The Truth about Helidon

A Current Affair nails it!

2015-02-17T20:55:00.003+10:00

If you can't be bothered to read all my posts, then just watch this video - it sums up everything!

http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article/8957927/queensland-cult-leader-accused-of-fraud

Debra's new revenue stream

2013-10-07T14:08:00.000+10:00

With the departure of the two 'Claires', Debra has had to fall back on one of her original money-making schemes.

Many years ago, she was a distributor for HerbaLife and would sell products to her followers and get large commissions. In fact, that's how she got her first Merc!

Now, if you go the MMM website, there is a link to a site called 'Good Health with D'.

http://goodhealthwithd.com/

The page makes no mention of MMM at all. If you didn't find the site through the MMM site, you'd have no idea that 'D' is Debra Burslem/Geileskey.

The site is full of stories about health issues that coincidentally can be treated by a product available through the website. How convenient!

If you're a big enough sucker, and click on a link to buy some magic herbs etc., you will be taken to one of the sites that she is a distributor of.

The most common are:

Forever Living - where the distributor's name is DEBRAMARIE GEILESKEY

Good Health OZ - where the distributor's name is Debramarie

Max International - where the distributor is D. Geileskey

There are a few others but the link to Debra isn't as obvious as those above.

I hate to say I told you so, but.....

2013-06-10T13:08:00.002+10:00

...I was right! If you take a look at the RockStock facebook page http://www.facebook.com/RockStockHelidon, you'll notice its full of religious references.

It seems all pretence of this event being organised by the Tabletop Arts and Crafts has disappeared.

This is what the page says:

We are the worldwide ROCKSTOCK group of international sabbath keeping fun folk. We are the happy stock of God's flock who want to use music and dance and arts to generate the frequency of joy as our strength.

Every year we begin the biblical New Year week with a community party with fun song and dance- just like the biblical David danced and sang for the glory of God with his village or stock (tribe). We use the vibrant music of Rock and Roll with a spiritual lift from our choir groups to do this. The biblical New Year is usually in September/October and is followed by 6 other special biblical days of celebrations of joy called Sacred Sabbaths. The ancient words for New Year were Roch Hosanna. This site is dedicated to our music and dance and sharing it and the days of Sacred Sabbaths with those who want a reign of peace & joy. Glory to YGod in the highest.

Wow, that's not what Sue Lindsay said back in 2008 in the Toowoomba Chronicle. http://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/cult-follower-moves-clear-groups-motives/22289/

This is typical of the MMM, though. They are constantly rewriting their history. If you're going to be a good liar, you need to have a good memory to be able to keep track of all the lies that you've told!

What's happened to Claire? What's happened to Helidon.org?

2013-06-02T13:47:00.001+10:00

Well it seems things aren't going too well for Debra these days....

http://dialogueireland.wordpress.com/category/magnificat-meal-movement/

She's lost Claire Murphy and Claire Birchley! Is it any wonder now that the www.helidon.org site is a dead link. There doesn't seem to be too many Balls, Jazz Festivals, Celtic Festivals etc. anymore.

This can only be a good thing.

Contributions

2013-06-02T13:28:00.000+10:00

I received an anonymous post in the 'Comments' to my previous post below. The poster had a good idea:

Perhaps you can invite ex-members to send you their stories via email and you can publish them on your blog. Just a thought.

So if you'd like to send me any contributions, I'm more than happy to publish them

An update

2013-02-10T15:27:00.000+10:00

Yes, I know it's been awhile since I've posted. I haven't had much too say for a long time as nothing has changed. Debra is still running the show (albeit from sunny Vanuatu) and making lots of money from government grants and gullible followers.

Helidon survived the 2011 flood with little damage and same for the recent one in late January 2013. So that's a positive for Debra, otherwise she'd have to start all over again and find some more suckers to fleece.

The MMM website has had a makeover and has embraced e-commerce wholeheartedly. You can buy lots of goodies for a 'small' donation to Debra or her associated companies.

Comments!

2010-07-21T18:54:00.007+10:00

My last post must have rattled some cages out there as I've finally got comments! Keep them coming please! Although it appears you've missed the point of this blog.

In response, have you read my previous posts? The overall purpose of my blog is to highlight the fact that the Magnificat Meal Movement or Corma Coptic or whatever they're called these days are running all these community events but claiming to be the Helidon Sports & Rec Association, the Tabletop Junior Arts & Crafts Club Inc etc. All I'm asking for is HONESTY.

Why set up numerous community groups? It just looks dodgy and to me it appears to be a way of getting more government grant funding than they're entitled to. If they're real community groups, run by non-MMM affiliated people, then why is nothing ever organised on a Saturday before sundown and why are there no Christmas or Easter celebrations?

Why is the helidon.org website registered to Clare Birchley, one of the senior members of the MMM? http://www.whois.net/whois/helidon.org

If there are reasonable explanations for this, I'd like to hear them.

