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Body found at Bond's Cottesloe mansion

Body found at Bond mansion

The body of a 57-year-old woman has been found at Alan Bond's Cottesloe home.
A police spokesman said officers were called to the two-storey house in Hawkestone Street at 11.35am.
The dead woman is believed to be Di Bliss, the wife of the former tycoon.
Neighbours report Mr Bond and Ms Bliss were living at the limestone mansion, owned by Fairoak Pty Ltd.
Police say the death is not being treated as suspicious.
A police spokeswoman would not confirm the identity of the dead woman and said her name would not be released until all next of kin had been notified.
She said police officers at the scene would conduct an inquiry for the coroner.
It is understood the woman's body was found in a swimming pool at the rear of the property.
A police spokeswoman said a person at the residence, believed to be Mr Bond, had called St John Ambulance.
Mr Bond married Ms Bliss in 1995 after divorcing his first wife Eileen Bond in 1992.
The couple returned to Perth in 2010 after living in London after the former high-flyer's release from jail in 2000.
Mr Bond's eldest daughter Susanne died in her Peppermint Grove home in 2000 after overdosing on morphine.
Alan Bond's Cottesloe house. Picture: Lee Griffith

Di Bliss and Alan Bond on their wedding day in 1995.

Police confirm Alan Bond's wife dead

Updated January 29, 2012 
WA police have confirmed they are investigating the death of the wife of high-profile businessman Alan Bond.
The body of 57-year-old Diana Gweneth Bond, more widely known as Diana Bliss, was found at her Cottesloe home in Perth late on Saturday morning.
It is understood Mr Bond found her body and called police.
Police have refused to release further details but say the circumstances surrounding her death are not suspicious.
Mr Bond married Ms Bliss, a theatre producer, in 1995 after divorcing his first wife Eileen Bond in 1992.
The 73-year-old, who is known for one of the biggest corporate collapses in Australian history, was declared bankrupt in 1992. In 1997 he served four years in prison for fraud.
After a 19-year absence from the nation's rich list, Mr Bond resurfaced in 2008 with a personal fortune estimated to be worth $265 million.
3AW entertainment reporter Peter Ford paid tribute to her on Twitter.
"Diana Bliss was a gifted woman and lover of the arts but sadly also a deeply troubled woman who did try to get help," he tweeted.
"Close friends had been seriously worried for some time.
"Even the best medical and psychological help here and overseas couldn't save her.
"Money doesn't buy happiness is the old cliche, and true, but also mental health issues know no boundaries of class, fame or beauty."
Ms Bliss stood by her husband during his jail sentence, making regular trips to prison to visit him.
Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Body at Bond mansion believed to be his wife, Diana Bliss

Alan Bond and Diana Bliss
Alan Bond and Diana Bliss on their wedding day in 1996. Picture: Michael Perini HWT Image Library
  • by:Nicole Cox 
  • From:PerthNow 
  • January 28, 2012
  • Alan Bonds house
    GOOGLE EARTH: The Cottesloe house. 
    THE body of a woman, believed to be the wife of former high-flying businessman Alan Bond, has been found at a home in the Perth beachside suburb of Cottesloe.
    It is understood the body of Diana Bliss, 57, was discovered at the luxury two-storey Hawkstone St property after a man telephoned St John Ambulance about 11.30am.
    It is unclear if it was Mr Bond who raised the alarm. Police have ruled out suspicious circumstances.
    Two police cars are currently at the scene along with two detectives.
    Mr Bond, 73, flagged a permanent return to WA from London when he attended the Fremantle Maritime Museum in 2008 to mark the 25th anniversary on Australia II's Americas Cup win, and since then the couple have been dividing their time between Perth and London.
    Mr Bond moved to the United Kingdom following his release from Karnet Prison Farm in March 2000.
    Bliss stood by the fallen magnate when he served time for fraud and they married in Sydney in 1995.
    Asked if he was home for good in January 2010, Mr Bond said from a window at the same property: "I'm not doing any interviews, thank you very much."
    Police are refusing to confirm whether or not the deceased woman was Ms Bliss because all her family has yet to be notified.
    The title for 4 Hawkstone St reveals the property is a 726 sq m block, and that it was last bought in 1992 for $425,000 by the Bond family trust, Fairoak Pty Ltd.
    No one from the Bond home was available to comment.
    Sue Parks, a publicist for the Bond family, said: "The family don't want to make any statement at this moment".
    Alan Bond could not immediately be reached for comment.
    It is understood Ms Bliss had been unwell for sometime, even before the couple returned to Australia in late December.
    If you want help with any personal problems, please contact one of these helplines:
    Lifeline (24 hours): 13 11 14
    Kids Helpline (under 18 years): 1800 55 1800
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    Bond discovered body of his 'beautiful wife' in their home pool
    ERIK JENSEN
    January 30, 2012http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/bond-discovered-body-of-his-beautiful-wife-in-their-home-pool-20120129-1qnzd.html 

    Alan Bond with his wife Diana Bliss.
    Alan Bond with his wife Diana Bliss. Photo: Sharon Smith


    THE body of Alan Bond's wife, Diana Bliss, was found by her husband in the swimming pool of their beachside mansion in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe, a source has confirmed.
    While there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of the 57-year-old at the weekend, a police spokeswoman said the Coronial Investigation Unit would prepare a report on the death.
    A distressed-looking Mr Bond, who was married to his second wife for 17 years, spoke briefly yesterday after attending a church service. He was still struggling with the news. ''It's so new … I lost my beautiful wife.''


    Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/bond-discovered-body-of-his-beautiful-wife-in-their-home-pool-20120129-1qnzd.html#ixzz1kvvbTRWE
     

    http://www.news.com.au/national/tragedy-at-bond-mansion/story-e6frfkvr-1226256164199 
    Body at Bond mansion believed to be his wife, Diana Bliss

    Allan Bond's Super Pit‘The most amazing thing that happened in my lifetime is Alan Bond buying up all the leases that became the Super Pit.

    Bond saw open cut was needed, started it and it grew and grew. It was the inevitable finish of the single operations.

    I remember when it was scattered all over with small companies running their own mines and they were all battling.’
    (Charles (Digger) Daws, former president Boulder Shire Council, interviewed, aged 87, in the Kalgoorlie Miner, December 1994)

    ‘He (Bond) had almost pieced together the jigsaw of leases which were in separate hands for nearly a century. It was now possible to operate a gigantic and ever-descending super pit, in which massive equipment could tear out the old underground workings and the unmined gold in between.’
    (From The Rush That Never Ended by Geoffrey Blainey)

    This was the origin of the Super Pit, Kalgoorlie-Boulder’s famous landmark that will eventually stretch 3.8 kilometres long, 1.5km wide and go down to a depth of more than 600m. What had once been the Golden Mile, was named the Fimiston Open Pit, which in turn has become commonly known as the Super Pit.

    Where small operations had once controlled the famous Golden Mile, WA businessman Alan Bond started buying up the individual leases to create one big company and one big pit, from which gold could be extracted at far less cost.

    Bond's company failed to complete the takeover but, in 1989, the entire area was combined. Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines Pty Ltd (KCGM) was formed to manage the assets and operations of joint venture partners, Normandy Australia and Homestake Gold of Australia Limited.

    For the first time, all leases and infrastructure of the Golden Mile, Mt Charlotte (and Mt Percy to the north) had been brought together. Significant changes – the most since gold was first discovered in Kalgoorlie by Paddy Hannan in 1893 – occurred. It was now possible to mine far more economically for gold and continue the harvest of the Golden Mile, which has produced nearly 50 million ounces of gold since the days of Hannan.

    More recently, the joint venture partners have changed and KCGM manages the operation for Newmont Australia Limited and Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd. Their ownership includes the Fimiston Open Pit (Super Pit), Mt Charlotte Underground Mine, Fimiston Mill and Gidji Roaster.

    KCGM produces up to 800,000 ounces of gold every year and its operation far outweighs any other mining centre in Australia. The Super Pit is the biggest gold open pit mine in the country.

    The company’s operations ensure Australia holds its place, behind South Africa and the USA, as the third biggest gold producer in the world.

    Where it is?
    KCGM’s operation is at the south-east corner of the city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, which is about 600kms east of Perth, capital city of Western Australia.

    What it once was?
    The Fimiston Open Pit (Super Pit) has swallowed up pits named: Judd, South, Paringa, Croesus/Eclipse, Central, Brownhill, Drysdale, Morrison, North and Horseshoe.

    Other shafts located within the current Super Pit included Main, Croesus, Chaffers, Lake View and Perseverance.

    Who owns it?
    KCGM Pty Ltd manages the assets for joint venture partners, Newmont Australia Limited and Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd.

    What’s produced?
    Up to 800,000 ounces of gold a year are produced from the Fimiston Open Pit (Super Pit) and Mt Charlotte.

    Work hours?
    The Super Pit is mined 24 hours a day, every day of the year. 

    Bigger than Texas 1992

    http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/bigger-texas/clip2/ 
    Click on the above link to see video clip

    Curator’s clip description

    Archival footage shows Perth’s celebrations when Perth businessman Alan Bond’s yacht wins the Americas Cup. In a speech at the launch of his book about Bond, journalist Paul Barry comments on the rise and fall of a national icon.

    Curator’s notes

    Western Australia’s need for a hero and the environment of corporate excess in the 1980s created Alan Bond. He became a national hero when his yacht won the Americas Cup. He bought the Nine Network and borrowed excessive money. His downfall was as spectacular as his rise. He was found guilty of fraud and fell from favour.


    John Curtin Foundation gathering Left to right, rear: Denis Cullity, John Horgan,Alan BondLaurie Connell, Ric Stowe, James McCusker, Rod Evans; Front: Kevin Parry, prime minister Bob Hawke, state premier Brian BurkeJohn Roberts and former Perth lord mayor Ernest Lee-Steere

    WA Inc

    WA Inc was a political scandal in Western Australia. In the 1980s, the state government, which was led for much of the period by premier Brian Burke, engaged in business dealings with several prominent businessmen, including Alan BondLaurie Connell and Warren Anderson. These dealings resulted in a loss of public money, estimated at a minimum of $600 million and the insolvency of several large corporations.
    Bond and Connell were major contributors to the party in government, the Australian Labor Party and its remarkable fundraising structure, the John Curtin Foundation.[1] A royal commission (the Royal Commission into Commercial Activities of Government and Other Matters) was established in 1990 by Labor premier Carmen Lawrence to examine the dealings.
    Connell alleged [in evidence to the Commission] that Hawke dropped a proposed gold tax after Connell and various Perth high-flyers donated $250,000 each to Labor during an infamous lunch in Brian Burke's office in 1987 -- a claim the former PM vigorously denied. Burke's loyalty to those who had donated their efforts (and money) to Labor was no less fervent. Taking the John Curtin Foundation axiom to the next level, Burke created the West Australian Development Corporation and installed fellow Catholic John Horgan (pictured second from left, top) on $800,000 a year, an extraordinary figure for a public servant not only then but now.
    —Journalist Tony Barrass, [1]
    In 1991, political scientist Paddy O'Brien identified the members of the government most associated with WA Inc deals as premier Burke and his successor Peter Dowding, deputy premier David Parker, industrial development minister Julian Grill and attorney-generalJoe Berinson.[2]:p132

    Corporate failures

    As an outcome of questionable business practices, precipitated by the 1987 stock market crash, several major businesses based in Perth found themselves in difficulties and ultimately went into bankruptcy. These included:
    • Rothwells. Described as a merchant bank owned by Connell, but more accurately known in business circles as a 'lender of last resort', Rothwells had built up a stable of businesses it had acquired during the 1980s through aggressive takeovers. In October 1987, investors made a run on the bank and it had to close its doors. Burke, on behalf of the government, provided a $150 million government guarantee. Connell had previously been the adviser to the 1983 government purchase of Northern Mining from Bond Corporation for between $7 and $12 million over value but, as Burke knew at the time and concealed from parliament, Connell was also acting for Bond Corporation.
    • Bell Group, Robert Holmes à Court's flagship company, encountered a cash crisis and Bond Corporation and the government, through the state Government Employees Superannuation Board (GESB), acquired major stakes in the business, allowing Holmes à Court to walk away with $350 million.
    A proposed petrochemical plant was to be built as a joint venture between Laurie Connell and Dallas Dempster, both being businessmen with close government connections. $100,000 was outlaid as a deposit on a block of land at Kwinana but otherwise the proposal did not proceed beyond designs and stood as a basis for extravagant fund-raising, loans, collateral transactions, development of proposed plant, management fees to Bond Corporation and, eventually, was sold for $400 million —$175 million being provided by a government agency, WA Government Holdings

    Losses incurred by the government

    The government had lent large sums of money, offered financial guarantees and acquired assets at inflated prices. Because of the connections between many of the deals and cross-ownership of businesses involved, it is difficult to say precisely where the government's fault started and ended. A minimum loss to the state of $600M has been reported.[1] 
    In 1991, barrister Bevan Lawrence published what he regarded as a conservative itemisation of the government's actual losses. The figures are summarised as follows:
    Rothwells and Petrochemicals Plant $408 million
    Purchase of Bell Group shares from Robert Holmes à Court $155 million
    Unlisted bonds purchased from Holmes à Court, later assessed as having no value $140 million
    Westralia Square (Perth Technical College site redevelopment)[3][4] $74 million
    Central Park property redevelopment $100 million
    Grand total[5]:p389 $877 million


    The royal commission

    On 19 November 1990, Carmen Lawrence, the then Labor premier, announced her government's intention to hold a royal commission to "inquire into certain matters". This decision followed more than a year of strong public advocacy by the activist group, People for Fair and Open Government[6] headed by the premier's brother, barrister Bevan Lawrence, Professor Emeritus Martyn Webb and prominent political scientist Paddy O'Brien. O'Brien edited The Burke Ambush, subtitled Corporatism and Society in Western Australia, which was the first substantial exposé of Burke's pro-corporate government—a collection of articles by himself and other Western Australian writers, including Hal Colebatch, Robert Bennett, Joseph Poprzeczny, John Hyde, Paul Nichols, Michael McKinley, Anthony Dale and Tom Herzfeld.[7]
    The commission of three was headed by Geoffrey Kennedy and joined by Sir Ronald Wilson and Peter Brinsden, with a brief "To inquire into and report" whether there had been "corruption, illegal conduct, improper conduct, or bribery" on the part of any person or corporation in the "affairs, investment decisions and business dealings of the Government of Western Australia or its agencies".


    Main findings

    After approximately 21 months of enquiries and hearings, the commission's final report began:
    1.1.1 The Commission has found conduct and practices on the part of certain persons involved in government in the period from 1983 to 1989 which were such as to place our governmental system at risk. Unfortunately, some of that conduct and some of those practices were peculiar to Western Australia; but there is no reason to believe that many of the fundamental questions raised by our inquiry were unique to this period or to this State. On the contrary, as detailed studies in other States and overseas clearly demonstrate, they have been raised elsewhere as a consequence of events similar to those which we have experienced.
    1.1.2 Some ministers elevated personal or party advantage over their constitutional obligation to act in the public interest. The decision to lend Government support to the rescue of Rothwells in October 1987 was principally that of Mr Burke as Premier. Mr Burke's motives in supporting the rescue were not related solely to proper governmental concerns. They derived in part from his well-established relationship with Mr Connell, the chairman and major shareholder of Rothwells, and from his desire to preserve the standing of the Australian Labor Party in the eyes of those sections of the business community from which it had secured much financial support.
    1.1.3 Subsequently, Mr Dowding, as Premier, presided over a disastrous series of decisions designed to support Rothwells when it was or should have been clear to him and to those ministers closely involved that Rothwells was no longer a viable financial institution. This culminated in the decision to involve the Government, through WAGH, in the Kwinana petrochemical project as a means of removing the Government's contingent liability for certain of the debts of Rothwells. Electoral advantage was preferred to the public interest.
    1.1.4 Personal associations and the manner in which electoral contributions were obtained could only create the public perception that favour could be bought, that favour would be done.[8]:p.22
    In an earlier finding, the commission had summarised:
    [The Government was not entitled] to risk the public resources of the State without its actions being subjected to critical scrutiny and review. Effective accountability was a casualty of its entrepreneurial zeal. Influence in the conduct of this State's public affairs was captured by a small group of self-interested businessmen.[9]:p.10


    Summary of main issues[10]

    Report Volume I
    The natural gas sales agreements entered into by the State Energy Commission of Western Australia for the purchase of natural gas from the North West Shelf Joint Venturers
    The contracts relating to the Dampier to Perth natural gas pipeline project
    Financial assistance by Government to Bunbury Foods Limited
    Government Employees Superannuation Board (formerly the Superannuation Board) involvement in the Halls Head development
    Report Volume II
    Government Employees Superannuation Board (formerly the Superannuation Board) involvement in the Fremantle Anchorage development
    The acquisition of Northern Mining Corporation NL in 1983
    The Burswood Island Casino
    The sale of the Midland Abattoir site in 1986
    Report Volume III
    Purchase of the Fremantle Gas and Coke Company by the State Energy Commission of Western Australia in 1986
    Swan Building Society
    Teachers' Credit Society
    Report Volume IV
    The rescue of Rothwells Limited; the immediate aftermath of the rescue and continuing liquidity problems
    SGIC's acquisition of shares in BHP Limited
    Rothwells from mid November 1987 to early April 1988
    SGIC's acquisition of shares in the Bell Group Limited and subsequent NCSC investigations
    The Kwinana petrochemical project to the signing of the memorandum of understanding
    Report Volume V
    The Kwinana petrochemical project to the settlement on 17 October 1988
    Events from the PICL settlements to the liquidation of Rothwells
    Conclusions on Rothwells-related matters
    Central City property transactions entered into from 1984 onwards by the Western Australian Development Corporation, the Government Employees Superannuation Board (formerly the Superannuation Board) and the State Government Insurance Commission]
    Report Volume VI
    Allegations of bribery with respect to planning decisions in the City of Stirling for Observation City
    Other allegations arising from the trial of Robert Mark Smith and Robert Paul Martin held in the District Court of Western Australia before His Honour Judge Keall and a jury in October 1990, including those with respect to surveillance activities
    The adequacy of the police investigation of the matters referred to in chapters 23 and 24
    Political donations
    Conclusion


    Costs and outcomes

    The royal commission cost $30 million, including $12.5 million in witness costs. Of the latter, $3.6 million funded Burke's own legal fees ($1.71 million) and those of David Parker ($1.92 million).
    Burke and his predecessor, the Liberal premier Ray O'Connor ultimately served prison sentences as a result of convictions which arose from findings of the commission. The premier immediately after Burke, Peter Dowding, and public servant Len Brush were both found to have acted improperly.

Alan Bond (businessman)

Alan Bond, entrepreneur and businessman


Alan Bond was born in Hammersmith, London, on April 22 1938 and emigrated to Perth, Western Australia in 1950. In 1959 Alan formed the Bond Corporation, opening the way for a new style of international entrepreneur; acquiring companies and using his drive and innovation to build them into world class corporations.

Alan's natural flair for business soon became evident and the Bond portfolio grew steadily from property to mining into broadcasting and on into telecommunications. He was voted Australian of the year in 1978 and became a national hero in 1983 when he brought home the Americas Cup which had been held by the US since 1851.

Since then, Alan's drive and energy have resulted in a long list of some of the most prestigious business ventures around and he continues to lead the way in opening up new opportunities in mining and investment. 

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Alan's extensive business interests include; Global Diamond Resources •Strategic Investments • World Gold Corporation • Madagascar Oil • Lucky Country Liquorice • Bond Energy • Bond Media • Chile Telco 

Lippo Centre in Hong Kong, 1987. Bought by Alan Bond.
Alan Bond (born 22 April 1938) is an Australian businessman noted for his criminal convictions and high-profile business dealings, including what was at the time the biggest corporate collapse in Australian history. Bond was born in the Hammersmith district ofLondonEngland, and emigrated to Australia with his parents and sister Geraldine in 1950. Beginning his career as a signwriter, he formed what was to be Bond Corporation in 1959. He became a public hero in his adopted country after bankrolling challenges for an international Yacht racing trophy, the America's Cup, which resulted in his selection in 1978 as Australian of the Year (awarded jointly with Galarrwuy Yunupingu). In 1983, hisAustralia II syndicate won the trophy, which had been held by the New York Yacht Clubsince 1851.
In 1992, Bond was declared bankrupt with personal debts totalling A$1.8 billion. He was subsequently convicted of fraud and served four years in prison. Following release, he became active in mining investment, and was included in Business Review Weekly's "Rich 200 List" in 2008. But this apparent success soon proved to be hollow and built on speculative investments by associates, one of whom, in December 2010, described Bond as "a master manipulator who should be stopped before he does any more damage to anyone."
The Perth-based Bond made his fortune initially in property development and at one time was one of Australia's most prominent businesspeople. In 1970 he bought three America's Cup bid yachts from Sir Frank Packer. He later extended his business interests into other fields including brewing (he controlled Castlemaine Tooheys and G. Heileman Brewing Company in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA), gold miningtelevision, and airships. Australia's first private university, Bond University, bears his name.
He purchased QTQ-9Brisbane and settled an outstanding defamation dispute the station had with the Queensland premier, Joh Bjelke-Petersen by paying out A$400,000. He said in a television interview several years later that he paid because "Sir Joh left no doubt that if we were going to continue to do business successfully in Queensland then he expected the matter to be resolved".
In 1987, Bond purchased Vincent Van Gogh's renowned painting, Irises, for $54 million—the highest-ever price for a single painting. However the purchase was funded by a substantial loan from the auctioneer, Sotheby's, which Bond failed to repay. The transaction was criticised by art dealers as possibly a manipulated sale designed to artificially inflate values generally (which it seems to have done).[3] The painting was subsequently re-sold in 1990 to theJ. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.[4]
Also in 1987, he built and developed the Bond Center in Hong Kong. It was later bought by the Lippo group of Indonesia and is now known as the Lippo Centre, Hong Kong.

