Only Sweat the Small Stuff 922

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I was called by a journalist yesterday who told me that in Dewsbury six years ago I shared a platform with Baroness Warsi’s now husband at a meeting against the persecution of Muslims. Sadly I couldn’t really help him as at the time I was doing hundreds such events and have only the dimmest of recollections of that one.

It is not merely amusing that Cameron refers Warsi for investigation for allegedly pocketing a couple of thousand quid while protecting Hunt who tried so hard to shepherd the Murdoch BSkyB bid past the winning post, while pretending to referee the event.

Nor is the lesson just that a Muslim woman will always be expendable while a fully paid up member of the ruling class will be less so.

The truth is that to trip up an MP over a little cash does not threaten the system. To tackle the massive institutional corruption by which corporate interests control the British state is a different question altogether.

Hunt is of course not the only case not to be referred. Nor was the Adam Werritty debacle, where rather than the proper investigative procedures Cameron organised a tidy little stitch-up by Gus O’Donnell which omitted almost all the key facts and particularly did not say what the entire scheme was about – the promotion of the interests of Israel. The Murdoch Empite, the Israeli lobby, these are amongst the interests that actually run the exploited citizenry of this poor wracked old country. Every now and then glimpses of truth emerge.

But must not be pursued.

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  • lysias

    Anybody know who the police superintendent in the City of London who was arrested today is?

  • mike

    I’ve seen people say ‘well done Jon WIlliams of the BBC for giving balance (on his blog) to the Syrian situation’. But is it balance?
    When it looked as if the regime was responsible for the massacres, it was the top story; now it looks like the rebels have at least had a hand in the recent carnage, the story is nowhere to be seen. That isn’t balance. It’s censorship of an inconvenient truth.

  • Mary

    Interesting links Guest, esp the one about the Groucho Club. It was bought by Rupert Hambro, ++Matthew Freud++, and Joel Cadbury (the son of Peter Cadbury) for £11.8 million in 2001. Five years later the club was bought by private-equity firm Graphite Capital for £20 million.
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    Is that where Hunt goes to do his Lambada having practiced on the special spring floor he had installed in his London home?
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    http://www.thegrouchoclub.com/#/home
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    The donations from this John James Henry Lewis from Dorset to Hunt arouse interest. He is certainly low profile but obviously rich.
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    These are the present owners of the Groucho Club.
    {http://www.graphitecapital.com/our-people/)

  • Mary

    The most telling lines on Lewis’s extensive biography on Bloomberg Businessweek on his Photo Me entry are:
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    Mr. Lewis is a member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University and founder of the internationally recognised Dan David Prize.
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    Enough said.
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    Mr. John H. J. Lewis, OBE LLB (Hons) has been a Consultant of Eversheds since 2005. Mr. Lewis served as a Partner of Lewis Lewis and Co, which became part of Eversheds after a series of mergers and also served as its Senior Partner. He was a practising solicitor from 1964 to 1995. He has over thirty years experience as a Solicitor. Mr. Lewis has been an Executive Chairman of Blakeney Holdings Ltd. since 1980. He has been Chairman of the Groucho Club since 2007. He serves … as Chairman of Principal Hayley Hotels & Confrence Venues (also known as Principal Hotels Ltd). He serves as the Chairman of The Wallace Collection and The Attingham Trust. He has been Non-Executive Chairman of Photo-Me International plc since May 17, 2010. Mr. Lewis served as the Chairman of the Board of Trimedia Communications UK. He served as Chairman of hatch-group. He was previously Executive Chairman of Cliveden plc from 1984 to 2002, Executive Chairman of Principal Hotels plc from 1994 to 2001, Non-executive Vice Chairman of Pubmaster Group Ltd. from 1996 to 2000 and Vice-Chairman of John D Wood & Co. plc from 1989 to 1998. Mr. Lewis serves as Deputy Chairman of John D Wood & Co Plc. Mr. Lewis is an experienced non-executive director across the service sector and the property world. He serves as Non Executive Director of Photo-Me International PLC since July 3, 2008. He serves as Non Executive Director of G R (Holdings) Plc. He serves as a Director of Principal Hayley Hotels & Confrence Venues, hatch-group, John D Wood & Co Plc, and The Wallace Collection. Mr. Lewis has been a Director of Sloane Square Hotel Ltd since 2004 and non-executive Director of GR Holdings plc since 1975. He serves as a Board Member of the British Tourist Authority and a Trustee of The Attingham Trust. He serves as a Director of GLG Global Convertible Fund Ltd. He has been a Non Executive Director at Prime People Plc since January 3, 2006 and previously served as its Director since 2001. He served as Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Photo-Me International PLC since July 2009 until May 17, 2010. He served as a Member of the Board of Directors of Trimedia Communications UK. Mr. Lewis is a member of the Board of Governors of Tel Aviv University and founder of the internationally recognised Dan David Prize.
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    http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=6087422&ticker=PHTM:LN&previousCapId=876799&previousTitle=PHOTO-ME%20INTERNATIONAL%20PLC
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    And Hunt coyly identifies him just as ‘John Lewis, Dorset’, on his Register of Interests on TheyWorkForYou. Tres economical with the actualite there Jeremy.

