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.
ThanKs for that pete I agree with most of it, it should be a red herring, but in publicity terms, and at a time when one’s rogue outfit, a minuscule majority Government, is a international pariah in human rights terms, then such participation here in Europe would be like gold on a plate. As long as you are able to spam the worlds sports press for a couple of days, waxing about your teams win for Israel, you are able to manipulate a globally popular past time coverage.
I started off as a HSV fan in 1964, today they are about to be leaving the Bundesliga, lost too many times. But under Keegan the club was great.
I’m a Canary follower/fan, their family and childrens policies are good, there are thousands of women supporting NCFC, always a good sign.
But I like good football and it really does not matter who plays it, whether its the team you follow or someone else, the football is what matters to me.
A new website is publicizing the identities of pro-Palestinian student activists to prevent them from getting jobs after they graduate from college. But the website is keeping its own backers’ identity a secret.
“It is your duty to ensure that today’s radicals are not tomorrow’s employees,” a female narrator intones in a slick video posted to the website’s YouTube account.
Called Canary Mission, the site has posted profiles of dozens of students and recent graduates, alongside those of well-known activists like Omar Barghouti, founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Some of the students are active in Students for Justice in Palestine; others were involved in recent pro-BDS resolutions at campuses in California. Many of them have relatively thin activist résumés.
Here is the, “Unscrupulous website”
http://www.canarymission.org
“Trust the state broadcaster,to come up with a game show that demonises the poor.”
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I agree that such a show would be in poor taste but where do you get the “demonisation” from? It doesn’t follow, does it.
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“The poor unassuming souls won’t realise that the BBC will be using them as a whipping rod aimed at the poor.”
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Same question as above re the “whipping rod” business.
Look forward to reading your reasoning.
What I’m saying habby, is that the security services control and manage those who will be useful to the state, using the methods I’ve described above.
It’s basic stuff.
You’d hardly expect George Osborne to be running around watching who’s doing coke and Miss whiplash and whatnot.
That’s why you’ve got spooks.
Hmmmm. Maybe Gideon has had his card marked as well.
Now, run along.
Toodlepip.
Israeli Soldier Sentenced to Prison for Criticizing Occupation.
Corporal Shachar Berrin, an immigrant from Australia and a religiously observant lone soldier is waiting to be sent to military prison. Berrin is a member of the rescue unit of the Home Front Command, and is stationed in the Jordan Valley.
It would appear some righteous souls can no longer bear the shame.
You did not bear the shame.
You resisted.
You bestowed the eternally vigilant symbol of change
by sacrificing your impassioned ,careers for justice honour and freedom.
http://revolution-news.com/israeli-soldier-sentenced-to-prison-for-criticizing-occupation/
ROS 7.51 – ending cash and converting EU to an electronic currency to stop a run on banks is a depressing thought. After reading your post I read Alexander Armstrong’s Coming Cashless Society note at athttp://armstrongeconomics.com/archives/date/2015/05
Thanks, I’d not hear of him before.
Where do you get your get your secret meeting quote from? Is he a goldbug? He doesn’t sound like one. His conclusions is that digital will be EU long before US and that will be good for the $ – what isn’t these days?
I remember a WSJ editorial (maybe it was a leader) from before 2007 which said that one day the day would come when the US would no longer be the currency of last resort and it asked what then when it ceased to be possible to keep on selling more public debt. It concluded that when that day comes the solution would be to let inflation rip and print. This would work (if you didn’t mind the side effect)provided the debt was denominated in $. I hope Osborne remembers this i.e. only sell UK public debt in £ and not in anyone else’s currency and not on any convertible basis. Of course the policy requires a good grip on the media and probably keeping up defence etc. Funny thing is though $ just stays as popular and we never got the inflation. Armstrong has got me thinking.
What does he mean that gold has lost its movability – has it ever had much movability internationally? Has something happened to make that more difficult?
One of the reasons JFK was murdered so brazenly and publicly when the security services had plenty of unobtrusive methods to bump him off was to make it clear to all politicians who was boss. Same goes for the brazenly obvious nature of the cover-up.
