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.
Two FIFA cartoons;
http://i.imgur.com/VxpTENF.png
http://i.imgur.com/zF0Vuq2.jpg
Ok Habby, let Chunky Mark explain it for you ! 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDBztdftnhQ#t=54
Ukraine may default on foreign debts Poroshenko,signs law on it.
Ukrainian parliament approved the bill, which could affect repayment of the country’s $3-billion debt to Russia on May 19.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier the bill de facto was an announcement of a default, casting a negative light on the professionalism of Ukraine’s leadership.
Moreover, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that Moscow would turn to an international court if the Ukrainian president signed a moratorium on the repayment of foreign debt.
Whether or not Ukraine is indeed in dire straits like Greece,we can only speculate.
It is however a possibility that the moratorium on foreign debt may well be aimed at goading Russia,into a faux pas,giving a excuse to enforce much stricter sanctions on Russia and its citizens.
A bomb threat has been received at the FIFA congress in Zurich, Swiss police have confirmed to SRF News.
“I can confirm there has been a bomb threat against the FIFA congress, officers have been dispatched,” a spokeswoman for the city police said.
Authorities were alerted around 11 a.m. local time, police spokesman Marco Cortesi confirmed. FIFA also acknowledged receipt of the threat to news website handelszeitung.ch.
Local journalists reported that they were forced to leave their places at the venue.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Sepp made the call.
I will however be very surprised if they claim it to be a terrorist threat,hopefully they won’t try to swing the spotlight away from the real issue,of corruption.
Uncomfortable reading, especially if you had a hands-on role, like our Host;
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-0d37-The-biggest-crime-youve-never-heard-of#.VWiH_UYasrh
“in sharp contrast to his over-inflated ego of himself.”
You’d have been better staying offline, Macky.
But talking about people’s “over-inflated ego of themselves”, it never ceases to amaze me how people are so quick to project their own behaviour onto others. Happens here daily. Total lack of self-awareness.
The Palestinian Football Association will push ahead Friday for a vote calling for the suspension of Israel from the world football organisation at Fifa’s scandal-riven congress in Zurich.
Despite last-ditch attempts at mediation by world football officials, the Palestinian delegation insisted it would push for a vote unless Israel expels five teams based in illegal Israeli settlements from its football league.
The five teams are Ma’aleh Adumim, Ariel, Kiryat Arba, Bik’at Hayarden and Givat Ze’ev – which play in Israel’s lower divisions.
Re my last comment don’t be too surprised if the so called bomb threat is miraculously traced back to Palestine,to try and discredit them.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/29/palestinian-football-association-to-push-ahead-for-israels-suspension-from-fifa
Once in a blue moon the spam filter actually, really, accidentally works, fitering out the utter garbage getting plastered all over this board! Then the mod goes and nu-does all the good work of the spam filter.
Dreoilin; “You’d have been better staying offline, Macky.”
You mean better for the likes of yourself & assorted other like minded trolls.
Oops, I forgot.
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“Nu-does”! We have a new verb!
Born out of the sheer brilliance of contributions at CM!
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No Macky, better for yourself and the image of intelligence you attempt to project.
Or should I say, better for your “over-inflated ego of yourself.”
“Uncomfortable reading, especially if you had a hands-on role, like our Host;
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Macky.
Yes indeed the sanctions on Iraq where comprehensive to say the least,and many people died,even when the food for oil programme was introduced,it was barely enough for the average Iraqi to live on.
Madeline Albright US Secretary of State when asked by CBS’s Sixty Minutes host Leslie Stahl.
“Half a million Iraqi children have died,how can we justify that.”
The reply was:
“It’s hard,but we think….we think the price is worth it”.
It wasn’t just the US who added to the death toll in Iraqi, the UN Sanctions Committee,sent many Iraqi’s to a early grave.
Macky and Fedup should really get themselves a couple of dappled ponies (in Kildare perhaps?) and ride off into the sunset together, with their white cardboard hats on. I’m sure they’d be much happier than they are here – desperately scrounging through dictionaries and thesauri in attempts to compose comments that sound vaguely erudite. It’s too much like hard work for their poor heads, and achieves absolutely nothing.