  • Mary

    Most normal men would have gone home to wife and family and spent a quiet evening after five hours at the Leveson meet.
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    No. Cameron leaps to his feet and makes a speech about the Falklands where his weedy emissary Jeremy Browne with an ‘e’ has gone to bolster the display of patriotism.
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    Is Cameron another psychopath like Bliar?
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    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9332529/David-Cameron-warns-Argentina-against-making-threats-over-Falkland-Islands.html#

  • Komodo

    It’s the decorative Ms Karimova again, isn’t it? Good article here:
    ““Most Uzbeks,” noted one US diplomat, “see Karimova as a greedy, power hungry individual who uses her father to crush business people or anyone else who stands in her way.” NGO reports and transnational lawsuits began to expose and confirm in some detail her brutal, break-neck accumulation of Uzbek real estate, media and industry. Gulnara, patron of the Arts and saviour of Uzbek youth, could, it turned out, give Russian gangsters and Ukrainian oligarchs a good run for their loot.”
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    http://kirkpatrickmission.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/googoosha’s-golden-globe-part-i/
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    She seems to have had a lip job.

  • Komodo

    “Cameron promises no negotiations over Falkland Islands”
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    What’s his Plan B?

  • Mary

    No wonder Mrs Kirchner gets a hard time. She drew a parallel to Palestine which upset the ‘Jewish community’ in Argentina.
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    Mrs. Kirchner approach to Malvinas issue infuriates Jewish community
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    Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner strong lobbying for support from the Arab League in its dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands is proving to be a short lived pyrrhic victory since she involved Argentina in the Palestine question and infuriated the Jewish community.

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    http://en.mercopress.com/2009/04/02/mrs.-kirchner-approach-to-malvinas-issue-infuriates-jewish-community
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    The history of the Jews of Argentina goes back to the days of the Spanish Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition, when Jews fleeing persecution settled in what is now Argentina.[4] Many of the Portuguese traders in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata were Jewish, but an organized Jewish community developed only after Argentina gained independence from Spain in 1810. At that time, Jews from France and other parts of Western Europe began to settle in Argentina.[4][5] The current Jewish population is 80% Ashkenazi.[6] Argentina has the largest Jewish population of any country in Latin America.[4]

    {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_of_Argentina}

  • Mark Golding - Children of Iraq Association

    Agent Cameron received the right advice on Leveson from war criminal Blair – Mute and petrify the panel with a huge TUG ON THE BRITISH PUBLIC’S HEARTSTRINGS by a copious outpouring of contrived compassion over the anguish caused to the family of Milly Dowler RIP – a classic weasel deliberation to save one’s own butt.
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    Yes it works – sometimes – but Britons are not the fools he perceives – most can distinguish cunning innuendo and nuance at an inquiry from genuine remorse…
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    REMORSE for the broken families of Al-Houla murdered for a Western cause – the blatant lies by CNN and the BBC reporting on children tortured and used as human shields.
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    Is the British/American propaganda machine so witless, so moronic, so puerile, so unthinking as to believe that Middle England are taken in by such dross after witnessing the massacres in Fallujah, Iraq, in Libya, in Palestine by the Big White Hunter and his English kibitzer?
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    I think not! My own message of tribulation over our continuing demise and fall into the world’s gutter will reach to the heart of Middle England; will reach to the parishes, the villages and leafy lanes, the farmers and clergy, the former Lords of the Manor, the Guilds of women, the laypeople and the rural charities.
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    My message will reach the soul of Britain to drag us out of this pit and the vipers of deceit that lurk within.

