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The loud noise heralded the arrival of Poochi[translated - Insect]. His mother led the fluid-covered newborn to the edge of a leaf and pointed to the sky.
"Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz". A thousand butterflies were flitting around.
Poochi's jaw dropped at the spectacular hues which filled his first-ever vision.
"You see that?", said Poochi's mother. "That is how I want you to be when you grow up. Beautiful and vibrant. Delicate and fascinating. A delight to the eyes."
Poochi took his mother's words to heart and from that moment on devoted himself to becoming the best butterfly in the forest. But no matter how hard he tried, there was always a butterfly better than him.
Poochi was proud of his vivid yellow and black colour, but the Morpho butterfly was more renowned in the forest for his unmatcheable metallic blue and green.
Poochi had distinct tiger stripes, like all Tiger Swallowtail butterflies, but the Monarch and Lacewing butterflies had patterns more striking than his.
Poochi exercised hard and maintained a fit physique, but he could not achieve the seemingly weightless and effortless flutter of the Glasswing butterfly
Poochi tried harder and harder to be the best butterfly in the forest but somehow he never got any nearer to his goal. Disheartened, he lost all interest in life and went to the forest lake to drown himself.
An old fly who was sitting nearby, sucking on a ripe mango, noticed the dejected look on his face and asked him, "What's wrong, kid?"
Poochi replied, "I am not fit for living, I am going to end my life."
The fly quizzed, "Really? Why?"
Poochi said, "No matter how hard i try, I just can't be the best butterfly in the forest. There is always a better butterfly than me"
The fly spat out a mango fiber and said, "Well, I am not surprised you aren't the best butterfly in the forest. That's coz' you are a BEE, my dear friend"
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I think it's interesting how Poochi discovers that he is a bee instead of a butterfly! Now hopefully he can live his life as a good bee:) He is unique, too, from a butterfly. I like both bees and butterflies; they both pollinate flowers. Thanks for sharing!
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Aces Full of It: Making the Donkey Walk IAugust 23rd, 2015 by Justin Buchanan
The word "donk" has long been the number one go-to appellation for a certain kind of poker player: the bad kind. No one wants to be one, many aren't actually aware they are one. Some throw around the term in the manner of an internet troll in online table chat, indiscriminately or perhaps using the term more to insult good players than actual bad ones, the bad ones often including said troll.
In recent days, some concerns have been raised that with the amount of information available about how to properly play this game and how easy it is to access, it has become prohibitively more difficult for anyone to make a real profit at poker. For cash games, I really don't see what they're getting worked up about. If you make plays with positive expected value, you'll make a profit right?
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If I really am full of it in any area of poker, it's cash games, so don't bother correcting me if I'm wrong here unless you're willing to truly educate me on that area (which would be really amazing if any of you out there were actually patient enough to do that.) But even setting that aside, for anything that there is information for, there is misinformation for.
If my admittedly limited live play experience is any indication, those players in the know have taken it as their civic duty to spread misinformation about optimal play like wildfire. At the last tournament I was in, a woman directly on my left seemed to pretty much know what she was doing, but at any point, and there were a few, that her table talk even vaguely resembled advice, it was invariably bad advice. I salute her as a true poker patriot.
The biggest reason for my confidence that there's still plenty of bad players to take money from out there, though, is that I've seen them. I can't speak for anything above low stakes or of course cash games, but in low stakes/micro stakes tournaments online, trust me–there's plenty. To do my part to end the misconception, I'm going to share my wisdom on how to exploit the many different weaknesses that you still can encounter in a segment I'd like to call Making the Donkey Walk.
Donkus Anytwous: The "loose passive" Donk
No two donks are alike, but I have found that there are a few distinct patterns of behavior that I run into again and again. In each Making the Donkey Walk, I will be covering one of those patterns. Today, I'd like to go over the behavior I see in most loose passive players, that I have scientifically named the Donkus Anytwous species of bad poker player, but are also commonly referred to as "calling stations."
The Donkus Anytwous is the most commonly found Donk today according to my exhaustive scientific study (and by exhaustive scientific study, I mean it seems like I run into more of them at any low or micro stakes tournament than any other type of bad player.)
It is possible therefore that there may be perceptual bias because of all the types, the Donkus Anytwous is the second most conspicuous type to identify. They are characterized by a propensity to call virtually any bet in the preflop stage of a hand with cards that do not in any way preclude such behavior from the perspective of a sensible player.
Whether there has been a raise prior to the action coming to them is largely immaterial, or even the size of the raise–if a Donkus Anytwous is going to play a hand, then God and Lady Luck as their witnesses, they're going to play that hand!
However, many examples of this Donk species do in fact have cards that they won't actually call with. Even if their folding range is just the bottom 10% of all starting hands, it is extremely rare to find one that sees literally every flop.
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The first thing anyone who wishes to capitalize on the existence of the Donkus Anytwous must keep in mind that despite their behavior preflop, they tend to behave at least somewhat sensibly after the flop comes down.
It is very rare in my experience to find a calling station that will not fold to a continuation bet when they have a hand with no pairs and no draws. That having been said, many of them do tend to come along postflop with just about any made hand, and usually with draws as well.
The formula for their exploitation is pretty simple to work out, with this in mind. A bet on the flop will determine most times if they have anything to work with at all. If they fold, great, you won the hand. If they call, most likely they have a draw, small pair or could have a top pair.
