Expendable: Sacrificing Humanity for Corruption in Australia

[ktlight]

This is about one HUGE shame!!!!!!!!!!!!

A unique and extraordinary film has been released this week, free of charge, on the internet, via simultaneous upload to networks in territories as diverse as Russia, India, the United States, Japan, China, Vietnam, France, South Africa, and Germany. It is a film, however, which will certainly have long term implications for the state of Australia.

'Expendable', produced under conditions of strict secrecy in the US, demonstrates a lengthy series of corrupt and criminal acts by Australian politicians, sanctioned collectively by an Australian government. These involve not only activities at ministerial level, but central roles for Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers, and a number of prominent corporations.

Demonstrate is the operative word, because these are not allegations. Every abuse of power covered in the film is supported by documented proof, usually in the form of cables and correspondence between government ministers. These were pre-published on the Expendable website for public scrutiny.'

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[lake]

Thanks KT, just watched that and the first thing I dont get is why would you take 4.2kg of weed from Aus, value of A$40000, to Bali where its worth A$5000!!!!!!!

Just wouldn't would you.

Makes me think that she must of upset some one, in a big way, by another action?

[Tane Mahuta]

Thanks kt!! Another interesting post.

TM

[Carmen]

An incredible movie! All should watch this! I'm about half way through.

[jackovesk]

I'm sorry but 'Schappelle Corby' is (GUILTY) as charged...

Her 'Family' have been running Dope up and down the east coast for years...

She knew the risks when she tried to smuggle in the 4.2 kilos of Dope into Bali and she foolishly owned up and identified the 'Boogie Board' bag as her own...

Her own Sister (Mercedes) is a (PARASITE) who took full advantage of the (SPOTLIGHT) when her sister was left to (ROT) in a Bali Jail...

http://images.smh.com.au/2009/04/07/462470/corby_gallery__302x400-200x0.jpg....http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2008/05/22/va1237308999844/Mercedes-Corby-6051474.jpg

The 'Corby Family' were paid $100s of Thousands for selling their Story to the (MSM) while Schappelle was left to (ROT) in jail...

They upgraded homes, cars (you name it) whilst their sister, daughter was left to (ROT) in jail...

Yeh - Real Nice Wholesome Caring Family...:nono:

Gimme A Break..!

[Carmen]

Jack, how do you know this? Personally, through other people or through the media? Have you watched the film?

I would really like your opinion after you have watched this film because if it's untrue then the filmmakers are doing The Austrlian government and police a great disservice. I would appreciate an Ausralian prospective on this film.

I also had not given this case much notice but man alive, if quarter of the evidence is correct then their has been huge injustice done. Doesn't really matter what one thinks of this family or Shapelle herself, just look at the evidence presented. Is it true? You would know as much as anyone.

[jackovesk]

Jack, how do you know this? Personally, through other people or through the media? Have you watched the film?

I would really like your opinion after you have watched this film because if it's untrue then the filmmakers are doing The Austrlian government and police a great disservice. I would appreciate an Ausralian prospective on this film.

I also had not given this case much notice but man alive, if quarter of the evidence is correct then their has been huge injustice done. Doesn't really matter what one thinks of this family or Shapelle herself, just look at the evidence presented. Is it true? You would know as much as anyone.

Friend of mine, knew someone in the Police task-force looking into the Corby family well before it was made public about how the entire family were involved in growing and distributing Dope in and around the Gold Coast...

Can I also suggest if you know anyone on the Gold Coast, ask them yourself. Its basically common knowledge down there...

Rgs,

Jack


We agree - Corby is guilty, says publisher Matthew Moore

November 9, 2011.


Schapelle Corby's insistence she knew nothing about the bag of marijuana found in her boogie board bag has been dealt another major blow with a new book detailing where the marijuana came from, how it got into her bag and her father's 30-year history of drug dealing.

Sins of the Father by Sun-Herald journalist Eamonn Duff adds myriad details to the circumstances surrounding one of Australia's most polarising criminal cases since Lindy Chamberlain's conviction.

Launching the book this morning, Allen & Unwin publisher Richard Walsh said: "Indonesians have said from the beginning she's a guilty person, we are saying to a domestic audience we agree."


The book fills in many of the gaps in other accounts to argue that Mick Corby was running drugs across Australia and to Bali and had been involved in selling drugs for most of his life.

Duff says that it was Mick Corby who packed the drugs into his daughter's boogie board bag and that the operation was rushed because the courier delivering the drugs was late arriving from South Australia.

The book says Brenda Joyce Eastwood, a mother of four in her 50s, drove hydroponically grown marijuana from South Australia to the Gold Coast two days before Corby left for Bali.


She was delivering it for Malcolm McCauley, the convicted South Australian drug dealer who visited Corby in jail 18 days after she was arrested.

Five months later, Eastwood was arrested delivering marijuana to far North Queensland on one of 15-20 runs she said she had made.

