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.
“How to Find a Permanent Resolution of the Balochistan Situation?”
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http://alaiwah.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/how-to-find-a-permanent-resolution-of-the-balochistan-situation/
“Incinerating Assange – The Liberal Media Go To Work”
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http://www.medialens.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=686:incinerating-assange-the-liberal-media-go-to-work&catid=25:alerts-2012&Itemid=69
Guest The BBC have modified their breaking news to say that 4 traders were dismissed at the end of last year.
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They have had Mathewson on, the chair and the CEO before Fred the Shred. All gone off into the sunset with their loot and pensions as you say.
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It was known about years ago as verified by Tan who got sacked.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9363526/After-the-dark-days-of-Fred-the-Shred-RBSs-name-is-again-mud.html
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‘According to Mr Tan, however, manipulating the Libor rate was so ingrained in RBS’s culture that Paul White, RBS’s principal rate setter for Yen Libor (who has since been dismissed), and Mr Tan’s trading team in London were “specifically seated together” in the London office to “facilitate the sharing of information”. Mr White could not be reached for comment last night.
With an estimated+++ £290 trillion +++ worth of contracts depending on Libor traded every six months on the world’s financial markets, even a tiny variation in the Libor rate can make huge differences to a bank’s profits and losses.’
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I bet Mr White could not be ‘contacted’.
Is this the ‘You’re Off’? What were Hague and co up to in Geneva yesterday?
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Turkey has scrambled six F-16 fighters jets near its border with Syria after Syrian helicopters came close to the border, the country’s army says.
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Six jets were sent to the area in response to three such incidents on Saturday, the statement said. There was no border violation, the Reuters news agency quoted the statement saying.
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Last month, Syrian forces shot down a Turkish jet in the border area.
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The incident further strained already tense relations between former allies.
Mary
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I’m not so active on the web as I used to be!, lost the web page where I was told this a few years ago by someone who had worked in the financial sector…”When the “Derivatives” market finally collapses and it will, global losses will be over 500 trillion”…can’t remember now if that was pounds or dollars, doesn’t matter does it, we have for a long time been into the realms of monopoly money!!!.
In United States v. Franklin, Rosen, and Weissman we witnessed charges brought under the Espionage Act of 1917, specifically:
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1. Conspiracy to communicate national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it, 18 U.S.C. § 793(d), 793(e), & 793(g) [2]
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2. Communication of national defense information to persons not entitled to receive it, 18 U.S.C. § 793(d)
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and 3. Conspiracy to communicate classified information to the agent of a foreign government, 50 U.S.C. § 783 and 18 U.S.C. § 371
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Count 2 refers to the indictment under the Act to be brought I believe against Julian Assange.
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The rub however is the government must establish that the defendant “knew the nature of the information, knew that the person(s) with whom they were communicating was not entitled to the information, and knew that such communication was illegal.” [Judge T. S. Ellis III]. Not only that, the information concerned must be proven detrimental to national security, and ‘detrimental’ does not mean embarrassment.
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The Act is fraught with amendments, a legal minefield I do not pretend to understand, in fact, my attempts to unravel the current state met with a Cornell Uni. Law School brick wall in all aspects except one, those indictments of persons that fell foul of the Act[and others] disclosed information such as:
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Death squads in Iraq
Nuclear secrets to enhance Israel’s WMD program
Black camps
Torture
False Flag attempts
Nuclear/Biological weapon design – etc – etc
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I wonder if disclosing illegal training of mercenaries and terrorists by the West used against a sovereign Syrian government counts? – from the harassment I have received lately the answer is YES.
“from the harassment I have received lately the answer is YES”
You are not alone, there are lots and lost of people whom are getting harassed. Those with any experience of the eastern block will be well at home in UK these days. The bastards are on the run and they are trying to shut up any kind of dissent.
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The stories I could tell you! However, short of getting bumped off, don’t let the bastards grind you. Recalling that Craig himself was nearly bumped off, and fact that he decided to take a higher profile is the only option remaining for anyone caught up in the current wave of suppression.
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You do know that Eric Prince has been training his mercenaries for years working out of Qatar.
A reminder that Agius the Barclays chairman £470k pa is also a non exec director on the BBC Board. He gets £47k pa for that.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/jun/28/bbc-barclay?CMP=twt_gu
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These gangsters-in-charge always have something ‘soft’ or cultural in their biographies. This time it’s botany. Kew Gardens. Also Exbury which is a Rothschild house and garden famous for azaleas and rhododendrons.
. {http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/managementstructure/biographies/pdf/2011_12/dopi/dpi_marcus_agius.pdf#zoom=100}
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I see he was astute enough to marry into the Rothschild family. Or perhaps it was love at first sight!