If the turn does not complete any draws, it then becomes possible to force out draws, but if they call a second time, they nearly always have a made hand save for the loosest examples of the type.
In that event, you can bank on them not folding after the river most of the time as well, so depending on what hand you have, either stop adding chips to the pot, or if you have a hand like 2 pair or a set, give the river bet as much steam as you think he'll come along with.
In low and micro stakes tournaments, many times you can actually go all in at this point with a set and they'll come along with as little as 2nd to top pair.
That's my approach to dealing with the loose-passive players I run into. If your experience is different, please don't hesitate to share, especially if you play in the games that I don't or can't (cash games, higher stakes tournaments.) The Making the Donkey Walk posts will be interspersed throughout my normal opinion columns when I feel like it, so please don't ask when the next one will be. Till next time!


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Glitter was declared bankrupt in 1980, and spent a few 'wilderness years' in New Zealand. He made a comeback on the 'chicken in a basket' circuit in the early 1980s, until student entertainment officers, who had enjoyed Gary in their youth, started booking him for college dos. A star was reborn. Heinz soup and British Rail joined the queue for his services in adverts. 'This is the essence of the play,' Leigh muses, 'that Gary's a real fighter.'
Last summer Furst and Leigh led Leader] to Edinburgh, where they indulged in some of the tackiest PR since Freddie Starr's hamster-eating exploits. They handed out condoms marked 'Come on] Come on]' and drove around the city in a silver Mini adorned with a giant platform shoe on the roof.
Glitterati from Belgium and Denmark have booked tickets for Leader], and a theatre company in Germany has expressed interest in the rights to the show. Furst is not surprised: 'It's a timeless piece of drama. I can see Jonathan Miller setting it in 1930s Chicago.'
Next up Furst and Leigh are planning either The Lena Zavaroni Story or The Gary Numan Story - 'a short five- minute vignette' - but for the moment they admit to being enslaved by 'an obsession that has got completely out of control,' as Leigh puts it. They have seen Glitter live 50 times, and Furst claims to have turned his lavatory into a GG shrine. They are hopeful of 'meeting their Maker' when Gary comes to the show later in this run. 'We never tire of him,' says Furst. 'We look at the lyrics, and, like born again Christians re-reading the Bible, we always find new things in them.'
'Leader] - The Gang's Tribute to Gary Glitter' is at the Arts Theatre, London, WC2 (071 836 2132), booking to 30 July
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02 Nov 2010 8:46:34pm
Bad Call - we need justice
We are a small business in Sydney and were also scammed by an outfit called Oneworld Telecom, which went out of business...They used a finance company called Australian Integrated Finance, which is still requesting our money, however we have stopped repayments once our lines were disconnected. We would like to get them off our back as our products which we considered were free were only worth approx 2500, however OWT invoiced AIF for approximately 15 grand!!
This is grand theft and the finance companies should answer for this!!
We need assistance to get the finance companies to cancel the rental arrangements.
02 Nov 2010 8:29:54pm
Bad Call
So good to see something come to the public surface about these scams. My business was totally scammed with Fresh Telecom in Adelaide, same story. I ended up settling with Macquarie as I could not afford to be taken to court and have to pay more. We have paid something like $60K over 5 years for a out two bobs worth of low quality hardware, which we thew out in the first year. On top of that we lost our phone services after about 18 months, and had to re engage a service. Maquarie bank employees are just as bad as the bank, I was only met with arrogance and disdain. I wish I could have afforded to be a part of any class action, but I just could not. This has hurt my business very deeply, and I can only hope that the folk at Macquarie and what was Fresh are bought either to justice, or a grizzly end. They deserve it...
02 Nov 2010 6:38:57pm
Bad Call
I watched last nights programme with interest, and whilst this story was about small businesses being unfairly treated by Macquarie, I feel I should bring to everyone's attention that Macquarie deal with individuals in the same aggressive and unethical manner.
I was the innocent victim of identity fraud. Macquarie Leasing pursued me through the courts continuing even after they were informed by the NSW police that I was not the guilty party. Macquarie then continued their pursuit of monies from myself even after Police informed them that the perpetrator (an agent acting on behalf of Macquarie) had been arrested and charged and subsequently convicted.
Macquarie has cost me two years of my life and over 20 thousand dollars in legal costs.
Macquarie has no ethics and has no interest in justice only in making money at what ever cost. Macquarie is a company that everyone should consider very carefully whether they deal with.
02 Nov 2010 3:02:10pm
Bad Call
The use of 2 contracts for one deal should be outlawed as it breeds scams of all kinds. The Consumer Credit Laws need to cover business contracts like they do in Victoria if a domestic item, such as a plasma tv is supplied.
These companies have written these contracts to make use of loop holes in the Consumer Credit Laws and they are designed so the Telco can close down, ripping off customers.
Why have these unscrupulous Directors been prosecuted ??? From an outsider, it looks like the Finance Companies are complicit in these scams.
The Millionaire Maker robs from the "Poor" to give to the "Rich" !!!
Shame on you !!!
Very Un - Australian.
casper ®
02 Nov 2010 2:56:36pm
Bad Call
I'd like to thank 4 corners for a very informative program last night about these bundling scams & how they have destroyed businesses, What I don't get is if this practice has been deemed Illegal by the ACCC then how is Macquarie bank & other finance companies allowed to take businesses to court to recoup money. Our courts are their to enforce the law & if a company has a legal right to recover money due to non payment then they should be allowed to do so.
