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Dec 15, 2008
FoEI speech to the UN climate conference
At the end of the COP 14 negotiations in Poznan Friends of the Earth International were invited to give their verdict on the conference. Kate Horner from Friends of the Earth US spoke on behalf of the federation. This is what she said:
Friends of the Earth International came to Poznan hoping for progress. We had hoped industrialized countries would commit to steep emission reductions - without offset loopholes - and would announce their willingness to support developing country mitigation and adaptation actions.
However, we remain thoroughly disappointed with the outcomes of the talks thus far.
The distinct lack of achievement here in Poznan falls squarely on the shoulders of the rich industrialized Annex I countries who after 16 years, and despite the rhetoric we have heard about urgency, are still failing to take the climate crisis seriously and realize their obligations under the Convention.
Most Annex 1 countries have spent the majority of this precious negotiating time crafting get-out-clauses and offsetting schemes at the expense of genuine reductions.
These delaying tactics do not set an encouraging tone for the intense year of negotiations to come. Here in Poznan, we have seen, yet again, the same obstructionist, business-as-usual approach of developed countries.
Looking forward, we must not ignore the science and the reality of what needs to be done.
For any reasonable chance of avoiding dangerous climate change, Annex-1 countries must by February 2009 commit to at least 40% emission reductions by 2020. But even this level of reduction may not be enough for many vulnerable nations, so why are we discussing anything less?
To achieve necessary emissions reductions globally, finance and clean technology must be urgently delivered to allow developing countries to make a just-transition towards low-carbon development.
Further, negotiations under REDD:
- are failing to ensure the rights of Indigenous peoples and local communities are genuinely protected,
- are failing to distinguish monoculture tree plantations from natural forests,
- are failing to recognize the biodiversity benefit of forests,
- and are risking the privatisation of forests through market-based schemes.
We are not approaching a cliff; we are hanging dangerously over the edge. We must see a radical shift in the focus of this process.
Anything less with be a failure for all people and the planet.
Aug 25, 2008
UN Climate Talks in Accra, August 2008
Forests are more than carbon!
One of the main topics at the United Nations climate talks in Accra from 21– 27 August 2008 was Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries (REDD).
What was at stake? The proposed inclusion of forests in carbon markets would enable developed countries to avoid real carbon emissions reductions at home. Furthermore, any proposal that increases the financial value of forests may trigger a vast increase in land rights abuse. This would be the result of a rapid expansion of state or corporate control over forests without regard to the rights of Indigenous Peoples and other forest-dependent communities.
In Accra, Friends of the Earth International presented its positions and proposals in various official workshops, side events and discussions with country delegates.
learn more
Listen to Real World Radio: UN climate talks end amid scrutiny
Download our new briefing as PDF: Forests are More than Carbon
Read regular updates from Kate Horner of FoE US here
Our latest press releases
A selection of FoEI in the news
Read climate talks updates from Third World Network
Watch videos from the conference at the United Nations web site
...and visit our climate finance campaign pages!
Apr 07, 2008
the big ask europe campaign
The Big Ask unites Friends of the Earth groups across Europe in a call for governments to commit to binding annual targets for cutting emissions. Around Europe people are asking their politicians to take responsibility for tackling dangerous climate change.
Our Big Ask is that EU member states make legally binding commitments to cut emissions year-on-year. These cuts should be equal to at least a 30% reduction of EU-wide domestic emissions by 2020 and 90% by 2050. The Big Ask brings together Friends of the Earth groups from 17 European countries:
- Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, EWNI (England, Wales and Northern Ireland), Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
- The Big Ask will engage hundreds of thousands of people across Europe. People will be empowered to take action against climate change by making this demand of their politicians – at the levels of both national government and the European Union.
- People will take action by visiting their local MPs, signing postcards and petitions and staging local actions. Friends of the Earth groups will organise concerts, exhibitions, and other events, and engage national celebrities to inform people about and engage people in the campaign.
