Why are the Metropolitan Police not feeling Tory Lord Sebastian Coe’s collar and trawling his hard drives? I blogged recently about his involvement in awarding the World Athletics Championships without a vote to the hometown of his long term paymasters and sponsors, Nike. Plus the £12 million his promotions company made from VIP hospitality packages for the Olympics, the VIP tickets for which were allocated by the Organising Committee of which he was the £600,000 pa chairman.
Now we have this, from the person Coe works closest with in the IAAF and who he has now promoted to head the President’s office since Coe assumed that title:
« Dear Papa,
Following our discussion earlier I have already had some thoughts and believe that we need to do the following, in the strict confidence and control within a small circle of senior IAAF staff only. This must be very secret.
(…)4. Finally, as soon as possible, and ‘unofficially’ PR campaign to ensure that we avoid international media scandals related to the Moscow Championships especially in the British press, where the worst of the articles is coming from. This will require specialist PR skills (working only with me directly) from London, but I believe that if we consider using CSM we can also benefit from Seb’s political influence in the UK. It is in his personal interest to ensure that the Moscow World Champs is a success and that people do not think that the media of his own country are trying to destroy it. We can work extremely hard in stopping any planed ‘attack’ on Russia from the British press in the coming weeks.
5. Finally, I need to be able to sit down with the Anti-doping department and understand exactly what Russian ‘skeleton’ we have still in the cupboard regarding doping. I think that the time to have unveiled the various athletes was a long time ago and that now we need to be smart. These athletes, of course, should NOT be part of any Russian team for these World Championships and Valentin should be pressurised to make sure this is the case. If the guilty ones are not competing then we might as well wait until the event is over to announce them. Or we announce one or two BUT AT THE SAME TIME as athletes from other countries. Also we can prepare a special dossier on IAAF testing which will show that one of the reasons why these Russian athletes come up positive is that they get tested a lot !!! In the same way, we can make the point that the WADA laboratory is the responsibility of WADA not IAAF and that if WADA decides there really is a problem, we have a plan B to do the tests in Lausanne instead (Gabriel confirmed this to me yesterday).
Papa, as soon as I have an idea of the price of this unofficial PR campaign I will let you know, but I will do everything in my power to protect the IAAF and the President.
All the best Nick »
So what does the Establishment now wish us to believe?
a) As long-term Vice President of the IAAF, Coe had no idea the organisation was massively corrupt and the President was taking huge bribes to cover-up doping scandals.
b) Coe had no idea his close associate and now head of his office Nick Davies was writing to the son of the President proposing that Coe’s company and Coe’s “political influence” be used to keep doping scandals out of the British media.
c) Coe’s meeting, while Vice President of the IAAF, with executives of his sponsor Nike, to discuss awarding the World Athletics Championships to Eugene, had no bearing at all on the decision of the President of IAAF to award the games to Eugene without a vote.
All that is even less convincing than Sepp Blatter’s declarations of innocence. Yet there is an utter difference in the British media’s treatment of Blatter and of “Lord” Coe.
I wonder why?
I was wondering who pays for his grandstanding.
Taxpayers paid him to support and promote Scottish interests. The media paid for publicising his trip. Anything there you object to?
Alcyone: Thanks, and good wishes to you too. I’ll actually be off in a camper van in Olde Europe for the duration (a converted Transit, if you’re interested), no Internet, TV or other distractions. Just snow, wilderness, mountains and rivers. Sorry to hear about your insomnia, I find a lot of exercise helps for that. On days where I don’t even manage to get outside for whatever reason, it gives me a lot of trouble sleeping that night. Reading some detailed and boring (even if fairly important) reference book often helps – this one is particularly good:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
Doesn’t take more than a few pages to get me nodding off 🙂
“Taxpayers paid him to support and promote Scottish interests. The media paid for publicising his trip. Anything there you object to?”
Yes, people who pretend he was there to promote Scottish interests when they know damn well he’s playing at being a world leader when in reality he’s just an irrelevant has been.
Yes, people who pretend he was there to promote Scottish interests when they know damn well he’s playing at being a world leader when in reality he’s just an irrelevant has been.
Oh, I just can’t be bothered. Happy Christmas, Fred.
“He has a residence in Scotland, two golf course as wells, one parent Scottish.
That makes him as Scottish as Craig is doesn’t it?”
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I can’t believe posters in here are, adhering to your wind up nonsense.
Donald Trump was born in Queens New York, his old man who’s also called Fred (is it you Fred?) was born in New York also.
