■ Rumours of financial trouble at the Victorian branch of the Socialist Left controlled LHMU, with reports that staff car allowances have been pulled on the orders of Brian Daley. This happened with no warning and is seen as particularly unfair by staff with cars under finance that they committed to because of the allowance. Mean Brian continues to drive a union owned vehicle like the high-living Shah of Persia he imagines himself to be;
■ A fantastic tale - albeit unconfirmed that the industrious Industry Minister, Theo Theophanous prevailed in Greek expatriate parliamentarian's ballot in a contest against the slithering socialist Jenny Mikakos. Which vote did he pull in order to shaft the slitherer? That of John Pandazopolous, the former minister who is in the same faction as Mikakos. Some think that's why he been reluctant to look her in the eye, more likely he's scared about being cast into stone from one of her death-glares. Could someone by her a mirror?
■ Tony Abbott from the NSW Liberal Right described the Victorian ALP as being a "cesspool of political intrigue". Very pot, kettle black methinks given the vicious attacks against his faction's candidate in Cook from the Liberal Left faction where it seems he was falsely accused of fabricating academic qualifications (he did have them after all), of inventing his business (it's a small but active firm), paying for stacks (no evidence) and being an ALP member until last week (he'd left when he said he'd left with the "evidence" against him appearing to be on very fresh ink indeed). Despite his comprehensive rebuttal, it does indeed seem that he's a goner, partly because the PM doesn't the cut of his jib. A lot of intrigue and lot of cesspool by the sounds of it. It appears he'll fall on his sword, perhaps ahead of the planned State Executive meeting on Monday.
A patriot who shall remain nameless recently wrote:
Things are crook in the federal seat of Cook. Members of the Cook conference of the NSW Liberal Party overwhelmingly selected Michael Towke to be their candidate for the Cronulla-Sutherland Shire seat of Cook in the upcoming federal elections.
Towke, who is a local, won the fourth and final ballot decisively -- 82 to 70. In the first ballot Towke secured 74 votes of the 152 votes available. His nearest rival received 28 votes with the favourite of the Prime Minister’s Office, Scott Morrison, being eliminated in the first ballot securing only eight votes. (OC: He's backed by some of the Right now apparently who regard him as a non-factional compromise)
Towke’s win resulted in retiring (read “he feared defeat at preselection”) member Bruce Baird, a left-winger and anti-Howard, from declaring “this result is a f_cking disgrace” and storming from the Sharks Leagues Club, the venue for the contest. Baird was joined in his rush from the club by left-aligned NSW Liberal President Geoff Selig screeching “I don’t want to talk about it”. (OC: While a great yarn, this is denied by the PLO supporting Brucey.)
Selig’s employer prints most of PBL’s magazines and had, without apparent regard to his conflict of interest, backed candidate David Coleman Director of Strategy, New Media for PBL. Selig had been at PBL boardroom lunches with local branch preselectors to encourage them to vote for Coleman. Coleman avoided elimination in the first ballot by only one vote but was eliminated in the second ballot.
In the weeks before and following nominations and since Towke’s preselection victory the full force of the left wing of the party who campaigned for blow-ins from outside the Shire have lodged a barrage of accusations against Towke through leaks to the daily media and with the corrupt left wing stacked NSW Secretariat to divert Towke from his preselection preparation and now to prevent his endorsement by the NSW State Executive.
Many local Towke supporters believe the push to disendorse him is also coming from the Prime Minister’s staff and believe with disgust that the left’s push would not be happening if Towke was not of Lebanese parent heritage. Towke’s supporters are demanding he be endorsed or nominations be reopened and a fresh preselection held and have stated that any other outcome will result in a meltdown of the party in NSW, with key local Liberal identities preparing to back a well-known independent candidate coming from a recent and successful sporting career.
Staff of the NSW Secretariat of the Liberal Party has been complaisant in the stacking of the Miranda Kingsway Branch of John Ajaka MLC. A covering note attached to many incomplete and dodgy Liberal membership applications clearly indicate corruption from within the Liberal Secretariat with the words “Spoke to V_ (a staffer). She said it was fine to accept the Members (twenty four proposed) from the Membership Forms and S_ (a staffer) will backdate them”.
A complaint of this activity was lodged with President Selig six weeks ago with no response to date. The NSW Secretariat is headed by Director Graham Jaeschke and Deputy Director Scott Briggs who are both left aligned. Indeed Scott Briggs has been reported widely in the Shire telling preselectors "anyone but Towke" for Cook! This is not the first complaint lodged with Director Jaeschke of stacking of the Miranda Kingsway Branch with new members from across the Georges River.
The majority of branch executives, preselectors and members of the left wing controlled Miranda Kingsway Branch and the Caringbah Branch now reside across the Georges River, outside the Cook electorate and they would not be eligible to vote at the federal election for the Liberal candidate standing for election in Cook. Things are indeed crook in Cook!
■ Eddie McGuire is being talked up as a candidate for public office apparently on 3AW. This seems very unlikely.
Sunday, 29 July 2007
BUCKET OF NUGGETS: Amusements for Sunday Readers
Monday, 23 July 2007
BAD BOSS BRIAN: Unionist Daley Implicated In Unlawful Union Staff Pay Docking Scheme
Patriots will recall the scandal involving Socialist Left union boss Brian Daley carefully checking the telephone records of his staff who have union paid mobile phones. He was found to have spent hours perusing the itemised bills of all of his officials to see who to spoke to whom and checked it against a "Master List" of telephone numbers of leading ALP identities, journalists, rival unionists, employers and others in his orbit. He would have no doubt got bonus marks in Stasi training.
It gets worse. A brave patriot operating behind enemy lines has smuggled this message through to the OC on the latest telephony developments at the troubled Left union:
andrew I hope you get this.... I can CONFIRM Brian Daley has been checking mobile phone bills..... new LHMU rule - employees can only spend $50 a month on work calls anything over officials MUST pay for!
ILLEGAL SCHEME
Demanding employees pay for work calls. He apparently proposes to dock the pay of any staff crossing the $50 threshold. That's rich. It's also unlawful.
Surely this kind of militant anti-employee activity couldn't happen in a union. Must be WorkChoice's fault, you can hear some saying.
You could only imagine the carnage if one of Daley's slaves had the temerity to call the Federal Government's Workplace Authority to demand justice.
RED FACES
The workers' flag is deepest red, but surely Brian Daley's face would be redder if his thuggish and improper employment practices were exposed to prosecution by the Howard government.
While they're investigating him, perhaps they could have a good look at the "social club", funded by compulsory levies from the staff payroll to partly pay for his election expenses and political activities.
Game on.
Monday, 18 June 2007
GUILTY: Socialist Caught With Fingers in Taxpayer Till
Socialist Left member Mat Hilakari has been caught out attempting to funnel funds from the taxpayer funded Monash Student Association to the Socialist Left dominated Liquor, Miscellaneous and Hospitality Union.
Hilakari is the Treasurer of the Student Association and his motive for this ugly irregularity appears to be a desperate attempt to support his brother, Luke Hilakari who is a junior ranking woodchuck at the Socialist Left union.
Many Monash students are shocked and worried that the person charged with maintaining the financial records and integrity of their organisation may have demonstrated a casual disgregard for regulatory requirements and probity.
Hilakari's funding proposal is ostensibly to fund a course teaching accounting software MYOB to "immigrants".
ON THE TAKE
Sources at Monash have pointed out that while the project is designed to appear "philanthropic", it is noted that the Monash Student Treasurer has declined to support this ostensibly charitable enterprise with his own funds
Similarly, some point to the proposal to fund a junket for protesters to Queensland to engage in some enthusiastic and rhythmic "Death to America" shrieking - which Hilakari rightly opposed - as demonstration of double standards and hypocrisy.
Hilakari opposes lefty schemes if they don't involve keeping money in his family of lefties, they say. He has attempted to cultivate a reputation for financial rigour and parsimony which his critics believe applies only to those outside his faction, a part of the Australian Labor Party well known for its involvement in tax avoidance (Dale Wilson), theft from the Commonwealth(Bill Albon), election rigging (Andrew Giles) and the operation of secret union slush funds for bribery and other improper purposes(Brian Daley).