However when a situation like this arises & has been deemed Illegal by the ACCC then these cases should be struck out plain & simple, To businesses who have been given a bad credit rating you can get this reversed It's difficult but it can be done don't believe what the credit reporting agencies tell you it's a lie. To those who have been victims of this scam all I can say is try & hold your head up I know it's not much but it was the first thing that came into my head when I was posting this.
justdunny ®
02 Nov 2010 2:49:18pm
How is this a story in any way? If the words "fraud", "scam", "misleading", "misrepresentation", etc that were bandied around were genuinely applicable, WHY ARE THE POLICE NOT INVOLVED??!! I'm sorry... this was a complete non-event worthy of those other two shows masquerading as current affairs.
Kerry had better clean up this charade of a show. I've written it off long ago.
02 Nov 2010 2:45:08pm
Macquarie banks hidden agenda with the telco scam
Last night on four corners, a question was raised as to why Mac bank did not do its due dillgence on the funding of equipment. Why would Mac Bank fund $10,000 of rental on phones only worth $4000?
Well it is NOT just that they earn a commission.
With rental schemes, there is BIG money to be made at the tail end of the rental scheme. So if you are an agent of Mac Bank and you sell a rental scheme for 5 years, but the client rents it for 6 years, then that last year is ALL profit. BUT it goes to the agent, not the bank.
However, the Bank can refuse to pass on that extra year if it finds the agent has breached its agreement with the bank on doing its due dilligence.
So why would Mac Bank NOT do its due diligence on these deals? Simply, it gives Mac Bank the option of NOT paying out its agents for the rent at the back end of these deals.
Somebody should investigate the following:
1. What agency arrangements does mac bank have with these resellers of finance.
2. How many of its agents has MacBank refused to pay its agreed rentals, because they have not followed the agency agreement (and over valued the equipment being financed).
I know of one instance where MacBank held back over $100K to an equipment company because it unilaterally claimed the company did not meet its agency obligations.
Nice one really. You allow your agents to overvalue assets, and earn higher commissions, then years after the deals are done, you dont pay your agents because you claim they breached their agreement.
And of course, MacBank gets off scott free.
Rednose ®
02 Nov 2010 12:52:17pm
Bad Call
Ah Maquarie you've done it again! Paying your executives absurd salaries and bonuses whilst suing the poor buggers scammed, in some cases with fraudulent contracts. So how much does this present CEO walk away with at the end of his tenure with Macquarie?
02 Nov 2010 12:32:05pm
My Company and several others were duped by Axis Telecoms and Quickfund. We were promised free computers and they would be paid for by the discount on the phone account. Axis went broke, and Clear Telecoms took over the telephone account! We were left with a $540.00 rental agreement over 3 years and a telephone account of over $260.00 per month.
When we applied after three years to end the contract, they alerted us to the fact we needed to give six months notice and that they would continue it for a further six months with a payout of over $2,000.00. Not the $1 payout we were promised. We are just another victim in this insidious fraud.
Not Happy
02 Nov 2010 10:49:30am
Bad Call
Thank you Four Corners for exposing the scam artists in the telephony bundling. We were tricked into signing a contract with them and it has caused nothing but grief to us. We have written to politians, television programs, paid for lawyers to help us and to no avail. Hopefully your program will stop other people from falling prey to these companies and shut down the practice for good.
02 Nov 2010 9:31:38am
Bad Call
Stephen Long poorly representated the details to only explain half the story with bundled Telcos.
The reason most people went into bundled services over the last decade was for free calls and great call rates, (often 40% cheaper than Telstra).
Of course if the company handling the calls goes broke, you will have a problem, be it builders or any other similiar industry where you pre pay .
The fellow he kept pointing the finger at, Hakem from Clear is still in business. Doesn't that say something?
I am on my third Contract with Clear and enjoy great rates, free calls and do not pay any extra for new gear every few years.
Not one happy client was interviewed yet there are thousands.
The Finance companies need to help out with these contracts now and clean up the mess. Come on Four Corners- tell both sides of the story
02 Nov 2010 8:18:45am
Bad Call
Surely to hold a Banking Licence in Australia there is an obligation that Banks behave in an appropriate manner as well as being a good corporate citizen to Australian residents! It is one thing for an individual with questionable tactics/products to target unsuspecting small business and another for a so-called respected International Bank to endorse this behaviour.
I also had first hand experience with these group of telco companies and was stone walled by Macquarie Bank when questioning their association/endorsement of these companies/agreements and their behaviour.
free market rationalism
02 Nov 2010 3:06:21am
Bad Call
This is the age of total corruption, where 40,000 small businesses in Australia are being fitted up with rental payments on a supposed free office equipment. Which has been inflated to 6 times it's true value. In which the (Maquarie Bank) is using sub financiers to disguise the identity of the funding source.
"THIS IS THE RATIONAL of the FREE MARKET" at work in this country & around the globe. There are even far worse schemes out there which are funded by big international groups, in which 100s of thousands of people are dying!!
Yet in our own country, why hasn't the government stepped in directly & jail these people instead of using it's toothless tiger the (ACCC) to piddle around the edges!!
Thats "EASY" some of these Pollie's have their fingers in some of these pies!!!
Rome eventually lost it's empire to corruption & so it works it's way around the world, until the day it collapses & war follows, leading to the death of millions around the globe just so the (corruption elite) can keep control of their evil empires.
