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?
John Spencer-Davis, workings, I understand, vary from lodge to lodge. Many years ago when I had a passing interest in such things I picked up a ‘manual’ of a Scottish rite from a second-hand bookshop.
I would be here all night if I was to type the whole lot out but the Mark Degree begins:
“The Lodge, having been opened, passed and raised to the Third Degree, the R. W. M. M. requests all who are not Mark Masters to retire. . .”
Herbie
29/12/2015 12:12am
More than happy to answer, but please let me get some sleep! I will pick this up tomorrow.
One thing I find curious. I have quite openly said on this forum, which is public, that I am a Freemason. The United Grand Lodge of England encourages Freemasons to identify themselves as such and to discuss Freemasonry. Says so openly on a public website. And yet here you are asking me why it’s so secret. I just find that really interesting.
Speak tomorrow.
Kind regards,
John
John Goss
29/12/2015 12:17am
Ah. You are picking that up from Scottish Freemasonry, then. That’s a bit different. I would be prepared to wager that there is no such instruction in my own manual, without even consulting it. If I find any such reference I will let you know.
Kind regards,
John
It’s possible that there are other Freemasonries. Well. I know there are.
Very secret.
I note that your Grand Lodge does not affiliate to them, so far as I can see.
I look forward to your answering the questions above.
Might clear up a few misunderstandings.
I hope so.
Till tomorrow.
JSD
Just taking offence doen’t get us any further. if the antics of Cameron’s sticking his penis in a dead pig, or Hillary Clinton’s braid of wool bracelet, or general petraus organising against president Obama, or the secret meetings between John McCain and the leader of Daesh, or the airlifting of Daesh leaders from Ramadi or the murder of Jackie Sutton in Istanbul Airport are not the works of Freemasonry, WHAT ARE THEY?
You are a man of the world, a seeker after both justice and truth by all accounts.
i don’t know what makes a man lie. Fear of retribution? These doings are the work of the devil and they come from a level of political/lying far beyond the imagination of most decent human beings. In the name of God, tell me what they are, if they are not the works of an upper level of freemasonry? But please try to tell the truth, even if you have to whisper.
There is no power without people. the upper levels of non-Muslim and Muslim ( maybe Sikh, maybe Jewish, maybe atheist ) Free masons exercise power over a lower level of freemasons which is where you are. you are categorically not allowed to name, challenge or betray that authority level above you. That is power. Prick in penis. Nuff said.
Prick in pig.
Node
Cheers again for lists.
Ach Well… Farewell To Lemmy ( Motorhead )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIonRQFpKN4
“If I find any such reference I will let you know.”
JSD you won’t. But Scottish rites are governed by the “Laws and Constitution of Grand Lodge”. Scottish rites are supposedly older than English rites. Is that why all our foootball managers are Scottish? 🙂
Whilst you lot are still bickering..I have just one thing to say..I met Lemmy in 1982 with my girlfriend…We had just moved down south…and it was Soho – Marquee – Wardour Street, London..
Only a few months before my girl and me had seen him do this Amazing Gig at Deeside Leisure Centre (near Chester)…but I had seen Motorhead before..in fact I went to one of his first ever gigs when he got chucked out of Hawkwind in this really grotty dive..rock club..Miles Platting, Manchester
I did not disturb him…I just looked at him…FFS this really is Lemmy playing the pinball machine..at the back of the Marquee…He looked at me..and finished his game..and he talked to me…
A Total Gentleman..
Lemmy Died Tonight
Just look at the photograph in The Daily Telegraph..see the fingers…
Still doing it…
70 – not a bad innings mate…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/12072264/Motorheads-Lemmy-dies-at-age-of-70.html
Motorhead – live at Crocus City Hall, Moscow, 25.07.2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN6j-wrT9Iw
Tony
I heard this in a mate’s car in 1972..and I asked who is this?
he kind of looked at me..as if I didn’t know…he was driving the car
This is Lemmy singing in Hawkwind 1969 (well weren’t you there…yes O.K.)
7. Lost Johnny
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B25TUJsQhjc
Tony
Im a Third degree too… Of the Samuria Type
May i refer you to all Groucho Marx and clubdom…
It’s well known that many of the people who are obsessed about J**s – as in “the J**s have a cunning plan for world domination”, “everything is run by and for the J**s”,etc – have a similar obsession about the Masons.
Which seems to say more about those people than about the J**s and Masons in my opinion.
For links, please refer to various comments on many threads of this blog.
Hobnailboots
You’ll need more than Lynx to cover up the stink of modern politics. You might have to use water and soap. AAargh! Keep your vile troof away!
Good sumMary Habby. In other words, shit happens, shit is a conspiracy and shit is all there is.
I observe that the Dirty Dozen are full of shit, have no idea how to get rid of *their* own shit and as a consequence dwell on it and their “thoughts” are nothing but just that.
Have a good day!
JSD enlightened us as such
“I don’t think that they should. I don’t think anything I have ever said implies that. I have affirmed as a Freemason to believe the opposite of that.”
No you did not, but it does not mean it has not happened and is nopt happening without your knowledge. You are painting a picture of a fractured society, one that is defunct, which is far from the truth.
Young council officers are persuaded to ‘look into’ freemasonry, see what its all about, see whether they like the rigmarole and traditional flummoxing and rituals that are offered in this ‘club’.
Important issues are being discussed in secrecy at a point in time were we have problems with back room decisions in local councils, unaccountable cllrs. that cost us millions in wrong expertise and resolve.
I for one can see the similarities and had enough of it, a public servant ideally is an open actor that cooperates with his fellow officers/servants in an efficient lawful and open manner, rather than sit in a back room and discuss matters over the head of others who should be present.
