http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=73b_1341265281 Items in channel 'fookalah' Thu, 23 May 2013 23:50:12 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=73b_1341265281 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 01:50:34 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=049_1367041500 fookalah A man who had doused himself in petrol turned into a human fireball when police shot him with a Taser. Andrew Pimlott, 32, suffered horrific injuries in the confrontation outside his house and died in a hospital burns unit five days later.The 50,000-volt volley was fired after he threatened to kill himself while holding a canister of fuel in one hand and a naked flame in the other. Jack Fry, who saw the incident, said: 'There were three screams. Then we saw a man, fully on fire, from top to bottom, like you see on a film, with his arms swaying around.'We saw two police officers appear from the side of the house. One of them jumped on the burning man and put him on the floor. 'The officers were shouting to each other and the one who had put him to the ground got an old duvet or cover and started smacking the man with it.'The incident - the latest to raise serious questions about the increasing use of Taser weapons - is being investigated by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.Sophie Khan, a lawyer who specialises in representing Taser victims, said the death was deeply saddening. 'Police Taser policy clearly states that using one where there is flammable liquid is prohibited,' she added. We do not know the facts but it is possible this tragedy could have been avoided if the officers had followed standard procedure.'It is another incident which highlights potentially inappropriate use of Taser which is growing as a weapon of choice among British police forces.' Officers have been warned not to use Taser weapons on people who have been sprayed with CS gas, because some brands catch fire. The confrontation took place outside Mr Pimlott's home in the Plymouth suburb of Honicknowle on April 18. Responding to an emergency call about a domestic incident, two officers found Mr Pimlott in the back garden with the canister. He had poured some fuel over his body. Within moments of the Taser being fired he burst into flames, suffering serious injuries, including the loss of an ear. He was taken to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and transferred to a specialist unit at the Frenchay Hospital in Bristol where he died four days ago. It is not known whether the two officers involved remain on duty.Mr Fry, a 20-year-old shop worker, said the pair were 'heroes' for jumping on Mr Pimlott with blankets in a bid to put out the flames.'There was steam coming off him and he was groaning. The sight was sickening,' he added. 'The officers then got a hosepipe and poured on water. We heard more sirens and as the paramedics and fire crews arrived I went back inside. I want to say how amazing the officer was. I think this officer is, well, I would use the word hero.'Another neighbour said: 'I thought a bomb had gone off. It was a sound like a shot or a bomb. Then I heard a howling noise.' Mr Pimlott, who lived with his parents, Kelvin, 61, and Jean, 63, was known to police after being jailed last December for attacking an officer. The incident followed Mr Pimlott's father calling police because his son was drunk and aggressive.Mr Pimlott, who was jailed for eight weeks, referred to himself as being 'like Jekyll and Hyde' when drunk. Devon and Cornwall is one of the country's most controversial Taser forces. It used the stun gun 65 times in 2011 compared with 34 times in 2010.Last year it paid out up to lb5,000 in compensation to a man who was Tasered at close range in a packed Plymouth pub. In a statement last night, Mr Pimlott's parents said: 'Dear darling son Andrew, you were a fantastic son to us, you will always be in our hearts and thoughts. We will never forget you.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315486/Andrew-Pimlott-burned-death-police-taser-horror-Officers-fired-50-000-volts-man-doused-petrol.html#ixzz2RdjJ7pBa http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=049_1367041500 fookalah Officers fired 50,000 volts at man doused in petrol and guess wha happened tazer,death,british police,Andrew Pimlot, Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:08:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4eb_1363925044 fookalah Tech giants front hearing on prices Aussies charged higher prices for music, movies Adobe and Apple defend slugging consumers Apple: 'We'd love cheaper prices' SOFTWARE giant Microsoft has admitted it slugs Australian customers significantly more for its products in a federal committee today and said if customers didn't like it they would "vote with their wallets". Microsoft became the latest international technology company to face the House of Representatives committee into information technology prices this afternoon, following