark deeds in a country besotted by such evil and corruption.  Uhura Kenyatta sacked his Interior Minister after a massacre by Islamist gunmen shot and beheaded 36 labourers……this being the second such massacre in less than fourteen days.  There has already been the resignation of the Police Chief David Kimaaiyo.

NIGERIA – 10 GENERALS FOUND GUILTY IN ARMS DEAL  —  Ten army Generals were found guilty of giving arms to Boko Haram, the leader of a gorilla band of extremists and providing information.  15 other officers in the army are being tried at divisional level.

NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF COMMITTING WAR CRIMES — Nigeria is said to be terrorising part of its population and committing war crimes in its battle against Boko Haram.  Human Rights Investigators believe that 4,000 people have died while held secretly in custody over the two year campaign to defeat Boko Haram.  And of course, the government deny the suggestion it acted unlawfully!

RWANDAN WAR CRIMES SUSPECT ARRESTED — Jean Leonard Teganya had already fled detection by going to Canada…..and it was only after he tried to cross the border into the USA that a Border Patrolman in Maine became very suspicious.  He was duly arrested for walking into the US illegally and detained.  On further inquiries it was found that he was on a list of suspected war criminals and will be handed over after the process for his removal from the United States has been formalised.

KENYA PARLIAMENT IN BUST-UP WITH CIVIL RIGHTS —  A debate in Parliament about changes to the civil rights ‘in the interests of security’ led to a brawl between legislators.  It is said opposition MP’s threw bill papers on the floor while rivals fought each other…. all aired on live TV.

‘The Cousins Down Under or the influences of transportation’

AUSTRALIAN POLICE CORRUPTION COMES UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT  — A new article coming out of the UK’s near relative says ‘ The mire of bent cops and drug connections ‘ surrounds a huge enquiry into the Gold Coast  Investigations. 20 police officers are being forced to give evidence about corrupt colleagues concerning activities of police officers in this region. The CMC have ordered officers to cooperate with the current investigation which has numerous officers under investigation. It is said to be the biggest scandal since the Fitzgerald Inquiry in Queensland.  Victoria in New South Wales was rocked by a scandal when the ‘ Beach Inquiry’ of 75-76 netted 55 police officers who were charged with corruption.  42 were actually prosecuted, but none were convicted? despite public calls for a Royal Commission which never happened.  In other news Senior Detective Dave Miehel was arrested for trying to steal $1.3million worth of drugs, and Officer Paul Noel Dale was charged with conspiracy.

THE VICTORIA POLICE SCANDAL 1990 – 2005 – FIFTEEN YEARS OF POLICE CORRUPTION – The Director of the OPI Office of Police Integrity, an off-shoot of the Ombudsman’s Office, Mr.Brouwer, said they had uncovered corruption when he was interviewed by the Australian Newspaper The Herald Sun. He said the OPI are forcing cops under suspicion to hand over documents in connection with ‘ theft while executing search warrants, drug dealing and intimidation’ (just a sample of the offences) in gathering evidence on police misconduct. He said that 136 summonses had been issued on police officers. A separate investigation centres on 40 cases of police corruption, and another 50 are to be quizzed over unexplained assets of millions of dollars.  West Australia Police Commissioner Bob Falconer was accused of serious corruption in Victoria in the 1990’s when he was Chief of Police Internal Investigations.  ‘The Hoser Files’ a book published highlighting police corruption by author Robert Hoser was illegally banned by the police following their intimidation of booksellers who were prepared to stock it. Luckily, their coercive ban backfired and what they didn’t want known is now public.  Interestingly in the face of this rising police corruption, the government rejected a Royal Commission in 2004 and were only prepared to let the OPI investigate the allegations. Mr Stewart, a Senior Legal figure who previously conducted three Royal Commissions into crime, said ‘ Victoria has failed to address police corruption in 2005, and it is now at its highest level ever ‘  Former Supreme Court Judge Don Stewart came out against the force by openly saying ‘ the Victoria Police and Bracks Labor Government oppose investigation by a Royal Commission because they do not want the extent of corruption within the force being revealed.’

THE MELBOURNE CORRUPT COPS — Simon Illingworth spent just over seventeen years trying to expose the corrupt police in Melbourne who take bribes from the gangsters. At 38, he admits that once he started to go after these cops that the risk factor became high.  At first he thought he was only just looking at a small number of cops that had turned bad, but this situation only got bigger as he researched and checked incidents that finally led to files being kept and records of what was taking place between cops and the gang-leaders. On realising what he had uncovered he made the decision to write a book and expose the cops and robbers of Melbourne.

THE CORRUPT COPS IN NEW SOUTH WALES — Another cover-up detected, as a new inquiry in ‘ shot dead man case’ reveals that Police officers of the New South Wales Division misled the Public and Senior Officers concerning an incident when Sergeant Sheree Bissett shot a man in the back, (Mr Adam Salter). Not only did the cops at that division cover it up, but it then led the force failing to investigate the findings of a cover-up — despite having known about it for ten months.  A new hearing has been called into investigating — as it now suggests that accounts by other officers given at the time were ‘wrong’ and that false information was given out to avoid public criticism?  The coroner suggested there was misconduct involved….which more or less exposes corruption from the ranks and up to the senior posts in the police with Government doing nothing until the story goes public ( a case of the usual passive resistance in the hope it will never be known about). (A 2012 Case)

THE CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL IN AUSTRALIA — The Cover-up involving the Church, and the state’s reluctance to own up.. A Corruption that Australia must not be allowed to brush aside or forget…..There was an investigation into abuse at boys detention centres from 1911 to 1990 which suffered many interruptions in its passage mainly by certain officials wanting it stopped, as some feared that it might lead to the arrest of prominent figures who had been at those centres. Even though reports related to excessive uses of corporal punishment, there was no focus on that aspect of the abuse.  In 1998 The Queensland Commission of Enquiry examined child abuse at more than 150 orphanages run by the Christian Brothers, what emerged was horrifying cruelty and sexual perversion sadistically mounted on young boys….kept hidden and denied by the Church and Government alike.

The Orphanage School at Picton in New South Wales — Eric Leonard aged 11 recalled the hard work the boys were forced to do under the threat of a whipping if it wasn’t done right — Carers were not allowed to be friendly or show compassion for children. The cane was frequently used and even a joke ended up with a boy being bent over for 8 strokes. Runaways were severely thrashed in front of everyone and given 10 strokes of the cane. Kevin who was 15, remembers his orphanage school in the 1950’s run by The Catholic Church, corporal punishment; a bamboo cane called ‘the swish’ was used everyday and was feared by every boy regardless of age. Some Priests used heavy punishment straps mostly when a boy was taken into their rooms; it was done on the bare bottom. What happened at night you didn’t dare talk about because you knew some of your pals were being sexually messed about with. You couldn’t even approach the nuns, they didn’t care.  Barry Reamsbottom, was at an Orphanage School in Stonehaven Road, Queensland, — it was at the end of a very long track. He remembered 35 boys being caned for talking on his first day there. They had to clean and polish floors and work long hours. At bath time, a communal thing, bruises and welts on bottoms was a common site, but you never asked why!

We now move onto the final inclusion for this article as it would not be right to miss out the most infamous Orphanage most children in Australia came to know and fear.   Bindoon Boys’ Town, the Catholic run home for boys controlled by Brother Paul Keaney, a former policeman whose capability for brutality equalled his attitude to boys in his care.    One young boy named Lionel Welsh remembers the regular beatings he got at the school when you talked out of turn or even too loudly.  For Brother Paul this was a crime that had to be punished, and he would read out the crime before having the lad come forward.   The boy would have to lower his shorts to his feet and drop his underpants before bending over.  Keaney would then lift up the shirt-tail and lift it clear of the buttocks and raise the strap high and well back before bringing it down hard across the quivering cheeks.  No boy was tough enough to endure it without tears, and if he moved or flinched he would get an extra stroke each time.    Lionel Welsh later wrote about his experiences and memories of Bindoon in a book called ‘ Orphan of the Empire’     1990.   Another boy named Des, who met with Lionel, confirmed the state of Catholic care, as he went to Clontarf Catholic Boys’ Home in Perth.  He too was beaten many times.  He recalled the 14-hour days of work which only a small part was school.  The Brothers made all the boys work hard or else you got a hiding he said.

NB: 132,000 Children were shipped off from Britain to Australia, most were told they had no mothers or fathers, which was often false information……it took the Australian Government 25 years to apologise, and even that was forced by events and was not sincere.  The British Government were equally guilty but again would not admit fault and wilfully obstructed every investigation in partnership with Australia.  A Major Film release in 2010 called ‘ Oranges and Sunshine ‘ focused on the struggle to expose the abuse…..and should be seen……..it’s only then you will realise the horror….and see the opposition to this story coming out by the Australian Government.                          (look for a DVD on Amazon and order it)

AUSTRALIA’S ABORIGINE SCANDAL — Another blot in the History of a Government that made violent attempts to rid themselves of the native Aborigines. They were shunned like ‘the blacks and negro’s’ just as the American’s did, put into slavery, and the law of the land often beat them and hanged many at the slightest excuse, some did it for just the sadistic pleasure it gave them, without repercussions or being charged with any offence. Killing them was seen as doing the country a favour!  Australia like others preferred to forget this episode and hairbrush it out of History…but this they will never do, and must not be allowed to either. THE ABORIGINES GENOCIDE is something the Australians do not like to talk about.  White Australians were guilty of mass genocide of the native aborigines but prefer not to admit it in favour of terminology like – pacifying, cleansing, shooting, beheading, exiling, exterminating and removal. They pretend not to be connected to it in any way or having taken part in the killings and mistreatment of these people. The Australians on this subject, shun away from accusations of their acts being compared to the Nazis in Germany.  British Colonisation was in 1803.  Even in the final chapters of the survivors these people were lied to — being promised if they surrender they would get their lands back — it never happened and it wasn’t going to happen.  The White Australian Politically Correct hide the underlying racism, because it is forbidden in public, especially with the World watching these days.   In 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a ‘sort of apology’ in that he was ‘sorry’ for the ‘stolen generations’ in the hope of quietening the issue and long remembered scandal — after 220 years!!  But they didn’t actually mean it, as a Compensation Motion was booted out by the government, 65 to 4 shortly after his apology fiasco.

AUSTRALIA’S SECRET OF  THE ABUSE OF THE ABORIGINES — John Pilger, top journalist and born in Australia says that his love for the country cannot justify keeping its human rights abuses a secret, and must be exposed.  These natives of the Real Australia before the ‘Whites’ arrived from Britain etc, were wiped out and had their land stolen by the new ‘masters’ intent on secrecy and distorting the truth from the prying eyes of outsiders.  They actively engaged in cover-ups and denied that atrocities had ever happened.  Australia has a society with a deeply racist past, which lurks beneath the surface and is in the main, kept hidden.  The Internet has now made it harder for them to conceal and the world’s do-gooders motto of ‘let’s get integrated’ has pushed these racists into hiding so that it can now appear on the surface as ‘a decent nation’ dedicated to ‘human rights’….which of course is not entirely true.   Much of what happened to the native Aborigines ‘court wise and official’ was in fact conveniently destroyed or disposed of by government officials and the legal profession.  But one rare court record escaped and is in existence, much copied by historians and analysts who have secured its exposure and place in Australia’s ‘criminal past’     It mentions that 28 Aborigines taken prisoner in 1838, were tied up and slaughtered by order of the court.  Other records unearthed showed that the authorities often used the official word ‘dispersal’ in documents, often hoodwinking people into thinking it meant taken to or given more suitable surroundings etc, was actually the word for ‘mass extermination’ in regard to Australian Blacks.     Even the Army were keen to destroy documents, but some got out and are known of such as — they used chemical weapons when they found themselves outnumbered by the Aborigines (even though they only had spears, knives and bows)….. soldiers poisoned the natives on mass using strychnine phosphorus and arsenic.  In one journal by a Queensland Government Official the comment said ‘ It’ll keep the niggers quiet’    The authorities had a special colonial army formed to annihilate the blacks — likened to Hitler’s Einsatzgruppen, who used Snider rifles capable of tearing apart a man’s body because of the wide bore and calibre.  At the recorded Incident called ‘Skull Gorge’ the special army trapped and slaughtered innocent men, women and children.

AUSTRALIA’S SHAMEFUL POLICY TOWARDS THE ABORIGINES:  The Australian Government led by John Howard slashed the Aboriginal Affairs Budget by a staggering $A400 million dollars, and executed this move quite casually and without any feelings for these people.  CUSTODY DEATHS – At this time it was recorded that 58 per cent of Aboriginal youths and juveniles were in police and prison detention, and many received regular beatings akin to torture, and most of this was covered up by the police and government with the aid of the Judiciary.  Neglect at that time was considered a standard police procedure.  A Royal Commission looking into the abuses committed against the Aborigines cost in the region of $A30 million dollars over a two year period.  They made 339 recommendations, none of which called for criminal charges to be brought against the police or prison officers.  Even in 1996, a photograph, followed by others appeared in the National Newspapers showing a series of photos showing NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE officers at a party with made up black faces and wearing mock nooses around their necks — portraying detained Aborigines who had suffered and died in Police Custody, NO ACTION  was taken against them…….the government preferred to look the other way…..just as it had done in other shameful circumstances.

AUSTRALIAN COURT SYSTEM TARGETS ABORIGINAL CHILDREN — Similar to the US who would often put down and punish the blacks because they thought them inferior, The Australian Court System has been exposed as imposing harsh sentences on the Aboriginal youth.  One boy who it was said stole a packet of hamburger buns received a 12 month detention…confirming statistics that showed a bias toward the Aborigines. Davies, the 17yr old had no previous convictions when he appeared before magistrates…..yet aboriginal children are jailed at 31 times the rate of their white counterparts. In another case Laurence Boney 17, from New South Wales got 12 months for a small cannabis charge….two other Aboriginal children were dealt with similarly.  Even in the early times, the whipping of young Aborigines was ordered, whereas the white boys received a ticking off.  Stephen Lawrence of the Aboriginal Legal Service said that the courts regularly impose extraordinarily harsh sentences that cannot be justified under state sentencing law.

ROTTNEST PRISON — THE HORRORS — Another scandal that Australia would rather forget, let atone for… in fact it has been ‘hair-brushed out’ by the new Government (2012)…. the notorious concentration prison camp is now a sort of leisure hotel…..holiday camp style…. with former cells (where people were tortured and killed) made into chalet rooms at $240 dollars a night.  This horror site was called THE QUAD and 1000’s of  Aborigine boys and men were tortured and killed.  Rottnest Island as it was referred to hid the atrocities from the mainland of Western Australia.  White Australians still believe in a sort of apartheid without actually saying it..one interviewer approached an Australian family in the street, and all went well until he asked them if they knew Australia was stolen from the Aborigines…. and they immediately walked away.  (the prison was built by the British)

A Minister said the Justice system failed badly over an incarcerated black man who was ‘cooked to death’ in a cell with just one air vent above the door… the coroner was appalled.  In another instance footage was shown of a police station in the Northern Territory, a young Aborigine was being roughly manhandled by police even though he had done nothing wrong….but a little worse for wear because of drink….the police said they’d taken him into custody for his own protection! …….. when in fact, he needed protection from them.

Then there was the awful case of Eddy Murray who died in custody… his sternum was badly damaged from a blow….. they claimed he did it himself……however, a Royal Commission examining the case said the police had committed perjury, falsified records and lied consistently…….. no police officer was ever charged!

Finally…..2012, and the Justice Dept and Prisons are now ‘stacking and racking’ prisoners similar to the way the slave ships did…….. and those prisoners are predominantly Aborigines……..Justice Denied….this is Australia.

NEW SOUTH WALES CASE — WHAT THE STATE DID — Barry Hart was subjected to all sorts of medical traumas and tests, which were kept silent by the Australian Government — This was exposed when Barry won his case for ‘false imprisonment, assault and battery’ against the state’s Chelmsford Hospital. Sadly, due to the Judge who he feels deliberately steered away the jury from making the state’s role more of an issue, made the verdict empty thus causing or misleading the jury into thinking they were compensating him for injuries and only made the financial award of $36,000.  He says the solicitors and judges were acting against natural justice and had a agenda that was government led.  see more on  www.molestedcatholics.com   Australian Legal System corrupt.

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT TRY TO SILENCE CORRUPTION WHISTLEBLOWER — The Australian Government failed to censor the Internet in an attempt to gag and suppress hidden facts being made public on the web. It appears they went to great lengths to keep the truth secret and knock out as many websites as they could to hide behind a web of deceit.  They were gunning for Raymond Hoser who revealed the Victoria police scandal, an investigative website owner who regularly gets under their skin to expose corruption that pervades public ideals and runs all the way up to the government.  They were outraged when he exposed the Tax Directorate Terry O’Keefe, the lies and dirty dealings etc, MP Victor Perton took a more personal dislike to snoopers like Hoser and tried to coerce the Internet via ISP’s to wipe out his sites and associated sites. Hoser seeing that he was getting in the way of truth being out there! switched ISP’s to the USA where Australia had no legal jurisdiction and he was taken to court several times as the government used the familiar ‘ We’ve been defamed’ much like the tactics Singapore and China use to silence critics etc,  They even falsified criminal charges against him in a bid to get him off their back. But Hoser continued exposing corruption, notably corruption in the Carr Government — more of this can be seen at the link  www.smuggled.com  and there is more at another site called www.kangaroocourtofaustralia.com

THE WHEAT BOARD BRIBERY SCANDAL indicates more corruption destined to be kept hidden from the people and world no doubt. Whistleblowers discovered secret and restricted intelligence reports and communications between various Australian Embassies, Trade Officials, the UN, Public Servants and the Australian Prime Minister.  www.thecheers.org revealed the story of Ministers, Mark Vaile and Alexander Downer, who in a memo claimed no one will ever find out anyway!

THE CORPORATE FRAUD item came up with an expose on Labour MP Craig Thomson who it is stated was involved in a $17 million dollar fraud involving contract tenders and transactions in the Federal Government of Canberra. The police it says are paid to bungle investigations and judges bribed to throw out cases against Corporate Directors in case the country is affected by economic loss on a huge scale.

THE BIGGEST INSIDE ROBBERY IN AUSTRALIA — Was orchestrated by one of the country’s upstanding and fine citizens, one Corporate crook, ALAN BOND who built a ‘Paper Empire’ owing the Government 14 Billion dollars.  He was finally imprisoned for a ‘moderate’ 3 years, but not before he siphoned off a billion dollars with the help of Corporate Aides and people in ‘high places’

AUSTRALIAN REFUGEE POLICY EXPOSES NASTY DETENTION METHODS — Australia’s detention policy on refugees has suffered a blow as Lawyer David Manne has launched a case against the government on its mandatory handling of boat people who remain behind bars because they are deemed a threat to the community by the Immigration Authorities. He says they they are taking arbitrary decisions, mostly based on self-preservation and a dislike of foreigners. ‘It is like a secret trial, we don’t know the process, we don’t know the rules, its all down to secret assessments. It’s a denial of natural justice to lock them up indefinitely, and possibly forever.’   One man was locked away for three years after an adverse ruling, and the Australian Government haven’t told him why?  The glib phrase by officials say ‘It’s in the interest of National Security?’

AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS/NAVY GUARD HIDES IDENTITY AS HE FIRES ON BOAT — It was notable that one officer on a patrol boat masked himself to avoid identity as he prepared to man the machine gun and shoot towards a Indonesian boat in Australian waters. There’s something typical about legality when it wishes to conceal, and Australians are no strangers to deception. Its Government pretend to be open and law abiding, but it is even harder to find truth in what they do. Politicians are corrupt and if one digs beneath the surface, there are many who have their fingers in the till.

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT PAYOUT $3.25 MILLION DOLLARS OVER WRONGFUL CONVICTION — Andrew Mallard was kept in prison for 12 years from 1994 — 2006 for a crime he did not commit…which happened in Perth.  The murder charge was found to be tainted and THE SENIOR LEGAL PROSECUTOR WAS FINED $10,000 DOLLARS FOR MISCONDUCT in the case. Despite having freed him in 2006 it took the state three years to finally pay compensation for their wrong-doing — The West Australian Government made a settlement of $3.25 million dollars (hoping to make up for taking away the man’s liberty and subjecting him to the harsh prison regime). No other official was brought to justice over this and to this day, Australia hides behind its laws in the pretence that they are fair and just.

AUSTRALIAN COPS CHARGED OVER DEATH — Five Police Officers from the Tongan Region were charged with manslaughter.  It originally contained three officers on the serious charge until a judge said that ‘assault’ with two others must be upgraded to manslaughter. An Inspector and four constables are charged with causing the death of New Zealand Police Officer Kali Fungavaka in custody.  The details of why they killed the fellow police officer from another country on a visit is not known.  Speculation suggests corruption — to the victim having discovered something he should not have witnessed…..which led to five officers conspiring to commit the crime.

AUSTRALIA IN BREACH OF HUMAN RIGHTS INVOLVING ‘Child Abuse ‘  — Children were locked up in jail and for convenience; counted as adults to satisfy Customs Staff consciences — Catherine Branson Of The Human Rights Commission said there were 180 under age Indonesians being held and thrown into prison by the Australian Authorities during 2008 – 2011.  The Australian Authorities and Customs Branch along with Immigration Officials, were reluctant to comment on their treatment of the children locked up.  Ms Branson said ‘ The Government should apologise for breaking the Human Rights Treaty ‘ but are apparently not prepared to do so. — This has similarities to the ‘Child Abuse Scandal of Australia ‘ already featured where it took the Australian Government many years to apologise, and that only happened as they were brought ‘kicking and screaming’ into the court.

AUSTRALIAN COPS COLLUDE AND LIE — This is yet another case where CCTV nabs the police and shows them assaulting a suspect and then following it up with fabricated charges against the person they’ve kicked and punched.  Police like this always feel sure they can get away with it because ‘nobody is allowed to impugn the respect of law and order’ so governments believe (like neighbouring Singapore)….even when video evidence is shown the government will take every measure to distort the obvious until they have no way to turn and then suddenly claim ‘rogue incident’  The incident shown on the Internet shows FIVE POLICE OFFICERS kicking and punching suspect 22yr old Corey Barker (Aborigine) as he lays on the floor of Ballina Police Station.  Strangely as a Public Prosecutor pointed out ‘ the CCTV tape was damaged?…and was not found or given up immediately.  The report claims only THREE OFFICERS have been held for perjury after submitting false testimony, those officers are Senior Constable Ryan Eckersley, Constable Lee Walmseley and Senior Constable David Hill….the other two are nowhere to be found? despite aiding and abetting the crime.  These police actually took the young man to trial on their colluded evidence….the court threw out the case as they should and ordered the police to pay $30,000 to Barker’s legal costs.  The Cops lied under oath and colluded with everyone in that room, and that was five cops…..the Commission says that a Corruption Inquiry was launched (2012), but so far we haven’t seen these cops jailed or charged….we have looked for the outcome, but its absence is deafening!

AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS ARE GIVEN EXEMPTION OVER CRIMES — Human Rights abuses are common in Australia, most are hidden from public gaze due to Government interference and local law enforcement who are paid to eradicate the problem or hassle the whistle-blower. What is so amazing is that they are blatant hypocrites as they often declare themselves to be supporters to the Treaty, and readily accuse other countries.  The Australian Government are founded on criminals and transportation; something they don’t like being reminded of!…One woman Australian was recently seen being pushed to the limit by Customs Officials who searched not only her belongings but also intimately too…yet found nothing….they neither apologised or paid compensation. They cannot be taken to court because they are a ‘protected species’ (a very UK thing) because the law favours the government — a government seriously flawed by corruption in its administration and police service.

THE AUSTRALIAN BORDER OFFICIALS CORRUPTION CASE 2010 — 24 Customs and Border Officials are under investigation for misconduct and on suspicion of corruption.  The report says a joint Federal and State Inquiry into Organised Crime in the area of New South Wales, has been ordered to look into officials who are being paid by Crime Syndicates to co-operate in the smuggling of shipments of drugs.  The Customs Department has already suspended or dismissed 15 officers over corruption and misconduct.

AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS ARE HIT BY ANOTHER CORRUPTION SCANDAL — The Australian Government has announced that it must look thoroughly into the Customs Service after eight people were arrested in a corruption investigation linked to an alleged drugs ring at Sidney Airport.  A Spokesperson said an overhaul of the system was now needed in the light of two customs officers and a Quarantine Official being arrested in the eight suspects, they further indicated that more arrests were expected in connection with the Customs. (2012)

AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT AND SEX SCANDALS — Legal Law Maker and Politician Craig Thomson is set to cause Australia another scandal — Canberra 2011 — It is said that he misused a credit card to pay for a prostitute — a conviction for theft or fraud would force him to quit the government — severely embarrassing Prime Minister Julia Gillard.  It is said that Thomson went into denials and damage limitation mode explaining that an unknown individual had taken his credit card and forged his signature? — following up quickly, he tried to silence a newspaper belonging to the Fairfax Media — but dropped the court action before the hearing. But, he has now been too late to stop the police investigation which has been started because of new evidence being supplied by an opposition senator.

Another Political Sex Scandal — The Porn Scandal hit the Internet in 2010 concerning Fred Nile of the New South Wales Australian State Government — Christian Democratic Party, who is said to have been visiting many adult websites — it was mentioned as 200,000 — Minister  Paul McLeay resigned over his porn scandal.

Sex Scandals and Politicians — Two Australian Labour MP’s Keith Wright and Bill D’Arcy went to prison for sexual offences linked to underage girls.   www.wataday.com.au  gives us an insight into politics, sex scandals and fraud featuring eleven incidents over recent years.

Policeman guilty in sex film case — A New South Wales Police O0fficer, Marc Osborn was convicted on three counts of filming a person engaged in a private act without their permission for sexual gratification.  He did this by using a ‘pinhole camera’ in a clock which was positioned to take film of sexual acts on his bed unknown to those who were there.  He then proceeded to download the finished film on to is ipod and passed it around to fellow police officers in the station…..33 such acts were found on his device, it was only when a ‘brave’ colleague reported what was going on that Osborn was hauled up before Senior Officers; he now faces dismissal the report says.

ANOTHER SCANDAL AND MORE ABUSES –  AUSTRALIA’S CRUEL AND DEGRADING ASYLUM CAMPS — Nauru in the Pacific Territory hides away another Australian Government scandal — Amnesty have described conditions at the camp as ‘ cruel and degrading’ saying the conditions are inhumane, this comes as frequent Asia Reports tell of Australia deterring Asylum Seekers in their coastal waters in every way they can, those often being mass arrests.  It is said Nauru is only one inadequate camp, there is another on the Manus Island of Papua New Guinea. Officials in Australia are glibly saying that it may take them 5 years to process the Asylum seekers claims.  The Government in answer to Amnesty made one of those tired ‘colonial’ responses and attacked Amnesty rather than own up to their own faults — ‘they said they were not surprised that Amnesty did not agree with the Processing Centre – their opposition to us was established long before the facility was!’

AUSTRALIA’S ABUSE IN ARMED FORCES OVER 60 YEARS — Much being sexual abuse, has surfaced causing the Minister to say ‘sorry’ in a broadcast. Australia’s Government and Commander of its Defence Force apologised to the hundreds of victims that suffered abuse and mistreatment within the Military, finally allowing the way for these people to launch their claims for compensation.  1,000 people came forward with allegations of abuse which had gone on for almost 60 years without ever being taken seriously or even recognised….such was the scale of secrecy within the top brass of the Services and Government Officials who tidied this secret into the drawer marked ‘ not to be seen by the public’  A report says two cadets have been charged at the Defence Academy, one of an indecent act, and the other being the secret filming of a female cadet which was posted on the Internet.  Even the Navy have fallen foul of this report and it has been revealed that they are now being investigated over ‘sex games’ regularly engaged in.  Lawyers for the victims say they found 775 ‘plausible allegations of abuse and mistreatment’    There are now calls for a ‘wider’ investigation!

THE AUSTRALIAN SPORTS DRUG TAKING SCANDAL — Yet another scandal that seems to have caught this country unaware?  Like its child abuse scandal, Australia have only just realised that their country’s athletes have been doing enhancing performing drugs in order to win on the International Sports Arena.  It was revealed that doctors have assisted this, and that it has organised crime behind it (Match-Fixing). Team coaches have been included in the frame as the investigation is set to reveal a large scale situation.  A Minister said that they had 100 cases so far to deal with. He said that they will pursue and catch those involved and they will be brought to justice.  It was stated that this was a part of a one year investigation by the Australian Crime Commission.

THE AUSTRALIAN SWIMMING TEAM SCANDAL — Yet more embarrassment for this country….as it was discovered that former Olympic Swimmers attending the London event in 2012 were engaging in disruptive behaviour, which included prank calls while they were in Manchester, and taking the pills – Stilnox.  The team apparently did badly at the Games…..Swimmers James Magnusson, Eamon Sullivan and Cameron McEvoy admitted they had got up to silly things.  Allegations of bullying had already been reported, and Swimming Australia, had received reports and were launching an investigation into the culture of the National Swimming Team. It was said two swimmers kept their body hair they’d shaved off before the competition and scattered it in the beds and luggage of other swimmers at the event.

AUSTRALIA IN THE BUSINESS OF CURBING FREE SPEECH — Yet another so called free country doing one thing and insisting the public do another.  Australian Internet Civil Liberties Lobby Group Electronic Frontiers Australia said woefully, ‘ we don’t have a constitutional right to free speech in Australia, like the USA ‘

AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS QUESTION ‘BRIT’S’ RIGHT TO ENTER COUNTRY? — Why? because he had a criminal record, and they questioned whether he was fit and proper enough to be allowed to stay in Australia.  Rather rich this, seeing as most Aussies were descended from convicts sent by Britain to languish in Australia for crimes committed in the UK. (featured in one of their televised Border Patrol and Customs Propaganda TV Series)

AUSTRALIA HIDES THE TRUTH — Much of its past has been hidden and re-written to look legitimate.  Different Governments have indulged in ‘secrecy’ and denial, and fooled most of the people for most of the time.  It is not an ‘honest’ country nor interested in transparency at all, each successive government have covered-up the many scandals that would have shocked the International Community.  Financial and power have corrupted the police force for several years, and chiefs have made deals to have the damage limited so that the truth will not come out.  We hear from journalists who tell us that they have been threatened and had their offices broken into when they’ve been investigating cops and government.

Further to the above, our contact in Australia has sent us ‘memos’ that show that some courts on behalf of the Australian Government have acted illegally.  Cases against the Government have been circumvented and Law Makers have fabricated and altered documents, including lying on oath.  We can also see that the authorities have deliberately ‘thwarted’ claimants and interfered with cases in order to prevent a payout (one payout estimated at around thirty million dollars)…..a line says that ‘this payout must be prevented as it could cause the government and taxpayer too much and lead to a public inquiry, not to mention the opening of flood gates and many other large financial claims that would seriously affect the insurance liability which must be capped’

AUSTRALIA CAUGHT SPYING — As Australia sits back looking innocent on the world stage everything changes as they take a seat in the spying game. Their neighbours in the North, Indonesia (riddled with corruption) have recalled their envoy after finding out that Australia’s spy agency have been tapping the mobile phones of top officials including the Indonesian President and his wife.  This comes immediately on the back of ‘friction’ between the countries over asylum boats and asylum seekers.  This arrived as Whistleblower Edward Snowden released secret documents revealing what the spy agency was doing in Australia.

AUSTRALIAN LAWYER IN RACIAL ABUSE CASE — Struck off for misconduct, Lawyer Megan Maree in de Braekt was found guilty by a court and fined $15,000 dollars as a result of an incident in 2009 when she deliberately insulted a Singaporean Security Officer at the Court.  She told him to go back to where he came from, and that he had ‘short man syndrome’ when he demanded that she had to be searched when entering the Central Law Court in Perth.  It was said by the Law society that the lawyer had a history of abusing officers!

HEROIN HAUL GRABBED ON WAY TO AUSTRALIA — A £55 Million drug haul from Thailand was seized on its way to Australia.  It was reported that there was 147 kilograms of heroin worth a street value of £55 million… there were 420 packets hidden in frozen seafood containers.

ILL-TREATMENT CLAIMS LEVELLED AT AUSTRALIA —   Sri-Lankan asylum seekers have accused the Australian authorities of mistreatment since returning to their island nation.  Australia acted indignantly to this claim saying it was ‘offensive’   37 Sinhalese and four Tamil asylum seekers said they were ill-treated by Australian Customs Officials……The Sri-Lankan group have told others to stay away from Australia……….definitely good advice!

AUSTRALIA — INVESTORS SEEK $20 MILLION SETTLEMENT — 2,000 Investors who were victims in a collapsed investment scheme.  Lawyers representing them are fighting to get a $2million settlement with Bendigo & Adelaide Bank overturned by the Victoria Supreme Court.

SIEGE VICTIM GETS KILLED BY POLICE BULLET — It emerged amid the police response of ‘we cannot comment’ that Katrina Dawson held hostage by gunman Man Haron Monis was shot by a police officer at the scene when officers stormed the building.  In the initial investigation it was found that as the Tactical Operations Unit moved in to storm the Lindt Cafe in Sydney and suggestions say the bullet ricocheted, Katrina Dawson died of her injuries, but as the investigations are ongoing – the police now remain ‘tightlipped’

NB: Like many of the Governments and countries we feature, they do not mind having good publicity reported but go to enormous lengths including legal to have bad incidents eradicated or removed in case it damages its International Reputation…..which of course is built on a false premise complete with lies and corruption!

A FRIENDLY LOT THESE AUSTRALIANS?? NO WAY— forget ‘Neighbours and Ramsey St’ — its fiction.

We shall follow the thread of the above and come back with more, especially in the light of this country being more corrupt than at first thought. Corruption is on the up and the public are often right in there themselves.

‘ Canada in the spotlight ‘

‘ Canadian Cops can get away with Perjury ‘

We now finally have CANADA in our list — It now appears that four Canadian Police Officers; one of whom is Constable Bill Bentley, can walk away from 28 allegations of misconduct and perjury, according to a ‘leaked’ confidential document obtained by CBC NEWS.  The Royal Canadian Mounted Police represented by Senior Lawyer Len Doust says ‘ While it might seem a troubling concern for the officers involved despite their testimony conflicting and puzzling to to others, it does not always amount to perjury — especially when entered into the legal arena in the court ‘    This case which began with the death of suspect Robert Dziekanski in 2007 at the hands of four police officers has had its useful delays for the police and defence fully exploited by their legal team despite a Special Prosecutor indicting the four cops for misleading attempts to dispense with the case against them.  Len Doust made it clear that ‘foggy recollections and hazy suggestions by witnesses can easily be wiped out because of the time situation….what somebody thought happened then cannot be that clear now’  Many are waiting for the case to return to the court, as they seem to be predicting a ‘whitewash’ by the court and police.

‘Montreal’s Mayor is arrested for Fraud ‘

THE POLICE ARRESTED Michael Applebaum, the Mayor of Montreal in a corruption investigation.  The News report would only say that the Mayor was arrested on fraud charges and full details of any crimes were not available to the public or Press.

It is said that the former Mayor Gerald Tremblay resigned amid corruption claims.

Other information in relation to the above says that this relates to Property Development Projects in 2006/2011.

‘ Toronto Mayor filmed smoking crack ‘

MAYOR ROB FORD appears on a video that the police discovered, smoking pot (Crack Cocaine)……this video evidence is said to have come from his computer according to Chief of Police Bill Blair in Toronto.  Although there was not enough evidence to press charges, the Mayor’s driver and friend, Alexander Lisi is to go on trial facing drug and extortion charges.  It states that the Police Chief was ‘disappointed not to have found more’

‘Canada caught up in Paedophile Ring Arrests’

CANADIAN POLICE obviously knew when they undertook the huge investigation in child porn and paedophiles that they would net a considerable amount of citizens from their own country.  They grabbed 108 as they made their action felt in Toronto arresting people in the child-porn network which hosts the sex film business.  They arrested hundreds of individuals some in law enforcement, the teaching profession and clergy.  The Scoop not only took into consideration Canada, but the US, Hong Kong, Spain, Australia, the UK and Mexico.  76 were arrested in the USA alone….Brian Way of Azov Films in Toronto was arrested on soliciting and distributing vast volumes of sex material featuring underage boys.

‘ A look into other reported evils and human rights violations ‘

DUBAI POLICE IN COVER-UP OVER BRITON BEATEN TO DEATH IN A POLICE CELL — The family of the man beaten up in a Dubai police cell have made a formal accusation in connection with this, saying the cops are instigating a cover-up. The Dubai Authorities entered into the cover-up by saying the man, a British citizen had died of natural causes, but this flew in the face of witnesses who saw him being beaten by police.  Inmates said that Mr. Brown, a maintenance worker, who was arrested for swearing and alleged assault, was stripped naked by the cops and handcuffed to a chair, and was badly beaten by six police officers who looked to be enjoying themselves (a common element found in this type of accusation). They then put him away in a solitary cell, where he was found three days later —- dead. To make matters worse — the Dubai Attorney General Elsam Al Humaidan has fabricated a fancy story of  a ‘cannabis’ connection and other nonsense to save face, and the authorities are having to be pressurised into giving the facts, which they clearly do not want known.

DUBAI — POLICE TORTURE AND BEAT BRITISH TOURISTS — Three British visitors found to have had small quantities of cannabis say they were beaten and tortured in a police jail, and that some of the torture was of an ‘electrocution nature’    Grant Cameron, Karl Williams and Suneet Jeerh from the London Area, were arrested while on holiday….the men in their twenties claim they were forced to sign ‘Arabic Documents’ they could not read (False Confessions), whilst being threatened and beaten.  The Dubai Police denied this to lawyers acting for the men, but these words mean nothing, as it has long been known that this country thinks very little of either Human Rights or punishing people way ahead of any trial…….police in this area are known for ‘confessions’

EGYPT — SAUDI ARABIA — AND THE ATROCITIES OF LAW  — One must not rule the Saudi’s out of the big bad nations, they too are barbaric as we are about to show.  Thousands are held without trial and denied visitors, Human Rights Activists are constantly notching up the list this nation does in barbaric practises.  At Cairo there is new prison with fifteen foot thick walls, ordered under the instructions of President Mubarak, which holds 17,000 men. Torture goes on here and is well documented, 20 prisoners in Section 4 of Block 2H were stripped naked and flogged with canes because a soldier discovered a pocket radio and a watch on one inmate, Gamal Osman, a medical student. 

EGYPT’S ARREST OF NEWS TEAM SUGGESTS COVER-UP — Egypt arrested a journalist News team because they hadn’t permits to record the atrocities going on.  This shows they which to conceal this and control the lies they issue in the International Community.  When a country closes the door of truth it inevitably rules by fear and Egypt are obviously doing this.

EGYPT PASSES NEW ANTI-PROTEST LAW to silence all comers…. and has started with a trial with 24 people who it says has broke the new law.  Suppression by law isn’t new to these countries…..Egypt looks to the past and protects the wealthy who hold the power.  Alaa Abdel Fattah was arrested in November for ‘protesting without the permission of the Authorities’  (Singapore has a similar law in order to suppress critics etc)

EGYPT GRABS BRITISH JOURNALISTS — British journalists in Egypt are facing criminal charges with eighteen others.  They are being detained and accused of manipulating video footage to show the world an unreal scene that harms the country or is a threat to Egypt’s National Security.

EGYPT SAYS POLICE STATE NO LONGER NECESSARY?  — Whilst admitting to have had a Police State, Egypt now announces that it will no longer be necessary, claiming recent uprising had put an end to abuses….this coming on the back of police excessive force……but, the new Security Forces are being complained about, much in the same way as the police…which looks like they’ve swapped one evil for another.

EGYPT JAILS THREE JOURNALISTS — International Journalists doing what they get paid to do were arrested and jailed by the Egyptian Government causing the International community to feel anger.  Australian Peter Greste, Canadian-Egyptian Mohammed Fahmy and Eyptian producer Baher Mohammed were  jailed for at least 7 years for ‘spreading false news and aiding a ‘terrorist organisation’ which none of them did.

EGYPT DEPOSED PRESIDENT DENIES ORDERS TO KILL — As so often when caught, leaders of countries deny liability or giving orders to execute or kill those who oppose him.  Former President Hosni Mubarak sat in the accused cage of the Cairo Court to deny giving the order to kill protestors in 2011.  The trial which has gone on for a year thinks he did nothing wrong! and deludes himself by colouring his career listing his achievements to those that will listen and his followers…he now claims he was not forced from power but gave it up.

EGYPT ATTEMPTS TO CURB FREE SPEECH — in an attempt to make cover-ups normal practice, Egypt wanted several hundred journalists to agree to a policy pledging support for the state and banning any criticism of the police, army and judiciary.  The press rightly were not going to endorse this as it amounted to a voluntary surrender of the freedom of expression and giving in to secrecy and letting the authorities do what they like.  The policy was rejected.

EGYPT POLICE OFFICER CHARGED — A Police Officer who shot a protestor, a young mother who died as a result of his indiscriminate shots into the crowd ‘ forced’ the prosecutor, Shaimaa Sabbagh (a rare action only brought about by the fact someone photographed the young woman bleeding and dying…which was then shown on the Internet) to bring criminal charges against the police officer ‘on a lesser charge’ (than murder)…because he was a member of the Security Forces…….otherwise there would have been no case and no charge…the authorities would have seen to this on any other occasion….only the Internet forced it.

SAUDI and its Draconian sentences, — It is reported that nine men with gay tendencies, whom they label as ‘ deviants ‘ were sentenced to 2400 strokes each?  the floggings are to be carried out fortnightly at 60 strokes a time until the full sentence is carried out.  Neil Durkin of Amnesty said these people were being denied a fair trial and the only evidence offered was that the men wore women’s clothes while being involved with each other, and that confessions had been forced out of them, they were not allowed legal representation. A gay man can be sentenced to death — for being gay!! — which is either hanging or beheading.

ABU DHABI and the Ras al-Khaimah emirate — decided to invent a law where bad drivers were publicly flogged, or ten days in jail — it said violators of traffic rules will be flogged in public at the mosque nearest to their houses. Police confirmed that up to fifty strokes would be given to anyone driving badly, ignoring red stop lights or driving without a licence.

BEHEADING: Egypt’s favourite game of justice — Ancient Laws, Ancient methods and swimming in modern money….. We came across a report that one Filipino man has bought himself off the death list, yet another one awaits death by sword as he will be beheaded in a public square…..it was interesting to note that the two men have been waiting for 12 years…..along with many others on death row!

EGYPT’S FINANCE MINISTER JAILED — Former Minister of Finance, Yousef Boutros-Ghali was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty of squandering in the region of £2.3million in the last few years of his job for the country.

EGYPT CONTINUES ITS SUPPRESSION AND CRACKDOWN ON DISSENTERS – An Egyptian Blogger went on trial for ‘ insulting the President’ — Ahmed Douma called the President a criminal and murderer on his Internet blog during media interviews…..and was arrested in April….The USA who give $1.5billion of aid each year to Egypt (used mostly on the Military) are said not to be pleased by these arrests.

SAUDI COURT JAILS HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER — Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Waleed Abul-Khair was jailed for 15 years on the charge of ‘inciting public opinion’…..they’ve also barred him from travelling out of the country for a further fifteen years for being an activist…(so that he can’t tell his story to the Western World)

THE SAUDI’S FLOGGED UK Citizen Nigel Maidment arrested over an alcohol incident, he was sentenced to 70 strokes, and another Briton, John Kelly was given 250 strokes for a similar offence.  One can agree that a country must pursue its own laws, but it still does not take away the fact that the country practices barbaric rituals disguised as law….and it does not make one ounce of sense that one man gets 70 and another 250 for a drink related incident apparently under the same law, which does not show an equal fairness under the judiciary that on the face of it seems to be wholly corrupt.

SAUDI’S SENTENCE BRIT COUPLE TO FLOGGING – 57 yr old Ann and 59yr old Peter Goldsmith have been sentenced to 500 strokes each on yet again, a alcohol related charge, and that sentence is double what the previous sentence has been in relation to the above article making a nonsense out of a so-called judicial sentencing law. The couple were held at separate jails, and that fact was held secret for some time as Shari Codes of Islamic Law allow detention without trial and restrict legal representation.

SAUDI’S FLOG BRITON IN SECRECY DESPITE DIPLOMATIC PROMISES THAT HE WOULD BE SPARED — Qatar Lawyers assured British Diplomats that they would not proceed with the caning, but went ahead despite these shallow and untrue statements issued by the Saudi’s.  Gavin Gerrard-Smith who was led out of his cell and made to strip and remove the prison overalls and t-shirt for the doctor’s examination before being caned by several policeman who carried out the sentence in front of a religious judge, senior policeman and the doctors. Three policeman carried out the caning.  Apparently at the prison, they cane prisoners on Tuesdays, it’s nice when these barbaric sadists have made a day for it ?  It’s a pity there isn’t a day for their downfall and destruction!!

SAUDI ARABIA ORDERS 50 STROKE FLOGGING  FOR  MAN WHO INSULTED POLICE — In keeping with their ways the court in Jeddah gave a woman a prison sentence of one month and 50 lashes for insulting the police?  despite an Appeal, the court upheld the sentence because she called them ‘liars’ during an argument.

SAUDI ARABIA IN ANOTHER FLOGGING SENTENCE AGAINST BLOGGER — The backward courts of Saudi Arabia still lost in the past and grabbing the wealth of the future sentenced Raif Badawi to 1,000 lashes besides 10 yrs in jail for insulting Islam on a Internet forum….the court says that he will be given 50 lashes every week for twenty weeks as ‘an example for others to see’…….apparently he was sentenced in May 2014 according to Amnesty.

SAUDI ARABIA DEFENDS FLOGGING OF BLOGGER — In a news report it comes as no surprise that the Saudi government like this ‘hang ’em flog ’em’ thing……its all there in their history, as they live that way except with bigger wallets and embracing capitalism for their own greed.  They claim that the attack from the outside nations is unjustified and their commitment to human rights is all too clear?……pull the other one, it doesn’t work.

SAUDI’S BEHEAD 7 CONVICTED  PRISONERS DESPITE UN PLEAS — Yet another case of ‘we the ancient, and now powerfully rich’ will conduct our barbaric practices as we see fit — but we still want to squeeze the West over our oil fields ‘  The UN asked for clemency for the seven men convicted of theft, robbery and looting, one of those executed said he was forced into a confession by torture….it was said that the judges refused to see the marks in the three years of trial….the sentence was death by crucifixion or firing squad, but news emerged that the seven men were beheaded in the Southern city of Abha in March.

(Hopefully Electric fuelled Cars will finally dominate motoring, and the Saudi’s wealth will topple like rotten apples…..because beyond oil they have nothing to offer…..and nothing to blackmail the West with anymore)

EGYPT TORTURES CHILD DETAINEES —  A report has revealed that the Egyptian Authorities and Police are detaining and torturing children.  State Brutality has made a return say observers who monitored recent protestors, and have resorted to unlawfully detaining children, who were quickly taken out of view and incarcerated in jails were they were systematically tortured.  One lawyer interviewed said that around 400 kids, mostly young boys were being stripped naked before having cold water thrown over them and some were whipped.  ‘This level of institutional abuse of children is unprecedented in a country that pretends to have values whilst embracing capitalism’ said a Human Rights Observer…’They want the world to think they’ve improved but behind it they are still in the past and believe that beating someone gets what you want….even if they die!

EGYPTIAN TERRORIST MADE GOVERNOR OF LUXOR — A former Terrorist Al-Gamaa Al-Islamiya (who it is said committed a notorious massacre in 1997 targeting civilians) was appointed Governor of Luxor by the President of Egypt Mohammed Morsi,  Many protestors came out in uproar when the appointment was announced.

EGYPT PUTS INTERNET BLOGGER ON TRIAL — Ahmed Douma is charged with ‘insulting the President’ after calling him a murderer and criminal during recent interviews he did.  This latest arrest against disidents shows that President Mohammed Morsi is seen as an escalating crackdown on those who wish to speak out. Some say that Morsi is using his Presidential powers to influence the court, and the USA have now begun to look at their position especially in the light that they give Egypt $1.5 billion of aid a year….which they know goes mostly to the Egyptian Military?

EGYPT SENTENCE FOREIGN ACTIVISTS IN ABSTENTION —  Egypt Courts have been handing out jail sentences to Foreign Activists a report says.  Judge Makram Awad gave out several 5 year prison sentences to at least 15 USA citizens (who luckily left Egypt before being detained), one American who did not leave was jailed for two years, as was a German Activist.  It was revealed that the US give Cairo $1.3 billion in aid (used by the Military), maybe its time to axe both Egypt’s $1.5 billion and Cairo’s $1.3 billon……especially as this country was once run by a Military Council.

EGYPT ANXIOUS TO RETURN TO BEHEADINGS AND DICTATORSHIP — Egypt are increasingly moving back into the distant past to re-enact brutalities and fit them in ‘modern law’ — Recently they jailed three secular activists for their involvement in the 2011 Revolution….. convicting them of ‘holding a rally without authorisation’… they also added ‘attacking police officers?…. they got 3 yrs under the new law made to suppress and curtail the freedom of expression…….and there is a return to that good old ‘police brutality’ which throws light on the added convictions involving police claims.

EGYPT AND THE FREEING OF 26 CHARGED GAY MEN — Police it is said went deliberately out to capture the homosexuals at a Cairo bath-house and seized twenty six men…….charging them with committing indecent acts, but a judge acquitted all the accused men on hearing that the raid was televised and orchestrated to make the public disgusted so that a crackdown on such people would be welcomed.

EGYPT FORMER PRESIDENT GETS 20 YEARS JAIL —  The Muslim Brothers leader Mohamed Morsi who was arrested after three years of becoming Egypt’s first freely-elected President was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing protestors. He along with 12 other Muslim Brothers were convicted of using violence, kidnapping and torture during the demonstrations of 2012.  Amazingly? they were acquitted of murder (which carries the death sentence) and found guilty on lesser charges related to the deaths.  Amnesty called the sentences a travesty of justice…..and shows up the warped and impartiality of Egypt’s criminal justice system……probably fixed!

DEATH OF BRITON DUBAI RAISES QUESTION OF TRUTH IN POLICE ACCOUNT — The Dubai Police now under suspicion of falsifying testimony around the sudden death of Brit Lee Bradley Brown, protest too much as they claim ‘distortion of the facts’ whilst appearing to act furtive over their own actions.  Brown was kept six days in a Dubai police cell in 2011 when he was arrested after a disagreement with the hotel and a staff member….he was thrown into Bur Dubai Police Station’s cells…..and died later amid allegations that he was beaten by police while he was in custody (which is by no means a rare event — it happens in most police stations around the World).  New documents obtained are said to carry serious doubt on Dubai’s official account by police.  A UK post mortem examination showed discrepancies in police claims……..Dubai of course, will sweep this nicely aside.

BAHRAIN — BOY OF 11 PUT ON TRIAL FOR PROTESTING — Al Hasan, a boy of eleven is to stand trial accused of taking part in an ‘ant-government’ rally that is protesting against the Monarchy. The report says he faces other charges linked to the Gulf State, and had to take his school exams in prison.           What we don’t see here is, Childline, Save the Children, Amnesty, Human Rights…..why?     could oil and power be the reason?  The world goes on about protecting children, so what is being done….this child has been jailed and is to go on trial… not for theft, robbery, vandalism….just protesting about injustice…..which he soon will become part of after the trial.

INSULTS AGAINST BAHRAIN KING LEADS TO PRISON — A report says a civil court has jailed an online activist to six months in jail for posting words against the king on Twitter Pages.   The authorities apparently arrested four people for ‘defaming’ Bahrain’s Monarch.  This news as highlighted the now revealed crackdown by Arab rulers to suppress free speech.

BAHRAIN COP SENTENCED TO 7 YRS JAIL — A policeman involved in the fatal shooting of a protestor two years ago was jailed by the court for seven years.

BAHRAIN REFUSES UN TORTURE INVESTIGATOR ACCESS —  Torture is being covered up as Bahrain Officials cancel the visit of a UN Investigator, and will not say why they cancelled his trip, nor have they offered another date.  Juan Mendez the UN Investigator said this was the second visit that had been postponed at short notice, he said this move by Bahrain effectively cancels any investigation into torture activity going on in the country.

THE AFGHANISTAN’S RESORT TO PUBLIC EXECUTION — The West come in with troops and fight for their freedom, and the sickening scene of a woman executed in front of a baying crowd shows the real Afghan — A woman accused of adultery is shot five times by a public executor with an assault rifle in front of a crazed crowd who have little regard for life. This kind of warped justice is an affront against humanity, and the people who support it have much to answer for.

AFGHANISTAN — BRIBERY AMONG POLITICIANS AT 50 PERCENT — Half the politicians in the government are on the take according to official figures…..and the public find it acceptable!  They calmly reply that they understand that bribery is widespread throughout society.

AFGHANISTAN RE-INTRODUCES ‘STONING TO DEATH’ — Resorting to its previous behaviour, Afghanistan is back to the death penalty of ‘stoning adulterers’ …… and observers see this as going back to the old ways now the foreign troops are leaving….. this again reveals the people’s support for brutal and fatal punishment.

AFGHANISTAN HANGS FIVE — If they’re not stoning they’re locked in the ancient ways of 1066 whilst driving expensive cars and indulging in Capital enrichment, and keeping the poor poorer.  Karzai signed the men’s death warrants before enjoying his rich lifestyle.

AFGHAN LEADER ENJOYS LUXURY OF UK HOTEL AT £7,000 A NIGHT — As his people, who are said to be some of the poorest in the World, President Hamid Karzai enjoys the luxury of £7,000 a night London’s Claridges Hotel with the British taxpayer footing the entire bill for him and his 40-strong entourage.  Amid the fact that half his government are corrupt as the above article confirms, is meeting with PM David Cameron over two days. It is said that corrupt Afghan Officials took £2.5billion a year in bribes, twice what the government collect in taxes!

‘ Other ‘Nasties’ around the World – in brief ‘

GREEK JOURNALIST EXPOSES 2,000 TAX CHEATS — An Investigation Journalist, Kostas Vaxevanis was actually brought before the court for revealing the names of 2,000 tax cheats, because he published a list.  Publication of the story was met by outrage the report says, which blamed the Government for not targeting the cheats who evaded tax by having secret Swiss Bank accounts.  Luckily the court acquitted the journalist who faced jail.

GREEK MAYOR JAILED FOR CORRUPTION — Vassilis Papageorgopoulos who embezzled 20 million Euros; half of the budget for his city’s public works account, was sentenced to life imprisonment.  He was the Mayor of Thessaloniki from 1999 to 2010.  Three other officials were found guilty of money-laundering and forgery, one was the former Treasurer.

GREECE – POLICE STATIONS RAIDED BY INTERNAL AFFAIR SQUAD — Officers from the Greek Internal Affairs Dept swooped on Police Stations in the Athens area after the replacement of five senior police officers as part of an investigation into the activities of the far-right Golden Dawn Party.

GREECE — CORRUPT MINISTER FOUND GUILTY — Akis Tsochadzopoulos was found guilty of money-laundering along with 16 co-defendants.  The major socialist minister had spent nearly two years in detention awaiting the trial… ‘pre-trial detention’ — his corruption was significally worse considering how cash strapped the country is.

GREEK PRISON GUARDS CHARGED OVER TORTURE —  8 Prison Guards have been charged with torturing a prisoner to death.   The Albanian convict had been accused of stabbing a guard when he was refused leave to see his ill mother.  The Prosecutor issued warrants for the guards to be arrested….they worked at the Nigrita Prison where Illie Kareli was found dead in his cell after receiving a severe beating.    It is understood that if found guilty the guards face a maximum life sentence?

GREECE – POLICE OFFICER IN SMUGGLING PLOT — A serving Police Officer along with eight other suspects has been arrested in connection with a plot to sell a 1 million Euro statue.  The ancient marble statue was recovered in a raid….and interestingly, the officer was with the antiques protection department!

GREECE AND THE CIVIL SERVANTS INVESTIGATION — 5,000 Civil servants are being investigated for potential tax offences.  This refers to cash being sent out of the country during a financial crisis.  It quotes that each civil servant sent approximately 275,000 Euros abroad. 

SHAME OF FACEBOOK FOR CORRUPT BULGARIA COPS — The citizens of Bulgaria turned to the Web and the Facebook site to vent their frustration with ineffective law enforcement by showcasing images of the police breaking the law.  It went onto show badly parked police vehicles, some in a disable only area, and uniformed police downing beer whilst on duty….. and cops deliberately driving on the wrong side of the road.

PRISONERS ABUSED IN IRAN — Prisoners staged a strike in Iran Jails, the Political Prisoners held have gone on hunger strike in protest at violations against them meted out by guards.  This action concerned the main prison at Tehran….the accusations include beatings and verbal insults.

IRAN — DEATH OF BLOGGER IN POLICE CUSTODY? — The suspicious death of Blogger Sattar Bebeshti is being investigated by Iran’s Parliament? which in turn raises suspicion too.  International condemnation of the death as suggested that Iran Judiciary failed to address his death because they didn’t want to.  Apparently, Sattar ran a anti-government blog on the Web (which would not make him popular with Iran).  Torture has been suggested by Amnesty.  Outspoken Lawmaker Ahmed Tavakuli said in a statement ‘ I recommend that instead of dealing harshly with bloggers, you go after corrupt officials ‘

IRAN GUILTY OF KILLING POLITICAL PRISONERS — A tribunal revisited the horrors of the killing of thousands of political prisoners in the year after the Islamic Revolution.  It said during the 1980’s the Islamic Republic were guilty of the murder of 15,000 to 20,000 political prisoners. 

IRAN HANGING A SHAME ONE MUST NOT FORGET — The brutal regime in Iran yet again demonstrated its capacity to rule by fear.  Hashem Shabaani  was executed for ‘spreading corruption’ according to those that cannot allow ‘free thinking’   He is just one of hundreds hanged for their own beliefs and talking about the need for fairness.  His killers are The Iranian Interior Ministry and a Revolutionary Tribunal Judge Mohamed-Bagher Moussavi…..Shabaani said he could not remain silent against the ‘hideous crimes against  Ahwazis perpetrated by the Iranian Authorities…. especially arbitrary and unjust executions’

VIETNAM JAILS MUSICIANS FOR WRITING SONGS — Two popular songwriters who cover topical subjects have been jailed for 4 and 6 years for ‘spreading propaganda against the State’   They are said to have spurred on criticism from the USA and Human Rights Groups.  Some songs included ‘China and the South China Sea Saga of Oppressive Measures’

VIETNAM BLOGGER IS JAILED FOR CRITICISM OF RULERS — More news of suppression here, as a Hanoi Court jailed a blogger for 15 months for posting online remarks and criticisms of the ruling Communist Party.  The Judge in question, one Ngo Tu Hoc said that Pham Viet Dao was guilty of ‘abusing democratic freedoms to infringe the interests of the state’…. and that he also ‘distorted, vilified and smeared Senior Leaders’

ANOTHER VIETNAM BLOGGER JAILED FOR CRITICISM — Well known blogger Truong Duy Nhat was given 24 months in jail, and found guilty on exactly the same charges as seen above….what do you expect from a country ruled by dictators?  freedom of speech and human rights are not even believed in.

FOURTEEN OF MEXICO’S POLICE ON MURDER CHARGES — 14 Federal Police Officers have been charged with attempted murder on two CIA Agents the report says.  It revealed that a Diplomat vehicle sustained 152 bullet holes.  It says the Mexican Government are seriously embarrassed over this, while sources indicate that the corrupt police were working with drug gangs….so says the Mexican Security Agency.

MEXICO MAYOR ARRESTED OVER GANG CONNECTIONS —  Uriel Chavez the Mayor of Apatzingan in the State of Michoacan was arrested on the orders of Prosecutors who said he had aided suspected members of a gang into drugs and extorting cash from members of the City Council.

MEXICO MAYOR’S WIFE ON CRIMINAL CHARGE — The wife of a former Mayor has been arrested as a suspect in a plot that was to massacre 43 trainee teachers.  A gang massacred and burnt the bodies of 43 students of which only one was identified.  Prosecutors say there was Police Involvement in the crime, in that a body of police handed over the students to the gang in the city of Iguala.  She is to be tried in the Federal Court for engaging in organised crime.  The government blames former Iguala Mayor Jose Luis Abarca and his wife Maria de los Angeles Pineda in connection with masterminding the massacre of the students and their disappearance.

ARAB SPY CHIEF GOES TO JAIL FOR CORRUPTION — Jordan, retired General Mohammed al-Dahabi former chief of the country’s Intelligence Agency, was found guilty of money-laundering, embezzlement and the abuse of power.  One of the country’s Political Elite, the former Chief was jailed for 13 years.

SOUTH ARABIA — COURT ORDERS PARALYSIS SENTENCE ON MAN — ‘Grotesque’ yes, that’s what the Foreign Office of the UK says.  A Court and judge ordered that convicted prisoner Alial-Khawaher 24, who has spent ten years in jail awaiting sentence is to be medically paralysed as a punishment because the victim of a dispute he stabbed was confined to a wheelchair…….yet another example of Islamic Sharia and its barbaric methods.

KUWAIT COURTS SENTENCE OPPOSITION LEADERS TO HARD LABOUR — Three former politicians were sentenced to three years jail each with hard labour for ‘insulting the country’s ruler’  It is stated that the Kuwait leaders are involved in a crackdown and suppression on political dissent in the nation!  …..all these men did was to make speeches opposing changes in the voting rules.

KUWAIT JAILS ACTIVISTS OVER ‘TWITTER’ POSTS — Two Activists have been jailed for ‘offending the Kuwait authorities’ who said the ‘ruler’ found the comments offensive.  One was sentenced to 2 years and the other to one year in prison yet again showing an escalating backlash by the authorities to stifle and suppress free speech now being employed by many countries who claim democracy but do not allow it.

KUWAIT JAILS EX-MINSTER FOR ONLINE NEWS SITE ARTICLE — For being critical of the Finance Minister, the ex-minister Saad bin Tefla was arrested and sentenced to a week in jail by the authorities said his lawyer.  He was apparently convicted in his absence for publishing an article on government spending?  He was arrested as he was about to leave the country at the airport.

MOROCCO — JUDGE FORCES MAN TO KISS HIS SHOES — An arrogant Judge who didn’t think a motor mechanic repaired his car on time verbally abused him and ordered him to kiss his shoes.  The mechanic, Hischam Himmi had an argument with ‘the un-named judge’ after trying to reason with him, but the ill-tempered judge took the matter to new heights – sinking justice to pre-slave times.  The Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid told the Press that the Judge had been suspended, saying that the Judicial Council will be investigating the incident.

MOROCCO JAILS MAN FOR BEING GAY — In ‘sweet’ Morocco, they jailed a British holiday maker for four months after grabbing his phone.  Ray Cole almost seventy and with his partner when they took his phone and although password protected, still got in or coerced him? to obtain it.  Apparently an appeal got him a conditional release and he flew back to Britain…..hopefully Morocco is off his list to visit, as it should be yours!

MALDIVES — 15YR OLD VICTIM OF SEX CRIME IS TO BE FLOGGED: The teenage girl was raped by her stepfather the report says.  The girl from the remote island of Feydhoo had been raped repeatedly in 2012 said the police. Although she confessed to having sex the court using Sharia Law sentenced her to 100 strokes, to be administered when she attains the age of 18.

MALAWI – NINE SENIOR POLICE OFFICERS ARE JAILED – In a fraud case netting 55 million kwacha ($164,000) for a band of corrupt cops — nine senior policemen were sent to jail for 14 years each…a 10th cop, a woman police officer was given a suspended sentence because she was pregnant.  It took the case 4 years to come to trial.  The cash was siphoned from the Malawi Police Service.

SOMALIA — STONE MAN TO DEATH FOR BEING GAY — The Tyrannical Authorities ordered the death penalty for a man because of his sexuality and allegations he had sex with a 13yr old boy.  The court judge ordered his execution.  The 18yr old was blindfolded and buried in the ground to his waist and then stoned by Shabab Fighters until he eventually died……..yet another example of modern man with ancient beliefs that are grotesque and flourishing in ignorant societies.

IRAQ — EXECUTES 21 MEN BY HANGING — War torn Iraq, now in a state of complete devastation and unruly, is reported to have hanged 21 prisoners.  The Justice Ministry says these men were terrorists, and the total hanged so far is 50 for this year. In 2012 it executed 129 prisoners, and Amnesty says there is a doubt whether any of these condemned received a fair trial. In fact according to Amnesty Iraq ranks 5th in the World’s Executioners.

IRAQ HANGS ANOTHER 26 PRISONERS — Saying they were convicted of terrorism.   68 other prisoners were hanged during 2011….despite World criticism, Iraq has taken little or no notice of the West.  A further 11 were executed by hanging within a week of this article.

COPS ON THE TAKE — INDIA: 36 POLICE OFFICERS SUSPENDED FOR TAKING BRIBES — A  World News report says that thirty six police officers in Mumbai were filmed as they accepted bribes — a spokesman at the press release said it was ‘shameful’ (11/4/2013)

TWO FORMER SPIES IN NETHERLANDS ARE JAILED — Both former spies were said to have leaked secrets about security for the Delai Lama in 2009. The Man and Woman both worked for the Dutch General Intelligence and Security Service…..the man got 16 months imprisonment and the woman eight months.

SLOVENIA — OPPOSITION LEADER AND FORMER PRIME MINISTER IS JAILED — For Corruption.  He was jailed for bribery in a 2006 arms deal.  Janez Jansa was sentenced to two years in prison for taking the money involved in a aborted arms purchase the report says, while he was the Prime Minister of the country.  Two co-defendants were also jailed.

ROMANIA – DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON FRAUD CHARGES — Romania’s Prosecutors charged the Deputy Prime Minister Liviu Dragneu and 74 local officials with fraud.  It is reported that the Deputy PM abused his authority by using his position to adversely influence the outcome of votes.  He and the others are also accused of falsifying votes in order to unseat the President.

ROMANIA – PRISON COMMANDER ON TORTURE CRIMES — Says he was only carrying out the orders of his government in relation to ‘torture and starvation’ of inmates.  Alexandru Visinescu is charged with war crimes when he appeared before a court.  12 inmates who died were said to have been abused and starved. 

SPAIN CONVICTS 53 PEOPLE FOR CORRUPTION — In Spain’s biggest corruption trial which has taken two years to see daylight, fifty three suspects were convicted of corruption in the real-estate and bribery trial.  42 were acquitted it is said….among those in the dock were Lawyers, City Hall Officials and businessmen.  The master – mind is named as The City Urban Planning Officer Juan Antonio Roca….who was jailed for 11 years.

SPAIN IN TOWN HALL CORRUPTION PROBE — The report says that the Spanish Police have arrested around 51 people in local government positions who had contact with construction contracts.  The corruption probe is said to involve the sum of 250 million Euros.  The ‘Operation Punica’ is investigating town halls in Madrid, Murcia, Leon and Valencia amid numerous corruption scandals already emerging.

SPAIN’S PRIESTS ARRESTED ON CHILD ABUSE — Four Priests have been arrested in connection with an ongoing investigation into child abuse and child sex allegations.  Police made their arrests in Granada, but would say no more about who they had arrested other than that they were priests.  The report says that the Spanish Interior Minister has shown special interest in uncovering this, adding that the Pope was anxious in bringing the case to light….. as the victims had written to the Pope.

SPAIN PUTS PRINCESS ON TRIAL — Princess Cristina, the sister to King Felipe, was not only the first Royal to ever be answering questions in court over tax fraud, will now be the first Royal to go on trial for tax fraud, when it was previously thought she was immune.  A short time before this new change, the state prosecutor Pedro Horrach recommended that she pay a fine of E600,000 Euros rather than face trial with her former Olympic Sportsman Ifiaki Urdangarin.

12 SPANISH LAWYERS ARRESTED OVER ETA LINKS — A Report says that around sixteen people were arrested and of them, there were twelve lawyers suspected of having ties with the Basque Separatist Group ETA.  The Minister for the Interior said they were being charged with having not only a connection but actual membership of the terrorist organisation.  They are also being charged with tax fraud and money laundering.

CHILD ABUSE CHARGES FOR TEN SPANISH PRIESTS —   It is reported that ten Catholic Priests have been charged with sexually abusing boys in their care.  The Pope ordered an investigation and crackdown on the priests who have done harm to the Church after receiving a distressing letter from an alter boy who was 14 when he was abused.   It was also revealed that he no longer believes in just the odd rogue priest, but that a pack of priests known as the ‘Romanones’ are at work in the church, and as a result as ordered an internal investigation to flush them out.

TURKEY APOLOGISES FOR POLICE VIOLENCE —  The Deputy Prime Minister has apologised to citizens who suffered violence from the country’s police.  He said Police efforts to quell protestors were excessive and not lawful, because most of the protestors were behaving with respect for the environment, therefore the actions meted out to all were unfair, said Bulent Arinc.  Protestor Umut Caglar said ‘ The problem here is that, even in a Democracy we have a Dictator running the country ‘

TURKEY POLICE USE EXCESSIVE FORCE THE EU SAYS — Turkey’s Police were criticised in a European Union Report, and says that an investigation must be undertaken by the government.  The Annual Report says that this must be one of the requirements before the EU will allow Turkey to join The European Union 28 member bloc.

TURKEY MINISTER IN BRIBERY ROW OFFERS TO GO —  The interior Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered his resignation over a massive bribery and corruption scandal that had his son arrested with 23 other defendants by investigators.  They have all been charged with facilitating bribes or taking bribes.

TURKEY’S PREMIER TOLD HIS SON TO HIDE MONEY — A recording has revealed that the Turkish Prime Minister is heard telling his son to hide large sums of money.  The Premier hit back saying it was fabricated, but this has not stopped the Opposition asking for his resignation.

TURKEY COPS IN DILEMMA — The Turkish Prime Minister purged hundreds of police officers as part of a showdown with an opposing cleric…..some 350 police officers were moved to traffic duties…..and some were dismissed….the cleric is accused of trying to grab power by orchestrating a corruption investigation…said to be in property and construction, plus Turkey’s gold trade with Iran.

TURKEY IMPORTS BRIBERY ARRESTS — Around 30 suspects were arrested in a corruption raid on the  Halkah Customs Office after irregularities gave rise to suspicion of bribery.  Police seized seventy containers of textile goods.  Among those detained were several textile business owners and Customs warehouse employees,

TURKEY CITIZENS PROTEST OVER DEATH CAUSED BY POLICE — Citizens of Istanbul turned out in their thousands to mourn the death of a teenage boy, Berkin Elvan, who was wounded in street clashes with the police….the boy died after being in a coma for nine months……Police used water cannons on the protestors.

TURKEY  BLOCKS THE INTERNET OVER LEAKED ITEM —  The Turkish Government hastily moved into secrecy mode as it blocked YouTube over ‘Syria Leak’   The item on YouTube revealed top security officials discussing military operations in Syria.  The ‘anonymous posting’ on YouTube annoyed government officials who have already attacked Twitter over media reports they did not wish seen or read.

TURKEY DETAINS WOMAN OVER CORRUPTION TWEET — A Turkish woman was arrested by police for posting a tweet on the Internet suggesting that there was corruption in the government and that a cover-up of a scandal was implemented by officials.  She cited the name of a Judge who had dropped a corruption and bribery probe without any explanation.  The woman is said to be a former television presenter……this comes at a time when Turkey is set on a course to suppress freedoms like several other countries now engaged in this practice.

TURKEY REFUSE TO ADMIT BUTCHERING A MILLION CHRISTIANS — Not unusual really for a country like Turkey that made complaints about the film ‘Midnight Express’ which depicted them as barbarous….and even 100 years on Turkey like others prefer to pretend that their past was brutal.  These countries do not make reparations or put their state murderers on trial….they’d rather honour them and ignore what they are.

TURKEY POLICE IN ILLEGAL SPYING ON PM — 76 Police officers have been detained on the orders of the Minister.  It is said that there are also several high-ranking officers who have been accused of spying and the illegal monitoring of communications involving Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his inner circle.  The Chief Prosecutor said the attempt was a concocted investigation, they made up an inquiry into an alleged group ot terrorists in order to tap the phones of the minister and the national intelligence agency.

Update: Turkey’s police arrest 33 colleagues in Istanbul and placed them in custody.  More than a 100 police officers have been grabbed and detained over the ‘Erdogan Spy Scandal’…it brings the total to 115 so far.

NETHERLANDS — YOUNG FOOTBALLERS KICK MAN TO DEATH — Hooligans of an unlikely different sort found themselves in the court charged with the manslaughter of a ‘volunteer linesman’ at a football match.  Six boys in the football team killed Richard Nieuwenhuizen, they appeared before a court in the city of Lelystad.  Five of the teenage footballers received two years each in detention and the other one aged 15 was sentenced to 30 days in a youth detention centre.  The father of one of those ‘incarcerated’ was jailed for six years for incitement.

BRAZIL — COPS MURDER TWO BOYS –Eight Policemen have been charged in the connection with the murder of two boys according to A World News Bulletin (2/4/2013).

BRAZIL — ASSAULT COPS CAUGHT ON VIDEO — four cops in Rio De Janeiro have been suspended after video evidence showed them beating up journalists during an anti-world cup protest.  15 members of the Press were injured including a Canadian.  A Police Spokesman said the cops will remain suspended while investigations are ongoing into the incident.

BRAZIL — POLICE OFFICERS UNDER SUSPICION IN DEATH — Brazil’s Civil Police concluded that 10 police officers and a Commander of the UPP, Major Edson Santos should be charged over the disappearance and shooting of Bricklayer Amarildo de Souza, an epileptic who died after being interrogated by officers from the Pacifying Police Unit in Rio de Janeiro.  Prosecutors say that he was tortured to get information about drug dealers.

BRAZIL  POLICE  IN REVENGE SHOOTING TO BE QUIZZED — The Police in Brazil are investigating whether fellow officers gunned down at least 12 young men in separate incidents within hours to avenge the death of a colleague.  The killings happened in Campinas….and came after an off-duty cop was killed.

BRAZIL POLICE OFFICERS ARE JAILED — 15 Brazilian Police Officers were jailed over what they did in a prison. They were sentenced to 48 years each after being found guilty of killing four prison inmates in 1992 at the Sao Paulo Carandiru Prison.  It says that this has taken four trials to finally reach the final outcome in this case. 

23 Brazil Cops were found guilty of killing 13 inmates, and were sentenced to 156 years each.

BRAZIL POLICE IN OVER 11,000 KILLINGS IN 4 YEARS — Shockingly, the Brazilian Police Force have the worst reputation of murders and killings, which average at 6 killings each day.  Statistics taken over a four year period 2009 to 2013 shows that 11,000 civilians have been killed as a result of police action.  One international Observer said this callous behaviour in uniform is an abusive use of lethal force to respond to crime and violence.  The study was carried out by the San Paulo based Brazilian Forum on Public safety.

BRAZIL TORTURERS MAY FACE JUSTICE? according to a news report that says that investigators are running an inquiry into atrocities committed during Military Rule.  The National Truth Commission said these things happened in the period 1964 to 1985……and the victims want the ‘government shields’ lifted on the perpetrators and former officials who ‘escaped’

ARGENTINE JUDGE IS EXTRADITED FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY — The Judge who fled from his own country to avoid arrest Judge Otilio Romano is accused of committing 100 human rights crimes when he was a prosecutor during Argentina’s Dictatorship (1976- 1983). Interpol said he was caught  in Santiago where he was in hiding.  He was flown back to Argentina under escort and handed over to the authorities.

SWEDEN, AND POLICE COMPILE SECRET ROMA REGISTRY — Parliamentary Justice Committee Chairman Morgan Johansson said the discovered list was illegal because it listed people by their ethnicity.  The secret Registry contains more than 4,000 Roma including children.  In a country known for its stand on human rights, this comes as a shock observers say. The List on the Roma Community was said to have been originated in the Skane Police District in Southern Sweden, but is accessible to police nationwide.

MADAGASCAR AND MOB RULE — Madagascar finally gives way to mob rule as they burn and kill foreigners merely because they suspected them of ‘organ trafficking’   The tourist Island of Nosy Be (Remember that place) became a deadly nightmare to two Europeans who were hunted down by the mob, killed and burnt.  The French Foreign Ministry warned its 700 citizens in Madagascar to avoid travel. Instances of mob justice are common in Madagascar….not just the North West region……this country should be avoided, economically and be on no-ones list of holiday destination spots — you have been warned! (Sept 2013)

SRI LANKA AND THE ATROCITIES REVEALED — The storm hit the fan as Canada, India and Mauritius  pulled out of a Commonwealth Heads Meeting over human Rights violations.  The Sri Lanka leader President Mahinda Rajapaksa is accused of presiding over war crimes.  This all came to light in the UK when a programme featuring secret filming in the NO FIRE ZONE showed the army shelling people and wholesale killing.  They opened fire on the UN safe Zone despite calls made to troops to stop, and even the Red Cross Hospital was targeted.   For 138 days ordinary citizens were ‘murdered’ in September 2009. (The USA even knew)…..78 per cent of civilian deaths occurred in the ‘Safe Zone’   In 2005, the President appointed members of his family to Government positions as he declared war on the Tamil Tigers….in 2008 the war started.  Benjamin Din a UN Staffer was removed from the area so that he could not be a witness to the atrocities.  But he did stay around long enough to see that the government soldiers were killing people in the ‘Safe Zone’    Although the UK’s PM Cameron was asked to pull out, he went and in one news clip Official Security Staff in Sri Lanka were assaulting a camera crew when they were trying to get film of protestors and interview them’

SRI LANKA – UK SHOPKEEPER IN PRISON DEATH — An Inquiry has been urged by officials to investigate the death of a British Shopkeeper visiting the country.  He was detained and kept in prison without charge for five years?  He died at the Welikada Jail in Columbo.  The Foreign Office was notified. Since his arrest in 2007, the Foreign Office raised his case several times without much success or cooperation.

SYRIA TORTURES UK DOCTOR IN PRISON — The UK doctor was found dead, but letters he sent out whilst he was detained in prison revealed beatings and torture to prisoners whether guilty or not.   Dr Abass Khan arrived in Syria to help the people but after only forty-eight hours he was seized and thrown into prison where he spent a year.  He said ‘prisoners were beaten for gratification and forced to beat other prisoners’ as he had been…  The authorities claim he committed suicide, but this was suggested as murder by his family… the authorities could have helped when he was grabbed, but they didn’t because of the corruption.

SYRIA MAKES CIVILIANS DISAPPEAR — Not only murder, but in Syria civilians are systematically disappearing without a trace.  This is blamed on a widespread campaign of terror against the population says a United nations Panel probing War Crimes.  They told the News that they had found a ‘consistent country-wide pattern’ of Syrian security Troops and Pro-Government Militia seizing people in mass arrests.

SYRIA REGIME — PROOF  OF 11,000 SLAIN BY REGIME SAYS QATAR  — A group of Lawyers representing the Arab State of Qatar claim they have the evidence smuggled out of Syria, that shows the ‘systematic killing’ of around 11,000 Syrian detainees at the hands of the Regime of Bashar al-Assad.  The 31 page report is to coincide with the Geneva11 talks.  It is said they want to see Syrian Officials charged with ‘War Crimes’.

SYRIAN WAR CRIMES BEING LOGGED BY LEGAL TEAM — A Canadian legal team are preparing a prosecution case against individuals responsible for crimes in the Syria War……but news is ‘that no court will hear the case?’  William Wiley leads the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, a team funded by the US and several European governments.  It is said that they have been ‘quietly’ busy building three cases that it will have ready at the end of 2014. 

ISRAEL WHISTLEBLOWER IS FREED — A soldier passed hundreds of classified documents to a newsman and ended up in jail for two years, has been freed.  Anat Kamm walked out of jail after being sent there in 2011…he wanted the public to know what they were being hid from…and what the Government did with the Military.

ISRAEL — POLICE BEAT UP PALESTINE/AMERICAN BOY — the 15yr old who was visiting was the cousin of a teenager who was killed in what was believed to be a revenge attack.  the boy Tariq Khdeir was seized by three to four police officers in military wear and beaten.  The police immediately said on finding out he was American ‘that he was attacking police’ in order to justify their actions, something commonly resorted to in the police of every country when they get found out.  To compound things they have put the boy under house arrest for nine days.  The US State Department was ‘profoundly troubled’ by this incident and demanded an investigation, which so far as resulted in the authorities having the police involved referred to Internal Affairs.

ISRAEL ACCUSED OF WAR CRIMES — Human Rights Watch have accused Israel of committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip…..especially in relation to schools attacked and citizens shot by snipers.  They said that the soldiers or groups fighting for Israel caused numerous civilian casualties in violation of the laws of war.

ISRAEL POLICE COVER-UP MURDER OF BUS DRIVER — The Police are yet again in the frame, as they often are around the World, but few seem to see the connection between them and corruption.  The bus driver was found hanged and was labelled a suicide, but the family say that Yousef al-Ramouni was murdered by Israelis because he was an Arab.

ISRAEL EX-PRIME MINISTER GUILTY OF CORRUPTION — Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is facing five years in prison after being found guilty of unlawfully accepting cash from an American Supporter when he faced a retrial on corruption charges.  This second guilty verdict will now be in addition to the fact that he was sentenced to six years on a bribery conviction in 2014.

ISRAEL – SOLDIERS IN MONEY THEFT — In an announcement, the Israeli Military said that they had indicted three soldiers in Gaza for taking money from a building during the war against Hamas militants.  Two were said to have helped themselves to $605 each….aided and abetted by a third soldier.  News reports also said that an investigation into 120 soldiers had begun over their conduct during the fighting.

ISRAEL POLICE BRUTALITY — Protestors came out in Tel Aviv to highlight Police Brutality and Racism mainly targeting Israel’s Jewish Ethiopian Minorities.  Thousands turned up and were blocked from getting too near Government and Police Buildings.  Most people chanted that violent police officers should be doing jail time. This Protest came shortly after the nation saw footage of an Ethiopian Israeli wearing an Army Uniform being beaten by police.

SUDAN — TO HANG WOMAN FOR APOSTASY — She married a Christian, because she gave birth, she is being allowed to nurse her baby for two years before they hang her.  The Sudanese court also awarded her 100 lashes for committing zena (illegitimate sex)…..this is her sentence for marrying a non-muslim .

SUDAN BAR UN FROM INVESTIGATING RAPE CRIMES — Typically, countries aspiring to preach one thing do the exact opposite if it doesn’t suit.  The Sudan Authorities have refused to let UN and African Union Peacekeepers visit a village in the region of Darfur to investigate allegations of mass rape for the second time!  proving how unsuitable they are to be on any United Nations Council or even deserving a place in the civilised World.  Should countries like these need outside help, it should be denied emphatically…..and no aid.

MONACO JAILS MAN FOR SPEAKING OUT — Sadly Monaco join the list of suppression and intolerance to any view the authorities don’t like.  A Tunisian man was jailed for three months after ‘insulting the Prince’ under the law ‘lese-majeste’ which makes it illegal to insult the head of state.   A Frenchman was jailed for six days in another case for hurling abuse during a drinking binge.   One ought to be aware that Germany, Denmark and Spain do the same thing….. and the worse place is THAILAND where offenders can be jailed for up to 15 years.

MONGOLIA — PRIME MINISTER SACKED OVER CORRUPTION —  The country’s Parliament voted to sack their Prime Minister, Altankhuyag Norov as allegations of corruption were exposed within his administration.  Those close to him have been arrested said a political analyst, ‘they are being investigated by the ‘anti-corruption’ agency…..this follows criticism of a disasterly slow economic growth.

AFGHANISTAN BANK HIT BY FRAUD — The Bank’s governor said that the recent fraud scandal when almost one billion dollars was embezzled from the Kabul Bank which collapsed in 2010 is now being addressed and that they were clawing back $300 million in assets seized.  Major shareholders of the bank including senior politicians such as the former President Hamid Karzai were accused of using bank funds to live a life of luxury.

EUROPEAN EU OFFICIALS IN BRIBERY RACKET — A Legal Expert on European Law and The Eulex Mission which investigates organised crime and corruption (and war crimes) is now compromised by news that its officials were paid to drop organised crime cases they were working on.  The UK Prosecutor, Maria Bamieh found that she was suspended in August after documents were leaked revealing possible bribe-taking.  In the light of this a top Legal Eagle Federica Mogherini will be employed to investigate the allegations and scrutinize Eulex in a corruption inquiry.

CZECH REPUBLIC – FORMER PM’S WIFE ON TRIAL — She is being put on trial over a case that brought down the government, her husband former PM PETR NECAS  who went on trial charged with corruption.  His wife Jana Necasova is charged with abuse of power with two former high ranking Military Intelligence Agents.  She was in the position of Chief of Staff…..who ordered the Agency to spy on Mr Necas, her husband.

BURMA RIOT COPS TARGET STUDENTS IN PROTEST — Students protesting about the new education law have been beaten and arrested when over a 100 Riot Cops were ordered to quell the protestors.  Eye witnesses said the students were hit with batons and dragged along the ground.  The new law which puts every decision on Education policy in the hands of government ministers steps away from the more free movement of letting the Universities decide this and undermines the autonomy of universities…. say those highly suspicious of another agenda the Burma Authorities have to suppress Human Rights and Free Speech.

BURUNDI POLICE SHOOT PROTESTORS — Two people died as a result of police officers who fired at several protestors, wounding one and killing the two.  The demonstrations were against the President who is seeking a third term in office.  The report says the cops used water cannon, tear gas and live bullets in Bujumbura.

IVORY COAST FIRST LADY FOUND GUILTY — A court jailed the first lady of the leader of the country and region for 20 years saying that she was guilty of being behind a civil war that killed around 3,000 people.  Her husband the former President Laurent Gbagbo who is awaiting trial accused of crimes against humanity says these charges are politically motivated.  Simone Gbagbo’s lawyer said the court had found the first lady guilty of organising gangs, disturbing the peace and undermining State Security.

LIBYAN SOLDIERS RAPE MAN — According to news, a victim accused the Military and especially two Libyan soldiers of a serious crime whilst wearing their National Uniform.  The unnamed victim appeared at Cambridge Crown Court saying that Libyan Soldiers Moktar Ali Saad Mahmoud and Ibrahim Abugtila attacked and raped him whiile they were undergoing training at Bassingbourn Barracks in Cambridge.  ‘He said they behaved like animals and held him down to do their despicable deed.’ 

NB: The strange thing about corruption is that there is hardly a murmur about the ones who made it possible for them to hide their crime……and none are brought to trial once the cover-up is tightly tied up and put out of sight.

It is well understood why the West dare not interfere other than complain about these countries, and that reason is OIL, they are rich in oil and have the upper hand in what goes where and who does what, and the Saudi’s know it all too well — and use that tool as a lever to make the dog lie still and keep the bark in check.

 ‘Pakistan, not quite out of the Barbaric Ages ‘

PAKISTAN POLICE ACCUSED OF SYSTEMATIC TORTURE  — 9364 CASES OVER A NINE YEAR PERIOD according to data provided by Amnesty International.  This damning case highlights huge wrong-doing by the country’s police force. Much of this was suppressed and hidden by the Interior Minister who was not available for comment.  Mainly relating to the Punjab, figures were revealed regarding 2007 in which there were 1,723 cases of torture and beatings by the police.  1289 male persons of adult age were subject to violence by cops, 193 females were assaulted etc, 98 girls were abused, and 143 boys beaten and abused figures confirm.

PAKISTAN AND THE EXECUTIONS BY HANGING — Asia and its fondness for flogging and death sentences, a report says they have carried out their first death sentence in four years, they hanged Mohammed Hussain, a soldier who was convicted of murder in 2009 of a colleague.  He was executed in the Mianwall City prison, the last hanging was in 2008…..the Human Rights Commission have criticized the authorities of maintaining the outdated policy…..which is out of step with the modern world.

PAKISTAN NAMED AS ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT COUNTRIES — A report says Pakistan suffer serious corruption throughout the country and in government, yet they received £1.4billion in aid from the UK in 4yrs.

PAKISTAN PRESIDENT IMMUNE FROM PROSECUTION — Even if he has committed a crime, and recent news that the Swiss Authorities have refused to re-open a bribery case involving the President in the 1990’s tells us that you can escape justice if you rule over others, and that the law does not apply equally for all.  It appears that there is a rule that a President as Head of State has and enjoys immunity.  Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari was accused of ‘graft’ before he became President.  The case was one involving bribery, multi-million allegations against Mr Zardari who was accused of laundering US$12 MILLION DOLLARS in alleged ‘kickbacks’……the case is now dead in the water……and justice will not be done.

PAKISTAN WANTS CIA TO STAND TRIAL FOR MURDER —  Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf political party claims it has a Islamabad station chief who is a CIA spy…. and they want him and the head of the CIA to stand trial for the recent drone missile attacks….Shireen Mazari the party secretary says the station chief did not enjoy diplomatic immunity.

PAKISTAN DENIES LEGAL HELP FOR BRIT FACING EXECUTION — Pakistan moved back in the past again to show just how out of touch they are underneath the surface….a surface of call centres for the West and Europe.  A severely mentally handicapped man has been denied basic legal help to organise an appeal against him being hanged….lawyers for 69 year old were barred from the court…..the man’s crime is blasphemy according to their laws.  The sentence and behaviour of the court has brought outrage from the West.

PAKISTAN POLITICIAN ARRESTED IN UK —  British Police arrested London based powerful politician in connection with a money-laundering case.  Altaf Hussain Head of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in Pakistan was arrested by The Met police.  Karachi Security Forces have been placed on high alert since receiving the news of his arrest in London.

PAKISTAN LIFT SUSPENSION ON THE DEATH PENALTY — Returning to the past and adopting the principles of barbarism (like Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and others), Pakistan’s government are to continue with the executions.  The Minister for the Interior said the penalty applies to all the prisoners on death row, and those that have had their appeals thrown out will be executed soon irrespective of the nature of the crime.

PAKISTAN TO HANG TEENAGER — CLAIMS OF TORTURE GO UNHEEDED — As Shafqat Hussain claimed he was tortured into a confession that will now see him hanged, which has already been done by the time this is up on the list of barbaric incidents.  He was arrested when just 14yrs old, and tortured for nine days by the Pakistan Police….he was accused of kidnap and murder in 2004 and convicted in 2007….there was no other evidence than the suspicious confession, but the High Court now back to its hanging game, dismissed his appeal and ordered that he would be hanged.

PAKISTAN HANG 15 CONVICTS —  A report says that 15 convicts were hanged on one day in the province since the country’s moratorium on capital punishment was lifted.  Prime minister Nawaz Sharif ended the stays that were only a delay in the light that the moratorium was unofficial anyway.

 ‘The Big Corruption Problem in Indonesia ‘ (One of the most corrupt countries in the World)

INDONESIA AND ITS POLICE CORRUPTION REVEALED BY AMNESTY — Amnesty have released a scathing report exposing the Indonesia Police.  It accuses them of brutality going unchecked as they seem to behave without any accountability. It says they continue to exploit and enjoy this favour because the government lack the will or interest to look into it. They went onto say that the police were shooting, beating and killing civilians without fear of prosecution.

On top of this comes the whiff of a cover-up being set in motion as police are searching for the creator and distributor of an Internet online sex tape featuring a female Legislator? (Jakarta)

Lawmaker Angelina Sondakh has been said to be the latest law maker detained on suspicion of corruption in South Jakarta. The KPK said they had evidence linking her to a second ‘graft’ case. — The arrested lawmaker Angelina Sondakh who is under suspicion of grafting, has been offered a ‘leniency deal’ by the government if she helps track down others implicated in her case!!

The Indonesian Public were outraged by police as it tries to push for a new electronic data card system which will cost 4.7 million dollars, which would overlap an existing Identity Card System already being used.

Information denied! After a Freedom of Information Law was passed in Indonesia, the legislators and public officials are ignoring what is required of them and still only allowing very limited access to documents despite the law say civil rights groups in Jakarta.

INDONESIAN POLICE SHOOT MAN AND THEN LIE ABOUT IT — Jayapura Police shot a 20 year old man begging for change. When witnesses reported the incident which happened at 8-15 am the police issued a denial that no such thing had taken place?  However it later emerged in a police statement that a report had been entered of a man being shot saying he was ‘accidentally shot’  Eyewitnesses said that the 20 year old, Seus Tabuni was rather drunk and in the vicinity of the University of Yapis. They said the young man shouted at the police and they opened fire, wounding him in the leg. It was said that Seus tried to run but was shot in the head twice — the bullet of one shot came out of his mouth. It wasn’t clear whether he died from this, though extremely likely, he had no gun or weapon — the two police officers have not been charged? if they are it should be murder in the light of wounding him first, then pursuing him afterwards — a premeditated decision to inflict fatal wounds.

MALIGNANCY OF INDONESIA ‘JUDICIAL MAFIA’  — Tax Evasion laid bare was certainly one fact as Indonesian Tax  Officer Gayus Tambunan was jailed for 7 years for corruption.  However, this case  stirred up the public annoyance as he openly accused the government in court of massive corruption in the tax administration. The Country’s Attorney General’s Office said the case has been severely compromised by Judicial Corruption.  Tambunan is said to have caused the state to lose Rp570.9 million. He was arrested and brought back from Singapore to face charges. The case blew wide open and Jakarta Lawyer Advocate Haposan Hutagalung was charged with bribery and forging court documents. Conspirators – Two National Police Generals, Raja Erizman and Edmon IIyas, senior Attorney Generals Office officials and executives who bribed him… remain untouched?

CORRUPTION IN INDONESIA FORESTRY SECTOR — Calls for The Corruption Eradication Commission to hurry have been made known as numerous public officials and around twenty companies are still yet to be investigated.  

AN INDONESIAN ARMY CAPTAIN IS CAUGHT ON CAMERA ASSAULTING MAN — You Tube showed a video of a ranking serviceman attacking a motorcyclist in a West Jakarta Street.  It has been reported that the police have taken the Army Captain in for questioning.

INDONESIA MINISTER ACCUSED OF TAKING BRIBES — Youth and Sports Minister Andi Alfian Mallarangeng has denied allegations made by a convict who says he gave the minister $2milion dollars in relation to a construction of a stadium.  This story wouldn’t have much credence if it were not for the fact that the convict referred to is interestingly? — The former Treasurer of The Democratic Party Muhammad Nazaruddin!!

INDONESIA PRODUCER AND MARKET FOR DRUGS — Despite the harsh penalties like whipping and the Death Penalty, in 2011 there were 30,000 cases in the court involving drug offences. Even in 2010 there was 26,000 cases before the courts to do with drugs, which indicates it went up by 4,000 from the previous year, hence drug offences are rising every year. Why this is so, is because Indonesia are in the drug business, creating and selling drugs in a thriving Asian market that is often denied by the government. (In one mass raid by police there were 547 drug suspects arrested — 2 importers — 136 traffickers — and 407 distributers — 2 insiders at the jail)

INDONESIA ‘CONFLICT OF CONTRADICTIONS’ AND TWISTING JUDICIARY — Featured here is the ‘One Law for the Poor — One Law for the Rich’ — Two foreigners are to be executed by firing squad in July 2012, for drug offences. The two men were convicted of smuggling heroin in 2001 and having exhausted their appeals whilst being incarcerated in a Penitentiary, the state have decided to execute them in a few weeks time.  The Authorities have made a statement saying they have informed the men’s Embassies, the Penitentiary, The Justice Ministry and Human Rights Ministry. They also say ‘The Police will act as the men’s Executioners and carry out the death penalty (something as we have already seen is their speciality in Indonesia)……yet we also have a report saying that LAW ENFORCERS ARE COMMITTING INAPPROPRIATE ACTIONS as police and soldiers have been told to abide by the law?  Many groups are pointing out that the rich on drug charges are not being sentenced to death…the bloggers cite the recent case of Deputy District Chief Syukur Bijack who was arrested for taking and possessing Crystal Methamphetamine at his villa party with six friends, they are anxious to see if the authorities are prepared to do justice and put the prominent government figure to death or even jail him?  at the same time we have An Indonesian Armed Forces Commander denying that drug smuggling and affiliation to drugs is not widespread in the Army as an un-named SERGEANT MAJOR IN THE ARMY attached to The force’s Intelligence Unit has been arrested over 1.4 million Ecstasy tablets from China were seized in a police raid.

THE 1995 LIE — Indonesia 1995, Jakarta, The Campaign for Democracy and Freedom of Speech in Indonesia led by founder of TEMPO (banned), and the Alliance of Independent Journalists — Taufik, spoke out about Indonesian troops who brutally attacked demonstrators — which according to the authorities who dismissed the incident as ‘squaddie indiscipline’ — he visited Britain and spoke to Carol Robson of The Foreign Office about how she had really supported the lie of improving human rights in Indonesia by citing in a statement that lighter punishments had been meted out to journalists who had protested in the streets of Jakarta. He told her that this was incorrect as he could give testimony to the fact they were beaten senseless by the police. The worst part of this was, that when he returned to Indonesia he was seized and arrested, and was quickly found guilty in court of ‘ insulting the government’ and jailed for two years and eight months?

THE GRASBERG MINES COVER-UP AND THE INDONESIAN MASSACRE OF 1965-1966 — History will always come back to haunt a country, because the past reflects on its present and future….such is the Unrest over the Grasberg Mines, which sparked off claims of brutality and global injustice that is being downplayed by the authorities.  Details emerged of a massive strike at the mines and workers being mysteriously gunned down and killed — thought to be connected with a struggle for control by the police and military who are keen to financially benefit from the mineral assets.   The Indonesian 1966 Massacre is still haunting the government as claims of four decades of injustice have been allowed to pass by without restitution — hundreds of thousands of people were imprisoned and tortured.   We now go onto the ‘Flip Flop Case’ CHILDREN JAILED BY POLICE –The arrest and trial of a 15 year old boy over a pair of old sandals taken from a garbage bin led to the youth being badly beaten with a stick by three police officers….when his father went to complain the police said the boy would face five years in jail over the 3 dollar sandals?  A second boy 14 years old was in a Jakarta Prison for three weeks before coming up before a court charged with allegedly stealing a one dollar, fifteen cents cell phone voucher? Luckily the judge didn’t like the case and he was set free.  The Flip Flop Case has yet to be decided upon!

THE ATROCITIES IN INDONESIA COVERED UP BY BRITISH OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT — Foreign Secretary Robin Cook (1980’s) arrived in Indonesia to get a deal on Human Rights, fully knowing he was dealing with a vile and vicious dictatorship. He offered to provide senior British police officers to lecture on non-violent crowd control. Unbelievably, this visit was badly timed, as his Indonesian hosts were already engaged in a crackdown on dissenters ‘Operation Finish them Off’ in East Timor — using British type arms that Cook refused to put an embargo on.  Robin Cook concealed the re-supply of rapid firing machine guns, ammunition and nuclear equipment by conveniently using The Official Secrets Act to gag this from being known at the time, which rather pleased Indonesia.

THE INDONESIA MASSACRE AT SANTA CRUZ — Indonesian Troops killed 400 peaceful protestors and murdered demonstrators in Dili on the 12th of November 1991.  Witnesses said the soldiers deliberately killed survivors of the shootings including the wounded (in the time of the Suharto Regime).  The UK Government acted coy along with its cohorts The Australian Government, describing what had happened as an ‘incident’  The British and other Western Governments entered into a sort of conspiracy to deflect the truth and participated in propaganda claiming that the Indonesian Rule in East Timor was no longer ‘harsh, brutal or oppressive’ —  However, Bishop Carlos Belo in East Timor discounted this and said ‘this isn’t true, there are even more restrictions than ever before.  No-one dare speak out and neither can they demonstrate, people disappear if they do, it never stops!’

INDONESIA TAX OFFICIAL IN BRIBERY SCANDAL — Tax Official  A Sidaorjo has been allegedly caught accepting a bribe of Rp 280 million (30,000 dollars) in the latest case of ‘graft’

TOP OF THE CORRUPTION LIST = INDONESIA’s HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES according survey by The So-egeng Sarjadi Syndicate.  They claimed this was the second time the House of Representatives topped Corrupt Institutions List. 2011 and 2012.

POLICE SHOOTING IN INDONESIA OF ACTIVIST CAUSES RIOT — Police deliberately and without provocation shot down and killed an Independent Human Rights Activist on the Papua Island. It was said by police he was resisting arrest — they later claimed he was armed.  An un-named eye-witness at the scene said there was no weapon to be seen.  It is generally claimed that Police Corruption and The Authorities are working together to keep foreign eyes and Press at bay.

INDONESIA JAIL MAN FOR FACEBOOK CONTENTS  — Yet again we see another Asian case of Injustice in its bid to curb the freedom of expression and comments it does not like — and it uses the Law to persecute those who challenge it.  Alexander Aan was jailed for 30 months for showing an article ‘ God doesn’t exist’ on his Facebook page. The Authorities found him guilty under ‘The Electronic Information and Transactions Law’ — Judge Eka Prasetya Dharma presided over the case in court.

INDONESIA POLICE COMMANDER DOES NOT DENY OFFICERS COMMIT MISCONDUCT — Pushed by a recent post on Twitter, the South Jakarta Senior Commander of Police Rikwanto, said there were some police officers who commit violations — in 2011 there were 79 police officers dismissed for misconduct. This revelation was made in the light of an incident posted on Twitter revealing police conduct in a drug raid at Kemang — the driver of a car was stopped and pills were found. The officers were said to have acted in ‘an intimidating manner’ — the pills were examined and found to be a legal purchase and prescription.

INDONESIA IN TURMOIL AS PROTESTS BREAK OUT — Protestors hurled stones it was reported, mentioning fifty or so involved in which two men were arrested — the reason being over a ‘folk song’  …..another protest that escalated into a riot that involved the random burning of motorcycles involved over 1,000 students at Banda Aceh which lasted three hours…it was stated that police fired shots, and this was over a ‘football match’

INDONESIA in riddle concerning author of a ‘conspiracy book’ disappears…..Ali Azhar Akbar author of the controversial ‘ Lampur Lapindo File’ — Konspirasi SBY-Bakrie, which is to do with the Lapindo Mudflow Disaster, was supposed to have turned up at a book session. The book mentioned the conspiracy between President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the Golkar Party  Chairman, Aburizal Bakrie and the link with oil and gas Company Lapindo Brantas.  Ali was fighting to stop the government from using state money to pay for mistakes made by Lapindo.

INDONESIA RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS MINISTER SUSPECTED OF CORRUPTION — Indonesia’s Golkar Party Lawmaker Zulkamaen Djabar has been accused of taking bribes to approve a Koran Procurement Project — it was said he had been paid an undisclosed amount to approve the spending of Rp 35 billion (3.71 million dollars) on the project, however, amid denials, a travel ban was placed on him and the Deputy Chairman of the KPK said an investigation would begin on July the 21, 2012.

THE BRUTAL SUPPRESSION OF 1962 and the scandal the authorities would rather forget — when Yangon University Students (300) were subjected to a ‘bloody’ blitz by army troops. 20 students have been detained at Yangoon on the 50th anniversary of that awful incident…and they were calling for the release of the dissidents who were jailed without trial. (The Myanmar Activists)

INDONESIA’S FLOOD OF CORRUPTION CASES — The Corruption Eradication Commission Spokesman Johan Budi of the KPK said that ‘Indonesia’s most successful generation — has been the ‘corrupter generation’ and the endemic problem of corruption is being employed and steered by young men mostly in their 30’s — which is not healthy for the welfare of the nation.

INDONESIA TAX OFFICER CAUGHT TAKING BRIBES — Yet another tax man in corruption case — Bogor Tax Office Chief Anggrah Suryo was caught in the act of receiving Rp 300 million (31.800 dollars) from the executive of the firm Gunung Emas Abadi — The KPK handed over the bribery case to the Attorney General’s Office. It was said that the tax man waved large parts of the tax owed for a generous payment.

INDONESIA PROSECUTORS WANT 12 YEAR SENTENCE FOR TAXMAN — The Authorities are calling for a twelve year prison sentence for taxman Dhan Wydyatmika who was found guilty of corruption after taking bribes.  They also want a large fine imposed, so that if he fails to pay it, they can add a further six months in jail!

INDONESIA CANNOT RUN AWAY FROM ‘SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS’  — 1965 was the year Indonesia committed unforgivable human rights atrocities, One Major General Suharto was responsible for this and up to half a million people died — he hardly took any notice as he seized power and became the President for thirty years.  And even then, there was no atonement for these outrageous acts of violence perpetrated by his military forces — Slavery, extermination, forced eviction, deprivation of freedom, torture, rape, abuse and physical punishment of an extreme nature that resembled ‘sadism’ followed! — all of these things would get an ordinary citizen hanged or jailed for life — but no-one was ever prosecuted.  Komnas HAM — The Rights Commissioners led by Nurkhalis say they’ve analysed and took masses of evidence during investigations, and can now take action against some of those who committed the atrocities  — they did not hesitate in naming The Command for the Restoration of Security and Public Order (Kopkamtib) the pervasive security network set up by President Suharto.  They have 349 surviving witnesses — the case has been put before the Attorney General in the hope that he will bring a rightful honest closure and investigate and prosecute those who were responsible wherever and whatever position and power they now hold without delay?

LAW IN INDONESIA CRIPPLED BY CORRUPTION — The recent case of the jailing of ‘pop’ star Nazriel ‘Ariel’ Irham for producing a pornographic video highlighted the inconsistent way the law is being used and applied  to some things and not others — completely without explanation.  He was convicted under the 2008 Electronic Information and Translation Law for distribution of the said video, despite prosecutors failing to prove it was he that had released it to the Internet.  The video was discovered to have been stolen by an employee and posted onto the Internet by his cousin.  The employee was jailed for two years, but his cousin who’d put it up on the Web was not charged?  Another strange fact was the video was made in 2006, some two years before this law came into use…and it was revealed that the authorities tried in the void to fit a law to suit before turning to the 2008 law.  Yet, some politically influential people who have been caught in connection with indecent photos and porn have not been charged at all — Legislator Max Moein engaged in nakedness with his secretary in pictures shown on the Internet but was not charged — Law maker Yahya Zaini was not charged when he was featured on a Internet sex video with Maria Eva in 2006 — Rich Politician Arifinto was caught watching a porn video but again was never charged — three cases no-one jailed?  one law for the poor and another for the rich, that is what we have here…..and it looks as normal as day turns into night.

120 INDONESIAN COPS FACE INVESTIGATION OVER BOY’S DEATH — Nothing to fear about as the police are only too aware, investigations into the police are often pulled or set aside to be ‘white-washed’ by the Attorney General ‘Lawmaker’ — A 13 year old boy protestor was shot dead by police in Cinta Manis, which has triggered an inquiry.  120 police officers from the local patrol are to be questioned? or given commendations more likely. The boy has not been named and it appears the authorities are in ‘cover-up’ mode — and the suggestion that the inquiry will reveal the police involved is already flawed by measures to get the bullet casings which will not determine much at all…and officials know that.  The officer or officers who shot the boy have not come forward and in this country like many others — it’s a case of ‘come and get me if you can prove it’….this country have an appalling record of cops killing citizens…Amnesty have shouted this for years…..they also have some of the worst prison conditions known – 20 men to a cell, disease and violence…some prisoners are actually murdered and it is covered up by the authorities….no prisoner is charged…as some are there for life anyway, so who cares about the odd killing of a prisoner…clearly not the Government or people of Indonesia..it’s a way of life or death!

INDONESIA ANTI-TERROR COPS ACCUSED OF SHOOT TO KILL POLICY — The US funded police squad of Indonesia killed seven suspected militants, a report says.  This has renewed allegations against the police that the state force is operating a ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy.  It was said ‘no shots were fired at the officers’ during three related raids in Eastern Indonesia.  A Rights group spokesman said ‘ this killing of seven people appears to be ‘extra-judicial executions’ and should be investigated by an outside commission.

INDONESIA AND THE JUDICIAL CORRUPTION — ‘Australian wrongly convicted by corrupt police chief ‘  An innocent man was jailed in 1985 and went to prison until 1996 because of Indonesia’s corrupt judicial system and Government.  Australian Christopher Parnell was a tourist on holiday in Bali with his wife and 32 years of age when police swooped into their holiday lodgings using force and guns — The Police Fit-Up had started, and police fit-ups are common in Indonesia…..it’s almost part of the law…and considered by the judiciary as fair game.  They actually charged him and suggested a bribe (the handing over of his watch, money and travellers cheques which he refused) if he had bowed to the corruption of the police chief it was said the charge might be ‘smaller’ — the situation got worse and they claimed his fingerprints were on the packets of drugs which they said he’d smuggled into Indonesia.  A test of the fingerprints finally proved they were not his, but to ‘save face’ the police charged him on the drug charges despite knowing they had the wrong man — which points to a deep evil in Indonesia’s society and Government Judicial system, which is highly corrupt.  In 1987 he was given a life sentence that meant life.  He tried to escape but was brutally beaten by guards and a murder attempt followed that almost took his life. After a massive attempt by his family to get him released, he left the prison in 1996 after spending 11 years in a cell for something he had not done.  No compensation, restitution or apology was made by the Government of Indonesia…they more or less treat foreigners and tourists with contempt…they certainly have no regard to human rights….the cop never stood trial, and the guards were never charged.

…Indonesia is no place to visit or give aid to….it is a hell spot on Earth, and should be drowned in the ocean to be rid of the vermin.

INDONESIA — POLICE WANT TO INVESTIGATE OWN BAD COPS IN CORRUPTION CASES — The KPK Conflict  — The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chairman, Abraham Samad has made a stand against the police over the ‘Controversial Driving Simulator Graft Case’ involving bribery — Police General Djoko Susilo has been named as a prime suspect and major player.  The Justice Minister says the police have the right to handle the case when he replied to KPK’s demands to have the matter investigated by them in an independent inquiry. The KPK said this was not a wise move or morally right for the citizens of the country. Samad said the police would naturally be loathe to investigate their own generals, and an investigation by them would always be suspicious.

INDONESIA POLICE IN KEDIRI ARE TO BE INVESTIGATED — Eight police officers in East Java have been brought in for investigation over the beating of an innocent man who was set upon by the police officers — the officers are claiming it was a case of mistaken identity — but that doesn’t excuse the vicious beating the victim received said a spokesman for an activist group.

INDONESIA POLICE FORCE CURFEW OVER SHOT COP — It is said that the police forced an immediate curfew after a police officer was shot in Paniai — reports say it has resulted in an abuse of power and there are reports of civilians who have had their homes raided and fifteen people being tortured.

CORRUPTION IN INDONESIA WILL NOT BE ERADICATED — It will in fact survive well due to the inefficiency of law and government because of its weakness in dealing with it.  Franz Winata from the National Commission on Law says corruption refuses to go away.  The State budget has had a huge increase in the area of law, yet an inability to clean up bureaucracy — people in the act of taking and giving bribes are not at all worried in being found out or prosecuted because the penalties are weak — no one goes to jail for long! some not at all?

CORRUPTION UNCOVERED IN INDONESIA’S UNIVERSITIES — In 2011 it was discovered that 16 state universities were found to have a high number of ‘graft’ cases involved in their financial structures, which is sad to cause great losses in the trillions of dollars to the state. This stark notice was issued by The Supreme Audit Agency — BPK — The University Gajah was singled out the worst culprit with $34 million dollars mentioned!

CORRUPTION INVESTIGATIONS UPSET INDONESIAN POLICE — Tension between the National Police and The Corruption Eradication Commission got worse as the Commission began investigating corruption allegations within the police ranks.  It was stated that the last time the (KPK) Corruption Eradication Committee investigated allegations of corruption against the National Police they responded by criminal methods aimed at discrediting members of the commission and fabricating ‘bogus’ bribery allegations against two deputies of the commission, and actually arrested the Chairman on murder charges — all designed to thwart the commission and destroy it!

INDONESIA POLICE CORRUPTION – The KPK, The Corruption Eradication Commission, claimed a victory as former Traffic Police Chief Inspector General Djoko Susilo is now in detention, which could mark the beginning of a ‘clean up’ of the State police.

INDONESIA – COURT WITNESS SAYS CORRUPTION IS RAMPANT IN GOVERNMENT – Accused turned informer and witness, Angelina Sondakh told the court that several members of The House of Representatives were involved in corruption; namely graft crimes.  This statement accusing factions of Government were made at the Jakarta Anti-Corruption Court hearing on Thursday the 4th of October 2012.  Sondakh was a Law Maker!

INDONESIA JUDGES OFTEN USE DRUGS — Fallen Judge Puji Wijayanto in Bekasi made a statement that he and many other judges used ecstacy and other substances at so named ‘drug parties’ held by the influential and rich.  He narrowed his claim down by saying it related to colleagues in Jakarta — judges who worked at the Central Jarkarta District Court and The Supreme Court, but he would not name them?

P.S. Strangely, as netizens have commented on blogs, that these are the judges that hand out death and whipping sentences to mere mortals who are caught and tried by them!

1000 OUT OF 7000 COPS ARE TESTED POSITIVE FOR DRUGS! — INDONESIA:  A routine testing of police in Aceh found that out of 7,000 police officers tested for drugs, 1,000 proved positive, but nothing came of it?

CHAOTIC INDONESIA — Despite The National Police boycott of the Corruption Investigators and their order to forbid officers to help The Corruption Eradication Committee, five police officers only, have stayed and ignored the recall saying ‘they want to fight corruption’.  This was because the police were being investigated!

INDONESIA – DRUG CASES AT CONSISTENT HIGH — Authorities have admitted that drug cases have not decreased in 2012.  In 2011 there were 26,500 cases and 33,000 people were charged in connection with drugs.

INDONESIA — DRUG USE GROWING (23/2/2013) — ‘Emergency Proportions’ says the National Narcotics Agency Head of Affairs, Anang Iskandar — ‘It is now an emergency situation, drug abuse is enormous, and it is not sufficiently tackled ‘ They report that it will hit the number of 4-6 million users, most under 30yrs, will be taking drugs by the end of 2013.  ‘We used to be a drug transit country for ATS, but now we are becoming a producing company considering the growing number of factories and labs detected in the past five years’ says Inspector General Benny Mamoto — BNN’s Dep Chief for Drug Eradication.  About 60 percent of drugs are produced locally and the rest are imported.  Bloggers on Indonesian Forums say this has been going on for years.

INDONESIA HAND OUT DEATH SENTENCE TO UK NATIONAL — A Bali Court handed out the death sentence to a British woman who admitted her part in drug smuggling…the shocked court gasped, and her lawyer said he was expecting a jail sentence says he will appeal against the harsh sentence — The Indonesian authorities say they must send out a strong message to restore their good reputation Internationally?  which is indeed a joke….as you can see in the many other articles and what they reflect of this country…..it can’t have a good reputation while it indulges in regular corruption……and that applies to their police and judiciary…..this sentence is an obvious attempt to deflect World attention away from corruption in their government.  Other details are that Lindsay Sandiford was interrogated by police without a translator, and was not allowed legal representation or the assistance of the British Embassy for 10 days?

INDONESIA’S SOLDIERS ATTACK JOURNALISTS — In an attempt to cover-up a crashed Jet of the Indonesian Air Force, soldiers of the government  made violent attempts to stop journalists from taking photos and recording the incident.  One journalist was choked and two had their camera’s confiscated at the scene of the incident in Pekanbaru.  It seems openness is sacrificed for secrecy…..as it always will be by governments who promote suppression and lie about liberty and justice for all!

INDONESIA AIMS TO PASS BILL LIMITING FREEDOM — Yet again this country preaches one thing on the International stage and does the opposite.  The Defence Ministry is pushing through a bill that will return the country to suppression and loss of freedoms, such as speech…as it was in the time of leader Suharto…who led a regime to subvert democracy and told the people it was in the name of security.

INDONESIA ENTERS THE WAR GAME? — A Defence Industry Law was passed by its House of Representatives to develop modern warfare technology after 20 years of dormant non-interest.  Thus indicating the new readiness to go to war….especially considering the China tensions in the Asian Region as things move closer to conflict.

INDONESIA DENIES MASSACRE VICTIMS TRUTH OR COMPENSATION — Victims of the violence and struggle for freedom spanning 40 years in Indonesia have been denied justice of any kind.  The Government have refused to give any true accounts of the suffering of its people in the Communist Coup Massacre, and no compensation has been offered to any of the survivors.

INDONESIA TROUBLED WITH PAEDOPHILES — Says Lawmaker Martin Hutabarat, who is pushing for tougher penalties on offences against children after there was another rape involving an underage girl.  He wants revisions to Indonesia’s Criminal Codes.   And Prosecutors want Anti-Corruption Judges to sentence businesswoman Sri Hartati Murdaya Poo to five years in prison for bribery. (14/1/2013)

INDONESIAN CLERICS WANT RAPE COPS TO BE CANED — Calls for three police officers to be caned by the Islamic Clerics under Shariah Law are being thrown aside by the State Police — Simieulue Police Chief Adj, Senior Commander Parluatan Siregar has refused to apply Shariah Law and has changed the charges to drug consumption, indecent behaviour and violating the code of conduct.  He said ‘ under Islamic Law called for, they’d likely get six strokes of the cane each – that wouldn’t deter them’  The three police officers are in custody.

INDONESIAN COPS IN DEATH SHOOTING GET OFF WITH WRITTEN WARNING! — Six Police Officers who were the main suspects in a shooting at a sugar plantation which left a teenager dead and three others injured, walked free with just a written caution.  The Officers were publicly identified as Adj. Senior Commander Deni Darmapala, Commander Awang Hariono, Commander Ridvan Simandjuntak, Commander Barliansyah, Commander Yuskar Effendi and Adj. Commander Agus Selamat. (the boy was actually described as being 12 years old).

AN INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT WATCHDOG FINDS 1,107 COMPLAINTS AGAINST JUDICIARY — The body that looks at public performance in the legal system says it has been monitoring its prosecutors during 2012 and found that they received around 1,107 complaints from the public that included extortion and collusion with law enforcement officers (police).

INDONESIA GOVERNOR IN BRIBERY CASE — Corruption busters, the KPK, the corruption eradication committee has named Riau Governor Rusli Zainal as a suspect in a bribery case relating to the running of  the National Games in Pekanbaru.

CALLS FOR INDONESIA JUDGE TO GO BEFORE COURT — Judge Daming Sanusi is said to have made a ‘rape joke’ which was dismissed by the Supreme Court as not particularly worrying — but the Judicial Commission have not agreed and are seeking to have him brought before an Ethics Tribunal.

INDONESIA — 12 COMPANIES IN BEEF IMPORT SCAM:  Dradjad — A rival Politician caught up in a bribery investigation has said that twelve beef import companies entered into a conspiracy to evade tax payments to the authorities, and used the money to bribe Law Makers along with Customs and Excise Officials. (10/2/2013)

INDONESIA POLICE IN TORTURE VIDEO — Torture claims mounted up against dozens of ‘Anti-Terrorist Police’ as a YouTube video showed cops abusing victims.  The 14 minute video shows police officers forcing a man to strip to his underwear (to belittle and degrade him) before they shoot him.  It goes on to capturing other officers trampling on shirtless suspects, and officers shooting into the ground to cause alarm and fear into the un-armed citizens — and chanting verbal insults at them.  The video has been acknowledged to be a case of law enforcement in 2007.  The source of the video is unknown, and the report says the police are rounding up the officers from that incident, and will investigate the abuses seen.

INDONESIAN SOLDIERS TORCH POLICE STATION –In the aftermath of the shooting of a soldier (First private Her) by Police — seventy soldiers of the Field Artillery Battalion went to the police station in Ogan Komering Ulu to demand that officers investigate the fatal shooting of a soldier by police — this ended up in soldiers torching the station and allowing 16 prisoners to escape — but this is not the first incident of soldiers fighting the police, previous reports mention the incident of the TNI’s Air Battalion clashed with the Lang Kat District Police, which resulted in 7 deaths…….these are being called the ‘latest’ incidents between the Police and Military!

THE SMELL OF CORRUPTION IN INDONESIA’S COURT SYSTEM — A Watchdog in Indonesia are becoming increasingly alarmed at the lighter sentences and high acquittal rate handed down to prominent figures, some in government, in graft cases (Bribery) in the Anti-Corruption Courts outside Jakarta.  One observor said ‘this does not look good and gives one the distinct impression that the government justice system is looking after its own, and heaping savagery and harsh punishments on the most poor in society.’

INDONESIAN VILLAGERS ACCUSE POLICE OF BRUTALITY — Families of several shot citizens who were injured in a clash at a Police Station in the Padang Lawas District, have vowed to report this to the authorities in Jakarta saying the police used excessive force without good reason.

INDONESIA’S ANTI-TERRORIST COPS ACCUSED OF TORTURE –  The Elite Anti-Terrorist Police Group are facing allegations of torture and unlawful killings — some observers say that they are deliberately fuelling Jihad for reasons of keeping power and fabricating the need of their presence in situations which prove questionable?

INDONESIA’S POLICE KEEP QUIET OVER $10 MILLION — A Watchdog looking into the accounts of the police were amazed to find that they failed to declare a sum of Rp 98.7 billion (ten million dollars) in revenue meant to go to the Finance Ministry…..they opted to keep this a secret and spent it on household expenses etc, for top police officers. (March 2013)

INDONESIA COP DETAINED OVER SUSPICIOUS BANK ACCOUNT — A low-ranking Police Officer was detained for investigation when it was discovered that he had a massive bank account containing Rp 1.5 trillion in financial transactions.  It is reported that the Papua Police are investigating this?

INDONESIA COPS STOP CANING OF CONVICTED POLICE OFFICER —  Despite being convicted of gambling by a court under Sharia Law, punishable by a caning, fellow officers prevented the caning from being administered.  Observers said this shows that there is a ‘double-standard’ in operation when enforcing the law.  It seems okay to cane a nobody, but if you’re in the law or government you don’t get caned despite committing the crime!

INDONESIA – THREE MARINES JAILED FOR ASSAULT ON JOURNALISTS — Two Sergeants and a Private were jailed by a Military Court for interfering with the Freedom of the Press at an incident in Padang, West Sumatra in 2012.  As to why they were ‘obstructing’ journalists who were at the time covering a story on the demolition of several buildings used for prostitution, remains a mystery?  None of those jailed were prepared to reveal the ‘agenda’ or who might have given them orders…or who wanted the journalists silenced!   (This is the second such item involving troops and attacks on journalists)

INDONESIA – GROUP OF SOLDIERS FACE COURT FOR DETAINEES EXECUTIONS — A group of serving soldiers engaged in the summary execution of four detainees in Police Custody.  Doubts now arise as the Military Chief of Staff ‘promises’ full transparency in the trial of these soldiers.  Due to a long record of lies and mistrust, the public do not readily believe that the Army will co-operate fully or tell the truth.

INDONESIA TAX OFFICER CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION — The KPK arrested Government Tax Officer Pargono Riyadi for bribery.  The report says that he was caught accepting a bribe and later said he had extorted a bribe from a former Racing Car Driver.

INDONESIA — VICE PRESIDENT SUSPECTED IN BANK INQUIRY — The House of Representatives are to have Vice President Boediono appear before them to answer questions in regard to the Bank Century Bailout when he was The Bank of Indonesia Governor, and his role in issuing power of attorney concerning 690million dollars – Rp6.7 trillion.

-Continued: THE BANK BAILOUT INQUIRY — Nets Managing Director at the World Bank — Anti-Corruption and Bribery Investigators are to question Sri Mulyani Indrawati, who at the time of the bailout was in the position of The Indonesian Finance Minister in 2008.

INDONESIA — CORRUPTION SUSPECTED IN EDUCATION AND EXAMS — An Inspectorate for the Government is investigating a Watchdog’s allegations of corruption during the process of The National Exam Printing.  National Exams were halted in 11 provinces.  FITRA said there were irregularities which should be investigated (they are a body that look at Monetary Budgets and the transparency of accounting).

INDONESIA — AND MORE CORRUPTION:  Raids were made at the Trading Company Gerindo Perkasa in Bogor, West Java.  A Director and the staff were arrested for bribery over land concessions — all seven were grabbed by the KPK Corruption Eradication Commission.

INDONESIA LAWMAKER IN COURT FOR CORRUPTION — Prosecutors are demanding jail time for suspended Law Official Zulkarnaen Djabar……they say that he should be sent to prison for 12 years.

INDONESIA’S JUSTICE PARTY UNDER BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS — The KPK Anti-Corruption Committee have questioned the Chief Patron of the PKS – Prosperous Justice Party, Hilmi Aminuddin in an ongoing investigation into bribery and corruption, and money-laundering in which several members have already been implicated.  The PKS is the biggest Islamic Party in Indonesia.

NO TRUST IN INDONESIA’S MILITARY COURTS — They lack neutrality, accountability and transparency says a Human Rights Watchdog Group who have witnessed ‘dodgy’ decisions being made in court when soldiers committing atrocities, abuse and assaults on citizens are just ‘ticked off’ no matter how serious the charges are.  Human Rights Watch Phelm Kline Deputy Asian Director said ‘for a better relationship with citizens the soldiers should be tried in a civil court — for too long Indonesia’s Military Courts have helped foster a culture of impunity by letting abusive soldiers off with just talk or no punishment at all.  In the recent case of four detainees in a police station who were executed by soldiers, the Senior Military and Government Officials publicly defended the ‘killer soldiers’ and actively played down the crime.

THE INDONESIA KPK TO INVESTIGATE ‘The Beef Corruption Scandal’ — The Corruption Eradication Commission is to begin inquiries into where the Rp 10 million in transfers from Ahmad Fathanah went.  Evidence so far points to celebrities, students and 45 women…..the KPK says they will uncover where this cash went.

EVEN INDONESIA’S CORRUPT POLITICIANS HAVE PRIVILEGES IN PRISON — Democratic Party Treasurer Muhammad Nazaruddin sentenced to 7 years jail for bid-rigging in 2011, maintains his hold onto political status and power within Cipinang Penitentiary.  It has been revealed that he has turned some of the building into his new office where he now holds meetings with party members.

HUMAN RIGHTS STILL A PROBLEM IN INDONESIA —  The US State Department in a press statement said that despite Indonesia’s small movement towards progress in 2012 regarding democracy, the Government stills errs on the suppression of citizens who speak out, yet lets off officials committing corruption disproportionally, and there are still many reports of torture claims in police detention…..of which there were 86 reports of abuse involving 243 victims, so far unresolved and in the main, ignored.

INDONESIA VILLAGERS BEAT ANIMAL TO DEATH — in ACEH, villagers beat a female Orang-utan to death says An animal Watchdog Group — The animal on the ‘Critically endangered Primate’ list was clubbed to death by a large group of villagers.  (July 2nd 2013).

INDONESIA IS LOSING THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION — A recent 2013 survey aimed at the subject of bribery and corruption, has indicated that Indonesia is not managing to eradicate this type of crime much as they’d hoped, in fact — quite the reverse.  71 per cent of the people believe that corruption is more common compared to 2011 when the KPK said they were out to eradicate it….recent figures show that it is still on the increase.  People have little trust in the police, judiciary, civil service or the legislature….it is almost absent!

INDONESIA — KPK DETAIN EMIR OVER BRIBE — The Corruption Investigation team arrested Law Maker and Legislator Emir Moeis over his involvement in a power plant corruption scandal.  He is said to have received a $300,000 bribe from a French contractor — he was taken into custody at Guntur Penitentiary in North Jakarta.

INDONESIAN LAWYER ARRESTED OVER BRIBING COURT OFFICIAL —   Well known Lawyer Hotma Sitompul was arrested for ‘bribing a Supreme court official’ on Thursday — the bribe of Rp 100 million ($9,700 dollars) was given during a high profile corruption case it is reported.

INDONESIA’S KPK GO AFTER CORRUPT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS — News from Indonesia says that the Corruption Eradication Unit the KPK is targeting more government officials in order to return to the public purse a fortune in stolen money — by using money-laundering laws they are managing to target those who thought they might not get caught.  Prosecutors in corruption cases are looking into official’s personal wealth, bank accounts and wage income etc, often finding huge discrepancies far beyond their salaries.

COURT CHIEF JUSTICE IN CORRUPTION SCANDAL — INDONESIA’s Disgraced Law Officer, Court Chief Justice Akil Mochtar fell foul of the KPK Anti-Corruption Agency who seized luxury cars, narcotics and more when they raided the Judge’s home.  This latest move and revelation it says, has threatened to critically undermine Indonesia’s reputation for electoral integrity. (Oct 5th 2013)

In Addition — Government workers and civil servants in the Education sector are being asked to justify their apparent wealth — as reported from the Education Ministry who have begun a Corruption Probe.

INDONESIA- GOVERNOR OF BANTENG IS DETAINED — Ratu Atut Chosiyah was detained and charged with corruption…. he had deliberately evaded several calls for him to be questioned by the Anticorruption Squad, the KPK in connection with two high profile corruption cases.

INDONESIA’S POLICE INSPECTOR GENERAL Djoko Susilo convicted of corruption had his sentence ‘made heavier’ by the court who said he must serve 18 years in jail and refund the state of what he took illegally.

TWO INDONESIA JUDGES IN BRIBERY INVESTIGATION — Jakarta — The Corruption Eradication Squad KPK has named two Judges as suspects in a bribery and corruption case involving the former Mayor of Bandung, Dada Rosada.

INDONESIA – PARTY OFFICIAL CHARGED WITH MONEY-LAUNDERING — The Democratic Party Official Anas Urbaningrum was charged with money-laundering by the KPK anticorruption squad.  His arrest has now made it possible for a wider and more thorough investigation into other corruption allegations.

INDONESIA -POLITICIAN CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION — After getting him for money laundering Politician Anas Urbaningrom of the Democratic Party was charged with corruption and money-laundering in connection with the Hambalang Graft (bribery) case.  It is said that he could be jailed for twenty years?

INDONESIA AND THE RIVER OF DEATH — It comes as no surprise to learn that Indonesia has the most dangerous and dirtiest river in the World.   The River Citarum, Java, is toxically polluted by industry, and the people throw their rubbish into it.  Scenes released show plastic bottles, rubbish and worse floating on top, whilst young boys bath and swim in it, (there are no fish, the ones seen are dead, along with animal carcasses) only to find they have skin rashes later.  This is also the drinking water!  and a report says metals in the water can cause cancer….there is a 2009 law…..but villages interviewed say nothing much is going on in that department due to the industry ’employing people’ and making money!

INDONESIA DEATH ROW RULING IN DOUBT — ‘Drug conviction of UK citizen’ — Cheltenham Grandmother  Mrs Sandiford, who was sentenced to death is now being doubted by the Supreme Court in the UK who are urging The Indonesian Judiciary to take another look at the case after reviewing new evidence…they came to the conclusion that the new evidence was not made available to the lower courts in Indonesia…which raises serious issues about the Government and its policy being unlawful.  The Judiciary appear to have ignored ‘substantial mitigating factors’………well UK…..you’re on a bad wicket if you just take a look at this article and what the law is.

POLICE CHIEF IN ‘SECRET’ DEAL — In line with much of the way that corruption permeates Indonesia, a Police Chief attempted to defend his position over the inauguration of Commander General Budi Gunawan, which was done ‘under the radar’ meaning entered into by an act of secrecy and deceit.  National Police Chief General Badrodin claimed it was due to a scheduling conflict?….you can fool some people for some of the time, but not all the people for all of the time…..something he seems to forget.

EXECUTIONS TO GO AHEAD IN INDONESIA FOR DRUG OFFENDERS —  Its incredible really that this country can indulge in executions whilst its politicians continue in corrupt activities without such penalties being imposed on them.  A report says that they have taken two Australian convicts to the ‘execution site’ on an island where they will be executed with seven others…..upsetting several countries…..and according to their office the executions are to be done because Indonesia is suffering a ‘drug emergency’ situation.  President Joko Widodo has refused clemency pleas from Australia, Nigeria, The Philippines, France, Ghana and Brazil…..he’s rather good at making friends….and perhaps the souring of relations will come back to haunt him, especially on the aid front….because that’s the first thing that ought to be cancelled on economic grounds.

INDONESIA DECLINES CLEMENCY FOR FOREIGNERS — The Supreme Court turned down the final appeals for the prisoners from France and Ghana….in the ‘closed door’ hearings, the men will be executed by a firing squad with the other 8 prisoners awaiting death by the ‘State’

AUSTRALIA PULL OUT AMBASSADOR OVER EXECUTIONS IN INDONESIA — In protest and ignoring clemency pleas for two Australian Nationals, Andrew Chan being one, Australia recalled their Ambassador.  Attorney General Muhammed Prasetyo urged that the death sentence should be carried out without delay on the eight men (who’d been in detention and jail for ten years on drug charges)…. Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo agreed….and eight coffins accompanied the prisoners to the site of the execution.

PS: It should be noted that government officials guilty of corruption which there are many, have been given ‘consideration’ by the Indonesian courts, as can be seen by the huge amount of corruption cases involving the government, police and military we have….and we actually stopped recording more because they were coming in every week…and showed no sign of abating.  The KPK corruption squad look weak and can be easily compromised by the judiciary and government…they admitted that corruption was too widespread and have no hope of stemming it due to the lack of support from the Indonesian Government.

INDONESIA TEACHER IN CHILD SEX CASE — PROSECUTOR SEEKS 12 YEARS — although the news item refers to one lone individual, there are two involved…. a Canadian teacher and an Indonesian teaching assistant who have been charged with sexually abusing three young pupils.  Neil Bantleman and Ferdinant Tjiong were detained at the Jakarta International School….and the prosecutor is seeking jail terms of 12years for each of them.

PS: We may not be adding much more here because these incidents go on every week….and that means corruption on an enormous scale…….an ongoing problem that is never addressed properly……the corruption is overwhelming in this country.  It is hard to figure out why we the Western World trade with Indonesia or give it aid, it should be stopped as any aid looks likely to go into the pockets of corrupt politicians, army personnel and police.

What is wrong with Indonesia? a whole lot –  Activists on Human rights say and accuse Indonesia of not wanting to relinquish its brutal grip on civil society!  …… and by what we have seen so far……that appears to be the case…..so if you are thinking of holidaying in Indonesia……choose somewhere else…..and don’t trade with them.

‘Corruption in New Zealand? ‘

We initially thought we’d leave this one out seeing as we’d featured Australia, but e-mails from New Zealand made us reassess that situation…..and give it a whirl for the sake of balance.

OWNER of Megaupload. com Kim Dot-com has been allowed to sue the spy agency of New Zealand for the routine and illegal surveillance on his home and his Internet site.  The site owner also wants the exposure of the fact that the New Zealand Government authorised the unlawful police raid on his home.  The Government wishing to cover its tracks tried to prove by way of its lawyers in the Attorney General’s Office they were immune from legal action (as they do) but The Appeals Court rejected the idea, and held that the Government Communications Security Bureau was involved.  The suit even got wider as it also involved the USA and the FBI who also accused Kim Dot com of copyright infringements etc.  However, the courts did find and agree that the GCSB spied on him in the days and weeks up to the police raid.  Mr Dot com is a registered German National living and having residency in New Zealand which makes it illegal to spy on him.  Since this espionage by the New Zealand Authorities became public, the Prime Minister has made an apology only…….damages financially are still to be assessed and awarded by the court.

LODGE OWNER HITS THE NEWS FOR ABUSE — A New Zealand  Proprietor Michael Harris who runs the Main Street Lodge house for Guests on the North Island, Kaitaia was facing 39 charges including indecent assault, aggravated wounding through alleged drugging, and making intimate video recordings.  He is said to have committed these acts on males….. 16 guests from 18 to 25 years of age over a period of two and a half years.  Most of the young men came from overseas and stayed at the Guest House.  The Tourist Lodge owner is accused of sexual abuse in these crimes.

CORRUPTION AND NEW ZEALAND COPS — Some general items here:  Top Cop Superintendent Bill Harrison retired just before police corruption was fully revealed to the public.  He was found guilty of serious misconduct, but elected quickly to take ‘the retirement option’ (often used by suspect cops in the UK who know that it means a get-out and the dropping of the case against them).   

WEST AUCKLAND COP ON 6 COUNTS OF ASSAULT — Police Officer Martin James Folan was charged with six counts of assault and one of intent to injure in the case of beating up a youth.

SPEED COPS — AND 38 TICKETS ISSUED AGAINST THEM — A report shows that The Bay of Plenty Police Dept had thirty-eight cops with no real excuse for speeding.  Twenty-four of the speed tickets were waived and fourteen officers received fines (2011).

For more info on NZ Corrupt Cops go to  http://police_corruption/tag/new-zealand-police-corruption/

‘ Another look at Germany as Nazi Groups hit the news ‘

GERMAN POLICE REVEALED IN CORRUPTION PROBE – It seems as if many of the world countries police forces are into corruption while their governments continually deny this. Death Squads and taking drugs off street pushers for their own use is now an accepted fact rather than being a one-off. Police in German cities have cops that are on the take and using violence to rob while wearing the uniform of law and order. Certain police stations have little networks of police gangs within their CID units profiting from crime. Our source says that in Frankfurt and Berlin, undercover cops are working outside the law and getting cover from uniformed colleagues so that any investigation into them can be terminated quite quickly. This kind of thing is so typical of the police in every country and it is rapidly spreading.

GERMAN NAZI ATROCITIES — Tempted not to include the mention of the Wars…… it would be a sin not to include mention of the Death Camps — 15,000 people murdered every day, mostly for sport and extinction of a race, enemy? that was how the Germans saw it. Nothing was too brutal, and no-one was safe from their inhumane practises — that had no limits, millions were exterminated.  Luckily due to old newsreels and history channels it will never be forgotten and never should be…there must never be a time this goes from their history…many of those who did the killings on the orders of the commanders and generals escaped justice….one must not be tricked into thinking that they were tried in courts, only a few appeared in court despite Nazi hunters trying to locate them.

NEW RISE OF NAZI INTEREST IN GERMANY — A top German news magazine has revealed that the ‘Nazi Days’ are not entirely gone despite what it meant in History.  It says the far Right in political circles especially from the young are attracting recruits with its messages of racism and arrogance.  DER SPIEGEL says that ‘The scandal Germany is now facing is that young Germans in the 21st Century feel the need to be Neo-Nazis’

NAZI WAR SUSPECT CAUGHT AND CHARGED — Former Policeman and Concentration Camp Chief Lazlo Csatary who fled to Canada after the war to avoid capture, was finally arrested in Hungary.  The 98 year old had managed to hide in Canada posing as an Art Dealer for over 50 years.  He was always aware that Nazi Hunters were looking for him even today thanks to a dedicated group — The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a Jewish Organisation who spent its time looking for and tracking down the ‘monsters’ of the Holocaust.  Most people today are on the side of reconciliation and forgetting the past atrocities, so it is good to know that Nazis still alive will be hunted down where-ever they are.  The Budapest Police Investigation Unit said Csatary had been charged with war crimes and will go on trial in 90 days.  It was said  Csatary fled Canada in 1997 just before he was to attend a deportation hearing……his citizenship was revoked.  One Holocaust Survivor Edith Salamonova remembers him clearly as a tall man with a heart of stone, that whipped prisoners using a dog whip and beat them with his hands. Men, women and children alike.  He was charged with ‘Wilfully assisting the unlawful execution and torture of Jews sent to his Concentration Camp from Kosice.’

‘ Germany reminded about  those war crimes ‘

GERMANY DISLIKES THIS CONSTANT REMINDER but it will have to accept that one of its citizens did take it to war and in doing so broke all the rules of decency by committing crimes against humanity — something they have to bear the responsibility of and repay victims.  Greece has recently brought this up and wants £86 billion promised under the 1946 Paris Reparation Agreement which to date, has not been honoured by the German people or its government. We have also discovered this to be the same case with several other countries who are still waiting for compensation.  One fact that has emerged is that the International Court of Justice in the Hague actually ruled that Germany was exempt from being sued in overseas courts by sufferers of Second World War atrocities? which is an outrage considering the barbaric acts this country engaged in when it wanted to dominate the World.  Nazi War Crimes may date from the late thirties, but thanks to certain Jewish Association bodies, the hunt for these people still continues.  Many soldiers got away with their crimes, and it is a fact that the USA offered some of the worst offenders asylum in return for their skills? Such is the moral code of some countries and governments. Germany will not escape its past nor will its future citizens enjoy a ‘clean slate’ — the world has many records of what it did, and despite the German efforts to burn evidence after the war, there are restored films and too much evidence that can be seen on the Internet Web Sites and Pages — and in archives, which will be their eternal reminder.

JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE WAR WAS OVER? — The Eichmann Files are to stay a secret because of the trouble they could cause in the World today.  NAZI COMMANDER ADOLF EICHMANN considered to be the original  architect of the Holocaust who hid in Argentina after fleeing from Germany until his arrest in 1960. Secret files still in existence on his command are said to be too dangerous according to a German Court.  it is said that they have too much information on Nazi pasts, the mass deportations of Jews and full details of establishment figures who helped him during the war (which he was prepared to use if brought to trial) The Bild Newspaper made a request to see the files and this was rejected.  Lawyers for the German Intelligence Service said the material in the documents had the real potential to threaten state security interests and damage diplomatic ties with international intelligence agencies around the world.

GERMAN POLICE OFFICER HELD FOR KILLING — The policeman was detained in Dresden on suspicion of killing a man he met and chopping up the body.  Investigators said he stabbed the Internet Contact who had fantasies of death.  City police said the suspect showed them the yard where he buried the body….the case continues.

PRESIDENT OF GERMAN FOOTBALL CLUB IN TAX EVASION — The boss of Bayern Munich Football Club went on trial for a £22million tax evasion…..  Uli Hoeness, the President of the club stunned admirers when it it the news that he was on trial.  He could face up to ten years in jail….the verdict is to be announced later it said.

