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.
The Department for Work and Pensions has appealed against the ruling compelling it to disclose the number of Incapacity Benefit and ESA claimants who have died between November 2011 and May 2014.
The ruling came from the Information Commissioner on April 30 after an appeal by Vox Political‘s Mike Sivier. The DWP had 28 calendar days in which to submit an appeal – and it arrived via email at 3.25pm today – just one hour and 35 minutes before the close of business for the day.
Clearly the cowards of Caxton House are terrified of revealing the true numbers of those who have died as a result of Conservative policies towards the sick and disabled, and have delayed their appeal until almost the last minute in order to delay, for as long as possible, the moment when they have to provide the facts.
And then in the UK and elsewhere in The West, various caricaturish Orientalist paragons tend to issue extravagant and outrageous statements almost guaranteed to provoke an equal and opposite reaction against ordinary people from their supremacist counterparts in the White Supremacist movement and great grist to the tabloid mill. In other words, power nodes in the West exists in a symbiotic relationship with Right-wing extremists of various stripes – White Supremacist, Islamist…
As if to prove there are new depths to be plumbed in the world of reality television, CBS just debuted The Briefcase, a show which takes poverty porn, class anxiety, emotional manipulation and exploitation and packages them all neatly into a pretty despicable hour of primetime television.
Kicking off each episode with the question, “What would you do with $101,000?” the show then deep-dives into a competition that asks two unwitting, financially strapped families to choose between two no-win options:
Being financially solvent yet appearing heartless and greedy, or drowning in debt yet having audiences recognize them as selfless and giving.
Now we know where the state broadcaster the BBC got its idea from for a similar pathetic show.
The poor are now big business in the media market to laughed at and denounced.
Have the Markets priced in a Greek default and exit; perhaps there will be another one of these events, which appears to be a default but has a new name, which does not trigger default insurance.
Truly disturbing’ allegations, revealed in a new BBC Panorama investigation, that UK security forces colluded with paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland on a vast scale leading directly to the deaths of hundreds of people must be fully investigated, Amnesty International has said.
In the documentary Britain’s Secret Terror Deals, to be screened on Thursday, investigative reporter Darragh MacIntyre investigates allegations that the state colluded with paramilitary killers and covered up their crimes.
MacIntyre meets the families who have been fighting for decades to uncover the government’s darkest secrets and confronts some of those believed to be complicit.
It’s patently obvious that there’s no group or faction low enough that Westminster won’t collude with.
And no amount of blood spilt in NI will ever change that.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/britains-secret-terror-deals-truly-disturbing-bbc-panorama-allegations-of-collusion-must-be-fully-investigated-says-amnesty-international-31261593.html
@SS:
And then in the UK and elsewhere in The West, various caricaturish, etc.
Good grief, what does it mean? A seventy-seven word sentence ending in dot, dot, dot. Can you unpackage this a little for ordinary non Supremacist non-White with a capital W, white person (or brown for that matter). In particular, who are these White Supremacists? Spelled with caps they sound like some sort of religious group, but they must surely be rare. Certainly I have never come across anyone who might have been a white supremacist, upper or lower case, since about 1980, when I happened to be in the same railway carriage, en route for Scotland, as a very red-face Rhodesian cattle farmer.
RepublicOfAerificialIndignation
“The Department for Work and Pensions has appealed against the ruling compelling it to disclose the number of Incapacity Benefit and ESA claimants who have died between November 2011 and May 2014…..Clearly the cowards of Caxton House are terrified of revealing the true numbers of those who have died as a result of Conservative policies towards the sick and disabled, and have delayed their appeal until almost the last minute in order to delay, for as long as possible, the moment when they have to provide the facts.”
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Why are you getting your knickers into such a twist?
Let us suppose for a moment and for the sake of argument that the DWP did deliberately delay lodging an appeal until the last moment (29 May).
All that that will mean is that – depending on the outcome of the appeal – the information asked for will be made available (or not) one month later than if the appeal had been made immediately (1 May).
