This is a genuine offer. I will pay £100 to any person who can provide a convincing reason why Denis MacShane’s expense fiddling, involving his creating false invoices, was not a criminal offence. Your argument does not have to be unanswerable – merely respectable. Up to three prizes will be given, for the three first and not essentially the same convincing arguments.
This competition specifically is open to employees of the Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service; we would love to know their reasoning. It baffles me. I confess I can think of no single circumstance in this case that would prevent MacShane being convicted for theft and fraud. What is the answer?
Denis MacShane is a criminal. If he wants to try his chances with a jury, the libel courts are open to him and I am here.
Obomber has been a’screamin and a’shoutin so much that his voice is going. Promising all those things that he could have delivered over the last four years instead of committing to a massive military expenditure in killing and maiming peoples 7,000 miles distant, he told his adoring audience last night that he loved them and asked God to bless them and to bless America which is a frequent mantra. Satire is not in it.
Read this wonderfully powerful and moving poem by someone who lives in the US and having no candidate to vote for, tells us what he yearns for in an ideal world. We are in the wilderness.
I Voted
Gary Corseri
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/11/i-voted/
I voted today. …
I voted for peace and justice and sanity
In an insane world of violence and injustice.
I voted.
/..
The poem brought tears to my eyes.
@ Jives : any chance of you condemning the “ugly” and “sinister” posts hinting at William Hague’s sexuality? Just asking!
@ Destroyer of Words re ESLER : of course you’re right. A common name in Germany, to be sure – but in Glasgow?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/nov/04/law-macshane-david-laws
In a nutshell. Laws is a very wealthy investment banker. He has been a VP of JP Morgan.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/7784421/Profile-David-Laws-Mr-Integrity.html
Just the hint of a parallel with Fox-Werritty here.
Nadine Dorries finds her real métier.
Nadine Dorries MP ‘set to be in I’m a Celebrity’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20217901
She will get a fee of £40k and her constituents have no MP for a month.
She is castigated by Louise Mensch!
The amorality and irrrationality of the political class is hard to explain. One might be forgiven for imagining that paedophilia is the glue that holds the centre together, a widespread fear of disclosure that enforces conformity and obedience.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
@Komodo http://www.sheffieldhelpyourself.org.uk/full_search_new.asp?group=18822
Liberty again 🙂
I was struck by the trivial nature of the contributions on that letters page from the Observer last Sunday. More like Woman’s Own.
guest
5 Nov, 2012 – 11:07 pm
Drunken judge drowns in 4ins of water after slipping into stream walking home from the pub
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1182091/Drunken-judge-drowns-4ins-water-slipping-stream-walking-home-pub.html
“One might be forgiven for imagining that paedophilia is the glue that holds the centre together, a widespread fear of disclosure that enforces conformity and obedience.”
You are correct. It is the shared criminality in all things that binds them. It also seems that these political ‘crises’, such as expenses and now paedo rings, which have been around and know for decades outside the MSM, are being drip-fed to the media. Can you imagine the contortions the government will be going through trying to keep Hague’s name out of the North Wales paedo ring?
This is exactly how Rupert Murdoch became so powerful – he had the dirt on these people, hence his nickname.
“One [paedo] Ring to rule them all, One [paedo] Ring to find them,
One [paedo] Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
Press TV: Is Eutelsat CEO an Israeli?
A US intelligence analyst says the French-based satellite provider Eutelsat SA is run by an Israeli citizen and is a company long dictated to by Israeli extremist groups, Press TV reports.
“Eutelsat is a person, not a company. Eutelsat says it is European, but it is actually Israeli. French sounding ‘Michel de Rosen’ runs Eutelsat, an Israeli citizen, company with Israeli stockholders, a company long dictated to by extremist groups within Israel, the militant ultra-nationalists of the Likudist regime of Netanyahu,” Gordon Duff told Press TV…
In a flagrant violation of freedom of speech, Eutelsat SA ordered media services company, Arqiva, on October 15 to stop the broadcast of several Iranian satellite channels, including Press TV.
The company’s only press release stated that the decision was based on reinforced European Union Council sanctions and a confirmation by France’s broadcasting authority, but an EU spokesperson told Press TV that the sanctions contain no such orders.
“I have to tell you that this is a decision of Eutelsat and Arqiva and you have to ask them, it is their decision,” Maja Kocijancic, spokeswoman for the EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, told Press TV.