"Hilakari is attempting to curry favour with the Socialist Left leadership of the LHMU. He's using student money to buy influence. He's using scarce student resources which are desperately needed by Monash students to try to buy himself a job at the union. There's one word for it: corruption," one Monash insider told the OC this morning.
Mr Hilakari was not immediately available for comment.
Game on.
Saturday, 26 May 2007
DAY OF SHAME: The Age's Smear Campaign Concludes With a 2600 Word Diatribe // Is This Really The Best They Can Do?
Today, with the assistance of three coffees and an insanely high threshold for reading The Age's crap, we review and carve up the 2600 word propaganda rant in The Age about Telmo Languiller. If this is the best they can do, if this is the culmination of months of work and many thousands of dollars of expenses and tens of thousands of dollars in journaliste salaries then it is clear that the Viva Telmo! campaign has little to worry about.
It is interesting that even in this hateful rant are some conceded truths about Telmo, that he's charming and smart and going places. The contrast with two Age deadbeats staring down the barrel of involuntary redundancies in FY 2007/8 could not be greater.
Here's their smear, with our own fair and balanced commentary added parenthetically and via the best caffeine induced little sub-heads we could devise:
¡VIVA TELMO!
Power and influence
Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard
The Aged
May 26, 2007
Revelations that MP Telmo Languiller gave character evidencefor three accused drug dealersas well as allegations of corruption from a convicted criminal and his mates) -have raised new questions (OC: questions from The Age) about his judgement.
A WORK OF FICTION
AS TELMO Languiller sat in the foyer of the Melbourne Magistrates Court in May 2001, he might have reflected on how far he had come. (OC: He might have? How far hed come cliché alert) Around him mingled junkies in loose suits, thick-necked detectives and lawyers. (OC: Really? Is this journalism or an RMIT creative writing award entry? Were Bachelard or McKenzie there? Seems unlikely) It was a far cry (OC: cliché red alert)from the Government benches of the lower house, where he had sat since Steve Bracks swept into power (OC: and one more cliché to round it out) two years earlier.
In the holding cells beneath the court sat Languiller's old friend Walter Foletti, who, a week earlier, had already confessed to police about dealing drugs for underworld boss Carl Williams. Locked up with Foletti was his nephew, Pauly, a long-time heroin addict and petty thief and drug dealer, a small fish in his uncle's enterprise.
Languiller and Walter Foletti had similar beginnings. They migrated as teenagers from Uruguay in the early '70s, part of a tide of South American immigrants. They were tough kids good with a soccer ball and flush with the possibilities of a new country.
A QUESTION OF CHARACTER
Now, not quite 30 years later, Foletti waited for an opportunity to plead for bail, a brief interlude before an inevitable jail sentence. Languiller, MLA, was about to swap the political soapbox for the witness stand to do a favour for an old mate and his nephew. (OC: Or to speak the truth about an old friend who'd lost his way, which seems the truth of it. Who do we judge harshly, the public official who would do this, knowing there could be perception management difficulties? Or the coward who stays locked up in their office unwilling to speak truthfully about the character of the person because it could look bad?)
Revelations this week that Languiller gave his character references after both men had already confessed to police, and after a police officer had advised the MP against testifying, (OC: Excuse me? I very much doubta serving police officer would ever advise a witness not to give evidence) raised new questions about the politician's judgement. (OC: Raised new questions, from again The Age. I again say who do we question the coward who dodged his obligation to speak the truth in court about his friend's character and life or the man of courage and honour and decency willing to speak up truthfully regardless of the political consequences? While Nick McKenzie might cut and run on his friends, it's comforting to know that Telmo Languiller does not. Viva Telmo!)
So too did the news that in 1994, while he was a staffer for then deputy prime minister Brian Howe, and a rising Labor star, he had given a reference for another drug leader, suspected Chilean cocaine courier Francisco Santiago Pozo.(OC: Yes, clearly an error of judgement here, working for Brian Howe. But again, he knew a person in trouble and spoke up for him. He wasn't even in Parliament. For God's sake it's thirteen years ago. This guilt by association game is going to quite literally obliterate the provision of character evidence for anyone, depriving the courts of important information on which they can make important decisions. There should be a law against it, to protect the integrity of this legal process.)
General character references from community leaders are almost always given before a person is sentenced. Rarely are they given at bail applications, especially ones inwhich police argue against the accused's desire to be released into the community. But for three accused drug traffickers, Languiller bucked that trend. (OC: Nonsense. It's up to the Magistrate and the Court Rules, not trends, what a total crock.)
THE SAD TRUTH ABOUT THE AGE's IMPACT (HIGH BORE, LOW CALIBRE)
Telmo Languiller is barely known outside his electorate of Derrimut, in Melbourne's struggling western suburbs. (OC: A big concession perhaps, that you could repeatedly slagged off in The Age and still be barely known. And Melbournes struggling western suburbs, clearly they don't spend much time in Yarraville cafes or have looked at a price chart for real estate in St Albans recently)
There he is known as an absentee landlord, a factional hard man and branch stacker who lives in bayside Middle Park while his constituents make do. (OC: And yet we wonder whether in his nearly twenty years in Parliament whether Socialist Leftista Peter Batchelor's residence in North Fitzroy and his absentee landlordism has ever been mentioned in The Age?)
THE ANSWER IS PRIMARIES
His rise to the position of Steve Bracks' parliamentary secretary tells two stories. One is of a man of great charm who escaped an oppressive regime and who has capitalised on his influence in his community to further his ambitions. (OC: Viva Telmo!) The second story is of the Labor Party, of how its internal processes have become so corrupted that, no matter how many times serious questions are raised about men like Languiller, they survive, and, in fact, are promoted.
(OC: Yes the internal ALP processes have become so corrupted, with incredibly small elites choosing candidates and such. Surely therefore The Age would support a primary system where Labor enrolled supporters could pick their own candidates. Of course, they dont. All they actually want is for the Socialist Left to be in control of the ALP, which is exactly why Nick McKenzie asked a light and sound technician whether he was concerned about Telmos move from the Left to the Right only to get a puzzled response!).
In 1974, Telmo Languiller, aged 17, joined the tide of South Americans escaping military regimes. Many came to Melbourne, settling in the poorer western suburbs or public housing in North Melbourne and Fitzroy. The Labor Party and the union movement provided a natural political base from which to organise the raising of funds for dissidents back home. Among the other young men who made their way from Maribyrnong's Midway migrant hostel to the local high schools, Languiller's leadership qualities stuck out almost immediately.
VIVA TELMO!
He was handsome, he talked smoothly, persuasively, and could engage seamlessly across generations. "People commented on how he attracted people, (and) that he would do great things," recalls one observer who knew Languiller from the Argentinian club at the time. (OC: Viva Telmo!)
During the late '70s and '80s, Languiller's left-wing credentials grew. He worked in the union movement and as an interpreter and advocate for Latin American workers. As a local leader of the Uruguyan communist party, he travelled back to South America to meet comrades and hand over funds, and he studied in the Soviet Union. (OC: OK, so no one is perfect. But equally no one is beyond redemption.)
In the early '90s, Languiller and Salvadore Nunis, an El Salvadorean, set out to unify and modernise Melbourne's different Latin American political hubs. At the tenant centre in Flemington's high rise commission flats, Labor's Spanish branch was born.
"We were asking everyone in the soccer grounds, wherever, to sign the forms," recalls Nunis. (OC: They signed their own forms? That must have made them very unusual in the Socialist Left at the time) People were poor, so fund-raisers were organised to cover memberships. Nunis acknowledges the potential for corruption, but he says it was a risk outweighed by ensuring a poor community, with limited education or English had a voice in a mainstream political party. (OC: Heaven forbid, hope no one told John Button about someone letting the poor people in.)
"Telmo was instrumental at that time," Nunis says.