So what is your problem, exactly?
Facts are not like bread, you know – they don’t go stale.
You are just posting whatever comes into your silly head put of boredom and/or incontinence. Calm down, dear!
“…appears to be a default but has a new name, which does not trigger default insurance”
It’s not the name, it’s whether or not you’ve bought a Credit Default Swap instrument, ie insurance. Greece did have a CDS until Mr Papandreou was persuaded to surrender it for cash, shortly before he skedaddled.
This summer, British scientists are expected to begin field trials of a genetically modified (GMO) potato dubbed by proponents the ‘super spud’, whose developers boast will be free of fungal diseases and other pest problems. GMO maize and rapeseed oil could also be grown in England by the end of this year, as Westminster is pushing for more GMO foods to be introduced into the UK food supply.
In March of last year, David Cameron’s chief science advisers pressed for the government to allow the cultivation and spread of GMO crops in Britain, in addition to criticising “dysfunctional” European Union (EU) regulations which at the time restricted the quantity of GMO food in the European food supply.
It’s a possibility that David Cameron’s EU in out referendum is a ploy,why? well Cameron’s knows big business will oppose an EU exit,but if Cameron can muster enough support,EU leaders may think that Cameron could wrench the UK out of Europe.
EU leaders not wanting the UK to leave Europe,may return certain powers to Westminster,some of which could allow GMO crops to be produced and sold throughout the UK.
Monsanto foods coming to a supermarket near you soon.
Fwl
“perhaps there will be another one of these events, which appears to be a default but has a new name, which does not trigger default insurance.”
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You put your finger on an important aspect of the matter. To be recalled that the previous haircut was packaged in such a way as not to trigger default insurance (although it was, in reality, a partial default).
“Certainly I have never come across anyone who might have been a white supremacist, upper or lower case, since about 1980,” Can Speccy.
Mirror, mirror, on the wall.
An Israeli military commander has been recorded ordering troops to shell medical facilities during the 2014 attack on Gaza.
Nerya Yeshurun, a lieutenant colonel, instructed that a clinic in the Shujaiya neighborhood be fired upon on 23 July last year to “honour an Israeli soldier who had been killed a day earlier.
His statement amounts to a clear, though perhaps unintended, admission of war crimes.
Targeting civilians as an act of revenge is strictly forbidden by international law. Although Yeshurun’s orders were broadcast by the Israeli media at the time, they have not been translated before now. It is remarkable that they did not elicit comment either within Israel or internationally.
If there was ever any doubt that Israel has committed war crimes this admission should clear that up.
Not only is Israel targeting civilians it’s targeting medical facilities as well.
Yet the cowards and cronies of Israel do nothing,even the Hague remains quiet.
How can we be expected to respect and admire the UN,the EU or even NATO when they stand by and watch civilians,women and children being slaughtered because politically it suit them.
@SS:
Mirror, mirror, on the wall.
So (a) your seventy-seven word sentence ending in dot, dot, dot cannot be translated into an intelligible statement, as I assumed; and (b) you divert attention from your incomprehensible, but tendentiously anti-white racist, verbiage by resorting to pathetic name-calling racist insult; namely, a false allegation of racism ilustrating your anti-white racism.
Re my last comment,some people are tryi g to change things for the better in Palestine,but are met with a brick wall.
The good:
The United Nations is seeking to put the Israeli military on its blacklist over the regime’s aggressive policies against the Palestinian people, particularly children.
The move is recommended by Leila Zerrougui, the UN secretary-general’s special representative for children and armed conflict.
Zerrougui said such an act must be taken because of some 500 Palestinian children who were killed and 3,300 others who were injured during last summer’s Israeli aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip.
And the downright bad:
Observers believe the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon seems likely to resist the call because the move could fully terminate ties between Tel Aviv and the UN.
As I said previously how can the UN expect respect,when they won’t do the right thing.
Max Blumenthal’s next book after his Goliath on Israel is due to come out June 30. It’s 51 Days, and it’s about the last Gaza war.
