Lu Kewen aka. Kevin Rudd’s home insulation SCAM.

 

Death of insulation scheme to result in closures, sackings

By Miles Godfrey
Daily Telegraph
April 22, 2010

THE Federal Government's decision to end its bungled $2.45 billion home insulation scheme will force dozens of companies into bankruptcy and result in hundreds of workers being sacked, accredited Sydney insulation firms say.

The scheme was open to fraud and never about aiding the environment, but rather a chance to splurge unprecedented amounts of public cash, Tony Arundell, manager of Hoxton Park-based Eureka Insulation, said.

"Blind Freddy could have seen the scheme was open to fraud from day one," he said.

"It was a scheme to get people working but all it's done is hurt the real workers of this country and I think the Government deserves to be punished."

Doug Mill, owner of Chatswood-based The Demand Group, added: "We're all looking at the likelihood of failing and today's announcement will push us all further towards that."

Federal Energy Efficiency Minister Greg Combet confirmed today that the controversial home insulation scheme was being canned.

The Federal Government suspended it in February after evidence of shonky installation came to light, but had said it could resume in a modified form in June.

Mr Combet blamed the scheme's failure on "unscrupulous operators" and admitted a significant number of jobs would be lost.

But Mr Mill and Mr Arundell both said "cowboys" found the scheme easy to rort and that sufficient auditing was not in place until it was too late.

"Anybody with a white card, which takes five hours to obtain, and the ability to get insurance was able to get in on the game," Mr Mill told AAP.

Mr Arundell admitted the scheme initially worked well, with home insulation firms almost universally making extra cash.

But cowboys had quickly exploited loopholes, he added.

Eureka Insulation upped its staff from 16 to 40 to meet increased demand and splashed out on advertising, marketing and stock.

The Demand Group upped its headcount from six to 20 and is now back to five, with the likelihood of shedding at least one more job.

Eureka owes about $200,000 in advertising costs directly associated with the insulation scheme.

Mr Arundell says his firm will survive but says other firms will be liable for millions of dollars and are likely to cease trading now the scheme has ended.

At least two Sydney-based insulation manufacturing firms have also closed with the loss of hundreds of workers, he said.

"It was a complete joke. We became acutely aware that it was not about the long-term standing of the industry but about putting cash into the community.

"It really wasn't about the environment either but about throwing money out there," he said.

"We knew that it was fraught with danger. The murkiest crystal ball could have picked it up."

So far everything Lu Kewen aka. Kevin Rudd’s Government has touched, they have Fucked,Australia is fast becoming the third world basket case that Lu Kewen’s head office in Beijing thinks should be our destiny.

 

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Australian Aboriginal Industry claiming Australian’s HOMES. SCAM exposed on ACA.

The league star, a pile of shells and the house auction day farce
Nick Tabakoff
The Daily Telegraph
April 22, 2010
IT started like any regular auction of a Sydney house in need of an update. It ended barely 30 minutes later in chaos.
A group of Aboriginal men and women turned up in a minibus and handed out documents to startled potential bidders claiming that the property could be a sacred indigenous heritage site.
 
All of this over a Sans Souci property the agent admits is about as far from a palace as it gets.
At the centre of one of the most bizarre auctions in memory - 12 days ago - was former Balmain, Gold Coast and South Sydney rugby league star Wes Patten.
Patten lodged a caveat on the property a day before the auction, claiming it contains potentially priceless Aboriginal artefacts.
The sale is now in limbo after the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council sent letters backing Patten's claims. In one letter, the council's CEO Paul Morris said the site has "possible evidence of significant Aboriginal midden" at the back of the property.
The council claims it has found "a number of older shells and other possible remnants of sharpened rocks which could be spear tips".
The letter asked a "buffer zone of at least 30m" be installed around the potential artefacts. Patten's caveat claimed that he had an "equitable interest" in the property under the "Aboriginal objects" provisions of the National Parks and Wildlife Act.
Patten, a first cousin of Anthony Mundine, spoke up in front of those gathered for the auction.
(“Mundine was the subject of further controversy when he was asked by a television interviewer for his opinion, as a Muslim, on the 9/11 attacks on the United States. "It's not about terrorism, it's about fighting for God's laws and America's brought it upon themselves for what they've done," he replied, according to Kathy Marks in London's Independent newspaper. The reaction, both public and official, was swift and severe: he was stripped of his world ranking of No. 26 by the World Boxing Council, and the International Boxing Federation advised him not to visit the United States any time soon.”)
"I just wanted to inform the people about the site's Aboriginal significance," he said.
His claim was lodged for the Gadigal people, who occupied much of southern Sydney.
Patten said there could be Gadigal artefacts in other backyards around Botany Bay. "It's near the waters and it's near the settlement where Captain Cook invaded our land," he said.
Auctioneer Zac Imisides, the principal of Belgrave Properties, was furious with the actions of Patten and his group.
"I believe a fair auction was obstructed. There's no way a bidder would have felt comfortable to bid on that day," he said.
Patten claimed he simply wanted to have the house's Aboriginal heritage status examined before the property was sold. He said he would have no problem with the sale of the house ultimately proceeding, "as long as they protect the artefacts".