@Evgueni
“John Goss: “I quite like Putin”
Then watch youtube documentaries detailing what Alexander Litvinenko had on him.”
Provide a link and I’ll take a look. However I can warn you that it is increasingly looking like Litvinenko poisoned himself.
http://russia-insider.com/en/revisiting-litvinenko-what-really-happened/6096
By the way, you tried on the previous thread to dismiss your fellow citizen of Odessa, Eric Draitser, with an ad hominem or two because he pointed out the removal of opposition journalists by the fascists in Ukraine. I have responded to this.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/05/my-friend-alistair-carmichael/comment-page-3/#comment-528551
MOD/CRAIG, PLEASE READ
CuntSpeccy @ 7.27pm
“Craig’s not talking about the English who have been largely eradicated from London and other great English cities. It’s precisely the dirty injuns/wogs who you exclude from all blame, that Craig is talking about.”
Mod/Craig,
I don’t think this blog benefits from the views of this little pink prick, especially not when he claims his own racist views as Craigs. Other’s views on what I have stated are encouraged and welcome.
PS while you’re at it, please also verify IP addresses of ‘Really’, ‘Arbiter’ and English Knight
Thanks!
Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab has urged Western countries to break silence and stop duplicity over the status quo in Bahrain.
In a letter from prison sent to the Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) on Wednesday, Rajab censured Western governments for supporting Bahrain’s suppressive regime and their hypocrisy over what is happening in the country.
Bahraini people are the victims of both autocratic regimes and democratic West, the letter read, adding that the Western countries provide the Al Khalifa regime with weapons to repress the people.
Not forgetting David Cameron was in the region selling arms to the Bahraini goverment,to oppress their citizens a few years back.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/nov/05/david-cameron-gulf-arms-trip
Fifa: David Cameron backs calls for Sepp Blatter to quit:
Cameron seems to be determined to prove himself as much of a poodle as a certain one of his predecessors.
So you want Blatter to stay, Lysias?
I know far too little about soccer to have an opinion about whether or not Blatter should stay. What bothers me is seeing my country, the U.S., butting in in matters that are none of its business.
Remember Bill Shankly’s remark about football:
“It’s not a matter of life or death… it’s much more important than that.”
Remember that England didn’t even take part in the contest for the Jules Rimet trophy until the 1950s. How was that, then?
So why make this silly remark:
“Cameron seems to be determined to prove himself as much of a poodle as a certain one of his predecessors.”
???
And Lysias any observations on CuntSpeccy, or do you not want to butt in?
FIFA corruption inquries: Who has been arrested?
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sport/football/592690/fifa-corruption-inquries-arrested/
Not silly. Cameron is calling for precisely what was being called for in Washington yesterday. Is that a coincidence?
“What bothers me is seeing my country, the U.S., butting in in matters that are none of its business.”
I have spent my entire adult life angry over that, and feeling 100% impotent about it. The internet allowed me to do more reading on the subject, and I got angrier and angrier. Eventually making myself seriously ill.
These days I try to only get involved with things I can do something about. And I limit my time on the net, for my health’s sake.
Dreo dear, in this situation apparently funds have been routed through US accounts. That is the allegation. It looks poor for the US to appear so heavy handed with the FBI in Zurich or whatever.
Apparently in the bloody shootings in the Bombay hotels, the FBI worked very closely with the Indian Govt in sharing intelligence and identifying the miscreants.. So they aren’t all bad either.
It makes the Swiss look poor too, as in weak.
I wouldn’t see these events as larger pattern, other than big-bucks corruption. Lets wait and see.
Yes, I’ll wait and see Villager. And in the meantime, have a good sleep 🙂
Thanks, I will. They say an hour of sleep before midnight is worth two after. Please consider that too in the context of your health and sleep well too. I find that really works with me although I know everybody is different.
@Villager, aka self-hating white person or perhaps aggressive settler immingrant:
MOD/CRAIG, PLEASE READ
CuntSpeccy @ 7.27pm
What a classic example of the lib-left mentality from the “nasty trolls on this blog” who were mentioned in the comment by Giyanne to which I responded: a combination of hate speech dressed up as anti-hate speech, a call for the police and some obscene insults, but no actual argument, because, obviously, no intelligent argument came to mind.