evidence from Adobe and Apple.Microsoft Australia managing director Pip Marlow said the company did not create one price for all global customers and instead set a different, higher price for its Australian users."Is there a price differential for our customers? Clearly yes," Ms Marlow said. "We don't set a global price for our products. We do not operate on a standard price because we do not believe that every market is the same."Ms Marlow said Australian prices were determined based on competition in the market, and said customers who did not approve of their software prices would buy software elsewhere. "Our customers will vote with their wallets," she said. Ms Marlow refused to comment directly on claims by Member for Chifley Ed Husic that a Microsoft software suite that cost $2324 in the US and Singapore cost $4136 in Australia. Earlier today technology behemoths Adobe and Apple defended slugging Australians with high prices. Adobe defended charging Australians more than $1000 extra for its publishing software by claiming that Australians were receiving a "personalised" service on its local website. Addressing the House of Representatives committee on information technology pricing today, Adobe Australia and New Zealand managing director Paul Robson was questioned about why the company charged Australians 167 per cent more -- $3175 versus $US1899 -- for its Creative Suite 6 software.Mr Robson said consumers in this country were automatically redirected to the company's Australian website so they could access local discounts and community groups, and purchase Adobe's software at local rates.Mr Robson said Adobe's use of Australian-only pricing or "geoblocking" was a "well established and legal process" yet he failed to explain why Australians were paying significantly more for the same product."We're acutely aware that we can only succeed if we deliver innovation," he said. "If our customers believe they can get better value elsewhere, they simply won't do business with us."Mr Robson said the company had last month lowered the price of access to its Creative Cloud software service to Australia to deliver fairer prices.Technology giant Apple defended slugging Australians more for music, movies and TV shows, blaming the content owners for charging a higher "wholesale price" for media delivered to Australian eyes and ears.Apple Australia vice-president Tony King told the committee that the company would "love to see lower content prices" in Australia but music label deals and copyright issues prevented it from offering lower prices or opening its US iTunes Store to a global market.Mr King said record labels and TV and movie rights owners were responsible for setting different digital content prices in different markets and they should be the companies called before the federal committee."We would love to see cheaper, lower prices in the Australian market," Mr King said. "The difference in a price will stem from the different in a wholesale price from the owner of the rights."Mr King said Apple was not responsible for setting these geographically different prices and, despite them, prices in the Australian iTunes Store were "similar" to prices charged in Australian retail stores.In response to a question by Member for Chifley Ed Husic, Mr King said Apple could not legally open its US iTunes Store to Australian customers."When (an individual piece of content) is licenced to iTunes, a condition of that negotiation is that we make it available only for specified markets," he said. "Most rights are still today on a territory by territory, market by market basis. There are few rights that are truly global and that creates confusion for customers."Mr King said Apple had taken great lengths to ensure its own hardware products were priced at "parity" in Australia, taking into considerations the Australian GST and costs associated with delivering products in Australia.Earlier, consumer group Choice told news.com.au it has five big questions for the tech companies. 1. Why is it costing Australians 70 per cent more to rock out to AC/DC's Back in Black on iTunes? 2. Why does it cost a graphic designer in Adelaide $3175 to buy Adobe CS6 Design and Web Premium when a creative in Los Angeles only has to pay $US1899? 3 . Why does it cost a small business in Sydney $599 to buy Microsoft's Office Professional 2013 when a business in San Francisco only has to pay $US399.99? 4. How many of their staff in Australia work on developing software? 5. Who sets the pricing on iTunes - Apple or the music and film industry? Matt Levey, head of campaigns at Choice said there is "no justification" for why Australians are paying more than US consumers for identical products."We have heard all sorts of excuses from the tech companies, like claims that Australian wages, rent and taxes are too high and that our warranties are onerous," he said."Our research shows that none of the excuses stack up and the only conclusion is that the technology companies are greedy." "Today, Adobe, Apple and Microsoft have every opportunity to come clean on their dirty deeds," says Mr Levey. News.com.au is covering the hearings throughout the day. Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/biztech/apple-defends-high-costs-technology-prices-australia/story-fn5lic6c-1226602766888#ixzz2OEp5KUSJ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4eb_1363925044 fookalah 'We'd love cheaper prices': Apple defends high costs US technology rip off, Australians,microsoft,adobe, apple Sun, 24 Feb 2013 23:46:23 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2f2_1361766472 fookalah Best friends, no other comment needed http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2f2_1361766472 fookalah Best Friends ridgeback/mastiff, best friend ,cat Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:19:04 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=320_1361538515 fookalah "They cleaned me out" ... a photo supplied by Dylan. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/aussie-hacker-in-international-probe-20130222-2ew26.html#ixzz2LdJfbwvM An Australian hacker has found himself at the centre of an international corporate espionage investigation after leaking details of Microsoft's new Xbox and listing a prototype on eBay as a joke. Perth man SuperDaE goes by many names and online aliases, most commonly Dan Henry, but for "safety reasons" he prefers to be called only "Dylan" and describes himself as a freelance security analyst. Dylan would not say how he obtained the sensitive internal Microsoft information, or how he got his hands on a Durango (the code name for Microsoft's next-generation Xbox console) development kit, questions now at the centre of a joint investigation, which saw one of his Perth residences raided for five hours on Tuesday.West Australian Police confirmed the raid, but would not say whether, as Dylan claims, an officer from the FBI was present. "Technology Crime Investigation unit is currently conducting a multi-jurisdictional investigation into computer related offences," WA Police sergeant Gerry Cassidy said. "A search warrant was conducted Tuesday 19 February in relation to this investigation where items were seized." Dylan, whose computers, phones and banking cards were seized on Tuesday, said he had "no idea what's happening," when he spoke to Fairfax Media on Friday. "I'm eating one meal a day," he said. "There's no real way to get by, how do I pick things up from nothing?" But he concedes the backlash did not come as a shock after a friend of his was raided in New Jersey two months ago in relation to the same investigation. "They just took all my computers my hard drives, all of my technology, they took my bank cards, credit cards, bank statements," he said. "They cleaned me out pretty much." Why did he do it? "Out of curiosity," he said. "I like to explore things in my free time and I've got a lot of free time." After Dylan first leaked information about the Xbox on Twitter he said he was visited by a Microsoft employee who wanted the Durango back. "It didn't seem like they were going to actually pursue it this way," he said. "It seemed very much that they just wanted to know where their things were." But at 7.10 on Tuesday morning there was a knock at the door. "They had a ram in their hands and a warrant held up to me," Dylan said. "And they left with all my stuff." Dylan, who is relying on friends and family while he awaits the outcome of the investigation, said he fears the FBI are going to attempt an extradition to the US. "It's really just a waiting game as to if they'll press charges," he said. "There's really nothing I can do at this stage," he said. Does he regret the events that led to his current predicament? "If I could change anything yes, but do I regret it? It happened," he said. "I can't really look back on that." Meanwhile, the location of the Durango would remain a guarded secret. "No one's going to know where it is," Dylan said. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/aussie-hacker-in-international-probe-20130222-2ew26.html#ixzz2LdJFnWPe http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=320_1361538515 fookalah Aussie hacker in international probe durango, xbox, microsft,hacker,raid Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:52:05 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=87c_1361424908 fookalah WE MAY not know what the PS4 looks like or how much it costs but that hasn't stopped games retailers from taking a punt on the price. EB Games has made the PlayStation 4 available for pre-order for $900 Kotaku reported. To call $900 "steep" would be an understatement, especially because we don't know the basic details about the console. All flash no console After a two hour "launch", Sony has failed to actually reveal what the PlayStation 4 looks like, or when it will launch. The livestream is over and we're none the wiser about what the new PlayStation 4 looks like, when it will become available for sale