This is whats to come & I dont see anything changing anytime soon. The macquarie group are a bad lot, but they are not the only ones. The (big 4) since being privatized, are in to some real sordid schemes as well.
They should all be put in the stocks & let the public hurl rocks at them!!
Neil M
02 Nov 2010 1:25:26am
Bad Call
Very competent and thorough low-key reporting from Stephen Long, 4C - reminiscent of the style of Australian Story.
Among Melbourne Radio Derek Guille's many rib-tickling quips is his memorable epithet for economists.
"Economists were invented to make Astrology look good."
While watching Bad Call I found myself wondering whether Macquarie was invented to make the ream & plunder, coddled and cossetted Big 4 retail banks look good?
I hope I'm correct in assuming that the real target of Bad Call is the ACCC. It's about time we found out, once and for all, whether the ACCC is a consumer watch dog or a corporate guard dog. Whatever the truth, Mr Samuel's remarks couldn't be described as encouraging, by any stretch of the imagination.
Great program, 4 Corners. Here's hoping it produces 'change Australians can believe in' and trust.
02 Nov 2010 1:21:38am
Bad Call
I am surprised that the biggest culprits in the Telco Bundling scam were not mentioned in this program..
Telstra copied this model from National Telecoms and call it Telstra Business Systems, claytons Telephone company which employs no technicians or sales people and merely acts as a middle man at arms length, accepting no responsibility and collecting commissions.
The bundles sold by Telstra are more misleading than the scams mentioned because there is only one contract which has a Telstra call plan contract bundled with a rental finance agreement with Capital Finance..
This is how the scam works.
Telstra shop sales people are referred to small business customers by Telstra account managers who get a commission for the referral. The Telstra shop salesperson then contacts the customer inferring that they are a Telstra employee by introducing themselves as being from Telstra Business, when in fact they are employed by a privately owned store.
They then quote a monthly rental figure for a Telstra branded phone system, usually hand written on a brochure or in an email with no terms and conditions. They tell the customer that they will get call savings if they sign a 60 month contract. They don't tell the customer that they will actually be entering into a 60 month rental finance contract with Capital Finance and locked into phone calls at today's prices when call prices are falling due to competition from smaller service providers using VOIP technology..
The customer signs the documents and then later finds out some time down the track that they have actually entered a finance contract for 60 months at a hugely inflated price, when they cold have actually bought the same equipment outright from an independent dealer for a quarter of the price where they actually get after sales service.
The contracts are vetted by both Telstra Business Systems and Capital Finance. Both these companies know the recommended retail prices but turn a blind eye to the overpriced rental scams because it puts more commission in their pockets.
The Telstra shop sales person that the system will be installed by a contractor and that Telstra don't actually have any Technicians to service the equipment. The sales person then moves onto their next victim.
By not exposing the biggest culprits in this scam and focusing on small Telco Companies this has played into the hands of these corporate thieves, by creating uncertainty about smaller Telco companies when there are hundreds of small independent Telco companies who provide excellent products and services and have nothing to do with these bundling scams.
02 Nov 2010 12:59:29am
Bad Call
It always amazes me that such scams are not treated as a crimes and that the police are not involved immediately a scam is found out. How these people continueally create businesses and go bust, yet do it again and again.
This story just goes to show how pointless the ACCC is and lack of real teeth it has or carries out. Isn't in nice that all they do is give Macquarie a phone call....get real, mates look after mates.
Time we really looked into business and make them accountable, like the rest of the citizens of Australia.
01 Nov 2010 11:07:34pm
Bad Call
My small business was scammed in the same way as many others. The contract was for a period of 60 months. The finance company Queensland Communication Systems, then Axis Telecoms and then Clear Telecoms used was AIF. This was, of course, not disclosed at the time, and neither was a contract received at the time. Eventually I found out about the scam. Decided to 'live with it' and learn from it as I could not afford to take legal advice. To add insult to injury, when I checked with AIF a month before the 5 year contract was to end, I was told because I had not given the appropriate notice, I had to pay a further three months of rent. What a scam! This is after paying $372 per month for 5 years on top of a phone bill! Thank goodness I am now clear of both companies. IF the ACCC is so concerned, why is it taking so little action, and why is it so slow? The very least it could do is to put out warnings.
01 Nov 2010 10:42:30pm
Many of your viewers will recall other examples of this kind of behaviour spanning 30 or more years. Financial advice used to be a prime target for these human sharks, then shares, now telecoms and behind it all the rather shadowy, or not so shadowy banks who finance these guys. I wish Graeme Samuel and the lawyers involved good luck, since these guys are always ahead of the game and proving their guilt under our legal circus is not only incredibly time consuming but also extremely expensive, and something of a lottery. The only way of fixing it is legislation that targets this kind of con and forces the banks to behave. They ultimately must take the call on this.
01 Nov 2010 9:45:23pm
The Millionaires Factory - A "personal" experience
I voice my opinion because I had the unfortunate experience of entering into a contract with Macquarie bank, well almost - only after I decided to drill down into the details of the contract and ask some difficult questions.
The bank happened to be the financier for a car buy and sale lease back( its similar to a normal novated lease, except you where I sell my car to Macquarie and then lease it back) .