Find out more at thebigask.eu
Track the progress of European leaders as they decide on our response to climate change. Will they lead the fight to keep global warming below 2°C? Ask them if they're ready to lead
Apr 01, 2008
young friends of the earth europe demo
December 8th 2007. A young group of proud penguins marches through the streets of Berlin. Their aim: To speed up the negotiations in Bali and save the world
Feb 04, 2008
UN climate change meeting - an analysis
Friends of the Earth International and WALHI/Friends of the Earth Indonesia had a large team of local and international activists campaigning in the lead-up to and throughout the United Nations climate change negotiations in Bali, December 2-15, 2007.
civil society in Bali
Climate change is now an international environmental and social justice issue with increasing active engagement from social movements and citizens, particularly affected peoples. In Bali there was an unprecedented civil society presence that highlighted the impacts of climate change and proposed solutions. Friends of the Earth believes that a global climate justice movement is necessary to ensure that the responses to climate change are socially and environmentally justice, and that demand a high level of ambition, commitment and action from political leaders.
Friends of the Earth took part in the development of the so-called "Solidarity Village" in coordination with La Via Campesina and Focus on the Global South. This space allowed communities affected by climate change to build relationships among themselves. They also had the opportunity to express their motivations behind their struggle for climate justice. The issues – ranging from the enforcement of land rights for forest conservation, food and energy sovereignty, privatization, trade liberalization and agrofuels – have had a common theme of corporate globalization taking over the climate agenda and the need to resist this with an alternative agenda that leads us towards sustainable societies.
Alliance-building work in Bali culminated in the establishment of a network of organizations such as the Durban Group, Third World Network, Via Campesina and World Rainforest Movement and Indigenous peoples organizations called Climate Justice Now! The purpose of this new coalition is to ensure that justice is put at the heart of the climate agenda – not only in UNFCCC meetings but in other spaces such as the G8 and WSF. This involves, for example, exposing false, corporate-driven solutions such as agrofuels, offsetting and carbon finance for forests and demanding massive North to South financial transfers for adaptation and mitigation, clean renewable energy, a dramatic shift in production and consumption patterns.
During the Global Day of Action (December 8 2007) Friends of the Earth International Climate and Energy Coordinator Hildebrando Velez was a speaker at the People's Assembly before going to join the mobilization for climate justice. Hundreds of people marched in the hot afternoon sun in Denpasar with organisations such as SPI (Indonesian chapter of Via Campesina), WALHI/Friends of the Earth Indonesia and Friends of the Earth International – chanting and waving banners. Jubilee South had fantastic oversized puppets of political leaders that are spearheading the privatisation of lands, ecosystems and services at the cost of people and the environment.
Friends of the Earth recognizes that overconsumption of resources and production of pollution of the atmosphere by the North that is manifests in global climate change, has its roots in economic and social injustice. It is imperative that the global community recognise that the effects of these injustices are suffered most by communities who are already living in highly vulnerable environments due to excessive resource exploitation to meet the market demands of the North. These facts make our main task the consolidation of the Climate Justice movement in which we are already working. Friends of the Earth accepts the task of articulation of the organizations and affected peoples, in particular provide spaces to raise their voices to the decision makers.
inside negotiation halls
Strategically Friends of the Earth chose to focus on lobbying and media work on the obligations of the Annex I (global North) of both emission reductions, finance for technology sharing, deforestation and adaptation. Over the past year there has been an exceeding amount of pressure on non Annex I (global South) to accept 'contributions' of emission reductions mostly because of the international desire to have USA in future climate change agreements, as well as from IPCC reports which state that global emissions reductions are required to keep temperatures even to 2.4 degrees (which is far too high for the most vulnerable peoples and ecosystems). There is very little recognition that this is blatantly inequitable – especially since Annex I countries have failed for over ten years to fulfill their finance obligations to the South for mitigation and adaptation.
In Bali we saw major players of the Group of 77 developing countries (G77) and China extremely well-organised and united. China presented a very comprehensive proposal for a multi-lateral fund for technology transfer, which was supported by the G77. The G77 were also outspoken throughout the COP about the bullying tactics being applied - such as threats of trade sanctions. The EU were less strong than in the past and while they managed to retain emissions reductions of 25-40% by 2020 in one of the two main decision texts, they failed to support the proposal for a technology fund.
Overall, Bali delivered two main decisions which are the timetable for the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I, and the Bali Action Plan which is a collection of many different aspects of UNFCCC obligations of mitigation, technology, finance and adaptation. Both are really short on content, and negotiating timetables for the next two years. This is expected to deliver a final decision on Copenhagen in 2009 which will become the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.