and how much it will cost. Sony only vaguely mentioned that the PS4 would be "coming for 2013 holidays" but it wouldn't be more specific than that. There's also no word on when it will be released for the Australian market. Sony's PS4 launch 'like a wedding without a bride' Gamers are, naturally, outraged. Two hours of shop talk and no finished product? That's pretty poor. Naturally, users flocked to Twitter to express their outrage. Twitter user @mthspatriot11 tweeted: "Sony just revealed the worlds first invisible console. PS4....meh." User @SAI wrote: "After more than two hours, Sony's PlayStation 4 event is over. They didn't even show us what the console looks like. http://read.bi/Wb1SBL."Another user, @tokulski wrote that maybe the PS4 isn't a console. "Maybe it's a feeling in your heart," he wrote. He added: "PS4, designed by Monty Python." Twitter user @BakedBoons said there were "Several kinds of bull***t going on". "You know what I'd really like to have seen? More vagueness. There wasn't enough of that," he tweeted. Nail. On. Head. Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/gaming/sony-set-to-launch-playstation-4-in-new-york/story-e6frfrt9-1226582304957#ixzz2LVewNg3b http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=87c_1361424908 fookalah Outrage after Sony fails to reveal the PlayStation 4 console sony, playstation 4,wtf Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:05:23 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fd5_1361336146 fookalah After a devastating tornado wreaked havoc on much of Joplin, Missouri in May of 2011 the town found a financial savior in an unlikely source: the United Arab Emirates. The tornado, which killed 161 people and destroyed six public schools, had left the community in an almost hopeless situation until the UAE reached out through their embassy in Washington. It's not the first time the UAE has reached out to the United States for charity, as the nation has embarked upon a campaign to provide assistance to the most dire of areas in the country according to The Washington Post. In Joplin, with insurance covering the re-construction of buildings, the largest thing the school system was a new order of textbooks. It was considered unaffordable even on the statewide level of Missouri. In lieu of the textbooks, the UAE made it possible for each student in Joplin, about 2,200 high schoolers, to have a MacBook laptop. The nation has also put forth $5 million to rebuild a neonatal intensive-care unit in the town's hospital, which was also destroyed in the tornado. Though the United States still provides the largest amount of aid to foreign countries, it has seen other nations absorbing many of these projects - including the UAE. Commenting about the increased aid, Yousef al Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the United States said, 'We spot needs and we try to help.' The donation to Joplin is certainly not the first for the oil-rich country. In 2005, both the UAE and Qatar contributed $100 million towards relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf community. Both New York and New Jersey have also been assured of receiving $5 million for each state following Hurricane Sandy last October. Outside of natural disasters, the UAE has also fronted the construction of 'all weather artificial turf soccer fields' in the poorer areas of New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Chicago. They would like to commission three more but have not determined location. Much of the charity involvement of the UAE stems from a controversy in 2006 when Dubai tried to make a deal with the United States government to assume management of six ports. Most members of Congress were intensely opposed and the UAE image seemed to suffer in the United States. As an ambassador, Otaiba has sought to rectify this image by traveling around the country and explaining the nation's similarities with the United States when it comes to preventing terrorism. In 2009 Otaiba played an instrumental role in coordinating a $150 million contribution from Abu Dhabi to the Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C. Similar contributions to hospitals have also included Johns Hopkins in Maryland and the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. Other gifts from the UAE have ranged from the New York Police Foundation to a food bank in Baltimore and a program in Washington D.C. helping high schoolers acquire enough money for college. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280895/Joplin-Tornado-United-Arab-Emirates-pays-millions-rebuilding-Missouri-town.html#ixzz2LPfRfHXU http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/united-arab-emirates-helps-joplin-think-big-in-rebuilding-tornado-scarred-schools/2013/02/17/ae6a5af0-7704-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story_2.