Month: September 2023

RFK Jr. is Planning to Run As An Independent

Twitter Post By Jamie McIntyre

BREAKING: RFK Jr. is planning to run as an independent.

Australian National Review
http://Anrnews.com

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Original source: https://twitter.com/jamiemcintyre21/status/1707881784707555392

Who Is the Real John Margerison? Vanished Businessman Leaves Behind Corporate Maze and Trail of Intrigue

By Ben Smee

Exclusive: having told parliament he’s ‘severed all ties’ with Australia, the former business associate of Stuart Robert is believed to be in Dubai.

John Margerison is a marine biologist. He started a small online clothing store in Brisbane that sold surfing gear and accessories.

John Margerison is from Melbourne and “spends hours tinkering with electronics and building model rockets”. John Margerison was born and raised in the “bustling city of Sydney” where he studied engineering.

He is a marketing genius from Adelaide. The joint-owner of a Canberra-based chain of organic grocery stories. A New Zealander living in Darwin. A “fast and reliable” Gold Coast handyman. An enigma.

On the same day in March, at least 10 websites – each detailing a different life story attributed to “John Margerison” – were registered by a Singapore-based web hosting service.

Two more similar “John Margerison” websites with Australian domains appear to be linked to an “internet removals” company that promises to scrub its clients’ personal information from the web.

An examination of all 12 websites by Guardian Australia raised serious questions about their authenticity.

None of the phone numbers they listed were in service when called. Links beyond the landing page did not appear to work, and associated social media profiles either did not exist or seem to have been set up about the same time as the web page, and do not appear to have been active since.

Some of the images purporting to be a John Margerison can be traced to Spanish, German and Russian websites. If the sites are fake there is nothing to suggest those pictured are aware their images are being used in this way.

“It’s exactly the sort of smoke and mirrors thing that John would do,” says a former business associate. “Given all the negative attention, he’d want people to question what version of him was real.”

Guardian Australia has been unable to establish who paid to set up the sites – Margerison did not respond to questions .

The Australian federal parliament wants to speak to the real John Margerison, the business partner of the former Liberal minister Stuart Robert. Margerison has fled the country amid an inquiry into contracts awarded by Services Australia and the National Disability Insurance Authority.

At least 10 websites detailing a different life story attributed to ‘John Margerison’ were registered on one day in March.

His lawyer says he has “severed all ties” with Australia. Guardian Australia can reveal Margerison is believed by close associates to be living in Dubai with his new partner. His former wife and children – who were not involved in his business dealings – remain on the Gold Coast.

Also on the Gold Coast are the jumbled remains of Margerison’s business operations: dozens of companies, many of them shells leading to more shells, including entities he still owns. Guardian Australia this week revealed how he is being repaid millions of dollars a year by an NDIS charity, United Disability Care, for a loan he made so it could buy his company, DJ Health.

The corporate maze left by Margerison is difficult to navigate. On his disability companies, for example, directorships and shareholdings routinely shift between him and his business associates. Sometimes he is a director for a few weeks, then he resigns.

At least 10 websites detailing a different life story attributed to ‘John Margerison’ were registered on one day in March.

Several former associates who spoke to Guardian Australia – none of whom wanted to be named – warn there is little to find in the remains of Margerison’s business empire beyond the wild dreams of a Gold Coast businessman who failed as much as he succeeded.

“His idea of running a business was not building a business, it was building the idea of a business that he could sell to investors,” one former associate said.

“He was always so open about what he was doing, how he thought it was going to make him rich.”

Platinum partnerships

Charles Margerison, a businessman and academic, emigrated to Australia with his young family in 1982. His son John, then aged five, claims he found a 50-pound note on the floor of Heathrow Airport.

It gave the boy the belief, as he went through life, that he was destined to be lucky.

“I treasured all that I could do with the new found fortune,” John wrote, almost 40 years later, in 2020, in a short story dedicated to his personal hero, the life coach and motivational speaker, Tony Robbins.