NAZI GUARDS FOUND — 20 German Nazi guards have been traced and found by investigators, who are still alive and may face trial.  These guards were from the Death Camp at Majdanek.  Federal Prosecutor Karl Schrimm said that he would recommend that state prosecutors pursue charges against all the men and women despite their ages.

GERMANY SAUSAGE MAKERS FINED E338 MILLION EUROS — The fine for colluding on illegal price fixing is the country’s largest imposition….The Federal Cartel Office said the fine is to be shared among 33 individuals and 21 companies for collusion over a 10 year period that pushed through higher prices and made agreements  on price ranges for various products.  It was announced that 11 of those companies admitted to ‘wrongdoing’

NAZI ‘MOST WANTED’ ESCAPES JUSTICE — Despite hunters trying to track him down, War Criminal Alois Brunner managed to hide away in Syria, and died in 2009 undetected.  It is said that the Nazi sent at least 128,500 people to their deaths during the Second World War.  It was revealed that Brunner died at the age of 98, having got away with his despicable crimes.  He ran into Syria in the 1950’s…..and offered his experience in torture to Syrian President Bashar al-Hassad’s father in return for shelter.  In 1985 emerged briefly in a magazine, saying he should have murdered more Jews.  He then fearing detection and disappeared into the Syrian wilderness.

GERMAN POLICE OFFICER JAILED FOR MURDER — A Cop who went on an Internet forum chat room devoted to the subject of cannibalism specifically to exact his own justice, was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison at the Regional Court in Dresden.  Officer Detley Guenzel was found guilty of killing his victim, cutting the body into pieces and burying it in the garden of his guesthouse. (update to previous story recorded)

‘ Once thought pleasant and ideal, but here’s another story ‘

PHILIPPINES MAN BRINGS DOWN MORAL VALUES OF NATION — It is quite sad to report this in the light we often see Filipinos as nice gentle Asians who deserve better. But one man, working in the UK as a nurse, described as being a pleasant family man, showed that violence is something easily resorted to when he assaulted an old frail woman in a nursing home, that is suffering from dementia.  Jonathan Aqino.30, was filmed on a secret camera casually slapping the woman several times.  The disgraceful incident has resulted in four other Asian workers being dismissed and him going to jail for eighteen months. The judge said ‘ It is distressing for anybody to have to watch this footage, this poor woman had been transferred to the home in the hope that she should receive proper care and attention, but you didn’t believe she needed that and abused her’ The case received UK National TV coverage….Aquino is lucky that he didn’t commit this in Asia, Singapore or Malaysia, where he would have most certainly had a caning added to his jail term.  Deportation was mentioned as being sought at the end of his time in prison.

FORMER PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT ON CORRUPTION CHARGES — Former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was arrested again in the third indictment case.  She has been charged with corruption – this being her second detention since stepping down from the Presidency.  The Anti-Graft Court ordered her arrest for the misuse of almost ten million dollars of state lottery funds during her last years in office.

MILLIONS IN STATE FUNDS LOST IN UNAUTHORISED EXPENSES — In connection with the above story — The National Philippines Audit showed there were 4,000 cases of unaccounted cash advances, unauthorised expenses and abandoned projects in government  — 101.82 billion pesos (3.02 billion dollars) amounting to over five per cent of the State Budget gone during President Arroyo’s term in office.  This was the result of an Investigation into 61,000 government agencies in the Philippines?

PHILIPPINES STILL HAVE DEATH PENALTY – yet another Asian member of the ‘let’s kill them, it saves on jail time’ brigade lovingly adhere to by Singapore and Malaysia. It’s war with the USA in 1899 amazingly revealed the atrocities, despite them losing of course.  However, the Philippines might have improved, but behind the eager attempts to nurture capitalism, there is still the attraction of Paedophiles that continue to lurk among its folk!

PHILIPPINES COPS IN EXAM CHEATING — Police taking exams have been discovered cheating a report says, Thirteen officers have been dismissed and 350 other officers are under investigation.  The National Police Commission announced that they had ‘invalidated’ the exam results of 386 officers in Zamboanga, finding that many of them had given the same wrong answers in their written exam papers.  A spokesman said the cheating had only been discovered in recent weeks, and may have been overlooked many times before.  The exams are set for officers, would-be officers and officers seeking promotion.

PHILIPPINES POLICE SHOOTOUT KILLS 3 CORRUPT COPS IN GANG —  Manila, three members of a gang were police it is stated, and they were shot dead by ambush cops in Antimonan Town south of Manila.  One dead cop was named as Senior Superintendent Alfredo Consemino, the other two cops are merely described as aides.  The shootout happened when a road block was set up and that triggered a shootout with the 13 man gang.

16 PHILIPPINES TOP COPS CHARGED WITH MISCONDUCT — Sixteen senior police officers have been charged in connection with the buying of 59,904 firearms, violating the anti-graft and corrupt practices act in the offices of the ombudsman says a report on the 8th of Jan 2013.

ACCUSED MAN SHOOTS PROSECUTOR DEAD IN COURT — A State Prosecutor in Manila was shot dead (along with a Doctor) inside a Philippines Courtroom. A 66yr old Canadian pulled out a gun just before the hearing started and killed the lawyer at point blank range…..and then shot himself as he left the court.  No-one can explain the lack of security that allowed a man to carry a gun into court?

PHILIPPINES TAKE CHINA TO UN COURT — Foreign Secretary Albert  Del Rosario confirmed that their Country has taken China to a UN Tribunal Court over the disputed territory with China in the South China Seas,… he said they had exhausted political and diplomatic avenues in order to get a peaceful solution — both China and the Philippines are signed to the 1982 Convention Treaty on the Law of the Sea.

PHILIPPINES SHOW THEY CAN GO LOWER — This country have yet another addition to how low they can sink, and it is the cruel and unpleasant interest of ‘horse-fighting’ calling it a sport? backed by gambling fanatics that have no conscience at all.  Greed and intolerance towards animals survives in this country because of the ignorance so commonly practised by those who pretend to be moral.  This only reflects another more sad and damaging side to their inhumanity that should be exposed here. It is said in a report that the government are reluctant to enforce the law, and have to be pressured by outside nations before they act…which is a sad indictment to a country once thought as gentle and nice!……..perhaps they are heading towards another war?

‘South Korea — President’s brother jailed 2 years for corruption ‘

24/1/2013 — LAW MAKER Lee Sang Deuk, brother of the country’s President, Lee Myung Bak, was convicted of corruption and found guilty of accepting substantial bribes from bankers and businessmen amounting to millions.  His activities were linked to a major corruption scandal in 2011, when four Savings Banks had their trading suspended for inadequate liquidity, which then led to the authorities putting in force a wider probe by the police who eventually arrested the President’s brother and led to his court appearance.

‘North Korea — and the Nuclear  Weapons Threat ‘

NORTH KOREA once again is advancing its programme of nuclear weapons.  The US Intelligence Agency says that despite previous threats of war posed against America and South Korea, the secret dictatorship regime has expanded its uranium enrichment at its Nyongbyon Complex and restarted a plutonium reactor shutdown in 2007.  Despite nearly going to war with a show of Missile strength, the regime is still wanting a nuclear weapon.

NORTH KOREA AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE — Their prison camps are currently holding around 120,000 people.  A UN Report laid out widespread abuses including a harsh system of political prison camps. The false face of friendliness has brought the reaction from observers saying the attempt by Pyongyang to show openness as both ridiculous and remarkable.  This is the country that wants no contact with Western ways and hates America…apart from its threats to its neighbour South Korea.

NORTH KOREA GET CALL FROM PUTIN THEN THREATEN   NUCLEAR TEST —  The fact that Russia and Putin are getting friendly with Kim Jong-un comes as no surprise really, as Putin made similar strides into China, who we know support North Korea.  North Korea’s threat to continue with a new nuclear test coincides with news that the UN General assembly allowed and approved measures for their human rights abuses to be taken to the International Criminal Court. (2014 Nov)

NORTH KOREAN EMBASSY OFFICIAL ORDERED TO LEAVE BANGLADESH — An official from the North Korean Embassy was caught with $1.4million of unauthorised gold he had smuggled in using his diplomatic status when he set foot on the Airport tarmac at Dhaka.  Son Young Nam, the First Secretary was ordered to leave the country after arriving from Singapore….and went through ‘the nothing to declare’ channel where he was detained for a search.  It is suggested he probably was going to change the gold for hard currency because of sanctions against North Korea who cannot benefit from the International Currency Financial system.

‘ Spotlight On Russia — and it’s Suppression ‘

RUSSIA AND CORRUPTION — The Russian Defence Minister Anately Serdyukov has been dismissed by Putin because he is linked to a corruption scandal a report says.  Corruption scandals in Russia are not that new, even though most go unreported.  It says there was an Investigation into the Defence Ministry and as a result the Defence Minister was fired. 

RUSSIAN BROTHEL SECRET IS UNCOVERED — It was found to be on the grounds of a Moscow Monastery — The Orthodox Church is said to be furiously engaged in suppressing the media on what the police uncovered in one of the most prestigious monasteries in Russia.  Not far from the Federal Security Service, the ancient institution – ‘ hotel for lovers’ was found operating out of a building belonging to the Monastery.  Although it’s reputation was already common knowledge, the authorities are pretending otherwise.

PROTESTORS SENT TO HARSHEST PRISON — Russia, in it’s attempt to silence dissenters have sent the two girls convicted ‘politically’ of a riot — performing a song in a Church, have been sent 800 miles from Moscow to prisons which have the harshest conditions.  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was sent to a prison in Mordovia, referred to as ‘the camp of hell’ by inmates.  Maria Alyokhina has been sent to a prison in the Ural Mountains……………….. obviously to teach them as lesson not to mess around with Putin!

RUSSIAN ACTIVISTS JAILED have been supported by demonstrators in Moscow who want the dozen people released from jail.

RUSSIAN JUDGE IS DISMISSED — A Judge who was videoed asleep during a case was sacked.  Judge Yevgeny Makhno of Blagovshechensk City was forced to resign after being filmed by a defence lawyer who posted the phone video pictures online.

COLD WAR AND RUSSIA NOT OVER? — More and more news out of Russia points to bad things on the way in this 21st Century, Putin is stepping back into the days of assertive reactionary measures that lead to conflict and war, and shows little bother over this.  But as we already know, he has backed China to such an extent that they know he will need them in any exchange with the West.  A recent case as revealed that The Russian secret Services had no qualms about kidnapping a person in a neighbour country despite sovereignty or borders.  This kind of thing was thought to be fiction and stuff of spy films…but for Russian dissident Leonid Razvozzhayer who thought he was safe in the Ukraine, the reality arrived, and he was snatched by a the Russian Squad who took him to the border where they met others in the plot and he now languishes in a Moscow jail.  This certainly proves that Russia has no regard for borders, much like its old days when it thought it could wipe out the West and dominate as many people they can.    Many suspect Putin is bringing back the old regime in revenge for Russia being considered no longer a threat by the USA.  The dissident has claimed he was beaten and tortured in order to sign a confession….the sad part here is that the Ukraine actively or passively admitted that they knew he had been kidnapped offering the feeble explanation – ‘it was an appropriate police action’

CAN WE BE SURE?  Well, according to a two page article in a November newspaper (in 2013) the answer seems to be NO…… because it is assumed by one and all when in fact, there is no real proof of it.  The threat of war with Russia has not vanished forever, and in some ways now, Putin looks to be sizzling ahead for that situation to be finally achieved.  In 1983 it was the closest to Atomic War no holds barred as America pushed the pen-ultimate standby button for a nuclear launch against Russia in response to aggression and moves by the Russians to Attack the Western World.  Luckily say some, it was just a Military Drill Exercise?

Invading sovereign territory in order to commit a crime has been already experienced by the UK….when Russian Secret Services had a contract killer murder one man using a radio-active substance in a cup of tea in a cafe, and yet again with a millionaire at his secured estate.  Alexander Perepilichny was found dead in strange circumstances — who had fled from Russia after he turned on a Russian Crime Syndicate and gave evidence.  A report says a Russian Police Official warned the man he was on a hit-list.  Tests here at the forensics are looking to see if he was poisoned.   Another Russian businessman was gunned down at London’s Canary Wharf….and of course the famous case of the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko a former KGB man who fled to Britain in 2006. When PM Cameron visited Putin in Russia and demanded to have the suspect who escaped back to Russia, he was bluntly told that it would never happen! no matter what.  In another case of ‘murder by the state’ sixty Russian Officials were implicated in corporate fraud and a lawyers murder (the case of Sergei Magnitsky) – who was beaten to a pulp in a cell.   Those sixty officials have been banned entry to the USA. The Scam uncovered by Sergei was a £150 million scam…who was labelled ‘a threat to national security’  The scam he said was a product of a circle of interior and tax ministry officials who had conspired in the fraud.

RUSSIAN LAWYER ACCUSED OF CONSPIRACY BY STATE TV — This surrounds the trial of Sergei Magnitsky, accusing the dead ‘whistle-blowing’ lawyer and his bosses of conspiracy involving Britain’s MI6.       The Posthumous trial — the news says – ‘appears to be a vitriolic rear-guard action by the Russian State’  It was leaked that the lawyer was locked up in prison, refused medical treatment, was mistreated, and died in 2009.

DID RUSSIA REACH OUT TO SILENCE ARCH ENEMY? — They’ve done it before, and have the capabilities and know how to get away with it.  Putin’s ‘thorn at his side’ former friend Boris Berezovsky who fled to Britain after many attempts on his life, was mysteriously found dead in his Berkshire Home.  The multi-millionaire in exile has long challenged the Russian Leader.  The Police said they found nothing and put it down to suicide after finding him with a ligature around his neck…..but three other exiled Russians were killed off in circumstances that had remarkable expertise stamped over them — Alexander Perepilichnvy died whilst jogging near his Weybridge Mansion and he was assisting Swiss Prosecutors in a case against a Russian Official.  Arkady Patarkatsishvili was found dead in his Surrey mansion and he was linked to Russian Political Scandals…. and we have Alexander Litvinenko died after having his tea laced with radio-active poisoning at a meeting in London with two fellow Russian KGB spies……all these men told police they feared murder attempts by the Kremlin.

RUSSIA ENCOURAGES SOCIETY TO HARM THOSE IT DOESN’T APPROVE OF — A lot like the Nazis and the persecution of the Jews, Putin’s Laws are actively encouraging the public to seek out and eliminate ‘gays’ in its homophobic drive to ethnic cleansing.  Sordid photos in the International Press show a gay man on the ground surrounded by so-called good citizens kicking and punching the victim, and there is even a boy of around 10 being encouraged by the adults to follow this criminal act……Russia’s people may not want conflict, but its government headed by Putin is certainly committed to riding through a ‘cold war’ situation and causing the next one…… and recent activity via communicate leaks show them to be buying more arms and weaponry!

PS  A cable shows that they increased their financial budget to increase their missile and rocket power. and were also engaged in secret talks with the Chinese during 2012 to merge in intelligence.  Putin sent a team from the High Command to work with China’s Military…their aim   — to compromise NATO.

DODGY DEALINGS IN RUSSIA? as Sochi Games costs get higher — A report tells us that the 2014 Winter Games may be extraordinarily expensive as Russia seeks to create an improved image to the West.  Talk of corruption being widespread and workers rights being violated abound…. the cost of presenting the Games at Sochi are already estimated to be $51 billion dollars, proving it to be as yet, the most expensive show of this kind.

RUSSIA HIJACK GREENPEACE BOAT — And charge people with ‘Protest Piracy’…..Yes, Putin’s Government forcefully grabbed the Greenpeace ship as it protested near an oil platform.  30 protestors from the International community were on board as armed Russians made their threatening attack.  The Russian Coastguard seized the ship in September 2013.  The ‘arrested’ people are being held in jails in Murmansk.  Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev urged that they adopt tougher penalties for trespass on Russian Territory.  The crew have been charged with piracy which could result in a 15 year sentence.  Perhaps the ‘hijacking’ of a Russian ship might be an idea to see how Russia reacts to their crew being detained in a foreign jail….for months and years.

RUSSIA CONTINUES TO HARASS GREENPEACE — Not content with ‘piracy’ claims in Russia are alleging that they found drugs on board the ship, and that they are considering extra charges….yet we hear in a report that in actuality, Russia may dismiss all of this provided they can be seen to have ‘made an example of these people for the outside world to see ‘…….which means it all comes down to a ‘power thing’

DUTCH DIPLOMAT ASSAULTED IN HIS FLAT IN RUSSIA — Tensions between Russia and the Dutch has flared up as two ‘unidentified’ Russian men beat up the Diplomat Onne Elderenboach.  This attack uncannily follows the incident of Russian Diplomat Dmitry Borodin who said he had been beaten by police in The Hague, and had briefly been detained….which sparked a row between the Netherlands and Russia!

JAILED RUSSIAN RIGHTS PROTESTOR CALLS FOR BOYCOTT — Boycott the Russian Games says the jailed Pussy Riot girl.  She is asking the world countries to boycott the 2014 Winter Olympic Games to be hosted by Russia.  Yekaterina Samutsevich now free after serving her jail sentence imposed by the authorities who have recently ‘tightened the screws’ on freedom among the citizens urged all countries to stay away and withdraw their athletes.  This is not the first time for Russia — In 1980 they were boycotted at the Moscow Olympics when dozens of nations pulled out.

RUSSIAN ACTIVIST IS JAILED — Amid the Olympics Charade and Propaganda, Putin’s Russia continues its crackdown on Activists and Protestors.  Activist Yevgeny Vitishko, who said that environmental damage had been caused in Sochi by the hurried construction was sentenced to three years in prison.  It should be noted that this man was a Geologist……Human Rights Watch said this was a politically motivated move, not proportional to the supposed crime.

CONCENTRATION CAMP RUSSIA — That is how Greenpeace observer Kieron Bryan (freelance journalist) and a female Protestor associate described the prisons in Russia……’ Rats and terrible conditions’ …. they said that the prisoners they met showed ‘more humanity’ than the guards and prison staff……..showing the International Community the reality of Putin’s rule — a man who jailed a billionaire who went politically against him….. having him put away for ten years.  Even Greenpeace said that they could have got 6 years in prison for ‘hooliganism’ the charge brought by the Russian Authorities.  Concentration camps was the Hitler Nazi way of detaining people you don’t like, and one remembering that the Germans hit Russia in WW2 using barbaric methods… one can see why Russia uses similar methods now… the legacy has made them wanting to hit back at all countries west of them.  The release of Greenpeace detainees is a move to avert another ‘Winter Olympic Sports’ like the one in 1980.

RUSSIA ATTEMPTS TO START WAR — Putin flexed his muscles and prompted the prospect of World War Three as he committed an act of Aggression using the Ukraine as a starting move.  Putin has long smouldered with hate that Russia is not on top…and over recent years he has taken chances to annoy and work against the West in a show of strength….some say because of the UN and how close it is around Russia’s border.  The Ukraine wants to be in the EU, and that didn’t sit well with pro-Russians who like Putin want power to challenge other countries.  Putin sent in soldiers and the Navy which held Ukraine captive…he had no worries about the USA and the International community….and even when they said he would pay the price for this, he warned the West that he still held the upper hand and retaliate…….luckily he has pulled back…..and waits for when the time is right?

As one US reporter said, ‘The Cold War Situation could well be back’

NB: ordinary citizens around the world do not welcome war in this time, but it becomes quite evident that several countries rulers and politicians are about to engage in this….. and it will happen….and the victims will be the people, and what follows is famine, food shortages, economic devastation and subjugation….this will be the prize they seek….all because of power, just as it was in the Second World war……… we will not escape this….. Russia have always sought war as a goal…..and Putin is likely to bring this about.

PUTIN EAGER TO START WORLD WAR THREE — Ukraine now a hotspot of Russian Interest, has accused the Russian leader of wanting to start the next World War…..and this might not be far from the truth.  Russia is playing quite a Military role around the Ukraine and taking no notice of the West, a former and present enemy in the Cold War when Russia was about to chance itself on waging a war with America.  Recent history shows us that the next war could certainly be with China or Russia….and Putin is very angered by NATO who are very much present around them.  Putin has already said he aims to ignore sanctions and will retaliate….and this leaves one question, is he ready to take Russia to War…..and be the man who started World War Three?

FIVE MEN CONVICTED OF 2006 MURDER — The murder of critic/journalist Anna Politkovskaya who was shot dead, led to fears that these were the risks facing Russians who criticised the Kremlin.  A lawyer who has waited years for this guilty verdict said  ‘The murder will only be solved when the name of the person who ordered it is known’   The killing was notable for its ‘contract style’ which the state wasn’t willing to accept.

RUSSIA MILITARY EXERCISES IN BALTIC ARE IN RESPONSE TO NATO — Russia and Nato are not what you’d call on the friendly side, especially as NATO are close to Russian Borders.  So Russia responded with Military exercises in the Baltic because Nato were having drills in parts of Eastern Europe, which was a response to Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine.

RUSSIA DEFIES SANCTIONS AND SIGNS HUGE DEAL WITH CHINA — Not unexpected, CHINA and Russia ‘Cold War Alliances revisited’ sign £237 billion deal to sell oil in China amid West sanctions.  It was said that Putin got a warm welcome in Beijing when he arrived for talks.  Putin said ‘China is our reliable friends’ and we know what he means by that…….China is the dark Enemy on the horizon and Russia will be there to lend a hand.

RUSSIA AND ITS ILLEGAL BIOLOGICAL WEAPON PROGRAMME — In 1990 it emerged that Russia had been secretly engaged in an extensive weapons programme of nerve gas, toxin and other such as airborne and water weapons… that are now looked on as similar to nuclear devices and weapons of mass destruction.  It would only take 30 grams of anthrax spores delivered in one warhead to kill 80,000 or 100,000 people in an area of 10 kilometres.  The Russians were taking this chemical programme to a more advanced level until it was eventually discovered…. and Yeltsin finally admitted to having this when confronted by the West and the USA,  He issued a decree ending it?  However, this isn’t the ending of this story, because Russia up to this day have never provided convincing proof that the programme had been fully dismantled, and as yet, this has not been provided or asked for??….. so it is quite likely that they resumed it ‘secretly’ under Putin once the furore was over, and now they probably have it ready!

RUSSIA ACCUSED OF INVOLVEMENT IN AIR STRIKE —  Considering that they back  a pro-Russian Militia in the Ukraine, and have provided the group with support and arms….many countries are now pointing the finger at Russia over the passenger plain from the Nederland being shot down by a missile (Russian made).  Despite posturing from Putin, Europe and the West are being hampered and denied access to the crash site by masked ‘soldiers’ of the pro-Russian group….and black flight boxes were seized by them to be taken to Russia….apart from this the site has been ‘damaged’ and flight investigators say that this could be damaging and destroying evidence….one man from the International team said when he approached a masked soldier he was told not to move any further towards the crash site, and when he asked why…the soldier said ‘you are unarmed and I have the gun, that’s why’     The Plane was Malaysian….and the boxes were handed over only after numerous calls.

RUSSIA MOVES A STEP CLOSER TO THE COLD WAR STAND OFF — Putin looks set on returning Russia to the past and the ‘Cold War’ status of being the enemy to watch.  NATO has announced that it is going to step up its military capability, and is calling on its member nations to provide support so that it can fend off any threat from warmongering Russia.  A spokesperson said ‘ it had looked at the situation of Russia and its military and sees the need to step up its own capability to confront Putin’s war machine and keep the Nato countries safe’

RUSSIA MIGHT BE REOPENING MILITARY BASE IN CUBA? — Russia and Cuba…. is Russia trying to repeat History to infuriate the West and in particular the USA.  News says a provisional agreement has been made with Cuba to re-open the Soviet Base where they used to do their spying on the US and intercept calls.  Putin may be heading for more conflict than he thinks he can deal with….not everyone will back down….so beware USSR.

RUSSIA GETS ANGRY OVER COURT ORDER TO PAY £30 BILLION IN DAMAGES —  Russia intends to appeal against a ruling in the International Court ordering them to pay compensation of £30 billion to oil shareholders.  The Court ruled that Russia had launched a series of ‘politically motivated attacks’ on the oil company Yukos aimed to destroy it through spurious bankruptcy proceedings.  They said the Russian courts, ‘subverted by Moscow’ had targeted the majority shareholder, Mikhail Khodorkovsky who had spent nearly ten years in a Siberian jail, because he was clearly a political competitor to Putin.  The Hague Court said that it was clear that Moscow intended to strip the company of its assets and seize everything, claiming the law had done its thing.

RUSSIA’S CYNICAL ACT OF HELP — Whoever thought sending a convoy of aid into the Ukraine must have been heavily on the Vodka in Moscow…..it showed a kind of farcical childishness that all might be forgiven…if Russia had the face of being concerned.  But nobody fell for it, least the Ukraine who barred the huge convoy from entering its territory, it wanted nothing of the aid and definitely not from Russia!

RUSSIA RETALIATES AGAINST WEST WITH ‘ONE YEAR SANCTION’ — Putin and his government have put a year ban on food imports from the West, including Europe and the USA……as yet another round of the ‘new cold war’ now takes place officially.   This move now shows clear indication that Russia is now not recognised and is out of the World G8…..it will be interesting to see if they keep their seat in the World Forum.

RUSSIA JAILS THREE ANTI-PUTIN PROTESTORS — Putin abides no dissenters and three such protestors were jailed for up to three and a half years for  making a protest against the dictator leader.  It is said that this is part of the Kremlin strategy to stifle free speech and return Russia to the cold war days.  Police detained 400 in 2012 for protesting… a fourth protestor received a three year suspended sentence.

RUSSIA TALKS OF NUCLEAR WARNING TO WEST — As Putin steers his country back into another cold war situation without any thought of how long it took previous leaders to achieve good relations, Putin made references to Russia’s nuclear arsenal and warned the West not to mess with him.  Sounding more like Hitler every other week, the dictator has warned off the West from attempting to support the Ukraine  in efforts to defeat Russian Separatists.  The Russian leader has also been annoyed that NATO has stepped up its military  observation jets along the Russian borders and prepares to hold more exercises in EU Military drills.

PUTIN THREATENS SANCTIONS AGAINST EU — Russia led by dictator Putin attacked the West again, especially Europe over new sanctions imposed by the EU.  These new sanctions brought a swift reaction in that Russia would hit back with possible bans on imported cars and textiles….and even go as far as banning Western and European flights flying over Siberia.

PUTIN  CALLS FOR DEEPER TIES WITH NORTH KOREA — Typically, Putin has now publically shown he intends to pile on the anti-west pressure by calling Kim Jong-un the leader of North Korea, one of the most secretive and dangerous dictatorships at present for closer ties.  Putin already has made strong ties with China, an ally and protector of North Korea….indicating his own anti-west stance and intention to begin a new cold war or something far more dangerous.

RUSSIA THREATENS WEST WITH GAS CUT-OFF — Putin racked up his anti-west cold war attitude to telling Europe and the west that he will cut off gas supplies in a bid to show himself a dictator who can take on the World…..much like a rising Hitler.    The Western Press are dubbing him as being like a ’20th Century tyrant’

RUSSIA AND CHINA MARCH TOGETHER ON HUGE MILITARY PARADE – to show their Military Might to the Western World while purporting to claim that it was to mark the event of them defeating Hitler and the Nazis. Putin’s special guest was the China Leader…….several other Western countries stayed away from the event.

‘ Criminal element in Military and Police ‘expect’ to escape Columbian Courts ‘

UN ADVISORS HAVE EXPRESSED SHOCK at proposals to ‘excuse’ crimes committed by Columbia’s Military Personnel and Police Service.  It is stated that many charges against both of these services are Murder and Torture?  Yet they fully expect to be untouchable in the eyes of the law.  This rare joint letter outlining the proposals to let these bodies get away with crimes against the people has annoyed teams who wish to have people properly accountable and dealt with….just like the War Crimes Court….yet the Columbian Government led by President Juan Manuel Santos has suggested that this fact be brushed aside.   UN Human Rights have written to the President calling him to reconsider this and instead, expand the power of Military Tribunals to investigate and prosecute all criminal offences including those of police officers.  They said these cases should remain under the jurisdiction of the civilian courts as this proposal could seriously undermine the administration of justice especially concerning violations by the Military and Police – as the World would now be observing via the Internet — something the President should be aware of these days unlike the old days when it was hushed up.

‘ ITALY PROSECUTOR JAILED FOR CORRUPTION ‘

PROSECUTING LAWYER GIULIANO MIGNINI of Perugia was convicted of corruption and sent to jail for 16 months charged with criminal abuse of his position.  The court heard how he used his legal position to harass investigators and journalists alike, initiated wire taps and fabricated charges against journalists in a series of bogus investigations to keep them off his back.  The Prosecutor was able to steer police movement away from himself even though suspicions had already been raised about his conduct.  Being a lawyer protected him from an outright arrest, and he used this power to delay proceedings enabling him to thwart and confuse those who were seeking to look into his corrupt activities.

ITALY — DEFENCE GROUP CHAIRMAN ARRESTED FOR CORRUPTION — Chief Executive & Chairman Giuseppe Orsi found himself arrested in a corruption probe, surrounding the sale of 12 helicopters to India. News coming out from Italy states that the arrest is in connection with bribery, and that three others have been placed under house arrest.

NB: Revealed also was that there have been a series of corruption scandals in the Corporate Sector of late, and it is fast becoming an issue in the country’s elections to be held on February the 24th to 25th 2013.

ITALY — Restoration commissioner held on corruption charges.  Pompeii restoration moves were compromised as police arrested the commissioner for corruption, five others are also being investigated.

ITALY — Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi went in front of the television cameras and told the viewers that ‘paying bribes to companies in order to gain big contracts’ is an acceptable part of International business.  he said if one practises this morality stand you can’t be a businessman at international level, these bribes do exist, and you cannot ignore the necessity’

ITALIAN PRIEST ARRESTED OVER £3.4 MILLION THEFT — Catholic Priest Father Franco Decaminada, the former chief executive of the Rome IDI Hospital was placed under house arrest……it was said that he had run up debts of £600million that forced the hospital into bankruptcy. Police seized a farmhouse in Tuscan they say was bought with the stolen money.

MILAN’s POLICE CHIEF CHARGED WITH MURDER  –  Police Chief Francesco Fories was arrested in connection with the murder of Vito Ferrarese.  He is also charged with instigating a cover-up and pressurizing colleagues not to incriminate him in the murder. Five other officers were also arrested for corruption.

MILAN – ITALIAN POLITICIAN SLASHES PENSIONER’S TYRES, says ‘ other people have done worse’ as defence when questioned about the incident.  Politician Antonio Piazza is among the politicians who have a reputation for their inability to apologise, says the report — apparently he had parked his Jaguar car in a ‘disabled bay’ reserved for this. He was politely asked to move by a police officer, but returned later to find a car there, took out a knife and ripped holes in the vehicle’s tyres.  However, he failed to notice security cameras filming everything…….he was later fined eighty euros.

ITALY’S PRIME MINISTER SILVIO BERLUSCONI  is sentenced to 7 years in jail after being found guilty of an ‘under-age’ sex crime.  The Three time PM of Milan was banned from public office by the court for abusing his office and trying to conceal the offence.  Some observers are saying that Berlusconi will not see the inside of a jail at all as he can now launch two appeals that are likely to go on for years!

30 COUNCILLORS IN ITALY DOING FALSE CLAIMS FOR BOGUS MEETINGS — A report issued says that thirty councillors have been inventing 100’s of bogus meetings in order to pocket the expenses….claiming 10,000 Euros each.  When angry citizens got to hear of it, they marched on the town hall of Agrigento to get them dismissed.  It says Police and prosecutors are now investing the thirty officials.

‘ Court Prosecutor suspended after caning youths ‘

ULRICH BACHRINGER, COURT PROSECUTOR in Dusseldorf found himself appearing in court charged with administering corporal punishment to 22 juvenile delinquents.  He chose to cane them bare-bottomed instead of prosecutions and carried out ‘ the sentences’ at their homes telling the parents all charges would be dropped against the boys.  He was suspended as ‘ a juvenile prosecutor ‘ and given a suspended one year jail sentence.  The judge dropped the charge of ‘ perverting the course of justice’ in favour of cutting Bachringer’s pay by half.

‘ Swedish Judge with Rent Boy keeps his Job ‘

ONE OF SWEDEN’S SUPREME COURT JUDGE’S – JUDGE LEIF THORSSON is to keep his job despite having confessed to paying a rent boy for sex.  He initially denied the allegation then changed his mind when it looked as if he was going to be charged with breaking the law.  His resignation has been demanded by Anne Ramberg, General Secretary of the Swedish Bar Council. ‘ It has harmed the reputation of the Swedish Supreme Court, The judge paid a fine of 40,000 kronor, which is said avoids a trial.

FRANCE:

‘ Former President of France – Jaques Chirac faces embezzlement charges ‘

ONCE POWERFUL POLITICIAN JAQUES CHIRAC is due to appear in a Paris court charged with embezzlement. He is accused of defrauding the French taxpayer of £2million between 1977 and 1995. The report says that these charges have been brought by two anti-corruption groups who have declared themselves as civil plaintiffs.

‘ Smuggling French Politician ends up in jail ‘

COUNCILLOR CHRISTIANE CHACAT was jailed for her part in smuggling immigrants into the U.K.  She was jailed for three years by Portsmouth Crown Court.  She and her son, Benjamin smuggled 16 Vietnamese migrants using a hired van in a journey from Cherbourg to England.  The prominent French politician flew in the face of her own authorities who are currently making a stand on cutting down on illegal immigrants.

‘French accuse Mittal of telling shameful lies ‘

LIES – ARCELOR MITTAL was accused by French Minister Arnaud Montebourg, and said France no longer wanted Mittal in their country because they have no decent respect for the French People.  The war on words intensified between the two men as Chief executive Lakshmi Mittal (Britain’s Richest Man) planned to close two of France’s blast furnaces at Florange when a promise to keep them open had been made previously with Mittal.

FRENCH IMF CHIEF IMPLICATED IN ADIDAS FRAUD — Christine Lagarde, was accused of ‘Misconduct in Public Office’  The Anti-Fraud Police in France  raided the home of a former close associate of the International Monetary Fund Chief in connection with an investigation into ’embezzlement’.

FRENCH NARCOTICS POLICE OFFICER ON THEFT SUSPICION — The un-named officer is under formal investigation on suspicion of stealing more than 50 kilos of cocaine from the police headquarters in Paris.  He was also placed under arrest on suspicion of  drug trafficking and money laundering.

POLICE ON TRIAL IN FRENCH ‘ELECTROCUTION’ CASE — Two un-named (back to that old game as seen above) police officers have gone on trial in Rennes charged with failing in their legal responsibility to help those in danger…..regarding the deaths of two ‘minority’ teenagers in 2005 (Zyed Benna and Bouna Traore).  Some say this case has been beleaguered by official delays and police tactics to derail it over the past ten years, and it certainly looks that way.

FRENCH MILITARY AND THE SEXUAL ABUSE OF BOYS — France’s Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian urged any soldiers involved in alleged sexual abuses on boys in the Central African Republic to come forward in order to limit the damage it was inflicting on the French Military Image.  He described his disgust to reporters of reading a report detailing accusations of displaced children and persons having been sexually abused at a camp managed by French soldiers involving boys as young as nine.   He says the Authorities are now Investigating it.

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT STILL GOING ON IN FRANCE — A report has revealed that smacking children for misbehaviour is still going on despite rumours over the past forty or so years that nothing of this sort was happening in France.  And we now find that French law does not prohibit the parents and others from using corporal punishment on children.  A Rights group who brought this out in the open said France was not doing enough to end it as it is violating the European social charter.  the 47 member council of Europe have slammed France for failing to ban this completely. (2015 March) It said that besides smacking their was use of other instruments.

‘Iceland’s Former Prime Minister found Guilty ‘

FOUND GUILTY OF NEGLIGENCE – Former Prime Minister Geir Haarde was found guilty of negligence in regard to the Bank Crisis in 2008 when UK savers lost £3 billion in Iceland Banks, causing councils and charities to endure crippling financial losses.  Haarde is apparently, the only country leader to face prosecution over the crisis….but there is not going to be any punishment imposed!!  He walked away from the court unrelenting as the guilty verdict meant nothing to him — as he is immune from penal or financial sentences.

‘ Dutch Diplomat jailed for spying (for Russia)’

THE HAGUE DISTRICT COURT sentenced Diplomat Raymond Poeteray to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty of passing confidential Nato and European classified documents to Russian Agents.  The Judges said that he had damaged the interests of the Dutch State and its allies, which had been going on for several years with the involvement of the Russian Federation.  They said he did this purely for profit and the pursuit of wealth….There was no comment from the Russian Government.

‘ Ireland’s church-run Workhouse Scandal’

LIKE AUSTRALIA, IRELAND REFUSED TO OWN UP FOR ITS PAST and continued down a road of denial for a great many years in the hope that it would either go away, disappear into the past, or people would not talk about it anymore…..strangely, this is the common element with governments and citizens when faced with something awful lurking in their ‘cellar’…..keeping it locked away, trapped, or building over it never really works in the long run…..the truth will eventually come out, maybe not all of it (as we well know), but enough to stir things up.

So let us look at this case………Humiliation, Exploitation, may cover some of the deeds carried out in the name of Christ, the Nuns thought so, along with abuse both physical and mental.  From 1922 to 1996,  Ten Thousand girls and women were subjugated to appalling treatment ignored by the Irish Government, some say they knew but preferred not to admit it or do anything about it.  These workhouse laundries were said to house females from the early age of 9yrs to the oldest at 89.  Work was compulsory, unpaid, and refusal meant punishment….the Sisters did not tolerate anyone challenging their authority.  These women were labelled as ‘fallen women’ or ‘morally troubled’ or mere orphans who wandered the streets in search of finding care, but what they found was ‘evil’…..or ‘evil’ found them, and whisked them off to be imprisoned behind high walls where nobody could see what was going on.  It is said that these places became more ‘prison-like’ despite no-one ever being sentenced for a crime…..the only crime being committed was being done by the Government and Church….and they were too powerful to be hauled up before a court and stand trial…..The Irish Government was ‘immune’ from the Legal Framework…..because they considered themselves the law! 

It says that little physical treatment was recognised (wrong) and admits to only ‘verbal’ and ‘put-downs’ on the inmates. The Irish Prime Minister says today, that they are sorry!  but issued no formal apology on behalf of the State (nothing unusual there), and even though there has been calls for compensation no-one in the Government has responded (they will run a mile away from this one, the cost! the cost!).  The girls were made to get up at 6 am and work through to 2pm, the food was awful (in fact described as being horrific) Nobody was allowed to talk, (reminds us of something at a Singapore Detention facility)….girls would be punished for a variety of offences, none particularly nice….often demeaning and cruel.  One of the Religious Orders involved were the Sisters of Charity? they said ‘they apologised reservedly to the women hurt in their care’….all a bit too late really, and they know it…..the horse has bolted and the stable door is open!  Many of those angry say the Church should stand up and admit the damage they did to us and the scars that are with us for life…….but of course, they won’t……this scandal has been known for the past twenty years or more…..a film was done on it around 2000…..titled  ‘The Magdalene Sisters ‘ set in the 1960’s depicting one such laundry run by The Catholic Church and then the subject was quietly tossed away…

…….. just like the Catholic Scandal of the Abuse by The Catholic Brothers (Australian Child Abuse) in the sadistic Reformatory Schools in the 1930’s when boys were not only physically abused but sexually too…..and that provoked the launching of at least two films, one an American Production, and an Irish film’ Song for a Raggy Boy’ which was hard to watch as the cruelty unfolded……….in which they invented a good guy to stop the film being as it really should — without a happy ending,… those beaten boys did not end up being winners or saved!…’ and Ireland never quite owned up to their complicity in a cover-up and measures to suppress investigations that were leading to the Church hierarchy and prominent Government Officials.

‘ State told to pay victim £30,000 for historic child abuse ‘

IRELAND’s Government have been ordered to pay compensation by a Court Judge who found in favour of a victim who suffered terrible abuse from the teacher at a Roman Catholic School forty years earlier.  The European Court of Human Rights found that the State violated her rights and ignored their duty of care.  She was awarded £30,000 and the costs of the case said to be £85,000.  Louise O’Keeffe  received systematic abuse when she was a girl at Dunderrow National School, County Cork in 1973.  She said she was delighted that the State was at last, held accountable.  She now hopes that other children abused in the Catholic Schools will now come forward to get proper justice, which they have been denied by the State (the teacher named was Leo Hickey).

…… but all of these incidents, long long ones, involving lonely and desperate children, have all been failed by inadequate and useless words of ‘sorry’ forced out by embarrassed Governments trying to make it all go away…. and avoid making any compensation available to the victims.

NB: It is a scandal that State involvement is not accepted or recognised because they merely claim it happened a long time ago….and that victims of the state’s callousness have to sue the state and be put through a gruelling long expensive wait to have their day in court.  Countries that use the excuse it happened in the past should never be allowed to get away with it…..they committed crimes knowingly or unknowingly during their period in office and turning a blind eye or disposing of the evidence only amplifies their responsibility to own up and be transparent as they so claim these days.

‘ Explosive fraud case starts against the Galleon Group ‘

THIS INSIDER DEALING FRAUD CASE is against traders Galleon headed by Raj Rajaratnam who was arrested by the FBI.  It is stated that this will reveal the murky world of the ‘ hedge fund operatives ‘ who trade on information gained illegally through insider dealing.  It says there are 21 defendants appearing in court.  The mention of ‘phone taps ‘ look straight out of a TV movie, except that these are real.  Galleon was into £2.34billion of trade before Rajaratnam was arrested.  He was said to be the 559th richest man in the world with a bankroll of £822million.  But since his arrest 30 others related to the Galleon Group have pleaded guilty in civil and criminal cases. Federal investigators have spent two years investigating the company.

‘ Turkey  top of the Suppression league ‘

TURKEY have topped the league in jailing the highest number of journalist for two years running, followed closely by CHINA and IRAN.   All three account for half of the 211 journalists imprisoned up to December the first.  Most of these journalists have been taken to court for taking pictures and writing about incidents that look bad for these countries who have a bad record on human rights and suppression of information.  Soldiers in INDONESIA destroyed journalists cameras when they attempted to get a news article…..and this kind of thing is on the increase around the World as Governments make attempts to suppress wrongdoing going public.  Their attempts to ‘gag’ the Internet are becoming more frantic, and dissidents are being secretly detained and jailed so as to keep the situation under control.  SINGAPORE have similar measures in place.

‘ Policeman’s son in £40million gems Robbery ‘

ETHIOPIAN AMAN KASSAYE SON OF A POLICE CAPTAIN was convicted of being involved in the robbery of £40million in jewels, one of the biggest heists in the UK.  He with another raider held staff at GRAFF DIAMONDS at gunpoint as they escaped with the haul.  Woolwich Crown Court found him guilty of conspiracy to rob – kidnap and possession of a firearm after the nine-week trial.

‘ Police Computer Worker in child porn investigation ‘

ALAN COATES a civilian communications officer with the Cleveland Police in Middlesbrough was suspended after they found paedophile and hardcore adult images had been stored in a secret file on the computer.  The terminal had registered 40 hits to paedophile websites over a few weeks.  Due to the Senior position of Mr. Coates, senior officers were given special permission to access his personal files and raid his home address. Coates maintains the previous user had done this while he was away.

‘ SOUTHERN WATER IS FINED £20 MILLION OVER DECEPTION ‘

It was discovered in 2007 that Southern Water lied and deceived the public on a huge scale.  Misreporting and a billing system covered the fact that they were fleecing the customer over a lengthy period.  Ofwat said they deliberately concealed it’s low performance in dealing with customer complaints to hide what was really going on in the management and board rooms.  They misreported information from 1999 to 2004 so that they could gain £18.5 million out of the customer.  Southern water’s shareholders took responsibility for the entire cost of the £20 million fine.  The Consumer Council said this was the right level of fine for these deplorable actions of a company that should have been above reproach.

‘ SOUTHERN WATER IS FINED AGAIN — OVER 16 OFFENCES OF CONTAMINATION TO WATER SUPPLIES – The company was hit with a fine of £100,000.

‘ BRITISH WATERWAYS FINED OVER BREAKING THE LAW ON SAFETY ‘

BRITISH WATERWAYS AND DIRECTORS have found themselves in court over the death of a diver who lost his life after failings of the company regarding health and safety rules. The Company have been fined around £200,000 and the directors are due in court next as culpable in these offences. 

‘ BRITISH GAS MISLEAD THE PUBLIC ‘

THE ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY ARE TO INVESTIGATE BRITISH GAS over misleading advertising over a period of 18 months.  It breached the guidelines eight times with adverts that said ‘ Enjoy savings of 15 per cent ‘ and ‘ Guaranteed cheaper electricity prices ‘  Ofgem promised to launch a legal investigation.

‘ BRITISH GAS CONTINUE WITH DECEPTIVE ADVERTS ON TV’

British Gas were heavily criticised for running adverts showing they take care, when in fact they break into customers homes when they feel like it.  Watchdog received many complaints in this area from angry customers who had been victims of these break-ins by British Gas.  The actor Timothy Spall might make the ad seem friendly but in reality it is a complete fraud.  Ann Robinson tried to get a response, but as usual the gas company retaliated by issuing meaningless statements.

BRITISH GAS STILL MAINTAIN SWINDLE RACKET despite complaints and lies about what service they can provide — and all in the face of massive profits recently published.

BRITISH GAS WRONGLY BILL CUSTOMERS — Yes, British Gas up to their old ways, — Donald and Starma Rennocks were billed for £1,500, and British Gas pushed hard saying they owed it. However, it was one of those errors? an error on their database so they claim. The couple from Leicestershire say that British Gas apologised for the inconvenience. What they can’t put right is their conduct and the stress they caused these people.

BRITISH GAS FINED £2.5MILLION over mistreatment of customers and small companies.  The report issued by the watchdog OFGEM said that British Gas failed to respond to customer complaints and actively abandoned the codes of practice. There were ‘ basic failures in Customer Services’ that were not being addressed, and that the company was not new to this sort of behaviour.  OFGEM said it had to be a large fine to show the company how serious this matter was.

BRITISH GAS – THE BARE-FACED CHEATS, Lies and covert extortion revealed itself with British Gas as they were discovered to have lied in order to persuade a customer to pay for a new boiler at a rich price of just over £3,000.  They even misled her and said repairing her machine could not be done because the part needed was now ‘obsolete’ — yet, when her local tradesman tried to get the part he found it readily available on the Internet.  He charged the lady £97 to repair her boiler. Apparently, researchers found that British Gas engineers were pulling the same scam elsewhere.  Spokesman for the Industry, Chris Jansen did his utmost to deflect the fact that they had behaved disgracefully and said he supported the ‘good character’ of British Gas Engineers??

BRITISH GAS were yet again featured by Watchdog in that they actually entered a man’s flat and took out the meter.  It turned out they got the wrong flat and as the man said ‘broke in’ thinking they could use their special powers granted for entry.  But that doesn’t apply if it’s the wrong place, yet they eventually paid a ‘goodwill’ amount and made repair……they were not however, prosecuted under criminal law…. which shows how the law can be used to the benefit of the energy business and essential services.

‘THE POWER GAME CONSPIRACY – GAS, WATER & ELECTRICITY ‘

THE ENERGY COMPANIES who manipulate and hold the country to ransom over essential services like water, electricity and gas have been in a long conspiracy of corporate takeover in regard to the UK establishment.  Their aim is to control and create their own invincible empire within the country so that it is so powerful that they can threaten the very foundations of democratic government.  It is only recently that the British Public woke up to the fact that UK Politicians have little or no influence over the Energy Giants in law or otherwise.  The electricity supply can go off when and if it likes without explanation and often does — just as water and gas supplies which are often excused by stupid statements thought up by Electricity, Gas and Water Company staff.  Even now, these companies flout the phone system at every move, inconveniencing householders with nuisance calls at all times of the day having obtained data meant to be private, but handed on easily in a single act of financial movement.  One would think there was no telecommunications Act….. to the Energy Companies it doesn’t apply or frighten them, like another corporate giant, BT, they know they have a monopoly on the market. and corporate strength to fight off opponents.  They will win at any cost, and these people aim to stay that way, now, and in the future……playing the game with loaded dice!

Energy Giants cause complaints to double……..N-POWER AND SCOTTISH POWER are both receiving double the amount of public complaints in first quarter of 2014 according to research by Citizens Advice.  Both of these power giants blamed new billing methods for the increase in complaints.  N-POWER’s complaints grew from 306.8 per 100,000 customers to 592.4 per 100,000, while SCOTTISH POWER’s complaint grade rose from 100.5 to 197.7 between January and March.

‘BARCLAY CARD FINED £50,000 FOR MENACING SILENT CALLS ‘

THE BANK GIANT BARCLAYS was in the news again and this time, it was over their ‘cold calling’ practice on the phones.  The biggest Credit Card Company have been fined £50,000 for the misuse of the telephone system.  The consumer watchdog Ofcom said it was the most serious case of persistent misuse by making silent and abandoned calls on the public phone network.  Had they not been limited by the statutory limit on a fine, they would have imposed a financial penalty that properly reflected the offence Barclay’s committed. 

BARCLAYS BANK PAYS COMPENSATION OVER BAD ADVICE TO CUSTOMER – £200,000 was paid out to Mr  Isaac Price after they had officially advised him to gamble his life savings in one of their schemes.  Once he agreed, his life savings fell at the rate of £70,000 a year.  The Investment fund was said to be safe said Mr.Price of Llandrindod Wells, Powys.  The Barclay’s salesman said the ‘high risk’ fund was completely safe.

BARCLAYS BANK TAX AVOIDANCE SCHEMES finally failed on them as the HMRC demanded they pay £500,000 retrospectively. Analysts said that down at Canary Wharf the Barclays Lawyers were in fact a team of tax avoidance experts using loopholes and interpretation to save Barclays from paying out, but this has now brought about a change. It also came as an embarrassment to the bank after it publicly claimed that it would pay more tax in 2011 meeting in front of media cameras.

BARCLAYS ‘CARD-FRAUD’ NIGHTMARE TO CUSTOMERS — It seems that care for the customer rates very low in the Bank Industry, and Barclays hit number one on this.  It is stated they play mind games, keep people hanging on the telephone line knowing that they are deliberately causing unnecessary expense to the customer and client.  A recent case has alighted the ‘Chip’n’Pin’ flaws that ultimately is being used to penalise the customer. The Industry knows this system is not security proof but remain in denial.  Audrey Bruce, of London, a loyal customer with this bank found herself being doubted and virtually called a liar when she was robbed by an unknown and unidentified person who accessed her account on several occasions. One ‘weird’ incident involved an over-the-counter withdrawal of £6,000. They refused to reimburse Audrey who produced evidence of not being in the bank on the day of question, they didn’t even inform her of the large withdrawal. She only realised things when another few thousand disappeared out of her account.  The bank reversed the phrase –  innocent until proved guilty, and declared her guilty until proved innocent!   They did all they could to fob her off and make things very difficult and unpleasant for her over the months that followed.  She finally asked for the CCTV footage they said confirmed it was her? and let the police have it. When it came to push and shove, hey Presto! the video CCTV had gone missing!   

BARCLAYS BANK announced it was taking on more staff in its CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS Department — not really surprising in that it was voted the worst bank for customer satisfaction.

‘ Barclays Bank prey on the bereaved ‘

WHICH MAGAZINE hit out at the greedy banks who look for easy targets, and Barclays Bank found one in client elderly Miss Valerie Sage.  Her estate was valued at around £650,000 and Barclays were charging her £25,000 as executors.  Relatives said that saleswoman who called on their aunt was very evasive about charges and dodged the issue several times.  When the Berryman’s complained about the charges to their aunt’s estate, they immediately halved the price?  When they approached a probate broker they were amazed to find out the whole thing could be done for £4,450 including its own charge.  WHICH found out that many other High St Banks were charging double the normal rate.

‘ Barclays Bank shares down as complaints go up ‘

259,266 COMPLAINTS WERE LODGED AGAINST BARCLAYS BANK, which accounts for around 2000 customers having issues and grievances against this one bank each day.  A great deal of these involve risky business advice in relation to investments and poor service on the high street.  Most of these reported figures were up to now — kept secret and closely guarded within the banking system in order to create an image that wasn’t true or actually open.  However, due to the difficult process of The Freedom of Information Act, as from Sept the 1st 2010, they will be required to reveal the number of complaints nationally throughout the banking system — it would be fair to say that the banks have resisted this for many years.

‘ Barclays ordered to compensate customers over mis-selling ‘

12,331 BARCLAYS CUSTOMERS TO GET PAYOUT over ‘serious failures ‘ in their organisation. The FSA have ordered that Barclays pay compensation of around £70million to customers who lost out over their handling of an investment scheme. It began when Barclays sold two funds — Aviva and Global to 12,331 investors who put £692million into Barclays thinking it was secure. However, Barclays failed to ensure the funds were suitable for customers or suitably train staff to explain the risks involved.

BARCLAYS HAVE NOT ENJOYED A GOOD REPUTATION FOR MANY YEARS!

Independent advice says under the Data Protection Act one is entitled to see the evidence and transaction logs kept, and one should be aware that False claims can be made by the bank as well as anyone else.

Banks are often contradictory and obstructive — being very dismissive of customer claims. Even most companies and organisations play this obstruction card from day one… and this rubs off into public accountability and people too (the likewise factor)     LLOYDS BANK ARE NOTED FOR THIS AS WELL.

‘ Barclays Bank and the Greed Factor — the 2012 Scandal ‘

Waking up to the banks corruption seems to be slow, despite our items indicating this, so in June 2012, another scandal erupts to show how deep this corruption goes —

THE FSA HAVE FINED BARCLAYS BANK £290 MILLION — The case still ongoing relates to bank operatives manipulating the interest rate for their own gain and bonuses…..It was found that they told lies, almost of a criminal nature if it were not for the lack of response by the government to judicially come down hard on ‘white-collar’ crime.  The FSA have watered down the seriousness by uttering excuses and saying it comes under civil offences?  Yet there is a call from the disgusted public for those involved to face criminal charges of fraud, instead of this ‘fines system’ which flies in the face of the ‘rioters’ who were marched off to jail for a lot less in many cases.  These bankers lied for financial gain.  It is said that this bank is only the first to be fined in this scam…RBS, LLOYDS, and HSBC are on the list as well as others. Somebody said ‘ what we have here is just the tip of the iceberg’ and we have said that all along….there is and will be more to come on ‘banks behaving badly’

BARCLAYS BANK CLERK JAILED  — A cashier preyed on an elderly woman and stole £17,500 from her account, Ann Marie Jones from Wrexham took a further £1,000 from 70 year old Margaret Francis’s account and kept her will. She was jailed for fraud and received six months jail by Mold Crown Court. Barclays compensated the victims.

WORST BANK FOR CUSTOMER SERVICE IS BARCLAYS — According to recent reports by WHICH in 2012, Barclays have been shamed over the Price Fixing Saga of ‘The Libor Case’ and 2,538 complaints received at the Which Contact Centre.  The Libor Case has now turned to having Barclays Executives Named…..it was stated that they had dismissed five employees in an internal investigation shortly after the scandal hit the headlines.  There is currently a trial in the High Court, and around 104 employees could be called as witnesses. Executives, Bob Diamond, Jerry del Missier, Chris Lucas and John Varley may also be called.  Guardian Care Homes have brought a case against Barclays and is seeking £37 million.

BARCLAYS IN SPOTLIGHT OVER RIGGING ENERGY PRICES IN U.S.A. — The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has accused Barclays Bank of rigging energy prices in America. 

‘Barclays Bank rate-fixing Scandal scorned by Bank of England – who are involved ‘

It seems incredible and absolutely shameful that The Bank of England’s boss Mervyn King has had the gall and affront to declare Barclays and other banks as ‘shoddy and deceitful’ when it has emerged that the Bank of England was involved in the cover-up and knew about the rate-fixing when it began.  King of course, does not want an inquiry, a far reaching inquiry….and one can see why.  The mis-selling scandal involving many banks who also manipulated the rates that banks lend to each other, known as libor — silently remained behind closed doors as Bob Diamond the boss of Barclays implicated a ‘small number of people’ of whom were in the government and the Bank of England who urged the rate-fixing in the first place…’oh what a web we weave ‘ Some are saying it was fraud, criminal fraud, but the government are trying to distance themselves from the truth of this statement by declaring black is white and that it wasn’t actually criminal? but only they believe that!

THE LIBOR SCANDAL AND BARCLAYS — Now Barclays are to be investigated over £12 billion Gulf Deals — It seems as if Banks are riddled with corruption, it goes on an on from one scandal to another. They are now being quizzed over Middle East Royal families bunging the bank £12 billion to fend off Nationalisation.  The FSA are still investigating four of its senior employees — one being finance chief Chris Lucas.  There was also the £450 million bill it had to settle for the loan scam in which it was involved in ‘mis-selling’

BARCLAYS BANK TELL ACCIDENT VICTIM ‘SUE US’ When 85 year old Bert Lock fractured his hand after it was trapped in a ‘faulty’ sliding door at the bank.  Bert was visiting the bank in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, to collect bank envelopes.  All went well in the bank until he left and as he got in the doors, he was thrown to the ground when they kept closing…….normally a sensor holds the door and returns it to open when someone approaches it.  After the event a woman called from the bank, no apologies tendered, and told Bert’s daughter, Mrs Walker that ‘if you want any financial help or assistance then you will have to sue us’

BARCLAY’S TOP BOSS GETS £40 MILLION IN SHARES — Fury erupted over Rick Ricci and eight other Barclays Bosses picked up £40 million in shares in a bumper payout, said to be ‘performance related’

BARCLAYS IS FINED $453 MILLION FOR RIGGING — Barclays have been told they must pay the fine by the US Energy Regulators after they upheld the decision and amount of the fine imposed because they believed that Barclays had rigged Californian electricity markets between 2006 and 2008.

‘Barclays receive fine for failures ‘

NO STRANGER TO COMPLAINTS – BARCLAYS is fined £2.3 million because of its failure to keep proper electronic records such as e-mails and instant messaging.  Over a period of 10 years – 2002 to 2012 these failures went unchecked and systematically ignored.  The FSA Regulators made it known to the bank who still continued to not save electronic data over orders and trading……interestingly Barclays don’t think they did any wrong-doing having that attitude — ‘Come and prove it if you can — we’ve got expensive lawyers waiting’……so it has fallen to the U S Regulators to fine Barclays!

‘ Barclays are sued for ‘dark-pool trading’

SYSTEMATIC FRAUD AT BARCLAYS — The Bank has been charged with systematic fraud and deceit against its customers….which includes investment institutions.  It is accused of duping investors who traded shares in the bank’s ‘dark-pool’ — a secretive market where people buy and sell stocks without disclosing information about the transactions according to an American Lawsuit.  If found guilty the Bank could face fines of multi-million sums besides compensation and other lawsuits.  The bank has already had scandals costing them, especially the PPI mis-selling saga.  Lawyers say this dark-pool and rigging system which is full of predators could well cost the bank very seriously.

NB: Will Banks be reigned in? doubtful really, as they are often in bed with the government itself………A report says Banks charge something in the region of £9billion a year on current accounts (2012)….this comes from the Office of Fair-trading, who say little or no interest is being passed onto the customer……just more charges!

‘ Abbey National fined over call centre failures ‘

OFCOM said they had also fined ABBEY NATIONAL over misuse of the telephone system, saying silent calls are a significant cause of inconvenience and anxiety for thousands of people every month.

‘ Other firms fined by Ofcom ‘

SPACE KITCHENS, CREDIT MANAGEMENT, CARPHONE WAREHOUSE, BAY KITCHENS and TOUCAN.

‘ THE BANKS BIG PUBLIC RIP-OFF ‘

The Banks resorted to quietly and secretly putting up interest rates on overdrafts that had already been agreed upon by the customers beforehand.  Small print added by the banks later led to ordinary borrowers finding they had charges of up to 20 per cent more on their accounts. 

The BANKS listed are ; LLOYDS TSB, ABBEY, HSBC, BARCLAYS, HALIFAX, FIRST DIRECT, NAT WEST and The ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND, SMILE, THE CLYDESDALE and YORKSHIRE BANK etc.

The banks were accused of ‘using sharp practices to get back the millions they were forced to refund customers over excessive charges.

‘ LLOYDS BANK accuse pair of innocents of Defrauding the bank ‘

NO APOLOGIES FROM LLOYDS or the police after wrongly identifying two women as suspects in a fraud sting.  The bank handed the wrong photo still from CCTV cameras of Nicola Channing and Julie Evans, the real fraudsters were at an adjacent till.  The innocent women’s photos appeared on Crimestoppers a BBC programme when the trail went cold.  All the bank could offer was sorry, nothing more, yet the damage to their reputations had been done. 

LLOYDS BANK have also been involved in other dubious activities concerning investment mishandling and poor customer relations.

LLOYDS BANK LIKE TO SAY NO TO E-MAIL CONTACT – ‘Contact Us’ cannot be found on any page of the LLoyds web site, and their explanation? — it is a security matter.  This would look good if it were not for the many articles we have showing Lloyds in a very different light.  Lloyds have a problem with open-ness and honesty, something it lacks when dealing with a number of its customers.

LLOYDS SUFFER AS A RESULT OF ITS PPI SCHEMES SCANDAL — Lloyds Bank declared themselves to be in the red by £3.5billion due to paying out compensation to customers it mis-sold (didn’t tell the truth- sold insurance to those who didn’t need it — misled customers) payment protection schemes. 42 per cent of the Lloyds Banking Group is owned by the taxpayer after it was bailed out and given public funds.

LLOYDS IS MOST COMPLAINED ABOUT –Banking group Lloyds have become the worst bank at No1 in 2011- with 20,310 complaints in just one half of the year….Barclays had the distinction of being runner-up in 2nd place.

‘ Highest number of complaints against Lloyds Bank ‘

 LLOYDS BANK are the worst bank with customer complaints.  The Financial Ombudsman received 9,952 individual complaints in the first six months of 2009.  These complaints were about the service, misleading financial advice and trickery by staff who were not properly trained.  BARCLAYS came in as the runner-up having achieved the second spot withy 5,476 complaints about the poor service.  It was said that most of these banks lived in ‘ a denial culture ‘ and were not prepared to face the truth or learn from the bad press.

LLOYDS AND MIS-SELLING PPI CLAIMS — The Bank has announced that it is putting another £1 billion to remedy the growing bill in regard to claims against them by customers who were mis-sold Insurance cover.  Its Bill now is around £5.3 billion, and still could rise further.

‘ Commission Rip-Off by LLoyds Bank ‘

After selling off its private client business to a group of advisors Lloyds wrote to clients offering to dispose of existing holdings and convert them into funds managed by Scottish Widows.  It failed to say that Scottish Widows is owned by Lloyds and is a subsidiary.  Investing client funds would mean Lloyds making huge sums without their clients realizing it.  Clients would be urged to think it was an outside deal they’d invested in.

LLOYDS BANKING CHIEF ERIC DANIELS WALKS AWAY WITH A £6.8MILLION PAY PACKAGE, mostly thanks to the taxpayer.  Daniels was involved in the disastrous Halifax Bank of Scotland fiasco.  LLOYDS is largely owned by the public—41 per cent.  The Scotland bank had bad debts of £20 billion.

‘ Risk Manager at Lloyds steals £80,000 from account ‘

Bank Manager Darren Pease of Romford stole £80,000 out of accounts belonging to his niece and grandmother. one was a trust fund and the other a private investment account.  He was jailed for four years by Basildon Crown Court.

‘ Lloyds TSB let down 91 year old customer in crass refusal ‘

One elderly customer was burgled while she was in hospital, she had an insurance policy with Lloyds, and they refused to pay out because she did not say she was in hospital, so they rejected her claim.  The poor lady had a broken leg, why has she to inform Lloyds, she wasn’t burgled until she was hospitalized.  Thieves smashed open her house door and stole money and valuables.  TSB even lied to cover themselves, they claimed data protection made it difficult.  They have now paid the claim after being shown up, waived the policy excess of £50 and sent £100 of vouchers and flowers as a belated apology.

I would say it’s hard to believe that a bank can be so low, but LLOYDS TSB can.

‘ Lloyds Boss in £2.5million Fraud Case ‘

LLOYDS EXECUTIVE JESSICA HARPER is charged with fraud, she was accused of stealing £2,463,750 from the bank by submitting false paperwork and invoices to claim payments.  The £70,000 a year bank security boss in the digital accounting system committed the fraud over a period and was only found out when the bank carried out an internal investigation was launched in 2011.  She had worked with Lloyds since 2000 and was highly respected and thought of by the Bank.

‘ Lloyds Credit Card Company in bogus 24 hour service ‘

LLOYDS BRIGHTON RUN CREDIT CARD FACILITY run a customer service that boasts of  running 24 hours, and the first thing one notices is that the automotive voice cannot get your credit card number right, and actually repeats it back wrong? Many people who contacted us say that this is a regular feature designed to throw callers off. It then steers the caller on to waiting for a operator in a queue? and having tried this it appears the same queue is there at 2 am and 4 am any evening, which points to a con and a lie. Who has ever heard of hundreds of UK customers hanging around until 5 am just get into the queue; Lloyds want us to believe that in the face of the British Tradition of most folk being in bed after 11pm.

‘ Lloyds Bank con customer into paying twice ‘

INFORMATION sent to us has revealed how a branch in Cosham, Hampshire cheated a loyal customer into paying twice for an account that had been closed some weeks earlier. This bank billed the client for a new month despite one of its staff having closed it for the client and charging the client to the full saying there was no more to pay. Yet the client found another charge being levied on the account and was asked to pay it. A complaint was made but the bank said the original clerk was not in so it would have to be paid. Strangely, if this had been on the other foot the client might have faced a court action fully supported by the law, and showing that the law can have double-standards — and this is not for the first time either.

‘ Poor customer service at Lloyds Bank ‘

We’ve heard of another two cases of incredible awful customer service with this bank. The first concerns the ordering of a cheque book by one customer in early December 2010, and even now in February 2011 it has not materialized. Excuses have taken the shape of — gone missing, and it was your fault, the address was wrong, and of course the ‘ we’ll order you another one ‘ speech.  Another customer got so fed up with waiting for his new cheque book that he actually closed his account with Lloyds and told them what he thought about their service.

‘ Lloyds Bank Payout £3.2billion for treatment to customers ‘

THE HIGH ST BANKING GIANT LLOYDS BANK are having to payout a staggering £3.2billion for running roughshod over customers when mis-selling insurance cover. This came about when the bank dropped their court action to contest claims.  Allegations were made accusing the banks of looking after themselves.

‘ Boy on wanted poster to sue Lloyds ‘

Chistopher Lapworth of Warwickshire found to his disbelief that he was on a police poster and a reward of £500 had been offered for his apprehension. It was said by police who are also being sued, that Lloyds Bank made the error and picked him out as being a robber on their ATM camera system.

‘ Banks deprive their customers of a tax bonus ‘

A report has revealed that many banks are pocketing tax benefits meant for savers.  One of the worst offenders is LLOYDS TSB BANK.  The most common investment is the ISA and banks are conveniently playing around with the rates so that they get the bonus rather than the customer.

‘ Lloyds fined £28 million for poor practices ‘

Yet again LLOYDS  find themselves caught and duly fined by the Regulator — time and time again Lloyds pay another fine for giving the customer the ‘brush off’ and operating ‘a toxic sales culture’ which of course led to mis-selling by staff.  It is stated that this all operates around policies that not only encourage, but force staff to deceiver the customer and get as much as they can out of them.  Bonuses and demotion are quoted in the statement…… yet Lloyds will go on…….just like the previous cases………fines can be paid and Lloyds know that.

‘ Lloyds snub loyal 40 year customer ‘

‘PROVE THAT YOU ARE REAL CUSTOMERS’……that’s what Lloyds did to customers in this entry.  R.C. of Epsom said they like to use a Club Lloyds account which pays interest on balances of up to £5,000.  The customer easily qualified for this on the amount they pay in each month…..and they liked it to be by direct debit so that they could manage it themselves.  but they were asked to provide proof of two direct debits going out each month to qualify….yet these customers have banked at the same branch for 40 years.

‘Lloyds in trouble again over Libor Scandal ‘

LLOYDS BANK are yet again facing a hefty fine (2014) in connection with ‘The Libor Price Fixing Scandal’… The Banking group have announced that they will be investigating around 15 staff members in an attempt to seize bonuses paid during the ‘manipulation’ of Libor Interest Rates.  The bank said settlements are to be agreed in several claims as it waits to find out how much it is to be fined in the USA.  Speculators are expecting the fine to be around £200 million plus.  It also revealed that Lloyds had suspended half of the fifteen to be investigated.

‘ HSBC Bank in Madoff Fraud Scandal is sued ‘

THE HSBC BANK IS BEING SUED FOR £5.7Billion over their involvement in the Madoff Fraud. Irving Picard the court appointed trustee said that HSBC had facilitated Madoff’s £40billion swindle.  He accused the bank of being ‘ deliberately blind’ to what was going on. Picard has also sued Wall St and the bank JP Morgan Chase.

‘ HSBC is fined record amount of £10.5million for mis-selling ‘

THE FSA ANNOUNCED IN DECEMBER 2011 that HSBC have been fined £10.5million after selling policies and deals to mostly those who were 85yrs and over — who would benefit very little from it and in many cases find themselves penalized monetary-wise. It agreed that this should not have happened and has now said it will pay out compensation of £29million. Some figures say this is around £12,000 to 2000 people, but it is probably higher. Even Help the Aged, the charity once backed these deals without realising how awful they were to the very people who they profess to help. Many pensioners who were advised and duped into these deals are now unfortunately deceased and what happened clearly did them no good, nor are they around to be compensated.

HSBC IN OVERDRAFT CHARGES RIP-OFF — Howard Rutherford suffered badly at the hands of this uncaring bank who showed no concern or care for a client, they put charge on charge and failed to notify him or keep him informed of how changes would affect him. Things got so bad that he had a possession order against him and almost lost his house over a small amount that was allowed to spiral to unimaginable proportions.  At one time, the bank were taking half of his monthly income in charges and interests. This happened to coincide with the anger at the banks called ‘the bank rip-offs’ when thousands stood up to banks and demanded repayment of unreasonable overdraft charges. 

£4.7 BILLION WAS MADE BY BANKS IN BANK CHARGES LEVIED ON OVERDRAFTS.

‘ HSBC knew all about the money laundering but did nothing’

At an inquiry into the serious underhand activities of banking, it was revealed that the HSBC boss Stephen Green knew about money-laundering in the banks for seven years –as far back as 2005, but said nothing about it.  Even the bank’s compliance chief David Bagley quit and said that staff at the bank’s Mexican Subsidiary forged paperwork designed to help prevent money-laundering?  It also came out that Senior persons within the compliance unit fabricated records in order to prevent detection of the wrongdoing.

HSBC FINED £1.2 BILLION BY USA REGULATORS OVER MONEY-LAUNDERING AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES — The highest ever fine has been imposed on giant banking group HSBC.  Sources say that inside the bank it was known that money was not being checked as it made its way from drug cartels and countries that were viewed as corrupt.  The bank checking system did not seem to apply, where ordinary everyday customers suffered humiliating checks on accounts…….the company believe that this sum will cover other issues outstanding and under investigation bringing the episode to a close?  Criminal charges being urged have not been adequately addressed, said a spokesman, this side of it seems very obscure and we are getting words like ‘we shall have to see’ being used, most likely so that a ‘watered down effort’ can be used to sideline this ‘touchy’ issue.

In addition, it was revealed that from 2002 to 2010 during the time HSBC were in the habit of laundering cash for drug barons and dictatorship regimes, Mr Green now a Government Minister, was their Chief Executive, and he walked away with a pension of £19 million.  In relation to the exposed criminal activity of HSBC, he said the situation was ‘regrettable’

HSBC ACCUSED IN FRAUDULENT TRANSACTIONS — Argentina’s Tax Agency say they uncovered £51 million in fraudulent transactions by the HSBC Bank — they have asked the Judicial System to order an investigation.

HSBC IN LAWSUIT — The Company  are to fight a £1.5 billion class action lawsuit in the USA over the selling of sub-prime mortgages……the suit was filed in 2002…..and concerns charges of fraudulently misleading investors.

‘ The HSBC AFFAIR and Scandal ‘

THE GOVERNMENT, A BANK, AND A FRAUD — All elements of a neat little grab and snatch that involves tax evasion on a huge scale, with a government pretending not to know.  But one of those HSBC men present at that company when the deals were done and evasion, avoidance, whatever, was David Cameron’s appointed Minister Lord Stephen Green (who wouldn’t say anything on a Panorama programme)…who was made a peer by Cameron’s government….this man refused to talk about the tax situation and Swiss Branch Bank of HSBC.  He spent three years as a minister when thousands of clients were exposed by a whistleblower who grabbed many thousands of data on people and firms involved in a tax scam.  The scam was exposed for five years in France first before the dossier was sent to the HMRC in 2015.  Lord Green was Head of the HSBC during some of this period,,,but denies all.  THE HSBC Offices were raided in Geneva as this became a criminal inquiry as Swiss Prosecutors launched the investigation into HSBC.  Swiss Whistleblower Herve Falcianni grabbed documents to expose the fraud and gave them to the French Government.  Cameron was questioned about links to the scam but has remained quiet and scathing when others have pushed him on the subject, especially the hiring of Lord Green.  the inquiry is going slow! and looks set for being after the election, who’d guess that? and their are rumours that HSBC may have a few more skeletons in the closet?

THE GOVERNMENT BANK NS&I ARE CHEATING THE PENSIONER – around 8,000 pensioners have lost out in the National Savings Scheme it has been revealed.  The bank have used the excuse ‘ technical problems’ to cover their mismanagement of pensioners savings.

‘ Banks have been profiteering again at the customers expense ‘

A REPORT LEAKED has shown that withdrawals from a branch-based ATM to be 28p and 40p for a machine.  A financial watchdog has written to the Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers over this matter.  The Banks argued that reports by Don Cruickshank were not correct, but the Director General of Fair Trading, John Bridgeman has launched an investigation on behalf of the customers.

‘ Banks target the vulnerable in bid for profits ‘

CUSTOMERS ARE BEING PUSHED INTO FEE-CHARGED ACCOUNTS – and those customers that appear to be naive to greedy staff are the main victims of this action.  They are steered to take premium accounts which are costing the customer £150 a year.  NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK was one such case who sold an account with perks to an elderly lady who could not possibly gain by such a deal.  LLOYDS BANK argued about their methods of business and have applied for their case to go before a senior ombudsman.  They also refused to pay £100 compensation to a cheated saver.  This case went before a senior ombudsman who found for the saver and Lloyds had to pay compensation of £350.

‘ Banks accused of double-standards and deceit ‘

A LEADING CREDIT CARD FRAUD EXPERT SAYS BANKS ARE DECEIVING CUSTOMERS and have been for a very long time. He said the pin situation was not as banks said it was ‘foolproof ‘ and they continue to be blinkered and not own up to cases where fraud has happened in regard to the chip and pin process. One case in particular highlighted this – A woman who was a civilian worker with the police found that her EGG credit card account had been plundered by someone else; she had stopped the account months before and cut up the card. She reported this and soon she entered a nightmare not of her own doing. EGG accused her of fraud, and to her amazement ten cops swooped on her home, searched it and arrested her — the same cops she worked with? One woman cop whom she knew stood and watched her dress in the bedroom which was highly embarrassing. She was suspended from her job and suffered being under suspicion and stress for many months. However, luckily, she got help and the expert uncovered how it had been done. EGG suddenly made a turnabout, and she was acquitted at the court hearing. She got no apology from EGG who thought a mere £700 would take care of the mistake, and the police as usual made no attempt to be sorry, but said she was re-instated. The expert said on camera that had the case been in the U.S. they would have been paying up to $1million dollars in compensation, and quite rightly so.  The police should have been sued, collectively or individually and it should have been a claim for around £200,000.

‘ Banks attempt to muzzle watchdog team ‘

In 2000, well before the Bank scandal of 2008 made serious attempts to silence a watchdog committee according to Don Cruickshank who headed the inquiry.  He accused the banks of ripping off the public to the tune of £5billion a year.  But the British Bankers Association Tim Sweeney dismissed the report and had strong objections as they reflected restrictions of flexibility in the financial sector.  Mr. Sweeney denied that banks do not care about customer complaints.  His objections to the Watchdog horrified consumer groups who wanted the Government to implement the Cruickshank recommendations as soon as possible.  As a result, the ‘ policing Authority’ recommended to prevent bank ‘rip-offs’ was put on hold.

In March of 2007 a report from a whistleblower revealed bank swindles and overcharging by Lloyds and other  banks in an article ‘ Banks and Corruption ‘

And in 2008, we saw the results — bust banks, big bonuses and a recession brought about by bank greed.

‘Banks have been discovered sending fraudulent letters ‘

WONGA DID IT, AND NOW BANKS have been sending ‘fake legal demand’ letters to customers.  BARCLAYS, LLOYDS, HALIFAX, RBS and HSBC have been trying to frighten people by sending customers letters that appear to be from outside legal firms, when they are not.  The report says that Energy Firms have been doing the same and MP’s have said these are ‘dishonest and distressing tactics’   Peter Killan who received a ‘threatening letter’ said it looked like a legal thing based on a debt collection notice, and found it very frightening.

‘ Abbey – Santander, the Banking Society that likes to say No ‘

ABBEY MAY FIND ITSELF BEING SUED over it’s jobs worth response to a depositor who needed his cash for a house purchase which they refused to do.  They claimed the necessary security precautions over ID and crime meant they could not process the bank draft even though it was the customer’s money.  The need for exceptional ID meant the man could not provide the extremes needed to satisfy staff.  Well folks, the staff at Abbey are not entirely honest just as some of the senior management at this bank.  We have info going over some years that shows fraud within their own ranks, yet no one was brought to book.  They have intimidated investigations in past years and as far as being transparent, the fog appears very thick.  If you want to lock yourself out from your money then bank with them, but if you heed this case, then steer clear of investing in Abbey and take your money elsewhere.

ABBEY WAS ALSO FINED OVER MISUSE OF THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM — see report already published.

SANTANDER – ABBEY ACT DESPICABLY TOWARDS CUSTOMERS — D.M. of Canturbury had the debt collectors swoop on her by order of Santander, and why? — she had a fraudulent cheque placed in her account for £9,000, and she respectfully informed them she wasn’t expecting it or really knew anything about it and they ought to know.  They never replied but instead – FROZE HER ACCOUNT — and later had the cheek to inform her that the account was overdrawn by £1,800 — and sent in the debt collectors?  She has asked for explanations on several occasions but Santander ignore her despite the fact that she is a customer.  The account was frozen for five months, Santander have decided to play the ‘ confused we don’t know’ card and arranged for the debt to be called back and end the matter.  But it still doesn’t excuse their shoddy unprofessional service.

SANTANDER DENY SISTERS ACCESS TO BANK ACCOUNTS — Two sisters Victoria and Virginia Spill suddenly found they could not access their accounts because Santander kept getting the accounts mixed up.  A catalogue of errors by the banking firm led to Victoria being shut out of her ISA because it had been transferred to her sister’s account. Statements were wrong and often sent to the wrong person, and staff seemed to be unable to understand or be willing to use commonsense.  Amid a tide of complaints against them, a Santander spokesperson said the problem had been investigated and as a gesture of goodwill they sent £50.

Santander lost Isa for 60 days — Marjorie Adderly applied to transfer her £28,000 Isa to M&S Money, but they never received it from Santander.  She phoned them repeatedly and was fobbed off by staff, and this lasted 60 days.  Santander because of pressure gave Marjorie £50 for the inconvenience they had caused.Heather Ward’s savings just vanished at Santander, after transferring cash from her Isa. When she looked at her account later she found no mention of the account — it had disappeared.  SAhe wrote and phoned Santander to no avail, deaf ears prevailed

Mark and Penny Norman are deeply annoyed with the service they get at Santander. Their problems started when they tried to transfer their Isa to Yorkshire BS. Penny from Ipswich said she has moved all her savings from Santander because of the awful service, She was promised action and call backs, but no one did and the problem just went round in circles. When it was eventually sorted out, all Santander could say was ‘ sorry ‘

Roger Pipe of Essex tried to transfer £5,100 from an account to his Santander cash Isa, but the money disappeared for six weeks even though it had been taken from his other account.

Norman Payne transferred his money from Giro Bank to SANTANDER in the hope he had chosen the right bank, but alas, what a mistake to make!  he suddenly had two account numbers and sort codes for one account? and demands for all sorts after Santander failed to pay most of his direct debits.

John Gorrod mailed Santander £5,100 to open an ISA account, but they lost his application. He then had to do all the running about because of their mess. It took ages and he lost out in the end.

Sue Anderson had a joint account with her sister in Santander.  All they asked, and wished they hadn’t six months later, for an address change on the account.  It went onto involve letters and phone calls, being put on hold and generally being messed about by staff who couldn’t care less.

Steve Boyle had an account with Santander, he switched his Alliance and Leicester account to Santander and when he applied for a credit card — it was rejected because Santander had the incorrect details on file.

One couple, Reuben and Val Goldthorpe found £5,100 in their Santander account which was not theirs.  It took them more than two months to remove the money after many phone calls. They even had trouble with the taxman over it and it took over three months for the bungling bank to write a letter of explanation which they had to send to the local tax office. They later switched their account to another bank.

Ricky Kasabi closed his account with Santander after they showed not the slightest commonsense over a credit card security question.  Instead they froze his account when his he quoted eight, which he took from his house number in North London.  Things got so bad that he had to visit his local branch with his passport and found out a computer glitch at put an ‘0’ in front of the 8, and he had no idea about that. As soon as it was cleared up he closed the account right there and then.

Helen Taylor of Huddersfield became another victim of Santander…..she reported a fraud to them, and that one single fraud transaction made a mess of her account….and the matter was not resolved for two years.  Her credit rating was affected, she opened a new account, but still the problem existed.   No matter what she did the thing grew to epic proportions….until they finally owned up to having caused the ‘mistake’ themselves, and they sent her a payment of £495 compensation!

SANTANDER STILL TOP THE LIST FOR THE WORST BANKS — It has a record number of complaints mainly to do with customer service, poor and quite often — disastrous advice according to a new report. A quarter of a million people were caught in dispute with the company over overdraft charges. In just six months there were 1.4million complaints. LLOYDS and THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND receive 3,600 complaints a day between them, which is lower than 11,000 a day that SANTANDER get. The report slammed the top six banks saying they hardly ever apologised for their errors and most of the time ignored customer complaints. BARCLAYS received 259,717 complaints about their poor customer service. The Financial Ombudsman Service is being overwhelmed by the size of their mailbag requiring them to investigate complaints.

SANTANDER CUSTOMER ACCOUNT SECURITY FAILURE — A report has revealed that this banking giant has sent 35,000 bank statements to the wrong addresses.  The statements contained not only account details but personal account numbers and details. Santander are stated to be playing down the claim of it giving data useful to any criminal element. The banking giant could now face hefty fines from the banks watchdog the FSA..

FSA FINE INSURER ZURICH AFTER IT LOST PERSONAL DATA OF CUSTOMERS – THEY WERE FINED £2.28 MILLION.

FSA FINE NATIONWIDE FOR DATA OFFENCES CONCERNING POLICYHOLDERS — THEY WERE FINED £980,000.

FSA FINE NORWICH UNION FOR DATA OFFENCES CONCERNING LOST DATA — THEY WERE FINED £1.28 MILLION.

SANTANDER fail yet another customer with poor service — Dartford customer Ms R.B. attempted to withdraw £250 from the Santander cash machine in Bluewater, Kent. The machine paid no money out. A Santander advisor told them to wait by the machine and sent out another employee to look into things outside with the customer. They retrieved the bank card telling the customer the machine was at fault and that no money had been withdrawn from the account.  The customer later tried another machine and the money was refused saying that a sum of £250 had already been paid saying they had exceeded the daily limit. 

SANTANDER REFUSE HELP OVER MYSTERIOUS TRANSACTION — a transaction that was not made by their customer.  Paul Saunders and his wife in Caerphilly, South Wales have been trying for two years to get back £540 from Santander after the sum was withdrawn from his account in three separate transactions by someone else….but Santander says it will not compensate them for the missing money!

SANTANDER INVESTIGATION DROPPED BY JUDGE WHO FACES COURT ACTION — Judge Baltasar Garzon. one of Spain’s top judges is currently facing charges of overstepping his authority and misconduct in that he ruled that an investigation into Santander’s boss should be dropped. He is also said to have illegally authorised police to record conversations between lawyers and clients. If he is convicted he could be suspended from the legal profession for 20 years.

SANTANDER MAKE £25,000 DISAPPEAR FROM OLD CLIENT ACCOUNT — Customer Linda, who banked with the Halifax in the 1990’s left the sum of £25,000 in her account for a ‘rainy day’….so in a deposit account this money stayed for over ten years.  Linda and her husband had an idea for the house and decided the money would now be needed.  She decided to withdraw the money and took her paying in book to get it from Santander who took over the Halifax.  It wasn’t there! the money had vanished…..they pathetically claimed she’d probably taken it, but the book has to be used, and there id no stamped withdrawal……she took the case to the banking Ombudsman who amazingly came down on the side of the bank!…….so effectively, they have stolen her money!

ANOTHER CASE OF VANISHING MONEY — SANTANDER made £8,000 disappear from Valentine Brown’s Savings Account, and wouldn’t pay him back.  They actually had the cheek to say that he was either mistaken or couldn’t remember withdrawing the money.  But he didn’t do either, and the bank actually closed the account without notifying him.  Sadly for Mr Brown, even the Financial Ombudsman backed Santander despite making the comments that the evidence provided by Santander was incomplete using words like ‘indicates’ which is mere conjecture.  There was no record of a withdrawal in his bank book….but Santander said old accounts where the money was not being put in at intervals often showed no action, and besides that they destroyed paperwork after six years.  Two more cases, John, had £1356 in his account and Santander refused to pay up saying it was closed and he must have taken it.  Avril had £1700 plus, and again she lost it with the Ombudsman backing the bank on the ‘probability’ that she had taken it.    Santander achieved the status of being in the lowest in thirty worst banks voted by the customer.

Santander had 85 complaints regarding vanishing money via deposit accounts, and only 4 complainants got their money back.

Although this next item wasn’t Santander but another bank — read on — One local bank made a pensioner’s account containing £97,000 disappear…… saying that the elderly lady had withdrawn the cash and closed the account.  They continued to fob off and obstruct the claim…..virtually calling the customer a liar.  Eventually the lady got help and representation arrived at the bank.  They still refused to accept that they were liable for the money and refused to pay it back.  The Representation threatened to bring in the police….and hey presto, after a while they ‘miraculously’ recovered the old account, saying there had been an IT error?

‘ Credit Card Customers are being charged by sneak fees and charges ‘

SANTANDER charge customers a £10 fee for non use of their cards the report says, and only mention this in the very small print that many people cannot read or even notice. The report revealed that these firms offering the cards were continually trying to profit in a sneaky way, other firms mentioned are – DEBENHAMS – HOUSE OF FRASER – TOPSHOP – LAURA ASHLEY – DOROTHY PERKINS – and the Amex platinum cashback card.

SANTANDER CHIEF EXECUTIVE RESIGNS — A Legal Dispute has forced Santander’s Chief Executive Alfredo Saenz to quit his position as the Head of the Eurozone’s largest Bank….following a lengthy and damaging legal dispute since he was convicted of making false accusations against debtors while he was in charge of the Banesto Bank in 2003 before it was taken over by Santander.  It was reported that he received a suspended prison sentence in 2009 (but was later pardoned by the former Spanish Prime Minister).  The pardon has now been overturned by Spain’s Supreme Court who are to reinstate the conviction, which has now compromised his current position.

SANTANDER IN ‘ADVICE’ FINED £12 MILLION — Santander were fined £12 million, its UK Bank was fined by the City Regulator, The Financial Conduct Authority.  This was over its Retail Investment Advice, the Regulator said there were ‘serious failings in the way it offered financial advice’ with customers….and has ordered them to contact all affected customers, and where necessary, pay them compensation.

BANKS SAY NOTHING ABOUT HOW EASY THEY MAKE YOUR MONEY VULNERABLE TO THEFT ON THE INTERNET — A report says millions of customers are at risk because of three major banks. The report highlights the fact that accounts are plundered by online fraudsters who have no problems in lifting cash from many bank accounts deemed to be safe by the banks.  The banks named are the HALIFAX, LLOYDS and RBS

‘ Customers to pay for bank errors at the Clydesdale ‘

CLYDESDALE BANK ALONG WITH THE YORKSHIRE BANK were reported to have made errors and mistakes for years in regard to client mortgage payments  — now they want these customers to pay for the bank’s errors, because mistakes happened that were not picked up when the mortgage arrangements were entered into with the customer — report July 2010.

‘ National Westminster Bank told staff to deceive clients ‘

In 2001 a memo revealed that Nat West Bank management told staff throughout their many branches to con clients into keeping their savings in low interest accounts.  Staff were told they could earn bigger and better bonuses by urging customers to purchase poorer products rather than get a good return on their investments.  The internal memo said the best accounts E-Savings and Savings Direct should not be offered, except as a defensive measure to appease a customer if it looked like they would cancel their account.  The Rip-Off as described by Mike McAteer of the Consumers Association is unacceptable and shoddy behaviour — this came at a time when the four major banks made £20 billion in profits amid falling returns for savers.

NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK MISLEAD THE PUBLIC — A watchdog report banned a television advert that told customers they were open on Saturdays. The lie was uncovered when it was revealed that only 43 per cent of the branches were open out of 1500 leaving 877 still closed. The Advertising Standards Authority said it was totally misleading to the 7.5 million customers, and was a disgrace.

NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK BLAME COMPUTER FOR OWN FAILURES — June 2012, A crisis at Nat West Banking led to millions of customers being unable to access their accounts because the computer system locked them out.  This screwed up customers bank accounts despite previous adverts on TV extolling the virtues of safe, secure and reliable banking were promised and assured to all Nat West Customers. It is said the ‘glitch’ also affected RBS of Scotland, but this did nothing for the angry customers whose standing orders and bills were not being paid on time.  ‘Weak apologies were being given by the bank’ and information being given out was ‘vague’ and unconvincing. They said things like ‘ the issues have been addressed but we are still working on it?’ which indicates this statement was issued to allow time. As to the thoughts of compensation? they are not offering a penny towards people’s inconvenience of being compromised with late payment fines which in many cases is triggered immediately one defaults by reason of date.  Apologies are worth NOTHING!

NATWEST IT PROBLEM — caused a man to be held in prison over a weekend because his bail payment could not be honoured — This man has just cause to sue Nat West and the judiciary for ‘unwarranted detention’ or ‘unlawful imprisonment (due to the fact they were aware of the Nat West Bank problems).

NAT WEST BANK BULLIES DEBTORS — The National Westminster Bank which was bailed out by the taxpayers was found guilty of using nasty tactics by the Office of Fair Trading.  They ordered RBS-Nat West to stop their bullying and harassment campaign to threaten people who were doing their best to cope with and pay off their debt to the bank.  The Watchdog said the bank had used the courts to get charging orders which transfer these debts to customers homes, already knowing that they gave assurances that the unsecured loans would not cause any client to lose their home…..yet they were actively engaged in this with an eye on snatching a share of the sale price…..and be in a position to apply to the courts to force a sale.   

NAT WEST BANK AND THE MISSING MONEY — A Customer’s Money!  Ray Francis (who was a retired bank manager in fact) had two Isa’s and dealt with Northern Rock — he decided after cashing them £16,000 that he would transfer to The National Westminster Bank.  All seemed well and he was assured by Northern Rock that they had sent the cheques to Nat West.  When he checked his account with Nat West the money was not there, and the bank said it was not their fault, and in a carefree couldn’t care less fashion, they said he ought to chase Northern Rock.  After giving him this cold shoulder treatment he took things further, and eventually Nat West owned up that the cheques had gone missing in their system.  His account was reinstated with the £16,000 and they sent him a ‘Good will Gesture’ of £790.

NB: as one observer noted — this in stark contrast to the generosity of the public who bailed them out to the tune of £45 billion.

‘ CORRUPT BANKS IGNORE THE LAW ‘

BARCLAYS, WESTMINSTER, LLOYDS AND OTHERS are actively writing their own conditions and calling it LAW.  The F.S.A. a regulating authority have stated that payment should be immediately paid when credit cards are stolen and used — but the banks claim they cannot release funds to cover this because of fraud investigations  — what about banks defrauding customers?  — nothing much said about that  — or laws eager to tackle the banks.  The so-called Financial Ombudsman is in many ways — USELESS, and customers are expected to accept this without question   — when in fact — without the customers the banks would not exist.  One case cited concerned a woman customer of BARCLAYS who had her credit card stolen and used.  The thief was caught and convicted, BARCLAYS  still did not pay compensation despite this proving that the woman had no blame in the incident or behaved responsibly.  BARCLAYS if you remember was involved in South African arms deals and money laundering to support these awful causes (that Britain at one time deplored — but secretly assisted).

BANK COMPLAINTS STILL HIGH — THE THREE TOP OF THE LIST ARE — BARCLAYS,  LLOYDS TSB and SANTANDER — 1300 a day against Barclays, around 1200 for LLoyds and just under that for Santander.

‘ £62 billion ‘ Secret Loans’ by the Bank Of England exposed ‘

DECEPTION YET AGAIN, — Criminal Law has a section under ‘ Deception’ but Solicitors, Barristers and Crown Agents including Civil Servants are conveniently immune from prosecution under the Deception requirements and that shows that lies and double standards were catered for when they were finally made Law — but, all Laws are passed by Parliament — by Lawyers and Politicians — so what else can be expected when they have a self-written pass to corruption.  A year ago in October 2008, before the bank bubble broke revealing ‘ toxic loans’ the Bank of England secretly loaned The Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS and Lloyd TSB ( and others) a staggering £62 billion and shareholders at Lloyds were not told a thing.  Transparency and Public Accountability was voiced and promised by the Government when the next amount to bail out the banks followed — yet they still indulged in secrecy and continue to do so in the light of this secret being revealed.  This clearly shows that no amount of denials can cover the fact that the government lies and hides the truth when convenient.

‘ Ombudsman reveals that Banks are yet again breaking the rules ‘

Despite the articles we feature here about bank corruption, they continue to flout the rules while standing firm on how good they are and what changes they have done.  The Ombudsman recently came out and said they are still failing to handle the payment protection insurance and that their claims that complaints are reducing are in fact — a lie.  Complaints are up a staggering 45 per cent on last year and the banks are blatantly claiming their prediction of complaints falling is on target.  Two million people have been miss- sold payment protection insurance leaving consumers out of pocket.  High Street brokers SWINTON were FINED £770,000 for its part in miss-selling and was ordered to refund £7.8million in premiums to around half a million customers.

‘ Banks dismiss 300,00 complaints and flout the warnings ‘

YES, THEY ARE AT IT AGAIN, MAKING THEMSELVES THE LAW — mis-sold payment insurance, denied refunds totalling thousands of pounds for rip-off protection insurance is still going on because of bank greed and staff who have been told to reject complaints.  The FSA have found that this attitude by the banks is forcing too many into having to take up their cases with the Ombudsman.  From our articles, and there are many, the banks could not care less about warnings as they are clearly beyond the law and have no desire to adhere to it.  There is an amazing 1000 complaints a week, many of these being ignored, deliberately misled and others being railroaded by the banks.  We have a week government who worship money, and the banks are untouchable because of this despite the fact that it isn’t really their money.  People deposit money into banks, investors put money into banks and finally — the taxpayer props up banks, but this has no sway whatsoever when you have bank corruption on such a large scale.

‘ WHICH magazine slams LLoyds and Santander for poor service ‘

THE LATEST SURVEY ON BANK PERFORMANCE BY WHICH reveals that LLoyds and Santander are in the bottom three of the poorest performing banks in relation to customer service and good value.  The survey suggests they go back to the drawing board in regard of training, as staff do not meet up to the needs of customers and flagrantly flout all the rules in order to protect the bank’s interests rather than the customers who actually put cash in to them.  Time and time again we have highlighted and featured these banks and their fiddles, but nothing gets changed, not even the boring rhetoric from the banks spokesperson who regularly spouts rubbish about how well they are addressing the problems when in fact they haven’t a clue.

‘ Secrecy in Bank Investigations rules yet again ‘

It came to light on a channel 4 news item that the FSO who were conducting an inquiry into the bankers over the financial mess they spawned, and their huge bonuses, are being shielded from the public by a gagging order which has not been challenged by this ‘ transparent and clean ‘ government. A secrecy now exists with the findings, a secrecy the last government were keen to tell us would no longer exist and a freedom of information that looks as fake as the government does. Remember Accountability, well we said earlier that you will not get it from any government that perpetuates secrecy and corruption, and here they are again allowing big bankers bonuses and very little if none — truth or accountability.

‘ The Greatest Banking Swindle of all time ‘

THIS GOVERNMENT AND THE BANKING FRATERNITY OF THE UK PULLED OFF THE SWINDLE OF A LIFETIME, yes indeed, the rich got richer and the poor have been conned and used to scrimp and save to fund the lifestyles of banking investors, the rich, and the privileged. When one looks at the so-called bank collapse, no-one in the banking industry were that worried or showed the least signs of being troubled. They knew and counted on a rescue because it had to be and they were dictating the terms, and always have, and will. Even now while the country forks out to prop up the system, they yet again help themselves to the billions of bonus money and dare anyone to stop them.  These elite were always there, plundering the wealth of others and paying themselves well over the odds to secure power for those that they really served. Not ‘ Joe Bloggs ‘ but the powerful, authority, politicians and business moguls, some of those that still get up to insider dealing, fraud so huge, that to discover it would only hurt those investigating. That’s business, banking on getting very rich and never losing no matter how the dice are tossed.

‘ Banks to pay more big bonuses in 2011 ‘

THESE UNTOUCHABLES ARE YET AGAIN PAYING BIG BONUSES – Despite the new Lib-Con government and its promises of a shake-up in the banks, bankers are set to receive more super big bonuses. JP MORGAN CHASE have defied this government with ease and self assurance — they intend to lift the bonuses pot by 4 per cent to neatly nine billion dollars. The Investment Bank pays no heed to world cries. MORGAN CHASE said they had spent £17.7billion worldwide on pay and bonuses. David Hillman spokesman for The Robin Hood Tax Campaign is calling for a global tax on these banks saying ‘ if they can afford to pay more to staff then they should pay more in taxes ‘ Figures released show that an average London Banker earned around £150,000 a year.

‘ Disgraced Bank Chiefs make legal bid to gag public from information ‘

TWO MAJOR BANK FIGURES who were involved in the banking crash have launched a legal battle with the Watchdog Committee to have information censored in order to prevent the public from knowing what happened. Sir Fred Goodwin and Peter Cummings former senior executives clashed with the Regulator and contacted lawyers to suppress and silence the coming FSA report, which has already been delayed by the banks. They are fighting to avoid details being placed in the public domain, this flies in the face of accountability and supposed transparency and the taxpayers bail out to these firms to the sum of £65billion. It also shows the bigger you are the more you can get away with it. —- Power does breed corruption.

‘ Banks revel in Deceit ‘

Yet again the shame returns to banking and the low standards they achieve — WHICH  reported on the complex overdraft charges that banking lawyers have invented for their masters to fleece and extort out of customers who find the system very difficult to understand. Accusations that this is deliberate is now believed as the banks extort the maximum capital from those who unwittingly borrow too much.

‘The Holidaymakers ripped-off by Banks ‘

It doesn’t seem to change no matter how many items we publish on the banking system, they neither atone or care, so we will just carry on like them….. and what next? ”’ Yes, they are now exploiting and extorting yet more cash from the public, the holiday maker and the exchange rates. A report says they are making £millions on exorbitant fees on debit cards.  It says holidaymakers are being charged well over two pounds to withdraw twenty euros which is around sixteen pounds at an ATM. The report says that these fees are not up front and more often than not put into small print hidden by the forest of other jargon.

‘Banks Accused of Serious Misconduct ‘

THE FSA has strongly criticised THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND saying that they will be subject of hefty fines for serious misconduct. The FSA said there had been a reckless culture where staff were to focus on signing up more borrowers to raise revenue while playing down the risks.

HBOS BANK IGNORES THE RISKS – HBOS was found guilty of serious misconduct by the FSA who said there was a ‘collective denial’ in the bank over the banking crisis. The FSA said there had been ‘severe’ failings and that the bank had only just escaped a substantial financial penalty.

‘ Standard Chartered Bank pay over £300 million to US to make the problem disappear ‘  AFTER DENIALS and a battle that has lost them millions in share prices, the Standard Chartered Bank finally owned up to having ‘done a little money-laundering’ by paying out multi millions to the New York Department of Financial Services, who branded the bank as a ‘rogue institution’ whose dealings with Iran plus the ‘denied’ claims it hid transactions of £160 billion from the Regulators crossing Britain to the USA. The bank said they were settling the matter to bring a close to the revelations that have been released and anymore that might have been.    Interestingly like others caught in the cash till, they say it was all to do with ‘administrative errors’

‘ Banks in push to cease ‘free banking’ after their own criminal scandal ‘

Actually, there are no ‘free banking deals’ — research shows that banks are already charging in other ways by subterfuge and covert activities fuelled by their greed to elicit payments in any way they can by means fair or foul. The fact that banks can get away with engaging in criminal deceit and fraud is now firmly established as the Judiciary shy away from taking proper action because the government thinks this is unwise!  The LIBOR SCAM has taken no prisoners in the UK Banks, quite the opposite really…but what is now emerging is their new requests for ‘all bank accounts to be charged for’ despite fleecing the customer by way of being bailed out for millions by the taxpayer, paying themselves huge bonuses and sticking two fingers up at the public. Extortion is an ugly word, once having legal properties…but for banks it is a byword and practise they may pursue without interference….that is the power of banks today. Mike O’Connor of the watchdog Focus said ‘ customers are already facing indirect costs, poor service and customer care along with immoral sales techniques and this moves adds more to that — yet it is the people and customers supporting this institution that has no qualms about inflicting it’s perverse regulations and demands on them with as little accountability as possible.’

WHICH MAGAZINE have revealed that some ‘overdraft’ customers are being charged up to £900 a year — and others are paying penalty charges of £20 plus for late payments – penalties incurred by Mail Deliveries and transfers being held-up between accounts — the banks do not feel obliged to overlook this, yet pay nothing in compensation for their own errors unless forced to do so by the Ombudsman — and even then, they take their time knowing it annoys the aggrieved customer.

‘UBS Bank fined over Fraud ‘

THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY FINE UBS BANK £29.7MILLION OVER ADOBOLI FRAUD – for failing to stop rogue trader Kweku Adoboli who was recently jailed.  The fine was based on fifteen per cent of the bank’s annual revenue.

‘ RBS Face Criminal Charges in Libor Case ‘

THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND are facing criminal charges in the USA over the Libor Price-Fixing Scandal. US Attorneys say that its traders fixed the interest rates in order to deceive investors.  They say a fine  in the region of £500million must be considered over the wrong-doing at the bank (as it was with Barclays which paid £290m), the bank watchdog says pleading to criminal charges could expose the bank to huge civil actions in the American courts.

RBS IS FINED £390 MILLION FOR ITS ROLE IN LIBOR PRICE FIXING SCANDAL. (FEB 2013)

‘ RBS to be investigated by police ‘

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND — are to be investigated for wrong-doing after an FSO Inquiry.  The FSO was examining the Bank’s behaviour after being alerted to a Civil Case against RBS  which concerned a former client who had his assets seized by the bank.  This uncovered ‘serious allegations’ that the bank were defrauding companies and forcing some to close.  The businessman presented the City of London Police with a dossier supporting his civil action.

FORMER GOVERNMENT ADVISOR SAYS RBS GAVE MISLEADING EVIDENCE — Lawrence Tomlinson a pillar of the financial institutions says RBS executives are making a mockery of the system.  Lawrence was for a time a chosen one, and was with Vince Cable’s Department for Business Innovation and Skills.  It is reported that he ignited a storm of controversy RBS’s Global Restructuring Group which led to a series of investigations.  City Law Firm CLIFFORD CHANCE ‘said they found no evidence to support the claims’.  The Bank of England Deputy Governor criticised the RBS but said it was beyond the scope of his remit, and couldn’t involve himself.  However, despite two executives going before the Treasury Committee and making denials of any wrongdoing, they were forced to issue an apology to the Committee for misleading evidence they had backed and supported at the Interview.

RBS AND MIS-SELLING TO FAILING FIRMS — Lending to firms in trouble did not stop RBS from granting such loans because they were actively mis-selling and knew about it.  Some 1,800 loans are being scrutinized as RBS admit to selling loans to firms in distress.  The bank’s troubles are still ongoing as they try to steer clear of the public.  Lending to small businesses under The Government Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme has revealed that borrowers through the scheme are still liable to repay the entire cost, which may have not been explained to them when they took the loan.  Under the Enterprise scheme the government underwrites (takes responsibility) 75 percent of the loans that are offered to businesses unable to secure lending.

‘ Banks rely on ‘small print’ to confuse and deceive clients ‘

A new 2012 Report says there are 30,000 words in a current account agreement that baffle customers, let alone help them. which they certainly do not.  It says it takes up to 90 minutes to actually get through the jargon and implied terms, actual terms, liabilities, and terms that cancel out what was seemingly straightforward, which enables the banks to deny any liability when anything goes wrong, which it frequently does.  It says they conceal rules on penalty charges and use jargon to take away rights and hold ultimate power of being able to change anything without giving notice…..words such as ‘assign, transfer, obligations, unlimited time, refer, subject to, conditional, pass on and period of, etc, are used frequently….meaning very little to the ones who can actually read the small print….others simply hope that it is fair.

‘ Banks are receiving over 11,000 PPI complaints and claims each week ‘

THE COSTS ARE SET TO BE IN THE BILLIONS OF COMPENSATION — The mis-selling scandal has not shown any signs of decrease as the claims are arriving at around 11,000 every week.  The Ombudsman has had to take on more staff to cope with the deluge of calls….they received 145,546 complaints about PPI in just three months, and had to employ a thousand new and extra staff.  Banks are being forced to set aside something in the region of £11 billion at the present time, and this is seen as inadequate already.  RBS added a further £400million to its expected payout, LLoyds announced an additional £1 billion  to its sum bringing it to £5.3 billion, Barclays said it needed to find another £700 million on top of its agreed £1 billion.

BANKS TO BE GIVEN ‘FREE  PASS CARD’ ON PPI SETTLEMENTS:  A recent report has revealed that banks are going to be allowed to renege or throw out the biggest claims against them….and this has been given the go-ahead by THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY. 

‘ Banks omit information on hidden bill to taxpayer — £12.4 Billion ‘

AS USUAL the banking Industry kept fairly quiet about the £12.4 billion when the Labour Government overpaid on shares in the banks back in 2008……..the money was written off and hidden away in the budget of 2010.  It now seems that Treasury Officials have exposed this debt — as Lloyds is about to offload the taxpayers stake…..this debt was caused by Gordon Brown’s Government because they pumped £66 billion of public money to bail out two banks and paid over-the-odds as per the real market value — and said nothing about the secret write-off.

BANKS CAUSE ANGER AS CUSTOMER’S CARDS ARE DECLINED —  Customers were fuming when they found they were unable to draw their money out at cash machines.  Customers of Halifax, LLoyds, TSB and Bank of Scotland…..all more or less under the Lloyds Banking Group….could not access their accounts for several days.  It was blamed on a Server error…..and technicians were called in to fix the problems.

‘ Norwich and Peterborough Building Society are fined ‘

FINED £1.4 MILLION, NORWICH AND PETERBOROUGH BUILDING SOCIETY HAVE TO REPAY £51MILLION to thousands of pensioners and other savers they lured into investing in risky schemes. The FSA said a company called Keydata went bust in 2009 and around 40,000 investors lost their investments including 3,200 ill advised Norwich and Peterborough customers. The FSA said each customer will get around £15,000 each.

‘ Halifax Bank of Scotland pays harassment victim of phone calls £7,500 ‘

BULLYING that was the decision made against the Halifax Bank of Scotland, and much of this was levelled at the staff who work for this bank,  Armanda Roberts was awarded £7,500 for harassment after receiving 550 phone calls from staff at the bank ‘which shocked the court on hearing the recorded messages’  This all came about because she missed a single payment on a loan.  This bank branch is situated in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, for those interested to pinpoint the culprits of the vendetta against the customer.  The court heard how thoroughly and upsetting these calls were, and how they pervaded into her private life from 8 am to 9 pm for days.  This wasn’t all this bank did — they blocked her account and staff refused to sort it out.  It was quite obvious that the bank thought she had no proof when they sent a team of expensive lawyers to ‘crush’ her……but luckily she had recorded every call…..it was also heard in court that the calls continued after she had paid the arrears?…..and furthermore, at the end of the case after losing, the bank spent £30,000 on an appeal, which thankfully, they lost at the London Appeals Court.

‘  Eight Banks in ‘foreign rate-fixing’ investigation ‘

EIGHT BANKS are to be investigated by the Watchdog in relation to suspected foreign rate-fixing…. this includes BARCLAYS and THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND.  WEKO the Regulator are looking into collusion and the collaboration between these banks to manipulate exchange rates in foreign currency trading.  More than a dozen regulators throughout the world are looking into this practice…. the UBS suspended up to six traders bringing the current number of suspensions to 30 so far.  The FCA said they will be looking into this more widely!

CURRENCY FIX AND BANKS –six   of the banks investigated are said to be facing a £2billion fine for rigging the currency market.

‘ Bank of America – Merrill Lynch International fined  £13.3 million ‘

LONDON – US BANK BROKERS MERRILL LYNCH found themselves being fined £13.3million by The Financial Conduct Authority for inaccurate reporting.  It was said that the firm had been given a prior warning in 2002 and fined £150,000 for the same offence in 2006.  Now 2015, the Authority found that the company was engaging in transaction reporting failings of a high nature and volume.  A spokesperson said ‘it seems the company has not learned at all from the fine it paid before.’

‘ Investigation into the Credit Card Industry by Watchdog ‘

Trouble on the Credit Card front as the Financial Conduct Authority moves in to investigate the credit card giants who it is said are being market too aggressively.  It was revealed that there was around 30 million card holders who have an outstanding debt of around £56.9 billion.  The regular complaint is that the card companies are pushing customers into running up debts they cannot afford, and some who cannot repay them.

‘ THE EQUITABLE LIFE INSURANCE SCANDAL OF 2008 ‘

This scandal involved the Government no less.  People who provided for their pensions with the company were told lies — in that it was a safe company — one the Government backed.  The Treasury said they could not pay out anything despite the collapse, and were waiting for the findings of the Ombudsman.  Any payout in the long distant future IF OF COURSE A PAYOUT IS MADE, will be too late for many, thus avoiding any payout to them.  It is of course ‘ a conspiracy to defraud pensioners’ and no one will be held accountable.

£1.5billion has been offered by the government in compensation — just a third of the £4.5billion needed. The blame is constantly on the regulators — people highly paid to get it right and keep an eye on the company, but they just walked away from the problem leaving many with huge losses and reduced pensions. Government spokespersons say it’s a fair offer especially as they mention what the country can afford at the moment. But this does not excuse the fact that this company was heralded as safe by government. the present government want closure — but no-one will be brought to face a trial over this as expected.

‘ AVIVA ACCUSED OF LIES IN PENSION TV ADVERTS ‘

WHICH MAGAZINE openly attacked AVIVA saying they were misleading savers in their high profile TV ad campaign. Which says their claim offering pension incomes 20 percent higher than others in 22 per cent of cases was inaccurate. The real figure was 3 per cent of cases, and the Advertising Standards Authority have banned the advert because Aviva had not produced the evidence to back up their claims.

Beware of the clauses that don’t seem relevant because you may not get paid out if you make a claim on your life insurance having discovered you have cancer just before the end of the insurance policy…..one man found this and because it was in the last eighteen months…..Aviva refused to pay out…..and that clause situation covered them.

‘ THE AIRWAYS PRICE-FIXING SCANDAL ‘

THIS INVOLVED BRITISH AIRWAYS AND VIRGIN AIRWAYS.  This centred around fixing surcharges on fuel.  Board Room Executives Ian Burns and Martin George both executives with British Airways came in for the severest criticism.  The United States Justice Department revealed that VIRGIN AIRWAYS  colluded six times with BRITISH AIRWAYS, and had it not been for the fact they helped in exposing the matter they would not have received immunity under the Enterprise Act.  The United States fined BRITISH AIRWAYS the sum of £270 million for price-fixing.

‘ ASDA SUPERMARKET GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL KILLING ‘

After months of wrangling ASDA were found guilty of negligence regarding their barriers in parking facilities on their premises.  A customer’s death came about when a barrier suddenly sprang or fell and hit the vehicle killing the driver.  Their Trade Lawyer tried to pass off the incident as a mistake, yet made no comment about their responsibility for the death caused by their barrier.

ASDA have not paid any compensation in regard to the above and nor have they been fined despite being found guilty of negligence (we scoured the Net and put in a Freedom of Information Request to no avail)

The same company were accused of ‘ price-fixing’ on their videos and using the discount to mean what they liked at the time.

‘ ASDA MAKE ADDITIONAL PROFITS BY CONFUSING THE CUSTOMERS ‘

ASDA SUPERMARKETS keep running promotional and end of the line bargains enticing customers to get items with good reductions.  Some items have clear red labels and are in rows where the price can clearly be seen, but this is often a nonsense.  Staff mark up the items at a previously higher price and claim that it has come out as showing it on the till pc.  It appears they do not actually know what is going on themselves, but they continue to charge the customer the higher price despite the markdown on the items which is against the sale of goods and Trade Descriptions.  Clearly a case of ripping off the customer yet again.

‘ ASDA OFFER WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE  –Asda annoyed many customers when they offered a deal of giving a voucher worth £75 to reduce bills.  This online offer was a weekend thing, and many people logged on to benefit from it.  However, before the 5000 plus customers had their deliveries, ASDA bosses pulled the offer.  They blamed it on a mix up causing many of the people who made large orders in order to benefit from the voucher pay full price and lose out.

‘ ASDA IN OVERCHARGING SCANDAL – Asda Supermarkets have been exposed by BBC’s Watchdog over hiking up bills of customers – some as much as £100 over the actual bill. Hundreds of customers contacted Watchdog to complain about the callous way they were dealt with by staff when they queried the bills. Blame again! was put on computer systems, but angry customers pointed at inexperienced and incompetent staff.

‘ASDA CHEAT ON ‘ROLL-BACK’ PRICES — Asda makes continuous claims of giving value to the customer, but this is a misleading claim — as it now appears that many items on the ‘roll-back’ have been compared to one year previously — the rule is supposed to refer to the previous price, but Adsa have acted deviously with slight-of-hand intentions to deceive its customers and have in fact, been breaking the Consumer Protection Laws, and doing it furtively.  It was urged by a spokesperson for the consumer watchdog that Trading Standards should prosecute them.

ASDA – A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES — It is a fact in the 21st Century that Big Business can literally write their own rules and codes of conduct; the latter not being worth the paper it is printed on!  Management of course does not take any responsibility for indiscretions by staff — and they are monumental and many, but you will not find these written anywhere…they are concealed and kept under wraps. We can confirm that such reports are ‘confidential’ according to memos leaked to us. Staff with convictions are quietly withdrawn and are made aware of ‘the company policy’ and those caught removing ‘perks’ – goods from the company warehouse whether after date or otherwise are not prosecuted — they are removed from the premises or dismissed very quietly without fuss.  Asda claim the right to ‘discipline’ misbehaviour as they see fit without any recourse to Law, yet they go against this with their public stand of ‘shoplifters will be prosecuted’ — indicating their twisted concept of Law.

‘ Tesco accused of dirty tricks ‘

THE GIANT SUPERMARKET CHAIN TESCO found itself in serious trouble over using financial muscle and dirty tricks to push through its plans to build new big stores. Even opposition seems to be ignored and actually stepped over in many cases where complaints outweigh their proposals the report says. There were allegations that the company bought a shopping precinct through a ‘fronting’ company, and allowed it to become derelict. This allowed them to use the poor state of the shopping centre in Linwood to win council backing for a massive new Tesco complex, sidestepping opposition more easily.

TESCO was also involved in what was termed on the BBC Watchdog programme – conducting a fraud and lie in relation to ‘ Better Value Packs’. A survey showed that bigger packs actually cost more than if you bought two individual packs that contained just as much as the big value pack, and this was apparent on a number of products. Asda did not fair well either as they indulged in the same trick.  Morrisons reduced? well that came out at being reduced quality, reduced honesty and the ‘reduced deals’ as being a nonsense.

TESCO Staff ignore good procedures of shopping to further management profits. Staff we are told do not exactly induce confidence in customers, and some act rude and antagonistic deliberately at several major big stores around the south. Reports of ignoring customers have been made, but laughed at by staff. One customer in the Portsmouth Region actually found themselves to be victimised by security when an alarm went off several times, which humiliated the customer — who left the store buying nothing, — well done that customer.

TESCO came into a wrangle of meat prices and identification as it was revealed that they were misleading customers because of their lack of knowledge, which did not seem to stop them breaching the Trades Description Law and getting away with it.

TESCO PAVE WAY FOR SUPERSTORE BY BUYING POLICE A NEW STATION — certainly looks like a bribe, feels like a bribe, but not an ordinary one — more subtle perhaps. A spokesman for the campaign group Tescopoly said ‘ this is another example of the Tesco takeover of towns by buying and influence to gain’  Labour MP Barry Sheerman said ‘ I cannot see the difference between this and a bribe ‘ ‘ If a dodgy bloke went to the council and said give me planning permission and I’ll make sure you get a nice new police station, it would be referred for investigation ‘

TESCO FINED £10MILLION by The Office Of Fair Trading for Price-fixing, along with eight other big firms such as ASDA. These companies were said to have been nudging prices up on the shelf and working in collusion to fool shoppers. Much of the evidence centred on dairy products such as milk and cheese.

TESCO IN UNDERHAND JOB OFFER ISSUE APOLOGY — Supermarket Giant Tesco have been rapped after it was discovered offering jobs seeking permanent staff for expenses and jobseekers allowance.  Tesco spokespersons said this was an error? although it appeared on a Jobcentre website.  As we have already shown, the use of the word ‘error’ is a massive cover-up for the truth.

TESCO RAPPED FOR SELLING TAP WATER IN BOTTLES LABELLED FALSELY — It has been established that Tesco have calmly deceived and breached the consumer regulation Trade Descriptions Act, but that has not been followed up on…instead they have labelled this act as ‘Immoral’ — yet another false description…. they called it filtered water and sold it for 17p a bottle (economy range- own label) –and were placed on the shelves alongside their ‘spring water’ display with an obvious intention to mislead the customer.  (ASDA have done this)

TESCO AND THE ILLEGAL WORKERS — Tesco faces massive fines over the employing of foreign students in one of its warehouses.  Border Agencies arrested 20 workers in a raid at Croydon over breaches of visa conditions. Tesco said they were cooperating with the investigation fully! TESCO IN ‘FALSE BARGAIN’ IDEOLOGY TO FOOL CUSTOMERS — Tesco have continually fed the public with mis-information about saving money for the customer…but customers recently pointed out that the bargain deals just didn’t add up.  One bargain pointed out was the chocolate muffins…often sold in four packs for £1 or £1-20…yet there exists a two pack of muffins £1 sometimes on the reduction counter marked down to 65p — even at that with less packaging it’s no bargain….they’ve simply upped the price before pretending to offer it as a savers deal…this also goes for the pack of apple turnovers that went for 98p up to £1.20p calling itself a saving?..and iced Belgian buns once in a two pack for just under a pound now being sold single at nearly 80 pence each…and reduced on special offer to 65p each….still claiming a save….but the maths show this to be yet another falsity

TESCO AND THE ‘TRADES DESCRIPTION’ ACT FRAUD — Sadly not just Tesco….News that Tesco advertises on its meat products as being 100 percent beef turned to disaster when it was discovered that many products contained horse meat….and no beef…….their value range on burgers and spaghetti bolognaise turned out to contain no beef whatsoever…..just horsemeat, but that wasn’t listed in the ingredients…..which makes a nonsense of this law entirely.

TESCO IS FINED £60,000 — Tesco had been warned at an earlier date about hygiene at some of its stores and had been warned by health Inspectors.  It appears they had an infestation of rodents ‘an extreme plague’ it was said which was enjoying the food at a Metro Store in Covent Garden….the strange thing about Tesco is that they neither care or have any real concern for their actions — whether it is ‘short-changing’ customers at the tills, the incorrect labelling and false bargains…..they repeat these things so often and use words like ‘ we didn’t know and it wasn’t meant to deceive’

TESCO SHAREHOLDERS SUE THE COMPANY — Because of a gaping £265 million black hole in the finances, Shareholders are now to sue the Management it is reported.  Millions was wiped off the share values in the £265 million profits black hole scandal.  Shareholders acting in a class action have allowed a firm specialising in funding legal actions to pay for the lawsuit against Tesco.  This accuse Tesco of misleading shareholders in statements about its true financial position.  The case is being brought by STEWARTS LAW who it is said is fighting RBS Bank on behalf of 800 major shareholders.

Update April 2015 — The action has been filed in the court………Tesco declined to comment on the case.

TESCO AND THE ACCOUNTING SCANDAL — TESCO found itself unable to shake off the revelations and bad press highlighting their dubious trading methods and deceit to the customer.  Reports say that the Government Grocery Watchdog is launching an investigation into Tesco’s abuse of suppliers.  At the same time the Serious Fraud Office and Financial Reporting Office are conducting a full scale inquiry into Tesco’s £268 million profit mis-statement.  The inquiry will also be looking into delayed payments to suppliers and whether it imposed unfair and  impossibly large fees on suppliers for prominent end-of-aisle positions, neither of which are allowed under the trading practices.

‘ Breaches of trading regulations — The big four shops do it regularly ‘

THE BIG FOUR – ASDA, TESCO, MORRISON’S and SAINSBURY’S have yet again been discovered as committing those acts of deceit with customers, especially in the weights and labelling of products.  The law has been criminally broken, but no-one at any other supermarkets will go to prison, why? because it is a corporate situation and fining is all there is. Every time, like so many others, that they are caught out it is conveniently called ‘an error or were not aware the ‘mistake’ had occurred’ never actually what it is like deliberate misleading and deceit.  One gets tired of the word ‘allegedly’ bandied about, and ‘thieves’ should be inserted where it is appropriate…..these corporate giants will continue to play around with the law for their own purposes using lawyers to interpret these deceitful moves as ‘not quite criminal not intended and cannot be seen as a deliberate attempt to flout the law, and oversight that will be rectified…..they will invent and come up with something.

‘ THE SCANDAL OF OFGEM AND THE GOVERNMENT ‘

OFGEM are a board set up to observe and make sure consumers get a good deal, but they don’t, and they are not willing to explain things either.  Accountability nil.  Taxpayers pay all the civil servants wages for working there, but they don’t do anything.  Millions is paid to this company and its building costs the taxpayers too.  All the workers should be fired along with the bosses — this would be a saving.  On the subject of prices and a fair deal for consumers the Government refused to account for this along with the retail prices commission leaving the public without an answer.  What you have here is arrogance and deceit on a huge scale, none of those mentioned cannot tell the truth and that is a scandal that should be investigated and those involved fined and sacked wherever possible.

OFGEM PAY OUT MILLIONS IN BONUSES TO STAFF despite being the watchdog for regulating prices and making sure that people are not ripped off on prices for energy.

‘ N-POWER refunds £70million to overcharged customers ‘

N-POWER one of the biggest energy suppliers in the UK, finally admitted to its mistakes and is about to pay out a record sum of £70 million to overcharged customers. The firm acknowledged that it left customers angry and disappointed with its service and billing.

‘ N-POWER is fined £2million ‘

OFGEM FINED N-POWER £2Million for mishandling customer complaints and had warned them previously over this kind of behaviour.  The German owned giant took too long to deal with complaints and was seen to be actively ignoring them in attempt to push the problem away.  They also misled customers about their rights to take the firm to the Ombudsman, and kept others in the dark when they could. N-Power offered lame excuses!

‘N-POWER is fined over ‘silent intrusive phone calls’

N-POWER IS FINED AGAIN OVER AUTOMATED ‘SILENT’ PHONE CALLS.  N-Power found themselves again in trouble with the Regulator over disturbing cold calls to people.  The telephone calls came from generated auto-calls created by pc’s……some thousands were just silent….others had recorded messages. The company was fined £60,000.  It had made 1,756 abandoned telephone calls and played marketing messages.  Ofcom were given assurances that N-Power would be compensating some of those affected by the intrusions.

‘ N-Power is hit with £3.5million penalty for mis-selling ‘

THE GIANT ENERGY COMPANY has been hit again over its commercial misconduct —  They broke the rules again when they attempted to persuade customers to switch suppliers over the phone…..Watchdog OFgem said that they were giving these callers misleading estimates on how much they could save by coming with N-Power when it wasn’t exactly true.  The Company was also found guilty of failing to properly explain when monthly direct debits would come under review, and when customers could expect to receive discounts.

‘ N-Power receives most complaints ‘

TOP OF THE PUBLIC’S LIST is N-POWER, the company that imposes the highest price rise of 10.4 per cent in Britain 2014 (Winter Period).  Complaints against the company from customers rose by 25 percent.  Consumer Focus said the results were very disappointing….. but N-Power blamed it on their new billing system!

‘Cold Call complaints go from 1,136 to 2,630 in 12 months ‘

THE COLD CALLING METHODS invented by Jobcentres and Industry in the Eighties were supposed to have been outlawed in the millennium….. but in 2012 they are said to have doubled.  Unwanted calls by marketing companies have ignored the Telephone Preference Service at times and gone ahead despite knowing that some numbers of people were not to be inconvenienced.  Ofcom say they will taker a tougher stand against companies if this trend increases.  Companies are using technology to ring lots of homes without having the staff to deal with its business….so when the person picks up the phone there is just silence…which can make or cause people to think they might be burgled or are being stalked or watched.  HomeServe was fined £750,000 for persistent calls to people.  Talk – Talk was another….and many complaints were about the mis-selling and Insurance calls where companies claimed you had a claim and they could handle it, when in fact you had no such claim, least with that company…and it turns out to be an annoying fishing expedition by agents to lawyers.

‘Cold-call scandal by energy giant EDF’

THE FRENCH OWNED Energy provider EDF were blasted by the Regulator for a con that involved door-to-door staff not being trained enough and didn’t give customers all the information needed before signing a contract. OFGEM said that vulnerable people were being ripped off by cold-call salesmen. Facing a mammoth fine, the French owned group who claim to have policies designed to prevent vulnerable people being cheated say they will pay a poultry £50 to each of the 70,000 customers taken advantage of.

OFGEM say they are investigating SCOTTISH POWER, SSE who used to be Scottish and Southern Energy, and the giant company N-POWER.

EDF  to pay  £3million over complaints ‘

Energy Company EDF owned by the French, landed in trouble again and was ordered by Ofgem to pay £3 million to ‘vulnerable customers’ over the way it routinely mishandled complaints.  The regulators said that EDF failed to have sufficiently robust processes in place when they introduced the new IT system and this led to the unacceptable handling of complaints.  They were not geared up to properly receive, record and process all customers’ complaints in accordance with handling rules.  Customers were kept on hold for long periods with many hanging up the phone.

‘Energy Firm Scottish and Southern are fined £1.25million ‘

Using the trick – to get people to switch energy suppliers has cost the major supplier £1.25million in a court action brought by the Trading Standards Dept and Surrey County Council whose officers found that the company was ‘misleading’ home-owners over the amount they spent on energy bills and promising to undercut them or provide cheaper alternatives. Guildford Crown Court found the firm guilty of taking part in misleading selling practises during 2008 and 2009. The Firm’s doorstep team were told to tell people they had information showing they were paying an excessive amount for their energy from their current supplier when in fact, there was no information at all.

‘ Power Giant EON found to have overcharged 94,000 customers ‘

EON ARE TO PAY OUT £1.4 MILLION to around 94,000 customers it overcharged on energy bills.  The Watchdog said a fine would not help as it was better that EON voluntarily agreed to pay compensation to these angry customers.  They used words like ‘regrettable and an Oversight’ to describe the situation and say they are updating the system….’very sorry, and it will never happen again?

‘ Eon fined £12 million for mis-selling ‘

EON are back again, and in a similar situation to the above — ‘misleading customers’ now fined a record £12m the company have been caught giving out misleading information to potential customs, doorstep selling methods that have been pressurised selling techniques, tricked into buying unrealistic packages, and aggressive phone selling.  They were told by the Watchdog that the company suffered management failures which should have been examined earlier, now they have been told to compensate around 500,000 customers.  It has yet again apologised…but trust in these companies is said to be at an all time low……in the first article they said it would not happen again……so let us see what comes next!

‘ Power Giant SSE fined £10.5million for ‘Lies’ ‘

THE WATCHDOG REGULATOR has fined SCOTTISH SOUTHERN ELECTRIC a record £10.5 million pounds for regularly lying to customers about pricing and making rash promises on what could be saved on bills by switching over providers.  MP’s were urged to put the matter into police hands and said they hope their will be a thorough investigation.  One MP said it was nothing short of fraud, and that’s what any investigation should concentrate on. 

‘Leading Energy firms are fined for bad service ‘

FINED £3.3MILLION FOR LEAVING CUSTOMERS IN THE DARK……Power Providers SSE and UKPN have been fined by the Regulators over the prolonged power cuts during the Christmas period of 2013.  The Regulators concluded that they could have handled the situation better.  It is said this fine follows a customer compensation deal of £4.7million agreed upon bringing the total payout cost to £8 million.  regulators are already planning to raise the minimum payment of compensation from  £27 to £70 for each customer in future where customers are left without gas and electricity for 24 hours.

‘Energy Firms accused of robbing millions of families ‘

SIX BIG ENERGY GIANTS have been listed as ‘fleecing families out of £100 plus’ because they didn’t tell their customers of falls in the price of gas and electricity….and neither did they voluntarily pass this cut to help families at a time when they needed it.  While wholesale prices fell, the prices to the customers remained the same.  The six are British Gas, SSE, Npower, EDF, Eon and Scottish Power.  Joe Malinowski of the Energy Shop .com said consumers should have been paying around £104 less each.

‘ Farmers and the National Union of Farmers in false poverty claims ‘

One hears that the farmers are having a bad deal theses days, but that is absolutely false.  Our Private Detective Richard Barrymore can reveal the darker side of these claims.  It appears that many of the farmers are getting large benefit cheques at the taxpayers expense with a little false and incorrect claiming methods. The union is looking the other way and in some cases, actually helping them to steer round difficult answers by being rather ambiguous.  Many such cases of this fraud are occurring in the south of England, but there is a secrecy in place which permits this situation to go on.  Some farmers even approach lawyers in order to grab land back or get higher premiums for land that had little value due to sea reclamation.  Because of the worry about ‘food for the nation’  ministers fear to upset this elite group in case they get angry.  Subsidies for farmers are above average and this certainly provides a nice little earner for the majority of farmers.

If you think we’re being unfair to farmers in exposing the scandal above, do not forget about the battery farming of hens and the cruel ways these creatures are being treated on farms.  Hens are kept in cramped conditions and some are lame as the farmer ignores all of this in order to boost profits while causing misery to the chickens.  When investigations were carried out many of these farmers resorted to bully tactics and tried to prevent filming by protestors.  Some so called gentleman farmers actively encourage blood-sports on their land and pay no heed to the ‘hunting of fox ban’ relying on their financial power to influence judges, magistrates and lawyers to decline any real action against them.

‘ Is Public Greed and Selfishness allowing Corruption to thrive?’

INDEED IT IS, one has only to see the ever increasing ‘want-to-be’s’, the people who want to get rich and famous above all other considerations.  They care little about conscience or moral values, the latter is like a moving goal post.  Some mothers, in fact many really, try to realise wealth through their children — often taking on a rather sickly paedophilic and suspiciously unpleasant appearance that stalks the current family position in today’s society.  These people will lie and cheat to obtain their goal and you will see many articles on this page that support this as the truth.  They merely grumble as politicians fiddle, steal and lie.  It goes on constantly due to inaction and attitudes, so we shall continue highlighting cases of public corruption — of which there is a constant supply.

‘ Royal Mail profits over unprotected Redirection Scam ‘

THE ROYAL MAIL GIVE THEFT AN EASY RIDE AT THE EXPENSE OF FAILING CUSTOMERS that is the real outcome over their profitable mail redirection service.  A report shows them hiding behind Data Protection at every turn when customers already hit by thieves need help.  Royal Mail doesn’t help and the report emphasized that all too clearly.  Identity theft is rife enough and the Royal Mail are helping these scammers every possible chance of using the service without the real person’s knowledge.  The report shows they are getting rather good profits from this and to the customer? — a poor service.  If this wasn’t bad enough there are postmen who have been committing criminal acts and stealing mail, and this was once the subject of a television programme when workers were watching out for bank credit cards and using them — and selling them on. 

ROYAL MAIL HIKE UP ALL PRICES as they sell off contracts to franchise deals. Customers that had deals in 2008 and up to 2009 faced their rents of PO BOXES nearly doubling in 2010 t0 2011, and then being hiked up again the following year 2012 to almost double again without having to consult customers at all. Nearly all of their services were farmed out to profiteers before they announced their stamps were also to go up dramatically in price.  What about the service? that’s the same as usual unless you are already suffering a poor service.

THE NEW ROYAL MAIL PARCEL SIZE SCAM — When can a large parcel fit into a medium parcel and when can a small parcel be categorised as a large parcel?      Only when Royal Mail Mathematicians’ get together.  Forget logic or commonsense, neither of these things apply……they can actually turn white into black,,,,,,and iron into gold.  WATCHDOG did a test where they could actually fit a large size parcel into a medium parcel, and it worked,  The small parcel being priced as the dearest could go twice in the medium parcel, which didn’t cost as much as the large parcel — costing less than the small parcel…confused?

‘ BRITISH PETROLEUM FINED OVER MASSIVE SAFETY FAILURES ‘

BP HAVE BEEN FINED 87 MILLION DOLLARS over failures concerning health and safety regulations.  The giant oil firm are no strangers to fines and an appalling record of failures.  270 violations have been levelled at them, and this is years after the scandal of 170 workers injured and 15 killed.  Bosses play it down by claiming it is exaggerated or not reported correctly, — but it is them lying and believing the lies they have told.  Even when they promised the regulators that improvements would be made — they failed to honour these pledges.  It’s easy to see that they consider themselves above the law — and possibly buy the law when it is possible in the interests of the company.

BP FINED £2 BILLION after its holding in Russia resulted in a Siberian Court suing the company for damages. BP commented by saying it was all part of ‘a corporate attack’ on the company. The Court Action had been brought by Andrey Prokhorov a small shareholder in the UK Oil joint Russian venture in 2010. He said this violated another ongoing agreement which stated that all BP-Russian ventures should be controlled by TNK-BP.

SCANDAL OF THE TELEVISION COMPANIES :

‘ LIES AND DECEIT AT THE BBC. ‘

BBC’S BLUE PETER PROGRAMME AND THE RIGGED COMPETITION.  It was discovered after many children phoned in to the programme in the hope of winning a prize were deliberately deceived.  The winner was already chosen and in the building, but the presenters carried on the charade throughout the transmission.  The BBC was fined for deceiving the viewers.

BBC’S WATCHDOG claimed that they had revealed that TINY the Computer firm was having difficulties and had gone bust.  This was not so, they had been contacted by post and e-mail months earlier by a customer who told them things were not going well with the computer company.

BBC’s COUNTRYFILE entered into a deception on the 6th of July 2008.  The programme tried to make out that John Craven was live in the transmission.   Yet, he was featured in an old piece showing Somerset — previously shown a year earlier, no doubt another piece of intentional deception.

Other BBC FACTS;

‘ Taxpayer’s £3m bill for luxury flights at the BBC ‘

FREE WITH THE LICENCE FEES would be correct, the BBC used over £3m of the taxpayer’s money for staff to enjoy luxury first class seating on planes.  A report revealed that BBC bosses claimed thousands of pounds for hotel accommodation and theatre reservations etc. 

‘ BBC in misrepresentation claim concerning Global Warming Programme ‘

LORD MONCTON accused the BBC programme of deliberately misrepresenting his views in that they deliberately showed them out of context suggesting he looked rather insane, not unlike a ‘mad professor ‘ who didn’t really know what he was talking about.  OFCOM are investigating the complaint that the BBC unfairly edited the programme to disqualify his views as not supportive to his argument, and that they were biased.

‘ BBC PAY COMPENSATION FOR FAILING EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES ‘

THE BBC MADE A FIVE FIGURE PAYOUT TO BLIND REPORTER Gary O Donoghue after they stopped him presenting his own story.  The veteran Reporter who mainly worked in Radio was due to present a feature on the BBC but was suddenly replaced by June Kelly.  It was levied at the BBC that Gary was the victim of discrimination but an internal inquiry said they could not find any evidence of this.

Internal Inquiry? would you expect them to find evidence? Not a chance, not at the BBC.

‘ BBC in apology over bad taste ‘

The BBC admitted it was wrong to show a man being shot dead on a news item.  150 viewers rang the switchboard to complain about this choice.  A spokesman said ‘ it is not normally the BBC’s policy to show the moment of death, but these kind of decisions are always hard to make.’

‘ BBC BOSSES IN EXPENSES STORM ‘

BBC EXECUTIVES MARK THOMPSON, JENNY AMBRAMSKY, JANA BENNETT and TIM DAVIE are accused of using the expenses situation to spend, spend, spend, all on the taxpayer thank you.  The high paid earners filed £3,780 on overnight stays, £8,889 on entertainment, and £2,096 on flights and other expenses.  Deputy Director Mark Byford claimed £160 for Prom tickets.

It’s not bad having all that licence money to dip into, is it?

‘THE ROSS AND BRAND INCIDENT ‘

THE BBC WERE FORCED TO SUSPEND TWO PRESENTERS, JONATHAN ROSS AND RUSSELL BRAND OVER INSULTS ON AIR – when they made lewd comments about a family member of Andrew Sachs, the actor.  The two high paid presenters were high and possibly intoxicated when they issued remarks during a live radio show.  Jonathan Ross was immediately suspended from his prime time BBC show and Russell Brand resigned.

‘ BBC in another deception to viewers ‘

YET AGAIN the BBC have indulged in fakery, and again they have been discovered.   It was revealed that production staff posed as contest buyers on a buying antiques trip to France.  They pretended to be customers and members of the public during the programme hosted by Angela Rippon, — who it is said — had no knowledge or part in the deception.

‘ BBC’s Watchdog Co-Presenter in Benefits Allegations ‘

DAN PENTEADO, who works with Matt Alwright on the ‘Rogue Traders’ section of the Consumer Expose Show with Ann Robinson, was rudely brought into the News by the revelations coming out of Bournemouth. The council were accusing the BBC Presenter of falsely claiming benefits to the amount of £24,000 — it was stated that he did not attend the court to face the ten fraud charges against him for the false claim for benefits during 2008 to 2012. saying that he ‘ failed to declare a change of circumstances’  It was said that the magistrates had issued a warrant for his arrest, but this was withdrawn when Mr. Penteado reported into the local police.

WATCHDOG AGAIN — THIS TIME IT’S ANNE ROBINSON — The ‘Mean Queen of TV Quizzes’ it is reported that she has avoided paying her tax dues on £4 million.  The report says she joined an aggressive scheme which allowed members just to pay 7p in the pound….thus escaping the 40 per cent normal rate from the Treasury….it is stated she is one of the more prominent celebrities involved in Liberty Tax Strategy…..thus enabling many so-called stars to be sheltered from high tax rates they don’t like paying…..neither do the poor or less well off….but they can’t cheat the system like these people.

‘ BBC guilty of age discrimination — tribunal rules for sacked presenter ‘

THE BBC had its nose bloodied when a tribunal found the corporation guilty of discrimination. Presenter Miriam O’Riley took them to court and won. This kind of thing by the BBC is not the first, similar incidents have occurred at the BBC often disguised and kept away from the public. Controller Jay Hunt came under fire for the way in which casual staff are treated — the word being complacency.

‘ Row erupts over BBC Chief’s £834,000 salary ‘

Staff at the BBC were greatly annoyed to find that their chief Mark Thompson is earning £834,000 a year, and some allege this is corrosive in an industry that claims to be cost cutting.  At a time when morale is low many workers were shocked to hear Radio 4’s interview when P.D.James the thriller writer brought up the topic of executive pay with their boss.

‘ The Facebook scandal of the BBC ‘

THE BBC IS SQUANDERING THOUSANDS OF POUNDS on teaching staff to use the Internet Facebook program. Hundreds of BBC workers have already signed up to learn out to set up accounts on this website, yet the website is free on the point of signing up.  It has already spent £23,000 on two day courses and at a time when the BBC is supposed to be looking for cuts in spending licence payers cash they appear oblivious to thrift?

‘ BBC Director  claims £7,514.80 for his flight to Seoul ‘

BBC DIRECTOR OF FUTURE MEDIA ERIK HUGGERS  claimed his flight costs on expenses paid by the licence payers.  This arrogance has been denounced as it was discovered that a cab he ordered cost £627 and £4,984 was spent on a limousine and chauffer over a three month period.

‘ BBC Executive in bid to conceal facts from the public ‘

BBC BOSS ROBERT JOHNSON in partnership with PHIL AUSTIN made a deliberate attempt to deceive and disguise the fact that a number of BBC senior staff were being paid over £100,000 plus in salaries.  In a memo they agreed to disguise the figures and lower or not mention those in the high pay band making it less obvious.