RAT IN THE RANKS
But relations between the two soon soured (OC: A condition precedent in order to qualify as a source in any Age article on Telmo). Nunis began asking Languiller, then the branch secretary, questions about his use of donations. "Telmo didn't want to give any account about what is happening to the money. I said: 'This is not on. We have to be accountable. I won't cover for you.' "
They were small amounts, a few hundred dollars here and there, and there was never any proof of wrongdoing (OC: A consistent theme for The Age), but Nunis felt uncomfortable (OC: ie hadnt got a seat yet). In 1991, he resigned. Languiller, however, moved up, securing posts with federal Labor MP Lindsay Tanner and, later, deputy prime minister Brian Howe. As he did so, his stature in the local community grew, despite the questions about his methods.
THE MAN FROM UNCLE
The same year, Languiller made an important ally. This time it was a member of his own family. Nelson Tornesi arrived in Australia, on his own admission, to "perform a robbery".(OC: Charming) But, in his first week in Melbourne, Languiller talked him out of that at a meeting at bayside Chelsea, urging his impulsive and erratic uncle to "be a gentleman".(OC: And this crook is the bloke now used as a source for the Ages assertion of fact, quite amazing)
Tornesi was far from a model immigrant. He had poor English and was only barely literate in Spanish, with a grade six education. Byhis own admission, Tornesi had a couple of scrapes with the law for offences of violence. His passport said he was a "periodista", a journalist. But Tornesi had never penned an article in his life.(OC: Perhaps a spot on the Age Investigations Unit might be opening up soon)
SCUM
He had, however, worked at one time as a payroll guard for a Uruguayan government department, the Direccion General Del Catastro Nacional. This was enough to suggest he was a public servant. So he and Languiller set about creating a paper trail to support the lie. (OC: So Tornesi admits that he created a fraudulent paper trail to support his lies to deceive Australian immigration authorities. Thanks for playing Mr Tornesi, you have just become Australia's Biggest Loser and Immigration Cheat. There are plenty of flights leaving Tullamarine. Please take one voluntarily.)
To sell it, they turned to a then MP, Demetri Dollis. Dollis did not know Tornesi, but he knew Languiller, and was impressed with his support in the Latin American community. On June 12, 1992, he signed a letter Languiller presented to him that stated: "Mr Tornesi comes to this country with considerable experience as a public servant and as a journalist".
Dollis insists he would never knowingly have misled the Immigration Department, adding, "The information supplied to the office was (on) the basis of Telmo." (OC: Well no actually it was on the basis of what Tornesi was claiming was it not? We're all our brother's keeper but are we responsible for the claims made on the Immigration forms of our uncle's? I don't think so)
MUSCLE BOUND
Tornesi's use to his nephew was obvious: he was scary. Languiller and his uncle began freely advertising his past offences and his abilities with his fists around the non-English speakers in the Labor Party. Tornesi describes himself as Languiller's "hired muscle". He was a useful ally as Languiller carried on stacking branches and elbowing his way to power. (OC: Excuse me? This is Melbourne in the 1990s were talking about. Hired muscle to do what exactly? Stacking branches requires a clipboard, a car, some forms, some loot from crooked union bosses like Brian Daley and an ability to persuade folks to put up with crap from cardigan wearers when voting. Having stated that this self-described scary, muscleand criminal was useful for stacking, it might be useful to explain how. We have an active imagination and I cannot imagine how it would do anything other than undermine one's cause. So basically what we have in this paragraph is just the untested and patently illogical and stupid assertions of Tornesi that he was once in a Telmo Death Squad and has now turned honest. Crazy doesnt even go part way to describing all this.)
Languiller made other key allies, too. In 1996, he was one of three best men at Dr Andrew Theophanous' wedding (Kim Beazley was another), and in the 1999 he came to work for the federal politician.
They were tumultuous times. Languiller landed his job when the Theophanous brothers, Andrew and Theo, split from the Left faction of the party to form a new political grouping named the Labor Renewal Alliance. Andrew Theophanous' office became the headquarters of this new factional clique. Languiller was joined in the office by close Latin American confidants Jorge Ladowsky and Carlos Baldovino. With the trio came hundreds of Latin American party members. (OC: Viva Telmo!)
THEO CHANGING SIDES MAY HAVE UPSET THE AGE BUT IT CHANGED EVERYTHING
"They were there to do the numbers," says one source, a reference to the successful project to shift the traditionally left-wing Latin American members over to the Right. In the real political world, this massive factional shift helped provide the numbers for a swathe of underperforming MPs to be replaced at the 1999 pre-selection; Eddie Micallef, Tony Sheehan, Dollis, Tayfun Eren and others were ousted in a move that presaged Bracks' defeat of Jeff Kennett. (OC: Perhaps the only sensible assertion in this whole rant. Theo's jump to the right did indeed set the stage for Labor being electable in 1999, it certainly wouldn't have been had the Left retained control.)
In 1998, the National Crime Authority began covertly monitoring the Theophanous office. Operation Legume ultimately led to Andrew Theophanous' conviction in 2002 for corruption linked to his advocacy of immigration cases.
There were never any allegations by the NCA that Languiller was himself corrupt, although Languiller once told an (OC: unnamed) associate he was glad he emerged from the Theophanous office unscathed (perhaps a reference to the thousands of secretly taped telephone conversations never aired in court. Languiller now fails to mention his stint in that office in the brief biography on his parliamentarywebsite). (OC: Who could blame him for that? Bachelard doesn't tell many people about his role in a failed publication which left creditors shafted either and we don't hold that against him. As for Languiller's honesty, surely the fact that his every conversation was recorded by law enforcement and that only one person in that office was charged actually shows us pretty emphatically that contrary to The Age's spin that Telmo is an honest guy. It's clear that the words presented here to damn Languiller have scarcely been analysed for any logical failings but this is a pretty glaring one.)
When the NCA swooped on Dr Theophanous in May 1999, Languiller was busy working on his own tilt at State Parliament. Meanwhile, political opponents in the Latin American community were dealt with ruthlessly. Daniel Alavarez, a left-winger who admits to trying to out-branch stack Languiller, was paid a late-night visit. Last week, Alvarez told The Agehe stood by his 1999 comments to Channel Nine that Baldovino threatened him while Languiller looked on: "He accentuated the words that if he had to use a shotgun, 'I will use a bazooka, and if I have to use a bazooka, I will use missiles'." (OC: We suspect the Socialist Leftist Daniel Alavarez may have been watching the Untouchables film at the time because the invented Baldovino quote sounds very much like a muddled version of this famous line from the movie: You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way! A good line to be sure, even the botched version Alavarez made up in his so far unsuccessful effort to win the Booker Prize.) A short time later, Telmo Languiller was the new MP for Sunshine. (OC: Are they saying there's a link between Baldovino going all Elliot Ness and Telmo's preselection? Puh-lease)
In the history of the Victorian ALP, the professionalism of the Theophanous brothers in recruitingmembers and using them to further their own ambitions, is legendary. Languiller became, and remains, a key part of this operation, which props up the Right's long dominance of the party's structures. (OC: Ah, now we're getting to the business. This is what its all about. Does anyone seriously imagine that if Languiller was still on the Dark Side that The Age would be harassing him and inventing lies about him? Of course not. This is all just part of their cultural warrior latte sipping)
One close observer said, "If one of his political mentors had told him as a young man that the way ahead in Labor was to write 20-page policy documents, that is what he would have done". (OC: Viva Telmo!)
THE AGE IS INFAMOUS
But that did not happen. And in the Labor Party, plenty of party members meant Languiller, like his infamous (OC: ! Amazing to think this is a daily metropolitan newspaper really) western suburbscomrade George Seitz, wielded power. And it meant Theo Theophanous could influence Bracks, as he did after the 2006 election, to make Languiller a parliamentary secretary.(OC: On merit alone, few dispute that Languiller should actually be in the Cabinet, he is more able than several of its current members but factional balances held him back. That's the reality, a very stark contrast to The Ages literally quite invented version.)