The Bali Action Plan was the decision taken first in the last plenary and was achieved after a not-seen-before backlash against the USA in which the USA was forced to reverse their position and accept that they had obligations to reduce emissions and to take special consideration of the national circumstances of non Annex I to not all be signing up for emission reduction mitigation actions – i.e. least developed countries and small island developing states who have comparative low emissions and are extremely vulnerable to climate change. This was widely reported as the 'Bali outcome' and by itself is a really weak decision because it has emissions' reduction ranges of between 10-40% in a footnote.However - this decision text has to be considered alongside the second major decision of the workplan of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments of Annex I - which does actually have emissions reduction ranges of 25-40% by 2020 for industrialised countries, global peak and decline of emissions by 2015 and keeping temperature below 2 degrees. This is a Kyoto Protocol decision so doesn't apply to the USA - but theoretically provides an 'in' for the USA once there is a change of administration and predicted change of policy on Kyoto. Hence Friends of the Earth International final press release of a weak 'deal' (http://www.foei.org/en/media/archive/2007/kyoto-afloat-after-attempted-sabotage/)
Useful links:
a. Interviews available at Real World Radio http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/rmr/?q=en
b. Third World Network news bulletins www.twnside.org.sg/climate.news.htm
c. Focus on the Global South www.focusweb.org and http://www.focusweb.org/players-and-plays-in-the-bali-climate-drama.html?Itemid=1
d. International Forum on Globalism www.ifg.org/baliblog.htm
e. Transnational Institute http://firstname.lastname@example.com&password=9999&publish=Y


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Rossi to replace van der Garde in Bahrain practice
Mar 28, 2013, 3:30 PM EDT
Caterham reserve driver Alexander Rossi will get another taste of Grand Prix weekend running at the Bahrain Grand Prix, where he will replace Giedo van der Garde during Free Practice 1.
Rossi became the first American driver to compete during a race weekend since Scott Speed in 2007 at last year's Spanish Grand Prix, and having been retained by the team for 2013, he will get another chance to impress in Bahrain.
It was also confirmed today that Rossi's fellow test driver, Ma Qing Hua, will deputize for Charles Pic at the Chinese Grand Prix, which will undoubtedly act as an extra draw for Hua's home crowd in Shanghai.
Although van der Garde was not pleased to be losing the practice session in Bahrain, he told GP Update that he was contractually obliged to make way for Rossi.
"I would have rather be driving these sessions myself and get as much track time as possible," van der Garde said. "But this is in the contract and I'm sure it will be good experience for these guys."
van der Garde also reflected on his own test driver duties for Caterham, believing his Friday running went a long way to securing him the seat with the team.
"I had that same role with the team last year and because of the work I did then, I earned this race seat."
This will present a good opportunity for both Hua and Rossi, and as the American F1 market continues to grow, the latter may become a hotly sought-after driver should a seat become vacant.
With both Pic and van der Garde making way so early in the season, it will only fuel rumors that Caterham could be set to drop one of their drivers. Heikki Kovalainen, who drove for the team between 2010 and 2012, was a guest of the team in Malaysia, and sources in the paddock believe that the team could bring the Finnish driver back following a lackluster start to the 2013 season.
Vettel suspects Mercedes of sandbagging during practice
Apr 18, 2014, 11:30 AM EDT
German driver not yet happy with his own performance in China, but his long run pace suggests that a podium finish may be within his reach.
Maldonado brushes off crash and spin in practice
Apr 18, 2014, 10:30 AM EDT
Rookie errors from Lotus driver no big deal, apparently.
Mattiacci determined to turn around Ferrari's failing season
Apr 18, 2014, 9:30 AM EDT
Mattiacci thought that job offer was a late April Fools joke at first; says that necessary changes will take place.
Alonso keen on dry qualifying in China
Apr 18, 2014, 8:30 AM EDT
Spanish driver puts in an impressive display during practice, but warns that rain could scupper Ferrari's chances of reaching the podium.
New regulations crucial in Honda's decision to return to F1
Apr 18, 2014, 7:30 AM EDT
Yasuhia Arai reveals some more information about Honda's decision to return to F1 and the Japanese marque's plans for the future.
Difficult day in Hamilton's eyes despite finishing fastest
Apr 18, 2014, 6:45 AM EDT
Hamilton keen on the team correcting handling issues before qualifying tomorrow.
Hamilton recovers in FP2 to edge out Alonso and Rosberg
Apr 18, 2014, 3:32 AM EDT
Mercedes returns to the top of the timesheets, but Ferrari and Alonso are in close company.
