fraud

There is some merit in suing warmists. Walter Starck at Quadrant Online explains:

In a prevailing climate of political correctness, an absence of formal explicit requirements for honesty, and with peer review subordinate to a common interest in maintaining funding, normal professional and scientific ethics have been significantly abandoned.

Such corruption has been repeatedly demonstrated in a series of revelations of serious misconduct in climate science. Despite unequivocal evidence of misrepresentations, lies, fabrications, suppression of conflicting evidence, conspiring to defy FOI requests and personal defamation of critics, the miscreants have all been cleared by blatantly sham investigations. Worse still, and indicative of the pervasive malaise, has been a widespread response of peers. Instead of condemning obvious misconduct they have sought to excuse, justify or dismiss it as unimportant.

While there may no explicit obligation for due diligence in scientific advocacy, the status of researchers as experts clearly implies it should be expected. Expert opinion without due diligence is an oxymoron, and pretending to expertise while ignoring due diligence rises to the level of fraud.

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Two Invercargill men duped by a “very convincing” conwoman fear she will target more men when she gets out of jail.

The men, aged 51 and 57, say their lives were ruined after falling prey to Diane Louise Boyd, 47.

Boyd, formerly of Southland, was sentenced this week to four years and two months’ jail when she appeared in the High Court at Christchurch for 120 charges relating to blackmail, obtaining by deception, dishonestly using a document, theft, causing a loss by deception and stealing a vehicle.

Yesterday, two of her victims painted a picture of a loving, caring woman who, after gaining their trust, manipulated, threatened and blackmailed them.

Both men said they met Boyd on a dating website before meeting in person. The 51-year-old said she convinced him to provide her with furniture to replace items lost in a burglary, and offered to help pay his accounts, but later threatened to expose risque photographs of him and go to police with allegations of insurance fraud.

I hope the jury didn’t have to suffer the risque photos as part of the trial.

The men’s warning she’ll do it again seems to have some merit.  Diane Louise Boyd was convicted to a sentence of home detention in 2011 for pretty much the same crime:

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David Shearer declared that he was upset about a guy in the street who was a beneficiary who was up on his roof painting. All hell broke loose across the left and the right of the political spectrum. The left wing demanded that David Shearer stop bashing beneficiaries and the right wing demanded David Shearer produce this hapless beneficiary to prove he wasn’t made up.

I can now reveal that Rufus Paynter does indeed exist…except his real name is Ronald Morgan  Read more »

Internet dating…I get that…but Internet Marriages?

How the hell do they consummate it?

With a red embroidered veil draped over her dark hair, Punam Chowdhury held her breath last month as her fiancé said the words that would make them husband and wife. After she echoed them, they were married. Guests erupted in applause; the bride and groom traded bashful smiles.

With a red embroidered veil draped over her dark hair, Punam Chowdhury held her breath last month as her fiancé said the words that would make them husband and wife. After she echoed them, they were married. Guests erupted in applause; the bride and groom traded bashful smiles.

Their courtship, like so many others, had taken place almost entirely over the Internet — they had met in person only once, years earlier, in passing. But in a twist that underscores technology’s ability to upend traditional notions about romance, people are not just finding their match online, but also saying “I do” there.  Read more »

The Bin Man has written about the more than 150 copyright complaints laid against Kim Dotcom’s Mega stealing site:

Over the last couple of hours the usual suspects in our tired old media have cut and paste an article from Computerworld. In their efforts they report that Mega has received 150 copyright infringements since its launch. Mega have provided their flunkies at Stuff and the Herald the usual weasel words about how they are doing everything correctly and they have removed any files that are found to be infringing the law.

All good so far.

However, two points that need to be considered.  Read more »

Rod Oram takes time out from lecturing at the Young Labour Summer School and gets right up Kim Dotcom and his fanciful claims in the Sunday Star Times, expect David Fisher to start running a twitter attack against him in short  order….or at the very least to spout forth arguments ion Kim’s behalf.

Dangerously for us, however, Kim Dotcom has plunged into this gap. The man and his business models are the absolute antithesis of what the internet and this country need.

He dangles a glittering prospect others have offered before: he says we could generate jobs, wealth and taxes if we turned ourselves into one of the world’s great data storage sites. After all, we have abundant, cheap and renewable electricity to power the servers. All we’d need is bigger cables to connect us with the world and a change of laws to make us the Switzerland of data secrecy.

