The FBI had somebody wearing a wire at the London Olympics to capture the FIFA corruption taking place in the margins. What were the British authorities doing? Nothing.
Britain prides itself as having in London the world’s leading financial centre. Substantial assets, both financial and real estate, from FIFA corruption are located in London. But Britain has taken over the crown from Switzerland as the major financial destination which will always protect ill-gotten wealth.
Alisher Usmanov played a major role as bagman for the corrupt Russian World Cup bid, particularly with delegates from FIFA’s Asian Confederation. His place as Britain’s third richest resident is very obviously based on extreme Russian corruption and he rose to power and wealth solely with the use of gangster muscle and contacts he gained and expanded while serving a prison sentence for blackmail. But he is a billionaire and beloved by the City of London so there is no danger of him ever being investigated in the UK.
That a key figure in FIFA corruption over Russia’s World Cup bid, is undisturbed in his large shareholding in Arsenal FC, says everything about the complicity of the British establishment.
Usmanov’s friend Gulnara Karimova is a startling example. She is now under formal investigation in Switzerland, France, Sweden and the Netherlands over the glaringly corrupt origins of her billions. Only a fake house arrest by her father has prevented her real arrest. Yet in the UK, where she has three homes including one in the No.1 Hyde Park criminals’ hangout, where she shops regularly and her son is at university, there is no move against her whatsoever.
I am delighted to see the moves against FIFA. But to me they illustrate very plainly what a corrupt stinking hole London has become.
Sheer speculation? Or a step closer to the truth?
There are growing concerns, following news that a Russian state nuclear corporation named Rosatom now controls 20% of all American uranium deposits, that United States national security may have been compromised.
Making matters worse, a great deal of evidence indicates that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped seal the deal in exchange for substantial contributions to her and Bill’s foundation, though many of the details may never emerge because Mrs.Clinton illegally erased key documents from the hard drive of her private email server.
http://americanfreepress.net/?p=24708
Of course, Attorney General Loretta Lynch going after Fifa’s crooks was to show that she was on board to help give Putin and Russia a knockout punch, hoping the the arrests would start of process of surprises for Moscow which would sideline him while the federation is smashed to pieces.
NATO, Spain, and the Nordic countries have contributed this week what they could to assist the process, but they still have not outwitted them.
If this bill is passed,it will upset quite a few gun totting Americans.
Gun owners will have to carry liability insurance if a bill introduced Friday by New York House Democrat Rep. Carolyn Maloney successfully makes its way through Congress.
Rep. Maloney’s The Firearm Risk Protection Act would subject gun owners to a $10,000 fine if they ignored a mandate for liability insurance before obtaining a weapon, The Hill reported Friday.
“We require insurance to own a car, but no such requirement exists for guns. The results are clear: car fatalities have declined by 25 percent in the last decade, but gun fatalities continue to rise,” the congresswoman said Friday, the newspaper reported.
What will the NRA do now they can’t wheel out Charlton Heston.
“@Suhayl Saadi, The difference between our positions is that you seem to use the extreme strands of religion, the parts that are readily co-opted by power elites, to damn by association all religion, but you especially concentrate on Islam for some reason. I maintain that mainstream moderate religion is a force for good, is viewed as a threat, and it is targeted for undermining by the Elites.
Since you didn’t appear to much like the Salman Rushdie comparison, how about a Juan Cole comparison, because he too portrays himself as a Lefty-Liberal, but is not adverse to some Humanitarian Bombing if prompted by the latest Western campaign against some “New Hitler” bogeyman.” Macky
Wirth respect, these are mis-representations of my views. I do not damn all religion; I thought I’d made that perfectly clear in my earlier post. I was wrong about Libya, because I thought that the civil uprisings in the Arab countries would usher in more accounatble systems in those countries and I thought Qaddafi was about to massacre Benghazi (and so maybe I fell for the disinformation in that regard). I was wrong about Libya. But I most certainly did not support the massive NATO bombing and destruction of the infrastructure.