Purchasing the Nine Network

In 1987 he paid $1 billion for the Australia-wide Channel Nine television network from Kerry Packer's PBL. In a 2003 interview with Andrew Denton, Bond described the negotiations as follows:
"...when we first sat down, we said, 'We're either going to sell our stations to you for $400 million, or you're going to sell your stations to us.' And he said, 'Well, I don't really want to sell my stations.' And I said, 'Oh, is that right?' So, anyway, after much discussion, Kerry thumped the table and said, 'Listen, if you can pay me $1 billion, I'll sell them to you, otherwise bugger off...' then I rang the National Australia Bank. I said, 'Look, I'm in discussions here to buy these television stations. Kerry will sell to me, and what I want to do is put our stations together and then, with Sky Channel, I'm going to float it off as a separate entity and raise the capital to pay for it... [Packer] said $1 billion [was his asking price], but I think I'll get it for $800 million...' [The bank manager] duly rang back and said yes. I said, 'Thank God. I'll go and have some further negotiations with Kerry,' which I did. And true to his word, he never budged one penny off it. So I settled the deal with $800 million and a $200 million note. So he put his own $200 million in. So I had $1 billion. And we put our other two stations up as collateral, which were worth probably $400 million."[5]
Bond later ended up selling the network back to PBL in 1990 for $700 million in the midst of his business empire collapsing. Packer was quoted as saying "You only get one Alan Bond in your lifetime, and I've had mine".[5]


Bankruptcy

In 1992 Bond was declared bankrupt with personal debts totalling A$1.8 billion. In 1995 Bond's family bought him out of bankruptcy, with creditors accepting a payment of A$12 million, a little over half a cent per dollar. In 1997 Bond was sentenced to 7 years in prison after pleading guilty to using his controlling interest in Bell Resources to deceptively siphon off A$1.2 billion into the coffers of Bond Corporation. The funds were used to shore up the cash resources of the ailing Bond Corporation, which spectacularly collapsed, leaving Bell Resources in a precarious situation. Bond was released in 2000, having served four years in prison at Karnet Prison Farm.[6]


Return to investment activities

In 2003, Bond was inducted into the America's Cup Hall of Fame. Since 2003, Bond has worked closely with his son Craig and long-time business partner Robert Quinn through Strategic Investments Ltd.[7][8] Since 2004, interests related to the Bond family have held a block of shares in Madagascar Oil, a business he co-founded with Sam Malin and Robert Nelson, of which the acting chief executive officer is Robert Quinn's son-in-law, J. Laurie Hunter. Interests related to the Bond family also control Global Diamond Resources plc (formerly Lesotho Diamond Corporation) which is developing the Kao diamond pipe in the Kingdom of Lesotho. In 2007, the Federal Court rejected an attempt by Bond to sue freelance journalist Paul Barry over an article Barry wrote about his dealings in Africa with the Lesotho Diamond Company.[9] Bond had claimed that the article had several false statements. In 2008 Bond appealed but this, too, was rejected by the same court which found Mr Bond's claims had no reasonable prospects of success.[10]
In 2008, Bond made a return to the Business Review Weekly's "Rich 200 List", in 157th spot, with an estimated wealth of $265 million—thanks primarily to his stakes in Madagascar Oil and Global Diamond Resources.[11]


Family

Bond was born on 22 April 1938, the son of Frank and Kathleen Bond, both Protestants,[12] in the Hammersmith district of London, England. At the age of 12, he emigrated to Australia with his parents and his 18-month older sister Geraldine in 1950.[13]
In 1955 he married Eileen Hughes, a member of a prominent Catholic business family in Fremantle. She and Bond were both 17 and she was pregnant at the time. Bond converted to catholicism after the marriage.[12] The Bonds had four children: John, Craig, Susanne and Jody. Bond and Eileen divorced in 1992.[14] Susanne died in 2000 from a suspected accidental overdose of prescription medication. She was an equestrian showjumper who was a member of the Australian showjumping team for seven years.[15]
In 1995 Bond married Diana Bliss, a public relations consultant and theatre producer.[16] On 28 January 2012, Bliss was found dead in the couple's swimming pool.[17]

Robert Holmes à Court

Michael Robert Hamilton Holmes à Court (27 July 1937, JohannesburgSouth Africa – 2 September 1990, PerthWestern Australia) was an entrepreneur who became Australia's first businessman worth over a billion dollars before dying suddenly of a heart attack in 1990.
Holmes à Court was one of the world's most feared corporate raiders through the 1980s, having built his empire single-handedly from virtually nothing to a diversified resources and media group with an estimated worth prior to the 1987 stockmarket crash of about $2 billion. Shareholders in the company that became his flagship, 'Bell Resources', enjoyed enormous investment growth.
He died of a sudden heart attack in 1990 at the age of 53. As he had died intestate, Holmes à Court's estate was divided equally among his widow Janet (née Ranford), and their four children.

Early life and studies

Holmes à Court was born in Johannesburg but spent much of his early life in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He was educated atMichaelhouse, in what was then NatalSouth Africa. Holmes à Court began his tertiary studies in 1957, at Massey University in New Zealand. He graduated with a degree in agricultural science (forestry). He then moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1961, to study lawat the University of Western Australia. In 1966, he married science teacher Janet Ranford. Holmes à Court formed a law practice in Perth in 1967, in partnership with Nicholas Hasluck 

Business career

Holmes à Court entered the corporate stage by accident in 1970, when his law firm was asked to act as receiver of a small publicly listed company, Western Australian Worsted & Woollen Mills (later Albany Woollen Mills, also known as AWM or WA Wool). The company was the single largest employer in the regional city of Albany. In what he later described as his most challenging "takeover", probably because it was his first, he found a way to invest $500,000 in the ailing business, on the proviso that the state Minister for Industry, Sir Charles Court, would persuade the Government of Western Australia to forgive the $500,000 in loans they had made.
While at Michaelhouse School, Holmes à Court was reputed to be a contemporary of and apparently friendly with members of the Oppenheimer family, but in fact this is incorrect; none of the Oppenheimers attended Michaelhouse but went to school in the UK. Since Oppenheimer controlled the giant de Beers diamond and gold mining business they would have had ample funds to finance Holmes à Court should they have wished. In fact, after Holmes à Court's death it was suggested in various of his obituaries that the Oppenheimers did in fact provide sources of finance at various times, and this seems very possible. Alternatively, Holmes à Court's mother appears to have inherited a comfortable amount of money on her husband's and Holmes à Court's father's death, and so she may have provided some funding, although there is no evidence that she did.
After acquiring the company, Holmes à Court made it more competitive by reducing production costs, mainly by installing the latest wool milling and weaving machinery. This was acquired on favourable terms from a leading Belgian equipment manufacturer, which was keen to enter the Australian market at that time.
Holmes à Court now controlled a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and from there he began to gain control of a string of small businesses, including Westate Electrical Industries.
Robert was also a prominent member of the Racing Community and owner of one of Western Australia's premier studs, Heytesbury Stud.
Together with Racing Manager, Valerie Gannon, he enjoyed great success with Thoroughbreds such as Black Knight, Haulpak, Pago Pago and Family of Man.


The Bell Group

In 1973, Holmes à Court's AWM acquired Bell Brothers, a well known West Australian transport and contracting group, for $9.6 million, through a reverse takeover. Bell brothers would ultimately become his flagship company as Bell Resources.
Bell acquired media interests including the Albany Advertiser, the Katanning weekly, the Great Southern Herald, the Collie Mail and radio station 6VA. It also made unsuccessful bids for companies such as Griffin CoalGreenbushes Tin and Emu Wines. These bids, while unsuccessful, earned significant profits mainly by aggressive defences from owners resulting in inflated share prices held by the bidder.
In 1977, Holmes à Court's brother Simon disappeared in mysterious circumstances in Africa[1]. His abandoned car was found more than 1000 km from his home and where he was last seen in Botswana. Author Geoff Elliott wrote a book about the disappearance.[2]
During 1979, Bell made an unsuccessful bid for Ansett Transport Industries but was defeated by Rupert Murdoch and roadfreight groupTNT. However, a profit of $11 million was made by Bell for future bids.
Bell Group made an unsuccessful bid for The Times in 1980, and at the same time launched a new Perth newspaper, the Western Mail, challenging the The Herald and Weekly Times (H&WT) which owned the West Australian. By the end of 1980, Bell Resources had accumulated cash reserves of $100 million.
In 1981, it made a bid for Elders Goldsborough Mort for $120 million bid and failed, but earned a profit of $16.5 million on the deal.
During 1982, Bell took stakes in Rolls Royce and Portland Cement and made an unsuccessful bid for the H&WT group. Later that year it acquired Perth television station TVW-7.
Bell subsequently acquired a television station in Adelaide and a handful of small regional radio stations.
Unsuccessful bids were made for Carlton & United Breweries and Elders IXL but as usual, Holmes à Court's strategic corporate planning let him walk away with a profit.
In 1983, Bell bought Perth mining equipment company Wigmores, and was renamed Bell Resources.
Through the ACC group, Bell gained control of Bass Strait oil and gas explorer, Weeks Petroleum which owned a 2.5% royalty share in the Esso-BHP consortium.
In 1985, Bell acquired 13% of U.S. mining company Asarco for $140 million and made an unsuccessful bid for Perth utility Fremantle Gas & Coke. In 1982 it acquired Lord Grade's UK-based Associated Communications Corporation (ACC),[3] and then sold off ACC's stake in Central Independent Television and ATV Music publishing interests, including Northern Songs, a company set up by The Beatles to control copyright of their music. ATV Music Publishing was bought by Michael Jackson, and as part of the deal, Holmes à Court persuaded Jackson to make a brief visit to Perth, in order to appear on Channel 7's annual Telethon[4][5]
Also in 1985, Bell Resources made its biggest and most daring bid to date for control of resources and steelmaking giant BHP, which was Australia's largest company. Before the deal was finalised the following year, Elders IXL took a 20% stake in BHP, for $2 billion. In turn, BHP purchased $1 billion of Elders preference shares. The deal later resulted in action against Elders executives, including chairman John Elliott by the corporate regulator.
Bell acted as a "white knight" in defeating a £1.9 billion hostile bid from Lloyds Bank for its competitor Standard Chartered Bank.
In 1987, Bell purchased a stake in Pioneer Concrete and made a second unsuccessful bid for the H&WT group. The bid went to takeover competitor Rupert Murdoch for $1.8 billion. Bell took ownership of The West Australian, Perth's main daily newspaper. Bell also spent US$800 million, to acquire 9.6% of Texaco stock.
By the time of the October 1987 international stockmarket crash, Bell Group — like many investment companies — had accumulated assets that were valuable but not generating revenue sufficient to cover debts. Holmes à Court's family company, Heytesbury Holdings, at the time owned 43% of Bell Group, which in turn owned 40% of the cash rich Bell Resources. However, Bell Resources was not able to buy its parent, due to share raids being made on Bell Resources by Kerry PackerAdelaide Steamship Company (under John Spalvins) and IEL (Ron Brierley). Merrill Lynch withdrew its $1 billion line of credit facility, meaning that the parent couldn't acquire its subsidiary and thereby access the money.


Holmes à Court initially disposed of some Perth properties before accepting a joint takeover by Bond Corporation and the State Government Insurance Commission (SGIC), in which both parties took a 19.9% stake in Bell Group. Holmes a Court retained 6% of Bell Group and received $340 million from the sale. Bond Corp was subsequently forced to bid for other shares in Bell with the result that it ended up with a majority shareholding of 68% of Bell Group. Bond Corp then proceeded to strip $500 million from Bell Resources in an effort to prop up its own debts. The asset stripping included transferring cash from Bell Resources for its own purposes (thus breaching the company code and ultimately sending its chairman Alan Bond to jail), transfer of ownership of newspaper holdings into Bond Media and disposal of certain assets including TVW-7.
During 1988, Holmes à Court concentrated on the rebuilding and expansion of his Heytesbury subsidiaries acquiring Stoll Moss Theatres in London, Sherwin Pastoral Co (owner of vast cattle stations in Northern Australia), and the Vasse Felix winery in Margaret River.
In 1989, Heytesbury bought the Victoria River Downs and major Sherwin Pastoral Co cattle and pastoral stations. Holmes à Court also traded in Jaguar stock, as well as Christies and New Zealand media group Wilson & Horton.
During 1990, Bond Corporation announced a record $980m loss and Elders IXL followed with an announcement of a $1.3 billion loss. Bond Corporation entered a scheme of arrangement in 1991, with receivers taking charge of Bell Group and Bell Resources.


Events after his death

Heytesbury Holdings continues as one of the largest private companies in Australia. Janet Holmes à Court ran Heytesbury from the time of her husband's death until 2005, when she retired. She was, at one time, Australia's richest woman. The couple's eldest son,Peter Holmes à Court, is now a major investor and entrepreneur in his own right, after divesting himself of his share of Heytesbury, reported as A$35 million.[6] Peter Holmes à Court along with Russell Crowe is the 75.8% owner of National Rugby League club South Sydney Rabbitohs. Another son, Paul Holmes à Court has since taken over as chief executive. Robert Holmes à Court's other children are Simon (married, with four children) and Catherine.
Robert and Janet Holmes à Court had 12 grandchildren by 2005, according to an interview with her.[7] The eldest son Peter (b. 1968) is currently heir presumptive to his distant cousin, the 7th Baron Heytesbury (b. 1967).




















 

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Michael Jackson's longtime attorney and a family friend should take over the pop singer's estate, a judge said Monday.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff issued his ruling after a court hearing Monday morning. Attorney John Branca and music executive John McClain had been designated in Jackson's 2002 will as the people he wanted to administer his estate.

Jackson died June 25, deeply in debt. But a court filing estimates that his estate will be worth more than $500 million.

The singer's mother, Katherine Jackson, had applied to oversee her son's estate, but that was before the will surfaced. Her attorney, Burt Levitch, expressed concerns about McClain and Branca's financial leadership.

Levitch told Beckloff that Branca had previously been removed from financial positions of authority by Jackson. Branca's attorney says he was rehired by Jackson on June 17, days before Jackson's death.

Katherine Jackson did not appear at Monday's hearing. Branca did attend.

Related: Jackson and mother Katherine had unbreakable bond

Branca and McClain will have to post a $1 million bond on the estate, Beckloff ruled.


Michael Jackson, 1958-2009

 

 


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Sahel Kazemi.
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Steve McNair played 13 NFL seasons.(Chris McGrath / Getty Images)

Relative: Police suspect GF was McNair shooter


Updated: July 6, 2009, 5:30 PM EDT


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - As police continued to investigate the Steve McNair homicide case, a relative of the woman found shot to death next to McNair claims police have told him they are almost sure 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi was the shooter, and that Kazemi purchased a gun in the past week.

Farzin Abdi, Kazemi's nephew, didn't know what day of the week the gun was purchased or what type of gun it was.

Nashville police didn't immediately have a reaction to the Abdi's comments.

"There was no way she was depressed and wanting to do this," Abdi said. "She was so happy. ... She just had it made, you know, (with) this guy taking care of everything."

Abdi said Kazemi believed McNair was divorcing his wife and she was preparing to sell her furniture to move in with him.

Shot twice in the head and two more times in the chest, McNair was the victim of a homicide, police declared Sunday. But authorities wouldn't say it was a murder-suicide — even with Kazemi dead at his feet from a single bullet.

McNair had been dating Saleh Kazemi for several months, and Nashville police spokesman Don Aaron said Sunday that a semiautomatic pistol was found under her body. She was shot in the head.

McNair, who was married with four sons, had a permit to carry a handgun in Tennessee, and he was arrested once before with a 9mm weapon although charges in the case were dropped. Police said they had not yet determined who owned the gun found at the scene.

Investigators weren't looking for a suspect but were questioning friends of the couple as well as Kazemi's ex-boyfriend. They were also waiting for results of drug and other laboratory tests before deciding whether McNair was killed in a lovers' quarrel.

"That's a very important part of the investigation as we work to ultimately classify Miss Kazemi's death," Aaron said.

A public memorial and viewings are scheduled later this week for McNair.

The public will have a couple of opportunities to attend viewings in Nashville on Thursday and a memorial will be held later that evening at Mount Zion Baptist Church.

A funeral will be held Saturday in Mississippi but arrangements are not yet final.

Fans are asked to make donations to the Steve McNair Foundation.

The details surfacing after McNair's death stand in stark contrast to the public persona he enjoyed during his career.

McNair repeatedly played through serious injuries and pain to win, though he came up a yard short of forcing overtime on the Tennessee Titans' famous drive to lose the 2000 Super Bowl.

Generous, he frequently took part in charity work for both the Titans and later the Baltimore Ravens after a 2006 trade. McNair even helped load donated food, water and clothes onto tractor-trailers that he had arranged for Hurricane Katrina victims, and paid for three football camps for children himself this year.

McNair and Kazemi were found dead at a Nashville condominium — which overlooks the Titans stadium — that he rented with his friend Wayne Neeley. Police believe both died early Saturday. Neeley found the bodies hours later, and called a friend, Robert Gaddy, who played at Alcorn State with McNair. Gaddy dialed 911.

"People have certain things that they do in life," Gaddy said. "We don't need to look on the situation at this time (but) on the fact we just lost a great member of society."

The quarterback's agent, Bus Cook, said he had never heard Kazemi's name until news of the shooting broke Saturday. What McNair's wife knew wasn't clear Sunday. Cook said Mechelle McNair was "in and out of it." He said she had no comment after the police called his death a homicide.

"It doesn't make any sense. I don't know what to say," Cook said.

Mechelle was "very upset, very distraught" Sunday, Cook said. She was preparing to finish funeral arrangements Monday.

McNair split his time between Nashville and his farm in Mount Olive, Miss. He recently opened a restaurant near Tennessee State University that was aimed at serving healthy, affordable food to college students.

McNair was also seen so often at Kazemi's apartment that a neighbor thought he lived there.

McNair met Kazemi when his family ate often at the Dave & Buster's restaurant she worked at as a server, and the two began dating in a relationship that included a vacation with parasailing. Photos posted on TMZ.com showed McNair gazing and smiling at the young Kazemi.

"She pretty obviously got mixed up way over her head with folks," said Reagan Howard, a neighbor of Kazemi's.

A man who answered the door at a house in the Jacksonville, Fla., suburb of Orange Park said it was the home of Kazemi's family, but said her relatives did not want to comment.

"We don't have anything to say, please leave us alone," he said.

The victim's sister, Soheyla Kazemi, told the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville that the young woman had expected McNair to get a divorce. "She said they were planning to get married."

Kazemi often was dropped off by limousine in the early morning hours and recently went from driving a Kia to a 2007 Cadillac Escalade registered to both herself and McNair. Her niece told The Tennessean that Kazemi thought McNair was divorcing his wife of 12 years soon.

Nashville courts had no record of a McNair divorce case, but a home he owned in Nashville is on the market for $3 million.

The real estate agent declined to comment. Her online listing for property described it as a "gigantic house" of more than 14,000 square feet and photos showed a pool, home theater, baby grand piano and ornate furnishings throughout.

McNair and Kazemi were together Thursday night when she was pulled over driving that Escalade. She was arrested on a DUI charges, and he was allowed to leave in a taxi even though he was charged with drunken driving in 2007 when his brother-in-law was stopped for DUI while driving McNair's pickup truck.

McNair led the Titans to the 2000 Super Bowl, which they lost 23-16 to the St. Louis Rams despite his 87-yard drive in the final minute and 48 seconds. He was co-MVP of the NFL with Colts quarterback Peyton Manning in 2003.

Manning said in a statement Sunday that he had some great battles with the quarterback.

"Sharing the NFL MVP honor with him in 2003 was special because of what a great football player he was," Manning said. "I had the opportunity to play in a couple of Pro Bowls with him, and the time spent with him in Hawaii I'll never forget. I'll truly miss him."

The Titans drafted Vince Young in 2006 to replace McNair, who had mentored him since he was a teenager. They never played together but did play against each other that year.

"He was like a father to me. I hear his advice in my head with everything I do. Life will be very different without him," Young said in a statement Sunday.

McNair grew up in Mount Olive, Miss., and became a football star at Alcorn State, the Division I-AA school in his home state as he dominated the Southwestern Athletic Conference. He became a Heisman Trophy contender as reporters flocked to little Lorman to watch the man known as "Air McNair.