‘ BBC ignore pay crunch and award a pay rise ‘

The BBC enjoyed paying out more licence payer’s cash despite promises of a tightening in the costs area  —  Seventy per cent of its staff will receive a pay rise of £475.  It is estimated that the wage boost for BBC staff could cost the licence payer at least another £6million.

‘False Promises and £1million bonuses at the BBC ‘

The BBC lied and deceived the public as they do over promises to cut back, yet it has been revealed that £1m pound bonuses were still being paid out to senior and executive staff surreptitiously. The report says the BBC was misleading the public in a big way hoping that it would not be found out.  The corporation was giving rewards to a variety of staff members  — £790,000 in bonuses to 161 members of staff up to April in 2010.  More than 382 staff at the BBC are on £100,000.

THE OVERTIME BILL AT THE BBC IS £64MILLION! 

‘ BBC Bosses hike up the Expenses gravy train ‘

FIGURES PUBLISHED REVEAL THAT BONUSES ARE TO BE GOING UP BY 7 PERCENT AT THE BBC this year and every other foreseeable year. Pledges to cut back have been thrown out or ignored altogether the report says. It says senior management are putting in their expenses claiming as much as they can and anything else they can think of.  The list published is like the cost of a big do on the Orient Express, but one for several days and months.  The TV Licence payer is being taken for a ride, a very expensive ride.

 ‘ BBC Controller as shallow as a paddling pool’

PANORAMA Bosses were caught out in a storm of criticism revealing their weaknesses and conniving side not seen by the public.  Jay Hunt theBBC1 controller was described as shallow and lacking vision by journalist John Ware who said she patronised viewers.  He said she was obsessed with ratings, a fever that existed throughout the BBC.   John Ware not only worked on Panorama, but Inside Story, Rough Justice and Taking Liberties.

‘ Shameful BBC admitted by Director General Mark Thompson ‘

THE SHAMEFUL PAST OF THE BBC WAS FINALLY ADMITTED TO by its boss Mark Thompson who said that the BBC was institutionally corrupt and totally unfit for purpose. The Tebbit report about the BBC which was highly accurate about the BBC was branded as libellous, but Mark Thompson now agrees they were accurate. The BBC chose to spin and lie about the report.

‘ More Deception at the BBC as carmakers sue Topgear Programme ‘

Just how far and how many times the BBC will con the public is now looking like many times over.  Deception has yet again been exposed as carmakers are to sue the motoring programme Topgear over an article they did on an electric powered car.  The firm says the programme used false figures and did not carry out a proper test and when one considers that the presenters make remarks and conclusions about cars that the public are keen to see, a lie about a test can have devastating effects on any sales that manufacturer has hoped for. The BBC declined to comment

‘BBC caught out for telling lies ‘

THAT BASTION OF BROADCASTING — THE BBC have had to make apologies over fake footage in a Panorama documentary covering a story about Primark.  This severely lowers Panorama’s credibility and points to the BBC increasingly reverting to lies and denials that hold no water.  The BBC has been accused of twisting facts and evidence to make a propaganda point. A body called the BBC Trust was formed to keep the corporation in line, but this shameful act as shown it to be looking the other way.

‘ BBC caught telling more lies have to issue apology — worldwide ‘

THE BBC Don’t seem to know when telling lies becomes a habit — and this habit has been revealed yet again, this time over documentaries made by another television company backed by PR clients and corrupt regimes that paid to have them aired on national broadcasting equipment. The client broadcaster – FBC Media UK made eight shows for the BBC concerning Malaysia, yet failed to declare it was paid £17million by the Malaysian Government for ‘global strategic communications’.  The programme was designed to give positive feelings about the controversial palm oil industry and paint an inaccurate situation to viewers in the West. The FBC failed to say it was in league with former dictator Hosni Mubarak’s regime. The FBC went into administration last year. The BBC was found guilty of 15 breaches by the Broadcasting Regulator, and it apologised worldwide to viewers and listeners for the deception.

THE BBC NEWSNIGHT CHIEF IS SUING THE BBC — a BBC Editor Jonathan Steer said the BBC failed him in a duty of care as they knew he had bipolar disorder, yet he was sacked and accused of bullying.

BBC PAY CONSULTANTS £8MILLION whilst claiming to be ‘cost-cutting’ — A report says the finance complaining BBC are lavishing millions on consultants amidst stringent cost cutting drives for advice.  Money is spent on how to save money say the critics, which hardly seems to make sense, especially to the licence payer.  Yet they are about to shed 3,000 jobs.

BBC AT IT AGAIN WITH BONUSES — The BBC have given out bonuses of £275,000 to four senior managers in top up payments, and pay rises to other staff right in the face of a pledge by boss Mark Thompson who said that bonuses would be scrapped and pay frozen in light of the squeeze in the economy. It certainly shows that he really couldn’t care less, after all, what can the licence payers do? Nothing I guess, and he’s banking on it.

BBC IN £4MILLION PAY-OFF TO WORKERS LAID OFF AND THEN CONTINUE WORKING? — The BBC have struggled again to explain why workers laid off are given compensation amounting to £4million, and half of them continue working as normal!  This peculiarity surrounds relocation issues where staff get £57,000 each — it says this applies to around 17 people and a further 15 pocket the cash and move to the Salford Offices anyway — where they are re-hired in the same jobs.

BBC GARY LINEKER and the  £2million salary plus travel expenses of £15,000. Outrage has emerged over the fact that Lineker gets a terrific salary from doing BBC Programmes, but does not pay his own travel bill out of it.

BBC SAYS NOTHING OVER ‘TAX LOOPHOLE’ AND STARS — It was revealed that many stars working for the BBC are channelling their pay via private companies set up to dodge high tax. Accusations of ‘Off-Payroll’ manoeuvres that can cut stars tax bills by thousands every year were challenged as the BBC went silent amid pressures to explain this situation to the normal taxpayer.  The Government admitted that 2,400 civil servants had been paid through private companies, but were unable to provide this kind of information on those who worked at the BBC and local councils?

BBC’S WATCHDOG AND ROGUE TRADER SIDEKICK JAILED FOR BENEFITS FRAUD — Dan Penteado the motorcycle ‘comic personality’ accompanying Matt Alwright as they pursued rogues was finally judged to be so himself when he appeared at Bournemouth magistrates court.  He initially claimed that it was all a mistake, but now he is spending 12 weeks in prison for fraudulently claiming £25,000 in benefits.  The BBC said in a statement that Penteado would not be returning to the new series of the show.

BBC AND THE INQUIRY INTO 194 £100,000 PAY-OFFS — News in says the BBC are to be investigated by the National Audit Office.  It was revealed that payoffs to around 200 managers have been in the region of £100,000 each.  The Watchdog on BBC spending are to start examining the scale of the ‘severance’ payout deals.

BBC SHAMED BY THE ‘JIMMY SAVILE ABUSE SCANDAL’ — Years and years have passed and controllers turned a blind eye to sex favours being demanded by ‘celebrities’ and producers — Women have come forward to say how Savile abused them and his position as a ‘telly good guy’.  Jimmy Savile will not be called because he is dead and as they say ‘got away with it’  While he cavorted and played the dynamic ‘Top of the Pops’ presenter and ‘Jim ‘ll fix it’ icon he hid another side — and used the mantle of the public image of respectability to conceal his less than favourable pursuits. Janet Street-Porter revealed that in the 70’s when she was a young presenter, the BBC knew about Jimmy Savile and did nothing, and she said there were others!  She recalled how Savile used his ‘Charity fund raising’ as a technique to keep the newspapers in line and back off — by saying he would hold back finance to Charities if anything bad was written about him.  She also added that the BBC were not alone in this secrecy, and the ITV commercial networks were also into covering up this kind of abuse too.   Society is to blame, it helped this rich powerful individual to use his position to have any accusation thrown out….like other rich powerful men and women, he could influence others to silence and if necessary, destroy the credibility of those who might stand in their way….they say power corrupts….it is true.

NB: Gary Glitter once proclaimed himself a ‘people’s person, loved by the audience’ on a BBC  Pebble Mill broadcast….he turned out to be a paedophile……now we have Jimmy Savile described as a ‘Saviour and wonderful man who pioneered charities ‘ and now accused of many abuses of women, children and boys…..so who will we have next?  How many more ‘ of the great and good’ are there hiding behind fame and fortune?

GARRY GLITTER NOW ARRESTED in Jimmy Savile Paedophile Investigation.  Second time for Glitter in this country after serving prison time for child porn photos.

Update – Gary Glitter (Paul Gann) has appeared in court (June 2014).

GARRY GLITTER IS JAILED FOR 16 YEARS — The escapist former pop star that claimed to be the best and family’s favourite….is now set to do at least 8 years in prison after being convicted for sex offences against minors.  The 72 year old was driven off to jail after the sentencing.  Paul Gadd, his real identity, said nothing as the judge announced the sentence at the Crown Court.  It must seem an eternity away from that deal he signed with Virgin Records to do five albums in the 90’s for ? millions, and have the support from the Jeff Hanlon Management…….where are they now eh?

NEW NEWS ON THE ABOVE:  The Savile Story has now turned to one of ‘Suing the BBC’ as lawyers line up ‘victims’ in big claims….one cannot help seeing some just making up claims with the help of lawyers as one of our team suggested……the reality being that compensation lawyers are always in at the trough —  based on greed.  On another note we find that a ‘Newsnight Team investigating Savile with a programme to be broadcast ‘  was pulled just before other shows went out on air praising the virtues of Savile!……..and nothing more was said…….for a very long time?

Savile once told an interviewer ‘ my legal team are ready’ when asked what he did about any comments made that suggested he’d been molesting or abusing….and it was said he had ‘wiped the floor with his opponents in court’………one has to look at these lawyers, and it comes immediately across that having been ‘bought’  — it didn’t matter about the truth or Savile’s actions……lawyers frequently work without any moral code whatsoever, and our files show this……they’re never looking for the truth, sometimes more interested in concealing it and making threats against people who know what the truth is but cannot prove it beyond a reasonable doubt.

Latest News: It now appears that lawyers for many abuse victims in the ‘Savile’ saga will be suing the BBC and Savile’s Estate.  Lawyer Alan Collins said a writ has been issued at the High Court on behalf of 81 alleged victims with another possible 50 still in the pipeline.

Also, a Police Officer, a former inspector in the West Yorkshire Police Force is being investigated over links to Savile in that he has been accused of contacting the Surrey Police before they questioned Saville in 2009.

A BBC Driver has now been charged in connection with the Savile Inquiry — David Smith of Lewisham is said to be the seventh person to be arrested in the Police Operation.  He was charged with 2 counts of indecent assault, 2 counts of gross indecency and one of serious sexual assault committed in 1984.  (they say this makes eleven arrests since the investigation began).

Incidentally, recent news says the CPS and Police apologise for their non-action!

THE BBC are now trying to close this story and go into ‘damage limitation’ despite further investigations!

BBC PERSONALITIES – Dave Lee Travis and Stuart Hall have both been included in Sex Abuse allegations and had visits from the police in wider investigations involving what was going on at the BBC. Update — Dave Lee Travis appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court to hear that he is to face 11 counts of indecent assault which go back over a period of 30 years.  He briefly conducted an interview showing his anger at the media.

DAVE LEE TRAVIS was given a three month suspended jail sentence, but remained unrepentant after the trial was over.  A Journalist said afterwards, that she had seen the other side of Mr Travis and from our own research it is often true that the smiling stars are not so wonderful after all.

STUART HALL has been charged with sex offences the police announced…………and following this we now hear that after many denials Stuart Hall has been found guilty of child abuse sex charges.  The once loved and revered man of ‘It’s a Knockout’ was not what he represented when over fifty years he hid the fact that he had committed grossly offensive crimes against the young — some 13 victims including a nine year old girl. It was said that he admitted to 14 counts of sexual assault; a further charge of rape and three other sexual charges were left on file.  The 88 yr old ‘star’ faces 10 years in prison, and will be sentenced in June 2013.

Stuart Hall was sentenced to fifteen months in jail. (his sentence was extended on appeal later)

ROLF HARRIS has been the next one to fall foul of the fallout from ‘The Savile Inquiry’ — It was said that his lawyers desperately tried to suppress information about him being arrested in connection with Operation Yew Tree….investigations continue as Rolf Harris ducks out of TV appearances and show.  News Update — The CPS have charged Rolf Harris with Indecent Assault — he is facing nine counts, which includes the recent 2012 addition of making indecent images on his pc….most of the other charges relate to the 1980’s.

Update: Rolf Harris was convicted on 12 counts of indecent assault and sentenced to 5 years and 9 months in prison.  At Southwark Crown Court they said Harris was ‘a Jekyll and Hyde’ character who continued to play the system and fool those around him (much like Savile) and was greatly admired.

Another Recent News item revealed that MAX CLIFFORD the well known champion Press Agent for the wealthy and Showbiz hierarchy has been accused of sex crimes…..and denials have been instantly uttered!

MR ‘WONDERFUL’ MAX CLIFFORD  JAILED FOR 8 YEARS — Loathed by many for his arrogance and assumed ‘I’m Untouchable’ — PR man Clifford was found guilty on eight charges of sexual abuse.  The man who stood for his showbiz clients in other cases, was sentenced to eight years in prison.

NB: The ghosts of the past are never quite buried — skeletons in the closet can be found in the majority of people, and more so with those who claim to be ‘squeaky clean’  one just needs to look for the clues.

BBC FORMER PRESENTER IS JAILED FOR 22 YEARS — Predatory Paedophile Michael Souter who was with the Norfolk Area BBC and Radio Clyde broadcaster was convicted of sexually assaulting and abusing seven boys over a period of two decades.  Norwich Crown Court found him guilty of 26 offences…..indecent assault on a child, serious sexual offences on a minor and seven counts of possessing indecent images of children.

BBC DJ CHRIS DENNING PLEADS GUILTY — Child abuse Case defendant Chris Denning who started on Radio 1 in a pioneer role after coming from Pirate Radio Ship Caroline…pleaded guilty to 29 counts of indecent sexual assault on young boys….he denied an additional 12 counts and will go back to Southwark Crown Court.  The case refers to 1970 and 80’s activity….he is to remain in custody.

OUTRAGE OVER JONATHAN KING BEING  ON PROGRAMME — The BBC have fallen into yet another mistake by featuring convicted sex offender Jonathan King who has just finished three and a half years in jail for sexual assault on five teenage boys in the 1980’s.  King was once a Kingpin of music, doing radio, recording and promotions working at the BBC with shows ‘No Limits’ and ‘The Great British Song Contest’

THIS FIFTY YEAR IN THE MAKING SCANDAL POSSIBLY REVEALS THERE ARE OTHER CELEBRITIES INVOLVED.

THE BBC TICKET SCANDAL — It seems the BBC never learn and are not likely to either.  This time its another one of those ill-fated competitions…..the report says two fans of the One Direction boy band paid out £350 to meet their heroes….but suffered a huge ‘letdown’ due to Radio One at the BBC.  Winners Hannah Hastings and Louisa Marsden just got an apology! ……lucky them? after being promised the best seats at a show in Belfast, but ended up with ‘restricted viewing’ seats and their special meeting with One Direction not on……it is said that Ofcom are investigating the case…….they ought to be investigating the BBC.

BBC PROGRAMMES — 10 MINUTES OF SUBSTANCE AND 30 MINUTES OF DRAMA — Such is the state of things shown.  One Viewer in a letter page puts the case very well — ‘The BBC often claim they make quality programmes — perhaps they should examine this more closely, especially with things like ‘Cowboy Trap’ hosted by Jonnie Irwin who makes sure he tells you that he was a surveyor, not once but several times….and he continually repeats himself throughout as they stretch the show to an unbearable level.  He coaxes the victim to make more of the same comments on the same thing until you get thoroughly bored with his awful presentation which, is tedious and full of his own ego….somewhat following in the style of that ‘celebrity’ Dom Littlewood.’

THE BBC LISTINGS THAT FAIL — You’d think the programmers would know what they had on daily listings, especially as they seem to give out the information two weeks in advance.  But no, they invariably cock it up and leave the viewer mystified as to why it says one thing and suddenly without notice changes it… their Channels BBC3 and BBC4 aren’t up to much either.

BBC REALITY PROGRAMME CALL CENTRE IS FINED — The Information Commissioners Office fined two companies owned by the BBC — Reality Star Big Nev, We Claim You Gain was fined £100,000 and the Nationwide Energy Services were fined £125,000.  They were fined for carrying out ‘Nuisance Calls’

BBC SILENT ON HACKING REVELATIONS — The otherwise do-good campaigners went silent with coverage on the revelations about blue-chip hacking, having given little or no space to the emerging story of corruption.  Whereas they did blanket coverage on Leveson and the stars such as Hugh Grant — who also has gone silent!

BBC PANORAMA PRODUCER SUSPENDED OVER BRIBERY — Matthew Chapman was suspended by the BBC and an episode of the Panorama programme pulled. 

AUDITING THE BBC?  MINISTER WARNS AGAINST IT? — A former minister has said the independence of the BBC could be seriously threatened if the National Audit Office are allowed to investigate the Corporation when they feel like it.  Former Minister James Purnell did not like it when Culture Secretary Maria Miller said that the National Audit Office should have ‘unlimited access’ to the accounts of the BBC, in order to avoid another repeat of the excessive pay-off scandal.

BBC LINK TO TAX SITUATION FIRM IS CRITICISED BY WATCHDOG — The BBC’s relationship with a powerful property company which was criticised for its tax arrangements has sparked fierce criticism from the Public Accounts Committee who said the Peel Group were not contributing enough to the Inland Revenue.  The BBC have a 20 year lease with the company on three office buildings in Salford with a rental cost of £171 million, it has a separate 10 year deal at the studios at the site paying £82.8 million.

BBC SHOW MORE CONTEMPT FOR THE TAXPAYER — The BBC it has been revealed are getting the taxpayers to pay their legal bill for a case to sue a union for libel.  The Licence fee seems to be a money pot that can be used to fund a legal action for its ‘Head of Human resources’ as she pursues a legal action against the trade union, despite her nice little annual earner of £320,000.  The BBC’s Lucy Adams was already criticised in the executive pay scandal……now she wants her lawyers fees to be covered as she launches a libel suit against the NUJ for what she says was ‘highly defamatory’ claims they made.

BBC MISLEAD MP’S — When Executives attended a meeting of The Public Accounts Committee.  In a report it is stated that a senior executive could be held in contempt of Parliament after members of the committee studied a damning report into large pay-offs….. giving rise to suspicion the BBC misled the committee when they were questioned.  Margaret Hodge Chairperson of the Committee said the BBC bosses seemed to allow a very liberal use of other people’s money (licence-payers)…..and that they also had a culture of ‘cronyism’

BBC DISMISSED CHIEF SUES THE BBC — A Technology Chief at the BBC, John Linwood who was in charge when the BBC wasted £100million of Licence payers cash is suing the Corporation for terminating his employment.  The £287,000 a year executive is taking legal action because of the way he was treated and the matter is over ‘contractual obligations’.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT CLAIMS AT THE BBC — A number of employees have been disciplined over ‘sexual harassment claims’ the report says.  Eight staff members have been ‘disciplined’ over bullying etc, during 2013 but only one was dismissed. (Apparently there was 42 incidents of whistleblowers in 2012 reporting matters of misconduct and misbehaviour)

BBC BOSS CREATED CLIMATE OF FEAR! — Rod McKenzie was named in the matter, and the report says that he was given ‘a final notice’ and moved to another post.  Mention of a dossier containing statements that public humiliation was dished out regularly from 17 members of the BBC’s Youth service.

BBC SHOVE UNKNOWNS TO ONE SIDE — A report says the BBC should give unknowns a fair chance of TV exposure instead of using a ‘talent pool’ they built up and keep using.  The actors Union Equity said that the corporation needs to widen opportunities and be more transparent about the casting process….certain actors now well established are appearing almost every month in some play, programme or chat show which appears unfair.  The top agencies are using their power to have big artistes grab most of the limelight and the BBC are going along with this.

BBC IN UNFAIR DISMISSAL OF TECHNICAL WORKER — The BBC were said to be harbouring a culture of blame-shifting coming from the top executives.  This directly affected former technology chief John Linwood who earned around £280,000 a year after being recruited from Yahoo.  It is said the BBC sacked him in the wake of the £98.4 million collapse of an attempt to integrate the BBC’s digital production system.  The tribunal heard that he became ‘the scapegoat’ for the company….they ruled that is dismissal was unfair.

BBC GIVE OUT BONUSES TO STAFF WHO TRACK LICENCE DODGERS —  The BBC give £1,000 to any member of staff in the licence enforcement business.  This was revealed as it became known that around 200,000 people are taken to court each year for failing to pay their TV licence.  The firm responsible is CAPITA, which is worth remembering if you want to do research or investigate them (you might be surprised what you can find out about them on internet pages).  This purge comes as MP’s plan to drop the threat of prison currently connected to this.  The suggestion of ‘Aggressive methods’ being used is not that surprising with the BBC, they don’t seem to use this in connection with ‘The Savile Scandal’, perhaps the thought of anyone operating on their turf and exposing stars and workers is something they’d rather keep locked away as ‘private BBC property’

THE BBC PRETEND TO HAVE A CODE OF CONDUCT — IT NEVER SEEMS TO WORK.

THE BBC AND ITV COMPANIES HAVE BEEN ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN COVER-UPS AND FRAUD for many years and no-one has been able to stop them because they have ways of dodging commissions and inquiries, and they have stopped some of these in their tracks by using deceitful lawyers who can turn a trick or too.  Many programmes have been changed, taken off and virtually disappeared when certain people required this, and that includes Government politicians…..and when it happens there is no explanation given? it just fades away like the villains that are involved, rich and conniving……. in case you are wondering about the evidence, which we have trailed……that disappears too!  (A little bit like the Savile Affair which was denied and not discussed at the time because certain BBC executives and producers wanted it to be swept under the carpet…. and even now they are hoping nobody will get any nearer to the truth of what they actually did to hide his crimes. A recent Newspaper editorial says that BBC Bosses should be in the dock….and that up to now, not one of them has, which it openly suggests indicates as a curious kind of justice system that shows no interest in doing so ).

BBC ACCUSED OF ARROGANCE BY AUTHOR — Michael Dobbs who wrote ‘House of Cards’ had a go at the BBC for their arrogance, both intellectual and organisational.  ‘The BBC is undermined by spending scandals and fails to own up to its mistakes’ he said.  Lord Dobbs accused the BBC of a left-wing bias in its reporting structure.

BBC IMPARTIALITY FAILS OVER BRAND — The silencing of Russell Brand seems to have reporter Nick Robinson, the usual political face on these issues actively attacking Brand over his opinions on the ‘call me Dave’s government’…..the BBC is clearly not acting impartial according to Derek McMillan of Durrington, Wilts.

CORRUPTION AT THE BBC IS A WORKING PARTNERSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT NO MATTER HOW MANY DENIALS THEY ISSUE.

‘ TV Licensing Scandal of telephone scam to deceive ‘

BRISTOL AND THE TV LICENSING CENTRE, a multimillion pound rip-off by the government.  They have a telephone system which we are informed takes the customer through various options again and again and again.  It usually ends up with cutting off the customer by saying goodbye, when in fact the customer has not got through to anyone.  It is yet again another civil servant blunder that is designed to infuriate and swindle the licence payer whenever it can.  Cancelling a licence is horrific we are told, it just does not happen if you telephone them, and our informant tells us they tried three times.  Their blurb says if you cancel then they will check and a threat follows of instituting a fine? 

Well, if these corrupt and licensed thieves offered a decent service and a proper system — people might just imagine they do a job for the public but right now — it is legalised robbery.

‘ BEHIND THE CLOSED DOORS OF THE TV LICENSING CENTRE ‘ —     in our quest to reveal corruption in Government establishments concerning civil servants, we have ascertained that quite a number of staff at their licensing centre in Bristol have convictions for various activities; some being just illegal and others of a criminal nature besides civil cases, — yet they continue in employment at the centre unchecked, thus being allowed to bully and threaten the public (mainly in the enforcement division).  Under an agreement with bosses things are kept confidential and secretive (out of the public domain) — something we all see too often with the current Labour Government — the Expenses Scandal and torture cases.  Corrupt practises of civil servants are indeed difficult to expose due to the Lawyers who have the expertise to cover their tracks and tell staff to utter standard phrases in case it’s the press that have come snooping.  Attempts to confirm the names supplied by our insider source were answered by someone at their offices via the telephone, — ‘ we cannot answer the question due to the data protection act, nor will you find it on a request to the freedom of information office, we do not disclose personal histories of our staff or discuss the information you seek with people outside this building ‘ they quoted.  These facts have been verified by our private investigator Richard Barrymore whose files support this article.

‘ LONDON WEEKEND TELEVISION FINED OVER DECEPTION ‘

ITV’s London Weekend Television were fined £4,200,000 by OFCOM for the deception over a phone competition during an ANT AND DEC Saturday show. 

‘ GRANADA TELEVISION IN PHONE SCAM ‘

OFWAT fined ITV’s GRANADA TELEVISION £1,200,000 for deceiving viewers during a phone-in programme.

‘ CHANNEL FOUR IN PHONE SCAM TWICE ‘

ITV’S CHANNEL 4 were fined £500,000 for misleading and deceiving phone-in contestants during the programme ‘Deal or No deal ‘   They were found guilty of unfair practice as they knew the viewers were paying money for calls when they should have closed the lines.  Even when it was discovered, CHANNEL 4 kept this formula going for several weeks, showing a complete disregard for viewers and arrogance.

CHANNEL 4 WERE FINED AGAIN OVER MISUSE OF THE PHONE CALL-INS INVOLVING A COMPETITION DURING THE ‘ RICHARD AND JUDY SHOW ‘

Channel 4 wants taxpayer’s handout ‘

BACK IN 2002 CHANNEL FOUR WANTED PUBLIC CASH to fund their programmes.  Due to a shortfall in advertising revenue the then chief executive, Mark Thompson made a request for taxpayer’s cash to fund more challenging and dangerous programming according to the report.  The Commercial Television Company said that pressures caused by failing revenue and ITV had forced them to ask for help despite complaints regarding their controversial programmes.

CHANNEL 4 TV DO TEN ADVERTS EVERY TEN MINUTES — Viewers have expressed concern and anger at the way Channel 4 have been covertly placing up to ten adverts over a period of 5 minutes each nearly every ten minutes of programme content.  In one hour there is five advertising slots, and this is certainly getting near to the USA level.

‘ The Disgrace of the TV Companies ‘

It comes as no surprise to find deceit by these networks who make great efforts to sidestep recent revelations showing repeated attempts at conning the public.  It shows they are willing to go to huge lengths to hide corrupt practices, false accounting and concealment of criminal activities in order to make themselves seem successful and the window of society.  An insider told us – ‘ there’s a lot going on behind closed doors that would shock viewers and anger many.’  What is amazing about the situation is that the public appear to tolerate and condone the corruption despite it being exposed by people who take great risks to inform them of this situation.

ANOTHER BIG OPENING FOR CORRUPT ACTIVITIES is blatantly obvious with the Freeview multi channel situation. There is 97 company channels already listed and it is still ever-growing — mostly with rubbish – another awful bi-product copied from the USA. In March 2011 over 105 sites exist on the freeview plus radio, and a fifth of those are adult porn channels — something they promised was going to be vetted and minimized but hasn’t been, all amid outrage of what children can access and their concern over sexualising programs that children can see.

FREEVIEW COMPANIES DISREGARD ADVERTISING RULES — It has been noticed that the Freeview television companies do not stick to advertising guidelines and adopt a policy of putting them up as often as they like and for as long as they like according to many viewers who observed it and timed them.

CORRUPTION is never applied to many of these TV networks however blatant they are, and much of what they do behind the scenes is governed by corrupt practices such as ‘backhanders’ abusing the rules, rigging and many other unsavoury activities. Some TV networks get away with it because they are broadcast from overseas and maintain they are doing nothing wrong, because they are adhering to their country’s regulations. Companies should be shutdown instantly when caught cheating and the entire team prosecuted. A Corporate responsibility should apply instead of this ‘challenge to identify the person’ which the law currently exercises, and we all know they inevitably get away with it because of the proof needed. It wasn’t thousands of years ago when ‘association’ sealed this in law eg; the Tolpuddle Martyrs when everyone involved were rounded up, the leaders executed and those not at the top were subject to ‘transportation’ and sent off as convicts to Australia! — strangely enough, there are still some countries that do prosecute by ‘association’ (Singapore and China, just two to start with). They round everybody up at the scene and charge everyone, even those who are not actually participating, but are present at and contributing to the atmosphere of the situation’ therefore being associated to its activities. In fact, the UK almost went down this line with the riots, and apart from getting looters, charged some with being involved and actively engaging in the commission of the crime by taking part in it thus creating the opportunity for lawbreaking whether conscious of it or not, ignorance was no defence and neither was the ‘passive’ stance accepted, and they sent most of the offenders to jail. The UK dressed this as a special need under ‘The Emergency Powers Act’ whereas other countries openly apply it as ordinary law. So this need in law to identify the person actually doing anything can and is set aside by countries when it suits them. Nobody came up with ‘Human Rights’ at all and that was never addressed in court.

‘ ITV depressed by probe launched by Ofcom ‘

SHARES IN ITV DROPPED as the Watchdog Ofcom launched an investigation into the TV’s Advertising. They warned that this early examination could escalate into a full blown inquiry.  Ofcom are concerned about ad slots and how they are bought and sold, and the possibility of distorting competition. The Company’s ‘ poor transparency’ in costs are said to be making it difficult for advertisers to gather information.

‘ Challenge – the Company that isn’t ‘

CHALLENGE ON CHANNEL 46 is at best ‘poor man’s television’ it is neither innovative or good viewing. It is often unattainable with weak or no reception strength at all.  It’s adverts dominate the hours well over the agreed limit imposed on regular channels of the commercial variety.  One evening showing a re-run of the Crystal Maze with Tudor-Pole, the adverts appeared closing the ‘third quarter’ at 6-50 pm…going through 6-55….then returning to the show for 4 minutes….and then back to another onslaught of adverts!  ITS REPEATS are repeating themselves very frequently and the automated studio voice is on a loop throughout the day or week….and then there is the narcissism that it indulges in showing previews of forthcoming stuff over and over….such is bad television.

THESE ‘FREEVIEW’ CHANNELS are at best rubbish, and run on a shoestring budget by dubious companies out to bombard viewers with ads appearing every ten minutes……and importantly, if warm weather arrives they break down…. and you see ‘No Signal’ and neither do you get an apology or explanation to why this high tech stuff was not able to operate….they just come back on 24 hours later pretending nothing happened!  That is your so called free channel system….run by rogues and getting away with poor quality services.

‘ BSkyB Channel unfair monopoly to be investigated ‘

THE TV BSKYB CHANNEL is to be investigated by the TV Watchdog for pushing up prices on premium pay-tv movies.  The Competition Regulator is to look into the reports that BSkyB has the incentive and ability to distort competition, which would mean less choice, less innovation and higher prices.

‘ TV Companies are sexualising children to get ratings ‘

A REPORT SAYS TV SHOWS AIMED AT THE YOUNG are making youngsters ‘ sexual’ in order to grab more ratings.  Much blame goes to the USA programmes which present youngsters as sex objects or always on the lookout for sex at any price. Youngsters are encouraged in shows and TV to dress more sexy, to look older and available.  It accuse the TV producers of warped values. The report looked at 14 shows that are aimed at and involve youngsters including Glee and High School musical themed shows, and agreed that they ‘ were associated with higher amounts of sexual depictions compared to adult shows where bad language seemed to rule more. ‘ It said that it gets youngsters to believe their sole value comes from their sexuality.

THE BAILEY REVIEW — Looking into the sexualisation and commercialisation of children, says it has to be stopped. Mr.Reg Bailey was commissioned to look at tv ads, clothes and billboards by advertisers featuring kids in sexy poses. The British Retail Consortium have signed an agreement to guarantee that retail chains don’t sell sexualised clothing to pre-teens and put up ads giving rise to how sexy it can look on young children. he is also looking at TV and Internet advertising with the intention of putting a stop to blatant selling of sexy items for kids and references making out that kids looking sexy is good and fashionable.

THE CUBE TV SHOW added it’s own sexualisation along with ‘ let’s have the little boy in camera shot’ on the 30th October 2011. Is this show in the child adoration league? or something else. Philip Schofield made several special notices to the young boy thus having several camera shots of the child. In its adverts all sponsored by PLENTY a firm who manufactures table wipes like kitchen towel, viewers were deliberately taken to view the ‘Spanish guy and a close-up of his wiggling bottom to those around him. This would not have been allowed if a child had done it, it would be firmly off limits and called sexualisation, something they tell us is not their aim. But this cannot be brushed aside as they have no real answer.

TV COMPANIES TO FACE FINES over repeat programmes being shown before the 9pm watershed — it says Ofcom have grown very annoyed at the blatant showing of adult theme programmes with foul language and sex being transmitted by TV Companies before 9pm. Ofcom did concede that many of the stations were digital but that will not excuse them. Many of these lewd and suggestive programmes breached the rules — one cited was ‘Road Wars’ going out at 6pm which contained the regular use of the F-word.

TV COMPANIES AND THE ‘CELEBRITY QUIZ’ — More and more quizzes are featuring ‘so-called celebrities’ in specials that eventually becomes the standard show. It used to be ordinary people that appeared and contested for prizes. But now its regular, presumably to keep these ‘celebs’ employed…and they feature the families too. No one seems to have seen that the ‘business’ as taken care of its own…Family Fortunes is now totally ‘Celeb’ and Wipeout goes for celeb editions, The Cube, and many more…Is this the deal that the TV producers form with the entertainments industry to appease flagging show biz careers?

FREEVIEW – HIGHLY UNRELIABLE — Freeview if you can get it?  Many times this so-called Digital Wonder is not there, it simply breaks down without notice…….with ‘Channel unavailable’ or ‘Signal weak’ ….. a little bit like the people who run this service…..provided you think its a service in the first place!    Sky and Virgin have nothing to fear from Freeview…..except the adverts, which they screen about every ten minutes…. with some being double the time getting up to ten or twelve ads in…over 5 minutes in total…..but its free, isn’t it?  repetitive and tacky!

BEFORE GOING ONTO THE SO CALLED CELEBRITIES –

‘ Let’s not forget the Film Companies ‘

Yes, the Crap Directors and their lousy film making — many of whom could not direct themselves even in traffic.  There is also the matter of those video distributers who peddle awful stuff so called ‘direct to video trash’ often with rubbish actors — not fit for the bin (which should be treated with respect)……and lastly the most infuriating 20 – 30 minutes of adverts before the feature which is never wanted by the purchaser which is said to be the distributers little annoying game.

If you wonder where the corruption is in this, it does exist if you go looking for it…..try the Internet pages.

‘ When Celebrities moan they never atone ‘

Recently we see CHAS HODGES of Chas and Dave having a go at Mick Jagger for rudeness and snubbing him and his pop star partner Dave while on an early tour. News for you Chas, most of your lot snub people. He talks of the stones being in a corner and not acknowledging him and Dave, well in fishing around we come up with Brian May of Queen, hung up lately on Foxes — in the face of anger by others and disregarding their views in favour of his own. He often likes to call himself Dr. Brian May moving  in circles with Patrick Moore for one. He and his band except for Freddie Mercury did loads of snubbing when they rehearsed in North London. One musician who accompanied pal Peter Straker, found they ignored him, especially May in those early days.  May has a website and signing-in book for guests, and he never reads it. One comment there is not as ‘fan worship’ as he would like.  You can fool them some of the time May, but not everyone all the time. Jeff Hanlon the management who supported paedophile Gary Glitter were nowhere to be seen when the bubble burst on their star turn, did they accept responsibility? No, they were there to grab the cash and promote him, and did they know about him? — of course they did, they just hoped it wouldn’t have any effect on their profits.  Many of these so called celebrities need adoring, that’s why they cannot function on the real level.  Robin Gibb is another, we saw him looking quite stupid on a ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire celebrity edition ‘ he looked out of his depth and tried too hard to be amusing, but he’s another who can’t get on with anybody ordinary. Their Biography ‘ The BeeGees’ a huge thick thing said very little about truth and more look how wonderful we are. We could add more names here but we don’t want to waste time on these shallow citizens of their own importance.

THE BENEFIT CHEATING POP PERSONALITIES — Just of late we have seen ‘fallen idols of the pop world ‘ appearing in court for defrauding the benefit system having enjoyed fame and a lifestyle that brought them millions or many thousands of pounds.  P.J.POBY alias James Smith was done for defrauding £50,000 in benefits he wasn’t entitled to. BRONSKI BEAT KEVIN CLANCY was in court for defrauding banks out of £10,000 after his career flagged. Recently we see IRON MAIDEN’s PAUL DiANNO being jailed for benefit fraud who appeared before Salisbury Crown Court charged with stealing £45,000.  In another arrest (not benefit fraud–we see WAYNE FONTANA — alias GLYN ELLIS being arrested for non payment of fines, and other information saying he had been jailed for 11 months for setting fire to a bailiff’s car in a previous incident. This comes on top of another rock artist being seen performing on stage whilst collecting invalidity benefit a few months earlier.

QUEEN MAY, yes Brian May, has been protesting about the terrible attitude of obliterating foxes because of bad press. He also took up a feud with an MP which resulted in ‘words between them’  This stargazer known to the high personalities in the Astronomy World is strangely wanting to identify with the ordinary person or assume saviour status. But this saviour has not always been the charmer, Someone who knew him in the earlier days and in the same profession visited Queen at a North London studio with Peter Straker, a close friend of Freddie Mercury. Although Freddie was forthcoming, May was indifferent and did not make any attempt to be friendly. In a recent Matthew Wright programme it was revealed that ‘Animals Welfare’ guru May, had been shooting Deer on his preserve in order to keep them off his land!   ……….. something that May was not too keen to have known.  ………and furthermore…..a fox bit a child in a recent attack…..so May isn’t doing all that well as the Animal Guru.  He may be able to stir up his ‘starry-eyed’ fans into believing him some kind of God, but in essence he’s a bedraggled looking ‘geezer’ who played guitar in a glam rock band…and embarked on a ‘see me, look at me, I’m great’ campaign when Freddie departed…….you don’t really see the other members of Queen,…..they don’t crave recognition beyond the fame they got in earlier days……only May does that.

MAY is the Vice-President of the RSPCA…..he hit out at the critics.  See the Lawyers section and What the RSPCA have been doing to harass….and the case of them trying to ruin a barrister (all to be seen in the files)

A PROGRAMME ON BBCTV 3 called ‘ Most Annoying People’ revealed that Pop Stars and Film personalities along with TV Celebrities’ and we use that word sparingly plus regret, were the most egotistical and selfish people ever known on this planet. They cannot take criticism without flying into a temper and always want to be the centre of attraction. The latter word shows deep emotional problems hiding beneath the false bravado and deceit. Most of these people have no talent but seek out the riches at any cost, mainly to escape an ordinary job and poor wages. They have cracked personalities that are driven by a lust to be liked, but it is just a one-way thing, once they acquire wealth they want no-one to bother them unless it is to their advantage. Sadly the show did not reveal everything there was to see about these boring individuals who parade across the screen and turn out mindless pop records designed for the brainless youth who have no taste, no dress sense, and no goals.

ANNOYING TWINS labelled no talent — JEDWARD defied all the odds and are milking the situation of being able to make £2million in a pop industry that worships image without substance. Simon Cowell labelled them as vile creatures when they failed to be the winners of X-Factor.

THE KINKS RAY DAVIES AND DAVE DAVIES FEUD looks more like a stunt as they emerge again into the spotlight on the back of articles. Dave Davies does TV and Brother Ray gets publicity suggesting the re-launch of the Kinks. It looks too much like a ‘plan’ and that stinks, and they should know better.

PETE DOHERTY on his 26th Drugs Charge makes a mockery out of the law and shows the worst of what pop stardom has to offer. Even his 6-month Jail sentence doesn’t bother him.

ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK leaves debts of near £250,000 as comeback tour fails — so he, a millionaire now living in California decided to fold his tour company just 29 days after it was incorporated. It has gone into voluntary liquidation leaving creditors such as stage lighting, transport, associates and suppliers out of pocket. This flop comes just after his Eurovision catastrophe when the song and him was just second from the bottom, and talking about a bum note; it was obvious the song wasn’t strong enough, not even memorable, the hype only made things worse, and what he resembled on the night was an aged pub singer with no charisma, the sixties was fifty years ago and ‘Please Release Me’ was more fitting for him to get out of the Eurovision contract.

BBC’S ‘ THE VOICE WINNER’ has only 895 copies of her record sold and barely makes it into the top 200. Despite winning a Record deal said to be around half a million, the female winner with much publicity had a flop compared to relative unknowns on the Internet iTunes who have sold more via their fans….it is said that the BBC is spending £22 million on a third series.

EUROVISION ENTRY 2013 BONNIE TYLER suffers embarrassment of having a flop with the song which was released as a single.  Dismal sales despite a high profile promotion flopped leaving Bonnie Tyler at 179 on the top200 chart….the highest position she obtained.  She didn’t fair that better in the Eurovision Show either being in the last eight of a 26 country music entrants.  Like Humperdinck she no longer hits the headlines….and has faded from the public view….a little bit like her web pages, the ones that bar any contact with her unless its business and financially worth it……..luckily at 61, she’s rich and can just park in one of her homes and retire.

HEAVY METAL STAR ARRESTED OVER KILL-WIFE PLOT — Tim Lambesis of the USA band ‘AS I LAY DYING’ was arrested in California  by the San Diego Police Department.  He was charged with ‘soliciting someone to kill his wife’  The Band formed in 2000 had several albums with one in 2007 reaching number 8 in the Billboard Charts.

POP (STAR) – Poor On Personality — which goes for most of these shallow individuals — one such guy that has hit the headlines is MEATLOAF as his masquerade of ‘good guy’ slipped away fast — this overweight American pop star who hasn’t had a hit for ages was never that good; he only thought so, and even bolstered up the Bat out of Hell single by having Cher on board in case it flopped.  He also convinced himself he was a film star, incredibly unsuccessful too….he rambled about in scenes and when he spoke it was like as if he had jelly in his mouth., but he thought his ‘tough guy’ image said it all, it did…..and when those parts dried up he was back to peddling out yet another hits album with Bats out of hell on it…just in case the pop world forgot.  Right now he’s suing a fan (who should have known better than supporting this American crap) for £64,000 because he emulated his idol with artwork on his van……Fan Dean Torkington even has a tribute band to Meatloaf…but now he has met the real guy behind the hero-worship…a guy who has bullied him and called him a fraudulent imposter and cyber squatting…..hence, Meatloaf wants the man’s website address too – to destroy it…..his ego knows no bounds.

RAPPER 50 CENT FACES CHARGES OVER ASSAULT — The Rapper was charged with assault after attacking his girlfriend the report says, after trashing her flat in a rage.  Rapper Curtis Jackson aka 50 Cent, caused injury and did $7,100 worth of damage to her flat.  If he is found guilty he could be jailed for 5 years with a fine.

ROCK STAR JACK WHITE BULLIED WIFE — It is reported that the wife of Jack White, frontman of the band White Stripes has obtained a restraining order against him.  She said he had a vile temper and sends profane e-mails besides the frequent use of derogatory names.

SINGER CHRIS BROWN PLEADED GUILTY TO ASSAULT ON FAN — USA singer Chris Brown broke a fan’s nose when he assaulted him.  The singer appeared before the District of Columbia Superior Court and was sentenced to serve two days in jail and pay court costs of $150…he had faced a possible six months in prison and a thousand dollar fine.  However, he apologised to the fan after rejecting a similar plea deal……which now leaves the fan able to sue Brown quite successfully for a tidy sum.

POP SINGER FACES DRUG CHARGES — Tulisa Contostavlos appeared before Westminster Magistrates charged with supplying class A drugs. (Dec2013)

ROCK FRONTMAN VOCALIST IAN WATKINS of ‘Lost Prohets’ multi-million selling group was Jailed for 35 years at Cardiff Crown Court.  The Pontypridd singer pleaded guilty to a string of sexual abuse charges against young people and was labelled a ‘paedophile’ by observers.  The Judge said Watkins was arrogant and showed no concern to what he had been doing.  The band sold 3.5million albums……they have now split up and HMV have removed the band’s music from sales.

IN THE NEWS: Showbiz stars in ‘TAX AVOIDANCE’ furore — ‘Comedian’ Jimmy Carr came under heavy criticism when it was discovered he was paying just one percent of his income in tax, yet in a sketch in one of his shows he was seen to be having a go and ridiculing the rich who only paid one percent…….he later claimed it was very remiss of him to use the K2 system that moved cash earnings around the system so that it couldn’t be asked to pay tax….this also netted in Singer Gary Barlow from Take That who was in a similar scheme whereby he could pay just one percent too…..despite the fact he recently picked up an MBE for his efforts towards the country?

‘CELEBRITIES?’ and POP STARS IN OFFSHORE TAX  AVOIDANCE — Guitarist MARK KNOPFLER (Dire Straits) has been ousted in a document file so called ‘the Jersey Files’ that has tax avoidance schemes available. GEORGE MICHAEL is yet another and of course GARY BARLOW (Take That) who was in the press recently when he was discovered along with another member of the group.  Many other wealthy individuals — Michael Caine, Bryan Robson, Eddie Jordon, David Beckham and High Court Judge Sir Edward Evans-Lombe just to name a few (for now anyway)…..who are  doing nicely out of these schemes, but under The new Finance Bill they are to be targeted by the Tax man.

‘Local’ Pop musician is labelled disabled benefit cheat — after swindling the public out of £56,000 as he went out to venues playing the double bass in a rock’n’roll group. David Ballantyne was jailed by Leeds Crown Court.

CHERYL COLE SUES X FACTOR USA — She sued the programme producers Blue Orbit for $2.3million dollars for loss of earnings last year…..Her new payout was settled out of court.

JUSTIN BIEBER ARRESTED — The teen USA/Canadian pop sensation was pulled over in Miami by police who followed his Lamborghini…. he was charged with resisting arrest, racing his car, and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.  To add to this, more than 110,000 people signed a petition asking the US authorities to deport him back to Canada…. and revoke his green card.

SINGER DAPPY of N-Dubz was charged by police in connection with an assault.  Essex Police said that the incident took place outside a night club in Chelmsford.   The singer, real name – Costadinos Contostavlos has been bailed.

FORMER BRONSKI BEAT SINGER – Kevin Clancy received a 12 month suspended jail sentence for benefit fraud.  The former backing singer was found guilty of six offences including ‘Falsely Obtaining Benefit’ and ‘Making a false document to deceive’….it was stated that he had two previous convictions for deception.

RAPPER VANILLA ICE IN ‘BURGLARY INCIDENT’ — Arrested, Robert Van Winkle alias Vanilla Ice was charged with stealing by the police.  On being bailed after being at the Palm Beach County Jail, he told reporters ‘that it was all a misunderstanding’  — the incident occurred when the rapper was doing his new show the host of a reality home renovation in Miami close to a vacant property from which items had gone missing/stolen…..and some of the recovered items were discovered at the Rapper’s house.

HIT SINGER TAKEN TO COURT FOR COPYING SONG MATERIAL — Singer Musician Robin Thicke is facing a six day trial after being served with papers from Marvin Gaye’s family who accuse Thicke of plagiarism.  Even though he had a go at the Gaye family with his own writ, things did not go well when it was known that he had lied whilst being drunk when making a sworn statement in regard to his track ‘Got to give it up’.

STAR SCARLET JOHANSSON HITS LEGAL TROUBLE OVER BAND NAME — the new band had been called ‘The Singles’……and within a week of its launch was issued with a ‘cease and desist’ notice from a band of the same name.  Vincent Frederick lead vocalist of The Singles accused Scarlet Johansson of committing a trademark infringement.  He told reporters that his band had been going out as The Singles for 16 years….he added that the star should have had someone check things out on the Internet, because it was there for Johansson to see.

THE LONDON GUITAR CENTRE had 23 guitars seized when they ignored a court order — A customer approached the shop to handle the sale of a rare ‘1959 Fender Jazz master Guitar’ valued at around £3,000, they sold it and didn’t pay the client anything — they were taken to court and a judgement was made against them, and they still did not honour their commitment of dealing honestly with the client — so they had a visit from bailiffs and guitars to double the value were seized and auctioned off…. the shop didn’t pay up, they said they were having trouble with the council…..but even so, you don’t take someone’s property and sell it… and then refuse to pay them!

MUSIC GROUND GUITAR SALES nicked for handling stolen goods.  The North Country Music shop specialising in guitars, ‘collector’s guitars’ were raided and investigated by the police after it was discovered that guitars stolen in Spain belonging to a collector turned up in their shop.  Many were said to have been tampered with, which alerted specialists who uncovered that certain guitars had been taken apart, necks removed and had new paint work added.  Richard and Justin Harrison appeared in court and a conviction was secured.

RADIOHEAD’S THOM YORKE PULLS HIS MUSIC DOWN FROM SPOTIFY — over Royalties row….the singer and front man hit out at the payments being made in their streaming service.  He said the online music distribution was paying next to nothing in royalties to musicians….’new artists on Spotify will not get paid’ he said, ‘but the shareholders in Spotify will’  Yorke until recently supported the company who claimed they were there to give a good deal for new artists….but he no longer sees this, and has removed his new album.

SELF OBSESSED POP STARS — Who Love Themselves!  Yes, not entirely unexpected in the Music Industry. A report by Katherine Knight in the newspapers tells us that more and more so-called pop stars post things about themselves on twitter, flattering pictures and fabricated stories of their image as they would prefer known…you have sites with Justin Beiber posing to look macho, pouting and getting his best side….and then uttering drivel that he hopes the fans will lap up….especially after that untimely incident when he flew into a rage and wanted to assault a photographer.  Brian May, Bonnie Tyler, Nigel Kennedy etc, absolutely lording it with sites dedicated to themselves….of course….saying look at me…..I’m wonderful….this kind of nauseous pretence that they connect with the public….which is a farce at best…..because they never allow an individual to contact them this way.

$8 MILLION HIP HOP  BROADWAY SHOW FLOPS — The new musical lasted less than two months after struggling to sell tickets.  The cast did only 55 performances and received poor reviews.  ‘Holler if ya hear me’ was about a murdered rapper’s poetry and music (Tupac Shakur).

COMIC DUO’S YOUTUBE VIDEO LAMBASTS AND RIDICULES THE POP INDUSTRY — A Norwegian Comedy Duo decided to make a video putting down the pop world by highlighting the pretensions and posing whilst wearing animal costumes.  The video is said to be a hit and has had more than 17 million views.

LABEL DROPS MORRISSEY — Capitol  Records Harvest label have parted company with the singer Morrissey despite his new album selling well.  Morrissey says this is to do with his comments about the label and the fact he speaks out and criticises the music business.  The former SMITHS front man says he’s been snubbed by the TV companies….and in his autobiography they said he had been less than complimentary about the company?

RAP ACT WIN MERCURY PRIZE DESPITE LOW SALES — Scotland’s band YOUNG FATHERS were not overjoyed when they were called upon to accept the Mercury Music prize.  To date they have only sold 2,500 copies of their album ‘DEAD’……which has now been crowned the album of the year.  The Edinburgh Three piece Rap Band’s victory in the music only raised sales by 561.  The NME said that this award was often seen as a curse to new acts, and said they’d never interviewed a more sullen, deadpan and genuinely nonchalant band at an awards ceremony.  Setting aside poor sales, the band are hoping to play larger venues and stadiums!

THE PAYOLLA  RETURN —  Not much is said about the scandal of the DJ’s who took bribes from the Big Recording Company Giants to play certain artists records….some were nabbed, but the Record companies got away with it……Lawyers for those companies shielded their clients by challenging accusers to bring proof,  and eventually the whole thing died down with words like ‘a clean up’ and ‘we are making sure it doesn’t happen’.  But it didn’t stop, it goes on now in 2013, bribes are being paid under the guise of ‘promotion’ by those big record companies that have survived.  Small Independent labels still suffer from ‘the closed door system’ of Radio 1 and others filling their playlists with artists from the big promoters who can pay their way in!   Corruption in this Industry is little revealed or talked about, it just happens behind closed doors with no regulators at all…. if you can pay a large enough ‘donation’ to a DJ or the bosses, then the artist and record will get played, so long as the gravy train continues……and it looks like this will continue.

PERHAPS IT’S TIME FOR U2 TO FADE AWAY —   Free songs to iPhone users met with ‘no thanks’ by thousands of Apple Users.  Many did not want the free album which automatically appeared on their phones.  This was part of an iPhone 6 launch and they saw it as a ‘gift’ to customers.   Instead of thanks many complained that they did not want this album…..and iCloud launched the uploads to 119 countries…thinking they were doing something good?

TAYLOR SWIFT FALLS OUT WITH SPOTIFY — She announced that she was pulling her back catalogue and other material from Spotify, one of the ‘distribution online companies Dementia’ that have sprung up to get fees and commission from music artistes, established or otherwise.  She was not happy about the payment of 0.4 pence given by Spotify for streaming her songs.

AC/DC and MCCARTNEY have also refused to have their catalogues sold from such sites too.

PHIL RUDD OF AC/DC CHARGED WITH  PLOT TO KILL TWO MEN — Phil Rudd the drummer of AC/DC appeared in court charged with conspiring to hire someone to murder.  Living in New Zealand, the percussionist with Scots band AC/DC looked dishevelled as he stood in the dock.  It was said he left the band in 1983 over a bust-up and  rejoined it later in 1994, but was not present at the Press release of their new album. The names of the two men and the hit man was ordered to be suppressed by the Judge.  Rudd is also facing drug charges after cannabis and methamphetamine was discovered at his luxury beachside home in Tauranga, New Zealand’s north island.  It is said he faces 10 years in prison if he is convicted.  Angus Young (in schoolboy shorts etc) has recently had to accept that his brother, fellow guitarist Malcolm Young is no longer in the band due to being diagnosed with Dementia.  AC/DC is going out on a World tour in 2015.

ELVIS LOOKALIKE BRANDED PAEDOPHILE — After being on The Jerry Springer show and singing for Elton John, Elvis Impersonator Louis Fella who claimed to be the number 1 Elvis…was arrested and jailed for 12 months after being convicted as a paedophile.   It was revealed that he had some 900 indecent photos of children on his pc, and that he contacted others similar to himself by e-mail and Skype.

STING FEELS THE STING OF  BROADWAY FAILURE —  Sting found himself replacing Jimmy Nail as his show plummets on the ticket sales.  So in order to provide the audiences with a ‘star’….. himself, he now takes over in the lead role in the hope that his fame will draw in fans from his ‘Police days’ and record buyers…..as he now no longer can depend on theatre-goers to support his Broadway show ‘The Last Ship’, which it might well be.

CANADIAN R & B ARTIST ASSAULTS POLICE OFFICER — News in is that Abel Tesfaye known in Canada under his stage name ‘The Weeknd’ was arrested in Las Vegas in a hotel.  It is said he hit an officer who was trying to break up a fight on one of the hotel floors.

THE OLD PALS ACT IS CRAP — ANOTHER LIE — The Music Biz has this pretence that all is ‘spiffing’ and okay ‘We are networking’ rubbish.  In fact its a load of ‘bollocks’ as one famous punk band said.  One man in particular let this be known, and that was JET HARRIS a former original SHADOWS bassist behind Cliff Richard.  He died not long ago in his Winchester flat.  He spoke out against fellow band members who ignored him and treated him as an outcast.  They didn’t even invite or contact him for a ‘Reunion tour with Cliff’ and chose to book another bass player as a replacement.  That is the plain truth about pals in the Music Industry calling themselves friends… in truth they are just shallow shits of the worst kind….ego ridden and deeply selfish.

THE FAKERS ON LINKED-IN…… A sort of glossy pro take of Facebook…..aimed at Professionals….and jobs; not the creation of or offering, one puts up a CV of sorts and tells everyone…how wonderful you are….and you just seek out names – much like Facebook.  But again, many of these people are not honest or reliable to say the least….. examples being RAY WILLIAMS a one-time big shot on the London Pop Scene…Manager of big names, who picks and chooses what is recorded on his online CV….he quotes being the manager of Ricochet with the ex-Kinks manager Robert Wace….but leaves out Mafalda Hall?  yet she appears on the company’s letterhead in the 70’s…..and why is that Ray?   Well shining some light on that, Mafalda was already planning to leave and looking to join Track Records and become involved with The Who….she’d had enough of Ray and is too polite to say what really went on….but we can see that Ray Williams knew or he wouldn’t have omitted her name from his credits if he really liked her or got on with her!    Secondly we have DEE ANDERSON a sort of Jazz singer with no notable hits with her fame merely linked to The Thunderbirds Puppet series created by her parents Gerry and Sylvia Anderson……she like Williams says things on Linked-in with a falseness that shows both of these people utter promises and offers (Williams) that they have no intention of keeping.

In addition! to the above, it appears that these self obsessed celebrities and pop-stars have been collecting fees from Facebook who are charging users around £11 per contact so that they can get in touch, no wonder they are all for manipulating ‘their own sites’ so there is no contact, they want the fees from Facebook; it’s a sort of scam really, poxy big headed popsters out for cash in any way they can get it.

‘PRETENTIOUS CELEBS’ Self-opinionated, shallow and pathetic can be levelled at these so-called celebrities, especially the ‘new comedians’ that positively ‘suck’ — they often think they’re clever and funny, when in fact, their jokes are completely brainless.  What with X-Factor encouraging a new breed of selfish preening artistes who have a desire to be worshipped (and get at the money) queuing up to have the camera on them so that their pathetic parents can write it in the scrapbook ‘as stardom’….and these quizzes that have dropped real ordinary folk in favour of filling the agents booking sheet with ‘celebs’ because they did sport, or went on a reality TV thing…the Media just promotes it.  Even the adverts are spawning ‘celebs’, so it doesn’t take much to have these nerds on the screen….saying ‘just look at me I’m famous’

HOLLYWOOD ACTOR ROBERT DOWNEY WALKS OUT DURING STUDIO INTERVIEW — In a show of ‘Celebrity look I’m famous’ Robert Downey (of the Iron Man films) objected to questions put to him when he did an interview on Channel 4.  Apparently he was only prepared to discuss the new movie.  It was also revealed that the infamous ‘Violent Film’ maker/actor Quentin Tarantino did the same thing to Channel 4 when he refused to discuss the violence in his movies by the same Interviewer….he too, in act of petulance walked off the studio floor.

TV WEATHERMAN TALBOT FOUND GUILTY — Fred Talbot was found guilty on child abuse/sex charges and faces jail.  His past caught up with him, and his sexual assaults on two boys at the school where he worked in the 1970’s has brought him down.  The one time Celeb’ who pranced about on Morning TV on a floating map was found guilty by a Manchester Crown Court.

‘ Scam Talent Agency StarNow second only to My Space ‘

ONLINE TALENT AGENCY STAR NOW. CO. UK (A New Zealand Company in Wellington) is being known better as a scam by many people who have posted pages on the Web of anger and disappointment as a result of signing up to this agency. Reports of the company not being able to deliver or get anything done abound in large numbers, and all of them appear to call the Agency a scam. Allegations of cheats and con artists appear several times along with disappointments and calls for the company to be closed down.  Those who pay full membership have openly said on the pages that they have been the subject of an extortion racket that has no real ties with the entertainment profession and nor can it provide any proper link to a contract or paid work.  We checked this out and have to admit, most of the ads wanting musicians etc were not prepared to pay anything.  It was more or less — give away your music and talent free — when we looked at their artist members and play list chart, almost all of them had no plays a ‘0’ zero, which translates into not being known or heard of, and little chance of doing so. One guy who was a member earned $3 during six months of his membership which cost him around forty dollars. One girl who wanted to be a model found herself being picked by a porn film company which she instantly declined, but Star Now turned to her complaint and told her it ‘was a job’ —in regard to music, if no one is visiting the site to hear them what company is going to contract them??  Our Investigator e-mailed several Major Record labels and publishing houses, and none of them endorsed this Agency or said they used them.  We also discovered that they boast of having testimonials on their press page, but that is no proof at all, and as far as we can make out the case of a scam is proved. One of their phrases is ‘Your career starts here ‘ They have not issued an answer to their critics or denied scamming, so on all probabilities it looks as if they are into a scam that they believe in.  My space as we said come second to this pie in the sky offering of helping to promote unsigned artistes, when in fact it really promotes the music industry via their Google contract and advertising, even it’s so called friends is a weird scene where people collect people like numbers…one guy on the site told us connecting with friends doesn’t happen, and if you do connect it is short lived…yet some of the members claim 15,000 friends, really rather ridiculous.  So I suppose we have yet another scam here. the only good news is that some group has promised to take down Facebook in November, let’s hope they succeed, let’s hope they get to My Space too.  Note – Star Now is a New Zealand Company, not running in the UK so beware you Brits, they cannot be reported to UK Trading Standards and are not exactly involved in the UK showbiz field nor do they operate in the West End like Wardour street and Regents street where  you would find such reputable talent agencies. Complaints against Star Now can be found by searching for ‘The Star Now Scam’ in the wikipedia pages.

‘StarNow lie Revealed’ ……..We have now obtained what some of the professionals in the Fashion and Modelling area and Music Industry say about Star Now —

Professional Photographer, Frank Longo on models says ‘ You have almost NO HOPE of becoming a top model via the Internet with the occasional exception of You Tube, and that’s free — No top Agency recruits from Web Site agencies’

Virginia Doyle of the Reihardt agency says this ‘ As an Agency who handles top models year in and year out, and grooms new and up and coming ones, we wouldn’t look to Star Now for models ‘

Al Cayo of LOOK, the New York Agency of The Male Division said ‘ We have enough models knocking on our doors and sending in their cv’s with photos, why do we need to go to Star Now? — We don’t, and we don’t use them either.’

Mafalda Hall a former Exec for Track Records says ‘ We wouldn’t look to Star Now or the London agency Writertap for artistes, we have masses of demos arriving every week– we wouldn’t direct our artistes to them either. We have, as so many top Record Companies have, in-house systems and departments that have bona-fide and established agency people of vast experience in the Music Industry. We contact artistes managers not web agencies who charge fees to thousands of hopefuls who are laid bare to cheats, false promises and jobs that do not materialize or even get paid for. Any so-called ‘client’ can put up an advert on these talent agencies and get loads of replies from serious applicants who do not know that the client has very little cash, has no clout in the Industry and is just trying out an idea they have without serious experience to draw from or even the contacts to see it through, and of course, there will be the clients who are intent on stealing new material such as songs or ideas all for free…plagiarism is on the up, and only members with cash can take them to court if they manage to find the thieves. Where will Agencies be like Star Now and WriterTap when a member gets a court case? — running a mile and claiming no responsibility. These Agencies will probably tell you on joining that they do this and that and act very strongly to the benefit of the member, but this is probably all talk…you will find there is no contractual promise to protect your rights or legally act for you.’

IS THERE A LESS DODGY SITE THAN STAR NOW? — One Australian who has put up a blog on the Internet doesn’t think so and invites people to prove her wrong —- so far the replies remain at ‘0’

We turned our attention to Reviews on Star Now and their claims of success? — this was rewarded by a casual look at  www.talkreviews.co.uk which states ‘ No description could be provided as to reviews for Star Now, because the site owner did not provide one — the site made itself not available when Talk reviews tried to contact it.  The web page continually says Cannot Display.

IS Yahoo in the Star Now Lie and Scam? — Yahoo have a question and answer page and many of the comments are from five years earlier, and none or most of them do not ring true — they actually bear the resemblance of being deliberately set up to deceive and give Star Now a boost…..and strangely they label this as ‘ is anyone joined Star Now….is it any good? ‘  the beginning ‘is’ tells you a lot and the probability that Star Now and Yahoo thought the whole thing up looks a definite.  You are not going to get the truth from Star Now or a real survey… we are the site that will tear off its mask and give you the real image.

‘StarNow and the $30 Competition Rip-Off Partnership in the USA.’

They always say never pay anyone to review your musical talent when they are saying they are giving you an opportunity — But StarNow have entered into a partnership with a USA Songwriting Competition saying that they invite entries at $30  dollars each. They claim to have judges Tom waits, Tori Amos, Jeff Beck etc and Record Label Executives. It should be reminded here only one person can win, so thousands more paying that fee will leave this unknown US Organisation with oodles of cash. Hopefuls desperate to succeed will not be able to stop themselves and that is known and beneficial to the organisers. They probably need some of the cash to pay the fees of the Judges who will win anyway.

STAR NOW AND THE FALSE ADVERTISERS — You would be quite mistaken if you thought that applying to one of Star Now’s adverts would lead to a genuine subscriber on their system.  One such advertiser, pretending to be a ‘Producer’ wanted songwriters and performers to give him their creations, in written form, and CD etc, and all to be sent to an e-mail address? ….this ‘Producer’ could not even answer the question of what he had produced! he also put up an incorrect e-mail address…and on being found out….sorry!…a mistake….he promised to talk about the arrangement and made an appointment to phone…..no call…..was reminded….said he had family issues and would be back later?…….and didn’t of course… another thing that emerged was that so-called companies requiring songwriters failed to know what a CAE number was which should raise an alarm as this is an essential part of the music publishing registration besides MCPS and PRS, thus revealing some dodgy listings and advertisers on this site….never send any of Star Now’s advertisers all you have with the lyrics etc, especially to the ‘invented e-mail user accounts’  the material will disappear and your claim to having written the material……the ‘Producer Guy’ said he was collecting a portfolio……don’t let him have your stuff or anyone else without a phone number and address…..Star Now will not be supporting you if you are ripped off by one of their clients…..they are based in New Zealand…….and they don’t care!

‘ StarNow and the unauthorised access to members cash ‘

A Very disturbing feature of what the StarNow Agency is up to when a member is completely unaware (it is normally called theft in legal terms).  We can reveal that StarNow accessed a member’s PayPal account and took a six month payment without authorisation. The member, who had written to the company via e-mail had only just expressed how disappointed he was with their agency and that he wasn’t going to continue with them.  Despite this and the staff at StarNow being aware of the message, their finance division merely went straight to his Paypal account and took nearly £30 for another six months without explanation or a formal request for these funds.  We contacted Paypal, giving them details of this incident…and their client was immediately refunded by their resolution team who confirmed their had been ‘an unauthorised payment made to StarNow’ and apologised for not spotting this until the client complained a few days after discontinuing the membership with the ‘ talent agency ‘

DO THE FIGURES REALLY MATCH UP?  — A member having been involved in forming an ‘actual’ project did a listing…seeking talent for the project — the expectancy of wannabe’s was large in view of it leading to a possible recording deal……yet after days there was only 13 applicants…and an investigation on StarNow’s pages showed 303 viewings, not big as ‘hopefuls’ go….so where did the 290 vanish? …presumably they were encouraged to seek this ad out because it matched their criteria…something that StarNow praise themselves for…and recommend as they claim they notify members of ads suited to their profiles.  A look at some ads just featuring songwriters wanted have around 900 viewings claimed?……are these exaggerated?  because it certainly looks like it.

Note: What we show here merely scratches the surface….so we will continue to bring you more on Star Now.

‘ The CDBaby Customer Rip-off Scam ‘

ANOTHER AMERICAN SCAM in league with MySpace (Americans).  We keep finding that The Americans are behind most of these ‘rip-off’ scams involving the subtle deceit of pretending to be of great help when in fact they are extorting cash out of the unsuspecting customer.  CD Baby are labelling themselves as a company who help musicians promote their recorded content and place the product out on the Internet via online stores (some of whom are dodgy too, in that they offer 5p to 10p for a song, which is pitiful and should be outlawed).  They make many noises about being Mp3, but actually deal in wav sound files…..but that’s not discovered until you come to upload.  And while we are on the subject of uploading……3 four minute songs takes up to 45 minutes to upload, which is ludicrous and reminds one of the speed thing the pc’s of 2000 took to do connected up to a phone line.   They also go on about doing CD’s for the customer, but nicely omit to say what that cost would or will be…..we did our own research into a South of England CD copying firm…..and the quote for 100 pressings with labels were well over a £100…no wonder CD Baby don’t like to mention the money here!……..They also charge $20 dollars for getting you a bar code, which might seem fair, if it wasn’t for other music distributers charging nothing!……..Then there is the huge time consuming form-filling thing online, which can take up to an hour or more, as it requires information either conjured up immediately or stored elsewhere on your computer ………..and guess what?  they charge you $49 dollars  (This expenditure is not mentioned until the final bill) despite you doing all the work…..so you have now spent $69 dollars trying to get some sales on your product.  Then you see your return?  saying 91 per cent (not guaranteed as 91 pence)…….and if as we suspect this really means cents….then you only get around 50p(or lower) on a downloaded track, provided it’s sold with someone like iTunes (another American Company) because it could well be much lower, and nothing!………….so who’s getting the money here?  the musician or CD Baby?………the latter of course, because they got an upfront $49 dollars to start with….and that applies to every application made…..so that means they’re in the money…..and you?…….you just keep waiting to see that non existent cash flow that doesn’t come your way…….they also try to con you with ‘customer satisfaction’ stuff that clearly looks fake……so if you want to be scammed, use these thieving Americans, they’re happy to take your money….anytime….any day……..you’ve been warned!

‘ CD Baby and the Lawsuit ‘

CONTINUING THE ABOVE – We have actually confirmed it by pushing aside those Search Engine ‘false blogs and self congratulant websites’ and as we always do, dig out those hidden facts that tell the real story about CD Baby –  It is very obvious that CD Baby went downhill in 2009 angering many who thought this module and template for the musician was ‘for the rights of music makers’…….and staggeringly it still persists in 2012 according to our in-depth research:   Headlines like ‘ CD Baby becomes a Disappointment ‘  and ‘ CD Baby bombarded by thousands of Complaints ‘ seem to blow the ‘caring for the customer’ image right out of the door.   One of their believers and steadfast supporters changed his view on CD Baby and has this to say:  CD Baby is now just like a plain e-commerce site, out to fleece the Independent Artiste Community, money grabbing etc (Richard MacLernale says on an internet page).  He goes on to say that CD Baby hasn’t reported digital sales figures since May (2009), they ignore e-mails (and we tried one the other day May 2013 which came back via The Hotmail Postmaster with a notice that it had been ‘delayed’)……he also says they don’t answer the phone. More on his blog can be seen at www.chrisporter.com      We delved further and came across a website the CDBabyLawsuit……explains it all, this complainant and user of CD Baby’s so called distribution service can be seen on the www.complaintsboard.com  who accuses them of ‘allowing artistes to pay for services they know they cannot provide!  He says he paid them 55 dollars for distribution…..which after two months they still hadn’t carried out their ‘contractual duties’ which they insist the new client must read (which must be ‘do as we say but not as we do’)… and his music did not show up as ‘available’ on their website…. he firmly says ‘THIS COMPANY IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.’  As to the Lawsuit we tried to follow that, but found it removed! by persons unknown? or otherwise…..could this be ‘toddler intervention?’           

We move on to March 2012 — Another disgruntled artiste tells us they uploaded a CD for distribution with CD Baby and were charged $49 dollars which was referred to as a ‘One time, one Lifetime fee’……during the upload a mistake occurred…..and they contacted the Customer Services….and found to their horror and disgust that the CD Baby company wanted them to pay out another $49 dollars for the artiste to edit the upload, regardless of their contractual ‘One time, one lifetime fee’ as expressed and implied.  The Customer Service did the usual thing of ignorance and wouldn’t budge….the artiste claimed a refund……but again got nowhere…….this is a very recent complaint…..and can be seen on www.ripoffreport.com

Yet another  CD Baby rip-off: It now looks like the water tap has been turned on to reveal the ‘dirty water’ from the overflow.  We now have a case where a client artist had to pay the whole thing twice due to an error made by CD Baby……which brought their total to $138 dollars…..all because CD Baby don’t answer the e-mails as we pointed out earlier, they actually and deliberately ignore them in order to prosper from any foul ups.  They actually have a notice that says this at the audio upload stage ‘ Please note that our tracks must meet all of our partners standards before we begin processing your album submission, if there are any problems we will e-mail you immediately so you can upload new tracks’ —- actually, they don’t do any of this, it’s a complete lie and fabrication.  In this case they didn’t even spot the ‘dud’ track which had been cut in half….they just went ahead and were prepared to send it to all online shops like it was…and did a preview piece they made of the three tracks…..the client e-mailed them to no avail…..and in desperation had to abort that album….and start again.  They also had to pay again…..and what about ‘customer service?’  there wasn’t any…………..this is real CD Baby values.

Two more actual complaints out of many on the Internet.

Its now coming to many artist’s attention, that CD baby employees are setting up Bogus and scam retail seller accounts on amazon.com etc. They are duplicating discs and keeping the proceeds, I believe musicians are filing with a substantial evidence record to the federal bureau in portland, oregon.for an internal account enquiry, Hopefully this will lead to the real story coming to light.
Joe

9th of May, 2014

I uploaded a song to them recently and find them terrible to deal with – the left hand just doesn’t seem to be communicating with the right, you get automated generic emails from them which are misleading and don’t aid communication and on top of that they have ignored most of the emails i’ve sent them anyway which i think is really unprofessional in this day and age. They have all these rules about the pictures submitted for the musicians artwork which seem really picky and which i’ve never come across when uploading songs and pictures to any other online distributor and because they kept ignoring my emails i eventually had to call them from europe and was then kept on hold for an age before someone finally took my call – when i pointed out that i had sent in 3 emails without getting any response over the previous week i was told that that they hadn’t been in the office for the last 2 days – in fairness it was coming off a weekend but is it justifiable that an international company of this size would shut up shop from friday to monday every week? They really need to start putting the customer first, after all they’re the ones who are keeping their lights on – definitely not recommended

Madra

We have news in that one client is approaching the Portland Police in the USA and making a charge of fraud against the online distributors……..so we will follow this and be back with the details etc.

CD BABY ‘nothing but the truth, well nothing actually’ — Several customers of this so-called distribution company say they have been ‘short-changed’ by CDBaby when they came to look at their sales….many said the cash was so little that it looked as if their CD had sold to about six people in one street, whereas they’d chosen to have their product sold ‘worldwide’   Others were quick to notice that certain places they’d told their fans to look at which CDBaby had mentioned, their tracks and CD had no mention and nor was it being sold there.  When they complained to the company they were ignored.  One girl called Elli discovered that CDBaby had taken the money twice for one CD Album….and got nowhere with her inquiries and complaints….and to top it all, over a period of six months she didn’t even receive 40 dollars in sales……yet it cost her over 60 dollars to go with this company, which she says she will now steer clear of, and warns others to do the same.

Another thing we spotted, which could be called ‘a breach of contract and unfair terms’ is that when a client of CD Baby opts to not sell a track on its own…..this is not adhered to by CD Baby who say they cannot impose this on other online music outlets?………absolutely ridiculous…..if an EP or album is $9.99…..with no tracks sold separately….. how can it be worthwhile to the artist if it goes to other dealers for 99 cents a track……who’s going to pay the $9.99?……this never happened in the 80’s and 90’s….there was a retail price guide, which gave a fair return to the artist………what CD Baby are doing here is colluding in a scam to devalue and take financial advantage of a situation they have created.

On closing this for now, we started to take a look at other Internet Music Distribution….and discovered that there is a scandal waiting to break…….because many online music distributors are ripping musicians off.

ONLINE MUSIC DISTRIBUTION SPOTIFY IS ACCUSED OF PAYING ARTISTS NEXT TO NOTHING ON ITS STREAMING SERVICE — THOM YORKE OF RADIOHEAD PULLS HIS ALBUM OFF.

‘The Big Online ‘Records Distribution Scam ‘

THE EVER INCREASING RIP-OFF one that is not being addressed at all by the Financial Authorities….have you ever wondered where your royalties have gone?  and why the ‘returns’ don’t add up no matter how hard you try to blame yourself and find an ‘error’  — Don’t look any further than these ‘multiplying’ highway robbery firms that call themselves online distribution such as CD BABY, Tunecore and Ditto etc, who set up without no experience or qualifications in the Music Industry, they’re just Computer Geeks who see a ‘killing’ they can make on the gullible.  They are completely unregulated and have no agreements with Industry — even when they draw up the ‘unfair’ contracts it’s worded so that they take no blame for anything that goes wrong, they throw off all liability yet capitalize out of a musician’s intellectual property thoroughly and absolutely.  These many online ‘fairy godmothers’ say anything and print loads of ‘online shops’ they have deals with, but often when an artist has put up a single or album for distribution — they cannot find the sale and often come across ‘could not find a match’ when they use a search engine.  The other side is financial rip off, beside store name cloning, and an artist receives a lot less than they were expecting despite consulting their fan bases…..CD BABY gave just fifty dollars to one guy who knew this was a theft and he blogged that they had ripped him off.

ONLY JUST A SHORT WHILE AGO IT WAS FOUND THAT ‘FAN RIGGING’ was coming out of India regarding stars who endorsed tweets for gifts….and an undercover reporter who set up a fake band and bought thousands of fan hits all fake to bolster the impact of the project….and even COCA COLA was in there…..issuing all sorts of denials.  Facebook was being used to invent fake profiles in the thousands all controlled by guys in Media companies offering to fake instant recognition for fees…..that’s the Show Biz and Music Industry of today.

NB. You can read about Myspace further down in their own ‘rip-off’ mode and complaints and porn investigation etc.

‘ The Fostex Dilemma —  ‘Peddling Crap’

We all know the phrase ‘used to be’ which often means the great days are well behind them, and FOSTEX are in this category…. especially with their recording gear, once desired, and now no longer needed.  We’ve heard of their ‘budget 8 trackers with very little hard drive memory which causes the buyer loads of problems and the limitation on track use –‘unknown to the user’ because the limit could not be found in the manual….which isn’t of that much use anyway.  Then we have the ‘D; series of the multitracker with the lift off front panel, supposedly used by the best?   What you’re not told is that they baulk on tracks with ‘hiccupping’ and even ‘ghost’ reversals has been known…mainly down to a faulty drive that does not reveal this for a year or so….this obviously affects reliability….so if its reliability you want and the truth, go elsewhere for a recorder that gives value and not huge problems like Fostex.

The Web Providers:

‘ Web Sites are spying on Internet Users ‘

NOT SURPRISING REALLY, they have the technology and the desire for money, so one should not be surprised if they engage in ripping off users and secretly using data that is deemed to be protected — when it isn’t.  Recent news tells us they using hidden software to track users habits and collect data which they then sell off or supply to others, including Government Security Agencies.  The report says they are actually monitoring people’s personal banking and purchasing like E-Bay and Amazon….all unknown to the account users of those sites….they gave examples of just a few firms such as T-MOBILE, WESTERN UNION,…..leaving out many more.  In its initial investigation the researchers found 145 sites…..some using Flash Player software…..and 404 used Java Script to secretly lodge the spyware….. Big Brother Watch said that for many of these sites ‘the privacy thing did not appear to be an obstacle they couldn’t sidestep ‘……..it was also quite obvious many were profiting from getting users personal data.

‘ YAHOO NOT SO IMPARTIAL POLICY ‘

YAHOO appear to be convivial, all embracing agents of fairness, — NOT SO.

An Insider at British Telecom says that their association with Yahoo despite BT being tagged to Yahoo visually online, has in fact been terminated according to the source.  A disagreement over policy issues is suggested has being one of the main reasons for the parting of the ways.

Another consideration to suggest Yahoo are not to be trusted comes from a trusted source who says that they act arbitrarily or at a higher powers wishes as in the case of a Lawyer who put pressure on Yahoo and without further ado got them to do his bidding.  They censored the person and threatened to remove them.

Yahoo in trouble again.  A report says that Yahoo fail to meet promises set by the company to clients.

YAHOO GEOCITIES   is being closed by the web provider who are yet again in the business of silencing views or groups the authorities do not like.  Yahoo work in hand with the ‘big brother theory’ and some of the groups under the Geocities openly protest about wrongdoings, now they are being suffocated by the Yahoo bosses who are in fact riddled in corruption.  They only pretend quite falsely to be open, but their policies suggest and show their real object == make money, make friends with the industry giants and freedoms that might get in their way.

YAHOO BROWSER HAS BEEN DROPPED BY BT – News in says that BT are informing all Internet users on BT that they are closing down their link with Yahoo, and are advising customers to find an alternative browser.  We called BT and were told that there was no further contract with yahoo or would be.  They would not go into detail about the problems they were having with Yahoo, but we understand from past moves that the relationship was poor and over administration contracts.

YAHOO IN LOTTERY SCAM — Yahoo have been named as ‘ enabling con artists to rob consumers ‘ in that they allow associates to send out false win messages to vulnerable targets of the fraud. Many people suddenly get a Yahoo message saying ‘ You have won on the lottery’ and only in small characters is the one that is sending this out, Yahoo are heading the message.

YAHOO AND THE LACK OF SECURITY — A recent report revealed that Yahoo could not protect passwords on their own site, and that they were urging people to change passwords because their safety security was flawed by a technology defect in their own structure. What more reason do you need to boycott this web company?

YAHOO BEING SUED BY SINGAPORE PRESS — SPH, a leading Press house in Singapore, which also has the STRAITS TIMES — Government owned, so this may be government led, are suing YAHOO in the Singapore High Court for copyright infringement.  They have lodged the writ citing 23 occasions when Yahoo printed content on the web without authorization. It is said to be the first time a News Company has sued a website. It claimed the articles were related to politics and crime.

YAHOO PROVIDE THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES WITH ACCOUNT HOLDER INFO TO IMPRISON JOURNALIST — The lengths Yahoo will dip down to ceases to amaze.  Dissenter and critic of China’s rulers, Shi Tao, is serving 10 years in jail for allegedly trafficking in state secrets, possibly cooked up by the communist government. His crime was to use his Yahoo account to e-mail instructions from a central propaganda department to an overseas website concerning the coverage of the anniversary of the crackdown in Tiananmen Square.  When asked about their role in revealing Shi’s identity to the Chinese Police, Yahoo simply said it was complying with local law. It strangely says very little about its involvement in helping China with technology to aid China’s repressive policies. They also say very little about being summoned to Capitol Hill and appearing before a Congressional sub-committee and being reprimanded for co-operating too closely with Hu’s crackdown on China’ critics.

YAHOO CHIEF  EXPOSED OVER ‘FAKE DEGREE’ — Yahoo caught again. Director Scott Thompson becomes the fifth director to leave Yahoo. News says that his degree listed on his CV said it was a Computer Science Degree which was found not to be true by activist shareholder David Loeb who sought his dismissal. Yahoo have said they are near to reaching a ‘truce’ and are discussing an agreement with Loeb.

YAHOO ACCOUNT HOLDERS ARE SPIED ON AT HOME — A report has revealed that Yahoo knew and said nothing about the British Government and the programme ‘Optic Nerve’ which is operated by those at the GCHQ who regularly observe and spy on millions of Yahoo users in their homes as they use the webcam chat system.  The company claim ‘surprise’ in an attempt to lay the blame elsewhere.  They agreed that these activities were a new level of violation on privacy…. something the British Government pretend to care about….which it clearly doesn’t.  Optic Nerve was in place in 2008  and within just months the spying was covering 1.8million Yahoo users, and thanks to Edward Snowden……..we all now know.

YAHOO AND THE ‘NO COMPLAINTS ADHERED TO’ STORY — What can one say about Yahoo that hasn’t been said of this awful Internet Company? nothing really, they have enough complaints, but none you can readily find.  Because they are all ignored by staff at their helpline which is a sort of no-go area where commonsense is not readily available.  They strangely pretend to be so friendly at their help desk while protecting the company from bad publicity.  But as with any of the Web Giants, it’s all ‘hokum and deceit on a grand scale, thoroughly planned and carried out, amid court actions lodged against them for more serious matters both criminal and civil. They treat account holders of e-mail accounts with contempt…..one new account holder, a pensioner who is still trying to come to terms with computers and the Internet…managed to form an account with help but rarely used it because of his lack of knowledge….logins confused him as did the password saga.  Sadly when he boldly went to look at his e-mail he got locked out of his account and couldn’t understand why — well, it was a simple case of memory and a missed number brought him stress and grief, all added to by Yahoo staff who made him go through hoops and questionnaires etc,  Even when they finally got the message; and that took these genius’s a long time…. in fact around two weeks.  They wouldn’t let him complain even though he had requested to make an official complaint three times during e-mails with them.  They actually ignored his right to complain and he eventually gave up.  Obviously to us here at this site, this is the way Yahoo kills off complaints and do not allow them to be conveyed to a forum or actual department in Yahoo, which of course there isn’t!

YAHOO AND THE NO REPLY SERVICE TO USERS —  It is indeed a strange and dubious practise to say that they can be contacted, when in fact this is not true….only by their address ( Yahoo, 701, First Avenue, Sunnydale, California,  CA 94089)…even trying to access old accounts have the usual ‘blind’ problem…in that they are asked to verify their account…and a box appears saying that there is a number or quote that must be entered…but it cannot be seen….and the contact bit leads to another blind alley…because if your query doesn’t match the ridiculous assumptions they have pre-printed….you have nowhere to go.  The only kind of company that does this sort of thing is a ‘crooked one’ and Yahoo have all the hallmarks of this kind of operation.

YAHOO are FLAWED and they cannot be ruled out as being corrupt.  Any news on their corrupt activities or whistleblowers who have serious accounts of insider crimes that need revealing — we want.

‘ AMAZON, NOT THE FIRST CHOICE, NOT IF YOU WANT RELIABILITY ‘

It has been learned by our source that AMAZON the online shopping company had one of their bigger clients pull out.  The Toy Firm decided not to continue with Amazon after policy arrangements became unacceptable for the company and they saw selling with the company as unworkable.

AMAZON are linked to ‘ backdoor deals ‘

AMAZON were investigated and found to be engaged in the sale of offensive and illegal weapons such as any kind of knife, pepper sprays and cs gas, 

AMAZON staff deliberately delay any complaints by side-tracking them into nowhere.  The system ‘ contact us ‘ is geared to veer the complainant away and it’s automatic response completely leaves out the subject ‘ complaint ‘ and why is that?  — they do not want to record any so that they can claim there are non, and furthermore they do not wish to hear.

AMAZON fail on promise to stop fake brand name goods being sold via the site.  Yes, another vow to clean up set aside in the interest of profits, not really surprising.

BEWARE OF AMAZON – they are concealing evidence that customers have been hoodwinked by their system into revealing bank card numbers and details – thus having their accounts dipped into by online thieves, Amazon offer no redress or help in this area saying that they have no control, but it is their messages that are fooling customers into repeating their details and wondering why they should have to having dealt with the company over a period of time.  The fooled customer is trapped into revealing details and this leaves their accounts to be plundered due to the activities of AMAZON.

AMAZON RUN HIGH PREMIUM TELEPHONE HELPLINE SCAM – Customer messages sent via e-mails to customers other than the automated ones, are suggesting a complainant contacts their helpline amazon.co.uk//help – and if you do, on arrival you will find 0904 169 0065, and guess what? they say in small print – this telephone directory is not affiliated with Amazon?  if this were true, then why are Amazon steering their helpline to this site? because they have links with them of course, who do Amazon think they are kidding?

AMAZON could not care less in regard to whether they resolve an issue, be that a customer loses out or is a victim of fraud, they simply con the buyers and sellers into thinking they are respectable and can be trusted; it’s absolutely nonsense, this company is corrupt.

AMAZON PUBLISH GUIDEBOOK FOR PAEDOPHILES – Amazon were forced to stop the guidebook after complaints. The web giant bosses had to comply with public pressure, and would not comment after they had pulled the book from its site.  In doing so it proves censorship truly lives, something that Amazon said it was not going to do or give into, but they did.

AMAZON SACRIFICE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION TO PLEASE AUTHORITIES — AMAZON yet again show that they cannot be trusted or relied upon. Corruption in AMAZON is at an all time high according to leaked sources and we await further developments on this so we can print the details. Freedom took a back seat also when AMAZON interfered with the banking and funding online services on their servers for Wikileaks, by removing them for the government and state who are actively seeking to silence them. The main player is the USA, and this is not really surprising as they have more departments acting covertly than any others. Secrecy whilst claiming to be open has been a by-line to their history, and strangely we all know how they try to suppress corruption on a day to day basis. The UK sidekicks act or jump when the master-race shout from their Sheriff offices — claiming to do this as a sign of the special relationship.

AMAZON is a U.S. Company remember that when you get conned by them.

AMAZON use  Luxemburg to avoid paying higher UK tax.

AMAZON SHARES PLUMMET DOWN ON EXCHANGE as poor sales results show the company not in such a good condition as they portray on the open market…….Mail Money News February 2012.

THE DISGRACE THAT IS AMAZON — A company that pretends to provide a service of excellence whilst not achieving it, is company that conceals much in the hope of hoodwinking the casual observer. We shall now illustrate a case we shall call the one that tells all — A customer, who had been bitten once already by poor service, bought on Amazon and paid promptly through PayPal…the order to one of Amazon’s sellers went through on the 15th of the month — the seller e-mailed through the Amazon system that dispatch of the goods took place on the 17th and amazingly used the long route asking that delivery had up to the 31st….The buyer got worried by the 28th, as they had ordered other items that arrived in just 4 days; quite the norm, an e-mail sent to the seller was not replied to…then Amazon on the 31st said they had a problem with the seller, but insisted that the aggrieved party the buyer should wait until the 4th of the next month to make a claim, which of course takes time to process….this is a disgrace of such a company and one should steer away from buying there.

The goods never arrived — and Amazon already knew they were not going to — that is the Amazon Guarantee.

AMAZON.Com inc  — AND THE COMPLAINTS YOU SHOULD SEE BEFORE TRADING — The Seattle Company mostly ignores complaints as can be read and seen on web pages that have had to be set up because Amazon doesn’t want them to be seen.

COMPLAINTS BOARD — go to www.complaintsboard.com and you will read the first 100 complaints by clients and customers that have had poor service and rotten deals due to this company. It lists Amazon as committing fraud, gift certificate theft and online scams and much more — so check it out before placing an order.

amazon@pissedconsumer gives the lowdown and real truth behind the Amazon Company Welcome and shows the failures by the corporation and how they are intent on ignoring the issue of complaints.

Another hefty complaints against Amazon is www.grumbletext.co.uk which spells out the complete dissatisfaction by customers who have been ripped off by Amazon and that their complaints are ignored — there is a huge list so put your reading specs on.

D of Duluth on Feb 2/2012 tells us he is out by 100 dollars and had to wait for a refund that took two weeks.

TWO WEEKS — yes, we can confirm that Amazon make the ripped off customer wait 4 days after the final expected delivery date, then add more misery by saying they require 14 more days just to reach a decision on a claim….even though they were well aware that the sellers in question were dodgy.

AMAZON AND THE PACKAGING FIASCO — Their motto emblazoned in the small print is – we save on packaging and deliver economically in line with saving the planet — but this is not true.  They have been found to be sending things over-packaged in the majority of cases. Things as small as a cup or metal blades are in boxes four times the size of the item…..and this translates itself into higher postal rates, something that is not on the side of the customer.

THE AMAZON TAX SCANDAL — We have been saying that Amazon have been up to no good for a long time, and at last the wider world is hearing that AMAZON DID NOT PAY ANY COMPANY TAX IN BRITAIN FOR TWO YEARS. The American Internet giant has been secretive and staying clear of paying tax in the UK until now. Finally, the UK Authorities are to begin an investigation into the company, and in the light of this, Japan, Germany and France are also in the wings to do the same.  Amazon failed to pay Corporation Tax which would have been around £35 million, and they have just been caught before fleeing off to a tax haven in Luxemburg, moving their headquarters from London to Luxemburg.  The HMRC has said it can’t discuss the Amazon Tax situation for legal reasons, and Amazon issued a gobbledygook explanation that made no real sense other than it being an excuse.

AMAZON ADVERT BANNED BY ADVERTISING STANDARDS — Amazon have had an advert banned after the Watchdog Advertising Standards declared the advert misleading.  It said membership and delivery free package at £49 annual subscription.  Amazon said they had to word the advert this way, but the Watchdog said Free wasn’t as the charge for membership caught the customer and they were paying £49 annually…so the Watchdog said it was a misleading statement and offer.  They told Amazon to remove it and come up with a clearer advert.

BUY ON AMAZON AND YOU COULD WAIT 15 DAYS BEFORE DELIVERY — And even then, it may not arrive at all, such companies as Zoverstock who do DVD’s regularly make customers wait the full period of fifteen days before they receive ‘the prepaid order’……and this company has at times failed to send anything to the customer which then means a whole lot of red tape to get through…..Amazon has a poor record on addressing problems and while the post office tells us ‘ we normally take just a week to deliver a second class package’ the firms use Amazon’s postal policy of 15 days to their advantage…… and this appraisal is not linked to any statistics at all.

AMAZON IN DRUGS FOR SALE ONLINE — Fury has erupted over ‘deadly drugs’ being allowed to be sold on the Amazon site…….A Health Watchdog and Charity Drugscope say that the deadly sachets of the drug salvia are being sold online by John Strong Supplies for £7.99.

AMAZON ACCUSED OF DELIBERATELY UNDERCUTTING SMALL FIRM — Giant Website Selling Merchant Amazon ran into new trouble when they were accused of using ‘underhand’ tactics to force out small businesses such as those that are family run.  The family-owned kitchen goods firm were trading on Amazon and suddenly found one of their products being undercut price-wise because Amazon had gone to their source and suppliers, Lurch and an item called ‘Spiraliser’….the family firm ‘Juicers’ claimed they had sole and exclusive British rights to the product.

MAN SUES AMAZON OVER BOOK — Ken Cook is looking forward to finally getting Amazon into the Small claims Court next February (2015).  He says it has been a nightmare trying to sue them amid a campaign by the Ministry of justice to deny people their rights in the County Courts by making it too expensive.  He says the fault lies mainly with incompetence in the courts as they get overwhelmed by too many cases.  Mr Cook wrote a travel book…and he started his claim against Amazon in February 2014.  He says this has played well for big companies like Amazon…..they know that the mere peasants can’t afford to keep the lawyers in the manner they expect and decline to sue.

If we get more on Amazon we will consider making a special link page with the whole story on Amazon Rip-off.

‘ GOOGLE IN TAX AVOIDANCE GIVES WEAK EXPLANATION ‘

GOOGLE, ONE OF THE WEB GIANTS made sure it escaped a UK tax bill of £450m concerning corporation tax it was revealed.  The Web company claimed their Irish registration in Dublin was in line with normal practice as stated by their spokesman, Peter Barron.  UK accountants said the revenue of £1.6billion in advertising had stayed in Britain would have been subject to  28-30 per cent tax, but this could not be levied and the only bill Google was liable for was £141,519 — a mere fraction of what should have been paid.  Google’s lawyers realized they could not dodge the tax by tax evasion and the alternative could only be avoidance — a way that is accepted by the law, this secured them a legal position in not paying.  This is certainly an example of the bigger you are the more you can get away with, and Google like Bill Gates think they are above any law.

‘ Three Google Executives Guilty of Violating Privacy Laws ‘

DAVID CARL DRUMMOND, GEORGE DE LOS REYES and PETER FLEISCHER of Google were given suspended jail sentences after a video on their site showed an autistic boy being bullied. The European Commission is said to be considering fines that could top a billion pounds.

‘ Google streetview featuring a naked child is condemned ‘

GOOGLE WALKED INTO ANOTHER GAFF when a mapping service featured a naked child on the web.  It had scenes of the boy with his trousers down  in a toilet on Wimbledon Common.  Google have apologised but despite this the registration of the mother’s vehicle could be possible to trace.

‘ GOOGLE UPSET CHINA OVER CENSORSHIP ‘

It is quite sad to see the first three articles in the light that they defend free speech and take on China over its attempts to gag items and suppress truth.  Google threatened to pull its internet services out of China  if the Beijing Authorities continued with their filtering and censorship of internet searches by residents of China using Google.  It is stated that this row may upset negotiations with Microsoft who are set to be pulled into the national quarrel. Relations between the United States and China dipped to a level equal to the mistrust and suspicion that existed during the ‘ cold war period ‘.

‘ Google face more legal action over snooping — from France ‘

FRANCE IS ABOUT TO PROSECUTE GOOGLE after the web giants ‘scooped up’ personal information of internet users while doing their street view service.  The Data Protection Agency in France is investigating the U.S. Internet Giants to see if they broke their privacy laws.  It also appears that several other countries are already considering taking Google to Court over the same issue. France fined Google £87,000.

‘ Google can’t stay away from trouble ‘

GOOGLE have annoyed and stirred up the situation again — Only a few weeks ago they were given a reprimand over the image of a nude young boy being easily seen on one of their mapping and camera stunts.  Now it seems they have broke the law regarding private computer data regarding these ‘ street view’ activities.  Australia are set to put Google in court for deliberately breaching privacy regulations.  Federal Police are already carrying out investigations into Google over the matter before charging the giant website of criminal activities.

‘ Google in corruption scandal ‘It seems like the friendly ‘ oh look at us doing good ‘ company have secrets to hide on a massive scale.  Our undercover man has found out that company executives are fiddling the books to an alarming figure, but of course nothing will be done about this because of the way they are needed on the Internet.  Several directors are pocketing huge sums and diverting cash to hidden accounts right under the noses of auditors who are too dim to discover this

‘ Google are not to pay fine over the street-spying ‘

GOOGLE ESCAPE FINE — Google  were accused of stealing private e-mails, passwords via their street mapping system by the Information Commissioner. It was stated that they seriously breached the Data Protection Act, yet in the end their influence ended up with no action being taken despite the offences?

‘ Google are the tops in the lies department ‘

We have recently intercepted a internal document that points to mis-truths and deliberate lying by Google staff and managers. It appears that Help-line staff are not there to really assist but control the users according to the briefing that says the customer is not always right and should be turned away if a problem occurs.

‘ Google, simply one of the worst web search engines ever ‘

THERE IS NOTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT GOOGLE AT ALL, many problems, many complaints, all attributed to this woeful abysmal web host whose achievements are few, unless you count extorting cash out of innocent people looking for a good deal on the Internet, of which there are few.  It never addresses complaints, lies, cheats and still reckons it is a pioneering site, but being American says it all…loud noise and cowboys.

‘ Google Payout $500 million over Canadian Viagra Incident ‘

GIANT SEARCH ENGINE COMPANY GOOLE paid out a huge 500 million dollars rather than fight it out in court. The company decided to make a settlement with the U.S.Dept of Justice, after it made claims that the Justice Department was making money from Canadian Adverts selling prescription drugs to U.S. customers.

‘ Google is being sued by Max Mosley ‘

GOOGLE THE INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE is being taken to court by Max Mosley who accuses them of leading people to articles and links to illegal orgy images.  Mr.Mosley said if Google had not placed the images there allowing everyone to look at them and make judgements there would be no need to sue, but they don’t care, said Max.  Google replied by saying they would remove the pages if ordered to by a court.

The Max Mosley Case has begun in Germany (Sept 2012) — Hamburg State Court is now in session and hearing the case against GOOGLE — the breaching of its privacy laws.  Mr Mosley’s legal team have already removed material from 193 websites which is part of the action that includes 22 other countries that did not take down the link that Google supplied to the article Google published.

‘ Investigation into Google over Web Dominance Abuse ‘

GOOGLE are set to face possible break ups like Microsoft as Regulators in the USA launch a formal investigation into the unsightly and disturbing dominance of the Internet. Accusers say they have been regularly abusing the Web as if they own it and can do as they like.  This investigation comes amid several Anti-Trust Probes in recent years similar to the Microsoft actions by the Federal and Supreme Court.  Like Microsoft it is charged with exploiting its power in subverting competition from entering the market on a fair and level playing field.  A spokesperson said ‘ They get so big that they consider themselves untouchable, and that’s what we had with the Microsoft situation’  A wide and massive investigation has been on the agenda for months said a spokesman for The Federal Trade Commission.

‘ Google profit from advertising illegal websites selling 2012 Olympics ‘

The US and FBI arrested and charged UK citizen O’Dwyer a student for the very similar action Google have been doing directing users to illegal websites to benefit from purchasing unauthorised Olympics tickets right under the noses of UK organisers. The only difference here is, Google is not being charged? it has the backing of a corrupt FBI and Government. Britain daren’t charge US run web giant Google with this criminal offence in case those bloody Americans don’t approve. One journalist claimed the UK plays poodle to America, a whiny pet dog that comes to heel, and he is bang on the mark. No one as he says no one is dreaming of prosecuting Google the American based company worth tens of billions in dollars — Perhaps that is it, pigs in a trough –US Diplomats, Politicians, FBI and Lawyers who protect Google for a price? — and one more reason why Google gets away with crime — it is another U.S. Company.

‘Google Spying given Go-ahead by Government Legal Departments’

GOOGLE CAN NOW ACT ILLEGALLY WITH AUTHORISATION — Laws of Libel and Defamation do not apply to Google, but do everywhere else according to a new legal ruling in the High Court.  Mr Justice Eady’s ruling means that Internet Giants such as Google do not have be responsible for defamatory posts. Spying too is now legal for Google as it presses ahead with a new system that spies on everything a client does on the net. Google said this only affects Google Account holders. This is happening despite an investigation by EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding who said that Google may already be breaking the law in ‘numerous respects’ Monopolists? indeed, Google enjoy all the benefits of being untouchable……just like Microsoft…..only a while ago Google were organising its users to lobby against the ‘Stop Online Piracy’ Act designed to protect intellectual property, now they are effectively adopting the opposite stand…..and why is this?  MONEY!

 Google in plan to remove critical remarks against them’

STRANGELY ENOUGH, this American owned trashy search engine is currently trying to remove any and all criticism levelled against them, especially in Google Accounts where they have control. Luckily outside Google they don’t and we can cover that angle.  Google have been trawling through sites and pretending to update them and review options suggesting to accounts that linking them will be better…but better for them!  They claim to and add ‘hateful’ to their site descriptions of abuse…but hateful isn’t a legal definition as it is a state of mind and one person’s so called hateful remarks could be perfectly legitimate in many situations. This is Google trying to cover the bases in order that it can suppress and creating their own law in their image. The other thing here is — Google have no ‘contact us’ on any of their pages, which indicates the help they are pretending to give is nothing…and as a rule you get nothing. They are not unlike China and the Communist line — control all and hairbrush out the truth at all costs. It’s time Google were exposed for the villains that they are.

‘Google face yet another inquiry over abuse of domination tactics ‘

Yet again the authorities fail to reign in Google who is abusing its dominance of the Internet and search capabilities. European Consumer body BEUC have raised another attempt to have Google obey competition rules in the face of its mandate to ‘squeeze out’ competition. It says Google is directing users to all of its money-making peripheral services and franchises by introducing its new Universal Search mechanism at the expense of its rivals. BEUC are considering instituting a formal inquiry.

‘Google in collusion with China ‘

GOOGLE, the masters of deception and dodgy practices, who are now smarting after their climb-down on standing up to China actually opted to have its tail between its legs and compromise instead. the so named ‘Don’t be Evil’ Search Engine bowed to China’s demands by offering a censored version of its search engine to China to assist them repress Internet Users who post ant-China blogs and criticise the Chinese Government. Google vigorously defended its decision, but Congress reprimanded them for participating too closely to a repressive authoritarian communist government. A case of money and business over Human rights and freedom.

‘Google in row with Microsoft over exaggeration’

A Lawyer for Google expressed his feelings as Microsoft Lawyer Jeff Johnson showed an e-mail to the court making out that former vice-president Kai Fu Lee of China’s Microsoft Company had colluded with Google Chief Eric Schmidt allegedly saying he was working on areas very related to what Google were doing and moving forward with. Google’s Lawyer said that the inference was exaggerated. Microsoft were in court with a suit against Kai Fu Lee who has gone over to work with Google?

‘Google and Plagiarism, no problem, its regular practice ‘

GOOGLE have no problem with plagiarizing according to Internet users, they take the credit for someone else’s work when and if it suits them.  This allegation was supported by users on forums who saw Google as a cuckoo in the nest who gobbles up anything and forms it in its own image. This was featured on CBC News – Technology and Science.  Amazingly enough, Microsoft in a tiff have accused Google of this several times.

‘ Google — ruthless monopolists with connections in UK Government ‘

THE GOOGLE TAX AFFAIR came up again as Amazon was exposed over its non-payance of tax for two years. Google used Ireland as a get-out to avoid tax…it now seems as if they have allies in the UK Government that could be of use — Steve Hilton married Rachel Whetstone former head of Google Communications…Hilton was an advisor to David Cameron.  Whetstone was connected by being a Godmother to Ivan, the Prime Minister’s deceased son.  Chancellor Osborne moves in the Google crowd and attended the Google Campus opening. In order to escape tax Google deployed complex techniques known in tax circles as ‘Double Irish’ to funnel profits to Bermuda via The Netherlands.  Its advertising revenue peaked at £2.1 billion in the UK but they only paid a fraction — £5 million of tax. Google has shielded itself from the UK taxman and wormed their way into the British way of life, contributing very little as they continue.

‘Google remove blogger’s page — about them!’

GOOGLE say they are open and boast about their policies to enrich the members, but we have news that they removed a blogger’s pages saying they broke company terms regarding abuse…yet the blog was highlighting abuses by GOOGLE.  This clearly shows that accountability and transparency isn’t one of their strong points, as they reveal a two tiered system of dealing with members.  On here we reveal and expose Google and what they get up to, thankfully they cannot come in and remove it…as they do not have the authority to conceal their indiscretions as easily as they do with members on Google backed platforms.

‘Google had been collecting people’s data for 3 years without revealing it ‘

GOOGLE BRAZENLY ADMITTED TO COLLECTING PRIVATE DATA BEFORE OWNING UP — For three years the Internet Search Engine played hide and seek, withholding the fact they were storing people’s private data, and actually denying it too. They actually knew they were in a ‘Cover-Up’ but carried on business as usual. Their controversial Street View Programme was collecting private wi-fi data for 3 years since 2007 — harvesting things like e-mails and passwords. But it took until 2010 to get them to release the information. They said they hope that they can now put the matter behind them?

‘Google fined for wilfully violating orders ‘

2012 April — GOOGLE were fined £15,000 by the FCC after they found the company had ‘wilfully and repeatedly violated orders to hand over information it requested while investigating ‘Street View’.  It said Google deliberately and without remorse spied on people’s networks and lied about what they were doing, they didn’t even ask their own lawyers to review what it was doing.

‘Google face Anti-Trust Investigation ‘

News that there is to be an investigation by The Federal Trade Commission has spurred a watchdog group to file for information seeking all documents related to the Commissions Investigation relating to the Google Wi-Spy Scandal that is now tarnishing the Internet Giant that boasts of openness.  Questions are being asked in relation to how much Google knew about the rogue engineer ‘ supposedly’ responsible for Google’s gathering of massive amounts of data from private Wi-Fi Networks?

‘Google collects UK Politicians for ‘firewall’ when needed’

NEWS REPORTS have indicated that the UK Conservative Party are seen to be forming ‘close’ ties with The Web Search Engine Giants.  Google Executives and Ministers such as David Cameron PM, who addressed the firm’s annual conference twice — 2006 and 2007.  Talk about storing NHS patients medical records with such companies? Google?  Lib Dem Norman Lamb did not mix his words when he said ‘ These repeated references to Google by the PM leaves a nasty taste in my mouth given the closeness of Cameron to the organisation, it leaves concerns about commercial advantage’

‘Google acts Coy over Porn Site Profits’

When Google were asked about how much they made from advertising online pornography via their search engines, an Executive of the Company said he had no idea?  Sarah Hunter Head of Public Policy pleaded ignorance when the subject came up at a debate hosted by Google.  An analyst said it is clear they make thousands of pounds per day from paid-for advertising in the search results by offering up sites to visit via an Internet user typing in the word ‘porn’ on British Sites. A spokesperson for Google said ‘ Our policies allow ads to appear next to search engine results that contain links to legal pornography’

‘ Google covered up data stealing for several years ‘

It was revealed that web giants GOOGLE had deliberately covered up the fact they had been stealing personal data from online search users.  It has now prompted the Information Commissioner to investigate and examine the work and ethics of this rogue corporation.  It is stated that they downloaded e-mails, text messages, photos and documents as they embarked on a road ‘friendly user’ network tool while not revealing another part of their agenda which bosses and managers kept secret. This was also approved by the parent company in the USA, who consistently denied allegations that it was accessing data without users approval.

‘ Google angers users and non-users over data and camera saga ‘

MANY PEOPLE NOW SEE THAT GOOGLE STOLE DATA and are openly accusing this American Search Engine of riding roughshod over people’s rights and breaching the Data Act.  Writer and Author David Thomas has declared that he is ready to do battle with Google over this blatant misuse of personal data.  He says that he found out that Google came to his West Sussex property and took photographs of his house for its Street View Project. Little did he realise until a neighbour logged on and saw nearly every detail of the house, making it an excellent target for a break-in by thieves. he said ‘ it’s like providing criminals with a plan’  Another disgruntled victim like David Thomas. Noreen Dockeray realised her property had also been ‘Googled’  after she had made a claim on her insurance for an unsafe chimney hit by gale force winds, only to be turned down because the insurers had seen a google photo map showing her house and a slight crack in the brickwork of the chimney. She had to pay the entire repair bill herself and has no idea how it looked before the winds and cannot challenge the decision due to Google.  There are also claims that Google Equipment spied on laptops and desktop pc’s getting into passwords and data while travelling around the towns and villages.

‘ Google games of deception and gameplay’

It’s not surprising that we hear more about the shifty way Google operate, now they have hired one of the the people from a watchdog that investigated them and guess what? let them off!!   Stephen McCartney now employed by Google was with the Information Commissioner’s Office during the investigations into the street view affair…he was a Senior Official that actually cleared Google after it had secretly collected personal data from millions of people. The relationship between him and Google was a rather secret affair, one MP, Robert Halfon said ‘ this is a pretty shocking revelation, it raises more questions about the Information Commissioner than it does Google, especially when he now joins the company he was investigating’

GOOGLE DECEPTION TAKES NEW TWIST — GOOGLE DID NOT DELETE ALL DEVIOUSLY ACQUIRED DATA — Despite giving out press statements and assurances, the giant search engine have not destroyed all the data they collected which was ‘stolen’ as reported in another article.  The American Corporation have now admitted that they failed to destroy all sensitive data and information….yet they signed an agreement in November 2010 to wipe every bit of obtained data from their data files and hard disk storage.  Rather late by the Commissioner’s Office who now say there has been ‘a breach’ of the undertaking by Google…..they say the Company could now face a penalty of £500,000 for breaching the data protection act.

GOOGLE AT IT AGAIN WITH TAX AVOIDANCE — They yet again avoid paying £218million in tax to the UK after making around £2.6 billion — The American Search Engine Giant managed to squeeze past the Inland Revenue with clever systems to minimise ant tax payments. It has already been accused of doing deals with the HMRC over the past few years with a little help?  They actually claimed they had made a loss in 2011…what a joke!

GOOGLE FINED FOR OBSTRUCTION A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION — Looking at FBI notes and communicates we see that Google Lawyers acting for the Corporation carried out obstruction tactics when Investigators began to look into the dealings the company handled of a more dodgy nature.  They were also fined for assisting in the illegal sale of prescription drugs online as we well know, and fined again for hacking into people’s personal information through their web browser — Google is under investigation in six US states and on 4 continents!

JUDGE ORDERS ARREST OF GOOGLE BOSS FABIO COELHO — The Brazilian Judge Flavio Peren who sits in the Regional Electoral Court in Matto Grosso do Sul State, ordered the arrest of Fabio Jose Silva Coelho the President of Google over ‘slanderous videos’ (26th Set 2012).  This was a result of non-compliance after Google ignored a request/order to move the offending material.  Google claimed it wasn’t by their standards, which seems to be the way with Web and Host sites who ‘lord’ over others with their own interpretations!

GOOGLE BLACKLISTED BY RUSSIA — The Federal Mass Media Inspection Service in Russia has put the Google IP address on the blacklist of Internet sites containing prohibited information.  It is the third time Google have merited such a move in Russia.

GOOGLE IS SUED OVER SECRET MONITORING — Customers said it was like being stalked, but you didn’t expect it to be a giant search engine corporation.  More than a hundred Apple Product users are involved in a lawsuit against Google demanding compensation.  They are accusing the Corporation of tampering with their security software in order to access personal information.  Most say they were bombarded by ads for all sorts and numerous e-mails, all unsolicited and not wanted.  One claimant Mr Bradshaw an IT expert exposed their lies when it emerged that Google had worked around the privacy settings…..he said they tried to bluff him and pass it off as an error, but it was no accident, and he knew it.  Campaigners against Google’s behaviour suggest that around ten million people may have fallen victim to Google’s snooping.  Lawyers for the claimants said that this might become one of the biggest cases in British Legal History when the final list of claimants go against the web giant and the snowball eventually comes to a stop.

GOOGLE IS SUED BY PRICELINE OVER PATENTS VIOLATIONS — Walker Digital who own Priceline.com is suing Google over unlawfully using four patents — the lawsuit has unspecified damages and wants a permanent injunction.  Earlier, Walker Digital filed 15 lawsuits in 2011 against Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and E-Bay over its ‘friending’ technology.

GOOGLE FINED £4.6 MILLION OVER SNOOPING — BUT THIS EQUATES TO ONE HOUR’S EARNINGS!  yes, just one hour of revenue, not even a mere drop, Google will hardly flinch, nor take much notice of the fine.  Google even conceded that they had violated privacy in collecting personal information from millions of computer users without their knowledge…..and agreed to pay the 34.6 million fine to 38 US States and the District of Columbia.  John Simpson of a Consumer Watchdog in the US said ‘ It’s clear that the Internet Search Giant sees these fines as just the price of doing business and quite a reasonable cost rather than anything significant as to breaking the law.’

‘ Google and the unsafe e-mail accounts ‘

GOOGLE’S G-MAIL system came under scrutiny as they shocked account holders by announcing that users should have no ‘legitimate expectation’ that messages and inboxes will remain private, according to a US submission in a court by the Internet Search Engine giants.  This was the result of a Californian Lawsuit in which certain details were laid bare to the 425 million users of Google G-mail.  Plaintiffs in the case accused Google that they ‘unlawfully opened and read the contents of private e-mails’ after acquiring them on their database and storage facilities.  Google accused the court of attempts to criminalise ordinary business practices when it tried to have the case dismissed.

GOOGLE WARNED BY FRANCE — The French Regulator has warned Google it will face tougher fines if it doesn’t change its privacy policy.  The CNIL said that Google’s policy was a violation of France’s Laws, and if they persisted in overlooking that they would face a big fine.

GOOGLE HAS 38 DAYS TO DELETE STREET VIEW DATA — Google yet again find themselves being warned by the Information Commissioner, who has ordered them to eradicate four disks containing data its camera cars collected from an unsecured WIFI network.  This is the latest of many breaches Google have committed, that have attracted fines and condemnation.

GOOGLE ACCUSED OF DELIBERATE FIDDLE — Investigations have been promised by Republic Congressman Dana Rohrabacher who has vowed to look into a deliberate fiddle by Google and its search engine saying they ignored conservative film by Dinesh D’Souza.  He said that for several days after the film’s opening one could not find a listing or reference.  News says that Google received complaints from from the makers of the film which explores the notion of the world falling apart without American leadership.

GOOGLE SUED BY HONG KONG TYCOON — Google are yet again in court, and their opposition is a very rich businessman Albert Yeung Sau-shing.  He is suing Google for misrepresentation in that they have labelled him a ‘triad’ a term used for organised crime bosses.  He is suing the Search Giant for libel.

GOOGLE ORDERED TO REFUND $19 MILLION TO PARENTS —  Google in more trouble as they agree to refund around $19 million dollars to parents who said they were unfairly billed for purchases their children had made while gaming on the site.

GOOGLE’S G-MAIL LEAKED DATA NUMBERED AROUND 5 MILLION ACCOUNTS — G-Mail users have now been urged to change their passwords after it was discovered that around five million user names had been published on a Russian website.  The affected accounts are said to belong to Spanish, English  and Russian Speaking people according to the News Agency RJA who broke the story.

GOOGLE IS HIT WITH £800 A DAY FINE — The French Google  Business has been ordered to pay a daily fine of £800 until some defamatory articles are removed says the report.  This judgement was handed down in a French Court in Paris.  It appears that Google began a ‘defamation campaign’ against a firm by using blogs and websites.

GOOGLE CHEATED TAXPAYERS OUT OF MILLIONS — A whistleblower and former Executive said that Google have been cheating the taxpayers using immoral tax schemes.  Barney Jones who worked in Silicon Valley in the USA said ‘Google’s sales in London, handled by staff in London, negotiated contracts with UK customers and that money went into a UK Bank Account.  But he said ‘technically speaking’ the deals were booked through the company’s Ireland Office.  ‘They use a smoke  and mirrors trick to avoid paying tax ……they use a concocted scheme to avoid tax, it’s a smokescreen to distort where the substance of its economic activity is really taking place ‘

NB: If they are capable of lies over this one matter, then one should look at the other lies Google practise.

GOOGLE TELLS UK IT HAS NO POWER OVER IT — In a stark and frank  outburst, the Giant Search Engine dropped its mask of coolness and declared that ‘the UK law doesn’t have any power over us’ when they were being yet again accused of ‘snooping’…..the report says that the corporation showed its arrogance when pushed…. it responded to its attackers by saying the company was based in California…….a group of Britons have taken Google to court, which has now made Google see red, and they are seeking to have the case thrown out.

USERS TO SUE GOOGLE — Despite Google trying to use boundary positions, because they were from the USA, to prevent an action from the UK, The International Court has ruled that the aggrieved users can sue the US Corporation.  Lawyers for Google fought vehemently to prevent the case using high handed verbal claims that the Corporation could not be sued because they had immunity.  However, they now find that people outside the USA can sue Google over their use of another browser to get data on the users without their knowledge or consent…..The secret tracking was on a Safari Browser (2011/12) which bypassed security settings.

GOOGLE CHROME THE PC CRASHER — Google apart from being sued frequently and caught for numerous violations, which they commit almost deliberately, have one other problem — a problem they know crashes and disables computers, and that is the Google Chrome Browser.  This inefficient search module is now known to cause regular freezing to pc’s and does not respond to users commands, or even let the user go to other pages without having to engage in an emergency shutdown.  Google techies and geeks are among the worst technicians there are on the Internet game, and their incompetency is well known in this area.

We Welcome any reports of criminal activities that connect with Google even un-investigated ones.

‘ Hostgator Web Providers conceal truth about complaints ‘

TEXAS HOST COMPANY HOSTGATOR endlessly advertise how they offer a friendly service with all the help you could wish for — if only that were true.  They fill e-mail boxes with updates about their services and what they can do, but it is a myth. Complaints are not published and this could run into thousands of disgruntled customers.  They brush aside any topic that makes them look bad and actively treat complaints as a bit of a joke using words such as mistakes, errors and misunderstandings. Their main aim is grabbing revenue, the rest of the tosh they spill out in self congratulation style is merely propaganda to conceal all other activities.

HOSTGATOR LIE OVER SUPPORT FOR CLIENTS — Hostgator continually make spurious claims of how they support their clients, and when the going gets tough, and that is the merest claim against a client, they get going and all help is immediately reduced to nothing. We were clients of this rogue web company and when the site was attacked by a solicitor’s firm claiming defamation and citing us as a third party in a libel case, Hostgator could not be seen. Support –none. We asked them to hold on until the case went to court and assured them we would contest the claim. Hostgator simply ran. We have now had the libel charges dropped against us, and though this is rather late for us, we intend to have a representative show up at the trial, which is now centred on one man (as we originally thought was the case) and show proof that the solicitors acted dishonestly in a transaction (and were not caught at the time), which will crash their entire claim of defamation based on accusations they were dishonest — their court claim said our articles were ‘ in their natural and ordinary meaning, the said words meant and were understood to mean that the firm employed corrupt and dishonest solicitors ‘ obviously basing their entire libel claim on the word honesty — applying to every partner collectively without exception. So, if this is the case, they all fail due to us being able to absolutely prove that one solicitor in the firm acted dishonestly and kept secret from a client that he acted on behalf of the firm in a conflict of interests, which is a breach of the codes of practice — The Solicitors Tribunal have in cases fined a firm £2,500 for this offence and in some cases suspended the solicitor or had him struck-off. it also goes to prove that they have resorted to secrecy and most likely, hoped there was no evidence of this matter, as the clients withdrew from the solicitors after they discovered his involvement in a development that affected their purchase.

‘ Welcome to your website, well not really, if it’s Ewebguru ‘

It’s hard to believe that a web host can take your cash and then breach the consumer laws by not carrying through its obligations to deliver the service it offers through its online selling web page. But Ewebguru have the program that insists on a years rental being paid for web space and does not provide it. We actually know that they left the client high and dry, not a bit of customer support. The client found out for themselves that the account was suspended — they were not going to tell the client, they had the money so what did they care? They ignored e-mails and messed the client about before disclosing a ridiculous reason that made very little sense. Paypal was informed on this breach of customer/consumer law and are looking into the matter of Paypal accommodating transactions and whether or not it constitutes removing it.  The client was also cut off mid link to online support and that is not very customer friendly nor bodes well for any new customers thinking of looking for a suitable hosting site.We have yet another complaint against this web host. Mr. C. tells us they messed his website up totally, and after nine days he was still unable to operate the cpanel…they’d changed the password without authorisation? The password didn’t work anyway, which left the site unusable. They ignored his requests, fobbed him off and the technical staff lied more than once during the fiasco. Mr.C. remained quite calm but the stress piled up. He wanted to complain to a higher system. but they ignored this… a breach of consumers rights, and no service, which again breaches this…nor was the site fit for purpose…all rights for consumers just ignored…yet they run a line on all e-mails — ‘ we like to hear from our customers

EWEBGURU DID NOT RESPOND TO CUSTOMER WHO COMPLAINED …Customer Dhatchina Moorthy was without service for 8 months, yes 8 MONTHS, and Ewebguru just ignored him.  The so-called Technical Support did not respond and when he tried to complain about the service the Dept that handled that did not get in touch with him. We are finding others with similar complaints about this hosting service.

EWEBGURU  hire or contract the services of WIREDTREE.COM  an American company who do their dirty work so-to-speak. This company go after clients that are accused of abuse….but it doesn’t work the other way around. WiredTree have no thoughts for the client who is abused by its contractor, they merely pretend it has nothing to do with them…yet they take cash from the company to act as ‘bouncers’ on the door.

COMPLAINTS about EWEBGURU litter the Internet, and a site calling itself Ewebguru complaints gives several accounts of misconduct and misdeeds by the web hosts. Having said that we noticed quite a few others have complaints against them dotted around the Internet, which doesn’t bode well for the customer. Of course it is something they never reveal when boosting their online ads claiming they give good service when in fact it can be quite the opposite.

THIEVING WEBHOSTS — Yes, they even deny claimants their money back which is stealing. We can confirm that Ewebguru ignore claims for cash refunds and keep money they are not entitled to.  Steer clear of this Company.We are already pursuing a claim for $500,000 in a US Court through a U.S. Lawyer against the webhost for breach of contract, which we hope will be a landmark case, due to be heard in one to two years!!

yes, it does take that long, and the reasons are not clear at all. We were just told it is a pending lawsuit filed.

NB We actually received a renewal invoice saying we were late with our payment for services and site? a site that isn’t navigating on to their servers and was terminated in July/August of 2011….Arrogance beyond belief.

UPDATE ON THE E-WEBGURU CASE — We have discovered that the American Judiciary are trying to stall this case, and are engaged in giving it the run-around.  It has emerged that officials have been attempting to derail this court action….after E-Webguru took steps to create ‘legal diversions’ based upon lies and false testimony before the court.

NOTE: You can sue these firms despite them being on the Internet — take them to an International Court through a lawyer. He or she can take the action through their own system and grade it through to the court in question.

‘ Domainsite the Webhosts who ignore complaints site ‘

It is becoming increasingly common to find that websites such as Domainsite.com and others boast about achievements and what super things they are offering the customer. They often say spurious remarks like ‘ we aim to give the customer an excellent unrivalled service’ when in fact they can’t and only rarely do. They regularly take around 15 – 20 hours to acknowledge a request, and up to a day and a half to resolve the problem for most things and a lot longer for some.  They fail to mention or even refer to customers who have lodged complaints, and some of those complaints have been put up on webpages in regard to that site — complaints against Domainsite can be found by entering domainsite complaints in the search at the right hand top of the screen, and they make interesting reading. One should apply this to other hosts who do not offer this information, even those that deny its existence… you may find it better to move your account, and quick.

DOMAINSITE AND THE THINGS THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW — Having done a mere scanning into the web hosting company owned by a man called BILL MUSHKIN, we find that this company are quick to find fault in the clients yet say nothing of their past when selling themselves as ‘the right provider with an excellent record of client satisfaction’ — which is sadly PROPAGANDA — no more no less.  We can’t say the staff deliberately withhold this information, but they certainly omit giving it…..we now disclose the following found on the web.

Spot Domain LLC (DOMAINSITE.COM) is a Bill Mushkin Company bought in 2002 which incorporates three sub domains – Domainsite.com/Name.com/Name.net — in 2007 Name.com of Domainsite was accused of trademark infringement by Neiman Marcus — one accusation was that they provided false details and failed to show accurate information.  The complaint was filed in 2007 against Mushkin of Domainsite in the US District Court of Denver. The action and damages claimed against Domainsite were $100,000 per name (domains wrongfully acquired)…Although the details are not published, Mushkin did pay damages and agree to certain conditions which he preferred to keep secret.

Domainsite were actually sued for $4million dollars by Neimann Marcus over trademark infringements in regard of 40 names — on the webspeak this is known as ‘domain tasting’

Domainsite have been accused of hijacking domains by changing the owners DNS – account password, disabling automatic password recovery, and evading all requests from the authorised person via the authorised e-mail, both of record, to restore the password. Kathleen Moore the author of this says two complaints were filed with ICANN about Bill Mushkin and Domainsite, and that this dispute has been going on for two years.

Another complainant via his own webpage claims Domainsite stole his domain after he had only just acquired a site and wrote to him saying he had 60 days to engage in dialogue — but as many have said on other pages — Domainsite ignored his e-mails and went silent.

Domainsite accused of swindle — RIES at NamePros claims that Domainsite plundered their site which disappeared in their account and blocked e-mails.

Domainsite use grabbed back domain for PPC advertising after alleging that she had used incorrect contact information when she bought the domain, Sweetsara says there was nothing to support the allegations.

Domainsite — cannot see the truth even if it was spelled out…..telling the truth is becoming quite a chore to this site, and a lie is easier to say, and the staff become easy influenced by believing a lie to be the truth.

SECRET SALE OF DOMAINSITE ON WEB? — An out-of-the-way webpage announced that John Newmann the President of SNY Digital Systems said he saw a ‘for sale’ notice for Domainsite and his company wrote back asking them what price were they asking.

It only took  us 15 minutes to access the listed complaints and court actions, so we calculate that more exists and when we have time we will take another look.  Incidentally, we contacted Domainsite twice to answer what we have seen and discovered — they ignored both requests, no denials, so we can all conclude why that is.

DOMAINSITE DNS SECURITY BREACHED BY DDoS ATTACK as provided by alert warning on Internet Pages.

DOMAINSITE SUFFER YET ANOTHER ATTACK TO ITS ‘FLAWED’ SECURITY — Domainsite threw out instructions to all site customers telling them to change passwords yet again — causing them more inconvenience and worry besides lost time in thinking up new configurations.  One sees that Domainsite boasts of tight security — yet do not reveal how many times this has been breached…….and this has been several times, because hackers have compromised a commercial account.  For many years they have been warned of their ‘inadequate security’ but it never has an improvement to last…..each new attack brings them scurrying out in panic and they go straight to the account holders hoping new passwords will get them out of it. (May 2013)

DOMAINSITE DOMAINS EASY TO HIJACK — 9 domains were stolen by a Vietnamese hijacker, it took many e-mails and months of waiting before recovering the sites. Damage was done in that time and the blogger has the entire details of the account via Wikipedia blurb for you to review.

DOMAINSITE — SAVIOURS? OR SHAM?  —They claim a high security protection, but as you can already see from the above that this is not so despite the rhetoric from Domainsite. The Internet blogs and notes refer to ‘letting in thieves, spammers and fraud ‘

DOMAINSITE — and the crass statement — ‘You must have permission to feature anyone on your site ‘ is ridiculous and not supported in law at all, at least not beyond America anyway.  The printing or publishing of old or previous newspaper articles are completely legal as they have been in the public domain already and cannot be withdrawn on silly grounds that they offend — it is absolutely preposterous for Americans to claim this because they humiliate or embarrass…how can History books be made if this was the law, how can the many critics revue?  Domainsite obviously have a warped view of their powers and interpretation of International Law.

The annoying thing here is that this goes for the majority of web hosting companies — they are too quick to grab the money and suppress anything about themselves that might just lose them the fee. We found that when you confront them with these facts they immediately close the discussion and the face of ‘welcome’ changes to one of arrogance, denial and cover-up.

DOMAINSITE AND THE ‘STAGGERINGLY SLOW’ SYSTEMS — We recently got a report from someone who said they tried to upload to CPanel…..got to the final stage after many pauses of transition and waited for 3 HOURS having gone away leaving the upload page (doing a coffee, making sandwiches and watching a film), and when they returned, it still hadn’t loaded..so they abandoned it…….so much for the technical advances at Domainsite!

DOMAINSITE CUSTOMER-CARE PROMISES ARE NOT KEPT:  Domainsite may issue statements like ‘ we will phone you, just give us a convenient time’……and when they are supplied with this, you hear nothing except for the occasional lame excuse like’ we missed the time’…….when in fact they never intended to respond properly. One client account holder did this and waited for five days……..and they never phoned!

DOMAINSITE AND PAYPAL IN JOINT ACTION TO ‘COVER-UP’ — Domainsite and Paypal threw away the good guide to customer service when delayed banking funds involving a few dollars led to altered dates, lies and deceit in the hope of getting away with an act of incredible selfishness. Domainsite went into auto and assisted in a situation that made things get worse for their client? not surprising really, go to  www.ripoffreport.com

DOMAINSITE AND THE GAME ‘DODGE THE QUESTION’ — We have had many reports of this site stooping to a game with paying customers which is never actually replying to questions they do not like. Staff have been trained to ignore customer complaints by a series of methods. Method 1. Pretend you don’t know what the customer is referring to. 2. Pretend you didn’t actually get their e-mail. 3. If the client filed a ‘ticket’ just pass it on or lose it. 4. If a complainant sends more than one message just ignore it completely. 5. Reply to a customer by pretending to be looking into the matter, 6. Tell a customer the complaint has been passed on, when it hasn’t and tell them someone else will reply later, when in fact no-one will.

REINVENTION COVERS MANY SINS — When a company like NAME .COM decides to   slide suspiciously away from its past name of DOMAINSITE, offering new packages of hosting at immensely lower fees than before it tells us that they are in effect distancing themselves from past  activities that showed the company was not as customer friendly as they portrayed…..and as you can see on this section, that is most certainly true.  The Hosting thing is big business and the Americans are in actual fact dominating this area….which rather suits their original name…..but behind the facade of respectability there is a much more devious company out to play the game of  profit before customer.

Update: They have now in 2015, made claim to being NAME.COM announcing a ‘Merger’ as if they took over and bought out the Domainsite name, but this is a downright piece of deception, it was always owned by Bill Mushkin who formed Domainsite in 2002 as part of his Name.com….as we said reinvention is often used to cover up things they no longer wish to be associated with, and that certainly looks the case here……who do they think they are fooling?

DOMAINSITE WHERE THE MONEY MATTERS MORE — Domainsite, or quite rightly – Name.Com contact their customers more about renewals and hosting costs than they do when they neglect to inform sites that they have updated a feature that may severely effect your service.  This fact is left for the customer to discover rather than Domainsite handle the situation more upfront.  Contacting Support can be a bitch too, as you are likely to get someone new each time.  They say this is so that it reduces time for someone coming back to you, which can be a couple of days.  However, it does indicate the high volume of problems and complaints this hosting company get every day…… not that they produce a list or rough estimate of this situation, indeed no.  Another little trick they pull is blaming the client’s pc or software….always a good one to pull out of the hat……and after several days of getting nowhere…the problem is solved miraculously…..and there is no explanation.  We have discovered their legal representation, the one you can sue for breach of contract in consumer law….you have to go to  Legal Rep Nicholas Steinbach   nic@name.com  and begin your case there.  Don’t let him talk you down, just ask for the address of service and nothing more.   Senior Hosting Rep at Domainsite is Jeremiah Stanley.

NB: We have tried to discuss ‘corruption at Domainsite’ but they refused to co-operate saying that matters of this nature were not accepted….. and became quite angry……..quite typical really in a response from webhosts.

Let us have your complaints against Domainsite, we will list them. This article only scratches the surface!

IF YOU WANT TO CHECK FOR COMPLAINTS AGAINST YOUR WEB HOSTS look on the web and type in the search – the name of the site and complaints, or reverse that and enter complaints against ****** But do check them out before entering into an agreement and put these awkward questions to them before allowing them to take your cash for a service that is poor, has problems and rides roughshod over your complaints.

‘ The Scandal of Microsoft ‘ — Fraud, Theft, Poor Service and More.

MICROSOFT might be without Bill Gates these days, and he’s the one that set up the ‘ no replies to customer accountability ‘  Their site completely rules out contact with disgruntled or angry customers that this global firm have cheated and extorted millions of pounds and dollars out of over the years.  In case you forget, Microsoft were taken to court and fined millions by the U.S. for monopolizing the market.  Vista their once new toy had so many faults that many people hated having it on their pc’s.  XP had to have massive downloads to fix errors, in fact that is what Microsoft do every time.  Their so called genius programmers never finish a program completely and allow it to be on the market just to claw in the huge cash.  Windows7 is here, and so are the new list of faults, all from a company that wants your money — not your approval  — they couldn’t care less about that.

MAC USERS ACCUSE MICROSOFT OF THEFT IN 2001 — Users said they did this blatantly to APPLE.  Mac Users said that the XP System was an exact ‘rip-off’ of the Mac OSX — and that Microsoft stole the duck from APPLE’s OS9 Multiple Users Control Panel.  Strangely, Microsoft’s Art Pettigrue, Product Manager, used the word ‘borrowed’ and denied that this had been the case.

MICROSOFT HARBOURS THIEVES — In 2004 after the infamous case of the $9 million dollar internal theft case of Daniel Feussner case, which resulted in him committing suicide to avoid appearing in court to face fifteen counts of theft — it appeared more staff were to follow in his footsteps despite this case.  Dishonesty seems to be catching as they say; two other employees, William Delancy and Kori Brown were also up to doing a bit of mischief.  Delancy was a pal of Administration Assistant Kori Brown who got 17 months in jail for selling the software.  Delancy who headed the multi million fraud which went on for two years — a massive theft case it is said. Funnelling software that was intended for a charity.  He was fined $4 million and jailed for 21 months.

9years later, and we’ve seen more on how Microsoft cheat, lie and steal from just about anyone!

MICROSOFT STEALS FROM START-UP SITE — Whether or not Microsoft is trying to silence this ‘Start-Up’ site, they have suspended it from the Internet using and abusing their powers and influence yet again.  PLURK — a Social Networking site had accused the Corporation of stealing their code, design and U I elements.  Plurk the Start-Up owners say that 80 per cent of the new Microsoft MClub is stolen.

THE MICROSOFT DATA PROTECTION ABUSES — A request for an Injunction against Microsoft was launched and to be heard before The Federal Trade Commission by EFF, a company that works for the protection of fundamental rights, Junkbusters, and MAP – a non profit and Public Interest Law Firm. They said Microsoft engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices intended to profile, track and monitor millions of Internet users. They explained how Microsoft developed a secret running program that ran by stealth called ‘NET’ which incorporated ‘Passport’ ‘Wallet’ and ‘Hailstorm’ that are designed to obtain personal information from consumers without their knowledge. It was said this violates Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, constituting a serious breach of the law and well within the criminal remit of State Laws.

NET ACTION previously launched a campaign that mobilized Internet users to pressure the Justice Department to enforce Anti-Trust Laws against the Microsoft Corporation. It is these laws that have seen Microsoft in the courts having to pay out billions — you can see that further down this article.

MICROSOFT WORKERS IN SCAM ARE JAILED — Wilson Delancy was sent to jail for 21 months over mail fraud offences, and was ordered to pay compensation of $4 million dollars.  He was however, not alone in the scam, as Administrative Assistant Kori Robin Brown was jailed for 17 months for her part in the scam.

MICROSOFT IS ACCUSED OF FRAUD EVERYDAY — Mag Bill, blogger, cannot see what all the fuss is about,  or why anyone should list Microsoft Crimes….as he sees them doing it routinely on a fairly regular basis, and more or less says ‘who cares’   He should to be frank….linking all the cases one ‘can find’ would reveal the truth despite what people already know.  This blog was ignited by the ‘Corbis Case’ involving Gates and other former members of Microsoft, when a 12 member state jury in Washington, found out that Corbis Senior Executives perpertrated a fraud to steal an IP, and then worked together to conceal that fact!

MICROSOFT FABRICATE FALSE TESTIMONIAL – Badly!   The ‘Mac-to-Windows’ story.  In order to make it look like people preferred Microsoft, the Corporation knowing that if fell far short of customers judgement, decided to invent a testimonial they could hoodwink the Internet with.  It was a ‘blooper’ that only juveniles could really believe they could get away with — as Microsoft could not be bothered to find a real person wanting to switch from Mac to them…..it was later revealed that the person they used was Valerie Mallinson (who turned out to be a Public Relations Officer for a company that Microsoft used), and she openly admitted to it, but still Microsoft came out with denials……..but that is what we expect of this Corporation.

DIRTY TRICKS AND ATTEMPTS TO REMOVE JUDGE BY MICROSOFT – Microsoft engaged in a trade restrictive deal with London Drugs (USA) which involved their run of chain stores — The deal by Microsoft was to prohibit them from selling OS/2 on their shelves (restraint of trade is against the regulations) — but Microsoft went ahead and demanded that this should be done.  The Computer Department at London Drugs (Edmonton, Canada), said they kept Warp and SO/2 in the stockroom and off the shelves.  The Manager and assistant confirmed this was the condition of the agreement bosses had with Microsoft.      As for the JUDGE — it was learned that Microsoft was making attempts to remove an unfavourable judge at the hearings on their consent decree.

MICROSOFT DECEIVED ITS CUSTOMERS — 2007 ….. Continual deception bordering on the criminal has been going in Microsoft for many years; we now have a lawsuit filed against them in the District Court of Washington where a claim for damages against the Corporation is in excess of $5 million…….this ‘Class Action’  is on behalf of 10,000 dissatisfied customers, and is over Microsoft deceiving consumers.  This refers to their slogans they carried out like ‘Windows Vista Capable’ when in fact it wasn’t.  Many people who were duped into buying from Microsoft because of the slogan found that they could only run the ‘basic’ version, and not what they’d been led to expect.  Many  involved in the Class Action said ‘Bill Gates contributed to this deception’

MICROSOFT ARBITRARILY BLOCK OFF ACCOUNTS — Jim’s Hotmail account seemed to have been hacked, as it was throwing out e-mail messages not created by him…..but what happened next took Jim by surprise, as he had hoped that the ‘wondrous scientific minds’ would sort this out really quick….they did…..they blocked his account rendering it unusable…..yet the problem was only one of outgoing mail….and Jim relied on the inbox for much of his mail.  Microsoft just left him in limbo, they didn’t even provide a contact number!

MICROSOFT ATTEMPT TO DENY ACCESS TO ONLINE SITE BY JAMMING — A blogger informed us that Microsoft often take their power to abusive levels against critics of their corporation, including the ones that are considering an action against them.  He tells us that when anyone goes up against them on the Web, by using the the Web to get a strike at Microsoft, Microsoft interfere and make attempts to close them down.  He tells us they have done this on no less than 36 occasions.

MICROSOFT SUPPRESS COMPENSATION PAY-OUTS — Although news of confidential Internal Compensation reviews to employees has been published, and is adding to a continuing frustration among Microsoft workers; comments say Microsoft are clearly trying to hold it well below 3 per cent — and that the maximum compensation guidelines have stayed the same in 2004 to 2006.  But information on compensation payouts to individual claimants outside the Corporation have been ‘unforthcoming’ and suppressed by lawyers at the Company….. searches on this subject have yielded little… but we shall keep on looking for them.

MICROSOFT – BAD TECHNOLOGY, AND TOTALLY CRAP — Lee of Sydney, Australia bought himself a Toshiba Laptop which he admits was rather expensive — unfortunately for Lee — it came with Windows Vista ‘Ultimate’ Edition, with a heap of other ‘crappy’ programs.  Since it arrived (along with the inherent problems) Windows Explorer crashes along with blue screening on idle….and lots more.  He asks how is it that big Corporations like Microsoft keep selling such bad products to everyday users and get away with it?   (your answer is on this page).

THE WINDOWS WORD has so many inherent faults that the company covered up many of these by denying anything was wrong when it was.  Many people found that WORD was not really up to much and had a poor performance rate. Irregular slippage of photos and pictures happened without any reason; paragraphs already saved moved out of sync and pictures could not be steadied or held still or in place. There was no reason for it nor any tool or explanation that made any sense. All Microsoft said, and that was in a generated message — updates are available to address any problems. The trouble was, there were hundreds of problems, and they still go on with new windows modules that have been hurriedly stuck together so that this corporation can fleece customers.