Sepp Blatter Re-elected as FIFA President.
The U.S.’s power is in decline.
Be mellow, Alfred, be mellow. Peace and love. We’re all One.
Video clip of Hastert: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/243418-dennis-hastert's-weird-2014-CSPAN-call
“a false allegation of racism ilustrating your anti-white racism.”
You’re a racist, Canspeccy, and we’ve known that for years.
“The U.S.’s power is in decline.”
Does my heart good to think that.
Peace and love.
I’m going to read a book.
Oh Ba’al, I read Moonstone.
Miss Clash was every bit as bad as you suggested. Horrible type.
The glaring contradictions in the one paragraph “contribution” are telling of the troubled, nay tortuous mentality of the contributor who is torn between the actualities and her blind loyalty to the cause of the tag team! Half heartedly bent on discharging her duties through baseless assertions, imbecilic assumptions, which are then conclude in her customary denunciations; unconscious driveling of a “motivated” senile keyboard warrior support agent.
A clear, and present indications of ruffle feathers.
Re Northern Ireland
“The British government says collusion with paramilitaries should never have happened and that it has apologised where it did.”
Dead people and their families really appreciate apologies.
See that NATO getting the French to shoot down that Germanwings plane with all those unidentified Spanish spooks, who were investigating its Mediterranean Dialogue, has paid off with Madrid agreeing to allow that US rapid reaction force to be stationed in the country.
The EU is no longer a key player when it comes to European security.
Now NATO just has to figure out a way to get rid of Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven to trigger the end of Putin’s Russia, but time is running out on its alleged exercise.
The poor are now big business in the media market to laughed at and denounced.
1. No-one ever went btoke underestimating the intelligence of the public
2. Bread and circuses are back with us. Roll on fundamentalists (all religions) vs. lions.
Dreoilin: Glad you like Miss Clack. But I do hope Mary’s absence doesn’t signify a worsening of her condition. Sincerely. We may all hate each other, but that’s half the point, isn’t it?
Jesus, Dreoilin et al. got Mary to leave by attacking her, and then joking about it as if she were just a 24/7 mindless, sleepless poster, constantly correcting the internet.
The U.S.’s power is in decline.
IT’S ONLY A NAFFING GAME!
See also:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32936019
and
“In his victory speech, he said: I thank you, you have accepted me for the next four years. I will be in command of this boat of Fifa. We will bring it back off shore” (all media everywhere)
Cayman Islands? Turks and Caicos? Jersey? Follow the money, suckers.
Jesus, Dreoilin et al. got Mary to leave…
Without wishing to seem callous, I must have missed something. No-one’s ever got her to leave before, and the effort has been constant.
@Republicofscotland: “I see Putin has come out”
Jeez…will that guy stop at nothing to win the Eurovision Song Contest?!!!;)
Even worse than the oligarchs bribing FIFA is the lying oligarch Petro Poroshenko, whose lies include boasting about how he would bring peace to Eastern Ukraine within a week, how he would sell off his chocolate concern to concentrate on politics, who signed the Minsk accord II and who has since totally ignored it calling it a pseudo-treaty continues to add to the toll of civilians killed in the civil-war he started (never reported in our media).
Here the mother of an eleven year old girl murdered by the fascists a few days ago in Gorlovka talks bravely about what happened. As well as he daughter she lost her husband. Her arm was ripped off at the same time though she still managed to save two of her children. It makes me sick that our governments deliberately perpetuate their sins of omission and supply these monsters with arms and training. I speak out about Palestine. I speak out about Ukraine. It is what decent people do despite their government’s actions or inactions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=110&v=BNEUImpdw5Q
“Glad you like Miss Clack. But I do hope Mary’s absence doesn’t signify a worsening of her condition.”
Clack. CLACK. I can never keep it straight.
Agreed about Mary. I was just asking about her earlier on Squonk. I hope she hasn’t been taken off to hospital.
Oh dear heavens, I see Trowbridge has a new theory about the Germanwings plane …