Crash claims four lives at Penola in South Australia

source: abc.net.au

Three men and a teenage boy have died in a tragic crash near Penola in South Australia’s south-east in the early hours of this morning.

Police said the men aged 28, 23, and 22, and a 17-year-old boy, all from the region, were travelling along the Riddoch Highway about 3:00am when their car rolled 50 metres north of the Penola bypass.

Senior constable Kylee Simpson said all four died at the scene.

“Major crash officers are attending the scene and they’ll obviously try to piece together what’s happened,” she said.

“We believe they were all from the south-east, it’s such a tight-knit community and to have four young lives lost it’s obviously going to take its toll on the community.”

All four crash victims were reportedly forestry workers on their way to work.

Their car was towing a trailer at the time of the accident.

Country Fire Service Wattle Range Group Officer, Fred Stent, said one of the passengers was alive when crews arrived at the scene.

“One of the ambulance service was here, they did the first aid on him first up,” he said.

“Then we got our gear ready to help cut him out of the vehicle, but unfortunately when we got him out of the vehicle he passed away.”

Mr Stent described the accident as the worst the community had seen for some time.

The highway was closed for several hours but has been re-opened.

Small community reeling

The small town of Penola has a population of about 1,400 and is located four hours south-east of Adelaide.

One resident said the entire community was in shock.

“It’s just devastating,” she said.

“Just the chain effect, the ripple effect of all these deaths. It’s going to go on … I mean four deaths that’s four families, four brothers, four sons.”

One shop owner said there was a very sombre feeling in the town.

“Everyone’s quite low, feels very touched being in the community,” she said.

“I mean any time is horrific but a lot of people have mentioned because it’s so close to Christmas, for the families.

“Also just feeling for the CFS, ambulance, police, everyone that’s got to deal with the scene out there as well.”

Prominent AFP Clinton Researcher Victor Thorn Found Dead

[Editor’s Note: Mr. Thorn appeared on a previous Red Ice show. While the circumstances surrounding his death are undeniably strange, it’s still too early to reach a definite conclusion as to whether or not his death was, in fact, a suicide.]

Prolific author, AMERICAN FREE PRESS writer and seasoned Clinton researcher Victor Thorn was found at the top of a mountain near his home, the apparent victim of a gunshot wound. Family and some close friends contend Thorn took his own life on his birthday, August 1. Thorn would have been 54.

At the peak of his writing career, the author of some 20 books and 30 chapbooks, Thorn had reported for this newspaper for over a decade, writing thousands of articles on myriad subjects from conspiracy to health-related topics. Best known for his investigate research on the Clintons, Thorn wrote the Clinton trilogy—three definitive works that delved into the history of the power couple including their sordid scandals, Bill Clinton’s sexual assaults of multiple women, and the drug running out of Mena, Arkansas while Clinton was governor of the state.

Besides writing for AFP, Thorn published the works of numerous writers in the alternative media such as Michael Collins Piper, Adam Gorightly, Mark Glenn, John Kaminski and Joan d’Arc, while also producing five CDs and DVDs, one of which is a five-disc collection that covers the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Thorn also served as the editor of five anthologies, and his political articles have appeared in various newspapers around the country.

In February 2001, Thorn founded Babel magazine, an online publication that ran until early 2004 and featured some of the first articles devoted to the 9-11 conspiracy.

One of his books, The New World Order Exposed, was translated and published in Japan in 2006, while 9-11 on Trial has been republished by Progressive Press, and was also released in France to coincide with the fifth anniversary of 9-11.

After co-hosting “The Victor Thorn Show” on the Reality Radio Network from 2002-2003, in February 2004, Thorn co-founded WING TV (World Independent News Group), a daily Internet television and radio talk show viewed in over 100 countries worldwide.

Thorn has also made hundreds of different radio appearances (including “Coast-to-Coast AM” and “The Lionel Show” on WOR 710 in New York City) and has done weekly one-hour news updates on Alex Merklinger’s “Mysteries of the Mind,” while also appearing weekly on Vyzygoth’s “From the Grassy Knoll” and Frank Whalen’s “Frankly Speaking Radio.”

Thorn has been an avid political activist who spoke at the OKC Bombing 10th anniversary, as well as before the America First Party.

He has also protested in six different states, not to mention at Ground Zero on several occasions and in front of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Some supporters have voiced concerns that yet another prominent critic of the Clintons has turned up dead—this time just after Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic nomination.

More Banker Deaths: Gilligan at American Express, Noyce at Goldman Sachs, and 29-year-old Thomas J. Hughes

Governments, and the lamestream media, do not appear to be interested.

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I cannot help but be suspicious any more on all the bankers and financiers dying, even if they do so due to “natural causes.” Case in point here are the deaths, within this last week, of the President of American Express, and a key analyst for Goldman Sachs. Here are the stories:

Markets More: American Express Death American Express president Ed Gilligan has died

John Noyce, ‘Must Read’ Goldman Currency Analyst, Dies at 36

Now, so far, everything seems normal: Mr. Noyce had apparently been battling with cancer for some time, and Mr. Gilligan simply become “suddenly ill” on an airplane flight and expired. But again, these two unfortunate men appear to be part of that “pattern” that seems to be emerging with all the banker deaths. Here’s the way Mr. Gilligan’s death is being reported by Bloomberg:

“He became seriously ill on a flight home to New York this morning, the statement said.

“This is deeply painful and frankly unimaginable for all of us who had the great fortune to work with Ed, and benefit from his insights, leadership and enthusiasm,” CEO Ken Chenault said in the letter to employees.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife, Lisa, and their four children – Katie, Meaghan, Kevin and Shane. He was a proud husband and father, and his love for his family was evident in all that he did.”

And then in American Express’s own release:

“His contributions have left an indelible imprint on practically every area of our business, from Commercial Card and Travel to International, Consumer, Small Business, Merchant Services, Network Services and, most recently, the group forging our digital partnerships and driving payment innovations.”

So where’s the familiar pattern? Well, in Mr. Gilligan’s case, it is (1) in his popularity with employees, colleagues, and family, a feature that seems to recur with each such death; and (2) he was involved in aspects of the financial sector having directly to do with computers, electronic payments and clearing, and, in his case, “forging digital partnerships”, and driving “payment innovaitons,” language that at least to this amateur’s instincts sound all too like the formation of financial data cartels and trusts.

Then there is this about the unfortunate Mr. Noyce at Goldman Sachs:

“John Noyce, a technical analyst at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s London currency trading desk whose weekly report “The Charts That Matter Next Week” was widely followed, has died. He was 36.

“He died on June 4 after a long battle with cancer, Goldman Sachs wrote in an internal memo signed by Isabelle Ealet, Pablo Salame and Ashok Varadhan, co-heads of its securities unit.

“He was well respected by market participants for his insightful analysis,” they wrote. “On the trading floor, he was a trusted colleague and friend — demonstrated clearly by the overwhelming support he received from GS colleagues throughout his illness.”

via More Banker Deaths: Gilligan at American Express, Noyce at Goldman Sachs, and 29-year-old Thomas J. Hughes.