WATCH LIVE: Alonso looks to double up in Shanghai
Apr 18, 2014, 1:45 AM EDT
Can Mercedes fight back and resume normal service?
Alonso fastest in first practice for Chinese GP
Apr 17, 2014, 11:32 PM EDT
Spanish driver ends Mercedes streak of first place finishes, but teammate Kimi Raikkonen fails to post a time.
Flashback to when a 67-second pit stop at the Indy 500 was fast vs. a modern-day F1 stop (video)
Apr 17, 2014, 8:02 PM EDT
You've heard of the wildly popular "Evolution of Dance" video on YouTube? Now there's the Evolution of the Pit Stop.
NASCAR AMERICA: Can Gene Haas succeed with an American-based F1 team?
Apr 17, 2014, 6:58 PM EDT
NBCSN's Rick Allen and Kyle Petty discuss the expectations for Gene Haas as he looks to start a F1 team. The pair question whether an F1 team can be run successfully out of the United States.
NASCAR AMERICA: Kyle Petty — Some of this year's top rookies mark changing of the guard in NASCAR
Apr 17, 2014, 6:51 PM EDT
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Apr 17, 2014, 6:20 PM EDT
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Ford Racing has some fun to celebrate Mustang's 50th anniversary (video)
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Denny Hamlin's Short Track Showdown set for April 24; new home is South Boston (Va.) Speedway
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The husband of 77-year-old Melissa Ann Weeks fell ill at a bed and breakfast in Nova Scotia last weekend.
Prosecutor Diane McGrath said Friday that Weeks' bail hearing will be Tuesday.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has reported that the justice of the peace who presided at the Weeks' wedding later warned police after seeing a news story about her. The justice, George Megeney, said police didn't act on it.
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I am using 8.8 SP3. When I attempt to do file transfer via remote control, on some devices I get the following error:
Yes, the problem is related to Windows 7. Windows 7 is incompatible with LDMS 8.8 for both the client and the console/remote control software. In 9.0 you should be able to have a Windows 7 client and in 9.0 SP1 you should be able to also install the console to Windows 7.
Thanks. We can still remote control PCs. Oddly enough, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Some machines are windows XP that I tried to connect through the gateway as well and I get this. But so far when I try to connect through the gateway, it is from my windows 7 device. So I guess that is the issue, Windows 7?
That is definitely my guess. Some users on the community have reported various levels of success with Windows 7, but the reality is that it is untested and there are things that we know had to be changed for 9.0, so it seems it should be incompatible.
Oh yeah, I just remembered that Windows 7 client support will also be out in 8.8 SP4. I'm not sure about console support.
We are on 9.0 SP2. Just tried a file transfer in a remote session last night -- Win7 to Win7. Got this error. Is Windows 7 still the problem? Has a work around been discovered? Thanks!


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Jon Hilkevitch
Getting Around
October 8, 2012
If catastrophe struck the Chicago area, many thousands of evacuees would require transportation out of the disaster zone and a place to receive medical care, food and temporary shelter.
Regional reception centers would be needed to pop into action immediately, though there are no formal guidelines for establishing such facilities under existing federal emergency management plans, experts say.
Recent history has made one lesson clear, officials said. Regional centers receiving people evacuating natural or man-made disasters must be much better organized and equipped than the sweltering mess that was the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
As a result, researchers at Purdue University's Homeland Security Institute have completed a new study that models how regional emergency reception centers would operate to improve the speed of an evacuation in a 16-county area of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.
The scenario the researchers used in their analysis could hardly be more devastating.
A 10-kiloton nuclear bomb explodes in downtown Chicago and everybody inside the blast radius is killed. Outside the blast zone, an estimated 1 million people are displaced from their homes.
About 90 percent will have a shelter available outside the area and transportation to get there.
But the remaining 100,000 evacuees — and about 41,000 pets they attempt to bring with them — will have nowhere to go.
It would be extremely challenging to serve, process and in some cases protect from each other so many people, including families, the elderly, unaccompanied minors, inmates, patients from hospitals and mental institutions, and sex offenders, the Purdue researchers said.
"There would be many permutations of people. We focused on modeling the logistics and flow rate of people in and out of the reception centers to keep all the evacuees secure and avoid overrunning the facilities," said Eric Dietz, director of Purdue's Homeland Security Institute in West Lafayette, Ind.