‘I’M GOING TO MY ATTORNEY TO GET AT MICROSOFT’ — Marlene is yet another in the long queue wanting to bring this corporation to book……it seems that is long overdue.  She has a DELL machine which has Windows, and she is constantly receiving ‘warnings’ by Microsoft, which is blocking up some of her start-up programs.  She contacted DELL, and was advised to take out an extended warranty for $300 dollars….(mainly to cover the many calls for help she made to them)…but it didn’t cure the real problem — MICROSOFT.

THE MSN TRAP BY MICROSOFT — It now appears that Microsoft are blocking access, namely the speed one can get off a page, by deliberately loading the MSN page continually while the user remains ‘locked’ into that page until Microsoft have finished loading their annoying advertising.  We have been told that even attempts to go directly to search have failed because the Microsoft programme baulks the user’s right of choice.

MICROSOFT SHOULD BE SUED FOR BILLIONS — says user Wayne…..Yes, they often are as one sees on this page, they are no strangers to the courts, in fact they should have a resident seat in the dock by now.  Wayne positively hates Vista, especially as it cost him $900 dollars to find a better replacement pc and operating system.  He also noticed that Microsoft deliberately make it near impossible to complain direct and use forums as a ‘buffeting’ zone……he also notes that they have the cheek and audacity to charge $59 dollars for support.

OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOUR BY MICROSOFT — Former employee Simon Negus launched a $15million dollar court case against Microsoft stating that the mighty Corporation had ‘ A culture of excessive drunkenness and outrageous misbehaviour’  Negus is suing his bosses for the loss of ten million dollars in earnings and wrongful dismissal.  The report goes onto say Negus was ‘earmarked’ to become the UK General Manager??

SEX SCANDALS AT MICROSOFT — are said to be not that unusual really, Tony Knowlson attending one of the corporation’s parties in Atlanta said he was accused of sexually harassing a string of female colleagues. He has publicly come out on this because of the Negus Case who it was said was sacked for lies and sexual misbehaviour. He says there have been many other unreported cases that have been shielded from the press.

MICROSOFT IN SHADY DEAL TO HELP THE NSA CIRCUMVENT THE COURT SYSTEM — We have now come across an item that was revealed by the Guardian Newspaper — that the American Secret Service the NSA have a deal with the Microsoft Corporation to ‘Bend the Law’ costing millions of dollars.  They get Microsoft to cover their illegal activity…..this is said to be a result of the agency’s unconstitutional activities being brought before a court.

MICROSOFT ‘POWER HAMMER’ COMES DOWN ON COMPETITION — The Corporation were up to their tricks again of cutting out competition to their software.  This is done by fair means or foul — Mostly foul, Microsoft put pressure on Thailand and Venezuala using ‘Piracy’ as a means to divert the people from realising Microsoft were wanting the area to themselves.  The cable from Chiang Mai Consulate showed that the Thailand Corporate Affairs Director was ‘bad mouthing’ Open Source Software.

MICROSOFT INCREASE REVENGE ON XP USERS — As Microsoft throws out warnings that XP will no longer be supported after April in 2014, many users are finding their hotmail accounts difficult and suffering from day to day freeze ups….which indicates that their accounts are being interfered with until it becomes impossible for XP users to cope with the ‘forced’ problems they regularly encounter.  Microsoft, who of course, want these XP users to spend more cash on a new generation of Pc’s so that they can generate profits which are already declining from the poor tech stuff they are now pushing out.  Microsoft are still continuing to endanger accounts quite deliberately….in an attempt to make the life of pc users even more sad and difficult.

MICROSOFT AND THE PROGRAMS THAT NEVER WORK CORRECTLY – It has been revealed to us by our U.S. contact that much of the Microsoft technology is flawed from the moment it hits the open market, and the worst of it is going to the private pc users.  Even the famous WORD PROGRAMS are subject to ‘fall out’ which means unexplained loss of data and things not working such as ‘Save’ due to poor technical theory to practise modules that only had a success rate of around 60 per cent.  Faults on the word programs can be in picture modes and unstable placing on documents leading to disappearing pages without any reason. Our contact says that these kind of errors in the system are overlooked as trivial.  Profit and time is the keyword at Microsoft and it is essential that they keep ahead, even if it means putting a poor system out on sale — so they back this up from day one with downloads at their help centres, and there can be as many as 100 downloads to grab just to keep the programs running, or not as the case may be?

‘SLOW? I THINK IT’S STOPPED, MICROSOFT — AND IT’S DOWN TO YOU’  — Yes, Vista, Dave says it took nearly an hour to load Media Player, and three days for the defragment to finish assessing and cleaning up the system.  Phil of new York said he could go out for a run while Vista was loading itself, and arrive back later to see it only just starting.  ‘I had to wait ages and there were times when it seemed to freeze’…and as a computer system, it wasn’t worth the bother, it was totally unfit for purpose’

‘MICROSOFT LINK PAGE FREEZES FOR 20 MINUTES’ — a fairly common problem really when using Microsoft software….And our contact says the hyperlinked page didn’t shift or load up… it just froze and remained this way until the aborted it.  Reliable? not Microsoft,,,,,the geeks who make these programs are obviously brain-dead or fairly useless.  Our informant says they tried to link to Amazon….but the window just remained there in ‘waiting mode’……but Microsoft’s software has been awful for a great number of years….. so much for speedier internet.

‘The Microsoft Crimes’

2007 — The EU ordered Microsoft to open its Windows Operating System to products of competing companies, media players and servers.  Microsoft wasn’t taking any notice of the fact that Anti-Trust Laws were to protect the customer and consumer, not for them to by-pass whenever they chose to.  Even The US Department of Justice was deriding not just the EU, but US Law by not doing their statutory duty.  In fact, Microsoft was ignoring ‘The Sherman Act (1890)’ in which it states — ‘Every person who shall monopolize or attempt to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several states, or with Foreign Nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony ‘ — and Microsoft were, and are doing  this despite this rule of Law.

CANADIAN COMPANY WINS AGAINST MICROSOFT — Microsoft lost its case brought by a small Canadian Software Company. The case concerned the custom feature XML used in Word which they had rights to. Microsoft was ordered to remove it from their Word by January 2010.

Z4 AWARDED $115,000 DUE TO MICROSOFT LAWYERS MISCONDUCT — Litigation, Misconduct and Enhanced Damages said the Eastern District Court of Texas when they added a further $115,000 plus $25,000 in wilful damages and costs of $2.5million on top of a huge bill that Microsoft was ordered to pay Z4 technologies and owner David Colvin (in the case Z4 v Microsoft 2006).  The court went through a list of Microsoft Litigation Misconduct before arriving at its decision to penalise the Corporation for its bad attitude in court.  It was seen that Microsoft regularly withheld information and communications, despite requests, and that Microsoft in this case of Z4 considered Z4 a small and irrelevant company that was not worthy of Microsoft’s time and attention.

MICROSOFT AND THE TECHNOLOGY HOAX — It hardly comes as a surprise to find that customers are calling helpline centres all day and every day about failing programs, being cut off the phone, stupid piped music that irritates beyond belief.  Even these Product numbers are increasingly giving problems to users, and what of Microsoft? they utter ‘sorry’ so many times that it becomes meaningless. They trot out the line that everything is so much better with every new piece of untried and in many cases — unusable software comes with its own aggro injecting download.  People are kept on the phone for up to two hours at their own expense, being fobbed off and finding that they should never have bought anything from this company.

THE EVIL THAT IS MICROSOFT — They go into debt, then buy back 40 billion of their own shares…..these are known as ‘buybacks’ — a manufactured way to mask accounting procedures (somewhat like false-accounting).  They also engaged in ‘over-valuation’ — setting a higher price on technology stocks, which they didn’t have, but claim it anyway.  They also have another creation — the showing of huge cash reserves on their balance sheets, which might possibly give the wrong picture of their liquidity — but that is what Microsoft counts on in order to fool as many people as they can.

MICROSOFT IN THE ‘SPYING ON YOU’ BUSINESS  — Microsoft and the PRISM SURVEILLANCE — A program that authorises the NSA to secretly access citizens private data without their knowledge.  Microsoft gave the NSA access to Hotmail and E-mail accounts, plus the interception of Web Chatlines.  They also provided access to users data on the Cloud Storage Service — SkyDrive, they let the American NSA circumvent its encryption codes — in other words, they help the government spy on people, with no regard to a citizen’s security or rights.

MICROSOFT SUBSIDIARIES UNDER INVESTIGATION — Files were prepared and submitted to Bermuda’s Supreme Court following investigations into various tax dealings on the island and suspected misconduct by Microsoft’s subsidiary companies.  The News leaked reports that a foreign government requested Bermuda to investigate three of Microsoft’s subsidiaries in the Caribbean…… connected with this was an interesting ‘What about the bribery scandal last year?’

MICROSOFT – ‘The Ring of death’ — Those XBOX Consoles….. Abraham returned his XBOX 360 for a new one because of the massive problems these game machines were giving customers, but the replacement had the ‘Ring of Death’ too, in fact this went to three such boxes with hard drive errors, freezing up, and spontaneous shutdowns…..he says he returned the product five times!  Technicians at Microsoft asked him to send in the console for repair despite it being brand new……it was returned later, which isn’t exactly right, because they had substituted it for ‘a refurbished one’…..with an entirely different serial number….which they obviously thought he wouldn’t notice……a rather nasty deception and underhand…..he now owned a used machine.

MICROSOFT VIOLATED NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS — In 2004, The Microsoft Corporation suffered great embarrassment when in a class action lawsuit, it was subpoenaed to produce Internal Documents that proved they had violated non-disclosure agreements.

MICROSOFT SUFFERS DEFEAT IN EUROPEAN COURT — The European Union’s Court of First Instance rejected an appeal by Microsoft when the court agreed with the Commission that Microsoft was stifling competition by engaging in unfair practices deliberately intended to baulk and disable others in the technology field.

THE EVER-GROWING COMPLAINTS AGAINST MICROSOFT — Our search through the Internet was rather easy on this subject and a web page called – www.consumeraffairs.com really told the story in alarming detail. It seemed to have so many that we decided to just take a selection of four as we’d prefer to get hold of the ones involving Microsoft and criminal acts; the reason being that Microsoft is ignoring complainants. So here are the four:

Jim writes in to say ‘ I don’t want to deal with Microsoft anymore’ after his experience.

Another customer called the help line and a ‘technician’ worked on their pc software fault for 6 hours? But it didn’t solve it at all. The customer asked for a Supervisor and went to a new ‘level’ — they were promised a call back but no-one ever called.

One other customer contacted Microsoft about the vast number of updates and multiple error messages invading their pc. Yet again as previously, a ‘technician’ took over on a share arrangement online and did a number of things that the customer could not understand, and then the computer crashed?  Microsoft did not call back for two weeks?

Customer 4 had a brand new pc which had a problem with sudden unexplainable shutdowns on Microsoft programs. He rang the help line and support and had to go through the hoops merely to ask questions, and despite what he was going through they had the audacity to charge him $49.95, which he found unacceptable and this resulted in him deciding to have apple systems.

BURYING MICROSOFT DIRTY TRICKS — THE LAWYERS WHO WILL! — Andrew Orlowski said the lawyers at Microsoft were in for a surprise, as the archive they were trying to hide for good — arrived in the public domain.  This material came from the Novell Lawsuit against Microsoft — documents they thought had not been seen.

INVESTORS SUE MICROSOFT — A class action on behalf of investors was filed in the District Court for the state of Massachusetts by Law Firm Robins Geller Rudman and Dowd Law against Microsoft accusing them of violating the Securities Exchange Act by providing materially false and misleading statements regarding the financial performance of the ARM-based tablet — Microsoft failed to own up or make public the fact that the Surface RT was in difficulty, and went on to fudging sales figures and non-disclosure regarding a $900 million ‘Inventory Adjustment’ due to a stockpile of unsold tablets, furthermore, it was said that the financial statements were also false.

MICROSOFT SIGN SECRET DEALS IN ITALY — A Report by techright.com reveals more secrecy being employed by the Microsoft Company.  It says that Italian citizens are paying for something they don’t know, nor have they been informed about.  techright says what they are doing borders on ‘Fascism’ —  The illegal tenders that favour Microsoft — Microsoft in the land of the Mafia — and learning to do as they do.  An Advocacy Group has tried to raise the issue of the Microsoft deals with their government, without much success…however, they are challenging Minister Brunetta over his signing of the deal with the Microsoft Corporation.

JUDGE ADDS $40 MILLION FINE ON MICROSOFT — Microsoft were fined an extra forty million dollars due to misconduct by their lawyers,,,,much to the annoyance of the Judge, the Redmond Lawyers for Microsoft repeatedly kept on ‘misrepresenting the law to jurors during the trial’  Arrogant and self opinionated lawyers persisted with an argument that it was improper for a non-practicing patent owner to sue for money damages.  The Judge, Leonard Davis said that the lawyers arguments were legally improper and a direct violation of the court’s instructions, which amounted to an abuse of process and misconduct in the court. (2009)

THE SCANDAL OF THE £40 CHARGE — Microsoft have the audacity to expect users to payout forty pounds to answer questions, yes, per question — about anything that has gone wrong with their product?  Utterly unbelievable — a thieving company like Microsoft actually expecting someone to pay for their tatty products that go wrong on such a scale that they have more than a hundred downloads on crap systems that do not function properly.  It’s hard to understand why the public put up with this company that fleeces and extorts huge amounts of cash from people using computers.  It wouldn’t be bad if they could guarantee a product or security, they cannot do either.  They spend most of the time pushing out new versions of flawed systems in order to get even more money — it’s about time this company was smashed or ruined and decent competition entered the market of pc’s and running systems.

INACCURATE CLAIMS AND LIES BY MICROSOFT — In its battle to challenge Apple’s emerging supremacy over the ‘tablets’ sales and innovation — Microsoft yet again chose to lie over its own product making claims that were not true and very far from reality…..and the truth.  To get a complete picture and run down of this article we now link you to the relevant site   www.9to5mac.com   Go and read it.

VRINGO SUES MICROSOFT — Patent Litigation Company Vringo of New York lodged a suit in February 2013 against Microsoft (after successfully suing Google in 2012) over the patents known as ‘420’ and ‘664’.  These patents were originally owned by Lycos, who sold them in the 1990’s. One of the inventors of the two patents, Andrew Lang (who is now with Vringo) sued Google in a Virginia State Court along with AOL for unlawful use of the patents.  The Jury awarded Vringo approximately 30 million dollars, of which Google had to pay out the sum of $15.8 million.

THE MICROSOFT RUN-AROUND — Which is intended to leave you confused and conned…..Kevin of Anchorage ran into problems with Vista on his Gateway 4720-03.  Microsoft e-mailed him when he tried to register the product for use.  They said the certification was not detected, and that what he had was probably pre-installed and not genuine — he immediately replied to the message telling them the product had been purchased at a genuine retail outlet of Microsoft…..but no reply….instead he saw things being taken out of his ‘programs’ on his pc…..he replied to the e-mail again…….but still no reply….then his Security Package went…..and a new message saying that they would remove his Vista Program……then it happened!  They deleted Windows from his machine, leaving him with nothing……..he was not surprised to find a whole load of other people being treated like this by ‘friendly Microsoft staff’……..

MICROSOFT FLOUTS E U LAWS — Despite a 2 year law concerning warranties being on consumer products throughout Europe, the Microsoft Corporation as yet again set itself apart and considers that it can get away with offering consumers a 1 year warranty, clipped with a clause that allows you to pay a further fee for extra time.   Their new surface tablet has upset buyers in the E U.  www.theinquirer.net is waiting for a reply from the EU press office and the Office of Fair Trading over the Microsoft situation, and say as yet, they’ve all failed to respond?

THE HOTMAIL SCAM AT MICROSOFT – Many experiencing the ‘Freeze ups’ on MSN Accounts and in particular HOTMAIL must be at a loss at what is going on with Microsoft?   The continual collapses of hotmail accounts are set to go on indefinitely according to ‘inside staff’ who have indicated that it is a deliberate move to make a mess of the ‘free service’ that the bosses would like to see rid of.  They already know it is upsetting and annoying users, but hope that it will steer the user into entering into the ‘premium deals offered’

THE MICROSOFT UPGRADES SCAM — Most users now continually face perpetual upgrades before their pc’s turn off, and anywhere between 2 to 14 plus which require significant disc space is added onto the machine nearly every day.  Some users have experienced problems and some have had crashes because of the upgrades.  The Corporation claim it is for the health of the machine, adding new features…we recently heard that a XP user still gets upgrades despite XP support being halted in April, which is rather odd…and in a way supports this article especially as it is said this upgrading is a way of getting at Intel and convincing customers to get new versions because they are better and bigger?  probably because they’re stuffing up good working machines with this upgrading until they crash….deliberately to get new sales.

MICROSOFT LOSES 4 CASES IN THE SUPREME COURT — Violating i4i payments was one of their initial defeats as the Supreme Court upheld a previous lower court decision.  Microsoft’s Appeals are legendary to those who observe this loathsome company, they always have the arrogance to think that they can win by sheer might.  They actually complained to the court about how the patent evidence was presented to the court.  The Supreme Court had been listening hours to these ‘whinges’, and rightly dismissed their arguments.  Many saw that this Corporation was out to change the law for their own needs and agenda (based on greed).  They continually refuse to abide the laws in place……Microsoft lost and appeal in 2009, then returned again in 2010 to have another attempt, and then in 2011 when they were finally stopped.  They have had to pay $290 million in compensation.  They even took on challenging the European Commissioners, and LOST AGAIN over a 14 year old case.

MICROSOFT CRIMES – THE 5 STAR NIL SATISFACTION RATING! — It is quite clear that the Microsoft Corporation do not grasp that their ‘criminality’ should be exposed and accounted for, despite the US Government’s reluctance to act and bring the company to book — This Company scarcely look at the complaints and treat it just like another day at the office.  A Web Page (one of many) actually gives them a five star rating for NIL satisfaction in regard to the handling of complaints and customer service.  One Customer, Beth of Pasadena said she was out by $600 due to Microsoft over their programs, and no-one at Microsoft would help.   Installing Vista onto her laptop cost her dearly and caused mayhem — the mouse cursor jumped all over the place, scrolling occurred without her doing anything, it opened and closed programs indiscriminately, and for a couple of days it actually ‘froze’ and shutdown.  It failed to respond to anything even when she tried the XP Restore discs….she then approached the useless techs at Microsoft, and kept getting a different one every day for five nights….and none had the know-how or expertise to fix it….they came to the conclusion that the hard drive had been completely erased……this is the wonderful Microsoft Guarantee.

DENMARK ACCUSES MICROSOFT OF EVADING TAXES — A Report on March the 4th, 2013 says that Denmark hopes to get one billion dollars from the Microsoft Corporation because they dodged ‘an enormous amount of taxes’ by by-passing millions in tax payments after the purchase of Navision A/S (Microsoft Dynamics) using their escape route of ‘the Irish Division’ — which they have used several times in order to wriggle out of paying tax….they also have an additional escape route via the use of ‘offshore offices’

MICROSOFT SHAREHOLDER SUES THE CORPORATION — Kim Barovic has filed a lawsuit against the company’s Board of Directors, they are claiming that the Board and Company executives mismanaged the situation that led to a massive fine imposed by the EU in 2013 which involved Microsoft breaking an agreement made in 2009 that was binding and relied on to make the software market a fair and level place to trade.

MICROSOFT NOT LISTENING TO THE PAYING CUSTOMER — only the ones they feel safe with! Customer Dennis asks ‘Why do they insist on putting out an inferior product?  especially Vista’   Well Dennis, we are told regularly by shops and pc techs that Microsoft have always put things out before they are ready — just to pay ‘lip service’ to the hype and launch date.  Dennis says Vista does not work with anything, and it shuts down the Explorer; sometimes while searching documents — and it renders other software useless — and they never want you to come back to them if there is a fault…..they just want your money.  (no change there)

MICROSOFT SUED OVER WINDOWS 8 — A ten page lawsuit was lodged in the US District Court of Maine against Microsoft — accusing Microsoft of Patent Infringement (for the umpteenth time) over the Windows 8 tiling feature. The firm Surfcast (10/12/2013) say they developed the tiles during the 1990’s and that Microsoft ‘Wilfully’ engaged in this infringement.

SCATHING ATTACK ON MICROSOFT BY JUDGE IN U.S. v MICROSOFT TRIAL  — District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued scathing findings of fact against Microsoft in 1999 when Bill Gates was at the Helm of the Corporation that was operating a monopoly.   In 2000 he ordered Microsoft to be taken apart and be broken into separate operating systems and software applications companies, but stayed the order pending an appeal. He concluded in his judgement that Microsoft was an unfair monopoly that deliberately used anti-competitive means to crush rival companies in the browser market.  A year later seven High Court Appeal Judges upheld Judge Jackson’s decision and findings plus the decisions made against Microsoft in 12 anti-trust violations.

DECEITFUL TRICK ON XP USERS BY MICROSOFT — Microsoft has been regularly using dirty tricks to connive and keep pc software users under their thumb.  XP users in San Francisco were chosen by the Corporation who told them ‘they were using a new version of Windows called ‘Mojave’ — when in fact, they weren’t, it was Vista, but having bad reviews they knew that by admitting it these XP users would decline…Microsoft was found out and they treated this incident as ‘a fib’ rather than the lie it really was (2008).

MICROSOFT LINKED TO FRAUD INVOLVING e-bays PayPal — Where would fraud be without Microsoft following close by?……here they are at it again.  Unauthorised Payments being made to Microsoft were being taken from customer accounts, and this had been going on frequently without much help from PayPal to stop this…who were more or less acting as co-conspirators.  Account customers losing their money traced the money paid out by their PayPal to Microsoft…. who ridiculously claimed ‘they were not sure if the account was theirs?….what rubbish!   One astute account holder a ‘techie’ followed the trail in Sept 2009……….and it went all the way to a Microsoft Paying in account.   Microsoft has since kept very quiet about this affair.

MOST COMPUTERS ARE UTTERLY AWFUL — especially running on Microsoft software — ill-constructed and extortionately overpriced, and the software and programs a rip-off to say the least. Junk would be a good word for most of the stuff these so called technical experts make in order to con and steal from the customer, it’s a kind of ‘legitimate theft’ conceived by the Internet and big business corporations, who often dabble in fraud as a sideline and use off-shore accounts to launder money, and avoid paying tax.

MICROSOFT – A POOR QUALITY PRODUCT — Francis of Glasgow suffered what most complainants come up against, ‘contact us’ — and there was no address to contact them…..just forums!  that basically introduce one to hundreds of others who are fobbed off by Microsoft.  ‘I bought that rubbish called ‘Vista’ — and it’s making me ill — Microsoft are hiding behind a wall of WebPages that lead to nowhere’…….how true!

LAWYER SUES MICROSOFT FOR MISREPRESENTATION — Los Angeles Lawyer Andrew Sokolowski filed a lawsuit in November 2012 against Microsoft for misleading customers about the amount of storage space it claimed on ‘The Surface Tablet’    He said Microsoft knows, but conceals and fails to disclose what is inaccessible and unusable.

MICROSOFT’S RACKETEERING HAS NEVER STOPPED — Homer says, Since Day 1 Microsoft have been into using ‘racketeering’ techniques — they took FUD to another new level previously never seen or experienced — and the list of these attacks is enormous.  One unfortunate reality of Microsoft’s reputation for dishonesty is that its employees can immediately gain credibility by claiming not to be MS Employees!  Steve Barkto and Bill Diamond are two good examples of this.

MICROSOFT’S VISTA CAPABLE CLAIM IS MISLEADING AND INACCURATE — Shane actually calls it a lie, and that it breaches the Trades Description Law, yet he cannot make them accountable for this.  ‘The US Law is a joke especially when it comes to Microsoft, you’d think they were both in cahoots!’  He purchased his laptop to use as a business POS with the insignia ‘Vista Capable’ on it — but found that in no shape or form could the device perform this function or claim it.  He finally had to spend another $300 dollars to get something else to do the work. 

‘Vista Capable’ Joanne of Hazelton and Karen of Fenton both had trouble, and hold Microsoft responsible, Karen said ‘ There’s no need for an attorney to contact me, I’ll upload my information for the court documents now’

MICROSOFT CAUGHT CHEATING IN PHONE CONTEST — Apologies came from the Microsoft Corporation after it cheated competition winner, Sahas Katta out of the Laptop Prize. This followed an embarrassing defeat for the Windows Phone platform. Katta won the challenge set by Microsoft but was refused his prize by Microsoft staff. On the issue going public via a blog from Katta, Microsoft hurriedly rushed to give him the prize.  However, the damage was done to the phone campaign, and it is likely to be permanent say Internet users.

CHINESE COURT RULES AGAINST MICROSOFT — Yet again Microsoft, a company that treats the law with contempt, appeared before the courts again — this time it was a foreign court — China. The court found Microsoft guilty of infringement when they stole intellectual property belonging to a Chinese software maker.  They ordered Microsoft to stop selling all pc operating systems containing the unlicensed software.

The strange double standards here so obvious of Microsoft is that this company was deceiving many by pretending to campaign for stronger laws on Intellectual Property Protection….when they were stealing.

THOSE STAGED MICROSOFT COURT CASES — Elaborate and accurately planned propaganda is how a court insider has described the superficial court cases involving Microsoft.  The Whistleblower tells us that they are fully rehearsed like a play for the media. Behind the closed doors of the Judge’s chambers the matter has been discussed and agreed to well in advance and how they will play it out in front of the press.  He says they are too big to be tossed about in court and since Judge Jackson made the public attack on the Corporation things have now got to be negotiated beforehand….they also have Senator backing and big business influence that limits what anyone can do’ he confirmed. ‘Most of the court action is informally discussed in plush offices’ he added.

The following phrase comes to mind – ‘When we practice to deceive, oh what a web of lies we weave’

MICROSOFT XBOX 360 — ‘ WE ARE ALWAYS RIGHT’  they tell the customer?  Yet when BBC’s Watchdog got onto the company about customers being banned who’d complained about the product, they suddenly changed their tune.  They suddenly admitted to getting things wrong and promised to pay compensation to customers who had bad deals and false promises.  Quite an arrogant company by all standards.

‘I WILL JOIN THE OTHERS IN A LAWSUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT’ — Renee of Lisbon Falls was refused a downgrade as he wanted to go back to Windows XP Pro rather than have the terrible Vista, which was giving lots of problems — instead, the Corporation wanted $380 dollars to fix ‘the problem’ — when the real problem was Microsoft!  Renee had paid thousands of dollars on computer software and was very annoyed at their suggestion he should pay for their errors!  he said ‘I will join in on the lawsuit that is going against Microsoft now in 2009’   He says with Vista his pc ‘freezes up’ frequently — and he depends on his pc for a living, ‘I should never have trusted this company’

MICROSOFT IN DEAL TO CONCEAL — Microsoft Lawyers are said to have made a deal to conceal the truth of how they managed to avoid being responsible for a Patents Infringement…….they later claimed to know nothing about it and the Corporation denied knowledge of the situation explaining it was all a misunderstanding?  They said they only realised it later when it was pointed out that a claim had been made against them in a court and the papers lodged.  (A rumour had it that they’d changed the dates on the original documents and altered files).

HIGHER DAMAGES REQUEST MADE BY WINNER AGAINST MICROSOFT — Inventor Carlos Amado won his case for patent infringement by Microsoft who used his work illegally in the Microsoft Excel software and database.  The U.S. Appeal Court has decided that the award should be reconsidered although it was made in a lower court. Judges said the figure had not been justified and the Microsoft call for 4 cents per item was ridiculous and preposterous even though the lower court went for 12 cents an item as acceptable.  Mr Amado is asking for $2 per item in view of the $200 plus item sold which would be a mere 1 per cent.

Mr Amado was awarded $8.96 million dollars in a 2003 case when he was initially claiming $500m dollars on ten claims against Microsoft for theft of his work and ideas.

MICROSOFT IGNORE CUSTOMER COMPLAINTS – We have scoured the Internet and other sources looking for the hidden truth about Microsoft and the complaints they do not deal with and in most cases, ignore entirely. We had to search by putting in different questions in order to expose the truth ie  – Microsoft bad deals, Microsoft lies, robbery at Microsoft and several more, and realised just how many complaints go unanswered by this company. It actually goes into the thousands and would have taken us most of a week to record them by the cut and paste method. Many accuse the company of being gangsters, thieves and far worse and many say they are untouchable because they are in league with the U.S,Government and politicians, which isn’t far from the truth.

MICROSOFT ONLINE STORE POSSIBLE INVOLVED IN INTERNET FRAUD —  A purchaser of a Laptop bought on January 1st 2010….delivered by UPS (contracted delivery for Microsoft)….but it never arrived.  A month went by and just nothing happened and despite contacting Microsoft, they just looked the other way and acted as if it was nothing to do with them.  Getting frustrated with the ‘couldn’t care less attitude by Microsoft Personnel’ he went online to see if this was just a one off.  It wasn’t!…..he quickly found two other cases who reported identical facts concerning their purchases with Microsoft….and one of them said they had made 58 telephone calls, but got absolutely nowhere.

INSTALL THIS, AND MICROSOFT WILL GIVE YOU GRIEF — Don did this, and he got more than he bargained for.  The Cheery Microsoft team said ‘download this PC Cleaner’ and on that advice he did, and suddenly found a message asking him to pay for it, there was no choice in purchase…..Don wanted out of this, so he quickly chose to uninstall, but found it wouldn’t go, which then forced him to visit a repair shop to have it removed!  he now feels that Microsoft used ‘Entrapment’ here and wants to know how they get away with operating a ‘con’ like this.

EU FINES MICROSOFT $733 MILLION IN BROWSER CASE — They fined the Corporation for failing to provide users with a choice of Internet Browsers — Microsoft have paid almost 2.2 billion Euros in penalties.  It was also shown that Microsoft do not abide by their promises as it failed to comply with an undertaking for over a year!

THOSE ‘CRAP’ MICROSOFT TECHNICIANS — Debra had a Microsoft technician from the ‘Microsoft Pool of Ingenuity’ work on her pc for over six hours in one week — and he didn’t solve the problem at all.  She was then told to take ‘the issue’ to another level — they would fix it.  She eventually went to a supervisor when no-one returned to carry out the task……the next one couldn’t figure it either, so she contacted another supervisor who said he’d have another technician call her on Saturday at 10 am to resolve the issue.  But that never happened, and one month went by…..and she was still waiting!

MICROSOFT CRIMES OF THE 1990’S STILL NOT SETTLED — Even today Microsoft have not repented or put right all of its wrong-doing of the 1990’s, nor acknowledged their crimes — Cases such as ‘Comes v Microsoft ‘ which revealed that Microsoft had been involved in many illegal things since Judge Penfield made his ruling, a ruling that almost tore the Corporation apart.  Prior to that Microsoft injured Novell, which was later hijacked by the Microsoft Corporation along with its Patents.  (look on the Web for the Comes v Microsoft Case)

MICROSOFT TECHNICIAN HAS NO IDEA! — Teri of New York thought all would be well while she was in the ‘capable’ hands of Microsoft (wrong)…..4 hours online with a technician after a Microsoft Update crashed her machine…..the tech gave up, he couldn’t figure it…..’I’ll be back later’ he said leaving her with a dead machine. Microsoft actually admitted that the Update had caused the malfunction…..but later they tried to blame it on her SONY Pc…….Teri said ‘Microsoft shouldn’t make excuses for bad software, nor should they sell this awful stuff’

MICROSOFT IN TROUBLE — WORSE OR FAR WORSE? — A Webpager says that Windows Phone 7 is in trouble, it doesn’t tempt customers, and that Microsoft is not addressing the problems. The Vista Nightmare is still haunting them and becoming part of their legacy and reputation. Much of their software is not fit for purpose and it has been said ‘ monkeys could do better than these so-called programmers’ and they would be cheaper in the long run. All in all, Microsoft is an illusion in how to get rich supplying tat and making sure that a monopoly exists to stop others competing and being the only supplier. Stock is in a poor way and not moving well at all… and a good reason for that is that pc users would like to ditch Microsoft software and use a better system to run their computer. Many using mac and apple are pleased they do not have windows of any sort.  Security issues are still a major problem with Microsoft — Internet Explorer 6 was a portal and welcome sign for Malware attacks on pc’s.  The Microsoft Image is getting dim….. see this at  www.channelinsider.com

MICROSOFT LOSE SUPREME COURT CASE AND MUST PAY $290 MILLION (More Details) — Judgement against Microsoft for Patent Infringements made history in the appeal court by being the largest sum upheld.  i4i a small company sued Microsoft in 2007 accusing the Industry giant of having used an editing tool without their permission patented by i4i.  Microsoft used the misappropriated software in 2003 and 2007 in Microsoft Word.  The Jury ruled against Microsoft ordering it to pay the 290 million dollars awarded to i4i. Chief Justice John Roberts had to stand down as his family owns more than $100,000 in Microsoft stock. In addition, a $40 million sum was tacked on by the Judge as he deemed that the Microsoft Lawyers had engaged in trial misconduct.

MICROSOFT IN COURT OVER LIES — Yet again we find this corrupt company engaging in utter deceit, but no-one seems to stop them, and we keep coming back to the question why? and in whose favour.  Nov 2012 — In a Superior Court Class Action Microsoft have been accused of serious misrepresentation of the storage capacity of its Surface RT Tablets.  Andrew Sokolowski accuses Microsoft of violating State Consumer Laws, False Advertising and Unfair Business Practices — He says they conceal certain flaws in the system in regard to its storage facility.

MICROSOFT ‘INVOLVEMENT DENIAL IN POLICE RAID ‘ IS A LIE —  In February 2013 an article tucked away on the InterWeb revealed more lies from the Microsoft Corporation — They have been caught out lying over a ‘police raid’ on the premises of an ‘XBOX Leaker’  The Raid was made by The West Australia Police with the agents of the FBI being involved.  This Corrupt Corporation Microsoft responded by saying that they did not initiate the raid or assist the FBI or Police…..and wouldn’t comment further.  But that didn’t end the matter, Internet firm Tec Game managed to obtain a photocopy of the police warrant used in the raid — it listed Microsoft, E-Bay and its subsidiary company PayPal has the chief instigators!  The search warrant of the Computer Crime Squad led by Detective Marika Jane Schulbergs, warrant PDI 1006 showed clear evidence that Microsoft lied yet again.

AMERICAN MICROSOFT COMPANY CORRUPT THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE — Yes it’s a fact, those bastard Americans can’t spell or speak properly so they decided they’d force their will on the world by making Word operate only on an American usage, which ultimately destroys proper spoken and written English…their system cancels out correct pronunciation and spelling only to replace it with twaddle, something the yanks are good at.

THE EVILS OF MICROSOFT – DISHONESTY : Regular reports and news on the Internet indicates that Microsoft have a bad reputation, and an example given to show this at its best is the case of Microsoft workers Steve Barkto and Bill Diamond who claimed they weren’t with Microsoft, when they were!   Confusing?  not really, It’s all part of the Dirty Tricks and Racketeering by Microsoft….they always leave a trail despite some clever footwork by their lawyers who deny everything.  Examples of ‘The Dirty Tricks’ history can be viewed at the site  www.grokdoc.net  and the info there is very extensive, as it goes into details with technical explanations.

MICROSOFT ‘Haven’t the capacity to solve the problems they cause’  Henk, a Australian/Dutch citizen, points out to all readers that Vista should have been recalled……because it is an ‘unfinished’ product and program package laden with faults — and unfit for purpose.  A major upgrade failed and crashed the system he says, and he’d bought two new machines with Microsoft ‘Vista Home Premium’ on them……he says in their favour! ‘They are the most unreliable, unstable and useless operating system ever devised.  He can’t think why any lab at Microsoft should claim to have designed and built this….he says that he will be making representations to the consumer protection authorities.

MICROSOFT VISTA — AND 2YRS OF AGONY — Joanne of Hadley says that the arrival of Vista Home Premium led her into a struggle and almost lost survival from a nightmare that lasted two years.  Luckily, she decided she could take no more and ditched the machine despite losing her money.  She went back to XP, her old XP which had given a moderate and reasonable performance (not that it didn’t have some teething troubles), and calm has finally been restored to her life.  ‘I’m out of date so-to-speak hi-tech wise, but I’m also out of the living hell that Microsoft put me through’  Joanne admits to being a self-taught pc user…..and if she could do without Microsoft in favour of a better system ‘user friendly’ she’d forget they ever existed.

MICROSOFT ADVERT WITH THE FALSE PROMISE — A 2013 Advert Campaign on UK TV by the Microsoft Company is attempting to con viewers into believing that if they choose Microsoft you are guaranteed security? which according to a vast number of techno geeks and seasoned pc users, is the last thing that this company can claim….., ‘ it is bogus’ said Peter of Pad Stage Pc’s, ‘Microsoft have the worst reputation in the security field, almost anyone can get past their so-called security, and it often invites viruses rather than repel them’

MICROSOFT ‘Just a bunch of Greedy Bastards’ — Disgruntled user and purchaser Alan feels very bad about the Microsoft products….. as he found out the hard way when buying something that had Microsoft in it.  He bought a pc with Vista advertised on it and the emblem saying vista…..in fact the shop told him and pointed out that it came with ‘Word’…..so he was satisfied….however at home he discovered that the Word installed was only for a ‘trial period’…..despite having paid $800 dollars for the machine…..he went back to the Microsoft Retailers and was told ‘ you have to purchase the ‘Word Package’….he asked why he hadn’t been told this at the point of sale and was told ‘ well everyone knows this don’t they?’……..yes, that’s the Microsoft we all know, generous to a fault……and happy to be of service!

MICROSOFT PAYOUT OVER £1MILLION in compensation to female worker Natalie Ayres who was bypassed for promotion despite being at the company for 15 years. It is stated that they wanted the compensation kept private, but the worker insisted that this kind of discrimination should not be hushed-up.

MICROSOFT PAYOUT $200 MILLION DOLLARS FOR PATENT INFRINGEMENTS — It was revealed that the giant software company paid out 200 million dollars to VirtnetX Holding Corporation. The court settlement came as MIcrosoft were found guilty of using two of VirtnetX’s patents — virtual private network technology for use in its Windows Office and Communication.

‘ Microsoft payouts around $9 Billion over Infringements and theft ‘

MICROSOFT FACE 130 PENDING LAWSUITS — and have already paid out around 9 billion dollars over patent infringements, theft and anti-trust actions.  The Company is reported to have a long history of litigation in the U.S. Courts.  Corruption is difficult to distinguish in the business world and it is often twisted to mean error and mistake as we so often hear or read about, but being fined by a court does signify a guilt decided by a jury. Yet strangely enough, Microsoft  trot out the well-worn phrase ‘ They are not guilty of any wrong-doing ‘ yet have been ordered to pay compensation and have done deals with undisclosed amounts. They paid $2 million dollars to the state of IOWA for overcharging customers in 1999.  They paid $2 billion dollars to Sun Microsystems. Up to 2005 there were 48 lawsuits of which 39 had fines linked to them.

Here are a small number of those:   Alucritech accepted an undisclosed figure payout, AOL got $750 million, Apple settled for $250 million,  The State of Arizona — $104,600,000,  AT &T got an undisclosed payout,  The Company Be accepted $23,250,000,  Bristol got $4,100,000,  Burst settled for $60 million dollars,  The State of California got $1,100,000,  Carlos Armado (accused them of stealing his work) got $8,960,000,  The State of Columbia settled for $6,200,000,  DR/DOS/Caldera accepted $500 million dollars,  The State of Kansas got a payout of $32 million dollars,  The State of Maryland got $10,500,000,  Minnesota accepted $240 million dollars,  The State of Montana got $12,300,000,  Nebraska were paid $22,600,000, The State of North Carolina accepted $89 million dollars, and the company Novell got a payout of $536 million dollars.  These are just several, which in turn shows the world what a vast fortune Microsoft are making out of world users of pc’s in order to make such huge and many payouts without going bust.

‘The Burst.Com Case ‘ — Microsoft were accused of theft in regard to patented technology — what emerged in the case was 35 weeks of missing e-mails in the evidence Microsoft were forced to hand over to Burst.com lawyers.  They accused Microsoft of creating a 30-day e-mail deletion policy specifically to cover-up illegal activity!  (Microsoft paid damages of $60 million dollars — as can be seen in the above article).

MORE CASES OF MICROSOFT CORRUPT PRACTISES are coming into our inbox, mainly concerning the secretive and back-door deals they do to avoid lengthy court actions, often based on theft.  It seems that this company are very willing to steal ideas from people in regard to software, and they often target individuals who have no backing so that they cannot afford to take these giants to court. This is a shabby practice by this corporation and just because they are Americans, they think they are entitled to do as they please. We already know they have many outstanding court cases to answer for this year as well as in 2012 with many new ones being in their application stages now.

MICROSOFT ACCUSED OF HACKING AND BRIBERY  — A Internet report by Techright says that the Bill Gates Foundation and Microsoft are hacking the global system in order to deceive.  They accuse Bill Gates of making profits and dressing up his activities to look like charity.  There is also the matter of bribery by Bill Gates and those accusations are set to continue.

CORRUPT MICROSOFT —Yes indeed, we all seem to know they are, but once again they ignore these charges against them. They laughably boast about protection for users of their software, but we have found that in many cases especially music files via the media player, that being seduced into clicking on security you get more than you bargained for,,, a complete lock on ever playing your files on the internet at all. They of course couldn’t care less about security.  Once a person has clicked the security there is no way back,, you have to erase and try to begin again after wasting oodles of time due to Microsoft. This firm of charlatans and half-baked boffins just cream off cash from anywhere they can as seen above in the huge load of court cases, which are going on month to month without any signs of abating.

THE MICROSOFT PYRAMID FRAUD CASE — Possibly the big one here? unless we can discover a crime far bigger involving Microsoft.  For this story and expose we owe our thanks to Bill Parish who knows about Microsoft inside and out. He speaks quite plainly why he chose to blow the whistle on Microsoft starting with the comments — ‘ My close friends who work at Microsoft are particularly upset over my publication about what goes on in the company’  Bill goes on to call this ‘ The Microsoft Financial Pyramid ‘ likening it to the huge pyramid selling scams that were deemed to be a rip-off and made unlawful in some countries.  He tells us that Microsoft are incurring massive losses whilst at the same time, creating the illusion that profits are being made that are not true and nor can they be substantiated without some false accounting and help from elsewhere?   He says that Microsoft are understating its costs in order to to grant certain stock options (in other words – being economical with the truth). He says the current situation is a shining example of financial fraud and corruption at Microsoft, aided and abetted by U.S. Government Policy.  Bill says that this elaborate financial pyramid scheme is being utilized by the Microsoft Corporation, and that he can prove it beyond a doubt.  Microsoft’s response was reflected by Bob Herbold, Chief Operations Officer who brushed it aside by glibly remarking — ‘ Everyone is doing it ‘  But his mood changed when Bill pointed out that Microsoft was a leader in the Technology field and that others are now seeking to emulate these fraudulent practices which Microsoft have legitimised,  This didn’t go down well with Herbold and the meeting was terminated.  This was soon followed by ‘ Gagging plans’ to stop Bill Parish making any more details known.  Microsoft asked, and we use that kindly, P.R.Newswire to stop issuing Bill’s press releases — P.R.Newswire’s biggest client is Microsoft?   Bill goes further in his efforts to publicly expose Microsoft and openly accuses them of MONEY-LAUNDERING – aggressively investing cash pilfered from the pension funds in business ventures outside the U.S.  He tells us that Microsoft entered into a campaign to discredit him and that they used their might to subvert and control the media in order to stop allegations being published or getting into the public domain.

SUPPORT FOR BILL PARISH CLAIM — we have a whistleblower from the Microsoft Corporation who has cleverly made his way to our PI — Cal as he wishes to be named, says that everyone has been told to hush up about the accusations of corruption against Microsoft and not to associate with Parish at all. He tells us that employees have been threatened with redundancy and removal from their jobs if anything leaks out. He says that Microsoft are too big to be taken to a criminal trial as they have shareholders in the right places to veto any move in the government or with the justice department. He tells us that senior staff have made suggestions that anything happening to Microsoft will expose others involved and that it is a risk they cannot take. One director said ‘considering they were giants in the software world market, they had nothing to fear from investigations of any sort as they would not succeed without destabilizing the Internet, web and pc users around the world.

One can see why Bill Gates left the Corporation when he did, most of this scandal happened on his watch??

Considering that FRAUD and MONEY-LAUNDERING are criminal acts, and in some countries like Singapore — they serve up to ten years in jail for this — it seems very strange that the FBI nor the POLICE have taken any action or arrested bosses or personnel at the Corporation.  The only obvious answer has to be a secret deal or corruption within the Justice Department or bribes to members of the Judiciary.  Bill says that Microsoft have not issued libel or made attempts to bring him to court. He says that could only work if it was a lie, but he says he has the proof and is prepared to have it publicly examined, and that might be why they cannot risk a can of worms being released.

To read more, much more — go to Bill Parish or The Microsoft Financial Pyramid Fraud in search.

FINE OF $290 MILLION DOLLARS AND BAN ON SELLING MS WORD FOR MICROSOFT — A judge in Texas slapped a fine of 290 million dollars and an injunction preventing Microsoft from selling the Word Program.  The injunction prohibits the Corporation from selling, offering to sell, and importing any XML software into the U.S.

MICROSOFT FINED FOR PRICE-FIXING — A fine of $11.8million dollars was handed to Microsoft for its illegal price-fixing of its Office Home and Student 2007 Suite.  It is said they used their financial muscle to manipulate the market unfairly and to their own advantage on numerous occasions despite warnings from regulators.

IGNORING EU SANCTIONS COSTS MICROSOFT 899 MILLION EUROS — $1.35 BILLION DOLLARS for failing to comply with sanctions.  it is stated that the Giant American Corporation snubbed the EU after being expressly forbidden to fix and abuse pricing structures to their own greed and force out competition.  It was also said that Microsoft is the first company in fifty years to be fined for its failure to comply with rulings from the EU.  The fine is said to be the biggest the European Union ever placed on one company for contempt.

MICROSOFT’S DEVIOUS PRACTICES — No disclaimer, No Compatibility, Microsoft don’t care about either of these things, it’s the money they want.  Windows 7, they didn’t let consumers know that Windows 7 is not compatible with previous upgrades and modules — and if you’d just got your XP doing what you wanted…..you need the upgrade to have any of the Windows 7……Louise ordered the upgrade, and had to accept a shipping fee of $10, she actually wanted a disc to feel more safe with, but that was ignored by Microsoft who have a habit of telling the customer what they want done!  They gave her a key number (not much for ten dollars), to instal the upgrade online.  It didn’t work, and five technicians at Microsoft couldn’t fix it either…..she had to spend most of the day on a ‘shared line’ with Microsoft Support….who did ‘this and that’ mostly guess work…..and shortly after her pc developed an operating fault….and she had to pay a repair shop to get it fixed!

MICROSOFT SECURITY PACKAGES ARE CRAP — Yes, according to experienced users and technical people outside the corporation, one should not bother with their security programs because they aren’t either. The Defender program is branded as completely useless, pointless and detects very little along with the so called Microsoft firewall — that can easily be blown down in one attack on the web.  Microsoft Outlook Express has no protection against anything and has basic problems of downloading. Microsoft Office — any version is not user friendly and, a report from their own team admitted that the interface was awkward and vastly unpopular…..and as to Microsoft Works, the report says under no circumstances use it, because it doesn’t work and it is almost incompatible with almost everything!!

MICROSOFT – ‘Try one, and you’ll have to buy one!’ — David decided on having Windows Vista for a ‘trial Period’ and subsequently found that he did not like it…….(Sensible Decision).  So he just figured he could uninstall it, as you can with the majority of programs.  He used The Windows Installer……and it didn’t work or wouldn’t work.  He had no alternative but to re-install Wn Vista even though he didn’t want it.  He feels that Microsoft have a nasty surreptitious scheme to force people to buy Vista under the guise of trying it,’it is a low, scheming scam’ he said.

MICROSOFT WON’T REFUND CUSTOMER —   Even though they are to blame,  ‘A plain disregard and dishonesty’ are the words that go to describe Microsoft by customer Asif (Jan 2013) who bought an upgrade online.  He found the download wouldn’t start, but kept on trying for several days.  He tried the Microsoft Forum which proved to be absolutely useless (and he suspects that moderators there are deliberately manipulating complaints by not replying to certain requests on behalf of the Corporation).  Tired of this attitude by Microsoft, he placed an order online for a DVD with key number, but didn’t receive it…..Microsoft reacted eventually by saying they didn’t send to PO Boxes, but again…this was not mentioned on the online forms…..despite many attempts, Microsoft haven’t found a solution, nor fixed it, and failed in a promise to telephone him….and they will not refund costs paid by Asif.  He now says he wants to get in touch with any specialist lawyer in regard to suing Microsoft for this awful treatment…….and we say yes, get one, and take Microsoft to court ASAP.

MICROSOFT STILL BREACHING  FAIR PRACTICE RULES — Victoria of San Marino is ‘hopping mad’ about the Microsoft practice of forcing people to purchase new versions of software (advantageous financially) to the Corporation.  She bought a Dell Laptop and was told she ‘no longer had a choice or option’ to select which version of Windows she preferred — because of a ‘Dell-Microsoft’ agreement!  She thinks this subject should go before a court on Consumer Rights — because in reality it is Highway Robbery.

MICROSOFT’S UNLAWFUL CONDUCT — Microsoft erected artificial entry barriers to slow down or halt alternative technologies by other companies says David S Sibley in the civil action No 98-1232 (CKK) The USA v Microsoft Corporation — They were out to stop ‘middleware’ being available to users and available as competition in the market.  It was also said they entered into deception — deceiving Java Developers about the specific nature of Microsoft Java Tools — and coerced Intel to stop aiding Sun by threats to support AMD — similar action was employed with MAC.

MICROSOFT ACCUSED OF COVER-UP IN XBOX LIVE FRAUD — Furious Xbox customers said that Microsoft were deliberately covering-up their involvement in the fraud surrounding XBoxLive by denying that it was hit by hackers. They claimed that crooks bought Microsoft points on their accounts to trade on to users in China, Nigeria and Russia…Microsoft Associate E.U.Games would not comment and Microsoft made the usual denials.

MICROSOFT USE CHILD SLAVE LABOUR IN CHINA  — A report says that the Giant Microsoft Corporation are using vulnerable slave workers, 16 and 17yr olds working 15 hour days on poor rates — 37 pence an hour!! building their XBox in China.  The report by the National Labour Committee accused Microsoft of exploiting young desperate Chinese workers who had to work 15 hour shifts in crowded conditions and sleep 14 to a room.  1,000 work in a factory run by Microsoft, who have stated and made a lame claim that they inspect the conditions and would take action if they found anything wrong?

MICROSOFT PAYS PEOPLE TO CHANGE LEGISLATION — Lobbying in the UK has recently been seen as a form of corruption and Bribery (undercover exposes have revealed this to happen where big money is concerned.  Microsoft’s fear and Primary threat is real choice in the market — Promoting patents to impede free software and standards — People are not fond of Microsoft Products, but many are left without a choice — Before Microsoft arrived to bully the Industry and countries — there was real choice!

MICROSOFT EMPLOYEES CHARGED WITH THEFT  — Four Microsoft Corporation employees have been charged with stealing 32.4 million dollars worth of software and selling it behind the backs of their bosses. The charged are – Robert Howdeshell project co-ordinator, and three assistants, Alyson Clark, Finn Contini and Christine Hendrickson. They are charged with conspiracy to defraud.  Contini and Howdeshell face additional charges of money-laundering.

MICROSOFT ACCOUNTANT JAILED FOR THEFT — Accountant for Microsoft, Randal Ray Seal stole 1.1million dollars at the Redmond branch of Microsoft. The court judge sentenced him to two years in jail — it was said that the theft was opportunistic as Seal was given the task and brief of exposing flaws in the Corporation’s accounting system.

MICROSOFT IN SECRECY PACT WITH YAHOO IS SUED BY TEXAS — Microsoft and Yahoo signed a secrecy pact despite the State of Texas suing Microsoft for interfering with its antitrust investigation by refusing to release manufacturers from secrecy clauses. Microsoft said the move by The Texas Attorney General’s Office was most unfortunate as they had hoped for better understanding and hoped matters would not become a public record.

MICROSOFT BLAMED FOR SOFTWARE VULNERABILITY — Many complainants and reports say that Microsoft are blatantly ignoring anyone and all users who are inconvenienced by terrible software problems  — they say it is absolute arrogance when they simply put up posts admitting to critical flaws in its products’

MICROSOFT’S VIOLATION OF COURT SETTLEMENT leads to new lawsuit filed by Massachusetts accusing the giant corporation of violating its terms.

Note: Several other states have joined in to support an investigation into Microsoft, and are considering similar court action against the huge Corporation.

CORRUPTION AT MICROSOFT — YOU BET — We have the lowdown and link: http://techrights.org  visit this.

MICROSOFT to be investigated by Argentina, The country’s legal department are launching an action against Microsoft because of Anti-trust breaches, and say the company has abused its position on local markets.

LAWSUIT AGAINST MICROSOFT — Implicit Network launched a writ against Microsoft in the California District Court charging Microsoft with ‘breaching’ (theft) of a patent Implicit Network owns. The patent which is being used in Windows 7 and Vista was assigned to Implicit Network from its creator Edward Balassanian.

MICROSOFT FACE ANOTHER LAWSUIT — Filed by Tangent Computer Services and Hardware Company, based in California. The Lawsuit accuses Microsoft of breaching Federal Anti-trust Laws. They accuse Microsoft Corporation of using tactics to prevent and destroy competition while raising prices of its software to ‘supra-competitive’ levels. Tangent say Federal Law prohibits unfair business practises and Monopolies greedily pushing others out because they have power.

MICROSOFT SYSTEM FLAWS COVERED-UP — Flaws in the Windows 7 and 2010 Office software have been deliberately suppressed and covered up by the Corporation according to sources in the technology division, in a bid so as not to hinder sales it is revealed. Our source says that bugs in the windows and word were discussed but too late to stop the mass selling of the product before it was fully ready.  This is not the first time Microsoft have engaged in this kind of practise and deceit — looking back to Vista and XP the repair downloads came out as soon as the product had hit the market, and there were hundreds of items that needed attention.

Chinese worry about citizens dependency on Microsoft — decide to cut need and stop US Monopoly by having its own source of software — created by Russian Programmers.

MICROSOFT ACCUSED OF UNETHICAL BUSINESS ACTIVITIES in China, — Kai Fu Lee, Vice President with Microsoft China cited blunders by Microsoft in a court suit brought by the Microsoft Corporation. He told the court that Microsoft insulted and threatened government officials.  The court heard how Lee was berated by Bill Gates who used expletives to express his frustration on the lack of progress in China.  Microsoft retaliated by saying Lee had conspired with Google (Lee went to work with Google) before leaving Microsoft. Lawyer Jeff Johnson for Microsoft showed the court an alleged e-mail from Lee to Google’s Chief Executive Eric Schmidt saying he was working on areas that might be of interest to Google…Google’s lawyer said this was very exagerrated.

MICROSOFT VICE PRESIDENT Stuart Scott – Chief Information Officer was dismissed for violating company policies.

ECUADOR TAX AGENCY CLOSE MICROSOFT OFFICE DOWN over non-cooperation, having requested twice business payment reports and complete tax information, which is in breach of the country’s laws.

MICROSOFT OFFICES WERE RAIDED IN HUNGARY over competition misconduct.

MICROSOFT EXECUTIVE dumped stock prior to Red Ring announcement clearly indicates insider dealing — the report says sales were not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission within the mandatory time limit of two days — Microsoft claimed that it was a ‘administrative error’ — where have we heard that one??

MICROSOFT ACCUSED OF TAX EVASION — the article says that money is being pilfered from public funds to support projects that are beneficial to Microsoft — federal money helped pay for a highway overpass in Redmond, Washington mainly to join to areas of Microsoft property — and Microsoft paid half leaving the tax payer to foot the rest of the bill.

MICROSOFT AND BRIBERY — ‘The Great Law Scandal’ — Bribery and corruption seems to be a byword at this Corporation, and what’s more, they get away with it. Many pages here and on the Internet are testimony to this fact, but they remain free of any such thing as laws unless they are doling out large sums in the county court style claims over Anti-Trust Violations.  Techrights the website claim in the name of ‘convenience’ and immoral US Law practises describe what Microsoft do in the way of bribery has no real distinction — in that it borders on ‘not being a legal offence and criminal act — but in fact does both?’ but no-one moves forward to jail them. It says the Corporation resorts to ‘buying’ customers — ‘The Corbis Scandal’ — they claim that those not affluent enough are potentially a target for prosecution and go to jail — or if you have a congressman in your pocket that would work to save you.  Claims that Microsoft pays for silencing people are made and it also states that a whistleblower in the Corporation in accounts, saw the practice of carrying earnings from one accounting period into another — known as ‘managing earnings’ deemed illegal under US Securities Law, but never-the-less done despite this.  But the most important thing here is — MICROSOFT CONSIDER THEMSELVES UNTOUCHABLE!! and you have to ask yourself why? and how this can be — and that leads you to the law makers of the USA. They are actively protecting this company at all costs.

NO Major executive has been charged or gone to jail despite court actions, bribery and corruption…WHY?

ODOM Vs MICROSOFT CORPORATION — Odom took Microsoft to court over enterprise and racketeering activity —at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.

MICROSOFT’S MSN MANAGER CHARGED WITH FRAUD — Carolyn Gudmundsen was charged with fraud after it was discovered she had raked in around $1 million over a period of four years in which she falsified expense reports for domain name registration charges — the former program manager at Microsoft’s MSN Division ran a number of different scams during 2000 to 2004.

MICROSOFT ACCUSED OF SUPPORTING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY — William W. on his webpage claims openly that Microsoft interest and backing amounted to a scam in legal practice.  He says ‘The Legal Voice’ is backed by Microsoft in the guise of K &L Gates (Connection with founder Bill Gates) who he alleges is consorting and supporting the perjury couple who had him falsely arrested. He tells us he has contacted his Congressman Adam Smith to look into the Seattle matter and seeks to have Microsoft investigated in its misuse of the law and involvement in a scam.

BILL GATES — (Microsoft) the sole owner of CORBIS, was found guilty of fraud — the article called ‘The past catches up with Bill Gates’ reveals that the Judge in King County Court, Washington found Corbis; run by Gates and at least five former Microsoft personnel, were guilty of fraudulently entering into a business relationship with Infoflows, and then developed that company’s ideas into a service for use in Corbis digital photo. The Judge found against Corbis in the lawsuit and made a judgement in the sum of $20million against Gates and Corbis.

NB: Bill Gates – and how he got there……one person, Brian of West Kelowna, Canada, gives us the answers – Gates happened to know a person who wrote DOS and purchased it for next to nothing from him because of IBM’s antitrust legal case opportunity — he just happened to be in the right spot with someone else’s product and took advantage, showing him to be a pure opportunist…..and not the technology genius he portrayed.

MICROSOFT SHAREHOLDERS WANT BILL GATES REMOVED — In a recent article (Sept 2013) Shareholders said they want a change in the management structure at Microsoft, and openly wanted co-founder of Microsoft Bill Gates to step down, as they don’t like his involvement in the business.  They want him to resign as the company’s chairman.  With plummeting sales for pc’s and Microsoft products, Microsoft have already been hit by the resignation of Chief Exec Steve Bulmer.

Microsoft HOTMAIL – the MSN dept — Hotmail crimes — too many to list to list actually — this lot have a scam where they e-mail the unsuspecting client that they are having to close the account because they make up a claim that it has been used by another party?? them….yes it really is Microsoft laying you open for a security breach ready to steal your personal details that is their aim and game. Theft is no stranger to this awful American Corporation, they actively steal, subvert and lie at all stages- their staff are well trained!! (see the article on MSN Manager Carolyn Gudmundsen who was charged with Fraud — third paragraph above this)

MICROSOFT AND THE HOTMAIL BLUNDER — It blundered big time when thousands of hotmail e-mail user accounts were denied access to their boxes — it was said that Microsoft offered a feeble minor apology!

MICROSOFT HOTMAIL NOW CRUMBLING — Information from bloggers and techies tell us that ‘Hotmail’ is now in a sort of disintegration and incapable of being safe — and it is in a vulnerable and erratic state which is very susceptible to freezing without any notification.  They say this is down to Microsoft’s poor maintenance record, and that they no longer care about safety and security for its users.

MICROSOFT WINDOWS 7 BLUNDER — Windows 7 upgrade is said to be riddled with errors, which has caused some techs to think that one or more Microsoft boffins are secretly working for Apple — The Upgrade labelled ‘hideously complex’ with non-existent programming faults on one entire row, what’s wrong? everything!!

MICROSOFT DIRECTOR IS JAILED FOR SCAMMING — Robert Curry, Director of Business Development was charged with three counts of fraud concerning the making of ‘false invoices’ — he was found guilty of embezzlement by a US District Court in Seattle. He was formerly with the Microsoft Strategic Partnerships Team, but was fired on his conviction for stealing $500,000 dollars.  It is said ‘that he took revenge on the company’ and police claim he tried to steal an additional $1.3million over a sixth month period in 2010…in court he said he was humiliated by his bosses……..and this case was the third Microsoft case in just a matter of weeks!

MICROSOFT EMPLOYEE ARRESTED — Microsoft employee Shingo Mihara was caught groping a teenage girl on a train in Japan. The Japanese Microsoft worker was said to have put his hand down the schoolgirl’s blouse, which offended her modesty.

MICROSOFT CONTRACT ENGINEER ON SMUGGLING CHARGES — Lian Yang was arrested by the FBI after a two year sting operation. It was disclosed that the Microsoft USA employee, a National of China, had been plotting to smuggle satellite parts and technology back to China.

MICROSOFT’S Nice little Cover-Up techniques —  Little wonder why all or many of the Corporation’s reports on ‘wrongdoing’ seem much less than they should be, it’s all to do with ‘pay-offs’ — anytime a disgruntled exec, manager or key worker threatens to tell all and blow the whistle to the Feds or Police…and Press, in swoop the Microsoft Lawyers ‘with an offer you can’t refuse’ — along with a disclaimer and a promise to stay silent.  We trawled the net to look at certain blogs we’d come across several months ago and remarkably found a number of disgruntled former employees who made threats in articles to oust the Corporation…. but never followed through?…..and then by accident we came across one of them who’d been paid off, and that led us to several more who accepted ‘undisclosed sums’ for their silence…….so much for principles eh!

MICROSOFT STORE IN CARD TRANSACTION ‘THEFT’ — Customer George of Carmel, Indianapolis, bought a product at the district store, and because their card machine was down, the store did the sale another way which resulted in the disappearance of $200 dollars, above the amount of the goods.  He then experienced what can only be termed as the ‘Microsoft Run-Around’ by the staff who seemed incapable of rectifying the matter.  He was told to ring their helpline number, which he did, only to discover there was no record of the transaction?  and they just walked away from the problem telling him to contact Microsoft Central Office.  He spent over 56 minutes on the phone, only to be transferred to another number.  This proved to be no better, and after spending an entire morning trying to get back what was rightfully his, it finally arrived at the awful point that Microsoft had literally grabbed 200 dollars which they were not entitled to, and just left him ‘high and dry’ — a sort of ‘cruel theft’ and no one at Microsoft cared a jot.

MICROSOFT ASK FOR $15 ROYALTY DESPITE GOOGLE PROVIDING SOFTWARE FOR FREE? — Greedy Corp’ Microsoft show their true nature yet again as a row erupted between Google and Microsoft over patents and the Android handset.  The report says that a hostile campaign was lodged by Microsoft and Apple — Chief legal Officer David Drummond commented thus — ‘ Microsoft and Apple have always been fierce rivals prepared to fight it out to the death, but when they get into bed with each other you start to wonder what is going on?’

MICROSOFT TARGETED BY EMPLOYEE OVER PATENT INFRINGEMENT — Lawsuits both for and against were filed in this case of ‘the Insider Battle’ — The giant Corporation claimed that its employee Miki Muller joined the company to procure confidential documents that could help win an Intellectual Property case against them! They accuse him of applying for a position at Microsoft on false pretences ‘espionage’ — so that the firm he said he worked for had ceased business could bring a suit against Microsoft.  After much deliberation and game-playing court jurisdiction-wise….we hear that there has been a ‘secret’ settlement reached by Microsoft with Mullor??

MORE MICROSOFT BLUNDERS CAN BE SEEN AT   —   www.lowendmac.com  go and have a browse.

We will be back with more to update you on Microsoft and what they get up to — there is a lot more, we have barely scratched the surface so we will continue searching. What is becoming obvious now is that Bill Gates and Microsoft are corrupt in every way. Every time we delve into this corporation, the facts keep pointing to a company backed by a crooked US Government, a company too large to be criminally charged because of its spending power. And because of this, we are going to trawl every corner to expose this Corporation and embarrass them at every turn.

MICROSOFT IN RACISM ROW — Microsoft found themselves having to apologise over a photograph for promotional purposes which had been ‘doctored’ — A white man’s head had been pasted onto a black man’s body and placed on its official website.  The real photo showed an Asian Man, A Black Man and A White Woman.

PC BUYER IN SPAIN SAYS — ‘Bought a laptop, it came however, with one might say — maybe loosely described as an operating system — Microsoft Windows Vista — and it is an element I do not want of which I would like to return’  this buyer actually took it back to the shop and asked for Microsoft to be removed and claimed a refund.

MICROSOFT CHEATS THE CUSTOMER — A Report by the reliable Techrights Group lets us know that Microsoft are hiding its own flaws quite deliberately in order to deceive the paying customer, in fact, customers around the world.  Techrights say Microsoft delivers patches only after customers are attacked online, despite prior warnings they already knew about.  And then cheats when it comes to the number of patches it issues.  One other question posed is — does Microsoft’s negligence justify lawsuits?  One example is that Microsoft had, and sat on the knowledge that it had information about a ‘browser Bug’ for nearly six months!

SPAIN BEGAN INVESTIGATIONS INTO MICROSOFT — in 2011, The Competition Commission in Spain began investigating Microsoft’s apparent misbehaviour in the market, and especially against competition.  They were especially looking into Microsoft’s Licence Agreements —  WHICH PREVENT the transfer of Microsoft Software to third parties.  Microsoft have a reputation for restricting other companies trading on a fair playing field.

THE GREAT LOBBYING SWINDLE BY MICROSOFT — New York Times Joel Brinkley revealed a story about one Ralph Reed whose company Century Strategies in Atlanta was hired by Microsoft in 1998, but no one knew of it because Reed wasn’t registered as a lobbyist. It said Reed approached George Bush to lobby on the Justice Department Antitrust Suit. This was the only instance of a lobbyist being paid to influence a candidate whom he is simultaneously servicing as a paid political consultant. Reed apologised and admitted he’d done wrong and agreed what he was doing was wrong. However, the game by Microsoft was more subtle than it appeared, and in order to further its position Microsoft hired Vin Weber ($500,000) and Grover Norquist along with the disgraced Michael Deaver —The Republicans……It also took on Vic Fazio and Al Gore’s friend Tom Downey ($180,000), the Democrats….and why?  to make it look like you are in the business of corrupting the Democratic process, but in reality you create a diversion and lead onlookers away as you create a swindle to look like sleaze   — a fancy bit of theatre only Microsoft can get away with!

‘Microsoft aids China in Silencing Critics’

Although this report isn’t new, it does have a bearing on the political arena of 2012 and wider implications in the free world, freedom of movement and freedom of speech. MICROSOFT was found to have blocked words like ‘ Human Rights ‘ and ‘Democracy’ on their MSN…in their growing cooperation with China so that it can cosy up to the Communist authorities for Gain! yes, monetary gain indeed — for entry into China’s growing economy and market. This certainly flies in the face of what America stands for, and even the US Congressional Subcommittee took umbrage and called the giant software company in. The committee expressed their anger at Microsoft cooperating with the use of US technology in China’s repressive policies.  This also was aimed at Yahoo, Google and Cisco who were involved in this dire move to profit from being China’s buddies in an economic paradise.  Microsoft said they had to cooperate with China or risk losing a foothold in their new expanding markets; 110 million Chinese are now online.  This reprimand by the committee came amid a report that showed that Microsoft had assisted China in pulling the plug on dissenter Zao Jing, because the Chinese authorities told them to censor him immediately. Microsoft in their arrogance failed to see that they were in for a backlash and condemnation form Internet users in the Free World, and after a storm of critics they were made to alter their policy and said they would shut down blogs in China when told to, but not interfere with them in ‘no-man’s land — Cyberspace’ outside China’s territory. A committee representative said Microsoft had been co-operating with China too closely with Hu’s crackdown on China’s critics, and that would not be viewed well on Capitol Hill or with the American public.

MICROSOFT RENEGES ON FREE TRIAL DEAL — Walt of Fernley, decided to take advantage of the ‘Azure 90 day free trial’….. and he was certainly taken advantage of! — they billed him for it at $633.64 dollars.  When he made a complaint a Microsoft Representative agreed to refund the charge saying it had been an unfortunate mistake, but he never got the money…..instead they stalled for five weeks….and yes, loads of excuses too. (October 2012)

MICROSOFT ACCUSED OF CHEATING AGAIN!! —Google yet again levelled allegations at Microsoft saying they use dubious practices. This dust-up between the giant Internet Companies resulted in a trap being set by Google to catch their rival. They say they laid a trap to catch Microsoft by making a list of ‘Gibberish’ — not that unusual at Google anyway, and instructed 20 Google engineers to take home laptops with Internet Explorer and monitor the results, which they claimed showed Microsoft using unfair tactics to shut out the competition.

MICROSOFT SUED OVER PHONE HANDSET UNAUTHORIZED TRACKING — Microsoft received a lawsuit filed against them in a Seattle Federal Court by Rebecca Cousineau over the the use of location tracking technology in the Windows Phone 7 handsets, which sends out information on the users location to Microsoft after the the location tracking feature is turned off.  She accuses Microsoft that this enables Microsoft to use data without her consent or has data available that could be misused for other unlawful practices.

MICROSOFT ACCUSED OF COVER-UP — In connection with the above, The Class Action Suit has now been updated in court to include a ‘cover-up perpetrated by Microsoft’  — Microsoft has initially attempted to blame the tracking system over-ride (customer’s permission) because of something the software engineers overlooked — the fact that their own code was designed to IGNORE THE USERS REFUSAL TO CONSENT to be tracked — which is said to be untenable.

MICROSOFT WORKER MAKES DEVASTATING CLAIMS AGAINST THE CORPORATION — The employee claims in a class action brought against Microsoft, that he was dismissed in retaliation for reporting ‘the supervisors misconduct’.  He claims the company routinely produces and/or condones deficient investigations, cover-ups, alleged misconduct, mischaracterizes evidence, refuses to preserve or provide pertinent facts or data, and protects the perpetrators while retaliating against the victims’  — (source, Roy Schestowitz – ‘ A Lawless Place’)

MICROSOFT IN CONSPIRACY TO CONCEAL TRUTH FROM REGULATORS —  We have been passed communicates of a ‘confidential’ nature by a US source that clearly shows that directors of the multi-million corporation have been consistently trying to outwit regulators by obtaining news of intended inspections from legal sources, so that they can conceal or ‘stage manage’ any adverse interference from its accusers in relation to illegally obtained data, price-fixing and anti-trust allegations.

‘Litigation Misconduct by Microsoft — Judge vents his anger at their lawyers’

It was yet another case of patent infringement by Microsoft, they were being sued by z4 Technologies in the Eastern District Court of Texas, presided by Judge Davis.  In a long drawn out case, Microsoft lost and were ordered to pay z4 damages of $115 million dollars. In a surprising turn, the Judge made an additional award of $25million dollars for legal shenanigans he’d witnessed as lawyers for Microsoft tried to turn the court into their own private circus using deceit and misdirection. He had already found them guilty on Patent Infringement in that they used z4 Technology Anti-Piracy systems not belonging to them. He now accused the Microsoft Lawyers of misconduct in the trial. In summing up he said ‘ The court concludes that the Defendants, Microsoft attempted to bury the relevant 107 exhibits admitted at trial in its voluminous 3,449 marked exhibits in the hope that they could conceal their trial evidence in a massive pile of decoys’ — this was written in his judgement. 

MICROSOFT IN VEILED DENIAL OVER EXTORTION CASE IN RUSSIA — Embarrassment has yet again surfaced as its anti-piracy agents in Russia have been linked to assisting corrupt law enforcement officials (Police) to extort money from the targets of piracy enquiries. It is said in a report, that corrupt police backed by Microsoft’s Redmond Lawyers swooped on companies claiming they had pirated copies of Microsoft software.  It is said they took computers from these firms and then demanded bribes as a condition of returning the equipment.  The Microsoft Corporation glibly dismissed the claim, but added the statement ‘ if these lawyers retained by them do not act ethically or in the best interests of the corporation, they are dismissed’ — thus indicating that if proof of their involvement is definite, they deny being responsible for the actions of their hired associates!!

THE HIDDEN TRUTH OF MICROSOFT WARRANTIES — Microsoft Warranty? — deemed virtually useless and unfit for purpose, as it only covers 90 days after purchase.  They defer liability to chosen components only, and that in itself is a ‘cloudy’ issue. The Software Giants take no liability if the software doesn’t work, it neither guarantees that it is safe to use or secure from intrusion, viruses or harmful programming mistakes made by their own Corporation technicians?

MICROSOFT HAS BRIBED AND ENGAGED IN OTHER CRIMES TO PROMOTE OOXML — Says techrights who openly suggest that they did this to ensure that almost nobody runs a desktop or laptop without Windows.  The techrights Group have been monitoring Microsoft’s activities and dirty tricks for several years.  They say that this kind of activity follows the fact that Microsoft is trying to sort out the Windows 8 mess and Steve Ballmer (CEO) amid fears of people not wanting to buy Microsoft tablets and its attempt to get into the Smart Phone area…..many are saying that Windows is not good enough, and one blogger revealed that Microsoft have six million unsold Surface RT Tablets!

THE FALL OUT IN THE EXECUTIVE’S AT MICROSOFT —  Amid the UK Microsoft ‘Sex Scandal’ was yet another — involving Executive Michael Mercieca who was accused of sexually harassing former colleague Tracy Rummel — Mercieca had been regarded by ‘Redmond Staff’ as ‘a nasty piece of work’ around the office.  It was said he made several disparaging remarks and comments about different nationalities.  Despite Rummel’s complaint not being upheld — Mercieca is now suing Microsoft, Rummel, and another woman.

MICROSOFT AND THE DIRTY TRICKS — Covering up its past; In the Court Case Burst v Microsoft, Lawyers for Burst were able to uncover a pattern of apparent destruction of e-mail evidence by Microsoft who glibly claimed it was too hard to search for ‘lost e-mails’ (Burst had in their wisdom copied some pre-empting the reply from Microsoft).  The trial Judge ordered Microsoft to find the e-mails no matter what it took to do so   — but, they didn’t, instead they conceded the case against them and paid out a settlement of $60 million dollars.   Some of the files to filter out in the Executive software (pst files) some involving Microsoft employees (blue badges), were intentionally disguised mail files so they wouldn’t be recognised and included (in back-up files).  When Microsoft Lawyers claimed the lost e-mails could not be found, they had already been found– and they quickly disappeared?     See more at this link  www.technologyevangelist.com

DIRTY TRICKS ARCHIVE GOES PUBLIC – Part two — Microsoft Lawyers firmly believed they had successfully buried and disposed the embarrassing 3,000 files (2.7GB) about the Corporation’s murky past without anyone being the wiser, but they suffered a shock when it became the mainstay of the P2P file sharing networks.  A great deal of the material came from the lawsuit against them in the Novell v Microsoft case which was settled in 2000.  After paying out the SCO decided they couldn’t hold onto the 937 boxes of documents lying around that were not needed as it had been settled in time to prevent exposure, so the boxes were ordered to be destroyed.  The disappearance of the files went un-noticed until they surfaced on the networks, and it was suggested that those having these files should put them beyond the reach of the USA and out of their legal jurisdiction…..so they cannot be seized by a compromised Microsoft and embarrassed government!

MICROSOFT FAIL IN APPEAL, But must pay 860 million Euros = £687million pounds after the European Commission ordered the web giant to pay the hefty fine over its involvement in anti-competition practices. It is said that Microsoft were disappointed by the small reduction from 900 million ordered previously at an earlier ruling.

MICROSOFT AND ‘CABLEGATE’ — Corruption at Microsoft –  Yet again behind closed doors the Corporation dedicated itself to more deals of the ‘dodgy’ type as Microsoft made sure it went against the competition rules when it put pressure in a backhand deal with the Swiss Government to make sure its Microsoft Windows was chosen as a default operating system cutting out Linux and Open Source…..a report says that Microsoft is being sued over corruption by a group of 18 technology companies headed by Red Hat, who are challenging the openness of its government who awarded Microsoft the deal in a no-bid contract without considering others.

MICROSOFT IN ANOTHER THEFT CASE — Theft is something that Microsoft are commonly pursuing in their business ventures — many of which are dubious and outright patent robbery.  In 2004 they had to settle a lawsuit brought against them by SENDO who charged them with ‘tech-theft’ — the stealing of intellectual property and ideas etc, The Phone makers Company unfortunately allowed Microsoft to settle-out-of-court in a secret deal!

THE SERVICE THAT ISN’T A SERVICE — ‘Disappointed in Microsoft’ — Usman of Troy in the USA could not access his Windows Live Account, and after a while noticed it had been ‘temporarily blocked’ by Microsoft itself.  He thought the problem would be easily solved, especially as it was a Microsoft feature, so he rang the MS Support line, but no-one was able to help?  They unbelievably began the routine run around of resetting passwords numerous times……he even filled out an online form……but still couldn’t access his account…..he now wishes he could dump Microsoft and go to Apple or Mac.

MICROSOFT ‘FAST SEARCH’ COMPANY CHARGED WITH FRAUD — Norwegian Cops charged Microsoft’s  new enterprise company with accounting fraud.  The Search Company was bought by Microsoft and was its new  ‘Fast Search and Transfer’ venture.  Police in Oslo raided the Company offices and seized computers and other documents.

MICROSOFT FINED IN HARASSMENT CASE — 2007  In India, a Delhi High Court fined the Corporation $16,000 dollars on behalf of four defendants in an action that took Microsoft by surprise.  The Court decided that their claims against the four were unfounded and ordered that the money be paid directly to the accused.  The Court said they wished to prevent the ‘sheer abuse of power exerted by Microsoft’     It went onto say that the Corporation on the strength of its financial power had the advantage of ‘choosing’ a court (sort of legal rigging) to its own advantage.  It found the Microsoft Corporation guilty of harassment and gross abuse of its power and position.

THE PERVERTED GREED OF MICROSOFT — The more we investigate and collect articles from around the World concerning their corruption in just about anything to do with finance and marketing, the more it becomes convincing that Microsoft have people watching their backs and manipulating the Law Enforcement Agencies. We have tapped into communicates that suggest certain Senators are making moves on colleagues who press for tighter control on this Corporation, and the outcome is withdrawal several days later. Shares in Microsoft are another issue that some communicates touch on giving details of high earners and prominent politicians being secretive about their interests and holdings in the Company. The lists of names are staggering, and no-one is looking at these facts and actually saying it’s about time criminal investigations took a look into this Company.

MICROSOFT UK STAFF SLAM US CORPORATION — The Telegraph revealed that they investigated claims that staff at the Microsoft UK were unhappy at the way the USA Corporation behaves.  Among the many claims was the ‘sending of self-congratulatory e-mails’   dinking to excess at bashes, double standards, and tosh regarding how charitable Microsoft was.  One member revealed that there was a ‘score carding system that sees Senior Staff anonymously rank their workers — ‘positive attrition’ and ‘negative attrition’  Many were tired and angry at the culture of litigation rather than innovation.

MICROSOFT IN ‘COVER-UP’ VIGOROUSLY TRY TO DECEIVE — Ina Class Action Lawsuit launched against Microsoft over a Phone Camera App became known as the ‘Phone tracking Scandal’ among bloggers on the Net.  The Plaintiff in the case accused Microsoft of trying to cover-up the issue — One way the Corporation tried to deceive the court was to blame the matter of the ‘unauthorised’ tracking scheme was on a software ‘bug’ (a little like Lawyers and Government who use the word error).  It was revealed by techies and bloggers alike that there was no coding error, and Microsoft intentionally programmed the software to send its users information to its servers without consent.

LIES AND MORE LIES AT MICROSOFT — The incredible and awful support team at Microsoft cannot be bettered as this report shows — the lies they engaged in with John of Pueblo (18/12/2012) really shows how it is at Microsoft.  John called the support team for their help because of a fault on his Presario desktop which was showing a blue screen, ‘We can fix that’ said the technician, but first we want $99 dollars…..John reluctantly paid for it by credit card online.  The session with the online engineer/technician lasted nearly two hours — and he was told ‘all is well and you’re set to go’  — but all wasn’t well, and it happened again….the same problem was back and he’d paid 99 dollars for nothing.  He then went from one technician to another, until he counted up 15 Microsoft technicians had been involved…… and no fix…..he was also fed up of hearing ‘We can fix it’….and on one of those sessions the problem actually got worse! ….eventually he asked to speak to a supervisor….and he proceeded to file a BBB complaint against Microsoft…..and in a box he said ‘ All I ask, for all this deception, wasted time and aggravation is that you cease it and give a proper guaranteed service to customers ‘

MICROSOFT ‘OVERCHARGING TECHNIQUES’ EXPOSED — Michael of Marinette, was persuaded to buy the ‘Microsoft-certified Partner Speed Pc Pro, and was told by Microsoft staff that it cost $9.95 — only to later discover that his credit card had been used to take $39.95.  Michael contacted Microsoft, a ‘technician’ who said he would take steps to credit Michael with the overcharge of $30, but, as the weeks went by, the credit, the thirty dollars, never happened.  Microsoft failed to explain, and Michael said they just kept the overcharged money!

NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE – MICROSOFT PRODUCTS:  A survey we discovered on the Net by a blogger revealed that many Microsoft products were faulty, shoddy and simply not fit for purpose.  Many faults were complained of especially in Office and Word. Hundreds of customers said that cut and paste was erratic and especially bad when it came to photos and pictures that once placed tended to move after being positioned, often with drastic results like text splitting and on occasions moving an entire page without reason, this was said to be a major fault in the 2010 Home and Office. Another beef was the so called Firewall, that as one person described, ‘ was like a sock with holes in it’ and could not keep out the briefest of attacks.  One person said it was a joke, as it often assisted Malware and viruses to come in unannounced or even detected.

‘ Microsoft ignore court ruling on payout for ten years ‘

MICROSOFT LAWYERS PLAYED THEIR EVIL CARD — as they stooped to delay tactics and made one of their accusers wait over ten years to get the payout the Jury ordered them to pay.  UNILOU’s Boss Mr Richardson sued Microsoft in 2003 for violating his company’s patents, also pointing out to the court and jury that this software giant had benefitted by millions of dollars using the stolen patents, which were the intellectual property of Unilou.  The Jury found Microsoft guilty of misappropriating another company’s patent and ordered them to pay out $338million dollars.  However, Microsoft ‘refused’ and dragged things out until 2012 plus, before paying in an out-of-court settlement.  They also caused Mr Richardson huge financial expenditure over those ten years, not actually caring whether or not the delay would have on him. 

2013 AND MULTIPLE FREEZE-UPS ON MICROSOFT MSN — It is becoming clearer that Microsoft have lost the capability of providing a good service, or even the service they once had.  We already know they cannot offer a secure service, but still claim it. An Internet search revealed many people unhappy with the way their usual passwords are being messed around with, especially on Hotmail and MSN….we are told of frequent page freeze without notice and getting away from it results in the people having to initial an emergency shutdown….one of the many aggrieved said they once had to shutdown their pc 10 times due to it happening every time they went to their hotmail accounts – they said ‘ you get to your account and just as you are about to log out it all freezes and you can’t even move it, you have to close everything down’…..some said they couldn’t access their accounts as their passwords suddenly didn’t work….and that meant having to set another one and take up to twenty minutes….with no explanation from Microsoft….nothing new there.

MICROSOFT PAY OUT $70 MILLION IN DAMAGES — In 2011, the Jury in a San Diego Federal Court decided that Microsoft was guilty of Patent Theft in the Case of Alcatel v Microsoft.  Alcatel-Lucent, a French firm specialising in Telecommunications Equipment asked for damages of $75 million…at which point Microsoft Lawyers made a request to the judge that it should be limited to just $5million.  But the Jury were not on Microsoft’s side and they didn’t think this was an appropriate sum at all.  They wisely took $5m off the asking total of $75 million and $70 m was the payout to be made.  The Patent infringed by Microsoft was the ‘Day Patent’ a touch-screen’ product.

In 2008 a different jury in San Diego ruling on another ‘Patent Infringement Case against Microsoft’ awarded the plaintiffs $358 million dollars.  Microsoft went ‘ballistic’ and appealed against the amount causing a retrial on the issue of damages?

THE MICROSOFT SCANDAL — We continually come across masses of cases alleging criminal acts by this corporation, the retaining of overpaid money, cheating and swindles that should have the public and any normal regulation authority reaching for the law books.  Many thousands can be found on scattered blogs, complaint forums and the likewise in many countries….most complaints not dealt with, many fobbed off, and so-called technical staff that make the problem worse for customers.  In most Industries this would result in shut-downs and sanctions, but with Microsoft it doesn’t happen, and that begs the question..have they been given immunity?

WINDOWS 7 BUYER FINDS MORE BUGS ON IT THAN IN AN INFECTED BED MATTRESS!  Richard of Spokane could not believe how awful the system was, and was particularly disgusted with the Microsoft E-Mail.

HARASSMENT FROM MICROSOFT (INDIA)…. L.D. of New York has been receiving many distressing calls from Microsoft’s India Centre, saying they are reacting to a ‘critical error report’ being sent by her computer — the computer is functioning fine she’s says, and she doesn’t want or need their help…. but they refuse to accept this.  At one point they were calling up to 3 times a day….and after several days she felt she was under attack in her own home.  Even contacting Microsoft headquarters seems useless she said, as they appear not to be able to pursue a resolution. (17/9/2012)

THOSE THIEVES IN AMERICA — MICROSOFT,  Patrick of St Helens spent £220 on getting the Windows Vista System, which he says is a load of junk (compared to XP), after seven months he couldn’t take any more of it nor waste his time on this pile of rubbish, and pointed out to those wealthy pc owners in the States ‘ not all of us can just afford to go out and buy upgrades or another system, especially when cash is tight’

THE CRIMES OF MICROSOFT — A touching but apt title issued by Moshe Adler on the www.counterpunch.org site in 2007, subtitled by ‘Guilty in the USA and Europe’  — strangely, Microsoft makes much of its Digital Crimes Unit but fails inexplicably to mention its own huge list of crimes they commit which range from theft to piracy and deception to extortion  — perhaps they run these propaganda exercises to convince themselves they are ‘clean’ and of course believe it?  much in the same way as politicians… especially the ones they bribe in order to side-step criminal proceedings……… www.techrights.org nicely make referewnce to Microsoft’s bribery tactics, and the sleazy fact they offered to cooperate with investigators and a probe whilst trying to hide these moves – ‘the bunged cash to Apparatchiks in Russia and Pakistan, in return for contracts with state backed businesses.

BLUNDERS BY MICROSOFT OVER TEN YEARS! — Ten years on from the beginning of the millennium, and nothing has changed?   according to Don Reisinger who has followed Microsoft, now exposes the blunders that are bringing this Corporation into disrepute.  Windows Vista was everything an operating system shouldn’t be, he said, Security was its problem and it was awful.  Then there was Windows Mobile, another regrettable product that failed miserably.  These were just a few of the lamentable gaffs…..and along came the Multiple battles with the Regulators, and in court, the Regulators won most of them, forcing Microsoft to pay out multi-millions in damages and costs.  And even at the Corporation there was the ‘Stack Ranking’ for employees, which almost demolished Microsoft as its innovation technicians left to seek better positions in companies elsewhere!  The Company had everything at their feet when they began, but have now let it slip away in the search for greed!

MORE FAULTS REPORTED ON MICROSOFT — Many people are getting the warning sign window ‘ end program and error’ messages, even before they have begun to surf the Internet…..many say they are encountering this more now than previously.  One Techno Guy told us this is entirely down to Microsoft because they are unable to update their own programmes and systems to keep up with the amount of traffic…and the High Standards that are necessary are not coming out of Microsoft…..he says their efforts are to nothing and wait and see!

MICROSOFT’S ILLEGAL TACTICS AND THE D.O.J. — Barnes and Noble have asked The Department of Justice to investigate Microsoft’s Patent Licensing tactics — accusing the Corporation of attempting to raise its rivals costs in order to subvert competition.  ‘Microsoft’s conduct poses serious concerns’ said Gene Kimmelman, the Chief Counsel for Competition Policy in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.

MICROSOFT PLAYS ‘THE ERRORS’ GAME —  No matter what illegal moves this Corporation gets up to — it always claims that they were ‘errors’ — and that is yet another lie by Microsoft who seem unable to tell the truth or understand what the word ‘honesty’ is.  We already know they bribe and position themselves nicely using the power-game to get what they want (plenty of evidence already featured as on other sites) — we know their lawyers are constantly in the ‘fix it’ mode and payouts…many undisclosed after secret deals etc.

MICROSOFT PEDAL OUT THE SAME OLD LIES DESPITE CONSUMER AWARENESS — It’s hard to believe that a firm so hell bent on dominance (rather like the Film Movie ‘Antitrust’) cannot see that Internet users know what game they’re up to.  They continually breach antitrust laws, commit perjury and piracy whilst accusing others in order to throw the spotlight off themselves.  All these articles and events show a catalogue of criminal behaviour that has gone un-noticed, which really means, deliberately so by the authorities.  Many consumers would rather not use Microsoft Software for many reasons, but cannot get much choice.  Microsoft lay in wait to grab the cash of the consumer steering and subverting the market to their own advantage forcing people to upgrade and move over to their systems.  Big business will always attract and buy their way out of a fix, or fix anyone who will not play ball.  They say power corrupts, and The Microsoft Corporation live up to this in every way possible.

MICROSOFT OSLO OFFICES RAIDED BY POLICE IN FRAUD SWOOP — The Economic Crime Unit of the Norwegian Police raided the Headquarters of Microsoft’s ‘Search and Transfer Division’ charging the Corporation with Fraud.  The raid took place at Microsoft’s Oslo Branch — Microsoft declined to comment.

MICROSOFT SUED BY SONAL BOSE — 2011 — Sonal Bose is suing Microsoft for the illegal tracking of Internet Users Histories — The case was filed in the US District Court for The Southern District of New York — it is stated that they are accused of ‘ acting in concert ‘ with Interclick to mine users history on the Internet for Market purposes and circumvent the privacy and security controls of consumers against their wishes.

MAN PLAYS SAME GAME ON MICROSOFT AND LAUNCHES LAWSUIT — David Stebbins filed a lawsuit for $500 billion dollars against Microsoft ‘to give them a taste of their own medicine’   He decided to use tactics employed by Microsoft of unilaterally amending terms; contract modification, and issued his own terms to a modification of an item giving them notice.  Microsoft failed to respond to the notice.  Mr Stebbins aims to collect the default sum.

MICROSOFT DECEIVES THE U.S. TAX AUTHORITIES (Sept 2012) — Microsoft along with the Printer Giant Hewlett Packard used offshore holdings in order to avoid paying billions of tax revenue by taking advantage of tax regulation loopholes.  The Senate Permanent Subcommittee talking on the investigations said these large companies never tire of cheating the system despite earning billions of dollars in profits.

MICROSOFT ACCUSED OF TAX AVOIDANCE — The latest Big Web Giant to be under the tax spotlight is Microsoft who are channelling its revenues abroad.  It is stated that they have been using a legal loophole to avoid paying their fair share of tax in the UK, funnelling funds through Luxembourg. Government Minister Danny Alexander said these Corporations including Microsoft were looking at their tax and viewing paying it like giving a donation on a church plate.

MICROSOFT HIT YET AGAIN BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION — A £482 MILLION FINE — Microsoft was fined again on 6/3/2013 for doing what they continue to do without any worry over the fine, which is said to be ‘one per cent of their revenue’…..which brings the total to £2.24 billion in penalties incurred involving the EU.  This came after the Chief Executive agreed in 2009 to allow access to rival browsers as part of a settlement, but it breached this agreement and ignored the strict compliance regulations.  It’s looking increasingly likely that the fines should be of a percentage that will make Microsoft obey the law.  (ten per cent of their revenue is more like it)

MICROSOFT FAILING BADLY — Blogger Charlie Demerjian (Nov 2012) says Microsoft is in deep trouble, and that their two main product lines are failing.  Windows 8 being one of them, and secondly — their markets are now evaporating fast and with stunning rapidity.  He says that Stagnation has set in because they have just one ‘play-book’ and that is to keep pulling the safety net in tighter around their bid to cut out competition along with the right innovation that is needed these days.  He finishes by saying that in the end, the death spiral for Microsoft is in full effect…….they are unwilling to change….and Microsoft will soon be over!…….. good!

MICROSOFT IGNORE E-MAILS ABOUT CORRUPTION — We tried to contact the Corporation in order to get their views on over 208 items outlining corruption, theft and piracy, but they ignored the request despite sending two e-mails.  We mentioned techrights on the Web who said there were more than the number posed, but this had no effect whatsoever.  We can only take their silence to mean they don’t deny what has been posed, which comes as no surprise really.

MICROSOFT IS UNDOUBTEDLY ONE OF THE MOST CORRUPT FIRMS THERE IS ON THIS GLOBE, and it is really inconceivable how it gets away with it. How is it this company has not been shut down or prosecuted at a criminal trial?  Its criminality is here to see and it is allowed to go on regardless of any laws that prevail.   We have tried to uncover the corrupt staff and directors and will continue to do so, but we feel that governments have afforded them protectionism because of the financial aspect as it seems that they can break commercial laws over and over again as we have shown without anything stopping them –Anti-trust Laws and Piracy does little to reign them in, they just send lawyers who readily commit misconduct — to the courts to pay the fines and walk away….they rob inventors of ideas and use them without any fear …knowing that they can pay the court bill and damages etc…. and appear in some other court on similar charges….and often in the same month…we hear that they have cases pending against them well into the future…what kind of law allows this?

MICROSOFT STILL AVOIDS CRIMINAL CHARGES — Despite everything here and on the Web concerning cases of absolute outright corruption, Microsoft just walk away from the courts dishing out a bit of cash….It’s not so much they side-step charges brought against them…. but having the power and influence to make the authorities both legal and government ‘back-off’      Bribery tactics need investigation, but this is taking a back-seat with most governments due to the financial power of Microsoft…..and hope that the public will merely go away.  Nearly every case brought is either conveniently railroaded or delayed enough to be just a civil action in a back county court.  Example being to show this fact is — An Indian Court were hearing a case of ‘Criminal Censorship’ being brought against Microsoft — which strangely, was dismissed despite a file being prepared well in advance with the Prosecutor.  The Delhi High Court subsequently during the run up, heard from the Corporation, and suddenly the action came to a halt?  Google and Facebook who are facing similar charges have now requested that the same court drop action against them!

MICROSOFT EXECUTIVE ON CRIMINAL CHARGES — Microsoft Boss Brian Jorgenson was caught ‘insider dealing’ with partner and friend Sean Stokke.  They were charged civil and criminal offences for making illicit profits of $393,125 in a scheme that started in 2012.  The Securities and Exchange Commission said they used confidential information on Microsoft’s Investments.

MICROSOFT CAUGHT CHEATING — E3 2013 E3M13 — Gamers are being cheated by the Microsoft Corporation says one user who publicly denounces them on web video…. ‘ There’s a lot of shady shit going on at E3 Pc Gameplay’ and yes, Microsoft are it — he says Microsoft are deliberately trying to confuse the consumer by attempting to show a game was an XBox item being tried ‘ Battlefield 4’ when in fact it was on a pc…. but it was the intention of Microsoft to deceive and staff were ordered to say nothing about it.

SKY TAKE MICROSOFT TO COURT FOR UNLAWFULLY USING ITS NAME — In the High Court, Judge Mrs Justice Asplin gave judgement that Microsoft’s cloud storage service infringed Sky’s trademark.  The financial settlement was held in secret….. and Microsoft agreed not to appeal the trade mark infringement judgement after a settlement was reached.

MICROSOFT IGNORES COMMITMENT TO COMMISSIONER — Joaquin Almunia made no attempt to cover his contempt for the Microsoft Corporation when he said ‘ They must do what they are committed to do or face the consequences’    Almunia, The European Anti-trust Commissioner said that Microsoft will face hefty fines for defying the terms of the settlement in 2009 (now 3 years on)…….. companies should be deterred from any temptation to renege on promises or even neglect their duty’ …… (2012 — this refers to the denial of access to rival browsers….in which Microsoft were unfairly keeping them out having agreed to make usage possible).

MICROSOFT READS EVERYTHING EVEN IF ITS CONFIDENTIAL — The Corporation has no qualms about removing and abusing users security as it hands out data — It is stated that SKYPE is being monitored by Microsoft — it was discovered by a German Security Group that the Corporation subsidiary does make use of this privilege in practice.  Shortly after the sending of HTTP’s URL’s over the instant messaging service, the URL’s owners received an ‘unannounced’ visit from Microsoft Headquarters!

MICROSOFT AND THE XBOX FRAUD COVER-UP — Furious gamers have accused Microsoft of an XBox fraud cover-up – They say the mighty techs corporation initiated a ‘cover-up’ concerning the true extent of the XBOX LIVE FRAUD.  Denials by the company are no longer being accepted by the rationally minded who consider Microsoft unable to differentiate between criminality, the truth or honesty as the corporation plunges from one act of deceit into another so frequently amid court cases which they attend on almost a weekly basis.  Even the recent class action lawsuit over the Windows Phone Camera App Tracking Scandal was updated by the Plaintiff who says that Microsoft tried to ‘cover-up’ the issue. (2011)

MICROSOFT SUED BY JOURNALIST OVER DATA BREACHES — British Journalist Kevin Cahill is suing Microsoft for sharing user details with USA’s NSA.  The Plaintiff Cahill said that by disclosing data on UK citizens to the US Government, regardless of whether this happened following a legal request or not, infringed the Data Protection Act, a British Law that protects users privacy.  Microsoft responded by saying that they had been notified of an action being filed and will respond to it in due course…. and it continued with that it would be inappropriate to respond or comment on details of an active legal case!

MICROSOFT ‘TOO COSY’ WITH THE US GOVERNMENT —  Google got so upset by preferential treatment being given to the Microsoft Corporation that they went ahead and sued the USA Government….. they sued the Dept of the Interior for not considering Google Apps — ‘Unduly restrictive of Competition’   The Giant Search Engine Company said that the Government showed favour to Microsoft and were not considering anyone else.

MICROSOFT BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION PROBE — The US authorities are investigating bribery and corruption among the employees at the Microsoft Corporation.  A Report by the Wall St Journal says that a great deal of the investigation will be focused on their companies in Russia and Pakistan….. and that an ongoing probe is looking closely at their firms in China, Italy and Bulgaria.  The Investigation is looking wider taking the focus to Microsoft Senior Staff bribing foreign officials for contracts.  Investigators were tipped off about deals involving luxury trips and the bank rolling of executives.  From the many bloggers comments it looks as if Microsoft and the corruption scenario go together well. (Aug 2013)

MICROSOFT – THE COMPLAINTS GO ON AND ON — Even the Wikipedia page article is damning, as are many other pages over the web.  Other pages show that Microsoft adopt the ‘ignorance policy’ over users interests.  On www.hellopeter.com which invites people to leave complaints about Microsoft, we see 87 such articles merely stating ‘frustration’ ‘can’t send e-mails’ ‘failing to get help from Microsoft’ to ‘they’re ignoring me’ and ‘Microsoft sabotages Mac’ and the amusing ‘Only robots work at Microsoft’ and the best one ‘Don’t buy from Microsoft’ which in fact is the proper answer.

MICROSOFT’S UNDOUBTABLE DETERIORATION OF SERVICE — As the Internet  rolls on, so does its incapacity to handle the amount of travel and load — this is clearly shown in the Microsoft Windows department as the mighty giant corporation fails to keep up with demand, and merely resorts to letting the inevitable deterioration take place……which usually takes the form of ‘freeze ups’ and ‘sluggish sign ins’ often brought about by the amount of advertising which is crammed onto the page, sometimes containing errors which bring it to a dead stop.     There are now regular virus attacks which they don’t warn the customer about, disabling their security and firewall capability to zero.

MSN AND THE PHISHING SCANDAL — Microsoft’s MSN (Hotmail) are at the heart of another conundrum as to their part in scams and scandals that beset the accounts and users.  Its weakness to protect this system has been well covered and their countless pages on the Internet pointing to Microsoft flaws and inability to provide the service they boasted about when seeking to conquer the Web….most of what they do now is to bar other Web giants, indulge in antitrust piracy and conduct illegal games that land them in court every week.  Notices from ‘fake’ MSN teams etc, can hardly be recognised from the real ones, they have a habit of keeping silent until the damage is done.  Things like messages from ‘The Windows Live Team’ are often not from them… and they send messages notifying users that their accounts are at risk of immediate closure because of an attack by several computers which have logged into the database making multiple attempts to get at passwords. It’s only after a while does Microsoft urge users to change passwords, and even then it’s hard to tell the reality because Microsoft don’t really bother to communicate with account holders until they have to…..fake MSN prompts and e-mails are part of Microsoft’s problem and any piracy scandal is their responsibility, and they should deal with it.

MICROSOFT HOTMAIL LOGIN DANGER — Hotmail has become a seriously flawed and hijacked service, and the facts about it are being kept secret deliberately by the Corporation.  Recent massive data attacks have been going through hotmail — the one where you see the gold lock in place, which supposedly conveys safe secure, but this is not so.  The longer you are on any page bearing the padlock sign the more you are at risk according to experts who have been tracking the danger spyware.  Most accounts have already been attacked and as a consequence users have had to abort a closedown because it refused to sign out and froze, which leaves the user even more vulnerable.  Microsoft are doing little if nothing to protect the account user according to techies.

THE MICROSOFT ‘SEEK AND DESTROY BUG’ — We’ve been passed information that Microsoft have been secretly using a new programme downloaded to users by way of updates; but not shown, that plays havoc with pc users who are currently using Microsoft Programmes such as Hotmail and MSN.  We are led to believe it contains a delay feature that slows up computers on starting up into the browser, and secretly looks at data while the user is busy trying to access a path onto the Internet.  We are also told that this harms some pc’s and is liable to corrupt data already stored on the user’s pc, which might answer the question about regular ‘freeze-ups’ and navigation to ‘blank’ pages, plus the new ‘wait’ signs that are frequently appearing on the Web.  When we tried to engage Microsoft we were ignored!

HOTMAIL – THE MICROSOFT JONAH — The worst Internet mailbox it is said.  Hotmail is undoubtedly the worst e-mail account system on the current Webtech list, they are voted the least secure mail system because it is open to malware, hackers and viruses all year round.  They claim they update the performance capability of the site, but offer no proof.  There has been little change if any except one for the worse….as it invites piracy rather than defeat it at some imaginary firewall….and leaves users vulnerable.  As for help centres, they really do little than quote you service costs and try sales pitches.  The company are regularly in court and show little interest in fixing Hotmail…..and just leave it wandering aimlessly in hyperspace.

MICROSOFT NOT READY TO OBEY COURT DECISIONS — Microsoft Lawyers are continually filing appeals when they lose court battles which involve ‘Piracy and Anti-trust breaches’  by the Corporation.  It is no doubt motivated by wealth, and that Microsoft see themselves as above the law and untouchable.  They went to around five appeals over a $240 million dollar award for an IP Infringement of a Toronto Company — and the U.S. Appeals Court refused to hear another Microsoft Appeal, and denied them another hearing.  Despite this they have set their sights on the Supreme Court in the hope it will be in their favour….buying law in other words.

MICROSOFT LOSE FIRST ROUND AGAINST THE FEDS — Microsoft failed to stop the authorities from seizing customers details stored overseas, where they thought and assumed they were secure and out of reach.  In the District Court of New York, Judge Loretta Preska decided that a warrant ordering Microsoft to hand over information stored, was valid even though Microsoft held the E-Mail data in Ireland…..other info that came out during this news was the presence of ‘gagging orders’ which show this to be a dirty business.

MICROSOFT ADMITS CONTEMPT OF COURT — A report from San Diego says that a Federal Judge held the Microsoft Corporation in contempt for ‘non-compliance’ in regard to a search warrant seeking data stored overseas (Dublin, Ireland).  Microsoft Lawyers arrogantly defied the court saying ‘ that they had not fully complied with the court order and warrant because they were seeking a review of Judge Preska’s decision, and further to that they said they didn’t intend to comply!  (Sept 2014)

THE MICROSOFT BIG PROBLEM — Increasingly it has been discovered by many users that Hotmail MSN is freezing quite regular and that the Microsoft geeks are no longer up to the job of improving the service.  Some are saying this is a deliberate act of sabotage by the Corporation itself who have a bad record of anti-trust breaches and criminal acts that have never been addressed in the courts due to outside influence.

OUTLOOK — BLEAK! — Microsoft’s OUTLOOK, another piece of crap from the Corporation is riddled with faults and often incapable of delivering a proper service….no change there!   Many have told us that during the daytime around 2pm to 2-30pm in the afternoon that having logged on to their e-mail account at Hotmail/Outlook, that the system inexplicably freezes on ‘the REPLY’ mode and no matter what they try, they have to pull out and close down.  There is of course, no explanation from the Microsoft geeks, despite this situation being almost daily.  It only goes to show a lack of respect to the users….the ones they care very little about.  Outlook is shockingly slow and not fit for purpose, and it can damage your pc….so beware of the Microsoft rubbish.

THE HOTMAIL VIRUS — can virtually destroy your pc according to several techies on the web.  They say it prevents other applications being accessible and freezes incoming pictures to the e-mail accounts, and that it continues to look as if the pictures are arriving.  The Microsoft bug or programme goes onto preventing use of sending other mail, logging out and being able to link to normal applications therefore forcing a shutdown in order to cease the virus getting deeper into the machine.  It can be frustrating, but Microsoft refused to reply to our requests for transparency…..and that was somehow expected!

ONE OBVIOUS CONCLUSION – THE KICKBACKS!  Microsoft must be giving ‘kickbacks’ to law enforcement, politicians and business partners, obviously through the ‘backdoor’ system…..considering the hundred if not the thousands of complaints, most of which are ignored….the firm has escaped criminal charges and convictions, and it doesn’t make sense……for more on the Microsoft tactics and what they do to customers, we advise you to visit this link..139 complaints about Microsoft to be seen at  www.consumeraffairs.com/computers/microsoft.html

NB The almost cynical advert by Microsoft on the Web says ‘Making Microsoft a Great Firm?’….still deluded!!

THERE IS OVER 100 ITEMS HERE OUT OF A POSSIBLE 200, AND STILL THE FIRM REMAINS IN BUSINESS — How that can be can only be down to corrupt lawyers and corrupt law enforcement – there is no other answer.

A CORRUPT PUBLIC DESERVE A CORRUPT GOVERNMENT — A CORRUPT GOVERNMENT RELIES ON THAT.  A CORRUPT CORPORATION SURVIVES BECAUSE THOSE WHO ARE CORRUPT SUPPORT IT.

Do Not Trust Microsoft — This sordid company must be crushed and rendered inoperable, and we will do our best to add to that coming about.

Please help us take this company down.

We still need more articles on Microsoft so that we can show the World that they have the American business Industry and Government in their pockets….it is obvious to all of those not blind, that Microsoft are being protected by the law….inasmuch they can bend it and abuse it to their liking….the fines — they can pay.

WE WELCOME MORE ARTICLES ON MICROSOFT ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT CAN LINK THE CORPORATION INTO CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES, STAFF, MANAGEMENT OR PIRACY BY THE COMPANY — ANYTHING THEY DON’T WANT TO BE PUBLISHED, PERSONAL OR BUSINESS — FOR MORE GO TO TECHRIGHTS.ORG

A NEW GLOBAL ONLINE FREEDOM ACT WAS ANNOUNCED — TO PROMOTE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ON THE INTERNET — and protect the United States businesses from coercion to participate in repression by authoritarian foreign governments — The Bill was supported by Congress.

‘Samsung Bribery Scandal’ (and Microsoft)

SOUTH KOREA — THE SAMSUNG CORPORATION — Chief Executive Lee Kun Hee appeared before prosecutors over bribery and corruption allegations at the corporation.  It is said that Samsung are wary of an investigation that could eventually expose and lead up to the government itself. A.F.P Spokesman, Kim has testified that he actually saw a secret bribery list that is kept in a vault at the corporation’s headquarters.

Indications show that Microsoft and Samsung are ‘bedfellows’ — closely linked beyond what was previously thought as they collaborate on Vista RAM Chips, Origami, and USB solutions for Windows.

SAMSUNG HIT BY CHILD LABOUR CLAIMS – Samsung said some of its Chinese suppliers had ’employment practises that were inadequate ‘ but denied accusations that they were in the practice of using child-labour. US Based CLW -Chinese Labour Watch claimed at least one supplier had children under 16 involved.  These claims come amid the APPLE CORPORATION widening its lawsuit against Samsung, over patents infringements.

‘ The Internet De-Railing and Rogues ‘

ONE OF THE BIGGEST ROGUES in this is MICROSOFT as we have already featured, but other companies who are actively detouring searches are OOny.co.uk, Peeplo.com. and Ask just to name three……these companies are a modern take of the infamous crooks — highwaymen……they confuse and deliberately use the Internet for gain by means of deception……they are experts in Sabotage……the Microsoft Internet is bad enough with Hotmail and MSN ‘freeze-ups’ which happen frequently making it impossible for the surfer to remove until they shut their machine down and start again.  Search Engines are also perversely  passing on spy stuff via links while people are finding it takes ten to thirty minutes to go from page to page……these actions may seem innocent, but they are not……these many Webster’s are actively engaged in profiteering by pretending to be something they are not…..and Google comes to mind here.

‘ 4 out 5 Web firms break the Consumer Laws ‘

ONLY ONE OUT OF EVERY FIVE WEB FIRMS SELLING GOODS AND SERVICES DO IT LEGALLY – This poses big questions about operations in Amazon and E-Bay along with many others on the net.  The report that comes from the Office of Fair Trading said that these firms were not complying with the consumer laws.  The OFT has promised to clamp down on misleading selling techniques, deceptive advertising and malicious practices. It highlighted rogue sellers and unfair restrictions being used, plus the selling of fake goods.

‘ What’s wrong with E-Bay? is it a scandal waiting to happen ‘

What does the E in E-Bay mean? – Extortion? – Easy? – Expensive? – probably not the latter – but not entirely ruled out.  Let us not forget that E-Bay and its bosses were complicit in the selling of offensive knives which were illegal.  BBC’s Watchdog found that after they already knew sellers were offering knives to the under-aged and that E-Bay continued and the boss appeared on the show making promises he couldn’t keep.  E-Bay is far from good, someone we know bid for an item and others hyped it up from £20 to £83, he so-called won it, but when it arrived it was grubby and repaired with miscast screws and not worth the money paid – yet cheap silly bidders (though there are bidders who collude with the seller as you will read about later in this article) had pushed this item up making him think it was quality.  One recent e-bay seller described the item for sale as very good condition, but when it arrived at the buyer’s the tape door of the DAT Machine fell off, and the unit did not work properly — and guess what — they had a no-returns policy, which suggests they knew it was a con and the item was probably picked up at a car boot sale – something we suspect most of these sellers are up to. A lady we know tried to sell some quality books but would not start at a ridiculous price of 99p.  She had heard that a friend had made profits on books, but did not know until later, they had bought them at a boot sale for 10p each.  No one bid for the quality books even though they were rightly priced — showing that the bidders were not prepared to buy quality — they were cheapos in search of getting something for almost nothing.  E-Bay bidders often raise the bids to a ridiculous level often going beyond a ‘new price’ for the same item on electrical and sports equipment etc, — yet they become pathetic low-lifes when purchasing books and records and this is borne out by the zeros on pages of items when no-one bids even on a starting price of 99p.  E-Bay sellers get away with fraud every day knowing that the bidders are conned into thinking it safe, some of them regularly fix it with friends and relatives (also e-bay members who have accounts) to jack up the bidding price just an hour or so before closing — we found several people who admitted to using friends to do this.  Bidders are so gullible and selfish motivation blinds them as they race to up the bid on items at the last minute — they have no idea what is going to arrive after buying it. Watchdog have now mentioned a bidder – one guy called Barrett, who up bid on his own items for sale? this shows that some members of the public may be doing the same thing.  What is incredible in all this is that E-Bay must have known because a bidder has to log-in and to qualify as a bidder, they must give their full details and bank account for PayPal transactions, and it would be awfully difficult to invent several identities, so there is something definitely wrong with E-Bay and its customers. Both E-Bay and PayPal have no real system of invoices and information, they wander blindly as they process a very unstable system that errs on deceit and greed.  Many bidders crowd around skulking at their pc’s waiting for the time to trickle so that they can overbid and grab at the cheap stuff, ( You get a lot of shits on e-bay – especially on the audio electrical and music stuff.) leaving the expensive things for others to pick up because of their selfish greedy ways. It wouldn’t be a bad idea if these people were hit by a virus or picked off by an avenger, I could quite subscribe to that.

E-BAY decline to comment — one of our researchers tried to contact e-bay about complaints, and it took a great deal of effort before we finally got one of them to speak. We asked if they could give us the figure regarding complaints against them, they replied with ‘ we are not authorised to speak on that ‘ — we suggested that it could be a thousand or more complaints a year, month etc, and they said they had no figures so they could not deny it or confirm our figures, in other words they certainly keep the figure secret from the customers.

Although difficult to get any sense out of e-bay, they ridiculously re-affirmed that the bidding could not be rigged, but when we said all it took was someone not at the same address and having a different bank account and membership with e-bay to bid quite legitimately — how would e-bay be able to differentiate or prove collusion? —- the simple answer is they couldn’t — nor have they the time or resources to investigate this.

Many people have been cheated on E-Bay and subjected to fraud by sellers in the past.  One response from E-Bay is to erase the e-mail complaints, especially if it’s about the poor service.  There have been many victims and compensation has been next to nil in most cases.  Cheats continue trading because E-Bay pretend they are protecting the customer, but evidence of this is very hard to find.  Even if you approach E-Bay on their website ‘ have a chat with one of their advisors ‘ you are likely to be cut-off and they cover this by telling you it was a ‘technical problem ‘ — the only technical problem is E-Bay and the lies they tell. ‘Contact Us ‘ means nothing, and it is designed to get you nowhere — deliberately!

E-Bay boss Meg Whitman failed in a bid to become governor of California it is said. It is stated she hired an illegal immigrant and had not voted for 28 years that ruined her chances despite self-funding her campaign to the tune of £88million.

E-BAY Seller must be taking the piss — It actually has an ad in its auction on DAT RECORDERS that wants an immediate buy payment of £100 for a machine that does not play tapes and is suitable for spares?? talk about selling tat — this is the great online selling game to revolutionize web buying!!

Another E-BAY Seller actually advertised a ladder for sale as being fifteen foot in length, and when the buyer arranged for its collection received a ladder that was only ten foot! ……the seller said it had been a mistake and blamed it on someone else’s description…..it was compounded further when he said there it might have been the wrong ladder collected….saying the fifteen foot one might be found….this didn’t happen…..trades descriptions? yes, this certainly breached that consumers law.

THE GREAT BIG E-BAY CON — We can now report on a situation that makes a nonsense of the selling on e-bay. One of our agents recently covered two events at an auction site on the hills of Wellington, Somerset. He got talking to two families who bought ex-stock and re-claimed goods at a low price ‘ as seen ‘ and they both boasted of selling the stuff on e-bay even though they had no idea if the electrical items actually worked. They claimed to our investigator that they regularly made a profit, and this was due to a ‘ no-returns’ policy that e-bay allows. Under normal purchases on the high street one can get your money back if the goods are defective or not as described, whereas the e-bay sellers up to this kind of con actually get away with it.  So beware of sellers using the ‘ no-returns’ and avoid them. This investigation ran alongside another auction in Maidstone, and we heard a similar story of picking up lots at low prices which would then be sold on e-bay as personal items.  This is another con too, there are many claiming that they have had the stuff since new, but know this is a lie, and a tell-tale sign here is items that have no instruction manuals — claimed to have been lost?

LIFTING THE LID OFF THE E-BAY LIE — E-BAY SCAMS — We list here some of those scams:

E-Bay scam 1 — Upping the price of the postage, which is done on a regular basis.

E-Bay Scam  2 — Shill Bidding  — Artificial bids to increase the value of the article or item — some one posting bids on behalf of the seller etc, or E-Bay employees up to no good……we mentioned some of this earlier.

E-Bay Scam  3  — The Digital Delivery Scam — the use of photos and pictures that don’t tell the real story or truth, for example — not the picture of the item being sold, just lifted from an advert on the Net — Photo Scam — the actual seller pretending you bought the photo and not the item — this has happened despite it being incredible.

E-Bay Scam 4  — Fake and Replica Items which are illegal — but E-Bay takes no responsibility for being party to this — and this happens often with ‘bootleg’ copies of DVD’s and branded goods with false labels.

E-Bay Scam 5  — Dishonest E-Bay Clients who use PayPal in their fraud schemes.

E-Bay Scam 6  — Fraudulent Listings on E-Bay are on the increase, and E-Bay are powerless to stop this.

E-Bay Scam 7  — Raising the final price — The seller sees it hasn’t reached what they wanted, yet in the last minute raise the price by two artificial bids (this was measured by a bidder who had a top bid on what he would spend £60 already in when the item was £35, and everyone could see that it now needed a higher bid of £61, but 2 bids arrived under the highest bid raising the item to £51…ten pounds lower which meant no sense at all other than someone for the seller raising the bid artificially in the last 60 seconds.

For more on this (Buyer Beware) go to this link   www.traderscams.co.uk

E-Bay and Amazon are continually being complained about on the Community Message Boards, and an insider told us recently, — ‘ if we or Amazon actually let customers contact us, we’d have thousands of complaints to deal with daily, and that would require a number of staff to handle it — so we just ignore that part of business’

THE BEST E-BAY SCAM OF ALL — Since doing the above item on scams our PI was contacted by one seller who gave us a false name —calling himself Bert who says he has made a tidy sum on E-Bay selling ‘sale items’ and ‘bargain buys’ from shops on the Internet who reduce new items by up to forty percent. Bert says he orders them at the discount rate and immediately puts them on E-Bay, and in order to get bids above his buying price he enlists a pal (also in the scam and share out) to up bid on the item on its last auction day. His pal who lives a couple of miles away comes over with his lap top and they both sit in the kitchen watching the sale…and the pal shoves up the price as he goads and competes with others on the internet. Bert says he often doesn’t get the item out of the wrapping or just sets something up if it is to be collected. He says E-Bay make money and he makes money, and he says anyone silly enough to buy the item deserves to be conned.

E-BAY AND THE FALSE ‘ ANSWER BACK IN 48 HOURS PROMISE ‘ — Yes, E-Bay make the claim and virtually promise anyone who is lucky enough to find their helpline or contact us? — but put to the test, it is a lie, one of our researchers did this and apart from the automated ‘no-reply’ message in an e-mail with the words — one of our team will get back to you within 48 hours — it didn’t actually happen at all.

THE E-BAY SECURITY RISK SCANDAL —  E=Bay let down all of its customers when hackers easily took down their next to useless security protection.  Account holders thinking that E-Bay were well equipped to handle technical stuff were sadly disappointed when they discovered that they had placed their ill-judged trust in this market place holding their details, passwords and bank details.  Many thousands were compromised when E-Bay finally admitted there system had been breached….they then inconvenienced many by asking users to change their passwords before accessing accounts……users may feel safe for a while, but it will happen again!

E-BAY AVOIDS UK TAX by going via Luxembourg in order to get a lower rate.

E-BAY – THE MISTRUTHS, THE LIES & THE SCANDALS — E-Bay sees itself as a company that has integrity, but sadly this is yet another of their lies and part of their propaganda machines, that the gullible public swallow so readily.  E-Bay are devious, and in the way of business they take any route necessary to get profits, often at the expense of others.  They have had many scandals lately and in the past, some of which were terminated in order that they didn’t become public.  Lies are second nature to this company and they see this kind of thing as usable business practice because their rivals do the same!

PAYPAL- THE E-BAY FINANCIAL PARTNER have come under much criticism from some of its customers and clients in respect of its bad payment methods.  Several shops say they really do not like the PayPal policies and feel forced to work with them when they would rather not.  ‘ We are trapped and have no choice ‘ said one shop owner who advertises on E-Bay.  There are many other ways of paying, but between E-Bay and PayPal they have a monopoly that cannot be broken because they refuse to listen or work with other methods like a dictatorship…..and they are both owned by E-Bay.

‘ PayPal E-Bays other half, takes customer’s cash and gets it wrong ‘

PAYPAL finally did it when they helped themselves to a customer’s cash when they were not entitled to it. A woman in Chatham, Kent found that the company had helped themselves to £124.21 from her account, and to make matters worse came back again and removed a further £114.  She tried to point out they had got things wrong over an E-Bay transaction, but they doggedly refused to listen, claiming they were right and still investigating?  But when a helpline — dear john agony aunt got involved, they finally admitted their ‘ mistake ‘ and blamed the whole thing on Barclaycard.  They apologised and gave her £100 as compensation for the poor service.

PAYPAL WON’T HELP -Bill Main from Aberdeen lost £620 to a fraud online and Paypal refused to compensate him because of a rule.  It was their self created 45 day rule, but Bill did not know he’d been the victim of a fraud until it was too late.  The fraud only came to light when he arrived at the hotel that he’d booked online and the hotel said the booking did not exist with them.  Yet the bogus booking agent used Paypal to get their hands on money from victims.  Luckily the credit card people have refunded Mr. Main — PAYPAL have remained total shits.

PAYPAL AND THE PAYMENTS SCANDAL — The advert says ‘ Safer, Simple and Smarter’, but many disgruntled callers accused them of nasty tactics and depriving account holders of cash.  The Company claims transfers should take 6 hours, but many of those calling a programme said it was more like 72 hours….. and one customer waited three days.  Many were upset that PayPal arbitrarily ‘froze’ and did things with their accounts without any consideration for the customer.   JOSH said they froze his account because they thought there was too much activity going on…… and then sent back a payment to a payer, who luckily turned out to be a friend…..Josh was not consulted at all.   JAKE said they suddenly blocked his account and claimed it was high risk and a ‘fraud alert was issued on his account.  This cost him his new small online business.  Some customers say that PayPal hold onto your cash for months…..and rarely give any explanation.

PAYPAL HOLD ON TO CUSTOMER’S MONEY AND LOCK THEM OUT — PayPal boast of ‘protecting your cash and keeping you safe online’   If it were true, it would be good, but it isn’t.  A Watchdog programme inundated with complaints against E-Bays PayPal told of how they were being locked out of their accounts, which also meant they were denied access to their money.  One customer said ‘ all the trouble started over a 99p transaction they called ‘suspicious.  They immediately froze his account and asked him to supply ID.  He sent a photocopy of his driving licence, and they still refused to re-open his account.  In another case, that of Peter Cox, they put his Private Business in jeopardy and his livelihood on the line to almost the point of bankruptcy due to their actions. Because they were yet again ‘suspicious’ they asked him for ID….he didn’t like this, but had to go along with it so he sent a photo ID, audit accounts, bills and clients  statements (from his E-Bay dealings) to verify things along with automatic e-mails….and they were still not satisfied?  It took a very long time for Peter to eventually get things sorted out, with no thanks to either E-Bay or PayPal….they never owned up to being at fault.

We shall have more on E-Bay and PayPal later.

‘The Free Downloads that aren’t — and the Rip-off by these websites ‘

We began to take a look into the so-called ‘free downloads’ to supposedly help people with old equipment needing update drivers and software programs so that they could still use them.  We discovered ‘virus intent sites that downloaded viruses and unusable programs that didn’t work properly, and intended to do exactly that. Many were to trap consumers and bombard their machines with useless rubbish and toolbars no one really wants. And these Downloads? well free doesn’t come into it, that is a complete lie…you will find that you are directed to their ‘sales’ site, where you see the real motive behind the ‘false statement’ — pay a fee for a free trial of the download, buy the driver and download it at this amazing low price? — mostly American is this, and that comes as no surprise really.  They are giving nothing away to you or anyone else, it’s just another dirty little scam that is using your need for help to squeeze cash out of you.  Camera Driver Downloads is a really super game to mention one of the ‘free downloads’ little earners — cameras go out of date quickly, and in league with Microsoft most connections to photo suites in the pc change after the camera is barely a few years old, no longer being compatible with Windows this and that!   One big player in the ‘cheating stakes’ is Vivitar (ViviCam) and their cameras, the firm itself offers no free downloads of update drivers to previous customers that one can immediately see or find, and that leaves it to the Rip-off guys to get in and extort cash out of unsuspecting users.  So when you see ‘Free-Download’ think ‘Crook’ and stay away from their websites as listed on Wikipedia……the Internet is a breeding ground for low-lifes….. and we feature loads of them.

‘ T-Mobile, and the T that stands for Tat, Trash and Terrible ‘

MOBILE FIRMS are certainly ripping people off as far as hiked up prices go, and they do little about it. But one other nauseating  thing most complainants hate is the help line that pushes people on to 1 and 2, if not 3 and back again over and over like a gramophone record stuck in revolving play. Their shops never answer the phone and e-mailing their ‘contact us’ is a pure misery.  It wants your granny’s birthday, what hour, and was she wearing wellies, before you can get to the message bit. It goes on about accounts when you’d rather not have one, it hardly makes sense most of the time, and it does take an awful lot of time to fill in the form…and then it says they will be back to you in 7 days?  Is this a good service?  NO   So avoid T-Mobile at all costs.

T-MOBILE — ‘OBSTRUCTIVE AND EXTORTIONATE’  — Ever tried getting through to T-Mobile? if not, then you had better prepare yourself for a wait of half an hour and numerous phone calls that get you nowhere…except India or even Australia…..and when you do they don’t seem proficient enough to deal with your query. One woman was away in Egypt with her phone, which she used sparingly. After getting back to the UK she got what they call a ‘Phone shock’ and received a bill for over £2,000. They said she had used around 260 megabytes on her phone, and it all looked as if it was on the same day.  This was described as ‘gigantic usage’ by geeks, but T-Mobile could not give details of the bill or what was being used.  They acted obstructively throughout the process and claimed that it was right. A High tech Geek examined the phone and looked for the recorded data for the period on the phone’s memory…but found nothing representing the 260 megabytes.

A RECENT REPORT HAS REVEALED THAT MOBILE PHONE INSURANCE IS A RIP OFF — Watchdog revealed that firms insuring mobile phones were not paying out on some claims, and rewriting the terms as they spoke.  It also revealed that one firm did not obey the Ombudsman and only several months later complied with his order after much pressure was applied.

‘ TalkTalk not keen on explaining blunders ‘

MOBILE PHONE COMPANY TALK TALK have been inundated with complaints, tens of thousands to be exact and this is not the first time this company has failed the customer, and the fact that it keeps on doing so is angering people who deal with them. The company and its subsidiary Tiscali were fined £3million by Ofcom for billing people for services they did not have yet had paid for.  They now face another fine of £2million for silent call treatment to customers, which are generated from their computers in their call centres. They are also fond of telling older customers they can reduce their bills by taking on TalkTalk packages that do not materialise. Some in the industry believe that Talktalk will talk themselves into serious trouble that may eventually sink them.

TALK TALK lose thousands of customers because of their poor customer care — a report says that 43,000 customers unplugged their connection and cancelled their service with TALK TALK between October and December of 2011 — The company’s revenues are said to be down by £20m on the previous year, shares have also fallen more than 17 percent…..perhaps they are now getting that sinking feeling — one can only hope.

TALK TALK — THE FRAUD:  Money-grabbing extortionists — they were fined millions by the regulator for charges made to customers which should never have been billed for, which is theft, and the company wasn’t brought before the court for that. They should have been charged as a corporate body and the employees under associated liability…but it never happens. Among one of its most awful services is the so-called customer services department that sends you to India, Philippines and elsewhere in Asia. These people will not give you their names, and if you have a query, they are not available for a return call, you are redirected to another call centre where it all begins again. Even if you are lucky to get through to someone, they put up a barrier and will not give direct answers, and the denials for bad service roll off like a flowing river. They have a deliberate policy to create misdirection and cause maximum stress to customers.

TALK TALK — STILL BREAKING ITS PROMISES TO THE WATCHDOG — Complaints galore arte still being received in connection with the awful service this  so called provider is ‘not giving’ to its customers.  Many thousands of angry customers are being fobbed off by staff who are prepared to lie, and cover up for their paymasters.  It comes as no surprise to find staff taking months to reply or even deal with a customer properly. They are also still using the ploy of having overseas call centres give a customer the run-around.  They even threaten people with debt collection tactics and charge £100 cancellation fees — yet are not brought to court to face criminal charges of extortion…such is the insurance cover being used to make companies beyond the reach of the law.  Ofcom are monitoring the situation we are told, but admit the company is a ‘problem’ legalwise.  In one situation pensioner Jean Nicholson of Sussex sent 20 letters to the firm over a line problem that reduced her service, and finally had to give up because they ignored every letter.

TALK-TALK FINED £750,000 over the telephone silent calls.  OFCOM said that during their investigations they found that marketing staff made 9,000 silent calls (what they term as abandoned calls) to possible new customers.  As per usual, the response from Talk-Talk is to blame their agents McAlpine Marketing, who they say they are going to recover their fine from?

THIS COMPANY IS THE MOST COMPLAINED ABOUT COMPANY EVER — IT FRAUDULENTLY CLAIMS TO BE A COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY….BUT COMMUNICATING WITH IT IS NON-EXISTENT — PULL THE PLUG ON THIS TALK TALK FIASCO AND BRING ABOUT ITS JUSTIFIED DEMISE.

‘ Mobile Network Three is fined £250,000 ‘

REGULATOR OFCOM fined the mobile phone network company a quarter of a million pounds because of customer complaints.  The Watchdog said the company did not handle some customer complaints in a ‘fair and timely manner’ and had on several occasions actually closed ongoing cases without first establishing that they were fully resolved.

‘ Nuisance Calls Phone Company is fined £80,000 ‘

A regular and almost daily harassment in 2015 to be ‘cold-called’ by irritating phone companies, many coming from India and elsewhere, and BT and the Communication Watchdog seem powerless to prevent it…..so it comes as a great bonus to find a ‘Personal Injuries Claims Company’ found themselves being nabbed by the Information Commissioner’s Office and fined £80,000.  The Company DIRECT ASSIST phoned one family 470 times, and this was just one case against them presented to the Commissioner’s Office.  The Telephone Preference Service are said to have registered 801 concerns about this company before the Watchdog moved against them.

PS: Hopefully it will go after more of these companies and close them down in the end…..that would be good.

‘ Twitter reveals Britain’s Covert Crackdown on Dissenters ‘

Britain has always denied being in the act of suppressing and hounding down protestors, and were constantly seen to announce how appalled they are with other countries forbidding free speech…especially CHINA…..and make great pretence of how Human Rights must be protected!  But one should look further than this cynical con and pay attention to what TWITTER has now exposed about the UK Government.  The British anti-free speech lobby — police, government and judiciary are and have been, on a course and agenda to silence those it does not wish heard. People blogging on twitter are being prosecuted and items being deleted by our great ‘ free thinking nation ‘ …anyone who says anything of anyone is on the list and they are using the ‘Malicious Communications Act 1988 to do it — which says ‘ it makes it an offence to send an electronic communication that conveys a grossly offensive message intended to cause distress or anxiety ‘  — what is in question here, and could prove costly to the defence is the interpretation of the words ‘conveys’ ‘grossly’ and ‘intended’…..because all criticism offends somebody….which could lead to anxiety if twisted to represent worry?   the intention of course must be proved…but that can be seen from several angles — intention to share with the community — intending to reveal a wrong…intention to expose the truth.  ‘Grossly’ again is subject to meaning over done, too much and misuses the word nasty as inferred in the word grossly in a court setting…..the greater trouble  here is the bias of the judicial system as we have seen in Singapore, Malaysia….and even the USA where they do not permit visitors from other countries who have ‘maligned’ their country in a blog, book or statement made public. The Internet has set people free, but by the same token — alarmed the rich and powerful who control government and fear this aspect.  Getting wealthy suits them, communication leading to economic riches suits them…but bloggers and Web groups bring them ‘anxiety ‘   Britain of late has become one of the biggest bigots and hypocrites.

TWITTER ARE LINKED TO CRIMES ON THE INTERNET — UK Police say that crime has increased eight-fold in four years with TWITTER concerning offences such as hate crime, menacing messages, which led to 650 people being charged in 2011/2012. (in 2008 there were 556 such cases generated by Twitter Posts).

‘ BRITISH TELECOM – LIES, DECEIT AND CORRUPTION ‘

We could say it was new to learn of this — but sadly it isn’t.  British Telecom have been cheating consumers for many years and doing it rather well.  They tend to pick on individuals so they can say ‘ only a few cases’ but again this is a lie to cover what they are doing.  A recent report and the nationwide TV  watchdog programme highlighted customers being swindled and charged  unduly and illegally.  But bosses at BT and regional managers and staff continue to cover these policies of confusing the public and actually lying to them.  We know of one customer who had vandals cut the line outside the customer’s flat and then tell the customer the repair and call out would be on the bill.  Even their own conditions say any repair outside the actual dwelling will be covered by BT, but they choose to forget this and put the bill to the customer.  One BT Engineer who didn’t want to be mentioned said customer and accounts staff are aware of it but try it on because it is good for company profits. 

‘ BT – Business Tyrants — Telecom Company’s Dirty deeds ‘

BRITISH TELECOM — Not too big for us to report on or go after — In this item we reveal the following:

(1)  Poor Service — big failures in customer service and carrying out their obligations.

(2)  Evasive answering from BT staff — customers find it difficult to be connected to the right person or get replies that make sense. Staff become uncooperative and prevaricate in order to fob them off.

(3) BT Operatives hang up on complaining customers in order to dissuade them from being heard.

(4) BT blames customers for faults, and fines them £130.

(5) BT continues charging customers after they have cancelled their contracts.

(6) BT resort with amazing speed to bring in debt collection agencies (meant to harass and stress the customer)

(7) BT give out meaningless apologies, much like many services that lie between their teeth.

Poor Service and Bad Communications? — Indeed, and very regular — Tony Rogers, who owns a restaurant in Nottingham had the most awful experience of his life with this bunch of thugs.  He was cold-called by BT who offered him  ‘a better service deal’ that was in fact, no such thing.  He was told he would save 16 per cent, a reduction that was most welcome.  But did he get this? NO…his bills shot up higher from the moment he’d fallen foul of this seductive offer. He remembered signing up to a 24 month plan on the phone, but when it became apparent his bills were too high to sustain, he cancelled the contract.  Then it arrived? he was told it would cost him £1,000 to get out of the contract!! and that he had actually signed up to a 60 month deal, but that part was the ‘small print deception’ thought up by BT lawyers.  You might think they were ‘mis-selling’ which would describe the deal over the phone accurately as no mention of a five-year plan was mentioned.  Two other customers, the Stennates and The Wilsons fell foul of the small print in contract cancellations…and BT charged them a fee of £150 for the unwanted service.  They are also eager to call in the debt collection services, which is a far cry from the ‘fake advertising’ they do on TV pretending to be customer focused. Another disturbing fact is one item in their terms and conditions — ‘We can change the conditions and charges at any time’ which alarmed many people who deemed this to be unreasonable, and should be scrapped….but Ofcom the dithering regulator failed to see this…or promise to have this condition removed.

BT Engineers often leave a callout customer without a report, and the customer finds themselves being charged for the fault even when it isn’t. Many have been charged £130 when their phone line fails, and are told they have been charged a set fee.  Ann Garbett was charged the fee when she reported hearing cross-line conversations and asked BT to do something about it.  Mrs Garbett is a 76 year-old pensioner. An engineer arrived and spent 15 minutes at her home…looking at the junction box below the window. The fault stopped after he left…and when her telephone bill arrived? — you guessed it, there was a fee of £130 attached.  She was never compensated, the ‘jobsworth BT stuck to their policy.  The Burridges both in their 70’s had to call out engineers to their home in Hampshire.  Like the previous customer, they had been customers of BT for around 40 years.  They got a bill of £130 for clearing the buzzing sound on their handset and the dead times….it was later discovered that the fault was actually at the BT Phone Exchange.  BT later said that the money had been refunded and they ‘apologised’ for the inconvenience. In another case, teenage vandals ripped out the cables from a junction box at a block of flats. The vandals were stopped and police just took their names.  BT, however, charged the flat owner for the call out despite the customer not being responsible for the break in service. After a long battle, it was agreed that the engineers charge fee would be cancelled when it was proved that their calculation of responsibility did not fit ‘ the fault being on your own equipment in the dwelling’ as the flat was separate to where the junction box was and twenty feet away in the building that had stairs adjoining the flats. But as we have seen, it took great effort to make BT see common sense which they often lack.

‘ The Scandal that is called BT Telecommunications — the poor service ‘

HOW LOW CAN BT  GET? — The answer = ‘Extremely Low’  The case we now publish is by no means unusual for BT, in fact, it is very regular and no-one bats an eye-lid at BT due to its tired phrase ‘we apologise for the inconvenience’ when it is clear they do not.  This incident began on the 14th of June (2012), and the customer’s phone service went dead. The fault was logged, and the customer was allowed to track the progress on the fault. On the 17th it said – ‘working on the fault’  On the 18th it said – ‘We need more time and we apologise for the delay’  On the 19th there were two messages shown – ‘ Estimated repair date – we apologise if this is outside the expected 3 days from the fault being reported ‘ and ‘We need more time ‘  On the 20th — nothing! in fact there was no progress right up to the 27th of June, they ignored e-mails and it was only on the 28th that things moved because an answer was demanded from Customer Services and Warren Buckley answered hoping that the problem would soon be solved and finished his message with ‘Best Wishes’….utterly amazing….the customer had to do all the pushing and running about after BT…because not doing so meant that BT just carried on and left the customer without a service that they were taking money for.  The worse bit to this, and yes, there is the final insult from BT — on the 28th of June they indicated that the resumption of service would not take place for another week!!…….leaving the customer without a service for three weeks.

Further news on this reveals the ‘shameful compensation’ as a ‘goodwill gesture’ by BT…. the service was off for 22 days + 3 they allow themselves not liable for…..they offered £14 on the first call to their billing Department which was rejected….after referring this to a supervisor it came back to £39.50 — £20 for the inconvenience and £19.50 for a month line-rental!!     Just how cheap can this multi-million corporation get…..we know for a fact that some lesser firms such as Castle Cover Insurance offer £50 for a rubbish service…which should be a minimum.

‘The hidden BT Complaints Files’

BELLIGERENCE, IGNORANCE, PATHETIC LIES — All of these are contributions in the complaints that BT conveniently places in its Community forum pages that are made to look like general chat items!  If you have wondered where the complaints are about BT’s terrible service, this is the place to see thousands of complaints by a company that in the main ignores them.  It’s a different world to the one BT presents in its advertising — the complaints show repeated actions by BT staff that are never put right without having to seek compensation or complaints to a higher authority.  There are categories such as – phone, broadband, bills etc, and the infamous lack of customer care. — and only ‘log-in’ consumers can actually get the privilege of scanning this catalogue of blunders and poor service!

As BT have thousands of complaints dotted around the Internet that they hope are not read (due to their deflection method of putting up complaints pages that steer the person to their ‘set-up forum’ or disaster help-lines), we thought we would pick out around one hundred or so goodies to illustrate just how bad they are and what lengths BT will go to suppress the complainers and deflect detection of corruption.

‘The Day BT tried to Pervert the Course of Justice ‘

THE HEARING — ISLINGTON COUNTY COURT:  The case was set to begin in the afternoon listings starting at 2pm and the plaintiff was called to attend court 2….a small informal courtroom with one central large long desk.  On one side it would have the defendants and the other side, the plaintiff.  The Plaintiff entered and took the right hand side facing the Judge’s bench.  He’d only been there a few seconds when around 6 people entered the court and took up their position opposite him.  They had a huge bundle of papers and several Law Reference books with bits of paper sticking out in various locations.  The Judge entered, and obviously what he saw did not amuse him.  Within seconds he demanded to know who was who and why they were in his court.  One man answered saying that they represented BT Telecom.  The Judge then asked him to explain the presence of the others.  The man who spoke said he was a solicitor, and so was his colleague sat next to him, and that three of the others were ‘observers’ and one other was a BT engineer.   The Judge just stared at them, and told the solicitor to dismiss the others from the court room including his colleague.  He said he would call in the BT engineer later.  The ‘arrogant’ solicitor objected, but found himself on his own in the courtroom.  The Judge smiled at the claimant/plaintiff and said ‘that’s better, we can now begin’  He’d knocked the wind out of the solicitor and went on to dismiss evidence given by the BT engineer as ‘irrelevant’ to the proceedings.  The Judge decided in favour of the plaintiff agreeing that BT had acted arbitrarily without good reason in cutting off the phone service, especially as they mentioned nothing of the agreement in the telephone call by one of their operators to arrange a delay on paying the bill so that the customer being abroad could pay it on his return…and she said he was a ‘valued and good customer’… BT also denied having a letter from the claimant, until it was shown in court….they claimed it got lost.  They lost the case and were ordered to pay compensation and pay a reimbursement for the re-connection.  The solicitor for BT suggested claiming costs for his team, but the Judge dismissed the application saying it was their own fault.  All six from BT left the court very unhappy.