He claims his new services, if they were based here, would within three years generate more traffic than the rest of NZ online activity combined. But everything is wrong about this proposition, from the economics to the practicality and morality.

So far Oram is the only media person to get up Kim Dotcom and called him on his bullshit, he goes further.  Read more »

via Warwick Hughes and Watts Up With That

Over the Christmas holiday period thousands of pages of IPCC draft docuemnts were leaked to Donna Laframboise on memory sticks.

A week before Christmas, three data sticks containing 661 files and amounting to nearly one gigabyte of material came into my possession. They were created by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a UN body currently at work on a high-profile report.

Due to be released in stages starting in September, this report will be promoted by government press conferences the world over. Officials will point to its findings and continue to spend billions on climate change measures.

The IPCC has confirmed the authenticity of sample documents on these sticks. Today, I’m making this massive collection of data, (with reviewer comments), which I call the Secret Santa leak, public. Some of these documents are already online. Many others would only have been released by the IPCC years from now. Still others the IPCC intended to keep hidden forever.

Amongst the leak documents it has been revealed that a 94 page fantasy  on Australasia. There is a specific section for the “…impacts of climate change on Maori…”.

Strangely the IPCC authors think there are “…inequalities in political representation…” in the last para – and here was me thinking that teh Maori party have two ministers and help form the government.

You can download all the documents at Anthony Watts – But Chapter 25: Australasia – is either here or here

I have uploaded Chapter 25 to Scribd for you convenience. Chapter 25.6.10.2, the part with regard tot he impact on maori society is below:

The projected impacts of climate change on Maori society are expected to be highly differentiated reflecting complex economic, social, cultural, environmental and political factors (high confidence). Since 2007, studies have been either sector specific in their analyses (e.g. Harmsworth et al., 2010; Insley, 2007; Insley and Meade, 2008; King et al., 2012) or more general in scope inferring risk and vulnerability based on exploratory engagements with varied stakeholders and existing social-economic-political and ecological conditions (e.g. King et al., 2010; MfE, 2007b; Te Aho, 2007).  Read more »

Kim Dotcon’s staff reporter, David Fisher, has crawled right up Dotcom’s massive rectal crevice this week in the Herald.

He really does seem to have a man-crush on the fat German. He reckons Dotcom is coming out fighting:

Dotcom comes out fighting - Fortune stripped, company crushed and freedom denied – Kim Dotcom admits to being angry and says he is just getting started on getting even.

Coming out fighting…getting even…sounds like Kimmy the fat German is making a play for The Earthquake’s replacement in WWE.  Read more »

Ernst & Young and the FBI have realsed their list of top ten words and phrases used in email conversations that commonly indicate fraudulent behaviour:

Software developed by the FBI and Ernst & Young has revealed the most common words used in email conversations among employees engaged in corporate fraud.

The software, which was developed using the knowledge gained from real life corporate fraud investigations, pinpoints and tracks common fraud phrases like “cover up”, “write off”, “failed investment”, “off the books”, “nobody will find out” and “grey area”.

Expressions such as “special fees” and “friendly payments” are most common in bribery cases, while fears of getting caught are shown in phrases such as “no inspection” and “do not volunteer information”.

In total more than 3,000 terms are logged by the technology, which monitors for conversations within the “fraud triangle”, where pressure, rationalisation, and opportunity meet, said the FBI and Ernst & Young.

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Homeopathy is a complete fraud…the belief that you can make medicine stronger by diluting it is deluded quackery…but still there are some loons who beleive in it.

Now you can get a kit to help train your delusions…and maybe even start an entrepreneurial business into duping people:

Homeopathy is based on the principle of diluting an herb with water until none of the substance remains, then selling the water for $10—or $100. Inert powders are also used as the dilutant, with the same results.

Take, for example, the “HomeoFamily Kit”, which is a big drawer full of tubes. Most of the ingredients listed are “30C”, which, in homeopathy jargon, means that an extract of that ingredient was diluted 100 times, thirty times in succession. This means that it’s so dilute there would be perhaps one molecule of the active ingredient remaining in a sphere of “medicine” 131 light years in diameter.

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