The bank drew up the contracts, with my employer(a management company for IT contractors) using Macquarie bank as their financier. Without going into the nuts and bolts of it - the information in the contract, and what I was being told on the phone(and email) was different, conflicting, and ofcourse misleading. The contract gives no detail on the interest being charged, the principal amount being charged, or any such teething details. It would be welcome if the bankers in the leasing area would answer my queries directly on the lease, but no.
Some free advice - BEFORE signing up for anything with entities like Macquarie, ask the teething, deeper and detailed questions, and make sure YOU know what each figure , term and condition on the paper means and implies.
01 Nov 2010 9:42:18pm
Bad Call - What is the court deciding
In the show you made a lot of comment about the number of cases that are being heard but you did not provide any indication of who was winning the cases.
May have been relevant to the story and what could be the likely result. Or are the lawyers now on the bandwagon.
Scammed Big Time
01 Nov 2010 9:40:38pm
Thank you Four Corners for your informative investigation into the telephone bundling scam. We are victims of this unscrupulous scam. I am really amazed that these companies can so easily deceive the average hardworking Australian and just call it "BUSINESS" I call it down right "THEFT". I am also amazed that they can change their company names to avoid being sued themselves, does changing your company name every six months not ring alarm bells with ASIC as I am sure legitimate businesses never need to change their company name. I really hope something can be done about these business practices and that no other small business has to go through what we and many other small businesses have gone through with these CRIMINALS.
01 Nov 2010 9:37:55pm
Bad Call - Prosecutions
Why does it appear that the courts are supporting these deceptive and dodgy telco contracts? I would have thought even a half-smart magistrate or judge would have thrown the case out?
01 Nov 2010 9:34:45pm
Bad Call
These scams are ongoing. Last week I received a phone call from a salesman claiming to be from Telstra offering a bundling deal with a cap on landline charges, a cap on mobile charges and access to an account business manager. As we already have a business account I queried the supplier and was told the wholesaler was nb telecom. He offered to contact me today - needless to say I haven't heard from him. I had no reason to doubt him and only raised the question because we have an account set up already.
01 Nov 2010 9:18:19pm
doesn't this show the total inaqeduacy of the ACCC .Isn's time we investigated its competence.
01 Nov 2010 8:54:01pm
bad call
I thought i was tuning to see some expose but found out 4corners had actually turned into ACA! very disappointing. If I want to see people signing up to stuff they really should have been smart enough to avoid I can see that any night of the week at 6.30.
Lift your game - 4corners should stand for quality
01 Nov 2010 3:12:43pm
Childcare and child welfare.
Four Cornerners has provided high quality coverage on issues relating to welfare for the mentally and physically disabled and also for the unrelenting struggle of the carers.
I would like to see something more about childcare in Australia: how the industry works, how much it will cost in the future: the work life balance and the pros and cons of technology on the child from infancy to adolescence. Also childhood education and how the debate about private vs public is going and selective vs non-selective high schools. And general child care and welfare issues - does modern life and the commercial imperitive allow enough time for childhood. Perhaps also a look at technical & vocational education. Whether it should be the poor relation to the universities or should funding and development be more responsive to the essential skills base that technical & vocational education provides, including training of childcare workers. A very large and broad range I suppose.
Thanks for Four Corners, a truly indispensible program.
Singleton2 ®
01 Nov 2010 3:12:04pm
The cricket teams are known as Australia and Pakistan. Yes, I know that this is a little pretentious and it jarred with me when I first heard it, but the result has been:
When referring to a member of a national cricket team, he is a Pakistan/Australia/etc Cricketer.
When referring to a cricketer of a particular nationality, especially one who is not in the current national side, he is an Australian/Pakistani/etc criketer.
No, I do not like it either, but that is now the way it is done.
01 Nov 2010 3:09:01pm
BAD CALL is about fraud...bundling phones is one, but may I suggest one shld look no further than the mortgage industry that has grown in leaps and bounds in the last 10 or so years...this is how its done
Bundling phone services is no different to bundling mortgages the common theme?
The bank takes the buyers loan application form in financial parlance known as a promissory note (see definition Bills Of Exchange 1909 (Cth) bundles them into a mortgage bond, insure the bond and on sell the bond to the poor superannuation funds or perhaps pension funds or trustee companies like Perpetual Trustees. When it comes time to foreclose "The Bank" goes into court without possession of the original Loan Application form to prove they still hold the original and have not on sold it to companies like Perpetual Trustees, Permanent Custodians and other trustee companies who invest in mortgage bonds for their investors....and McQuarrie Bank recently claimed in a ACA news item (Home Loan Siege 27 Oct 2010) they do not on sell their mortgages...oh puhleeese
01 Nov 2010 2:53:15pm
If you think that is bad, try checking out what the BIG FOUR and the OTHER usual suspects are up to in fraudulent mortgage foreclosures in Australia
27 Oct 2010 10:57:06am
Is Pakistan the only guilty party?
I simply amaze when people just blame Pakistan for betting. As per your report each cricket match attracts millions of dollars of bets. If we believe bookies buy players then why will they just stop at Pakistani players? Especially when compared to other nations such as India, Pakistan does not play as many matches. Bookies will try to buy everyone. They cannot just survive on Pakistani players alone. Now a days it is very convenient to blame Pakistan for all wrongdoings without logically thinking.
To be honest your report is disappointing. It did not shed any new light on the issue and at best it is a collation of various news items appeared in various parts of the world and a few interviews of some of the aggrieved people.