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fd5_1361336146 fookalah United Arab Emirates pays millions for rebuilding of Missouri town hit by tornado as oil rich state pays back US for its foreign aid to rest of the wo joplin, uae, wahhabii expansion program paid for in full Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:22:59 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8e5_1361197080 fookalah lol funny clip http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8e5_1361197080 fookalah 3 yo caught lying,(future politician in training) kid, lying,lmao Sun, 17 Feb 2013 09:22:08 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=edf_1361110522 fookalah 'Claim jobseeker's allowance and plan holy war': Hate preacher pocketing lb25,000 a year in benefits calls on fanatics to live off the state Anjem Choudary called benefits 'Jihadseeker's allowance' The extremist told followers they must hate democracy and freedom Also listed bizarre sharia laws, including 'not riding cats and sheep' By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 13:21 GMT, 17 February 2013 Anjem Choudary has been recorded telling followers to claim benefits as part of their struggle to bring sharia law to the UK A controversial Muslim cleric who lives off benefits is urging his followers to also sponge off UK taxpayers by claiming their 'Jihadseeker's allowance'.Anjem Choudary, who in the past has planned to disrupt the minute's silence on Remembrance Sunday, also openly mocked hard-working Britons, calling them 'slaves'. The Sun newspaper secretly filmed him saying Islam will overrun Europe, David Cameron and Barack Obama should be killed and calling the Queen 'ugly'. The father-of-four takes home more than lb25,000 a year in benefits and lives in a lb320,000 house in Leytonstone, East London. He told a crowd of around 30 fanatics: 'People will say, 'Ah, but you are not working'. But the normal situation is for you to take money from the kuffar (non-Muslim). 'So we take Jihadseeker's Allowance. You need to get support.' In another video a grinning Choudary is recorded telling his disciples that it is justifiable to take money from non-believers. He said: 'The normal situation is to take money from the kuffar. You work, give us the money, Allahu Akhbar (God is great). 'Hopefully there's no one from the DSS listening to this.' He also called Mr Cameron, Mr Obama and the leaders of Pakistan and Egypt the 'shaitan', or devil, and said he wanted them to be killed. Choudary spoke glowingly of the 9/11 attacks and urged his followers to have 'hate' in their hearts for core British concepts like democracy, freedom and freedom of religion. The 45-year-old former lawyer added: 'We are going to take England - the Muslims are coming. Brussels is 30 per cent, 40 per cent Muslim and Amsterdam. Bradford is 17 per cent Muslim. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279972/Anjem-Choudary-Hate-preacher-pocketing-25-000-year-benefits-calls-fanatics-live-state.html#ixzz2LALVm6c2 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=edf_1361110522 fookalah Anjem Choudary says that he is on 'Jihad Seekers Allowance' islam, disease,england,europe Sat, 16 Feb 2013 06:28:29 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5f1_1361013605 fookalah THE federal government says whaling by Japan is illegal wherever it happens, after a large whale was harpooned in Australian waters. Anti-whaling activists at Sea Shepherd said Japanese whalers killed a large minke whale on Friday in Australian waters off Antarctica near the Davis Research Base. The group has posted photos and video of the incident online. Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson said when the protesters tried to block the transfer of the harpooned whale's carcass from one vessel to another, the irate whalers tried to ram their boat. Environment Minister Tony Burke said the focus should not be on which part of the ocean this happened. "It doesn't matter what part of the ocean it is in, Australia's view is that it is just as illegal," Mr Burke told reporters. "That's why we have taken Japan to the International Court of Justice. "I think it would be a terrible situation if we started to go down the path of arguing that in one part of the ocean we thought whaling was okay and in others it wasn't." Coalition environment spokesman Greg Hunt said the best way to deter whalers and minimise the risk of dangerous confrontations would be to have a customs vessel patrolling known or likely trouble spots. "The sensible action here is to have a cop on the beat," he said. "The mere fact of an Australian-flagged vessel says to the whalers that we are watching, and says to the protesters: you've got to abide by international maritime law. "Anything less is just negligent." But Mr Burke said the opposition's proposal would make the situation even worse. "Could you imagine what a boost to Japanese whaling it would be if there was an Australian vessel just watching on and nodding," Mr Burke said. "It's much better that we have taken the legal action that we have taken, that we are in the International Court of Justice, that we