More than 100 pages of previously classified Department of Defence and Department of State documents implicate the Obama administration in a cover-up to obscure the role Hillary Clinton and the State Department played in the rise of ISIS.
The documents were obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Washington watchdog Judicial Watch.
They confirm WND reporting over the past three years of evidence that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was involved in shipping weapons from Benghazi to support the al-Qaida-affiliated militias fighting the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, effectively arming the Sunni jihadists who morphed into ISIS.
I for one am not surprised by this anyone recall the pallet loaded with weapons and supplies supposedly accidently dropped to ISIS,instead of the Kurds.
Also there’s the matter of Hillary Clinton using her own hard drive and computer,to do senate business,just what was she doing on that computer,who was she contacting,and what is she covering up.
Re last comment I forgot to add the link,silly me.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/declassified-docs-hillary-aided-rise-of-isis/#acxkTOuD7I9GBtsf.99
Dreoilin; “No Macky, better for yourself and the image of intelligence you attempt to project”
You are obviously confusing me with your soul-mate; you know, the ones who uses phrases like “my intellectual firepower”, the one who is often referring to prestigious educational institutions, the ones that is so desperate to impress with how clever he is, yes you know 😀
Republicofscotland; “It wasn’t just the US who added to the death toll in Iraqi, the UN Sanctions Committee,sent many Iraqi’s to a early grave.”
It was the US and Britain who pressurised the UN to set-up the Sanctions, and it was the US and Britain who enforced them (after France quickly dropped out) via the totally illegal 12 year bombing campaign euphemistically called a the “The Iraqi no-fly zones” ;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones
UK leaders of an orthodox Jewish sect have banned women in their community from driving, saying the presence of female drivers contradicted the “traditional rules of modesty.”
Belz rabbis, of the Chasidic Jewish tradition that maintains a conservative lifestyle, sent a letter last week to Jewish families in London stating that children would be banned from schools and other educational institutions if they were driven by their mothers.
The letter, signed by leaders of Belz schools, added there had been a rise in the numbers of women driving their families around, which had led to “great resentment among parents and pupils of our institutions,” the Jewish Chronicle reports.
Hopefully this nonsense will fall foul to the UK’s new Extremism Bill.
Mind you women in Saudi Arabia are discouraged from driving,and the UK hasn’t batted a eyelid about that.
Don’t be surprised,if this receives the same response.
Two of Britain’s biggest High Street banks have been dragged into the bribery and corruption scandal engulfing football’s world governing body.
Barclays and HSBC have been named in legal papers filed by the US Department of Justice after millions of dollars in suspect transactions linked to Fifa were allegedly moved through their accounts.
On Wednesday the Americans charged 14 officials following a four-year FBI probe into bribes to obtain lucrative marketing rights to football tournaments.
It looks like a almighty can of worms has just been opened,who or which company bank etc…will be linked to the FIFA scandal in weeks to come.
Macky
““But what is your point when you connect it with illegal immigrants and asylum seekers?”
Whetever the Habby Clown is a paid shill, or a self-appointed demented troll, his modest IQ is in sharp contrast to his over-inflated ego of himself.”
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That’s not really an answer, is it.
But educate us – what is the connection between loutish behaviour by British holiday makers in a Greek resort/island and illegal immigrants/asylum seekers in that resort/island?
Are you still working out what your point was, O Bluntest Knife?
“Ok Habby, let Chunky Mark explain it for you !”
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Not good enough, Macky.
You made the connection, so you explain it. What was your point?
Macky (about me)
“the one who is often referring to prestigious educational institutions,”
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Surely you were referring to our Irish-American friend and his self-proclaimed Oxford degree in Greats?
Macky
“Dreoilin; “You’d have been better staying offline, Macky.”
You mean better for the likes of yourself & assorted other like minded trolls.”
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I don’t remember Dreoilin ever flouncing off this blog in a huff because of a couple of gentle reprimands from Craig and a persecution complex about the Mods.
Whereas Macky ….. 🙂
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Conclusion : Craig’s gain was Squonk’s loss
Republicofscotland
“Mind you women in Saudi Arabia are discouraged from driving,and the UK hasn’t batted a eyelid about that.”
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Why should it?