(http://www.exbury.co.uk/website/family.aspx}
A reminder that Agius the Barclays chairman £470k pa is also a non exec director on the BBC Board. He gets £47k pa for that.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/jun/28/bbc-barclay?CMP=twt_gu
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These gangsters-in-charge always have something ‘soft’ or cultural in their biographies. This time it’s botany. Kew Gardens. Also Exbury which is a Rothschild house and garden famous for azaleas and rhododendrons.
. {http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/managementstructure/biographies/pdf/2011_12/dopi/dpi_marcus_agius.pdf#zoom=100}
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I see he was astute enough to marry into the Rothschild family. Or perhaps it was love at first sight!
{http://www.exbury.co.uk/website/family.aspx}
Wrong! His salary is £750,000 pa as at 2009.
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I read that he likely to quit. Will his golden handshake be Diamond encrusted? 😉
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/01/barclays-chairman-poised-departure?newsfeed=true
Things are hotting up so the old “IMMIGRANTS” are wheeled out, this time these will have to recite “gawd save our queen” before sitting a rewritten test …………..
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So fucking predictable, so boring:
Theresa May ‘planning changes to immigrant test’
The Life in the United Kingdom test was introduced by Labour in 2005.
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The Sunday Times says immigrants will be told “historically the UK is a Christian country”.
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The revised version will focus less on the practicalities of daily living in Britain and require more knowledge of British history and achievements.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18662531
Marcus Agius is leaving as chairman of Barclays and is replaced by a Sir Michael Rake.
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The Qataris have a large investment in Barclays
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http://www.thestreet.com/story/11513218/1/qatar-to-pump-250m-into-barclays-resources-fund.html
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Qatar Holding is also one of the biggest direct investors in Barclays, with a 6.7% stake. Its investment in 2008 helped shore up the bank’s balance sheet and keep Barclays from taking on the British government as a major shareholder, as rivals Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group did.
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Qatar’s investment in BNRI is a further vote of confidence in the London-based bank. Barclays has been under attack by a vocal group of shareholders who are critical of executives’ generous pay packages.
“The Sunday Times says immigrants will be told “historically the UK is a Christian country”.”
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And governed by a small group of very evil people who worship Satan.
Same old. Same old. They need not have bothered to change the letterheads.
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Sir Michael Rake is Chairman of BT Group, the UK Commission for Employment and Skills and easyJet, as well as a non-executive director of Barclays PLC, McGraw-Hill Inc and the Financial Reporting Council. He is also chairman of the private equity oversight group the Guidelines Monitoring Committee. BT pays him an annual salary of £600,000.
From May 2002 to September 2007 Rake was Chairman of KPMG International. Prior to his appointment as Chairman of KPMG International he was Chairman of KPMG in Europe and Senior Partner of KPMG in the United Kingdom. He joined KPMG in 1974, and worked in Continental Europe before transferring to the Middle East to run the practice for three years in 1986. He transferred to London in 1989, became a member of the UK Board in 1991, had a number of leadership roles in the UK before being elected UK Senior Partner in 1998.
Rake is also a Vice President of the RNIB, a member of the Board of the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue, a member of the CBI International Advisory Board, the Chartered Management Institute, the DTI’s US/UK Regulatory Taskforce, the Advisory Council for Business for New Europe, the Ethnic Minority Employment Taskforce, an Association Member of BUPA, The School of Oriental and African Studies Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the Judge Institute at the University of Cambridge, Senior Adviser for Chatham House and the Global Advisory Board of the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. He was Chairman of Business in the Community from 2004-2007 and a member of the board of the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum from 1998 to 2007. Rake is also a Governor of Wellington College and a board member of Guards Polo Club.
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He is married with four children and five stepchildren, and was knighted in 2007.
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He is listed here.
https://secure.gn.apc.org/members/www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6209&sid=a9ac0ba7f598329bdf97d478021a9e4d
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The grasping hands are perhaps a good indication.
{http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Sir_Michael_Rake_-_World_Economic_Forum_on_Europe_2011.jpg}
Doing very nicely thank you. Note the tax avoidance schemes dreamed up by KPMG when he was chairman of KPMG International.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/01/sir-michael-rake-barclays-chairman
“Marcus Agius”
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That name rings a bell, didn’t he and his wife have a close relationship with the Israeli government ?.
“Marcus Agius”
That name rings a bell, didn’t he and his wife have a close relationship with the Israeli government ?.
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Yes, he is married into the Rothschild dynasty, so no doubt he has close links to the racist illegal nuclear zionist apartheid state called Israel…
“Comments will be closed on July 6”
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I wonder will Craig have made an appearance by then.