ACA Sydney exposes this SCAM, and we find out where the sea shells came from, Rudd’s “SORRY Industry” has a lot to answer for.

Note the desecration of the Iwo Jima flag raising by US troops in WW2,via a poster hanging on the wall of their Lawyers office .

The claimed midden site is at the rear of the land under a lemon tree.
Mr Imisides said he believed the property was worth in excess of $700,000 but it had attracted just two bids of $150,000 and $200,000, with the first from Patten's group.
The auctioneer said these bids were "ridiculous".
A group of other bidders, who he believes were willing to pay full market value, were "scared off".
Mr Imisides said the sale was now in limbo. The beneficial owner of the property, Perpetual Trustees, was keen to resume the sales process but would seek clarification on the Aboriginal heritage.
Who’s home will be next? I am going to bury my Prawn Heads as deep as I can in future.How did Wes and Co know to walk straight through the house to where the shells were to be found?
I don’t believe that these Arse Clowns are this stupid,I believe there is a lot more, to what on the surface, appears to be the “usual suspects” in the Aboriginal Industry,trying on another SCAM to justify their existence.
I am sure there will be more to this SCAM to come.

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France stands Tall

 

France set to ban full Islamic veil

Daily Telegraph

April 21, 2010

FRANCE is drawing up a law to ban the full-face Islamic veil from all public spaces, despite a warning from experts that it could face a legal challenge.

 

Government spokesman Luc Chatel said the bill would be presented to ministers next month and would go beyond a mere ban on women wearing the niqab and the burqa while dealing with French officials.

"We're legislating for the future. Wearing a full veil is a sign of a community closing in on itself and a rejection of our values," he said.

Last month, the State Council - France's top administrative authority - warned President Nicolas Sarkozy against a full ban on the veil, suggesting instead an order that women uncover their faces for identity checks or for state business.

But there remains broad support in parliament for a full ban and the Government is determined to press on with legislation, which it says would affect only around 2000 Muslim French women who cover their faces.

 

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Israel Memorial Day lest we, the west, forget at our peril

 

Memorial Day, 2010

By Naomi Ragen
http://www.NaomiRagen.com

I have just sat down after the fading notes of the siren have finally
disappeared.  It is another  Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen.  We have lost
22, 684 sons and daughters.  For a little country like Israel, that is an
enormous and incalculable loss.  Over the years, I have told all those ready
to listen Israel's well-kept secret: there is no Israeli army.  There is
only my son and your daughter, and the neighbor's kids.  Every loss is the
loss of not only an individual, but of  generations: the children who will
never be born, the grandchildren that will never snuggle in the laps of
grandparents.  It is the destruction of not only young lives full of
promise, but of their families: mothers and fathers whose lives are forever
shattered, grandparents who must bear the unthinkable, young girls who lost
their boyfriends, wives who lost their husbands, children who lost their
fathers.  Young women who died before they could experience anything of
life's promises.
After the words and ceremonies and sad music and films of remembrance, one
comes to the conclusion that Israel itself is bereaved, and does not know
how to comfort itself.  The ongoing and seemingly neverending price for our
freedom in the land God promised us is inhumanly high.

Only yesterday Achmadinijad spoke clearly of destroying Israel, uprooting us
like a "cancer."  The King of Jordan proclaimed there would be another war
in July.  And Syria is boldly transferring long range scud missiles once
again to Hezbollah in Lebanon. 

Only a week ago, we went through Holocaust Remembrance Day.  I remember
walking from my home to the Kotel.  And on the way back, I stepped inside
the newly rebuilt Hurva Synagogue, destroyed by the Arab Legion in 1948.  As
I stepped into the women's section, I looked with wonder at how the once
empty, destroyed shell, was filled anew with praying, chanting Jews.  It
reminded me of  Ezekiel's vision of dry bones rising from the dead full of
life once more.   They destroy, and we rebuild.  So it has been for every
generation of Jews.
That Europeans, who killed and tortured our families with unprecedented
barbarism, destroying one-third of the Jewish people, do not rejoice at what
we have done with our little country, but instead do all they can to see us
die again, shows me all their tears over our dead are fake, all their
Holocaust memorials empty shells.  That Americans, who did nothing to  stop
the trains to Auschwitz or to destroy the gas chambers, should ask us to
prove our desire for peace by appeasing our enemies, leading to more of our
beautiful sons and daughters being killed, shows me that America too has not
learned its history lessons.

There exists no comfort for the loss of our children as soldiers fighting
just wars.  But there is even less comfort for the loss of our children at
the hands of slaughterers, terrorists, and evil regimes.  Our young soldiers
have given their lives to save us from that.  May God bless their memories,
and comfort their families.  We owe them everything that makes our lives in
this world as Jews possible. Let's remember that more than one day a year.

 

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