In the nuclear disaster scenario, one of the first steps would involve filtering out individuals requiring decontamination treatment and quickly channeling the rest of the people to the services they need, officials said.
"The steps would include feeding them, offering them showers, medical attention and cots to sleep on. The center's personnel would also need to be prepared to transport in materials like linens, and transport out the massive amounts of trash that would be created," Dietz said.
Coordinating existing transportation to the reception centers via cars, trucks, buses and trains, and establishing new transportation methods to deal with the crush of evacuees, are key components that fell short during Katrina, experts said.
"In New Orleans, there were all sorts of buses that could have been used to transport hurricane victims who were made homeless, but they didn't have enough bus operators available during the crisis," said Kasey Faust, a Purdue graduate student in civil engineering who studied transportation factors in the Chicago disaster scenario.
Effective use of the highway system is critical during an evacuation, Faust said, adding that protocols must be in place, for example, to use express lanes to quickly flip the direction of traffic.
Purdue's computerized analysis, which included graphical and numerical representations of people and pets, simulated how the emergency reception center would operate room by room, from the entrances to living and nutrition areas, to medical wards and pet shelters.
The goals outlined in the Purdue study include processing all evacuees through the reception center in seven days and having each person spend no more than 24 hours in the center before being moved to more permanent living quarters.
The Purdue study is ongoing and will assess whether Chicago's catastrophic planning goals are attainable.
Purdue is under contract with Chicago to expand the city's emergency planning readiness.
Two spokeswomen for the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications, Delores Robinson and Therese Kordelewski, did not respond to the Tribune's repeated inquiries. Earl Mashaw, OEMC's project manager for regional catastrophic preparedness, said he could not discuss the issue until given approval by the agency's news affairs office.
Up to five regional hub reception centers are envisioned in the Purdue simulation, said Clifford Wojtalewicz, managing director at the university's Homeland Security Institute.
Some of the reception centers would be at college campuses because they are equipped with much of the necessary infrastructure, Wojtalewicz said. Two sites, Northern Illinois University in DeKalb and Valparaiso University in Indiana, were chosen to conduct simulation exercises, he said.
"We hope we never have to mobilize the reception centers, but the ability to overcome a disaster is going to be strongly dependent on being prepared for it," Dietz said. "The last thing we want to do is put victims where we don't have sufficient resources."
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The annual springtime madness (lawmaking, not basketball) is headed into its final month. Let's check in on some of the issues we've been following:
Biotech bonanza. The Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute is back at the trough of taxpayer dollars.
This is the same outfit that received a record-setting (for our region) incentive package worth $300 million in 2006 to build labs in Orlando.
Back in February, I told you that the institute was about to start tapping into the state cigarette tax each year — up to $24 million through 2021.
Now Sanford-Burnham is lobbying to increase that amount to $60 million through 2033, or up to $3 million a year for the next 20 years.
Plus, draft budgets in the House and Senate each include additional dollars ($2.5 million in the Senate and $3 million in the House).
This is a departure from what the folks at Sanford-Burnham told me in February. At the time, lobbyist Elizabeth Gianini wrote, "We are not seeking new monies this year."
And spokeswoman Deborah Robison wrote, "We are not introducing new projects that would require additional state funds this year."
Oh, I get it. You aren't going after new dollars for new projects. Just increases in the dollar amounts you say you need for the stuff you were already doing. Glad we've got that cleared up.
Weak-kneed on texting and driving. Ninety-five percent of Floridians support a ban on texting while driving, according to a new University of Florida poll.
I don't know if Jimmy Buffett could get that kind of support if he ran for mayor of Key West.
Instead of seizing the chance to pass a life-saving law that would be welcomed across the state and across party lines, lawmakers want to get away with doing as little as possible.
A proposed ban on texting while driving likely won't do a thing to discourage people from the reckless habit. (CS/HB 13 and SB 52)
The bill would make texting while driving a "secondary" offense, meaning drivers would have to be pulled over for something like speeding before they could be cited for sending a text behind the wheel.
Worse, the fine for the first offense is a measly $30. A second offense in five years will set you back just $60. Those penalties are nowhere near what an AT&T survey found to be the most likely deterrents: a suspended license or a $500 ticket.
The AT&T survey also found that 49 percent of adults text and drive. So if we factor in the UF poll, that means about half of the people who say they oppose texting and driving actually do it themselves. My guess is that this is why we aren't seeing a stronger ban out of Tallahassee.