Mr Agius says goodbye as chair of Barclays. That gives him more time to spend on the Bilderberg Association of which he is a trustee along with Kenneth Clarke MP and Lord Kerr.
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http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=272706&SubsidiaryNumber=0&TID=3481563
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In case you have not heard of Kerr. {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerr,_Baron_Kerr_of_Kinlochard}
FCO Ambassador Shell Fulbright Rio Tinto Scottish Power. The list is endless.
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Also more time for the Exbury Gardens Trust along with these Rothschilds and Sir Ghillean Prance ex director of Kew Gardens.
{http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/ContactAndTrustees.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=801349&SubsidiaryNumber=0&TID=2406656}
“Please feel free to share the article below on Twitter and other social media networks or indeed any places you think might be indicated …”
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Will do, Suhayl. Also following @FreeTalha on Twitter.
This knight of the realm, yet another recipient of royal preferment, will choose the new chairman of Barclays!
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Sir John Michael Sunderland is a British businessman who was President of the Confederation of British Industry from 2004 to 2006, where his priority was restoring confidence in business after a series of corporate scandals.[1]
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Sir John Sunderland joined Cadbury Limited in 1968. He worked on both the confectionery and soft drinks sides of the business, on the Boards of Cadbury Ireland, Cadbury Schweppes South Africa, as a founding Director of the Coca-Cola Schweppes joint venture in 1987, and then as Managing Director of Trebor Bassett. In 1993, he became Managing Director of the Confectionery Stream and a member of the Cadbury Schweppes Board. In September 1996, he was appointed Chief Executive and seven years later, he became Chairman. He retired in 2008 from his post as non-executive Chairman of Cadbury Schweppes and was previously the company’s Chief Executive from 1996 to 2003. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2006, for services to business [2]. He was appointed Chancellor of Aston University, Birmingham, in 2010, and serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Barclays board. He is a Director of the Financial Reporting Council, an Adviser to CVC Capital Partners, an Association Member of BUPA and a Governor of Reading University.
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On 3 July 2008 he returned to his old school to present the prizes on Foundation Day. In a short address, he claimed not to have any “words of wisdom”, but later went on to encourage pupils to defy the impossible and defy authority on the road to success. In a short anecdote, he reminded pupils that his headmaster had, in a school report, called him “a distinctly average boy”. In turn this led him to doubt nominal authority.
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On 25 November 2010 Sunderland became the new Chancellor of Aston University, and was officially installed at a lavish ceremony on May 4, 2011, attended by Julia King (Vice-Chancellor of Aston University) and many other local and academic dignitaries.
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Sir John is currently Chairman of Merlin Entertainments Group, a non-Executive Director of Barclays plc, a non-Executive Director of AFC Energy PLC, a Director of the Financial Reporting Council, an adviser to CVC Capital Partners, an Association Member of BUPA, and a member of Council at Reading University. Until his appointment as Chancellor, he was also a member of Council at Aston. He has held a number of Presidencies of trade bodies, including the Confederation of British Industry, the Chartered Management Institute, the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers and the UK Food and Drink Federation. He is a former non-Executive Director of the Rank Group plc and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Look up Merlin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_Entertainments
They own and run most of the UK’s ‘leisure attractions’ and some abroad. They are 62% owned by private equity.
Not such a brilliant record at Cadbury Schweppes who were taken over by Kraft of course. Sunderland was CEO and then chair and responsible for its expansionist takeover policy which was ultimately a failure.
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The Inside Story of the Cadbury Takeover, a very good piece of financial journalism. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1e5450d2-2be5-11df-8033-00144feabdc0.html
Sir Michael Rake doing what he loves best. It involves money.
http://jc-thn-ws3.thejc.com/galleries/out-and-about/out-and-about-june-2009?img=16
And:
http://palestinecampaign.org/index7b-2.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=3&l2_id=120&content_ID=2078
I’d been wondering. The Telegraph has been so unpleasant to Little Lord Fauntleroy Cameron, and yet it is a staunchly Tory paper. Today it prints a long and turgid effort by Liam Fox on behalf of the US Republican Party.
Here, if you can be bothered…
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9367501/Liam-Fox-No-more-waiting-we-must-renegotiate-our-position.html
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I’m not a huge fan of our EU membership myself. But Atlantic Bridge’s frontman has other reasons for his views.
This is ESSENTIAL reading.
http://dontbubble.us/
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I get quite different search results depending on whether I am given a static ISP (which Google can track – eg your workplace server) or a dynamic one (which it has a problem with – eg mobile broadband). I have my search history turned off in my Google account – but it can still give me stuff it thinks I want to see, rather than what I want to know.