26 Oct 2010 2:17:40pm
Pakistan Cricket
The ABC Four Corner has shown the best coverage even flying to PCB Head quarters in Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore,PK.This is true that the Pakistan Cricket is in farce,but the Management is equally responsible for the mess as the players.I was PCB Auditor & knows the condition of PCB accounts,specially after Mar 2009 Terrorist Attacks on SL Team on Liberty Market Round Up leading to Gaddafi Stadium.It was a lapse of security & Government is equally responsible.
All in all a great documentary.
26 Oct 2010 11:34:12am
Four Corners 25 October 2010 Pakistan Cricket
Can reporters please remember a simple rule, a person from Pakistan is referred to as a Pakistani. In your cricket report last night the reporter referred to the 'Pakistan' cricketers, this is like saying the Australia cricketers. Otherwise a very interesting report on the state of cricket.
26 Oct 2010 10:28:30am
Pakistan Cricket
I'm surprised last night's episode failed to metion Bob Woolmer's suspicious death in the West Indies. this betting scandal has far more sinister implications than 'merely' match fixing. The infiltration of organised crime in all sports, not just cricket, needs to be investigated and weeded out quickly.
although, what hope have you got with the massive proliferation of online betting agencies in Australia and around the world. Goodbye sport, hello sleaze and crime.
Money Madness
26 Oct 2010 2:59:40am
In a Fix
Having played & watched cricket for 37 years & supported the programs associated with the introduction of the game for young players of the future. I begin to wonder just how far back & how many players from different countries have been involved in this???
If we think this doesn't happen here we are kidding ourselves. For Ricky Ponting to say there was no indication that the Sydney test wasn't rigged is farsical.
Any cricketer who had played even for a couple of years could have seen Akmals staged efforts behind stumps were blatant.
India's cricketing body is to powerful for the ICC, & other cricketing nations bow down to them on bended Knee. It's not so much the players as already stated but the syndicates that buy the administrations of each country in the 1st place.
The end result of this (Money Madness) is that people will stop showing up to the matches as they don't want to watch a game where the result has already been decided. This will then leave the players and officials without an income.
The next step is the betting syndicates & all there corrupt co-horts will have to pay the officials & players for a pre-determined result, & it gets more ludicrous the longer this farce goes on. Whatever future matches I was going to watch have been "cancelled indefinitely"
"If money is the root of all evil, we just need to find the the people who use it"
CricketDead ®
25 Oct 2010 9:46:22pm
Cricket Corruption
Nice story. Showed the joke cricket has become. Watched 80 hours of the Ashes last year at horrible hours in the morning only to get to the last test farce. England knew they had to win so set up a pitch which was disgraceful. Michael Holding described it as the worst he'd seen in nearly 40 years. Set up so that whoever won the toss won the game! Now they had a 50/50 chance of the ashes. They won the toss and won the ashes. They could have saved all the hours of farce by just tossing a coin for the ashes in the first place. In many ways that geniune cheating to win the game is worse than taking money for no balls. I have never watched a game since and never will. Usually I go to a day or two of the Sydney test but thankfully I missed that sham also. 20/20 was bad enough but what a joke the game has become!
25 Oct 2010 9:27:23pm
In a fix
A perspective not explored is that of the umpires. It would be interesting to know if they had suspicions of inconsistencies in performance by Pakistan both here in Australia and the UK.
21 Oct 2010 10:33:49am
Iraq story (The warning)
A few months ago I strongly objected to the showing of burning bodies in the most horrendous, graphic way. I received a reply saying that I was warned prior to the start of the show. True!
Once again, Aunty have breached my confidence! VERY BADLY!
Yep, a vague warning again this week on 4 Corners before I was confronted with the most hideous of pictures.
I suffer from many ailments caused by war, including deep depression which hospitalises me constantly, as it does for thousands of my mates. The ridiculously simple (blanket) warning IS NOT ENOUGH!
I rarely watch commercial TV because of the general garbage "entertainment" littered with screaming ad's. ABC is my only choice. To be confronted with the most graphic stuff only adds to my contempt of "investigative journalism".
WHAT the hell happened to telling a story without this crap?
WHAT about the families of those lost in such recent wars?
WHAT happened to the producers brain in not including a better warning, "WARNING: GRAPHIC WAR IMAGES MAY DISTRESS SOME VIEWERS". Or similar.
It's done for Aboriginals "Possible dead people".
There was a disclaimer at the head of the program which warned our viewers that the program contained "coarse language and scenes that may distress some viewers."
20 Oct 2010 2:48:58pm
I live and work in Singapore, I love watching and listening to ABC, However I'm disappointed that after two weeks of airing the first Iraq program I"m still unable to view it. Come on guys please .....
Apologies Joe, but this program was produced by Quicksilver Productions, and bought by Four Corners for airing here in Australia. We are permitted to stream the films online for 14 days only, and both films are available online using the ABC's online broadcast channel, iView. However this service is available for users within Australia only, due to copyright restrictions.
Neil M
20 Oct 2010 3:11:58am
Secret Iraq
With a couple of relatively minor exceptions, this 2-part exercise in Right-wing pro-War on Terror drivel was way below the standard I've come to expect from 4Corners. Where was it made, Israel? Or was it cobbled together by a gaggle of neocons?
I'll concede that it exposed the US military as a vicious, risk-averse and disorganised rabble, but it skirted around too many issues and degenerated into a right-wing blame game.