I am particularly concerned about the manner in which Islam has been hijacked by clerical fascists because I am Muslim. And lefties like the SWP who consistently defend, and align themselevs with, clerical fascists do ordinary Muslims in Britain no favours, quite the opposite.
Nigerian Foreign Minister Amin Wali apologised on Wednesday for not voting to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory in the UN last year, Palestinian newspaper Al-Quds has reported.
Wali apologised to the Palestinian Authority (PA) ambassador to Nigeria, Muntaser Abu-Zeid, during a farewell ceremony organised by the Nigerian foreign ministry honouring Wali, who is leaving office after the loss of his party in the parliamentary elections.
According to a statement by the PA, the winning party headed by General Mohamed Bukhari, who is a friend of the Palestinians, will form the new government.
A crisis of conscience,knowing the wrong decision was made,now who’s next to do the right thing.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/africa/18903-nigerian-foreign-minister-apologises-for-not-voting-to-end-israeli-occupation
Google watch and report eveything you do when you use their search engine.
It all seemed rather innocent in the beginning. It certainly seemed convenient, and still is – maybe more so than ever, to be truthful. But if you haven’t noticed, slowly and gradually, during the past 17 years since its inception.
Google has evolved from being a company which once merely provided Internet users with a free search engine and email to becoming an all-encompassing entity that monitors nearly everything you do.
And not only does Google snoop on you, it takes the personal information it has collected and sells it to corporations. Google also provides that information to intelligence agencies, such as the NSA and GCHQ.
A recent article penned by Derek Scally of The Irish Times explores the extent of Google’s tentacles into our private lives and offers some very useful advice on how to “de-Google” your life.
http://www.naturalnews.com/049881_Google_privacy_Gmail.html#
The multinational telecom company Orange is trying to distance itself from its Israeli affiliate as it faces mounting pressure from a boycott called against its Egyptian subsidiary Mobinil.
But BDS Egypt, the organizers of the Mobinil boycott, have rejected company statements as “shameless deception” and an effort to mislead the Egyptian public.
The campaign has affirmed that the boycott of Mobinil will continue until Orange ends its contract with its Israeli affiliate Partner Communications over the latter’s complicity in human rights abuses and war crimes against Palestinians.
It would appear that BDS are developing a penchant for tenacity good for them.
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/under-boycott-pressure-orange-tries-distance-itself-israeli-operation
Oh look,Spain has decided to become a permanent US puppet,just like the UK.
Spain says it has approved an agreement authorizing the permanent military presence of the United States at a southern Spanish base for deployment on missions to Africa.
Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria told a press conference in Madrid on Friday that the government agreed to permanently extend the 1988 military accord under which the US Marines intervention force has been based at Moron de la Frontera in the southern province of Seville.
The deployment at the Moron base will be made permanent with a force of 2,200 military personnel and 500 civilian staff plus 26 aircraft,” Saenz de Santamaria stated.
The “Moron Base” a fitting moniker.
Ditto, this organisation ought to be held in contempt. Where has it been throughout the war of terror to protect all those whom have been abducted/bought (as in purchased as in cattle)/fitted up and ended up in Gitmo or one of the many hundreds of the black prisons?
But sure as the day is wrong, hang on till johnny foreigner breaks wind, and soon AI will be claiming chemical weapons used to suppress people’s HR!
Any noob or those with an axe to grind will be accepting AI as a credible organisation. The rest of us whom have seen the systematic deceit and wholesale lie factories in operation will be in the knowledge that this is yet another shop front for the state department or a plethora of the SIS kicking around. Lets face any genuine people orientated organisation would be getting no publicity in any of the oligarch owned media.