are getting closer and closer to decision day there." Read more: http://www.news.com.au/travel/government-ignores-whaling-hunt/story-e6frfq7r-1226579485708#ixzz2L3mqudlm http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5f1_1361013605 fookalah Japan 'kills whale in Australian waters' whaling, japan, sea shepherd,poaching Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:21:24 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97d_1361009927 fookalah http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/15/rhode-islanders-repeatedly-call-cops-over-12-foot-snow-penis/ UPDATE (5:35 pm) : The Huffington Post reported that the snow penis was demolished just two hours after it posted the original story. "It's just a big pair of balls now," Raylene Worthington, the mother of the 16-year-old responsible for the sculpture, told HuffPo. The townsfolk in South Kingstown, Rhode Island were none too happy this week to discover that one of their neighbors built a 12-foot tall sculpture of a penis out of snow, in clear view of a neighborhood road. Police told The Providence Journal that they responded to calls about the phallic creation four different times in two days, but did nothing because it was on private property. Of course, it didn't have to be 12-feet tall. But when the mother of the teenage boys who built the thing saw how people were reacting, she felt like driving the point home a little. "They're teenage boys - there's worse things they could be doing," she told a Huffington Post reporter . "It was innocent. And to be honest, knowing that it pissed people off gave us a little charge. If you have nothing else to do in your day other than complain about a snow penis, we'll make it 12 feet tall." The Journal did not run a photograph of the sculpture, so its creators decided to give it a Facebook page of its very own shortly before leveling the frozen dong on Friday . "The sculpture is officially down," a post to the page explained. "Enough excitement for 2 days. What started as an innocent joke was taken out of proportion by people with nothing else to do but complain. Life is short...keep smiling....and have Fun!" Raw Story ( http://s.tt/1zQjm ) http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=97d_1361009927 fookalah Rhode Islanders repeatedly call cops over 12-foot snow penis snow penis, snobs, rhode island Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:54:50 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=67b_1360766460 fookalah my comment :no criminal charges?? lmao With 14 bank accounts, the cash kept rolling in for Ian Macdonald DISGRACED former minister Ian Macdonald received $450,000 to keep him "rolling along" until a million-dollar windfall from a coal deal came through, the corruption watchdog heard yesterday." He also received a $100,000 loan on top of the monthly payments from his business partner John Gerathy, who "bankrolled" the former resources minister after he quit parliament. "He was certainly keeping me financially afloat, yes," Mr Macdonald told ICAC yesterday as he marked a tense third day in the witness box. As a retired minister, Mr Macdonald has been entitled to a parliamentary pension of more than $100,000 a year. But yesterday claims emerged that the man nicknamed Sir Lunch-A-Lot had fallen on hard times. Questioned about $30,000 received from his former best friend Greg Jones, Mr Macdonald put it down to "wedding and birthday presents". The financial details have emerged as ICAC digs deeper into allegations of a "criminal conspiracy", that Mr Macdonald is "a crook" and that he rigged a tender process for coal mining exploration licences to benefit his former Labor colleague Eddie Obeid, whose family owned land around Mt Penny, where a critical coal tenement was created. ICAC alleges Mr Macdonald was due to receive a cut of the $486 million sale of Cascade Coal to White Energy - which eventually collapsed after suspicion surfaced about the Obeids' involvement in the mining venture. Yesterday counsel assisting Geoffrey Watson SC grilled Mr Macdonald about why he had 14 bank accounts - to which he replied he wasn't sure which ones were active. The payments from Mr Gerathy, which started in September 2010 and continued until last July, ranged from $15,000-$25,000 a month. ICAC heard there are no statements describing a loan repayment plan - and that a document from Mr Gerathy last year issuing a caveat over Mr Macdonald's $1.2 million Northbridge home was created only days after ICAC investigators ordered the solicitor to produce records of his financial dealings with the former MP. "The truth is you were going to get a cut out of your dealings with the Obeids weren't you and the only thing that's frustrated that occurring has been the intervention of ICAC, hasn't it?" Mr Watson asked. "No, that's not right," Mr Macdonald said. "And at the time (of the White Energy deal) you'd be able to pay Gerathy back his money and you'd be rolling in clover," Mr Watson said. Mr Macdonald