(the above shows how BT used a six man team and mighty power to subvert the plaintiffs action by outnumbering him)

‘ BT charge customer for line cut off by neighbour ‘

This second one sees a BT Engineers rudeness as he is called out to fix a severed telephone line.  The people sat quite happily waiting as the called out engineer was putting in a new line…..hoping to hear all was well and the problem fixed, especially as the fault was not in their house (as the conditions of use and liability states). When he eventually called in to test the line and check, he had them sign his form, and suddenly said they would be charged £130 for the service, even though the severed line was due to a neighbour across the way having cut it while pruning trees.  They were completely astonished and objected.  The Engineer just said ‘this is how it is, you’re paying’ and left.  They received an invoice with the amount charged…..but challenged it and made a fuss  until the Accounts Department at BT saw their error and cancelled the charges.

‘ BT Imposes waiting game on customer ‘

ONE CUSTOMER (willing to pay!) wanted to arrange a ‘wiring inspection’ and pay for an engineer to make sure they would get their broadband operating to its maximum potential.  But could they get one? not exactly and not for some while.  After trying to get him to bring in a private engineer without success, they finally agreed to provide one……but he never came.  The customer became more outraged and finally decided to complain…and they said the complaint should as a matter of ‘priority’ go to their ‘Residential Services’ and that they would call back……they waited, and waited…..nothing!   They again submitted another complaint regarding the ‘poor knowledge of the people at BT they were trying to communicate with….and reiterated that all they wanted was an engineer………and guess what?   They were again referred to ‘Residential Services…..with yet again the same response….nothing……waiting for the calls that never came.  The situation went on for a considerable time from December in 2009……they did get a private engineer…and got the situation fixed…..a BT Manager finally rang him in July 2011 but didn’t want to discuss the complaint….she said they were offering him one free month of line rental (about £10) and reimbursing him £130 the price of an engineer callout.  (see  www.mycustomer.com )

‘ BT ask for £99 to fix their faulty service ‘

DESCRIBED AS A DISGRACE by our next complainant, Robert of London was getting fed up of ever increasingly large bills, and he needed an escape for Virgin’s tariffs.  So he went to BT thinking their broadband as claimed by them in adverts, was exceptional and good value.  Over a six month period he found the service was dreadful and limping along in quality as intermittent.  Most evenings were spent going through BT’s online BT Diagnostic software, which never resulted in anything positive.  Calling for technical support was a nightmare, and when he eventually did get ‘a live response via the phone’ they said they would have to charge £99 for an engineer to fix ‘their’ fault.    (more can be read at www.trustpilot.co.uk )

‘ BT Overcharging leads to threats by staff ‘

A Customer in Essex got very distressed by the attitude of BT staff in her local area — they ordered her to pay the demanded bill of £137 immediately or suffer ‘disconnection’   She desperately tried to make them see sense and understand the situation, but they were having none of it.  She said she had been overcharged for extra broadband that she had not used…..but they had gone quite deaf by this stage.  They also threatened to issue a ‘late-payment charge’ if she did not carry out their instructions!   The lady is working full time and cannot be online as they suggested (for their convenience)…she told them this was very hard for her to do…but they simply brushed this aside.  In her desperation to get this solved she wrote to the BT Correspondence Centre but still felt very unhappy with the reply — which did not address the ‘threads’ of what had happened at all.

‘ BT Engineer says to old couple ‘ Don’t trust BT ‘

AN ELDERLY COUPLE Beryl and Frank, who had just moved into their new retirement property in Cricklewood, North West London, were anxious to have the place connected on the phone as soon as possible.  On visiting the property they’d both not seen a phone there….so they assumed it needed everything.  After calling ‘Sales’ a week into their move an engineer called around to begin the job…..and pointed out that there were two phone connections already in two rooms, and that he’d seen a cable to the house.  He soon tested the connections and found them to be fully operable and ready.  ‘All you need is a new number and connecting at the exchange’ he said, which pleased the old couple.  Before going he turned to the m and said ‘Don’t trust BT, because it’s possible another engineer might not have told you about the line and connectors, and just put new ones in so he could book it down on the job, and he might have said he put a new line up too ‘   They thanked him for his words of advice……and a while later received quite a huge bill saying BT had connected a new line and fitted the house out…..Remembering what the engineer had said, and believing that none of this was down to him, they asked to see the engineers job sheet…..within seven days of that they sent the couple a letter saying the charges had been withdrawn due to a ‘mix-up’ and all they had to pay was £9.98 for reconnection at the Exchange…and that would be added to their first invoice.

‘ Shameful cut-off of Pensioner’s Phone Line ‘

BEFORE TIME and before giving him any consideration….that was BT…  85 year old Daniel Doyle was struggling with adversity as he tried to free himself of BT’s rotten service.  Despite ignoring his complaints they showed very little if none, for his state of health and what effect they were having on it….they just didn’t care.   August was drawing to a close and in September 2012 he wanted to cancel the service…..and when he rang to do it he found himself in the hands of a call centre in Mumbai in India.  He made it clear to the operator that he wanted to cancel the service ASAP.  The operator said he had to give notice of 30 days to cancel….so he went ahead there and then, and was told the service would end on the 30th of September.  For the next week or so he felt relieved until the 13th of September when the phone suddenly ‘went dead’……they had cut him off well before the agreed date and he’d paid his bill up to the 30th.  He was now absolutely devastated….he couldn’t ring friends or even if there had been an emergency he would have been there would be no outside contact (and he’d planned to tell friends and contacts on the 29th) if he’d been ill no-one could have phoned or got an answer.  Because of his plight, he went to a phone box and was reconnected…..and they actually charged him too!   He says ‘ I have had 30 horrible years with BT…. and he hopes the company goes bust,    Sadly it won’t because they’re taking advantage of as many people as they can, having a monopoly means you can extort as many people as you like.

‘ BT is named as the worst landline provider ‘

ONE Customer blogged us the following:  In a customer satisfaction poll of 2008 — surveying 11,000 customers, BT had the worst customer service experienced.  Poor value for money, failure to sort out problems regularly, and 89 per cent of landline complaints are actually about BT itself.  They ranked its broadband service the worst value for money…..and what’s more, BT admitted that thousands of customers had experienced a poor service in 2007 because of a system change?  He says BT unfortunately dominates the communications industry and keeps a stranglehold on the lucrative ‘treasure pot’ of £25 billion a year — taking advantage of the monopoly while ignoring customers comments regarding their awful service. 

BT VISION — a terrible service according to 750,000 customers who contacted the Consumer Watchdog at the BBC to complain about their experiences with the BT Service.

BT lies go on and on, and all the excuses too says Paul Mark who pointed out they have a really bad customer service……this is backed by loads of others keen to report on the BT service…. there are eight pages to be viewed and 114 complaints, so go and get a good look at  www.moneysupermarket.com 

‘ BT Complaint Process is a Sham ‘

MR LIVINGSTONE of Cambridge decided to publish an ‘Open Letter’ for the attention of BT’s COE….which has largely gone unheeded of course, and he wasn’t surprised considering their reputation.  Because of the company’s disregard of complaints he sent copies of his Open letter on the Internet to several MP’s to see if he could get some sort of response and action.  To his disgust he found that the so-called ‘High level Escalation’ process (for complaints) fairly useless.  He said that BT’s departments do not communicate with each other, which is a complaint often levelled at the BT services.  He also pointed out the unfair monopoly BT run.  Open Reach and BT Wholesale which stifle competition due to the fact that any and all competition has to rent BT lines.  He says that when they are forced to admit they got things wrong, the ‘goodwill’ gestures have been insulting….. and many complainants agree with this.      to read more go to  www.maltpress.co.uk

In 2009 BT Telecom were voted the worst telecommunications company in a survey of 5,000 customers.

‘ BT Play Dirty in Court Case against them ‘

Bringing this selection to a close we have another court case:  Mrs Walker answered our call for more on BT and delivered this gem —  THE COURT WAS WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT in London, frequented by civil claims cases often involving the police and suing actions against the Police Commissioner.  She tells us that her husband had begun a court claim against BT for what was a relatively small amount, but BT decided to fight the claim.  The woman solicitor who attended the preliminary hearing said it was BT policy to go against all claims.  As with many cases involving the legal’s they run slowly to fit within 28 days…on most default cases filed.  BT hoped at the Preliminary hearing that the ‘Walker’s case would be struck out’ as they’d applied for, but the Judge wasn’t entirely satisfied and moved for a hearing date for both parties to attend.  BT were obviously displeased with this decision……so just a week or so before the court date, BT switched lawyers and put in a seasoned Barrister to defeat the Walkers’.   On seeing notification from the court that the female solicitor was not down to do the case worry forced them to attend a neighbourhood free legal advice centre in Camden, and as a result they wrote to the court clerk about the situation.  The letter was passed to the Judge presiding over the case took the matter seriously and condemned the tactics of BT, and told them to withdraw the Barrister and have the previous solicitor attend.  Before the hearing began the judge did tell BT’s solicitor that he was not impressed with their actions to substitute a Barrister at this stage, and suggested that he could only perceive that BT might have seen fit to intimidate the hearing and the Walkers’ which in the mind of the public may seem to be undue influence exerted in relation to such a small claim.  As a result, the case was quickly dealt with and BT lost yet again — the Walkers’ received compensation and an additional exemplary damages sum suggested by the judge in his summing up.  The female solicitor left the court in a huff appearing very angry.

‘ BT have more complaints than a plague of locusts ‘

SUBTERFUGE AND LIES BY BT — We have had several online contacts tell us that BT YAHOO suddenly contacted account holders ‘forcing them to change their passwords’ and there was no options to this move because it didn’t have the quality of a request situation.  People felt that it was more like a ‘Big Brother’ move.  They said this was due to do with unusual activity detected on people’s accounts….but most said the only unusual activity was that of BT in cahoots with Yahoo. 

Another thing they wanted us to highlight was that anyone being ‘funnelled’ towards a complaints ‘forum’ should be aware of BT’s little gagging move which states that anyone using the forum cannot challenge or comment on BT Policy……and considering that BT Policy is often the culprit…..any complaint is rather ‘nobbled’.  Which is for BT a good move, which in turn grounds most of the complaints and hides them from the public, because only members logging on can benefit from access.

‘ BT a Dysfunctional Company says Lawyer ‘

Solicitor David Foster from the firm Barlow Robbins in Surrey, a lawyer who has handled many cases against BT over a number of years, said it was seriously dysfunctional.  It is a very difficult company to deal with when conflicts arise — it has a reputation for fighting any case right up to the last minute….. and then giving up just before they are due in court.  Making big firms like BT deal with issues reasonably can be almost impossible.  In normal cases, generally if the company is failing to provide a service they promised and you have given them a reasonable chance to remedy the problem, the contract is deemed invalid, but BT cannot seem to accept this.

‘ BT pay £2,000 over accident ‘

A Rishton man suffered injuries as a result of negligence by BT Telecom after he fell over an iron ‘supporting’ rod connected to a telegraph pole, which had been left in a precarious position.  Solicitors representing the injured man approached BT, and after consultations they admitted liability when they received the medical report.  They offered compensation of £2,000.

‘ BT and its links to spy network GCHQ ‘

We have obtained a letter from an engineer who worked on the Yorkshire area, the centre ‘crossover’ to the south as he says.  He wants us know what links BT have with the Security people MI5, MI6 and Police.  He tells us that he was called out one day to assist another engineer who was having trouble with wiring at what he described ‘a complex system’ he’d not encountered before.  He said he’d had a bit of difficulty connecting the fault he was following and had to open the ground cover of another system to make sure he was getting the right line.  As he looked around the main system he saw yet another system linked in, but different to the others in that it appeared non-intrusive but clearly had a purpose.  Within minutes of the two engineers working in the ‘hole’ they were joined by others who were not known to them.  They said they were BT Operatives and even so it didn’t feel right…..they would not reveal their names.  They said that they were closing this section and that the two emergency engineers should not open it again without authorisation.  The Engineer asked whose that was, but was told to report to his line manager.  His line manager said that he’d been sent to the wrong ‘Junction’ and that was it.  The Engineer tried to find out more and on looking through area plans he found this particular ‘box junction’ carried a huge mass of lines from south to north, but there was only one box on the diagram….even though the second one looked ‘inoffensive’ he then realised it was a GCHQ addition after a mate said he knew what it was there for….’I’m surprised you found it, no-one really goes up there except the guys from you know where?’

‘ BT faces formal complaint for collusion with UK Spy agency ‘

In connection with the above article, BT is among six Global communications Companies that are the subject of a formal complaint by Privacy International for potential violations of Human Rights — such as the freedom of expression and right to privacy.  BT and the other five were identified by a German Newspaper as having allowed Government Communications  GCHQ to access their undersea fibre optic cables for covert use and spying on International partners.  Apparently, BT’s codename is ‘Remedy’ according to the report.

‘ BT try to fool all of the people…. all of the time ‘

YES BT HAVE THAT KIND OF MENTALITY — DECEIVE and keep with it no matter what.  This was their stand when an online report appeared and said that they ’embed secret spying equipment’ on hardware sold to customers.  BT have long dismissed anything levelled against them… only to see it come up and bite them later after making every effort to make it go away.  The Report’s Author found IP addresses on BT systems belonging to the US Department of Defence…..and the user would be totally unaware……………..BT said this was standard practice? …… Oh how well you practice to deceive with the webs you continue to weave BT.

‘ The BT Security Scandal of 1994 ‘

Security Systems at BT were not only breached but easily breached, as one hacker proved when they managed to grab data on British Intelligence and then send it off to Scots Journalist Steve Fleming.  The Report stated that the hacker had no in-depth knowledge or special technical expertise, but none was needed.  He was able to retrieve top secret government communications of GCHQ (The British Spy Centre) and client of BT, without detection.  Secure Passwords of access were said to be lying around BT computer Offices…so much for security at BT?

‘Man prefers to take BT to Small Claims Court ‘

ROBIN as we understand intends to take BT to court over lost workdays he incurred having spent his leave with four engineer visits to correct a fault, a BT fault.  He tells us that BT offered him an insulting amount of money, and he also had a call from a BT Complaints Executive who said BT were only prepared to offer him payment for the loss of service — not time taken off work to be on the premises awaiting BT engineers.  They accepted that the fault was theirs, but would not take responsibility for that fault by reimbursing him for lost time at work.  He has now received a ‘deadlock’ letter which means there is no longer any negotiation…..he says that BT will not compromise in even paying ‘half’ of his losses, which would be acceptable…..instead they told him to contact the Ombudsman if he’s not happy with the situation.  After giving this due consideration, he still prefers to go to the Small Claims County Court to seek the full amount of damages. (this is a 2012 case and we don’t have the result)

‘ BT ignores Ombudsman who orders them not to harass man ‘

The Victim, A H Walley of Lancashire —- BT apparently began chasing a debt resulting in the harassment of the wrong person (he had the same surname as the woman who’d run up the debt)…..the matter is said to have gone on for two years and only resolved in June 2013, because the Guardian Newspaper took up the story.  BT issued Mr Walley with a disconnection notice despite him sending more than 50 e-mails to BT staff including Director of Customer Services, Manager Warren Buckley.  In December 2012 the Telecom Ombudsman ruled that BT was at fault and ordered them to apologise to Mr Walley and pay him compensation of £20?……Despite the order he was still being contacted by a debt collection agency that BT contracted….who were still putting pressure on the victim……this unlawful action attracted interest by the Guardian who got involved.  After several calls, BT agreed to cease demanding money and finally agreed to pay a £1,000 to a charity of Mr Walley’s choice.

‘BT sued in Patents Case ‘

…..AND SO THE ACTION GOES ON….IT BEGAN IN 2011….. Behind the heady scenes of technology comes a battle of the giants rarely observed by the public and customers of British Telecom…..as Google sues BT in another round of court battles.  GOOGLE ARE SUING BT OVER PATENTS INFRINGEMENTS just as they were sued by BT in 2011.  It is interesting to note that ‘press shy’ BT would not comment on the present lawsuit launched in the UK and USA.  Google say BT has violated four of its patents, and they furthermore said that BT had brought several ‘meritless’ claims against them, hence the fact Google were now pursuing the case in the UK.

‘ BT – Yahoo speeds not so speedy ‘

People have contacted us to say they are disappointed at the slow speeds they get whilst using the BT Yahoo system on the Internet.  Some have reported this but say they are being ignored by BT who act as if it isn’t there fault, whilst at the same turning out adverts that lie about the speeds they say a customer can get.  Yahoo also suffer the same ignorance according to many who see Yahoo as a predator rather than a service.  Many tell us that Yahoo is in league with ‘fixing’ and data issues that are not resolved, meaning that they collect private data and info to be stored and passed on to other sources.  BT are said to act as a ‘passenger’ in this and pretend to have no influence or role in data misuse.  Coming back to the speeds issue, many are not satisfied at what they are asked to pay for a service that takes ages when accessing pages on sites going through BT Yahoo…. and feel they are being cheated.

‘ BT assists in hacking  of accounts ‘

A REPORT says that both BT and YAHOO are remaining silent on the crucial issue of ‘account breaches’ which are worrying many users of the ‘btinternet.com’ sign ins accounts — Many have found that BT or YAHOO are incapable of resolving the problem, and others are convinced that they are assisting the hacking by their stance of doing nothing.  Many who contact the parties are being fobbed off and left ‘without an explanation’.  Several attempts have been made to get clarification, without success.  BT accounts and data is just vanishing on the btinternet log-ins…..causing stress to users who have no idea how to get back their private data and information.  One account holder says they have no confidence in the so-called security of BT Yahoo Web Mail, and suggests users look for an alternative to both BT and YAHOO.

‘ BT Pays out £500 to News Agency for inconsiderate actions ‘

THE OMBUDSMAN SAID BT WERE INCONSIDERATE AND IGNORED ITS OWN CODE OF CONDUCT — BT yet again show how callous and uncaring they can be — Cavendish Press won a payout and apology, but not without the usual fight BT put claimants through.  Jon Harris the managing director was in a year long battle with BT after they had cut-off his firm’s landline without any of the proper consideration or talks that should have taken place.  The firm had been querying invoices sent by BT (and who wouldn’t)  BT left the News Press Company without a telephone service for 8 days.    After being ignored by BT, Mr Harris contacted the Communications Ombudsman over the matter explaining that BT had refused to cooperate.  The Ombudsman found BT Guilty of a breach of service, furthermore stressing that BT did not act fairly or reasonably in sorting out this situation, one of which was their own doing.  Ombudsman Officer Akalia Maclaurin ruled that they should pay £491.46 to the firm for the inconvenience….and ordered that they should pay a refund to Mr Harris of £91.84 for reconnecting the lines.  It was also said that a 3 month rental period be given plus a goodwill payment…….however the good will did not appear from BT as they actually ‘wanted a review of the award and findings’….and by doing this they delayed the final (reduced) award after delaying things for 4 months!

‘Two stressed customers and one fault = BT ‘

People have been known to spend an entire morning on the phone to BT  waiting in queues and being transferred from one operator to another…. and having to go through the problem over and over again, such was the tiresome case for Margaret Butterfield.  Another Customer Julian Lewis-Booth left Bt for a period of ten years and has since regretted going back with them.

‘ BT Threats and Harassment’

You might well ask – ‘when is harassment not a criminal offence?’ — the answer being – when a big company or government department do it! —- they claim indemnity. (indemnity ‘ a collateral contract/security to PREVENT a person from being damned by an Act (of Law) at the request of another activated by BT lawyers (not unlike the Crown privilege  ‘you can’t get us because we are above the law’ clause).  A customer tells us ‘ all BT Customers should beware’……and why?.. Because BT are doing what they do best — Threaten and Harass complainants.  This particular customer could not receive incoming calls and there was ‘noise’ on the line too.  They called BT who sent an engineer, he fixed the line ‘outside’ the house and replaced a master-socket in the building (still the liability of BT as they state this is the end point of their undertaking).  He said there would be no charge and left the house not requiring anyone to sign paperwork.  Several days or so later, the customer was shocked to receive a bill complete with call-out charge.  The customer tried many times to get BT to see that it wasn’t right and that the engineer had actually confirmed they wouldn’t be charged.  But BT would not accept this and began issuing threats over the call out charge and continued harassing them.   Another customer advised the couple to take the matter higher and write to the CEO at BT.

‘ BT Massive bungle costs man’s company thousands ‘

SHARROCK SERVICES an Insurance business in Sheerness lost thousands of pounds in lost revenue due to BT’s delays — They had not installed the phone lines as promised to Mr Doucy’s new office premises.  Mr Doucy said that BT would not co-operate and he found it stressful and annoying when he had to make over a 100 calls to BT, which he followed with written complaints (all very time-consuming).  Even these measures had no impact on BT what-so-ever…….it was only when the local newspaper got involved that a solution began to emerge.  The Gazette finally managed to attract the attention of BT Media Relations Manager Paul Hayward who finally accepted that BT had failed the customer Mr Doucy.  He said ‘they wished to apologise to Mr Doucy for the delays in getting his service activated, we are doing all we can to get this put in as quickly as possible’

‘ BT sued for lost trade by taxi firm ‘

MILLENNIUM CARS in Reading sued BT for lost business revenue when their telephone lines were cut off; all six lines the company used went down for an entire weekend, costing the firm thousands of pounds and laying off their fleet of drivers normally on call for the weekend business.  Despite calling BT, they were told that all ‘the engineers had finished for the weekend, and there would be no-one available to help’……..BT later apologised and said ‘there had been a mix-up’ and we are working to correct things.  However, in the meantime, the firm decided to to work out their total losses and billed BT…in their action to recover their lost money.

‘ BT resists Customer’s Cancellation ‘

You might have thought cancelling your service with BT fairly easy to do?  You’d be wrong….. as this next item shows…………  Joyce Burnett spent hours trying to cancel her contract with BT, yet when she tried, their instant response was to go around in circles with nobody knowing what they were doing — She absolutely got tired of what they were doing and continued to resist her request to cancel.

‘ Fed up with BT after waiting two months ‘

Even though the Judges family in Hertfordshire patiently waited for BT to set up their broadband — two months went by without that happening.  The family finally got fed up of the ‘lousy service’  and the delays, and the torrent of errors over several months…. which ended with them being cut off for seven weeks.  Bt ignoring their frustration sent them a demand for £500 in contract charges, plus a late payment fee!  The family from Letchworth said that a sixth engineer from BT failed to reconnect them (recommending another supplier).  Kevin Judges wrote to BT and cancelled the contract stating the unreasonable delays etc.  But BT insisted they pay?  BT said they would allow the family a refund of £43 but refused to let them out of the contract even though they had cancelled.  The Judges went to the Ombudsman, but he sided with BT, so they ended up having to pay the ransom demand for £184 before being freed.

‘  BT Broadband fault lasts 10 months, and pitiful payout offer ‘

MATT a customer of BT for some years, tells the Internet users and surfers how BT left him without broadband for a staggering ten months.  When he finally got their attention, he had to take three days off work so that he could be in the house when engineers called.  He was also told by an advisor that he would be compensated for his lost time…….strangely, despite the callouts, the problem was fixed at the Exchange?  When he contacted BT about the compensation he was suddenly shocked that this was only going to be £30 (yet he had lost three days for which he could earn up to nearly £300)…he wouldn’t have minded if a more realistic figure had been offered, but they maintained it was fixed at £10 a day.  Matt has decided that this is ‘miserly’ considering how rich BT are and is considering legal redress.

‘ BT in criminal scandal ‘

Techies on the Internet have suggested that BT’s new sign in system is there to snoop on thousands of customers — insider news says the system was supposedly designed and often claimed to be high speed safe log-ins is no more than a devious plot to criminally obtain data to which they are not entitled.  Its been reported that many users are having difficulty with the new system that often makes them have to sign in twice, and takes twice as long too.  They told that BT were at this long before the new sign in….. and that some people were being denied access to their e-mail accounts.

‘ 40 BT Engineers investigated over £200,000 crime ‘

CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES BY BT STAFF end up with 8 BT engineers arrested and another 32 suspended in what is termed as an elaborate false claims swindle.  The Broadband fitters out on repairs or fitting new cable gear made up claims that traffic wardens and clampers had fined them.  Many BT vans bearing the OpenReach logo pay out over a £1million in fines in the London area alone…because its considered as ‘a hazard of the job’  and restricted areas often lead to being ticketed.  The report says these engineers got together to set up a fake clamping company in order to make the crime work. (July 2013)

‘ BT Staff in 4 year Fraud ‘

A report says that BT staff made millions of false calls on the auto-dialling system so that they could obtain bonuses in a new lucrative MOD contract.  A former BT Manager Joseph Hewson was dismissed over his role in the scam.  Those involved were after achieving bonus-linked targets when handling calls from the MOD.  A BT operator would normally do 100 calls in an hour, but this went to 412 and the MOD began investigating before calling BT bosses.  The lucrative scam involved call centres at St Helens in Merseyside, Dumbarton in Scotland, Kettering in Northamptonshire and Wakefield in Yorkshire.

‘ BT workers in plot with cable thieves ‘

In the London Area stealing cables was the game, and BT worker Zeki Mehmed of 30 years service along with another BT man were part of a gang of nine that travelled around London in a stolen OpenReach van stealing underground cables.  They got away with £280,000 worth of cables before being grabbed by police.  Zeki was jailed for four and a half years.  Bt said the copper cable had value when sold to scrap merchants, and that this kind of theft was on the increase.

‘ BT Manager steals £8,000 worth of cables ‘

Edward Thomas, a former Operations Manager who lived in Kennington, South London, was given a Community Service order by Oxford Magistrates Court where he appeared on charges of theft.  When he was sentenced he asked for 246 similar offences to be taken into consideration.  (The offences happened in 2012)

‘BT Lies about the Yahoo disengagement ‘

Following on from the previous article, this is directly linked to the trouble most people are having.  For many years now BT call staff have said the Yahoo contract had been cancelled when it wasn’t…..but in truth, BT were lying again….. none of this was true, they still have a partnership with Yahoo.  All this comes amid a report on hijack claims into BT accounts concerning Yahoo.  There was a surge of complaints about e-mail incidents — Telco told on liners they would move affected customers, when in fact they didn’t, nor were ties with Yahoo over.

‘ BT’s ‘finished with Yahoo’ lie exposed ‘

BT were quick to tell BT account holders that they had dropped their partnership with Yahoo over the the Yahoo high -jacking security breaches, and that the new sign-in methods would rectify and improve this immediately.. and that was a few months ago.  We today (Dec 2013) found that a user had previously changed to the new system was blocked on a yahoo account…despite entering the password of the BT…which was applicable…. but the log-in failed and a new password was selected before being allowed into the Yahoo site and account…having done that they found their BT one failed….. and only allowed entry using the new Yahoo password change…. so that proves that BT are still partnered to Yahoo….and the statement issued by BT was a complete lie.

‘Another customer wants to sue BT ‘

YET ANOTHER DISSATISFIED CUSTOMER feels the need to to take the Telecom Giant to court…..one other man reading this on the blog site says ‘beware! because BT are super rich with lawyers available around the clock who will not hesitate to protect the golden goose, and do everything they can to have any case derailed.  Keith Dyches says he has had eight months of misery all caused by BT.  He says the broadband service has not properly worked for years, and he has registered more complaints than he cares to count, and there has been no response.  The situation remained like this for some months before a manager of the Durham Branch sent out more engineers….before it was eventually sorted out.  But sadly, two weeks later it all began again, so he called it a day and approached Virgin.   Having received more dialogue with Virgin, he signed up, but one week before being connected BT terminated the account (earlier than agreed)…this caused much trouble and Virgin could do nothing but wait……finally, BT admitted things had not gone according to plan (as if they had one?)…and offered him a meagre two months compensation……yet they are still harassing him for the cancellation charge!

‘BT continue with misleading adverts ‘

Despite being warned by the Advertising Standards Authority one, — BT in their arrogance, went ahead a second time putting out misleading statements in adverts….. as they yet again misled customers about broadband speeds and fibre optic broadband coverage around the UK.  They told Manchester residents that fibre optic broadband was available when in fact it wasn’t!    They also claimed that BT Broadband had  ‘better performance’ implying that BT customers were likely to experience a much faster speed of broadband than its rivals… another fact that didn’t stand up to scrutiny….. in fact, BT will lie about anything.

‘ BT in ‘fine scam’ on Customers ‘

CUSTOMERS are finding themselves paying £130 for ‘BT FAULTS’ according to a report in a web page called  www.thisismoney.co.uk   They blame the customer for their faults and slap a bill of £130 on the customer’s next bill.  The Pensioners — The Burridges of Hampshire, were caught in this ‘money-trap’ and despite being assured by BT customer services that they wouldn’t pay,  their next bill showed the £130 charge…..eventually after it was made public in a newspaper, BT refunded the money.  A similar situation happened to pensioner Ann Parry Garbett 76, a loyal customer for some 40 years.  She reported ‘talking on her line’ and BT sent out an engineer, who was at her home for just a short while.  She saw on her next bill the £130 charge….luckily yet again, her case was taken up and it was later admitted by BT that it had been ‘an exchange fault’ and nothing at her home, she was paid back the £130.

‘ BT botches service and calls the customer a liar ‘

Tony Hazell of ‘This is Money’ highlighted the BT response of LIAR when dealing with a complaint made by a customer.  The customer is Mr A H Shipley of West Yorkshire — who was wronged by BT — He had persistent problems with his phone service and broadband lasting nine months after being persuaded to have BT Infinity.  When the matter was eventually put right, BT billed him for £99 saying he had ‘faulty wiring’ — they even said there was no record of two engineers visiting his property.  BT after repeated conversations on the matter acknowledged it ‘was their fault’ and admitted he had been messed around un-necessarily….. so they credited his account with £100……… the £99 they took off him, and £1 for the inconvenience and messing him around!

‘ BT Pays £50,000 Fine because of unsafe practices ‘

BT actually paid a £5000 earlier…….The Roadworks Commissioner for Scotland charged Bt with ‘endangering public safety’ while carrying out work on its broadband installations in the Highlands.  The ‘Punishment’ was issued to their ‘Openreach’ partner branch following a string of safety breaches.  The Company failed to take action after receiving similar warnings in the past said Espeth King.  Also noted was that they employed operatives without the necessary qualifications……they were fined a total of £50,000.

IN JUNE 2012 BT CABLE AND WIRELESS WERE FINED £5,000 FOR SIMILAR BREACHES ON SAFTEY.

‘ BT must co-operate with Ofcom ‘

BT have been ordered to make things fairer to other Providers on the Internet and must cut the wholesale prices it charges other phone providers to use its landline and broadband network by between 6 per cent and 12 per cent over the next three years says the Media Regulator Ofcom.  One Provider said that BT had been acting like Microsoft and trying to push aside its rivals by making it hard for them to operate financially. ‘BT are scared that some other company may come along and do things a lot better and give a better service to the public….it’s all been about stifling the competition and running a monopoly.’

‘ BT sued for £100.000 Damages ‘

A MAN INJURED BY BT NEGLIGENCE — caused by the sliding doors at the BT Tower, was left unable to get his speech clear and has ‘double vision’ since the terrifying incident.  Mr Howard Sherman of Northwood, London, filed a suit in the High Court for damages of £100,000.  The injury happened in October 2009 when the doors slammed into the sides of his head.  He was taken to hospital after the incident.  Despite receiving urgent medical assistance, he began to suffer severe headaches, confusion, memory loss, frustration besides a feeling of fragility.  Even several days after his vision was not getting any better and he discovered he was having a speech impediment using the wrong words without wanting to. (the case 2012)

‘ BT largely ineffective to deal with complaints ‘

MANY BT COMMUNITY FORUMS have been inundated with complaints regarding the ‘yahoo security password resets’ which are causing misery to many BT users/customers.  One customer for over 30 years says they have seen BT disintegrate into a confused mess. unable to sort things out properly.  They feel they may lose their business during the time it takes BT to ‘normally’ sort something out.  The customer had to change their password twice in three weeks — and spent over twenty hours on this matter, which was no fault of theirs…there was not even an explanation from BT or Yahoo.  He told us that Servers take days or weeks to update things, and when you approach BT there is no person that you can speak to that can actually take the responsibility.

‘ BT removes complaint and Web Page of Suing Lawyer ‘

YES INDEED, they have the power or influence to do this, and it is often done covertly.  Such was the case of an un-named Solicitor (we have tried to find out who) —  The solicitor said they were suing BT for compensation and for time lost on pursuing his claim……..this incident was formerly on the BT Community Forum!

BT Stole money out of account says customer ‘

One really annoyed Vero Pepperrell pays £10 a month on a direct debit agreement, so it came as a shock to find that BT had helped itself to £233 without any notification or agreement whatsoever, in fact, they just did it because they could.  BT finally explained by saying they’d taken funds following Open Reach engineers visits to the property? — yet fault teams said there would be no charge — because it was BT’s liability.

BT Payout in Harassment Case ‘

£290,000 was awarded to a victim of a sexual harassment case — it was said that Petrina Taylor, an office worker at the Huddersfield branch had been harassed by a ‘dangerous’ boss, Craig Alcock.  The Employment Tribunal found him openly racist and homophobic.  Sitting in Leeds, the tribunal upheld the whole complaint, and the Judge’s remarks were aimed squarely at BT — Judge David Burton – ‘Telecom’s reaction to the complaint fell woefully short of what should have been expected from a company of this size’  He also noted that BT failed to investigate Alcock’s conduct until after the telesales worker had resigned — it was only then and only at that stage did they decide to dismiss him.  Also mentioned was the fact that BT had settled a number of similar actions brought against them in ‘out of court settlements’ in order to avoid adverse publicity in the National Newspapers…. a report says that ten other cases of sexual harassment ended with payouts.

BT benefit from unlawful Government aid ‘

BT lost its legal battle in the European Court over a EU order to repay UK pension aid — the Union order forcing repayment of around £16.6 million of exemptions from pension rules.  The Court in Luxemburg rejected appeals by BT/BT Pension Scheme Trustees against the findings of a European Probe that BT benefitted from unlawful government aid which had to be recovered — the probe was led by a 28 nation EU Antitrust Regulator.

BT’s Overcharging is in Regular Practice ‘

DOZENS OF CASES EXIST not only in the Community forums but in online blogs telling us that BT are very fond of overcharging for services and products — one example grabbed at random tells us that the customer was being overcharged by as much as £40 a month — many see that this is really an abuse and obviously feel mistreated by this company — who often don’t call back, and as we often hear — make the problem worse in many cases — especially on those ‘shared sessions’   Others say they deliberately withhold cheaper packages and options from regular customers (who pay higher fees) in favour of offering ‘rock bottom’ deals to first time customers.

‘BT and the ‘mis-selling’ of deals ‘

We have had many reports over a long time telling us that BT give new customers better deals than the customers who have been with them for a long time.  BT say it is a way of ‘treating new interest’…. but we have found that some and many really, of long time customers are not told that they can get better tariffs, until they contact BT and say they are thinking of going.  It is only then that they are suddenly diverted to another sales person when the accounts staff become worried….and suddenly the mis-sold customer finds that the bill can be lowered in an amazing way of benefits and reductions….. they should have got ages ago.  In fact, they have been paying over-the-odds for months or years and BT like it that way….. BT loyal customers are being cheated!

‘ Elderly couple tell of BT forgery attempt ‘

In an e-mail to us Mr and Mrs G (who wish to remain anonymous) told us of an occasion when BT said they had signed for repair work with an engineer — which resulted in a substantial bill they really couldn’t afford.  Despite trying to get sense out of BT they got nothing but abuse and stubbornness out of staff.  They knew they hadn’t put a signature to any work and told BT, but they refused to listen so they were eventually guided to visit the local Law Centre and found someone willing to challenge BT.  They tell us it was several weeks before BT climbed down and reissue a new Invoice…… They didn’t get an apology.

BT Offer 96p compensation to Pensioner Victim ‘

DISGRACEFUL AND CALLOUS is what many BT customers are saying of the company who offered 88yr old Henrietta Stokes a poultry 96 pence because her phone was ‘dead’ due to a BT fault….which took 7 days to fix.  She had to crawl into her garden to call for help after breaking her hip at her home in Staffordshire — her special fitted emergency alarm to the phone had not been fixed.  The family launched a formal complaint against BT –  who ‘upped the payout to £21’…..it was quite clear that all BT could think about was their ‘tariffs’ which is what they do without any consideration for the harm they have done or stress caused.

‘BT and the case they tried to derail at all costs ‘

WE HAVE SHOWN YOU VARIOUS WAYS BT STOOP TO CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES — and this little gem of a story shows you exactly how they did so with the help of the judiciary.  Margaret B. and husband Harry contacted us to tell us of how they fell foul of the might and lawyers games that BT engaged in.  It did actually concern the fabrication of court papers that were altered by BT and certain statements tampered with.  The couple were amazed to find BT’s legal barrister involving himself in telling a pack of lies that he claimed was the truth.  The case concerned a bill that the couple did not owe and they contested it (in the hope that common sense my just prevail, but alas, the legal team was on a roll, and that roll was to crush the elderly couple.  What was not said at the hearing was the fact that the cheque for the bill had been lost by a BT showroom accounts window….where only two people were in attendance….both denied that they’d seen the couple or that a cheque had been paid over the counter…..luckily they were able to find the person who was in the queue behind them…and although they tried to make out that person was lying, the judge decided that BT were trying to manipulate the court and decided they were too much in a hurry to secure a conviction….this was overturned and BT were warned about their attitude in the court……the judge also made reference to the delays that Bt had engaged in…..they were ordered to pay costs and compensation to the couple……..they never apologised!

‘ BT fleece taxpayer for £1.2 billion ‘

One would have thought BT were rich enough without them hitting the British Taxpayer for a subsidy of £1.2 billion pounds….and this is said to be because the British Government ‘mismanaged’ the ‘broadband’ situation.  The Public Accounts Committee pointed the finger at ministers placing BT in ‘quasi-monopolistic position’ which resulted in customers getting a bad deal….and that the project is behind on schedule (2 years)…and even when completed it will fail on total deliverance of broadband to rural areas.  Margaret Hodge of the Committee says the consumer is not getting fair competition and BT will end up with owning assets created from £1.2 billion of public money despite being allowed generous subsidies.

‘BT and the Secret Profiting ‘

THE SECRET 2007 TRIAL — BT Retail Director of Value-added Service Emma Sanderson did what most BT Bosses do when they are found out,  deny any and all wrong-doing and go on the offensive.  She is said to have engaged in ‘Parrot-fashion’ — BT statements were made saying that no information was revealed or divulged, and went on to say ‘We don’t believe this is illegal’ — She said they sought extensive advice? both internally and externally prior to conducting the secret trial over PHORM.  BT dodged explaining why it believes its actions were lawful, they didn’t apologise either — BBC Breakfast said ‘After the interview with Sanderson they requested another interview with a BT Executive who could answer questions to the thousands of customers anxious to know……. and received no response!

‘The failure to lie convincingly ‘

BT have worked out how to seize more money out of customers without actually giving them anything? — it’s the old ‘ we’ll update your service and you will find things much better’ scenario….except its now in a new package with this infernal broadband……hubs are changing faster than price increases….and they all boast that they will increase speed and performance — hence better value for money?  …… wrong again, we heard from someone who was persuaded to update their hub and broadband…they were offered higher speed and more storage…and had to pay out more.  After a week they happened to go online and instead of fast, it almost froze, and did freeze when they tried to log in with BT Yahoo…they tried to get out of the situation twice and saw that ‘not responding’ was not doing anything….and had to switch off and abort the contact…..so much for fibre optics broadband!

‘ BT’s Open Reach Fails Customers ‘

CAN’T GET HOLD OF THEM?  OpenReach, a subsidiary of parent company British Telecom featured on the BBC Programme Watchdog as a company that largely remains ‘unaccountable’      Many angry customers not only of BT but Internet Networks found they could not contact OpenReach directly at all….and had to rely on the provider to let them know what was happening.  Some said they had been months without a line or Broadband…..many felt they were just left in the lurch….because BT likewise just took ages and played around with the subject.  It took one group of complainants to bring in their MP who finally got things going.  OpenReach have a motto — ‘Keeping you connected’ — which must be a joke and against trades descriptions…..even during the hour TV show there had been 200 calls from dissatisfied customers.

‘ BT Workmen trap  pensioner in house ‘

OPENREACH, the other branch of BT, the ones that often cannot be contacted…..Jason Bibby  found his Handicapped mother ‘imprisoned’ when he called around to the house in the Wirral…. late night work had begun outside without warning…. and the trench made entry not just difficult but almost impossible.  Jason said his mother was housebound and relied on carers being able to access the path and drive…. he completely challenges the BT statement that they told his mother that late at night…. and as we discovered in other cases, BT doesn’t always tell the truth…. and Openreach workers often stuff a notice through the letterbox considering notice has been accepted.  Wirral Council said it wasn’t responsible for informing residents of BT work!

‘ BT can rely on OSC’s ‘outside its terms of reference’ in  complaints ‘

The Ombudsman Services Communications own figures show how few customers get a satisfactory outcome when complaining about BT.  There were 70,000 complaints received in 2012, but many were delegated to their basket ‘ Outside its terms of reference’……so they only dealt with 10,331 complaints and made a financial or non financial award in 51 per cent of the cases…… and it DOES NOT PUBLISH the number of cases in which it found in the consumer’s favour?    The OSC covers 433 telecom companies…….. so if you’re expecting the Ombudsman to control BT, think again……. BT run the show!

‘ BT gives out data to rogue Investigators ‘

Details emerged of customers phone lines and bank accounts being sourced from BT by investigators who were using the data unlawfully……Many customers were not only annoyed at BT but said trust in this company has gone downhill since finding out.  The strange thing here that echoes of rubbish, is the BT promise to users that ‘BT takes its responsibility to protect customers data seriously?’

‘ BT Spying Scandal ‘

THE COVERT SPYING ON BROADBAND CUSTOMERS by British Telecom — News is that tens of thousands of users were subject to ‘secret spyware’ without their knowledge.  And when it was discovered (after several attempts to lie and create a false story) BT actually acknowledged running covert trials of a system that was capable of monitoring every Internet page a user visited!   As all discoveries of ‘company espionage’ are done by accident, it only came to be found when some customers stumbled across it and suspected something amiss; although some did suspect spying right from the start.  BT in covering-up the issue, told them it was ‘probably due to a virus’……… and interestingly later when BT Executives owned up to using spyware programmes, they said they had not broken the Law?   Yet it had randomly selected 36,000 users for its ‘spy trial’ in 2006/2007 and still refused to accept that it embarked upon ‘illegal interception of information and data’

PS: Denials or not about ‘lawful activity’ BT top brass and their lawyers must have planned and given the go-ahead to do these secret trials without any consideration to the Data Protection Act or users privacy agreements supported by this company when taking customers money…… which shows they are a law unto themselves.

‘ Why do BT staff lie and think that they can get away with it?’

Mainly because it is common practice…… and Tristan P wants to know because of what he experienced at the hands of this corporation.  BT wrongly cut off the phone for a non-payment of bills! — Yet Tristan was £10 in credit, they’d told him so by letter….. but BT had mixed up his file details and things had been entered onto his customer account incorrectly.  Then came a series of call-backs, cut-offs and the moving of ‘the goal-posts’ all at his expense…. the service in his home was still disconnected considering the promises made by staff who changed on every call he made.  One told him that the ‘order had not been placed’ which meant he’d been lied to.  This was followed by another promise to put things right and make amends…. the service would be resumed in 24 hours, and talk of compensation…..but it didn’t happen, he’d been lied to again.  Another day and someone at BT says they cannot understand why the problem has not been sorted.  They say that previous staff members, John, Dauray and Karthiki will be disciplined over this, and that he will personally oversee the new connection.  The next day comes… and nothing.  By this time Tristan has spent considerable money in phone calls to them and wasted hours.  Then to make things worse his broadband fails… its been disconnected… and BT want £150 to reconnect it.  Unbelievably the circus goes on for several days…. two weeks…. and its time to write to The Office of Fair Trading… and Tristan visits the CAB again to get more advice and help.  Tristan’s tolerance and patience is about to end, the situation is no longer funny or amusing, he feels it necessary to file an official complaint and take the matter to court. (2011)

‘ BT eavesdrop on Twitter conversations ‘

A BIT LIKE PHONE-TAPPING AND HACKING — A   customer discussing BT realised that BT had actually been secretly monitoring his Twitter conversation with his friend Jon when they were whinging about BT’s fibre optic broadband and why he couldn’t get it……. even when his local exchange was ‘enabled’ and posters started appearing around the area saying ‘ BT infinity is now in your area’   He suddenly found his conversation hi-jacked by @BT Care acc …. an uninvited ‘guest’ who told him that ‘your local cabinet fails to meet the commercial criteria’…..  just as he was about to fill out an online web form for an upgrade…..but even that didn’t matter, BT had decided it was too costly to fix or honour the publicity statement…..as it wasn’t profitable!

‘ BT and the Double Log-Ins ‘

FIBRE OPTIC AND FAST?  is what BT offered its customers in 2013, and neither of these things happened — it was just another lie….. and just to make matters worse, account users have to log in twice to get to their mail (when it previously just took one log-in).  Many users online say they suspect their security is being subjected to unsafe and unseen practices…. probably agreed to by BT….. and those concerns have been more or less verified already in other items on this page…..it was also verified by a confidential e-mail sent to us by a BT insider.

‘ BT Scupper Customer’s attempt to change provider ‘

CUSTOMER Helen Grogan accuses BT of spreading fear when it comes to changing services — she informed BT that she wanted to go over to Virgin….. and they said fine, but didn’t really mean that at all.  Helen who lives in London spent six weeks being messed about by BT as she tried to switch, but BT continued to balk all attempts without any satisfactory explanation.  She spent hours on mobiles and other phones contacting them, and really began to fear going through this kind of nightmare again!

‘ Solicitor takes BT to court ‘

62 year old Lawyer Ros Fernihough is taking BT to court over the Direct Debit Contract because she believes it wrongly penalises customers.  The Walsall solicitor says the charge is fundamentally unfair, especially for those on tight budgets and the low income earners.  She is bringing the case under ‘The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulation 1999.  The case will be heard in The Walsall County Court…… she hopes it will stop the use of a ‘levy’ placed additionally on bills arbitrarily.

‘ BT and the Password Con ‘

Yes we’ve been hearing from more people who have had trouble with BT log-ins….but it now seems as if they are doing something underhand with the ‘password’ system.  One suggests its a kind of security fraud…. and apparently this is what happened — A user said they got into their mailbox after going through the awful double sign-in only to see a window appear requesting ‘verification’ which required them to enter their password.  They did this only to find within two seconds… another window popped up requiring the same again…. in fact this happened 18 times….causing the user to panic and shutdown their pc.

‘ The Horrendous BT Service ‘

Do you get amazingly slow speeds? especially when accessing your BT Yahoo Mail……. because thousands do, ever since this corporation claimed it had made the broadband service function at high speed with fibre optic cables (so claimed in the hype)…none of which has proved useful to most customers.  BT are a complete lie, and what they promise never happens.  Yet it continues to up the price as it swindles and imposes extortionate amounts for a service that is getting worse by the week.

‘ BT fined £225,000 for Directory Enquiries 118 Rip-Off ‘

BRITISH TELECOM have been ordered to refund thousands of angry customers who have been ripped-off when using the 118 500 Directory Enquiries….. finding they were paying £2.39 a minute — an extortionate rate.  One customer contacted the Watchdog to say they had received a bill for £81 using the 118 service.  To add more misery, BT kept customers on the line quite deliberately in order to raise the bill.  A Watchdog Tribunal ruled that BT had committed very serious failures, and fined them £225,000.  PhonePay Plus ordered BT to refund all the customers involved during the four month period that this was happening and gave them 28 days to make amends to individual customers that had suffered financial loss.   BT made the pathetic excuses over the incident saying it apologised for its breaches of its Code of Practice…. which happened because of ‘oversights’……pull the other one BT….your excuses get weaker every year.

‘ BT Chief caught wanting in Drone Wars Deal ‘

BT has made flimsy and rather futile attempts to distance itself from a ‘Political Deal’ that highlighted the UK’s role in Weaponry:  ‘The Drone Strikes’….former BT Chief Ian Livingston was head of BT Telecom when it won a contract to set up Top secret Communications links between a RAF base in Northamptonshire and The USA’s Headquarters for Drone Attacks in Africa (valued at £15million).  It emerged that the BT Deal with the US Military had formed part of an investigation overseen by guess who?  Lord Livingston who left BT and took a high profile government job.

‘ BT Chief under investigation moves to post with HMRC’

HIGHLY PAID PHIL PAVITT was a former BT Boss who had a staff of 500 working in his section, dealing with a department budget of £1.6 billion.  After being at this post for around twelve months he was investigated over claims that he ‘funnelled’ hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money into a company in which he had a close personal interest.  But subsequently, he escaped a sanction and was given a top job at the HMRC in 2009 earning a salary of £185,000.

‘ BT in Secret Interception of Internet Traffic ‘

The Privacy Scandal revealed in a news brief has exposed the CPS to questioning on their allegiance, whether it bats mostly for the public good or goes all out to satisfy corporate greed.  In this case is looks as if it was ‘nobbled’ when it made the decision not to prosecute BT.  ‘The Phorm Affair’ began in 2008 when BT made contracts obligated to Talk Talk and Virgin Media……’The Deep Packet’ Inspection program would intercept and spy on web pages of BT customers without their knowledge and scan for keywords used.  It was said that Phorm created Spyware by many Web security firms.  In this affair it transpired that the CPS would not prosecute, allow or give consent to a private criminal prosecution against BT by a campaigners group.

‘ BT Payout over call centre fraud ‘

BRITISH TELECOM PAID OUT £1.75 MILLION IN COMPENSATION over 2008 Call Centre Fraud…… cheating the taxpayer and customers, over six years BT staff at call centres made ‘false calls’ so that performance targets could be met and bonuses claimed.  Staff even resorted to phoning themselves in order to falsify figures on sheets handed in as ‘legitimate calls’  Several managers were dismissed, and it has been revealed that the incident and payout was kept a secret…until someone requested it via a Freedom of Information request.

‘BT fall foul of Data Law ‘

THE CASE OF BT AND ACS LAW — has sparked anger at the way BT Telecom sent data on around 500 customers unencrypted in an e-mail to ACS LAW a firm of lawyers in London, which alleged they had been illicitly sharing copyrighted information on BT customers,  This document went public online leaking details about them.  This resulted in an almost immediate attack on the website of the law firm protesting at the way the solicitors had acted.  News says that the Law firm faces the prospect of a £500,000 fine if the Information Commissioner finds them responsible…….BT are clearly trying to push responsibility elsewhere knowing they were to blame too.

‘BT’s dirty tricks  brigade vet, close and remove complaint posts ‘

One interesting web article ‘BT closing posts and banning users’ say that their Infinity Forum is acting against several posts and operate a system of making sure the users suffer disconnections and random IP changes with PPP LCP send Termination Request Message.  We looked at this especially as we covered some of this in connection with them resisting complaints….one person says that all critical posts against BT are closed by BT Moderators (who pretend to be on the users side).  One such blog page we aimed at was in the search ‘BT Infinity worst mistake I ever made!!! BT Community Forums — which on opening suddenly failed and showed a window ‘operation aborted’ and barred entry to the article on the forum? which proves the point really.

‘ BT told to get repairs done more quickly ‘

The Watchdog told BT and its OpenReach to get phone line repairs etc done within 48 hours.  This came as a result of angry customers that were left waiting for reconnections and faults to be but right, and this was more often after several days and in many cases a week or more.  They were told to lessen the time it takes them to respond to customer complaints and requests for a better service.  BT said that they were taking on extra engineers to tackle the problem?

‘ BT accused of ‘Fiddling the accounts’ by Rival ‘

Telephone Service Provider Talk-Talk accused BT of massaging figures and accounts — Regulators were called in to scrutinize BT’s ‘accounting tricks’ that have been used to move £120 million of costs over to customer Broadband bills in 2013.  Ofcom were called in to make BT explain about changes to how its costs were allocated in its annual accounts in this year, and BT the BT system of charging the rest of telecommunications Industry for using its copper based network.  The eventual 113 page report to Ofcom from BT annoyed rivals, as they were shocked by BT’s accounting which reallocated costs in a way that means they never lose, and recoup financially from any deal no matter how.

‘BT sends form for ‘compensation’ in afterthought ‘

After leaving an Emsworth customer without a phone and broadband for a month…..after removing a cable — they cut her service off!  G.H. of Emsworth, Hampshire, said Openreach arrived to cut off the cable to the telegraph pole but did not reconnect  G.H.    She made repeated attempts to get somewhere with BT, but always ended up in failure….for 26 days.   Then one day they contacted G.H. to say that they would refund the telephone and broadband bill, but wouldn’t include the line rental….. and offered her just £10 as a goodwill gesture?    In this mess G.H. also lost the alarm, and ran up a bill of £60 on the mobile phone…. eventually they sent her a claim form just to cover the mobile phone cost!

‘ Unfair dismissal by BT costs them £14,000 ‘

An ex-employee of BT won £13,814 in a compensation damages claim against BT at an Employment tribunal in Dundee.  Mr Elrick was sacked unfairly after challenging a colleague…. who was threatening to take the argument off the floor.  Line Manager Duncan Wallace dismissed Elrick unfairly, and it was heard that Wallace had not provided Mr Elrick with the proper support during his position at the BT Advice Centre.

‘ BT make every effort to conceal wrongdoing ‘

We are getting more and more reports of BT staff and managers deliberately in the act of concealment in relation to customers problems… which they make worse.  They say the problems are not being solved but often added to despite assurances from staff that they would fix things.  Many are continually being fobbed off with lies and deceit, and find themselves having to re-phone and start with a new operator who then hands it on.  Many are deliberately steered to ‘forums’ where they cannot complain without being ‘filtered out’ or monitored by BT people who’s sole purpose is to make sure BT come out on top…. and any real criticisms or threat to Company ego is not registered or read.  This practice has been going on for many years, and BT are only just going to keep on doing it, especially as it benefits them most of all…… after all, customers are merely account numbers!

‘BT Infinity doesn’t live up to the advertising ‘

Misleading and false say the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) who had cause to reign in the company for making claims that didn’t add up or fulfil the promise of faster broadband speed.  BT were claiming that their fibre optics were 5X faster for new customers, yet this failed and was not so in many areas.  Customers were left waiting with up to 7 installation dates….some being moved back, and others waiting up to 5 months to be connected.  They even tried to blame Landline problems, only to be caught out when it was shown they were the provider of this service…….and it was only after this that they attempted to do something, but it shows you that they were prepared to lie and make up things when reacting to complaints.

‘BT and the customer swindle ‘

New in with info yet to verify, but BT are involved in a swindle that is costing the account holders more than just time and money.  Apparently BT’s pulling away from Yahoo as we said is a complete lie, and claims by BT on the Internet they will soon change customers to BT Mail is yet again a con.  We have already seen that some customers are getting the run around when logging in.  Some tell us that it is the worst log-in situation they have ever encountered.  The BT.com login takes many users to ‘Internet cannot be displayed’  and amazingly a new window saying ‘Unknown host – unable to locate server named  “l1.login.vip.ir2.yahoo.com”…..all when trying to sign in on a BT login.  We were told this went on for over thirty minutes before the account holder gave up.  We shall come back to this story when we have the breaking scandal sent to us at another secure e-mail and hope we receive the confidential documents concerning the swindle and publish it on this site.

‘BT in Data failure call in debt collectors on customer suing them’

Another clear case of BT not really interested in the customer at all despite their pretence,  the Internet case involves Man who moves house, and informs Bt where to send the final bill……hears nothing, receives nothing so goes back to old address only to find they’ve sent a final demand!  Man calls BT and informs them yet again that he’s moved and passes on the details asking them if they’ve corrected their data….they affirm this and for a moment feels that he can now rest easy.  But sadly no, he hears nothing again nor does he get to settle the bill.  He visits former address only to find that they have called in the debt collectors…before any notice or court action.  Frustrated and angry, he calls BT and  tells them he is taking them to court and is suing them for £5000.

‘ How does BT get away with criminality? ‘

We get many e-mails asking that question, and why the company has not been prosecuted or even charged, and we have no single answer despite looking at many cases where they should have been.  Theory-wise one can only see that it is a power thing with rich lawyers to do deals we cannot imagine taking place….they have legal teams probably ‘tipping the scales’ well before any case gets to court — the secret room meeting scenario where their lawyers meet a judge in chambers, or BT contacting a Minister etc,  Power in the Corporate World is money, and buying your way out of problems or trouble.  One often hears the quotes – ‘Everybody’s got a Price’ and ‘What’s your Price’ which could well explain the ‘mystery’ of ‘immunity bought and paid for.’

‘ BT sued over assisting ‘Piracy’ site on Web ‘

BT SAID THEY WOULDN’T VOLUNTARILY BLOCK SITE INFRINGING COPYRIGHT LAWS — Amazingly, this huge corporation assisted THE PIRATE BAY by making it available to 6 million broadband customers, and when asked to block it they said only a court order would suffice to change this situation!  The Pirate Bay has been in action for some eight years, and getting away with it.  The BPI Music Industry lobby group gave BT 14 days to close its connection with Pirate Bay telling them it was unlawful to assist a site that infringed copyright.  This comes at a time when Hollywood Studios successfully sued BT in the USA in a landmark High Court Case against them assisting Newzbin 2 who were involved in copyright theft.

‘ The failure of BT’s TPS ‘

TELEPHONE PREFERENTIAL SERVICE — A system that BT put in place to eliminate unwanted and annoying calls to the customer.  Sadly, it is still yet to work…..and many people are receiving more unwanted unsolicited calls than ever before, despite being on TPS.  These calls are mainly from companies that deliberately ignore TPS and the Law.  Even ex-directory customers have no adequate protection despite having requested not to be public or in the phone book.  Some are getting at least one call a day from intrusive firms pretending to have been referred or representing consumer help centres….some having the cheek to ask for personal data.  BT seem unable or willing to block this intrusion….which is yet another of their failings to the paying customer.

‘ BT’s Payphone at Gatwick ‘£4-80 for 20p minute call’ scandal ‘

A SHOCKED USER of a BT Payphone at Gatwick Airport thought they were being charged 40p a minute, a charge that had miraculously doubled, but not on their website?  Having only 20p in change they opted to use a Visa Debit card, and to their horror they found that the just under two minute call charge was £9-60p ?  Disgusted and angry they called BT later to not only complain, but get an explanation.  They connected with one person who listened for a moment and then called a supervisor.  She then told the supervisor that BT’s website quoted a minute call from a BT Payphone said 20p….after a short pause, the supervisor said they would credit her with the £9-60 as there seemed to be confusion?

‘ BT’s overcharging for broadband package ‘

A Topic that is hot, especially as BT fail to inform a customer that they are on the wrong tariff, or even could be on the wrong tariff…. but telling you about a cheaper option is not profitable — so they don’t.  One customer was charged double for many months because BT told him that his monthly payment no longer covered the bill, so they were putting it up to £88 from the existing £46….when he eventually realised the tariff and package was wrong he could see that he would have saved £140 if they’d told him of another option that would have suited him….but they didn’t…..and this kind of thing is happening frequently.  When he tried to get help nobody replied at the BT Options desk…nor was there a call back.  He’d also like to complain about the shoddy service BT give.

‘ BT in new directory enquiries 118 118 shame ‘

BT TRIED TO MAKE LITTLE OF IT as it was revealed that callers were being charged up to £5.68 to obtain just one number from the 118 118 service.  The sneak price hike is being done by all of the Telecoms companies despite huge profits.  Watchdogs supposedly on the consumers side had promised to monitor these charges, but evidence points to this being a con.  Strangely enough it wasn’t that long ago that BT were fined £225,000 for ripping people off over 118 118 overcharging and they were ordered to repay customers….but this didn’t deter them from carrying out the same thing again…but they to do it more sneakily.

‘ BT are fined £95 million ‘

Yet again to do with overcharging, something that BT is rather good at — The company have been fined a staggering £95 million pounds because it overcharged business customers who used its Ethernet Services.  Ut took a 2 year legal battle with Ofcom to determine that BT were at fault; solicitors for BT constantly impeded the course of the case in order to tire out the ISP’s who wanted  a quicker result in order to get justice.  However, Regulators Ofcom ruled that during the period 2004 to 2011 BT had been overcharging commercial customers using its Backhaul Extension Services.  They launched an appeal which was due to be heard in February 2013….. but take note:     BT HIT FOR £62.5 MILLION as they lose an appeal about a court ruling costing them £62.5 million which was a refund claim on VAT going back over a period of twenty years.

Note – both sums add up to £157.5 Million lost by BT….. no wonder they’re putting up prices in 2014, they are anxious to claw this money back, and its the customer they always get to pay for their misdemeanours.

‘BT Locks customers into advertising link’

AS BT NETWORK USERS LOG-IN they are finding they cannot get to the actual sign-in until the ‘advertising page has stopped loading’….these hurdles are preventing ‘choice’ for the user and is against consumer practice law.  The BT user has no option but to wait as the advertising forces its way onto the screen…and only when it has finished loading can the customer get to the mail sign-in, and all of this can take several minutes.   This kind of ‘cold call advertising’ is a violation of choice, and breaches the right not to participate.  Before Yahoo and BT came up with this, a user could go directly to the mailbox without encountering a single advert.

 Google in lawsuit against BT ‘

In a ‘tit-for-tat’ move BT ARE BEING SUED BY GOOGLE over its infringement of patents relating to voice over IP   and networking.  Google have filed lawsuits in the UK and USA saying that BT have infringed 4 of its patents, particularly one bought from IBM in 2010.  The Industry see this action as the first step in trying to negotiate an out-of-court settlement.  No sum has been mentioned in the report.

‘  BT Scammer had all the customer’s correct details ‘

Everything points to BT despite it trying to run a cover operation — A BT Engineer called a user and customer offering to fix his pc, and would do it remotely via the shared system that BT does employ.  BT would deny this and virtually claim ‘fake engineers’ are doing the scam….. but the following shows otherwise, because the BT engineer that rang him had the BT Customer’s account number and other details which were correct!  and the customer said only BT had the data as he’d not divulged this with a third party online or offline.

‘ BT acts as conductor to virus attack?’

We’ve had several e-mails regarding people with BT accounts finding their mailbox actually froze, and they had to abort in case it was a virus attack attached to the BT account or page.  June told us she was going through her mail after a long battle to get signed in, and as she attempted to get out of the mail she noticed that her mouse no longer controlled this area at all, causing her to become alarmed and rush for the panic button, namely crashing the connection herself…..even though she was signed in she could not help but leave the page without signing off.  In all the cases the users now treat the experience as a warning that BT are not 100 per cent secure.

‘ BT threaten woman over payout ‘

MRS F only told us this case on the understanding that we didn’t print her surname or address because BT Solicitors threatened her they would take action against her and anybody else if this went public…. and we already know that their customer forums are there to extract such claims.  They said the agreed out-of-court settlement would be revoked, and that they would go after people like us!    The case was this — she had paid her bill and somebody in accounting didn’t do their job properly, and she was issued with a reminder (that she thought was a mistake), which later became a bailiff threat and court action to recover the money…this went on getting worse with terrible phone calls from staff….and that was until it was proved to be their mistake….she was offered a sum of money on the understanding that it was not to be divulged to the Press or any third party!

‘ BT and its empty promises ‘

CHRIS HOLLINS OF BBC’S WATCHDOG told viewers that BT make big promises, tempting promises, but according to complaints from some customers who contacted the BBC programme — ‘They are empty promises’ Their advert ‘With BT Vision you won’t miss a thing’ does not live up to the huge campaign by BT.  Customer Sue Bennett had problems for 2 years plus, and Margaret Outschoorn spent five months without a proper service, and she would spend up to 3 hours a week phoning BT about it.  Joe McCaffrey says that he spent 13 hours on the phone over a period of 18 days trying to reason with them without much luck.

‘ BT’s Openreach – A Policy of not talking to customers ‘

YES IT’S A FACT, Openreach don’t take calls or enquiries, especially complaints because they have a policy which excludes talking to customers.  They don’t mind taking money for a service they don’t give.   Some customers wait up to 7 months to be connected, and one customer actually waited a year.  Yet, this branch of BT maintain the lines network and Internet broadband…. in a sort of monopoly.  34 flats in Stepney Green waited around seven months, and they tried to get in touch with Openreach without any luck.  The residents had already paid for the service they didn’t get, which is actually a breach of consumer law, but BT were never taken to court?  Most people paid out £164 for this service and then had to wait months to be connected.  Some lucky ones that managed to find Openreach got excuse after excuse.  Why is it when you want to complain, you are prevented?  the answer is ‘the policy’ which flies in the face of consumer law and fair trading.

‘ The BT Scandal and friends at the CPS?’

THIS WAS BRITAIN’S BIGGEST ONLINE PRIVACY SCANDAL — It emerged that The Home Office had advised BT and Phorm that the system ‘would be legal if’ consent was given under ‘wire-tapping laws’ — but they made no attempt to obtain consent during their secret trials of 2006/2007 — which Internal documents referred to as ‘Stealth Activity’     Police and Regulators became involved in 2008.  The firm mounted a series of bizarre personal attacks on its critics.  The British Authorities amazingly said they wouldn’t investigate — The E U Commission had intervened saying that the failure to act showed that UK Privacy Laws did not adequately protect the Internet Users?   Officials in Brussels threatened court action… and on the same day the UK CPS said it would not prosecute British Telecom?

‘ BT’s behaviour worries the regulators ‘

There is a call for the Regulator to police BT’s takeover deal of the mobile firm EE to ensure fair play.  Bt spent £12.5 billion in the take over…..Vodafone’s chief executive warned the industry that BT might become more restrictive as it becomes a bigger player in the mobile market and should be monitored.  Others too thought that past behaviour with BT and ‘their monopoly attitude’ might see them trying to crush the opposition unfairly especially over the football stakes and other lucrative situations in communications.

‘ The Big BT sign-in fiasco ‘

Probably one of the worst BT features aided and abetted by GOOGLE Chrome — the culprits of a failed browser that is full of security leaks and poor service.  We have received many complaints of people trying to get to their sign-in via Google and finding that a sign comes up saying ‘wait’ or ‘kill the page’ which can go on for some time, and on occasions there is a freeze caused by the loading of numerous adverts….and then there is the ‘blank page’ scenario which gets the BT customer nowhere and they have to start again.  Besides this there is the loss of account information when it pretends to be updating info….a fake by all accounts!  yet some tell us that they have got to their account seconds later using another route proving BT have lied.  GOOGLE have a bad record and many websites show this, and Google are trying to pull down others that it hosts so that no-one can read what is said.  BT getting into bed with Google is a bad thing, and the service has gone plummeting down.

‘ BT up to its tricks again, and they never stopped ‘

Its not surprising that BT ignore doing the right thing, because they repeat their misconduct and wrongdoing frequently……..We have Jennifer Wilkinson of Lancashire who was cut off for five months, and was offered a measly £100, which after the BBC got involved went up to £150….and at 150 days it works out at under a £1 a day which is disgusting considering the wealth of this company.  They wouldn’t even budge on the figure when challenged….and apart from that bit, they promised to call her and didn’t.  It took the BBC to actually get a change and that after much debate turned out to be £298 costs and a £200 good will gesture?  and something about a bit of free rental period.   Another woman also from Lancashire, Carol was assured that her line could be transferred from an outbuilding….and within a short time 2 weeks, she was cut off.  They actually billed her £30 a month for a line she did not have!  She was then tossed by BT into a 12 month battle where BT were blaming Outreach and they visa versa….leaving the customer in nowhere land.  BT at one stage threatened to take Carol to court…but after BBC intervention they gave her compensation of £160…..it was found out that the engineer from Outreach had disconnected a line, and there wasn’t one.  The BBC said these two incidents were just the tip of the iceberg and that there were many more.  It was also interesting to note that Ofcom didn’t exactly smell of roses either, or have clean hands!  they decide connection charges in rural areas often leaving the customer to pick up a large bill…..so as you can see, BT cannot be trusted and they lie quite frequently….. but what do they care?

‘ BT isn’t telling? ‘

BT are currently running a service that is failing amid wild claims of a better service, especially on its E-Mail accounts.  Even with ‘the right browser’ the replying to mail at around 3pm in the afternoon will be slow, and often rejected by its own system being overloaded.  It puts up signs saying ‘busy’ – ‘Unresponsive pages’ and other signs saying ‘error’ citing its own system failure…..when the actual error is BT and its IT department who have never been ready for the volume of traffic now on the Internet.  Yet, they still advertise things like ‘high speed o 100Mbps when they cannot provide it…..but they don’t own up to the fact they are incompetent and hope the customers will accept any old twaddle from them!

‘BT Extra’ We came across an article that said BT SHUTDOWN SITE BY EX-EMPLOYEES — from what we can ascertain, the site was written by ex-employees and engineers who were ‘telling all’ until Bt discovered it and had it closed down for obvious reasons!

‘ Is Suing BT Possible ‘

YES IT IS, is the answer, and it can be done in the County Court, but you must have the courage to stand up to their lawyers, as they often cheat and use ‘Goliath’ tactics to subvert your claim and case….. because you don’t know court procedures they will use it against you and try to run the courtroom to their advantage ‘sucking up’ to the Judge.  They also often bring others along in ‘a team movement’ to intimidate proceedings.  Just tell the Judge it isn’t fair and it should be one representative, and object to any change of lawyer especially if they try to get it adjourned to another date…because this allows them to move the goalposts and bring in ammunition that was not really lodged at the hearing.  If a barrister appears for them and you haven’t any legal representative make an objection known before allowing the case to go ahead.  Keith Dyckes wanted to sue them but was swayed off on advice of other claimants that he couldn’t sue without going to the Ombudsman first.  Another guy said he took his case to the Ombudsman because he was told that BT were super rich and had lawyers on call for 24 hours a day.  His case concerned a £400 disconnection fee levied by BT….luckily he was successful.

PS: Don’t forget that present employees are a part of the problem with BT, not just the Exec’s…. they too have a hand in many of the failures and complaints…. and the lies.

PS:  getting articles is difficult because of the BT Forums, complaints and compensation is being vetted and filtered to an ‘outbox’ where nobody can see it…. so we reckon our hundred plus articles could easily be multiplied by a 100 at a conservative estimate…..probably more…… but BT don’t want you to read them or see them!

We shall look for more hidden complaints and links to complaints around the Web and list them for you to go to….. BT is a target on our radar and we will find more of what they don’t want you to know.

There are many, many complaints that we’d like to show, and they are as long as your bills!!

‘ The Great Digital Lie ‘

It was once said when the government and techies got together, that Digital was the way forward in sound and vision — and they went so far as to fake a scene on TV where a CD was deliberately scratched and abused etc, and then produced a disc and played it to show the contents and music were unaffected…..but it wasn’t the same CD, they had substituted a new one in its place, and like a magician put the ‘destroyed one’ in a pocket off camera.  CD’s are not protected at all, they have no secret magical or scientific layer… scratches can easily render a CD unplayable, even slight ones.  And this is all too clear with DVD’s that have picture freeze and stop, they are not repairable, they suffer the same fate as Computer discs which will not play in the intended form as they were programmed, and its nothing to do with compatibility, these discs are corrupted, sometimes even at the point of being programmed, rendering them useless.  Even full capacity discs jam up and balk because they cannot function on a full load, some even not half a load.  Digital Freeview TV another con, they suffer faults frequently and remain off the air for long periods saying ‘signal weak’ as the picture disintegrates until it is there no more.  There are no apologies, and that’s down to the fact these stations get the franchise cheap and run it from a small office or basement…and there’s no-one there, its being run by a computer…they are not ‘live’  It’s just down to one fact — ‘Digital is unreliable and always will be ‘

‘Thieving Epson the Printer Company’

EPSON APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN HABITUALLY ROBBING PEOPLE BLIND with their extortionate printing Ink costs, and show no signs of being the biggest criminals in this area.  The company lie is so absurd, that many believe it is true due to the way they are now having the software prevent cheaper issues ever working in their printers – saying only use genuine Epson Inks or otherwise it will render the printer unusable, which is a false statement by this company — It is really the stifling of competition and creating a monopoly they get away with. Not only have they made sure one has to pay more, but now have made two print heads into four so that they soak the customer with a 100 per cent rise in costs to use the machines which are far more inferior and have the most ridiculous set up operations obviously thought up by brainless geeks in the tech department. Being able to rob users is obviously backed by their lawyers, some of whom we know about and are currently investigating. If you can avoid buying Epson, do so, they are extortionists on a huge level.

P.S. There is a huge amount of complainants on the web if you choose to look up the reams of paper claiming they do not give value for money –type in Epson Scam or Complaints against Epson…otherwise they will claim they have no complaints in their upfront recommendations of their products…which is yet another lie.

EPSON PRINTERS – MOSTLY UNRELIABLE —  Inks for these so called ‘inexpensive machines’ cost around £nearly £40 for those mostly ‘half-filled’ ink cartons, as a customer noticed that the new black one they inserted suddenly lowered  a third in the matter of seconds after three pages with just two lines on each…… which obviously means it has not been filled and some sort of CON has been perpetrated on that customer.  Cheating the customer or user has become big business in the ‘Ink’ business…..especially when a test revealed that it only cost pence to refill a cartridge.  We also became aware that two machines of the SX 100 series packed in, or had serious problems in a relatively short time, earlier than any other product we have ever known….showing that Epson make one of the nastiest ‘poor value’ machines that one should steer well clear of.

THE RIP OFF INKS — Epson and other firms like Lexmark, HP and Canon are said to be robbing people blind by WHICH MAGAZINE who have made a survey of the ink manufactures of these current machines only to discover that they can use 600 per cent more ink to produce just fifty pages  on an occasional basis rather than one session.  It says the waste deliberately induced into their machines on a printer head cleaning process routinely wastes huge amounts of ink along with the ‘Print Alignment’ which gobbles up ink in order to give the customer less value and actively steal from them.  It also says they have sneaked up the price of ink and have been trying to code machines into rejecting cheaper re-fills to stifle competition that would benefit the customer………these people can only be considered as crooks.

BBC’s Watchdog revealed that Hewlett Packard, Canon and Epson etc, were ripping off the customer with charging increasingly more for ink cartridges that were barely full….in fact they’d reduced the ink while claiming you could do more pages?……the sponge soak in the cartridge had reduced to a third, and when an expert in the business estimated what each cartridge cost….it came to just 29p…….yet these robbers were and do now charge around £12 to £36 for inks……..saying that technology had improved things?

‘ Paying over the odds for Broadband ‘

NINE OUT OF TEN are paying too much for broadband services, and the speed promised is not being met in ninety percent of cases.  The great broadband fiasco and scam is fuelled by adverts that are basically a lie according to a watchdog monitoring Telecom and other suppliers. Most are getting a maximum online speed of 8MBs a second, a far cry from the 20MBs claimed by these companies. Paul Allen of Computer-active advised that people should not be too anxious to sign up to deals, and if they do it should not be more than £10 a month.

‘ Those thieving Americans ‘

Not all what comes from America is good; far from it.  Theft is a specialty with the hackers as they elicit cash illegally from internet users.  One group of thieves operate a pop up scam that looks like Microsoft urging users to buy into a security program. They want around 80 dollars to unlock your trapped computer, because they have just immobilised all your programs and sailed past your firewall. The new security program is called 2012 and is bang up to date. We are told they do it every year and make over a million dollars each time they hit. The UK takes the hardest hit because the ineffectual FBI cannot catch up with these guys who are all probably students in their late teens and 20’s.  They should get 80 years apiece and better still if that was accompanied with a Singapore Judicial caning of the maximum 24 strokes for each of them. 

‘ Wikipedia the encyclopaedia that isn’t what it claims ‘

WIKIPEDIA HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF DOUBLE STANDARDS by David Naylor who has opened a call in site to see how many previous members have been shut out, banned and merely cast aside by this vigilante group who claim they are there to inform.  On top of this we see the false representations by Wikipedia trying to avoid tax by claiming ‘ charity status’, luckily the Inland Revenue knew this was a bogus claim and dismissed it. They alleged they were an aid to people offering cultural and Historical knowledge? — boy what a joke. Most of their so-claimed History pieces are sketchy and not the whole picture and why? because they have so-called administrators who ban, delete and decide the criteria. They are not professionals at all, and what they do not know is not entered into the encyclopaedia. Some are brainless halfwits often banned themselves by other so named editors and administrators. The site claims they have no editorial staff as such, but leave this up to a ‘lynch mob’ who rule without question. Anyone challenging them or speaking out is banned indefinitely without being given a chance of reply. The system of appeals is at best a shamble, and has no clear path whatsoever. It actually says at one stage– if you’re banned or have a page deleted, you ought not to waste your time trying to get redress or back in, and simply go elsewhere?  Naylor is certainly right about the double standards of this site.  Lastly, though I guess we shall come back to this lot, they have been involved in ‘trouble over child porn’ yes indeed, Wikipedia let the German pop band feature an article by The Scorpions with a suggestive content and picture of a child. Virgin were so outraged by Wikipedia that they reported them and blocked access to the featured article. It is quite obvious that Wikipedia tries to look legitimate like a big friendly corporation, a sort of call centre of great reference like the dictionary, but it’s none of these things, It’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing!! It also likes to distance itself from Wikileaks and tells us so in their home page, no, Wikipedia aren’t in the business of truth nor are they interested in doing away with corruption, they are quite happy to be in bed with those aspects, hence their immediate distancing of themselves from a site that exposes fraud and lies.

‘ More trouble at Wikipedia — Scandals and accusations of corruption ‘

Having done some digging, we have found that A scandal involving funds has been levelled at Wikipedia boss and founder Jimmy Wales. It concerns an affair with Canadian TV Rachel Marsden and accusations of Wales using expense accounts to fund a high-lifestyle on the non-profit foundation. Apparently, another Wikipedia Executive Danny Wool left the organisation rather hurriedly and claimed that Wales had used funds of the company like his own personal bank account.  It is also stated that the L.A.Times indicated that funds of Wikipedia were running thin during earlier times.

TROUBLE FOR WIKIPEDIA — A report says that volunteers have been leaving the foundation.

SCOTT JENNINGS described the editorial process as a farce allowing ‘politics’ to enter the system. He goes onto say in his piece — Corruption, Treachery and Deceit at Wikipedia has been uncovered with the ‘THRESHOLD RPG’.  He tells us that the main corruption lies in the premise — ‘ Power Corrupts ‘ and the use of ‘free’ volunteers who write articles are encouraged to earn points, which eventually gains them a position as a ‘ Administrator’ which in a way is a subtle and subversive move to paying them in kind enabling them to have power over other users, which they are eager to obtain.

‘ WIKIPEDIA HIDDEN MAILING LIST EXPOSED ‘ — Corruption has been suggested following the discovery of a secret mailing list at Wikipedia after an editor spoke out and said ‘ that administrators were using a ‘secret insider mailing list’ to suppress threats to their power.’ This article on The A Register informs us that these revelations go a long way to explain why certain editors and administrators rule without question on this site, and that banning and deletion is almost a game they enjoy. It suggests this banning goes on without actual good reason most of the time and undermines Wikipedia’s claims to ‘ an egalitarian ethos ‘ when in fact they often embark on silencing critics and anyone else that stands in their way.

‘ Wikipedia and the Porn dispute angers administrators ‘

WIKIPEDIA ADMINISTRATORS and users took umbrage with boss Jimmy Wale’s removal of hundreds of porn images belonging to their sites and articles. Most were said to be adult porn, but two instances that came to the attention of the FBI involved ‘ renderings of children performing sexual acts ‘ which is a violation of Federal Obscenity Laws. The report in 2010 appearing on the Huffpost Technology blog who ran the report on adult porn, and in April of the same year the authorities looked at the child porn articles.  Wikipedia is still reeling from the dispute over this and the way the founder Jimmy Wale acted as censor.

‘ Collusion and monopoly exposed at Wikipedia ‘

ADMINISTRATORS (self-appointed) have been exposed as power-seekers hell bent on glory to the exclusion of others we can reveal.  We have managed to track down several previous administrators (who have owned up to their selfishness and mistakes) who admitted they baited a trap to other administrators to see how deep the corruption goes within this public ‘ information ‘ site.  It goes very deep with protectionism at the root of it’s power base. Several administrators ‘ Boot jack ‘  ‘ Day Recall ‘ Shy Dave ‘ Ron the man’ Night Fox’ and ‘Elmer ‘ were all involved in keeping and electing each others articles for inclusion in order to maintain points.  They even by-passed the ‘ inclusion principles’ by using each other to repel others who queried their moves, often retaliating to posting replies on their ‘talk page’ like you are out of order and you are breaching the civility code, which instantly shuts the new editor out or makes them feel inadequate. The administrators know that they can run a shield and cause frustration to new editors they do not like. There is no real system of undoing what harm they fire at the other editor, the site has so many false trails that any new editor finds it almost impossible to contact or speak to someone who will treat their complaint or application fairly. Jimmy Wale the founder said it was an encyclopaedia on line, and to be worked on by the public (members of Wikipedia) for the greater good, but as we see from this report and the others above; it is being used for selfish interests by a band of power mad members who have no real interest in serving the public nor running an ‘ encyclopaedia ‘  that is real in every sense of the word.

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WIKIPEDIA LOSES ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITORS BECAUSE OF ADMINISTRATORS — Which is crippling its ability to keep pace with its mission as a source of knowledge on-line.  One major illness  or cause is said to be the administrator tools used to reject contributions, which has put newcomers off, discouraged by Wikipedia structure that is an almost ‘elitist’ approach of ‘you can’t have a say unless we allow it’ practised by a number of administrators.

‘ My Space engage in mass deception — Porn Investigation and scams uncovered’

An investigation backed up by customer claims show that the public website MY SPACE is not fit for purpose and has very little chance of making anyone of its wannabe’s a star. The site takes on the mantle of being a sort of pop promoter when in fact they have no influence with record companies, music agents or publishing companies. They take on a glossy look of events and encouraging people to part with music contributions and creative works for free in uploads to the site. it is evident that these customers are blinded by My Space in that they are given no protection on copyright whilst the web site owners benefit from this and it is likely to be financially. There is no contact point on the site, so getting a note to the site has been actively barred and one can guess why this is.  We have been told of lies and bungling perpetrated by the website that is done on a constant time basis which all points to a deception and scam by this company; a scam so big that no-one has really noticed because they refuse to look beyond the glossy ‘welcome’ offered by a devious company.

We can now tell you about the real company called Myspace…it was part of the News Corporation, they owned it. After that along came pop star Justin Timberlake who with Specific Media, bought it for a knock down price (why? we will discuss that later), and one should bear in mind the following we have discovered about this rogue operation that hides behind US law.

Daniel of Gainesville complained about their ignorance towards him as he tried to close his account and couldn’t due to Myspace staff…he wants to know if he can sue them for breaching the Privacy law because they infringed his rights.

Adam of Fresco wants to take Myspace to court because the team of support allowed people to make false profile comments and statements on his profile page without his consent.

A Christian Organisation in Sussex are so outraged by Myspace that they are encouraging others to contact them so that they can bring a ‘class action’ against the company. He tells of deliberate hindering by the company and refusal to act on complaints.

Dillon of Brook park, Ohio says they messed up his life and job prospects so much that he is still affected by what Myspace did not do for him and what they allowed to be done without so much as a care.

Greg of Glasgow says on his first application to join the review thing just kept on turning for an hour and he got so worried by this that he turned it off in case it was allowing fisching, piracy or MySpace themselves hacking into his account on his pc.

Danny Boa said he suffered awful stress when he went online to register with Myspace. The registration went wrong and there were no tools or options to change things. He had to re-register and after hours finally got to a page and uploaded a photo. Tried the upload on songs, and that froze him out repeatedly. He contacted Myspace who took hours to get back and they blamed it on browser issues, cookies etc, but never on themselves. He finally got so furious and disgusted that he requested his profile and page be deleted, and he was a first timer to this site, which shows you the pitiful service, arrogant attitude of incompetent staff who claim to be a helpline.

We now go onto the real stuff that supports the complaints and why this site was bought so cheaply in 2011.

Myspace was invented by founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson. It was acquired by The News Corporation in 2005, — by 2008 Myspace was in decline and free fall due to the following:

In 2006 ‘THE PORN INVESTIGATION ‘ Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal began a top level porn investigation into ‘minors’ exposure to pornographic content on Myspace.

There was a substantial loss of Membership following this and widespread alarm in the Media.

The company failed in innovation and left the poorly secure site a hotbed for spyware and phishing.

Myspace broke the regulations for passing on personal data — user personally identifiable profile information to advertisers without the members permission or knowledge. A member clicking on an advert did not realise that personal data was being accessed as they did, nor were they warned about it…the scam was exposed.

Google caged them in on an advert deal allowing Myspace no room to experiment or choice.

Product development was poor and at best shallow — Myspace home page failed validation — 101 errors!

Other troubles hit them when Mogul Rupert Murdoch was frustrated with the company’s poor performance as they did not meet his expectations.

In 2011 Specific Media and Justin Timberlake bought Myspace when the company lost 10 million users — it was also widely known that previous directors who left the company did far better later and away from Myspace. The workforce fell from 1,600 to just 200 indicating in loss of revenue and a falling of confidence in the firm.

Myspace was accused of underhanded commercial exploitation.

PC WORLD CARRIED OUT A SURVEY AND CITED MYSPACE ON ITS WORST EVER WEB SITES LIST AT NO 1

Complaints that are numerous and paid little heed to are freeze-ups on uploads, song uploads that don’t work and a complaints and technical department that is incompetent…often advising members to clear caches and cookies, seek new browsers and turn off their firewalls and security, and having done this the problem turns out to be MySpace all along…. who’d have guessed?

THE MY SPACE DECEPTION AND FALSE LINK —- We have discovered that My Space are running a false link that they still wish members and new viewers to believe in — but it doesn’t do anything and nor is it valid.  The Myspace team have not warned anyone or given out the information?  They claim the link ilike.com should be logged into for management of artists and music..still listing a great long page of how to get there….and then you arrive at MySpace to find you’ve been deceived…it says ‘closed down’

MY SPACE ABUSE TEAM COMMIT THE ABUSE — We have recently have received many complaints relating to the so-called Abuse team who police abusers for MySpace, and find them not what they pretend to be.  We can actually state that they indeed abuse the system themselves, and the public. They mislead contacts and give out incorrect information based on flimsy snippets of conditions, interpreting them to suit whatever they want. They have very little knowledge of law, but try to deceive the public that they have. They do not hold themselves accountable for mistakes that occur because of what they do and repeatedly lie in order to cover up what might have been said. Many people have said they ignore anyone who challenges them and engage in silence and a ‘non-cooperative’ mode — said to be advised to them by the Myspace Senior Public relations Staff.

MYSPACE SUED FOR NEGLIGENCE, FRAUD ETC,.. Myspace and the News Corporation were sued in a Texas State Court for negligence, fraud and negligent misrepresentation — there were 22 court actions taken against MySpace.

A FORUM called Forum-myspace fraud — deals with fraud and scams on MySpace, some issues rendered are hacked accounts, porn and a MySpace lotto scam and much more.  The site has reports and comments from a huge number of dis-satisfied former members  — go to   www.chargebackforum.com  or alternatively the site: www.chargebackforum.com/myspacefraud

MY SPACE SECURITY DEFICIENCY — Allows rogue hackers the perfect opportunity to ‘control their accounts and pc’s ‘ — members at risk.  ‘Rogue Friends’ are being sent to members home pages and profiles and wait to be let in. If the member clicks the ‘accept button’ the friend that they are taking could be a virus — a virus that takes members online accounts in order to commit fraud — this attack is said to be based in Malaysia.

BUREAU OF PETITIONS — REMOVE MY SPACE FROM THE INTERNET — yes, someone has let fly at MySpace and wants you to sign a petition to be rid of MySpace.  www.petitionspot.com  has made a plea for others help in eliminating MySpace from the web — as initiated by Tory Mitchell who says this must be done.

DID MYSPACE DEFRAUD SHAREHOLDERS? — Talk of $20million dollars is suggested as Greenspan of Los Angeles has requested a further investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the US Department of Justice. He says ‘Myspace was intentionally undervalued  in the sale to News Corporation. Information was manipulated, money was not properly advanced and laws broken.’ He urged  that investigators get in before evidence is destroyed — and pointed the accusing finger at Intermix Chief Executive Richard Rosenblatt.

MY SPACE SCANDALS? Yes it appears that they are contributing to such things and take a role also — The Governor Eliot Spitzer Sex Scandal (involving innocent Ashley Dupre) and the scandal at a Colorado High School.

Recent News indicates MySpace are now losing heavily and many members are using other sites citing the site as useless and no good. One member told us ‘ I haven’t used my account for  ages, I don’t bother with it, it’s considered a crappy site by my friends, and there are better ones we go to now.’

MY SPACE AND THE BROWSER TRAP — My Space has gone into the ‘no choice’ game by forcing people, and that includes account holders, to download their page bar in order to get onto my space….perhaps this is the only way they can hold onto what little they have got left………it is certainly a grubby little move in 2013, and one that will annoy most users who’d rather not have a browser bar, or indeed, another browser bar to add to ones they have and do not need…………we did try other methods and finally jumped this by going on another account in the search on Wiki and clicking on a login……otherwise you have to take this ridiculous step to get to your own login……and for My Space….its a step too far….into ‘you must do as I say or else’

Note: We have only scratched the surface on this site, so we will continue probing the entire Internet.

Myspace is harming people and they don’t give a damn — go to www.consumeraffairs.com for oodles more on complaints that we have not featured here, there are many, too many to list in this small article on Myspace

‘ Facebook will be obliterated by outraged hacker group ?’

ANOTHER SOCIAL NETWORK SITE has been targeted by hackers who are outraged by Facebook and its collusion with the police in the UK. Hackers have declared the Facebook website as ‘grasses’ and will be closing the site down in November.  The group announced its intention to bombard and overwhelm the site until it crashes. Strangely as it seems, quite a number of people have expressed good wishes to the hackers and look forward to it being blown out of cyberspace.  No one commented at the US run site, but we can safely say we hope they complete their mission to obliterate this site, they ought to take My Space and Wikipedia with it.The group who stated the above is called ANONYMOUS — a group of hackers who have recently hacked into a telephone call and e-mails of the FBI and Scotland Yard. They apparently bugged a conference and posted the 15minute discussion online. They also recently hacked into the Greek Ministry of Justice protesting about a global anti-piracy deal by showing a video for two hours on the Greek Website.  Another report has revealed that Anonymous hit several US websites operated by the government, defacing them in a bid to kill off the online censorship bill put forward by the US Federal Trades Commission  — ACTA – a legal bill to curb Internet Freedom by internationally

imposing sanctions on ISP’s and web surfers. Singapore are onboard for this it is stated along with Russia and other Eastern regions. It is now very obvious that Governments are secretly trying to control the Internet and the voice of the people.  Are Anonymous going to hit Facebook?

Comment — strangely, it didn’t happen….was it just a bluff? or have they just postponed it until later?

FACEBOOK HACKER jailed, one hacker –Glen Mangham was almost successful in bringing down Facebook on his own according to a court who jailed Glen for eight months. THE FBI and UK Police traced him to his home in York, and the 26yr old was charged with impersonating the identity of a Facebook employee, hacking into three of its servers and stealing a secret code that gives the site its value. In court it was said that the info he hacked into was enough to close the site — its ‘intellectual property’ — nothing very intellectual about Facebook!! a rather shabby site that has many ‘spanking and caning devotees’ trying to be friends on as many member pages as possible, and that is a fact. One of our researchers has a membership and they have had more proposals of friendship from guys into spanking and girls into porn than any ‘normal’ applications for friendship…so what does that tell you of Facebook?

THE FACEBOOK PHENOMENON? — That’s just it — it’s a complete myth that’s only equal to the hype this website invents of itself. The site is in the main rubbish, and its attraction is a so-called ‘social networking’ which again is rather false. It has an elaborate nonsensical security game of copying out groups of random letters, some in daub and others so close together that a magnifying glass is needed.    These go on for about 15 to 20 minutes…and completing their pages is a joke.. it claims to connect one up with friends…friends you already know and must provide…and if you can’t then you are bombarded by people you have no idea about…they think if you mention a college or school that you were at — that it was at the same time? what morons…being at the same school doesn’t mean you have anything in common with that other person or knew each other..nor is there common ground to discuss it…because that period is often over…and other friends from school sites cater best for that…..the idea of connecting up with friends is absurd…and the search button for new friends leads you nowhere fast….the whole theory behind the programmer’s page design is flawed by mistake after mistake.  A Chimpanzee could probably do a better job, but then again, it’s been conceived by Americans!! and boy oh boy, what a shabby lot they are. After a wasted hour or so on this site one can understand why it needs to be eradicated, and eradicated soon….apart from that, you are being spied upon and your security is being breached by Facebook who are either selling it on or using it for covert activities….so you have been warned.

FACEBOOK CRASHES IN ITS OWN HYPE AS SHAREHOLDERS SUE — After floating its shares amid cries of ‘the big one’ Facebook has seen tumbling stock prices ass shareholders incur losses day by day and that’s only after one week.  This is the great business opportunity hype that went wrong big time.  Founder Mark Zuckerberg is finding shareholders launching lawsuits against him amid the furore being called ‘Fadebook’  It is said that the Regulators Watchdog look certain to be called in. Claims of greed, deception and scam are replacing the facebook genius.  Zuckerberg is being pursued in the courts for making ‘untrue statements’ about the facebook performance claims in the market. Shareholders say that Facebook hid forecasts of future problems knowingly yet kept this from the investors. The company is now worth £4billion less than it was a week ago, and shareholders who bought into the hype paying $38 dollars a share have found them to be now only worth around $31 in a matter of a few days.

FACEBOOK STOCK PLUMMETS TO A RECORD LOW — Facebook still reeling from its shares collapse found its stock depreciating further amid the wave of lawsuits that are gathering pace and size.  They fell below the price assumed by traders and it was said the company value had gone down by $20 billion dollars in two weeks.

IS THIS THE END OF FACEBOOK?  — No doubt those of Anonymous would like it to be….the sad fact is if they had waited……Facebook would have imploded as we now see and it is being destroyed by its own investors. Its shares are plummeting and its value has hit the floor — and the signs are it is going under!….it’s like one of those bad movies where the shot man takes ages to die.

FACEBOOK STILL GOES ON DESPITE CORRUPT FOUNDER — Facebook must be one of the worst sites in existence, its demise must come and it should be ended as quickly as possible.  The site offers no security or works well at all.  It has a shocking record of taking ages to load, the so called contact team are grossly inefficient at the best of times.  In fact their new page arrangement is a complete and utter abysmal piece of work.  The editing feature does not work, the save does not work, in fact the whole thing is a waste of time….just put it out of its misery and obliterate it completely.

FACEBOOK ACCUSED OF TAX AVOIDANCE —- The tax Authorities have slammed Facebook over the way they side-step the tax system.  The UK  revealed that they had only received £240,000 in corporation tax, yet the company had made £800 million in profits.     In another incident, the bank that led Facebook’s ill-fated float have been fined over the listing.  Morgan Stanley are to pay a £3m fine to a Massachusetts Court.

FACEBOOK LINKED TO CRIMINAL ACTS BY POLICE — Police say Facebook and Twitter have been key factors in the rise of hate crime and threats along with abusive messages.  They also cited sex offences were being promoted such as ‘grooming’ through Facebook pages. Some 4,908 offences were reported in 2011.

FACEBOOK AND THE SECURITY BUNGLE —  A New Year messaging feature was blown out of the water when a solitary student sailed through their security by recognising a flaw that could enable others to read private messages from members by tweaking the URL code, he could even delete some and manage photos, all of a private nature not belonging to him…….luckily he put up a blog on the error…..and Facebook disabled the feature.

FACEBOOK IS TO BE TRIED AGAIN IN COURT — A new class action was filed against FACEBOOK and Mark Zuckerberg (Dec 2014).  They are charged with unlawfully using and scanning users private messages.  It is noted that Facebook lawyers tried to get the case dismissed, but failed due to District Judge Phyllis Hamilton who made a ruling in Oakfield, California.  The lawsuit of 2013 accuses Facebook of scanning private chats for links to websites – in pursuance of their ad campaign to profit on users activities,  A date is yet to be set for the trial to begin.

FACEBOOK TAKE ADVANTAGE OF USERS — It appears that Facebook can stoop quite low when it serves their purpose, and this time it’s charging users up to £11 if they want to make contact with celebrities.  A report is calling them ‘fees’ which in truth is accurate.  Stars such as pop celebrities etc, are making quite a nice earner out of this sideline business created by FACEBOOK……….this company have the morals of a Weasel.

FACEBOOK IS ABANDONED BY TEENAGERS — Latest news on the horizon of December 2013 is, that the end may be in sight for this company….. as modern techno teenagers feel that Facebook is no longer what they want to be on….. Researchers came to that conclusion after finding that many teenagers just leave their ‘pages’ in a sort of ‘dead zone’ like a disused bank account….. and never come back to it or add any new information.  Many have now embraced the Apps revolution which offers them more.         Some if not a considerable amount of teenagers now feel ’embarrassed’ to be with Facebook and don’t want to be associated with it at all…… so let’s hope it finally sinks and proves to be a huge loss to whoever owns it now.

FACEBOOK IS SET TO BE SUED BY ITS USERS — The action to sue Facebook is over ‘snooping’ and the claim that the Company is scanning and selling details of its account holders.  Matthew Campbell in Arkansas and Michael Hurley from Oregan have taken out the lawsuit against Facebook seeking compensation $100 dollars a day the practise has gone on, or $10,000 each for the users in the USA who have had their messages intercepted for the purpose of using private data acquired wrongly.  They say, that what Facebook is doing violates the Electronic Communications Privacy Act……..the site previously paid out $20 million dollars in a similar action in 2011 when it used users data without their consent.

WHAT A LOAD OF TWADDLE FACEBOOK IS — It’s hard to see what the attraction is with this rubbish site, most of what is said and presented is pure rubbish.  Half the perverts around the globe are taking up pages and sending out their lewd photos and messages to anyone and all.  Seeking friends only makes it possible for non-entities to leave things like ‘invite me as your friend’ and pretending to leave messages and notifications, that amount to a useless waste of time…..beware of this lot.

FACEBOOK AND ITS LONG LIST OF VIOLATIONS — Austrian Max Schrems filed an action in Austria against Facebook, and was joined by another 25,000 users in what is now, a class action (Nov 2014).  Facebook is accused of unlawfully using and analyzing people’s information, tracking netizens across websites and participating in the US NSA’s global spying efforts.  In its usual arrogance, Facebook lawyers filed a motion contesting that the 25,000 users actually assigned their claims to the Plaintiff, Max Schrems, saying ‘the users have not got the capacity to conduct the assignment, or conduct a legal case’ — in other words, they are too thick and peasant like to take the lawyers on!  Max has hit back saying whatever these lawyers may think, the law allows anyone to bring a case…..and the case will be heard in Austria, and Max is a Law Student.

FACEBOOK SCAMS AND SPAMS — We had hoped that Facebook was no more, but we shall have to dig up more on them around the Internet,  It certainly appears that Facebook is the home for scams plus, and as one blogger put it…Facebook is scam and spam laden as any site could be!  The author says that security- wise Facebook is low because it fails to detect or stop phishing schemes trying to obtain usernames and passwords.  They go on to say there are around ten scams that are not being addressed by Facebook who appear not to care at all?

FACEBOOK AND THE NON-EXISTENT FANS? —  Shakira has claimed that she has as many as 10 million fans to call upon…..and undoubtedly she has many considering the blistering campaign she has carried out to promote herself on the Internet.  However, some critics have looked into the Facebook situation and have discovered that many of these so-called fans don’t exist….fake profiles are said to be widespread on sites like this and say her timeline is littered with examples of spam  as cybercriminals try to cash in on her online fame.  As we have often seen, just accepting visitors as friends by a click doesn’t mean its a friend or fan….its just adding names, and it was discovered in Shakira’s list that names kept popping up very similar and routinely identical save for a letter or so.

FACEBOOK MANIPULATES TEST OUTCOME — It was revealed that Facebook staff and techies manipulated the results to a test carried out on 700,000 English Speaking Facebook users for a week in 2012.  As selfish as it seems, the management wanted to artificially create a kind of satisfaction result of contentment… so Facebook data analysts ‘tweaked’ certain content and used word filters, making sure that its product did not depress people or show it to be flawed in any way.

FACEBOOK CONS THEIR USERS — A report has highlighted the fact that users of Facebook are unaware of their loss of privacy.  It says that millions of British account holders using the social network little realise what they have gotten into, and have sacrificed their privacy in the complicated terms and conditions that Facebook knows that few read all the way through before accepting.  Facebook are able to access an enormous cache of personal data, they can claim belongs to them via the agreement.  There are no practice guidelines, social media sites such as Facebook write their own stuff and call it law!  The legalistic jargon seems to come from paralegals, students of law or retired company lawyers who invent as many probable’s as they can around one condition so that it is virtually unreadable…..but it doesn’t stop there, they update it later and invent more.

FACEBOOK SETTLEMENT CASE RE-OPENED AGAINST FACEBOOK — The 2008 Theft Case against Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg has returned, the three men, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra have gone to the Appeal Court to have the 65 million dollar legal settlement re-opened.  Facebook lawyers in their agitation say the claim was paid and they can’t get any more money.  But is now for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to decide in San Fransico, who can give the go-ahead for the three men to sue Facebook all over again, which means they could pursue Zuckerberg and Co for more cash.

FACEBOOK RECOVERY FUELLED BY CORRUPTION? — The sudden upturn in the Facebook situation which was showing loss and eventual ruin seems to be a mystery to many.  Inexplicably it has changed for no apparent reason other than ‘help’ from groups within the US Government, giving rise to accusations of corruption within the many bloggers and cyberspace watchers who follow the enigma as it rises from the ashes without actually attracting more subscribers.

CORRUPT ACTIVITIES OF FACEBOOK GO UNCHECKED — It seems that the American Justice Department have a deal with the company in regard of data and its access according to several users who have contacted us.  It would certainly answer why Facebook have been able to violate privacy terms and circumvent the system in order to corruptly obtain details and passwords to users accounts…. and never appear in court on charges.

NOTE: We need more ‘dirt’ on Facebook , their scams, people they cross and victims of Facebook legal or otherwise…. its the only way to bust their reputation and stand a chance of hitting them where it counts…the past (their past) and hidden secrets etc, all help to achieve a different take on this company.

‘ Computer Giant Apple didn’t like BBC investigation ‘

APPLE, embroiled in a row with the BBC for doing a programme that showed them profiting by means of cheap Chinese labour accused the BBC of making false claims despite visual evidence on show during the programme.  Panorama showed footage of awful and dangerous conditions being employed on behalf of Apple products.  The undercover reporter went to Shanghai to see the plants finding that the factory hours were routinely breached and exhausted operatives were falling asleep on 12 hour shifts.  In one interview it showed a 12 year old boy working with his father at a mine, that could prove dangerous at any time as he was extracting tin to be used in the Apple Phones and Tablets.  Apparently, Apple were deeply offended by the showing of the programme (Jeff Williams of Apple USA).  However, despite the American ‘outrage’ the makers of the TV show said it stood by all it showed on air. ((2014)

‘Italian Government fine The Apple Corporation £750,000 ‘

COMPUTER GIANTS APPLE have been fined by the Italian Anti-Trust Authority for misleading –deceiving – customers over product guarantees.  The report says the blame was at the Apple Stores and Online Sales. Customers were only being offered a 1 year guarantee as a standard warranty when it was common knowledge that customers were entitled to a 2 year free technical support under consumer protection law in Italy.

‘ Hewlett Packard and the Blame Game ‘

HP once was associated with Hire Purchase, which is rather similar to the way Hewlett Packard conduct their business on the high street.  To say they deceive is a rather generous word to say about this company who’d rather you didn’t know that they have UK headquarters at Amen Corner in Bracknell, Berkshire. Their sales staff have no fear about being exposed on Anne Robinson’s BBC programme WATCHDOG, so we decided we would do it here in case influential people prevent them — unlike here, as we do not bend to this sort of subversion. We have recently come across a case where the customer was treated so badly by this company, and in partnership with Microsoft — Yes, them again, denied all responsibility for a pc that did not meet up with the requirements of the paying customer.   The so-called ‘Helpline and Technical Support’ was nil — one employee at HP said to the customer ‘ You’ve been mis-sold this pc by the salesperson at Comet — they sold you the pc so take it back to them, We just make the pc’s and if it doesn’t run right that might be a microsoft problem, We just have a deal with them and put their pre-installed programs in our machines so go to them with your problem ‘ and got quite belligerent.  Microsoft’s answer was ‘ Well, it’s not really our fault, you didn’t buy the pack from us as you are talking about pre-installed programs, so you’d better take that up with Hewlett Packard ‘  — Both these companies make huge profits out of conning customers, and what we have here is yet another example of ‘ thieves falling out’ in an all too familiar blame game where the customer loses out.  Incidentally, Microsoft wanted to charge for their help??

‘GLOBAL TOXIC TROUBLE AND HEWLETT PACKARD’  In 2005 Green peace Activists turned up at the Headquarters of the China and USA branches of Hewlett Packard to campaign about the company’s reluctance to tackle toxic ingredients.   Greenpeace said ‘ HP is a prime example of a dirty electronics company, it has done little to eliminate hazardous materials in its products’

‘HEWLETT PACKARD AND THE SPYING SCANDAL’  In 2006 the company suffered yet more when Hewlett Packard’s General Counsel were requested to investigate board members by the Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, who used an independent security company to carry out the task.  She said she was determined to track down the ‘leak’ in the company.  The House Committee on Energy and Commerce led the Investigation into ‘lies, fraud and deception’ to acquire personal data information which was being sold for a fee.

‘ HEWLETT PACKARD AND THE $8.8 BILLION LOSS’  In August of 2012, the Computer Giant who make printers and pc’s had to write down the value of a recent asset it purchased — Electronic Data Systems.  Three months on and there is now a major investigation in the USA and UK which concerns false information and criminal acts that could lead to court cases in both countries.

HEWLETT PACKARD AND THE INK SCANDAL – WHICH have published a report likening ink prices to that of buying the most expensive Champagne.  The HP Officejet PRO 8500A Plus eAIO was mentioned in the test of printing 50 pages in one go…one week £2.50 and over 8 weeks £17.48…..H P refused to comment.  It also said the waste created on cleaning processes were enormous, and let’s not forget the ‘Print alignment’ yet another action to waste ink kindly provided by HEWLETT PACKARD……….CANON and LEXMARK also mentioned in the list of baddies that fleece the customer.

NB: An investigation into what the cost of a cartridge cost in components (with ink) revealed the cost as 29p.

‘ UK Citizens lie habitually like ‘potty training’

A SURVEY BY MRDC has revealed that children watch and remember their parents lies and act accordingly when it comes to their own time to be adults, and by this time it is far easier and has some sort of credibility. They learn to conceal and show no emotion as they lie, and are able to deceive colleagues and fellow family members with great confidence. Even the consequences of lying are no longer feared as many see their chances of getting away with it fairly high. Some researched, said they were quite surprised at how good they were. Others relied on the fact that seeing as it was more or less accepted in modern society they too had the right to give out as good as they got. Some saw no harm in lying even if it did hurt someone’s feelings. It was put to them ‘what if someone went to jail or suffered financial loss, how would they feel?’ most said this was hard luck, but few offered to step forward and put things right.

‘ Fujitsu’s high tech image hides behind the awful ‘War’ history of Japan ‘

THE JAPANESE SOFTWARE AND PC INSTALLATION COMPANY are not as squeaky clean as they make out, their past is littered with software piracy, money laundering, arms deals and insider dealings. The broad smiles of the Japanese and the ridiculous camera wielding antics are as silly as they look.  Japanese big business is cut throat, ruthless and will stop at nothing to climb on top. Copying ideas was a vital ingredient in the rise of Japan after a war that left many old soldiers absolutely loathing them. One prisoner of war said their atrocities were never properly told as countries wish to forget in the light of wealth and trade with a nation that had no human capabilities, and it took two atomic bombs to bring them to their knees.  The Fujitsu company is now offering to put a spy software package forward to the HMRC Inland Revenue that claims to crackdown on fraud. It claims to be able to detect fraud in an application. But what happens if it gets it wrong? This company have an awful past and no regard for human rights. They sold the NHS a dodgy IT system costing £700 million plus that was scrapped in 2008. One should be careful consorting with this company, because they could be the spy in your pc in the near future, and who knows what info they will subvert and sell off?

JAPAN AGAIN, Yes this time it’s their Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda diving into a scandal concerning Olympus and the resignation of its boss Tsuyoshi Kikukawa.  The row over suspicious payments has been reported to the FSA and FBI.  Explanations of, or rather the failure of, surround a sum of £428million paid to firms who advise?  in regard to the purchase of a Reading based medical equipment firm.  Sources say this has highlighted the need to examine the corporate governance of Japanese firms!!

SACKED WHISTLEBLOWER at Olympus reveals corruption — Michael Woodford — said because he had dug up facts surrounding a suspicious £1billion of transactions, he was sacked, and told to catch a bus to the airport. But it was too late for Olympus, the ball was rolling downhill and an investigation uncovered  secret bank accounts with senior executives — investigators also discovered that the fraud had been instigated and approved by board members with Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and his predecessor Masatoshi Kishimoto. Tokyo prosecutors are set to arrest more and said this corruption in Japanese Corporations had been going on for 20 years.

TOKYO — THE OLYMPUS CASE — SIX ARE ARRESTED — Prosecutors in the £1billion fraud case have charged six people including Hisashi Mori and former auditor Hideo Yamada. Japan’s Legal body said if any of the six were found guilty they could serve ten years in prison or a fine of £80,000.

OLYMPUS CASE WHISTLEBLOWER embraces greed over scruples as he made an out-of-court settlement with the company after being dismissed and blowing the whistle on corruption at the Japanese firm. Michael Woodford exposed the financial scandal that led to several arrests.  Strangely, Woodford said he would not be bribed into speaking out against the firm? but now he has gone silent!   They say there is always a price for silence, and Olympus found it.

JAPAN WHERE CHILD PORN IS LEGAL — An article shoved well back revealed that Japan allows child porn, the USA that does not, now said to be lecturing them on the evils that child porn does to harm society and the kids!

JAPAN FIRMS YAZAKI and DENSO PLEAD GUILTY TO PRICE RIGGING SCAM — A fine of $470million has been given to Yazaki over a conspiracy to price fixing on autoparts to the US, and sold to Auto Manufacturers and outlets. The products were electrical components supplied by Yazaki and Denso.  Four Executives from Denso pleaded guilty and were jailed from 15 months to 2 years.  A fine of $78million was imposed on Denso.

JAPAN’S PROSECUTORS IN CORRUPTION CASE ARE FOUND GUILTY– Osaka District Court sentenced two prominent prosecution Lawyers to suspended jail terms for tampering with evidence.  Hiromichi Otwubo and Motoaki Saga received an eighteen month prison sentence suspended for three years. It was said they deliberately hid evidence in order to maintain their reputations and convince the public they were honest and upstanding.

JAPAN HAS SAID IT WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP THE DEATH PENALTY……….and it recently hanged three men on Thursday morning 21/2/2013…..their death warrants signed by their Justice Minister……not to be unexpected really, the war taught the Japanese to enjoy these practises……..just like they honour their war criminals!  It also says that the public supports hanging……and that they have another 134 to execute…….like old times really!

JAPAN’S ATROCITIES REVEALED — The Japanese can never walk away from their inhumane atrocities which should haunt them forever and be allowed to do so in order to balance the ‘moral books’ — During wartime they actively did ‘bayonet practice’ on live prisoners without any sense of guilt, and ‘buried live’ prisoners too, the deprivation was seen by many British Prisoners caught by them.  THE NANKING INCIDENT 1937 gives you a more faithful picture — The Japanese murdered 42,000 people, babies were beheaded, women between ten and seventy were raped.  50,000 Japanese troops went on a murderous spree in a month of orgy, rape and murder. Thousands of men were lined up and gunned down for sport, many were tied up and immersed in petrol before being cremated alive. Some victims limped into hospitals half beheaded with necks severed halfway; most of those died shortly after.

JAPAN SHOWS NO REMORSE OVER WAR  – IT BANS ALL RECORDS OF IT IN SCHOOLS — Japan is similar to China in its utter lack of coming to terms with atrocities it  committed, it somehow feels it doesn’t have to, which is a terrible characteristic gene in the people of Asia.  Barbarism and a continued clinging to ‘the old ways’ still exists with this part of the World, and even in the 21st Century, floggings and hangings are carried out in most of these countries along with repression and authoritarian suppression.  As we have seen, Japan are currently sparring with it’s old enemy, China…..and most people observing the Internet, news and cables, can see the signs of war looming.  Much has been said in the Asian union of countries that these troubles are being sorted out, but that isn’t really the truth at all.  Singapore plays a sinister game of politics in the region backing any side that seems as if it will be kind to them, they too have warned the West of trouble in this region. China’s economic build up is another indication of power buying, mainly on arms, and the deals have been coming in and out of its back door with regularity in order to fool the West.  Japan seems like the underdog, but one must come back to their atrocities to see through this image.  Japanese schools are subjective about what their students must read about their recent history and on the subject of its role in the war there are gaping holes and gaps that suggest they never had one except for the Atom Bomb….which of course is used to make out they were the victims…… During the World Wars both China and Japan indulged in caning prisoners who were tied to a triangular type A frame, stripped naked and their bare buttocks thrashed…soldiers and guards did most of the beatings because it excited their sadistic tendencies…which still remains in many today. Many soldiers took photographs of what they did, feeling proud and sent them to relatives.  After the wars they tried to cover-up this by burning and destroying accounts, reports, photos of beheadings and whippings… but not successfully, many found their way to the West and to the Tribunals and Human Rights Groups who were recording what was happening in the name of war.  In 1939 on December the 17th the Japanese Army slaughtered Chinese prisoners because they didn’t want to feed them.  Thousands were marched to the banks of the Yangtze River tied and bound, machine gunners killed them at will and corpses were left in piles.  20,000 were executed….and at another killing, Hsiakwan, rows of prisoners were lined up, and the first row were all beheaded — the second row had to throw their bodies in the river, and then line up and they were beheaded, and this went on from morning to night until every row had been executed by beheading.  Fifteen million Chinese were murdered by the Japanese and Historians have made claims that between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese killed 50 million! such is the truth about Japan — the stuff they could not hide from the outside World, but continue to hide from their own citizens.

JAPAN and the gruesome experiments — In addition to the above, one must not allow Japan to get away with the atrocities they allowed such as The Biological Warfare Group dealing in gases and other toxic substances — the so named UNIT 731 killed thousands of men, women and children subjecting them to experiments to test what the human body could endure in pain etc, and go way over the limits. It was a little known fact that after the war no one was ever punished or brought to trial for this, the Japanese authorities simply decided to delete this from their history and people………what they did was not far from what Hitler’s Nazis were doing….yet the Japanese are reluctant to admit to past war crimes even now….indicating they were the victims rather than the aggressor!

THE JAPANESE MARCHED 50,000 CAPTURED SOLDIERS to Changi Prison in Singapore in 1942, November when they stormed the Island.  And what followed was another atrocity often not recalled or spoken about in Japan.

JAPAN HONOURS 14 WAR CRIMINALS — Its Cabinet visited the Yasukuni Shrine to pay homage to war criminals of its past atrocities — including General Hideki Tojo who gave the order to bomb Pearl Harbour – he was hanged by a US tribunal shortly after surrender….this homage is said to be in bad taste in political and diplomatic circles. Perhaps it shows that Japan learnt nothing from the Hiroshima incident or the other….war criminals are not to be praised…….so does this show a lurking desire to return to its past, now?

JAPAN LOOKS TO BREWING TROUBLE IN ASIA — Japan’s Defence Minister has issued a statement saying his country will shoot down North Korea’s rocket planned to be launched into space around April 12th to the 16th. North Korea have already been testing missiles and plan to have a rocket launching a satellite into orbit. This planned action has already rung global alarm bells!

JAPAN STILL DEALS IN ILLEGAL IVORY TRADE — A report revealed that elephants are being continually slaughtered by poachers for their ivory tusks.  Japan was named as a regular customer to the promotion of this awful ‘outlawed’ trade.

THE BRUTAL AND UNSAVOURY HISTORY OF JAPAN — What you will read is shocking and inhuman, but it must be said even of a country that appears to have ‘learned lessons’ — and its new generation oblivious to it with their i-pods and TV games shows etc, the Japanese are Asian just as the Chinese, and brutality is still in the animal that is increasingly beginning to assert itself once more.  A Prisoner of War, British man  Andy Coogan recalled digging his own grave and being taunted to which day it would be before he would be beheaded by a Japanese Officer. He witnessed many beheadings of prisoners purely meted out because the Japanese soldiers were annoyed…there was no court to try these men…they could take life in any way they pleased…the Geneva Convention meant nothing and they mocked it.  Sadistic cruelty was the norm, and everyday canings were administered by guards — the swish of the cane across bare buttocks of the foreign prisoners was only drowned out by the painful screams — some comrades caught were just bayonet practice while other guards just grinned and watched heads lopped off from prisoners shoulders as the Samurai sword did its thing. He remembers the nasty Lieutenant Suzuki encouraging viciousness in his guards who promoted evil in the camps. Prisoners had little to eat and worked hard, those that didn’t where taken to one side in their loin cloths, almost naked and whipped until they could hardly stand.  Some prisoners welcomed a speedy death for it all to stop, burials were done every day.  As he buried another POW he was told to dig another grave for himself, ‘Tomorrow you die’ said the guard….these memories haunt him at the age of 95, and although he survived and was able to tell the story he can never forget the mental torture and atrocities that happened to his friends and comrades during the three and a half years of captivity, he suffered the worst physical and mental abuse that could ever be imagined.                                                                                                                                                                            POW Eric Lomax was yet another survivor that can reveal the true nature of the Japanese who took great delight in torturing humans….. he was beaten, starved and tortured to such an extent that he never thought he would ever return to Britain and accepted death as inevitable at the hands of the Japanese.  He was interned at a prison camp in 1943 and was told he would be killed shortly!  The Japanese Army’s Secret Police began their cruelties as soon as they could….like subjecting him to ‘near-drowning’ which is also known as ‘water-boarding’ a little favourite of the Americans…..they also locked him in a cage that was just around five foot and let red ants and mosquitoes get to work on him.  At one stage he was sentenced to death…. he knew one of his tormentor’s to be a Japanese man by the name of Nagase Takashi……the beatings were daily and either you survived them or died and your captors were completely indifferent to the prisoner’s fate.  He found himself with a strange bit of luck being transferred to Singapore’s notorious Changi Prison where despite being caned for ‘nothing much’ he found it better than where he had been….and eventually was rescued and sent back to England….he bottled up his nightmares and only revealed them  in 1995 in his memoirs….he died aged 93 in 2012.

JAPAN SAYS SEX SLAVES IN WARTIME WERE NECESSARY — Japan has outraged China by publicly owning up to the fact that making the enemy into sex slaves was a necessary evil in wartime and it was justified, as it helped the soldiers in the battlefield.  Japan’s leading politician Mr Hashimoto speaking to reporters said ‘ The extreme situation soldiers were faced with and the fact they were on high energy, required that it was used to good effect and that meant that ‘prostitutes’ were needed.  Although China and Korea reacted angrily and wished to know none of this, Historians who have studied World War 2 operations confirmed that the Japanese Military at that time did enslave up to 200,000 Asian women, mainly from China and Korea.  This untimely news was said to be upsetting and poison the already toxic diplomatic relations with China and South Korea.

These are the reasons why Japan cannot be allowed to forget or its present people to move on so easily……the fact that China had a good go at them should not be allowed as ‘a compassion card’ in their favour….they are both in Asia….where Asia comes first as a collective body…..and given time will turn on the West.

TSUNAMI VICTIMS FINALLY GET PAYOUT FROM JAPAN — The Japanese Authorities finally awarded 270 million yen (Nearly two million pounds) to the parents of four children were killed when the school bus was caught in the tsunami. Sendai District Court dealt with the first of damages claims resulting from the 2011 tsunami.

JAPAN BRING IN ‘SECRECY BILL’ TO PENALISE CRITICISM AND JOURNALISTS — As with the current trend by countries to suppress freedom and protestors, Japan has a new secrecy law that imposes stiffer penalties on anyone leaking information or criticism of the government.  The bill is said to seriously undermine democracy.

2014 – JAPAN FINALLY BANS CHILD PORN IMAGES, up to this point Japan allowed the possession of paedophile images……it has excluded anime and manga which do magazines etc churning out thousands every year…the magazines which show semi-naked pictures of children are for now exempt…..child abuse has gone up by five times in the past ten years….and a prosecution failed over a DVD that showed men having sex with children.

JAPAN HAS TURNED TO AUSTRALIA IN SUBMARINE DEAL —  they are jointly to develop stealth submarine technology from 2015.  Japan concentrating on defence, are pushing ahead toward a more assertive global military role?  (Possibly they have China in mind?)

DATA FRAUD ARREST OF NOVARTIS EMPLOYEE — Japanese employee Nobuo Shirahashi was arrested for falsifying data in clinical studies that were then used to promote the blood-pressure drug Valsartan…they said he had been manipulating data to exaggerate the benefits of the drug.

JAPAN’S TRADE MINISTER SPENDS £20,000 OF PARTY CASH ON CLOTHES — The Minister faced her colleagues in Parliament over her political spending in the latest scandal involving female members of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet.  Ms Obuchi said she was checking accounting details after it was reported that she had been spending political funds on designer clothes and cosmetics etc.

‘ ARGOS the store to avoid ‘

Big, brash and incredibly good value? NO, NOT REALLY, they only appear this way and fool most of the public for most of the time.  Often they are poorly stocked and delivery times can exceed a month.  They often deliver to the wrong houses and lie about orders if they fail on certain orders.  This is covered up by staff who are eager to point out how wonderful they are.  Our Private Investigator Richard Barrymore reminds us that there was some sort of scandal several years ago concerning money laundering and support for weapons via a system that was supposed to hide this…. a little like Barclays Bank who did some really nasty arms deals in South Africa many years ago.

‘ Gresham House Fraud ‘

DRAGON DEN’S BBC2 — FINANCIAL MAN Edward Davenport was convicted with five others as they criminally defrauded victims who suffered crippling losses. Davenport regularly appeared as a suave financier on the show that funded successful ideas. He is now serving 7 years and 8 months for a huge fraud. He was the main player with Peter Riley and Borge Andersen. They would take substantial upfront money to secure loans which never materialised.  They had plush London Offices and had the veneer of respectability. Peter Riley received the same sentence. Andersen was given 3 years and 3 months. The three others, Solicitor David Horsfall provided misrepresentations to investors, he pleaded guilty to fraud, He was also a close friend of Davenport.  David Mc Hugh had several previous convictions for dishonesty.  Richard Stephens completed the group in their scam to promote the firm as long-established, wealthy, and a prestigious financial lending company. They all appeared at Southwark Crown Court.  Davenport was seen regularly posing alongside politicians and stars, thus giving the impression of honesty and trustworthiness!!

‘IKEA company uses cheap prison labour in manufacture’

SWEDISH FLAT-PACK FURNITURE giants have been rumbled over a report revealing that they have long used items built by forced labour prisoners of the Stasi, political prisoners from East Germany for more than three decades without anyone finding out.  The Report says Ikea was aware of the use of forced labour being involved by its suppliers.  It says that this has been ongoing since 1978, yet it continued sourcing its furniture from these regimes.  Ikea issued a statement saying ‘they deeply regret this and do not condone the use of political prisoners in making their furniture’  IKEA’s motto is ‘Low price but not at any price’    Not that they ever checked!

‘ IKEA in unsavoury dealings ‘ more details.

JAIL LABOUR AND SECRET STASI ARCHIVES reveal the true extent of the ‘behind closed doors’ dealings done by the popular furniture company. A report reveals they used prison labour in Cuba during the 1980’s, and that also included prisoners in East Germany. Secret Police Files reveal the Ikea deal between Castro and themselves. Due to a TV Documentary claiming IKEA had close relations with the East German Communist regime, IKEA have requested the files and documents.

‘ Spain rules Ryanair ‘fines’ as illegal ‘

One would have thought the Irish Mogul’s lawyers knew what they were doing for their huge fat fees? but a judge has clearly said no to this.  A Spanish judge has ruled the £40 check-in penalty imposed by the airline as illegal, and quite rightly so according to Simon Evans of the Air Transport Users Council. Ryanair is no stranger to controversy and complaints as they well know — there is a website dedicated to exposing the company, and it proves to be a thorn in its side; may it continue.

RYANAIR PAYS OUT DAMAGES TO WHEELCHAIR PASSENGER — Jo Heath won £1,750 in compensation for the mistreatment Ryanair engaged in.  She was left sitting beside the plane for thirty minutes for help in getting on the plane, but that never arrived and her husband had to lift her out of her wheelchair and ‘fireman’s lift ‘ her up into the plane.  The Judge at Northampton County Court said it was a damning verdict on the budget airline. The award was made for ‘humiliating treatment ‘

RYANAIR SACKS PILOT FOR ‘ breaking gagging order’ on TV SHOW — Pilot John Goss was fired by the RyanAir management with immediate effect when he went against their gagging order not to say anything about a safety issue.  Goss went on the show regardless and did not hide his identity as he talked about the safety issue troubling pilots who said they often had to fly on the minimum of fuel. Channel 4’s Dispatches were looking into the claims that pilots were ordered to ‘fly slowly’ to save money and fuel.

RYANAIR AND THE DODGY ONLINE QUIZ — News in reveals the £3.50 online quiz put out by Ryanair is a quiz you cannot win…..and that they are fooling people and passengers into entering a quiz that is impossible to win. Some passengers feel that it is a con, and Ryanair should be ashamed.  The key to winning the free flight were three answers that were incorrect, thus making it unwinnable. When claimant Darren Coyle made a complaint Ryanair admitted to making a ‘mistake’ and refunded him his entrance money.

‘ The Cheating Charities and Charity Cheats ‘

The purpose behind charity and supporting them is indeed a worthy cause, but over the years it has emerged that they have moved from the original concept to one of trying to match high street store prices with goods supplied completely free.  Some stores completely ignore the Trades Descriptions Act and Consumers Act in that they actually stick higher prices on books etc that show a lower price inside the front covers.  Charities like OXFAM, MARIE CURIE, CANCER RESEARCH, CHILDREN IN NEED and THE BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION issue pricing guides on goods without consideration for condition and treat the whole business of charity like a financial organisation with targets based on profit.  Without doubt the administration fees must be eating into this money that should be going to those it was intended for, but that is no longer their first concern — that disappeared years ago.  Although staff are in the main welcome  for their volunteer aspect, the experience is not there in many cases and the price of something merely falls into how one person sees it.  Sadly, the Animal Charities are left behind in all of this, and they truly do their best to see that all money goes to the sanctuaries etc.

WARNING NOTE : Watch out for the disc items when grabbing a DVD from a shelf, staff regularly put in wrong discs…because of poor eyesight etc, even donators are in the habit of foisting off DVD Cases not containing the actual disc — sometimes deliberately to keep the original and get rid of something else…many copy discs and stick printer copied labels on pc discs, which is actually illegal to sell or accept…but the Charity shops do not bother about that…they act quite ignorant if its pointed out that they are selling a fake copy. Charity shops are not always selling bargains…..remember this when you go next.

‘ Charity Bag Deception cons Millions of Donors ‘

A REPORT SAYS that only 30 per cent of clothing items bagged for charity are actually ending up in the Charity Shops.  Profiteers within the charity collections are being sold on to commercial companies who collect door -to -door actually picking up the bags with the charity logos.  The clothes are being sold abroad for a nice profit.  It revealed that householders are being deceived into thinking all the proceeds from the bags of clothes are helping the needy, when in fact only thirty per cent is going to those people.

‘ Charity Racket suggests disguised Political Affiliations ‘

A REPORT HAS EMERGED SAYING THAT MANY STATE BACKED CHARITIES ARE POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS – It says that a figure of 27,000 charity groups throughout the UK are supported by the taxpayer and get 75 per cent of their revenue this way with individual donors supplying less than half of the funding.  It claims that these charities lobby for the causes of politicians and is borne out by the Institute of Economic Affairs.  The Report’s author Christopher Snowdon says government departments should be excluded from using taxpayers money for advertising campaigns and called for an end to unrestricted grants to charities. He said it was very objectionable for the government to fund politically active charities, and is a waste of taxpayers money.

 Charity Manager took £100,000 from Charity Funds ‘

MANAGER STEPHEN HESSION was charged with taking two lots of cash from the Peterborough Diocesan Family Care in Eastfield Road,   The cash was in a first large payment  followed by a smaller one which in total amounted to around £100,000.   Peterborough between 2008 and 2010.  The magistrates sent the case to the Crown Court and granted him bail.

‘ Trust in Charities begins to wane ‘

THE CHARITY COMMISSIONER has come under criticism by the National Council for Voluntary Organisations.  Sir Stuart Etherington, the Chief Executive has said that the Regulator’s recent handling of a high-profile tax avoidance scandal has put the public’s confidence in charities at risk…. and brought them into disrepute.  It was revealed that The Cup Trust was exposed in January because it had only spent £55,000 on worthy causes after it had raised £176million in a two year period.  The report said that donors were suspected of claiming millions in tax relief for themselves through an abuse of the Gift aid Scheme. 

‘Fair Trade to Unfair Scam?’

It has always been thought that Fairtrade more or less was in line with charity work, and good for helping the poverty situation to receive support to bolster poor farmers earnings in the third world.  It was always assumed by many people they were supporting farmers under the signatory ‘fairtrade’  to the tune of ‘100 per cent’  But on closer inspection it is as little as ’20 percent’..and a recent announcement from the USA says that this could well be ’10 percent’ in the future if they get their way — which is likely.  This realization was not taken lightly by Mick Morris of Farthinghoe, Northants, a regular fairtrade customer who considers the whole thing to be a scam.

‘ Charities under fire over tax scam ‘

Blame was put at the Regulator’s door when The Cup Trust was exposed for tax avoidance.  The Charity had brought other charities into disrepute when it failed to act when it was revealed that they had given only £55,000 to good causes when in fact they’d amassed £176 million in two years.  The report said donors had been using this to claim huge tax relief through the abuse of the ‘gift aid’ scheme. 

‘ Charity fundraisers website is shut down by regulators ‘

CHARITYGIVING.CO was closed down by the Charity Commission Regulator after serious concerns emerged over their ability to pass on cash to deserving causes.  The Commission used the word ‘Mismanagement’ when they reviewed the situation of no accounts being filed by the Charity since 2009.  They also discovered a shortfall in finances to the amount of £250,000 — a conservative estimate.  The Website and Company was suspended with immediate effect.  The Dove Trust which operates the Charity were not available for comment.

‘ Man running Cancer Charities is jailed for £1million theft ‘

KEVIN WRIGHT ran several charities, but couldn’t help using some of the cash for himself.  What started out as a genuine concern for those in need turned when he realised how much money was coming in.  Wright appeared before Nottingham Crown Court for taking £1 million to fund other interests…he was charged with 10 counts of theft.  In court it was heard that he took to putting some of the cash into personal investments and a good lifestyle.  The Judge jailed him for five years.

‘ Charities slammed by Whistleblowers expose ‘

Some of the bigger and richer Charity Organisations were exposed for censoring criticism especially into big donors such as the Energy Companies in order to protect their interests.  Panorama revealed that BBC’S Comic Relief invested in the alcohol, arms and tobacco industries by buying shares.  Save the Children pursued Corporate partnerships with Glaxo-Smith-Kline (recently attacked in a scandal)….. and dropped a potential campaign on the effects of fuel poverty on children while it waited for the go-ahead for funding by EDF Energy Giant.  Even Amnesty came in for a second hit….. who lost £750,000 on a benefit show who then recouped £100,000 on DVD sales….its financial management strategy came in for criticism too.

‘Disgrace of the Charity Shops’

THE JOB SCAM — Elizabeth Clark regarded herself a regular donor and supporter, but that changed when her graduate daughter worked for a major cancer charity as a part-time manager doing nearly 23 hours a week on a 21 hour contract.  She wasn’t being paid for extra time and when she had to stand in and cover lunch breaks, because she couldn’t leave the building.  The job is bad enough at Minimum wage, no perks, and loads of work with volunteers who were working free anyway.  The company pushed continually for sales targets as if they were high street retailers….. and she went unpaid for months at a time in regarding overtime, and only being paid after many calls to the Head Office.   We have heard about this kind of scam from job hunters at training centres being thrown into working in the shops from 9-30am to 5pm unpaid….and just being used by the boss like slave labour…. its time these bigger charities remembered where it all started…. with people first and getting in the money, not money followed by how free can we get these people.

‘Charity charges £1,500 for food bank set-ups ‘

CHARITY YET AGAIN HAD A BAD NAME as THE TRUSSELL TRUST has been asking for donations from the churches and charging volunteers at the food banks for the poor – £1,500.  They have been telling the volunteers that it is to cover ‘branding materials’ PR advice and forming relationships with the big supermarkets.  The report said that they charged each food bank £360 further for each year after the initial fee……talk about making profit on the poor, it shows how those in charge can see a gain and milk the situation.

‘ PUBLIC LIES ARE ENDEMIC ‘

A REPORT ON LYING IN PUBLIC, ESPECIALLY PUBLIC BODIES AND DEPARTMENTS IS COMMONPLACE and done so easily that lies are sometimes seen as the truth to those who are lying.  Public Authorities no longer feel an obligation to tell the truth, unless it served their own interests.  Spinning webs of deceit and acts of secrecy are becoming the normal instead of the exception, and the general public are getting in on the act as a matter of course.  Nobody in Government, Council or any other Public Services believe in answering to a straight question and this is probably best illustrated when a police spokesperson comments after an incident.  It is several hours later, — after consulting bosses, lawyers and others as to what the story is, what can be left out and if needed what spin they can add to make it more palatable.

‘ Being your son’s buddy leads to disaster ‘

Research analysts have shown their is an upward trend for modern parents to assume the ‘buddy ‘ role with children, mainly boys in an attempt to stay youthful and ignore parental responsibility. The youthful approach and image the adults seek is largely ridiculous and false according to the report. One researcher said, ‘ they cannot bear the idea that they are getting older and their boyhood days have gone, and many under the excuse of fashion stay in shorts no matter what the weather to imitate their off-spring and look trendy.’  Psychiatrists have warned that this approach to being with children leads to a ‘no rules and no responsibility ‘ pact being practised by the adult and child. Most children questioned were coy about giving their fathers a bad comment, but most agreed that they found it rather silly for dad to be going around in shorts and making out they were equals. All of them did not see dad as being another boy, nor did they want it. Some said they didn’t wear shorts if dad did, and deliberately stayed in jeans. Some said they could get cash out of dad rather easily if they let him join in on a pc game or kick a ball about with them.

One other worrying point of older men  wearing shorts all day and for most of the year was that it may reveal underlying suspicious leanings other than just wanting to emulate youngsters and a return to boyhood?

‘ When the Public act disgracefully and look the other way ‘

There are many occasions when the public contradict the image they falsely wear, and the Paulsgrove Mob action in the search for paedophiles showed that they can get away with outrageous behaviour.  It all happened in Hampshire, a county that likes to think of itself as pleasant and honest, but this is not so.  The mob —PUBLIC, destroyed innocent men’s homes and lives, — and no-one was charged with any offence even though many offences were acted out.  The innocent victims got no apology or compensation, the public walked on by when they should have been insisting that their taxes should pay compensation.  It is obvious the public like to wear a mask of respectability concealing the darker side of their lives, it is this that will always let them down and that’s why they like to distance themselves from their failure to act decently in all situations.

‘ The Scandal of the Public ‘ shirkers’ ‘

We last heard of these contracts when it was the Highways Department, and fines were being imposed to curb lying and corruption in the contractors — though, it was the government that oversaw these deals. Since that damning report things have nicely settled back into this regime, and you have firms like IVECO etc milking the system in regard of road contracts.  Causing mayhem on the roads might be one way but when no-one was actually there well, that was going some to beat.  But now they are blissfully clawing in taxpayers cash while they sit in van cabs and make the job twice as long, isn’t that just the way with the public sector?

‘ Government Ministers fiddle figures for the National Health Service ‘

HOSPITAL LEAGUE TABLES were made to look better by ministers who wanted to deceive the public in 2002 as the Department of Health worked out the performance ratings.  Denials of a fix by the NHS looked feeble as obvious figures were juggled until the ‘ right’ answers were produced.  The report showed that Alan Milburn was not happy with the first version and it was only when civil servants reworked the figures to look better that they were finally made public. Mr. Milburn then claimed that improvements had been made?

‘ National Health Service in £30million spend to look good on the Internet ‘

Bosses at the National Health Service have come under heavy criticism after it was revealed that £30million of taxpayers money was going to be spent on social networking on the Internet as an Ad Campaign.  Many people are angry about the fact this is not going into hospitals or providing a better service the report says.  Facebook has been mentioned and the Government seem determined to see this as a way of publicising health issues.

‘ National Health Service payout over a £1million for negligence ‘

THE NHS TRUST covering St. Mary’s Hospital in Portsmouth agreed a payout involving £1m and more for the blunder which left a child starved of oxygen at birth.  The severely disabled girl will have to be taken care of for most of her life, and it was agreed that £115,000 per year should be allocated for this purpose.  It was a result of ‘ negligent delay’ during delivery.

‘ The NHS Deaths at Staffordshire are exposed ‘

STAFFORDSHIRE has come under fire over the NHS revelations concerning ineffective management that continued to work while a damning report found that they were responsible for several hundred deaths of patients between 2005 and 2008.  The standard of care was seriously flawed and elderly patients suffered the most.  The shocking details are hard to believe when one considers that the Labour Government claim they have invested more money and updated the Nation’s health to a new high.  But as we all know, these are glib remarks and false promises based on nothing but conjecture.  Martin Yates, the £180,000 a year Chief Executive of Mid-Staffordshire National Health Service Foundation Trust who presided over this hospital during this awful period has conveniently retired with £400,000 pay-off plus a pension of £65,000 a year for life.

‘ National Health Service cover-up their shameful catalogue of disaster ‘

Gordon Brown promised a service of high quality, but failed to mention the losers in this dream.  Spending has tripled and lies abound in order to deflect the public.  Doris McKeown was a patient who was consigned to a hospital cupboard.  Three other female patients suffered the same indignity too.  The 80 year-old was left there for two days awaiting surgery, often missing meals and medical supervision.  These are a few examples just as Staffordshire endorses this all too well.  The elderly are being robbed of their pensions in order to fund care, a care that was promised by Brown and the NHS, as usual it is all a pipe dream beyond reality. 

‘ NHS in £2,557 a day’s pay to interim boss despite cash crisis ‘

AGAIN THE NHS say one thing and behind close doors, do another.  Interim boss Derek Smith received a staggering £2,557 for one day’s work, almost an entire year’s money to a low paid worker on less than the minimum wage — which is not enforced — although you are led to believe it is, and the important word there is LED.  Derek Smith also claimed £20,000 in expenses.

‘ Senior Executive in NHS awards lover a £120,000 promotion ‘

SIMON WILLCOCK a Senior Executive at the NHS is to be investigated over the £120,000 promotion deal he made to his lover Alexia Rothwell-Sykes a colleague at the NHS. insiders said ‘ to go from being a member of staff to Consultant is virtually unheard of, her pay went up by five times.  A Department spokesperson said the matter is being investigated.

‘ The National Health Waste Shame ‘

Continued waste in the National Health Service continues no matter who takes over or what year it is, people run the National Health, and that is where the problem lies, and lies are told.  A new report says that £26million is spent on phantom operations throughout Britain.  It says a £70million contract was signed by bosses on behalf of the taxpayer.  The deal is about operations which it figures at being around 9000 annually, and it is with a company called Netcare in South Africa of all places.  Paul Mainwaring for the Patients Council Watchdog says that ‘ it is a huge waste of money that could have been spent better’ – the money, and quite a large proportion is spent on operations that never took place!

‘ The NHS Bully patient who exposes ill-treatment online ‘

It was revealed that the NHS are in the business of taking revenge on those who publicize their ‘shortcomings’ and that’s what former Publican Daniel Sencier did.  He logged a complete diary of events showing their lack of care and consideration and put it up on the Internet. They were so outraged that Lawyers for the NHS threatened legal action who accused him of bullying the NHS, which is utterly ridiculous to say the least.  It defeats logic to think they impress the public by such a move, on the contrary, we can all see that it is might and power being improperly used to silence yet again. 

‘ Wine and Dine Bill for NHS runs up to £13million ‘

THIRTEEN MILLION POUNDS have been used by the NHS for ‘hospitality’ it emerged.  Freedom of Information requests finally exposed that staff were enjoying away days which were expensive, despite the need for cuts that are happening at most hospitals.  The average spending by SHA chiefs on ‘ hospitality’ and conferences etc, was £361,113 each?  Ten of these Strategic Health Authorities ran up an annual bill of £3.6million. One ‘Away Day’ recluse, Chilford Hall, was used to accommodate 285 employees at a cost of £25,000 — £85 per head.