He still holds the Division I-AA (now known as Football Championship Subdivision) records for career yards passing (14,496) and total offense (16,823). McNair was drafted in 1995 by the Houston Oilers, who eventually became the Titans.

Picked four times for the Pro Bowl, McNair finished with 31,304 yards passing and 174 touchdowns. He led both the Titans and Ravens to playoff berths, including two AFC championship game appearances with Tennessee. Injuries finally led to his retirement after the 2007 season

Besides his wife, McNair is survived his sons Junior, Steven, Tyler and Trenton.




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First Posted: 07- 6-09 01:24 PM   |   Updated: 07- 6-09 01:42 PM

Even Fox News has started to turn on Sarah Palin. In the midst of a segment about the Alaska Governor's battle against "liberal" attacks, Liz Trotta went off-message.

Frankly, "the woman is inarticulate, undereducated," Trotta said, arguing that for once liberal criticism was "well-deserved."

"I think all the liberal stylists ... really have a case. She just begs for adjectives like flaky and wacky." When pressed, she added, "We're talking about somebody who, right from the get-go, has been a flashy person who gets into a lot of trouble and really has no credentials for any 

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Lance Armstrong and his Astana team were fined for arriving late for the pre-strage registration this morning in Marseille, France. Rules state that riders must show up 20 minutes prior to the start or face a fine of 100 Swiss Francs ($92). Sneering contempt from the Tour de France competitions director is an added bonus.


Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:01 am EDT

Lance and Astana earn a $92 fine for showing up late

By Chris Chase

"Today, and as usual, the Astana team arrived late at the pre-stage registration, in contempt of the crowd, who has once again not seen Lance Armstrong," [Tour competitions director Jean-Francois] Pescheux told Reuters before the start of the third stage from Marseille to La Grande Motte.

"They don't care about the fine. We are going to ask the UCI to be tougher."

Of course they don't care about the fine. Ninety-two dollars? Lance drops more on that at breakfast. Has that amount changed since the first Tour in 1903? The last time I heard of a $92 fine I was watching The People's Court ... in 1987.  

And what's with the attitude, M. Pescheux? Let's not be perpetuating stereotypes about the French. It's bad enough that Lance is reinforcing notions that Americans show up late to everything. 

One of the excuses floated for that late arrival for Astana was that there was bad traffic in Marseille. The irony of showing up late to a bike race because your car was stuck in traffic is something even Pescheux should find amusing.

Update: Armstrong apologized for his tardiness on his Twitter account this afternoon, 

blaming it on a visit from actor Ben Stiller.


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Police may have killed suspect in S.C. slayings

Similar vehicle links series of five deaths to man shot overnight in N.C.


Image: Possible suspect
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This is an updated drawing of the suspected serial killer in Cherokee County, S.C., made available on Friday.













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updated 2:41 p.m. ET July 6, 2009

Authorities were investigating whether a man who was shot and killed Monday morning by police in North Carolina may be linked to the slayings of five people in South Carolina in a week.

South Carolina law enforcement officers were in Gaston County, N.C., near Charlotte, after county police shot and killed the man, who they said opened fire on them Monday morning, NBC News’ Ron Mott reported.

Investigators told NBC station WCNC of Charlotte that a gray or champagne Ford Explorer was found outside the house in Gaston County, about 30 miles north of Cherokee County, S.C., where five people were found shot to death in three incidents over eight days bridging last week.

Cherokee County Sheriff Bill Blanton said Monday that a gray Ford Explorer was believed to link all five of the South Carolina killings.

“The physical evidence, the evidence that we have, the eyewitnesses that we have, puts the same person, we think the same vehicle, at all three locations,” Blanton said in an interview on NBC’s TODAY.

Questioning three people
Gaston County police were questioning three people who were reported to have entered a house about 2:40 a.m. when they discovered that one of them had an outstanding warrant. The man, whose identity was not released, fired a single shot when officers tried to serve the warrant, injuring one of the officers in the leg. Police fired four shots, killing the man at the scene, they said.

The killings began a week ago Saturday in Cherokee County, S.C., when the wife of Kline Cash, a 63-year-old peach farmer, found her husband shot to death in their rural home. Then, on Wednesday, relatives discovered the bodies of Gena Linder Parker, 50, and her mother, Hazel Linder, 83, bound and shot to death in a separate attack at Linder’s home.

Thursday, Stephen Tyler and his daughter Abby, 15, were shot as they were closing the Tyler Home Center near downtown Gaffney. He died Thursday, while Abby Tyler fought for her life for two days before dying Saturday at a hospital.

Blanton said deputies were searching for a man about 6 feet 2 inches tall with salt-and-pepper hair.

Hundreds of people thronged funeral services Sunday for the mother and daughter. Law enforcement officers provided security for the family and mourners. The crime spree terrorizing Cherokee County forced many people to curtail Fourth of July festivities.

Celebration turns to mourning
The Herald-Journal of Spartanburg, S.C., reported that the Tylers’ minister at Cherokee Avenue Baptist Church, Clyde Thomas, urged congregants to keep the faith in the face of tragedy. The newspaper said he had a pistol in his office Saturday.
“As Christians, we don’t live by explanations. We live by promises. We live by faith, not sight,” Thomas said.
Thomas said he had originally planned to deliver a sermon titled “Happy Birthday, America” for the Fourth of July service. But instead of upbeat patriotic music, Sunday’s program was changed to add hymns reflecting a time of mourning.

The killings alarmed many residents, and some talked of arming themselves.
“The irony is that the freedoms we have, we’re locked behind closed doors with firearms,” Thomas said. “We should be celebrating freedom, but we find ourselves very much restrained by fear.”
Blanton, the sheriff, said all the victims were shot. The shootings all occurred within about 10 miles of each other in Cherokee County, a community of 54,000 people set amid peach orchards and farms.

Investigators have released a sketch of the suspect, saying he was in his 40s and roughly 200 pounds.

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10 Boilerplate Phrases That Kill Resumes


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   by: Liz Ryan

The 2009 job market is very different from job markets of the past. If you haven't job-hunted in a while, the changes in the landscape can throw you for a loop.

One of the biggest changes is the shift in what constitutes a strong resume. Years ago, we could dig into the Resume Boilerplate grab-bag and pull out a phrase to fill out a sentence or bullet point on our resume. Everybody used the same boilerplate phrases, so we knew we couldn't go wrong choosing one of them -- or many -- to throw into your resume.

Things have changed. Stodgy boilerplate phrases in your resume today mark you as uncreative and "vocabulary challenged." You can make your resume more compelling and human-sounding by rooting out and replacing the boring corporate-speak phrases that litter it, and replacing them with human language -- things that people like you or me would actually say.

Here are the worst 10 boilerplate phrases -- the ones to seek out and destroy in your resume as soon as possible:

  • Results-oriented professional
  • Cross-functional teams
  • More than [x] years of progressively responsible experience
  • Superior (or excellent) communication skills
  • Strong work ethic
  • Met or exceeded expectations
  • Proven track record of success
  • Works well with all levels of staff
  • Team player
  • Bottom-line orientation

You can do better. What about adding a human voice to your resume? Here's an example:

"I'm a Marketing Researcher who's driven by curiosity about why people buy what they do. At XYZ Industries, I used consumer surveys and online-forum analysis to uncover the reasons why consumers chose our competitors over us; our sales grew twenty percent over the next six months as a result. I'm equally at home on sales calls or analyzing data in seclusion, and up to speed on traditional and new-millennium research tools and approaches. I'm fanatical about understanding our marketplace better every day, week and month -- and have helped my employers' brands grow dramatically as a result."

You don't have to write resumes that sound like robots wrote them. A human-voiced resume is the new black -- try it!

Liz Ryan is a 25-year HR veteran, former Fortune 500 VP and an internationally recognized expert on careers and the new millennium workplace. Contact Liz at liz@asklizryan.com or join the Ask Liz Ryan online community at www.asklizryan/group.
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    Seventh Grader Sues School Over Right to Wear Pro-Life T-Shirt

    A California mom says her public school administrators violated her daughter's First Amendment rights when they ordered the seventh-grader to take off her pro-life T-shirt.

    Anna Amador has gone to court on behalf of her daughter, who she says was ordered by her principal to
    change her shirt on "National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day." The shirt the girl was wearing displays two graphic pictures of a fetus growing in the womb.
    The incident occurred in April 2008 at McSwain Elementary School, a K-8 school in Merced, Calif. Amador alleges in her legal complaint that school Principal Terrie Rohrer, Assistant Principal C.W. Smith and office
    clerk Martha Hernandez mistreated her daughter and denied the girl her First Amendment rights when they ordered her to leave the cafeteria and change her shirt.
    "Before Plaintiff could eat [breakfast] she was ordered by a school staff member to throw her food out and report immediately to Defendant Smith's office, located in the main office of McSwain Elementary School," the complaint reads.
    "Upon arriving at the main office, Defendant Hernandez, intentionally and without Plaintiff's consent, grabbed Plaintiff's arm and forcibly escorted her toward Smith's office, at all times maintaining a vice-like grip on Plaintiff's arm. Hernandez only released Plaintiff's arm after physically locating her in front of Smith and Defendant Rohrer...

    "Smith and Rohrer ordered Plaintiff to remove her pro-life T-shirt and instructed Plaintiff to never wear her pro-life T-shirt at McSwain Elementary School ever again...
    "Completely humiliated and held out for ridicule, Plaintiff complied with Defendants' directives and removed her pro-life T-shirt, whereupon, Defendants seized and confiscated it. Defendants did not return Plaintiff's property until the end of the school day."
    The school administrators dispute some of the allegations, said Anthony N. DeMaria, attorney for the McSwain Union Elementary School District.
    "I think the school district has a very strong defense," DeMaria said. "The complaint does not properly characterize the events that happened. Certainly we dispute some of the events."
    He said he was unable to reach the administrators to determine which parts they say are incorrect, because school is out for the summer. Rohrer, the principal, told FOXNews.com on Monday that she could not issue a statement without consulting with the school superintendent and their attorney. The other defendants and school district employees did not respond to calls and e-mails from FOXNews.com.
    The school district sought to get the case thrown out due to "failure to state a cognizable claim," but a U.S. Eastern District Court judge ruled last month that all but one of Amador's claims could go forward.
    The complaint quotes school district officials saying that they ordered Amador's daughter to remove the shirt because it constituted "inappropriate subject matter" in violation of the school's dress code, which bans clothing with "suggestion of tobacco, drug or alcohol use, sexual promiscuity, profanity, vulgarity, or other inappropriate subject matter."
    Amador claims in the legal complaint that other students at the school have been allowed to wear expressive shirts, and she blames the school for “inconsistently applying their Dress Code based upon subjective determinations as to which messages are acceptable and which messages are not.”
    One of the girl's lawyers, Mark A. Thiel, said that the images on her shirt of a fetus in the womb were same as those in her science textbooks. He said no student had complained about the shirt, and he said the girl's parents were not called when the incident took place.
    "This was a young girl, not even in high school. But they didn't call," he said.
    A spokeswoman for the local Planned Parenthood chapter declined to take sides in the case.
    "Even offensive speech is protected as long as it doesn’t impinge upon the rights of others," said Deborah Ortiz, vice president of public affairs for Planned Parenthood Mar Monte.
    "School administrators have a mission to educate, and the student’s right to political speech should be protected in balance with this education mission."
    UCLA law professor and First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh said Supreme Court precedent appears to support the girl's case.
    "During the Vietnam War, the Supreme Court ruled that wearing black arm bands [at school, to protest the war] was OK,” Volokh said. “If students can wear armbands in protest, why can't they wear a pro-life shirt?"
    He said the case would be different if there was evidence that the shirt could have led to disruption or fighting.
    "Schools have a lot more authority than the government does in regulating speech,” he said. “If someone is speaking on a street corner and it looks like other people are going to start a fight over it, the government's job is to protect the speaker. That is not the case in schools. We need to make sure students learn. So if speech is highly disruptive, well … in that case we can suppress it.
    "But the school's position that they can restrict speech just because they find it inappropriate is not correct."
    But the fact that it's a K-8 school with very young children could change things, said Brooklyn Law School professor William Araiza. He pointed to the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Morse v. Frederick, where the court allowed a high school to suspend students in Juneau, Alaska, who waved a banner that read “Bong hits 4 Jesus” from across the street during an Olympic torch relay, because it was seen as promoting illegal drug use.
    “[The school] could almost use a “bong hits” kind of rationale about protecting students from inappropriate messages,” Araiza said. “For instance, would you allow a 4th grader to wear a gruesome picture of a bomb scene? You probably wouldn't.”
    First Amendment attorney William Becker, who represents Amador, disagreed that the shirt could be seen as containing inappropriate messages.
    "The message of the T-shirt is that life is sacred," he said. "One would be very hard pressed to find anything wrong with that particular idea, except that some people do object to the political message.”

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    This is an updated drawing of the suspected serial killer in Cherokee County, S.C., made available on Friday.










    S.C. town terrorized by 5 killings in past week AP

    15-year-old girl latest victim of suspected serial killer

    GAFFNEY, S.C. - A teenage girl shot while helping her father in their family's small furniture and appliance store died Saturday, becoming the fifth victim of a suspected serial killer terrorizing a small South Carolina community, authorities said.

    Abby Tyler, 15, died about 11:15 a.m. at a Spartanburg hospital after fighting for her life for two days, Cherokee County Coroner Dennis Fowler said.
    Tyler was wounded and her father was killed Thursday as they worked to close the Tyler Home Center near downtown Gaffney.
    County Sheriff Bill Blanton said investigators believe the killings are linked and the search is on for a suspected male serial killer. An 83-year-old mother and her daughter were shot to death Wednesday, and a 63-year-old peach farmer was found dead at his home a week ago.
    Blanton said all the victims were shot, but he would not say how the deaths were linked. The shootings all occurred within about 10 miles of each other in Cherokee County, a rural community of 54,000 people set amid peach orchards and farms some 50 miles west of Charlotte, N.C.

    Killings have terrorized community
    The spree had alarmed residents canceling Independence Day holiday plans and arming themselves. The sheriff has warned door-to-door salesmen to stop knocking and anyone who breaks down on the county's rural roads to wait instead of walking to a house for help because he worries "people are going to start shooting at shadows."
    The killings began a week ago Saturday when the wife of 63-year-old peach farmer Kline Cash found him dead in their home. Then last Wednesday, relatives found 83-year-old Hazel Linder and her 50-year-old daughter, Gena Linder Parker, bound and shot to death in a separate shooting at Linder's home.
    Dozens of local, state and federal investigators were assigned to the case when the killings were linked. But a day later, the killer struck again, less than a half-mile from the sheriff's office serving as the headquarters for the investigation, killing 48-year-old Stephen Tyler and his daughter.
    "We're knee-deep in the investigation," Blanton said Sunday. "There's fear and concern here and there should be concern."
    Investigators have released a sketch of the suspect, saying he is in his 40s, with salt and pepper hair, about 6-foot-2, and roughly 200 pounds. They think he is driving a silver 1991-1994 Ford Explorer. 

    The last time the town was this threatened like this was 1968, when the "Gaffney Strangler" killed four women over 10 days and vowed to kill more. The town banded together, despite racial prejudice, to find the man who was killing white and black women.
    The strangler, Lee Roy Martin, called the editor of a local newspaper on Feb. 8, 1968, and told him where to find the bodies of two women he'd dumped in the woods. He threatened to kill even more women until he was "shot down like the dog I am."
    People started to comb the community for clues, which led to Martin's arrest. He was convicted of four murders and sentenced to four life terms. In 1972, he was stabbed to death in his cell.

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    Prescription drug abuse ravages state's youth

    Prescription drug abuse is  a fast-growing problem that exists across the country,
     but officials say the problem is particularly acute
     in the cities and rural areas of Eastern Kentucky. NBC News' Mark Potter reports.

    Kentucky officials see an ‘epidemic’; officials say drugs coming from Florida

    By Mark Potter

    Correspondent

    NBC News

    updated 8:17 a.m. ET July 6, 2009

    MOREHEAD, Ky. — Late in the morning last New Year's Day, Sam and Lynn Kissick received a devastating phone call that would tear their lives apart.
    The caller informed them their 22-year-old daughter, Savannah, was being rushed by ambulance to the St. Claire Regional Medical Center in Morehead, Ky. She had long battled drug addiction, but it looked like this time, Savannah had overdosed on a combination of painkillers and sedatives while celebrating New Year's Eve. 
    After racing to the emergency room to be by Savannah's side, her parents were met by a physician with grim
    news. "I'm sorry, Mr. And Mrs. Kissick, but she didn't make it," he said.
    Savannah had just become the latest fatality linked to prescription drug abuse, a fast-growing problem that killed more than 8,500 Americans in 2005, according to the latest available statistics from the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says nearly 7 million Americans currently abuse prescription drugs, noting that is "more than the number who are abusing cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, ecstasy and inhalants combined." The DEA also reports that "opioid painkillers now cause more overdose deaths than cocaine and heroin combined."
    "Something needs to be done, because it's killing our kids every day." said Lynn Kissick.  "People need to stand up and take notice. Our kids are dying. They're dying because of these drugs."

     A regional ‘epidemic’ 
    While the problem exists in every state in the country, Kentucky led the nation in the use of
    prescription drugs for non-medical purposes during the last year, according to the state'sOffice of Drug Control Policy. Officials said prescription drug abuse is particularly acute in the cities and rural areas of Eastern Kentucky.
    Last year alone, at least 485 people died in Kentucky from prescription drug overdoses,
    according to the state's Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Medical Examiners' records indicate the drugs most commonly found in those death cases were methadone, the painkillers oxycodone and hydrocodone, alprazolam (Xanax), morphine, diazepam (Valium) and fentanyl.
    "It's an epidemic and I'm afraid we're losing a whole generation," said Beth Lewis Maze, the Chief Circuit Judge for the 21st Judicial Circuit in Kentucky. "These pain medications are so highly addictive that these young people are digging themselves a very deep hole."
    In the region's newly formed drug court, Maze sees the ravages of prescription drug abuse at all levels of society. "I see good kids from good families, doctors, lawyers, teachers," she said.
    Greenup County Coroner Neil Wright calls prescription drug abuse "public enemy number one."  Half of the 50 deaths he logged last year were drug related, and "85 to 90 percent" of those calls involved prescription pill overdoses. "It affects everybody. I don't care, rich, poor, educated or non-educated, it affects everybody."
    Down the street, Greenup County Sheriff Keith Cooper dug through the many evidence bags his deputies have filled with prescription pill bottles and cash seized during drug arrests.
    "We are drowning in a sea of prescription medication," said Cooper, who complained about the skyrocketing number of crimes committed by addicts searching for money to buy painkillers.
    "It affects, quite literally, every kind, every type of crime that we have, the burglaries, the thefts, the accidents, the domestic disputes between families. It's breaking families up."
    In neighboring Rowan County, where Savannah Kissick died, Chief Deputy Sheriff Roger Holbrook was arrested recently on federal charges that he had conspired to distribute oxycodone. 

    Crowded rehabilitation clinics 
    Pastor Wayne Ross runs the Shepherd’s Shelter adult drug and alcohol treatment center in Mount Sterling, Ky. His 50 available beds are filled with residents struggling to recover from drug addiction, almost all of them from prescription pill habits. 

    Savannah Kissick was one of his clients, and she had graduated from the recovery program. Her return to drug abuse and her death from an overdose shook Ross and the clinic staff members who had worked hard for her success. 
    "I cried, it breaks my heart," said Ross, who officiated at Savannah's funeral. "She's not the only one. We've been directly involved with five different people who have OD'd. Three of the funerals I did, myself, as a minister. It just breaks my heart."
    Kay Fultz, 36, is also from Morehead, Ky. and is currently a resident of the Shepherd’s Shelter who said that at the height of her addiction, she was taking as many as 50 oxycodone pain pills a day and was dealing drugs to support her own habit.
    "It just starts out as a party drug, you know, every now and then," Fultz said.  "Once you start doing it every day, I mean it just takes compete control of your life."
    Finding a prescription drug supply was easy for Fultz. "It's very simple to get. It's everywhere," she said. But once addicted, the costs are severe. "I've lost everything. I've lost everything and it's so easy to do."

    Florida connection 
    During a recent classroom session at his clinic, Ross asked the residents where they bought their prescription drugs. Every person in the room had either traveled to Florida to obtain the medications, or had purchased drugs from someone else who had bought prescription painkillers there. 
    Florida has become notorious as a destination for addicts and drug dealers from around the southeastern United States.  They are drawn to the many pain clinics in Florida, some of which dispense hundreds of painkillers at a time after only a cursory medical exam.
    "You can go down there and within 24 hours have everything you need," said Fultz, who added that the medical exam she was given at a Florida pain clinic, where she pretended to suffer from pain, was not at all professional.
    "I mean, they look at your MRI, ask you how you are feeling — ‘I'm feeling pretty bad’ — and you leave there with pills."
    Sam Kissick, Savannah’s father, believes the drugs that killed his daughter came from Florida.
    "From where I'm sitting, it looks like they're handing it out like candy on Halloween," he said. "Anybody that goes down there can come back with carloads of pills, and then they're dumped out on our streets."
    To addicts in Kentucky, Florida is “like the promised land,” said Cooper, the Greenup County sheriff.
    Local police, federal agents and medical officials in Florida are targeting illicit prescription drug sales. The state legislature recently passed, and Gov. Charlie Crist signed, a law to regulate and monitor pain clinics, although the procedure won't be fully implemented until late next year. 
    Kentucky and most other states already have such monitoring laws in place, making it much more difficult for addicts and dealers to buy large amounts of prescription medication by going from clinic to clinic – a common practice in Florida.

