Marshals fallen from the skies? Putting armed air marshals on flights was a key security measure after the 9/11 attacks. But how many are still on board in Australia? Perhaps none, one tipster suggests. We’re investigating, so let us know if you’ve heard anything.
Rinehart’s life, by Ferguson. We speculated on Monday that Gina Rinehart’s very private life could soon be exposed by a tell-all biography. Well step forward Adele Ferguson — The Sydney Morning Herald business writer is working on a tome with publisher Pan Macmillan, she’s confirmed to The Power Index. “She’s Australia’s richest person and people don’t know all that much about her. It will be a really interesting,” Ferguson told The Power Index editor Angela Priestley, while remaining tight-lipped on details.
In death, the minister excelled. Did an adviser to a prominent NSW minister really send out a group email after Margaret Olley’s state memorial service yesterday saying the event had been a “great success for the minister”?
Executive salaries aren’t Human. The 45,000 Department of Human Services staff have not yet had a chance to vote on the proposed agreement they say will cut conditions and offer a meagre pay rise, but apparently their Senior Executive Service isnt waiting around. An insider reports: “DHS SES staff have just got themselves a very nice deal, which retains their 23 days of recreational leave and offers a hefty pay rise. Who said it isn’t good at the top?”
Not-so-sad to see Churchill go. Outgoing Age CEO Don Churchill’s invitation to farewell drinks on Friday evening to celebrate his “stellar career” has apparently fallen on deaf ears. Senior Age hacks are shunning the event and cartoonists have refused to pen a farewell card for Churchill, who they blame for the mass sacking of subeditors. Meanwhile, we hear Churchill has been lobbying hard for ad sales manager David Hoath — at the helm during The Age’s bleeding of revenues — to take over as CEO when he leaves Media House next week.
Meanwhile, Age spies tell us they will stop work at 4pm this afternoon to vote on Fairfax’s current pay offer. “Not sure what the outcome will be,” says one staffer.
Bayer, the CSIRO and the climate. CarbonKids is an “education program” run with CSIRO and Bayer that focuses on climate change and sustainability. The multinational is paying for the project. As one reader asks, why?
Bayer, the CSIRO and the climate:
One should expect no less when Australia’s body politic sanctifies animal cruelty and permits its premium science institute to dupe little kids and to play musical chairs with the worst polluters on the planet:
1) The Bayer Group was listed as the most toxic company in the U.S. in the March 2010 release of the University of Massachusetts (UMass)’ Political Economy Resource Institute (PERI) “Toxic 100 Air Polluters’ Index”,
2) Tea Party climate change deniers funded by BP, BASF, BAYER and other major polluters. Largest donor: BAYER $108,100.00
3) July 4, 2011: Bayer CropScience, a subgroup of the German chemical producer Bayer AG, has agreed to pay $750 million to US farmers. Around 11,000 farmers in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas filed lawsuits against the German company.
4) June 16, 2011. US Supreme Court allows cholesterol drug suit against Bayer.
5) 27/05/11 Multiple breaches of the Code arose from Bayer’s “misleading” advertisement for its oral contraceptive Yasmin (ethinylestradiol and drospirenone).
6) Disabled victims of drug, Primodos demand apology and compensation at Bayer shareholder meeting, April 29, 2011, Cologne.
7) December 9, 2010 Clothianidin (Bayer): EPA Asked to Pull Pesticide Linked to Bee Kills
8) BAYER Annual Shareholder Meeting in Cologne on April 29, 2011: Beekeepers to stage protests against Pesticides
9) October 27, 2010, Chicago Sun-Times: Deceptive pharma marketing: Bayer agrees to $3.3 million settlement.
10) September 22, 2010: CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Bayer CropScience has agreed to pay nearly $460,000 to resolve a variety of chemical storage and air pollution violations cited by state inspectors at its Institute plant over the last three years, company and government officials said.
11) Countermotions – Bayer’s AGM 29 April 2011: Following a recent undercover investigation in the Professional Laboratory and Research Services, Inc. (PLRS) contract laboratory based in the United States, where animals were subjected to severe mistreatment and suffering far beyond the scope of the commissioned tests.
12, 13, 14, 15……. ongoing.
I’m not surprised there’s no marshals on the planes any more, because they’re not really needed. They’re not needed because 9/11 was an almost transparent inside job where the required planning and Air Force stand down and insertion of these extra flights and vertical collapse of 3 (not 2) reinforced buildings where skyscrapers have never collapsed before in history in similar circumstances and hints like molten ferrous waste coming from the building and squibs and reports of early explosions in the basements and kero only burns at 450F where steel melts at 1500F and no evidence a full-sized plane hitting the Pentagon or any remains and no evidence of Flight 77 crashing but plenty of evidence of it being shot down and so on and so forth indicate the threat came from no fundamentalist Islamic quarter and there is nothing to be afraid of on subsequent flights unless they want to do the whole thing again as another false flag op to keep you all afraid and target resource-rich countries that China, India and Russia also have their eyes on.