In view of this intervention, one certainly has to regard Villager as a possible agent of cognitive infiltration operating from one of the boiler rooms set up under the direction of Obarmy’s Dr. Goebbels, i.e., Professor Crass Bumstein.
I recall I once used a word purely innocently, which word i can’t recall now* and apparently has some possible adjunctive use with the word wog. Fedup was all over me in a second when that was very clearly not my usage.
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.
* I think its just come to me: I used the word i believe it was ‘wily’. The addressee also did not read it as alluding to wog; i have full respect for that gentleman — he and some others here know who he is.
Less than 3% of the “money” used in Britain is cash (physical banknotes and coins) – the rest only exists as data on computers.
You don’t receive wages/pensions/benefits in cash and you don’t pay rent/mortgage/gas&electric bills in cash. You only use cash for small transactions and even that is steadily giving way to debit cards etc. (i.e. data transfers on computers).
p.s. Craig’s righteous indignation is wonderful to behold and entirely laudable. But greed and corruption are universal, have always been with us and always will be. The fact that so many crooks entrust their affairs to banks and law firms in London suggests that, at least when it comes to serving the rich, the UK is less bent than most places.
I’m far more worried by ever-increasing state surveillance (Republic of Scotland at 7.22pm), wrongful arrests by the police (Republic of Scotland’s video at 7.37pm) and perversion of the UK legal system (as when a British court recently convicted a British-Iraqi man of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment for planting a roadside bomb in Iraq to kill Americans – after the judge instructed the jury that the offence had nothing to do with the war in Iraq (!), where an illegal American invasion and occupation may have caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians).
Somehow, the BBC and Channel 4 rarely get around to these topics, preferring to make us fulminate at people like Sepp Blatter.
@Villager:
I recall I once used a word purely innocently, which word i can’t recall now* and apparently has some possible adjunctive use with the word wog. Fedup was all over me in a second when that was very clearly not my usage.
Now on CuntSpeccy??? No one? Will check in the morning, once the Mod also has had a chance to review/edit.
What are you blathering about, now, Villager? Trying to dig yourself out of the hole your stupidity and insolence has landed you in?
The expression “wogs/injuns” was used by Giyane. I used it in direct response to Giyane. In both cases reference was being made to Alisher Usmanov, who according to Craig is a cannibal, or he boils people alive or some such thing. So calling him a “wog” seems rather mild.
But my point remains, if London has become a stinking hole it has become so because of the mass immigration of stinkers like Alisher Usmanov — at least so far as one can tell from Craig’s post. Therefore it is a racist insult to state or imply that London is a stinking hole because of the few remaining English residents there.
“I know far too little about soccer to have an opinion about whether or not Blatter should stay.”
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A nice way out of answering Villager’s question at 20h38. But rather transparent.
If you know far too little, why are you shooting off your mouth? 🙂
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“What bothers me is seeing my country, the U.S., butting in in matters that are none of its business.”
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Why none of its business? The USA is a member of FIFA and therefore possible corrupt activities within FIFA are as much its business as that of any other member.
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Conclusion : the Oxford Greats course obviously dod not include the study of logic. But perhaps he has forgotten that as well (together with the name of his college?
Herbie
“What I’m saying habby, is that the security services control and manage those who will be useful to the state, using the methods I’ve described above.”
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So the security services are not those running the state as you claimed before?
The state is run by “those who will be useful to the state” -whatever that means?
Who runs the state in your opinion, Herbie?
Be clear.
Who do you think runs the state, Habby? You’re always so full of questions it would be nice to know what you think regarding such matters.
I agree with you Pete Fairhurst
28 May, 2015 – 7:44 pm
A wise argument Pete amidst a bunch of dribble, own goals, fowl tackles and long shots!
U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Bob Menendez (R-NJ) sent a letter encouraging Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Congress to reconsider its support for President Sepp Blatter’s fifth term as FIFA President in light of his continued support for Russia’s hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=98e2d06a-c334-4d36-a502-4bf1339a56c1