The year 2001 had the hallmarks of a shocker for Languiller. (OC: Hey this work of fiction is leaping all over the shop chronologically, fail for the creative writing fiction students) In May, he stood up in court for the Folettis; but the media coverage was minimal, partly because the Folletis' co-accused, Carl Williams, was not yet the infamous name he later became. (OC: Hindsight is indeed perfect vision)
NICK MCKENZIE IS ALLEGEDLY A JOURNALIST
THEN, in August, Languiller's close friend Jorge Ladowsky was caught allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from taxpayer allowances given to politicians to pay for printing.
The scandal was uncovered when a staffer for Andrew Theophanous queried why a $10,000 invoice to a printing company whose listed address was Ladowsky's suburban home had been authorised. After initially claiming the allegations were the invention of his political opponents, Ladowsky released a statement blaming a serious gambling problem for his thefts. (OC: So its alleged stealing but unqualified thefts, these guys are just jokers really. If Ladowsky had thieved money would he not have been charged at the time? I have no way of knowing but this just doesn't add up)
Questions quickly flew around political circles (OC: ie the Socialist Left) as to whether the money Ladowsky had scammed had ended up paying for the sophisticated branch stacking operation run by Labor operatives in the western suburbs. Before Ladowsky could be charged by police, he left Australia, and the Australian Federal Police issued a warrant for his arrest. (OC: And we know from The Age that hes returned many times since totally contradicting the inference here that he left to avoid legal process. As we demonstrated, he's in the phone book. Australian Government agencies have his residential address. His own van has his unique name emblazoned across it on both sides. He's not been hiding out in New Zealand and its a joke to say he did.)
Yet when The Age knocked on the door of Ladowsky's new home in New Zealand (OC: having looked him up in the NZ White Pages) earlier this month, the small, balding South American revealed his continuing contact with Languiller. Neither man apparently realised the police investigation was still live and they were dismissive of the existence of an arrest warrant. (OC: Not dismissive, not aware of one, shocked if one existed and I think its pretty clear there wasn't one, certainly The Age has produced no proof of it)
One of the most important ways of raising money in Labor, with the patina of respectability, is through dodgy (OC:!) fund-raisers. And this week, for the first time, a business owner linked Languiller's office with one apparent scam (OC: Ah, no he didn't, he's condemned Nick McKenzie as a liar). The owner of the company Dove Sound and Lighting, Alfredo Cerda, told The Age he had been pressured by Languiller's supporters, including his electorate officer Cesar Piperno, to produce inflated invoices for Labor Party functions.
The invoice system would have enabled Languiller's supporters to deduct money from the fund-raising events for their own purposes while producing the false invoices to cover their tracks if their accounts were audited. (OC: "would have", a very high standard of proof operating here, LOL)
NICK MCKENZIE CAUGHT WITH HIS PANTS WELL AND TRULY DOWN
But hours before Cerda's claim hit the news stands, he received a number of calls from Languiller's supporters. A day later, a statutory declaration signed by Cerda was faxed to The Age from Languiller's office. In it, Cerda retracted his comments even though a tape-recorded interview backs the story.(OC: Tape recordings McKenzie has totally refused to hand over to an independent party for evaluation. Tape recordings which omit key parts of what Cerda is meant to have said. Tape transcripts while doctored and censored in places which reveal McKenzies factional agenda.)
Still, the ploy muddied the waters. (OC: Code for it showed McKenzie up to be a liar and spin-doctor) It is a standard approach. In 2004, an internal Labor investigation into branch stacking recommended charges against the MP based on evidence and statements painstakingly gathered, that he and his supporters had breached party rules. A subsequent report, from Languiller's own factional allies, shows how his associates later visited each of those who had signed statements, and convinced them to retract or alter them. (OC: Let's get this straight. It's OK for The Age and Socialist Left forces to visit people, put words in their mouth and encourage them to lie but it's not OK for those being lied about to visit the same people, explain how they've been manipulated and used and encourage them to given sworn testimony to the truth of events, on pain of perjury. McKenzie knows he's got a big problem here. A source on whom he constructed a whole yarn making claims of criminal conduct has gone totally wobbly on him and has accused McKenzie of acting dishonestly. It's not a ploy to muddy the waters, it's the harsh light of truth shone on the gnarled, twisted face of the grub)
DANGEROUS PSYCHOPATH CRUELLY MISTREATED ACCORDING TO THE AGE
But, when it comes to Languiller protecting his back, one incident stands out and it is mired in a bitter family falling out between the MP and his uncle, Nelson Tornesi. According to statements provided to Sunshine police by Languiller and his electorate officer Piperno, a rambling Tornesi visited the MP's suburban office in mid-2004 and threatened to ruin Languiller politically and kill him, after earlier making violent threats towards Languiller's associates. According to Languiller, Tornesi returned three months later and said: "I'm going to break your neck and head, I'm going to destroy Telmo politically." (OC: Can you just imagine for a second if this stalker had have carried on this way at Nick McKenzies workplace? Editor Jaspan would have demanded the Australian Armed Forces intervene. But because it's politician, he's just protecting his back, its sickening stuff this. It's just so wrong. The double standards at play here are quite breath-taking)
Tornesi also said he had been providing Languiller's Labor Party enemies with information. (OC: Clasic stalker behavior) Within weeks, Languiller and Piperno had applied for intervention orders against Tornesiand, in November, a court ordered Tornesi to stay 200 metres away from the men. In early 2005, Tornesi signed a statutory declaration declaring Languiller had sent money into his bank accounts to pay for dummy Labor members.
But, just as an official LaborParty branch stacking investigation began to gather steam, Languiller struck. On July 25, he complained to the inspector at Sunshine Police Station that the intervention order had been breached. Four days later, the MP and Piperno, reappeared at the police station with typed statements. The breach they asked police to act on had occurred a full two months earlier, on May 25, at the state Labor conference. There, Tornesi had stood in the foyer in front of hundreds of party delegates. He did not say anything to Languiller. (OC: He breached the order. Pure and simple. If hed shown up at The Age in similar circumstances, they would have thrown the book at him. Again, the double standard is amazing.)
But the police were obliged to act on the complaint, no mater how minor the breach. (OC: Thank you Judge McKenzie for your interpretation, he had been ordered by the court to stay 200 metres away from his victim. The crazed stalker obsessed with his prey ignored the order. He knew where his victim would be and went to that place anyway. What more do you want him to be doing? Waving a knife in Telmo's face?)
NICK MCKENZIE CONSORTS WITH AND CARRIES OUT THE DESIRES OF THE STALKER
The night before Tornesi was to give his evidence against his nephew at a party disputes tribunal, he was taken by police from his flat in Prahran to the Sunshine Police Station and interviewed. (Tornesi later pleaded guilty to the breach and was fined a few hundred dollars.) (OC: They omit to mention this psycho was also charged with threat to kill, the charges were withdrawn when Telmo felt sorry for his deranged uncle and expressed no objection to a plea bargain which had Tornesi convicted of breaching the stalking orders).
Curiously, at that very same state conference where the breach occurred, Languiller'ssupporters were handing out a scanned copy of the original intervention order to journalists inquiring about branch-stacking. The intention was to undermine the credibility of the branch stacking investigation.(OC: The intention was presumably to show just how much sh*t Telmo had been enduring from his factional foes, how could it undermine the credibility of the branch stacking investigation?)
When The Age first started asking questions about Languiller, his very first response included copies of the intervention orders and the suggestion that they "illustrate and confirm the nature of this man (Tornesi) and his intentions". (OC: Ah, yeah that's exactly what one would do when ones stalker is using third parties to carry out his stalking for him. You'd like to think it would discourage most reasonable people from acting on his informationand carrying out his wishes. Although at The Age, obviously standards dont preclude using dangerous criminals to get the job done)
In the end, the branch stacking investigation petered out for factional reasons (OC: ie lack of any evidence substantiating the bogus claims) and party charges were never pursued. Less than six months later, Languiller was appointed by Steve Bracks as his parliamentary secretary. (OC: Viva Telmo!)
Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard are investigative reporters.