“The EU … has adopted new restrictive measures against Iran, but they focus on finance, energy, trade and transport, not telecommunication. And do not contain elements which could have forced Eutelsat to take such a step,” Kocijancic added…
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/270590.html
I see the allegation by actor and journalist Ben Fellows that he was sexually assaulted by Kenneth Clarke is continuing to be published, despite the receipt of what appears to be an all-mouth legal threat from the Cabinet Office. Here is a named and well-known person, making a clear allegation about an assault carried out against him by a named member of the cabinet, Kenneth Clarke.
Lord McAlpine (‘Lord A’ as described in the Welsh children’s homes inquiry), is also likely to be named, as are Derek Laud and probably Edward Heath and Leon Brittan, and possible Michael Portillo.
Nov 6 – Daily Mail: My uncle Ernie, a society sex scandal… and a lesson in courage
by Simon Parke
The house was 19 Cleveland Street — near today’s Goodge Street Tube station — and it turned out to be an upmarket male brothel run by a certain Charles Hammond and employing several Post Office messenger boys as prostitutes.
Another Post Office employee, 18-year-old Henry Newlove, emerged as a key figure. He hired the boys for Hammond — and he named Lord Arthur Somerset, an equerry to the Prince of Wales, and Henry Fitzroy, Earl of Euston, as regulars at the brothel.
As Oscar Wilde was soon to prove, sex between males at this time was punishable with prison. Now that the Cleveland Street brothel was exposed, a number of wealthy clients faced the prospect of jail and social disgrace. But things didn’t work out that way.
Despite whispers that well-known figures were implicated, the only ones prosecuted were two rent boys, with minimal publicity. It was their lenient sentences that made my forebear Ernest Parke suspicious…
The mainstream Press had barely covered the case. Reference was made to ‘noble lords’ being involved, but no one named names. It took a brave man to defy this conspiracy of silence — but Ernest, then just 29, was such a man…
For Ernest, I suspect, this was not about homosexuality but about the abuse of power — and it all feels strangely relevant today…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2228474/My-uncle-Ernie-society-sex-scandal–lesson-courage.html#ixzz2BQHOIKgX
IDS – tough on poverty. Well, tough on your poverty anyway…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/nov/05/iain-duncan-smith-adviser-lobbying
Lord Acton, expressed this opinion in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:
more power to you, Fairweather…
Mirror: Eileen Fairweather: Award-winning journalist who helped expose the North Wales child abuse scandal calls for a proper police investigation
4 Nov 2012 16:02
Powerful establishment figures accused of heinous crimes were unafraid but now live in fear of exposure
I helped expose the North Wales scandal that led to the inquiry.
It is now agreed that at least 650 victims were horribly abused physically and sexually in nearly 40 care homes over 20 years.
Over several months at the inquiry, hundreds poured out their pain into a stark, modern, mostly deserted council chamber in the remote small town of Ewloe, far from the rich men’s worlds of Westminster and Fleet Street.
***But the Press bench was mostly empty.
Some tearfully described being raped or prostituted not just by staff but police officers, businessmen and politicians.
But reporting restrictions meant that the Press was barred from naming unprosecuted allegations…
The courage and heart-breaking testimony of those who gave evidence therefore mostly went unreported.
The powerful establishment figures accused there of terrible crimes remained unafraid.
Now some ARE afraid. If you think Savile was conspiracy, the dam is about to burst on even bigger cover-ups…
Steven Messham has asked to see David Cameron, and says these allegations ARE so serious that they must finally be made the subject of a proper police inquiry…
http://www.mirror.co.uk/opinion/news-opinion/eileen-fairweather-journalist-who-helped-1416666
oddie
6 Nov, 2012 – 8:44 am
“…and the MSM hasn’t even delved into the mortuary visits.”
Yes the MSM have gone cold on that issue (no pun intended).
Jimmy Savile volunteered as a general porter at Leeds General Infirmary and St James’ hospital; also in Leeds. It is part of the duties of general porters to collect patients who have died on the wards and take the bodies to the mortuary; thus the general porters have 24 hour access to it.
A few years ago in the mortuary of Hillingdon Hospital in west London bacon rashers were spread over the body of a Muslim woman. Despite a £5000 reward offered by the police the culprit was never found. That incident should give you an idea of how lax security at hospital mortuaries were, and that was just a few years ago.