The United States’ detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have become emblematic of the gross human rights abuses perpetrated by the U.S. Government in the name of fighting terrorism.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/security-and-human-rights/guantanamo
Here is an Amnesty blog and link to a report on CIA secret detention:
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/yes-minister-it-is-human-rights-issue/%E2%80%9Cwar-terror%E2%80%9D-or-war-horror
A petition to save the Human Rights Act will be found here:
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/
Abe that AI report is Posted 12 Jun 2013, 12:06pm
By Karla McLaren
By then even the blind cat of Mrs Mactavish was well aware of the abuse of human right’s in Gitmo
So far as saving the human rights act goes, it is a window dressing Gove is on the case and we can rely on that neocon spawn of the Beelzenobub (the true Beelzewithbub gave up on that wanker years ago) produced the fake (ie made up, has no substance in reality, lies) Trojan Horse letters and shoved thorough his changes in the Education! Hence the petition of the AI is a late maneuver with a fiver donation to boot!
Not very convincing Abe!
Abe you have to do better, the goyim are awake now.
As per Wapo five hundred thousand Muslims are detained in various detention/concentration camps/black prisons dotted around the globe and the other report so quickly produced by yet another alias of the tag team; that goes on about 27 Yemenis, and a couple of suicides of the inmates!
These are designed as face saving exercises without which then it would be pretty much obvious even to the most dim witted of the punters and the jig would be up.
@Suhayl Saadi, I can only speak for myself, but for me if somebody has the immorality, the self-righteous arrogance & the child-like gullibility to support military action for dubious fairy tale reasons, that will inevitably result in the murder & mass misery of countless innocents, then they are beyond contempt & redemption, the dead cannot be brought back to life, or the harm undone. Sorry to be so frank, but I like to be straight with people, and the fact that in light of Iraq, you still supported Western aggression against Libya, leaves you with no credibility at all with me.
You claim to care for your fellow co-religionists, in Britain, a telling qualifier, and you speak in the Islamophobic language of “clerical fascists” & of “Lefties aligning with clerical fascists”, and yet you do not seem so concerned as to the reasons why many Muslims are becoming radicalized; It’s exactly people like yourself, Muslims who support Western aggression against Muslims, and who indulge in Islamophobic language, that is one of the factors that causes young Muslims to be drawn towards the extremists.
USA: Guantánamo detainees – Human rights are not negotiable – 25 November 2003, Index number: AMR 51/141/2003
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/AMR51/141/2003/en/
@Fedup “Not very convincing Abe!”
That’s all right, so long as the information is made available to some who find it useful.
Abe the “information” has been available around the clock 24/7 yet the lie is no longer holding, you want to reinforce it by mentioning it ye again?
Abe repeating a pack of lies ad nauseum does not make it true!
AI is yet another shop front of the SIS/State Dpt.
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@ Villager:
Now on CuntSpeccy??? No one? Will check in the morning, once the Mod also has had a chance to review/edit.
Craig, in case you’re reading, just some feedback that the present Mod arrangement seems to be working quite well. Wish Jon well too, of course. But it’s good that the Mod remains incognito.
LOL, Village Idiot, despite your pathetic arse-licking, the Mods sensibly left my remarks intact –and your stupid, vile-mouthed complaints too.
Well done mods. Free speech still lives at CM.org.
Note the assault rifles on display and the fact that Friday is the day of prayers in the mosque so for the Muslim worshipers to get to the mosque must run the gauntlet of the baying mob bristling with assault rifles
Far from being a front, I think that many Western governments at times would regard Amnesty International a nuisance for upholding the human rights that some would like to disregard. Sign their petition!
Speaking of Western governments, as the Elvis song goes
Just be thankful you don’t live in Leningrad
He’s your Uncle, not your Dad
Are we being prepped for WWIII?
Prelude to WWIII – #NewWorldNextWeek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBzSe5Ph2OE
Exexpat
“Are we being prepped for WWIII?”
__________________
No.
It’s all in your fevered mind.
“If I were you Resident Dissident I’d slink off into a corner and bury my head in my hands in shame. But you do not know what shame is.”
I note that you haven’t addressed by query about the accuracy and origins on your post about the Ukraininan Rada asking for reparations from Mongolia – why is that?
You might also wish to explain your silence on the murder of Sergei Magnitsky while you are it.
Lectures on shame from Mr Goss – quite comical really!