Margerison drove around the Gold Coast in a Tesla with the licence plate “1billion”, which he explained to employees was his goal in business. Robbins had advised him to manifest his goal.

Screenshots sent to Guardian Australia from Margerison’s online dating profile show him rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous – including media personality Paris Hilton and US comedian and actor Kevin Hart – at events for “platinum partners” who pay Robbins a minimum of $85,000 for the privilege.

John Margerison’s online dating profile shows him mixing with celebrities and posing in front of a helicopter.

It was via the platinum partnership that Margerison met Neran de Silva, the chief executive of Cryo Australia and a fellow devotee of Robbins. Both Margerison and Robert invested in de Silva’s company, but the business venture collapsed months later, after it was revealed de Silva had been running the company from prison, having been convicted of rape.

The situation, uncovered by Guardian Australia in 2018, ultimately cost both Margerison and Robert at least $410,000.

Margerison had run Robert’s political fundraising vehicle, the Fadden Forum. The entity came under the scrutiny of the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) in 2016 and 2017 for helping to finance the Gold Coast council campaigns of two former Robert staffers. No adverse findings were made.

In evidence to the CCC, Robert explained how the Fadden Forum worked. Members paid $1,000 a month, some more, that went direct to the Liberal National party. The entity had a Gmail account but no ABN or letterhead.

John Margerison once ran the Fadden Forum for former Liberal minister Stuart Robert.

Members of the forum and attendees at events say it attracted a “certain kind of Gold Coast spiv” who would pay mostly to get access to Robert and other politicians who attended events, including the former prime minister Scott Morrison, then treasurer, and Julie Bishop. Members wore ceramic name badges.

“It was all really showy and pompous,” one former member said.

A promise of strong returns

One of Margerison’s first business ventures, in 2004, was attempting to sell shares in a company offering quick, short-term loans at 35% interest.

A prospectus for the company, DJ Capital Solutions, promoted it as an alternative to banks with “rigid lending guidelines that restrict them from lending to the target market”.

“DJ Capital recognizes (sic) the importance of the client predicament, that speed is often of the essence and that loans must be structured around each client’s unique set of financial circumstances,” the document says.

In the following years, Margerison launched several spin-off entities, including a mining consulting company, DJ Minerals, and a real estate company that bought buildings with long-term state and federal government leases.

Ahead of the rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in 2017, Margerison began buying small disability service companies, pitching his ability to create a larger entity capable of managing the transition to the new system.

These were housed under a parent company, DJ Health. In 2018, Margerison attempted to sell shares in DJ Health, telling potential investors they’d be investing in the public good; he also told them they’d make lots of money.

“For investors, our objective is to achieve high-yield returns from profits made by the company and subsidiaries,” he wrote in an information memorandum for shares in DJ Health. The document predicted returns of 15% to 19%, which sources say amounted to “bullshit plucked from thin air”. Such returns never eventuated.

Neither did the outside investment. Some sources say potential investors expressed concern about the structure of the company, including that its largest subsidiary was a registered charity, United Disability Care.

Instead, the DJ Health group was restructured in a way that made the charity the centrepiece. United Disability Care then bought two of Margerison’s former for-profit companies – which were formerly part of the same group – in deals that could see him pocket $40m from the charity’s bottom line over 10 years.

Sylvia Capps, the current chief executive officer of UDC, defended the purchase of DJ Health as value for money.

“John had provided unsecured vendor finance for the purchase, in an environment when banks did not understand the NDIS business model, and conventional [finance] was difficult to secure,” she said.

“The NDIS is a highly-competitive environment and an organisation that had paid too much for another business could not afford to provide the outstanding client service that UDC provides. The transaction was assessed and endorsed by an independent valuer.

“The best interests of our clients are our top priority.”

No man of mystery

Internet archive searches of Margerison’s former business websites show they contained a rambling biography – more than 400 words – that somehow contained few factual details.