Yep, Eileen Fairweather has done much good work. To quote from that article:
“At least 16 lads from these (Welsh care) homes died in tragic or unexplained circumstances, several after revealing abuse. I vividly remember ringing the tribunal and asking if it would be investigating these deaths.
A very self-satisfied functionary told me it would not be and, when I angrily asked why not, he replied with an almost visible smirk: ‘Well, if they’re dead they can’t give evidence, can they?’
I lost my professional cool and slammed down the phone and cried.
To this day no one has looked into how and why all those boys died.”
Let’s hope that not just Lord McAlpine, but also all those who have knowingly protected him (which includes Margaret Thatcher and Michael Heseltine) have got it coming to them…SOON!
O/T but very important to Norfolks PCC elections.
It has turned out that our ex army colonel who is standing for the Conservative party PCC job, is also the UK director for CSOK, a Chech state company which deals with various dubious state in Asia and has a very large portfolio of arms related companies on offer to potential clients.
Jamie Athill has only got a Linked in profile of his activities, nowhere else does it explains what his job is.
help with this persons activities is very much appreciated, thanks
http://www.csok.cz/article/new-office-of-csok-in-the-united-kingdom
What is more applicable is, “corruption leads to power.”
More so you will find.
During the 80’s, my brother in law worked at Broadmoor High Security Hospital where Savile had an apartment for some reason and it was common knowledge among the staff that he liked to spend time alone in the mortuary. Let’s hope incidentally that the likes of Derek Laud and McAlpine, the murderous psychopaths get banged up in that particular establishment for the rest of their miserable lives (one can dream).
Still do not know who the chap on the right of him is, but he looks the business. Two satisfied smiling men.
And many more men, only, does this look as if they are dealing in fine Czech glass ware?
http://www.csok.cz/clanek/fotogalerie
David Chaytor (ex-MP, Lab) Claimed £18K as rent on property he owned himself, suspended, resigned as MP, charged with false accounting, handed 18 months.
Nicholas Winterton (Sir..ex-MP, Con) and Ann Winterton (wife, ex-MP, Con) claimed £41,508 and £41,585 respectively as rent on property owned by family trust set up by Nicholas. Slapped wrist. Did not contest next election (2010)
CSOK does not only want to help Czech businesses operate on the UK territory, but also wants to help Czech entrepreneurs operate on markets where UK business subjects and entities are “at home”, for example the new Libya or other North African, Middle Eastern, or Southeast Asian countries.
Looks like Athill needed a job after his army career, Nevermind. And you know what the employment situation’s like here. Even Macdonalds have enough full colonels these days. Back in the Cold War days, he’d have been a traitor, but we’re more relaxed about foreign agents these days…
As you say, he’s hard to find. And CSOK isn’t much better. It seems to have interests in Karelia and Pakistan, though.
Correction: I was confusing ‘Mr B’ with ‘Lord A’. Both of these terms come from the Welsh children’s home inquiry, at which both men were named.
‘Mr B’ is Lord McAlpine. He was named the most powerful guy among the paedophile abusers in children’s homes in Wales. He was also the person who was ‘going to be’ named on Newsnight, before the BBC did another Jimmy Savile job. He is alive.
‘Lord A’, who was named with his son, was another Tory peer, namely Lord Kenyon (the 5th Baron). Both he and his son are now dead..
All very well re-investigating the Welsh care home. All very well if a couple of sacrificial nonces are dragged off in chains. The allegations of a well-connected network remain. And it’s my guess they’ll go on remaining.
Interesting article on masonic judiciary and the Welsh children’s home abuse.
CSOK website traffic:
http://csok.cz.ip4.bz/
Not much going on there…
what is he selling? and why be cagey about it if its a legit business with nothing to worry about, hmm
Thanks for sniffing him out, dragon breath, he’s off my list, no more choice, bar Morphew, at least he is against privatisation of our beloved police, ahh.
“Another Husted dirty trick in Ohio: Secretary of State’s Office admits direct reporting function of untested election software
by Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis
November 5, 2012”
http://freepress.org/departments/display/19/2012/4779
Primark was referred to earlier as one of the main purveyors of clothing to teenagers. See their profits. Based on Far Eastern and Near Easter sweatshops and unethically grown cotton probably. Terrible. Rags to riches literally for ABF.
‘Primark achieved 3% like-for-like sales growth and revenues of £3.5bn, up 15%, for the year to 15 September 2012.
The chain created 10,000 new jobs and now employs 43,000 worldwide.’
Primark sales growth boosts Associated British Foods
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20217057#