Following the announcement that the Forth Road Bridge was to reopen, Labour’s Jackie Baillie said: “There are serious questions about how the bridge ended up in disrepair in the first place.”
However, I wonder if she was in the chamber of Holyrood on November 17, 2005, when Tricia Marwick MSP posed the following question to First Minister Jack McConnell: “Does the First Minister recognise or even acknowledge the strategic importance of the Forth Road Bridge for the whole of Scotland? Does he understand that, at the very least, the bridge is facing frequent closure for repair, that heavy goods vehicles are likely to be banned from it from 2013 and that the Executive needs to have a plan B in place?
“Will he therefore give an undertaking that the work on the case for a new Forth crossing will begin now?”
McConnell declined to commit to examining the case for a new bridge, describing the suggestion as “particularly stupid” and “particularly daft”. He preferred to await the analysis of the structural problems expected from Feta in 2006.
History now tells us that the Labour/LibDem administration refused to commit to the building of a replacement crossing. That decision was taken by the SNP administration after coming to power in 2007.
Seven of the world’s biggest investment banks paid little or no corporation tax in 2014, despite generating combined profits of £5.3bn in the UK.
According to a Reuters analysis, five major investment banks doing business in London – Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank AG, and Nomura Holding – paid zero UK corporation tax in 2014. Another two – Goldman Sachs and UBS AG – paid a combined total of just £21m.
The banks used a raft of accounting sleights of hand and tax breaks to reduce their tax bills – from foreign tax credits and inter-group charges to reporting modest profits or losses in the UK while filing substantial profits in countries like Luxembourg which allow banks a tax-free income.
http://www.thecanary.co/2015/12/23/seven-investment-banks-just-delivered-massive-fck-britain/
“Donald Trump was born in Queens New York, his old man who’s also called Fred (is it you Fred?) was born in New York also.”
And his mother was born in the Hebrides.
Does not being born in Scotland exclude someone from being Scottish then?
He would be eligible for a British passport were he to apply for one.
Hi Glenn, so i kinds guessed right: wholesome, Mother Nature. Thanks for your encouraging words. Yes, Nature and exercise are so important for balancing the body, busting stress, sleep and generally maintaining higher levels of Energy and feeling grounded. I figure we may be so-called Modern Man but we still have primitive hunter-gatherer bodies. The heritage of man’s evolution too is wired in our brains as manifested in our need for physical security. To digress, that also spills over into the need for psychological security and there all the mischief of fear, anxiety, greed, jealousy, desire, pain and the cycle of suffering begins.
Enjoy your holidays!
Merry Christmas to all especially YOU Craig because you are special. 🙂
“But I’ve just watched him do a one hour live rally, playing a crowd of thousands like he was Freddie Mercury, barely glancing at his notes, dealing with hecklers, charming and funny, and he made me like him.
Terrifying.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFzo3dYiZ-I
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Thanks for that Node, watched the full hour this morning–very insightful and yes entertaining. I feel much like you, except its Hillary that I’m terrified of, not Trump.
Still, one needs to be watchful. Every time one thinks one is going to have a breath of fresh air in someone new, one is disappointed. For example I wonder if Trump is going to be able to enforce a 35% import duty on Ford cars Made in Mexico.
Dear Craig Murray,
You are speaking of ‘corruption’. Well let me assure you that it runs deep and wide and that the UK has long since exported it to the Caribbean.
However, in this festive season, wishing you the best for the Christmas season. Sharing with you my Christmas present to His Excellency, the Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands. It is a Human Rights present contending that His Excellency’s Executive Order designating Her Majesty’s Prison the place to put mentally ill persons is an abomination and contrary to international law to which the TCI is subject; do inform all friends so that I can get full international support as to:-
1. The appointment of Judge Robert Schuster.
2. Constitutional compliance by His Excellency the Governor.
3. The reasons of the Judicial Services Commission as Constitutionally required.
4. Recusal of Judge Schuster from all my cases.
5. Neglect of the Governor in respect of His Excellency’s responsibilities for Her Majesty’s Prison; and
6. On -going unlawful treatment of the mentally ill by way of the Executive Order stating that the mentally ill must be imprisoned.
You will find the letter online at:-
http://www.tciaffairs.net/articles/letter-to-the-secretary-of-state-london-re-judge-shuster/
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Courtenay
Not the most flattering of photographs…
Count Dracula Wishes World a Happy Holiday (his wife is wearing his favorite color)
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2015/12/24/count-dracula-wishes-world-a-happy-holiday-his-wife-is-wearing-his-favorite-color/
Cheers
John
Yawn. Blog realises that life inside an orifice is smelly, but, lets not be too drab and dull about it, we can still raise a stink and flush out the biggest turds.