“Through his passion and understanding of causal relationships and conditional expectation in trading has led to the formulation of a series of algorithms which are used in a non-correlated manner to create a master data stream for funds,” says one such blurb, on the webpage of DJ Group in 2015.

John Margerison dreamt of being a billionaire, according to former associates.

“An expert communicator, Mr Margerison implemented a methodology which was integral in improving Partners (sic) communications during their personal interactions with current and potential clients.”

In his personal story for Robbins, Margerison claims to have “fed more than 1.5m meals” and saved children from trafficking. Guardian Australia has been unable to find evidence to support these claims, and Margerison did not respond to questions. Friends say he paid for flights to Australia for people fleeing the war in Ukraine.

Former employees say he paid for them to have sessions with his personal life coach, via video from Colorado in the US. He sent senior colleagues to Robbins’ seminars overseas to network. He bragged about his networking with senior politicians.

“I laugh when I read the stories because the narrative always seems to assume that John is this, you know, mover and shaker operating in secret behind the scenes,” a former business associate said.

“He definitely had political connections, but it wasn’t secret squirrels stuff. He would not shut up about them to everyone who would listen. He wanted you to know exactly who he met with, and wanted to know you were impressed.

“He hosted James Bond themed parties at his house. He’s definitely no man of mystery.”

Original source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/30/who-is-john-margerison-vanished-businessman

Russia ‘Making a Fortune’ – Trump

By RT News

Moscow is benefitting from high oil prices, the former US president has said.

Soaring energy prices have boosted Russia’s revenues, while the US is facing major economic threats due to its attempt to transition to clean energy, former President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday.

Addressing supporters at Drake Enterprises, a non-union auto parts manufacturer near Detroit, Trump condemned the administration of President Joe Biden for its policies on electric vehicles (EV) and clean energy, branding them a danger to the US auto industry. The shift to EV will kill jobs at America’s biggest carmakers and eventually make them obsolete, Trump warned.

“For auto workers, Biden’s transition to electric is a transition to hell,” the former president declared. “A transition to unemployment.”

According to Trump, the US was “more energy-independent” than Russia and China during his tenure as president, while now “we are begging countries to give us gasoline.”

“We are going to lose our country,” Trump warned, arguing that Moscow has “made a fortune” and continues to benefit from high oil prices.

Global oil prices have surged by 30% since June after voluntary production cuts by OPEC and allies led by Russia. On Thursday, prices reached their highest level in over a year, with benchmark Brent rising above $97 a barrel. US West Texas Intermediate futures touched $95 per barrel, marking the highest price since August 2022.

Experts predict that prices will remain high for the rest of the year.

Unprecedented Electoral Roll Padding With 1.2 Million Postal Vote Applications is Not a Good Look for the NO Campaign

By Cairns News

The AEC has announced that a record 97.7% of eligible Australians are enrolled to vote in the upcoming 2023 referendum making it the largest enrolment in history.

The roll has increased by 447,447 people since the 2022 federal election, a rise of 2.6%. This in itself has all the hallmarks of massive fraud.

More than 8.4 million people on the electoral roll were not enrolled when the last referendum was held in 1999 – this is more than 47% of the electoral roll.

The 8.4 million people includes 6.7 million people who were under 18 (or not born) at the time as well as 1.7 million other people who are new to the roll since 1999 – many of whom are new Australian citizens.

Australian Electoral Commissioner, Tom Rogers said such a complete electoral roll is a result of years of hard work by the AEC.

“With many nations around the world campaigning to get even three quarters of their population enrolled to vote, this result is a continuing source of Australian democratic pride.” Mr Rogers said.

“In between the announcement of the referendum date and close of rolls, approximately 79,000 people were added to the roll with 376,000 other eligible Australians updating their details.”

“The youth enrolment rate has also increased to 91.4% which means approximately 1.8 million 18-24 year olds are ready to vote and have their say in their first referendum.”