Iraq was destroyed because Israel was angry with Saddam for compensating Palestinians whose homes and livelihoods were being bulldozed by the Israelis. He also provided financial support, and places in Iraqi universities, for Palestinian students whose schools and colleges were destroyed or 'closed' by the Israelis. He wasn't the only arab leader doing this but, after 20 years of war and sanctions, Iraq was a military basket case (ie a very soft target) when the Americans invaded in 2003.
It was disingenuous in the extreme to blame the Iraqis for the sectarian violence and the lack of progress, post-invasion, in development of their oil fields. It was careless, at best, not to mention that al Qaeda had zero presence in Iraq before the invasion - or did the producers "forget" that GW Bush promised to turn Iraq into fly-paper for terrorists (and then got America stuck to it)?
I thought it similarly careless that the producers quoted the (nonsensically unscientific) Iraq Body Count's figure of 100,000+ as the 2010 Iraqi death-toll when The Lancet published a squeaky-clean survey back in circa 2006 which estimated the toll at up to 500,000. Current updated assessments based on the original Lancet survey put the 2010 death toll at more than 1,300,000 Iraqis plus several million internally displaced and several million more who fled Iraq to escape the violence.
But the real give-away was the blame directed at Iran, in the closing stages of Part 2, for the failure of the mission. Since neocon scribes of the ilk of The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg are beating the drum for an attack on Iran, and insinuating that if Obama won't bomb Iran then Israel will, the references to Iran in the documentary are clearly NOT coincidental.
Fortunately for the Iranians, the Israelis won't attack Iran, or anything else with a formal military apparatus, and the Americans have circa 250,000 personnel within easy striking distance of an Iranian counter-attack. These US "assets" are clustered in bases and bunkers and armed for defense against local threats rather than long-range threats. So for the next few years Iran has little to fear - except fear itself.
20 Oct 2010 1:09:43am
Four Corners Iraq
That was a very good story and I appreciate the effort was put in it but I would like to highlight few points that the show didn't mention:
Iraq had an election in March 2010 but up today the major parties led by Ayad Allawi (former prime minister and WON MJORITY OF SEATS) and Nouri Al-Maliki (DID NOT WON MAJORITY OF SEATS and is supported by Iran) cannot form a government because simply Nouri Al-Maliki does not want to get out of the chair. So my question why there was a war from the start (what changed same person different name) and how is Iraq a democratic country if the prime minister does not want to leave the chair even after a democratic election.
In Jan 2005 after Shia majority government won the election Ibrahim Al-Jaafari became prime minister and the country went from bad to worst (was not mentioned in the show).
Moafaq Al-Rubai who appeared in the show, worked as a doctor in the UK for 15 years, how can a person who is doctor to be the security adviser for Iraq? What past experience has he had with such a situations?
I laughed so hard when one of the British guys said he were trying to built an institution, if there was one it was destroyed.
The land is as good as its people. One last thing how can you expect to bring people who lived overseas for all of their lives to come and rule?
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19 Oct 2010 2:57:06pm
Secret Iraq
The program confirmed how I always considered the war, a terrible waste of life and resources, and all for nothing. The coalition of the willing unleashed so much suffering, sectarianism and destruction and turn so much of the country into a wasteland. Petraeus has his surge to pacify the insurgency and for what. Now the Americans have withdrawn most of the troops, the Sunnis of the Awakening are returning to insurgency or the arms of Al Queda to protect themselves against the Shi'tes as the Shi'te government of Maliki are now inviting with Mugtada, the Iran backed cleric into government. With Mugtada and his sadrist in government, Iran will have their proxies in Iraq. Where does that leave the Sunnis, now armed and trained by the Americans in the surge program? More sectarianism? A trillion US dollars later, Iran seems to have won. When will the Americans do their history homework before they unleash another war overseas.
Fair Go
18 Oct 2010 10:37:37pm
4 Corners on Iraq 18th October 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,
Your program on Iraq was excellent journalism and I'm sure everyone who saw it would congratulate you.
I haven't watched 4 Corners since your very unfair treatment and crucifiction of Mathew Johns some time ago. (A nasty contrived ratings grab!!)
In contrast, this program about Iraq is first class investigative journalism and exactly what 4 Corners used to be famous for.
Fair Go
16 Oct 2010 10:25:57pm
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16 Oct 2010 10:22:23am
4 corners anniversary
I suggest that themes be drawn out of different episodes over the 50 year period. For example: lessons about invading countries; in what circumstances can corruption flourish; and what responses to change can be expected. There may be patterns that can be detected over this period.
15 Oct 2010 9:16:51am
Home Pool Fencing
It would be great if someone would take on the growing 'pass the responsibility' in Australia. More and more personal responsibility if loaded onto persons other than the actual 'doer'. Responsible Service of Alcohol is my pet subject, but not the one at hand, as it is now old hat. The new one is Home Pool Fencing. I live in Cairns, where we have miles of concrete storm drains winding through the city, ready for each years tropical downpour, now these drains are public 'playground' for the kids but during the wet season and after, they are not fenced nor have access protection in any shape or form, and are prone to flash flooding on a regular basis, from moderate rainfalls in teh table lands. I will go for a drive and take some photos of the kids playing there. Now, my place has 6' fences, childproof locks on gates and doors and I am told to put a fence around my pool. Where does it stop? Let's take a quick look at the Gold Coast, did we dig 50+km of canals in order to provide 'waterfront homes'? and these waterways, unfenced by the way, have sharks in them.. ok, yes, I can see my little kidney shaped pool is definately the danger spot for kids, did I mention that I have not had anybody in my home younger than 20yo for 10 years? My vote is, Australia stop passing the responsibility of others onto the general public, place the blame, the fine, the sentence on the actual person who is inthe wrong. Thanks for listening!