    Families left behind 
    Karen Shay, a dentist in Morehead, Ky., also knows too well the cost and pain of prescription drug abuse. Two years ago, her 19-year-old daughter, Sarah, died from an overdose after partying with friends, who dropped her body off at a hospital and drove away. 
    Sarah Shay and Savannah Kissick had been childhood friends.
    "We have two young ladies that were beautiful, talented and intelligent, had the world by the tail, could have done anything and they're gone,” Shay said. “They're gone."
    In her work, Shay also sees the desperation of drug addicts, some of whom have visited her office seeking pain medication for fake dental problems. Because of Kentucky's prescription monitoring law, Shay is able to run computer checks on patients she suspects of doctor-shopping for painkillers and turns many of them away.
    "If [the painkillers are] taken the way they're supposed to be, it's a very powerful, helpful drug.  But when they're not taken the way they're supposed to, then it becomes a killer," she said. "It's amazing when you look in the paper, how many people have died from drug abuse. "

    During a recent visit to the cemetery where Sarah is interred, Shay cleared away the dying flower petals and placed a colorful pinwheel below her daughter's crypt. Looking upward to the plaque showing Sarah's name and picture, she quietly spoke the words, "Hi, Baby," then bowed her head. 
    "When you lose somebody like that, it puts a hole in your heart that nothing else will ever fill," she said.
    For the Kissicks, whose loss is more recent and raw, anger mingles with grief.
    "It's time that people were held accountable for what's happening. I think it's time that someone was held responsible,” Lynn Kissick said.
    The parents want to raise awareness about the problem so that others don’t have to endure their pain.
    "The drugs, they don't discriminate and it can happen to anybody," said Sam Kissick. "You may never have any idea that your child is exploring or fooling with prescription drugs at all, until they've already gone too far with it."

    Sitting at their dining room table recently, Savannah's parents sorted through colorful photographs of their daughter. 

    "She had a beautiful smile," said Lynn. In a quiet voice, Sam agreed, "That she did."
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    Police say the murder scenes are linked and they are searching for a man resembling this sketch.

    Police say the murder scenes are linked and they are searching for a man resembling this sketch.


    N. Carolina shooting stirs interest in S. Carolina serial killings


    • STORY HIGHLIGHTS
    • Police say no confirmed link between N. Carolina crime, S. Carolina serial killings
    • But video of N. Carolina crime site shows car similar to one sought in serial killings
    • North Carolina authorities say "evidence" prompted call to South Carolina police
    • Killer has slain five people in Gaffney, South Carolina, area, police say

    DALLAS, North Carolina (CNN) -- Police in Gaston County, North Carolina, shot and killed a suspect during a possible robbery early Monday, then called in police from South Carolina who have been chasing a serial killer.

    There was "evidence in regard to the man that was shot," said Capt. Joe Ramey of the Gaston County Police Department.

    He did not give specifics, and he said he could not state for certain that the suspect had a link to the serial killer case.

    "We saw evidence they needed to know about," Ramey told CNN.

    Gaston County is about 33 miles northeast of Gaffney, South Carolina. Police say a serial killer in the Gaffney area has killed five people since late June.

    Police in Cherokee County, which includes Gaffney, had issued a basic description of the killer and said he may be driving a Ford Explorer from the early 1990s.

    Video from outside the home in North Carolina on Monday showed a vehicle that seemed to match that general description.

    Early Monday, in Dallas, which is part of Gaston County, police received a call about a possible burglary in progress, police said. When they entered the residence, they found two people who lived there and a third who "was an acquaintance," police said in a news release.

     

    "A second check on the suspect individual uncovered an outstanding warrant" from nearby Lincoln County, police said. "Officers attempted to serve the outstanding warrant when the suspect pulled a gun and fired at officers. Officers returned fire killing the suspect."

    One officer was shot in the leg and has been treated and released from a hospital, police said.

    Jennifer Timmons of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division told CNN there was no immediate confirmation of any link to the serial killer case. "Processing any crime scene is going to take a while," she noted.

    The killer's latest victim was 15-year-old Abby Tyler, who was shot last week and died Saturday. Her father, Stephen Tyler, 48, had been pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting, in their family-run furniture and appliance store.

    As residents mourned the Tylers over the weekend, they also had words of warning for the man terrorizing the community.

    "If he comes to me, face to face, I'm ready, I'm loaded, and I'm aimed for him," said Sarah Banister, a neighbor of one of the killer's victims.

    "I'm afraid for my life," said Robby Banister, her husband. "It's gonna be kind of like a dogfight. I'm telling you: I'm going to win."

    In an interview Monday on CNN's "American Morning," Cherokee County Sheriff Bill Blanton said investigators have determined "through evidence" that the five killings are linked. Authorities are not giving details about the evidence.

    "We don't have a current motive or connection between the murders," said Blanton. "With a community this small, it's very possible I knew all the victims, and it's possible that all the victims knew each other. But we don't have any information right now that links the killer to [them]."

    Police released a sketch that they say is their best guess about the killer's appearance, based on witness reports. He is identified as a white male, approximately 6 feet 2 inches tall, with salt-and-pepper hair.

    The vehicle he was driving may be a Ford Explorer, possibly "goldish-tan or champagne" in color, Blanton said.

    "We're focusing on anything that even looks like a Ford Explorer," he said. Witnesses have said the killer appears to weigh about 250 pounds, "so we're saying probably 230 to 250," he said.

    The killer apparently also "had a ball cap on," but his clothes have been different, Blanton added.

    The first shooting occurred June 27, when peach farmer Kline W. Cash, 63, was killed. His wife found him dead in their home, the sheriff's office said.

    Blanton said Cash's home may have been robbed.

    Four days later, the bound and shot bodies of Hazel Linder, 83, and her 50-year-old daughter, Gena Linder Parker, were found in the Linders' home, where she lived alone.

    Blanton said authorities are still trying to determine if anything was taken from that home.

    Leave has been canceled for all members of the police department and the sheriff's department, their respective chiefs have said.

    About 100 investigators from North and South Carolina are working the case, Blanton said.

     

    Asked how the 50,000 Cherokee County residents can try to stay safe, Blanton said, "Generally it's the same information just a crime prevention officer would use. People need to check on their neighbors, especially family, loved ones that live alone or elderly that live together. Travel in at least groups of two or more. But I've noticed the community is concerned and have a right to be."

    People in Cherokee County are operating "on regular schedules," businesses are open, and some schools began Monday, Blanton said. "But people are using caution. And that's what we're asking them to do. Just be cautious until we do catch this murderer." 

     

     


    Sepide Salmani, left, 23, comforts Soheyla Kazemi Sunday, July 5, 2009 in Orange Park, Fla. as they talk about the death of Soheyla Kazemi's sister, Sahel Kazemi, 20, in Nashville, Tenn. Sahel Kazemi  and former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair(notes) were found dead Saturday at a Nashville condominium that he rented with a friend.

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    Relative: Police say woman with McNair bought gun

    By TERESA M. WALKER, AP Sports Writer

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—Steve McNair’s(notes) 20-year-old girlfriend bought a gun a couple of days before she was found dead alongside the slain former NFL quarterback, her relative said Monday.

    Farzin Abdi said police told him about the gun purchase by his aunt Sahel Kazemi, who was raised with him like a sister. Kazemi and McNair were found dead on Saturday in a Nashville condominium leased by the former Titans star.

    Abdi said police told him they are almost sure Kazemi was the shooter, but the 27-year-old nephew said he doesn’t believe she would do it. Abdi didn’t know what day of the week the gun was purchased or what type of gun it was.

    “There was no way she was depressed and wanting to do this,” he said. “She was so happy. … She just had it made, you know, (with) this guy taking care of everything.”

    Nashville police didn’t immediately have a response to Abdi’s comments.

    Abdi said Kazemi believed McNair was divorcing his wife and she was preparing to sell her furniture to move in with him.

    Nashville courts had no record of a McNair divorce case, but a 14,000-square-foot home he owned in Nashville is on the market for $3 million.

    Mechelle McNair has been described as very distraught about her husband’s death and has not commented on it.

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—Steve McNair’s(notes) 20-year-old girlfriend bought a gun a couple of days before she was found dead alongside the slain former NFL quarterback, her relative said Monday.

    Farzin Abdi said police told him about the gun purchase by his aunt Sahel Kazemi, who was raised with him like a sister. Kazemi and McNair were found dead on Saturday in a Nashville condominium leased by the former Titans star.

    Abdi said police told him they are almost sure Kazemi was the shooter, but the 27-year-old nephew said he doesn’t believe she would do it. Abdi didn’t know what day of the week the gun was purchased or what type of gun it was.

    “There was no way she was depressed and wanting to do this,” he said. “She was so happy. … She just had it made, you know, (with) this guy taking care of everything.”

    Nashville police didn’t immediately have a response to Abdi’s comments.

    Abdi said Kazemi believed McNair was divorcing his wife and she was preparing to sell her furniture to move in with him.

    Nashville courts had no record of a McNair divorce case, but a 14,000-square-foot home he owned in Nashville is on the market for $3 million.

    Mechelle McNair has been described as very distraught about her husband’s death and has not commented on it.

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—Steve McNair’s(notes) 20-year-old girlfriend bought a gun a couple of days before she was found dead alongside the slain former NFL quarterback, her relative said Monday.

    Farzin Abdi said police told him about the gun purchase by his aunt Sahel Kazemi, who was raised with him like a sister. Kazemi and McNair were found dead on Saturday in a Nashville condominium leased by the former Titans star.

    Abdi said police told him they are almost sure Kazemi was the shooter, but the 27-year-old nephew said he doesn’t believe she would do it. Abdi didn’t know what day of the week the gun was purchased or what type of gun it was.

    “There was no way she was depressed and wanting to do this,” he said. “She was so happy. … She just had it made, you know, (with) this guy taking care of everything.”

    Nashville police didn’t immediately have a response to Abdi’s comments.

    Abdi said Kazemi believed McNair was divorcing his wife and she was preparing to sell her furniture to move in with him.

    Nashville courts had no record of a McNair divorce case, but a 14,000-square-foot home he owned in Nashville is on the market for $3 million.

    Mechelle McNair has been described as very distraught about her husband’s death and has not commented on it.

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—Steve McNair’s(notes) 20-year-old girlfriend bought a gun a couple of days before she was found dead alongside the slain former NFL quarterback, her relative said Monday.

    Farzin Abdi said police told him about the gun purchase by his aunt Sahel Kazemi, who was raised with him like a sister. Kazemi and McNair were found dead on Saturday in a Nashville condominium leased by the former Titans star.

    Abdi said police told him they are almost sure Kazemi was the shooter, but the 27-year-old nephew said he doesn’t believe she would do it. Abdi didn’t know what day of the week the gun was purchased or what type of gun it was.

    “There was no way she was depressed and wanting to do this,” he said. “She was so happy. … She just had it made, you know, (with) this guy taking care of everything.”

    Nashville police didn’t immediately have a response to Abdi’s comments.

    Abdi said Kazemi believed McNair was divorcing his wife and she was preparing to sell her furniture to move in with him.

    Nashville courts had no record of a McNair divorce case, but a 14,000-square-foot home he owned in Nashville is on the market for $3 million.

    Mechelle McNair has been described as very distraught about her husband’s death and has not commented on it.

    Before their deaths, the public knew nothing of Kazemi’s relationship with McNair, a star who had earned the respect of his fellow NFL players for shaking off defenders and injuries and the love of fans amazed at how the quarterback kept showing up for work—and winning.

    He endeared himself further with his charity work. Not just from the checks he handed out, but for throwing himself into the efforts, like he did when loading boxes onto tractor-trailers bound for Hurricane Katrina victims.

    Publicly, McNair was a happily married man and proud father of four sons who split his time between his Mississippi farm and a home in Music City, where celebrities are cherished, not hassled.

    His death, however, thrust a darker side of his private life into the spotlight.

    “People have certain things that they do in life,” said McNair’s longtime friend Robert Gaddy, who called 911. “We don’t need to look on the situation at this time (but) on the fact we just lost a great member of society.”

    Even McNair’s longtime agent said he didn’t know about the former quarterback’s relationship with Kazemi.

    “As good as he was on the football field, that couldn’t touch the person,” agent Bus Cook said Sunday, still shaken by McNair’s death. “I mean it just couldn’t.”

    Hints of a problem with alcohol surfaced in May 2003 when a Nashville police officer pulled McNair over on suspicion of drunk driving. Police said the quarterback’s blood alcohol content was 0.18 percent—well over Tennessee’s legal limit. He also was charged with having a 9mm weapon with him, but all the charges were later dropped.

    McNair was charged with drunken driving in 2007 because he let his brother-in-law drive his pickup truck. Those charges were later dropped when the DUI charge against the brother-in-law was reduced to reckless driving.

    And McNair could have been charged again Thursday night when the same officer who arrested him in 2003 stopped a 2007 Cadillac Escalade driven by Kazemi and registered to both her and McNair. Kazemi was arrested on a DUI charge, and he was allowed to leave in a taxi.

    Police labeled his death a homicide Sunday, revealing McNair had been shot four times—twice in the head, twice in the chest—when found in a rented condominium he shared with a longtime friend, Wayne Neeley. Police found a semiautomatic pistol under Kazemi’s body.

    But police spokesman Don Aaron said they were reviewing every possibility, interviewing friends of both and an ex-boyfriend before labeling Kazemi’s death.

    On the football field, he simply was “Air McNair,” a winner.

    McNair still holds the NCAA’s Football Championship Series (formerly Division I-AA) records for career yards passing (14,496) and total offense (16,823) from his days at tiny Alcorn State in Mississippi.

    He played 13 NFL seasons, starting with the then-Houston Oilers, and led Tennessee to its famous last-second 2000 Super Bowl loss to the St. Louis Rams. He ended his career in Baltimore last season, after being traded away by the Titans after they drafted Vince Young(notes) as a replacement to the aching and expensive veteran.

    McNair’s friends want the quarterback to be remembered for his generosity. He gave away turkeys and checks in Tennessee, toys in Baltimore and paid for three football camps himself this year. Cook talked to someone Saturday who saw McNair cleaning up the field after one camp at Southern Mississippi.

    “That was Steve McNair. That’s who he is. And who he was,” an emotional Cook recalled.

    A viewing will be held Thursday at a Nashville funeral home, followed by another viewing at Mount Zion Baptist Church with a memorial service Thursday night. A funeral service will be held Saturday in Mississippi, but final details were not set.

    McNair met Kazemi at the Dave & Buster’s restaurant where she worked as a server and where his family ate often. The two began dating a few months ago in a relationship that included a vacation with parasailing. Photos posted on TMZ.com showed McNair gazing and smiling at the young Kazemi.

    Associated Press writers Travis Loller, Lucas L. Johnson II and Joe Edwards contributed to this story.

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    Actor Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films, spoke Monday of his fears after contracting swine flu, saying he initially thought he might die.

    Grint described contracting the A(H1N1) virus, which has spread around the world, as "quite scary" but he recovered after spending a few days in bed.

    "It was quite scary when I first found out I had swine flu," he said at a press conference with other Potter actors including Emma Watson in London.

    "I thought 'Am I going to die?' But it was just like any other flu really."

    "I had a sore throat and I went to bed for a few days."

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    LOS ANGELES – A judge said Monday that Michael Jackson's longtime attorney and a family friend should take over the pop singer's estate for now, rejecting a request from Jackson's mother to be put in charge or share control.

    Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff backed attorneyJohn Branca and music executive John McClain, who had been designated in Jackson's 2002 will as the people he wanted to administer his estate. Attorneys for the pop singer's mother repeatedly objected to their appointment at Monday's court hearing.

    "It's our desire to do everything we can to carry out Michael Jackson's wishes and to maximize the estate," said Howard Weitzman, who spoke after the hearing on behalf of Branca. Weitzman issued a statement later calling the judge's ruling "the correct decision."

    The singer's mother, Katherine Jackson, had applied to oversee her son's estate, but that was before the 2002 will surfaced. Her attorney, Burt Levitch, expressed concerns about McClain and Branca's financial leadership.

    Jackson died June 25, deeply in debt. But a court filing estimates that his estate will be worth more than $500 million. His assets are destined for a private trust.

    A public memorial has been scheduled for Jackson in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. Dozens of police officers and a fire truck were parked outside Dodger Stadium on Monday, where ticket winners could start picking up their coveted passes to the Staples Centerceremony.

    More than 1.6 million people registered to win the coveted free tickets, and only 8,750 names were chosen. Los Angeles officials are concerned about other fans clogging city streets.

    One person who won't be at the memorial is Debbie Rowe, Jackson's ex-wife and the mother of Jackson's two oldest children. She had planned to attend, but backed out Monday.

    "The onslaught of media attention has made it clear her attendance would be an unnecessary distraction to an event that should focus exclusively on Michael's legacy," Rowe attorney Marta Almli said. "Debbie will continue to celebrate Michael's memory privately."

    Lucky fans celebrated when they got an e-mail saying they had scored the hottest ticket in town. "Congratulations, your application was successful," said the message sent to Deka Motanya, 27, of San Francisco.

    She immediately Twittered: "OMG OMG OMG OMG i got tickets to the michael jackson memorial service!!!"

    On eBay, bids were reaching as high as $3,000, though it was impossible to verify the seriousness of those offers. Others on Monday were submitting bids more in the $100-$200 range.On Craigslist, asking prices also were in the thousands. Some unable to attend, though, simply wanted to give away their tickets — as one post read — "to only true fans."On the legal front, Katherine Jackson's attorneys had asked that she be appointed to serve as a co-administrator with Branca and McClain. Beckloff refused to grant that request.Branca and McClain will have to post a $1 million bond on the estate, Beckloff ruled. Their authority over the estate will expire Aug. 3, when another hearing on the estate will be held.
    "Mr. Branca and Mr. McClain for the next month are at the helm of the ship," Beckloff said.Attorneys also disclosed that another Jackson will from 1997 has been lodged with the court, but will only become a factor if the 2002 will is invalidated. Details of the older will were not disclosed.Levitch, an attorney for Katherine Jackson, told Beckloff that Branca had previously been removed from financial positions of authority by Jackson. Branca's attorney says he was rehired by Jackson on June 17, days before Jackson's death.Katherine Jackson did not appear at Monday's hearing. Branca did attend.

    Levitch said it was unclear whether McClain would serve as an administrator because he was of ailing health. Attorneys for McClain and Branca described him as having a physical disability but having a completely sound mind. They also noted a decades-long relationship with the Jackson family.

    The judge granted Branca and McClain several powers over the estate, including the rights to negotiate a settlement with concert promoter AEG Live over refunds for Jackson's canceled London shows. Beckloff stressed that Katherine Jackson should be given complete information about major transactions, but that he as the judge would grant final approval.

    John E. Schreiber, an attorney for Katherine Jackson, said, "Frankly, Mrs. Jackson has concerns about handing over the keys to the kingdom."

    Branca had a 5 percent interest in Sony/ATV Music Publishing in September 2005, according to Uniform Commercial Code filings in New York, but his interest was terminated in December 2007.

    Branca also was a trustee in MJ Publishing Trust, which held Jackson's 50-percent stake, but is not believed to be any longer, said John Schreiber, a lawyer for Katherine Jackson.

    Her lawyers had argued in court that Katherine Jackson needed to be special administrator of the estate to be able to determine if Branca and McClain had other dealings with Jackson or his partners.

    Paul Gordon Hoffman, an attorney for Branca and McClain, said some of Katherine Jackson's concerns were unfounded.

    "We're not aware of any real conflicts at all," he said in response to a claim that the men may have business dealings with parties such as concert promoter AEG Live.

    In contrast, Hoffman said Jackson's mother had more of a potential conflict administering the estate because she is a likely beneficiary.

    "If there are any conflicts by the parties, Katherine Jackson rather than Mr. McClain and Mr. Branca have them," Hoffman said.

    Beckloff noted the contentious relationship brewing between Katherine Jackson and Branca, who personally delivered the will to the family's home a week ago.

    "We're getting off to a bit of a rocky start here out of the gate," Beckloff said toward the end of Monday's hearing.

    L. Londell McMillan, Katherine Jackson's main attorney, said after the hearing that he did not expect a protracted fight.

    "We have no reason to believe this is going to turn into a nasty fight over millions and millions of dollars," McMillan said.

    He said he and other attorneys will be watching Branca's and McClain's actions closely.

    "We will be working to ensure that Mr. Jackson's legacy will be treated with dignity," McMillan said. "Mr. Jackson's life and legacy will be memorialized tomorrow and we will move forward."