  • Mary

    Too true Mark. Brown was also doing the same using his son’s cystic fibrosis. I am sorry about his boy but Brown’s appearance was almost tragi-comic. If they actually cared about children, these psychopaths would not be killing other people’s children in offensive wars in other countries.
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    I had this note from a friend this morning in answer to that video of the Israeli gunboat attacking the Oliva.
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    ‘The Israeli ‘3 mile limit’. Oslo “Accords” ?20 or 25 kilometre limit. Cannot remember which. Maritime limits for the US/UK/entity axis – 12,000 miles. Nuclear tipped cruise missiles on Dolfin class subs, 2 of 6 given to Israel by Germany, built by subsidiary of Krupps, >>>> Suez >>> Persian gulf. All of this evil grounded to a large extent on the false flag of 9/11, all the ‘renditions’, all the water boarding, all the terrible torture in Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Gitmo and in the dozens of other black sites. All the brown families in Af: and Waziristan – burned by Hellfire beyond recognition whilst millions of British nitwits wave the union flag for a cruel dynasty which is a central cog in the machinery for illegal war. You see, they do not feel the pain and a fascist press makes sure they are not told much about the pain of others. The foundation, the root is 9/11.
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    With which I strongly agree.

  • Komodo

    ROFLAWT (*And Waving Tail*)
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    When I were a lad we et what were put in front of us. And if we left it, we’d get it back in front of us next meal. Looks to me as if the 9-y-o little princess (Dad sounds English btw..he’ll be getting a bit of English b*st*rd from the locals, I’d guess) misrepresented the facts – something adults aren’t allowed to do. A&B education is far from bad. And that’s what matters.

  • Mary

    Yes it is Jones. You can see it on the Jewish tour of Parliament with Lord Janner!
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    http://www.grevillejanner.org.uk/tour.html
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    No irony here –
    The Greville Janner Jewish Tour of Parliament.
    Written by Zaki Cooper
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    As we celebrate 150 years since the first Jewish MP was allowed
    to opt for a Jewish oath and so take his seat in Parliament, we
    follow this tour of the Palace of Westminster, which tells the story
    of the fascinating relationship between the Jewish community
    and British politics.
    …
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  • Mary

    So Rupert Murdoch lied.
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    Phone records suggest no Brown ‘war’ call to Murdoch
    Brown vs Murdoch: Who said what at the Leveson Inquiry
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    Rupert Murdoch’s statement
    Leveson: Brown-Murdoch conflict Watch
    Brown: ‘No threat to Murdoch’ Watch
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    Gordon Brown says records released by the Cabinet Office confirm his claim that he did not call Rupert Murdoch to declare “war” on News Corp.
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    Mr Murdoch told the Leveson Inquiry that the then prime minister made an angry call to him in September 2009 after the Sun dropped Labour
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18459013

  • Mary

    Old Louis Vuitton has turned up on data.gov.uk LOL
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    Spammers swamp UK government’s data.gov website
    Comments on the site are thick with links to sites selling fake designer goods
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    Data bill faces tough criticism
    Smart meters ‘are privacy risk’
    Web creator aids UK data institute
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    Spammers have taken over several parts of a UK government’s website that lays out its open data policy.
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    Data.gov.uk was created to let people know what the government was doing to open up and share official statistics.
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    The site solicited ideas about how to use the data and invited debate on official policy.
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    However, the discussion forum and suggestions section have been closed after being filled with messages peddling fake designer goods.
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    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18457106

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