‘ NHS get £65billion bill from the Private Sector ‘

A STAGGERING 65 MILLION IS TO BE PAID OUT BY THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE to private firms it is revealed in a new report. The Private Financial Initiative — PFI payments scheme will cost around six times more than originally estimated in England. One silly fact that emerged was that a hospital could in reality pay one person £350 to hang six pictures on a wall according to contractual obligations?  103 schemes at a value of £11.3billion were put forward in a leaked communicate reportedly found by the BBC?

‘ NHS Manager in Benefits Fraud Scam ‘

NHS MANAGER JULIE PRESTON appeared before Bolton Crown Court charged with misappropriating £34,615 in bogus benefits for her ‘ crippled’ son who it turned out to be, — was a motocross speedway champion. Her claim and deception was over a six year period.  The court gave her a two month suspended prison sentence and she was ordered to do 200 hours of community work. — connected relatively — Jake Preston 20, was given 250 hours of community sentence for having shared and taken £15,128 in falsely claimed disability payments.

‘ Dentist claims twice to rip off the NHS ‘

JOHN HUDSON a Dentist residing in Rochdale could not turn down the chance to be paid twice when he saw the opportunity arise. He already had a private practice treating private and NHS clients earning himself £195,000, but when he landed a job treating prisoners at HMP Holcourse, he accepted the £120,000 contract knowing he was already claiming £136,000 from the Primary Care Trust Liverpool PCT. He got £800 for the treatment of two prisoners on each day twice a week. Even when on holiday he still billed the NHS for work, and continued to claim for everything twice well into 2008, but when a new governor took over at the prison, things fell apart as the new man queried the accounts with the providers.  Hudson was found guilty and jailed for deception and obtaining money by defrauding the NHS, he was jailed for 27 months.

‘ NHS seems to be above the Law ‘

A REPORT HAS HIGHLIGHTED THE FACT THAT 14 NHS TRUSTS BROKE THE LAW — and seemingly get away with it at will despite there being laws in place that cover abortion regulations.  It was found the fourteen trusts had let medics sign off documents without knowing relevant information of the patients, and it is said such practice is illegal.  The excuse tendered was that some Doctors had not realised it was against the law to ‘pre-sign’ batches of forms, and that they were merely trying to save time?

‘Failures by the NHS staff increase by 50 per cent ‘

COMPLAINTS TO AND ABOUT THE NHS have leapt by over half in 2012…… failures of not admitting to mistakes, or apologies for when things go wrong, misinformation and in certain cases knowing something but pretending they don’t have the information.  This Report by the Health Ombudsman, Dame Julie Mellor published what is referred to as ‘ careless communication, insincere apologies and unclear explanations — which she said was unacceptable in today’s climate of ‘transparency and openness’ the public now want.

NHS SENIOR MANAGERS ‘CRIMINALLY ACCOUNTABLE’ — So claims a report, as campaigners waited for the findings of an inquiry led by Robert Francis QC.  In it he recommends criminal accountability to be implemented. This follows the scandal of the ‘deaths at Staffordshire Hospital’……..but as yet, the Government will not do it….and we think you’ll be waiting an awful long time to see this bear ‘fruit’

‘ NHS Chief racks up £6,000 on train journeys ‘

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY, yes and that is spent on 41 first class train journeys to Birmingham by the Head of the NHS Sir David Nicholson……and his new wife lives there!  It is stated that he enjoys a salary of £270,000 at the taxpayers expense.  Yet it says he goes off to conferences, when video conferencing is the alternative to making these trips to Birmingham.  The report says many of these trips to Birmingham are over weekends which some are suggesting looks very good news for his new wife.   

‘ NHS Chief omits to declare his conviction of armed robber ‘

EARNING AROUND £250,000 CRAIG ALEXANDER held a Senior Post in the NHS handling the multi-million pound taxpayers funded budget for Brent, and had been in the job for seventeen months.  His C.V. had no mention of a conviction for staging an armed robbery at a Tesco’s Express Store…..he had successfully managed to avoid that gap of the court’s jail sentence of three and a half years.  It was not until a member of staff who had complained about his rude attitude that his ‘secret’ was exposed.  Instead of letting it rest, they began a Google search on the pc and found his name linked to a robbery at a convenience store in 2001 when he held it up at gunpoint and frightened two workers who handed over £1,140 in cash plus several cheques.  He again offended in 2007 and was arrested by police.  Unfortunately the crimes, the info and his photo confirmed that this NHS Chief was the same man.  Brent has since terminated his employment….and stressed that he’d come to the NHS by an Agency.

‘ NHS Analyst and Finance Officer in Fraud ‘

LANCE SEWELL was a former Analyst who worked for The Guys Hospital Trust, on the surface he looked like an honest diligent employee, but behind this intelligence he was systematically defrauding the NHS with a superb methodical swindle worked out to make him and others rich.  In 2009 the fraud busters at NHS Protect received complaints that several Doctors were not being paid (£16,400) their fees….and that the bank details had been altered.  But it didn’t stop at this level…invoices were examined, most around £10,000 each….and then it went onto expenses…..on close scrutiny signatures had been falsified and some of the supply companies didn’t exist. In court, Payroll Officer and Analyst, Lance Sewell received 21 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud and money laundering.  The estimated sum was around £151,000….mostly spent on an expensive car, renting a dockland sought-after flat and holidays abroad….his co-conspirators who were a cousin and friend received suspended sentences as they operated bank accounts for Sewell…and just enjoyed limited benefits of his scheme…..it was said he’d been planning to start his own finance advisory service!

‘ Patches up the victims for more torture — NHS Doctor Suspended ‘

THE TRIBUNAL SERVICE for the Medical Practitioners in Manchester banned Dr Mohammed Al-Byati when it was presented with evidence that he patched up detainees who were tortured under Iraq’s brutal regime run by Saddam Hussein.  The tribunal said that he was complicit in the torture because he knew injured prisoners already tortured would be subject to more of it after he treated them.  They imposed a 12 month suspension.  The doctor who moved to the UK in 1995…….. and worked for the NHS from 2004 until 2007 when his work permit came to an end had revealed this to get asylum granted for him and his family in Birmingham.

‘ NHS Chiefs deleted damning hospital report ‘

A report says two NHS Executives of the Regulator were at the centre of a ‘Cover-Up’ concerning a hospital where 16 or more babies died.  The CQC admitted that two senior regulators attended a meeting where the deletion of an internal report was carried out.  The critical report which condemned behaviour and circumstances around infants deaths was suppressed……it named the two executives as Jill Finney and Cynthia Bower, after lawyers tried to twist the data protection law to suit their clients needs until the Health Secretary stepped in and said this was nonsense, because it was in the Public Interest and should be known……. it’s a pity we don’t have those lawyers names or their firms to mention on the site.

‘ Consultants at NHS on weekend hourly rate of £200 ‘

A Report reveals that consultants are getting £200 an hour for working over weekends at the hospitals, which includes evenings.  Senior Hospital doctors are enjoying a very lucrative contract says MP’s at the Public Accounts Committee, raising their pay by 28 per cent.  Margaret Hodge Chairman of the Committee said that the ‘contract was not providing taxpayers with value for money and had not influenced doctors to be more productive.  She said the opt-outs allowed the doctors to pick and choose enabling the rates to be very favourable for consultants at a time when hospitals were in a great need to have them present at the hospitals.

‘National Health Service receive 3000 complaints a week ‘

It comes has no surprise as new figures reveal that they received over 162,000 written complaints from people dissatisfied with the service and how they were treated.  The Social Care Centre said that 47 per cent of those claims were against the ‘medical profession’….doctors and surgeons attracted a disproportionate number of complaints.  Out patient delays accounted for 9000 complaints in 2012.

‘ NHS Specialist and three colleagues in £1million Fraud ‘

Over four years they took £430,000 fraudulently from Basildon Hospital in Essex while taking earnings of £700,000 for private work.  Heart specialist John Mulholland and his three man team claimed for work that they never did while claiming on outside work at other hospital trusts.  Mulholland was described as ‘Arrogant’ and the ringleader by Judge Owen-Jones at Basildon Crown Court.  He said the combined efforts to get at ‘loads of cash’ was borne out of greed…..and the the thought they could get away with it.  Mulholland was jailed for three years.  Martin Oliver. Ann Clements and Tom Cumberland received two years each.  They were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the NHS.

‘NHS and the Secret Reports’

NHS SECRET REPORT covers up botched eye operations concerning outsourced patients.  Somerset seems to come under fire, especially the NHS Hospital in Somerset where  an 85yr old patient was left blind according to lawyers.  Other eye patients are said to have suffered burns, six lost iris pigment and four suffered the horrific situation of shards of metal being left in their eyes after being operated on.  It indicates that this is just not a one off, and that the government is contributing to this state of affairs.

‘ NHS Boss gets £155,000 retirement pot, and re-enlists for the job ‘

After trying to gag a whistleblower, NHS Boss Sue James claimed an extra £155,000 to her pension by quitting for a 24 hour period to get the tax-free bonus and went straight back to her position which gets her around £200,000 a year.  The article claims that she once offered £250,000 of public money to silence a surgeon who attacked patient care.  Considering the NHS is in dire need of money, these kind of people should be under investigation to find out where their aims lie, because it seems that the NHS comes in as second fiddle.

‘ NHS send bill to Welshman for £1,775 for treatment ‘

It certainly shows you how things are when the National Health Service in Britain sends a man a bill for £1,775 because he resides in Wales.  64 year old Nicholas White needed treatment at an English National Health Hospital where he was almost registered as a ‘foreigner’ by the Cambridgeshire Hospital…..and before going into surgery he was told about the bill he had facing him!  The Hinchingbrooke Hospital declined to say anything, but the company Circle who manage their affairs acknowledged that the bill was sent by ‘mistake’

‘ When greed outstrips moral values ‘

REPORTS WERE ANNOUNCED ABOUT DRUG FIRM IN DODGY MOVES — It says that a drug firm actually tried to shelve or scupper the trial of a cheaper eye medicine in favour of keeping the prices up.  This report made by The British Medical Journal illustrates the lack of morals in favour of being wealthy when it comes to being a supplier of health aids for the sick and impaired.  The Company NOVARTIS is said to have prevented experts in the UK from taking part in a trial to treat a common eye disorder….the drug ‘Avastin’ which benefits the eye problem wet-age related macular degeneration.   Avastin costs around £34 a dose to the NHS etc, whereas the drug being pedalled is Lucentis priced at £1.950 a dose…..and despite trial evidence already obtained, Avastin is not licensed for use as treatment for wet-aged eye problem.

‘ Who’s kidding who?  — The Public or Government Agencies ‘

Cameron pontificates about tough measures after the rioters and the Education Minister, Michael Gove spouts on about discipline being back on the school curriculum, and it’s all rubbish.  In 1950 Britain signed up to the treaty of human rights in Strasburg along with 19 other European Countries agreeing to do away with degrading and cruel and unusual punishments. Tough sentences of Corporal Punishment were banned in prisons despite it taking until the ’50’s to end, and schools did away with it in 1986.  The Young Persons Act made sure children were solidly protected from abuse that covered hitting, mental cruelty, being confined and shouted at and much more. Just how on earth is Cameron and Grove going to implement harder measures, these acts and conditions cannot be broken unless repealed. Cameron dare not back out of the Human Rights. otherwise the UK will be in court, Grove cannot sanction anything physical with the kids as it too requires a change and he could find himself looking at court actions in Europe. The rioters already banged up recently can all go for appeals based on Human Rights and a discrimination of Law and its interpretation being ill-used in a knee-jerk situation. Then we have the public, a rather stupid public who cry out for change so long as it doesn’t effect them. Many members of the public cannot claim to be honest or law abiding, but they conveniently disregard this when they watch the tv or read newspapers.  They have morals that need adjusting when you consider what programmes they watch on tv and the music culture that is locked in rap, bad clothes and wannabe’s greedy for instant fame and loads of cash. Near Pornographic ads and tv shows that live on innuendos involving smutty sex suggestions, which they consider normal and healthy, — what you have here is a deceitful lying public mirrored by it’s government, police, legal establishment all ready to cheat and grab the riches they don’t deserve, and that is called ‘ taxpayers money ‘ — the biggest pot of gold any nation has.

‘ The Scandal of 4×4 Mothers who claim benefits and do rather well out of them ‘

The issue of mothers claiming tax benefits when they patently do not need them as been discussed by yet another report.  A large amount of claims come from the 4X4 and ‘People Carrier’ women who claim  substantial amounts of taxpayer’s cash to support a rather lavish lifestyle and their cars( some ponce around in their Porsches)  The south comes highly into focus in regions such as Hampshire, Sussex and Kent —-  Selsey, Gosport, Fishbourne, Winchester, Emswoth, Petersfield, Haywards Heath and Sevenoaks etc.  These women climb the social ladder and behave ultimately like the spoilt rich buying expensive luxuries because their income is already high and the benefits are a bonus they can use going out and living a very nice life on the back of the taxpayer.  They have no social conscience and nor do they care what anyone thinks — they buy into networks and public social scenes creating a niceness that is a complete fraud.  They often consider that giving something to a charity overlooks and exonerates their greedy desires, and claim they are doing the community a favour!

Connected to the above is the scandal of mothers who cheat to get a school for their kids.  One woman was prosecuted over lies and dishonesty in making false claims so that a school would accept her children.  Some opinion says mothers are forced into this, but that is pure rubbish  — they know they are cheating the system and they go ahead at the price of excluding others.  It seems they want child tax allowance and the choice of good schools even if it takes deceitful means to get it all.  The strange thing here is these social climbing women have no concept of the real world or truth.  Many moons ago I met a counselling training group consisting mainly of women, all sort of happy-clappy and bonding.  They asked me to write on a subject — any subject, so I chose ‘contradictions’ giving it the whole nine yards  — they didn’t like it one bit, and why?  because I featured the group and my observations besides other elements in society.  What they failed to see was their pretensions and falseness as they all wanted to be nice and look as if they meant it — rather pathetic really.

‘ The Passport Office and the Data giveaway ‘

A RECENT REPORT shows that the Passport Office sends out information to the wrong people.  They claim to have delivered them and show a photo that would not come close to court evidence in their own defence when they lose or abuse the data protection laws.  Do they get away with it?  of course they do — they are above the law and have Crown solicitors on hand to peddle their lies.  A Watchdog programme exposed lies put out by staff on behalf of the department.  They claimed to have sent a passport when the recipient already knew this wasn’t so — and why?  because another member of staff did not know the story the department had invented, and that was their mistake.  They do not apologise when they get it wrong and nor do they learn by their mistakes.

‘ Youth already corrupted ‘

THE INNOCENCE OF YOUTH — IF THAT WERE TRUE — AND IT ISN’T.  It is merely a wish and a phrase that satisfies parents; parents who think their children grow up honest.  Youth is already scheming from the time they are blackmailing their parents into giving them more money so that they might behave or remain quiet.  The deceit and double-standards are already forming for their adolescence and this comes out in joy-riding and having cars with loud exhausts so they can fit in with their peer group.  Where or how the money comes from does not matter — even if it isn’t quite legal;  what do they care?  They have one objective — get more for less.  Young people in Industry learn from the start how to skive, fiddle, and cheat their way to an arrogant lifestyle that has one selfish outcome –their pleasure at any cost.   Parents of course have a lot to do with this whether they are passive or active, and this is how it will always be even if they deny it.

2008 TEN TO SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLDS COMMIT SEXUAL ASSAULTS – these figures were released in a report that said these were serious sexual assaults every year, and that these were often suppressed from being included in public statistics in favour of letting the blame fall on homosexual men rather than admit most of these were in ordinary families.

STUDENTS AT CAMBRIDGE –1 IN 7 HAS SOLD DRUGS — A report says one student out of every seven at the University has sold drugs to get extra cash and pay their way through the courses.  Two thirds admitted to using drugs, mostly cannabis.  A quarter of students said they had used cocaine some of the time. The survey conducted by Varsity said they had interviewed 434 students — mostly undergraduates.

‘ OR ELSE? the threat by China reveals its true nature ‘

THE RECENT UK CITIZEN EXECUTED has brought out the real face of China again.  This nation which acts secretly and encourages oppression has over many years been the subject of Amnesty International who have desperately tried to show the rest of the world they are abusing human rights.  Most of it has been sidestepped in order to trade with them or gain some other terms that might be successful.  Their human rights record is appalling and we already know they turn on their own people in order to suppress freedom of speech and movement.  China has never changed from its position of wanting power so that it can expand and if necessary — conquer other countries when the time arrives.  It has nuclear weapons and America and the west have more than a little fear about this.  China on the other hand remembers the Atomic Bomb and Hiroshima (Japan) — all a little too close for comfort, — and the effects are still there in the region after sixty years, China knows that they might come off rather bad if the nuclear war arrives, they couldn’t stop that or make their country exempt from a nasty incident that would be self-defeating.  They continue to grow and their attitude remains still embedded in the old war-like situation, yet corruption and deceit play a great part in their framework of government and this is totally hidden and ignored by its brainwashed citizens who listen to the party line.  The only reason they were on the west side in the war of 1939 etc, was they feared the Japanese, another case of too close for comfort, but now, they are in the forefront demanding and setting their sights —on what?

CHINA EXECUTED BRITISH NATIONAL Akmal Shaikh on the 29th December 2009.  The Chinese Internet bloggers had a field day, one such blog (allowed by their censor was) ‘THE BRITISH SMUGGLER SHOULD BE KILLED’ the charming reminder to the UK of that ‘friendly cooperation and understanding’  – a message from its enthusiastic netizens.  His trial only lasted 30 minutes, and his execution was welcomed and supported by the people.  The UK did put forward clemency pleas and there was some concern over Akmal’s mental condition. but in the usual Confucius confusement of wisdom, The China Daily said ‘ China has its own definition of mental illness and by that, he is deemed to be mentally sound’.

TORTURE – THE CHINA WAY — 7 Years, sentenced to death four times, Chen Guoqing, Yang Shiliang, He Guoqing and Zhu Yanqiang, by Chengde City Intermediate People’s Court — yet each time ordered for a retrial by another court on the grounds of insufficient and unclear evidence gathered by Police during the pre-trial investigations.  It is stated all four confessed under torture by the police (who were awarded with commendations) — Chen has been beaten several times during interrogations as were the others.  They have been on death row for eight years (1996-2004) and held in prison. They were all convicted of the same offence with no differences at all, carbon copy allegations, carbon copy evidence.  The court refused to investigate claims of torture by the police and would not allow their alibis to be presented in court!   www.amnesty.org  You can read more of these cases if you go to the Amnesty linked site.

TIANANMUN SQUARE — June 1989 — When China’s government troops opened fire and massacred it’s own people in an attempt to silence critics within and prevent free will. It came under the label of ‘Public Order’ and the world saw how China dealt with its oppression of human rights by abuse beyond imagination. The bloodshed happened because China overreacted and inexcusably mishandled the situation. China was unwilling to admit to what it had done and would not apologise — that wound remains open to this day.

CHINESE ARROGANCE has been put firmly in the spotlight on the world stage, and it is this arrogance that will prove to be of concern in years to come.  They will be the next war and evidence of their emergence into financial and trade power undoubtedly spells this out.  It is hoped that the western world will be not caught napping and prepare for these eventualities before the real threat arrives out of the blue and too late?  One has been led to believe that the Arab and other nearby countries would be the next enemy all the time while China remained silent and plotting.  They now seek power on a huge scale and this is borne out by their involvement in banking and commerce.  The banking collapse showed this in particular with China protecting itself and distancing itself from the western banks as it closed ranks within its own circle and watched the west squirm under recession.

CHINA’S FEELINGS HURT — SO IT MAKES OUT DEMANDS ON UK — China yet again decided to arrogantly warn the West about talking to people it doesn’t like. They have urged Britain to ‘take practical actions to correct the error’ in a recent communicate with the Foreign Office.  The Chinese Communist Party have yet again shown their tyrannical side as the UK PM Cameron and DPM Clegg met with the Dalai Lama in London during his visit to the UK.  A People’s Party Spokesman said ‘The meeting seriously interfered with China’s Internal Affairs, undermining China’s core interests and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people’ (CHINA PROTESTS TO UK).

CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY SYSTEMATICALLY DESTROYS THE TRADITIONAL VALUES — Norman Cheng felt so exasperated by what China has now become, he was born there and still remembers when the writings of Confucius were gladly embraced — benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faithfulness, now gone as today’s Chinese population act like animals and treat rights callously. He says only materialism is left and that is being pursued relentlessly by this new generation much to the delight of the ruling party who want to keep people in line whilst allowing them to imagine they have great freedom.

CHINA MORALS IN DOUBT —This story entered the world press and shows a callousness that previous writer claims  — New York visitors — A Chinese family from Nanjing found themselves in a furore as many people viewed an online site showing a 4yr old boy just in underpants freezing in the snow having been told to run around in the snow to toughen him up. He is seen facedown on the ground and crying, what does this say of China?

CHINESE YOUTHS ASSAULT ELDERLY MALES SEEN ON VIDEO — A 3 minute video reveals 4 youths stood around, and one of them kicking an elderly man on the ground at a Nursing Home. The online video has caused outrage on the Internet. One youth traced has an online message – I beat old men first, it will be old women next time’ — the report says the police are investigating with a view to make arrests. If China lives up to its severe reputation, then it’s likely these four will be in jail for a long time?

CHINESE OFFICIAL DISMISSED OVER SEX FILM — A Communist Party Official to the Government has been fired after a film of him and his mistress was seen over the Internet.  Lei Zhenfu of the city of Chongqing was investigated by the Party Watchdog the report says.  Freedom seekers say this is a good move showing that in the absence of a free Press and democracy, the Internet has provided a way to expose some politicians and officials who would normally be able to brush any sordid thing under the carpet and out of site.

CHINA RICH PAY TO KILL POLAR BEARS IN THRILL SEEK — Obscene, yes, but nothing strange to the Chinese rich who pay out £50,000 to hunt down polar bears.  The trips are run by a Beijing Club which has been criticised and condemned by by Wildlife Campaigners.  To the Chinese hunters it is a trophy sport, they get a DVD of it too!

CHINA FUELS DEMAND FOR ILLEGAL IVORY TRADE — A report has indicated that China is actively supporting the trade of illegal ivory and the killing of elephants by poachers in the Kenya etc. While China is willing to buy, and their appetite for ivory is not decreasing, the poachers/hunters can rely on good money coming from ‘foreign investors’.  China said they issue certificates for legal purchases, but undercover investigators found that sellers of ivory said — we have some that have certificates, and some we don’t have certificates for?

China still fuelling the illegal trade of Ivory………China now becoming richer doesn’t really care too much about elephants so long as they can have items of Ivory……their demand and appetite for this is killing many elephants in Kenya by poachers….who trade the ivory in Lagos (the capitol of Ivory Trading).

CHINA ILLEGAL IVORY TRADE — News say that the biggest ivory seizure has been carried out by Customs Officers in Hong Kong — 972 pieces were found in carved ornaments, and a further 237 pieces in a container from Kenya.  The estimated street value is $3.5million……the ivory seized was approximately 3.8 tonnes….it says despite tough sanctions…China’s citizens are keen to possess the Ivory even though it is banned.

CUSTOMS SEIZE IVORY — Hong Kong, nearly a ton of illegal Ivory bound for the Chinese Market was grabbed by customs….it was estimated to be worth around a £1m.  It is reported that this is the third haul in three months to prevent ivory reaching the dealers. It was found in the containers of three ships.

CAGED DOGS CRAMMED TOGETHER FOR THE CHINA MEALS — China obviously enjoys being popular, but not particularly in this subject which they would rather not talk about.  500 dogs were destined for the dinner tables of Chinese gourmet punters, these dogs were in a feeble state as they travelled by lorry to Chinese restaurants. Animal Rights Activists intervened and bought them for £6,000 and took them to a rescue centre. The police and local animal inspection department in Yunnan Province said this was all legal despite the condition of the dogs.

SICKENING CHINESE PILLS MADE FROM DEAD BABIES — Yes, China yet again infuriates morality, not Chinese morality of course, but the West’s Morality. Customs Officials seized pills claimed to be stamina boosters, which later turned out to be capsules containing the powdered remains of babies aborted foetuses. These pills from China’s alternative medicine industry has not improved the image of China. It is stated that Border Agents seized 17,000 pills from 35 smuggling operations.

CHINA USES ORGANS OF EXECUTED PRISONERS — Beijing has said they will stop the use of organs being used of executed prisoners by 2014…..thus revealing how long they have been using organs of executed prisoners as a source for transplant surgery.

CHINESE TODDLER IN BOX TOWED BY FATHER ON MOTORCYCLE — Yes, another weird piece of Chinese Sociality… photos released show a small boy in a plastic yellow container crate being pulled along the road with a bus going by.  It is said that onlookers in Xl’an were astonished to see the child in an old drinks crate, no wheels, being dragged along on a seven foot length of rope attached to the back of the motor scooter, perhaps this comes under childcare?

CHINA BRUTALISES ITS CHILDREN FOR POWER AND GLORIOUS SATISFACTION — The Olympic Games reveals that China puts its children through agonizing and extremely painful regimes in order to get medals so that its government can boast and claim superior prowess of its nation.  Although parents of the children are quick to say they tell their children to enjoy the experience rather than the winning, the government see losing not as an option at all, and put the emphasis on turning out superhuman athletes that is meant to destroy the Westerner’s confidence and tell the World China is supreme…….as they are always telling us.

THE IMMORALITY OF CHINESE SOCIETY IN QUESTION — A Chinese couple having spent a night out at a Karaoke Session have ignited the anger of their own people by having run down a 68 year old woman in a unreported traffic accident — and then going on to bury her alive in the backyard where she succumbed to suffocation and died. The Chinese Police have arrested the young couple over the death of the woman.

CHINA’S CORRUPTION AND SEX SCANDAL — Ten government Officials were dismissed, as video appears online web showing City Official Lei Zhengfu secretly filmed.  It is stated that developers hired women to have sex with city officials in return for construction deals.    The 10 fired, are in addition to ones already implicated as the scandal is beginning and the investigation is set to widen.

CHINA’S RAILWAY MINISTER IN CORRUPTION PROBE — Liu Zhijun appointed Minister in 2003 is being investigated for ‘a severe violation of discipline’ according to the China’s State News agency Xinhua.  The report calls the crime – corruption charges, and mentions that Former President Mr Chen was brought down on corruption charges, and in 2008 was sentenced to 18 years in prison.  Mr Liu Zhijun’s younger brother Liu Zhixiang was given a ‘suspended death sentence’ for hiring an assassin to kill a man who’d accused him of corruption.  Liu’s brother who was the Head of the Railways Bureau was convicted of embezzlement involving £3million of public funds.

IN 2010 — 146,517 Government Officials were punished for disciplinary violations!

CHINA ACCUSED OF HACKING BAE CONFIDENTIAL SYSTEMS — A BAE Executive has said that China stole system secrets concerning the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Jet, part of a multinational defence programme (that doesn’t include China). The Cyber attack took place three years ago when Chinese spies managed to use the vulnerabilities of the system to their advantage.

CHINA USING ‘ELECTRONIC WARFARE’ TO TARGET MILITARY SECRETS AND WESTERN LIFE — The revelation of a Facebook fake account initiated by Chinese online web users chose NATO Admiral — Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis — NATO refused to comment on the possibility that Chinese state sponsored hackers were trying to get information on the American Admiral. Chinese Intelligence Agencies have been named…..Facebook have now removed the fake pages.

CHINESE WORKER IN USA IN PLOT TO GET SATELLITE PARTS FOR CHINA — Chinese National Lian Yang, a contract engineer working at Microsoft in the USA was arrested by the FBI after a two year investigation. It was said he was plotting to smuggle satellite parts and technology out of America and get them to China.

CHINA SITUATION is this yet another piece in the jigsaw?  Chinese Restaurant fires British Waiter for not being Chinese. A £5,000 award was given to Brit’ David O’Neil when he took the establishment to a tribunal. It was stated that the Chinese manager brought in more Chinese staff and deliberately reduced Mr.O’Neal’s hours until he had no job. He finally figured out he was being pushed out when one of the new Chinese waiters were clocking up a sixty hour week. The thing about this is that the Chinese manager has refused to pay or adhere to the court order, the high court has now appointed bailiffs to go in and seize and recover the money.

Strangely enough, a similar event happened in Singapore just a few days ago when a British girl working in a Chinese-Singapore cafe doing fish and chips received similar treatment when her boss fired her?

CHINA’S HONK KONG HIT BY HUGE CORRUPTION SCANDAL — Normally known for having a squeaky clean image, Hong Kong has shattered China’s hopes as one of the biggest corruption cases has recently emerged to plunge this nation downwards.  Two billionaire businessmen, a high ranking civil servant and two others were arrested on bribery charges.   Raymond and Thomas Kwok, joint Chairmen of Sun Hung Kai Properties — the biggest real estate in Hong Kong are facing eight charges of corruption and conspiracy to offer advantages to a public servant and misconduct in public office. Officials in China are said to be shocked by this case.

CORRUPTION IS WORRYING CHINESE PEOPLE — As the country is about to have a new leader, worried citizens are increasingly becoming concerned over corruption in Government and Politics.  The Past points to this as being the downfall and major cause of instability throughout its History.

CHINESE CITIZENS ANGERED OVER EXECUTION — The execution of a Kebab Vendor has sparked criticism of how the poor are dealt with, unevenly and in direct contradiction with the rich.  Xia Jung was put to death for the death of two city officials.  Many have looked at the way that Politician Bo Xilai’s wife received a suspended death sentence over the murder of a British businessman…..sad it may be, unfair too, but China executes thousands of people every year.

CHINA ACTS FURTIVELY OVER DEAD BRIT — No Post-Mortem, quickly cremated, and two different causes of death — strange situation?  Chinese secrecy?  Neil Heywood said his life was in danger days before he died. Neil Heywood was gifted in Mandarin language, and a superb business go-between. He was friends with City Communist leader Bo Xilai of Chongqing and his lawyer wife Gu Kailai. It was said Heywood had a huge disagreement with them over his ties with a former MI6 officer’s consultancy firm who he went to work for, and that this led to loyalty issues. A friend of Heywood said that this would not be good for Bo and Gu’s political standing. Chongqing’s former police Chief Wang visited the American Embassy with a Bo acquaintance after a journalist suggested that Heywood’s death was a murder and said there was a cover-up. Then 24 hours later, Police Chief Wang gave himself up to the Communist Party’s Disciplinary Section. News later arrived that Bo Xilai was dismissed and that he and his wife were under house arrest?

In 2011, November, Bo Xilai was hailed as a star by the Chinese Media, but we can now see a different picture of China as his wife has been implicated in the murder of Neil Heywood, and his position is seriously compromised!

Another link to the above featuring Bo Xilai– CHINA JAILS JOURNALIST FOR CRITICISM — Goa Yingpu was jailed for three years in 2010 on a charge of ‘endangering state security’ at a SECRET COURT HEARING — Goa had criticised a campaign led by Bo Xilai in 2009 — Bo was a politician named in a major scandal?

MORE NEWS: There have been 39 arrests in connection with the above case, It has been stated that Neil Heywood was given Cyanide, and beyond this in the raids, they have arrested Xu Ming, a rich Millionaire. It has revealed corruption on a gigantic scale held together by secrecy and powerful Party activists kept this quiet.  China has not revealed the majority of names and remains tight-lipped over this case. Therefore, there is more information to be revealed later.

Sadly we have Britain cowering in the wake of China having to financially help the European situation, which if taken is another step back and goodbye to human rights and the mention of them.   (China secretly bankrolls America over its internal debts)  It is said Cameron must pay this price for China’s billions to help the Euro. Should this be the case, China has achieved checkmate and its power on the world stage comes of age.  The Euro situation has also meant that Britain has spent taxpayers cash — and underwriting it! — in a multi-million loan for China to plant trees. The Treasury have agreed this with the European Union to help China grow new forests to compensate for it’s contribution to global warming! the figure has been put at £210 million. The thought of upsetting Chinese officials is said to be one of the main reasons behind the failure to confront them. A report touched on their great wealth and that we can’t be seen to be interfering in the coming elections to the ruling Politburo Standing Committee in their sacred process….it is time to forget that and say what you mean and if they don’t like it….tough!

SEE THE GOOGLE ARTICLE. – CHINA TAKES ON THE U.S. OVER CENSORSHIP OF INTERNET.

‘ CHINA LOOKS SET TO ANNOY AUSTRALIA OVER TRIAL INVOLVING RIO TINTO ‘

CHINA UPSETS U.S.A. OVER VETO DECISION — China along with ‘old enemy’ Russia chose to take on the USA over the Syrian Conflict when they and Russia crashed and obstructed a UN Security Council Resolution that was intended to take action against the Syrian Government Massacres and Oppressive Tyranny which has claimed over 5000 lives since January.  America openly and publicly uttered their disgust to both ambassadors present. The UK ambassador said that both nations were in favour of supporting tyranny and oppression, from his seat in the chamber. China and Russia were accused of turning their backs on the brutalities that were happening daily in Syria, which would not help stabilize the area or do anything for an Arab peace situation. The Arab and West UN Resolution would have achieved something had it have not been for Russia and China said a spokesman leaving the chamber. China could well find itself out in the cold and on the wrong side of the West.

Communicate via Wikileaks cables revealed that Russia needed to get into Asia to exert influence in neighbour countries…CHINA being chosen already…The cables said it was a high stakes game to covertly move into a more powerful position, and having NATO members on the Russian borders wasn’t what Putin liked.  Further down you can read about the deal to provide expertise and arms…in a swap tactics deal between China and Russia.

CYBER ATTACKS ORIGINATING FROM CHINA — China’s telecom Company Huawei was under scrutiny since 2008 by the Australian Intelligence Agencies.  The company was banned in 2011 from tendering for contracts associated with the National Broadband Network. It was decided that Huawei’s involvement in the network could compromise National Security because of the cyber attacks being launched from within China.

CHINA’S GANGS USE INTERNET TO DEFRAUD BARGAIN SEEKERS — Targeting the vulnerable over 50’s in the West and Europe, and the Chinese Authorities do very little about stamping the practice out, or don’t want to.  The biggest risk is now firmly established as China and Hong Kong — millions of pounds and dollars are being stolen by fake goods firms that operate in China and checking them out is difficult as many assume legitimate names they take from brand name shops to hoodwink customers. KwikChex run by Chris Emmins investigates fraud of this nature mentioned ‘ Simple Electronics’ operating out of Hong Kong making itself to appear as a British Company until you scrutinise its ‘About Us’ page and see the real situation…many people caught out have written to the Hong Kong police and have got nowhere.

CHINA’S SECRET ‘Domestic’ WAR WEAPON – China’s Battleships, Military Hardware and Battalions? — Not really necessary, event though they are currently still racking up the tensions in the South China Seas.  They don’t need this stuff for conquering the West and Europe — they are currently sending cheap electronic goods capable of electrocuting the purchaser to unsuspecting foreigners. Power Adaptors and gaming consoles etc, described by traders in the West as counterfeit, are being sold that are extremely dangerous.  As we see in the above article, the Chinese Authorities do very little to curb this, and see it as trading opportunities for its people.

CHINA has in recent years been actively shedding their one time ‘third world’ stand and engaging in a bid to be a superpower since the 1990’s — it has had rapid economical, political and military changes — some of which has been directed in the South China Seas — which has raised concerns among nations close to China and in the region of South East Asia. It has been said that some influences in China would prefer a ‘closed society’ isolated from the International Community as it once was. China is seeking to get the Spratley Islands in the South china Seas, China calls them the Nansha islands — 60 islands rich in mineral deposits, oil and a strategic military position in the region where ships pass on trade routes. It has long been known that China considers control of these islands are essential in order to govern the South china Seas.  Russia, it’s new friend, strangely enough have a great fear of China wanting back its former territory that became part of Russia, and China is currently showing signs of wanting more territory.

THE CHINA MASQUERADE AND RISE — Research shows that China have over the last twenty years made a planned and careful (often played down) bid to obtain power for a Greater China. In order to do so they had to embrace capitalism to get a foothold in the world marketplace; first of all in South East Asia (and currently in the South China Seas), and this was done by creating their own businesses in strategic countries around them who speak the same language, same type of culture and ethnicity — Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand etc  This was achieved by migration, and Chinese families began businesses in these countries almost as soon as they arrived. Taiwan was a problem they had fought a long battle for independence, but they had no seat on the United Nations and if they wanted to be on it, China could veto it and that was the plan. Chinese family firms are opposed to the idea and very reluctant to appoint westerners or outsiders into key positions — family control over these firms IS THE RULE! — thus was the first step to financial power, economical power was next!

CHINA’S REPRESSIVE ACTS and the JAILED E-JOURNALISTS — Fifteen of thirty-two journalists were put in prison by China in 2005 — those fifteen worked on the Internet.  They were incarcerated under China’s tight ‘subversion laws’ for daring to raise a critical voice.  Hu’s crackdown on free speech, critics and dissenters, is fierce — China built the largest system of monitoring and censoring on the Internet — relying on the expertise of multi-international information and technology companies. (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Cisco)

The detention of Chinese Dissident Zen Jinyan a Human Rights Campaigner for six years caused alarm, and a Human Rights World Watcher said repression in China is increasing since monitoring the situation over a period of fifteen years.

3,177 websites have been shutdown in a Internet crackdown by the Government called ‘Spring Breeze’ which aims to clean-up cyberspace. More than a 1,000 people have been arrested as frantic efforts by Government officials and police try to close all information on the unrest ‘absolutely’.  It is stated that around 200,000 harmful online messages have been deleted with attempts to shutdown Internet companies. The rosy picture of China seems to be wilting and fraying around its leaves that show no sign of returning to the additional touch-up paint that preserved the glowing superficial image.  The Neil Heywood Incident has raised too many questions about political power and its desire to deceive and control without accountability.  China has a problem!

CHINA DRAWS USA INTO REVELATIONS OF BLIND DISSIDENT LAWYER — Campaigner and Dissident Lawyer Chen Guancheng sought refuge in a USA Embassy after escaping from house arrest. This has caught China in a difficult situation with the USA. The blind Lawyer won global acclaim for uncovering rights abuses by the Chinese Authorities, and served four years in jail in 2010. He however, smuggled a video out, which the Chinese Government have accused him of ‘bringing dishonour to the Government of China’   Guancheng said he endured several beatings, and is suffering from poor health. He says his home is under guard in Shandong and supporters of the government have just waded into the house and begin violence, which is why he chose to get to the embassy. The difficulty being he doesn’t want to leave China, but fight for justice within and staying!

CHINA’S INVOLVEMENT SUSPECTED OVER DISSIDENT ARTICLE CENSORSHIP — The South China Post in Hong Kong behaved strangely when it reduced the impact of a major story of a dissident to a back page slot despite the death of Li Wang Yang being suspicious. It was revealed that he had spent 22 years in jail for upsetting the Chinese Government over his pro-democracy protests in Beijing in 1989.

CHINA BEGINS NEW ATTACK ON BLOGGERS TO SILENCE COMMENTS — In its efforts to curb the flow of information and comments it deems offensive? criticism of the Chinese Government, China has set new stringent and suppressive conditions to the website WEIBO MICROBLOGGING — intending to sanction 300 million web users for what it calls ‘ personal attacks’ and ‘divulging private information’   Beijing regularly blocks the Internet in its online censorship to hide the truth about its coercive and suppression of critics. They have already closed sixteen websites and arrested six people since the dismissal of Bo Xilai who was investigated over the murder of a British Citizen and Businessman. Many questions still remained unanswered by China!

CHINA DETAINS BLOGGER FOR COMMENTS ON TWITTER – Internet users in China have protested at the arrest by Beijing Police who arrested and detained a blogger who posted a ‘joke’ on Twitter about the pivotal Communist Party congress.  It also says they rounded up hundreds of people who tried to bring attention to their grievances against local government. Chinese blogger Zhai Xiaobing found himself in a risky position over his ‘ comical tweet’ — the authorities- the police have said he ‘was being held and investigated for spreading terrorist information’ — his twitter post page went silent……any and all criticism of the government is banned!

CHINA SEEKS INTERNET WEB CONTROL — Beijing Communists, — Government, are taking harsh measures to clamp down on criticism of all Communist leaders.  A new Law is requiring service providers to delete pages containing forbidden information, views and opinions deemed harmful, and hand over the names of the offending users.  Officials claim the new law protects, but users say that it is there to stifle debate and free thought and conversation.

CHINA CONTINUES ONSLAUGHT OF WEB FREEDOM – The Courts in China have renewed their campaign to not only silence opposition bloggers but jail them too — The latest news out of China tells of the Government stepping up the pressure on ‘online rumour mongering’ as they see it.  This action is seen as a broadening attempt to censorship political debate by making up an offence that could jail dissenters and human rights activists using the Internet Communication.  The Peoples Supreme Court is pushing for these law changes.

CHINA’S LEADER SPEAKS OUT AGAINST THE WEST — Reported as being one of the nine rulers in the Communist Party and Politburo, Mr Zhou Longkang said China must repel Western Views on the Judiciary and Politics, and resist the culture and values they seek to spread across the world — his words contained strong condemnation of  the West, and a ‘provoking’ challenge.

CHINA UPSET WITH WEST OVER ARTICLE ON CHINESE LEADER — The £1.7 billion China Premier — Beijing is annoyed with the New York Times for running an article telling the World how wealthy the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s family is…that they have amassed £1.7 billion in shares, banks and property etc, while most of its citizens live on the breadline for most of their lives.

CHINA’S COVERT ACTIVITIES IN THE UK — China frequently tells other countries not to interfere with its internal justice system or politics, but it emerged that they do not apply this rule to themselves.  During the run up and even when the Dalai Lama arrived in Britain, Chinese Diplomatic teams in the UK were warning off councils and towns that they would be foolish to invite and speak with him, as it would not be good for them to do so.  They were exposed as travelling ahead to Yorkshire and Scotland ahead of the booked events to put pressure on the organisers to drop the meeting and suggest to certain politicians it would not reflect well if they met with the Dalai Lama……as this could well lead to economical losses between the two countries!

CHINA INTERFERES WITH MGM NEW MOVIE — Yet again wishing to rewrite History, the Chinese Government have now put pressure on MGM Studios who have been ‘forced’ to use digital trickery to remove a Chinese Army invading smalltown America from Chinese to North Korea over fears of losing revenue they could get on the film’s release in Asia (China),  All references to China from the film ‘Red Dawn’ with Chinese flags and symbols are being blotted out.  A 1984 version went out with no worry of Chinese interference, but it says Chinese newspapers got wind of the new film saying America Demonised China.  Wake up West, China must not be pandered to because it doesn’t like it…..or we will end up with ‘how lovely they are, such peaceful people, may we indulge them more please’…….can’t the West see where this is all going?

THE TINANMMEN SQUARE LEGACY — 23rd ANNIVERSARY LEADS TO ARREST OF PETITIONERS FOR RIGHTS, It has been reported that 30 people were arrested and held in Beijing by police cracking down on dissenters who believe that the atrocities of China must not be hidden or forgot. Chinese Police were seen to grab 20 rights activists in MAY FIRST SQUARE and beat them, this was followed by eight people being taken into custody. China warned off the USA when they urged the Chinese Authorities to release those detained!!

Four employees of the mining company are to stand trial in China accused of stealing state secrets and taking bribes.  The Anglo-Australian Company deny the charges by China and this is yet another case of China straining relations in its bid to dominate and assert rules.  Beijing yet again ignore and challenge the west to a showdown which might bring them more grief than they can handle.

CHINA and CORRUPTION is ongoing — In its 1994 history corruption was very deep and a report confirmed that some 300,000 officials were committing crime (Anhui) — but few were ever brought to trial or prosecuted. It was revealed that these government employees were misusing and pilfering public money for their own purpose.

Thousands of protestors came out on the streets of Wanggang to vent their rage against Communist Party Secretary, Li Zhihang who they said had embezzled 850,000 yuan from local cooperatives.

UK FUND INVESTMENTS SUFFERS AS COVER-UP CONCEALS U.S.-LISTED CHINESE COMPANIES FACE FRAUD ALLEGATIONS. British investors suffered more losses  as fund manager invests in China Fund.  Mr. Bolton known for his success in running Fidelity’s flagship UK Special Situations, found that his China Special Situations Investment Trust has dropped by 14 per cent in just six months. The two companies under fraud investigation have not been named.

CHINA DISMISSES COPYRIGHT PROTOCOL IN FAVOUR OF COPYISTS — It has been going on for years, the copying of ideas from other nations, and China are at the forefront copying anything such as Coke-a-Cola, computer games etc, and they don’t see it has a problem. The Chinese Government look to the copyright enforcement law and back their citizen who has started a nice little business selling copies, because it really sets in with the Chinese Communist Party as being free enterprise and it makes sense to promote that for economic reasons.

A 2011 newspaper article says that Cameron urged UK businesses not to invest in CHINA without naming them directly, but clearly pointing at them in a disguised way.

CHINA LOOKS CAUTIOUSLY TOWARDS INDIA — India is an old enemy, in 1962 they fought a short and bloody war that severed good relations. India has now launched a new 5,000 kilometres range missile successfully at a time when Beijing is becoming more assertive about its territorial rights? India borders China to the west of Nepal with Russia in the North.

CHINA — THE LURKING DANGER IN ASIA:  ‘What might it be like to live in a China-Dominated World?’ — these words emitted from a channel 4 programme that has now realised what the Asia Rise in the Economic and Financial area could mean?  China’s propaganda machine in its image boosting attempts has clouded many Western minds and removed the once held healthy suspicion that normally protects.  Has China come far? not really when you delve further, because under the glossy veneer is the die-hard reluctant traditionalists of old – the Peoples Party who recently realised they had made a gaff in allowing a programme reportedly watched and supported by millions on prime-time TV in China — ‘ Interviews before Execution’ — now taken off in China just before it went out in the UK this March.  It spoke volumes about Chinese culture and tradition — all the wrong sort as it portrayed a sick view, a throwback in History when human values were scuppered for the rule of brutality — the convicted and condemned being driven through the streets and towns so that the crowd could jeer — just like public hangings in the 17th Century. The men in shackles were going to be executed and wore cardboard signs tied to them for the public enjoyment.  The programme whether intentionally or by mistake revealed that prisoners and suspects are routinely ‘made’ to confess without any legal representation — and what follows is a court with no jury, just judges who give out the sentence after a short hearing — much like Singapore its right hand buddy and supporter.  Around 67 offences attract the death penalty and many have nothing to do with murder at all.  The programme seemed to want us to know that it has reduced this to around 55 offences as it grows more responsive to modern times.  Yet recently, on the public Internet link a phone camera showed a woman being molested in a doorway in a Shanghai Street and ten people just walked on by.  What does this tell you of Chinese values?  are the ruling party trying to deceive and brainwash the Western World and Europe? seemingly so, but very crudely.  Recent research has revealed China in a stealth mission to reign in Asian neighbours and make up with some who turned against them to build a new Asia with them in the seat of power with Singapore and Malaysia sitting either side.   The world should not underestimate their intentions and where it will eventually lead — this is that early warning you should heed.

CHINA AND THE NEW MILITARY BUILD UP IN ASIA — Since the early 1990’s the PLA (Peoples Liberation Army) have increased spending on high tech weaponry, and a hushed informal military exchange programme has been in force with Russia — Russian scientists have been going regularly to China to give technical support and assistance, and Chinese military personnel have been going to Russia for training.  China’s build up of arms is possibly aggressive say analysts, especially to its neighbours, especially as the idea of it being just for a defence strategy as more or less evaporated in many minds who now believe this has changed to an ‘offensive stance in order to shift the strategic balance in Asia. China bought 22 Kilo Class Submarines from Russia along with the development of nuclear missiles capable of a 1000 miles.  This  has led to other countries in the Asia Zone — Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam purchasing new Military Hardware and Missiles adding to the mounting tension in the area around the South China Sea, — as we have already warned about.

CHINA STIRS UP THINGS AGAIN IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA — A Diplomatic row broke out again as China detained 21 Vietnamese Fishermen they nabbed near the disputed islands (The Spratley’s) in the South China Sea.  Hanoi protested and China released the men making them sign declarations!  This is one of the latest of many incidents over territorial claims in a long standing dispute with The Philippines. China accused the fishermen of ‘Illegal fishing’ and breaching China’s Maritime Rights in its territorial waters?

CHINA IN STAND-OFF WITH PHILIPPINES IN SOUTH CHINA SEA — In April came the news that China entered into another explosive situation as it used ships to intimidate the Philippines. They deployed a third ship to the disputed area in the South China Sea where there is a tense situation brewing, which is causing alarm in Manila.  China demanded that a Philippine Warship leave the Scarborough Shoal off the North Western Philippines after it attempted to arrest several Chinese fishing boats accused of illegal entry and poaching in its lawful territory. It was prevented from doing so by the arrival of Chinese Surveillance Ships, two at first, and soon joined by a third. However, The Philippines ship remained where it was arguing that it was in Philippine territory and its own sovereign waters. The escalation of China’s attempts to dominate the area by force is not being fully understood by the international community, and will only bode for unpleasant activities leading to something far worse.

CHINA’S WARSHIP OFF THE PHILIPPINES INDICATES STEP-UP OF MILITARY THREAT — Manila has complained to the UN about the emergence of a Chinese Warship intimidating the Philippines. This comes as an escalation to the article above when they pitched surveillance ships in the area of The Spratly Islands and Philippines. Local fishermen have seen the danger in the light of the former incident and kept well back in case their was an act of retaliation for the arrest of several Chinese fishing boats in April in The South China Sea (This report May 2012).

CHINA PROMISES AGGRESSION OVER ‘CARBON EMISSION CHARGES’ TO PROVOKE HOSTILITY — China heads progressively towards a ‘war situation with the west’ despite pretence of diplomatic differences. It now intends to seize European planes if any China Airline is impounded because they are refusing to pay a carbon tax levied on all planes going through Euro-space. China has said they cannot be ordered to pay and have already refused to do before.  The Airlines Commission says it must comply in line with other airlines and that they are prepared to impound a plane in default of a fine unpaid. This is yet another example of China getting ready for an offensive that will come no matter what diplomatic meetings there are before they fail, and they most certainly will.

CHINA SUPPORTS NORTH KOREA’S USA RANGE NUCLEAR MISSILE — An intercepted e-mail communicate out of the Foreign Affairs and Military Command indicates that China were not displeased at North Korea’s attempt to have missile capability of reaching the USA — and despite the grand deception played out in diplomatic circles, they do not share the condemnation by the west of recent nuclear missile launch trials, of which one was a failure…. China is pouring millions of dollars into the North Korean failing economy and propping up the country so that it remains a capable ally in the region…it is said that the minister visiting North Korea said they could not afford to let North Korea fail, and would not do so.

CHINA’S SECRETIVE TROOPS IN HONK KONG NOT TO MIX WITH THE PUBLIC — 6,000 troops stationed in Hong Kong have been ordered to keep their distance from the public and not to be subjected to ‘capitalist’ delights and pleasures  — they have been told to remain confined to barracks, and on their one day off duty each week must be spent in the dormitories?

CHINA’S ARMED FORCES HAVE MAJOR PROBLEM OF CORRUPTION — It is stated in a public report that China have no mechanism such as ‘whistleblower statements’ or means whereby others in the army can report incidents to counter ‘the graft’ offences…now regularly taking place because the Army do not allow the level of scrutiny needed.  The report also blames this on the ‘lack of transparency’ which underlies the powerbase and politicians who block investigations into this problem, which is making the Armed Forces above the Law.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CHINA’S HISTORY — China has lived its whole existence believing that ‘Individual Freedom counts for nothing ‘ — since the time of the first Emperor, Chin Chia Wah came to power the word AUTOCRACY-TOTAL POWER was the rule. He still lives on like a silent God as a Communist Party Rules which is run by 9 unelected men who hold all the power and fate of the Chinese. Chin was a tyrant who tolerated no one who challenged his views and powers (a similar held view with the Singapore Government). The first principle of Chinese culture is ‘KNOW YOUR PLACE’ along with the indoctrination of civil obedience. As with Singapore, dissenters must be clamped down upon and pay the price of law. The biggest chink in their armour is CORRUPTION, and with that comes the fear of China disintegrating as it did in history when past rebellions scarred China and cost millions of lives. But Corruption is on the increase as economic wealth steers its way to the middle class and rich. The authorities tend to either deny or forget that such a ‘cancer’ exists. But it was publicised that 18,000 corrupt state officials had fled to escape the harsh law…as The China Daily printed (the only English written paper). In a recent programme on China, it was mentioned that no one was allowed to take photographs of The Chinese Communist Party Building and you could be arrested. Even in a library you are not allowed to ask questions about the new ruler, and there is no Internet access to him? Bookshops have no books on him either? This is the real China behind neon signs and plush skyscraper buildings…Secrecy over Openness and Social Harmony above individual freedom!!

CHINA THE 1960’s and the Mao ‘starvation dilemma’ — What began in the 1950’s and in particular, 1952, was an action called ‘The Five-Anti Campaign’ which was supposed to wipe out abuses such as Tax Evasion, corrupt businesses, government contract cheats, bribery, stealing state property and state secrets!!  But alas!  its claimed success was blighted by its failure to meet these goals.  The ongoing desire to control thoughts and actions were ever-present, and a clear example of this was the case of teacher Wu. He had to sit for three days in the middle of the school corridor to contemplate his own political thinking to consider whether he had been corrupted by his bad father (a counter-revolutionary who owned a gun), students were forbidden to go near him. On the fourth day he had disappeared, and was never seen again?    Strangely, around that time, the Chinese philosophy was ‘You must be strong enough to raise a gun and fight the enemy’ — and socialist members in China must have intellectuals and everyone must be able to write and use a pen as well as a gun.  Children at the age of eleven were introduced to ‘Labour Service’ incorporated into the Educational System…studying and working long hours in a steel foundry.  One was not allowed opinions, showing of such violated the teachings, and you were reprimanded by the leader and the whole group (your fellow classmates).  It also led to suspicion, and a report could be made against you.  One group of teenage boys 13 – 15yrs wrote posters with anti-communist slogans, — all eight were expelled and never allowed to attend any other school!  Even a boy of 20, a farm worker, who sang the wrong tune to a patriotic song was severely reprimanded with the cane.  This was the time when the when the ‘Give Your Heart to the Party’ campaign was furiously strong, political criticism was not allowed — a teacher in Peking was accused of criticising the Party, he was removed and demoted to a Boys’ room Janitor, he had numerous academic honours in teaching Geography.  One had to be careful with words and conduct in and out of school, you had to satisfy the political obligations that were demanded.  If you were in the least a campaigner of Rights… A ‘Rightist’ your future was gone or decided for.  The new Modern China with its slogan ‘Great Leap Forward’ should have been marvellous, but what transpired was more repression, food shortages and ration coupons (In 1960, one young couple who had a stash of coupons in a jug, many of which they were not entitled to, faced the death penalty) — The Party would not relax ‘the no-criticism of the Party, rule.   When Mao came to power he actually removed the English names of streets and had them in Chinese.

CHINA and Chairman Mao — the myth surrounding a tyrant turned into a hero by brainwashing by the Communist Party.  It is stated Historically that Mao killed more of his own people than Adolf Hitler — some 35 million died of starvation during his reign in 1958 – 1961. The strange thing is that Chinese people adore him, and have been fed misinformation and had history reinvented to brush away the real facts. This is all to procure and maintain an idyllic life controlled and spied upon by the Party. In 1949 the country was reduced to starvation, and Mao turned this to his advantage by using the poor who wanted change  to overthrow landowners and greedy businessmen; who were randomly executed — thus is rise to great power. Since his death the Communist Party have done all they can to cover-up what Mao did that was not so nice.  Under Ping, who was a previous outcast under Mao, things changed slightly in that he decided to make capitalist ideals work for China provided it met with the Communist ideal of control. Hence the dramatic rise in economic power on the world stage now!!

A LITTLE MORE HISTORY — In 2011 a study recorded 90,000 episodes of mass protests, and the Chinese Government stopped releasing official data?

THE CHINESE FORCED LABOUR CAMPS — China has for many decades used the ‘forced labour’ camps to silence critics and minor offenders.  The courts under Mao in 1957 established these labour camps where people were forced into work during a four year sentence….many being political dissidents and minor offenders were sent to as camp on the orders of the police and not a court.  The Chinese Government quickly described this as the ‘re-education through labour’ system and claimed that it was a way of dealing with minor offences that were ‘clogging up’ the court system.

CHINA and THE KOREAN WAR and the killing of 1,078 British Soldiers in 1953 — Much is forgotten about this fact that happened at ‘The Battle Of the Hook’ when Chinese troops tried to get through United Nations lines to retake Seoul, the South Korean Capital. 1,060 British troops were taken prisoner by the Chinese, 84 of whom died in captivity under dreadful conditions and barbaric treatment (hardly mentioned these days in case it offends the Beijing Government). It was a three year war that nobody refers to or wants to talk about,….. so we have here!

CHINA’S INTERNET CENSORS REMOVE SATIRICAL CARTOON — The Chinese Government were quick to remove a cartoon that wanted to highlight police brutality, food contamination, forced housing demolitions and the abuse of power…..one of the cartoon backers said ‘they’re touchy on certain issues!.

CHINA DETAINS US SPY — China has detained a top security official for passing sensitive information to the USA, it is claimed to be the highest level spy case involving the two countries since the 1980’s. (June 2nd 2012)

CHINESE SPY CAUGHT BY TAIWAN — A retired Lieutenant General has been charged with spying for China.  Chen Chu-fan a former Vice Chief – Military Police Command — was collecting intelligence on Taiwan’s Military and Political situation, then sending on his findings to Beijing……..the Chinese Government made no comment!

CHINA YET AGAIN COMPROMISES PEACE OFF THE PHILIPPINES — The Philippines President has said he intends to send ships to the Scarborough Shoal because China has not left the area after being requested to do so.  The Indonesian Government have asked both countries to refrain from escalating tensions further.  Reports said that there were six Chinese Government ships in the Shoal along with thirty Chinese fishing boats.

CHINA PHYSICALLY ABUSES SOUTH KOREAN ACTIVIST — Torture and harsh treatment was thrown at the Chinese Authorities who held and detained Kim Young Hwan a South Korean Rights Activist who was imprisoned for 4 months for helping North Korean refugees — he said that this was a result of him refusing to give information.  China say they arrested him and three others because ‘they endangered China’s National Security? (a charge that carries severe punishment — as we well know with China and Singapore likewise).

Further to the above — Activist Kim Young-Hwan, Human Rights Campaigner detained and tortured in China for helping refugees, indicated that there was a serious flaw in diplomatic and international relations with Beijing — being allowed to sideline the importance of their actions — it requires attention and criticism besides help from the International Community (that has an amazing reluctance to tackle China head on)  — one has only to see — Beijing June 3rd 1989 when over a 1,000 people were murdered by heavily armed troops who opened fire on peaceful pro-democracy campaigners, students and bystanders gunned down by government troops — tanks ran over, and crushed people — some just running for their lives in the panic that ensued.  Other victims were viciously beaten; often sadistically by troops who were given full powers to do as they pleased in order to fulfil communist ideals intended to repress free thought and actions — giving a firm violent message ‘ we control everything you do, and you will do as we say — not as we do ‘ — or suffer extreme penalties!

CHINESE GUARDS DEMEAN PRISONER — Life in a Chinese Jail was extremely dehumanising according to China Correspondent Ching Cheong who was detained by the Chinese Government in 2005 to 2008.  He says Prison Guards made him squat before he was allowed to speak — much like a begging dog!  The Chinese claimed this particular prison by their standards, was a ‘civilised one’

CHINA STILL COMMITS PRISONERS TO LABOUR CAMPS — ‘SHAMEFUL ABUSE’ — Chinese dissident Ms Heng Feng was sentenced by the Chinese Authorities to 18 months in a ‘labour Camp’ for protesting and petitioning the Authorities for Rights Abuses that she was subjected to during two previous incarcerations in a labour camp.

CHINA WRONGLY IMPRISONS MAN FOR 11 YEARS — Huang Liyi spent eleven awful years in prison, a part of a life sentence handed down by a Chinese Court on thin if not flimsy unproven evidence.  But this did not stop the court from finding him guilty and taking away his liberty.  He was jailed for an alleged fraud.  The Guandong Provincial Supreme Court awarded him 825,000 yuan and set him free — acquitted on the grounds of insufficient evidence.  This payment representing 11 years translates into 161,000 dollars, something equivalent to 15,000 dollars a year (£7,500 — roughly £140 a week!)……which is pitiful and a disgrace to Justice!

CHINA CENSORS BAD PRESS OVER FLOOD DEATHS — As per usual China is anxious to cover-up its own shameful role by slamming on the brakes of public accountability (that stands at nil!) forbidding anyone to criticise their handling of the Beijing Floods in which 37 people lost their lives.  Censors for the Communist Government began deleting blogs and posts on the Internet they considered offended the Chinese Government!

THE MANY MASKS OF CHINA — Having to accept the outside world, in particular the West; much to their dislike, China has manipulated its public and World image in order to deceive Westerners — hoping that this will pacify onlookers.  Like all attempts by Nations that corruptly rely on these actions to gain favour etc.  Keeping up this mask never works completely, and never for too long, and despite being aware of this they blissfully engage in it hoping the blindfolds remain in place long enough.   This country is ‘soaked’ in murder, vicious and callous atrocities — all of which have either been denied or never accounted for.  One specific horror we will feature here is an article and photo of Chinese Nationalists looking on as a Shanghai Municipal Police Officer kills two political prisoners in a ‘street execution’ as a ‘gloating’ crowd enjoy the spectacle. He shoots both separately in the head as they kneel hands tied in the street.  China’s attitude to this sort of ‘gore’ has not changed in the slightest, and denials will not help them conceal this fact.  History shows us that Chou and Mao were interested in power, which led to millions of casualties, violence and devastation — the murderous regime that symbolized oppression and corruption.

CHINA PLAYS POLITICAL COVER-UP CARD OVER BRIT MURDER TRIAL  — Bao Tong a former Communist leader in 1989 — fallen from office over the Tiananmen protests said China’s government are getting ready to conceal, cover-up and save further embarrassment  in a ‘whitewash’ by putting the blame of the murder scandal on Bo Xilai’s wife so that no-one can stir up or probe into political wrongdoing.  Prominent Rights Activist Hu Jia said ‘ there is no transparency in this case and the Party does not want certain things known about surrounding the murder case — they won’t allow the Judiciary to have the final decision, it will be a Party decision based on political considerations.’  What stands out here is — the Commission looking into the corruption and murder of Brit Heywood, is led by Zhou Yong Kang (ranked ninth in the Party) who is said to be a staunch supporter and backer of Bo Xilai?

COVER UP IS CONFIRMED as four Senior police officers go on trial — Whilst the UK and World Press are being covertly steered to concentrating on the trial of Bo Xilai’s wife for murder, in another court four police officers in the high profile case of the ‘Brit Murder’ confessed to having tried to cover-up the facts and hinder the investigation, in order to protect the accused — the wife of the fallen politician Bo Xilai — the communicate says all the officers were of Senior Rank in Chongqing — the province (constituency) of Bo Xilai…and were being faithful to him out of misplaced loyalty….it is said that the verdict and sentences would be announced later?

As if a cover-up is not enough, many are saying the trial now involved a ‘stand-in lookalike’ in order to fool the world and put an end to any further investigations that might reveal what China doesn’t want. Even the outcome of the ‘show trial’ was unsatisfactory, even to many Chinese bloggers who complained about how the law was twisted to suit a politician’s wife. Gu Kailai received a ‘suspended death sentence’ never heard of in UK or International Law….suspended for two years in case she kills again?  if that doesn’t make much sense, it’s hardly surprising as annoyed Chinese Bloggers pointed out that ordinary citizens receive no such reprieve and are executed shortly after sentence.  This case stinks of political interference and a deal — and never fooled anyone.

Bo Xilai’s wife was jailed despite the brutal murder of poisoning – normally bringing an execution verdict in China…and the ‘Perjury’ and ‘Cover-up’ Police Chief was jailed……Bo Xilai has now been expelled from the Party and is to appear before the court on corruption charges…..mainly for embarrassing the Chinese Government!

The trial of Bo Xilai is not being discussed (report Jan 2013) as secrecy steps in despite attempts of ‘failed’ transparency and openness…failing to convince the UK and the World that China has changed for the better.

SENIOR CHINESE POLITBURO MEMBER UNDER INVESTIGATION — Li Jianguo, Vice Chairman of The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress is now under investigation by The Anti-corruption Squad.

CHINA IS BECOMING A SECURITY RISK TO WORLD PEACE — Japan is now saying what Singapore recently said in America — Japan says ‘China’s growing military influence is now tipping the scales and entering a risk area that could spell the a run up to War with the West — they say a power shift between military generals and the politicians is causing unrest in the country as the Communist Government tightens its grip on the population, which has to be backed by the army.  It revealed that ‘defence spending’ has risen alarmingly from £19 billion in 2000 to £76 billion in 2010. China answered by dismissing the suggestion or risk, but activities in the East China Sea and around the Philippines in the South China Seas suggested otherwise…the West and USA said that ‘ this called for some attention and a new assessment as a risk-management issue’ for the International situation.

CHINA CARRIES OUT ANTI-MISSILE TEST (Jan 2013)  The new missile intended to destroy missiles mid-air was tested by the Chinese…..and they have also rolled out their new ‘Biggest’ Military transport plane the Y20 long range jumbo aircraft capable of carrying 66 tons….the jet is said to be for strengthening its military capabilities.

CHINA DEFLECTED FROM WEST BY ANGRY JAPAN  — Old enemy Japan steps in the way of China’s interests causing thoughts on challenging the West’s power to be temporarily hijacked — Japan who recently poked them hard in the political situation with the dispute over the Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea has received a stern warning from China who are demanding ‘ that Japan immediately cease harm to its sovereignty’ — this comes as Japan expelled several Chinese who were arrested after they landed on the island.

CHINA INTIMIDATES FOREIGN JOURNALISTS — The beating of a Japanese Journalist comes as no surprise in the light of ‘the Diaoyu Islands Incident’ — Chinese citizens have been encouraged to be ‘anti-Japan’ over the last week — the foreign Press were extremely concerned over incidents that involved four journalists being harassed and assaulted while reporting events in China.  It is said that a Japanese journalist had his equipment taken and it has not been returned (The Press Association)  The situation has led to calls from Japan for China to protect its National citizens because of a 20 city protest of anti-Japan demonstrators — some attacking Japanese made cars.

CHINA’S COMMUNIST ‘PEOPLE’S DAILY’ THREATENS USA — China’s views veiled and described as a warning — tells the USA not to cause trouble between China and its neighbours — or it will lead to China hitting back strongly — and the USA should not be surprised by that !  Strangely, China claims its neighbours have benefitted from China’s support of a peaceful order in the Asia-Pacific Region — ironical really — at a time when China ran another headline ‘that it will take necessary measures to defend its territory after the Japanese announced they agreed to buy a contested group of islands that have led to conflict in that region, and there is still the ongoing Philippines Affair and a Political stand-off in the South China Seas’ —  and they sent their warships to both areas — A nice peaceful gesture I suppose?                 Russia have become their buddies and the World Knows it.

CHINA’S GOVERNMENT SILENT OVER ATTACK ON JOURNALISTS — Hong Kong Journalists said the attack on two cameramen by a group of ‘unidentified’ men is a serious infringement of Press freedom.  The Press were attempting to film Ms Liu Xia who is under house arrest  — she is the wife of jailed Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo when a group of men approached during the making of a report for news items.

CHINA ORDERS JAPAN TO LEAVE DISPUTED ISLANDS OR ELSE?  — More threats come from China over the disputed Diayu Islands despite their recent claims to having good relations with their neighbours, this fact having been thrown out as they tell Japan they must leave the islands or face the consequences!  It now appears that they have sent six surveillance ships into the waters around the islands in the face of knowing Japan              is intent on buying the islands. The report says there have been angry exchanges between Japanese vessels and the Chinese crews on board the ships — which points to the appearance of ‘intimidation’ by China.

CHINA MANIPULATES WORLD POSITION AND POLITICS AT IT’S PERIL — The boom in economic China is not a fluke or by chance, they deliberately kept their currency and exports artificially low making sure they were cheap and irresistible….attracting most of the World’s cash. China’s background and culture has meant they won’t spend money like the West, and have a habit of holding onto it just in case!  Because of this habit the just in case has arrived, and China cannot see it…….and the worldwide recession will continue because of the imbalance of export and import.  It is estimated that the consequences for China will be serious the longer it keeps looking in on itself…it’s own past has the answers, but it thinks that getting rich now will ensure its position and act as an insurance policy…..and it’s influence in the West is not based on a mutual understanding at all…it is at best touch and go….with a suspicion underlying every move it makes to prove otherwise.

FILM ESCAPES TO WEST SHOWING WORST OF CHINESE — A film showing that the Chinese government are taking people’s homes away from them to make way for developers was shown on UK TV. The film shows police standing by as ‘bully boys’ hired by developers beat up families as they try to evict owners who have very little left as bulldozers tear their homes down.  It shows one man on the ground, beaten up and being held down by several Chinese young men. The Government claimed they would protect citizens, but this film shows that this is not the case at all.

AS THE WORLD TRIES TO CALM SITUATION – CHINA STIRS IT UP AGAIN — Hilary Clinton has requested that all countries in Asia take part in bringing the South China Seas flare-up involving China to a close before it spirals out of control — Yet, in the face of these diplomatic moves, China has been supporting and allowing the printing of Maps showing they have the disputed islands and effectively stirring up its citizens to be anti-Japan — one of China’s Ministers says that China was cheated by Japan in the 1890’s when the islands were signed over.  Japan has already bought the islands from the Japanese owners…yet China…says they will take these islands back.

On Dec 21st 2012 China yet again raised the game on sovereignty by sending three surveillance ships into the disputed waters renewing its oppressive stand against Japan.  Japanese Ministers said this was a setback to hopes that Beijing would cease trying to harass the Japanese Territorial Claims to the Diayu Island.  The three ships were photographed by a Japanese Coastguard boat, and airplane.

CHINA KEEPS PUSHING FOR WAR! — China as yet again stirred up the situation with Japan and its neighbours by sending three government ships to circle around the Japanese owned islands that they dispute.  This comes after heated and angry exchanges at the UN. and news that five Chinese warships; two being guided missile destroyers are intimidating the situation.  It has also been revealed that China has established a military garrison on a disputed island and refuses to co-operate with establishing a multilateral code of conduct!

CHINA IN NEW THREAT — PHILIPPINES OBJECT TO CHINESE GUNBOAT IN TERRITORIAL WATERS —December 2012 nearly over, and China are destabilizing peace in the South China Seas.  Both the Philippines and Japan are having sovereignty trouble with China, who have lodged complaints via their Ambassadors and diplomats.  The foreign affairs Minister of the Philippines, Raul Hernandez said that this sighting of a new Chinese Gunboat patrolling in the Philippines maritime domain will not ease  tensions ‘ we have a 200 nautical mile exclusive economics zone’ and the presence of the gunboat shows they intend to act provocatively.

CHINA SURPRISED BY PRESENCE OF JAPANESE FIGHTER JETS — China found itself caught off guard as one of its Maritime planes flew close to the disputed islands.  Fighter Jets were sent to deter the plane which turned back.  This is said to be the first time China has met with an official military reaction to its harassment and provocations in the China Seas.  6th Jan 2013.

CHINA’S MILITARY PLANES ARE INTERCEPTED BY JAPANESE FIGHTER JETS — 10/1/2013 Japan scrambled fighter jets to head off Chinese military planes in the region of the disputed islands.

China arrest 93 people for ‘doomsday prediction’ — Authorities arrested these and more later, for spreading doomsday rumours the report says.  Laughingly, The arrests in seven provinces were made to suppress Internet rumours which they believe threaten Communist Rule?

VIDEO ON WEB SHOWS CHINESE THUGS IN ACTION — The film exposing Chinese Tyranny shows mobs armed with sticks beating villagers who refuse to relocate and leave their homes.  These young men who are hired by Landlords to attack and persuade by violence are seen in the Chongqing Province of China 15/1/2013.

ANOTHER ‘DISTASTEFUL’ CHINESE EXECUTION VIDEO ANGERS — China’s State TV paraded condemned men before the public in a ‘perverse propaganda’ attempt to show how they dealt with prisoners sentenced to death. The four men in chains were paraded in public –much like the Chairman Mao Execution Rallies, and put to death shortly after — as reported by China Central Television.

CHINA ACCUSED OF USING RADAR LIKE A WEAPON — Japan  said that a Chinese Naval Vessel aimed a type of radar normally used for weapons guidance at a Japanese Navy ship in the East China Sea.  The Japanese Defence Minister said the incident took place on the 30th of January 2013, and ‘one mistake could have made the situation very dangerous’

Feb15 2013 – CHINA SENDS THREE GOVERNMENT SHIPS TO ANNOY JAPAN — Yet again China steers the disagreement between the nations over territorial possession  towards a state of war…as they send three ships into the disputed waters near Japan’s Senkaku Islands.  The Japanese Foreign Minister said in a statement ‘ Japan cannot accept this, this is extremely regrettable’

In another ‘wobbly game of universal chess’ news of EDF plans to link up with the two Chinese Nuclear Giants and the proposed new reactors in the UK — said to be a £14 billion project involving British Gas and a French Energy Group — making for unlikely bedfellows — and not good news for the stability of any region. They say money can do anything, and this certainly shows that to be true.

CHINESE FARMER IS BEATEN UP 40 GOVERNMENT RECRUITED THUGS — A Chinese farmer Chen Zuqian dared an Environmental Official to swim in the river, one known to be heavily polluted by the Paper Mills.  After he posted the offer of £24,000 online to make a point that the rivers were being poisoned, around 40 men and women arrived in ‘plain clothes’ recruited by the government and started smashing up his home.  He was injured in the violence and was put on a drip.

CHINA’S CELEBRITY JOURNALIST QUITS OVER GOVERNMENT PRESSURE — Investigative Journalist Wang Keqin who did a number of breaking news stories, investigative stories; often outspoken and being critical of the government, discovered that they had shutdown his team at ‘The Economic Observer’ (a Newspaper that often dealt with financial stories). 

CHINA UPSET BY USA — Beijing voiced their anger as America yet again blamed China over ‘Cyber Attacks’ which have been traced to China. South Korea said an attack hit 30,000 computers….and the attack was traced to a Chinese Internet address (but they suspect also that China’s friends North Korea may have asked help here)…but that wasn’t all… they are not pleased with the US defence plans involving Japan and South Korea because they feel it is an attempt to encircle and contain China.  (North Korea have threatened the USA with missiles they say they are going to shoot and America sent to stealth bombers to the region to show they are ready to answer that threat despite China being the major ally of North Korea)

SMOG CHOKED CHINA MAY NEED TO OCCUPY OTHER LAND? — A report says that the Chinese Authorities have disclosed that ‘Industrial fog choked cities’ has led to a rise in cancer among the population making it that 1 in 4 people are now suffering from this…… an 80 percent rise over 30 years.   The air is becoming toxic in areas of deep population….due to factories…….could this be one reason for the disputed land trips in the China Seas, and their constant pressure of provocation off Japan and the Philippines?……..the need to take land!

POLLUTION UP BY 30 PER CENT IN BEIJING — A report says that in the first three months of 2013, pollution was up by nearly a third.

CHINESE OFFICIAL GETS 15 MONTHS JAIL — A Chinese Official who fled to Singapore to avoid capture and a trial, ended up by going to jail in Singapore for receiving stolen funds…. 94 million Yuan, when he was a Finance Bureau Officer from Jiangxi’s Poyang County.  The Fugitive from justice said that he was framed by his former co-workers, and that he was still wanted by The Police in China.

CHINA INTENDS TO GIVE DEATH PENALTY TO POLLUTERS — A report says China is stepping up the Law by introducing more draconian levels whereby a convicted polluter of air and water will face the death penalty. The new legislation is said to have been authorised by China’s Supreme Court…..this comes after a series of home disasters hit the news…..and Chinese Authorities called for a law to cover ‘grievous environmental crimes’ caused by firms.

CHINA REVEALS NERVOUS REACTION AND ARRESTS PROTESTOR — The 24th Anniversary of the terrors inflicted in Tiananmen Square really annoys The Chinese authorities….and in response to those wishing to remind them of it, they ordered the arrest of a protestor who had posted some pictures online and applied to a local government office to hold a protest on June the 4th.  They claimed he was inciting State Subversion!

CHINA DESIGNS AND PRODUCES KILLER FLU STRAIN IN THEIR LABS — Scientists from the West described their activities as an ‘appalling irresponsibility of great magnitude’…..one observer group in South Asia likened it to inventing a ‘warfare tool’ not unlike gas warfare that could be required to wipe out the enemy.  The Scientists said China had deliberately created new strains of influenza in a veterinary laboratory….they warned the outside World there is a danger that this new viral strain made by using the deadly bird-flu with human flu virus could start a global pandemic killing millions of people….if it escapes or used for the wrong reason.     It was revealed that Professor Hualan Chen and her team at China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory at the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute deliberately mixed the H5N1 bird flu virus, said to be highly lethal but not easily transmitted between humans, with the strain of H1N1 flu virus – very infectious between people… into a virus that had the potential to become transmissible between mammals (humans).

CHINA’S HUMAN TRAFFICKING RECORD MADE KNOWN BY USA — Beijing reacted angrily to a Report issued by the USA saying that China was one of the World’s worst offenders in not eradicating ‘forced labour’ and ‘Sex Trafficking’ of people.  America hit out at China’s ally Russia saying they also did very little to provide the necessary safeguards for victims and punish those who trafficked people.  Russia’s response was outrage!

CHINA’S CYBERSPACE WAR GAMES MAKE USA SUSPICIOUS —  The USA are motoring the new PLA plan to start ‘War Games using a Digital army in cyberspace’……this move comes amid the recent cyber attacks that have been proved to originate in China.  The US State Department says the Chinese PLA force is the largest Military presence in the world having 2.3million army personnel…..and this desire to begin cyberspace technological military applications in a series of ‘war games’ could mean they are doing something more sinister, especially as this could interfere with countries satellites’ which carry information and are used by the Internet and Security Agencies of the West.

CHINA EXECUTES PHILIPPINE WOMAN despite Manila’s Official request to spare her life.  The Report said that Beijing ignored the Philippine Government!  (Not surprising really considering their activities in the South China Seas and continual disagreements with the Philippines )

CHINESE CRIMINAL IN BRITAIN DRIVEN BY DATE RAPE PORN IS JAILED — Student Xuanyu Zhong researched date-rape drugs and porn to fulfil his fantasy…..he was jailed for six years…..the son of a Chinese Government Official was studying at the Northumbria University…he drugged his woman victim and sexually assaulted her.

VICTIM OF CRIME IS SENT TO LABOUR CAMP — China, a mother who protested about the punishment for her daughter’s attackers and rapists was sentenced to 18 months in a labour camp for merely petitioning the authorities.  Luckily, the public complained and the High Court overturned the sentence and ordered the court at The Labour Commission to pay compensation of 2,941 yuan (£317) for violating her personal freedom and causing her mental damage.

CHINA GIVES DEATH PENALTY TO OIL SELLER — China sentenced one man to death and gave two others life imprisonment for selling dirty cooking oil.   And a court in Jinan in the Shandong Province jailed seven others for up to fifteen years for black market trading.

CHINA’S GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATORS FOR THE CCDI ARE ARRESTED — Six Official Investigators for the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, a body that operates without legal constraints said to force confessions from suspects under investigation were arrested over the suspicious death of a State Industry Executive who had his head pushed down into a bucket of ice-cold water and drowned. One of the arrested was a local prosecutor. The six agents were charged with intentional harming….which amounted to homicide.

CHINESE NEW PARTY HEAD WAS JAILED OFFICIAL — Yes, not unlike British Politics, even when you’ve been to jail as a convicted felon, you are simply put back by cronies of the government…. a female Chinese Official who supported the ‘fallen’ politician Bo Xilai announced the formation of a new Party in China.  Wang Zheng named Bo Xilai as its Chairman.

CHINA RESUMES HOSTILITY OVER CONTESTED ISLANDS — By sending in fighter jets over the East China Sea.. escalating tensions again with its neighbouring countries…… mainly Japan. (Dec 2013)

CHINA JAILS ANTI-CORRUPTION ACTIVIST — A court in Beijing jailed a legal student and founder member of a social movement for four years for ‘disrupting order in public places’ by preaching the need for equal education opportunities and a stand against corruption!  Xu Zhiyong head of the Citizens Movement, was hurriedly taken from the courthouse despite his lawyer’s attempt to speak to the media being stopped by officials. Who later told journalists that it was yet another clampdown on free speech and the silencing of opposition.

CHINA CLAIMS LABOUR CAMPS OVER BUT THIS IS NOT SO — Yet more deflection from the truth by China…it recently told the World it was at an end… but Li Zhengguo revealed that prostitutes were still being sent to ‘forced Labour Camps’ whilst spreading the propaganda to the West.

CHINA SHAMED BY CHILD CRUELTY PHOTOS ON INTERNET — China’s old perversion to beat children suddenly returned to public gaze as the International Community saw photos of a nearly naked young 8 yr old boy tied to a post being beaten in public.  The boy was said to be covered in bruises and crying as the whipping continued in front of a crowd who gathered around and applauded.  The shocking event has caused outrage especially as a teacher from the area said this was the way to punish a child for misbehaviour — he had played truant!

ANTI  CHINA  PROTESTORS DIE IN VIETNAM RIOTS — Up to 21 people were killed as anti-Chinese groups spread throughout the Vietnamese community objected to China…..remembering the brief war in 1979.  Groups set ablaze a huge foreign steel project…and hospitals said the admitted around 100 people needing medical care.

CHINA IN LAND GRAB FROM THE OCEAN — Stealing land it is reported, and China is the thief…. The Philippines Military said China was reclaiming more land to bolster its military presence in the Spratly Islands again in the South China Seas…..Chinese dredging ships have been witnessed grabbing land in Johnson Reef.

CHINA STEP UP ANTI-FREEDOM POLICY AND GRAB ACTIVISTS — China’s authorities ahead of another show highlighting the Tiananmen Square Incident have arrested dozens of activists, including human rights lawyer  Pu Zhiqiang and artist Guo Jian in a clampdown on demonstrations.

CHINA BIG ON HUMILIATION — The Chinese Authorities used a crowd of 7,000 in the Regional Capital, Urumqi to humiliate 55 people on various charges after finding them guilty….to combat unrest and satisfy its lust for retribution.

CHINA TELLS CIVIL SERVANTS TO SELL LUXURY CARS — The ‘fat cats’ of Chinese Society who work in Government jobs have been told to get rid of the Audi cars and travel by public transport instead.  They have told most officials to give up the ‘Official Car’ and go by bus and in turn will receive public transportation aid.

CHINA’S SECRET COURTS AND THE GLAXO TRIAL — 88 per cent of trials in China end up with a conviction, because the Judiciary is run by Politicians.  Professor Willy Lam says that Glaxo’s Mark Reilly will be found guilty of bribery regardless of the facts, and that he will be effectively tried in secret.  A judge with assistants will try the case without any Jury….and they will decide the verdict.  Connected to this case is a British Private Investigator along with his wife…Humphrey’s Chinawhys hired by GSK (Glaxo) to investigate the smear campaign and bribery allegations….they were arrested in 2013 and charged with illegally purchasing confidential information….their trial too is set to be held in secret………and if they go to jail, one jail stands out as the most degrading and inhuman…. Tilanqiao Prison in Shangai…..known to some as ‘the city of death’ because of the brutalities exacted by guards on prisoners….’The Punishment Wing’ has been labelled as a torture centre for beatings and degrading acts….much like the Nazi stuff and early Chinese atrocities in their History which they prefer to forget in their own country……but not here!

Update: China jails Peter Humphrey and his wife for two and a half years….despite their Private Eye firm being hired to investigate the bribery allegations.  It appears at the one day trial that they were also fined £34,000.

CRIMES OF WAR – CHINA – THE BRUTALITIES – War crimes that China has not atoned for, or have been prosecuted for in the International courts….because China refuses to acknowledge the courts whilst playing the financial economic power position, which it has sought to do in order to disregard human rights….. we shall be adding to this with a study of such crimes and publishing them here in the months to come, and what you read may sicken you!  (they will be listed under this article)

CHINA ANNOYS JAPAN OVER CARTOON — China’s Youth News – Chongqing Youth news featured a coloured map of Japan with a mushroom cloud over Hiroshima and Nagasaki  titled ‘Japan wants war again’    Japan’s Chief cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga called the item offensive to his country (Japan is the only country in the World to have suffered Atomic Attacks when they were bombed in World War 2).

CHINA PUTS BRITAIN IN ITS PLACE — Old Declining Empire….is how the Chinese now see the UK…A Chinese Newspaper owned by the Ruling Communist Party ‘The Global Times’ said China demanded an audience with the Queen as a condition of their Premier’s visit to London.  The Paper said that bilateral relations should be guided by ‘realistic recognition of the two countries power – with the UK no longer placed in the same rank as China’

CHINA’S COVERT OPERATION TO RULE THE WORLD — Rather fitting after the above article,  China carefully places its power in certain position to avoid a conventional war…. Recent Corporate News shows that China has 95 of the top 500 influential companies around the World seeking to gain economic power, which they now believe can bring them the prize that war once achieved.  Chinese domination has covertly been eyeing up the situation with the USA, and joined Russia in many deals, Military and Economic.  Annoying Japan is merely a distraction as they seek to control the South China Sea, the islands and the rich mineral pickings…Putin has been seen visiting China more often and visa versa as he fumes and shows his dislike of the West.

CHINA WANTS TO DOMINATE THE WORLD CUP — News via Singapore says that China have spent millions on a ‘football Academy’ to train youngsters so that they will bring the World Football Cup to China.  The lavish expensive school has been built and founded by a multi-millionaire who has received warmest thanks and gratitude by the Political rulers who are tired of China being bottom of the league and failing to qualify over the previous years.  They say that is it time China ruled the way in football and brought back the cup to a glorious country!

CHINA PLANS TO CREATE ‘SUPER REGION’ — More Chinese domination? it has a familiar ring about it as China wants to create a ‘super region’ around Beijing, a much more aggressive plot to house central control and standards for customs, tax, pollution and Industry, unifying local government areas and regions.

CHINESE MAN ADMITS TRYING TO SMUGGLE SECRETS — Pleading guilty in the US Court, Bo Cai admitted to having attempted to send US Military Secrets to China.    He said he was sending Military Technology to China for their use in spying on the US….he was in court with his cousin  Wentong Cai who was also charged, they were in the US on student visas….he has pleaded not guilty…..Bo Cai faces a lengthy jail sentence it is said.

CHINA ANGERED BY CANADA’S ALLEGATIONS OF HACKING — The Chinese Authorities were yet again fired up over Canada’s accusation that China was behind the hacking of its leading technical development organisation.  Canada said ‘that on Tuesday that a highly sophisticated Chinese State sponsored actor had hacked into its National Research Council’   China said it wanted the accusation withdrawn because it is groundless?

CHINA STIRS UP THINGS AGAIN IN SOUTH CHINA SEAS — It has been revealed that Beijing plans to have a lighthouse built on one of the disputed islands in the South China Seas.   This is a direct defiance to calls from the USA calling on China to freeze such activity to ease tensions between them and the Philippines.

CHINA ‘PEPPER SPAYS’ PROTESTORS — Chinese Police in Hong Kong dispersed protestors by using the ‘pepper spray’ method against people wanting proper democracy. 

CHINA’S ‘COPYCAT GOODS’ CULTURE DENOUNCED — The British Trade Delegation urged the Chinese rulers to reform its ‘counterfeit’ culture…. some 70 per cent of goods seized on exports at EU borders have been proven to come from China….these goods are often dangerous, contain cheap parts and have copy branding.  The British Trade Delegation said Intellectual property theft and design theft must be tackled globally, and China often ignores traders who make copies in their provinces….. because its a living!

CHINA TELLS CALL OFF ‘INAPPROPRIATE INQUIRY’ — The Chinese Authorities lodged a strongly worded complaint and protest at British MP’s looking into tensions in Hong Kong.  They told Britain that views and an inquiry would have negative impact on the relations between China and Britain!

CHINA HAS HONG KONG DILEMMA EXPOSED — The World watches as China tries to quell demonstrations in Hong Kong….but beating of man by Police Officers angers crowd who besiege the Police Headquarters.  The protestors are demanding justice for the beaten man and the arrest of the officers involved, but Beijing in the meanwhile pretending not to be aware have issued its harshest condemnation of the protests.

CHINA INTENDS TO MAKE CORRUPT OFFICIALS PUBLICALLY CONFESS — In a weird situation intending to show just what?  China is to make corrupt officials in regional government admit to graft (taking bribes).  The State anti-corruption bureau is to publish confessions by officials found guilty of corruption to warn and educate others, the report says.

CHINESE CRIMINAL GANGS BRIBE OFFICIALS — Helping procure illegal Ivory shipments from Tanzania,  Chinese gangs are corrupting officials in order to traffic huge quantities of Ivory according to undercover investigators.  They say the pervasive necessity for Ivory for China even involves high-level diplomatic visits.

CHINA AT CENTRE OF FOOTBALL SCAM — It was discovered that a Chinese Bank Transfer Scam took in the French Olympique de Marseille football club taking them for E700,000 Euros in 2014.  It also became apparent that tyre manufacturers Michellin and KPMG were similarly swindled in the same scam.

CHINA SEIZES CANADIAN COFFEE SHOP OWNERS — In retaliation move over Canada’s allegations.  Border Coffee shop owners Kevin and Dawn Garratt were arrested by China who say they are investigating the couple for ‘theft of secrets’…….suspected of passing on military and intelligence information which will endanger China’s National Security.  This move came just a week after China’s outburst over the Canadian allegations?

CHINA YET AGAIN SEND SHIPS TO DISPUTED TERRITORY — Making things worse seems to be China’s strategy on how to get nearer to a conflict….as they sent coastguard ships to the Senaku Islands in the East China Seas after angering the Japanese.

CHINA STILL HITTING OUT IN HONG KONG — The protests have been going on for two months and the Beijing authorities grow more desperate to subdue the pro-democracy supporters.  80 people have been arrested in clashes with police who have been ordered to arrest people for ‘unlawful assembly’…..adding the obstruction of an officer to any charges brought or invented. 

CHINA TRIES TO POSITION ITSELF FOR GLOBAL DOMINATION — Analysts studying the economic upturn in China and its business moves linked to banking say that it is on a planned course to take the place of America and lead the World.  Recent moves over the past few years have showed China taking Russia as an ally, and propping up the dictatorship in the unstable North Korea, who dislike the West intensely.  Apart from this they continue to take shots at Japan (an old enemy) and stir up trouble in the South China Seas.  Europe seems to be their next target said a spokesperson, ‘Where it will go and what will happen, we don’t know’ he said.

CHINA’S DEVIANCE SHOWS NO SIGN OF ABATING — As China disregards human rights and plays with false politics in order to fool the West into believing there is a chance of comradeship, the truth is entirely the opposite in Beijing where the authorities plan their next move to discuss more with Russia and find away of destabilising the West, leaders are secretly planning to upset the balance of power with even more devastating plans for 2020, when China intends to step up Military associations with Russia and stop the Americans from interfering with their moves in reclaiming islands in the South China Sea. (source: e-mail from within China sent to our agent in Singapore).

CHINA IN DIPLOMATIC ROW WITH UK — China has banned a group of UK politicians from visiting Hong Kong amid the disturbances…..they accuse Britain of interfering in their Internal Affairs……in the meantime, Police are using pepper sprays on demonstrators….as Beijing orders them to take a tough stand on anyone who challenges the might of China.

CHINA MAKES ITS ANTI-WEST STAND PUBLIC —  China is increasingly pushing towards a situation where it is openly against the West, and is preparing for confrontation — Recent developments show that Beijing officials clamped down on its students at a university in North West China ‘banning Christmas’ because it was a tradition of the West that had no place in Chinese life.  They told students that they must resist Western Culture, and forced the students to watch a three hour Chinese propaganda film….warning students that they would be punished if they failed to watch the films.  A Communist Party Official told them not to ‘fawn on foreigners’

CHINA THOUGHT TO BE INVOLVED IN CYBER ATTACK ON FILM WITH NORTH KOREA — The Internet hacking that hit the US Film studios causing them to hold back on a new film lampooning Kim Jong…is now seriously thought to have been launched by North Korea with Chinese backing.

CHINA SENDS BACK REFUGEES TO NORTH KOREA — Despite the fear and penalties some if not all refugees face, China sends them back knowing full well many face death and torture.  Commissioners from the World Organisation of Human Rights along with Amnesty said that since the 1990’s reported on the physical brutality being inflicted on those forced back to North Korea…by Chinese Police.

CHINA AND RUSSIA in attempts to upset Japan in ‘Air Harassment’ moves with aircraft manoeuvres intended to stress out the population.  China have been escalating the situation with fighter jets approaching the disputed islands causing the country to scramble its air force 943 times in a 12 month period….Russian jets were seen around Japan in April last year following North Korea’s missile launch in late March. 

CHINA COURTS RUSSIA AS ALLY — Chinese Power Giant Amur Sirius is investing £660 million, 45 billion rubles in Russian’s Solar Energy beginning in 2015, with the construction of a solar panel factory in the region of Tartarstan.

CHINA JOINS RUSSIA IN JOINT MILITARY EXERCISES in the Mediterranean.  The Chinese Minister said the joint sea exercise of 2015 will have nine warships of which three will be from China, the other six will be Russian.  They claimed that the ships will be on anti-piracy patrols off Somalia…..Russia did not want to comment!

( This is looking very much like a China and Russian pact and initiative to challenge the West into War or something similar)

NO ONE SHOULD BE AFRAID OF CHINA, BECAUSE IF THEY MOVE INTO A WAR, THEY WILL DISAPPEAR TOO.

‘North Korea — the Wild Card ‘

Whilst our attention has been on China and it’s warlike manoeuvres, a report in August 2012 has revealed in a cable that North Korea has threatened ‘ all out war with South Korea’ because they are engaged in Military Drills with the USA.  North Korea has close ties with China, and the ‘nuclear’ armed country is upset that 30,000 US Troops are taking part with South Korean soldiers in what the US Embassy has described as Defence plans. The unstable leader says that if one bullet strays over the border it will retaliate with a full war situation!

North Korea keeps up with rocket and missile launches — and announce that the USA is their enemy and that they are set on having a nuclear missile capable of reaching America ( Asia News item 24/1/2013)

NORTH KOREA EXECUTES MAN FOR KARAOKE SONG — Bizarre news came in that an ‘official’ was condemned as a rebel and then executed by a firing squad after being dragged from his home.  His crime? was singing a song dedicated to Socialism, but changed the phrase.  The  news was that the un-named man was a leading military official…..there was no mention of a trial at all!

NB: North Korea’s only ally and supporter CHINA, has told North Korea that it is unwise to continue provoking the USA as this could lead to destabilizing Asia and have consequences that will not be in the region’s interests or neighbour countries.

‘ Escaping the Past ‘

Many countries believe they can escape the past merely by inventing a lie, burying secrets and re-writing history.  China, Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, the UK and others regularly deny anything untoward and gloss things over with the ‘greatness card’ and ‘look how well we have done’  But it is not as simple as that, because they are actively engaging in a deceit and propaganda, quite often believing it themselves.  China actually forbids certain references to its past and has changed some incidents absolutely.  Many countries know the past can have an effect on their present World Status, especially in economic terms, and that often leads them to become aggressive and react to suppress by any means.  The past be it government actions or the actions of the individual are history, and history is of a legitimate calling and collection, and no country has the right of denial of facts….so it is with us that we collect, take and consolidate this history in order to paint the picture that is not often told and many times hidden away……or as the UK says ‘ swept under the carpet’

‘ Trial collapses as cop goes on holiday leave ‘

CLEVELAND COP GARY KNAPPER was blamed for the termination of trial.  The cop claimed compensation for injury against his bosses on psychological grounds because nothing was done to protect him from the accusations.  He said he had been given official permission to go on leave, but suddenly found them denying this after the fiasco of the trial he was meant to attend.  The Judge in Newcastle County Court rejected the cop’s claim and stated that the force was under no duty to clear the detective’s name.

‘ British Loyalty can be bought ‘

History has shown this to be true, in fact — many times over!  Those pieces of silver have remained an essential part of how loyalty can have its price.  Firms buy loyalty with rules and contracts, bonuses etc, as with the bankers scandal.  Peers and MP’s have engaged in bribes, cash for questions and the recent expense fiddles.  Ordinary citizens are equally bought off in a variety of ways, money to keep quiet — known as hush money, cash to look the other way and the more dirty move of preferential treatment.  Sadly, this kind of corruption goes on every hour of the day somewhere in this country as it does throughout the world, and one of the results is poverty for some and powerful greedy men, women and families existing in their own selfish bubble.

‘ Taking the cover off COVERS the builders merchants superstore ‘

It’s often the case we look at corrupt management, but surprisingly we have information about the workers by an ex-employee who lifts the lid off what goes on behind the scenes.  He tells us that drivers often delay goods to customers and take breaks at the roadside in lay-bys to mount up the time before returning to the depot.  Also there is changing parts and fixtures by employees before despatch allowing shoddy and faulty items to slip into the delivery.  Most of the staff cheat in some way or another he tells us and although revealing, we decided the article sounds true and very possible in the workplace these days.

COWBOY BUILDERS? yes, they are everywhere these days……

NB: Before you read this, remember — A glossy brochure, newspaper ads and neat website means NOTHING!

MWM SERVICES the General Builders near Chichester have not got the best reputation they claim on their dot co website which is filled with self appraisal and glossaries that actually mean nothing. The label on their vehicles saying ‘Checkatrade’ a dot com does not carry weight to their reliability, expertise or performance — they are merely registered with them and claimed glowing references; not unheard of on the BBC’s Rogue Traders. False claims of Affiliation to the Master Builders Guild etc, are commonplace for cowboy firms. The programme unmasked several examples of ‘corgi’ registered firms not having a certificate at all, but they still went around conning customers of their expertise and skills. This south coast firm may be able to convince some of the people all of the time, but not all of the people some of the time, they like others do not admit to failures and bad jobs with complainants still unhappy and unable to go anywhere or publically oust the rogues. We have quite a number of complaints arriving which is sadly too many to list. We can however tell you to watch out for a 4×4 GY51 FRD driven by an oink – subcontracted by MWM who wears no safety gear when working with tools?  In fact they regularly flout the health and safety law completely, ie: no guards on rotary saws, no eye goggles etc, the list goes on. Do you really want this firm to do your building work? — hopefully not. On checking out its Checkatrade page — we find two interesting complainants — one saying that the son of a customer was very angry with MWM — another lady said ‘ I would not recommend them — the quality of work was poor and the agreed time scales were not adhered to’ — Boss Martyn Mead claimed it was all a ‘ communication and personality problem’  — several complaints to us refer to the boss and his workers as being ‘inconsiderate and foul-mouthed’ — And talk about ‘spinning out a job?’ they were observed doing a quarter of laying out a lawn in one hour, and walking around that bit stamping on it for another two hours without going any further… they’d be saving that for the following week!!  Oh, and one more point — don’t have your vehicle near these workers, they let dust and muck cover them from what they are doing and leave you to clean up the mess. They regularly park up on pedestrian pavements as and when they feel like it. They even ignored a ‘hosepipe ban’ and were photographed watering a lawn and driveway on the 5th April 2012, just ten hours after it was made illegal to do so, and boss Martyn Mead was there overseeing it. This man even goes out of his way to commit a nuisance and has been reported to the police who suggested he should be more courteous to surrounding neighbours. We could reveal more of what he didn’t own up to, we do have other complaints/complainants and reserve the right to withhold their identity. Although Checkatrade have the emblem the following should be noted– ‘ Where Reputation Matters’ does come with a disclaimer —‘We cannot be held responsible for inaccurate claims made by members nor do we gage the quality of workmanship carried out by members’ — in simple language it says no guarantees given as to what you get.  and in addition Checkatrade do not always post unfavourable stuff on a trader (see articles on Checkatrade below) and there may be some stuff on MWM that was never posted, after all, he is paying something like £600 to a £1,000 to be on the list!

Before using MWM we suggest you make a ‘court judgements’ check to get at any evidence of bad jobs where dissatisfied people sued the firm, remaining unpaid etc……as they will not tell you this willingly.

NB: CHECKATRADE admit that some of the members do fabricate customer reports and that they occasionally ring up the customer who hired the builders to make sure the work was fine if they think the returned form warrants a check………….see below

THE CHECKATRADE FLAW — Can you trust Checkatrade? one site poses this question and the answer is NO.. Mr.Spigol  (web username) tried to register feedback with Checkatrade and wanted to leave an unfavourable review on MWM SERVICES, but found that this was not accepted because if you tell them you don’t want to recommend the trader, you cannot leave a review, you have to make a complaint and allow that trader you don’t want back to fix the work! (a rather ludicrous idea) which he did not want…so he had to regrettably opt for recommending the builder in order to complete the feedback form, so he rated the firm very low to show how he felt about their work….the review did not appear on the firm’s page?  (now there’s a surprise?)

Of course… there is the possibility of collusion between Checkatrade and Martyn Mead?…..it can’t be ruled out.

Mr. Spigol rightly thinks that Checkatrade does everything it can to avoid listing bad feedback….he says it is not ‘real balanced feedback’ and sees this as a worrying failure for anyone looking for a good builder as Checkatrade seem reluctant to weed out awful members of its so called good traders….and doesn’t feature all complaints as it should which indicates it is bias and not really fit for purpose.

Another Checkatrade Hazard!  in Selsey (probably with no Checkatrade profile whatsoever)   We have the Selsey White Van Man — The Scourge of ‘Bodge Builders’ etc,….mind you, there could be more than one in Selsey… but the one in particular has the registration of SK52 JSX, with no traders name on it?  possibly suggesting a tax fiddle or avoidance…or a list of disgruntled customers that have paid cash, and see no real invoice or ‘firm’ letter headed paper showing it to be a valid registered business.  From what info we have, its a one man band, who works mainly alone, poor on safety (The Health and Safety Regulators should check him for breaches of the Act) as he uses equipment such as chainsaws without the proper guards, no gloves, goggles/helmet etc.  A thorough ‘nasty’ by all accounts and probably worth avoiding.

The Cowboy Builders and Traders scene is on the increase, there are more of these firms than owned up to — A new BBC programme ‘Cowboy Trap’ adds to the already Channel 5 ‘Cowboy Builders’ and BBC’s ‘Rogue Traders’ showing the need for Trading Standards to clamp down on these firms now — and not later!

NEW REPORT  LEAVES OUT CHECKATRADE AS THE ONE TO RELY ON — Checkatrade was noticeable by its absence in a new Report on ‘ROGUE TRADESMEN’ in the building, house repair, paths and patios business.  It says bad work by such people is leaving the customers with a repairs bill of £1.9billion in the UK.  Despite claims of traders being affiliated to this and that, almost one in five householders ((18million) who looked to ‘experts’ in this field in 2013, had to get someone else in after the previous builder had picked up their fee and gone.  Rogue Roofers, plumbers and patio layout contractors (drives and paths) cost affected customers an average of £600 each to rectify the shoddy and poor work.  The Consumer Minister, Jenny Wilcott is recommending TRUSTMARK as a body who demand higher standards, who are openly saying that they set the highest bar for tradesmen who work in homes on repair work, extensions and garden layouts (fencing).

ARE COWBOY TRADERS RECOMMENDED BY CHECKATRADE?  in a recent newspaper this appears to be so, and from our own investigations we can definitely say they do have such traders hiding in their organisation. The case of Kay Weedon in Dorking, Surrey caused them to squirm…. and here it is –  She said she contacted Checkatrade to complain about one of their ‘recommended traders’ — but she got no reply or e-mail to say they acknowledged the complaint (we know someone else who had that experience too) even though she sent a report in on that tradesman….and none of it appeared on the website, which continued to give the false image that his clients were all happy with his work…..apart from this she also found that some of those recommended by the organisation didn’t bother contacting her and another didn’t turn up.     Checkatrade tried to make out that this concerned them, but they also conveniently bypassed the subject of not replying…and only reacted when the story hit the public domain…..which gives you a clue to how they run things.

MORE ON CHECKATRADE — Damning new information was revealed about Checkatrade by BBC’s Watchdog,  It was stated that Checkatrade continually held the opinion it had ‘no bad workmen?’ despite receiving complaints and people wanting to post bad reviews…but were denied this.  There is no automatic bad review post, yet there is a fast-track good review system!  The reason quickly became obvious when it was stated that the traders paid from £600 to £1,000 to be listed.  It was easy to see that their online reviews didn’t always tell the whole story, and that negative views are either pulled or scaled back or not there.  A disgruntled customer, Angela, tried in vain to post a review when the trader didn’t turn up after agreeing to…..but Checkatrade would not entertain it.  Another customer, Catrina, complained about a shoddy job done by a builder…but her complaint review was held back for 21 days…… so that the trader could comment?  Even if the post is correct and they know it, the Checkatrade lot don’t always guarantee posting that bad review.  Eventually she was offered £600 compensation yet the builder in question retained his listing of being reliable….with no bad review!  It also emerged that they even let one awful builder who’d been dropped, back on the list.  One customer who posted a bad review had to call the police when the builder came to his house in a threatening manner banging on his door.  Luckily the man called the police and the builder was arrested and charged.  Checkatrade claim to represent tradespeople who are reliable and efficient?

‘ The Public have a Warped Public Perception of themselves ‘

It is indeed strange that most of the areas we have covered whether they are in the police, legal profession or any other consider themselves as being a member of the public.  They claim to be decent and honest, yet we have proved otherwise and that most of them will take a chance when it comes to gain by lies or simply deceiving others.  A study showed that well over seventy per cent of the public have lied, cheated or been involved in something not quite legal.  The term ‘white lie’ was invented to make a lie decent or to be seen as a means to an end that they thought justified.  The study revealed that most people interviewed liked to say they could not recall having broke the law or acted a little dishonest, but they weren’t sure and –yes  –maybe!  Some claimed what they’d done was harmless and a long time ago.  Even in the purchase of ‘ something off the back of a lorry ‘ which means buying cheap stolen goods there is a ready and greedy public waiting to get hold of them.  They completely forget about morals or abiding by the law, which they constantly like to believe that they are, they will happily buy goods even when they know they have been appropriated via a villain.  The phrase ‘ economical with the truth ‘ is often used to cover up the seriousness of a lie in a bid to make it something not intentional — when in fact  — it was!

‘660 Paedophile suspects nabbed in UK ‘

Careworkers, doctor etc, have been arrested in a nationwide raid to grab as many paedophiles as they can said the Police who made co-ordinated raids throughout the country.  ‘BEHIND THE FACADE OF RESPECTABILITY’ one turns to ‘The Cyril Smith Case’ — It is now said that powerful friends protected him, One Police Officer investigating him at the time information arrived about him said he should have been charged.  But it now transpire that a Magistrate warned the Police off saying that the outcome if they went ahead might not be in the interests of the police, so leave it…… and the police did.  The former cop showed the letter from the Magistrate.

‘ The commission gravy train and the  £1 billion rip-off scandal ‘

£1 BILLION FOR DOING NOTHING?   yes, that is what insurance and investment companies are doing with investors and savers.  Financial Advisors take commission even if they have not been giving you any for years since the original initial involvement.  The report quotes Towry Law — one of the UK’s largest financial advisory firm receiving £6 million a year in commission payments for around half a million clients who no longer received advice.      Candid Money — and Justin Modray said ‘ If you have a large portfolio or the financial advisor is taking trail commission while providing nothing in return — it is nothing short of daylight robbery ‘      The idea seems to be if you can get away with it — do it no matter how deceitful it might be considered.

‘Castle Cover Insurance — the Cover-up’

One cannot easily access the complaints because this company don’t let you, one has to take a back door approach and see what can be found through a more less secure route.  We have found a case that typifies what we have already been able to ascertain in our investigations. This company, basically run from Bournemouth hasn’t got a good ‘customer relationship’ — one client has told us of delays occurring with policies and late certificates despite the window display saying it is the best deal for the over 50’s — they also charge an admin fee of £30 for any changes at all — address, vehicle etc. They boast of the best competitive prices, but on going online one can easily find a better deal.  They promise a 48 hour call back on queries, but don’t actually do this, and many have had to chase this company for info etc. The client told us they billed him after an address change for £58.44..and demanded that it must be paid within 7 days…on the 6th day he called them to pay…but was then told the sum had been withdrawn, and on asking why, he was told it had been an error?  but how does an error come to £58.44 and what was the sum to cover?  no explanation was forthcoming…..maybe it had to do with a complaint being sent, —  one that looks as if it might be going all the way to the Financial Services Ombudsman?

Castle Cover offered £50 compensation for the poor service saying that this incident does not reflect their high standards of customer care they AIM to deliver!!  (There have been other incidents that do not reflect these claimed standards)

THE CASTLE COVER continued:  ‘TAKING BACK THE COMPENSATION BY STEALTH’ — Yes, they indeed have tried to take back the £50 from the client by increasing the insurance……and we show that here.  In 2010 they gave the figure £233. 40,  in 2012 it was £241.24 (the vehicle is only used twice a week low mileage) in 2013 it suddenly goes to £320.52…..almost £80 higher (after the incident of the £50 compensation)…..showing that they have taken revenge by adding as much as possible to recover the compensation.  Luckily the client was contacted from the London Office about renewal, and got it down to £272.83 more in line with the slight increases as one would expect…..the Bournemouth quote shows that they differ by nearly £50….and it was the Bournemouth office that paid the compensation claim! need we say more?

Castle Cover customer renewal phone agent admits that they send out higher quotes to insured drivers, but can do it for less if contacted by phone to discuss better rates.  It appears that the unsuspecting driver who has stayed with this company can be losing around £50 a year without knowing that they have just been cheated by their insurers who they trusted!

‘ The ‘Updating’ Fee Scam by Insurers’

MOTOR INSURERS AND BROKERS come high on the list with this, AXA, MORETHAN and CASTLE COVER to name but three, have been found to charge from £5 to £50 plus when somebody rings their insurance company to change an address or name (marriage name change) etc, charging up to a third of the policy amount claiming it to be an ‘administration’ fee.  Strangely on research some online changes were free….. a spokesman all too sure of himself answered in typical corporate speech ‘that their was nothing wrong or unfair about this as it took into account many factors?  and denied accusations of insurers making extra cash from clients pointing out that small print in policies mentioned the possibility of fees for updating the policy.

THE EVER INCREASING EXCUSE TO UP THE PREMIUMS — ’60 people convicted in cash for crash insurance scam’ — yes, just one of the reasons the motor insurers look to to bring out the excuse of having to charge customers a higher premium.  The Organised Crime of Insurance Claims’ has been revealed yet again and one family — The Wright’s of Burnhope, County Durham known of three years ago, were in mind as around 70 defendants were brought before Newcastle Crown Court for the Insurance Scam.  Something in the region of 1,800 incidents of false accidents were looked into, staged and fictitious or vastly exaggerated.  This and the case of the young driver/boy racers, has given the extortionate insurers the excuse to have their own scam!

‘ The Online ‘Arthur Daley’ Car Traders ‘

WE BUY ANY CAR and TRADE MY MOTOR offer to buy cars more or less instantly — just contact them online, and they promise to give you a fair deal…. is this true?  NO……The Office of Fair Trading have already censured both online firms for changing their prices.  What was offered online changed by hundreds of pounds when eager sellers turned to these traders.  TRADE MY MOTOR knocked as much as a £1000 off when the car arrived at their centres…..WE BUY ANY CAR did heed the criticism by the OFT and more or less kept to the offer made online despite it being below the book value.  All offers by both companies were quite considerably less than the trade-in value.  WHICH MOTOR MAGAZINE said it was better not to sell online unless you were absolutely desperate for cash….and that it was far better to consult a local dealer, as you would get a better price…so the advice is clear….steer clear of online money-offering car traders who will take you and your car…and take you for a real mug!

‘ Bad neighbours and violence on the increase ‘

A RECENT REPORT has highlighted the sad fact that bad neighbours and anti-social people are forcing others to move.  Six in ten complaints involved aggressive behaviour, excessive noise and drunkenness.  Other complaints showed that people damaged property of others and would steal openly without the slightest worry. 90 percent of neighbour attitude is to act selfishly without regard to anyone else’s opinion. Another undercurrent was the shunning of new people who were seen to be outsiders and a threat to the existence and clique system that was in play. The report revealed a kind of hostility hidden behind false smiles among many neighbours.

‘ A Holiday hell hole where the cops and council do nothing’

One such place is Hampshire’s Hayling Island — often described as tranquil and wonderful by the people that would like to deceive you.  For nearly ten years there has been a core of drug traffickers and villains causing mayhem and terror to anybody living near them or gets in their way.  In among this we have the alcoholics and mentally unstable shipped in from St. James Hospital in Portsmouth.  These people are given social housing mostly by one ‘father figure landlord – Julian Clokie of the Crescent – and partner in Abbeystead Investments.  The council see him as an important asset in re-housing undesirables and antisocials thrown out from other areas.  He is seen to walk by as cops come to disturbances in the flats he owns, he makes no attempt to lessen this kind of thing, he doesn’t see it as a problem.  They actively cooperate with him in making this Crescent into a ghetto for the aforementioned types already introduced into this article. The Crescent has one of the worst reputations for violence and behaviour problems on the south of the Island, many contributing come on a visit from Leigh Park another trouble spot near Havant (friends of many in the Crescent).  One man so infuriated by vandalism and yobs introduced a website showing his photos of burnt out cars and property damage in certain areas of the island including the Crescent, it was called hantswatch.com.  100 cars had their tyres slashed, two cars set on fire, another car torched, break-ins and damage galore. A former Havant councillor, Christopher Mincham was a fly-tipper   and the public paid the bill, yet another landlord at the Crescent.  The council said things were getting better.  It was certainly better for the wealthy in Grand Parade, Mengham Avenue and Staunton Road.  These elite citizens have security and get offended if anybody parks a car near their driveways.  They don’t own the roads, but one can see that they thinks so.  As for the yobs and villains, they are completely unaware of the problem, yet it is their area that contains the better pickings.  The man who had the website was forced to remove it as it brought down the property values.  Strange how the rich can have their way?  — must know somebody on the council?  Possibly plain brown envelope time!!   Drug raids have been and gone at the Crescent without much success. Even now, in 43 there is a flat which acts as a stop in centre for a fix and an alcohol refill.  Next door at 45 we have the regular drug dealer of heroine.  This is really because the druggies have a bent cop to turn to.   One fatman regularly in trouble and fencer boasts about it.  Nothing is ever found when the police call, they move things just before a raid knowing a warrant will have the wrong address.  The police are in the Crescent every month and almost every week responding to alcohol fuelled acts of violence.  Ambulances attend the drunks frequently throughout a month. It has had two deaths under suspicious circumstances and many fires which have been arson, smashed car windows and street fights involving knives and axes.  One passer by said something to the yobs that drink and swear in group alcohol sessions and two of them ran after him and kicked him repeatedly on the ground.  This cowardly act went on without the slightest fear of being caught while the others watched, all in public. This place is a collecting ground for yobs and low-life’s, they are attracted to people who are like themselves devoid of respect, humanity and social skills.  Most have convictions for assaults and drink-drug fuelled acts. When some go, other new ones replace them, and most of them know each other by reason of drugs or social placement in the past.  And the council have the affront to say ‘ we don’t think Hayling Island is worse than anywhere else ‘

One Wednesday in 2009, the alcoholics and druggies incited and corrupted several children into smoking and the consuming of alcohol on the Crescent.  Although illegal, Landlord Julian Clokie drove by despite seeing the young children all aged around 12 and 13 clutching beer bottles.  The inhabitants of 45 encouraged the minors and invited them onto the property as a refuge if the police arrived, at one point they thought they were coming and they hid in the property — owned by Julian Clokie of Abbeystead Investments.  The children around seven in total remained in the company of unacceptable ‘role model’ adults for two hours, later joined by several older teenagers who were attracted to the welcoming group of misfits and antisocials. And where were the police on this sunny September day? nowhere, not one brief visit.

And what of the Hayling Island parents of these children?  Obviously couldn’t care less.

It also shows, contrary to public propaganda, that children are very susceptible to carrying out criminal acts very readily…. and the Law protects them quite well in this area, especially in that it assumes children to be innocent merely because of their age and looks.

POLICEMAN SERGEANT DUNCAN WARRY spoke at one time saying that ‘There have been problems in parts of Hayling Island, – we are looking at Asbos and other options, so the situation will be improving.’

THE SERGEANT was arrested later for attempting to strangle his wife, he was jailed and dismissed from the force.

Beware of Westmead Close on Hayling Island, it harbours scumbags of the worst kind.  Either side as you enter the close you see affluent houses, but hiding within are people who think nothing of smearing or kicking your car if it is parked in their territory.  Your property means little to these yobs and scumbags who’d readily spike your tyres or damage a car.  Don’t be fooled by its close proximity to the ‘rich’ Staunton Avenue dwellers, these Westmead lot are more akin to the type of lowlife who fit in the crescent.

Hayling’s other yobs –  burnt out cars and criminal damage was rife in areas such as Mengham were 100 cars had their tyres slashed. Winsor Close was the scene of cars being set alight. mattresses burnt, and more.  On Southwood Road a car is set alight, and a house burgled in Rosalind Court, and a fifth car burnt out in Harold Road.  Nothing out of the ordinary there eh?

The Forum group run by twat Mat ignores all of this and pretends all is well on this island, perhaps it is for the lowlifes, the rich are cocooned and are mostly in denial, they cannot see that Hayling is becoming a ghetto.

THE FORMER COUNCILLOR Mincham, he was jailed for a second time.

WHAT OF THE ALCOHOLICS, CRIMINALS and DRUG SITUATION?  they are still there, this was one problem that remains outstanding and will for a considerable time —getting worse before it gets better.

The strange thing which can only be believed if one saw it was  — every week a Sundance Motor home vehicle arrives on a Friday to supply drugs to the many misfits who are seen around waiting for a fix.  The police ironically have been called to quell a disturbance — alcoholics causing mayhem, —three police vehicles arrive and the drug supply is temporarily on hold until the cops have gone.  As soon as they go, the dealing continues as before.

DRUG ADDICTS collect £1.6billion in benefits — a report reveals, and the Crescent has many such people remaining on benefits for ten years and more.  As the report says, they are not required to work as they claim their alcohol and drug dependence is a recognised as a medical condition that prevents them from working. A dog can help, many have got themselves a dog and it is said that claimants cannot take up work because there is no one to look after fido.  The Crescent has all of this and a Benefits Agency that turns a blind eye.

‘ Claiming Sickness Benefit — 80,000 alcohol and Drug Addicts ‘

GOVERNMENT FIGURES RELEASED SHOW THAT 81,670 DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTS are being paid by the benefits agency to be on the sick.  Many get £91.40 a week, which is more than the jobseekers allowance, and they don’t have to apply for a job or look for work—because they are seen as unsuitable and in many cases unstable and can often turn abusive and violent.  This situation is costing the taxpayer £7billion a year.

AN OFFICIAL ANALYSIS says that a quarter of those on sickness benefit have a criminal record…..One if four of those claiming have been either convicted or cautioned for criminal offences during the past ten years.  The study run by a government agency doing background checks discovered that 21 per cent of claimers — a number said to be 1,565,000 on incapacity benefit had committed at least one offence and four per cent had been jailed.

HAYLING ISLAND ANOTHER CRAP TOWN — Hayling Island finds itself in the book that lists the fifty worst places to live in.  The book ‘CRAP TOWNS’ by Daniel Kieran and Sam Jordison immediately pick up on the fact that it is populated mainly by the ‘oldies’…the over 70’s….the final destination for the unhealthy people to die.  It did have a good beach in the 1970’s but the council came along and shipped in tons of stones, covering the pleasant sand completely….it says that the attractions such as the fair was brought after much of the gear was condemned…especially the death-trap roller coaster which has seen better days.

‘ BUS COMPANIES RIP-OFF PASSENGERS ‘

STAGECOACH, NATIONAL EXPRESS, FIRST GROUP, ARRIVE and GO-AHEAD have been referred to the Office of Fair Trade who are to investigate the rip-off fares and poor service given by these bus giants.  OFT has put this issue to the Competition Commission who can impose remedies on the companies.  A Watchdog said that the behaviour of these companies was scandalous and more so because some received a £1.2billion subsidy from the taxpayers.

‘ DELL and the not so-honest deals ‘

DELL COMPUTERS give the impression that they give great deals to the customer — but this is not so, and this is born out by their January ‘sweet deals’ campaign.  A flier generated by Dell completely flies in the face of this as one saw their ‘on-line’ website information.  Misleading?  no, just another trick to confuse and deceive the customer into paying more.  Sadly, this is typical of many such companies in the computer business.  Their January flier offered customers the inspiron “15 with T3000 processor for £329 if it was purchased by the close of the day on the 27th of January 2010 claiming that the customer would save £180.  They also claimed that one could call them via the phone from 10 a.m. to 7pm on Sundays.  Our researcher put in a phone call at 4pm on a Sunday within the offer date only to hear a message saying that the office was closed — but if you went online you could order the pc there.  We went to the website only to find the price had increased, the inspiron “15 with T3000 was now £379 — some £40 dearer.  A less powered inspiron was £345.99, it was a “15 but had no T3000 processor.  It was then obvious that Dell had purposely closed the offices in order to divert bargain callers to the website in order to profit more, which in fact is a very devious corrupt practise.

‘ PC GIANT DELL ENCOURAGE LATE PAYING ‘  DELL promote the ‘ late-payer ‘ syndrome that inhibits and causes trouble for small firms, thus damaging their cash flow basis according to reports on the BBC daytime show WORKING LUNCH.  The Pc Giants think nothing of possibly bankrupting small companies who need prompt payment of bills to survive.  DELL extended their delayed payments by 15 days arbitrarily and without consultation with anyone — after all they are giants and like many giants there will come a Jack or David to bring them crashing down one day.

‘ Tascam, TEAC’s Cheap Option ‘

THE RECORDING WORLD was introduced to the cheap and cheerful ‘rogue pup’ of recorders by Teac, who out of embarrassment  for a poor product decided to call it the new range TASCAM.  The range fell foul in many areas, especially their DAT machines (DA20  and DA40) which broke down fairly frequently.  The notorious Tascam home studio the 24/88 was a sad version of the 24 track squeezed into just 12 usable and friendly tracks being rather independent.  6 others were coupled into two tracks on just one fader and input level, the 19th track was TG.  The 6 doubles are fiddly and hard to separate requiring an amateur push button and hold idea that not only confuses, but fails to work at times, obviously constructed by moron geeks told to keep the unit small and cheap.  The machine could have easily been widened by another four inches which could have allowed for the full 24 individual tracks proving they really had a machine anyone could use…..but it was an economy version of the recording studio, put together with a nod at computer speak…..but it failed in another area, its low capacity hard drive, which could fill very quickly, and did.  It was designed to give out fairly soon…probably with only a year or so in it.  Tascam techies, if that’s what we can call them really set about showing how lousy they could be, building a load of rubbish that has a second-hand sale tumbling on e-bay (many getting rid of them when the memory and hard-drive is about to pack up).  No wonder TEAC couldn’t face using their brand name in studio gear on this crap, so they chose Tascam, and hoped no-one would mind.  We actually got a good look at the inside of one of these 24/88’s and saw how cheaply they were built — there is a lot on nothing inside, with four looms going to one panel and that connects with a flimsy motherboard.. the play, record buttons are cheap and fail after a year or less leading to expensive problems……and its amazing to see so many cheap and inferior components, ones that are more or less designed to break down after a short while.  The casing may look technical, but basically this unit is a load of junk…..talked up by techies on the take who recommend this as being suitable for the price….don’t believe these so called review sites, they’re probably paid to say what they do about a product….nobody sits there testing products for free….. so do yourself a favour, look for something better!…….you won’t find it at Teac or Tascam.

‘ Belkin, the master makers of crap ‘

YES INDEED, we get more messages that Belkin wireless adaptors and equipment is not as good as their technicians make out.  Lies yet again from these makers who promise a fast untroubled way to connect to the Internet.  Absolute nonsense, many say that when they switch on their computers the Belkin adaptor is already active, and on some occasions an intruder is already attached alongside your hub.  One lady said that her machine has three users on it and the adaptor sometimes lets only one use the connection and she has great trouble getting the other two users on the same wireless. Yet the machine has the wireless adaptor, and it seems to work one night and then not on another, so this tells us it is a dodgy piece of rubbish that only Belkin can make. One guy said he tried over 15 times to connect with the internet, but it failed every time, and then went onto fail with his first choice user name, which was incredible. He said it was the worst bit of junk he’d ever purchased, and that he discovered from others that it absolutely lacked security and was a thief’s gift to those who wanted to spy or steal someone’s identity.

BELKIN SOFTWARE REGULARLY FAILS says a recent independent ‘Techs on the Job’ report that found that wireless links and sticks connected to many computers have troubles in store for many users. They say they regularly fail to connect with the Internet and even a second or third ‘set up’ does not solve the problem. It also ‘majestically fails’ repeatedly if the computer has shared users and often bars the others and only operates for a single user – the administrator, which causes delay and stress to the user. On a test, the wireless adapter failed several times to connect with the web when being transferred to another user. Even on opening up the pc with the second or third user fails and the wireless link fails to show absolutely and therefore does not operate despite being connected. There are failures in contact regarding sudden on and off statuses, which often requires the user to shutdown the pc and start again until a connection can be made. This poor example of non-efficient software shows that it had faults in its design and building components that were not addressed by Belkin technicians who thought they could just push this out on the market to the non-suspecting consumers who pay for quality not trash.

THE BELKIN WIRELESS ADAPTER IS A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME AND COMPLETELY UNRELIABLE.

Belkin refused to answer our inquiries and did not reply to our e-mails.

‘ Many parents are liars, and that’s official ‘

A SURVEY HAS REVEALED THAT PARENTS lie to their children 100 times in a year.  A survey carried out by the Shelia’s Wheels Insurance Group found that 90 per cent tell children off for lying but do not achieve the same standard themselves.  One in three parents have lied to teachers to get them off school.

‘ THE AFTER-SALES SERVICE LIES ‘

Many companies, shops and businesses happily lie when it comes to guarantees and customer service promises.  They have no intention of giving any service whatsoever after pocketing the cash or putting through the credit card etc. and giving you the goods.  It’s quite sad and disappointing that this act of deceit is on the increase and that it is ordinary staff who carry out the bosses intentions in order to get the sale.  One case in point is a computer shop called Cornerstone in Bognor Regis, they sold a p.c. which had unstable processors, which was discovered by a BT pc engineer who was testing the machine for wireless applications.  This company boasted of its professional integrity and know-how saying they were better than P.C.World in this field and produced this specially built desktop with a fault from day one.  The after sales service was actually nil, and e-mails to the company bounced.  Sadly they are not alone in this attitude to the customer, because we know that the high street names do the same thing.

‘ A Darker side to Village and Town life ‘

TAKE A PLACE LIKE SELSEY, it could have been Bournemouth or somewhere on the coast towards Kent, but Selsey it is on this occasion.  It seems idyllic on first glance and exploding with charming nice people, — a nice thought, but you’d be absolutely wrong, and this applies to many such seaside venues.  Beneath the fog of ‘ a seemingly nice place to be ‘ exists a system of people who see nothing and rate nowhere in the unlawful or excitement stage.  Yet by this same token allow others in their midst to play the angles and fiddles without interference.  It has that village nonsense of a Post Office within a supermarket – the Co-op, staffed by bimbos…well they are the kind that see a queue and close a counter and ignore the situation, which is one of the worst aspects of the Post Office these days. The second group manipulate and sidestep truth and game play life without concern or integrity. Patrick Moore, the ‘sky at night’ astronomer lives here and outwardly reflects a decent attitude to truth and plain speaking which he claims to be his resolve.  But let’s not sacrifice fact for fiction so readily.  The Patrick of early years is gone and sadly he fails to realise that in his old age, and like many, insincerity has crept in and it must be stated that he embraces this – and it is a form of two-faced response —  it is a fact that someone who believed him to be a friend sent him an invite and it took several days before a reply arrived saying he had other engagements that day, but this was not essentially true as one of the guests went round to see him on the very day — and lo and behold — he was available and nothing was going on, so where was the engaged? it was a lie, — he says he always likes to speak the truth which was sadly lacking and probably quite deliberate, what he did is basically a snub and the great man sacrificed this truthfulness.  Sometimes this takes a backseat unintentionally, as he cannot be held responsible for those that are around him – the Praetorian Guard in some ways, headed by Trevor, a fellow Astronomer who says one thing and does the other, not to be trusted really; he’s got a nasty habit of ignoring people out of hand, and Shirley the Governess who never quite tells it how it should be, even when you know there is something quite not right – one cannot quite tell whether she acts for the boss or automatically responds this way through continual practise.  People come and go to the aged presenter of the BBC show at Farthings his cottage, but one cannot help the resemblance of the welcoming committee to Billy Whitelaw’s presence and character in the Omen as she guards Damien the boy antichrist. Close friends, even ones associated with the BBC programme are practised liars who regularly deceive and use insincerity as a way of life without any care whatsoever.  They appear convivial for all outward purposes as they guard and manipulate, maybe for their own gain?  and smile a lot saying the right things as they rule over who does what, where and when.. and finally staying with the deceit, a friend of ours told us of the two-faced Pete Lawrence, another Sky at Night presenter who and we quote from an e-mail — apologised to our friend for saying the wrong thing during a phone call and mistook him for someone else? claiming he thought it was a ‘somebody to avoid’ –and went on later to say it ‘shouldn’t be mentioned to Patrick’ explaining the chap in question was someone Patrick sees from time to time, but can be annoying. He went on to tell our friend — ‘it was quite funny really, and hopefully marks the start of a good friendship!  — this was May 2010, since then he never made one effort to continue the rubbish he claimed — and it sort of shows you that even the mighty Patrick and friends are lacking in honesty.  They say Jack Dee lives in the area, him of the cynical razor sharp wit. One cannot help thinking what lies behind this could be a deviousness on a par with the MP’s perhaps. What is obvious is that Selsey is full of ‘jobsworths’ who lack real conviction and cannot think freely if they tried.  Even the biggest landowner of the Bunn Estates is spreading out over the entire region gaining immense power that certainly could influence the Chichester Council unfavourably.  All these things and changes are done gradually so as not to cause alarm or be detected as a threat, but they are done at any cost because it can be done and no one realises it.

We were told by one resident that they purchased a car from SELSEY MOTORS, and found several faults in the first week — a faulty gear that wouldn’t go in, a visor that fell and glove box that opened on any vibration. Then the car overheated revealing no water in the expansion tank…yet the vehicle bumf stated that it had been serviced? and to add insult to injury, they didn’t answer calls from the customer, and in addition to this it was found that there was water trouble in the water pump area of the car by an independent mechanic who suggested the garage had pretended  to fix it were in fact adding a liquid solution called the cheap fix in order to avoid doing the big repair necessary on the guarantee…. so do not buy your car there…the car guarantee is worth nothing.

As we touched on the subject of Patrick Moore and Astronomy — it might be worth knowing that the great man said recently that interest in astronomy was on the up, but sadly we can say his pr is fooling him, as we already know that someone who had that in mind kindly offered to host a group inviting interested astronomers in an ad for several weeks — the outcome — not a single bit of interest, and that was in Moore Land, Selsey, so who’s kidding themselves here?  Even a visit to the Internet surfing Astronomy revealed that there is no club for miles, and certainly not in the Selsey region where you might have thought there was, no, you have to go to Worthing, Hastings or Tiverton in Somerset.  The tosh of more interest is certainly lacking among the kingpins of Astronomy in the Selsey region, the only reason to suggest here is elitism and selfishness on the analogy – If you didn’t get picked for my gang then you are not invited ‘ seems to fit nicely.  Another awful and sad truth about the Astronomy crowd was revealed when the Merseyside-Liverpool Astronomy Club turned its back on a ‘new-comer’ — Mr Jack Brown of Merseyside approached them, and the president of the club said they’d assist him, but after he got his telescope and was unable to put it together, the club was nowhere around…even e-mails to the club were ignored asking for help…..such is the comradeship of these clubs and the people that run them!

‘ ANOTHER SLICE OF SELSEY AND THE NONSENSE OF A COMMUNITY UNITED’

We thought the reputation of Selsey and its residents could go no lower until we received a story from a newcomer to that town, or more correctly — a village. The facts are these – and the place Large Acres, yes we can say that — a quiet middle-class mid-wealthy part of Selsey.  A new resident did not find this so-called hyped community spirit and neighbourly friendship, it wasn’t there, nor had it been for a number of years – there was an insipid pretence of friendship offered that had no substance — One could use the phrase ‘ selfish greed ‘ existed among them — the new resident discovered a smell of gas and raised the alarm with the emergency crews. It appears it was just reported in time, he was told to vacate the building immediately and had to wait around as there was no such friends he could call on, not in Large Acres anyway — it’s also a haven for the neglect of parental control and responsibility as one child is allowed to roam around and use the area as a playground, and what of the parents? — they’re too busy to care so long as the child is out of the way. They’ve already had one boy in trouble, yet consider their image of ‘good eggs’ in the community whitewashes any failings; they’ve managed to kid enough people so far. Back to the Gas incident — One of the workers said that it could have gone up with a bang and that other nearby properties were in danger as the leak was outside and endangering his house. As he waited in the cold, neighbours at 15, 17 and 19 who were aware of the gas did nothing to see if the vacated neighbour was okay, no, they even offered coffee and teas etc to the emergency crews despite seeing the neighbour twice, offering him nothing nor approaching him, the ones at 23 weren’t much cop either, the guy revels in how he conquered a woman over a dispute and wears the win like a medal, they’re totally into image without substance — ‘posers’ – equally without talent and as for excuses, they have them all — a snub really, shits of the first order – and who wants them for neighbours?. They even knew there was a smell of gas earlier in the day but did not report it or think it had anything to do with them, the stranger saved them, the one that they treat as an outsider, they also assume parking rights over others thinking they own adjacent areas when in fact, the space is for turning in, off loading and access only according to council bylaws. Whenever it takes their fancy they actually take land that they do not own without the slightest hesitation feeling they have a right to it and where their guests can park– We do have other things on these neighbours which are not so palatable, and for that reason we must hold back in case of flying lawsuits,—  so if this government thinks there is a community, they are kidding themselves. It takes more than having a few charity shops and old folks coffee afternoons to hide the real truth.

One guy F. who went to school there said of Selsey — ‘It’s dead really, nothing really good happens’

TWO VISITORS FROM CRAWLEY WERE ATTACKED BY SELSEY MOB – Sadly  we have news suggesting Selsey has within its community people who group together to take revenge on outsiders who criticize them. On New Years Eve these two visitors left the Crown Inn after an altercation and has they left by the back door they were ambushed by a group of unidentified assailants who assaulted them and then disappeared into the night to take refuge in the neighbourhood of so-called respectability.

RESTLESS SELSEY YOUTH ROBBED AND ASSAULTED BOY — An un-named 13yr old boy was knocked to the ground and kicked repeatedly by several teenage boys all in black, who proceeded to steal his blackberry mobile phone, cash out of his pockets and relieved him of his headphones in Manor Green Park…the boy was upset and suffered minor injuries.

KNIFEPOINT ROBBERY IN SELSEY – In March two men threatened staff at The Tyre and Battery Centre with a knife demanding cash. One victim sustained minor cuts….they made off on foot into the Selsey area.

WOMAN IS ASSAULTED IN SELSEY — A woman was assaulted by a man in front of her two children as she was walking in the Beach Road area.  It is said the unknown individual attempted to push her around.  Two motorists in the area frightened the attacker off when they got out of their cars on seeing the incident.

SELSEY MAN CAUGHT MAKING CHILD PORN IMAGES — Selsey resident, Warren Hilts was arrested by the police and charged with 21 offences.  These related to pc images showing indecent acts involving children.  Nine of the charges were attached to distributing such images (video), others concerned still images, and attempts to facilitate or arrange the commission of child sex offences online…plus the possession of extreme pornography.

Update on above story — Hilts was jailed for nine years.  It also emerged that he was running a ‘Hub’ type service advising online paedophiles on how to sexually abuse children.  He also provided extreme child porn and had facilitated or arranged the commission of child sex offences online. Six offences related to the distribution of indecent video and still images over the Internet.

ANOTHER SELSEY MAN ON CHILD SEX OFFENCES — Mark Sorensen appeared in court charged with attempting to incite a 13yr old girl to engage in sex, and making indecent porn images of children during 2010/2013.  He is due to go before the Crown Court later.

ATTEMPTED ROBBERY IN SELSEY — News tells us that a young woman leaving the One-Stop shop near West St in Selsey was approached by a woman demanding money who threatened her with violence if she did not pay up.  The Woman who walked off down the High St was said to have been wearing a Balaclava to avoid detection.

November 1st.  ‘Unmarked black 4X4’ parks up in Large Acres, observing bungalow across road,  Time around 8pm.  Two patrol cars arrive ten minutes later….. 2 cops from each.  2 cops go to talk with two people in black 4×4 cruiser.  4 cops approach bungalow on corner with new extension ‘garage’ – they gain entry.  fifteen minutes later they come out carrying articles and elderly man (recent arrival to Large Acres) is in handcuffs, obviously arrested.  He is known to be a retired hairdresser, who up to date has been having many renovations to the property.  They conduct a search of his pockets before putting him into the patrol car…and he is taken probably to Chichester.  People opposite with large number of boys come out ‘irate’ and challenge police officers on guard at the bungalow, these people have ‘adopted’ the old man..the do-gooders? are told to return to their own house. The nature of this incident and arrest remains a mystery?

Be careful not to upset the Hyper citizens who instantly cry ‘threatening behaviour’ as soon as you remind them of how secretive and calculating their residents happen to be. One trader, a pc specialist told us not to use any motor garage in Selsey itself, and it appears he was not wrong. We have already mentioned the BAD SERVICE AT SELSEY MOTORS and that list grows with TILLINGS AUTOS of School lane, — somewhat of a lousy service, and we hear that hyper citizen is connected with that so stay away, as you may regret trading with them. Things are not looking good at Selsey!

RICH BITCH SAYS  THERE ARE NO POOR IN SELSEY?  then why is there a food bank operating at the local Methodist Church?  Yes, one can see that Selsey’s rich middle class have no idea and in order to shut out the riff raff they assume everyone is in their ‘club’ of spending and posing….but a food bank in Selsey means they don’t really care about those less fortunate…. a big house and property with ‘Keep Off or Private property’ shows how shallow and vane they are…as they put their third or fourth car on the drive and sit in their new extended Patio.

INSIDE THE SELSEY COMMUNITY: TABOOS —  One taboo revealed by our inside contact is ‘crime reports’ featured on their web podcasts for ‘Selsey Radio on the Web’….the crime thing is to be dropped in case it gives the wrong impression to visitors…..’we don’t want it putting them off’ said one of the team…..another case of ‘hair-brushing out the reality’ in favour of a myth.

Talentless Selsey, no honour, no good, and not worth visiting.

THIS KIND OF INSIPID INSINCERITY IS NOT ONLY ACHIEVED BY SELSEY read more below.

‘ Salisbury residents ignore pensioner on the ground in freezing weather ‘

MIDDLE AND UPPER CLASS SALISBURY — The place not to visit or support for any reason. It is hard to believe that an affluent place like Salisbury can be in the news for callous and atrocious behaviour shown by its citizens who left a pensioner on the ground and walked past him for several hours while he suffered, but they did. 77yr old Brian Courtney was ignored as he lay on the ground for around five hours after he collapsed on the way to see his doctor. Hundreds of people, including motorists passed by without offering help — in a hurry to distance themselves from the body on the pavement. A report uttered disbelief in this day that a town could act in this way for an elderly citizen, but we know it can and it is not unusual at all.  The man collapsed in Bedwin Street, Salisbury just after 8 am when he fell unconscious in near freezing conditions, and lay there until 12-40 noon before being rushed off to hospital — after just one person, a care worker alerted the hospital — so there is just one resident that showed some compassion — the others couldn’t care less.

‘ People ignore dead ‘sleeping rough’ man in Kensington ‘

This story may have gone un-noticed, and probably many in the public domain would have liked it that way, but we have the right section here, in which it belongs — The location is unbelievable, one of the richest suburbs in West London — Kensington.  The dead man, Pawel Koseda, sleeping rough, died after impaling himself on one of the railings in Kensington Church Walk behind the Parish Church.  The report says many people were aware of him and saw him sleeping there, yet no-one tried to help him.  It says the man was sleeping in the gardens and attempted to climb over the rail slipping and impaling himself.  It says after getting himself free, badly wounded, he lay there bleeding…..and before the police were finally alerted and arrived with an ambulance, many people walking past preferred not to notice him. 

‘Altrincham Boy faints and commuters step over him ‘

Yet another case of who cares!!  14year-old schoolboy Oliver Tiplady fainted on the Manchester bound platform at Altrincham Railway Station as he waited for his train. To the horror of his parents, they discovered that passengers and commuters walked by and some stepped over him as he lay there unconscious. His mother said she was disgusted with the public who cared only for themselves as they went on by.  ‘How can this walk on by society leave a boy in his school uniform lying there, he wasn’t a tramp or alcoholic ‘ she said angrily. Oliver had felt dizzy as he waited and suddenly fell, banging his head on the concrete. He eventually revived and made his own way to friends who arrived later on the platform.

Here are a few more cases we will just list:

PASSERS-BY Ignore elderly man hurt in Hit and Run accident.

PASSERS-BY Ignore brutally beaten homeless man.