    Associated Press Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch and Associated Press writers Daisy Nguyen and Ryan Nakashima contributed to this report

     

     

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    Debbie Rowe confirmed to attend Jackson memorial

    LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson's ex-wife Debbie Rowe will attend the pop superstar's memorial service.

    Former Jackson business associate Marc Schaffel said on ABC's "Good Morning America" that Rowe was confirmed for VIP seats
    . Rowe is the mother of Jackson's two oldest children.

    Meanwhile, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry said she'd "love it" if the Jacksons helped defray some of the city's expected costs associated
    with Tuesday's memorial, but that officials hadn't heard from the family.

    Perry said the city didn't immediately have an estimate of those costs. More than 1.6 million fans registered online for a chance to attend the
    Staples Center
     ceremony, and only 8,750 names were chosen. Los Angeles officials are concerned about other fans clogging city streets.

    "We're encouraging people to stay away," Perry said on CBS' "The Early Show" on Monday.

    The Rev. Al Sharpton, in an appearance Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America," made no mention of whether the Jacksons would help the city
    with some of the expected costs.

    "The city is trying to do what it should do to secure people," said Sharpton, a family friend. "That's what cities do. Clearly, no one in the family
    are happy that the city is incurring any expense at all. You're talking about an historic figure that will have an historic celebration, probably one
    that we would not see similar in this generation."

    Meanwhile, lucky fans celebrated when they got an e-mail saying they had scored the hottest ticket in town. "Congratulations, your application
    was successful," said the message sent to Deka Motanya, 27, of San Francisco.

    She immediately Twittered: "OMG OMG OMG OMG i got tickets to the michael jackson memorial service!!!"

    It was a real-life version of Willy Wonka's golden tickets. Each selected person gets a pair of free tickets, with the odds of being chosen about 1 in 183.

    Dozens of police officers and a fire truck were parked outside Dodger Stadium on Monday, where ticket winners could start picking up their coveted passes.

    Nancy Kothari, 31, drove all night from Yuma, Arizona, to be at the stadium before the gates opened.

    "I grew up with Michael Jackson, with his music," Kothari said. "`Thriller' was the first album I ever had."

    Kothari said she expected the service to be "extremely sad."

    "I'm kind of nervous in a way, but also excited," she said.

    Tickets were handed out in a drive-through process. Voucher holders had to get past a police checkpoint outside the stadium, then drive into a parking
    lot where orange traffic cones marked about 20 lanes. A police officer and an event staffer stood at the end of each lane. Drivers pulled up, handed over
    their vouchers, had a band placed on their wrist and were given tickets and another wristband.

    Ticket winners were to show up with a unique code and instructions, and organizers were to check IDs to make sure those picking up wristbands were
    the same people who originally applied online, said Staples Center spokesman Michael Roth.

    Fans must have both the ticket and the wristband to enter Staples Center on Tuesday. Wristbands that have been ripped, taped or tampered with will
    be voided.

    But Roth acknowledged that high-priced scalping of the free passes was possible because winners were permitted to give anyone their second bracelet.

    "Theoretically, the second wrist band can be sold," Roth said.

    Organizers were considering how to distribute any unclaimed seats, but had not immediately decided on a plan, Roth said.

    The memorial service will be broadcast live on five television networks.

    David Gobaud, 25, who studies computer science at Stanford University, said he didn't believe his e-mail of acceptance was real at first.
     "It's Michael Jackson, one of the greatest musical stars of all time," he said.

    Zach Moss, a 21-year-old ticket winner from Chicago who is working as a DJ in Las Vegas this summer, said clubgoers have responded strongly
    to Jackson's music since his death.

    "You can play two, three Michael Jackson songs back to back and people are going to have this huge jubilation celebration," he said.
    "Everyone throws their drinks up and shouts, 'MJ!' It's extremely powerful."

    The tickets will admit 11,000 people to the Staples Center plus 6,500 in the Nokia Theater overflow section next door. The streets around
    Staples Center will be closed to prevent those without tickets from trying to attend, police said.

    Assistant Police Chief Jim McDonnell warned the ticketless to stay away. He would not say how many police would be on the job, but alluded
    to the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the recent championship celebration for the Los Angeles Lakers at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

    "You'll be standing in the hot sun on a city street with a lot of other people," he said. "But not within eyeshot of Staples."

    The ceremony will not be shown on Staples' giant outdoor TV screen and there will be no funeral procession through the city.
    No details were available about the actual memorial events.

    The joyful anticipation among the chosen fans comes as the courts continue to untangle the future of Jackson's estate and police probe the
     circumstances of his death.

    Jackson died at age 50 on June 25 after going into cardiac arrest in the bedroom of his rented mansion.
    The cause of Jackson's death has not been determined. Autopsy results are not expected for several weeks.

    Jackson's family was planning a private ceremony at the Forest Lawn cemetery in the Hollywood Hills,
    McDonnell said. He did not provide further details.

    Associated Press Writers Jacob Adelman and Michael R. Blood, Television Writer David Bauder and
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     The seven series of books 
    written by Stephen Carew-Reid
    The Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?) 


    Stephen Carew-Reid - arguing with the Judiciary
    Stephen Carew-Reid, now living in WA

    Stephen went to Christ Church Grammer School until 1962 when his family moved to Melbourne. There he attended Brighton Grammer School from 1963 to 1969. In 1970 he attended Melbourne High School and received a Commonwealth Scholarship to attend Melbourne University to complete a Law Degree. Instead his father John Hastings Carew-Reid talked him into comming back to Perth WA and taking over the family stone business and completing a Bachelor of Commerce Degree during the years 1971-75.

    Stephen received 75% of the family company worth about $8,000 in compensation to his other two brothers and one sister receiving about $20,000 to start their adult life with. 

    Stephen built this company up with wise real estate investments from $8,000 in value to over $500,000 by the end of the 1970's. Stephen wanted to develop these properties himself and make a further $1 million development profit by building town houses and offices on the land. During his university days he rented all the rooms out in the houses to pay for the mortgages, had two children and was one of the 8 selected out of over 2,000 entries to fly to Melbourne to be part of the Johny Young Song Festival. His father took control of the company back from Stephen by issuing an extra 5,000 shares now it was very valuable and stopped Stephen from developing the house himself and in fact sold the house to a property developer who made $1 million profit.

    His father died in 1986 and left the WA Public Trustee as executor of this will. Stephen ended up sueing the Public Trustee for mishandling the etate and ended up representing himself for over a decade in the WA Courts against the Public Trustee who used their power of City Hall against him. Stephen has ended up having his practical expereince in the courts before he did any formal training and has now written a series of books about the fight he has had with the WA Public Trustee and the WA Government called, "The Truimph of Truth (Who's Watching the Watchers)". The books have been named after his late Great Grand Father Bertram McKennal who was well known bronze sculpter in the earty 1900's in Melbourne who went on to becoming quite famous in Europe. Before he left Melbourne to further his art in Europe, he won a competition sponcered by well knbwon business men to produce a life size sculpter to be placed outside the Art Gallery. He called his entry "The Triumph of Truth". He only ever did a small clay version for the entry because the prise money never came forward form the businessmen to finance him to complete the life size sculpter.

    His Great Grand Father was searching for the Truth in his art and now Stephen is searching for the truth in his books to carry on his Great Grand Father's work in a different form.


    http://www.mhsoba.asn.au/default.asp?pg=luncheon&spg=display&articleid=2266 

    When the other eight Volumes of the Triumph of Truth ( Who Is Watchinbg The Watchers?) are finally recovered from the Queensland Police and the Queensland Government, they are due to be made into a series of films in a cartoon version staring 

    Mr Wijat and His Team,
     

    Mr Wijat's little greenie mate, who even though he is mr Wijat's bestest friend, he is always telling Mr Wijat that Mr Wijat can not go around telling powerful people like the Prime Miniister, the President, the Police Commissioner, the director of Public Prosecutions that they have actied in a criminal manner and should go to jail if they do niot chsange their ways, ERF the Worm's way of dealing with these people is to go and talk nicely to them in a gentle manner and hug a tree in the White House and turn and the corrupt acts of partliament and worngful orders made into garne mulsh witht he help of millions of the Erf the Worm Family who go unnoticed by the security guards who think, "oh there just gasrden worms they can not do any harm" , 

     
      
    Mr Wijat's supero hero upstart son who thinks he know it all, 
      
    Marven the Marvelous 
    who is Mr Wijat's mad inventor who always comes up with crazy ideas, but occasionally Mr Wijat is impressed and users one of Marvelous Marvin's crazy ideas, and

      Invisible Magic Rabit, 
    who is Mr Mr Wijat;s little magic rabbit friend with psychic powers who goes everywhere with Mr Wijat and guides him in  the right direction and warns Mr Wijat of danger looming for Mr Wijat..Magic Rabit loves Strawberry Jam and is rewarded by Mr Wijat with a jar of Strawberry Jam when he has helped Mr Wijat out of another dangerous situation. Magic Rabbit has the ability to be invisable so that only Mr Wijat can see him with his special Sunglasses in the shape of map of Australia, made for him by Marvin the Marvelous. That way he can go and check out things for Mr Wijat withoiut anyone knowing he is there.

    The Triumph of Truth ( Who Is Watching The Watchers?)


    volumes one to nine, only volume nine is available on pre-order which had to be written in the USA for safety reasons, as the other eight volumes were stolen by the Queensland Police on behalf of the Queensland Government, powerful Freemason judges, magistrates, police, politicians, prosecutors, corrupt business people or organisations, corrupt prosecutors, corrupt public trustee employees to try and bury the truth..25 police have now been sacked in Queensland as a result of INLNews and USAWeeklyNews  Investigations given to the Queensland Government showing corrupt police making false arrests and planning and executing a robbery of two house fulls of furniture and effects in the house where the 8 volumes of The Triumph of Truth ( Who Is Watching The Watchers?). The Queensland Government are now about to be sued for in excess of one billion dollars in damages by those wrongly effected by the wrongful, immoral and illegal actions of Queensland Police who thought they were so powerful the could get away with all this, unless an out of court settlement is reached 


    "Provocative, frightening, informative, humorous- Your view and knowledge of the way the legal, police, political, public trustee business circles operate in Western Australia will never be the same.. after reading these volumes...A must real for present and budding legal eagles, police, politicians, litigants in person, anyone interested in and/or studying the law or the legal system, high school students, also anyone wanting to search for the truth and/or just interested in a book that is about a unique situation where one takes on City Hall which has unlimited resources and gives them a run for it's  money - with little and very little resources to fight City Hall with. It has been described as a real David V Goliath affair, and also described by Ian Wilson, Western Australian solicitor, as one of the greatest legal debacles he has ever seen in his legal practice.  Ian Wilson tried to negotiate an amicable settlement many years ago without success. The Public Trustee and the Western Australian Government felt there were simply too powerful and untouchable to bother with negotiating in a reasonable manner. Now they are among 69 respondents, including judges, magistrate, senior police, senior prosecutors, senior politicians, well known lawyers and barristers, public trustee accountants and managers, court officers etc., being sued in The Australian Federal Court  for conspiracy to defraud the Carew-Reid Family, who are asking $100 million in damages.. Volume 2-Edition 3 is about 1,100 pages plus photos........" Australian Weekend News publishers of The Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?) 
    The Triumph of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?) by Stephen Carew-Reid volumes one to nine, original manuscripts of the first 8 volumes stolen by Queensland Police in Australia to try and cover up the information in these volumes and illegally removed from the Western Australian Batye Resource Library without any court order from pressure from State Government Law Office
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    Click here to check the strange justice in Australia http://usaweeklynews.com/Mickleberg_Conspiracy.php

    Taken from Volume One 
    The Triumph of The Truth ( Who's Watching The Watchers?)
    written by Stephen Carew- Reid 
    and published originally by 
    the Australian Weekend News 
    in 1996

    ....."I have spoken to so many people whom tell me stories of the blatant disregard the Western Australian Public Trustee and their representatives have for the people's assets and income they are meant to protect and look after in the Western Australian Public Trustee General Fund. I have statements by ex-employees of the Public Trustee who state they have been shocked and dismayed at the blatant fraud, deceit, corruption and general immoral behaviour of senior members of the Public Trust Office in Western Australia and their appointed accounting, legal, property and trustee representatives. The corrupt people inside the Western Australian Public Trustee Office were so concerned about how much information one of these employees had built up on these corrupt senior Public Trustee Officers over the years, that they tried to obtain a false mental report on that person, to have that person declared insane so that person's evidence would not be believed when it finally becomes public. I have promised that person that I would withhold their name from being mentioned publicly because of fear of further reprisals and legal and underhand things being done to that person. However, if the Western Australian Public Trustee and the Western Australian Court Liberal Government and their co-conspirators are ever game to have a full blown trial where all the evidence is openly and candidly exposed and all witnesses are openly cross examined, this person will be willing to expose all the FRAUD, DECEIT, LIES, CORRUPTION, IMMORAL BEHAVIOUR AND GENERAL CONTEMPT and DISREGARD FOR THE PEOPLE THEY ARE MEANT TO BE LOOKING AFTER AS PUBLIC TRUSTEES. I must explain that the problems I have been experiencing with the System is very much to do with the current war that is currently being waged in Australia and in particular in Western Australia, for overall control between the Catholics and the Freemasons. When Brian Burke and the Labour Party was in power as premier of Western Australia, the Catholics were running the show in Western Australia, along with well known Catholics businessmen and politicians such as Lorry Connel, Allan Bond, Ray O'Connor. The Italian Catholic Mafia Godfather ,Sam Franchina who help put Brian Burke and Ray O'Connor in power as premiers of Western Australia on behalf of the Catholic Mafia etc. Sam Franchina well know in Perth Western Australia as the Italian Catholic Mafia God Father was so powerful that me appointed premiers lord mayors, police commissioners and even judges. As told to me by an ex-Western Australian police detective, who also was a Freemason, historically most of the Western Australian Police Commissioners in the last 100 years have been Freemasons. This particular police officer who rose quickly in the ranks to senior police detective with support and help of the other Freemasons in the Western Australian Police Force and Freemason politicians, was being groomed to become the next Freemason Western Australian Police Commissioner. He explained a lot of things about Freemasonry one evening at his home in Kalamunda, a suburb in the hills of Perth Western Australia, when I was helping him investigate a case he was working on in his new role as a private detective, having left the police force due to pressure from senior Freemasons in the Western Australian Police Service because he refused to play by their rules and refused to do what they wanted him to do. He brought out and showed me his Freemason white apron and other Freemason items that Freemasons are issued with when they join Freemasonry. He explained that he was for a long time a member of what was called the Blue Lodge of Freemasonry, which he found OK with his general religious beliefs as a Seventh day Adventist, because all that was required as far he knew to be a Freemason was to worship and/or believe in one supreme being. However, when he was approached to be groomed to become the next Freemason Police Commissioner, he was told to be able to be appointed in that powerful position with the support of powerful Freemasons he would have to join the Red Freemason Lodge, which he did not know anything about until that moment. He went to one meeting in the Red Lodge, which was a much higher level of lodge which only people in very powerful positions in society who are also Freemasons is allowed and/or invited to join.It was at the Red Lodge Freemason Meeting that it was revelled that the one supreme being that Freemason's actually were told to worship was The Devil, not God, as he had originally believed. It was at that point he wanted nothing more to to with attending Freemason meetings, and did not want to be part of the Red Freemason Lodge to have to join in with other senior Freemasons at the Red Lodge to worship the Devil. He also did not want to be the Western Australian Police Commissioner if it meant relying on the support of other senior powerful Freemasons at the Red Lodge. Because of his refusal to play the Freemason Game according to their rules, he was pressured in clandestine ways at work as a police officer, to the point he had a nervous breakdown and had to leave the police force in an early retirement. He now works as a private investigator in Western Australia for taking paid jobs on for private people where in many instances has to investigate the police who have done the wrong thing to private individuals.
    When Richard Court came to power in 1993 with his now Freemason backed Liberal Party, that won the election from the Catholic Mafia backed Labour Party it was return to power for the Freemasons in Western Australia. It is also interesting to note that originally the Catholic Mafia backed Ray O'Connor who was the leader of the Liberal Party to become the Premier of Western Australia. Then the Catholic Mafia headed by Sam Franchina moved their money power and resources to back Sam Franchina's life long friend Brian Burke, ex-journalist and joint supporter of trotting in Western Australia, to become premier as head of the Labour Party. This was clever public political marketing by the same group now backing the opposition political party under a new Premier to make Brian Burke at the time one of the most popular Premiers Western Australia ever had. 
    What Richard Court has done since being in power, is as quickly as possible place as many Freemasons ( Masonic Lodge) in important positions in the Western Australian Government and Public Service positions. This way even if the Freemasons were ever to lose temporary political power there would be enough of their Freemasons in powerful positions in the Public Service, the Police, the Court System etc to maintain control of the system and cause disruption to those in power so they do not remain in power for very long.  It has been stated in published books I have read and also to me personally by people who I have met whom know people inside the Masonic Lodges that over 60% of male lawyers, solicitors, magistrates, judges, builders, government clerks, prison officers, doctors, physciatrists, bankers and many other professions are members of the masonic lodge. I am told they hold meetings in their professional groups such as judges or bankers etc, so that it is easy for them to make behind the scene decisions as to how that particular industry will handle a particular person and/or situation. I my case they make sure the right judge and/or magistrate hears my cases when IT IS IMPORTANT. Thus they can use their wide discretionary powers in favour of those whom are against me, knowing that a judge can make any sort of abhorrent, illegal an/or immoral judgement, knowing it is such, and knowing that the worst that can happen is some judge in a higher court says that the judgement was wrong, and eventually sets it aside after the legal fraternity have made a fortune in legal fees form the parties on both sides (That's if the side that has been illegally treated has the resources to take the case to a higher court). If one of the parties are the government, that is even better for the legal firm whom has the brief, then a blank cheque is handed out tot he legal firm by the Government to take the case as far as possible, and make it as complicated as possible. Such firms as Mallesons Stephens Jaques ( Peter Foss The Attorney Generals' old legal firm) and Corrs Westgarth Chambers, seem to constantly obtain a lot of such government work.
    What Richard \Court did on behalf of the Freemasons who backed him into power as Premier of Western Australia following his most powerful Freemason father Charles Court who was also a previous Premier of Western Australia before the Catholic Mafia backed Ray O'Connor came to power, was to have senior successful Catholic Mafia businessmen such as Alan Bond and Lorry Connel and ex-catholic mafia premiers such as Ray O'Connor and Brain Bourke all arrested on various criminal charges, at the same time allow successful Freemason businessmen such as Walter Leonard Buckeridge 'the green ligfht' to commit what every business, criminal and taxation crimes he wanted and what ever help he needed with government approvals to further his business interests in Western Australia and throughout Australia. Leonard Walter Buckeridge who teamed up with his defacto wife Siok Poh Koh who was from the well known Triad Ko (or Koh) family to moved billions of dollars into the building industry in Western Australia from Hong Kong, so that Lennard Walter Buckeridge ended up fronting up as trustee owner of 90% of all commercial and housing building companies and building manufacturing companies such as bricks, windows, concrete, tiles, roads etc in Western Australia. Leonard Walter Buckeridge and his Triad partners call their group of companies the BGC Group and often spend millions in corporate TV advertising just showing how they can build a whole city from the ground up, all from their own building products. In fact when Channel 10 TV News in Australia filmed and started to show on national TV the evidence of common assault by Lennard Walter Buckeridge of Ronald Mitchell at 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Lennard Walter Buckeridge and his BGC Group needed to urgently stop this news footage being shown, so they overnight spent over $10 million in corporate advertising with Chanel 10 TV News in a new corporate advertising campaign for the BGC Group of companies on the condition Chanel 10 did not show the news footage anymore that proved Lennard Walter Buckeridge hit Ronald Mitchell over the head with a hot rake as Ronald Mitchell walked away after serving a court summons on Leonard Walter Buckeridge to force him to come to court to be cross examined over committing perjury in an exparte court application to obtain a fraudulent court order based on illegal legal principles, to restrain myself ( Stephen Carew-Reid) from going home to his family home at 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park where he had life tenancy prior to and since his father died in 1986 when the Western Australian Public Trustees were named as executors of his later father's will. A sympathetic news editor for Channel 10 TV News kindly provided a copy of the news tape showing the witnesses describing Lennard Walter Buckeridge hitting Ronald Mitchell on the back of the head with a hot rake which drew blood, while Ronald Mitchell had turned his back and was walking away after serving the witness summons on Leonard Walter Buckeridge. I personally witnessed this very cowardly act by billionaire Leonard Walter Buckeridge who is used to normally paying people to physically harm his enemies including paying people to murder his enemies. Leonard Walter Buckeridge has even openly bragged to the media that he has paid hit men to kill union leaders of unions he has been trying to destroy if anything ever happens to him from what he says are threats against him. This is not the first time that I had seen Leonard Walter Buckeridge Leonard hit an innocent person on the back of the head when they had their back turned. When I was about six years old my late father and I were chopping wood in the garage that bordered a common lane way that we shared between out family home, then at 137 Glyde Street Mosmans Park and Leonard Walter Buckeridge's mothers home below. Len Buckeridge ( as he is known in Perth) up the lane way and my father told him off in pleasant not threatening way for bulding Len Buckeridge's mothers house above the legal height limit, thus blocking out some of our view of the Swan River. After my father had said what he had to say to Len Buckeridge in a completely non threatening way, as my father was always a non violent person and always spoke softly and never ever shouted or lost his temper, my father went back to chopping the hard jarrah wood for our fireplace. Then when my father had his back turned to Len Buckeridge, Len Buckeridge grabbed a piece of jarrah wood from the wood pile and hit my father on the back of the head. I witnessed all this and saw my father drop to the ground as though all life had been knocked out of my father by the bang on the back of the head by Len Buckeridge. I then ran screaming up the garden stairs to my mother and yelled Len Buckeridge has killed Dad. This is such a vivid memory as a six year old that will never leave me. I still cry every time I think of this terrible event. A neighbour helped carry Dad up to the lounge in our house and the doctor was called, I was so relieved that it turned out that the nasty bang on the head my father had had only knocked him unconscious, and had not killed him. 
    The sad and disturbing fact about all this is not so much that there are such violent and cowardly people in this world that resort to violence when challenged over wrongs they have done to others, it is the fact that because Len Buckeridge is one of the richest most powerful person in Western Australia that employees thousands of people and his a Freemason, he is a fully protected individual that other powerful; Freemasons and non Freemasons are prepared to protect from any form of criminal prosecution, no matter how violent. This is clear evidence that there is one rule for the average person and another rule for powerful Freemasons like Len Buckeridge who can literally get away with assault, perjury , open threats of violence and even murder. Len Buckeridge has been given the green light to commit what ever criminal offence he likes and his fellow Freemasons and others will protect him regardless.