DuckduckGo isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t follow you around like a mad aunt with a panic button.
Further to Konodo’s JC link above, the Zionist scumbag at the BT AGM.
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At the BT shareholders AGM on 14th July the CWU raised a question on behalf of the campaign. Please see the question and response below:
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Phil Matthews (CWU) put the question to the BT Board
“My question is about BT’s alliance with the Israeli telecommunications company Bezeq International, who’s parent company, Bezeq, provides services to Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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Israel’s settlement policy is widely condemned by the international community as an obstacle to peace and in breach of international law, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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It’s true that Palestinian Telecoms company Pal-Tel has dealings with Bezeq, but that is because they are forced to use Israeli infrastructure because they are forbidden from installing their own infrastructure in 60% of the Occupied West Bank.
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What assurances can you give today that in the interests of upholding BT’s commitment to “ensuring that it is not complicit in human rights abuses” and in the interests of maintaining BT’s reputation for corporate responsibility, BT will disassociate itself from Bezeq and its operations in the occupied Palestinian territories?
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Sir Michael Rake, the BT Chairman, answered the question by saying:
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“We are extremely conscious of our responsibility to communities and our brand. Bezeq is the main provider of telecommunications services in Israel, BT is a global company, and we have alliances with leading telecommunications companies right across the world. Our strong legal advice is that we are not breaching any laws”.
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The position appeared to be that if BT was to be successful as a global company it needed to have alliances with major companies abroad. This is an alliance based on commercial interests and the company does not believe it calls into question or damages its reputation on corporate responsibility.
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Phil then came back in to say
“We know that this is something that many organisations feel strongly about including Jews for Justice for Palestine, and I would urge you strongly to look at this again and reconsider”.
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Sir Michael Rake simply responded
“Thank you, ok, thank you for your question”.
“Even if you’re not logged into Google, for example, an engineer told me there are 57 signals that the site uses to figure out who you are: whether you’re on a Mac or PC or iPad, where you’re located when you’re Googling, etc. And in the near future, it’ll be possible to “fingerprint” unique devices, so that sites can tell which individual computer you’re using. That’s why erasing your browser cookies is at best a partial solution—it only partially limits the information available to personalizers.”
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http://www.amazon.com/Filter-Bubble-What-Internet-Hiding/dp/1594203008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308070349&sr=8-1
(scroll down for Q&A by the author)
I had forgotten that Barclays acquired a portion of Lehman Bros after the collapse.
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Barclays acquisition
On Tuesday, September 16, 2008, Barclays plc announced that they would acquire a “stripped clean” portion of Lehman for $1.75 billion, including most of Lehman’s North America operations.[5][82] On September 20, this transaction was approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James Peck.[83][84]
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On September 20, 2008, a revised version of the deal, a $1.35 billion (£700 million) plan for Barclays to acquire the core business of Lehman (mainly its $960-million headquarters, a 38-story office building[85] in Midtown Manhattan, with responsibility for 9,000 former employees), was approved. Manhattan court bankruptcy Judge James Peck, after a 7-hour hearing, ruled: “I have to approve this transaction because it is the only available transaction. Lehman Brothers became a victim, in effect the only true icon to fall in a tsunami that has befallen the credit markets. This is the most momentous bankruptcy hearing I’ve ever sat through. It can never be deemed precedent for future cases. It’s hard for me to imagine a similar emergency.”[86]
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Luc Despins, then a partner at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, the creditors committee counsel, said: “The reason we’re not objecting is really based on the lack of a viable alternative. We did not support the transaction because there had not been enough time to properly review it.”[citation needed] In the amended agreement, Barclays would absorb $47.4 billion in securities and assume $45.5 billion in trading liabilities. Lehman’s attorney Harvey R. Miller of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, said “the purchase price for the real estate components of the deal would be $1.29 billion, including $960 million for Lehman’s New York headquarters and $330 million for two New Jersey data centers. Lehman’s original estimate valued its headquarters at $1.02 billion but an appraisal from CB Richard Ellis this week valued it at $900 million.”[citation needed] Further, Barclays will not acquire Lehman’s Eagle Energy unit, but will have entities known as Lehman Brothers Canada Inc, Lehman Brothers Sudamerica, Lehman Brothers Uruguay and its Private Investment Management business for high net-worth individuals. Finally, Lehman will retain $20 billion of securities assets in Lehman Brothers Inc that are not being transferred to Barclays.[87] Barclays acquired a potential liability of $2.5 billion to be paid as severance, if it chooses not to retain some Lehman employees beyond the guaranteed 90 days.