PASSERS-BY Ignore injured child and cross to other side of the road.

PASSERS-BY Ignore dying five year old boy as he cries for help…that boy died before arrival at the hospital.

PASSERS-BY walk on by and do nothing as injured toddler is left to die.

All these news items were called shocking and equally dismissed and forgotten about very quickly.

There are more cases like these which show a ‘callous’ and uncaring public performing at its best, and we will slot these in as we go on to show an organised picture that would not indicate anything if it were shown in isolation on some page eight of a newspaper and quickly dismissed and forgotten.

‘ Vice Squad uncover hidden secret of the pleasant village ‘

LEE MILL a sleepy little village near Plymouth in Devon woke up to find the vice squad raiding a house thus revealing a kind of sexy brothel with a dungeon and much more for the many clients who called there.  The masochistic dungeon and its facilities came as a complete shock to many policemen involved in the raid, especially in a quiet well respected village in Devon.  Two women and a man were arrested at the scene and police took away Nazi uniforms, whips and bondage equipment.  One new villager said ‘ When I came here I had no idea this village offered such a thing as this, it seemed so conservative and upper class.’

‘ Sleepy village with the miss whiplash attraction ‘

Yes, another quiet respectable village has its own sex service at the Community Hall this time.  The village of Waters Upton in Shropshire can offer the services of Sophie Allen at £150 an hour – flogging, boot worship as in slaves and canings.  The hall management charge her £30 a day to hire the hall — purely a business transaction they remarked?   Quite a village eh?

‘ The Whiplash Club in Suburban Surrey ‘

SURREY THIS TIME, and in the local Sports Centre Gymnasium.  Referred to as a posh family sports centre, the Kingston leisure building was hired out for bondage parties.  Saturday night spankings as addicts get whipped by madam wearing black stockings and wielding a whip.  The Function Room would see around 750 guests at £10 a ticket after it advertised in kinky magazines.  The title above the door to these pleasures said ‘ Miss Creant’s Academy ‘   Some people come and quickly change into masks the organiser said, ‘ they cannot afford to be recognised because many of them are lawyers, policemen and judges or teachers.’  The local council then run by John Tilley of the Liberal Democrats promised an inquiry.

‘ Fifty Three steps to the village secret ‘

Not far from Leeds, Michael Grahame runs his fourth Whipping Dungeon.  The innocent house in a rural village seems okay, but take a step inside and the world of vice invites the customers to exotic pleasures only sought by those wishing to hide behind a cloak of respectability.  He boasts of similar houses in Bedford, Maidstone and Surrey, all referred to as clubs.  Sessions can be for the whole weekend, but many prefer the night visit or late afternoon booking.

PS. We have another twelve such villages and towns who claim respectability and they have miss whiplash and co’  providing the needs of kinky customers, but we are holding them for a later occasion,

And here they are:

‘ Come to Darlington for a Good Spank ‘

Amid the pleasant and seemingly normal environment, the neighbours in Peterhouse Close alert the police to strange goings-on.  The raid on Thomas Welch’s house discovered a torture chamber containing a rack, whips, canes and chains.  Welch told the police ‘ I specialise in cross-dressing, bondage, domination and humiliation.’ Welch charged clients £40 an hour or £25 for thirty minutes. Appointments were made from a phone box around the corner as part of his security.

‘ A Caning in Canterbury  — Marriage Counsellor can do it ‘

CORRECTIVE THERAPY is what Garth Ridley, a marriage guidance counsellor offers at his home in Canterbury, Kent; a service for the community he proudly says.  He offers whipping, bondage and sexy sessions with massage.  ‘ People who come here ask for all sorts of strange sexual services, many beyond what we offer. One client wanted to be dealt with out in my garden in broad daylight ‘ he said, ‘ most go for spanking or moderate whipping, but I don’t do pure violence.’  He showed the reporter harnesses, thongs, whips, canes, ropes and baby oil.  He said the fee was around £30 depending on the degree of kinkiness?

‘ A Good Whipping Time in Edinburgh ‘

John Sutherland and his wife Michelle like to make every guest and local feel they have somewhere nice to visit,  ‘ Pop in for a good flogging ‘ is their message for visitors to their home in Balerne, Edinburgh.  John said ‘ We offer a judicial theme and a school session — where adult males change into school uniform and shorts and the women into gymslips etc,  We play Headmaster and Headmistress using the cane, slipper, strap, and we are Uncle and Auntie for the domestic stuff which involves spankings. The judicial theme requires us to be a Judge or Magistrate and Prison Officers to administer more serious discipline, usually the cane.  Our customers are usually solicitors, businessmen and pleasure seekers who want to try it or get it out of their systems, though some do continue on a regular basis once they get used to it.

‘ In a nice bar in Leeds, the cane gets to work ‘

Pub Landlord Roy Hinton who ran ‘ Nellies ‘ in the local community, had a treat on Sunday nights for his customers.  They could engage in sexy games, and men who lost had their bare bottoms caned and then rubbed with cream, and women had their breasts licked and more.  Hinton appeared before Leeds Crown Court for running a disorderly house after plain clothes cops posed as customers. The bar DJ Darren Courtney 20, was fined £100 for helping Hinton to run the games and sessions.

‘ Kinky Bondage session in York goes wrong ‘

YORK CROWN COURT heard how a whipping session ended in barman, Mike Brown, getting wounded. Two bondage girls told the court that he agreed to being spread-eagled on the bed for the whipping. Dawn Cain was accused of causing him grievous harm.  The court heard how Brown being stripped and facing face down was whipped a number of times before he began struggling, and that’s how the accident happened as the girls decided to cut him free at that point. Dawn accused Brown of not telling the whole truth.

‘ A Spanking in Dover before the Channel Tunnel Trip ‘

‘ We only whip you, you don’t whip us ‘ was the rule for customers in the Kent area from the Discipline Maids at a Dover Hotel.  Maids Terri and Kelly charged 390 a night for a session when they tie up and whip clients for agreed discipline scenes.  A lot of our regulars are lawyers, accountants and businessmen who are booked on the Channel Tunnel Train said Terri.  ‘ Many of them like us to dress as schoolgirls, nurses and maids. Others somewhat kinkier just like to be tied up and caned’ said Terri, a former legal secretary.

‘ Discipline at Gloucester’s ‘NIGHT LATCH’ Club ‘

The Sado-Masochist club ‘ Night Latch ‘ based at a bed and breakfast hotel in Gloucester regularly advertised its services.  Osborn, a lecturer at Canterbury Prison ran the discipline sessions with the owners of the Spalight Hotel. John March and his wife Gelda provided the buffet and mingled with the guests.  At 7-30pm the hotel ‘ unmasked ‘ and guests changed into bondage gear, leatherwear and near nakedness, some with thongs and having dog leads and collars etc.  A table was laid out with whips, vibrators, handcuffs, mouth gags and rope. A crudely built vaulting horse would be brought into the room and victims bent over and tied down by ‘masters’ who caned them.  One observer who’d been present at a session said ‘ it’s amazing how thirty people or so can be dressed in formal wear looking so establishment can suddenly throw it all off and behave in such a depraved way, paying for it too.’

‘ Spanking Sessions in Upmarket Kensington ‘

Porn Star and Dominatrix Antonia Moore, a sexy black model offered kinky spanking sessions from her flat in Kensington. She said of her clients, ‘ They’re mostly just harmless old men, I don’t do sex, so spanking is there thing when they come here.’  Antonia had already been rumbled when a photo showed her having her bottom smacked by 68 year old stockbroker, Alfred Nathan.

‘ Bayswater Dominatrix and Torture Room ‘

108 exhibits were presented at Knightsbridge Crown Court for the trial of Christine McLaughlin who offered her discipline service to Londoners.  It was said Police discovered a torture room equipped with whips, riding crops, canes, leatherwear, masks, handcuffs and gags.  She denied having sex with her clients and said ‘ they only come for punishment ‘  She explained that requests were sometimes bizarre, military, judicial and school, with a bit of domestic thrown in besides humiliation. ‘ I offer personal services to anyone who can afford it, and most of my men clients are in the business community and legal profession.’

‘ London’s East End Spanking Club ‘

It’s probably nice to know where locals can get their secret fix, and THE RED STRIPE CLUB run by Ivor Goldblatt attracted fifty guys at a time paying £150 to enjoy the feel of punishment.  Ivor guaranteed a good stock of whips, canes, paddles and weird videos that would satisfy the customers.  Rooms around the unassuming house provided different scenes including a school room for naughty boys staffed by Claire, the Dominatrix.  ‘ We provide what they cannot get or keep at home in order to show society that they are normal and well-adjusted family guys, it’s all about the acceptable face of society, and we do not represent that so they use us in order to act out their fantasies in secret.’ said Ivor, ‘ So I guess we are one of those invisible services and asset ‘

‘ Man in Nappy dies at North London Torture Club ‘

THE TORTURE GARDEN — A North London Club for Spankings, Whippings and other kinky pursuits, attracted unwarranted attention when a 57 year-old man died amid the loud music and sessions of bondage.  The man, just dressed in a nappy(diper), had been drinking heavily after having a thrashing session with a studded leather belt.  Residents nearby called the club depraved, others said it was absolutely bizarre. The owners said they had many satisfied customers. ‘

‘ Judge tells Whiplash Madam to Stop Whipping Clients ‘

BAYSWATER LADY OF DISCIPLINE Lynda was given a nine month suspended jail sentence by Judge Edmondson at Knightsbridge Crown Court.  He told her that she must stop whipping kinky clients.  The court jury heard how she beat, humiliated and whipped customers at her flat.  The former Military Policewoman admitted to conducting sleazy sessions for clients who came from the civil service, lawyers and cops.  The jury were told that she advertised in shop windows and porn magazines.  Undercover cop Detective Philip Spittles told the jury he underwent a thrashing and was charged £50 for ‘corrective treatment’

WE NOW LOOK AT AN EXPORTED BRIT SPANKING FRANCHISE:

‘ Pain in Spain? — UK Couple run Whipping Club for foreigners ‘

A British tour operator and his wife offer floggings and torture sessions to punters in Tenerife. Businessman Graham Smith and girlfriend Kay of Manchester provide a dungeon fully equipped with riding crops, canes etc to administer floggings to trippers, holidaymakers and discreet locals. ‘ We have a cat’o’nine tails for more painful ‘secured enjoyment ‘ they boasted. Reporters said the basement of the house resembled a cave and had wall chains.

THREE MORE EXAMPLES FROM THE FILES of a slightly different nature:

‘ Schooling in Burnley takes on a new meaning ‘

Headmaster Bob Fergusson of Lowerhouse Junior School, in Liverpool Road, Burnley, which had 150 boys and girls between 7 and 11 years sought an outlet for his discipline needs when he formed a Spanking and Discipline Club for Naughty Big Boys and Girls in the evening. He ran adverts inviting applicants, and through a contact Malcolm Lang, obtained the use of an office to welcome/discipline the boys and girls. In gown he greeted big boys in their school uniforms and shorts, and big girls in gymslips.  The boys are mainly in their 20’s he said and I give them a proper caning. Shocked Fergusson was quick to point out that he didn’t touch or attempt to physically punish the junior boys at his school in the same way. ‘ I believe in discipline for boys, but these days they are too wild and I’d be in court if I spanked or caned any boy at the school ‘

‘ Charity HQ and a date with the Former Headmaster’s Cane ‘

Former Charity boss Ian Ogilvy used the ‘Man Search’ dating connection to run his private discipline sessions at the Offices of the National Association for Mental Health — known as MIND.  Ogilvy, a former Public Schoolmaster for 20 years said ‘ Whilst I was in full time education I mainly caned boys of 13 to 14yrs, but it had to be over trousers. Now, here at the office, I get to cane bare bottoms and spank them too, which is a lot more pleasing as I get to choose which young man I want to deal with more severely.’  MIND said shortly afterwards, that Mr.Ogilvy had left the organisation following the article.

THE CORRUPTIVE MORALS ARE NO STRANGER TO THE CHURCH?

A REPORT HAS REVEALED THAT THERE HAVE BEEN 4,000 CASES OF SEX ASSAULTS AGAINST CHILDREN IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH — Cardinal Joseph William Levada produced a shocking document at the Vatican showing the scandalous extent of child abuse at the hands of priests. One particular Priest — Alexander Walsh faces going to jail for a long time after being convicted at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court of 21 sex offences against boys from eight to sixteen.

‘ Novice boy Monk stripped for caning ‘

In case he sinned 19yr old Keith Todd was told by Bishop Peter Ball, the Bishop of Gloucester, that he was to strip and take a thrashing in advance of possible sins.  Keith had joined the little Brothers and Sisters of Christ as a trainee novice and went on a five day visit to Sussex to be at the house for initial training. He found it rather odd to take a shower every morning at 5 am and pray naked with the Bishop. But things turned more bizarre when he was told by the Bishop ‘he should have a severe beating, and that I wouldn’t be able to sit down or work for two days after the caning.’   The Bishop told the teenager he had administered severe beatings to other young monks with a whip, leather strap and cane.

‘ Priest pops pills and pays for spankings ‘

FATHER GERARD COBHAM was much respected by the congregation at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Liverpool, where he often talked about the sins of the flesh and how one must turn their back to it. But he was soon to be exposed as a man who regularly paid rent boys £90 a time to spank him before indulging in sex sessions.  He denied allegations that he invited back a reporter and showed him porn videos of young men and openly admitted to having several young men visit him.

‘ The Vicarage and Soho Rent Boy in spanking deal ‘

Priest Derek Palmer of St. Michael and All Angels regularly paid £300 to rent boys at the Georgian vicarage in Walthamstow, East London. Palmer visited the gay bar Compton’s in Earls Court where he picked up Rent Boy Max 22.  Max was quite amazed how open the Priest was about being there, and it wasn’t very long before a price was agreed and they went back to the vicarage.  Max said there was many items of porn around and it seemed as if Palmer wasn’t that bothered, most visits happened on Thursdays.

‘ Rent Boys Spanked at Nun’s convent by Priest ‘

It was already known that there was a problem with Father John Horkin, in fact, the Catholic Church had known about it for five years before moving to Dawlish in Devon and The St.Paul’s Convent of Nuns.  He had been at a hostel in North London run by the Sisters of Providence until it was discovered he was doing bizarre rituals and spanking rent boys. But this did not stop with the move as hoped, Father John began taking in rent boys and one boy 23, told how he was asked to wear tight white shorts as a run up to the beatings. He was told to enter the convent at special time and not to let the nuns see him come or go. ‘ He paid me £80 and I saw his advert in the Gay Times ‘ said the young man. 

‘ Methodist Church Caretaker in Spanking Videos ‘

Ernie Lewis particularly liked spanking and caning, so much so, that he performed in videos as a Mr. Whiplash and appeared in spanking magazines.  The caretaker at Park Lane Methodist Church in Wembley, North London. used the church unbeknown to Rev. Wainwright who said there would have to be an investigation concerning these activities.  Lewis would perform the spankings with girls and have it photographed or videoed for the magazine Janus, he said he got around £150 a day. 

‘ Salvation Army and the Spanking Captain ‘

Army Captain Martin Howe prayed for forgiveness after spanking his victims it was said by the prosecutor at Fareham Magistrates in Hampshire. It was heard that the Bible bashing Salvation Army Captain spanked several teenage girls before he was finally stopped. Howe began in Bridgwater, Somerset, went on to York, and after more suspicions moved quickly to the Salvation Army HQ at Gosport, where the police caught up with him.  He married Lynda another Salvation Army Captain who knew nothing of his secret.  The court took a dim view of his abuse of teenagers and referred his case and sentencing to the Portsmouth Crown Court.

‘ Choirmaster spanks naked boys during singing lessons ‘

The 72yr old Choirmaster John Bellamy was jailed for 2 years at Worcester Crown Court when he was found guilty of indecent assault and gross indecency towards five boys aged 11 to 14yrs in yet another ‘Historical Case’ dating back to the 1970’s.  The Choirmaster then at St James the Greater Church in Leicester invited certain boys to take extra singing lessons at his home to improve their vocals in the choir.  When they got bits wrong or didn’t achieve the target he set, they were told to strip naked before he spanked them.  This happened over a five year period.

‘ The Deceptive High Moral Stand is flawed ‘

It is without doubt a National ‘untalked about and hidden secret’ that society does not like to admit to; there is a concerted effort by the public and government to deny and lie of its extent in UK Society, often making a joke of it so that no more questions will be asked on the topic of spanking and the public liking for it —so it actively ignores to its shame — because the Brits cannot run away from it — it will continue to blight their ‘all too clean perception’  — they see of themselves.  Society, the church, the law, and others, aspire in public to have high moral values — but as we have shown, the above behaviour happens in every town and city of the UK  ( not forgetting the villages) — as the book ‘ The English Vice ‘ claims. Clubs in Brighton and Hove such as Equus and A&S Ents cater in male domination, bondage and punishment videos, as does the Manchester outlet Videoplus and C.P. Specials in York.  The UK’s secret affair with punishment and discipline is by no means unique, it’s highly likely and probable that it goes on in almost every country, and in the USA on a greater scale. But good old Society in its true tradition of denial and cover-ups continues to kid itself and take the higher ground of morality and persist in the charade.  So long as it goes on out of sight or in the darkness of the back streets the customers will be able to indulge in this immoral behaviour and feel safe to judge others as corruption takes their souls to the heights of gratification and a safety net provided by the ‘out-of-sight — out-of-mind’ communities.

THE CYNTHIA PAYNE CASE AT THE OLD BAILEY showed clearly as it unravelled that the British Public used clubs and house parties like hers for fetishes and spanking scenes. She boasted of having many members of the judiciary call causing the judge to look uncomfortable during the trial. The film that followed ‘ PERSONAL SERVICES’ brought the thing to a more visual account as it couldn’t name her, but it was all too obvious with court trial in the film too who it featured, and she was brought in as a consultant on the 1986 film confirming this. On the day the police escorted 53 gentlemen of differing ages to Streatham Police Station the cops had some worries as to what these Gentleman’s status was. In court it was discovered some of Cynthia’s clients were the Judges’ colleagues.  Members of The Bar, big business, Clergymen and Government officers were at the ‘party’ on Wednesday the 6th of December when the police raided.  One of Cynthia’s dedicated clients was an ex-police inspector who drove regularly to Somerset to her country home so he could go naked and clean the cooker in the position of a ‘slave houseboy’ such was the demand on her services.

We have many more cases involving towns and cities with ‘Spanking, Bondage and Discipline clubs’ and we shall come back to list them later. It is quite clear that the secret life of the U.K. citizens can be discovered as we have done here in the many cases listed. The upright British Citizen and Moral stand is actually a myth, a lie.

‘ Catholic Priest convicted of sexual abuse against boy ‘

FATHER TONY McSWEENEY appeared before Southwark Crown Court and was convicted of abusing a teenage boy at a care home said to be run by a paedophile friend.  It is said he had the lad strip naked for a shower after telling the boy to take off his clothes for a medical inspection in his bedroom.  The Grafton Close Childrens’ Home in Hounslow was managed by John Stingemore, also charged, but died before the trial began….the incidents are said to have happened in 1979 and 1981.  The Priest was found guilty of Indecent assault and three charges of making indecent photographs of children…..Sweeney of West Sussex was bailed and will be sentenced in March.

‘ Church in Sussex keeps child abuse report secret for 10 years ‘

CHICHESTER DIOCESE finally admitted that they had a child sex abuse report involving the Church that they kept secret since 2004, which was known to several members of the clergy.  At the time they didn’t believe it was appropriate to make the report known.  The perpetrator was Terence Banks who was jailed for child sex crimes in 2001.  Banks had access to boy choristers while being head steward at the Cathedral, and later a Church property.  It was said he would take them out to tea and on visits back to his Hammersmith home he showed them around the BBC (1970’s and 1980’s) as he was a floor manager at the studios.  The Report on the abuse by Banks from the 1970’s to 2000 was written up in a file in 2004.  In 2001 Banks was jailed for 16 years after being convicted of 32 offences against children.  It was heard that he plied some with alcohol and would introduce them to porn films before abusing them. It is said he was widely regarded as part of the Cathedral Choir’s Organisation despite having no official role, and was said to assume some power over kids and parents.

‘ It’s 2013 and Bondage Group book Village Hall’

TRUMPINGTON, CAMBRIDGE, and the Village Hall is in an uproar after they discovered that a booked session was one of ‘ Bondage Classes and flogging’   Trustees at the Village Hall have cancelled the booking which had been presented as ‘ a relationship support-group meeting’, but later found out a full description meant ‘spanking and impact play’ organised by the Peer Rope Group, Cambridge. This booking was one of the proposed work shops in the next month of October.  Sheila Stuart who represents the city council said she thought this kind of thing was becoming more common in society and less hidden due to modern trends and the Internet.

‘ Rudeness a priority in Southwold, Suffolk ‘

Yet another fine example of English charm and warm welcome? Apparently a report says the locals were too rude for travellers to take, so they left. Although there is legislation demanding that travellers get somewhere to park, certain villages and towns still oppose them any rights whatsoever, and that seems to be how it is at Southwold. It is also reported that the locals were celebrating their ‘ lynch mob/posse’ attitude as a victory in causing the travellers to move from the common and go elsewhere. The Travellers were under the impression that Southwold had many ‘ posh people’ but sadly posh is never suitable when discussing yob and insincere people who like to think themselves above others.

‘ The Dickheads of Portsmouth ‘

DICKHEAD, a word that is uttered by ignorant drivers around the age of 18 to 38, or thereabouts when you visit Portsmouth and surrounding area.  These impatient drivers have limited vocabularies, and lower I.Q.’s. Not entirely surprising considering areas like Paulsgrove where mobs once took out their fears on innocents and were never brought to book.  Pompey, the football area that has its share of hooligans, baseball cap, loud-mouthed etc, and easy to spot.  Most of these guys are in the common variety, van and labour occupations or possibly ‘ not-seeking-jobs. Definitely a place where corruption can flourish and breed, just like their use of crude language and behaviour.

PORTSMOUTH LISTED IN ‘CRAP TOWNS’ — Immortalised as one of the 50 worst places to live in, Sam Jordison and Daniel Kieran include Portsmouth…..they suggest that the only redeeming feature is possibly the beach, but as it is made up of pebbles…it hardly suits feet or sand castle making.  ‘The sea is of a brown colour, and contains used condoms and needles all year round.  It’s tourist feature is just Historic!

‘ Isle of Wight still sleepy and still in denial despite sordid facts ‘

ISLE OF WIGHT RESIDENT DAVID ICKE might be laughed at by some, but he was more than right when he hinted on his website that the Island was hiding corruption and playing down what was actually going on in order to claim it was all a bed of roses as seen through their tinted glasses. In just one year we have these following cases, and remember well, — it is a small island community, as claimed by lawyer Christopher Prew who was incidentally, arrested by fraud squad officers. Fellow lawyer and partner Mr. Tony Holmes at the same firm breached the solicitor regulations after representing a client knowing he was acting in a conflict of interests and kept it a secret until the client found out and discontinued their representation with the company (the actual wording of the letter proving this can be seen in ‘Featured Lawyers — Isle of Wight Press Gag Mystery ‘ ). Tony Holmes never appeared before a disciplinary Tribunal for this, had he done so, he might have been suspended or even disbarred or in the least fined £2,500 – the nominal fine set by the tribunal. Island solicitor Michael Mills was suspended after a £5million theft involving a client accounts swindle. Solicitors Robinson, Jarvis and Rolf had a writ issued against them claiming damages in respect of a breach of contract and negligence in connection with a property purchase. Solicitor David Powell of the firm Walter Gray was found after committing suicide over circumstances yet to be revealed, but sources on the island claim that there had been financial trouble at the firm well before this incident. Even the Island police have not escaped — Woman officer PC Theresa Street was fired over theft allegations. Bully cops Det Sgt Crowe and Constable Dave Brunt were removed from duty. Sex with girl cop – Constable Stephen Cottrel was given six months jail. Similarly, cop Gary Bayldon the sex on duty constable faced charges of wilful misconduct, and acting Inspector Jason Bolwell faced the court charges with three counts of theft. Property Developer Steve Redhead is suing the Island Police for wrongful arrest. Four men were arrested as a fraud inquiry continues on the island investigating money-laundering. Two other businessmen were arrested and bailed over a foreign property scam involving £1.5m – they were arrested on suspicion of theft. Loan sharks were raided on the island at four different addresses — and evidence seized. For one little island that could fit into the mainland well over four hundred times, this cannot be seen as a minor issue and certainly exonerates Mr. Icke. Or as the solicitor would have us believe — just average and to be expected and nothing to worry about because it goes on everywhere — we’re just honest law abiding citizens? 

‘ THE CARING COMMUNITY? – it never existed — the above examples clearly show that all this talk of a caring community is absolutely false. Today’s community, the UK, believe in wealth and selfish greed, which is mirror imaged through the many articles of deceit, fraud, lies and secrecy we have already published — with many more yet still in a huge backlog we have to add.  This kind of propaganda saying all is well is often spread about by politicians, and is in fact a screen to hide the real truth, and those of us who dare to print it, just as our friends at DWP Corruption and Wikileaks only know too well, want to shut us down and twist the law to see if they can silence us.

‘ Weapons Company BAE head off corruption inquiry and pay fine ‘

ARMS DEALER BAE agreed to pay £286million in fines despite denying any wrong-doing.  The fine was imposed by the US Department of Justice.  In a complete turnaround the company admitted to a charge of conspiring to make false statements to the US Government.  The company are also set to pay the serious fraud office £30million after pleading guilty to breaching duty regulations in regard to accounting data kept on record. 

former BAE agent Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly was charged with corruption.  This relates to him making illegal payments of around £11million in return for contracts that he would gain from.  He is also on charges of bribery, bribing officials in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria.  He appeared before Highbury Corner Magistrates in London.

‘ Public kidding themselves according to CBW Report ‘

An old report of two years ago surfaced and was brought to our attention concerning the findings of a statistics group CBW — Campaign for a Better World.  It says that they compiled information regarding Public Conception, attitude and how it measured up.  It went onto say that despite bursts of generosity spurred on by world or UK disasters and poverty being shown on the TV and media, basically the trend was still selfishness amid this highly publicised show of goodwill — in other words — it was merely cosmetic and paper thin.  It said the public were ‘ kidding themselves into thinking otherwise ‘ and the facts showed the contrary, a truth that was continually denied.

‘ Criminology student in Benefits Swindle ‘

ANGELA PASQUILL, a mother taking a degree in criminology claimed disability benefit  of £16,000 because she claimed she could not walk very well.  Yet she was seen bounding up to the college just as able-bodied as the other students without a sign of an disability.  The lectures quite ironically covered the subject of fraud?  The court, Hoddleston, Lancashire sentenced her to a two-month curfew?

‘ Boss of iSoft banned over false accounting ‘

DIRECTOR IAN STOREY of iSoft in charge of financing in the IT Group was banned from accounting by the Institute of Charted Accountants when it was discovered he repeatedly provided ‘false and misleading’ information to auditors. He was ordered to pay £20,000 in costs.  The IT Group were working on the upgrade of the £13billion NHS Computer which was strewn with problems.

‘ Lawyers legalize lie in mobile home park scandal ‘

Along the A20 one arrives at Kingsdown in Kent, and a residential mobile homes park called ‘ Kaysland Park’ run by the Sawyers — a most unsavoury family by all accounts who lie to conceal their underhand ways of interpreting the Mobile Homes Act.  This Act is flimsy enough, and gives nil protection in regard to sound rights for those people who have spent thousands on securing a home and placing it on a plot in the Sawyers park.  Back around 2000-2004, the Sawyers began a plan to remove single units (vans) so that they could profit more on the new double units.  But in order to do this they had to cheat the existing residents.  Divide and conquer was their method and it almost worked with the exception of one resident.  One elderly man could see what they were up to as they cheaply got others to sell them their vans and go, but he was not easily victimized.  He tried to rally the others but they lacked the backbone to fight and eventually he fought alone.  The Sawyers turned from being the ‘nice family concern’ into more or less — criminals!  They insisted their foe had broken the park and law by having a porch that had not been approved.  But this was a lie, he bought the second-hand home after seeing an advert with photo, and the photo of the sale shows the porch.  The Sawyers claimed they did not know of it, yet they called for ground rent every month and must have done for years.  This lie was suddenly adopted by their lawyers TURBERVILLES who in turn quoted the Act and backed their client’s lies whilst adding others.  At no time did the Lawyers visit the site nor did they have any experience of it and its history, no, they just lied and gave muscle to the bullying techniques of their clients – The Sawyers.

‘ £56million con scam at the AIB is revealed after raids by the SFO ‘

ALLIED IRISH BANKS were raided by the Serious Fraud Office after a mortgage rip-off was discovered by the company.  The elaborate scam was said to be excellently crafted involving loans and properties.  The scam worked because of lies and deceit regarding the rental status on the properties and values. 

‘ U.K. Citizens in debt lie and feel guilty as debt total rises to £55billion ‘

A recent report by the Credit Consumer Council has revealed the staggering amount run up in debt by British citizens as they spend beyond their means.  Insolvencies went to a high of 134,142 regarding ordinary people engaged in using credit for almost everything.  It went on to show that people were in denial and many hid their bills and falsified things at home to convince outsiders and traders that they were doing well when in actuality they were in a financial crisis.  More than 21 per cent of couples lied in order to cover-up owed cash from their partners.  45 per cent of women had hidden debt yet continued spending in the hope that it would go away or work itself out.

‘ The Public, The Press, The truth and lies ‘

NICK DAVIES, Reporter with The Guardian stated this ‘ I FOUND OUT THAT I WORK IN A CORRUPTED PROFESSION ‘  and that meant the Press.  Whilst writing an investigative book, the dedicated journalist discovered the truth about newspaper reports and the guys who were supposed to go out and get a story.  He uncovered what we have already said exists — that the courts do try to conceal cases and this was so when a reporter with ASCIAK happened to see the wife of Chancellor Nigel Lawson being admitted into court an hour before they normally opened to deal with a drink/driving offence.  Another unreported case was that of a POLICE OFFICER who was confronted with evidence of his own corruption while giving evidence against the accused in a Crown Court.  Another example of keeping things quiet was at Leicester Crown Court in the late 1990’s when it was revealing Scotland Yard’s involvement in unlawfully bringing in gangsters from Jamaica to pose as informants enabling them to commit crimes.  He discovered coverage on Local Government issues were being missed by newspaper staff, and only the persistent PRIVATE EYE continued to report accounts of corruption and incompetence in local councils called ‘ROTTEN BOROUGHS ‘ (2007)    Behind the scenes he found that £17billion is spent every year on the criminal justice system — ‘ that doesn’t catch criminals, doesn’t dispense justice, and certainly isn’t a system ‘ — it failed in 97 per cent of offences –90 per cent of those were addicted to drugs or alcohol or suffered from a mental disorder.  The Justice system only worked on the 3 per cent because they were more or less law abiding.  The Public cry out for a clean fair government expecting one around the corner.  But as one cop once said ‘ the police force and any other body reflect the public like a mirror image so if there is corruption in that body there will also be a tendency for the public to be corrupt, it cannot be anything else.’

PRESS – SUPPRESS — yes, the press only select items they want to cover. Pop garbage and political garbage only have to fart, and there’s a reporter willing to talk about it in great detail. A case we covered of a man on the Isle of Wight who went to jail for his beliefs did not even get a by-line, entry or even the merest interest from the newspapers, that is how selective they are, it’s as if they do deals over news, and if someone says it isn’t to be covered or mentioned for reasons of self interests or to prejudice another, then that is how it is played out. We hear from a BBC Panorama programme that in the Phone taps involving the News of the World and others, that journalists paid cops for cases despite the transaction being illegal and corrupt in both cases. It certainly doesn’t hold out much in the ‘truthful reporting and Independency situation’, and one can only come to the conclusion that the Press in all of its guises cannot be trusted.  It’s a good thing we are here to tell it like it is.

PRESS UNTRUTHS AND INVENTIONS – Many years ago, A Chris White who was a reporter for one of the tabloids openly admitted to being in the Red Lion pub in Brentford making up a story if he could not get one, and he told us that he wasn’t the only one doing it.

‘ New Government, new ways?  –NO WAY! ‘

THE LIB-CONS, and DANNY ALEXANDER MP, a Lib Democrat, — Prevaricates and protests as he is interviewed on The Politics Show.  He claimed the interviewer was out to trap him?  Yet, with straight forward questions put to him — he wouldn’t admit to views he held on the conservatives before the election when he rubbished them and said they were untrustworthy.  He ducked and dodged so many issues, answering in the way we have known so many sleaze MP’s engaging in.  This is new politics?

‘ Service Providers pay out compensation ‘

166,000 complaints to the financial ombudsman this year means that it is at a record high.  The Banking and Insurance providers came in for the major share of bad service providers.  Bad Accounts, mishandled have led to record payouts of up to a £100,000.  The department say they are on top of the situation despite the figures not reflecting this kind of ‘ claimed progress’ by the providers.  One can only view this as wishful thinking and yet another attempt to deflect the heat of this subject.

‘ The MOT Test Scam ‘

Enabled by Government……. As each year passes and the vehicle MOT test itself becomes more difficult to pass due to constant add-ons by the Government (Highways Dept), the testers and stations have the perfect money-making framework in order to scam motorists at will……and as some suggestions say, derive ‘kickbacks’ from garages who undertake ‘the required work’.   The test merely goes to one of being simple and a fee of around £40 to £200 plus, because it isn’t good business to let vehicles pass the MOT too frequently….. in fact, most cars only pass one in every five…. the failure explanations too vague and technical to be challenged, and the motorist is not in the position of affording time to expose the scam without professional help.  One garage in mind, many moons ago, in Fortis Green, London, actually had a boss who (behind the customer’s back) told staff to invent faults and bill customers for new parts and repairs knowing that the MOT test provided him with the excuse to fiddle….the invention of non-existent work!   One tester at a station he dealt with was fired for dodgy testing as he took kickbacks and did special deals for certain customers….not within his remit….they took away the testing authority licence from that garage…..after many years one might add.

‘ 7 GEC Marconi workers in Internet Porn leave firm ‘

The seven workers who left the firm after being found to have been calling up internet porn sites ignored repeated warnings about their behaviour.  a contractor and six boffins all worked on designing weapons and warplane systems in Rochester, Kent.

‘ Government praised auditors are being investigated ‘

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS has been reported as under threat of an investigation after a US Bank was hit with a huge fine of £32.3 million by the city regulators the FSA.  The matter concerns JP Morgan who employs former Prime Minister Tony Blair as a consultant.  It says that there has been a failing to segregate as much as £16billion of clients money placing it into wrong bank accounts.  Any insolvency at that time over the seven years would have put the money at risk.

THIS SOUNDS MUCH LIKE THE SOLICITORS AND CLIENT ACCOUNTS, which have been the subject of misuse as featured in ‘ featured lawyers ‘

‘ The Public Cannot Help Lying – according to journalist Laura Holland ‘

LAURA HOLLAND in the Daily Express openly says that friends cannot help lying to each other in matters of how one looks etc,  She says it’s not because they want to lie, but but a survey revealed it is down to a reaction in order to boost confidence.  Over half of the women questioned admitted to lying and did were not able to really explain why they did it — only that it was a natural response at times when faced with a question of honesty.  Some of those questioned said they had deliberately told lies, but regretted doing so later?

‘ The Company Vantage are fined £700,000 by the FSA ‘

BROKERS VANTAGE have been found to have been flouting the rules by the Regulator, and have been fined £700,000 by The Financial Services Authority.  They claimed that Daniel Hassell had exerted significant influence over Vantage for four years even though he had been deemed a fit and proper person to work in the Square mile of the city.  He had an application for a licence rejected in 2007 because of issues in an investigation.

‘ A Fair Society Isn’t Achievable ‘

One unrealistic target is the silly notion of a fair society — according to the Research of Human Development Agency ARD.  Gordon Hulcombe says ‘ All the examples of human kindness reported in glowing terms only adds up to a minor statistic when it is stacked up against the greed of bankers, dodgy businessmen, lawyers and government lies.  Selfishness is on the increase and the ‘ couldn’t care less’ attitude is attributed to about 90 percent of the nation.  Poverty would not be a problem or exist if the people were really devoted to having a fair society — they just aren’t and never will be.’ he said.

‘ Liz Jones says men’s fashion sense is obscene ‘

At last the truth, and it’s been long overdue.  Fashion Guru Liz Jones has spoken out about the men of Britain and the naff way they look.  She says it’s almost a crime against humanity as middle age guys cling to shorts so they can look in tune with their kids — but in reality look like ridiculous oversized toddlers.  She wonders why the middle aged guys abandon all sense of taste in favour of awful T-shirts over large bellies, wear stupid baseball caps and those shorts that hover just below the knee.  Do they think they look younger? she says, and have they looked in a mirror lately?  — they are monstrosities, and some of the twenty-something’s just look as awful too.

‘ Taxpayers Alliance — Principles or Pofligationism? ‘

MATTHEW ELLIOTT was thought to be by us, as a reasonable do-gooder, but on weighing up the evidence we realize they and him must be removed from links because we discover that this Leeds born man is more or less a ‘ sheep in wolf’s clothing’ and that probably should apply to his associates, Lee Rotherham etc.  Publicity-wise they appear too often, and when one brushes aside the colourful veneer, they are not what they seem to be, or actually give a clear indication of aims shooting arrows in all directions to see where they land.  They put great store in technology and accountability without actually disclosing theirs? They also exaggerate their claimed importance in matters of government waste all based on going to the ‘ school of economics’ which must be a joke in itself, so trust in this group must be declined, even if they have written some books to attract public attention.

‘ The continued misery caused by extortionist clampers goes on ‘

ROGUE CLAMPERS CITYWATCH had the audacity to extort more than a £1,000 from David Wood who had his van parked nearby.  When he arrived the clampers demanded a parking fine of £80, release of wheel clamp £465 and insisted he pay £565 for the tow truck. Citywatch of Ipswich refused to comment despite their contractors the Lynden property Company saying they were taking legal advice because Citywatch may have breached the terms of the contract?  CITYWATCH and its band of rogue workers should be eliminated and put on the dole queues.

MAN WINS AGAINST THE CLAMPERS WHO THREATENED HIM WITH LEGAL ACTION — ZAK HUSSEIN who runs a restaurant gained a victory against WHITES CAR PARK SOLUTIONS CLAMPERS of Andover when they lodged a claim against him for lost business because he had put up a sign outside his restaurant warning customers of clampers.  Southampton County Court dismissed their claim as disclosing no reasonable grounds for bringing proceedings.

OTHER NEWS: TWO CLAMPERS ARE ARRESTED AND JAILED IN BRISTOL FOR BLACKMAIL AND THREATS.

PARKING WARDENS IN ILLEGAL FINE RACKET — Trickery and deception by the former National Car Park Company now NSL has been revealed and it is stated that thousands of motorists have been issued with illegal fines.  Evidence showed that they would issue one ticket and then wait an hour and issue another on the same vehicle, knowing that this was unlawful.  This fraudulent practice is widespread in car parks throughout the country.

CITYWATCH CLAMPERS came in for more publicity highlighting their dire activities when Haroon Zafaryab defeated them and their contractors at Wembley Plaza Parade. The car clamped father just stayed in his vehicle for thirty hours despite citywatch arriving with tow trucks.  A £4,000 fine was lifted despite forty parking tickets being fixed to the windscreen. One of the enforcement guys is AYON MALCOLM so remember him. Apparently no one at CITYWATCH was prepared to comment — actually, the wording was ‘ refused ‘

YES — CITYWATCH AGAIN — This time they targeted David Wood who they expected to hand over £1,180 to free his vehicle. This all happened as their contract with Hadleigh Road Industrial Estate in Ipswich was about to cease in several hours. The reason they gave for terminating the contract with CITYWATCH was a deluge of complaints about the firm and its underhand tactics.  Apparently another report on this firm was revealed stating that these rogues took £6,000 in just one morning from motorists. Greedy and thoroughly nasty.

LBS ENFORCEMENT –Another load of dire extortionists to add to this article. Essex Police arrest 2 clampers from this firm, and they are under investigation for fraud. Essex based LBS have been cited and accused of heavy-handed tactics and one solicitor on the TV – Tim Carey said what they did amounted to blackmail as he watched undercover film showing Ben Collins one of the clampers, virtually imprison a driver by parking his van in front of her vehicle. He used threatening behaviour and continued to harass the woman in his demands to receive the so-called penalty payment. LBS Boss Matthew Boosey didn’t take too kindly to being clamped by the BBC team when the tables were turned. Another name at LBS is Mark Stone, and they illicit fees of around £434 out of some motorists.

TO BE A CLAMPER TAKES NO SKILL — no overheads, no strict working within the law, but a degree in villainy would be an asset.

Before we leave this, remember that this Government is not blameless. The clampers could not operate their regimes of terror if it were not for the 2000 licences being issued by them.

One Government council — Newcastle made an extra £40,000 out of having meters in their council run car parks not giving change. 80p an hour, many put a £1 in effectively giving the council 20p each time. A council spokesman said it was their fault and these people have a choice — it’s a pity they do not exercise the choice to have him and others in the council dropped. One thing was clear and that was the secrecy — it took one man five years to get an answer to a question he had to table through the freedom of information. Newcastle Council were quite unwilling to say how much they were making out of these people who lost 20p each time.

MAGISTRATES FINE CLAMPERS — OPC – Observices Parking Consultancy boss Douglas Harris £29,850 after citing tactics at the firm as despicable. Wolverhampton Magistrates Court found the company guilty and convicted them of 36 offences.

CLAMPERS ARE JAILED — Gary Southall was jailed for 4 years for extorting £500,000 from motorists, and brother Wayne Southall, a drug dealer, was jailed for two years. Third clamper Philip Bennett was jailed for eighteen months. Girlfriend Victoria Charlton got a 12 month suspended sentence. The Company was called Southalls National Parking Control in Birmingham. — definitely good news and a warning to clamping firms.

CLAMPERS IN BOGUS TICKETS ARE CONVICTED — Car Clamping Securities who operated in the Birmingham region were finally brought to justice, and not before time.  Boss Steve Ryan was jailed for two and a half years by Birmingham Crown Court. His co-worker Christopher Woodham received a suspended sentence of 51 weeks in prison. They were both found guilty of conspiracy to defraud and using an article for the use of fraud.

A1 CLAMPERS ARE JAILED FOR BLACKMAIL — We are pleased to list another set of car-clamping blackmailers and villains who have been jailed for a total of ten years.  Carlton Williams, Lee Stagg and Michael Riddle were found guilty at Taunton Crown Court of blackmail and fraud as they mercilessly ran a cowboy clamping firm. It was also revealed that two of them were fraudulently claiming benefits as they menaced victims.  Williams was jailed for five and a half years, Stagg was jailed for three years while Riddle was given 18 months for being an accessory and part of the intimidation the gang relied on to extort money from car owners. There was a cheer from the court as the men were sent down.

NEW EVIL BY A1 CLAMPERS — This time in London at Stanmore Hill, an unsuspecting driver went into the car park of The Abercorn car park as it was empty to just pop across the road to collect something, and arrived back to find A1 clampers had clamped the car and was demanding £225. The signs were very small and they all had deaf ears, she didn’t have the cash and offered her debit card…he said his machine was faulty and it would have to be cash. This lady is 74 and has health problems, she was forced to walk in the pouring rain to a bank. It appears that the Abercorn is a restaurant, who should be ashamed of this, so remember their name and Stanmore Hill…and avoid them….as for A1 it’s time some more of their staff went to jail as the above item shows. Mrs Ward from Bushey Heath will not suffer again from the bully-boy tactics of this extortionate firm of rogues.

FIVE YEARS IN JAIL FOR CLAMPER — Clamp You, the firm run by Mohammed Ashraf in Manchester appeared before Manchester Crown Court on charges of Blackmail, possession of articles for fraud, perverting the course of justice and running an unauthorised clamping firm. The court heard how victims were threatened and cars held for ransom.  He charged up to £600 to release vehicles and forged a licence claiming he was a bona fide member of the Security Industry Authority and wore a bogus badge. After extorting thousands of pounds out of unsuspecting motorists and laying in wait for them round corners, he changed the name of his illegal firm to ‘Unauthorised Parking Solutions Ltd ‘ the only one being unauthorised was him and a company not registered.

THE RE-EMERGENCE OF CLAMPER EVIL — Yet again we hear of another firm, CAR STOPPERS clamping in Skipton, North Yorkshire. This time they continued clamping a vehicle while the driver fell ill in front of them. These extortionists charge £150 to release a vehicle. In 2007 one of its employees was threatened with an ASBO after many people complained about the conduct and tactics employed by this firm.

EXCEL PARKING SERVICES LOSE CASE — The case was held in Stockport 2010, and Excel were suing a motorist for non payment of a charge. At Stockport County Court the man successfully argued that the lettering was too small which indicated that it was a ‘Pay and Display’  The Judge visited the site and she ruled in favour of the motorist and awarded him full costs after dismissing the case. They in turn claimed that she had made a great error of judgement. The Excel boss said the signs were in line with what the regulators BPA — British Parking Association. However, research showed that the Excel boss was on the Advisory board that worked with the BPA? — and that looks like a clear conflict of interests.

EXCEL PARKING COMPANY AT IT AGAIN — Yes, they are here again, this time they sent fines to residents who have to access the area where their cameras are set up in order to get home. They resorted to using threats and bailiffs on people who owed them nothing and had been mistakenly caught up in the firm’s desperate actions to fine and charge people who were captured on camera. It was said that after much writing etc, the company had to withdraw the fines and some victims actually got so fed up of the tyranny that they moved to escape the extortionists.

CLAMPING FIRM VEHICLE CONTROL SERVICES (VCS) lost their case in the Scunthorpe County Court against driver Ronald Ibbotson after the judge ruled that the firm did not have the power to pursue a motorist for an unpaid parking penalty. Mr Ibbotson refused to pay so the company launched the claim. Interestingly, VCS is run by Simon Renshaw-Smith who actually runs EXCEL PARKING SERVICES as well as owning another company called MR CLAMPIT.  The Judge called for Boss Renshaw- Smith to present himself at court to explain why he had pursued Mr Ibbotson when he had no lawful contractual assignment or authority to do so. This boss pays himself a salary of £766,353 with a company turnover of £10.3million. More questions are being raised in the light that he has a senior position with the BPA –British Parking Association, and against the codes of practice by the BPA Simon Renshaw-Smith embarked on the pursuit of hounding Mr Ibbotson when Landowner Wickes did not grant him the legal right to go after parking charges in the way he did.  VCS said they were going to appeal? 

CLAMPING FIRM TAKEN TO COURT BY KENT DRIVER — PARKING EYE, who had a contract with the Supermarket ALDI’s in Dover were summonsed by Mr.Anthony Sansum who decided enough was enough when they sent him a parking charge notice. He decided to look through the British Parking Association’s Code of Conduct clause B4.2 and even consulted Case Law (Waltham Forest v Vine) plus schedule 2 of The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999.     Just before PARKING EYE were due to attend court they paid the claim made by Mr Sansum. It however, in retaliation took its case against him to The Manchester County Court with a huge legal team claiming £250 and costs, The Judge was non too pleased and awarded them £15.

PARKING EYE BULLIES ANOTHER MOTORIST — Barry Beavis stepped out of the Royal Courts of Justice the possible winner against Parking Eye that tried to extract a £85 parking fee out of him.  The fish and Chip shop owner decided to appeal against the excess parking charges levied by the company.  Mr Beavis from Chelmsford Essex, was charged £85 for staying at a retail park for a matter of two hours and fifty-six minutes, 56 minutes more than the time allowed.  He said every communication from Parking Eye infuriated him and could only be termed as bullying.  He now waits to see if his challenge is successful with the appeal judges.

PARKING COLLECTION SERVICES — No Honour, no regrets over increasing penalty over cheque date they refused to recognise saying the mail delivery was no fault of theirs.  Callous? Indeed they are, many of these companies are run by devious grubby business individuals who wish to exploit and benefit at the motorists expense. The man in question paid the £25 promptly on October the 29th — the full amount, but found on he was billed yet again on the 25th of January over the same incident…now demanding a £110 penalty….he found out that they had not cashed his original cheque but just ‘sat on it’ until December the 1st…therefore creating the penalty…….although he sent e-mails, not surprisingly, the clamping firm deny that they received them…they say they act for a company called SENATOR SECURITY….who have not commented….they also in a lame comment say they are regulated by The British Parking Association, which is really a trade organisation….see what you think of them in the two previous cases which conveys a different side to this associations business dealings.

NEWLINE PARKING IS SUED BY MOTORIST — Motorist Dominic Marks took the North London based firm of clampers to the County Court and won damages of £1500. The Clamping firm did not show up in court to answer the case.  Mr Marks parked his car in Stoke Newington in what he judged to be private land  and left it there overnight.  When he came back for the car, it was gone……Newline charged him £467……In court Dominic produced photos and evidence to show that a sign was hidden from view to anyone ….the judge ruled that it was inadequate…and awarded him damages and costs.

NSL PARKING WARDENS IN DECEPTION —  The incident leading to a lawful challenge came about because of an outrageous act by a warden who was secretly filmed — he was captured as he manipulated the ‘evidential snow’ in order to book a motorist, which has now led to many motorists being refunded.  The law particularly states –  ‘that the lines must be visible’ — which were not – until the warden kicked away the snow so he could ‘fix the situation’ and issue a ticket. Which is similar to and resembles a ‘fit-up’ by cops or ‘disclosure’ by lawyers who wish to impede their opposite number or the court.  This little scene of ‘despicability’ happened in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire — NSL were employed by the council!  The hero of the day was non motorist Mr Wilkinson who took the footage on a video camera.  He said ‘ It highlights a possible culture of deception and disdain for the public among the employees in the Parking Industry’  The council responded by saying that they no longer use NSL — a private enforcement company.

MIDLAND PARKING CONTRACTS STAFF GO TO PRISON — Clampers, Midland Parking Contracts were finally arrested by police, and the court jailed all six workers including the owners and directors.  The company was convicted of fraud:  their van would wait and then clampers would jump out and clamp a car as soon as the owner walked away.  They, contrary to their association rules, clamped a mobility car belonging to Lesley’s ‘blue badge’ car and demanded £135 to free it.

THE FILTHY RICH CLAMPER MOGULS — Several in fact who have done very nicely on the misery of the poor motorist…Andrew McKerney has a fortune and lives in a palatial Lancashire home.  He is co-founder of the company ParkingEye who introduced the spy camera parking. He was paid some £4.5million for his stake in the company in 2012.  This firm manages some 900 sites around the UK.  Another ‘fat cat’ is Simon Renshaw-Smith in Sheffield….he was known for being the boss of an outfit named Captain Clampit…some furious motorists tried to have him in court for demanding money with menaces, but he got out of that.  Now he runs Excel Parking Services (which you can read about above).  He was however suspended from accessing the DVLA Database.  His company has around 600 parking areas under their control…and his business took in £10.5million in 2013 and paid himself a yearly salary of £450,000 despite the 2,200 actions against the company by angry motorists…..so he won’t really bother about the appeals that succeeded…….and it is said that the bosses of UK PARKING CONTROL in Beaconsfield are doing very nicely on the motorist too.

PRIVATE LAND CLAMPING MADE ILLEGAL — Clampers are now curtailed in regard to Private Land – The Protection of Freedoms Act makes it a criminal act to clamp vehicles on private land…the act came into force – Monday the 1st October 2012……it would now be nice to see some prosecutions against clamping firms.

This is good news and something the other clamping firms should be aware of, at this time we have news of another firm of rogue clampers being closed down and awaiting a court date, so let us have more.

‘ The Scandal of the Bully-Boy Debt Collection Agencies ‘

NOT FAR REMOVED FROM WHEEL CLAMPERS EXTORTION — WE HAVE DEBT COLLECTION, those band of merry soldiers who inflict worry and harass the innocent…..yes, a report says thousands of customers are hounded by debt collection agencies.  Often backed by, or have such a department, Banks, Insurers, Councils and Utility firms are sending out threatening letters to customers warning them of impending law suits, and bailiffs who will seize property and belongings, evicting people from their homes if they do not pay up in so-many days.  Not all their victims are actually debtors, some of these firms and bodies get it wrong, and when they protest it falls on deaf ears.  The Ombudsman has received double the amount of complaints about this activity in just six months….some 1,020 cases.  Naming some….such as FIRST COLLECT which charges eight per cent interest on debts to be collected…..J.Chesters of Barnstaple, Devon received dozens of threatening letters after closing her account with British Gas.  They said she owed £400….yet her bank statements showed that they had received the cash. FIRST COLLECT acting for British Gas said they’d turn up at her home and sell her possessions at an auction.  It took British Gas a long time to find they had got it wrong, and have since apologised and cancelled the debt….and what of FIRST COLLECT?  they got  away with it.  

THE HIGH COURT WRIT ENFORCERS — Another branch of the collection agencies….often staffed by bald and balding overweight ‘bouncer types’…..seen on the club doors.  No one knows little about them, whether they have criminal records etc, but they zoom out in early mornings backed by the court system armed with their pieces of paper….giving them licence to take away goods to the value of four times the debt, and adding nearly two hundred pounds for the service……and quickly point out that it only costs £60 to enlist their skills? 

‘By any other name’ the above outfit make claims they are not bailiffs but ‘enforcement officers’

It reminds one of the days of Robin Hood..(the good guy)….and in those days, it was the evil Sheriff’s Men!…(the bad guys)……and this lot call themselves Sheriffs……so there’s no change there.

BAILIFFS EQUITA FACE INVESTIGATIONS — CAPITA’s Bailiff Company Equita are being investigated by Birmingham City Council over its practices and the collecting of council tax debts.   It appears there have been a number of complaints concerning their methods of enforcement (which isn’t that surprising).  Birmingham City Council admitted that they had received anger over the unnecessary stress caused to debtors, and letters being delivered half an hour after midnight (12-30 am).  Although there were many others, the council only cited two cases….. a demand for underpayment of council tax by a previous tenant… and they wouldn’t go until the new tenant showed proof of identity.  In the second case, the council were to blame also…because the woman had paid her tax up to date, but this was not conveyed to the bailiffs who were relying on ‘not up to date paperwork’ and this too caused alarm and distress to the woman needlessly.

There are countless cases against bailiffs, and we shall go seeking them out, so watch this space!

News item 25/1/2013 — THE GOVERNMENT have called for the tightening up of the law in relation to ‘aggressive behaviour’ by bailiffs…..but we have ascertained that the government have very little enthusiasm to change things……as they are often the main contractors in this sort of business.

THE FIRM GOLDMAN SACHS WERE FINED £356MILLION ANNOUNCED BY THE WATCHDOG  – THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION amounted to a meagre pittance — just 11 days wages.

‘ TRAFIGURA  is fined £830,000 for poisoning 100,000 people ‘

REMEMBER LAWYERS CARTER-RUCK and the gag order, threats etc, to guard this firm who have now been fined for exporting toxic waste.  They were accused of that when Lawyers Carter-Ruck sought to conceal this information from the public, and they were willing to go to any length to protect this client.  A Dutch Court heard how TRAFIGURA put self-interests over people’s health and the environment.  The court fined the company for exporting 400 tonnes of hazardous black sludge called ‘slops’ to the Ivory Coast — and for concealing the angerous nature of the waste when it travelled through Amsterdam. The Prosecutor said – ‘ Trafigura dumped it over the fence in Abidjan, an option that was 3o times cheaper – cheap with consequences — when they should have contracted specialists to dispose of the waste safely.  1,000 victims sued the company in a class action.

‘ Millionaire defrauds Benefit System ‘

In a time when a coalition Government proposes to cut benefits one cannot believe that a millionaire could access the system and extract benefits without a helping hand from within the wheels of the DWP.  John Watkinson did, and he has a yacht in the Mediterranean and offshore accounts and a very large house and property in Oxon, a wealthy area that attracts the well to do.  The Company Director claimed housing and council tax benefit for 13 years without being found out?  Apparently he claimed rent allowance on three properties. Liverpool Crown Court heard that he described himself as poor and with only £13, yet behind this he ran a system of deceit covering claims by using company names to hide his connection and in time he was able to buy a home in Marbella and Estepona. His wife was equally devious and hid her earnings of £40,000 by getting her employer to pay her wages into her husband’s secret company that fronted the scam – Brooklyn Holdings Ltd.  Liverpool Court found him guilty of fraud and sent him to jail for 2 years.

The unsaid thing about this case is — DWP Fraud Investigators are known to hound poor claimants from dawn to dusk to get back £5, but 13 years and no result until now suggests they were either sleeping on the job or someone deliberately enabled him to go on claiming and played as a deflector, and that could only be from within the Investigators or a person at the benefits office?

‘ Millionaire with Ferrari tries to cheat on parking fee ‘

MULTI-MILLIONAIRE Chirag Patel founder of a huge cosmetic dentistry firm appeared before the South Western Magistrates Court charged with the misuse of a ‘ disabled sticker ‘ he placed on his £140,000 Ferrari in order to dodge the £15 a day parking fee.  He was found guilty on two counts and fined £700 on each count with costs amounting to £2,199.

‘ Millionaire buys school to abuse boys ‘

They say money can buy you almost anything, and one millionaire, Philip Cadman did that in order to satisfy his sexual cravings according to the court.  Cadman appeared at Reading Crown Court charged with abusing pupils at the Cookham Boys’ School.  The school had 150 boy boarders aged between 11 and 17yrs.  The jury heard how he Cadman, and employed maths teacher, William Printer became involved in the physical and sexual abuse.  Both Cadman and Printer faced 13 offences of abuse against boys at the school.

‘Millionaire Tycoon in court on rape charges ‘

EDDIE SHAH former Newspaper Mogul appeared at the Old Bailey charged with sex offences against a schoolgirl and was bailed pending a plea and case management for the hearing in December 2012.   It was reported that he faces six counts of rape involving a minor, having taken place in the 1990’s.  He appeared under his real name Selim Shah.

‘ Public Dishonesty is now admitted and confirmed ‘

RESEARCH by the Countryside Alliance has revealed that the public are becoming very dishonest and low in order to benefit from getting something for nothing. Jill Grieve of the Alliance group said it was all very disappointing in such a reasonably wealthy country. The countryside is no longer a place where a trader/farmer can leave goods for sale by the roadside and trust the public to pick what they want and leave payment in a box.  No, it appears the public take the goods without paying, and they are doing it very often. Devonshire farmer Kate Anstay told the reporters that even her ‘ eggs for sale box’ vanished with what little cash it had inside.  She even resorted to a lock on the box, but this didn’t deter thieving, the eggs went and so did the box too. She has now given the whole thing up. Other sellers have come forward and reported widespread activity in dishonesty by the public it was revealed. The National Farmers Union said the ‘trust’ has gone, and we need to get it back?

EX-CHAIRWOMAN OF SCHOOL GROUP STEALS £3,000 FROM ITS FUNDS — Arlene Yalung appeared before North Avon Magistrates where she was given a suspended jail sentence.  She raided the accounts funding to the tune of £3,000 belonging to The Friends of St Mary’s R C Primary School in Bradley Stoke near Bristol, while she worked as Chairwoman for the group who raised cash through coffee mornings and other charity projects.

‘ Network Rail besotted by Scandal ‘

An investigation has begun into sexual harassment claims and offshore account pay-offs. Transport Secretary Phillip Hammond has been called in to investigate claims that former chief executive Iain Coucher was accused of running the business to enjoy a personal luxury lifestyle promoting his own interests first.  It says that he received £7miilion over eight years, a car allowance for his Aston Martin, and £20,000 housing allowance. A Network Rail Spokesman said that serious allegations have been made and the transport minister should intervene and get to the bottom of the matter.

‘ State, Church and Police Cover-up now exposed ‘

It seems that the British Government, Church and Police can no longer claim conspiracies do not exist, as they often do, glibly stating that these kind of things are fiction. A report now held secret for some thirty years on the circumstances that surrounded an inquiry into the ‘ Claudy Bombings’ involved a conspiracy to cover up facts and the involvement of one priest — John Chesney. The Police Ombudsman publicly stated there was a dossier revealing a deal between the state and church to give Irish priest John Chesney immunity knowing he had direct involvement in IRA murders carried out in the 1970’s. He was sad to also say that the Police had also agreed to be sucked into this secrecy, and that missing files had been convenient to the cover-up.

OF COURSE, AS TO BE EXPECTED — THOSE THIRTY YEARS HAVE NOW MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE TO CHARGE ANYONE INVOLVED, — the Priest is dead, the police involved gone or retired, and several governments later, — all very nice and convenient to the judiciary, police and government.

THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE in the BLAIR PEACH case, which can be seen and read in ‘the featured cops’, The whole thing was hushed up and declared a no go zone and given a D Notice, and thirty years later when it was ‘safe’ to reveal, it exposed the police as having deliberately fudged investigations into the officers, and one particular officer, who escaped as he is now retired — cannot be brought to trial.  Lucky or convenient? neither really, it was the police and government dirty tricks department deciding which laws meant what and coming up with ‘ we are untouchable – we are the law’ and it worked because an ineffectual public were quite ready to allow this as they are today.

The Coalition Government we have was not formed on a huge majority, but a divided selfish public that can never unite on anything due to self interest. The Government hardly represents fifty per cent of the UK, many did not vote at all.

‘ Road Rage guilt for Lord Granville’s daughter ‘

THE Honourable Linda Granville was convicted of dangerous driving after smashing her land rover into the church gates in a fit of ‘blind fury’ it was said at Gloucester Magistrates Court. It was also revealed that 16 months earlier she had done a similar rage spree in Newent when she drove at some gates after a altercation with the owner. She was fined £1,000.

‘Aristocrat Earl in 106mph Porsche escapes driving ban ‘

The Earl of Normanton, 66 yrs old, appeared before Southampton Magistrates after being caught by Hampshire Police doing 106 mph on the M27. The Earl Shaun James C. Welbore Ellis Agar who resides on a 7,000 acre holding, was merely fined £665 and given six penalty points? Road Safety Groups condemned the decision.

‘ When the hero fails no-one wants to admit it ‘

In a recent revelation involving a crime case, the press gag was taken off to reveal that a hero who saved people in a bomb attack in London was jailed for his part in a crime syndicate involving robbery. Time and time again we see in our files cops who have commendations for bravery etc being referred to as a hero standing trial and going to jail for crimes. What we do not see is that these people wore a cloak of respectability and on being found out lost it because they were not the hero at all. Robbers, criminals etc, do not just suddenly become that, no, they were probably doing it even though colleagues praised them, and in some cases colleagues not only suspected it, but actually knew it and stayed silent.

‘ Lies by mums, Brits so rude, ugly drunk and big bums ‘

YES FOLKS, two articles featured how mothers tell lies during mealtimes – the report said millions of mums  admit to telling ‘ white lies’ to their children in order to justify what food they want them to eat and what standards to appreciate. The study showed that eight out of ten mothers gave in to their children’s preferences and the kids just did not heed the lie at all. Emily Hall ran a kind of ‘fat slag’ article suggesting that female tourists had a warped vision of their beautiful selves? Brit Hol Girls ugly, tattooed rude and drunk ‘ telling us that a poll showed them to be blubbery. Brit girls were also condemned for their ‘hideous’ dress sense. The men were also slammed describing guys as ‘ covering rolls of body flab in body art and oversize T-shirts or slobbing around the pool in football shirts and awful long all-purpose shorts that they seem reluctant to change out of – despite the fact that fashion wise – this long knee length shorts scene has lasted about 20 years and has nothing modern about it at all, and can hardly be called a fashion statement now.

‘ The FIFA Scandal – The lies, the corruption, and world connivance ‘

Recently, one investigative reporter tells us he has spent 10 years looking into corruption at the FIFA  Football’s Leading Organisation. He names four top officials involved in dubious money deals that have been referred to by the German Press as bribes and payoffs. FIFA claims these were dealt with at a court, but fails to mention that the court did not deal with the corruption allegations or inquiry, its remit was centred on something else. This is known as sidestepping and covering up by means of using an instrument – the previous court case, as a blind in order to obstruct and make out that there is nothing to answer. The world including Britain goes soccer mad and chooses to ignore the Panorama Programme and turn a blind eye to corruption in favour of a game. Having accepted this as so, one can now see how this government sees its own ‘expenses scandal’ and the desire to conceal it and pretend that it never happened and keep the judiciary from bringing them to justice by means of Parliamentary control of the Justice System, Police and Lawyers, who are either all too ready to deceive or have been bought and paid for and controlled by government. Yes, they all cry ‘ not me Guv’ and issue strong denials, but we have heard them so many times, and even when they are found out, they simply stop answering and retire or drop out because they have immunity created for them for their jobs. The story goes cold over time, and in some cases that are too sensitive, there is a gagging order so that the details are not known for twenty or so years, hence letting off the individuals who have profited from the corruption and making them untouchable.

Thank heavens we now have the site Wikileaks that is currently embarrassing countries and politicians with its publishing of documents and notes that were meant to be gagged and never exposed to the public. The truth is always hard to reveal because of the powerful opposition that keep corruption alive and never reveal what they consider secret and ‘ in the best interest of the nation’, which really means themselves.

FIFA OFFICIALS WERE CHARGED AFTER ‘CASH FOR VOTES ‘ WAS EXPOSED, Jack warner and Mohammed Bin Hammam were suspended, and Warner suddenly resigned so that the investigation on him could stop. The outcome to this perversion of football and bribery has not ended successfully, but many never thought it would! Powerful men and bribery have a way of wriggling out of things.

2014 — FIFA CORRUPTION EXPOSED — despite denials a new report says that the team who headed England’s World Cup bid discovered a raft of corruption allegations in the body after employing ex-MI6 officers in a spying campaign with overseas diplomats during the time they going against Russia to host the 2018 tournament.  It is said that bribes were revealed to Fifa Officials, but these were not acted upon because members of the bid team were frightened of being sued.  However, strange as it may seem or not, even in the face of a 13 page document by The Sunday Times and surveillance on eight rival bidders, investigators etc, there is no end to this story, no arrests and no charges…..same old story!

‘West Ham United footballers caught in £11,000 sting ‘

STRIKER ANDY CARROLL and Club Manager SEAN ALLARDYCE have been reported as being caught in a sting operation involving a scam worth £11,000.  It says they were caught trying to buy cut-priced luxury hampers, the investigating police are looking into claims they were targeted by a fraudster at the Club’s training ground.  It says they were offered cut price Fortnum and Mason hampers and Harrods Champagne for which they paid £11,000…. a vastly lower price, but they never got the goods!……..but they did get the publicity….. perhaps that was what they really wanted……because this is no case at all…it just involves food hampers at a huge price and greed basically….as they say.

‘ Governments and Politicians try to silence Wikileaks ‘

A familiar tale really — one that used to be claimed as imaginary — but not these days. We too were subject to attempts by a firm of lawyers – ROACH PITTIS, who used the courts to issue an injunction — a gagging order to stop commenting about them and what they were up to. In the course of it we uncovered something kept secret in that one of the lawyers had committed a breach of the rules ‘ acting in a conflict of interests’ punishable by the Law Society watchdog the solicitors tribunal, except that he got away with it, but we have the letter from one of his clients to prove this. We have learned since the action against us has been discontinued, and this clearly shows the use of the legal profession to silence the opposition at any cost. The USA are considering charging the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange with spying and using illegally obtained material to injure the USA. It is laughable considering how much the great ‘ sheriffs of Dodge City and the World claim they act for freedom and want to free people from oppression ‘ — yet because this site is fighting against corruption and government secrecy, they don’t like it and their reaction? — silence the source. — politicians, lawyers and police have always prevented the truth when it reflects wrongdoing by them, yet we hear about freedom, the truth and transparency which is clearly a lie. The Americans have long covered up and kept secret what they did to negroes in the South and the black slaves who were murdered by ordinary folk moving around in a posse and the Klu Klux Klan. Its past is hardly commendable or to be admired, there is the appalling case of wiping out the American Indians and throwing them in reservations after stealing their land, and even now we have the Hurricane Katrina Cops who murdered individuals and up to thirteen cops in a conspiracy of silence, much like the cops in the great corruption cases of the 70’s in the US.  Yet this gun fetish country has made no reparations or stood trial for what they did. If they claim this was long ago and cannot be visited on the relatives of those killers well it can, they have some of the same family DNA and there is no real reason why they cannot be tried for family involvement other than political corruption. Silencing the opposition by any means is standard practise for these nations, even the U.K.

THE USA are said to be making several charges against the Wiki founder — in secret, and in the judicial system — that tells you everything about justice and the joke it really is. When the powerful don’t like what you say or you criticize them — look out, they will have a politician and judge ready to bend the law to their specific needs.

BRITISH ARROGANCE EMERGES OVER WIKILEAKS CASE — The Ecuador Government currently giving Julian Assange shelter while they decide on his asylum application firmly told Britain ‘ We are not one of your colonies and do not belong to Britain ‘ as anger proceeds to bring the UK into a diplomatic incident with several countries. This is all because the British Government is deciding to ride ‘roughshod’ over the Vienna Convention and engage in activity to enter the Embassy to arrest the Wikileaks founder, who is still inside the Embassy.  This is being supported by Sweden who have told Britain it must arrest Assange and deport him for his trial….The Abba exporting country is by no means ‘history clean’ and we have uncovered some of its dirty dealings and atrocities from its well hidden past.  Political Observers say that this move by the UK is a ‘Major Gaff’ by the Foreign Office and Home Affairs which could tip the fine balance of International Law and Safety agreed by countries and render them unable to protect their citizens or diplomats in foreign countries. William Hague the Foreign Minister is known for his ‘Northern Brash’ ever since he entered politics…and has shown his capabilities on the ‘devious and ingenuous way to climb the greasy ladder of political success….and is an expert ‘yes man’ when necessary.

As we thought, this act has made his asylum application effective, Ecuador has granted Julian Asylum.

WE HERE SUPPORT WIKILEAKS and as the founder recently said, secrecy and corruption must be exposed.

‘ Sainsbury Computer Manager is jailed for Nector store con ‘

IT MANAGER JAMES STEVENSON OF SAINSBURY  — stole 17million Nector points after finding a loophole in the system, a report reveals. It says he gave himself £81,000 of points. The Old Bailey heard that he had access to all the company’s computer systems and had worked their for 20 years. He created 18 accounts while he worked at the Holborn central branch of Sainsbury. He pleaded guilty to fraud and theft and was sent to jail for 20 months.

‘Sainsbury Executives in £5million Bribe ‘

EXECUTIVE BUYER JOHN MAYLAM took gifts and bribes in return for the awarding of a multi-million potato deal contract it was said in Croydon Crown Court. Maylam admitted corruption in that he accepted gifts etc, from potato growers Greenvale AP, and acquired criminal property, and had a Luxenbourg bank account with £1m in it. SAINSBURY ACCOUNTS MANAGER DAVID BAXTER of Shropshire, pleaded guilty to corruptly giving Maylam the gifts and acquiring criminal property. The deal was said to have provided lavish corporate entertainment. They are both to be sentenced after the trial of finance manager, Andrew Behagg of Greenvale AP.

We now have another in-depth look at Company and Investment Corruption:

BIG COMPANY CHEATING — FRAUD ETC,  BEWARE INVESTORS — Just a few more examples of Industry and Corruption coming to the surface behind the success….and how they got to the wealthy position they manipulated………..

‘ MBNA’ s Hounding of customers is found guilty ‘

After a year long investigation into the biggest credit card lender MBNA, the consumer watchdog was pleased that they were found guilty by the Office of Fair Trading. The company’s debt collection was found to breach the rules, sending confusing letters and by-passing charities who were trying to help customers in trouble with their debts. The company are reported to have said they will be more transparent in communications in future, but these are only words, and like our present government — pledges that can be broken due to the world economy.

‘ Gartmore is fined £840,000 ‘

Another blow came to Gartmore Hedge Funds in the shape of a £840,000 fine over their breach of the stock market.  The company made attempts to buy shares while also betting they would fall in value. Gartmore went up for sale amid two of its top fund raisers leaving.

‘ Blue Index 5 are charged with insider dealing ‘

THE FSA HAVE BROUGHT CHARGES AGAINST BLUE INDEX 5 –co-owner James Sanders, his wife, and three others have been charged with insider dealing.  Five suspects in all were arrested in dawn raids by the FSA. The FSA are currently prosecuting 11 others for insider trading, which carries a 7 year prison sentence.

‘ Insider dealing & money-laundering executive is jailed ‘

Neil Rollins was a boss of a huge Industry Waste firm who was trying to conceal his actions on insider dealing by money laundering the proceeds. A court sentenced the senior manager to 27 months in prison finding him guilty on five counts of Insider Dealing and four counts of money laundering. He was executive with the firm PM Onboard and when he knew that the firm had a problem with financial support he sold his entire share portfolio and transferred profits from this into several accounts.

‘ HSBC face lawsuit accusing them of enabling fraud ‘

The bank HSBC waits for a judge’s decision after a £5.5billion lawsuit accused them of allowing fraud to be committed. Lawyers said it did not allow trustee Irving Picard to bring the case of financial fraud and misconduct against HSBC.  The Judge has to decide whether he can allow the trustee — working for victims of the Madoff Ponzi scheme to go ahead. Bernard Madoff is already serving 150 years in prison for the fraud.

‘ Boiler Room fraud Director is jailed for two years ‘

THE FSA secured it’s conviction of Director, DAVID MASON, who orchestrated a con involving shares in a company called EduVest. 32 people took up the offers only to find no share certificates were ever issued, and that the company did not list on the market and victim’s funds — £270,000 were never used by EduVest Business. Mason pleaded guilty to 13 counts, misleading statements and money-laundering. He was jailed for 2 years.

‘ Torex Retail Directors are jailed for fraud ‘

DIRECTORS EDWIN DAYAN and CHRISTOPHER FORD, former directors of AIM-listed Software Company Torex retail, went to jail over the £1.65million fraud. They were convicted of deceiving shareholders after they forged profits at the now collapsed firm.  Dayan was given 12 months and Ford six months.  The court heard how they used false invoices and falsified payments of £756,000 in 2005, and another payment of £900,000 in 2006. They were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud at Oxford Crown Court.

‘ Fraud Probe at the TNK -BP Corporation ‘

ANTI-CORRUPTION investigators have uncovered 365 cases of corruption, plus breaches of company rules involving the Russian/BP venture.  93 employees have been brought up on discipline charges, and there was also 37 criminal cases that emerged as a result of a thorough inquiry. The report comes on the heels of an unfortunate series of events for BP in Russia, as its proposed venture with Rosneft for exploration in the Artic collapsed and its Moscow offices were raided by armed police as part of a £1.9billion lawsuit from TNK-BP’s Russian shareholders.

‘ City Index Group are fined by the FSA ‘

A FINE OF £490,000 has been imposed upon the firm CITY INDEX by the FSA for submitting inaccurate data  on an amazing 60 per cent of transactions completed between 2007 and 2009.  The breaches in accounting only came to light when the firm reported an unrelated suspicious transaction that caused the FSA to to look at City Index more closely. The investigation uncovered more than 2 million transactions had maybe not been reported at all, or submitted to the regulator with inaccurate data.

‘ Credit Card Insurance group CPP is being investigated ‘

THE FSA are currently investigating the CCP Yorkshire based company that gives customers protection on their credit cards.  Its new sales have been suspended pending an investigation into their selling techniques which have been accused of over-sell and mis -selling.  The firm which deals with around one million customers is co-operating with the investigation mainly into its telesales, and is contesting the regulators claims of concern the report says.

CCP FACE £15MILLION FINE BY CITY WATCHDOG OVER MIS-SELLING — The company which sold over 4.5 million customers insurance protection cover against identity theft. It is said they have come to an agreement with the FSA.

FRAUD INSURANCE COMPANY IN BUNGLE PAY REFUNDS TO CUSTOMERS — Fraud Insurance Company CPP fell foul of the Watchdog Investigators the Financial Services Authority. The company renewed client identity fraud insurance cover without telling them or consulting with customers. £83.99 was taken from clients bank accounts without their knowledge, agreement or permission.  They blamed a third party company for ‘the error’?

‘ Manipulated share move gets Investors a £4m fine ‘

THE LARGEST FINE EVER was handed out to Rameshkumar Goenka for price-fixing the Reliant Industries shares.  The FSA have told him to pay back some £2m to a bank that overpaid him based on the manipulated share prices along with the £4million fine.

In another report it says the above individual was fined £5.9million for market abuse by the FSA.?

‘ Rogue Trading Scandal at UBS ‘

CITY WATCHDOG the FSA have requested that KPMG launch an independent probe into the £1.3bn trading scandal at the company.  The investigation will look into the reason why the bank’s risk management system failed to detect the unauthorised trades.

‘ Price-Fixing by Reckitt attracts £20million fine ‘

Reckitt the huge firm involved in washing machines and related products considered highly successful was fined £20million by Germany’s Cartel Officer for collusion with a rival in price fixing. It admitted breaking competition rulings, yet had already been fined previously – the Gaviscon Fine of £10.2million and four charges of manipulating the market unfairly and contrary to rulings.

‘ £95million rogue trading scam probe ‘

The City of London Police were called in after the alarm bells of suspicion began ringing at Threadneedle Asset Management. In a report it was said that a junior member at the company had been dismissed after a suspicious transaction had been detected. The report is said to have closely followed the case of UBS Trader Kweku Adoboll had been accused of false accounting and fraud that cost the bank £1.3billion.

‘HomeServe Insurance fined £750,000 over silent call treatment’

Reportedly, a record fine of £750,000 was handed out to an insurance company –HomeServe the domestic insurance specialists. It was found guilty of nuisance telephone calls that were silent and aimed mainly at pensioners.  Ofcom imposed the fine despite the insurance company deciding to compensate some of the victims with £10 goodwill payments which could raise the final amount spent being £900,000. It was said that HomeServe made around 36,218 calls that breached the rules…and that they breached the rules on forty-two occasions in just two months in 2011.

‘U.S. Hedge Fund Boss fined by FSA for Insider Trading ‘

THOSE AMERICANS AGAIN — US COMPANY BOSS DAVID EINHORN of Greenlight Capital was fined £7.2million for insider trading in Punch-Tavern shares.  Einhorn retaliated by saying he did not see his benefit of inside knowledge regarding a phone call to a broker acting for the Punch in a ‘rights issue’ at its ‘advanced stage’ amounted to insider dealing — even though he acted swiftly on what he found out and began selling off shares he held in the company? The FSA said he was a privileged shareholder who damaged market confidence and the fine represented the seriousness of his breach.

UK BASED ENTREPRENEUR SIMON EAGLE WAS FINED  £2.8MILLION BY THE FSA OVER MARKET ABUS

More Big Company corruption:

‘ GlaxoSmithKline in avoidance of £34million of tax ‘

GSK avoided Corporation tax in 2011 through having its affairs taken care of in Luxembourg. It set up a new company in this European Tax haven in 2009 doing a crafty bit of accounting and loaning to itself via the ‘parent company to junior’ knowing that they could escape UK Tax rates. Tax Expert Richard Murphy said it was absolutely legal, this was purely an artificial structuring designed to undermine the tax revenues in the UK.

COMPANY FINED £8.6 MILLION BY THE FSA — The firm MARTIN CURRIE based in Edinburgh was found guilty of committing the act of a conflict of interests involving two clients. The Chinese Investment firms which lost half of its value of two years in the hedge fund. The fine was made up of the FSA – £3.5million and SEC fining the firm £5.1 million….it was stated that combined, this was the largest fine ever in a ‘Conflict of Interests Case’

FBI LAUNCH INVESTIGATION INTO J.P.MORGAN over it’s trading losses of £1.2 Billion.  Reports of angry shareholders at the annual meeting in Florida sparked a probe into how this came about. Chief Executive Jamie Damon stunned the world markets when he announced the huge losses by the company via his meeting with shareholders.  The FBI have been brought in to investigate any wrong-doing it is said, which means they have suspicions of this.  Damon said in an interview that most of the losses originated with traders in London.

PAYOUTS BY CATTLES the Doorstep lender revealed compensation for shareholders being given after losses with its parent company.  Their shares were suspended in 2009, which has now led to sixty claimants getting from £6,000 to £1 million. The claim was managed by the Law firm Clarion who represented them.

SHOE FIRM REEBOK hit by the arrest of two former executives being investigated in connection with a £100 million fraud.  They are accused of falsifying bills, stealing merchandise and siphoning off goods to fake companies and distributors for a number of years.

£3MILLION FINE ON HEDGE FUND BOSS WHO CONCEALED FIRM’S LOSSES — Dynamic Decisions Capital Management in London — run by executive Alberto Micalizzi was caught by the FSA financial Watchdog who said he had a ‘ total lack of honesty and integrity’  He had hidden losses from investors totalling £249 million which came as a result of the collapse of the US Investment Bank Lehman Brothers. He resorted to a bogus bond in a cover-up involving two anonymous companies that had no identifiable record or background in finance.

DISGRACED BOSS OF TUCAN CLAIMS which had been ordered to refund and deliver promised payouts over Insurance Protection had failed to do so. The Ministry of Justice said they had not honoured the obligations placed on it, and that they were now looking closely at Manager Melfyn Roberts (who was the TUCAN Manager) regarded the real boss of the Bristol based business who was suddenly appointed director of DWS Claims who charge a contingency fee of £275 upfront — The Ministry say they are aware of the link between TUCAN and DWS and are monitoring the situation.

HEDGE FUND EXECUTIVE ORDERED TO PAY DAMAGES OF £289 MILLION — Magnus Peterson of WEAVERING CAPITAL appeared in the High Court and ordered by the judge to pay £289 million in damages having been found guilty of fraud.  Peterson’s wife and two other directors were fined by the court.  The SFO in an earlier investigation claimed they did not have enough proof to secure a conviction on Peterson. In the light of this a civil action for damages was brought and Peterson, his wife, Weavering employees Edward Platt and Charanpleet Dabhia were found to have negligently permitted the fraud which cost investors to lose fortunes.

‘ UK Fund Manager of Millennium Global is charged with fraud ‘

MICHAEL BALBAO the fund manager of Millennium Global UK was charged with fraud in relation to taking undue fees of £4.1 million, and was arrested by USA financial scrutinisers The Securities and Exchanges Commission.  It is said to relate to investments carried out between 2006 to 2008, and was accused of lies about fund values, which generated millions of dollars in inflated management and performance fees. The ‘rogue behaviour’ of Balbao was reported to the FSA in October 2008 when the fund collapsed.

‘U.S. Traders plead guilty to conspiracy ‘

TWO CREDIT TRADERS of the United States were found guilty in New York of conspiring to over value securities related to mortgages at the time when the financial crisis hit the headlines.  David Higgs and Salmaan Siddiqui admitted to having taken part with others in inflating the price of residential mortgage bonds that ended up with Credit Suisse having to write off £1.6billion in 2008. They both face up to five years in jail.

‘Energy Company Siber is fined for deceit’

IT SEEMS LIES, DISHONESTY and FRAUD keeps society going — In one case we have boss of the Energy Company Siber being fined £350,000 by the city regulator for misleading the market. The FSA said the company claimed they had paid only £75m to a Russian tycoon when in fact they had paid £198m saying the payment represented advances for real estate, but no contracts existed. 

THE £2MILLION FRAUD by Surrey Guarantee Consultants Timothy Higgins and Clifford Felstead along with third conspirator Ralph Brunswick have been banned from the City.  Evidence of secret profits and exposing firms to greater liabilities than agreed on surety bonds.  False documents had been produced to suggest all was okay, and if Higgins had not have gone bankrupt, he would have faced a £600,000 fine said the FSA.

IRISH BANK BOSS Sean Fitzpatrick has been accused of bringing the Irish economy near to the brink of disaster because of unauthorised loans — which he was the prime beneficiary.  It is said he owes £83m, but was declared bankrupt and unable to pay debts.  Fitzpatrick was arrested about the transfer of £6.2billion in deposits.  He apparently resigned in 2008 leaving the whole thing in a mess and concealing actions he did that were not above board or transparent.

FIVE BUSINESSMEN ARRESTED IN CORRUPTION SCAM –The Serious Fraud Office charged Andrew Rybak, Ronald Saunders, Philip Hammond, Barry Smith and Robert Storey of operating an energy sector corruption ring in which bidders for lucrative contracts were sold inside information. All five men appeared at the City of London Magistrates Court on the charge – conspiracy to corrupt.

CITY CON TRADER GETS 8 YEARS IN PRISON – Terry Freeman was jailed for swindling £14 million out of investments for hard-working people and pensioners a report says.  The gallery cheered at Southwark Crown Court when Freeman who had a lavish lifestyle in Horsham was jailed for 8 years for appalling dishonesty. 

HEAD OF GOVERNMENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL is arrested in £1.6million fraud probe.  Sir Alan Davies was arrested with two colleagues over the siphoning off cash in bonuses. His Deputy Head Dr. Richard Evans was also arrested along with his wife, and all three are charged with defrauding Copeland Community School in Wembley. The police confirmed three members of the staff had been arrested in connection with the misappropriation of school funds.

INSIDER BANKER FINED — Former banker of the American Merrill Lynch Group has been fined by the FSA for Insider Dealing. Andrew Osborne was fined £350,000 after being found guilty of passing inside information on shares issue for Punch taverns to the Greenlight Capital hedge fund. The FSO say this is the 17th arrest so far.

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY FRAUD — Bell Cablemedia directors were found guilty of paying bribes in order to secure contracts unfairly from contractors — this involved lucrative deals laying television and telephone cables, four were jailed in this corruption case brought by the FSO.

POWERHOUSE RESOURCES INCORPORATED were convicted for fraud and theft offences, directors Malcolm Stone, jailed for four and a half years, and John Mottram, jailed for 18 months for conspiracy to defraud & theft.

APPEAL BY CONVICTED FUND MANAGER DENIED — Millionaire Stefan Chaligne the fund manager and shareholder of ‘Iviron’ operating in the Cayman Islands was fined by the FSA a sum of £900,000 for deliberately manipulating a higher price on shares.  At a tribunal his appeal was turned down.

FORMER GOLDMAN SACHS BANKER SUSPENDED — Kate Mingay head of the Dept for Transport – Commercial – one of the senior staff in charge of running a team for the finance model in bidding for franchises was suspended after the Virgin claims of incompetence in the Rail Network decision making that has cost the taxpayer greatly.

BRITISH COMPANY ABBOT CAUGHT IN BRIBERY LAWS STING — Aberdeen based company Abbot Group have been ordered to pay back £5.6 million after they admitted to benefitting from corrupt payments– doubts were raised about deals during 2006 from overseas and its subsidiaries and the legality of the transactions.  Corrupt payments were said to have been noticed only last year in 2011 by the tax authorities who investigated the firm which has since changed ownership.

WEAVERING CAPITAL FUND MANAGER IS CHARGED – Magnus Peterson has been charged with fraud, forgery and false accounting by the FSO in a revived case.  They charged him with six offences — rigging figures in a complex financial system used by the Weavering Macro fixed Income Fund.

INSIDER DEALER SENT TO JAIL — Thomas Ammann said to be a ‘two-timing’ insider dealer was found guilty of unscrupulous behaviour and given a jail sentence. He involved two unsuspecting investors to place thousands into a firm thus risking them to be charged, they were acquitted as they did not know they were trading illegally.

ICAP UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE FSA — Brokers ICAP are being investigated by the Financial Services Authority. The Broker Firm run bt Conservative Party Treasurer Michael Spencer admitted that the firm is being investigated in connection with the ‘Libor Price-Fixing Case’

JJB SPORTS EXECUTIVE FACES FRAUD TRIAL — Boss Sir David Jones, has already been charged with fraud by the FSO after a long investigation into the sports wear market….he appeared before Leeds Magistrates Court, charged with forgery and making misleading statements, having tried to disengage himself from being a suspect in the SFO’s investigations.  Another member of the Board, Chief Exec Chris Ronnie and the supplier David Ball were charged previously.

THREE MEN ARRESTED IN INSIDER DEALERS INVESTIGATION (2013 Feb28) — The FSA arrested three men in their thirties and are being held as the FSA carried out searches in The City of London and Greater London.  They were arrested in connection with insider dealing and market abuse.

EQUITIES TRADER IS JAILED — Paul Milsom a trader of Legal and General Assurance, was sentenced to two years in jail for passing insider information twenty eight times to an Independent Stockbroker.  He pleaded guilty to passing advantageous details during 2008 t0 2010.  The case was brought by the FSA.

£2.4 MILLION FINE FOR LAMPRELL — City Regulators the FSA fined oil services group Lamprell for failing to give update information to investors ahead of a profit warning which wiped 57 per cent off its shares.

TRADER FINED £1 MILLION — The Financial Conduct Authority fined a salesman, Gurpreet Singh  £945,277 over a system known as rent-backs, sale and rent back in which a customer sells their house and rents it back under a favourable deal.  He was found guilty of serious failings in seven deals…. and is banned from working in the financial services industry.

SESAME poor sales advice gets them a fine of £6 MILLION.  The Financial Authority fined the Investment Company Sesame six million pounds for giving inadequate sales advice relating to oversee properly its appointed representatives between July 2005 and June 2009.

BLACKROCK TRADER ARRESTED — Mark Lyttleton was arrested over his dealings at one of the world’s largest firm’s when he was a fund manager.  The inquiry by the FCA said the manager of 21 years was grabbed by the City of London’s Police.

DELOITTE IS FINED $10 MILLION AND BANNED FOR A YEAR — Amid misconduct violations of law and law of autonomy during its consulting work for the UK Bank Standard Chartered, Deloitte agreed to pay out millions of dollars to the authorities.  It also agreed to a one year ban from consulting work to financial institutions.

EIGHT CITY FINANCE MEN CHARGED WITH FRAUD — And other Financial crimes, the report says.  The crime mentioned is that of a Land-Banking Scam in 2008, they are all charged with Conspiracy and have been bailed to appear before The City of London Magistrates Court.  Seven of those named are: Scott Crawley, Daniel Forsyth, Ross Peters, Aaron Petrou, Ricky Mitchie, Adam Hawkins and Brendan Daly. Mr Forsyth faced another charge of providing false information…….the eight man was Dale Walker, Solicitor (see him in Featured Lawyers). These arrests were conducted in connection with investigation ‘Operation Cotton’ by the Financial Conduct Authority.

INSIDER TRADER FACES VAST EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM — Tom Hayes arrested over the rigging-of-bank rates is appearing in court on his first preliminary hearing — The Serious Fraud Office say the evidence they have against him is ‘voluminous’

JUDGES UPHOLD CONVICTION OF KERVIEL — ROGUE TRADER Jerome Kerviel ran up losses of E4.9billion at the French investment bank Societe Generale had his appeal against his conviction thrown out.

BROKERS AT  RP MARTIN ARE CHARGED — Two former employees of brokers RP Martin were charged with conspiracy to defraud in the Libor ‘Price-Fixing’ Scandal.  The SFO charged Terry Farr and James Gilmour.

GOLDMAN SACHS TRADER IN FRAUD CASE — Former Vice President Fabrice Tourre was found liable for the defrauding of numerous investors in a complicated mortgage deal which resulted in $1 billion losses.   The Federal Jury decided against his claim ‘I’m a French National’ and found him guilty on six of the seven counts of fraud — and the violation of security laws.

ICAP GETS FINE OF £55MILLION and the Traders are charged — The International Broker ICAP led by the former Conservative Party Treasurer, Michael Spencer, received a fine of 55 million pounds over their role in the Libor Scandal.  Three former employees at the centre of the fraud have been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud and wire fraud by the US Justice Department. The one NewZealander and two UK citizens face up to 30 years in jail if convicted.

J P MORGAN Traders were charged in the US concerning the ‘London Whale Fraud’ a report says. Two former Traders were indicted in a US court for concealing and hiding trading losses.  The two – Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout have been charged with five criminal counts.

J P MORGAN GETS FINED AGAIN — This time its $100million dollars.  Never far from trouble J P Morgan are hit for another amount by the Regulator,  News is, that the firm dipped into its funds set aside to payout over a number of legal battles with regulators to settle charges that it ‘recklessly disregarded the fundamental precept on which market participants rely. The activities of ‘London Whale’ trader which led to multi-billion dollar losses. 

BOOTS BOSS ACCUSED OF TAX AVOIDANCE — The owner of the well known Boots Shops, Alliance Boots is accused of avoiding £1.1billion in taxes by routing its cash through tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Gibraltar and a series of subsidiaries. The Pharmacy chain saved money by loading the UK business with debts from its £12.2 billion private purchase in 2007 and then claiming tax relief against the interest.

JJB’s Ex Boss ON TRIAL — Sir David Jones appeared before Leeds Crown Court charged with three counts of fraud….. the long running legal saga is thought to be connected to a loan….his son Stuart Jones former head of the Marketing firm is to appear in court and enter a plea.

INFOSYS FINED $34 MILLION — The IT services exporter Infosys in India agreed to pay a fine of $34million in a civil settlement with the US Authorities over its use of visas, which it used to sidestep normal regulations and capping orders on employees coming into the US.

INSURER RSA SUSPENDS THREE EXECUTIVES — The Irish Division have suspended three bosses after making it known they are suspects in financial irregularities uncovered at the Company.  They suspended Chief Executive Philip Smith, Finance Director Rory O’Connor and Claims Director Peter Burke.  The company said they discovered the irregularities during a routine internal audit.

ROLLS ROYCE TO BE INVESTIGATED BY THE SFO — The once respected Rolls Royce Luxury Car makers who also manufacture plane engines are under ‘corruption’ investigations by the Serious Fraud Office who are looking into bribery and corruption allegations made about Rolls Royce.  The allegations are said to have originated over the Internet…..and the report says the FSO believes it has now found sufficient evidence to mount an investigation…… which they are describing as a criminal inquiry.

JLT IS FINED £1.8MILLION — The Insurance Brokers, Jardine Lloyd Thompson were fined by the City Regulator for taking an unacceptable approach towards bribery and corruption.  JLT Speciality Ltd paid £11.7million to overseas agents to help it win £20.7million of business…however, inadequate systems surrounding these payments meant that ‘third parties’ could easily use the money to pay bribes, the Authority said.

FRAUD MADE EASY WITH SERCO AND G4S CONTRACTS — The Government contracts  of which two thirds are with the controversial outsourcing firms, G4S and SERCO are open to fraud and errors say ministers.  An official investigation into £5.9billion of outsourcing contracts held by both parties found evidence of ‘inconsistent management’ in 22 of 28 deals across eight government departments and agencies.

SPARK ENERGY INVOLVED IN DECEIT — The firm it is stated, posed as clients to dump its debtors.  They are said to have impersonated its own customers in order to offload debtors onto other suppliers.  They targeted people who were ‘chronic debtors’ and those who refused to set up direct debit accounts.  Ofgem have begun investigating the firm based near Scotland.

HYUNDAI FINED £67 MILLION —  Global firm Hyundai were hit by ‘efficiency fines’ of £67 million by the Ministry of Land.  The South Korean Car Maker is said to have exaggerated its fuel efficiency in its diesel powered Santa Fe Sports vehicle.  The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport found the engine did not meet its reported mileage.

ENI CHIEF EXECUTIVE JAILED — More embarrassment at the Italian Company Eni when they heard that its Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni had been sent to prison for three years….. and banned from holding Public Office for five years.  Despite this he is still under investigation for corruption in Algeria.

BRIBERY CLAIMS AT AIRBUS — THE SFO are investigating the Saudi Airbus Company and employees after receiving allegations of corruption and bribery.  The Fraud team confirmed that un-named individuals had been arrested in connection with the criminal investigation…… the investigation into Ministry of Defence Officials, former and current employees of the Airbus subsidiary relates to allegations of bribery in connection with a $3.3 billion contract to provide communications and intranet services for the Saudi National Guard.

CREDIT SUISSE AID US TAX EVADERS are fined $2.8billion dollars — The US Department of Justice were pleased that the Swiss bank offered a guilty plea to having conspired to help its United States clients hide assets from the US Authorities.

TRADER AT SCHRODERS APPEARS IN COURT — Damien Clarke was charged with insider-trading when he came before the Westminster Magistrates Court in relation to £155,000 mentioned in the nine counts against him.  The FCA said that Clarke used insider information which he acquired during his employment at the asset management group.

CITIGROUP IN PAYOUT TO END CIVIL ACTIONS AGAINST THEM —  After battling for a long time on the issue of law suits in the waiting, the Citigroup paid out $7 billion to resolve all civil claims that it misled investors about the quality of its toxic mortgage backed bonds that were sold before the 2008 financial crisis.

SWEETT CONVEYANCING FACE BRIBERY PROBE — The Serious Fraud Office began a formal investigation into one of the oldest and biggest firms dealing in conveyancing.  Claims of bribery are connected with a $100 million project to build a hospital in Morocco.  The Sweett  Director is at the centre of the inquiry and what he told architects.  Last year Sweett’s lawyers, FIRM PINCENT MASONS closed the inquiry by saying allegations were ‘unproven’  but a new second inquiry by Legal FIRM MAYER BROWN found ‘ material instances of deception may have been perpetrated by a former employee or employees’ between 2009 and 2011.     (both law firms got a staggering £490,000 for the two investigations)

VIRGIN LOSES $2MILLION DOLLARS A WEEK — Richard Branson’s VIRGIN Company is losing heavily over its budget airline TIGERAIR Australia…..Virgin owns 60 percent of the company.  Singapore Accounts showed its operating losses at around $33.8 million so far….the budget freight carriers have only 13 planes.#

GM FIRM  AND THE $400MILLION PAYOUT — General Motors were in the news when it was reported that they compensated customers to the tune of $400 million due to claims over a faulty ignition switch on certain vehicles….they were criticised over their failure to act quickly enough over the problem when first told about it.

LONRHO SUED FOR FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION — The UK Investment Company which dominated the scene in Africa is being sued by a former subsidiary over the lease of three aircraft used in Kenya and Zimbabwe.  A $10million claim has been filed against Lonrho in the High Court.

DODGY INVESTMENT ADVICE AT COUTTS — Leads to £110 million being set aside for compensation payouts to customers given bad info.  Couts who belongs to the ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND are being forced to set this money aside to compensate thousands of customers who will be knocking on their door for payouts.  RBS are having a bad time….they were recently fined £14.5 million by the Financial Conduct Authority over mortgage advice that turned sour.  Its also worth noting that COUTTS was Fined £8.75 million in 2012 for serious and systematic failures when handling money from suspected criminals etc.

COMPUTER TYCOON ACCUSED OF FRAUD — Mike Lynch the former finance chief at Autonomy was accused by Hewlett Packard of lying to an extraordinary extent.  The subject of a trial in a Californian Court, Lynch concerning the sale of his business to a US buyer, Hewlett Packard produced an e-mail that proves lies and supports the fraud claim against him.

ITALIAN FIRM DESCALIZI IN CORRUPTION PROBE — Claudio Descalizi, Chief Executive, is being investigated over International corruption allegations….which concern a large Nigerian Oil deal.  Descalizi runs the Italian Oil firm Eni.

FINANCIAL ADVISORS FINED OVER MIS-SELLING — The Independent Financial Advisory Company Chase De Vere was fined £560,000 by the Financial Conduct Authority over mis-selling their defunct Keydata Investments. The FCA said the company had not explained just how risky these investments were to its customers.

There is much more and too many to feature, so we recommend you click on the link  www.sfo.org.uk  where you will find 366 corruption cases involving high level business fraud involving lawyers and high profile firms.

RIGGING SCANDAL ‘ONLY’ NETS THREE TRADERS? — The RBS currency rigging investigation in its long winding road has only produced three traders who have been suspended.  News in says The Royal Bank of Scotland suspended three traders over the £3.5 trillion a day Scandal.  It agreed that it had made very slow progress since the investigation had been launched over a period of six weeks.  Their brief was to investigate some 50 traders and former traders.

ANOTHER TRADER JAILED — City trader Julian Rifat was jailed for 19 months after admitting to 8 counts of insider dealing in a £285,000 scam operation.  It is said that he actually earned in the region of £700,000 a year including bonuses, but for some high flyers of which there are many, this is never enough.  The Judge Alistair McCreath told Southwark Crown Court that Rifat acted ‘deliberately and dishonestly’ and used his privileged position to pass on secret information.

LEGAL & GENERAL Dealers Shelley and Paul Milsom pleaded guilty in court to Insider dealing.

TRADER IN £26 MILLION SCAM FAILS TO PAY BAIL — Navinder Singh Sarao who is facing extradition from the American Authorities after causing a ‘stock market crash’ was remanded in jail after failing to come up with a £5million bail demand.  It is said in a report, that this bedroom trader made more than £25million using a fraudulent trading technique to acquire profits from ‘falls’ and ‘selling’ in prefabricated situations on the market.

‘ Money Laundering is on the UP as it surges to £288 million ‘

Money Laundering cases are increasing says a study by FraudTrack and Auditor BDO.  In the UK it ran to a new height of £288 million in 2013.  This was four times higher than in 2012 when figures were recorded at £70 million.  It is said that this may reduce with new measures now being carried out by the Financial Conduct Authority, who demand more transparency from firms in their accounts.

‘ Shareholders and Corruption ‘

SELLING OUT BRITISH BUSINESS — New shareholders are in for a quick profit even if it means low wages for workers, and even if that company ends up being sold.  Morals are not an issue, there are none — Cadbury the chocolate makers were sold off against their wishes to those Americans –KRAFT — it was described as a hostile takeover! but the Board could not do anything about it — they could have been sued for failing the shareholders.   Shareholders act exclusively in their own interests in order to become wealthy, and what they are doing is in the Government’s interests of creating ‘a low wage Britain’   Many shareholders claim that all they are doing is investing to get a decent return….. and weren’t really bothered about how this is achieved so long as they came out of it with substantial gains!

‘ Biggest boozers are girls ‘

A STUDY HAS SAID GIRLS ARE THE WORST ALCOHOLICS NOW — It says binge-drinking among females has been on the increase, and is costing the NHS in the region of £19million to treat them.  It states that in 2009 there were 23,347 girls admitted to hospital for drink situations compared to 18,159 boys ending up in the hospital drunk or worse.  It also says the UK now has the highest rates of booze incidents in the young. 

A REPORT HAS SAID THAT ONE IN THREE GIRL OFFENDERS ARE THUGS — Violence is the most common first-time crime for under 17 girls.  It says that violent attacks are now the most common first time crime with girls making up more than a third of girls receiving court sentences. It says it can be blamed on culture and the break up of families, which has led to a ‘ ladette scene’ now ever-growing and popular in modern society.

‘ Taxpayers get the bill for lying teacher off work for 6 years ‘

A £180,000 bill was paid by the taxpayer for teacher Anna Yerrakalva who was off sick and on full pay for six years.  Education chiefs finally sacked her for gross misconduct after paying her for six years.  She took the Barnsley council to a tribunal claiming victimization and unfair dismissal.

‘ Watchdog spends £600,000 on Christmas Party ‘

A FINANCIAL WATCHDOG – THE FINANCIAL REGULATOR – spent £600,000 on Christmas parties a report tells us. The FSA Financial Services Authority was accused of failing to prevent the banking fiasco meltdown, and now it spends £270,000 on staff entertainment and £600,000 on their parties. For an organisation dedicated to root out financial wrongdoing it certainly does not look good when it took a request under the Freedom of Information Act to expose this matter.

‘ The Public face the bill for unpaid fines ‘

THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE has  admitted that £1.5billion will go unpaid by criminals and offenders because it cannot be seized or collected.  The Public Accounts Committee said most of it would be ‘written off’ and that this sum is increasing year by year. 

‘ Prison Sentences and Corporal Punishment for over 18’s ‘

THE UK RIOTS of August brought out calls for birching etc, and long custodial sentences, which tends to happen quite often. However, if the public really have the taste for real justice then a model like Singapore would be the natural turn of events, where rioting and bad behaviour is capped and the streets are safe. Corporal punishment is only for the over 16’s in the present system there, but we being of a weak stomach could move this up to 18 so that one did not have the educational and child abuse lobby voicing their disapproval, and a ban on corporal punishment could be kept in schools and at home making sure the children were safe as made clear in the Young Persons Act. No lobby could object to misbehaving adults of 18 to 50 having their bare bottoms caned by expert wielders who would apply it full force, and this would only apply to males as they do in Singapore. Of course it would have to be linked to a prison sentence, which could be a month and upwards, and like Singapore make around 6 strokes the minimum, stripped naked in a caning room as they do. There are ways around the Human Rights, and that is to have them amended so that the ‘ cruel and unusual’ terms along with ‘ degrading and an attack on self dignity ‘ are removed altogether, as the court judges did not find against caning as a punishment. They merely acted on the way it was given and objected to bare buttocks, but the time has come to re-look at this objection on the grounds of law and order instead of silly groups who like the feather approach which is not working in today’s society — which is now crying out for real punishment.

‘ Israel embraces the silencing of whistleblowers ‘

IN A TIME when countries are claiming to be more democratic and open we have this murky appearance of silencing people who are brave enough to leak information into the public domain. America as we have covered want to silence wikileaks (along with the UK) — now we have Israel prosecuting a soldier for disclosing material she came across that uncovered secret information regarding assassinations of West Bank militants and the role of the Army.  Like the USA they wanted to charge her with ‘intent to harm state security ‘ but settled on a lesser charge. All this shows that far from countries wanting to be democratic they really practice intolerance, denial of free speech and the hidden dictatorship they really want for supreme power, but can’t get it by the usual means without showing their hand to the people.

‘ UK Whistleblower exposes quango for lies ‘

A dramatic rescue of child slaves pictured in a British field made the claim they were being rescued,, and officers rushed forward to take the credit for busting a trafficking ring, — but it turned out to be an absolute lie, because it took place last October, and was used and deliberately exploited by the government agency.  Almut Gadow, a GLA policy officer and trained lawyer made sure the ‘sham’ was revealed.  He accused the Agency of ploughing ahead regardless with a publicity campaign that misled the public, and really there to justify its £5m budget because it feared questions might be asked if the results weren’t there.  Paul Whitehouse the GLA Chairman, and one time Police Chief of Sussex– already mentioned in featured cops as he was called on to resign over the James Ashley shooting– and even then he was accused of misleading the public, said in answer to the exposed lie ‘ I was never told this story was false, but agreed that matters had turned out to be — ‘ not quite so serious as originally thought ‘

‘ Cyclists should pay to use the roads ‘

For many years pedestrians and motorists have been asking the government to play fair and make cyclists pay for their use of the roads, but this has never been addressed by a government who constantly shy away from this situation. Pedestrians have long suffered over having to move out of the way of children riding bikes on pavements. Despite there being by-laws and council regulations saying it is illegal, the law has turned a blind eye to this obvious criminal activity by cyclists of all ages. The motorist who must stop at red lights have often seen cyclists ride straight through and act in a rather careless and reckless manner without regard for anyone. The cyclists are often adults who ignore the lights and many other rules of the road, and children often follow this example. It’s about time they were caught and fined for this, and an annual fee like a licence should be imposed on all bike riders, after all, motorcyclists have to have a licence and pay road tax, so why should a kid or an adult on a cycle get away with paying nothing for the road use bought by car owners and motorcyclists?

‘ Copter fleet sale halted by corruption investigation ‘

THE UK GOVERNMENT have shelved the sale of helicopters after police launched a corruption investigation involved in ‘ irregularities ‘  The report says the £6billion deal has been cancelled with the French when it was revealed that a government insider had given the company ‘ commercially sensitive information ‘

‘ D.V.L.A sell off Data on Drivers for £3.4million ‘

Someone pointed out on BBC’s Watchdog that he thought there was a an Act called the Data Protection Act that carried great penalties if it were broken or abused.  Well there is, and strangely enough, Government Department Solicitors point out to people this act when the public make any enquiries about almost anything. Yet, we have the Motor Department the DVLA selling off information and data to around 600 firms for £3.4m and claiming they don’t profit by it.  There is little doubt that there is no protection whatsoever for motorists and data is merely passed on because they allow it.  It actually shows that the government can break any law it makes but the citizen cannot.  Two people representing the DVLA and car parking concerns put up a woeful defence that lacked credibility, and the DVLA said they’d expelled two of the firms that had purchased data and did not comply by the rules laid down. But the programme showed these rules were being broken regularly by the so-called members.  As with the Freedom of Information Act, the Data Protection Act is anything the Government want it to be and if they choose to ignore it or alter the interpretation they just do.

‘ DVLA ABOVE THE LAW ‘  yes that’s how it acts and sees itself.  It had 2,224 complaints against it over it’s attitude and dealings in regard to the SORN document, which relates to off-road vehicles and liability for tax. These civil servants actually ignored a County Court Ruling against them because it wasn’t high enough to break their authority.  It turned out their Appeal System is run by guess who?  The DVLA — they act as accusers, witnesses, police, prosecutors, judge and executioner.  In other words, an Appeal is rubbish, and no-one will be successful. The boss of the DVLA appeared on BBC’s Watchdog, more like a robot who continued to reel out the same message….so watch out for those £80 fines and the threats that come with it.

‘ Cop’s Wife in £10million Loan Scam ‘

POLICE OFFICER’S WIFE – Surveyor, MARY-JANE RATHIE, appeared at the Old Bailey on five fraud charges relating to a £10m mortgage fraud.  It was stated in court that she deliberately over-valued expensive property in return for cash and luxury cars etc,  Both the Bentley Continental and Range Rover Sport were registered in her husband’s name – Met Traffic Cop David Rathie.  She and her husband deny concealing criminal property.

‘ Jockey’s charged with corruption by BHA ‘

FOUR RIDERS are facing corruption charges in betting investigation. Milczarek along with racing jockeys Paul Doe, Greg Fairley and Jimmy Quinn are charged with committing corrupt practices.  Jockey turned trainer, Paul Fitzsimmons was cited too.  Owners Maurice Sines and James Crickmore and six others are facing allegations of using information to profit on Betfair, Sines and Crickmore are also accused of concealing their ownership in one of the horse racing’s biggest investigations into rigging and fixing.

‘ Amnesty not keen to discuss £800,000 payoff to two bosses ‘

It’s quite sad to see a cause that seeks out to expose and safeguard human rights want to keep secret the payoff for two directors who are set to get £800,000. This Charity? yes Charity — paid out £300,000 to the deputy leader of the organisation and another sum to it’s chief.  They refused to comment amid the critism. The organisation receives donations from many appeals which brings in a huge amount of public money.

‘ EX-HBOS chief and disgraced banker gets £2.4m payout ‘

ANDY HORNBY who led the Halifax Bank of Scotland to the brink of collapse in 2008, recently got a pay-off from Boots after leaving them. The ex-banker walked from the banking disaster straight into Boots as Chief Executive of Alliance Boots the Chemists.  Hornby was ‘too stressed out ‘ to talk to the press.

‘Well off Businessman sent to jail for pack of lies ‘

TO COVER-UP THE CRIME OF AN EXPIRED MOT Businessman Executive Jonathan Lailey went to extraordinary lengths to conceal the matter. Judge Philip Wassall who jailed Lailey for six months was utterly mystified that a man with an impeccable character could engage in a course of criminality over an MOT. Lailey was convicted of perverting the course of justice, forging documents which pretended to having sold the car before the incident and failing to stop at an accident. Exeter Crown Court heard how Lailey even swapped the car registration plates in order to avoid detection. A spokesperson said ‘ it was only a minor issue, an out of date MOT and a small accident involving a car bumper, something easily sorted and a fixed penalty’

 Insider Dealers Jailed and Fined ‘

DRESDNER KLEINWORT BANKER and his wife have been ordered to pay a fine of £2.17million and serve a jail term of over three years by Southwark Crown Court.  Christian Littlewood admitted passing confidential information concerning eight firms to his wife who used it to trade with to her gain. She got a suspended 12 month sentence, while a third accomplice friend Helmy Omar got two years for his part in the financial scam. The Littlewoods also incurred a £1.5million penalty which means if it isn’t paid within six months, an additional prison time of three years will be tagged onto their current sentences. (both have a string of properties in Hampstead).

‘ Polly Peck Tycoon is found guilty of massive fraud ‘

THE FSA SHOWED SIGNS OF RELIEF has Asil Nadir was convicted at the Old Bailey on three counts of theft, with another nine counts yet to consider.  It is stated that Nadir fled to Cyprus in the 1990’s to escape prosecution, which meant that things were left on hold.  The tycoon returned to court and was sent to prison for ten years for stealing £29million from the company.

‘ Phoenix Shares compromised over fiddling the books ‘

There is never a day goes by that a company is caught in the ‘corruption’ game — Phoenix  IT suffered a blow to its share values which plummeted after news arrived that a member of Servo, one of its main businesses had been fiddling the books.  It was said that someone in its financial function at its Birstall Offices in Leeds had had repeatedly and deliberately circumventing certain processes….they said a finance manager had been suspended over the mis-statement of a number of accounting balances.  They claim at the moment –the sum involved amounts to £14 million over a 18 month period.

‘ Trader in £1.85 billion Fraud ‘

BAIL WAS GIVEN to an American Trader who is accused of committing City Fraud.  Kareem Serageldin is a Senior Trader who was arrested outside the American Embassy. Dubbed ‘ A tale of Greed run amok’  was said to have been involved in high-risk mortgages which were bumped up at the highest end of the banking crisis.  It is stated that American Prosecutors demanded his immediate extradition to stand trial over the fraud. He appeared before Westminster Magistrates. He said to reporters that he would not comply with the extradition order.

‘More hot air and promises over Rogue Bankers by Government ‘

Yet again the steam rises from hot under the collar government spinners who are saying that rogue bankers will face jail in the new proposals of revamped law.  Bankers though, would prefer it to be in the civil law domain where jail is a non-existent option just talked about…..But City Regulators are trying desperately to appease the public by saying new law will jail a corrupt banker up to 7 years, and fines for abusing trust and the system.  The FSA are to read the Riot Act in any ‘future’ cases.

‘ Compensation settlement to be paid by Cosalt ‘

Having accused two former employees of being involved in a £2.5 million fraud, the Marine Group Company Cosalt have settled out of court after failing in their pursuit of Stuart and Calum Melville in a case launched by Carphone former founder David Ross. The terms of the settlement were not known at the time of this article.

‘ £11 Million fine for Icap in Libor Scam ‘

One of the largest Brokers in the World business market Icap, a firm set up by former Conservative Party treasurer Michael Spencer has been fined £11 million by the European Commission over the help it gave to the Libor Interest rate rigging.  Icap was accused of facilitating six of seven cartels that manipulated Libor interest rates.  The EC said Icap was spreading misleading information to banks involved in setting Libor.  And that was serving as a middle agent between rogue traders of Citigroup and RBS.

‘ BRITAIN IN SHAME ‘

THE SHAME OF THIS GOVERNMENT could not be more clearly shown when watching the Programme -‘ POOR KIDS ‘ shown on the BBC 7th June 2011. It was by definition, utterly depressing to see children worrying about money and how they were going to live or make it through to old age.  A damning report showed that out of nine rich countries in the world, the UK had the worst case of child poverty, which is set to increase in the future. It is easy to see why Lawyers, businessmen and the rich professions (who have obese and selfish kids) ignore this side of life. And more to the point don’t want to know. It was good to see a National Newspaper do a two page article on this, but sadly that only lasts a week in the minds of people who enjoy swimming pools, memberships of golf clubs, have yachts and spend oodles on their hobbies, they are not touched or even interested in this subject, they prefer it to go away, some take action to suppress it, that is the state of Britain.

‘ Beware of that neighbourly smile, it’s probably faked ‘

A NEW REPORT HAS REVEALED THAT MANY SMILES ARE FORCED AND FAKED among the population, in fact it goes on to say that 47 per cent of smiles that people show to others are faked in order to cover other feelings. That deceptive smile cannot be taken as truthful as it is often done to impress or put on a front in order to disguise a lie or false representation.  The study by Biorepair was carried out during 2010 and extended to many cities throughout the UK. Business and the professions such as legal and councils came in second to the general public, followed by shops and hospital staff. So when you see that smile that comes all too readily, walk away and seek the company of a pet; humans have a bad track record when it comes to honesty.

‘ When a public watchdog becomes the suspect itself ‘

ONE WOULD BE FORGIVEN FOR THINKING A WATCHDOG ORGANISATION ABOVE REPROACH, but these days it is likely that the investigating watchdog is corrupt itself. Sadly the case, and that makes this society one hell of a cesspit to live in. Lies and deceit abound even with communities that put up a ‘cleaner than clean front that is too good to be true’ because it isn’t, and that’s what you find when you remove the veneer they hope cannot be penetrated.  The Audit Commission is the latest watchdog to have its reputation shredded. It spent over £12,000 on parties, a quango set by the government to keep an eye on dodgy spending, and paid for by the taxpayer.  A report says this commission is about to be abolished, and a good thing too.  It spent £7,000 on photographers services and £3,000 on a  reception do at a conference.

‘ Another Public Watchdog caught out hiding certain facts ‘

THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION OFFICE, a Quango hailed as the department that would not hide the truth, was caught out itself when it was revealed that they had deliberately withheld bad news at The Information Commissioners Office, when they decided not take action against a web site called Internet Eyes. Campaigners who support openness and transparency said ‘this episode has cast a more sinister and disturbing light on the activities of the Regulator — it has become a danger both to openness and to privacy ‘  The report showed that things went on behind the scenes that they didn’t want known.

‘ Fat cat Surveyor takes bribes to inflate house values ‘

GREED CROPS UP HERE AGAIN for the umpteenth time, as we learn of Surveyor Mary -Jane Rathie who has been jailed by The Old Bailey for operating a mortgage scam. It is said she took nearly a million pounds in bribes to feed her lavish lifestyle at Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire.  The court said ‘ she showed serious dishonesty ‘ in that she manipulated prices in one of the most expensive living areas of London. She was jailed for six years. Her cop husband was cleared after a lack of evidence to proceed against him, it says he has now divorced his wife.  She earned the good sum of £50,000 a year, nearly a £1,000 a week, but this was never enough…and it isn’t for quite a number of people who want the upmarket ‘posh’ image, and will similarly do anything to get there in the hope they too are not seen in court.

‘ Owner of anti-solicitor Website still battling libel allegations ‘

We have also heard that the website owner responsible for Solicitors from Hell is fighting around fourteen libel writs brought by the Law Society and Bar Council.  He has lost the first one and the £10,000 award to a solicitor is unpaid and will again be never realised. It is said the costs of all of them could be nearly a million, but the owner does not fear this as he has nothing, no assets….so we wish him good luck.

‘ Revenge is natural, and we all at some time want to do it ‘

All humans throughout history have been wronged by a person, firm or Government, and the first emotion is revenge, but sometimes that is just a thought or idea that we eventually resist because of the consequences being too great. But that doesn’t apply to everyone, there are those that seek it on a minor scale with less repercussions, and those that go all the way no matter what.  Society can be that target, and recent news of the Norwegian National going on such a plan was made a farce by stupid press and the media trying to push it to terrorist groups — they like that idea, they’ve been fed on that for so long by those arse Americans.  The man Anders Behring Breivik has said that his actions ‘ were cruel but necessary’ a little like society and the phrase ‘ You’ve got to be cruel to be kind ‘ and that is well believed in by society at large. However, society being contradictory and two-faced, his belief and saying will be met with horror from bigots and likewise. He said he had a desire to bring about a revolution, and wanted to attack and re-structure society.  Society is fragmented because of greed, misuse of power and corruption at all levels and in general most people look the other way or couldn’t care less unless they get individual gain — even at the expense of others. Revenge-takers like Breivik are rare, and it is sad that he has taken 92 lives and wounded 97, but if he’d ranted at some local government office, no one would have heard of him or taken any notice, this sadly, is the price of pent up anger, and there will be others.

‘ Glencore makes millions out of human misery ‘

GETTING RICH ON THE POOR IS AN EASY SPORT THESE DAYS — GLENCORE DOES — It’s boss Ivan Glasenberg handled the rare BBC interview well dodging and diving and playing the scene true to form. Every denial saw that later what he answered was not the whole truth. But  would you expect it from a billionaire, no not really, they didn’t get that rich by being fair or above board.  He denied having child labour on some of the mines, but filming showed that they were there. He said the Company hadn’t bought into any Columbian plan, but it later transpired they had bid for the land, a controversial £1.8 million payment in 2008. Glencore faces many questions over it’s lack of respect for Human Rights and the poisoning of river Luilu, which became an acid waterfall. One particular fact worth knowing is that Glencore was founded by Marc Rich, who was wanted for illegal oil dealing with Iran and tax evasion…he was also on the FBI most wanted list until President Clinton gave him a pardon?

‘ The Selfish Greedy Rich dominate Society and breed low morals ‘

TWELVE SEPARATE STUDIES have been done and they all showed that the rich, and even the middle class rich included, lack social empathy, show less compassion and indulge in bad behaviour. Whereas in the ‘ lower classes’ the poor, who have to bear the weight of this greed suffer the most and interestingly though aspiring to get some of it themselves, end up becoming dissatisfied and resentful which in turn causes hatred for those people that can manipulate the law and more or less buy their way out of trouble. The recent riots in London certainly show an unrest and a society that cares more about money and position, which by all accounts isn’t likely to change in the near future at all. Psychologist Dacher Keltner said the rich and those desiring to be, were more self-obsessed and selfish as a result of it. He also said ‘ Wealth, education and prestige gave the rich the freedom to only worry about themselves. He said they tended to avoid eye contact with the less off, would get distracted checking phones and doodling, and show a desperation to go onto something else or end things as it was interfering with their own pursuits.  There was also a tendency to avoid giving clear answers or committing themselves, often replying with a shrug and banal excuse if they were pushed into giving a response. The other noticeable point was that the rich saw themselves as untouchable, and some instantly said they could afford good lawyers if they were ever in trouble or knew somebody in position who they could have a word with? The lower income group of course do not have this privilege and as a result they are more vulnerable, and going to prison or being arrested has more serious consequences, whereas the rich can afford to play games, run around cops with lawyers delay court actions and generally tie up the judiciary in knots whilst remaining free to enjoy their wealth waiting for any case against them to be dropped.

‘ Speak with forked tongue ‘ (The UK Torture Denials and Collaborations)

(a quote from Hurwood’s ‘Torture through the ages’) – ‘ When it comes to torture, however, men of all nations, civilised or uncivilised, developed or undeveloped, whatever you choose to call them, seem evenly skilled when it comes to inflicting pain and torment on their fellow humans…..this is one of the few areas in which everyone is equal — a fact most Americans and Europeans fail to appreciate.  And strangely enough History tells us that the Orientals (Asians) are intrinsically the worst at cruelty on the face of the Earth, and therefore the most expert torturers………they have developed the most horrendous ways of inflicting pain and carrying it out.’

It has emerged that there was a cosy relationship between Gaddafi the UK and the USA despite the speeches they have made recently. At present they are calling him a monster, both the USA and UK, but as Americans say in their cowboy movies — ‘ White man speak with forked tongue ‘ which candidly means two-faced and deceitful liars.  Files have been found by rebels opposed to the now toppling regime which show how Britain and America cooperated with Gaddafi in supplying confidential and sensitive information to his regime regarding prisoners and political situations that might help him, probably done through the MI5 and CIA, who do their Government’s dirty work; hiding behind Immunity Laws granted them that prevent disclosure and public scrutiny often described as ‘in the security of the nation’ which in many cases is a complete lie. America and Britain have been shown to have lied over torture in these files that have been realised at the Gaddafi Offices. Private communicates showing sentences such as ‘ we have a very special relationship with you ‘ written by a British official, after handing someone over to be tortured and interrogated. When will the Americans be brought to trial over the Guantanamo atrocities, they are always keen to condemn others involved in abusing human rights, how about putting the cowboy American Nation on trial….some other countries would certainly love to see that.

‘ BRITAIN’S LIES, AND TIES WITH LYBIAN TORTURERS ‘ — MUSAH KUSAH the Gaddafi right hand man and torturer of 1200 men in a prison was met and welcomed by MI5 and MI6 in style and whisked away and later had a ‘slap up dinner’ courtesy of the UK Government. The services aided by the police assisted in cover ups and misdirection of information so the UK Press and people would not be aware of the truth.  This was confirmed in a BBC Programme with investigative reporter Paul Kenyon.  MI5 and MI6 wrote secret letters to the Gaddafi regime saying they’d only be too willing to help, and they did this by assisting in a kidnapping of a man wanted by Gaddafi and Kusah — that man was Abdel Hakim Belhadj who was badly tortured. When Musah Kusah was in Britain he wasn’t arrested for the criminal that he is.  It is obvious now that some criminals are more advantageous to Britain if allowed free.

‘ MI5 the Dirty tricks brigade are proven liars ‘

As we have already shown in the ‘torture’ articles and ‘Gadaffi’ link the Secret Service known as MI5 are in essence liars and manipulators of the Government.  They claim to have state security as their top priority but never prove that adequately.  Their operators have immunity like nothing ever seen whilst dragging out huge pay and expenses out of the taxpayers kitty.  Many of these people working at MI5 could not withstand a check or investigation into expenses, the corruption would be gigantic. They tried to fit up a Russian woman who worked for Mike Hancock the MP in Portsmouth, claiming they had caught a valuable spy.  At an immigration tribunal where they were attempting to deport her, it was revealed that this band of liars had no real or substantive evidence, and the tribunal dismissed their move to deport the woman. Yet this MI5 expect people to believe they act with integrity, which they do not. She was never a spy, it was propaganda that existed here with the MI5 hoping to score Brownie Points in the eyes of the public, but luckily it has gone wrong and only casts doubts on any evidence they say they have and certainly proves that they are a menace to society and cannot be trusted. Fit-ups do exist as seen in this case, and conspiracy is well within their remit and capabilities.

THE MI5 and SPECIAL BRANCH — This tight group of secretists enjoyed many years of not being noticed, especially before the coming of computers and Internet, which of course, allowed them to create chaos and diversions in International Politics — and doing things the British Public might see as abhorrent and ‘Not quite British’    The story of the man, Gareth Williams only served to show the service incapable of giving answers and knowing what their agents/employees were doing  — according to a former special branch officer of 21 years service and experience, he believes that line-managers and colleagues must have known far more than they were prepared to talk about.  He says there are stringent checks made on all officers and employees backgrounds, affiliations and daily life, and waiting a week to see why the officer had been missing or absent from meetings is rather unbelievable.  Excuses thrown up at the time were that they thought he was on leave is ludicrous, he says they would have known where he was on a day-to-day basis.

MI5 STOP CHILD ABUSE INVESTIGATION TO PROTECT THE ELITE — The Kincora Boys Home Abuse case has re-emerged revealing that MI5 stopped the investigation into the home and the abusers involved.  In 1975 Army Intelligence Officer Brian Gemmell was looking into the abuse being carried out in Ireland’s Kincora Boys’ Home run by William McGrath (who was later jailed for child sex offences). Mr Gemmell said that 5 years later he was approached by MI5 who ordered him to cease the investigation, and furthermore, the Police were also told to keep off.  We already know that MI5 and Special Branch do ‘a clean-up operation’ and cover up in circumstances involving politicians and high profile government figures….. and they clearly put themselves in the frame for this cover-up, making sure that the elite involved in child sex abuse were never caught or charged!

IT HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED that MI5 is going to be investigated by the Police, but this has happened before — with no result???  In 2009 the Attorney General’s Office requested Scotland Yard to investigate torture of terror suspects aided and abetted by MI5. They claimed the investigation was unprecedented as there had never been a police inquiry into the shadowy world of Britain’s Security Services?  — and you are not going to get one now 3 years later!!     Even in 2009 Ministers were afraid that the investigation might reveal UK involvement in the degrading treatment of captives held without warrant or any actual charges. Civil liberties said the proposed probe in 2009 would not have the capability or resources to expose the full scale of any wrongdoing by Britain. Even now before the 2012 so-called inquiry into MI5 torture, those agents found to have been colluding in torture can fall back on an opt out clause given to MI5, which allows agents to carry out acts that are illegal in Britain on foreign soil…so where will this new investigation go?  The same way as the one in 2009 — nowhere.

MI5 BURGLED AND BUGGED THEIR WAY ACROSS LONDON:  Britain’s Security Service a Government Agency operated outside the law for many years and still does.  Peter Wright a former Senior Intelligence Officer wrote the book ‘Spycatcher’ a book that Margaret Thatcher and the government fought hard to prevent, especially its publication in Australia.  From 1955 to 1975 plus, Mr Wright said that MI5 ‘Bugged and burgled on its way across London on the orders of the government, while pompous ‘bowler-hatted’ civil servants in Whitehall looked the other way’    The bugging of course meant the involvement of the infamous GCHQ who regularly listened in on phone calls of people across the country, and Telecom had to assist, yet deny any involvement if challenged. Mr Wright admitted that the Agency was called upon to assist in covert ‘assassinations of third world leaders’ but, on his watch he refused, telling the US to approach France, because it was ‘more in their line of work’…he didn’t say whether previous policies before his appointment meant they had already assisted in this kind of thing…but sources of more recent times indicates this has already happened.

‘MI6 Boss is sued over torture and rendering by two victims’

SIR MARK ALLEN who controlled the security service MI6 is being sued in a civil action launched by two former ‘victims’ of rendering and torture in Libya. The two men’s lawyers filed writs in the court — at the moment Sir Mark Allen has not responded.

MI6 Denials are finally broken as £1 million payout is offered to torture victim – Abdel Hakim Belhadj whisked away into the arms of Gadaffi and Kusah in 2004, helped by MI6 in Britain.  Britain has continually denied involvement and hoped they would never be linked to the torture or deal, but Minister Jack Straw; who actually denied knowing of it has now admitted he approved the decision to capture Belhadj and hand him over to Gadaffi.   Only the proof of the letter found made the MP tell the truth, otherwise it would still be the lies. A year before, Straw denied all knowledge of the operation to forcibly detain Belhadj in Malaysia who was transported in a CIA jet to Lybia and to Gadaffi.      Mr.Straw was not available for comment?  This seriously puts doubt on his honesty when he was The Home Secretary in charge of police…if he can conceal a lie this long, what lies did he manufacture before?  And what about the CIA, another bunch of US crap who use lies, deceit and corrupt practises…..no wonder they are against the freedom of the Internet and websites like Wikileaks.

BRITAIN’S ATROCITIES — Yes, even this country prefers to forget and deny what they did — and here is just a token of what that means:

FORMER MAJOR JAMES MORGAN-JONES a wartime major in the Royal Artillery during 1939-1945 World war 2 has revealed the shocking truth for the first time after 60 years of secrecy. He personally witnessed torture and acts of gross inhumane suffering at the hands of the British Army. He talked about the British Organisation — The Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre, a Division of The War Office that ran a secret prison near Hanover — Bad Nenndorf where 372 men and 44 women were subject to appalling treatment and experiments designed to break them.  On top of this he visited another British Secret Jail – The London Cage, where German prisoners had been concealed from the Red Cross observers, who were beaten, deprived of sleep, threatened with execution and surgery?

THE BATANG KALI MASSACRE OF 1948 BY BRITISH TROOPS — This is often referred to as the ’56 year injustice’ involving British Troops — ‘BRITAIN’S SHAME’ — ‘The Licence to Kill’ Law was introduced by Senior Diplomats when they sent British Troops on an operation against Chinese Malayan Communists.  A 16-man team of Scots Guards surrounded an estate at Sunga Rimoh, the bodies of many villagers, unarmed, were mutilated and the village burned to the ground.  At a hearing, all the soldiers got off and the Law was carefully crafted to immunise those involved in the killings from the legal consequences of their actions.

BRITISH EMPIRE ATROCITIES REVEALED — The Mau Mau — The Tasmanian Genocide — The Dirty War in Yemen, 100,000 Kikuyu citizens were killed by the British — David Anderson documented the hanging of 1090 suspect rebels, and thousands more were summarily executed by British soldiers.  320,000 Kikuyu people were put into concentration camps, many were flogged until they died, some had paraffin poured over them and lit while others had their ears cut off and eardrums burnt with cigarettes, and there were metal rod castrations. British soldiers were told they could kill anyone if they were black!!

KENYA is still demanding compensation for war atrocities from Britain and a public apology.

‘OPERATION COLDSTORE’ and THE UK/SINGAPORE CONSPIRACY — De-Classified documents unearthed by Poo Soo Hai show that Britain was secretly involved at Government level to be actively engaged in crushing the democratic opposition in Singapore’s General Elections (1963) so that the ‘infamous Dictator’ Lee Kuan Yew could take power unopposed. The UK collaborated and conspired with Lee’s Party (PAP), who are still running the show now, despite several attempts by other parties to change things. Many who did oppose them were jailed without trial while the UK did nothing.  The UK knew that Lee Kuan Yew was ruthless in his quest for power.  Using ISA powers, Lee suppressed opposition while Britain backed him, and one speech made by Lee spoke of this nasty belief ‘ The biggest punishment a man can receive is total isolation in a dungeon, black and complete withdrawal of stimulii — that is real torture’……and he allowed the ISA to employ this to people who were not criminals, nor had they had a fair trial….they merely opposed him at the elections….one of those men Dr Lim Hock Siew spent nearly 20 yrs in prison because he would not sign bogus confessions or keep silent about what was happening.  The Newspapers said nothing nor did they write about it, they were ordered not to, and Britain just backed away knowing they had turned a blind eye to torture, and kept this a secret.

To see more on the above article go to www.singaporerebel/blogspot.uk.  and go to right hand side for list, scroll down to ‘Ex-Political Prisoner Speaks Out’  a video where Dr Siew tells what happened.    Even now, Singapore bans this video and anyone copying it or distributing it in the Island State can be fined $10,000 or jailed for 2 yrs or both!……and guess who remains behind this?  Lee Kuan Yew….still influencing political decisions…..and put there by the British…. a Nation who claim they are fully behind Human Rights and are against  torture (and this country they conspired with to form a PAP Government, still secures down prisoners for bare canings ‘every week’  in addition to long jail terms!)………………………for another link just put  Singapore Rebel in search.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND JUDICIARY COMPLICIT IN ‘FAKED’ CASE WITH SINGAPORE – The Case of Jerry Fernandez who fled to Britain and the UK Judiciary aided and abetted Singapore in the extradition….the charges against Fernandez were bogus and vague…..but Britain assisted (Lee Kuan Yew).  Fernandez fled Singapore after saying something (maligning) about the MSA Airlines Chairman, a close friend of Lee (1988)…nothing criminal, just a statement the chairman did not like…..Fernandez was the Airlines Secretary!……Singapore spent huge amounts of money on this ‘revenge’ crusade……and PM Lee knew that his British Allies would play ball!

Remember ARGENTINA and how it was the enemy, and recent threats by them to have back the Falklands…well it seems Britain has been double dealing again….because a report has revealed that Britain has sold £2million pounds worth of arms to Argentina in the last two years!  Ministers actually approved the sale of parts for Military Helicopters, Warships and much more….it looks like more posturing and less honesty yet again for a country that claims it deals above board and transparent.

‘ Britain was involved in torture despite denials ‘

A five year study by a human rights group proved that the UK was involved and took part in the torture of UK citizens held in Pakistan during 2004.  Ministers fiercely denied all or any involvement at the time but are now proved to be liars.  Edward Davey, the Liberal Foreign Affairs Spokesman openly said Evidence of the British Government’s complicity in torture is increasingly clear.  The New York Human Rights Group claimed that Britain was in breach of International Law.  The present Labour Government tried to cover-up the truth on more than one occasion and hoped that their involvement would never be found out. One should be absolutely aware that America was involved in these tortures no matter how they tried to make it a national necessity in country security.  They showed that if it came to torture they are quite willing to use these methods even while they are condemning it in others — a case of double standards — something the U.S.A. are patently good at.  Britain merely tries to hide in its shadow expecting not to be caught out.

BRITAIN STILL IN DENIAL OVER SLAVERY — The British people still act as if they are not responsible for the wicked acts carried out in the slave trade.  Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller reiterated her stand to sever ties with the UK because of the ‘days of the British Empire’ and the atrocities engaged in by the upper class who bought into having slaves. It was revealed that the British Government had never paid any compensation for what they had done. She said her race had been subjected to years of wicked and brutal acts by the British — and everyone in Britain preferred to turn the other way if it was mentioned. No one has ever been brought to book over what Britain did.

BRITAIN’S HIDDEN ATROCITY —- In 1954 The British Government had soldiers running a concentration camp in Kenya. Harsh conditions actually brought about the deaths of 402 inmates in a single month. It had a regime; and we are talking here of after the war in the 1950’s — of Torture, floggings, forced labour, denial of food, and the abuse of women and children happened regularly.  These so called ‘special prison units’ were reported to be worse than the Nazi camps and those of the Japanese. They actually used Japanese type torture on inmates, and this was commonplace……. It was run by a British Commandant.   Another hidden fact was that The British Government supported repression in Uganda, Chile and South Africa, whilst on the surface denying it.

INTERNATIONAL COURT SAYS BRITAIN DID TORTURE KENYANS — Britain is in its denial stage again, yet often accuses other countries of such acts…..Three Kenyans now in their old age (survivors) have successfully fought for the right to sue the British Government by the High Court Judges.     The court ruled that the British Government were responsible for their Colonial acts.  It was said that three years ago when the action was brought, Britain had it thrown out, and hoped it could not succeed saying that it happened a long time ago and evidence would not be available….. in other words — deny it ever happened…..not dissimilar  to China, Japan and Germany!!   Knowing that these claimants have very little money and are not given financial support by their Government one can see how the UK government is hoping that they will not be able to afford the justice they seek.

BRITAIN HAS A ‘BLOOD-SOAKED PAST — and this history is being pushed to one side in favour of ‘window dressing and propaganda’ in order to alter and fool people into believing it is a gentle peace-loving nation; something that history refutes spectacularly in facts!  The above torture case of the Mau Mau indicates how the UK seeks to dismiss this history using that awful line ‘ it happened a long time ago ‘  — this kind of answer to atrocities committed is all too frequent from governments who have something to avoid, rather like a box of secrets hidden away.    Britain like other nations, doesn’t want to pay for it’s dirty deeds, yet on the other hand wants others to pay theirs.  After World War 11 it backed Nazi Hunters and supported claims against Germany for several years, but as Germany emerged from the rubble into an economic surprise, it started changing its colours and removing support for groups and organisations after recompense in order to become ‘solid friends’ and prevent diplomatic arguments, but it was still eager to get compensation in the European situation so long as it could not be seen as stirring up bad feelings.  America was similar in its stand but had to support hunters and back them due to its large Jewish Population, having taken many of the refugees and oppressed in the war.

THE HUSHED-UP ATROCITIES OF WARTIME BRITAIN AND GERMAN PRISONERS — A recent revelation by the Press in a features article has revealed that cosy nice wartime Britain had yet another secret, a secret that it ruthlessly kept hidden.  The torture of Nazi Prisoners in London was going on, but the Government made it a crime for anyone revealing it to the public, not just during the war, but after the war as well.  Ian Cobain did much research into what was happening and came across a ‘cupboard that hid many skeletons’ of the UK concern over human rights and the Geneva Convention of 1929.  ‘The London Cage’ a network of nine Cages around Britain exclusively used for the torture of prisoners during the war.       Guards boasted that they were ‘The English Gestapo’  Much of what they accused other countries of doing — the British were also doing, and trying to do it in a more sadistic way to prove they had what it took to destroy human beings, and enjoy it.

AS YET ANOTHER ATROCITY EMERGES — The Iraq claim of Brutality by British Soldiers — we see that old line emerge again with the services, their personnel and public for that matter — the cries and claims that the  others are doing it, so that makes it alright?   — the defence we are seeing to allegations of torture is ‘Denial’, then it changes to ‘necessary in the interests of Security’ — yet they know that torture is abhorrent and an affront to human dignity and morality but still do it if they can get away with it….and this is what the countries and governments defend with lies and subterfuge…..so torture survives in the 21st Century, and it will continue to do so…..No Government has any ‘real’ values, other than monetary and financial — its other name is ‘ Power’ — the means to control and destroy who and what target they desire! 

TORTURE STILL USED —  The French firm Mag Force International and Chinese Company Tian Jin My Way International Trading were dismissed from the London Arms Fair when it was discovered they were trading in — ‘leg irons’ and ‘electric batons’ calmly depicted in their catalogues.  The Fair quickly opposed these items as disgusting, even though they are not illegal everywhere.  But it was evidence that they were being promoted for sale to any country that still used torture as a method of inflicting harm to prisoners and suspects.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT COLLUDES WITH RUSSIA OVER INQUEST SECRET DOCUMENTS ——– Secret State Documents denied to Hearing.  Sir Robert Owen chairing the Inquest into KGB Spy Alexander Littvinenko’s death broke down as he declared ‘that the inquest without the evidence would undermine his duty to conduct a full, fair and fearless inquiry’  Despite this he had no option than to grant the Government’s request that documents called for may or may not relate to Russian Involvement must remain secret for both Britain and Russia.  He said that it appears that the British Government are more concerned about its political relationship with with Russia, over its need to have a thorough and open inquest.

BRITAIN’S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET REVEALED — A top secret agreement done between Winston Churchill and Roosevelt actually agreed that Britain and America would ‘ALLOW’ the Japanese to take Australia — this was while they were taking on the Germans in World War Two (paper known as WW1)….but Australia were not even consulted and knew nothing of the deal.  It was said to be common knowledge in the War Ministry that Churchill had a deep contempt for Australia (full of convicts)…….when it was discovered by them they declared that they would get Independence and end ‘Servility’ to the UK……and eventually they did.

SECRET ‘KILLS’ ARMY SANCTIONED BY UK — A storm as erupted since it was revealed that a special Army Group operated under the radar and were unaccountable during the Northern Ireland troubles.  This was at the time of STALKER and the ‘Shoot to Kill’ policy’    Members of this group broke cover recently to say they shot and killed innocent members of the public without fear of arrest or conviction.  They were not required to observe any rules on convention… they picked out targets and took them down.  In the light of this, the MOD pretended to be amazed at the revelations… and said it was up to the Police to take the matter further….but no mention was said of the ‘Puppet-Masters’ in the UK Government who authorised this?