    READERS, what you will read in this introductory volume and following volumes is a factual and legal account of what I personally experienced. The comments I make are based on factual knowledge and true conviction. They have resulted form a search for the truth, which really started when I was a small child. However the first twenty three years of my life was mainly engaged in gaining the formal education I would need to be able to carry out my search for the truth and to be able to finally communicate it to the world at large through these books and other written and oral communications. I was born on the 3rd March 1953 and spent the years 1956 to 1976 in formal education which finalised in 1976 when I obtained a Bachelor of Commerce Degree at the University of Western Australia after majoring in Commercial law, Economics and Business Management.
    During my time over the last decade of fighting with those powerful positions in society I have name a lot of powerful enemies whom wish me not to bring out the truth tot he average Australian of how the system can be used by people in power against the average person and how it is extremely difficult to stand up and protect oneself and one's family. many people have said to me - what if you are murdered or sent to the insane asylum for trying to bring out the truth? My answer to this is simply this:
    1. My brother Lloyd Carew-Reid who lived in America now, wrote to me in 1986 when our father (John Hastings Carew-Reid) died and stated that one of the main things in life is that before we leave the physical world we make a statement of some kind. It is this statement that gives meaning to our life, not how long we live or how much material wealth we obtain during our life. if we can use the experiences in our life and formulate these into a statement of some kind for others to gain from, then our life on this physical world has not been waisted. I hope through this book and it's following volumes I can make such a statement before something untoward happened to me to stop me making any more statement about whom I am writing about.
    2. I would not be the first person to be murdered and/or sent to an insane asylum by the conspiracy which they tried to expose. the Book the UNSEEN HAND written by A Ralph Epperson published by Publius Press, Suite C 3100 50 Philamena Place, Tuscon, Arizona, 85730, which shows the other side of history which is not normally written in history books, was dedicated to Larry McDonald (1935-1983) " Who died because he dared to expose the very conspiracy that murdered him". As long as I at least get this volume and hopefully other volumes published, my life will not have been waisted. I would like to repeat what the author of the UNSEEN HAND, a Ralph Epperson stated in the introduction of his book,
    "What the reader will see as he progresses through this book, I am convinces, is a picture of  a great conspiracy so immense that it poses the greatest threat tot he freedoms and rights of all human beings, not only in the United States, but all over the world. It is likely that, as the reader completes this book, despair will replace curiosity especially if this explanation of the events being reviews has never been explored before. That is an unfortunate consequence of my research, and the author is sorry that he must be the bearer of such bad tidings. Despair, however, can reasonably be replaces with cautious optimism, the battle is not yet over, and there is reason to be encouraged. But you are the final participant. What happens will largely be dependent on your reaction once you've read this book.
    I have also noted in a letter addressed to the Honourable Justice Kevin Parker of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, " Please note: It doesn't matter how wrong the orders are made against me and other's whose interests I represent, because the more wrong and unjust they are, the more evidence I gather against those who have made them, and if the orders are fair and just then that means my message is finally getting through. 
    3. If I did not make the effort to write this book and all the other letters and correspondence I have written to people within the system to try and have an effect on changing the system for the better, I feel that I would have waisted my life and the education I have been given to be able to communicate in the written word, I have not lived a saintly life by any means and have made plenty of mistakes . However, life is about learning form mistakes and progressing form such learning in the hope that we all can try and make it a better world where human beings care for one another.
    I Australia we have an opportunity to make such a world where people of all religions and different social backgrounds can live in peace and harmony.

    4. The things that are said in this book very few people would be game to write; even though it is all the truth, because of fear of retribution form those powerful people in the system, which included not only physical acts, but also being sued for defamation and criminal charges in the form of criminal defamation and contempt of court etc. This would tie up the person up in the courts for years and probably send him bankrupt paying lawyers to defend them. that if they could find a lawyer whom would honestly defend them, without just running them out of money and assets and then sending them bankrupt and/or to prison and/or an insane asylum, so they can be no more trouble in the future. In my case I am constantly threatened with violence, false imprisonment, death, being declared insane and other legal threats by those whom I write about. I have been falsely arrested on charges that had no legal or factual basis whatsoever when I sued 69 of the most powerful people in the legal, political, court, public trustee, government, semi/quasi-government and business circles in Western Australia in the Federal Court in Canberra, and flown by RAAF Government plane in common with 60 SAS soldiers to the RAAF base at Pierce in Perth Western Australia, taken to the Perth Lock Up for the weekend, the put in front of a corrupt District Court Judge that I have written about in my books called Justice Williams, who was appointed as a result of previously working for Len Buckeridge who used his political and legal connections to get him appointed a judge in the District Court, who sent me to Graylands Mental Institution in the hope of having me declared insane, instead of sending me for trial on the false charges which he knew would be dismissed because they had no legal and/or factual basis to support a conviction at trail. It is interesting to note that the now Justice Williams was known in legal circles in Perth as one of the most hopeless lawyers in Perth, but it suited Len Buckeridge to befriend him while he was a lawyer and help make him a judge in the District Court of Western Australia so he can be used for doing favour for Len Buckeridge and his connections when needed. Justice Williams cam in handy when a judge was needed to send myself ( Stephen Carew-Reid) to a mental institution to help try and silence me speaking up about all the criminal , immoral, illegal and wrongful actions committed by those who I have been writing about in my seven series of books called The Triumph of Truth ( Who's Watching The Watchers?). Fortunately for me, Dr Bock who was the doctor who they had organised to have me declared clinically insane at Graylands Mental Institution as a schizophrenic who lives in a fantasy world and everything he writes about is all fantasy and delusional writings of a madman. At the same time those that I have written about in my my seven series of books called The Triumph of Truth ( Who's Watching The Watchers?) organised the Crown Law Department and the Director of Public Prosecutions, the judges and magistrates, the Ministry of Justice in Western Australia, the Government of Western Australia, Len Buckeridge etc all join all their political, legal and business power and influence to have all copies of my seven series of books called The Triumph of Truth ( Who's Watching The Watchers?) which had been purchased with public funds by the state resource library known as the Alexander Library and also as the Battye Library completely removed, destroyed and all traces of them removed from the library's computer as never ever having existed. The overall plan was to remove all traces of the books as never having ever existed from the state library, and at the same time have me permanently committed to a mental institution so I could never complain about the books being removed and in fact never ever know they Had been removed and they all could say that anything in the books that had been written were written by a schizophrenic who lives in a fantasy world and nothing written in the books is real and just was a complete fantasy by Stephen Carew-Reid. Well folks, the sad truth is “everything in these books and every detail in them is all the truth, nothing but the truth so help me God,” as one says when swearing to tell the truth under oath in a court room.
    I was actuality sued for defamation by top corporate barrister David Lancelot Jones, who represented the Public Trustee and received hundreds of thousands of dollars to prepare false, fraudulent and misleading affidavits for the assistant Public Trustee Alistair Borg to sign, Alexander Rorrison a lawyer who represented the Public Trustee and received hundreds of thousands of dollars to prepare false, fraudulent and misleading affidavits for the assistant Public Trustee Alistair Borg to sign and Alistair Borg assistant Public Trustee who signed countless false, fraudulent and misleading affidavit in the Supreme Court and was involved in manufacturing a fraudulent share register and false company records including false directors minutes etc to help the public trustee win court actions against me and/or have court actions I had against the Public Trustee and their representatives wrongly dismissed. I was fortunate enough to have enough legal knowledge to be able to have most of their statement of claim struck out by the Master in the Supreme Court and they have not bothered to do anything about the action since then.
    I have been in the court System for over a decade and have attended over 1,000 court hearings in the Local, petty Sessions, District, Supreme, Full Supreme Court, the Federal Courts and have a High Court Appeal running as a litigant in person ( a person representing himself without a formal lawyer). My enemies all know that I know the legal system reasonably well now and thus I am able to stand up to any legal challenges without having to pay millions of dollars to the legal fraternity if they ever sued me for defamation for anything written about them in these books. That is why they are too scared to sue me for defamation for what I have written in these books, because they know I would simply defend the action with full force and vigour as simply prove to the court that everything written in these books is all the truth and should be allowed to be published in the public interest so that the guilty are exposed and so this never happens to anyone else in what is meant to be a civilised modern society of Australia where everyone including judges, magistrates, politicians, police, lawyers, barristers, powerful business people, ordinary people are meant to tell the truth and respect the law.


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    Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?) are a seven series of factual books written by Australian author Stephen Carew-Reid and published by the Australian Weekend News in the early 1990's . The books chronicle the factual details, correspondence, legal papers, circumstances, background, people and organisations involved and/or associated with Stephen Carew-Reid's legal fight, that started originally just as a one paragraph statement of claim attached to a writ issued in October, 1986 in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which named Stephen Carew-Reid, being a litigant in person (which means representing oneself without a qualified lawyer representing you), as the plaintiff, and the Western Australian  Public_Trustee  Office as the defendant. The books explain the reason for issuing the first short Supreme Writ, which was to set the public record straight, to bring the truth out about about how Stephen Carew-Reid had been a successful business person, who had turned the family companies, in the five years he was at university finishing his Bachelor of Commerce Degree, from being worth a few thousand dollars, to being worth millions in real estate and business assets and income, yet his late father before he died, had used his Federal Police Connections and overall creditability in the business world in Perth Western Australia, to destroy Stephen Carew-Reid's public image, as a way of controlling Stephen Carew-Reid and the millions Stephen Carew-Reid built up in the two family companies, Carew Corporation Pty Ltd and Lloyd McKennal International Co Pty Ltd, from almost nothing, effectively from the grave through the help of the Public Trustee of Western Australia, who was as Stephen Carew-Reid puts it in his books, "were prepared to play the game". You will note in the above sections of one of the later statement of claims filed in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, action Cor 81 of 1993, being Stephen Carew-Reid v The Public Trustee and others, that there are two bronze statutes left in the will in control of the Public Trustee. These two bronze statues where original bronze statues that were made by Stephen Carew-Reid's great grand father, Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal . Stephen Carew-Reid explains in the books that these statues were always placed in a prominent place in the family home at 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia, and were considered as par of the family heritage that the Carew-Reid family would proudly keep for ever in memory of Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal . The books include copies and details, court lodged papers and correspondence back and forth between Stephen Carew-Reid, the courts, the Western Australian Government , theWestern Australian Police , the Australian Federal Police , the Western Australian Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Commonwealth Offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the other parties associated in one way or another with these legal actions. The author of this article was able to read the seven volumes of Triumph of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?) written by Stephen Carew-Reid, while they were still in existence in the Western Australian Resource library, formerly known as the J S Battye Library , and it seems clear that while it was obvious that the initial intention of Stephen Carew-Reid in writing these books, was to just provide on public record a chronicle of his court battles, the books ended up being a detailed research, analysis and thoughts about the overall subject of the effect of any one wanting to make changes in the the way the court system is run and corruption in the courts, public trustee offices, politics, business, prisons and other areas of general life so that people, not just in Australia, but also people in the whole world, can be more aware of what goes in in these areas, and how to deal with things, when it effects their individual lives. The books were also clearly designed as a set legal references and experiences to students in the law and other litigants in person.

     

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    Hundreds of court actions taken out by others against Stephen Carew-Reid

    As set out in the books, Stephen Carew-Reid's legal battles over time escalated into hundreds of legal actions issued in the 
    Magistrates Court of Western Australia , theDistrict Court of Western Australia , the Supreme Court of Western Australia , The Federal Court of Australia  and the High Court of Australia  that have continued for over two decades. The Federal Court of Australia  and High Court of Australia  are based in Canberra , known as the Australian Capital Territory . In the end, out of the hundreds of court actions that were stared with Stephen Carew-Reid as a party, most of these court actions show on public courts records that they were taken out by others against Stephen Carew-Reid. The plaintiffs and applicants in the court actions that were taken out against Stephen Carew-Reid included:
    (a) The Western Australian Public Trust Office,
    (b) The Western Australian Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions,
    (c) The Commonwealth Director of_Public_Prosecutions,
    (d) Leonard Walter Buckeridge the Western Australian Billionaire, and his 
    Buckeridge Group of Companies ,
    (e) The 
    Western Australian Police 
    The books also show the evidence of what Stephen Carew-Reid states in the books is "the wrongful and unjust way the Western Australian Legal, Political, Public Trustee, Police, Prosecution, Judicial, Court and business system is run, and he attempts to show in the books that the legal, courts, police, public prosecution, public trustee, business and political system favours the rich and powerful" so that, "the average Australian  that does not have much money or power, does not get a fair go, if they end up fighting either the Government, the Public Trustee, the Police, the Public Prosecution, the Crown Law Office and/or powerful business people in the courts. The defendants and respondents in legal actions that show on public courts records started by Stephen Carew-Reid include the following:
    1. DAVID HURT an employer of NEIL KEVIN JOYCE TRADING AS STANTON AND PARTNERS-Liquidators,
    2. THE PUBLIC TRUSTEE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA,
    .3. ALISTAIR BORG, deputy public trustee and accountant for the public trustee who also acted as a director for Carew Corporation Pty Ltd and Lloyd McKennal International Co Pty Ltd, Carew-Reid family companies administered by the Western Australian Public Trustee Office in their capacity as executors of the estate of the late John Hastings Carew-Reid,
    4. ROGER JENKINS Accountant for the Western Australian Public Trustee Office, who helped administer the Estate of the Late John Carew-Reid, and the two family companies Carew Corporation Pty Ltd and Lloyd McKennal International Co Pty Ltd, and also served as a director and secretary of these two companies under instructions of the Western Australian Public Trustee Office,
    5. JOHN JAMES HOCKLEY, barrister for the Western Australian Public Trustee Office who was paid around $300,000 for his legal services over a two year period,
    6. DAVID LANCELOT JONES, A Law Chambers corporate barrister for the Western Australian Public Trustee Office, who also acted as a director and secretary of both of the Carew-Reid family companies, Carew Corporation Pty Ltd and Lloyd McKennal International Co Pty Ltd, and was paid around $1,000,000 over a number of years by the Western Australian Public Trustee Office from the estate of the late John Carew-Reid, which included the proceeds of the sale of the two story family home at 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia, transferred to Ester Investments Pty Ltd, a company controlled by Leonard Walter Buckeridge, the Western Australian Billionaire, and his [[Buckeridge Group of Companies] for $1,000,000, and the cash amounts in the two family companies, Carew Corporation Pty Ltd and Lloyd McKennal International Co Pty Ltd, in return for preparing accounts and records for the two family companies, preparing affidavits and court submissions for the Western Australian Public Trustee Office, and attending court hearings for the Western Australian Public Trustee Office
    7. KENNETH ERIC BRADLEY, the Western Australian Public Trustee,
    8. CAROLINE THATCHER, a lawyer for the Western Australian Crown Law Office,
    9. NICHOLAS DAVID CHARLES DILLON, a barrister working for legal firm Corrs, Westgarth Chambers under instructions from the Western Australian Public Trustee Office, Leonard Walter Buckeridge and his 
    Buckeridge Group of Companies ,
    10. CORRS WESTGARTH CHAMBERS (A legal

    firm),
    11. LEONARD WALTER BUCKERIDGE, a well known Western Australian billionaire businessman,
    12. ROBERT FALCONER, the Western Australian Police Commissioner,
    13. ALISON FLEMING, a lawyer for BankWest Limited (formerly Rural and Industries Bank of Western Australia,
    14. BANKWEST LIMITED, a Western Australian Bank,
    15. ESTHER INVESTMENTS PTY LTD, a company controlled by Leonard Walter Buckeridge and his 
    Buckeridge Group of Companies ,
    16. SIOK PAUY KOH, the de facto wife of Leonard Walter Buckeridge,
    17. JULIAN AMBROSE,the de facto son of Leonard, son of SIOK PAUY KOH,
    18. Leonard Walter Buckeridge, Western Australian billionaire businessman,
    19. RICHARD FAIRFAX COURT, the Premier of Western Australia,
    20. PETER FOSS, the Attorney General of Western Australia,
    21. THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA,
    22. DARRYL WILLIAMS, Attorney General of Australia,
    23. JOHN WINSTON HOWARD, Prime Minister of Australia,
    24. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF AUSTRALIA
    25. PHILLIP BARLOW, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    25. MICHAEL PETER McMAHON, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    27. ROBERT LAWRENCE, a magistrate in the Magistrates Court of Western Australia,
    28. GEOFFREY ARTHUR WATSON, a senior clerk in the Magistrates Court of Western Australia,
    29. JOHN RODERICK McKECHNIE, at the time the Director of the Western Australian Public Prosecutions, that was appointed judge in the Supreme Court of Western Australia on his retirement as the Director of the Western Australian Public Prosecutions,
    30. DENNIS REYNOLDS, a magistrate in the Magistrates Court of Western Australia,
    31. DR GRAHAM RAAD, a doctor practicing in Western Australia that was involved with the transfer of the Carew-Reid family home at 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia, from ESTHER INVESTMENTS PTY LTD, a company controlled by Leonard Walter Buckeridge and his 
    Buckeridge Group of Companies  to himself, and during the time the property was registered in his name, the luxury two story home at 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park was completely demolished while there was still legal actions preceding in the courts over the ownership of 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia, by Stephen Carew-Reid for and/or behalf of the Carew-Reid family, consisting of Patricia Elizabeth Carew-Reid, Lloyd MacKennal Carew-Reid, Wayne Hastings Carew-Reid, Pippen Louise Drysdale (formerly Pippen Louise Carew-Reid) and Stephen Carew-Reid,
    32. THE TOWN OF MOSMAN PARK, who issued the demolition licence to ESTHER INVESTMENTS PTY LTD, a company controlled by Leonard Walter Buckeridge and his
    Buckeridge Group of Companies , who demolished 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia, during a period that they had knowledge that there was still legal actions proceeding in the courts of the ownership of 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia by Stephen Carew-Reid for and/or behalf of the Carew-Reid family consisting of Patricia Elizabeth Carew-Reid, Lloyd MacKennal Carew-Reid, Wayne Hastings Carew-Reid, Pippen Louise Drysdale (formerly Pippen Louise Carew-Reid) and Stephen Carew-Reid,
    33. TREVOR HARKINS, an employee of THE TOWN OF MOSMAN PARK,
    34. THE REGISTER OF TITLES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
    35. WILLIAM RAYNER, the head lawyer for the Western Australian Public Trustee Office,
    36. RONALD PATRICK GETHIN, a lawyer practising in Western Australia,
    37. ROBERT ANTHONY SMITHSON, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    37. BRUCE WILLIAM DUCKHAM, a lawyer practising in Western Australia,
    39. MACK HALL, an estate agent operating in Western Australia, that was involved with the transfer of the Carew-Reid family home at 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park to ESTHER INVESTMENTS PTY LTD, a company controlled by Leonard Walter Buckeridge and his 
    Buckeridge Group of Companies 
    40. DEE SEED, an estate agent operating in Western Australia, that was involved with the transfer of the Carew-Reid family home at 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park to ESTHER INVESTMENTS PTY LTD, a company controlled by Leonard Walter Buckeridge and his Buckeridge Group of Companies 
    41. PAUL HEANEY, a magistrate in the Magistrates Court of Western Australia,
    42. KENNETH WATKINS, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    43. MATHEW PETER HARTFIELD, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    44. JOHN HANCOCK, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    45. ALINTA GAS, a gas corporation in Western Australia that agreed to cut of the gas at 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia, that had been registered under the names of different members Carew-Reid family since 1959 when the house was first built, which made it possible for the THE TOWN OF MOSMAN PARK to issued the demolition licence to ESTHER INVESTMENTS PTY LTD, a company controlled by Leonard Walter Buckeridge and his 
    Buckeridge Group of Companies , who demolished 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia, during a period that they had knowledge that there was still legal actions proceeding in the courts of the ownership of 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia by Stephen Carew-Reid for and/or behalf of the Carew-Reid family consisting of Patricia Elizabeth Carew-Reid, Lloyd MacKennal Carew-Reid, Wayne Hastings Carew-Reid, Pippen Louise Drysdale (formerly Pippen Louise Carew-Reid) and Stephen Carew-Reid,
    46. PHILLIP HARVEY, a senior manager of Alinta Gas,
    47. WESTERN POWER CORPORATION, an electricity corporation in Western Australia that agreed to cut of the electricity at 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia, that had been registered under the names of different members Carew-Reid family since 1959 when the house was first built, which made it possible for the THE TOWN OF MOSMAN PARK to issued the demolition licence to ESTHER INVESTMENTS PTY LTD, a company controlled by Leonard Walter Buckeridge and his 
    Buckeridge Group of Companies , who demolished 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia, during a period that they had knowledge that there was still legal actions proceeding in the courts of the ownership of 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park, Western Australia by Stephen Carew-Reid for and/or behalf of the Carew-Reid family consisting of Patricia Elizabeth Carew-Reid, Lloyd MacKennal Carew-Reid, Wayne Hastings Carew-Reid, Pippen Louise Drysdale (formerly Pippen Louise Carew-Reid) and Stephen Carew-Reid,
    48. LENNARD ROBERTS, a magistrate in the Magistrates Court of Western Australia,
    49. NOEL GARTLAN, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    50. DAVID ROBSON, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    51. NATHAN JOHANSEN, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    52. MARK CUNNINGHAM, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    53. ANTHONY DERRICK, a lawyer practising in Western Australia,
    54. CHERYL EDWARDES, the Attorney General for Western Australia,
    55. THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE FOR THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA,
    56. JAMES HUNTER, the acting deputy public trustee for the Western Australian Public Trustee Office,
    55. PETER WIESE, Minister for Police for the State of Western Australia,
    58. PINO MONARCO, A lawyer practising in Western Australia,
    59. BRUCE MOORE, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    60. GRAHAME MOON, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    61. IVOR ROBSON, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    62. CON CAMARIARI, a senior Western Australian Police Officer,
    63. THE OFFICIAL RECEIVER FOR AUSTRALIA,
    64. GERRY WHITE, a representative of the THE OFFICIAL RECEIVER FOR AUSTRALIA,
    65. KEN WONG, a representative of the THE OFFICIAL RECEIVER FOR AUSTRALIA,
    66. DEBRA PATON, A lawyer practising in News South Wales,
    67. NEVILLE OWEN, A Western Australian Supreme Court Judge,
    68. KEVIN PARKER, A Western Australian Supreme Court Judge