Armed teachers. There's been a lot of talk lately about whether this country has given up on a chance to reform gun laws in the wake of the massacre of schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., just three months ago.
Of course, that was never even a passing fancy here in Florida, where our Legislature is as gun-friendly as an NRA convention.
Bills to push universal background checks, increase taxes on gun sales to support mental-health treatment and regulate who can sell at gun shows are non-starters. None has had a single committee hearing.
But one proposal that deals with both guns and schools is getting traction. A House committee last week passed a bill (HB 1097) that would let principals designate certain teachers and staff to carry guns on campus.
Leave it to our lawmakers to try to solve gun violence by adding guns to places most of us least want them to be — our classrooms.
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The English rule against pattern evidence (similar facts) has made it difficult to convict organised criminals and serial sex offenders for 118 years.
People in law enforcement have asked Australian governments to introduce a US exception to the rule for 29 years, without success. Charges laid against a former Catholic priest in NSW on October 18 prompted me to send the following to Premier Barry O'Farrell, Police Minister Mike Gallacher, and Justice Minister Greg Smith on October 23.
I received letters thanking me for my interest, but I will be pleasantly surprsied if the law is changed. This is what I wrote:
ref. serial sex offenders; abolition of the 1894 rule against similar facts
Dear Premier and Ministers,
You may recall that 17 months ago (18 May 2011) I made a submission inviting your Government to bring down Rico-type legislation.
RICO effectively eliminates the judge-made rule which conceals evidence of "similar facts", i.e. evidence of a pattern of criminal acts.
I appreciate that drafting RICO is complicated, but a stroke of the pen could eliminate the rule against similar facts tomorrow. Recent events make its abolition even more urgent.
In July 2012, Strike Force Glenroe began to investigate claims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in NSW, and claims that elements of the church covered up such abuse. The first charges were laid on October 18, when a former priest was alleged to have committed offences against three girls.
One consequence of the rule against similar facts is that judges may rule that an alleged serial sex criminal should receive a separate trial for each victim.
For example, Natasha Wallace reported in The Sydney Morning Herald of 2 July 2004:
"Brother … has faced eight [separate] trials on child sex abuse charges. Eight times, including yesterday, he has been acquitted, with none of the jurors ever told of the other allegations against him …
Jurors at each trial, before Judge Megan Latham at the NSW District Court since last November, were therefore unaware of the extensive allegations against Brother [M] … 'It becomes one person's word against another', one complainant said yesterday."
With every good wish, etc
Evan Whitton is a legal historian. Dr Robert Moles (LLB Hons Belfast, PhD Edinburgh) said his fourth book on the law, Our Corrupt Legal System: Why Everyone Is a Victim (Except Rich Criminals), "is one of the most important books I have ever read on the common law legal system. [It] should be required reading on Introduction to Law courses in all law schools".
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Sync says:
The law won't be changed to protect the public. It's apparently not in the public's best interests to be protected. If it was, there'd be more rights for victims and fewer rights for criminals.
Mahhrat says:
Interesting article. Can someone explain this concept to me like I'm five, and how it came into effect?
I would have thought that a pattern of (proveable) behaviour would be key to ascertaining a person's role in a crime…
PJ says:
It is unfair to target the Catholic Church only with the unforgivable sin of child abuse. I appreciate that the Labor Party has an abhorrence of Religious worship but the statistics say an Australian child is more at danger from abuse outside the Catholic Church.
For 2010/11 the AIHW recorded 273,000 notifications of child abuse. Of these 90,000 were deemed worthy of investigation. Some 40,000 were proven.
Broken Rite, a body that records the misdemeanours of the Catholic Church maintains in that same period, 100 cases were attributable to the Catholic Church.
So that leaves 39,900 attributable to us, the Australian public.
For a matter of record, 5192 roundabouts were sexual abuse of children. So for 2010/11 thats 100 for the Catholic Church and 5092 to us, the average Australian.
'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.'
We need the cancer of child abuse cut out of our society and institutions. That can only be possible if we widen the focus and not concentrate on the anti religious agenda only.
Thank goodness Abbott persuaded Julia Gillard to make a Royal Commission that would investigate all our institutions so we could actually concentrate on reducing Child Abuse, rather than just a political agenda against religious practice.
Fiddler says:
RICO (Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt Organisation) laws are nothing to do with serial sex offences, they are actually about fighting organised crime such as the mafia.