denied this. In evidence to a closed inquiry, made public yesterday, Mr Gerathy said Mr Jones had told him he would help Macdonald financially in March 2011. "If this (Cascade sale) really comes off I will give Ian a hand," Mr Jones is alleged to have told Mr Gerathy. Mr Watson alleged the "hand" Jones was referring to was to give Macdonald cash. Mr Macdonald said Jones was merely referring to finding him a job read more http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=67b_1360766460 fookalah With 14 bank accounts, the cash kept rolling in for Ian Macdonald corruption,ian macdonald Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:24:08 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=902_1360761537 fookalah INVESTIGATIONS have begun into revelations that Australian officials were told of the jailing of Victorian man Ben Zygier in the months before he died in his Israeli prison cell, but failed to pass the information on. Foreign Minister Bob Carr yesterday ordered an inquiry into the consular handling of the case after it emerged that his department learnt of Zygier's jailing from another Australian agency, believed to be ASIO, in 2010.At the time, Zygier was known to the world only as "Prisoner X" after the Israeli government banned local media outlets from reporting the case due to what was believed to be a national security incident.Zygier died in December 2010 in a claimed suicide, but questions have been raised given the secrecy of his jailing and his isolated cell purportedly being suicide-proof.Senator Carr was originally advised by his department that it was only aware of Zygier after his death by family seeking help to bring his body home to Melbourne. But as revealed by news.com.au yesterday, DFAT officers had not passed the information on through the appropriate channels. Senator Carr's office said it may seek more information from the Israeli government as part of the inquiry by DFAT secretary Peter Varghese."DFAT had originally advised us that it was unaware," a spokeswoman said. "DFAT has now advised that some officers of the department were made aware of Mr Allen's detention at the time in 2010 by another Australian agency."The government would not say if it knew then he was the "Prisoner X" being reported at the time or simply just an Australian. Zygier was a member of a prominent Jewish family in Melbourne, where his father Geoffrey is the executive director of the Victoria Jewish Community Council. His uncle Willy is the partner of singer Deborah Conway."It's still just too painful for us to speak about at the moment," Geoffrey said from his home in Malvern. "We understand the interest, but we've decided not to talk to anyone, not at the moment. I'm sorry." His son, whose other names included Ben Alon in Israel and Ben Allen on his Australian passport, was buried in Melbourne's Jewish Chevra Kadisha cemetery in Springvale aged 34.Shadow foreign minister Julie Bishop called for a full explanation on the "apparent breakdown" within DFAT and whether the Israeli government notified DFAT that an Australian-born man had been imprisoned.She said she had raised concerns with Israeli Ambassador in Canberra Yuval Rotem, who had promised to pass them on to his government. He was not commenting yesterday.But the Israeli government continued its gagging of the case, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office yesterday summoning Israeli newspaper editors to ask them not to publish a story "that is very embarrassing to a certain government agency", Israel's Haaretz newspaper said before censoring its own stories.One of the Zygier family's neighbours said Ben was fluent in Hebrew and dux of Bialik College. "I would talk to him in Hebrew as he was fluent in the language," she said. "He was a very helpful guy, always happy and smiling. He was the dux of his college, went to Monash University to study law and became a successful lawyer."He moved in when his grandparents went to an aged care facility. Then when he moved to Israel, his sister Tully, moved in. But she was only here 12 months and then diagnosed with MS and had to move back in with her parents."The family stayed in his former home for seven days, as is tradition, after they buried him and now they rent it out. "His family were devastated when he died." Willy Zygier said he had "no idea what is true, what isn't true" and Ben's parents were still in mourning. "All I know is there's a family tragedy. Every suicide is a tragedy," Willy said. "Ben's parents are in mourning. I don't know if they'll talk." read more: http://www.news.com.au/national/prisoner-x-who-knew-what-and-when/story-fncynjr2-1226577429511 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze8x4VzKoNk http://www.theage.com.au/national/australian-diplomat-aware-zygier-being-held-20130213-2edge.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=902_1360761537 fookalah Israel's Prisoner X: Who knew what and when? israel, mossad, australia,melbourne,secrecy,deception