We are doing something and its valuable.
I think speed balling should become an Olympic base discipline, what can be more open than doping. Retrospective action should be cancelled and drug categories established, drugs must be administered by doctors, one would not want to get caught in a H&S PR disaster.
you can just about read the header
” Dirty needles made British athlete come second to Oleg” bohooo such a crying shame, those cheating Russians again.
Any athlete who does make the conscientious decision to go to the Fukushima Olympics should be allowed to take as many drugs as they like, methamphetamines, pearl, crack, whatever, they are already certified anyway.
The donkeys are still crowding the cradle.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/amena-saleem/no-bbc-jerusalem-not-israels-capital
Deny, Disrupt, Degrade, Deceive.
Happy Christmas everyone, including the trolls (who will be put on trial).
Dylan’s “I Don’t Believe You”…
https://vimeo.com/95890388
Merry Christmas Craig have a good one.
This is Brill I highly recommend it.
Pirates and Emperors – Schoolhouse Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXuaHHZCCnM
Yes, nice one Dave.
This is the dichotomy that is the United States: the most violent society in the world, and the same time one of the most creative.
LOOK WHAT I FOUND.. Thanks to Dave @ 9;15 Link to the wee cartoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4aUPC0zMok
Cheers Dave
Fedup
That was Brilliant Restraint Last night.. Much Honor to ye.
Happy Christmas everybody.
Peace on earth for the new year is what I hope for for all.
😀
I presume that the likes of Alcyone will be torturing small, furry creatures on Christmas Day, just for kicks.
When it comes to psychopathy, I almost give up trying to inform my fellow citizens about those who rule us.
I guarantee that there will be another false flag sometime soon, just to herd us all to WW3.
The neo-cons are just like the Nazis back in the 1930s.
No difference.
These people have to be put in jail, and that includes most of the present British MPs.
Merry X-Mas to the good people here.
Alas not much peace on Earth, and certainly not much goodwill in Occupied Palestine;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3373035/Shocking-footage-Jewish-wedding-shows-guests-celebrating-death-Palestinian-baby-burned-alive-arson-attack.html
This is the dichotomy that is the United States: the most violent society in the world, and the same time one of the most creative.
US creativity:
Extermination of the indigenous Indians
Drug wars in its own backyard South America
Agent orange in Vietnam
Nagasaki and Hiroshima
Torture rendition at 100s of client prisons throughout the world
9/11
Destruction of Afghanistan
Destruction of Iraq
Destruction of Somalia
Destruction of Libya
Destruction of Syria
This is the kind of creativity that wins you prizes. If you didn’t wreck things, other people wouldn’t step up to the mark and re-build them, so the world become fossilised and dull.
Or as the Sufi Sheikh once said,: If what I tell you is wrong, it will make you think, and if what I tell you is right, you have learned something of benefit. Either way you should be grateful to me.
When I see those pictures of a grinning John McCain sitting with Al Qaida and Daesh, i realise that Sufi stuff and nonsense is what informs Salafist jihad in Syria and Iraq.
If people die, they will go to paradise, etc etc.
The US plan for the Muslims is to do whatever will cause most pain and most pressure on the Muslim way of life. Thanks to Allah for the test of our faith. In the process of sitting the test we discover that conservatism is always branded as ‘radical’, whether it be Tory conservatism or Saudi conservatism.
Today the saudi Royal family will launch RPGs from their backsides lined up on their borders with Iraq and Yemen. Rectal propelled gas. Don’t worry chap. If you were talking through your asses, somebody will come up behind you to clear up.
Allahu Akbar. There is no such thing as Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you too, Macky.
Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a preposterous new year.
Merry Christmas to my family of friends – love y’all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxCSo_cJ9mY
Happy Xmas to the good peaceable souls here… And Some Not here, Mary, Clark.
At least we can have Tranquil, Peaceful music on this troubled old Earth.
FROM JAPAN, Enjoy this Hang drum music – Dance of Shiva 2015 Yuki Koshimoto –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjXHPPFRMB8
Off out for dinner, and a wee Dram perhaps…. be good.
“Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a preposterous new year.”
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To you too, Doug, but didn’t you mean “prosperous”?
Since most posters are focused on the same thing for awhile, I will add my wishes for everyone having a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year, though it seems like it will be like 2015, only worse.
If Trump gets elected, I am leaving for outer space. He is the biggest facsist ever, committed to putting neo Malthusianism on a global basis for the world’s 1%.