Mick Corby died of cancer in 2008.

In her own book My Story, Schapelle Corby paints a picture of being happy and carefree on her fateful flight to Bali when she said she had "a few" beers.

Duff quotes the Qantas purser on the flight, Gail Burgess, telling a different story.

"She was annoying people," Ms Burgess said.

"The exact words used by staff were 'angry', 'tense' and 'agitated' to the point at which surrounding passengers kept on complaining that she was being too aggressive and loud."

In the end, Qantas crew refused Corby any more drinks.

Two of Mick Corby's former school mates are interviewed in the book and both say that, by his mid 20s, he was growing and selling marijuana.

At one point, he had a plantation growing at a mate's car repair business - and even in flowerbeds next to a local pub.

This evidence mirrors similar accounts from Mick Corby's first cousin, Alan Trembath, who was labelled “mad” by the Corby family when he spoke out in 2008.

Corby is seven years into a 20-year sentence in Bali's Kerobokan jail after she was arrested in 2004 with a 4.2-kilogram bag of marijuana shaped like a boogie board inside her boogie board bag.

She has always maintained her innocence and says the marijuana was placed in her boogie board bag in Australia by corrupt baggage handlers who moved the bag from Brisbane to Sydney before the flight to Bali.

Her arrest, prosecution and conviction divided the nation with much of the country believing her story that she was just another tourist planning a two-week holiday in Bali and that it was absurd even to contemplate she would smuggle such a big bag of marijuana to a country where drugs are readily available.

But in the years since her arrest, a steady stream of details have been published that undermine her account that she was an innocent abroad.

Her father's two convictions for drug use are just one piece of evidence that hurt Corby.

Corby's half-brother James Kisina, who was with her on the trip to Bali, was later jailed after he was involved in an assault and theft of drugs and money from a drug dealer.

With the country so polarised, then foreign minister Alexander Downer was cautious about commenting on the Corby case but has now been interviewed by Duff.

"I asked [the Australian Federal Police] once what they thought and their view was she was guilty,” Downer said.

Further down the track, in the lead-up to her verdict, a meeting was called between several government ministers.

A senior political staffer, present that day, recalls: "Police Commissioner Mick Keelty told us there were intelligence reports which had been forwarded to the AFP from Queensland Police, and Keelty basically urged extreme caution in terms of making public statements in support of Schapelle Corby. I remember that very clearly. We were told that, if this came out, it would be more than embarrassing for Schapelle Corby."

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/we-agree--corby-is-guilty-says-publisher-20111109-1n6fw.html

PS - Watch the 'VIDEO' in the link above

[Carmen]

Okay, thanks for your response but have you watched the film? And why would they be taking dope tp Bali when it would have been worth a whole lot more in Aus?

Please, please watch the film if you can bear to!! It's more than the Corby family!

[jackovesk]

Okay, thanks for your response but have you watched the film? And why would they be taking dope tp Bali when it would have been worth a whole lot more in Aus?

Please, please watch the film if you can bear to!! It's more than the Corby family!

Read the article 'above' and watch the attached 'video'...

[Carmen]

Okay, I'll see if there is another Australian who will watch it and give me his/her opinion on it. If this film is watched world wide, it will reflect badly on Australia. You are, after all, our cousins!!

[jackovesk]

Okay, I'll see if there is another Australian who will watch it and give me his/her opinion on it. If this film is watched world wide, it will reflect badly on Australia. You are, after all, our cousins!!

Most know that you don't partake, let alone take Drugs anywhere near Indonesia due to the horrific penalties...


You are, after all, our cousins!!

I don't see it that way at all, I look at New Zealand being another Country (No relation at all) just the same as Indonesia is, we have closer ties to and more history with Papua New Guinea & the surrounding islands...

Rgs,

Jack

[Tane Mahuta]

Okay, I'll see if there is another Australian who will watch it and give me his/her opinion on it. If this film is watched world wide, it will reflect badly on Australia. You are, after all, our cousins!!

Ahhh..."wusup" Carmen?

TM

[Carmen]

How bout watching that movie for me Tane and tell me what you think about it? Jack has made up his mind. I have had no real interest in this case but this movie caused me to take notice! It's long I know, but not boring!

[ktlight]

Carmen, I have sent the footage to LS to see what he thinks.

[Carmen]

Thanks for that Kt. Australasians are quite familiar with this case via the media mostly. I find the evidence as presented extremely damming of Australian authorities. I'm surprised at the Lack of interest! Seems to me most have reached their set conclusions.

[Carmen]

Okay, I'll see if there is another Australian who will watch it and give me his/her opinion on it. If this film is watched world wide, it will reflect badly on Australia. You are, after all, our cousins!!

Most know that you don't partake, let alone take Drugs anywhere near Indonesia due to the horrific penalties...


You are, after all, our cousins!!