(OC: Nick McKenzie and Michael Bachelard are latte sipping leftists who are carrying out a factional agenda within the ALP, they support the Left. In the Liberal party they support Petro. They love and probably vote for the Greens. They are not interested in reporting anything unless it supports their argument, they repeatedly refused to entertain a right of reply to their various victims in their lamentable crusade this week. They have stitched up tall yarns and stretched tales with embittered relatives, convicted criminals, dangeous loons, anonymous sources and a bad attitude. The impact has been nil, not because of the ALP is a vortex of wrongdoing but because they've all seen this before. The Age did it to Hong Lim (thank you Tim Holding). They've bucketed patriot Sang Nguyen. Excoriated George Seitz. Tried to lynch Theo Theophanous. Today it's Telmo. It could be anyone in the Labor Right or mainstream Liberals next. It could be you. And thats why its so important to stand up when you know the Age is printing obviously partisan, obviously unsubstantiated, obviously agenda-drive claims. Theres always a price to be paid from confronting bullies, but the price of inaction is always higher.)
Game on.
Tuesday, 1 May 2007
NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET: Daley's Departure Greatly Exaggerated Left Sources Claim
LHMU powerdrill Brian Daley is battling a mystery illness that has seen him take many weeks off from work recently. The powerful Socialist Left overlord is denying office scuttlebutt that he is planning to retire or take six months off as we reported last week. He is bravely in the office (back checking everyone's mobile phone bills no doubt} this week much to the shock of plotting peasants who'd hoped to see the last of their malevolent king.
"He'll be leaving Capel Street in a bodybag or not at all" one pessimist told the OC this morning leaving patriots to wonder what Mehdi Breis' next move might be.
Game on.
Friday, 27 April 2007
SEE YA: Brian Daley Slithering Off Into the Sunset?
Left-wing sources tell the OC that powerful Socialist Left boss Brian Daley of the LHMU is contemplating leaving that union.
He has reputedly taken six months leave and there is much talk about the office about whether he'll return.
The Stasi style atmosphere he has cultivated there has caused many staff great concerns. His antics include reviewing - in detail - the mobile phone bills of his crew to identify disloyalty, friendship groups and alliances.
He will not be missed.
Game on.
Thursday, 22 February 2007
STASI: The Life of Brian
Which prominent leftist union official has been known to carefully review staff mobile phone bills to see which ones may be calling and texting each other in the wee hours and weekends?
The official is also believed to cross-check the bills with a list of mobile phone numbers of certain political activists.
A terrified member of the OC Investigations Unit operating deep under cover behind enemy lines has seen this list and patriots will be pleased to know that the OC's mobile number (0415 99 33 26) is on the Enemies List. As are various Labor moderates and Socialist Left rivals who the union boss suspects might be receiving leaks from within his East-German modelled union.
Yes you guessed it, the inquisitive leftist is none other than Kim Carr ally Brian Daley, secretary-bumbler of the Socialist Left union the LHMU. He's been using his sneaky method as a device to check for adulterous and treacherous behaviour among the comrades for some time.
Before driving back to his million dollar sprawling Richmond estate, he apparently likes nothing better than to salivate over the bills of his left-tenants or is that loot-tenants, circling "calls of suspicion" or "sms's of shame" in red marker.
Game on.
Tuesday, 20 February 2007
CHATFUN: Meebo Dialogues With Patriots And Others
I've been really enjoying some of the Meebo dialogues and tips that have come in. Many are confidential but here's some from today that amused. I'll put them up on occasion if they shed light on the enemies of freedom or may be of general interest.
[23:24] meeboguest352398: Hey Andy, heard this one?
[23:24] meeboguest352398: Q:What's Ralph Fiennes definition of safe sex?
[23:25] andrewlanderyou: what?
[23:25] meeboguest352398: A: Locking the toilet door.
[23:25] andrewlanderyou: could also apply to Stephen Mayne...
[20:33] meeboguest388637: How ya doin' you fat, bankrupt, gutter-dwelling piece of shi*?
[20:33] andrewlanderyou: very well thanks
[20:34] meeboguest388637: How was work today? Oh, sorry. I forgot that you don't work.
[20:34] andrewlanderyou: I don't?
[20:35] meeboguest388637: Cramming a blogspot blog full of internet adverts and chucking in a bit of fantasy content doesn't count.
[20:35] andrewlanderyou: fantasy you say?
[20:36] andrewlanderyou: I'd certainly concede the site is fantastic
[20:36] meeboguest388637: Am I talking to one of those "intelligent" computer programs that keep chucking questions back at me based on the words I type in?
[20:36] andrewlanderyou: what makes you feel that way?
[20:37] meeboguest388637: It's like I'm playing "Space Quest" again. >>Walk forward. >>Get gun. >>Get ammo. >>Talk person.
[20:37] andrewlanderyou: Aim carefully
[20:37] meeboguest388637: Better let you get back to it. Whatever "it" is.
[20:38] andrewlanderyou: will do
[20:38] andrewlanderyou: have a nice day
[20:38] Meebo Message: meeboguest388637 has left your page
[17:30] meeboguest286073: great post about the left andrew
[15:55] meeboguest847492: what's your view about Ashley Gardiner's haircut?
[14:40] meeboguest444440: andrew, are you able to help...just doing some research and need to know who are Tim Holding's friends...can you help?
[14:41] andrewlanderyou: yes, some might say that a research project on Tim Holding's friends could be very short I'm kidding of course, what do you need to know?
[14:44] meeboguest779497: who on the left is in the Labor Alliance?
[14:45] meeboguest779497: Why is Tim known as The Networker? Apart from the obvious
[14:47] andrewlanderyou: Labor Alliance no longer includes Tim and the NUW of course
[14:47] andrewlanderyou: the only people left in it are basically the remnants of the Pledge Left (OC: And Eric Dearicott of course)
[14:47] meeboguest779497: aha...
[14:47] andrewlanderyou: people associated with the Vehicle Builders Union
[14:48] andrewlanderyou: like Ian Jones, his wife newly elected MP Gayle Tierney
[14:48] meeboguest779497: so it's back to unity?
[14:48] andrewlanderyou: no they're not
[14:48] andrewlanderyou: still seem to be voting with the Left
[14:48] andrewlanderyou: for now anyway
[14:48] andrewlanderyou: Tim is known as a Networker because he was a member of this thing called Young Labor Network
[14:49] meeboguest779497: a sub faction of Unity?
[14:49] andrewlanderyou: it was yes, actually no, it was meant to be all of young people in Labor Unity or Labor Unity in Young Labor if you know what I mean
[14:49] meeboguest779497: aha
[14:50] andrewlanderyou: then a fellow called David Feeney started this thing called Centre Forum which kind of competed with Network and supplanted it
[14:50] meeboguest779497: I thought Feeney and Tim were mates?
[14:51] andrewlanderyou: not particularly close, at least not then, now I think not unfriendly, in the manner of old warriors
[14:51] meeboguest779497: is it or was it ever the case that to be a Labor party branch office bearer one needs to have 3 years experience in a communtiy committee?
[14:52] andrewlanderyou: not that I'm aware of, what sort of community committee?
[14:52] meeboguest779497: any
[14:52] andrewlanderyou: in some parts of the ALP, it might be seen as a disqualification to have outside interests
[14:52] meeboguest779497: really?
[14:53] andrewlanderyou: (kidding again, although behind many jokes is an essential truth)
[14:53] meeboguest779497: I thought it was something that Labor encouraged?
[14:53] andrewlanderyou: to answer your original question, basically Tim Holding is a member of the NUW aligned faction (not sure it has a name as such) which was part of the RIght then split and voted with the SOcialist Left but last year voted with the Right and will probably stay doing that
[14:53] meeboguest779497: and who is the head of that?
[14:53] andrewlanderyou: it's head is debatable Charlie Donnelly is the head of the union so that probably means it's him but Tim is its most senior Parliamentarian
[14:54] meeboguest779497: really?
[14:55] andrewlanderyou: I doubt they have a formally elected leader
[14:55] andrewlanderyou: yeah he is, not in years but in clout
[14:55] meeboguest779497: and Brumby? different union?