    Books purchased by the J S Battye Library, Western Australia's State Reference Library

    Several copies of the seven volumes of Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?) written by Stephen Carew-Reid in the early 1990's were purchased by the 
    J S Battye Library  which is often referred to as the Alexander Resource Library of Western Australia.

    Title named after his Great Grand Father Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal 's plaster cast statute Triumph Of Truth.

    Stephen Carew-Reid dedicated the seven volumes of Triumph of Truth(Who's Watching the Watchers?) to Sir Edgar 
    Bertram Mackennal , who was Stephen Carew-Reid's Great Grandfather, who, as is widely known in art circles and literature, that he made it publicly known that he searched for the truth through his art all his life. Sir EdgarBertram Mackennal , who in the 1870's, had won a competition in his home town of Melbourne Victoria  a state of Australia , to turn a small plaster cast Sculpture  he had made to enter the competition, he called "Triumph of Truth", into a life size bronze statue that was to be donated to Melbourne  and be displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria . However, after Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal  won the competition, the businessmen that had promised the funds to the winner to pay for the making of the life size statue "Triumph of Truth", reneged on providing the funds, and the life size bronze statute was never made. For this reason Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal 's great Grandson,Stephen Carew-Reid has written the series of books "Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watches?)" in his search for the truth in the courts and feels that it was his duty to continue on his Great Grandfather's search for the truth and to make sure "Triumph of Truth" finally did come to life, through Stephen Carew-Reid's books. Stephen Carew-Reid feels that his great grandfather is working with him in spirit in their joint search for the truth. Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal  (1863-1931) was the most significantAustralian  Sculpture  of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Melbourne  in 1863, the son of Scottish immigrant and architectural  sculptor  J. S. Mackennal, Bertram Mackennal studied at the National Gallery Schools in Melbourne (1878-1882) before he departed for Europe in 1882, seeking further training and greater opportunities for sculptural success.

    Destruction of Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?) from J S Battye Library

    A few years after the 
    J S Battye Library  purchased the seven volumes of Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?), the librarian who was responsible for making the decision to authorise the purchase of the books on behalf of the library, told a reporter for the USA Weekend News, that "a representative from the Western Australian Crown Law Office came to the library without any court order and demanded that the seven volumes of Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?) be completely destroyed and that all reference to these books be removed from the library's computer index system, so that no-one would ever know that they ever existed in the library.

    Removal of original manuscripts by Queensland Police in 2005 without court order

    In 2005 Senior Queensland Detectives Gregory Stormont and Barry Zerner removed the original manuscripts of the seven volumes of Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching the Watchers?) from 6 Earl Court, Tallai suburb of Queensland's famous Gold Coast, one hour south of 
    Brisbane , the capital city of Queensland . Despite constant requests by the owners of these original manuscripts, being Stephen Carew-Reid, the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group and International News Limited, for the return of these original manuscripts, to Kerry_Shine  Queensland 's Attorney-General , the Premier of Queensland , the Police Commissioner  of Queensland , the Queensland_Police , Senior Detectives Gregory Stormont and Barry Zerner and others, as at July 2009, these original manuscripts of seven volumes of Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching the Watchers?)have not been returned, even after Stephen Carew-Reidthe Australian Weekend News Publishing Group and International News Limited have sent copies of a signed receipt signed by Senior Detective Gregory Stormont, on behalf of the Queensland Police Service  and the Queensland Government , when he removed the seven volumes of Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching the Watchers?) from 6 Earl Court, Tallai in November, 2004

    Stephen Carew-Reid's family members

    Stephen Carew-Reid's bothers and sisters include:

    1. Brother: Wayne Carew_Reid, who is well known in the Western Australian business world as being a director of Australian Liquor Market (ALM), a division of well known grocery chain in Western Australia called FoodlandWayne Carew-Reid in his younger days was a well know champion surfer and golfer and received many Western Australian state championship awards for his golf and surfing activities, is the oldest brother of Stephen Carew-Reid.

    2. Brother :Lloyd Carew-Reid, is famous for fighting for the rights of ordinary citizens rights who live in 
    New York , and for fighting the New York Transit Authority  single handed for the rights of buskers to busk in the streets of New York  and the New York subways , is the Brother of Stephen Carew-Reid. Lloyd Carew-Reid, who moved to New York  in 1978 in the words of Lloyd Carew-Reid, "to escape the clandestine manipulations of his life by his late father John Carew-Reid, who was a pilot and squadron leader and also one of the highest ranking officers in the intelligence section of the American Air Force  and the Australian Air Force , during the Second World War . My fatherJohn Carew-Reidwas asked after the war to help form the Australian Federal Police ". Lloyd Carew-Reid has become famous for his fight for justice for buskers against the New York Transit Authority  and the badly treated tenants at the Famous New York  Hotel , then known as the Kenmore Hotel, which became so dangerous to live in during the early 1980's, that the management of the Kenmore Hotel had to be taken over by the US Military . Lloyd Cared-Reid's middle name Mackennal was given to him by his parents John Hastings Carew-Reid and Patricia Elizebeth to keep an old family name alive and in memory of Lloyd, Stephen, Wayne and Pippen Carew-Reid's great grandfather Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal .

    3. Sister: Pippen Drysdale is now a famous pottery-artist, who married Chris Drysdale, the nephew of the famous Australian artist Sir George 
    Russell Drysdale , as is the only sister of Stephen Carew-Reid.

    Australian Weekend News newspaper created by Stephen Carew-Reid as extension of original Daily News-Weekend News

    During the period 1986 and 1996, being the period Stephen Carew-Reid wrote, complied and published the seven volumes of Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching the Watchers), Stephen Carew-Reid also created the Australian Weekend News (AWN) hard copy newspaper, so that ordinary people in Australia, like himself, that had some important issues to say to the public, had a newspaper that was their free and open voice for all 
    Australians Stephen Carew-Reid saw the Australian Weekend News (AWN) belonging to all Australians , rather than belonging to himself personally. Stephen Carew-Reid envisaged the Australian Weekend News as his gift to his fellow Australians to provided them their own voice, where every one can have a say, no matter what their point of view.

     

    Australian_Weekend_News_Masthead


    Australian_Weekend-News_newspaper_Logo

    Creation of Mr Wijat and His Team as part of Australian Identity of the AWN

    As part of the Australian Identity of the Australian Weekend NewsStephen Carew-Reid created a group of cartoon characters, which were originally created , along with the Monster Gang, for the books Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching the Watchers),, to depict real characters in the books, but in cartoon form, that he felt the ordinary Australian could relate to, that were very much inspired by his good friend 
    Paul Rigby  the Western Australian  cartoonist  that became a world famous cartoonist through his cartoons that appeared each day on the back of the original Daily_News_(Perth,_Western_Australia)  newspaper, with a little man and his dog hidden in the cartoons somewhere, that the reader had to locate. Stephen Carew-Reid's concept was to continue the original Daily_News_(Perth,_Western_Australia) , as an Australia Wide Newspaper called, theAustralian Weekend News, and make the Australian Weekend News as close to the original format and layout as the old Daily_News_(Perth,_Western_Australia) , including cartoons on the back that would appear on each edition, similar to the now famous Paul Rigby  cartoons, he called, Mr Wijat and His Team Working for Truth Justice and the Australian Way. The members of Mr Wijat's Team were called, Mr WijatAl WijatERF The WormMarvin The Marvellous and Magic Rabbit.

     

    MrWijat_Cartoon_representing_WeekendNews_Investigative_Journalistic_Action_Team_January_1986

     

    Mr_Wijat_The_Fearless-Carton Character_That_Stands_Up_for Justice for The_Australian_People_&_for people_All_Over_The_World



     

    ERF_The_Worm_Mr_Wijat's_Little_Greenie_Mate

     

    Al_Wijat_Mr_Wijat's_Super_Hero_Son



     

    Mr_Wijat_&_His_Team_ERF_The_Worm_Al_Wajat_Marvin_The_Marvelous



    Stephen Carew-Reid's Paul Rigby Connection used to help the Australian Weekend News

    Stephen Carew-Reid spoke at length of the telephone with 
    Paul Rigby  in the late 1980's and early 1990's (who was then working for News Corporation  and their publication theNew York Daily News ), for information and the history of the old Daily_News_(Perth,_Western_Australia) , and advice about how the develop the Australian Weekend News as an extension of the old Daily_News_(Perth,_Western_Australia) , that had been then closed in 1992 by the then owners, the Bell Group, who also owned the only daily morning newspaper knows as the West Australian . In support of Stephen Carew-Reid's efforts to continue the life of the old Daily_News_(Perth,_Western_Australia) , (a newspaper that Paul Rigby  loved and cherished and was sad to see it being closed by the Bell Group and the West Australian  Newspaper Group) under the new name of theAustralian Weekend NewsPaul Rigby  agreed to provide a new cartoon  for the back of the first edition of the Australian Weekend News, which depicted Allan Bond's Bell Group's managing director, Mr David Aspinall, being beaten back with sticks by the journalists and other support staff, that worked for the oldDaily_News_(Perth,_Western_Australia) , that were all sacked by Mr David Aspinall, when he made the decision to close the old Daily_News_(Perth,_Western_Australia) 

    References:
    ----

    1. James Battye Library, Western Australia Editions of the Australian Weekend News, on microfilm at the James Battye Library.
    2. Editions of the Australian Weekend News, compliments of the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group and International News Limited.
    3. Seven volumes of books knows as Triumph of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers? written by Stephen Carew-Reid and published by the Australian Weekend News.
    4. Website:
    www.INLNews.com  Website: www.USAWeeklyNews.com.
    5. Website: www.whois 
    watchingthewatchers.com .
    6. Australian Weekend News websites: www,
    awn.bz www.australianweekendnews.com www.newscorp.net .
    7. Interviews with Stephen Carew-Reid and other staff at the Australian Weekend News, USA Weekly News and INL News Limited and International News Limited.
    8. Historical records of the old [[Daily_News_(Perth,_Western_Australia).<]]br />9. Historical records of the 
    West Australian  Newspaper, published in Perth Western Australia and held on micro Film at the J S Battye Library  in Perth Western Australia.
    10. Interviews with staff at the James Battye Library in Perth Western Australia.
    11. Interviews with the residents and owner of 6 Earl Court Tallai, Queensland.
    12. Queensland Queensland Police records held in Queensland, Australia.
    13. Statements from Queensland Senior Detectives Gregory Stormont and Barry Zerner Letters.
    14. Records, receipts and correspondence from the Queensland Police Service in Australia.
    15. Local Court of Western Australia records.
    16. Magistrate Court of Western Australia records.
    17. District Court of Western Australia records.
    18. Supreme Court of Western Australia records.
    19. Federal Court of Australia records.
    20. High Court of Australia records.
    21. Public Trustee of Western Australia records.
    22. Director of Public Prosecution records.
    23. Western Australian Titles Office at Midland records.
    24. Western Australian Police Service records.
    25. Mosman Park Shire council records.
    26. Interviews with Lloyd Carew-Reid.
    27. Interview with Wayne Carew-Reid.
    28. Interviews with Pippen Drysdale.
    29. Interviews with Paul Rigby.
    30. Historical records of the Sunday Times Newspaper published in Perth Western Australia.
    31. The New York Times.
    32. Time Magazine.
    33. 
    http://www.pippindrysdale.com/ 
    34. http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/about_us/the_arts/artists_and_orgs/artists/pippin_drysdale 
    35. http://www.lookupanyone.com/namelistings/pippen-drysdale-robyne-drysdale.html 
    36. http://www.inlnews.com/PippenDrysdale_FineArts.html 
    37.http://www.artcalendr.com/index.cfm/events/events.eventsMainPage/orderType/all/showEvent/next30Days/showCategory/all/showVenue/Houston%20Center%20for%20Contemporary%20Craft 
    38. http://www.postnewspapers.com.au/20051112/impressions/20051112-impressions.pdf 
    39. http://www.inlnews.com/AustWeekendNews2001.html 
    40. http://www.inlnews.com/Lloyd_Carew-Reid_Justice.html 
    41. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_Mackennal 
    42. http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/ed/resources/ed_kits/mackennal 
    43. http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/sculpt/mackenna.htm 
    44. http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/mackennal/ 
    45. http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/mackennal/mackennalov.html 
    46. http://www.artnet.com/artist/648778/sir-edgar-bertram-mackennal.html 
    47. http://wwar.com/masters/m/mackennal-sir_bertram.html 
    48. http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Bertram_Mackennal.html?q=national+gallery 
    49. http://www.whitehat.com.au/Australia/People/Mackennal.asp 
    50. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/22/nyregion/about-new-york-europe-can-wait-musician-adopts-an-sro-hotel.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss 
    51. http://altlaw.org/v1/cases/556502  52. http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F2/903/914/435677/ 
    53. LLOYD CAREW-REID, who dissented in part in Young v. New York City Transit Authority, 903 F.2d 146 (2d Cir.1990)
    54. TIME MAGAZINE Monday, Judiciary By GREGORY JAYNES Monday, Jul. 06, 1987
    55. 
    http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,964903-2,00.html 
    56. http://www.nytimes.com/1989/08/26/nyregion/mta-turns-down-volume-on-subway-platform-music.html 
    57. http://www.brooklaw.edu/directory/library.php 
    58. http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reportinfo.asp?report_id=452971&t=e&cat_id= 
    59. http://www.citylore.org/citylore_resources-guide.html 
    60. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/17/nyregion/subway-performers-told-to-keep-their-distance.html 
    61. http://travel2.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/transit_systems/index.html?s=oldest&&query=CAREW  REID,+LLOYD&field=per&match=exact
    62. 
    http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mta/aft/munyfacts1.htm 
    63. http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/1999/998.html 
    64. Melbourne High School Old Boys Association artilce "Stephen Carew-Reid - arguing with the Judiciary"
    65. 
    http://www.mhsoba.asn.au/default.asp?pg=luncheon&spg=display&articleid=2266 
    66. Records from the Director of Public Prosecutions of Western Australia
    67. Records from the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions
    68. Records form the Magistrates Court of Canberra
    69. Interview with Peter Moon, comedian in Melbourne, Victoria, old school and family friend of Stephen Carew-Reid
    70. Letters, reports, legal papers and correspondence held by Valerie Carew-Reid
    71. Interview with Southerby's Auction House, Melbourne Victoria who did all the research into the public scandal in the the late 1880's where Sir Edgar Bertram MacKennal won the first prize with his plaster cast model of Triumph of Truth to be funded to create a life size bronze statue of the same plaster cast model for permanent display at the National Gallery of Victoria, however the businessmen did not provide the funds for the prize and the life size bronze model of Triumph of Truth.
    72. Private legal papers, files, correspondence and records held by Stephen Carew-Reid's family.
    73. The Western Australian Supreme Court Library.
    74. Records of the Western Australian Public Trustee Office
    75. Records, legal papers, correspondence and other documents held in safe keeping for the Carew-Reid family
    76. Court Documents filed in the Supreme Court of Western Australia, being action Cor 81 of 1993, Stephen Carew-Reid v The Public Trustee and others.






     I think this is a gentleman's club Dictionary. 
    I can understand their policy but not for equal human right.



    Dear INL News Editor,
    I note that the article entited
    Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?)
    ----From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Penright/Triumph_Of_Truth_(Who_Is_Watching_The_Watchers%3F)
    has been forced to be deleted by the following editors of Wikipedia named

    Vicenarian  (Said  · Done )

    Hesperian 

    Moondyne 

    Gavia immer  (talk )

    Gigs  (talk )

    Abecedare  (talk )

    Who then was a gentleman?  (talk )

    Future_.Perfect_at_Sunrise 

    javért stargaze 

    The editors of Wikipedia that oposed the deletion but were outvoted by the above group were:
    S Marshall Talk 

     GrooveDog (talk)

     King of ? ? ? ?  

     Tarc (talk)

    Collect (talk)



    I have been reading all of opinion and discussions over the deletion of this article and it seems clear that the main person behind the push for the urgent deletion of the artilce
    Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?),  is 
    Moondyne , who seems to be powerful  and well connected  in business, courts, legal, political, police and media circlesin Western Australia, and is obviously paid on a full time basis  by people and/or organisations with in these circles, to have written and/or edited thousands of artilces in Wikipedia over the last few years, all about subjects that concerning the history, media, courts, general law, sports, entertainment, writers, people, politics--the list is endless, in Western Australia. There is no doubt that Moondyne could nit have had the time,  even if wirking 24 hiurs qa day seven days a week to write, research and edit all these artilces himself. This leaves the undeniabkle conclusion that Moondyne  has been provided the funds form someone and/or some organisation to employ other Wikipedian editors to help him wiht writing, editing, researching and compiling these thousands of Wikipedian artcles all concerning Western Australia. I have also noted that every time someone edits a existing artilce and/or writes a news article on Wikipedia, taht has nit been oersoanbklly apporved by Moondyne , then the edit and/or article is imediately removed by Moondyne , and/or one of his other assocuated Wikipedian editors that work with him, when he does not want to be seen to have benn involved with the deletion of  the edit of an extisting artilce and/or new artilce himself.

    Truth is the truth,  but Wikipedia  has no concept, to expose all truth and no responsibility. I suppose rather they think without trouble is their concept is the best.  
    I noticed  the article about Moodyne at www.usaweekendnews.com
    http://www.usaweekendnews.com/TriumphOfTruthBookStolen.html 
    • I am apparently the subject of an investigation which relates to this user
    the USA Weekly News investigative team have discovered that the person that removed the above articles and edits to the Perth Western Australian Daily-Weekend News page in Wikipedia, calls himself Moondyne, and was originally in the administratin section of Wikipedia, which is an unpaid job, and since 2003 when he resigned from from being on the adminteam of Wikipedia, he became a full time writer for Wikipedia, writing and editing thousands of artilces all about people, places, history, courts, sport, general news, media, crime, politics, etc from his rural property in Moolibeenie, near Gingin in Western Australia, which is about one hour from Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. In fact Moondyne was the person that posted the first edit of Perth Western Australian Daily-Weekend News page in Wikipedia, and complete most of the other minor edits completed by other part time editors of Wikipedia.[1] 
    WTF! And that url is one of the sources in the userfied article. Before long no doubt, 
    this deletion and userfication saga will be another chapter in several of these self-published webpages,
     thus proving the conspiracy theory. –Moondyne 05:04, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

    WIKIPEDIA'S policy cannot change any current problem of social circumstances. Just show past history and surface of new technology etc.etc. 