15 Oct 2010 9:12:23am
Iraq piece
The captions were unreadible at least half the time. There must be a better way to display them.
I missed a lot of the story.
Due to the nature of this report there was significant subtitling required, and the pacing of these is necessarily faster due to the speed of the dialogue.
Christiaan Ligthart
14 Oct 2010 10:15:43pm
Kerry O'Brien's appointment to 4C
After a 37 year stint in Oz and now living for the past few years in Belgium, I remember well the interviews and commentary from Kerry on ABC TV. I congratulate the ABC with their choice and of course Kerry with his new job on 4C. In the land of Oz where 2 colors dominate the landscape, the people and their politicians, it was always refreshing to watch a journalist of "Kerry's calibre" stress and "unstress" the minds of sometimes not so great politicians. This made great TV viewing for me and my family. Once more: "Congratulations to you all". And yes I do miss ABC TV and I wished it could be seen outside OZ, on the web that is, for nostalgic reasons alone. Alas.
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14 Oct 2010 4:58:11am
50th Anniversary suggestion
I'd like to see a tribute/retro episode(s).
Also (if they still exist), each night in the small hours show the first 365 episodes.... otherwise just show some old ones that still do exist
13 Oct 2010 11:35:40pm
Secret Iraq
Thank you for yet another insightful Four Corners program- Secret Iraq.
As a complete novice, I have watched many programs where "experts" have explained what went wrong in Iraq and I've never come away enlightened.
Your recent program explained it all- the coalition forces completely ignored, even abused the "man in the street", the locals! A quick reflection of human history and one realises it has been a common mistake of "liberating" forces. However, I degress:
The "moment" for me struck when your program flashed images of the burnt, mangled corpses of coalition mercenaries hanging in the street.
Undoubtedly, any mercenaries captured alive were tortured and violated in ways we couldn't comprehend. So why after they're dead, burn and display the bodies? It suddenly struck me that the whole thrust of fundamentalism is symbolism.
I hope those "in charge" already realise this and I can get back to farming. But just in case, I'd like to expand; The Twin Towers event is rife with symbolism; operationally, the terrorists probably rue the day, yet symbolically it was a massive victory for the Jihad, similarly, the Bali Bombings and Suicide Bombers. And similarly sporting events generally, rank low on the Symbolism Scorecard. It also explains why the longer the fundamentalists fight, the more symbolic becomes their struggle!
The coalition forces albeit inadvertently, engage in destructive symbolism, to the profound ire of the locals. They could do a lost worse than hand out Coca Cola!!
13 Oct 2010 5:01:42pm
Secret Iraq
Just like Vietnam, the message from Iraq is that the USA should leave the dictators to exterminate their own peoples and not get involved.
The solution to illegals and terrorists is to close the borders and keep them in their own countries.
If they want to kill eachother, it's their problem.
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Sensitivity may not be the strong suit of Mitt Romney, the Republican challenger in the US presidential derby, nor is he perhaps the best student of campaign history. Doesn't he remember the grief that was given to John Kerry, the Democratic candidate in 2004, when he was caught kite-surfing off the coast of Massachusetts?
Out of touch, elitist, snob, his critics immediately cried. He went on to lose.
In the parlance of election punditry, Mr Kerry was guilty of awful optics. It may be a Massachusetts thing. Kerry is a US Senator from the state and Romney is a former governor. No one was more hurt by a single image than Michael Dukakis, also a Massachusetts governor, who attracted ridicule as the 1988 Democrat nominee when he posed for the cameras in a tank with an oversized helmet and just looked goofy.
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But if the risk is being called out of touch with ordinary folk, it is not even just about money, it's also about lifestyle. When it comes to the rituals of summer, the Romney clan does not behave like the rest of us. Theirs is a summer canvas that might have been sketched by Norman Rockwell.
We know some of the details thanks to the Washington Post. Attendance at the annual summer retreat at the Lake Winnipesaukee house is obligatory for all; none of his five sons can duck out or their wives and kids. Whilst they are there, the adults are conscripted to take part in the "Romney Olympics", a series of races and tests that include swimming, biking, hanging on to poles (endurance) and even hammering nails into planks of wood.
But wait. Keeping the press away from Lake Winnipesaukee is not what the campaign has been doing this week. On the contrary, it seemingly fed the "Romney Olympic" details to the Post.
Carelessness, on closer inspection, this is not. The voters know by now that Mr Romney has money. Indeed, his success as a businessman, notably as founder of the private equity firm Bain Capital, lies behind his central campaign promise: to be a better steward of the economy than Barack Obama. "Everyone knows he is wealthy, this is not a bulletin," Professor Larry Sabato, directory of political studies at the University of Virginia explained yesterday, adding that Democrats should be wary of trying to make a Kerry moment out of one jet-ski outing. Mr Obama has in the past has taken holidays on Martha's Vineyard, not a locale likely to attract a Butlins. Nor is the President short of a buck.
If being rich is not such a problem, being impenetrably stiff is. So this is really what Mr Romney's 4th of July optics are about. They are not an accident, but rather are very clearly aimed at overcoming what might be called his "human deficit".
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