Kids brainwashed in school

2010-06-13T19:28:00.006+10:00

I haven't posted anything for quite a while, mainly because it's still business as usual in Helidon for the MMM (or the cult formerly known as the MMM, better known now as the HSRA - Helidon Sports & Rec Association). They're still getting grant funding from the incompetent Queensland Government through their fake community organisations.

Interestingly, the Helidon State School curriculum includes weekly Religious Instruction. This is an extract from the school's website http://helidonss.eq.edu.au/wcmss/index.php/School-Prospectus.html (I've highlighted in red some key points):

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION
Legislation provides that within a specific time period each week, approved instructors, who are religious leaders or accredited representatives of a faith group, are able to gain right-of-entry into a State School to provide religious instruction to students to develop and support particular beliefs, values and attitudes.

Religious Instruction only occurs in accordance with legislation and departmental policy and the conduct of any specific school events, which have religious, spiritual and/or ethical content are inclusive and only occur in accordance with departmental policies.

Religious Instruction takes place weekly on Tuesdays at 9.00am for a duration of one half hour for children from Year 1-7. Ministers and nominated catechists from a number of religious denominations take classes: Catholic, Anglican/Uniting/Presbyterian, Lutheran and Celtic Corma Australia.

So if the website is right, the Department of Education has accredited the loonies from the MMM to come in to the school and brainwash the kids into the MMM! How the hell did the Corma Coptic (i.e. MMM) get recognised as a religion alongside legitimate religions like Catholic, Anglican etc?? Apparently this is all within 'departmental guidelines'. They must be very broad guidelines to allow those wackos to spread their rubbish in a school paid for by the poor Queensland taxpayer.

I wonder if the Minister for Education, Geoff Wilson, is aware of this?

RockStock

2009-08-08T11:17:00.002+10:00

Yes well RockStock is almost upon us again. They've started selling tickets online through the helidon.org website via PayPal. Once again, Tabletop Junior Arts & Crafts Club Inc is who the payment goes to.

Strange for an 'arts and crafts' club to organise a concert? Nowhere on the helidon.org website do they mention the club. Would that be because of the Courier-Mail & Toowoomba Chronicle articles?

Tabletop Junior Arts and Crafts Club Inc

2009-06-06T18:32:00.003+10:00

Tabletop is a funny name for a group based in Helidon, isn't it? Does it refer to tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons or something?

No, it's yet another link to the MMM.

You see, when Debra first came to Queensland, she was actually based in Toowoomba, not Helidon. Just outside Toowoomba is Mt Tabletop. People would come on First Saturdays to go to Mass at Holy Name Church and hear Debra speak. Afterwards, they would all hop in their cars and drive to Mt Tabletop, which they would then climb. The MMM had erected a cross at the top, with each of the Stations of the Cross along the way.

The name makes sense now doesn't it?

Kool Parsley

2009-05-31T16:21:00.005+10:00

If you shop at IGA supermarkets in south-east Queensland, you may notice they sell parsley packaged in a bag with the label 'Kool Parsley'.

Buying this parsley funds the Magnificat Meal Movement!

The MMM (via a wholly-owned company) owns a parsley farm in the Lockyer Valley. It's members work on the farm for free to pick and pack the parsley for sale to distributors.

It's all done through a private company known as LVH Pty Ltd. 'LVH' stands for Lockyer Valley Hydro Gardens. The directors and primary shareholders of the company are senior members of the MMM.

Any money made by the company is pure profit as anyone knows the largest cost to a business is salaries and wages. In this case, there are no salaries as cult members voluntarily work for free on the farm.

Further proof: go to the http://www.helidon.org/ website. See the 4th pic from the left? Yep, it's a bloke with a pallet of fresh parsley from the MMM farm.

Hey Hey it's Saturday

2009-05-30T15:18:00.002+10:00

No I'm not talking about Daryl Somers and Ossie Ostrich!

If you look at all the events organised through the 'helidon.org' website, you'll notice that no event is EVER scheduled to occur on Saturday during daylight hours. Seriously, go to the website now and you will see what I mean.

Saturday evening/night is fine, so is Sunday. What gives?

Well for the MMM followers, Saturday is the Sabbath. Like the Jews, they're banned from doing any work between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday. They also have a special day of prayer on the first Saturday of each month.

So, is it a coincidence the Rockstock mob don't organise any events on a Saturday?

In my opinion, this PROVES the Rockstock, Tabletop Junior Arts, Helidon Sports & Rec etc are just fake organisations run by the Magnificat Meal Movement.

Jazz festival

2009-05-24T12:56:00.004+10:00

Toowoomba's Mail paper published the following article on the Jazz festival:

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Jazz%20event%20attracts%20all%20music%20lovers.-a0198123742

See the quote from Bob Mair, "It amazes me, how a small community such as Helidon could manage to put on a show such as this".

Exactly mate, exactly. That's 'cos its the MMM's slaves doing it for nothing.