BLAIR’S GOVERNMENT GAVE USA PERMISSION TO SPY ON CITIZENS — As if the above item wasn’t enough, it has now emerged that Tony Blair gave his permission for America to spy on British citizens (denied by the present government under David Cameron).  The report says that the Labour Government gave the go-ahead for the American spy agencies permission to store and study e-mails, phone messaging and Internet records of UK citizens according to top-secret documents which were exposed by Channel 4 News.

UK DID ASSIST IN RENDITION — Rendition being  the covert way of seizing suspects and concealing them away in some ‘unofficial’ prison and torturing them for confessions…..or for gratification.  The American Government kept Rendition for some years, denying it publicly.  In a recent UK Inquiry it has been found that Britain assisted in this sort of thing in dozens of cases……but were anxious to keep this all out of the public view.

BRITISH LINK TO AMRITSAR RAID — An investigation has been ordered to  expose what the British involvement was in a deadly raid on a temple in India.  It is said that ‘secret documents’ indicate that a British SAS Officer helped the Indian Authorities draw up plans to remove dissident Sikhs from the Golden temple in Amritsar in 1984.  Hundreds died in the raid.

ARRESTED UK MI6 MAN CONFESSES — an un-named MI6 spy held by the Iranian Authorities is said to have admitted working with The British Secret Intelligence Service, and meeting with Middle-East contacts.  It is said the man in his 50’s is already on trial…… A reply from the Foreign Office said ‘ We don’t comment on Intelligence Matters’

MI6 DEALINGS IN THE LITVINENKO PLOT — This story hit the headlines with a Russian defector being poisoned with polonium in 2006…..an assassination on UK soil.  The report says MI6 handed the man a confidential government document……according to the Russians.

UK SECURITY NETWORK SNOOP ON YOUTUBE — The UK government allow the spy networks such as MI5 and MI6 to look and gather video clips by YouTube users….The Home Office confirmed it had given the new ‘super flagger’ powers by Google to monitor the content and those who supplied it.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF COMPLICITY IN COVER-UP — The CIA’s rendition programme has led to the blame game with Britain’s Security Services being dropped right into it over files which are now said to be ‘damaged’  and these documents are claimed to have exposed British knowledge of the ‘practices’ in the ‘Diego Garcia files’ due to water damage?  The story involves two suspects, and flights, which Britain denies knowing about?

CLAIM AGAINST UK FAILS BECAUSE OTHERS WERE INVOLVED — yes, ‘the get out of jail card is played by the UK government’ ……the Judge said because other countries were involved in the rendition and kidnap, it was beyond his remit to lay all the blame with the UK who were involved….. victim Abdel Belhadj was dealt a blow to natural justice because natural justice doesn’t apply to ‘ Government terrorism’….. spelling out that they can kill, torture and lie freely using pathetic Security claims.  The UK, America’s CIA, Libya and Malaysia carried out the atrocity with total immunity disguising it as a sort of Diplomatic Privilege between nations.  Sir Mark Allen and Jack Straw have got away with it…… and no doubt they knew they could….. Conspiracy between countries is definitely allowed as we see…… and at the top of this list of evil-doers is America.

BRITISH GOVERNMENT SAY THEY’RE NOT OBLIGED TO ACT IF SUSPECTS ARE HARMED BY USA…… MI6 agents were told they were not obligated to intervene when they witnessed ‘suspects’ being harmed by US Captors.  This fact came out at an Official inquiry into allegations of British Complicity in torture carried out by the USA and others?

UK ATROCITIES FILES DESTROYED AT SEA — Secret files from the British Colonies were destroyed at Sea it is claimed, files and documents that hid atrocities such as torture and murder committed ….. and the lengths to which the Colonial Office would go to to withhold the sensitive information from the people of 23 or so countries.  The report says diplomats scurried to repatriate or destroy hundreds of thousands of ‘dirty’ documents containing evidence that London had decided should never see the light of day.  All secret material was vetted by Special Branch or MI5 making sure there were no ’embarrassing stuff’  The lost 8,800 files are believed to have been burnt or sunk in deep water at a safe distance from the shore.  ‘Operation Legacy’ listed what types of material Whitehall wanted removed, including anything that might embarrass members of the police and public servants.  At the Royal Navy Base in SINGAPORE records of investigations into the Malayan rubber plantation workers (some 24) by British soldiers in 1948, were destroyed… after being transported from The British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur by lorry to the incinerator in Singapore…….. and strangely, the UK Government ‘lost’  the papers of high profile court cases as a claim for compensation was being launched by relatives of those workers……the British Government says it cannot be held responsible for the massacre?

NB: Strangely on the subject of responsibility for the past, one dictatorship country of Asian origin did bring in a law where the grandson of a man who’d died without ever being brought to book for past crimes went to jail for six years as reparation and it was said other relatives of past atrocities were paying in the same way and being sent to jail and having property and cash seized in the way of compensation. That is what you call real justice? and a marvellous deterrent for future generations.

WHEN IS AN ENEMY NOT AN ENEMY?  well, the British Government seems to know that, and forget the atrocities too.  Iran was named by the US as a hub for terrorists, and the UK was not on good or political terms with it……but now they are making a bid to strengthen ties with Iran because Iraq has not gone the way both countries planned……so as you can see its all about gain…..and strategy….and the West is as dodgy as it can be in this kind of thing……one look into ‘Crimes of War’ by Ray Gutman and David Rieff should provide you with an answer to this and other deviousness.

SECRET BRITISH COVERT UNIT SHOOTS UNHARMED CIVILIANS — The revelation that shows a special British Army Unit involved in ‘Dirty deeds’ has surfaced due to an admission by  the programme ‘Panorama’ saying they have amazingly lost a highly sensitive and confidential file relating to an undercover unit that shot unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland.  The documents showed light on a controversial force known as MRF ( Military Reaction Force) and identified soldiers in the unit.  The file contained stuff on the Special Air Services, the Special Boat Service, Royal Marines and the Parachute Regiment.  It is said an inexperienced researcher allegedly downloaded a cache of material from an online ‘drop box’ onto a memory stick and gave it to a third party.  The data was at that time only believed to relate to Panorama’s investigation into the questionable practices at the borough of Tower Hamlets.  But it later transpired this was much more with details of people who had contributed to the documentary anonymously.  And furthermore, the document contained secret and confidential information relating to  ‘Britain’s Secret Terror Force’ a highly sensitive investigation touched up by panorama last November (2013).  A Tower Hamlets copy of this file had already been shredded… The Information Commissioner’s Office who are investigating said it was inappropriate to comment on the matter?

BRITISH GOVERNMENT ‘DOUBLE STANDARDS’ — As Britain castigates Russia and requests that economic pressures be increased, they say very little of the ‘Arms Deals they have with Russia’ or the fact that these deals are very much ongoing.  Weaponry sold to Moscow isn’t talked about let alone leaked into the public arena, and the PM really didn’t want it exposed.  ‘Accountability and Transparency’ he talks about while on the other hand doesn’t mind the secrecy of those nasty things staying silent.  Those lucrative Russian deals actually increased as the Government issued more licences by 52 for arms sales going from£86 million to £131.5 million in exports approvals to Russia.   It even has approved arms and military deals to Russia’s ally China in the region of £1.7 bn.

WRONGED BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT — Not unusual really, there’s plenty of evidence about if you seek it out….Timothy Evans was executed by the Public Hangman on the orders of the Judiciary in a farcical trial that had no concrete evidence of him being a killer in 1950.  He was eventually given a ‘pardon’ after lobbying and much protesting, but not willingly….yet his family reveal in 2014 that his conviction has still not been overturned or quashed to this day…..the government are not interested in clearing his name (as is the public)…the British Government murdered him says Evans sister Maureen…..the government hanged two for the murders when it was only Christie that killed all the victims….their lack of concern (judiciary included) shows how much they care about justice…….and where was the compensation?  not a word on that…..clearly it was never paid……. each successive government spend more time on having meetings to figure out how they can reduce and minimise payouts for their wrongdoing….this happened with the police and ‘the maximum payout’ being reduced by law.

DOUBLE AGENT FOR UK GIVEN IMMUNITY — Irish IRA Chief Joe Cahil struck a deal with the UK that hushed up his Paedophile leanings and activities such as sex abuse in return for information.  Recruited as a British Spy Cahil friend of Gerry Adams, turned informer for a covert military unit operating in Belfast during the 1970’s.  It has now been revealed that operatives often kept him under surveillance and took photos of him molesting a 14yr old girl.  Although he was an excellent subject to blackmail, the authorities decided this could be put to better use and therefore turn him for their own use.  He was never prosecuted for child abuse!

UK FUND THE CONGO DESPITE CHILD KILLINGS AND EXECUTIONS — The murky world of Politics and Secret Internal Security Forces know no bounds or morality as they sidestep all laws they don’t have to observe while claiming it is on behalf of ‘Security’ — The UK British taxpayers never knew they were funding a brutal police force for well over a year despite the government being well aware of the atrocities this aid-funded Congo police force was doing.  The government of Britain chose to look the other way even though twelve months earlier they received reports of police going on a killing spree and child assassinations in the communes of Kinshasa.  Even the United Nations raised questions about the police brutality but Britain said nothing, and continued to pay aid into the Congolese police for the next 11 months…… £55 million had been handed over out of an expected £67m before it was halted.

BRITAIN USED TORTURE SAYS IRELAND — The UK Government have received a ‘side-swipe’ out of nowhere as Ireland as accused Britain of using torture during the troubles just ahead of their application to the European Court of Rights to re-open a human rights case.  Officials in Dublin said they did not make the decision lightly to go after Britain on this matter, but new evidence tendered by Amnesty International persuaded them this was necessary.  The case concerned 14 catholic men who were interned during the troubles who were detained indefinitely without trial.  It is claimed they were subjected to torture in 1972 with a number of methods being used by British Officers, such as hooding, sleep deprivation, beatings and death threats along with being denied access to food and water.  It is stated they were hooded and flown to a secret location now revealed as the camp at Ballykelly in County Derry.  None of the detained men were ever convicted of a crime.

UK ROLE IN TORTURE — WILL IT BE REVEALED OR SUPPRESSED?  The latter is more likely as you will have gathered from the stand this government has taken so far.  Kate Allen of Amnesty wants clarification of Britain’s role in the abuses that were laid bare in the CIA report on Rendition….and one could not help noticing the numerous redactions blanked out from page to page in the damning report. In the light of the Report to the US Senate Select Committee, she says an inquiry should question MI5, MI6 and GCHQ chiefs who are remaining ‘tight-lipped’ as suggestions fly around saying they helped rendition and knew about the torture.  Britain will do what it always has, deny involvement and baton down the hatches until the do-gooders go away.

CIVIL LIBERTIES BEING ATTACKED BY UK — Much talk, no truth and an all out offensive to eat away at civil liberties and justice is everything the coalition government is about, but not in its public face where it dishes out the usual on schools, education, the NHS and terrorism…..AMNESTY is already voicing its concerns over the reduction to access of justice…..and says this is the worst assault on peoples rights since the Berlin Wall went down….. according to their new damning report…..it singles out David Cameron as one of the main instigators of this move to deprive people of rights in order to balance the Nations’ books when he and other politicians led Britain into a Banking Scandal and Expenses Scandal and more.  We also see the secret deal to the IRA which Blair made to put them beyond justice….so that he could boast of making peace in Ireland.  But remember this, it was the Secret Services, Security Services, Army and Police who did his bidding along with Government legal eagles….they all plotted to keep the public in the dark.

‘ War Crime Treaties — absolutely worthless ‘

ALL COUNTRIES interested sign up to these Universally applicable and ratified treaties in order to either be accepted in a ‘World Club’ or for reasons of trade.  Britain is one of those countries that flout these promises whenever it suits.  Those Nuremburg trials are now in the past and to many   just a distant memory.  The International Criminal Court was formed in the 1990’s and it rambles along very slowly, and many countries actually ignore it, because they say it cannot rule or intervene on their sovereign territory.  Many countries do not agree to extradition treaties, and several of those countries ordered to pay compensation to victims of war crimes have not paid a cent! (and you can’t send the bailiffs in).  As we have recently seen, if a country seizes assets of that country, that country will respond by invoking economic measures or worse.  The Geneva Convention of 1949 has often been flouted by all signees, more out of arrogance… and a country’s general response to outside interference.   ‘Unlawful Confinement’ another one of those situations where ‘unlawful’ is but a mere word.  Enforcement of Law is subjective, meaning if it is in their interest or profitable to the situation.  Governments, Police and the Security Agencies use unlawful confinement in secrecy and normally act without detection, mainly because the details of the confinement may not be acceptable to the public.  Liberty is a big issue with some people, and having it taken away for no ‘reasonable reason or excuse’ can bring a regime or government down.  Its not just people who break the Law — Governments do — and they do it with immunity!

‘ Court rules in favour of Secrecy for the Government ‘

A subject almost related to the above — MAN GRABBED AT AIRPORT ON ROUTE — David Miranda, friend of a journalist waiting to see how the Edward Snowden meeting went, was detained by the British Police and had his laptop seized and ‘confiscated’  This was all done by stealth and in direct association with GCHQ the British Spy Centre.  The Government say he was carrying some 50,000 files given to him by Snowden on route to the other journalist.  Miranda took out an action against the Government for his unlawful detention etc, but the court said it was ‘justified’ in the Interests of National Security (not saying who’s)….this regular piece of legislation has been used frequently to get Britain out of committing crime and torture…..and its other use is to conceal matters from the public.

‘ More people are committing identity fraud ‘

Borrowers in their thousands are committing identity fraud by entering fake details on applications for credit cards and loans it is said in a new report.  CIFAS made the statement saying fraud is rising at a staggering rate among citizens in the UK due to people wanting to pass security checks and avoid online questions that may result in them being turned down or being denied services and goods.  Richard Hurley of CIFAS says this is a folly and in most cases unwise as it can lead to serious complications. A study revealed that 18 applications in every 10,000 is now fraudulent around the country, which represents a nine percent increase on the previous year. More cases are coming to light of people finding that someone else is using their identity and cloning their bank cards and accounts.

‘ Public resort to blackmail in order to get hotel discounts ‘

A recent report has shown that guests staying at hotels are resorting to blackmail in order to get discounts on their fees. This is happening even when there is nothing wrong with the accommodation, they are simply giving into the desire to blackmail in order to benefit unfairly.  80 cases saw guests threatening to write poor reviews if they did not get a fifty percent discount, and some callers to hotels threatening to contact TV or radio and report hotels for filthy rooms and poor service without ever having gone into the hotel, and demanding a discount or else?  A hotel advisor representing many said these allegations of blackmail by guests are very serious, and is strictly against our guidelines and may also be illegal.

‘ Post Office Savers lose money to sham bank during UK government’s approval ‘

A covert operation from Dubai hoodwinked the FSA into awarding it a banking licence in the UK under the guise of The Bank of Ireland in 2010 according to whistleblower Irlan Qadir a former senior director. He said it kept its debt levels a secret in order to get its hands on more than two million accounts of post Office savers that came under its control.  The accounts were said to be worth a total of £10billion. Qadir said that it took these steps to avoid nationalisation by the Irish Government at the height of the credit crunch.

ROYAL MAIL STAFF in contempt of data protection have been discovered to be opening benefit claim forms sent by the DWP to clients/claimants. The discovery announced by the Welsh Assembly Lynne Neagle has shocked and annoyed the DWP who said they hadn’t known about this.  Confidential medical reports on the sick and disabled applying for benefits were opened by Royal Mail Staff on behalf of the government without the consent of the claimant without their knowledge. It is said that thousands of these forms are handled by post office sorting offices throughout Britain — apparently no-one has called for an inquiry into the Post Office yet?

POST OFFICE IN MAIL SIZE SCAM — When is a big package a little package?  when Royal Mail decide they can fleece the public for more money.  This time they have a small size parcel that goes for ‘big size cost’…yes, its possible, but only with Royal Mail measurements.  BBC’s Watchdog programme commissioned a test which found that the bigger parcel could fit into the middle size container……and that the expensive small parcel could also fit twice in the middle size parcel….and only attract the middle rate of posting……if it’s all down to a size thing…..then the Post Office should move over and let companies in that have some knowledge of Maths.

POSTMAN CAUGHT THIEVING — Postman Andrew Barratt is said to have stolen hundreds of parcels and went on to sell them on E-Bay making a profit of £15,000.  It was only when someone became suspicious that a tracking device was put in a package that it led to his home where he was arrested by police.  He was jailed for 15 months by the Crown Court in Manchester for theft and converting criminal property.  It was said that he had been a postman for 14 years, and that his wife was involved, she got 120 hours community work.

POST OFFICE WRECK LIVES OVER COMPUTER GLITCH — The Post Office have taken many innocent small post office owners and workers to court and some have been jailed through this….and the cause?  Yes, discovered rather late, but the Post Office Computer did it… ‘a glitch’ it is said occurred.  Due to discrepancies showing up, some frightened Sub-Postmasters and Mistresses have put their own money in to avoid being harassed and targeted by the Bosses.  Many picked on said that The post Office would not help or listen to what they had to say and pressed ahead with a prosecution.  They denied anything was wrong with their system, and were absolutely ruthless and called in the police.  ….and can the Post Office be jailed for getting things wrong?  NO, they are covered by the Government ‘safety clauses and Royal Immunity’ granted to them…..can you sue them?  Well, you can try, but they’ll bring on their expensive lawyers to stop or belittle the claimant at every step of your claim….and if you win…they might pay and issue a disclaimer too (which you must sign in order to get the cash)  if you don’t do that they will say it is a ‘goodwill gesture’ and admit no liability.  One sub postmaster a Mr Thomas he was arrested for false accounting and jailed for nine months.  Due to pressure, the Post Office have now dropped three intended cases and and are expected to begin a review of all those cases and look into the ‘possible’ compensation for those wrongly accused…..130 sub-postmasters have lodged formal complaints.

Note: they use the words ‘Possible Compensation’…..meaning that they will try their hardest to refuse claims.

MORE ON THE POST OFFICE SCANDAL — Covered on National TV, the Post Office set about deliberately to accuse sub-postmasters of theft and jailed some who could not fight back or understand what the Post Office had done to them — others just lost their livelihood.  Yet they protected the ‘Horizon’ computer system that seemed above suspicion because the bosses at the Post Office refused to think that a computer could get it wrong…..don’t they know that a computer is only as good as the software and programs it uses and the geeks who create the programs……that are known to fail, and crash due to system errors and corrupted information?  The investigation into ‘Horizon’ has cost the taxpayer millions……and this system is at the heart of the problem and it has errors.  When the sub-postmasters asked for help they didn’t really get it.  A major Contracts Lawyer said the deal was flawed and not in the interests of sub postmasters (the one that the Post Office have them sign). The Post Office bosses say ‘they did no wrong’ as per usual, and that everyone accused by them was brought to court on safe grounds?

‘THE MONSTROUS POST OFFICE INJUSTICE — Which it frankly is, especially when this organisation seeks to use the law for the purpose of inflicting harm and jailing people who it has failed, used and abused, thinking itself as the ambassador of fairplay and honesty, which it is not.  It is of course, their lawyers who have pressed to put these innocents on trial, and that is fair game to the legal profession.  They have branded people thieves with the full intention of ruining their lives for their paymasters.  Many sub postmasters have been falsely accused of fraud in regard of financial irregularities……whilst the post office denies its computer systems are at fault.  There has been 150 applications to its complaint review service out of 500,000 users according to the post office who are anxious to point things in the wrong direction.  100 sub postmasters have come forward to say they were wrongly prosecuted for theft, fraud and false accounting not of their making.  Some MP’s have called for an Independent Inquiry……and that’s not before time……and after it, the Post Office should be prosecuted on a criminal basis along with their lawyers and legal teams…..who will undoubtedly say this is civil and that the corporate law has no powers to put anyone in jail from the directors to themselves…..quite convenient really!

‘ British Taxpayer funds Landrovers for Mugabe at a cost of £8million ‘

It has been revealed that the Taxpayers of the UK have paid out £8million to buy police vehicles for Robert Mugabe to use as he crushed down his own citizens. The fleet of Landrover vehicles were supplied with loan guarantees worth a further £12million along with the thousand vehicles.   Church Pressure Group The Jubilee Debt Campaign exposed the UK Government in a surprise move because the gesture by the UK was supported by Corporate Interest and not one of real concern for the victims of Mugabe. The documents released to MP’s now show what Britain was prepared to do in the 1990’s behind closed doors and secretive Ministerial dealings.

‘ Bribes Scandal and Rail Boss in Suicide ‘

HUGE BRIBES FOR RAIL BOSS Anthony Burgess and an investigation led the executive to commit suicide with his wife, it is said.  The £70,000 a year executive is said to have lined his pockets in deals with rail contractors, Peter Sale and Anthony Whittington. Porsche car, holidays etc, are said to have come from the deal. Burgess was apparently dismissed following an Internal Inquiry. The court heard that Sale and Whittington were at the helm of the corruption for a number of years with Burgess. Whittington was sentenced to 12 months at Blackfriars Crown Court, and at Woolwich Crown Court Sale was given a 12 month suspended sentence. The CPS claim that corruption is a serious offence, but our files show they do not always follow this principle or adhere precisely to any Legal definition….a typical example being the Huhne Case.

‘Extradition U.S. Style ” Big Brother tactics in play ‘

Student Richard O’Dwyer faces 10 years in an American Jail for an offence in the UK, where what he did is not an offence? He is accused of two counts of copyright breaches in regard to U.S. films because his website gave information to loggers where to find a film they could download free. Of course, the British Government has yet again knelt before the Sheriff to please him — since 2004 29 UK nationals have been extradited in relation to just five Americans brought here. Apparently one needs more proof in America to get one of them!  it won’t be long before they come after us for maligning them on the world stage or publishing things ‘injurious to their feelings’

‘EXTRADITION ANY STYLE’ — It has been revealed that the EU are into ‘one-sided warrants’ like the United States. The European Arrest Warrant can have anyone in the UK arrested for trumped up charges not defined and the evidence is not even tested.  The whimsical nature of the so-called ‘criminal acts’ can include Brits visiting countries and forgetting to pay bills or condemning the country’s ruling party or government. More than 4,000 people in one year have been returned on extradition warrants over things like non payment of tea and cake, exceeding overdraft limits…and to boot, The Human Rights Act (big with Europe) is set aside to accommodate the EU Courts? If by some chance they get it wrong they are not forced to pay compensation and no action can be taken against that country by a wronged foreigner because of a clause that makes them immune from foreign intervention. One person told us that they tried to sue a foreign country and were barred from entry even though they had not committed a crime — they were told they had been refused entry because they were undesirable and if they wanted to proceed with an action it would have to be done via a lawyer hired in their country to represent the plaintiff in his own country. The likelihood of success was put at nil! and if by a miracle he won a case, compensation would be deferred and appealed against for several years — hence no takers! — such is the ‘fair judicial structure of the International Court’

NO AMERICAN HAS BEEN EXTRADITED TO UK FOR CRIME COMMITTED ON THEIR OWN TERRITORY! — This is the ‘double standard’ they did not wish to reveal. The UK has given way to the American Government by extraditing UK citizens who have infuriated the US, but not committed crimes such as the Americans accuse, because they are not suspects under British Law. But the US have charged them with offences in USA Law even though they were not committed anywhere in America……The UK has never extradited one American for doing a crime against the UK in America. Only 7 Americans have been extradited since 2004 and none of them committed the crime in the USA…they committed them while being in Britain and fled.

‘Is the Illuminati at work — are they real?’

THE SECRET WORLD OF THE ILLUMINATI  — Often cropping up over the years, a secret organisation that is trying to achieve a ‘One World Government and Control of Society ‘ — said to have members who are business leaders, progressive politicians and Intellectuals.  Some Meetings have been exposed over the last ten years, mainly in Germany and on the Swiss border.  The history of the Society begins in May of 1776 in Ingolstadt. It has had the nickname ‘The Shadow Government’ in recent times, ‘Money creates Power’ was a motto and many researchers have referred to the members as ‘they pull the strings of world economical and financial power ‘ Claims  that major political decisions are made by bankers and financiers on the world stage under the banner of ‘The Illuminati’ are a coalition of small ‘hidden’ groups such as Freemasons, the Trilateral Commission and Bilderbergers.   Two parallels’ come to mind which do not actually create an answer but does make for an interesting possibility — A) The original Illuminati was more localized and was more like the Scarlet Pimpernal formation small but active in its own region and affairs, and being so could not control wars or engage in diplomatic leverage on a big scale. It was made up of Masons and held radical objectives and was very big on authority. It squabbled but failed in political aims leading to break-ups.  B) The possible rise of a larger influential Illuminati out of the ashes could certainly account for no great wars being launched and the rise of global financial institutions with economic clout being positioned to buffer such encounters, which has all happened since the Second World War.  It was said that this organisation or the original secret society ended before modern times, but this doesn’t account for the secret meetings in Germany and on the Swiss border some years ago, does it?

An interesting case of — now you see them, now you don’t.

and leading on from this we have another case of the almighty powerful sect — The Pope’s Kingdom?

‘Money-Laundering link to the Vatican’

US DRUG ENFORCEMENT has claimed that drug money laundering leads all the way to Vatican City. The State of The Pope. Prosecutors in Rome are looking into 23 million Euros in two transactions from the Vatican Bank — known usually as the Institute of Religious Works to two smaller banks? The Vatican has been put on a list concerning financial crimes, drug money laundering along with 67 other countries including North Korea.

VATICAN CLERIC IS ARRESTED OVER FRAUD — Senior finance man for the Vatican, Monsignor Scarano, the Bishop of Salerno (Accountant to the Vatican Property Portfolio) was arrested with Italian Secret agent Mario Zito and Broker Giovanni Carenzio,  The Cleric was charged with fraud and a plot to smuggle 20 million euros into Italy on board a Government plane,

VATICAN CORRUPTION GETS NEW INVESTIGATOR — The Pope selected Archbishop Pietro Parolin as his new Secretary of State……he is now taking over from the man blamed for failing to deal with scandals that have continued to ‘dog’ the Vatican in recent years.

COCAINE SHIPMENT SEIZED ON WAY TO VATICAN — German Customs seized a drug haul destined for the Vatican in January 2014.  Customs Officers at Leipzig found 14 condoms packed in a shipment containing 340 grams of cocaine…..inside cushions…..the package was addressed to a Vatican Post Office!

BISHOP REMOVED BY POPE OVER EXTRAVAGANT LIFE STYLE — The Pope at the Vatican removed the German Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-Van Elst  on hearing that the Bishop had spent E31  million Euros (£26 million) of church funding on his residence.  It is said that the Vatican accepted the Bishop’s resignation after studying the results of the audit investigation.

VATICAN ACCEPTS RESIGNATION OF BISHOP who failed to report a suspected child abuser, answering calls by victims to take action against bishops who cover up for paedophile priests.  US Bishop Robert Finn who leads the diocese of Kansas City waited 6 months before notifying police about Reverend Shawn Ratigan who had a computer containing hundreds of lewd photos of children….Ratigan was later jailed for 50 years after pleading guilty to child pornographic charges.  Apparently, Finn was sentenced to 2 years probation in 2012 for failing to report suspected child abuse.

‘Panic – buying public reveals underlying UK selfishness ‘

PETROL BUYING GONE MAD? indeed, as the UK motorists rush to grab and hoard fuel despite no strike of tanker drivers being given a date. British families and businesses have all shown their true selves in March 2012 as they create queues at service stations in their usual ‘look after number one’ greedy selfishness that is often denied and never admitted to. It takes something like a phantom strike to prove just how the brave British behave when they feel under threat. They claim they want fair play, a fair wage, and equality with accountability, yet it just takes this to turn the coin and reveal what family values are. There is no such thing as a ‘corruption free society’ it grows year by year even in the liberated and free countries such as the UK, that is why they dislike being exposed, it cracks and breaks down their veneers of respectability.

‘Transparency over Foreign Aid is not so clear ‘

BILLIONS OF POUNDS are spent on foreign aid by Britain, and Egypt has been having it via the Andrew Mitchell’s Overseas Development Department. They were asked for a breakdown of the figures by a Chairwoman Connie Tindale of an Upper Egypt Charity ‘Little Stars’, Luxor Children’s Trust. They deal specifically in child health and education. They like many other Charities working out in the field, are desperately short of funds and working capital. They asked Andrew Mitchell how they could apply for some funding, they got no reply to how the fund was distributed and spent — or an acknowledgement of their letter!!

‘Animal Cruelty on the up in Britain ‘

Already in the realms of myth, it used to be said the British were an Island of Pet Lovers, but no more is this the truth as the RSPCA report a massive rise in convictions for cruelty to animals in the UK.  This is the 2012 report which makes vile reading and should make the public cringe as it reflects on their ways, their lives and values. 1,314,795 calls were made, and 1,341 people were actually convicted of horrendous offences against animals. The rise is said to be nearly 24 percent.  Some pets, donkeys, horses, dogs etc, have been left to starve to death. Others have been tied to railings besides busy motorways. Some shot at with airguns and others beaten with poles and sticks. Cats having been kicked about like footballs and some with their backs or limbs broken. This is human cruelty administered by so called decent citizens who hide behind money and that fake friendliness.

‘The ever-growing shoplifting public scandal ‘

It takes a long time for the penny drop, so here we go again with another feature on dishonesty in the UK and its citizens.  A report appeared saying that the UK had a nation of self-service shoplifters!  It said people were using the automated checkouts in the supermarkets to cheat on their purchases. It listed – cheating the weigh scales – tampering with them and pressing small when requiring to enter a size, bagging without scanning, and walking off without paying. It said several people interviewed for the survey admitted to stealing while putting items through the scanner and giving the wrong information.  Some people wave the till receipt if the security bell goes, and they are often let through to save queues forming as the officer or till attendant over-rides the system. It said a sixth of shoppers admitted to being dishonest when asked to enter an item manually. A spokesman for the big stores said this kind of thing is not motivated by poverty, but a desire to take advantage of the system, it’s just another example a lack of morals in this country today!

‘Capped Payout Compensation true sign of insincere regret by State’

THE MINISTRY OF JUSTICE  (for the State) reflects public stinginess as it caps compensation for wrongly jailed and convicted people. The paltry sum of £500,000 is supposed to represent regret and recompense for the loss of liberty and being subject to a life of being confined at her Majesty’s pleasure. This cap on the amount that can be paid is ludicrous and not in keeping with an honest appraisement of the situation. The USA cases are much higher and can be up to $70million dollars, around £40 million pounds….which truly makes the judiciary and governments sorry for what they have done. £500,000 is pitiful and a poor excuse for an apology by the public. Barry George is claiming compensation, but has been denied it by The Ministry of Justice (Which is not unlike Singapore who cannot admit to their mistakes or payouts without wanting them capped and kept secret). He has now instructed his lawyers to begin a claim. They have even recently redefined the definition of ‘miscarriage of justice’ so that it cuts down claims and in some cases denies wronged people of getting anything for the months and years spent in jail.  The new case of wrongly convicted and jailed Sam Hallam who was released from jail after seven years. His conviction is labelled as ‘unsafe’ — no doubt a judge like Mr Justice Irwin and Lord Philips will be briefed in the ‘pay nothing or as less as you can’ and say the mere quashing of a conviction could not be a trigger for compensation, thus allowing the Ministry of Justice and the public to save paying out £500,000?

NB: It’s quite easy for a judge and a Lord to deny someone restitution, they get around £2million a year.

‘ Impeccable Saviour steals thousands from the Royal College of Music ‘

THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC WAS IN FINANCIAL DISTRESS and along came the rescue — JANET WHITEHOUSE, as its new finance director. She earned around £100,000 a year and was with the college for nearly twenty years. But unbeknown to others she stole £236,000 over a four year period to top up her final pension salary.  She had what most would want or even dream of — a £million pound property including a penthouse looking out over the Thames, and a flat in Marylebone by the Academy. In 1997 she was awarded businesswoman of the year, yet remained envious of other colleagues generous pension packages.  She appeared at Southwark Crown Court and was sent to prison for twenty months for fraud.

‘ The Great Global Warming Lie ‘

Perpetuated by Government, and co-criminals — the weather forecasters, yes, since they went on about global warming they have nicely concocted a conspiracy to rise prices on everything from petrol to heating and foodstuffs etc…..this little band of boffins and non-boffins have used the fright of warming to line their pockets and covertly dive into the corruption barrel. Over the past three years they haven’t said a word on it, and why is that? the weather has actually been getting cooler….and they can’t point at anything to justify their claims except a theory handed down by guesswork.  No-one now except the idiots believe there is an actual global warming taking place, in fact many have said the Earth has a cycle of events that remains unchanged and able to withstand man’s tinkering and over indulgences with minerals and carbon effects.  Proof of global warming has never materialised even though it has been requested, hence the fact some countries are ignoring this pretentious theorizing in order to bring conformity to the globe so that it can be used by those who need to police the world for political and economical gain.  Scaremongers roll out the ‘for the sake of the future children’ claim hoping that will suffice, others roll out ‘the end of the world is coming’ bit….it all gets tedious….Global Warming is an invention to control thoughts and minds and hold onto resources and minerals…just another piece of propaganda………so get out your woollies, another ice age might be on the horizon.

‘ History Revealed — Lloyds Insurance given immunity from civil suits by Government ‘

MISLEADING THE PUBLIC IS NOT NEW — in respect of LLOYD’S INSURANCE, in 1982 there was The 1982 Lloyds Act — designed to stop court actions and claims against them.  Much was not revealed or allowed to be at the time of ‘The Asbestos-Related Illness Crisis — The Act circumvented any and all claims against Lloyds — MP’s at the time did nothing despite knowing what this would mean and the effects on claimants who were suffering in health and financial loss — The Act was simply a get-out-of-jail card that protected an Institution like Bankers.

LLOYD’S AND HISTORY TELLS IT ALL — Double Dealing, Malpractice and Scandalous Behaviour: This is how Cathy Gunn describes the ‘Happenings’ at Lloyd’s in 1992 and 1993.  She investigated this and wrote about it in her book ‘Nightmare on Lime St’.  Lloyd’s Insurance is known worldwide, and to become a ‘name’ in the Organisation you have to have at least £250,000 (in the early nineties)……therefore as one can see, its members were some of the very rich, those in the financial markets, government and showbiz,  Before 1982 as can be seen above, there was the scandal of ‘The Sasse Affair’ in 1978, involving Tim Sasse and the scandal of the dodgy Canadian and US property Insurance.  The ‘names’ as a result of this had to pay out £6.25 million to help the 1976 losses sustained, and eventually spent £9 million……..but scandals were not far away and waiting — and in the 1980’s interlocking ‘nasties’ were to culminate in the ‘PCW Affair’ when the Lloyds Syndicate was defrauded to the approximate amount of £38.7 million — executed by its own Senior Men in the Underwriting Agency.  Several of those involved were ‘disciplined’ or ‘expelled’ — but those at the top of the Management fled, even though warrants were issued for their arrest.  Two of the main players, Peter Dixon and Peter Cameron-Webb who went to the USA were granted ‘luck’ — because measures taken for their extradition (not made or carried out with enthusiasm or ‘hurried’ through – described as leisurely) failed due to time conditions?       Revelations of ‘wrongdoing’ was not the sole domain of Lloyds, because its cousin ‘The Stock Exchange’ and big business were deep in ‘Velvet Collar Crime’ in the City.  Embarrassing revelations were finding their way out into the public, and nothing that they did to cover it up or squeeze tight the security doors -really worked —  everything they didn’t want the public to know just slipped out of their grasp, and this was just the start — so we urge you to read the whole account and more in Cathy Gunn’s book ‘Nightmare in Lime St – Whatever happened to Lloyds of London’  published by Smith Gryphon. ISBN 1 85685 042 0

‘Union UNITE — Not quite so united at all ‘

THE ROMFORD 14 — all colleagues at a firm, took advice from UNITE over new work contracts, and were told not to sign them because the new deal had worse conditions attached and fewer benefits. All fourteen people were paying members of this Union.  The Union assured the fourteen that they were prepared to put forward representation because the fourteen had right on their side.  However, at the Employment Tribunal they were all dismissed and Unite declined to give further assistance.  They in fact, turned their back on members who needed their help.  The Fourteen sought advice from a solicitor who said they had a good case against the Employer for Unfair Dismissal, he also said they had a valid claim against the Union for Breach of Contract. He was appalled at the way a representative Union handled the matter over the fact they were not even prepared to provide legal help for its members in a time of need.. which was listed as one of the benefits of being a member. Information source — Linda Farnsworth of Rainham. Essex (one of the Fourteen)

‘ British Public sink to new low over 20p rape case girl ‘

It takes some doing to become contemptible, but the British public have achieved that this time with their callous ignorance of a girl who could not pay her bus fare because she was 20 pence short of the £5 fare.  Other passengers just sat unconcerned as she tried to get the bus driver to allow her to travel, not one of the passengers came forward with 20p…..and that tells you a lot about British compassion.  Of course, there are going to be some who cry that this doesn’t represent the public at large….humbug!…..It presents what it is, and we have mentioned examples of this on this page. It was 3 am when she had to walk home, and consequently raped by a night stalker.  The Newspapers labelled this incident as ‘Heartless Britain’ which was quite appropriate……and there is more to hit out at the public with — ‘BRITONS DO NOT HAVE A MORAL COMPASS’ a report issued recently said one in eight of the British Population have no sense of moral values. It came to the conclusion in the assessment that moral standards of the nation are withering away. Patrick Morgan a researcher into morality in public said ‘ it would perhaps, be a good thing if people went back to church’  Amazingly, the public get a tad outraged on race, bankers and tax, but consistency is not a British strongpoint — whereas contradiction and apathy is, and has always been in style for the last sixty or so years.  No doubt we will be here again on this page with another of these reports.

‘Human Rights v. Financial Profit = Human Rights Lose!’

It’s hardly news but essentially right, and has been for centuries really.  Profit has always been king in every government, corporation and ideal.  A report by Amnesty says that World Leaders are putting aside Human Rights in favour of allowing profit to steer their views and aspirations.  It says in Syria that 4,300 people have been killed during protests. It says the European Criminal Court should be investigating war crimes with a view to prosecute leaders and their generals. It also accuses countries and governments of supporting human rights when it serves their purpose or political agendas — nothing new there, countries have been committing crimes and then pretending that human rights matter for years and years, and that is how it will be played. Amnesty have been following every atrocity in a huge list of countries without getting the changes or accountability they hoped would result. People are essentially impotent and their desire to ignore things is overwhelming in favour of a quiet life so long as it does not effect them or their relatives, — that’s life in the techno world of today!

‘ Fed-Ex  UK and the Express dodgy driving force ‘

Next time you think of getting this company to deliver for you….don’t.  This two tier company divides itself into two entities, a .com and a UK….they also encourage their drivers to pursue bad habits and road sense…the case of the driver driving van number BDHD 5HJ couldn’t care less about stopping in front of cars or driveways and drop curbs, its more of a habit really.  The firm, one operator named James, said ‘ that’s awful, we apologise and we don’t condone that sort of behaviour’  — A day later the same white van man did exactly the same thing — no doubt encouraged to do so by the firm to do exactly what he’d done to annoy the complainant deliberately.

FED-EX IS SUED BY RECIPIENT OF WRONG PACKAGE — In the USA, The Mail Delivery Company found themselves being by sued Massachusetts resident Mary Angela Tobin who received a package delivered by Fed-Ex containing 7lbs of Marijuana…..and then going on to give the intended recipients her address instead of notifying the authorities. The drug delivery recipients turned up at her door demanding the package.  She sued the firm for putting the lives of her and her children in danger.

NB: one question remains on this — why didn’t Fed-Ex inform the Police before giving out the address information?

‘Uruguay to offer Cannabis to residents ‘

It is said to be the first country to make the use of cannabis legal and no longer a punishable offence — no doubt other countries like Singapore and Malaysia will have a fit……adult drug users in Uruguay are to register on a database and buy cannabis from the state. MP’s in Uruguay say the move is to stop the rise in drug-related murders, and it is said the change in the law is backed by the President of Uruguay — Jose Mujica.  In Britain one can serve 5 years in prison for possessing the drug, in Malaysia it can be up to 20 years, and in Singapore its either a 20 year jail sentence and caning or the death penalty. In Uruguay they are to become ‘recreational drugs’

‘ Vistaprint – The Thieving Opportunists?’

VISTAPRINT ARE A BIG NAME, and they are taking the opportunity to con customers via the ‘pop-up’ method of advertising on the Internet.  The scam they are currently running is announcing that ‘you are the lucky recipient of 250 business cards FREE!………but this isn’t actually true…..it’s a scam to get you into the system so that they can bill you for much more. Dishonest? certainly, but not unexpected…why should anyone get anything free? because they don’t.  Even FREE will cost you by the time you get to their checkout with its over inflated postage charges.  We know of one case when the customer went on line; not to take advantage of the FREE deal but chose to be more ‘customer like’ and elected to buy 250 cards at £2.99…..this led them to the templates etc in order to design their own card online. They clicked on the option to provide their own logo instead of using the Vistaprint resources….and uploaded their own logo….after forty or so minutes of designing etc…they opted for just plain white matt card (included in the deal)….front and back with printing….then carried on to the checkout….suddenly they found that the 2.99 was accompanied with another charge for ‘coloured card rear?’ which was not chosen — and another charge for the logo the customer supplied? bringing the amount to over £14 plus…..but that wasn’t the end….there was a postage charge minimum £3 plus….which resulted in the advertised £2.99 becoming nearly £20….a real class ‘rip-off’……go elsewhere for your cards and choose a reputable smaller printing company…you will get a better deal.

‘ The Real British Public Revealed ‘

These days it’s not so hard to spot the ‘real’ nature of the British Public if one digs somewhat further than those TV one-offs of flag-waving and occasional generous acts given to prime-time telly!    A Research Group revealed that some property buyers go that extra mile and pay an extra £15,000 to have ‘nice neighbours’ — four out of ten people surveyed would gladly pay more to find they had ‘good’ neighbours before they moved to a new location.  Another Research Agency found that most Britain’s couldn’t be bothered about ‘socializing with neighbours or anyone else in the community’  They either became ‘couch potatoes’ or only contacted people within their own ‘clique’ (gang or group).  It was found that a factor of the ‘lack of motivation’ played a big part in this attitude, along with a large slice of ‘selfishness’.  One apt comment to this state of affairs came from an observer at Royal Ascot who said ‘ They were binge drinking all the time, and the awful mess that was left to be cleaned up after this middle class gathering along with the display of appalling non-ladylike behaviour showed they couldn’t care less’

‘ FSA in harassment case ‘

One normally associates the Financial Services Authority with prosecuting Firms and Industry for fraud and Insider Dealing — But this one involves them.  In 2012 this little known incident was revealed — They were being sued for harassment by retired IFA member John Calland who is accusing the FSA/the Financial Services Compensation Scheme and Financial Ombudsman Service of collusion- working together to unfairly progress loss assessments and solicit pension complaints from former clients.  The County Court rejected the FSA’s bid to strike out the action as trivial — the judge disagreed and verified that the claim had a real prospect of success and did not have a petty, fanciful, false or imaginary basis….this ensured a day in court for John who said it could severely embarrass the FSA and its associations with others.

THE FINANCIAL CONDUCT AUTHORITY which replaced the FCA to be the watchdog for fraud have now been the suspect and convict — FRAUD OFFICE FINED £180,000 by The Information Commissioner’s Office for sending confidential documents from an investigation into BAE SYSTEMS to the wrong person….these included bank statements showing payments made to various individuals from the BAE Defence Company….and all of these documents were so labelled as ‘Confidential’   Of course, this wasn’t the first case as the FCA were nobbled for ‘calamitous pre-briefing of insurance reforms in 2014….. the report says they have not learnt from their mistakes and even their Chief Executive Martin Wheatley is still in denial about the whole thing even now in 2015.

‘ £1 million Con by businessmen — sold scooter to blind man ‘

DEPRAVED? DEVIOUS and thoroughly corrupt — two businessmen, Timothy Wright and Vincent Watkinson were both found guilty at Leeds Crown Court.  It was heard that they exploited the elderly and vulnerable in their scheme to make themselves wealthy.  They used underhand selling tactics designed to frighten and harass the customer who barely stood a chance against these two greedy individuals.  They were both found guilty on two counts to defraud.  They signed up customers to contracts they could not afford and refused to cancel them one they had the signatures.  The judge said ‘ you are both wholly arrogant and display an uncaring attitude, and there is no sign of remorse as you stand before me in the dock ‘  It was said the company had hundreds of complaints lodged against it, a third man in the team, John Higginson admitted a range of offences under the Consumer Protection Law and unfair trading, he is to be sentenced at a later date.

‘ The Human Rights Lie ‘

THE WORLD SPENDS SO MUCH TIME CONNING EACH OTHER ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS, but in essence is failing even to honour its commitment of a declaration it signed in 1948 – the 10th of December.  At a United Nations General Assembly they proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights without dissent — the governments of the World agreed in a statement that they promised to work towards a world without cruelty and injustice as a basic human right for all…….that promise never lived up to its expectations by half of the governments that signed up to it…they still jail people in violation of their human rights….and one third of the governments that signed torture their prisoners and subject them to barbarous punishments….64 years after making these empty gestures.  As the 2012 Olympics draws to a close one is brought to the attention of one statement made by MP Aidan Burley ‘ Multi-cultural Crap’ ….the unashamed political attempt to pretend that we are all united in the face of some countries taking part have appalling records on human rights…and allowing them to foster the pretentious false propaganda in an event that went from sports to political posturing around the globe.  We are no nearer to World Human Rights than 1948, in fact, less so.

‘ The Stain and Smell of Corruption ‘

THERE IS NO POLITICAL PARTY OR COUNTRY FREE OF CORRUPTION, those that claim it are liars, maybe not proven liars because the evidence has been destroyed, – Many leaders have engaged in acts not befitting the purposes of good.  A phrase recently used was ‘ what the man did for his people in one phase allows the forgiveness of something less palatable ‘ — and that could easily represent murder of the innocent and orders to eradicate opposition, and frequently does.  ‘An End by Any Means’ is another justification thought honourable if they can quote that a few were killed or imprisoned for the greater good and majority — such is the case around the world, and it satisfies those that do not have to see the cost of such a thought.  Human life is cheap despite the rhetoric that claims otherwise, politicians have put wealth and power before people and they will continue to repeat mistakes, commit atrocities and bringing misery to those they care little about — it’s what they do.

‘Giant Oil Company Shell in Bribery Case ‘

CORRUPTION HAS A SEAT ON THE BOARD — Yes indeed, corruption the element of greed that also leads to success has arrived as a major concern to  oil company Shell who have been reported as paying warlords in the Niger Delta.  Leaked Cables now show that the oil company paid ‘protection money’ to militant groups in the region.  It went on to say that from 2005 to 2010 Shell’s dealings fuelled many conflicts.

‘ Offices of BP and Shell are raided over Price-Fixing ‘

INVESTIGATORS RAIDED THE OFFICES of both SHELL and BP when they were tipped off that these companies were colluding together in order to keep the price of petrol artificially high and make the consumer pay more than they have to.  The European Commission launched the investigations said that the ‘price-fixing’ may have been going on for a considerable long time.  London, the Netherlands and Norway were subjected to lightning ‘unannounced inspections’ by investigators.  The UK’s PM claimed in the House of Commons that he would consider prosecuting Oil Firm bosses in a criminal context if it were found that they cheated the consumers.

‘ Price-Fixing Scam and GlaxoSmithKline ‘

ONE OF THE BIGGEST UK AND INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES IS UNDER INVESTIGATION — GlaxoSmithKline is embroiled in a bribery investigation.  Several Senior Executives are reported to be facing criminal investigations for bribing officials in China (where the story emerged after the Chinese Authorities swooped on the Company).  It is stated that the Company is at the centre of a ‘huge’ scheme to rig and raise drug prices in the country.  The Authorities have said that ‘under Chinese Interrogation’ some of the executives have confessed to having made bribes.  The Bribery and Corruption investigation is ongoing.

GLAXOSMITHKLINE ACCUSED OF SEXUAL BRIBES TO BOOST SALES –Four executives have been detained.

PS: For more on this and the Secret Courts go to the CHINA articles earlier on this page.

‘£1.5 fine for Nomura over ‘Insider leaks ‘

The Tokyo Stock Exchange handed out one of the biggest fines against the company Nomura, setting the penalty at one and a half million pounds.  The Investment Bank Nomura had already lost its Chief Executive over the Insider Dealings Scandal earlier.  It was revealed that other top bosses at the company had resigned.

‘Aviva gets a £17.6 fine for breaching city rules ‘

MAJOR INSURANCE COMPANY AVIVA have received a fine from the FCA amounting to Seventeen million because two former employees in the fund management had broken the rules of conduct and procedure.  The traders were said to have ‘cherry-picked’ — allocated investors cash to funds paying higher performance fees in order to boost their own pay….which is termed as a side-by-side management strategy more beneficial to the traders than clients.  It calmly says that ‘the two involved have since left the company’……and Aviva promises that no client in the future will be disadvantaged!

‘Six  Executives up and leave as Scandal Emerges ‘

In typical fashion of the super rich, Six Senior Executives quit the Brazilian Oil Giant Company Petrobras a state run corporation.  The Chief Executive with five others just resigned as the long running scandal revealed that the police had been looking into ‘price-fixing’ on a huge scale.  The report says there was £500 million in bribes being investigated and up to 200 businesses on the investigators list.  Three other Directors have already been arrested, and another 80 people involved in the scandal are facing possible charges.

And as a side issue, it is reported that this price fixing and bribe paying has benefitted Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff’s Workers Party and ruling coalition…..  Chief Exec’ Gracas Foster and Rousseff claim to have no knowledge of the scam and deny any wrongdoing! ……..where have we heard that before?

‘ Morrison’s Executive Arrested ‘

PAUL COYLE an Executive Head of Tax affairs at Morrison’s Supermarkets was arrested by police over allegations of insider trading on the Ocado Deal.  It was said he had bought a stake in Ocado before it was made public that Morrison’s were going to sign a trading deal which boosted the Internet Grocer’s share price.

‘Steinway the great Piano makers in Price-Fixing Probe’

EVEN THE GREAT NAMES fall foul of malpractice — The Swiss Authorities are investigating the firm of Steinway and Son over allegations of illegal price-fixing.  Steinway’s Offices were raided by the police after the Swiss Competition Commission reacted to ‘tip-offs’ alleging restrictions on competition practised by Steinway. 

‘ More charges for Fraudster on first day in court ‘

UBS TRADER KWEKU ADOBOLI was already accused of a £1.4 billion fraud as he took the stand at Southwark Crown Court on two charges of false accounting and two counts of fraud.  The Prosecutor added two new charges as the day started — the defendant denied these additional counts.

‘ Victims of the Claims Companies might get £30,000 Compensation ‘

One cannot help but think that the writing was on the wall, but no-one took any notice as the para-legal law firms strutted about like lawyers and even cavorting with lawyers to get customers to take advantage of.  They pour out onto the TV promising all sorts just get at your cash…’we are real lawyers’ they boast as they line up at the feast.  Now it seems that those who paid out huge upfront fees on the promise of great payouts may be able to put their cases before the Legal Ombudsman and get around £30,000…..as he is about to start handling the vast number of complaints as part of a major crackdown on claims management companies. It says people who were poorly treated, misled and found themselves more on the losing side may have some redress.  The Ombudsman has accepted that ‘the vultures’ of the compensation racket have soared in number over the past three years.

‘ The Dishonesty in the Insurance Industry’

One is not surprised to find that a report has openly suggested that Dishonesty is built into the heart of the UK Insurance Industry.  The report cites various cases of which there are many, and the frequency…which it notes — is on the increase in today’s society of greed.  It particularly points to the Motor Car Insurance and the claims that are not easily understood in regard to who picks up the tab. It says they instantly go in for reams of paperwork and you suddenly discover that you’ve become a high risk even though someone else hit your car.  Fairness doesn’t even come into it — nor does commonsense.  There is also the lying and cheating from businesses that try to manipulate your misfortune to their own advantage. And even when you get through the nightmare, you find that your renewal several months later quotes a staggering alteration of premium that in no way represents the outcome of the claim that your motor insurance handled and didn’t pay out a single penny — they invent administration and tell you that the rise reflects the current situation on the roads, when in fact, they were out to fleece you for the profit they are anxious to get hold of…….in simple words — extortionate intentions.

INSURANCE BLUNDERS — and what misery they inflict — Sue Threadingham of Ashford found this out when she was pulled over by the police at Heathrow Airport. The cops told her that their computer indicated that she had no current insurance, yet she had renewed it on October the 1st.  She was soon to be more horrified when they told her that there had been an error in the submission of data by the insurance company when it uploaded to the motor insurers database.  She received a fixed penalty notice and £200 fine plus six points on her licence due to the insurers error, and now has to go through more inconvenience of an appeal against the conviction…all because of the Motor Insurers.

AXA INSURANCE FINED £1.8MILLION — The Insurance Company that advertises regular and claims to be a friend to the over 50’s have been fined for giving bad sales advice for luring the elderly clients with building societies to gamble on the stock market.  The firm that handles MOTOR INSURANCE and HOUSE INSURANCE etc, French owned, was fined by the Financial Conduct Authority, who said they preyed on the inexperience and vulnerable pensioners it contacted.

INSURANCE COMPANY FAILS CUSTOMER — Not for the first time either,  this time it is SWIFTCOVER, who F.G. says ‘brushed them off’.  He says in 2012 he drove out of his firm’s car park and was hit by another driver coming in.  He says that on approaching the car he met hostility, and they demanded that they paid the repair damages instead of going through the insurance.  Although he let that pass at the time, he reflected on it later and contacted his insurers Swiftcover….who suggested that the other car was probably not insured, so it was best that the Motor Insurance Bureau be contacted.   On contacting them, they said the other car was insured with AXA INSURANCE….the sister company to Swiftcover.  Then things turned again as the other driver began threatening to contact his solicitor. Things then went silent, for months and F.G. was out of pocket…..yet he’d paid more than £1,200 for his yearly insurance.  He then had to pat £600 excess on £900 of repairs….lost half of his ‘no claims benefit’ resulting in a much higher premium and making it necessary to downgrade and purchase a smaller car.

‘The Travel lodge and C R S Campaign against customers ‘

The well known hotel company Travel Lodge has recently come under the eye of ‘WATCHDOG’ the BBC series who received complaints from angry customers.  It mainly revolved around the issue of smoking although there were several other ‘offences’ listed by them.  It revealed that a quasi-legal company the Civil Recovery Solutions were demanding £150 from customers who had used the hotels to stay at.  Even non-smokers received a so called fine…the only proof being necessary was the hotel staff?  ….some people paid under duress without ever challenging this company….because of the threatening way they worded their letters and claims….a Legal Expert commented that the onus of ‘real proof’ would have been on the company, and in his opinion a judge would have thrown out such claims by CRS based on workers at the hotels.

‘ Nationwide payout £500 compensation to wronged client ‘

MORTGAGE WORKS the lender firm is owned by Nationwide, but it appears that their in departmental methods of communication is less than fit-for-purpose.  M.G. of East Sussex found to their disbelief that received those harassing phone calls and threatening letters accusing them of being in arrears. The distress caused made them worry about their credit rating as the letters contained references to this effect. This all transpired from a cheque they sent — that this company failed to recognise or put through its ledgers.  A Press Officer at the Nationwide said ‘ it was entirely our fault and an error on our part’ — they sent £500 compensation and a food hamper!

‘ Woeful Wonga the loan sharks ‘

It is a fact these days that some loan sharks are being overlooked because of their ‘industry look’ and glossy appearance….because they are on TV does not make it a good company. Government have often looked the other way in these situations, and will continue to do so.  This company with its ‘granny feature’ has been actively engaged in theft, but no-one has been pointing that out.  They have taken money from accounts of people who never applied for a loan. This apparently happened because of their credit check system — and they admitted that some people claiming loans ‘had the same name as someone else’ and that led to ‘the error’, but this is flawed by their’ checking system’ which is obviously no good.  The Theft Act of 1978 clearly includes the taking of money by unfair means with the intention to deprive and without consent is an offence, and Wonga did not take reasonable precautions to see that they were not breaking the law. Complainants said they had to make several attempts to get attention from the company who acted slowly and negligently. A spokesman for the company was less than satisfactory in his explanation….and when it was put to him that this quick fire solution to money problems cost a staggering 4,000 per cent interest payback, he was less than forthcoming on this.

WATCHDOG — THE OFFICE OF FAIR TRADING has ‘upped’ it’s investigations which now include ‘WONGA’ which claims it gives a good service for value…..the company, a short-term lender, has had its profits sore by 300 per cent with its payday loans…..which are at 4,000 per cent per loan.

PAYDAY LENDING AT EXORBITANT RATES MAY BE CLOSED DOWN — Here we are in WONGA Territory as the Office of Fair Trading says 4,000 per cent interest is not acceptable, and it has given the loan companies twelve weeks to clean up their act or be closed down.  ‘They must comply with credit laws or lose their licences’ — The OFT are telling firms like Wonga that payday lending will be referred to the Competition Commission……but failed to introduce a ‘cap’ on the cost of credit and ducked the real issues of loan sharking and those who ought to be shutdown immediately.

WONGA IN THE NEWS AGAIN — WONGA still raiding the bank accounts of the wrong people……only just last year in 2012 they had helped themselves to penalising around forty innocent people who’d never borrowed from them but had been victims of identity fraud…not properly checked out by Wonga. Now it seems that the figure has risen to nearly 400 so far in 2013…..and in BBC’s WATCHDOG it was exposed that Wonga had not let the Police know about the cases?   Yet a crime had been committed and they made matters worse by going after innocent people and  in doing so committing a crime themselves……but have they been charged?  NO.

WONGA’S ANNUAL RATE OF INTEREST IS 5,853 PER CENT — Payday Loans Company Wonga’s huge rate of borrowing is shameful, but not to the company who happily act as a loan-shark unrestricted by the Financial Industry.  Wonga and 49 other pay day loan firms have been put ‘on notice’ by the Office of Fair Trading to improve things……However, at the same time, MP’s are calling for a proper inquiry into the loans business and the harm it is doing….they are introducing a Private Members Bill to protect people from these Payday lenders.  The bill wants a control on their lending adverts (especially Wonga) and the limiting of loans, capping excessive charges to ensure that loans are affordable. 

Another Report on Payday Loan firms says that THEY ARE FLEECING THE PUBLIC AT A RATE OF £450 MILLION A YEAR — and that appointed watchdogs who are meant to reign them in are absolutely ineffective.  It is said that many of these Payday firms use ‘Predatory Techniques to target the vulnerable’ and the OFT are sadly letting them get away with it — and that it has never fined or revoked the licence of one firm since it was appointed to look into the shabby world of loans being given in ten minutes to people who cannot afford to take them out.

PAYDAY LOAN FIRM HAS ITS TV ADVERTS REMOVED — Loans2go adverts were ‘inappropriate’ said the TV Watchdog, the Advertising Standards Authority.  They said the company ‘trivialised’ the risk of borrowing money and banned the advert featuring a man singing ‘for cash today use loans2go and you still get to keep your car’.  It appears this lot sells vehicle log book loans, which are considered by many as expensive running the risk of actually losing their car.  One can see why Loans2go prefer the vehicle logbook system.. because they can play with the law and use the right to repossess the vehicle without a court order and have the power to enter people’s premises…… so do not go near Loans2go.

NEWS YET AGAIN OF ACCOUNTS PLUNDERED — By PayDay Loan Firms, WONGA being one of those…… the report says that money is often taken without warning or permission (and sometimes after the loans have been paid off)…showing that customers are having their bank accounts drained in the process by the system known as ‘continuous payment authority’  It was once announced that there would be less of these lenders, but since that was said, the number has grown with ten such firms mentioned being in London.

WONGA FEATURES AGAIN — As a report shows that it took money from 398 accounts wrongly….but this wasn’t all.  Investigators looked into this and discovered that there could be up to 4,000 cases a week around the UK. Something in the region of £6 million was taken wrongly from innocent people’s accounts during May to December 2012.  They also discovered that Wonga’s ‘fraud team’ had just ‘three operatives’ to handle the many complaints….they also refused to give information when asked what the real figure was on claims by complainants?  Wonga said they had to decline because it was ‘sensitive’ information.  It was also revealed that Wonga were making around a £million a week……so now you know!

WONGA AND OTHERS HELPED BY WATCHDOG who let’s them off the hook?  So much has been said by the government about curbing the excesses and dangers of Pay-Day loan companies, yet it now appears that the City watchdog who are meant to look after the public has delayed tough new measures until 2014? when they were actually needed now.  The Financial Regulator has refused to speed up the introduction of new laws concerning these out-of-control high cost credit companies.  Another report says that 80 per cent of lenders are using loans to buy food and essentials due to the Government’s squeeze on incomes, which they appear to not recognise or care about….so this delay in laws only shows you whose side they are on.

ANOTHER CALL FOR WATCHDOG TO CLAMP DOWN –  Lender’s charges are being requested to look into by the Financial Conduct Authority….amid accusations of of such firms having excessive default fees attached to loans. A Watchdog Group uncovered 10 payday lenders with default fees of £20 or more, and four charged £25……and WONGA came in worst at £30.

WONGA and other payday lenders are to face higher taxes says Ed Miliband, if Labour win the next election?

WONGA PAY £2.6  MILLION IN COMPENSATION FOR UNDERHAND PRACTICES — It appears that this company have been using fake law firms to threaten late paying borrowers….some 45,000 people are to be compensated by Wonga over this deceitful act.  The Financial Authority watchdog even discovered that Wonga were also charging administration costs in connection with the counterfeit law letters……Wonga said they stopped this practice 4 years ago….. which gives rise to the question – why has it taken 4 years to find this out now?

WONGA SUFFERS ANOTHER BLOW AS CHURCH PULL OUT — Wonga was quite well positioned when it took the Church to task when it was denounced by them, but this has all been reversed……the Church has now pulled out of its financial ties with Wonga, who held this fact over their heads…….Wonga are now having to look long and hard to how it can survive now the tide has swung against them.

THE CITY WATCHDOG URGES POLICE TO PROBE WONGA DEALINGS — Wonga yet again found itself being under the spotlight as the City watchdog the FCA are being pressured to take a close look and have the police investigate.  Suggestions are being made that the company may have breached the Fraud Act and Theft act since it harassed debtors by faking legal letters.  The Consumer Action group, Michael Gander says ‘there are a very large number of victims, each one mugged by Wonga, and this should be investigated properly’

WONGA IN DOWNWARD SPIRAL HEADS FOR OBLIVION —  WONGA at last are seeing death approaching as this one time successful loan shark write off £220 million in debts.  It is said they knew they were giving loans to people who could not afford them.  330,000 borrowers will have their debts cancelled because they were not checked out thoroughly before being granted a loan.  Wonga as we know had up to a 5,000 per cent lending rate.  It is stated that their profits have collapsed, and that this write off amounts to about a third of their million loans given each year.  WONGA FOUNDER Errol Damelin walked away from his company in January 2014 with a nice little pot of £34 million, leaving the company before the scandals emerged.

‘ Serious Fraud Office Chief and the £400,000 handout ‘

MONEY, MONEY, MONEY — AS PAYOUT FOR SFO CHIEF IS DEEMED IRREGULAR —  The Chairman of The House of Commons Spending Watchdog said she was astonished that the severance payout was so large for Ms Williamson when she agreed to take voluntary redundancy in April 2011.

SFO FRAUD CHIEF CLAIMS £100,000 ON TRAVEL EXPENSES — Phillippa Williamson cost taxpayers in the region of £100,000 in travel and hotel expenses a report has revealed by the Public Accounts Committee.

SFO BEING INVESTIGATED IN WIDER CORRUPTION PROBE — the fraud busters are being investigated for fraud themselves.  In particular, three civil servants got golden ‘handshakes and goodwill payments’  the £1 million pay-off.  Suggestions of e-mails sent secretly to cover up the payouts have surfaced as the trio are urged to return the cash until a proper investigation has been completed.  Scotland Yard have been asked to extend the current probe into the trio, Richard Alderman, Phillippa Williamson and Christian Bales by the new SFO Director David Green.

SFO IN DAMAGES CLAIM AND OFFICIALS ACCUSED OF CRIMINAL ACTS — In a massive damages claim that reveals that their defence could well be over £18 million, the watchdog that is supposed to be looking into corruption in others, finds itself accused of criminal acts.  The shocked Department is being sued for £300 mil by Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz, property tycoons.  This action comes after a raid by the FSO — in which the brothers say it damaged their business.  This is said to be the largest claim against the Serious Fraud Office, and on top of that the brothers are contacting a criminal barrister with intentions to give him documents that show that certain FSO officers or accountants at Grant Thornton committed criminal offences.  It is said that both parties declined to comment on the matter.

‘SFO Payout £6 million to Tycoon ‘

A BOTCHED CASE AND HUGE PAYOUT — THE FRAUD BUSTERS can sometimes be the ‘villains’ as we can see from not only this article, but those above.  Investigating the corrupt often means they leave themselves out of this equation.  Police investigating the police is another no.no….but they continue to indulge in fobbing the public off by saying they are the only ones capable of doing it.  The FSO are a financial Policing Unit set up by ministers to regulate banks etc, and when they get it wrong the taxpayer picks up the bill.  Multi-millionaire Entrepreneur Vincent Tchenguiz has picked up a nice £6million of taxpayers cash because he was wrongly arrested by the Serious Fraud Squad.  Him and his brother, Robert, are worth a cool £850 million……Robert is pursuing a claim for £100 million…..it is reported together their total claim had been £300 million.   They both had been arrested by the City of London Police on the orders of the FSO….. and made claims for false imprisonment.

SFO renamed Financial Conduct Authority in huge bungle

YET AGAIN THIS ‘WHITER THAN WHITER’ watchdog fails the people despite being paid for by the taxpayer.  Just how many times will the ‘goodie’ turn ‘Baddie’ as it is reported that they have cost insurers billions.  A damning report has revealed that the FCA committed a catalogue of failings which wiped billions off the value of insurers in just one day.  Lawyer Simon Davis with CLIFFORD CHANCE , city lawgroup, accused the watchdog of being poorly supervised and inadequately controlled.  Much of the blame has fallen on former head of supervision at the FCA Clive Adamson…..who has now conveniently left!

‘ Rolls Royce face criminal charges in China ‘

THE PRESTIGIOUS ROLLS ROYCE CAR COMPANY with its grand old image of quality guaranteed, has suffered a blow in China, involving corruption and bribery of its staff.  A report says a law firm outside the company investigating ‘identified matters of concern’ involving the way it pursues lucrative contracts in Indonesia, China and other countries.  It says the Law Firm’s results have been passed to the London Serious Fraud Office.  The allegations of malpractice came as a shock as it could mean the prosecution of individuals at Rolls Royce.

ROLLS ROYCE HIRE SENIOR LAWYER FOR BRIBE REVIEW — Because a Derby  Engineer passed dossiers relating to bribery and corruption to the Serious Fraud Squad, Rolls Royce Managers have hired Lawyer Lord David Gold to review the company’s anti-corruption controls?   The one time senior partner in the firm Herbert Smith will undertake a wide-ranging examination at Rolls Royce that could take a year the report says.  The allegations put on the Internet by former employee Dick Taylor who claimed that ‘gifts’ were given to Tommy Suharto, son of the president of Indonesia as inducements…..as well as the behaviour of certain staff in China.

ROLLS ROYCE AND TWO DETAINED OVER DEALINGS IN ASIA —  The ongoing investigation into Rolls Royce has seen another stage as two company men have been arrested in connection with the wider investigation as seen above.  The Serious Fraud Office said it had executed search warrants at various properties in London which led to the arrests.  Rolls Royce declined to comment on the situation.

‘ The Great Industry Swindles ‘

CORRUPTION IS DENIED emphatically by big business calling what they do as ‘downsizing’ without having to raise prices!  — consumers are finding many products are being sold at the same price, but with less ingredients.  But they don’t actually tell anyone, which indicates ‘sneaky practice and deceitfulness’ in their intentions — though yet again they don’t see it that way.   Junk Mail is said to be good by the Industry? because — it provides jobs!  and without it, prices would go up!  — which definitely smells like emotional blackmail — a rather dubious and awful type at that.  It is quite obvious that Industry has evolved into a ‘beast that has no conscience or morals’  — its all about money and the pursuit of it at any price — lies and deceit are just a tool!

‘The Modern Generation — severely lacking in compassion’

They continually gripe and say don’t attack us, we’re not all alike…..but current trends indicate otherwise as the new generation asks the oldies to ‘move over’ and hand over all your cash and property – because at your age you don’t need it !  The majority of kids, teenagers and youngish parents think and act this way….those who fought in the war are ‘stone age events’ and that doesn’t matter anymore.  ‘An Uncaring World’ was how an ex-cop turned carer, put it.  In the Met Police he saw children neglected, alcoholics just about around every corner or on building steps hurl abuse and swear, the mistreatment of animals and pets….and most of all, a lack of respect by many children for their elders and authority. He noted how kids took advantage of the fact that the older generation were unassuming and didn’t wish to be a burden on their children. As a carer he saw the fact that many old people had very few visits from their children, even once a month was a bind for those that he did encounter, focusing instead on their own lives. Another astounding find was that these parents dined out and fed themselves well while their elderly parents got by on tins of soup, sardines and yoghurts and sat alone at night watching the TV for company. There was little wonder old people feel unsafe and don’t go out at night….this is the poor state of a Public that couldn’t care less and a generation that is about to collide over greed and selfish goals that exclude any shred of decency.

‘ The ‘Stingy’ Compensation Scandal of the State ‘

It beggars belief that Society allows its government and police services (including Prisons and Home Office) to cap payments and redress wrongs with derisory offers meant to look like an apology yet come across as a reflection of their meanness and inability to own up in a proper meaningful way. We have looked at this before and sadly the same petty attitude still exists with Societies in many countries, the UK being the worst offender. ‘State Collective Responsibility’ ought to determine compensation to someone wronged — and the amount should be as high as the victim of a wrong demands of his or her fellow citizens. Compensation in the hands of the state always arrives at what they term ‘an appropriate amount of damages’ based on what their ‘insurance brokers’ have said is ‘safe’ — meaning able to pay without feeling any inconvenience! — which hardly punishes the state or taxpayer adequately — they can easy put the matter aside and forget the lessons to be learned from their gross misconduct — the victim wears the awful memories and losses throughout the rest of their lives.  There is too much of this ‘reconciliation without justice’ going on — the above Germany article gives an excellent example of a court denying justice when it ‘conveniently’ ruled that victims could not claim compensation from Germany for atrocities committed. The Western World goes big on ‘ Values’ but does not deliver if it hits the cash flow or financial economy — which indicates a huge flaw in this promise of fairness for mankind on a global level, reducing such claims to being merely propaganda.  Whenever Singapore is faced with a claim against it, its first thoughts are to reduce or baulk the claimant by playing the ‘tribunal and arbitration move’ which allows them to settle for a mere fraction of the claim and enforce a no publicity clause into the deal – thus covering up their actions and dirty dealings behind the scenes.  The UK in the eighties slammed a cap of £60,000 on cases brought against the police and Home Office. Yet, the courts with juries; the people, awarded compensation in the region of £250,000 to half a million pounds in some cases before that move was introduced, and the people, voters, were not allowed to be involved in that capping decision.  The Government just passed it through for their own convenience because their insurers were getting nervous about the sums — it wasn’t about the rights or feelings of the claimant, or the State’s crime against that victim — it was all about the money. The strange anomaly which takes some getting around is that the State on the other hand have no qualms about fining an offender any amount they see fit! (often done in Singapore)    In motoring, insurers just hike up the premiums to meet the claims, yet the State and Police etc, are allowed to reduce their responsibility if it hurts them, showing their lack of accountability to a wronged citizen that they hardly care about.  America once did lead the World on compensation of Police wrongs and State misconduct having to abide by juries who often awarded around $50 million dollars and even higher against police departments and city chiefs whether or not their insurance could cover it — it was about the injustice — not the ability to pay.  Unfortunately when it got a bit too rich, they squealed and decided to opt for the ‘Appeal’ and demand another court hearing to have the cash award reduced without a jury being present (cutting out the people or their views) — Sometimes it worked…the UK did this too after seeing the USA implement it in civil law.  Will a Nation, Government, or Law Administration ever be truly sorry for its mistakes and crimes against a wronged individual or group?   NO…..it’s not even likely.

‘ Basically, the Internet is a load of Junk ‘ (and dangerous junk at that).

Much is extolled about how useful the Internet is, but in reality it is as corrupt as the corruption this site likes to expose.  What it does and how it is used has been utilised by crooks and Government Departments in covert operations.  Bank accounts are not ‘accidentally’ tampered with, and neither is information that finds its way into some strange places….they are spied upon, downloaded, collected in every day activities by companies going through backdoor devices encrypted onto their programmes and software that users think ‘safe’ when they are just the opposite.  The FBI monitors great amounts flowing via the States along with the CIA….and other bodies of Governments across the World are actively engaged in the same devious arrangements.  One has only to see how easy it is for Google Search Engines and others to bombard users with ads, ads they didn’t want…and of course those activities that slowdown your use….this is to secretly upload things to your machine while you are looking at something else or waiting to connect with a webpage or website….this is called subtle and hidden monitoring…planting bugs and programmes that cannot be detected on the normal ‘public use’ of a pc.  The Internet is not the great ambassador of freedom, it is a tool that invades all those who use it…..already steered by the Giant Corporations and Governments Worldwide.

Note: Somebody the other day interestingly said that the Internet was a place where crooks could operate their scams and deceit very successfully, and that cannot be denied…..the only successful people on the Internet are Webhosts,,,and sites that ask for money before you can take part calling this a ‘service’ they are providing.  Government Departments websites are funded by the taxpayers and what they give is a ‘distorted’ picture and facts to the people that visit….the Internet has already been ‘commissioned by the powerful’ to do as they wish…..and the people are the pawns in this global house of cards where the King in his Counting House amasses the fortunes to be made…. It has already got too big, and become the monster in the midst – it cannot be controlled any longer…………Cyber Crime is and will be the Wars of the Future!………country’s will be taken down by computer attacks…….especially the ones that have their Nation’s systems totally reliant on pc software and programs designed by geeks who already know the flaws, but say nothing about it….and hope the hackers will not call too soon to destroy their work….and lay the foundations for Cyber Warfare……as he said, the Third world Countries and small rogue dictatorships often do not have the pc reliance…..and have nothing to lose in performing an attack, their lights, power and communications are old style and will not stop…….the sophisticated, well? they won’t know what hit them!

INTERNET TWADDLE – Having trouble getting on the Internet? yes, many are, and they are seeing signs like ‘Computer may be at risk’ popping up as they struggle to even sign on.  Ten minute freezes are taking place quite frequently and almost on a daily basis.  One person told us it was around fifteen minutes before they were able to just access the Internet despite being on a ‘fast’ computer and having a high speed ratio via Telecom.  The fault? obviously MICROSOFT….and Google, Yahoo and the techies who make outrageous claims that the Internet is working and can take the increasing load of traffic…..when in fact it has never been tried before.. its all an assumption on their part….but the ego’s cannot afford them humility or mistakes….they’re too perfect?

‘ America still pursuing Wikileaks ‘

THE FBI HAVE A FILE NOW — 42,135 PAGES LONG FOR A ‘PENDING’ PROSECUTION….. Their bosses at the Pentagon (The Government) are saying and demanding Wikileaks ‘cease’ soliciting U.S.Military Whistleblowers, and that they should ‘destroy’ previous cables and files along with data and publications!  I don’t think that is going to happen despite them being ‘old news’ really..they want no one looking into their secrets and corruption to be left to continue…..but it’s doubtful that Wikileaks has anything new to offer.

ALTHOUGH WE SUPPORT the original aims of Wikileaks, Julian Assange has strayed far from the mark of respectability and praise for the cause.  It is said that he blew the £300,000 bail put up by supporters in favour of saving his own skin…but has offered the excuse that he didn’t want to risk or implicate those who’d put up the money…so ‘in their interests’ didn’t tell them he was seeking sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy.  Yet there is more, the massive cost to the taxpayer of the police presence…costing £11,000 a day….and that doesn’t seem to matter to Assange who still continually seeks attention.  The Fowl – Friends of Wikileaks Website is nothing more than a fund raiser asking for financial support!  log-ins often don’t work, encrypted letters and numbers often fail, yet strangely and not surprisingly, the cash and credit card does!  it claims the donations are going to help keep Wikileaks going, but this can never be checked, Julian Assange says that anonymous and security reasons must prevail….and most e-mail messages have his name on them.        Yet many moons ago, their was a rift in the Wikileaks camp and many thought he was tarnishing the image.. a fellow co- founder parted company on a matter of principle…..as it now appears to be ‘Do as I say, and not as I do’…..and what of Bradley Manning, well, the old Wikileaks members told him not to put Manning in jeopardy (he now resides in prison while Assange lives it up in luxury and comfort)..but Assange did not listen and published the ziplocked cables….sent files to members that can only be opened with the winrar archiver… at a cost!……..Assange has broken the law…the terms of his bail…..and cannot stay in the Embassy forever…. and more amazingly this regime has a lousy record on human rights.. the kind of thing Assange says he condemns….. however, eventually his fame will diminish and other more dedicated sites will do the work he claimed he could only do…..without another Bradley Manning it will all fade away….and no other whistleblower will give up his freedom for Assange.

WIKILEAKS ASSANGE WAS DICTATOR — says former partner and colleague Daniel Domsceit-Berg in his book ‘Inside Wikileaks’….he explodes the myth behind showman Julian Assange.  Daniel actually regrets having to brand his one-time best friend as a dictator  who resented others interfering with his own personal aims, so much so, that he dismissed partner Daniel and shut him out of the Wikileaks team.  It is said after doing this he assumed total command and did everything he wanted to do without much consultation with the remaining members who had contributed and set up the organisation.  Even in the early days, Daniel admits it was only he and Julian who filtered the stuff coming in and decided whether they were authentic, more by intuition and feel rather than thorough checks….’we didn’t have the staff or capability to do it’    But things changed when the Bradley Manning cables landed on our lap…it was big stuff….and on top of this there were arrest warrants for Julian over sex allegations to contend with….but he didn’t seem to bother.  Soon we were asking for donations all decided by Julian, no-one else had a say….Julian said Wikileaks needed money to keep it going, but no-one was accountable…Julian said the whereabouts of the accounts had to remain in secret locations in order to prevent ‘the enemy’ from seizing assets….and only he knew where it was?  From that point he got more evasive and took decisions without the others, the site and cause had now changed from being a ‘social cause’ to one of a crusade… Julian’s crusade to take on the USA and others.  The original team was soon thrown to one side as Julian took the step of locking them all out of Wikileaks…..and Manning was left to his own fate as Julian made threats to release all cables without checking them.  He was now the ‘Big Chief’ playing politics who nobody could catch……but now in 2014, he’s hardly anyone…Wikileaks is a former shadow of what it once was….and he has nothing to wave at the USA……Edward Snowden is the new player….and he looks more genuine as he has no wish to perform in front of cameras or seek donations….he just wants to expose wrongdoing by governments to the people…..and that’s how it should be.

‘ SILLY ANTICS BY ASSANGE COST TAXPAYER £6MILLION PLUS ‘ and counting?

JULIAN ASSANGE continues to be an embarrassment to the principles of Wikileaks by continuing his plight to avoid justice, something he said he believed others should face when he believed in exposing corruption, but that was another time and Wikileaks is all but spent….and everyone has moved on except him.  He continues to hide in the Embassy of Ecuador unrepentant about the cost of policing as it waits outside to arrest him the moment he steps out onto UK soil.  The UK taxpayer is facing a bill of millions  as the stalemate enters into two years with no end in sight.  One of his supporters (who makes T-shirts for him) in Somerset, believes he can do no wrong, and that all the negative comment is a lie…..but he probably hasn’t read the book by fellow Wikileaks leader Daniel Domsciet-Berg or refuses to face certain things about Julian….nor bothered by the taxpayers bill either……blind devotion is what Assange thrives on, and probably demands (as seen in the book).

‘ No Corruption here? — Corruption is always denied! ‘

COURTS, POLICE, THE SERVICES AND SOCIETY DENY CORRUPTION EXISTS — Is there such a thing as the ‘absolute truth’ ………not really, the truth can be dressed up to look sincere, and believed by those claiming it, in every society there is an absolute abundance of corruption — and for example we have:  people cheating other people out of money and property, cheating in exams and pupils engaging in this…Lies to cover up crime and obtain an advantage which includes deception…..Conspiracy to conceal and pervert the truth for a financial or unsavoury action to deny or deprive others of their rights and freedom……Bribery, one of the highest motivations brought on by greed — bribes to gain favour in business and industry, bribes by government officials to gain overseas contracts, also including officials colluding to cover-up illicit gains, the expense fiddles in the workplace, widely carried out by staff, directors and government. The selling of fake goods in order to deceive and cheat, misrepresentation, fraud and forgery etc, the list goes on……. and it is all on this site and more…..we name those that have attempted or indulged in corrupt activity….some protest and want us to remove articles involving them…..and why?……to hide incidents in their past in order to deceive of course…. they like to rewrite history…..but all we do is resurrect these past indiscretions that we uncover, and present ones…..the future is nothing unless we quote history from a truthful stand…..society learns nothing from a ‘doctored evidence’ and corruption flourishes.

TRUTH CORRUPTED/EVIDENCE DENIED — ‘THE TIMOTHY EVANS SCANDAL’  A case which is seldom referred to these days because the Government and Judiciary prefer to have it pushed neatly away and  pretend it never happened………this was about an innocent man ‘murdered by the state’ and posthumously received a pathetic pardon?  Evans was the scapegoat in the ‘Christie Murders’ so read on……

‘The Christie Case 1966’ — A miscarriage of justice — The Lawyers and Government behaved shabbily and cravenly throughout the affair of finally hanging an innocent man, a man of poor education and one that could not understand what was going on around him as the state decided his fate.  QC SCOTT HENDERSON did what most arrogant legal men do, he conducted his enquiries without ever considering that Timothy Evans may be innocent and many of the points he said and raised in court were questionable.  He completely disregarded other evidence that pointed to Christie’s guilt even though there was sufficient to change things for Evans.  The trial’s theme was that of prejudice against Timothy Evans.  Some minority battling for Evan’s life were alarmed by this, disclosed that the report by Henderson deliberately concealed the truth, and was in essence dishonest.  Many things were wrong in this case, but the State were speedily preparing to murder an innocent man and did.  It was 13 years later before the State ‘reluctantly’ admitted that their had been a miscarriage of justice, and despite knowing that Christie had committed the murders still tried to sully Evans name by suggesting that he ‘may’ have been involved!  The judiciary were conspicuous by their absence leaving the State to clean up and dispense with this sordid mistake.  The Government urged the Queen to award Evans a full pardon which she did.  Ludovic Kennedy described that move by government as ‘Pathetic’….and the State did not have to pay out a penny for what they had done……so we are in brief, mentioning this case so you don’t forget.

PS: the full account can be acquired through the book ’10 Rillington Place’ found on Amazon or E-Bay.

‘ Youth arrests and one fifth of young males in jail are Muslim ‘

A REPORT says that six kids of primary School age are being arrested every day in the UK.  The Howard league says over 2,000 were arrested in 2011 according to their research figures.  2,117 children of around ten and eleven years of age were detained, and that police arrested a total of 209,450 under 18’s.  One in five young males detained in jail are said to be Muslim, up by twenty-five percent according to figures by the Youth Justice Board.

‘Education and the fraud situation ‘

ACADEMY HEAD ARRESTED on suspicion of Fraud — What is described as the flagship Academy suffered a blow when founder and principal Sajid Raza at the Kings Science Academy in Bradford was arrested by police.  The cops were investigating the School’s finances after allegations were made to the Funding Agency that the school had claimed  tens of thousands of public money which was not used for its intended purpose.  The Education Funding Agency said there had been ‘serious failings’ in the financial management of the Academy.

COLLEGE CLAIMED £1 MILLION FALSELY —Barnfield College at Luton was the target of an investigation by the Education Funding Agency who found that the college had claimed £1million for students it wasn’t teaching or had.  The Financial irregularities revealed that records did not match claims by the College….the matter was passed to the Police for Investigation.

CHAIRMAN OF ACADEMY RESIGNS AMID INVESTIGATION — Chairman of the Governors at Glendene Arts Academy, Co Durham went on sick leave since a whistleblower contacted the Education Funding Agency.  The report said besides the Chairman, a Head Teacher were allegedly involved in setting up a company at the centre of the investigation…..neither were named.

ACADEMY SCHOOLING RUNS INTO TROUBLE — A Report out shows that one in every four head teachers have quit their posts in the last year, despite all the hype from the Minister and coalition government that still seeks to pull the wool over parents eyes.  It says figures in the Secondary School bracket there are one in three Head Teachers leaving each year.  The survey was conducted throughout data based on 100 of these schools, supplied by UHY Hacker Young said to be involved with auditing these schools accounts.

‘ Fraudsters make millions — warning to investors ‘

The City Police are telling investors to beware of schemes that are involved in fake diamonds, jewellery, fine wine etc, by fraudsters who are making millions.  They are describing these as ‘Boiler Room’ frauds run by con-artists.  It says that around £1.2 billion a year is lost in investment fraud…and a lot these days is Internet Crime.

‘The Rip-Off Passport Situation and the Consulates ‘

IT COSTS AN OUTRAGEOUS £95 FOR AN EMERGENCY PASSPORT — The Embassy/Consulate UK charge a massive £95 for a replacement passport if you find your passport gone, lost or stolen….one was actually gobbled up in an airport machine, being no fault of the 16yr old boy.  He was stranded and could not leave the foreign country or get back.  He was forced to visit the Consulate and buy a replacement passport just get home as this passport is only valid for one journey, even if its a couple of hours!  after that it is useless, defunct….. this must be the Administration rip-off equal to none?

‘ All in it together?  NO….Uncaring Britain? YES ‘

THE HYPE IS INCREDIBLY ‘PLASTIC-LOOKING’ as Britain plays it’s blank card of insincerity…pretentious and glib speeches claiming the public pull together in a common cause?…..none of which is true or ever will be.  Britain runs on Greed, its people are divided and locked in the pursuit of wealth at any cost….survival of the fittest.  Some reading this will say it cannot be true and quote that some people are doing things for the good of the country…. but that is always the case ‘Some’ a few who are mostly ignored by the majority.  It doesn’t represent the real situation whatsoever.  The Banking scandal, a branch of politics involved malpractice, quick profit schemes, off-shore accounts, tax avoidance and fraud that the politicians claimed they knew nothing about…ordinary people speeding into debt and borrowing showed a great lack of judgement in thinking it could go on and was alright. Ripping off the taxpayers is a hobby and the taxpayer calmly sit on their sofas playing XBox and using WiFi to bid on e-bay and drink themselves stupid.  Old Age is a sin for governments and the young, the young don’t want to be saddled with debts and in this country there are 1.34 elderly people receiving care in their own homes, which has been turned into big business by the state which has very little compassion for the frail and needy.  One incident for example was an 83yr old man living alone, his ‘caring and wonderful family’ promised to see him regularly and bring him food, and they never came for days, he starved (we have this on file and many more examples).  The neglect of the elderly is shameful…..but it goes on…in spite of those fancy speeches that contain not a grain of truth.  Most families are waiting to see the elderly gone and the reading of the will…a shocking truth that will be met by ‘false denials’   Even the ones in care are abused as we often see in ‘exposes’ on TV…and they only get to the odd situation they’ve picked up on…. so when you hear those words of how great Britain is…..think again.

‘ The Scandal of the ‘Food Banks’ in 21st Century Britain ‘

‘Call me Dave’ Cameron PM cannot seem to acknowledge the disgrace he has burdened the UK with, let alone answer a direct question in the House on Speakers Question Time.  All he is capable of doing is repeating the rhetoric his Party are famous for.  His own backbencher asked him about the situation of rising poverty, and all he could reply was with figures on employment and taxes etc, but nothing of what food banks meant or conveyed in the 21st Century.  Rationing was thought be over and part of history, food banks were essentially something for famine aid…..yet in 2012, the UK has now become a nation that has food banks for its poorest citizens….The Swindon Food Bank says this is on the rise, and more people are arriving to get help.

THE SCANDAL OF THE FOOD BANKS IN BRITAIN is beginning to look bad for the government….. as the number of people are increasing who now need help from these suppliers.  The number has tripled since we published the above paragraph on this subject, and for the first time (since the second world war) in the history of The Red Cross who mainly deal with poverty abroad, they are now turning their help to poor families in the UK.  The Trussell Trust, the biggest food bank operator distributed food to 355,985 people between April and September 2012.  Since the Government froze and pushed back wages along with massive cuts to welfare, more than 65,000 were referred to food banks while benefits were delayed and reduced.  At present (2013) the government are taking no notice of the situation and little realise what might happen come the next election.  Only a bad country could do this to their own people.

‘Government and Lawyers push for ‘secret justice’ in new Bill ‘

A BILL GOING BEFORE THE HOUSE — The Justice and Security Bill has alarmed civil liberty groups as it contains moves to hold court cases in private, especially those concerning police shootings, friendly fire incidents and other instances that they don’t wish the public prying into.  The Bill is to go before The House of Lords, and it is being expedited rather quickly. Amnesty International spokesperson Alice Wyss said ‘ it’s a secret justice system where nobody outside the inner circle can mention the case, it’s already bad enough that secret procedures have been allowed to creep into the justice system, but now the government is trying to extend secret justice to an unprecedented degree — it wants to play the security card whenever when they want something to be kept a secret…..and nobody will be able to challenge it ‘

FEARS GROW OVER GOVERNMENT ‘DATA BILL’ — The bill which allows the police, Mi5, MI6 free access to private data on the public is alarming Watchdog Groups who already can see and have detected what this bill means behind the ‘false assurances’ by government spokespersons (who have little or no control of the people they are guaranteeing to use it wisely).  Nick Pickles of the Group Big Brother Watch says ‘ the public are now wised-up to the ‘scare-mongering’ that the government have been embarking on, and see this for what is is — a snoopers charter.  This Bill belongs in the bin’ he said.   

The Bill allows the Police and ‘Security’ Services to collect details of when and to whom e-mails were sent, and which websites people visited.

‘ Cops give up battle against Drug Dealers ‘

William Rowlands is in no doubt that the cops are more than ever less interested in the drugs situation.  He says he personally knows of addicts who spend their dole benefit on getting a fix.  He wrote to the Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable to ask what was being done about the drug pushers and ringleaders of this trade.  A    reply from a woman officer shocked him, she said it was now a low priority and had been for a while. He reiterated his concerns saying it was not about soft drugs but cocaine and heroin, but that made no difference.  He said that nine years should be enough time to tackle this, but she declined to talk further on it?

‘The Mail and it’s vendetta on the welfare state’

Some tell me that The Mail is a ‘Conservative’ newspaper, and what they have been up to recently certainly points to their values.  They never let up on the ‘benefit claimants’ making suggestions and stirring it up about how well the benefit claimants have it in an attempt to stir up hatred in society.  They strangely also pioneer the game of going after the Inland Revenue on money matters, dodgy tax deals and making the businessman the loser. You might just think they are out to make things better…..but just one minute!   We can flip that two-headed coin and show you the faults…..Let’s look at another government department they could go after, The Land Registry, but they don’t……not that they haven’t been given the chance to expose dodgy dealing with land registration, title etc, they have…..we in fact let the Mail on Sunday know about such a case……but the journalist went back to the guys upstairs, and that was it, they declined to get involved?  No explanation, just flatly refused, which certainly looks strange when one sees what they are up to……we of course featured the case, doing the job they should have been proud to do……so what do we make of this so-called Free Press?   and in particular THE MAIL!

‘ The ‘bigger’ scandal of EU Expenses ‘

SOME £69 MILLION is spent on luxury homes for EU Representatives says Independent researcher Janet Berry of Hambleton. She points out that the Ambassador to Honk Kong, a Dutchman, has got himself a nice ‘little’ apartment with a rental of £17,000 a month.  Turning to the Ambassador to Russia, a Spanish Gentleman, we see that he is living quite comfortably in a rented dwelling at £25,000 a month….. and these are but two examples of expenses excess….mainly going unreported.  Corruption has already been mentioned in 2012 about MEP salaries and payments……so she quite rightly asks where are the journalists in this, and why are they not using their access to the figures….especially after the reporting of the UK Government Expenses Scandal that was done with great success…..just how much is going needlessly on expenses in the EU….and who are the cheats?

‘Foreign Lawyers with no valid legal claim?’

We feature here a disturbing tale of foreign lawyers making threatening demands on several holiday makers in the UK.  We tried to track down the firm of lawyers, but were rumbled by the hotel in question — so here is the story:  Several holidaymakers who stayed at ‘Villa Ocean View Hotel’ in Wadduwa, Sri Lanka, booked through agents Mercury Direct, and paid for the entire holiday.  But, a month or so after their return, the holidaymakers received threatening demands by lawyers in Sri Lanka asking for ‘outstanding bills’, which they weren’t in actual fact, a dispute had arisen between Mercury Direct and the Hotel……but the Lawyers didn’t care about that, they threatened court action in the International Court, and went beyond any normal brief……it transpired under the International Law these lawyers and their client, the Villa Ocean View Hotel, had no valid legal claim whatsoever on the holiday makers and they should not have harassed them at all.

NB: If anyone knows the name of the Sri Lanka, Wadduwa, law firm, please contact our PI Richard (his contact details are on the opening page)…..in the meantime we will keep pushing to discover their identity.

‘Mali Executions angers the French’

When Two Human Rights Organisations put forward that they had confirmation of ‘Summary Executions’ being carried out by the Mali Army, the French rallied to protect their allies….and said they would seek to protect human rights by writing to their allies to keep their soldiers ‘under control’ and show a ‘strict respect of human rights’ albeit late in the day!   There has been no guarantee or confirmation by the Mali Government that anyone will be arrested or even tried for ‘crimes’…….such is the rule of Military Power…and their licence to kill.

‘ Arms Dealer sues the Foreign Office ‘

ZIMBABWEAN JOHN BREDENKAMP a controversial businessman dealing in arms is suing The Foreign Office for unlawfully freezing his assets and blacklisting him over his support for Mugabe.  The 72yr old Tycoon claims that a European Union measure in 2009 proved devastating to his livelihood and business interests.  This week he filed papers in The High Court saying the Foreign Office’s evidence was based entirely based on unsubstantiated undocumented and unparticularised  comments made orally.

‘Norway wants to ban the thieving French ‘

We know of the thieving Americans, but it now turns to the thieving French?  Norway’s Judicial Affairs MP Per Sandberg wants those French — ‘notorious criminals’ banned from Norway.  ‘We need immediate measures to stop these criminals at the borders….and stop groups like the Romanians, Bulgarians and French.  It has been proven that they are notorious for engaging in criminal activities’ he said.  It was also recalled that Mr Sandberg has already said if these foreigners whose children commit crimes should be deported.

‘When you can steal with Immunity ‘

THE EURO DISASTER –  CYPRUS has proved that a Government can and will steal up to 30 per cent of their citizens bank savings and accounts. This news which shocked the world came as Cyprus got deeper into debt and in order to fix it, announced that they would be taking twenty to thirty per cent of people’s savings in order to pull off a deal with the EUROPEAN COMMUNITY.  The lesson here is, that a country or government can commit theft, murder or any other foul deed with impunity….and there is no legislation that can touch them, there is nothing they cannot do.

‘The Public, a willing partner to Corruption ‘

CORRUPTION IS ON THE INCREASE, and the main ingredient to its success lies with the public, they ignore its perversion of morals and legal framework.  Alan Carter from Newcastle puts this point quite clearly in an open letter we stumbled upon —  he says councillors and MP’s are telling the voters and constituents to get used to cutbacks to public services, but no such evidence of prudence exists when it comes to their own pay, perks and expenses.  He says there’s hardly a day goes by without another story of councillors, advisors, police and crime commissioners and the like being paid extortionate sums of public money for very little in return.  He says that local councils spend an exorbitant amount of time and money defending huge redundancy packages for senior staff, with many of them on six-figure pay-offs.  Banks and Industry commit fraud ‘to the astonishment to the country’ and have lawyers looking for ways to avoid paying tax for their clients, even if it means re-writing the law to suit.  Does any of this look like changing?  Not a chance.  The Public look the other way, and like a knock on effect, look for ways of cheating the system themselves — they’ve got excellent examples to follow!

‘ Government is being sued by Rail Franchise Companies ‘

FOUR RAIL COMPANIES are suing the British Government over ‘the delayed Great Western Tendering’ ,,,,,as they were bidding and after many months were told that the applications were cancelled.  Different reports are suggesting that this will cost the taxpayers around £40 million……yet another online report says it could well be around the £100 million mark.

‘Public Fraud is on the Up ‘

FRAUD IS SO INGRAINED IN SOCIETY  that there is a special force set up in the UK known as THE NATIONAL FRAUD AUTHORITY.  Which is an accepted sign that it now exists in a huge way throughout the nation and businesses.  This Authority receives a constant ever-growing influx of new cases day by day, almost to the point of being unable to cope with them.  The scams are so numerous that there are hundreds of new ones popping up every day and in some cases as the Internet, it runs into thousands a day.  Ordinary people, workers, doctors, cops and businessman are out to con others in transactions and bogus services.  They completely refuse to accept it as theft and deception, and have no feelings of guilt at all.  One such example given was the rising amount of E-Bay thieves, sellers who knock out stolen goods, counterfeit goods, and ‘no goods’ and just take cash without any intention of delivery……..such is the public ‘honesty’

‘ The World’s Dirty Tricks ‘

DIRTY TRICKS BY GOVERNMENT — and this applies to the majority of countries around the World, scheme, kill and double-cross their citizens on all levels including financial.  And when they are accused of this they shout ‘prove it’ knowing that they have their Judicial System tied up — (and you cannot walk in an investigate them or question them legally?) — it is there to neatly protect them under the guise of ‘ Internal Security ‘ something they claim as necessary for the safety of the country! — but what it really means – is themselves!   They can actually demand collusion with other countries, because of certain laws not often looked at agree to co-operate with ‘incidents and crimes committed by foreigners, not having taken place on their soil but aimed at them (where they consider the act committed elsewhere affects their law in their country, even when it doesn’t in the ‘requested’ country).  So the appalling things they do that must be kept a secret or buried (hence the fact that the UK often use things like ‘the 100 or 50 yr rule – gag’ which prevents anyone seeing a file or results of a gagged inquiry which identifies wrongdoing they deem as ‘not in the public interest)… and then you have ‘The Bradley Manning Case’ US Trial and detention of a whistleblower, in which the USA authorities did not want their sordid ‘atrocities’ revealed because they were ‘secret’ — they actually wanted the death penalty for him claiming what he did as treason for telling the World the truth about his own manipulative and very dangerous Government that acts secretively and tells lies to its people………so long as the populace act without a backbone, all of these countries and Governments will take advantage of this and remove those that dare question what they are doing……..dictatorships are thriving under the guise of democracy, and hardly anyone can see it for what it is.

MINISTERS IN SECRECY OVER CONTRACTS — News is that the Government are using a veil of secrecy over contracts they award which cost the taxpayer £100 billion a year…..and paid to private companies.  The DWP have come into serious criticism over contracts to private firms….and refusing to divulge details to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.

‘ Research Scientist falsified Data is Jailed ‘

SCIENTIST STEVE EATON faked the results of a experimental anti-cancer drug, and has become the first person to be jailed under the  ‘Scientific Safety Laws’ of 1999.  The Cambridge man was working in Edinburgh with the firm Aptuit where it was stated that he got the idea of a scam.  He was jailed for three months by Edinburgh Sherrif’s Court.  Investors discovered that he had been selectively reporting research data since 2003.  They heard how he changed analytical data that would be used to determine the concentration of medicine that could be given to clinical trial subjects……showing the experiment was successful when it had really failed.

‘ Giant Energy Suppliers in Tax  Accountancy Scam ‘

SEVERAL BIG UTILITY AND ENERGY SUPPLIERS are being accused of deliberately running a scam in order to get £900 million unjustified tax returns,  A report says that Gas and Electricity firms have been lodging claims with the HMRC for rebates claiming £50 million each using and benefitting from complex tax rules they say entiltles them to get money back from the treasury.  How it works is that they claim costs again for the same work even though business customers have paid them for doing it….they make new claims for past expenditure which is known as ‘double-dipping’……getting paid twice.

‘ Hampshire ‘secrets’ firm Gamma in spy Incident ‘

GAMMA INTERNATIONAL rarely make the news, and often actively shy away from anyone getting interested in them, and why?  because they work with the MOD, MI5 inventing spyware for use on the Internet.  The firm has recently been accused of falsely associating one of its products with the FIREFOX name…….It was Firefox that discovered the covert operation Gamma were up to, so it sent them an e-mail saying ‘ Cease and Desist’ telling them not to use the Firefox name.  It is said that Gamma used the brand name as a method of avoiding detection and preventing deletion when they secretly sent their ‘Spysinc’ in e-mails.  Gamma declined to respond to the Press saying they were bound by strict security rules of the UK and couldn’t discuss work with the government security agencies.     In September 2011 they were accused of a cyber spy deal with Egypt.

‘ GCHQ the government snooping centre ‘

THIS SECRET FACILITY in Cheltenham run by the Security Agency in partnership with Special Branch, the Police and MI5/MI6 is receiving the attention that it hoped would never happen.  Spying takes many forms that of an international nature, and the ‘home grown ‘ stuff…..the latter being not that acceptable.  It is now at the centre of a row over listening in on phones and spying on Internet users.  Well, the phone thing is not news really, because they’ve been doing that with BT Telecom’s help for over thirty years…..and little was ever said but for the occasional blunder.   The recent Edward Snowden Incident (former CIA) has pointed at GCHQ and the American Partnership of surveillance using the PRISM programme…Nick Pickles of Big Brother Watch says ‘this appears to be dangerously close to, if not exactly, the centralised database of all our Internet communications, including some content that Parliament has never legislated for ‘  Snowden  put it stronger  ‘ it is the largest programme of suspicion-less surveillance in human history…..and it undermines democracy in an unprecedented way ‘  It is said that GCHQ is handling 600 million ‘phone events’ each day and is tapping 200 fibre-optic cables and is able to process data from at least 46 cables at a time.  MP and Minister Vince Cable believes that spy-chiefs have been operating a secret ‘snoopers charter’ to track Internet use of people. And that they are trawling through private information, including e-mails, photographs and social networking sites, harvested by a secretive U.S. surveillance programme run by the NSA……..who are using Britain as an outpost to do some of the dirty work.

GCHQ ARE BEING SUED OVER PRIVACY BREACH — The ‘Secrets Centre’ GCHQ are being taken to court by four European Civil Liberties Groups who have launched the case at the European Court of Human Rights.  They are accusing the British Intelligence Agencies of illegal intrusion on the privacy of millions of people throughout Europe.  The writ concerns hacking, e-mail snooping and the collecting of data through social media. It appears that at a hearing, no representatives came from the British Establishment, this is said to have angered MEP’s, one said ‘it is right that the UK’s GCHQ is held accountable in the courts, and it starts here.

THE HONEY TRAP (Dirty Tricks) USED BY GCHQ — More revelations by Snowden tell of the Dirty Tricks used by the UK Spy Network.  Codename ‘Honey Trap’ is a covert operation monitoring phone texts, particularly sexual liaisons with friends and neighbours to discredit targets they are concentrating on.   Snowden reveals that the agency is at the forefront of efforts to develop ‘offensive’ online techniques for use against individuals.  Which can lead to tactics like  DoS….. ‘Denial of Service’ which is not permitted under British Law.

GCHQ WERE BEING CHALLENGED IN OPEN COURT — Recent moves by the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to hear the challenge mounted by Human Rights Groups – Liberty, Amnesty International and Privacy International along with several foreign groups.  They say that the Government Spy Unit have interfered with private communications according to the reasonable likelihood of that being so.  The Government so far has avoided and not confirmed the existence of Tempora, a British Surveillance Programme. Most of the hearings the Investigatory Powers Tribunal carry out are behind closed doors!

GCHQ SPIED ON LAWYER-CLIENT COMMUNICATIONS FOR MI5 — A report says that the spy base has been monitoring and eavesdropping on lawyers and clients for years.  They intercepted communications legal conversations normally seen as ‘legally protected material’ according to a document found.  This news comes as the Government resist legal attempts to have them in court, which would reveal their dirty tricks department.

GCHQ SPIED ON JOURNALISTS AND HACKED THEIR E-MAIL — It was revealed that the spy centre stored the e-mails of journalists and intercepted electronic communications from reporters at Newspaper Offices.  It emerges that up to 70,000 emails were grabbed and stored as part of a surveillance exercise.

COURT SAYS UK’S DEAL WITH US WAS ILLEGAL — Its hard to tell whether ‘legal’ means anything to the spy networks including GCHQ.  The Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled that Britain’s use of gathered information via US surveillance programmes to spy on citizens was illegal.  This involved America’s NSA and GCHQ who the IPT said had breached human rights by what they were doing….and the IPT are the only ones who can investigate MI5 and MI6 along with GCHQ operations.  This ruling has found against the British Government, but does very little to curtail the unfettered power it has to move behind the law and operate covertly when it chooses.

‘ Gagging Orders (clauses) and the shame of the Judiciary and Lawyers ‘

WHY WERE GAGGING ORDERS INVENTED?  well this kind of clause was thought up by Lawyers, not to protect honesty or the truth, but cover up lies and mischief.  It is amazing to believe that the Justice System was heralded as something that was set up to ‘get at the truth — the whole truth and nothing but the truth’…. but in reality this was as far away from it as one could get, a complete lie and fabrication designed by lawyers of the powerful getting together to ‘fool the gullible’ and protect lies, deceit and atrocities (committed by those who were in office to serve the people).  The Savile Affair shows people labelled and treated like ‘untouchables’ who were above this so-called ‘a Law for all’…..other ‘Untouchables’ are Judges who cannot be named when they misbehave or commit misconduct — they are protected by The Ministry of Justice……another group of ‘Untouchables’ are certain elite Squads in the Met Police and other Districts, covert units completely protected by the government.  The Armed Services have their own ‘Untouchables’ — The Military Tribunals and Courts that sit in secret or bar any civil interest, and are held on no-go MOD premises.  The Powerful as one can see are the ones that invoke ‘gagging orders’ and use them frequently to their own advantage, and luckily we are hearing about this once hidden secrecy more and more….which is showing us that all what the government are trying to make us believe is not the whole truth or even a part of it.  Councils use clauses to protect their ‘Untouchables’ and one mustn’t forget the recent spate of cases where we have discovered that the NHS had this too which exposed gagging clauses in their employment terms.  In fact the Whole World is at it with lies, deceit and secret agendas,,,,,and one often hears these governments saying they did it because they were protecting the people and deeming the action to be necessary under National Defence!…..and this allows them to silence critics, plunder the Nation’s wealth and gain power so soaked in corruption that eventually, a lie becomes the truth….and truth is not a commodity with any value or currency!

‘Love thy neighbour…Trust thy neighbour….No way for People in UK ‘

BRITAIN’S SHINE IS FADING as a Report into neighbourliness proves that it really does not exist for most of the UK, and that the new younger generation are set to move further away from the idea of communities. A Building Society Trust Study carried out a major independent research exercise….despite the UK being very proud of its community spirit, the reality of this seems very different.  28 per cent of older people did not trust their closest neighbours, and 24 per cent didn’t even know their neighbours.  It was worse with the 16-24 year olds as only 30 per cent of them said they might get to know a neighbour…..Professor Karen Pine who works in the School of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire said that ‘social mobility is one factor and many of the young are creating communities on-line rather than with neighbours’ ………… and in another survey commissioned by Big Lunch a Lottery funded initiative said that 18 per cent of the people living next door never meet or even stop to say hello to those next door.  The survey revealed that 60 per cent out of 30,000 adults looked on neighbours as someone to use! for taking in their mail and parcels when on holiday or just to look after the dog or cat etc……in a sort of caretaker role……another fact to emerge was that most people did not know the surname or names of the neighbours…..and in some cases it was revealed that when new neighbours arrived they felt fearful and used their curiosity to investigate them rather than strike up a bond of friendship.

‘ The beast in man is always there ‘

ESPECIALLY IN BRAZIL — Maranhao, where beheading is a natural pastime among its football crazy locals who regard football as a ‘God’…….it’s not that far away from logically being a reason for going to war and annihilating an entire race.  Footballer Josenir Abreu was sent off by the referee 20yr old Otavio da Silva….a fight ensued between the 20yr old and the 31yr old……a knife appeared so the story goes, and Abreu died on his way to hospital…… friends of the deceased came out for revenge and stoned the 20yr old to death…..but not before ‘quartering his body’ and cutting off his head…..and placing it on a pole in the middle of the football pitch….and Brazilian spectators just watched on or helped.  So far, it says one 27yr old was arrested at the scene….one can only hope we see him officially beheaded (guillotine or something similar) and his head posted on YouTube in the same honourable way as Brazilian Football…..with a few others of course.

‘ Corruption is on the increase – Official ‘

As we have been saying for several years now, corruption is becoming a way of life throughout the World and not just in Britain……TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL have been compiling a report (2013) which looked at many countries around the world and surveyed over 100,000 people.  According to its UK file, two thirds of the UK believe that corruption is getting worse here.  Other statistics revealed that one person in four had actually paid a bribe to an official….in the council or similar.  One person in three bribed or attempted to pay off a Cop, and one person in two tried to bribe a member of the Judiciary…….which all goes to prove that there is no limits to society’s corrupt activities, and it will never cease…….and of course, we will go on searching for those that practice this and try to get away with it.

‘Currency Fraud at Citigroup Headquarters ‘

THE USA have begun an investigation into the alleged manipulation of global currency markets, this move by the US Federal Reserve and Office of the Controller of the Currency comes as The Deutche Bank suspended several currency traders in New York as part of a bigger investigation into the scandal which is being probed by many global Regulators.  The London Citigroup in the Canary Wharf dismissed its Head of European Affairs Foreign Exchange Trading, Rohan Ramchandani (after prolonged leave).

‘ Kwik-Fit caught running garage repairs scam ‘

Famous Tyre and Exhaust Centre giants Kwik-Fit were exposed on a ‘rogue trading’ show as they tricked customers into paying for repairs and items they did not need.  Ten cars were sent into the Kwik-Fit centres for a ‘free’ brakes and tyre check.  All the vehicles had already been passed as road worthy and not in need of any repairs….but four of the vehicles were said to need around £700 being spent on them in ‘urgent repairs’….it was also found that checks they were supposed to do hadn’t in fact been done at all…….some wheels  had marks that would be dislodged if they were taken off, but these came back untouched….the team deliberately put a nail in two tyres……but they came back with the nails still in and were not spotted at all…….so the ‘free’ checks were more or less bogus, just as were the ‘repairs needed’……it was all about money and how to rip off the motorist.

‘ MOD is being sued for negligence ‘

THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE is being sued by the family of a military policeman who was murdered by a crowd in Iraq.  Corporal Russell Aston was one of five military policeman killed by a crowd.  The Family of Russell Aston are claiming that the MOD failed to keep him and his comrades safe or take reasonable measures.  The claim alleges that the government breached article 2 o0f the ECHR after a recent Supreme Court ruling extended the reach of The European Convention on Human Rights.  The Ministry of Defence originally claimed immunity in combat situations and ‘theatres of war’ incidents, which was an available defence against claims for damages, they were not prepared to comment.

MOD’S SPENDING ON DIRECTORY INQUIRIES REACHES £271,000……..in August the news broke that kept calling the ‘speaking clock’ to get the time at a cost of £40,000 to the taxpayer……the MOD made 158,640 calls.

‘ Home Office is being sued by fired Border Officer ‘

BRITAIN’S HOME OFFICE is being sued by a former Immigration Officer; the Officer it is said, cannot be named for legal reasons?   The case arises because the Officer’s brother was arrested, and another relative received a life sentence over a terrorism plot.  The plaintiff was suspended even though his brother was released without charge by police.  Lawyers for the dismissed Border Officer say that he was unfairly sacked, having never been accused of anything that contravened his official status, nor did he have a close relationship with his brother.

‘ Police permit RSPCA to use Database ‘

Normally one would think the RSPCA above board by the very nature of the work they do, but recent cases we have covered are beginning to see a more unpleasant side revealing itself.  They are now being allowed access to confidential police database files usually restricted to the police.  Just recently we covered a case where they were targeting a barrister (see it in Featured Lawyers) and they went after a person with horses in the Grimsby area and arrived unannounced to inspect them.  Information Commissioner Christopher Graham is now to begin investigations into the deal struck with the police over this matter….some 124 files a month are being requested by the increasingly political driven charity…..the exposed deal shows that they are being given information of criminal records of suspects, witnesses, defendants and victims.

‘ On reflection it must be public deception ‘

PUBLIC CORRUPTION…….going on all the time, which dear reader often means you. A report tells of the new deceit of going to a shop trying clothes for a week and then taking them back for a refund!  In a Poll carried out it showed that over half of the people had bought, worn and taken back clothes and shoes for a refund knowing that it was wrong.  Promotionalcodes, an online company who did the poll and compiled the research said that this was a worrying trend especially among British shoppers.  And we move on to ‘Kidology’ the claim that you are much more clever than you are, which is something else becoming prevalent in society….it shows that most do it because they want to appear better than they are…..it has been found in such tricks as sharing other people’s tweets or facebook posts in order to ‘impress’ others.  A Spokesman for Ask Jeeves  said they were surprised by how many people think they should go to any length in order to impress someone else.

PS they are doing it on Facebook and Linked-in all the time, and it is on the increase.

‘ Illegal Arms Sale Firm case fails due to legal loophole ‘

MORALLY RIGHT…..but Legally, the firm got away with it.  MAGFORCE INTERNATIONAL a French Firm, and a CHINESE COMPANY…. were initially ejected from an exhibition showing Defence and Security Equipment because  brochures were found on their stalls offering equipment such as ‘leg irons, electric stun batons and other nasties’ which cannot be marketed or exported from the UK.  Campaigners found themselves having to launch a private prosecution (because the state were not interested?), but now it has been discontinued after the CPS and their lawyers intervened because a case must be brought within six months of the claimed offence? normally speaking (a judge could extend it)…which nicely lets these rogues off the hook…..later the CPS slightly modified their statement saying that the prosecution could not continue because they had not obtained the necessary consent from the Director of Public Prosecutions!……which reveals more about the UK Government and Legal Profession.

NB: The Campaigners are now considering a formal complaint against the CPS and HMRC (Tax People) as well as a Judicial Review.  One can only hope they realise that the CPS and HMRC will bond together on this and use every trick in and out of the book to trip them up…..Lawyers are a breed unto themselves without morality.

‘ Passport Agency make £50 million out of chaos misery ‘

THE GOVERNMENT’S PASSPORT seemed oblivious and unsympathetic to the many thousands of applicants having their holiday plans ruined because of the serious delays the office incurred.  The profit despite the backlog now stands at around 508,000 was criticised by the Commons Home Affairs Committee as being in a sort of chaos, but boss Paul Pugh (who earns £104,000) denied this and said things were getting better.

‘ The Government Crime Agency decide to conceal list of lawbreaking firms ‘

THE SERIOUS ORGANISED CRIME AGENCY have decided that the public must be cheated in their quest for transparency in government.  Sir Ian Andrews, The Agency Chairman informed Parliament that ‘revealing the bad guys’ could substantially undermine the financial viability of major organisations by tainting them with the public association with criminality’   Corrupt Private Investigators working for law firms, police and others who commissioned them to break the law must be kept secret as disclosure would damage them and damage the interest of the State (The Secret State).   A spokesman for ‘Britain’s FBI’ said it was a ‘sensitive matter’ covered by Security Regulations, but would not clarify which or exactly why.  Keith Vaz of The Home Affairs Select Committee to the government said SOCA had indicated that they would supply a list ‘only for the eyes of the committee, but to date it hasn’t surfaced or been received.  He said this attitude can only make people really believe that ‘some are above the law’…..and doubt the governments legal stand ‘ no-one is above the law’ when clearly they mislead the nation and intended to.  The document has now been ‘Formally Classified’ which means it cannot be read by anyone not authorised by Government.

‘ Why Minority Groups ultimately fail to cause change ‘

Research into minority groups who challenge the system shows that in the main they fail their objectives because of the lack of public support.  It is said that the majority of the public cannot be bothered or interested in justice for others, and they’d rather not know or care.  One area of concern is ‘torture’ by governments or agencies attached to government.  Most people are complicit by their absence to engage in doing the right thing, instead it is the ‘it’s not happening to me, so what do I care’ attitude.  They have the same attitude to other wrongs committed by selfishness in the rich who often walk away from any involvement without a mere scratch and in some cases, they actually profit from wrong-doing.  The idea of the Samaritan has long gone, and the public in general will cross to the other side of the road to avoid contact with someone who is being manhandled and thrown into a van or car (by police or council security) because they spoke out or refused to comply etc. The public are more interested in wealth, getting it, and making out that they are high class…and keeping others away from it ‘ PRIVATE LAND’ etc,…these people often made their money on the backs of the poor or made it from charging extortionate prices for goods and services…..and there are an awful lot of these people in the UK.

 Reluctance of Police to investigate  blue-chip crime ‘

THE POLICE TRIED TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM UPSETTING BUSINESS — But after months of people pushing, law enforcement agencies finally realised they had to go after nineteen ‘blue-chip’ clients of corrupt private investigators,….who will be investigated for criminal offences.  As we often see, power and money dictate the situation where crime and investigations meet….the reluctance to upset big business is often a  factor this government look at rather than the crimes.  It is said that the evidence in this case has been buried for seven years?  The Information Commissioner’s Office say that Law Firms, Financial Organisations and Insurance Companies are to be investigated for unlawfully obtaining personal  information on approximately 125 victims,  The ICO managed to get 31 files seized by The Serious Organised Crime Agency from their investigation that took place in 2008.  19 organisations are being investigated — on suspicion of knowingly commissioning criminality.  Five retailers, four legal firms, three insurances companies, two finance companies and one construction company make up the nineteen.  It is interesting to note that The Serious Organised Crime Agency knew about the corrupt Private Investigators hacking in 2006, but did nothing about it.

‘ Help from Neighbours is rather hopeless ‘

 A REPORT sways that those around 75 years of age cannot rely on their neighbours in an emergency?  The Royal Voluntary Service who looked into this claim found that one in ten elderly people over Seventy-Five said they definitely could not count on any help from neighbours when needed.  The Poll revealed that many hardly knew their neighbours, and often found their neighbours had no intentions of knowing them.  Many said that they had never spoken to their neighbours despite having lived where they were for a number of years.  We know of such cases…such as the Selsey Gas Incident when neighbours at No 19 Large Acres…ignored their neighbour and gave out biscuits and tea to the Emergency Services despite looking directly at the neighbour several times and looking the other way……so yes, help from neighbours will not come in an emergency.

‘NEIGHBOURS MAKE EXCUSES FOR MURDEROUS PAIR WHO BURN VICTIM’  Yes, neighbours on an estate in Bristol instead of condemning the killers (who lived on the Estate) found it all too easy to excuse them by saying ‘The victim brought it on himself’…… callous but correct, a public response not uncommon these days.  A lonely ‘keep himself to himself’ man, Mr Ebrahimi became the victim of ‘Lynch Mob Mentality’ often found in village and town ‘cliques’ who cannot bear any outsiders coming into ‘their patch’ and being different.  The UK has many such places despite those who deny it, and these people are not only found in poor districts, even the wealthy are biased and capable of conspiracies to ‘fix’ people they don’t like.  Lowlife’s Lee James and Stephen Norley carried out the crime without hindrance….and burnt the victim as a CCTV camera recorded their actions.  Both appeared at Bristol Crown Court…….one can only hope they both get life sentences of 20 to 30 years or more,  The place where it happened was Capgrave Crescent Estate, Bristol.

‘EVIL FACE OF THE PUBLIC REVEALED ‘  another slice of the above;  Britain’s Public never fail in showing what they are — WHISTLEBLOWERS should be honoured for revealing corruption…. not attacked for it.  But there are many in the public that don’t want this, as they fear that they too might be spotted lurking in the deceit….. it is sad when Whistleblower Julie Bailey, who risked everything got attacked on Facebook and Twitter by members of the public….. such is the evil face of the British Public….we’ve established that in several articles on this page alone….luckily we don’t ask for donations and public support, no, we are funded privately which allows us to go after the public too, besides the corporate villains and those in Government Service.  We operate Internationally and expose corruption where and whenever….. Britain has no special considerations.

‘ The Dutch told to pay ‘Massacre’ compensation ‘

Try as hard as they could to deny such reparation, delays and counter argument etc, bringing in the old jurisdiction card….and questioning the ‘liability’    Nearly every country runs away from blame and almost every time says they cannot be held accountable.  But the fact is that 19 years ago 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were slain while they were on ‘peacekeeping duty’…..a Dutch Court at the time did clear The Netherlands of liability? but did order the Nation to compensate the families of nearly 300 men, after these men were handed over to Bosnian Serb Forces and later executed.  The Judge said the peacekeepers should have known that the men deported from the compound were going to their deaths….because there was already evidence that the Serbs were committing War Crimes.

PS: You cannot sue THE UNITED NATIONS….it has immunity from prosecution in all and any cases?

‘ Dangerous Super Virus leaves most people unaware ‘

ALTHOUGH THE USA AND UK KNEW about the oncoming virus set to hit around 250,000 computers, many did not know anything about it, and in addition did not realise that everybody just had a period of two weeks to prepare for it.  It was stated that most at risk were on the Microsoft network, showing the security padlock.  It was said to be a highly sophisticated malicious software program known as ‘Game Over Zeus’ which they had traced to Russian operatives.  While this attacked pc’s to get bank and financial information, it also carried a hidden bug  called ‘CryptoLocker’ a malware operation that encrypted people’s files so that they could not read or access them…they wanted £300 to unlock each person’s computer……it affected 15,000 pc’s in the UK….and by opening up an e-mail offering advice on how to update your security system….clicking on open to see the details the virus immediately took over the pc.

‘ Commissioner says firms breaking data law should face big fines ‘

WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN, AND DOES HAPPEN says more about the outcome of sentiments publicly stated by so-called Watchdog Commissioners.  Councils often breach Data Law, as do the Police, when it suits them, and that is more or less quite often….without any serious consequences…..often no penalty at all.  Commissioner Chis Graham says that companies etc, indulging in data breaches of the public should be brought before the Crown Courts to face unlimited fines.  He says he needs more power to guard people’s privacy……after coming under attack from the Home Affairs Select Committee, who suggested he was ‘dragging his feet’ in such matters of data  control and safety.  Defending his position he said they had successfully prosecuted Private Investigators Agency in Feltham…ICU Investigations Ltd, Adrian Stanton (fined £7,000) and Barry Spencer who ran the firm.

‘GOVERNMENT DATA MANIPULATED’ — Sir Andrew Dilnot, the Head of the UK Statistics Authority has admitted that crime statistics may have been manipulated … inaccurately recorded for years!   because of the need to show a better face to the public….saying pressures led to this.   He regrets that the problem with the data had not been discovered earlier.  Like many civil servants he refers to ‘errors’ that would likely result in a significant rise in official crime levels if they had been spotted and corrected.

‘ The EHIC Scam ‘

THE EUROPEAN HEALTH INSURANCE CARD which is FREE…. is being hijacked by scammers online who are charging up to £24 to process or get you the card by pretending to be affiliated to the Health Service.  They know the card is free and can be found at the real NHS website…but that one is not at the top of the NHS search, so people are getting caught out by scammers who charge a fee to do what you can do free.  Another downside to this EHIC is foreign countries who arte abusing the agreement, and SPAIN have come in for a lot of criticism regarding hospitals who are flouting EU Regulations.  Even though it is contrary to EU Law, some hospitals   are regularly pushing the card to one side saying that they don’t want it, which then leads to them billing the patient in the full knowledge they are cheating visitors who relied on the card to get them medical assistance.  The EU COMMISSION got very angry with Spain and told them to comply…ordering them to tell their hospitals to give the service the card entitles the user to receive.

‘ Newspaper Security Man burns documents ‘

NEWS INTERNATIONAL….HACKING…..MUCH IN THE NEWS  The Chief of Security Mark Hanna hit the news himself when the court heard that he’d told a friend that he had dug a hole in the garden and burnt stuff!…..this information comes has Rebecca Brooks denies knowledge of phone hacking and payments.  Hanna denies the charge of conspiring to pervert the course of justice.  All this surrounds the CCTV evidence showing the removal of pc’s and files before a police raid took place….so that it could not be found or seized for court evidence.

‘Mirror Staff in Corruption Charges ‘

THE HACKING INQUIRY now says that around nine members of ‘THE MIRROR’ staff are facing criminal charges in the hacking inquiry, that continues to expose major corruption and payouts for info, with police being some of the sellers.  It is said that ‘Operation Golding’ a Met Inquiry has four files containing e-mails and expenses info on disposable mobile phones that were used.  The Mirror Group’s lawyers were ordered to hand over copies of the four files they held by Judge Justice Mann.

SUNDAY MIRROR JOURNALIST PLEADS GUILTY — The Hacking trial took one more newsman, Graham Johnson who worked for The Sunday Mirror, who pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates Court to unlawful hacking.

 Staff at the Sun – corrupt on a grand scale ‘

THE MAIL was quick to point this out and run with an article saying that this was declared so in a court of law. At Kingston Crown Court it was revealed how the cops were paid for photographs and other information by Sun reporters.  Staff facing charges are Chris Pharo, John Edwards, Ben O’Driscoll, Jamie Pyatt and John Troup.  The Prosecutor alleges that they had a series of ‘corrupt agreements’ and that the reporters were not fussed about such things as legality in relation to what they were doing.  The trial is continuing.

SUN REPORTER IN COURT — ‘Budget details’ bought for £750.  Editor  Clodagh Hartley appeared before The Old Bailey accused of paying a Government Press Officer (Jonathan Hall) at the HMRC around £17,000 over a three year period for tips and info about the budget before it was presented to MP’s. 

POLICE CLAIM THEY WERE NOT AWARE – To cash payments by e-mail to THE SUN.  Scotland Yard top brass said they did not know payments were made to officers as they never saw or sanctioned any e-mails to SUN journalists.

‘News of The World Journalist jailed’

THE HACKING SCANDAL has taken another scalp in the name of  Ian Edmondson, an Executive at defunct News of the World tabloid.  He admitted to a conspiracy with colleagues to illegally accessing voicemails and was linked to 334 hacking cases.  The Old Bailey Judge sentenced him to Eight months in prison.

‘Do the Public support Injustice?’

THE SIMPLE ANSWER IS YES!  but they will not admit, and go to any lengths to deny and cover-up their real nature of selfishness and greed — which actually helps injustice flourish.  Do they care? not really, unless it happens to them of course……most play the ‘deaf card’ and pretend not to notice.  One has only to see the increasing amount of new ‘big gas guzzler cars’ on the roads that whizz by at around 80mph to get in front of the traffic, or in the middle class areas of villages and towns — you often see two to three cars plus, just one house or in the driveways.  These people have no idea what poverty is, and show no signs of caring about it either, and if they do…..its usually a ‘false or deceitful’ attempt to show off when the moment suits them. One woman in a Sussex Town (village) where Patrick Moore lived, said there were no poor in the area…but failed to see that the local Church had set up a food bank for those less well off, which of course she was not…she had a Muppet of a daughter in Uni, three cars and a motorcycle etc.  These people are usually seen putting up signs like ‘Private Property’ and act like Lords of the Manor — the real World to them is money and social class climbing.  A recent report highlighted that around 10,000 parents are convicted of having truant children.  The Ministry of Justice admitted to having recorded that 12,909 parents were prosecuted in England and Wales in just one year for failing to ensure their children were in school.  Only 20 were jailed and others fined because it was found they had the cash income to do so…. and one hears that some of these parents are quite willing to pay the fines…because it suits them!  

Statesman Edmund Burke said ‘ The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing ‘ and in the 2014 public arena in Britain and around the World people are doing just that…..many for gain, many for power….corruption among the public is rife and escalating to the position where nobody is doing anything about it, and neither do they care….the institutions lie regularly, cover-ups are frequent and dog eat dog is the order of the day….the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and change is slow to come, because many in society do not want change…they like wealth, they like posing, they like material things, and they will lie and deceive to get to those goals, even if it means sacrificing others in order to succeed in their selfishness… such is the blindness of this addiction.

‘What’s the Price of Justice? — £60 million’

Yes, £60 million will buy you freedom and a verdict that leaves no conviction……and Bernie Ecclestone the multi-millionaire proved to the World what a country’s judiciary will settle on.  As the newspapers said ‘The get out of jail free card’ can be obtained for a settlement of sixty million.  His bribery trial has now been halted and thrown out…. Germany has shown what it takes to avoid a trial, provided you are rich and you can afford the fee.   If he had been convicted there was a possibility of a ten year stretch, but that is now behind him, the Judiciary in Germany preferred the smell of cash, and knew that this defendant had enough to do the deal.

‘ Warped Justice or Gameplay by Government ‘

To trust this government would be like trusting a rattle snake, all the spin and then the chop…..it appears that Detectives brought in to investigate Lord Janner over the sexual abuse scandal involving boys at homes in Leicestershire during 1991 had their investigation pulled and stopped.  And they were prevented from arresting him or searching his home for evidence as Senior Legal Counsel considered it an appropriate course of action!

‘ Worthless Worthing ‘

Somebody recently commented on the appalling state of Worthing, its slow traffic, rundown economy and Hospital that when giving directions gets it completely wrong.  Apparently one could be in there for quite some time trying to locate a patient….because when you ask for certain wards people working there and within say thirty yards cannot quite remember where to tell you to find what you’re looking for.  Apart from that most of its roads coming in and out are jammed with aimless motorists obstructing those who know where they are going.  Incidentally, although it says 15 miles from Bognor, you could be nearly an hour before you actually arrive at the place….and if its Chichester your starting from allow up to eighty minutes….but then again, why bother going for the aggro….their parking restrictions clearly indicate they don’t want you there.

‘  What’s going on here? ‘

Having seen the programme STINSON HUNTER — a self confessed and self appointed Paedophile Hunter and former convict who committed arson who did drugs setting up sting operations to catch ‘dirty old men’, one cannot help thinking how unsuitable this individual is, and his bunch of cohorts.  Stinson claims to be an undercover journalist of his Warwickshire Website where he posts films of the guys that are enticed into his house.  Warwickshire Police do take his calls and evidence whilst at the same time remaining a distance from him pointing out that he is not funded by Government nor has he been accredited.  In fact one law specialist said he was unregulated and that made his little band a danger….and that was seen by the fact one guy snared named Mike went onto commit suicide leaving a daughter and wife.   Detective Constable Jonathan Taylor an ex-Met cop  threw in his bit saying without such people doing the legwork in this area, the police alone did not have the time or manpower to ‘arrest the bad guys’….. Stinson went to Prison for 10 years and he’s not afraid of going back if the police decide to nick him because he has no authority to pursue these people and put it on the Web.

‘The Secret Tribunals ‘

Yet more on secrecy in the UK — apparently Britain can suffer, or should that be the taxpayers?. having to pay out vast sums to US firms.  Britain can be ordered to payout according to the report under the controversial TRANSATLANTIC TRADE AND INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP trade deal being negotiated by the Americans and the EU.  Figures obtained by the United Nations showed that US companies have got billions of dollars by suing other governments in the last ten years under so named free-trade agreements.

‘ The Ashya Case and what it reveals ‘

THE SPEED AND EXPENSE was literally ignored as Hampshire authorities and police made the case into a worldwide farce.  The parents were seized and held in jail by the Spanish after Britain executed International warrants.  British Cops were sent to question and extradite the family and seize their son who was gravely ill with a rare cancer.  British doctors made threats to parent Brett King that he would not see his son for ten years and were warned not to question the treatment the boy was receiving.  Luckily they were released and all proceedings were dropped when the story went global and questions were asked about the way in which this matter was handled.  There is more to this than what they are claiming and the authorities have gone into silent mode and suppression has entered the ‘transparency’ that will no longer be there.

‘ Wealthy Crime bosses hold on to their stash ‘

A REPORT says that criminals especially in the wealthy status are avoiding losing their ill-gotten gains despite the claims by the Justice Minister saying they could get at hidden cash.  In company fraud The Serious Fraud Office admitted to just recovering a tenth of what is missing due to crime.  Some criminals just make it too complicated to track the money trail to completion.  Less than half of the money gone missing from criminal acts is recovered in most cases.  Excuses usually centre around time and resources which run out before they get to the money…..and of course those cut-backs one often hears about.

‘ Public interfere with History on Slavery in the UK ‘

THE PUBLIC not wishing to face up to the truth about History depicting slaves brought to Britain protested about a live Art Show depicting the atrocities of slavery….the black actors playing the slaves graphically portrayed the horrors that boys and men of Negro origin were subjected to.  What was utterly amazing was that just 200 protestors were able to have the show closed!

‘JUDGE SICKENED BY PUBLIC’S ATTITUDE — Some were filming a fight in which one man suffered ear damage.  He said that ‘Right-thinking’ people would have avoided the drunken brawl instead of gathering around to get a look, and many filmed the ‘bloody’ fight on their phone cameras.  The two ‘fighters’ were both jailed for 12 months at Birmingham City Crown Court, the wounded man suffered permanent disfigurement.  Sadly Judge there are a lot of ‘sick’ onlookers in Society…..the public are not what they pretend to be.

‘Laundered Money and Private Schools ‘

‘UNWITTINGLY’ a nice little turn of word not unlike ‘error’ used by lawyers and government to make corrupt situations more like ‘forgetful or couldn’t be helped’…… A report has suggested that schools have taken money in backing from wealthy foreign criminals without ever realising it?  The Muldova Police have said that Millfield School in Somerset received payments arising from an International Money-laundering group… revealed by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting project.  The police in Muldova say that Millfield is but one of a dozen UK businesses to receive payments from companies connected to the Money-Laundering operation, said to be one of the biggest in Europe.

‘ Youth Gang Culture Hides the face of no remorse ‘

Much of society’s youth dislike adverse publicity about their peer group, and like many groups before want to deny the levels that their culture has a nasty side that knows no moral barriers.  News of the rape crime by 11 youths which have one member aged 12 attacked a vulnerable woman of 43 in her home.  This happened in Anfield, Liverpool.  One girl and ten boys were arrested, one 19yr old. one 18yr old, one 16yr old, three 15yr olds, three 13yr olds and a 12yr old…. and one 15yr old girl.  Earlier this year five boys aged 13 to 19 were jailed for a gang related crime that ended with a chase through the streets and the death of a man in a launderette.  It was said in court that none of the accused showed any remorse for the crime or the victim.

‘Rich ‘tossers’ of Britain ‘

WHO ARE THEY?  Well, that’s easy to see because there are loads of them according to the ever-increasing rich list….. and they can be seen driving around at high speeds in their ‘bigger than necessary’ new cars.  They think nothing of economics, that is for the poor people, and economical motoring is not on their list of things to do.  They fill up their tanks no matter what the cost and zoom off having little regard for anyone else, often shoving poorer car owners off the road by driving at excessive speeds.  Another sign is driveways and up to three cars waiting to go in….or signs like ‘Private Property’ and ‘Keep Out’….these lot even dislike anyone seeing their wealth and tell people to move on….there’s so much more one could say about them, but they’re not worth it!

‘ Slavery in a World that remains in denial ‘

A REPORT SAYS THAT WORLD SLAVERY ROSE BY 20 PER CENT in one year to 36 MILLION.  The Campaign Group ‘Walk Free’ conducted a lengthy survey into current slavery around the world in its various forms, which at first glance cannot be seen in many cases.  They say that 36 million people are living as slaves across this globe we call Earth.  This calculates at 0.5 of the World’s population are in fact living in conditions of slavery, and that in one year alone the figure went up by a fifth.  The worst offenders have been named as India with around 14 million citizens living as slaves.  Mauritania was the highest percentage wise.  China came in at the third position with more than 3 million being treated as slaves, and then it was that all too expected Pakistan in 4th place…..Russia was in 5th place…….many such people are defined as being subjected to forced labour and that old favourite ‘Bondage’….. being owned! and treated like someone’s property.

‘ British Public sink to new low ‘

NOT THAT SURPRISING REALLY, this has been the trend for many years, and the majority do not care a toss!

‘Behaving like wild animals’ — Scenes of utter chaos were seen across the TV news as shoppers in search of ‘material goods’ committed assault to grab the bargains in what has been termed as ‘Black Friday’ (28/11/2014) a day of pre-Christmas sales throughout the UK.  Police were called to seven Tesco stores and Asda was seen as people climbed on top of each other, pushing and shoving, arguing and stooping to violence.  Some were injured as the public behaved badly…..which proves how far the public will go to get ‘material’ satisfaction.

‘The Public lie at least 10 times a week’ — A report reveals something we already know at this site, honesty is not one of the British requirements in life, research says the average Briton tells lies on ten occasions, and did it quite skilfully.  91 percent of those surveyed admitted to lying at some point in their lives.  Most people telling lies merely hoped that it didn’t hurt, and others thought it was a necessary thing as they didn’t wish to tell the truth without answering in a way that made them look dishonest.  Some said they had told lies to gain a position and better themselves.  Others thought it didn’t really matter so long as you weren’t found out.

‘More Child Abuse this time its The Scouts ‘

Actually, this has been a long time coming, because we picked up on this scene in the 1990’s and no-one was addressing it.  As The Scout Association finally acknowledged its dark secret, it was interesting to note that they were deliberately making it hard and difficult for victims to come forward and complain.  It has also been revealed that they have by the ‘backdoor method’ paid out compensation of £900.000 in just two years.   .which comes amid the Association admitting to a £500,000 compensation package being paid for abuse to youngsters over several years since 2002.  The news says there have been 36 civil lawsuits lodged against them relating to ‘historic’ cases.  The main trouble here is that they will brush many other cases and reports under the carpet, having gotten away with it, and dealt with it in their ‘lawyer way’ in private deals in order to secure secrecy.  The Boy Scout Association has long been a haunt of guys seeking boys in shorts especially the Cubs for many years, getting into the Association as leaders and taking them out on country pursuits…using discipline as a method to abuse boys leading to more sexual activity….. and many of them were never caught.  There is much more to this abuse, and you’re not going to be told about it.

‘Easy Jet embarrassed by staff and vile e-mail ‘

It should always be remembered that staff can be the problem, and for EASY JET that hit them squarely in the face and pocket.  Chris and Megan Dickson were in the process of suing for compensation over a cancelled flight when they received a vile e-mail from the Airline, which was actually sent to their solicitors!  A member of staff not named who had sent the e-mail saying the company declined the claim adding a few swear words. was according to the company ‘instantly dismissed’  The Airline apologised for the abusive reply and said they could not condone anyone representing the company in this way.

‘French Lawyers in attempted derailment of trial’

As with most lawyers all over the world, we find that Defence Lawyers are making attempts to derail or delay the trial of ten people who are accused of fleecing France’s wealthiest woman — the L’Oreal chief shareholder Liliane Bettencourt by ‘abusing her mental weakness’ — the lady being 92 years of age.  The plot thickens as we are told that Eric Woerth, Mr Sarkozy’s campaign treasurer and former budget minister is involved and accused of being in receipt of large campaign donations in cash from Liliane’s financial adviser, Patrice de Maistre who is on trial too.

‘ Road Haulage Association Menace ‘

THE RHA claim in propaganda that their ‘lorry drivers’ — aka members are ‘angels of the road’ and behave impeccably on the UK road networks… and this is tosh!   This union is no better than many of the ‘flawed’ unions who protect bad apples and go onto pretend they didn’t know.  Drivers of these huge vehicles are known to regularly intimidate car owners and either block them in a lane or actually force them off the road.  One incident comes to mind to show this as it really is — the area, the A12 out of North London….a lorry driver was hounding a car driver because that car had pulled out in front of him.  He sped after the driver going well over the limit and the car driver unaware of what was going to happen made no attempt to go faster and the lorry was in front….in fact the car slowed letting the lorry disappear into the distance….but the lorry driver had pulled into a lay-by and was waiting….and what happened next was both dangerous and stupid.  The lorry driver ‘armed’ with two handful’s of pebbles threw them at the passing car causing him to swerve and pull in on the grass.  The driver of the lorry calmly got back in his lorry and headed off to Chelmsford or Ipswich…putting up two fingers as he passed the pensioner in the car…..is this the true face of how haulage drivers behave?

‘Rail Company gets around 5,000 complaints every day ‘

Embarrassed, possibly, but not thrown, Southern trains let a passenger know how many complaints it receives and 5,000 a day certainly surprised the passenger.  They said most of these were tweets on the Internet and made an online admission which seemed to annoy angry commuters logging in.  Many complaints were aimed at the poor service, especially on Fridays.  The Rail Watchdog Passenger Focus, said Southern Trains were ranked as one of the worst train companies for customer satisfaction.

‘ Workers failed by European Court ‘

As people get more disillusioned by ‘Europe’ it comes as no surprise when the International Court rules that thousands of ex-Woolworth’s workers waiting for compensation are told that they have lost their battle and that they will get nothing because of a loophole saying that compensation was based on stores that employed fewer than 20 employees would miss out, and only the large stores would be eligible for compensation.