What you are actually talking about is "tendency and coincidence evidence". This already exists s94 Evidence Act 1995 (in NSW anyway)
Colin says:
Child abuse is a heinous and disgusting crime and the perpetrators should be punished to the full extent of the law.
The concept that Pattern Evidence (similar facts) should be enacted as a blanket procedure in judicio, however, is fraught with danger for other cases of criminal law where largely unlucky or unwitting defendants can be tarred as a criminal with a series of unconnected events.
Indeed, if a prosecutor is wily enough, physically unconnected and temporally separated events could - conceivably - be coalesced into a seemingly damning string of evidence illustrating the supposed long-term, continual, and habitual miscreant behaviour of the accused.
By all means, have the judicial system granted all the power it needs to rid us of the detritus of society that paedophiles and child molesters are, but don't threaten everyone else's ability to a fair and equitable trial in a court of law in doing so…
dafall says:
Good news !! At least Pell and his mob will be too busy covering their own arses to interfere with anyone elses pro temps. Good luck separating the effed from the faction(s).
iansand says:
Are you suggesting that RICO be applied to the Catholic Church? That would certainly give Cardinal Pell the conniptions. I suspect that you do not understand RICO, which applies to organisations not individuals and has no relevance to the admissibility of similar fact evidence.
The ban on similar fact evidence is not absolute, by a long way. "Evidence of prior bad acts by the accused will be admissible if the prosecution satisfies the judge on a balance of probabilities that, in the context of the particular case, the probative value of the evidence in relation to a specific issue outweighs its potential prejudice and thereby justifies its reception".*
Why the evidence was not admitted in the case to which Whitton refers I do not know because, by not giving the name, he has made it impossible to track down. That in itself makes me wonder whether Whitton is on his usual ill-informed warpath.
*Wikipedia, but reasonably accurate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similar_fact_evidence
Achmed says:
I question Abbott's motives. He would only agree to support the Royal Commission on the condition it was not only into the Catholic Church - was this to minimise and deflect from his beloved Church? He has looked very uncomforable when asked about his relationship with Pell, to the point he has refused to acknowledge and /or answer questions when asked about it.
I wonder if the Commission will go as far into the past as to cover Abbott's time in the Seminary…....
KimL says:
The media can only report on what is going on out there, when Catholic Priests are charged for child abuse or victims come forward it is reported. I am afraid Cardinal Pell is try to shift the blame to the media, instead of looking at Catholic priests wrong doings. I have often thought that these pedophiles, be it priest or anyone else who abuses children, should be put in a jail on the Nullarbor and left there for life, but with the amount of people sexually abusing Australian children, the jail would have to be as big as Sydney to house them all. These people serve their time and get out to abuse again. These priest Catholic or any other denomination are insidious, they are in a position of trust and that makes it easier to abuse a child
Wisteria says:
In relation to individual offences all jurisidications in Australia have provisions within the cirminal law to allow prior bad acts etc into evidence. However, it is up to the prosecution in each case to argue that these prior bad acts are admissible. If the prosecution cannot make its case then that's the prosecutions fault not the law's.
Secondly, as I am sure you well know, but which you conviently omit to mention, is that the RICO laws relate to an organised criminal enterprise or racketeering not a succession of prior bad acts by an individual. What constitutes racketeering is highly proscribed.
This is a severe case of dog whistling.
It is true that there have been prosecutions in America (in Boston predominantly) seeking that RICO suits be filed against members of the church on the basis of a consipiracy. However, these suits failed because mishandling abuse cases was not considered to amount to criminal racketeering. Which you again conviently failed to omit.
Criminal conspiracy charges are amongst the most notoriously difficult to prove. You appear to be asking for the imposition of a law which is one of the least likely to succeed and the amongst the most difficult to proceed with and prosecute.
lostinperth says:
Similar facts evidence can be used in some states but the prosecution has to prove that it is relevant.
Our legal system operates on the basis that a person is charged with a particular crime based on a particular set of events. It is up to the prosecution to prove that the person is guilty based on the facts of that set of events. Similar facts evidence is an attempt to introduce evidence that may or may not relate to the offence to gain a conviction.
Courts are loath to use it not because it protects anyone, rather that it interferes with the presumption of innocence.