In terms of First Nations enrolment, this sits at 94.1% and is the highest it has ever been.”

“Well done Australia. Now it’s time to have your say.”

Lax poll security slammed by Auditor General

https://www.afr.com/politics/auditorgeneral-slams-australian-electoral-commission-over-poll-security-20180122-h0m7xr

Mr Rogers omitted to say voting is compulsory in Australia, being one of the few countries around the world which enforces a ballot and does not require ID to vote. Voting in Australia is a sham.

The claim by Rogers of 94.1 per cent indigenous enrolment is inflated by at least a reported 300,000 white fellas claiming to be blackfellas. Our correspondents report there has been no involvement of the AEC in some Aboriginal communities on Cape York Peninsula and the claim of 94.1 per cent is “ludicrous” our Cape York Peninsula correspondent said.

Rogers regularly meets Australia’s electoral equivalents in Europe, the UK, Canada, and the Asia-Pacific, and earlier this year returned from an overseas trip discussing how the AEC handled the 2022 federal election.

Why would overseas countries want to know how we run elections? China as we know is very interested and has our digital electoral roll, compliments of the socialists in Queensland Labor.

The AEC has begun its misinformation counter-offensive, but there have been too many recorded instances of extensive voter fraud reported to the AEC and the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, where no action has been taken, in fact mostly ignored.

The JSCEM recommended the federal government legislate for voter ID before the last federal elecion but was ignored by the party duopoly. There is no chance of voter ID being introduced by the Labor Party now or in the future. Vote early and vote often the ALP-union nexus says.

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/how-the-aec-faced-the-online-trolls-and-won-20220616-p5au4l

Pre-polling for two weeks and 1.2 million postal votes will determine the outcome of the referendum.

This is where major fraud can exist and has done at past elections. Reports and photographs of returning officers or polling booth staff taking ballot boxes home have altered the result at previous elections, yet this travesty is ignored by the AEC.

From Bamaga in the Far North of Queensland to polling booths at Petrie north of Brisbane voter fraud has recently occurred and expected to do so again.

One of Australia’s most astute polling analysts, engineer Lex Stewart of Coffs Harbour turned up 248,000 bogus votes at the same sex plebiscite.

Pre-polling should not exist due the accessibility of cardboard ballot boxes after hours. Political party booth workers provided the AEC with footage and sworn statements of AEC staff taking ballot boxes home from the Petrie booth at the last federal election.

Similar reports have emerged from NSW but no action has been taken.

The large number of expected postal votes is ripe for rorting. The identity requirements are far from foolproof and it is on the record that this loophole has been well exploited over the years.

The question remains that if every state is reporting 40 per cent or less support for the Yes vote, does the AEC have sufficient roll padding to bolster the Yes vote in the required four states?

We are well aware of at least 400,000 bogus names on the roll and since the AEC refused to conduct physical habitation surveys of every Australian household many years ago, it is possible entire blocks of bogus voters at real addresses could be transferred to the weaker states to get them over the line.

This fraud goes unnoticed because the electoral act states rolls used at polling booths to mark off electors as they register to vote are to be shredded soon after the election.

If the compliant media starts a trend claiming the NO vote polling is softening over the next few weeks honest voters can be assured Deep State is setting the stage for a YES result.

Ticks and Crosses

https://www.albanyadvertiser.com.au/news/indigenous-voice-to-parliament/voice-referendum-2gb-host-ben-fordham-slams-aec-boss-tom-rodgers-600k-salary-c-11689904

The Liberal’s NO campaign pin up girl, Senator Jacinta Price will not entertain the abundant evidence that the AEC is dodgy. So too Senator Alex Antic who also has maintained voter fraud is off limits for the Liberals.

Original source: https://cairnsnews.org/2023/09/28/unprecedented-electoral-roll-padding-with-1-2-million-postal-vote-applications-is-not-a-good-look-for-the-no-campaign/