I don't see it that way at all, I look at New Zealand being another Country (No relation at all) just the same as Indonesia is, we have closer ties to and more history with Papua New Guinea & the surrounding islands...

Rgs,

Jack

So Jack, if this family were such experienced drug dealers why would they send this family member to Bali knowing the consequences of being caught apart from the fact that it did not make monetary sense either!

[ktlight]

Carmen, this is what LS says so far:

"didnt see it yet
[06/02/2012 10:05:36] Rob Halford: she is not completely innocent
[06/02/2012 10:05:42] Rob Halford: as jackonugget said
[06/02/2012 10:05:47] Rob Halford: but aus is very corrupt
[06/02/2012 10:06:16] Rob Halford: just going to do some more shifting
[06/02/2012 10:06:21] Rob Halford: speak to you later"

[jackovesk]

Okay, I'll see if there is another Australian who will watch it and give me his/her opinion on it. If this film is watched world wide, it will reflect badly on Australia. You are, after all, our cousins!!

Most know that you don't partake, let alone take Drugs anywhere near Indonesia due to the horrific penalties...


You are, after all, our cousins!!

I don't see it that way at all, I look at New Zealand being another Country (No relation at all) just the same as Indonesia is, we have closer ties to and more history with Papua New Guinea & the surrounding islands...

Rgs,

Jack

So Jack, if this family were such experienced drug dealers why would they send this family member to Bali knowing the consequences of being caught apart from the fact that it did not make monetary sense either!

1. Income..!


100.00 AUD = 961,928.42 IDR (Indonesian Rupiah)
Australian Dollar Indonesian Rupiah
1 AUD = 9,619.28 IDR 1 IDR = 0.000103958 AUD

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=100&From=AUD&To=IDR

Remember Mercedes Corby lives in Bali permanently (She is married to a Balinese)

The Cost of Living in Bali is alot cheaper in Bali (Note: $AUD is on parity with the $USD)

e.g.

Examples of Items (Exchange Rates per 1/12/2008) Average Price in Rupiah in USD in EUR


Cigarettes (20 Marlboro) Rp9,000.00 USD $0.74 € 0.58
.
Drinks - Alcohol, Bottle Bintang Beer (0.6 litre) Rp15,000.00 USD $1.23 € 0.97
.
Drinks - Drinking Water Aqua/Danone (1.5 litre bottle) Rp3,000.00 $0.25 € 0.19
.
Drinks - non-carbonated (i.e Green Tea, 0.5 litre) Rp3,500.00 USD $0.29 € 0.23
.
Drinks - Soft Drink (Pepsi/Coke, 1.5 litre) Rp9,500.00 USD $0.78 € 0.61
.
Food - White Rice (1 kg) Rp8,000.00 USD $0.65 € 0.52

http://www.nomad4ever.com/2008/03/17/cost-of-living-chart-bali-in-rupiah-dollar-and-euro/


Basically you can pretty much live like a King in Bali on an Average Australian Wage...:yes4:


Australasians are quite familiar with this case via the media mostly. I find the evidence as presented extremely damming of Australian authorities. I'm surprised at the Lack of interest! Seems to me most have reached their set conclusions.

2. I watched (The Entire) Trial & Well over 10 hours of subsequent footage...

Carmen, correct me if I am wrong, but you have just watched the 1 1/2 hour Video 'above'..plus a story here and there?

Carmen, I think you know me well enough by now to realise that I always use my own 'Discernment' before reaching such Conclusions...

I watched, read & listened to (ALL) the Pro's & Con's/Guilty & Not Guilty arguments...

I certainly took (VERY CLOSE) notice of Schappelle Corby's (Body Language) in all the MSM Interviews (She could'nt Lie Straight in Bed if She Tried)..!

The Entire Corby Family got lets say over-saturated Coverage to state their case and failed time & time again...

To be honest, I don't have to spend another 1 1/2 hours on this (Crooked) family (They are 'Guilty' Period)..!

That does'nt mean I want to see Schappelle Corby rot away in a Slum (Jail) and that doesn't mean the Australian Govt. could not have done more to help her..!

If she committed the same Crime in Australia, she would of got a slap on the wrist and possible short-term sentence in a low security prison..!

Carmen, it certainly was'nt my intention to upset you at all...

I was merely stating the 'Truth As I Know It' as I always have...

Its Ok if we 'Agree to Disagree' sometimes, don't you think..?

Rgs,

Jack :)

[Carmen]

No, you did not upset me at all Jack. I know I kept hammering away at you! Sorry for that. I know that you are interested in justice subjects so thought you are the one to ask. I'm still disappointed you didn't watch some of the film. If the facts as presented in this film are false then the Australian Govt should/will sue the pants off them. But will they?

[jaybee]

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watched it this afternoon.......very interesting

thanks ktlight

too tired to say any more than that at the moment. But it was good and well worth the time.


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