Just because a person robbed shop A it doesn't mean that he robbed shop B. The facts surrounding the robbery of shop B must prove conclusively by themselves that the person charged actually committed the crime. The fact that they robbed shop A should not have any bearing on the evidence or trial concerning shop B.
Everyone, even those accused of child abuse, deserve a fair trial.
Robert S McCormick says:
The Law won't be changed for there are far too many people in positions of influence & power with expensive lobbyists to ensure their protection is maintained.
Simply remove any & all of the "outs" used by smart-arse lawyers, with the help of highly paid psychologists & psychiatrists who, simply because they are being paid huge sums of money, have vested interests in getting offenders off.
Remove all protections other than those which enable a person to get a Fair & Open Trial. No psycho-babblers.
Remoove that most ridiculous of all excuses: "I was sexually abused therefore I sexually abuse".
No apologies, men & women, if you were sexually abused as a child & found it so abhorrent there is no way you would want to inflict such horrors on those you claim to "Love".
I would like to see the response of a Judge & Jury if anyone was caught burgularising someone's home & they tried to use as their excuse for doing so: "Well, your Honour, my home was burgularised when I was a child and that's why I did it"
Simplistic? Yes, it is, but that is the sort of claim people, their lawyers & shrinks use with regard to Child Sex Abuse charges.
Just as the "Drunk" plea has long-since been removed so too should all so-called excuses for paedophile attacks be.
People in SA will remember the Beaumont Children Disappearance and, at the time, the talk of a group of paedophiles known as "The Family". At the time it was openly stated that it was suspected, indeed even known, that members of this paedophile group included Lawyers, Judges, Senior Police, Politicians, Stockbrokers, Captains of Industry, Clergy, School Teachers & others involved in children's surf lifesaving & other sporting programmes.
The man convicted of the murder of the Kelvin child was assumed tobe part of "The Family". Maybe one day he will be able to get his story out of the prison & it be published after his death. It could make very interesting, & for some, dangerous reading!!
The police were powerless for they ran into a wall of silence & protection.
Or so it has long been alleged.
patsy says:
I'm no expert on the law but, we may need a completely new law. If Cardinal Pell can get away with "What's said in the confessional, stays in the confessional" will this set a precedent for those wishing to apply Sharia law? Or would it be like Judge Judy's "Don't tell me that. It's just hear say"
NightStalker says:
If one of these things did something to one of mine, then I would speak harshly to them…they would then see the terror of their ways, sorry I meant error of their ways.
Jo says:
And to think my husband was falsely and maliciously accused by an evil girl who thought it was great getting all the attention and sympathy she did. We endured 4 years of hell, committal hearings, two aborted trials, 'witnesses' committing perjury , death threats, shame, loss of income and no reimbursement of over $75k in legal fees, and now I have cancer which I put down to the stress of it all. And what happened to her once her lies were uncovered? Nothing. She was still a minor and didn't even get a slap on the wrist. Her life has gone on just fine.
Some say where there is smoke there is fire, but I say often where's there's fire there's an arsonist! On one side we have churches protecting child abusers, and on the other side the like of Bravehearts who believe every man is a deviant and can't be trusted. You should have seen the faces on the jurors at my husband's trials. And yet none ever found out that all charges were dropped. In their minds he was guilty by virtue of being accused. All it takes is a 'story' to get the nightmare started, even if no real evidence is produced by the accusers except that story, no matter how ridiculous it may be. There is no truth serum.
Until you are caught up on the wrong side of the law you have no idea how it works. You are stuck on a speeding train and you can't make it stop. I just hope something worthwhile comes out of any Royal Commission and that the real victims get justice and the guilty are punished as they should be. What that girl did to our family was an insult to REAL child sex abuse victims.
Steve Putnam says:
Whitton has long argued his preference for an inquisitorial legal system over the adversarial one we have at present. In doing so, he has been guilty of presenting all of the positives for the fomer but none for the latter. That he should use the issue of child sex abuse to push his pet idea is utterly contemptible.
The rare atmosphere of consensus we have at present must not be jeopardised by Quixotic forays such as Whitton's poorly argued diatribe.
If you seriously care about this issue Evan, do all the victims and their families a favour and shut it.
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Several readers have asked for more photos and details about how to install the ceiling as shown in this article. The following photos should help clarify quite a bit of the detail.
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The first photo to the right shows some of the details between the porch carrying beam and the exterior edge of the fascia. For this detail you'll see the following from left to right:
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