CuntSpeccy, keep your head under the parapet if I were you.
I am glad that I underscored your racist speech so that people could see clearly for themselves. I was only partly surprised when I read that you have been noted for your racism earlier. Of course I haven’t bothered to read you previously.
Suhayl’s ‘mirror, mirror’ comment was quite poetic.
There are people here with all kinds of views, but racist, other than the usual unfortunate undercurrent of anti-semitism, no. I am glad that you have been isolated.
“I am particularly concerned about the manner in which Islam has been hijacked by clerical fascists because I am Muslim. And lefties like the SWP who consistently defend, and align themselves with, clerical fascists do ordinary Muslims in Britain no favours, quite the opposite.”
Well said Suhayl and good to hear you clear voice on this issue, it goes to the heart of the current game being played in front of our eyes.
I hope you and yopurs are all well, happy’ish and busy.
Religion is being used like a cloak for fascist and criminal acts, whether its robbing banks, extortion kidnap or blackmail. For ISIL to claim that they have any religion is pouring hot water into a teapot, its wrong. The acts committed and excused by many blinkered on the left, smitten by a sense of remoteness to these events, clueless would also be a word for it, has only strengthened those chaotic fascists, given credentials to these rogue criminals, so much so that they are managing to persuade 16 year olds to give their life to it.
What more proof does one need for the power of propaganda, when even family ties break, leaving parents in tatters?
The same notions exist in all religions which bless their murderous, brave soldiers before they go to kill. Whether its 12 year olds on a Westbank cross roads being deliberately targeted, the snipers of Sarajevo doing it for a greater Serbia, or the Christian educated US soldiers who kill and urinate on Muslim civilians they thought were Taliban.
Baal
“But London is unique, because the City of London is in financial terms almost an independent state”
Every tax haven in the world has some weird constitutional setup (bent to serve it’s purpose of appearing beyond the state). In fact this is considered by some as one of the measures of a tax haven. London might be the best at financial corruption but it is not unique.
Suhayl, even those who believe in peaceful guru’s such as Krishnamurti join the hounding by using the ‘Islamicist’ tag to smear all. Perpetuating and spreading the worst propaganda terms regularly used by supremacist media outlets such as the BBC, Fox and many others.
What is this human frailty this sheep think leading us into another wear with religious connotations being thrown around left right and centre?
This propaganda kills, stupefies and demeans us humans, it lest criminals get away with murder under false pretenses and it fools society into believing that the millions of mothers are not grieving for their children, that societies and people, humans actually care about these fanatics.
They do not.
90% of those calling themselves muslims are not radicals, they do not support these deluded criminal minds full of hate, they are peaceful believers who feel as if they are being dragged to spar against each other.
For anyone in the west to say that the vast majority of Muslims support what is going on, this backward step concept of a caliphate, the massacres in its name, is utter delusive nonsense.
For anyone to say that the civilian of Ukraine are fully behind NATO’s aggressive drive to war, off course, a war somewhere else, not in the heart of Chicago or Philli, are equally deluded.
Yes, I worry that ‘clerical fascists’ are being bigged up out of all proportion, both by those who claim to support whoever they are, and those who use them to demonise. There was an erudite, startlingly (in these days) frank interview with a Muslim cleric on Radio 4 which I caught recently: he laid the blame for people going off to join ISIS squarely at the door of those who had bombed and devastated largely Muslim countries. The us v them narrative taking hold, but of course it’s a narrative which holds some sway, and understandably so for people who have seen relatives’ and friends’ countries devastated (the fact that religion is of no import here, and the same would have happened if they had been Buddhists in control of oil/living to a different agenda is another overlooked subtlety). Anyway, it seems that Teresa May’s latest efforts would silence the voices who say that the governments of the ‘West’ (I love this arbitrary distinction) must accept responsibility for the fallout for their bloody actions, and stop acting in this way. Just as those naifs who go off to support ISIS should be allowed to stop and come home, I think, once they have realised its bloody futility.