[14:55] andrewlanderyou: Brumby isn't really from a union
[14:55] meeboguest779497: no?
[14:55] andrewlanderyou: is generally supported by the Right
[14:55] meeboguest779497: OK...
[14:55] andrewlanderyou: no it's not a requirement
[14:56] meeboguest779497: thank you very much for the tid bits
[14:56] meeboguest779497: so where does Ferguson sit?
[14:56] andrewlanderyou: Ferguson is in his own group
[14:56] andrewlanderyou: which is called the Ferguson Left
[14:56] meeboguest779497: really?
[14:56] meeboguest779497: does not really sound very left
[14:56] andrewlanderyou: which basically depends on the votes of timber workers part of the CFMEU
[14:56] meeboguest779497: aha
[14:56] andrewlanderyou: no, he's my kind of lefty
[14:56] meeboguest779497: you a lefty?
[14:56] andrewlanderyou: loves uranium mining, cutting down trees, etc, a real patriot
[14:57] andrewlanderyou: some would say I'm not much of a lefty
[14:57] meeboguest779497: so tell me why does Evan Thornley get you bristling?
[14:57] andrewlanderyou: 1) he's a complete fraud
[14:57] meeboguest779497: though not very charistmatic at all
[14:57] andrewlanderyou: True, 2) he's a pompous windbag and 3) he's defrauded a number of friends of mine but butter wouldn't melt in his mouth, quite horrible
[14:58] meeboguest779497: yes...I can see that
[14:58] meeboguest779497: is he wealthy or is he broke?
[14:58] andrewlanderyou: I understand Evan is very wealthy from selling shares in a company called Looksmart which ironically never made much money itself
[14:58] meeboguest779497: some say $50 Mill
[14:58] meeboguest779497: so he is not in a union?
[14:58] andrewlanderyou: not and indeed banned them from Looksmart
[14:58] meeboguest779497: really?
[14:59] andrewlanderyou: yes, referenced in their annual reports, he's a shocker that bloke, possibly the greatest crook elected to public office in Victoria since Thomas Bent the Victorian Premier who used to shift railway plans to include his own land
[15:00] meeboguest779497: yes I know of Bent ( by name and nature)
[15:00] meeboguest779497: Is he intellectually able?
[15:01] andrewlanderyou: I think at one level he is
[15:01] meeboguest779497: yes?
[15:01] andrewlanderyou: at another level he is a fraud with that too, he reads and quotes but does not understand. A dumber version of Barry Jones.
[15:01] meeboguest779497: is he going to rise to the top?
[15:02] andrewlanderyou: doubt it
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[15:03] meeboguest779497: yep...so factional shifts are no longer seen as ratting? Now it's noble to go with the strength?
[15:04] andrewlanderyou: no, I think it's not generally regarded that favourably but depends
[15:04] meeboguest779497: How does Carr keep his power in the left?
[15:04] andrewlanderyou: persistence, he wields his numbers recording clipboard like a broadsword
[15:04] meeboguest779497: and assassinations? metaphorically speaking of course
[15:05] andrewlanderyou: lol, not that I'm aware of, he enjoys the support of most of their union base which includes dumb-fu*k union secretaries like Brian Daley of the LHMU who are easily played
[15:05] andrewlanderyou: but is largely disrespected by the smarter people like Tanner, Griffin and many of the state MPs, they often seem to plan each other's demise but it basically goes no where
[15:06] meeboguest779497: so what is your view of Emily's list...does it get females elected to parl or not?
[15:06] andrewlanderyou: not much and no, Emily's list makes sense in the US, early money is like yeast I suppose in a primaries system
[15:07] meeboguest779497: aha...
[15:07] andrewlanderyou: in ALP preselections money is not a big issue, it doesn't cost much to communicate with those voting in a plebiscite, so many think that emily's list is basically there as a cheer squad set up by Joan Kirner for Socialist Left women MPs
[15:08] meeboguest779497: Well, that's the case... very interesting chatting Andrew...Anthony Byrne...is he independent? If so how did he keep his pre-selection
[15:08] andrewlanderyou: Anthony is in the Right
[15:08] andrewlanderyou: very highly regarded chap
[15:09] meeboguest779497: Right? Nice guy
[15:09] andrewlanderyou: yes I hear he is
[15:09] meeboguest779497: Alan Griffin is Unity?
[15:09] andrewlanderyou: nope
[15:09] meeboguest779497: left?
[15:09] andrewlanderyou: he's in the Socialist Left
[15:09] meeboguest779497: are Byrne and Holding mates then?
[15:09] andrewlanderyou: he and a fellow called Gavin Jennings are probably the most prominent anti Kim Carr people
[15:10] meeboguest779497: Gavin is smart?
[15:10] andrewlanderyou: Byrne and Holding not factional mates no, but may well be friendly at a personal level, not too sure, yes Gavin is seen as very, very sneaky
[15:10] meeboguest779497: but in the same faction?
[15:10] andrewlanderyou: perhaps the most prized trait in factional games
[15:10] meeboguest779497: sneaky? really?
[15:10] andrewlanderyou: same faction as Carr yes
[15:11] meeboguest779497: aha..
[15:11] andrewlanderyou: that is an unrealised truth of factional life I suppose: your real competitors come from within your own faction
[15:11] andrewlanderyou: Gavin is seen as very sneaky yes, or at least is labelled that way by his foes
[15:12] meeboguest779497: so you obviously have excellent contacts on the other side as well...or is it that they just leak?
[15:12] andrewlanderyou: lots of leaks, drips and occasional gushing taps in all corners
[15:12] meeboguest779497: yes, that's clear
[15:12] andrewlanderyou: on both sides of politics too
[15:13] meeboguest779497: really?
[15:13] andrewlanderyou: unlike most journalistes, I suppose what you see is what you get, I don't pretend to be a neutral, impartial oracle of righteousness.
[15:13] andrewlanderyou: yes we've had some good Liberal stories of late
[15:13] meeboguest779497: are you a journo by profession?
[15:13] andrewlanderyou: they're ripping strips off each other
[15:13] meeboguest779497: yes...read those
[15:13] andrewlanderyou: am now yes
[15:13] andrewlanderyou: although some at The Age would dispute that definition
[15:14] meeboguest779497: well jealousy I suppose!
[15:14] andrewlanderyou: yes they hate it when I break the stories they should be getting
[15:14] meeboguest779497: I bet
[15:14] andrewlanderyou: no one trusts The Age really, even chunks of the SL hate them
[15:14] meeboguest779497: a lot of it seems to be coming from the East...or is that just the perception?
[15:14] andrewlanderyou: the Eastern suburbs?
[15:15] andrewlanderyou: we have ALP stories out of the west on occasion and northern burbs too I spose, the Libs barely have a pulse in the west, except for Bernie Finn
[15:15] meeboguest779497: so Bruce Atkinson...and Dalla-Riva ...are they behind it or is it their supporters?
[15:16] meeboguest779497: Yes, Bernie has been know to let the odd cat out of the bag, no doubt
[15:16] andrewlanderyou: no one seems to know definitively (who leaked)
[15:16] meeboguest779497: no of course not
[15:16] andrewlanderyou: the Olexander theory made some sense but who knows
[15:16] meeboguest779497: the experts are resident at 104 exhibition street and 101 collins street
[15:17] andrewlanderyou: some thought it was done by Bruce himself but I don't really buy that
[15:17] meeboguest779497: Ollie...do you thnk that they will give him a payout?
[15:17] andrewlanderyou: if anyone will miss out it will be him but it depends on the doctors I think
[15:17] andrewlanderyou: the theory that the Kroger ppl did it? why would they? I thought they liked Bruce or at the very least adopted him to smite Dalla-Riva
[15:19] meeboguest779497: true...now the comment was one general one that the intitaive begins from 101 and 104 and then there is retaliation... so on it goes
[15:19] meeboguest779497: explain your adoration of Panopolous, Andrew... are you serious? or s it tongue in cheek
[15:20] andrewlanderyou: some might consider a little bit facetious I couldn't possibly comment
[15:20] meeboguest779497: can you make it more obvious, please...