Open your eyes people!

They're at it again - KA-CHING!!!

2009-05-24T12:41:00.006+10:00

The MMM has got more taxpayer money, this time $25,000 from the Queensland Premier herself!

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Helidon%20to%20rock%20in%20September.-a0199042206

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Festival%20group%20dances%20for%20joy.-a0198527551

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Old%20rockers%20in%20Helidon.-a0199567459

The Gatton Star reported earlier this month that Rockstock 2009 will be receiving more government funding. Its through the QERDP. How does the government know the money will be used for Rockstock and not sent straight into Big Mamma D's deep pockets?

I can't believe Anna Bligh would be that stupid especially after the Courier-Mail articles (see in my list of links).

Why is the Chronicle so sympathetic?

2009-05-24T12:28:00.002+10:00

Is there a MMM mole working at the Toowoomba Chronicle? They seem to get a lot of free publicity for their events.

Doesn't anyone at the chronicle find it strange that a very small town like Helidon can organise all these events and has so many community groups? Isn't it also strange that all these community groups use the same website http://www.helidon.org? Take a look at this article: http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2008/10/25/celtic-spirit-to-infuse-fun-at-helidon-festival/. Rebecca Burke would be the wife of Ray Burke. Ray is a very senior member of the MMM hierarchy, one of the original members.

Why is it if you want more info its a mobile number with a first name? Why isn't the Chronicle doing some investigative journalism??

Who is Francois?

2009-01-02T14:23:00.002+10:00

In the MMM, there is an Irish 'priest' going by the name of Francois. Strange name for an Irishman? Well, of course that's not his real name as you see he's in hiding and is in fact married!!! To a woman named Barbie!!!

So who is he? Well, he's none other than Fr Dermot Forkin, the former Spiritan priest referred to in Mike Garde's thesis (see the link at the left of the page). Mike Garde seems to have lost track of him in 2005 but ol' Dermot, sorry, Francois has managed to slip back into Australia and marry a woman in order to stay in the country. This seems to be what a lot of the Irish are doing....

Grant Funding

2008-11-16T10:07:00.004+10:00

Here are all the details that I've managed to track down of the government grant funding that the associations linked to the MMM have managed to receive. This is taxpayer money, remember, and the grants are supposed to be for legitimate community groups!

Federal funding: http://www.facsia.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/aboutfacs/programs/sfsc-vseg_2006_qld2.htm. It doesn't give the dollar amount but both Helidon Sports & Rec Association and Tabletop Junior Arts and Crafts Club Inc are listed.

Qld State Government: RockStock got $10,000 out of the Q150 fund even though the event was held in 2008. What's the bet they go back for more next year? Extract from 'Q150 6 June Round 2 list' "Tabletop Junior Art and Craft Club Inc, Toowoomba, was allocated $10,000 for the Rockstock festival to promote the unique history of the Helidon Spa Park and the rich natural resources of Helidon sandstone and Helidon water." Document found on http://www.q150.qld.gov.au/.

Private sector: The Foundation for Rural & Regional Renewal (http://www.frrr.org.au/) gave the Helidon Sports & Rec Association $3,775 in March 2008 as listed in their newsletter (Issue 19).

How many more grants are there that we don't know about and where is this money going? Straight into Debra's pockets I reckon.

What about Christmas?

2008-11-12T19:23:00.003+10:00

Well if you check out the http://www.helidon.org/ website you'll see the cult is keeping its 'slaves' very busy organising Balls, Celtic festivals, RockStock concerts....Phew!

Gee you'd think they'd be up for a big Christmas Ball, or a Nativity play or maybe organise Santa to ride down the main street of Helidon dishing out lollies to the kiddies. Well..... no, there's absolutely bugger all until New Year's Eve.

Very strange you may think. Well not when you read this page on the Magnificat Meal Movement's website: http://www.magnificatmealmovement.com/December%20Web/25%20Dec.htm. I find this paragraph from that page very interesting: "...December the 25th will not be a wise activity to be involved in for any emotional, social or spiritual or everlasting or even commercial reason." Huh?!

So is it just me or is it a bit too much of a coincidence that MMM denounces celebrating Christmas on December 25 and neither the Helidon Sports & Rec Association, Tabletop Junior Arts and Crafts Club Inc, Southeast Queensland Junior Astronomers nor the Celtic Historians Association Inc are organising anything for Christmas?

What sort of club wouldn't organise any form of Christmas celebration? I'll tell you what sort - one that's linked to the MMM. After all, they're not adverse to raising money and you'd think Christmas would be a big money spinner.

The fake clubs and groups

2008-11-11T20:00:00.001+10:00

So who are these fake clubs and groups that are a front for the MMM?

The Helidon Sports & Rec Association, Tabletop Junior Arts and Crafts Club Inc, Southeast Queensland Junior Astronomers and the Helidon Celtic Historical Society are the ones that I know of but who knows, there may be more!