                                                                        " I think this is a gentleman's club Dictionary."
                                                               
                                                                    "I can understand their policy but not for equal human right."

     If they say seeking and appeal of human right is violate and absolutely nothing good or productive.
     
    I really would like to ask all of Weikipedian "What is most important and productive for human beings"  If you don't mind would please put this on top of page. 
    whatever writing they will be deleted  put question is make more appeal. 

    The seven books 
    Triumph Of Truth (Who Is Watching The Watchers?)  is full of evidence of court battle for human right record by Stephen Carew-Reid .
    According to Wikipedia's rule I cannot show the contents of this book. Editing team think about this book is too violate and no productive. 
    However " What is most important and productive for human beings"  We  human beings always battled to obtain human right since past. 
    If you have an interest please pay attention about references.
    I am not sure all those rules but, I feel little bit sad with those good people. 
    Hesperian and Moondyne attacked the article with very bad words.then started debate.
    Hoswever have not replied ot aligations against them, the have just hidden behind the their other associated editors.

    Best regards
    Mary , helping out in Watching the Watchers
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    The Seven Volumes of Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?) who were purchased by the Western Australia Alexander Resource Library with public money during the years 1988 and 1992 and cateloged into the the library's computer for about three year myseriously completely disappeared from the Library and from the Libray's computer sysyem as though they never existed... and in the year 2004, Detective Sergent Gregory Stormont on behalf of the Queensland Police Force and the Queensland Government, which have  historically been controlled by the Freemasons since the beginning of Federation in Australia, stole the original manuscripts of  the Seven Volumes of Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?) from 6 Earl Court Tallai, known as the Hollywood Hills of the Gold Coast in Queensland, even signing a receipt for them, which International News Limited, the owners of the publisher the Australian Weekend News, has a copy of such receipt....constant requests to the Premier of Queensland, The Atorney of Queensland, the Police Commissioner of Queensland, the Prime Minister of Australia and to Detective Sergent Gregory Storemont himself for the return of thesse original manusripts since 2004 have been ignored.. International News Limited through its Australian owned publisher the Austalian Weekend News is about to issue a Supreme Court legal action for in excess of $100 million in damages for the loss of these books since the year 2004, as in 2004 at the time they had been stolen, they were about to be made into a series of films,TV series, plays, short stories, legal training books, a cartoon series staring Mr Wijat and Mr Wijat's Team Fighting For Truth Justice and the Australian Way up against The Monster Gang.
     Mr Wijat and Mr Wijat's Team and the Monster Gang are the cartoon characters created by the author Stephen Carew-Reid that resemble some of the real characters in the series of books "Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?)

    Fermin Juan Astiz Diaz  has kindly translated the words 

    Who's Watching The Watchers into Spanish

    Quien Esta Viendo A Los Observadores?

    Australian Weekend News
    Meet Mr Wijat's team working for Truth, Justice & the Australian Way

    A MESSAGE FROM MR WIJAT
    If you want the last laugh on pollies & powerbrokers,
     SEE YOU SOON in The Adventures of 
    Mr Wijat, ERF The Worm, Super Hero Al Wijat, 
    and Marvelous Marvin, 
    exclusive to Australia's favourite and
     fealess newspaper the
    Australia Weekend News
    Just remember, 
    You can play with a Wijat,
    You can dance with a Wijat,
    But you can't stand on
     a Wijat's toes!!!

    Hollo, I'm Mr Wijat, Anyone seen my little mate, ERF The Worm?

    Here I am Wijat, and guess what?
    Marvellous Marvin's come up with another great idea!!!

    G'Day, I'm Mr Wijat's Super Hero life saving son, Al.

    A message from Marvelous Marvin
    "Why don't see give subsribers and advertisers
    of the Australian Weekend News
    100 free shares and 5,000 free options
    to purchase shares in International News Limited (INL) shares
    at $1 each which can be paid for 28 days after
     International News Limited
    is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX)...

    Let's Do It!!!!"


    Mr Wijat and the Weekend News Investigative Journalistic Action Team
    WIJAT

    Stephen Carew-Reid, during the 1980's and 1990's  while fighting serius and indemic corruption in the
    the Western Australian Legal, Political, Public Trustee, Police, Prosecution, Judicial, Court and business sytem, he took over ownership the 100 year old Western Australian newspaper masthead, the Weekend News, which had been closed by the Western Australian Newspaper Group because Bob Baxt, the in the late 1980's and early 1990's told the Western Australian Newspaper Group that it could no longer own both the morning newspaper, The West Australian, the afternoon newspaper, The Daily News and the other weeken paper, which was the Friday Edition of the Daily News,as this was considered a monopoly. For many years since then, the owners of the Western Australian Newspaper Group, billionaire businessman Robert Homes a Court, who sold to the Western Australian Newspaper Group to contraversial famous billionaire businessman Allan Bond, had the Western Australian Newspaper Group wharehouse the Daily News and the Weekend News, by having a friendly businessman run these newspapers for them, falsely pretending that the Daily and Weekend News had been sold. When in fact it they had not been sold, and Robert Homesa Court and Allan Bond paid business friends to run these two newspapers for them. In fact Allan Bond lent Brian Coppin $10 million on aloan that never was paid back to wharehouse the Daily and Weekend News for Allan Bind and deloberately run them at a loss each year tro it would look like the second and third newspapers arer not making money to frighten anyone from thinking about starting another newspaper in Western Australia. This prescerving the over $200 million the Western Australian Newspaper Grouo hs historically made each year form the six day a week West Australian morning newspaper.
    Stephen Carew-Reid created the cartoon Charcters
    Mr Wijat and His Team, ERF The Worm, Al Wijat and Marvin The Marvelous to publicise in cartoon form, the serious corruption he was fighting in Western Australia, in the Australian Weekend News. Stephen Carew-Reid remaned The Weekend News to The Australian Weekend News, to make the newspaper into an Australia Wide Newspaper published in all states of Australia, rather than just Western Australia as it had been for over 100 years, before the Western Australian Newspaper Group wrongly and fraudulently closed it and put thousand sof jouralists and other workers out of work.
    This was done before Stephen Carew-Reid wrote and the books
     "Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?).
    Many of these editions of the Weekend News have been recorded and kept in the archive at the Western Australian Alexander Resource Libary..the samed libray that purchaseed all seven volumes of about 500 pages each of  "Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?), which the Western Australian Crown Law Department without any court order or official authority or any court actionb being taken against Stephen Carew-Reid, came in one day, off the record, and demanded tot he library that these boomks be destroyed in thre shredder and taken off the libray computer, so that it would appear that they never ever existed in the first place..
    the plan by the Western Australian authorities and the powerful judges, magistrates, bsuiness people, lawyers and barristers, senior public trustee empolyees, senior public prosecutors, senior court staff, senior poilce and others, was to either have Stephen Carew-Reid murdered and/or sent to Graylands Mental Instition  and declared permanently insane and then have him die of an accidental overdose of drugs one night in the mental institution..
    That way Stephen Carew-Reid would not be around to complain and/or 
    bring to the attention of the world  that his books
     "Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?)
    have been decreated out of existence from the Western Australia State Library.
    So that Stephen Carew-Reid and his seven volumes of
     "Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?)
    would never be heard of again....
    This devious plan backfired on the powerful people Stephen Carew-Reid exposed in his books
     "Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?)
    when a corrupt judge Justice Williams, who had been on the payrole of the most powerful, feared and dangerous billionaire businesman in Western Australia, Leonard Walter Buckeridge for years,
    (in fact is was through the influence of Leonard Walter Buckeridge that Justice Williams became a judge),
    during a cout hearing, Justice Williams as part of thre conspircy to destroy Stepehn Carew-Reid,  sent Stephen Carew-Reid down for mental assessment to the Graylands Mental Institution in Perth, Western Australia for 14 days in the hope that the doctors there would declare Stephen Carew-Reid insane. However, the doctors gave Stephen Carew-Reid a certificate that said he was sane,
     even though suffering from severe stress of all these court battles with these powerful people..
    Since then Stephen Carew-Reid has had many threats on his life he
     ever attempted to make copies of  his books

    "Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?)

    publicly avaiable.

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    AWN as an abbreviation may refer to:

    Awn as a word or name may refer to:

    • Awn (botany) , a hair or bristle-like appendage on a plant
    • Awn hair  (mammal), a type of hair on mammals
    • AWN Newspaper Masthead,is a well known over 100 year old newspaper masthead from Perth Western Australia that was originally known as the Weekend News that was the Friday edition of the over 100 year old Western Australian Newspaper compiled in Western Australia's capital city of Perth. The Daily and Weekend News started in 1879 as Perth Western Australia's first newspaper. The well known author, Stephen Carew Reid, whose home town is Perth Western Australia, the author of seven volumes of the book series called Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?) see: http://www.whoiswatchingthewatchers.com ,published in the late 1980's to expose the corruption he had been fighting for a decade in the legal, political, police, public trustee and business world of Western Australia, managed to obtain the Weekend News newspaper masthead when "The Daily News-Weekend News was mothballed in the early 1990s by the then owners of the West Australian Newspaper group (WAN), because a former Trade Practices Commissioner, Bob Baxt, told them that it was a monopoly to control both newspapers. But instead of selling this valuable asset to an independent operator, WAN ran up millions of dollars worth of bills and put it into liquidation."[[See:http://inlnews.com/AustWeekendNews2001.html ]> Stephen Carew-Reid then proceeded to republish the Weekend News under the new name "Australian Weekend News", abrieviated to "AWN", described by Stephen Carew-Reid the following way, "The Australian Weekend News will provide a reasonably priced alternative, that will be owned by the Australian people." See: http://inlnews.com/AustWeekendNews2001.html, which featured "a cartoon series staring Mr Wijat and Mr Wijat's Team Fighting For Truth Justice and the Australian Way up against The Monster Gang."See:http://www.whoiswatchingthewatchers.com/Journal.html"Mr Wijat and Mr Wijat's Team and the Monster Gang are the cartoon characters created by the author Stephen Carew-Reid that resemble some of the real characters in the series of books "Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?"See:http://www.whoiswatchingthewatchers.com/Journal.html Stephen Carew-Reid had all his powerful enemies against him trying to stop him from continuing with the publication and expansion of the Australia Weekend News. Many of these enemies he had exposed in his series of books called Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?,) as well, he had the rich established powerful media groups in Australia against him the did not want him to succeed because it would greatly reduce the value and profits of their existing newspaper that had a combined value of over $30 billion on the Australian and world stock exchanges, and in particular the powerful Western Australian Newspaper Holdings Ltd (with the West Australian newspaper masthead valued by the stock market at about $3 billion), that continued to publish Western Australia's second oldest newspaper The West Australian. "The West Australian (often simply called The West) is the only locally-edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by ASX-listed West Australian Newspapers Holdings Ltd (ASX: WAN). The West is published in tabloid format, as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times, a News Limited publication. It is the second-oldest continuously-produced newspaper in Australia, having been published since 1833. The West is politically populist, with strong conservative leanings. It was described by former Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating as the worst newspaper in Australia.[citation needed]"See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Australian. For many years Stephen Carew-Reid continued to publish what he called "Australian Weekend News -AWN-Collectors Editions" which the Western Australian State Reference Library, The State Library of Western Australia known as the Alexander Resource Library [[Se: http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/  also see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Library_Building  also see:, encouraged Stephen Carew-Reid to continue with publishing weekly editions of the Australian Weekend News featuring Mr Wijat and His Team consisting of ERF The Worm, Al Wijat ( Mr Wijat's Super Hero Son) and Marvin The Marvellous. The Western Australia's Alexander Resource Library hold copies of most of these editions. "The Alexander Library was established in 1955, in a rented house in West Perth, with five staff and 15,000 books, serving the three country libraries of York Donnybrook and Moora. Today the library board (operating as the library and information service of Western Australia) has 267 staff and a total of 2.2 million volumes in the public library building. It provides reference and information services from the Alexander Library building and serves 230 public libraries. The Alexander Library's facilities include a modern, air-conditioned facilities and plenty of comfortable seating. There is a large stock of reference books and magazines as well as records for listening to, music scores for borrowing and a piano room to try the music scores out. Other materials at the library include newspapers from around the world, film and videos for loan to community groups or for viewing in the library, Western Australian history (including photographs, oral history and archives), and maps and atlases. There are computer catalogues to assist you to find the information you want," See: http://www.totaltravel.com.au/travel/wa/pertharea/perth/shops/books-video-photos/alexander-library-3/details/. Stephen Carew-Reid eventually obtained financial partners which included other family members such as his bother Lloyd Carew-Reid who became famous for his fight for justice for the down trodden New Yorker See:http://inlnews.com/Lloyd_Carew-Reid_Justice.html and http://www.whoiswatchingthewatchers.com/Journal.html and his famous artist-potter sister Pippen Drysdale See:http://inlnews.com/PippenDrysdale_FineArts.html, to help him form the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group, "Australian Weekend News Publishing Group registered at 1707 L 17 Australia Square Tower 264 George Street, Sydney, NSW 2000"See:http://www.hotfrog.com.au/Companies/Australian-Weekend-News-Publishing-Group Due to the large expense of publishing and distributing a newspaper in hard copy, in 2001 the AWN was created into an internet newspaper under various domain names over the years includingwww.inlnews.net , www.australianweekendnews.com ,www.australianweekendnews.com.au  and www.awn.bz.In  2004 the control of the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group was taken over by International News Limited originally an Australian company formed by a group of investors keen to support an independent news media group that was based around Stephen Carew-Reid's original charter and aims of the AWN Publishing Group, being " 1.To establish a financially strong mainstream worldwide people's media group listed on the stock exchange, which can compete with other media on a fair and equitable basis. 2.To have more than one million subscribers. 3. To allow subscribers to have a say in the running of the Weekend News. 4. To provide financial assistance, advice and work opportunities to subscribers. 5. To provide an alternative workplace for journalists and others who work or want to work in the media industry. 6. To provide a truly independent public voice. 7.To provide quality, interesting and colourful news content. 8. To provide assistance in publishing of articles, books and journals where other publishers have refused to assist. 9. To provide legal assistance to subscriber shareholders. 10.To provide affordable advertising to subscribers."See:http://inlnews.com/AustWeekendNews2001.html. The aim of the investors behind the formation of International News Limited was for form a financially strong independent media group that is there to support the aforementioned aims, rather than for profit motive of the investors that would be grow into a financially strong and well publicly supported media group that is there for the average person that would keep good investigative journalism alive, as an alternative to another Australian Rupert Murdoch who controls the most powerful media groups in the world called News Limited that has been described by one of Rupert Murdochs outspoken critics media scholar Robert W. McChesney, who launched www.FreePress.net  with the help of journalist John Nichols and executive director Josh Silver, in late 2002 by media scholar Robert W. McChesney,critics at www.freepress.net  as just been interested in junk journalism for the pure greed and profit motive. See:Rupert Murdoch just bought the Wall Street Journal=//www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf8Gi3SwfxY. In 1996 Stephen Carew-Reid had a venture capital broker approach Rupert Murdoch at News Limited's office in Sydney to ask if News Limited wished to invest $2,000,000 into the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group for 20% of the shares to help fund the expansion of the Australian Weekend News (AWN) into a financially solid newspaper published in each state in Australia on Friday afternoon, (as the original weekend News had been published on Friday at lunchtime, rather that Saturday morning giving readers the chance to see what was happen for the weekend on Friday rather than Saturday) as an alternative Australian weekend newspaper to all the other weekend state newspapers that were published in each state on Saturday morning. Rupert Murdoch and News Limited's answer was to threaten Stephen Carew-Reid and his Australian Weekend News Publishing Group with Federal and Supreme Court writs to try and stop them using the name "Australian", in front of the name Weekend News. Rupert Murdoch and News Limited's argument was that they had established the Australian Newspaper, being the only Australia wide newspaper with general news and they called their weekend edition The Australian (Weekend Edition). However, Stephen Carew-Reid had the name registered in Australia for some time Australian Weekend News as a business and company name and had been publishing the Australian Weekend News Collectors Editions since 1986. Stephen Carew-Reid's response to these legal threats from News Limited, a 300 billion dollar company being one of the largest media companies in the world with very deep pockets, that had unlimited money for the best and most expensive legal council money can buy, was to fax a draft copy of the next edition of the Australian Weekend News, with a headline and story entitled "Rupert Murdoch and his News Limited company sues Mr Wijat's Australian Weekend News over the right to use Australian as part of the Australian Weekend News Masthead".

    Stephen Carew-Reid also requested that the lawyers work over night to prepare the writs for collection by Stephen Carew-Reid the next morning. There was never any further response from Blake Dawson and Waldron, solicitors(now known as http://www.blakedawson.com/ ) for News Limited that made the threats for and on behalf of News Limited, and Stephen Carew-Reid, Mr Wijat, the Australian Weekend News, the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group have never heard from News Limited, Rupert Murdoch, News Limited or any of their solicitors or representative since that day. The original manuscripts of the seven volumes of Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watches?) written by Stephen Carew-Reid and published by the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group were stored for safe keeping by the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group and its now owners, International News Limited (known as The INL News Group see: www.inlnews.com) in a house in Tallai, Gold Coast (commonly known as the Hollywood Hills of the Gold Coast) Queensland. Then in late 2004 Detective sergeant Gregory Stormont and Detective Barry Zerner of the Queensland Police came to the house and removed these original manuscripts of the seven volumes of Stephen Carew-Reid's books Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watches?) without any court order or authority to remove such books and still has refused to return them as at July 2009, despite many requests by the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group and International News Limited, to the Detective Gregory Stormont and Detective Barry Zerner, Queensland Police Service, the Queensland Attorney General, the Queensland Premier and the Queensland Commissioner of Police, these original manuscripts have not been returned to the the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group or International News Limited. See: http://www.whoiswatchingthewatchers.com/ The a number of copies of the seven volumes of the Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?) written by Stephen Carew-Reid and published by the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group were purchased in the 1980' with public library money to have on public record an alternative view of the legal, political, public trustee, police, courts and business in Western Australia. The Alexander Resource Library issued receipts to the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group for payment for these seven volumes. Then in the year 2001, a lawyer friend of Stephen Carew-Reid, who was about to help Stephen Carew-Reid re-launch a new legal proceedings against the Western Australian Public Trustee See: http://www.publictrustee.wa.gov.au/, went to the Alexander Resource Library to read the seven volumes of Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?), to prepare for the proposed court proceedings, only to find that these books has been completely removed from the library's computer and the hard copies of these books where no longer in the library. No one would tell him in the Library where these volumes had gone and/or that they ever existed. It has been alleged by Stephen Carew-Reid and his family in over a decade of court battles in the Local, District, Supreme and Federal Courts, where Stephen represented himself and his family, as a litigant in person, at thousands of court hearings, that the Western Australian Public Trustee and its appointed representatives had wrongly handled and even defrauded, the estate of Stephen Carew-Reid's late Father John Carew-Reid, who died on the 16th September, 1986. The seven volumes of the Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?) written by Stephen Carew-Reid and published by the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group, exposed the details of the over a decade in court battles and names names and had photos and details of the powerful people he and his family alleged were involved in a conspiracy to defraud his family out of a multi million dollar estate and family companies Stephen Carew-Reid and his late father John Carew-Reid had built from 1971 onwards, while Stephen Carew-Reid was completing a Bachelor of Commerce Degree at the University of Western Australia "Since 1911 The University of Western Australia has helped shape the careers of over 100,000 graduates."See: http://www.uwa.edu.au/. When finding out from his lawyer friend that his books were no longer in the Alexander Resource Library computer, and no longer in hard copy in the library, Stephen Carew-Reid rang the head librarian who authorised the purchase of his books for the Alexander Resource Library, and was told the words, "Off the record, a legal representative of the Western Australian Crown Law Department came into the library and demanded without any type of court order and/or court authority, that the seven volumes of the Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?) written by Stephen Carew-Reid and published by the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group be removed completely from the library's computer system and that all copies of the hard copied of the books be completely destroyed. See: http://www.whoiswatchingthewatchers.comThe current situation is that after many warning letters and emails, Stephen Carew-Reid, The Australian Weeekend News Publishing Group and International News Limited are taking out a court action in the International Courts for over $100 million in damages against Queensland Police officers Senior Detective Gregory Stormont and Senior Detective Detective Barry Zerner, the Queensland Police Service, the Commissioner of Police of Queensland, the Attorney General of Queensland, the Premier of Queensland and the Government of Queensland for the damages caused by the what is alleged as the wrongful and/or illegal removal for he seven volumes of the Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?) written by Stephen Carew-Reid and published by the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group from a house in Tallai in late 2004, and for the return of the seven volumes of the Triumph of Truth (Who's Watching The Watchers?) written by Stephen Carew-Reid and published by the Australian Weekend News Publishing Group.See: http://www.whoiswatchingthewatchers.com/Journal.html





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