[15:21] andrewlanderyou: are you suggesting Sophie does not deserve the praise of a loving community ?
[15:21] meeboguest779497: here you go again
[15:21] meeboguest779497: are you infatuated?
[15:21] andrewlanderyou: I'm not sure what you mean
[15:21] andrewlanderyou: infatuated?
[15:22] meeboguest779497: with Sophie?
[15:22] andrewlanderyou: defined as: to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love?
[15:22] meeboguest779497: are you ex Melbourne Universiyt ?
[15:22] andrewlanderyou: yes
[15:22] meeboguest779497: just trying to understand...
[15:23] meeboguest779497: are you of the same vintage?
[15:23] andrewlanderyou: she's a bit older than me (while being ageless)
[15:23] andrewlanderyou: but yes our paths did cross
[15:23] andrewlanderyou: at the House of Pain (Union House)
[15:23] meeboguest779497: who was screaming? You or Sophie?
[15:23] meeboguest779497: you didn't XXXX her did you...no that is personal ...ignore that question!
[15:23] andrewlanderyou: even then she was much adored
[15:24] andrewlanderyou: Me? No, I did but see her passing by and yet I love her til I die
[15:24] meeboguest779497: Browning?
[15:24] andrewlanderyou: very good
[15:24] meeboguest779497: To her Coy Mistress
[15:25] andrewlanderyou: was it? OK
[15:26] andrewlanderyou: you have a good memory
[15:26] andrewlanderyou: was famously quoted by Sir Robert Menzies about the Queen
[15:26] meeboguest779497: of course, he was an English teacher, me thinks
[15:27] andrewlanderyou: barrister I thought but mainly a career politician
[15:27] andrewlanderyou: I hope that all helps your research
[15:27] meeboguest779497: nice chatting...yes some bits clarified...
[15:27] meeboguest779497: yes...thanks much...catch you next time
[15:27] andrewlanderyou: yeah any time
Game on.
Monday, 11 September 2006
MONDAY MADNESS MIDDAY: Khalil Eideh Accused
Khalil Eideh is the great hope of the Socialist Left faction of the Australian Labor Party in Victoria.
He is a multi-millionaire who presides over the tight-knit Alawite community in Melbourne, numbering at least five thousand. Using his money and his ethnic group, Socialist Left leaders like Senator Kim Carr and unionist Brian Daley plan that Eideh will unleash a wave of ALP membership recruiting in the north and western suburbs to restore the fortunes of their ailing extremist group.
So valued is the man by the Left that despite having no profile in politics at all, he emerged as Labor's candidate in an unlosable safe seat of Western Metropolitan, despite a number of Left incumbents missing out on positions.
We have previously exposed his outrageous statements of support for terrorists calling them "martyrs" and denouncing America and Israel as being "Satan's brigades. Using the high-priced CPR Communications, he has been able to spin these remarks as "misquotes" and defend his passing of information to the President of Syria on the basis that "everyone was doing it."
100 PROOF SECRETS SPILLED
Today for the first time we closely examine Khalil Eideh's business and political dealings within the ALP and present the results of our investigation. Whistleblowers within Eideh's empire have spoken out to reveal the inner-most secret workings of Eideh's corrupt empire and offer disturbing insights into his criminal activities, defrauding of business partners, influence peddling including on behalf of the Syrian government, racism and a string of previously unknown lucrative property deals that dwarf his increasingly pressured trucking business.
He rattles around in a grotesque mansion in Roxburgh Park which cost $960,000 in construction costs to Grollo alone, so stretched were his resources at one stage that he delayed the final payment to them for months. As we review the charges facing Khalil Eideh, you will learn how he made millions to pull himself out of that financial hole and went on to buy himself a safe seat in Parliament from the militant Socialist Left faction of the Australian Labor Party.
CHARGE 1: False Accounting
The OC has learned that Khalil EIdeh ordered the preparation of a false document and then signed it for the purpose of assisting a business associate obtain finance.
The document stated the business associate was being paid a certain amount of money in salary when he was in fact not on the payroll at all.
This document alone would be sufficient to attract criminal charges for Eideh with a potential penalty of a maximum of ten years imprisonment.
Regular readers will recall that Khalil Eideh has "form" for signing false documents of this kind, including ALP membership forms.
CHARGE 2: Cheating Business Partners
The OC has also discovered that Khalil Eideh is not just a supporter of ruthless tyrants in politics, he acts similarly in business situations. Our investigations have discovered that while giving off a quiet, humble demeanour, Eideh is in fact a tantrum-throwing bully who is willing to cheat business partners.
In one astonishing deal from which Eideh grossed $28 million over the sale and leaseback of a logistics centre on Stanley Drive and Hume Highway in Somerton, he appears to have "ripped off" a close business adviser and service provider to the project to the tune of half a million dollars.
The OC understands that Eideh is very soon to face highly public and embarrassing litigation over the fraud in the lead-up to the state election, which threatens to draw Khalil Eideh's crooked business activities to light at the worst possible time for the Bracks Government.
Not only does this represent trouble for Khalil's poltical career, publicity about Eideh's dishonesty could represent a fatal blow to Blue Star Logistics at a time when the trucking industry is facing considerable pressure. Some of Eideh's large clients like German company Henkel prize their reputation and insist on the highest standards of probity from service providers. The OC understands that Eideh will be found to not match those exacting standards should a trial occur in full public view.
CHARGE 3: Sweetheart Government Decisions Made Khalil's Syrian Group Millions
Khalil Eideh runs a pro-Syrian government group called the Islamic Allawi Association. He has a grand plan for building a multi-million development comprising a school, religious facilities and even a funeral home which would be the crowning glory of his rule over the Syrian expatriate community in Melbourne.
According to community whistleblowers, Eideh identified a site in Greenvale which was a horse stud of around 16 acres. The trouble was it was within the "Green Wedge," a protected planning zone which precluded the intensive development Eideh had in mind.
Even prior to the purchase of the land, Eideh involved state Member of Parliament Liz Beattie in the issue of the zoning of the land. The OC has learned that Liz Beattie accompanied Khalil Eideh on a site visit with a real estate agent and told Eideh that she "could fix" any problems they had with the zoning of the land.
Her representations to the then Minister, Mary Delahunty led to the land being taken out of the Green Wedge changing its value from what Eideh paid ($1.2 million) to between $5 and 6 million. It was an extraordinary decision, motivated by what Eideh could offer Liz Beattie's Socialist Left faction.
Around the same time Eideh was not known to be a strong financial supporter of Liz Beattie's political activities, with some speculating that payments were made to a Socialist Left slush fund of $20,000. The OC has been unable to directly verify this speculation but it is widespread in north-western suburbs Labor circles and is believed to have been allocated to funding the membership subscriptions of elderly Greek ALP members in the Calwell electorate.
But whether corrupt payments were made or not, the simple fact is that due to the political influence of Khalil Eideh, a secret multi-million dollar gift has been made to a pro-Syrian government group operating in Melbourne by the Bracks Government. No development has yet occurred on the land and it is a massive unencumbered asset sitting on the books of a group that conducts celebrations lorded over by the Syrian Ambassador with twelve foot high posters of the Syrian president, and as we will see uses its influence to help the Syrian government get what it wants from Australia.
CHARGE 4: Cashing In From Labor Mates
Eideh's first significant property deal involved a logistics centre in Wetherill Park Sydney. The profits from this deal were used to bail out his trucking business BlueStar from what we understand to have been considerable cashflow difficulties.
The deal involved Eideh building a large warehouse and depot and agreeing to a long term lease of the premises. The OC has learned that this warehouse was sold for a whopping $5 million profit to the Industry Superannuation Property Trust (ISPT) which at the time was controlled by Arthur Apted, a former ACTU official.
The OC does not suggest any impropriety in this deal as we have been unable to independently value the property and ascertain whether it has been a good deal for the union members and workers who helped make Eideh a rich man.
But it does give a solid example of Eideh growing rich from his associations in Labor politics.