Republicofnonsense
“UK leaders of an orthodox Jewish sect have banned women in their community from driving, saying the presence of female drivers contradicted the “traditional rules of modesty…….Hopefully* this nonsense will fall foul to the UK’s new Extremism Bill.”
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I doubt it, RoN. But keep hoping, hope is a wonderful thing.
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* sic – incorrect (sloppy)use of the adverb “hopefully”
RepublicOfDementia re. Hillary Clinton
“just what was she doing on that computer”
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Writing emails, the word has it.
Weren’t you aware?
Habbabkuk. “What was your point?”
Either you’re even more stupid than I thought, or you think I’m stupid enough to play your troll games; why don’t you consult with your like-minded dimwits, perhaps between yourselves you might even work it out, but I’m not holding my breath ! 😀
No, don’t hold your breath, Macky. Your brain needs all the oxygen it can get.
Macky
I genuinely don’t know what your point was and because I wouldn’t like to think that your post was just the product of incontinence I thought I’d give you the opportunity to enlighten us.
Have you had your prostate checked recently?
“@Giyane, it’s Religion in general that has been marked for destruction; the fire-power is concentrated currently on Islam, because it is the strongest & faster religion.” Macky.
How does that analysis explain the longstanding complicity of the USA/NATO with Jihadist paramilitaries/militaries – Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and powerful militaristic plutarchies which have utilsied Islamism as a tactical instrument – Pakistan, Indonesia? Not to mention the strategic alliance with saudi Arabia/Qatar/UAE et al, the very states which fund Jihadism/Islamism across the globe?
In other words, far from there being an attack on Islam, over the past 40-50 years, it has become clear that US hegemony has been well-served by its alliance with clerical fascists.
What does happen is that the Islamist/Jihadist spectre is very useful to oligarchies in the USA/UK/Europe as an enemy with which to trammel the general populace and to divert any dissatisfaction towards visible minority groups instead of against these oligarchies.
And now, just to keep y’all up to date, here’s something on Greece:
“Greece, creditors seek breakthrough as clock runs down
Greece and its lenders enter a decisive weekend of negotiations in a bid to agree on a package of cuts and reforms that would unlock another 7.2 billion euros and allow Athens to keep meeting its debt repayments.
Talks at the Brussels Group level continued Friday as Washington issued a fresh warning to all sides about the dangers of no consensus being reached soon. Speaking after the G7 meeting in Dresden, Germany, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew warned that the chances of an “accident” are growing.
“If you look from January until now, too much time has been spent unproductively,” he said. “I think waiting until the day or two before whatever the deadline is, is just a way of courting an accident.”
Lew also emphasized that although Greece would have to take some tough decisions in the coming days, its lenders will also need to compromise so there can be an accord. “All parties need to move,” said the American official. “There needs to be some flexibility on the part of the institutions.”
The Greek government was warned on Thursday that it only had a few days to reach a deal otherwise there would not be enough time for eurozone parliaments to agree to the disbursal of new loans before the end of the month, when the current program extension ends.
Greece has to pay just under 300 million euros to the International Monetary Fund on June 5 and the government has sent mixed messages over whether it will be in a position to meet this commitment. If the payment is made, then Athens has to find another 1.3 billion euros during the course of next month to meet its obligations to the Washington-based organization. This has put extra pressure on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to ensure talks conclude successfully as quickly as possible.
Speaking to Vima FM Friday, Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said that there had been a breakthrough in talks with regard how to calculate the impact of changes in value-added tax. He suggested the proposals that have been made by Athens would lead to an extra 900 million euros in revenues, which is thought to be short of the target lenders are aiming for. Varoufakis did not reveal what three VAT rates Greece is proposing but it is believed that they are 6.5 percent, 10 percent and 21 percent.
Beyond VAT, there are still differences to be resolved on issues such as pension reform and labor market regulations. Creditors are also thought to be pressing the government to proceed with the process of product market liberalization that the previous coalition engaged in haltingly.
The gaps on such issues has led to Greece’s lenders being skeptical about the possibility of an agreement in the next few days. “The positive reports out of Athens don’t fully reflect the state of talks,” said German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble after the G7 meeting.
ekathimerini.com , Friday May 29, 2015 (18:10)”