CHARGE 5: Bigot and Bigamist
The OC understands from those very close to Eideh that he has a strong personal animosity towards the Jewish people and Americans.
Blue Star insiders have revealed that he frequently says in private to business colleagues and employees what the OC has exposed him saying in public - and worse.
This exposure led him to sign a letter where he says he now supports the banning of Hezbollah (PDF). As a community service, we intend to arrange the translation of this letter into Arabic. Although with rumours that there are even more statements made in Arabic by Eideh and his association that express contradictory views, observers will be left pondering whether he was lying then or now.
He has also boasted to those same colleagues of the fact that he has two wives. He outrageously justifies this arrangement by saying that one wife is unable to have children so he found it necessary to select another so that he could have children and heirs to his fortune. An approach to feminism that we would love to see explained at the next televised meeting of the Socialist Left faction.
CHARGE 6: Aiding and Abetting Syrian Terrorist Regime
The above photographs obtained by the OC show a visiting Syrian government delegation (including a reported agent of feared Syrian Intelligence) being given a guided tour of the Victorian Government's VicRoads Traffic Management Control Centre which is the nerve centre for the management of every major road in the state.
The OC has learned that Khalil Eideh was able to engineer the high-level Syrian government visit to Victoria and ensured high-level bureaucratic access for the group (including tours of secure facilities) through his connections with Parliamentary Secretary for Infrastructure Socialist Left cadre Carlo Carli. Scandalously, we understand that Carli gave instructions that the Syrian flag would be flown over the VicRoads headquarters on the day of their visit.
Did the Parliamentary Secretary consider that Syria has been found to be guilty of sponsoring terrorist attacks on Western countries when he authorised access by government officials to such secure facilities?
Did Carlo Carli consider the fact that Melbourne has been repeatedly nominated directly by Al-Qaeda, the Victoria Police and independent experts as a likely terrorist target?
Khalil Eideh is not even in Parliament yet and he is able to open up secure facilities to visiting goons from the Syrian terrorist sponsoring regime. Five years on from September 11th, have we learned nothing?
If the Bracks government continues to be so blindly drunk on power that it will not sober up and disendorse Khalil it will be Victorians that suffer a long and dreadful hangover.
Game on.
Monday, 28 August 2006
CHEERS: Champagne Socialist Looks Good But Is He The Real Deal?
The ACTU Secretary Greg Combet may well have announced his intention to run in Scullin if Lord Harold of Jenkins quickly pulls the pin when the next federal election is called. He appeared in an incredibly favourable Australian Story on the ABC this evening.
Many people believe that Combet's main backer Martin Ferguson strong-armed Harry "Lord" Jenkins to stay on another term through the preselections to "keep the seat warm" for Combet. Some suspicious insiders believe that Jenkins could bow out just prior to the federal poll or at a by-election quite early in the next Parliament.
MARTIN'S RIGHT TO DECIDE
Mar'n has a proprietorial view of the Labor Party and believes it is his regal duty to allocate seats to those within the ACTU hierarchy who please him. That sounds harsh doesn't it, and in fact Ferguson has been a force for good both in resources policy and generally in fighting the Kim Carr Socialist Left so any hostility in tone is not really intended. But the sense of ownership he conveys to others in the Victorian Branch causes many to be angry at Mar'n. With little numerical support, the Ferguson Left is given more gifts from the faction system they decry than Sleazy Sol Lew gets when arriving at one of his favourite Las Vegas cathouses.
The ABC's website has an excellent extended coverage of the show which gives a much less edited former Patricks CEO Chris Corrigan explaining the total scandal on the waterfront prior to the MUA dispute. Listening to Corrigan unedited itself is very worthwhile and a perspective one would not normally get on the ABC.
Plenty of interesting nuggets in the show itself not least of which is Combet's heritage as quite literally a Champagne socialist and her really came out of it very well indeed. He is very much as presented, a dour, serious and impressive chap, possibly the best thing the Left has going for it.
IS COMBET FIBBING ABOUT FACTIONS?
One bone to pick with Comrade Combet though. He and ironically enough former factional warrior PM Bob Hawke had a little slap on the way through about factions.
Combet's implication was that he was above or separate from "factions." Without wishing to rain his parade too much, I know this not to be true. Combet lived in Melbourne Ports throughout the 1990s and early 2000s and to my knowledge voted in every single ALP internal ballot going. Every plebiscite, FEA election, everything. And while it's technically a secret ballot, Combet's consistent support for the Left was no secret.
How can you be a loyal solid vote for the Left, get a senior position at the ACTU from the Left and say you want nothing to do with factions? It's spin or delusion. We know he's not mad so it's clearly quite disingenuous spin.
THE MORE CONFRONTING TRUTH ABOUT COMBET'S FACTION
So, good luck to Combet, I'm glad he got a nice doco up on Australian Story, he's a smart chap who's had an interesting life. No doubt we can look forward to Bill Shorten's one in coming months. And at least in that we'll be spared the humbug and lies that too many in the Left are willing to engage in that they are "anti-faction." They're against factions when they're losing, which for the good of the country in the ALP is most of the time.
Because for every smart guy in the Left like Combet there's a violent thug Craig Johnston, for every honest one like Combet, there's a corrupt millionaire union crook like Brian Daley, for every straight bloke like Combet there's a wily old Soviet linked shonk like Wally Curran.
When Combet says he's not involved in a faction, he's lying. And the difference between legitimately aspiring to lead and being a pretender may be in understanding that such easy, cheap, stupid, obviously false lines are not going to pave the way to success.
Game on.
Tuesday, 28 March 2006
ELECTION TIME: Has Brian Daley Met His Match?
LHMU insiders say that Brian "Arfur" Daley's erratic behaviour has been prompted by forthcoming election dates in the VIctorian branch of "his" union. As the Union itself is strangely silent about the nomination dates (perhaps they don't want to encourage competition) the OC in its pursuit of justice and niceness has decided to let the world know. I
So we are pleased to announce that from the 7th of April to the 28th, the communist run LHMU, Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union election nominations will be open.
Following that, the ballots themselves (should they be necessary) will be sent on the 30th of May and counted after the 20th of June.
Does this mean the end of Brian Daley? Or another term of his crooked reign, blighted by travel rorts, slush funds, dodgy expense claims, constant political game playing at member expense, million dollar lifestyles, socialist humbug and raking in the green while sitting on superannuation trust boards?
Brian Daley is not a big drinker, but when on a recent visit to Canberra one of his comrades was worried about him and tried to find him a consoling ale or medicinal scotch only to find that long-time booze-hound Don Dwyer had been through again. There was only soda left in the House. No cabcharges around either.
Game on.
LOSING IT: Brian Daley's Age Wearying Him
There are concerned reports that Socialist Left unionlord Brian Daley may be suffering from a condition known as early onset Alzheimers. Facing the pressure of an approaching election, the Leftiste in Chief, and key player in the Senator Kim Il Carr sputtering war machine is understood to be behaving rather oddly in his usually unfriendly workplace.
One LHMU insider reports:
"Brian Daley is much more like Kim Jong Il than Kim Il Carr is. He has listening devices in the office and monitors the email of all staff. He is constantly paranoid and believes this approach has preserved his long reign at the union. He has been talking to himself as he walks past reception."
And another has pointed out the strange conduct of Daley at last Friday's otherwise mundane meeting of the Administrative Committee of the ALP.
Daley was believed to be very confused at one point, talking to a motion about the "statistical something er other in the redistribution thingy me bob." Even his Socialiste Left colleagues had a look of puzzlement about them as they speculated what on earth was he on. The presumption of drug use is a common one in some extreme left circles. However, while Comrade Brian Daley is a supporter of the heroin smuggling North Korean regime, he is certainly not a user leaving some to speculate that he may be losing his marbles in the more traditional sense.
The former ALP President and millionaire Richmond property owner is believed to be on the board of a superannuation fund HOSTPLUS which has billions of dollars under management. We can only hope he is removed in time.
UPDATE: Scientists are working on a solution.
Monday, 30 January 2006
THORNLEY: Bad Boss Shows Unions The Door // So Will They Give Him The Seat?