I think we will have to differ on this issue.
Nevertheless I hope you enjoyed the English whiski at DTRH.
Norfolk has proffered its exceptionally good Barley for aeons to all and coming, without taking any steps to convert it into wiski, ales aside, but this will change in future, looks like we will give the Trossach distillers a run for their money.
Its not just in Larling in Norfolk, but also in Suffolk at the well known Adnans family brewers and distilleries. A history of Southwold whiski.
http://adnams.co.uk/tag/whisky/
After Ehud Olmert was sentenced to 6 years in prison for taking 500.000 shekels, the Israeli supreme court has now reduced this sentence to 18 month.
Still denying having ever taken bribes or asked for them, Mr. Olmert will hear the prison gates shut behind him on 15febr. 2016, the first Israeli ex PM to be caught for fraud.
He has another outstanding and disputed charge of taking bribes coming up before him, potentially adding 8 month to his sentence, kept safe from taking money from corrupt builders who want to get on and build controversial housing on illegal land.
He will join the rapist, ex president Katsav who is currently waiting to hear whether he can be released after sitting out 2/3s of his seven year sentence.
If only human rights abuses and building on illegal lands would cross the judges desk, blind in one eye they are keeping up a rogue charade, pusillanimous justice if any.
I knew many good Freemasons in my time, but like in all things there are bad people using the system to their advantage. Even the good Freemasons gain from their membership, although possibly not realising it.
I see JSD as a good Freemason but would like to hear why he entered the craft, who encouraged him to consider joining and what his trade or profession was at the time.
When I was a kid in the fifties I lived in a village where a lot of people were self-employed weavers. My next door neighbour was a hard working man who seemed to work non-stop, even when orders were low in the industry he was kept busy. Often the delivery/collection truck would stop on his way back to town and his mother would make afternoon tea for him and the driver.
When I got into my teenage years I learned about the Lodge in town and who all went there regularly. My neighbour was one of them. It did not make him a bad person, in fact I always found him to be on the side of the good people, but his membership at the Lodge brought him an advantage over others, whether he realised it or not.
When I was older I was working in Southampton. I had just completed my apprenticeship with a Glasgow company and they had sent me on a contract that they had down there to learn that side of the trade. One night this man from the Glasgow Office, who was down there as well, started discussing freemasonry with me and how I should look into becoming a member. I did not like this guy, so I just told him that it was out of the question for me to even think about it.
Later, while on holiday in my old home town, my brother and I were in a bar with a cousin from my mothers side who lived a few miles away from us. He was someone I respected, a hard worker, then he too suggested we look into freemasonry. I said something like, “I’ve already been asked” and he said that no mason can ask you to join he can only suggest that you think about it, or words to that effect.
Years later, between projects, I was driving a hire car and was asked to collect two people from the local Masonic Lodge. One of them was a police officer and the other had just been caught drunk driving. The offender asked the officer if there was any way that he could get away with being banned. The policeman said that as it was his first offence, he should just take the punishment as a lesson and make sure that he did not re-offend. I thought that the policeman was being a good freemason in this instance and helping his brother to see the right path.
batten down the hatches, Frank is taking a turn for the worst and we are going to get it.
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/sturm-im-nordatlantik-nordpol-so-warm-wie-suedkalifornien-a-1069829.html
Murders, beatings, sabotage, destruction, and in confirmation that this is genocide, not war, more schools were tear-gassed.
sumMary for 23 December 2015 :
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Hijacking: Israeli Navy opens fire on Palestinian fishing boats
Incursion: Israeli Army bulldozes Gaza refugee camp crops
Israeli soldiers seize and beat up 15-year-old boy
5 minors wounded in Israeli Army violence
Israeli Army tea-gasses West Bank village school
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 2 refugee camps and 14 towns and villages
4 attacks (2 Israeli ceasefire violations)
22 raids including home invasions
1 beaten – 2 dead – 11 injured
5 abducted (aged 12 to 17)
4 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage
56 taken prisoner – 15 detained – 116 restrictions of movement
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http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php
For Brian and those who care about their kids and their future in particular, by Buster Nolan Talkingtrees. Enjoy.
Global Warming?
Just look around you, open your eyes
The land that you live on doesn’t wear a disguise
Look at your water, look at your trees
Are they blooming with health or sick with disease?
Is our land getting hotter? Is it pouring with rain?
No global warming! They must be insane!
I don’t need a panel to judge what I see
I open my eyes and the land talks to me…
More cars and more concrete and more city blocks
Can the land that they stand on take any more shocks?
Just cut some more trees, let the beef have the land
As the sun overhead turns it all back to sand…
No global warming it’s not down to us
We need to keep growing, we don’t need this fuss
If we can’t expand then our system will fall
‘Till we’ve cut the last tree,
And have nothing at all…
Olmert’s goose is finally cooked, not for his Cast Lead and other war crimes against a captive civilian population in Gaza, but for fraud.
Chapter and verse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Olmert#Corruption_and_bribery_criminal_investigations
8 Corruption and bribery criminal investigations 8.1 Bribery investigation
8.2 Indictments, trials and criminal convictions
His sentence for all those crimes is just a few months in prison and a paltry fine.
Talking of secret societies: just wondering, is Common Purpose one like some people claim or is it just a harmless course organiser for middle managers?
Don’t you love the Westerner coalition grasping for straws by retaking most of Ramadi, with 30% of it still being held by Isis forces, the capital city of Anbar province reduced to rubble by hundreds of continuing airstrikes, and none of its residents anywhere to be seen!
The coalition doesn’t have a clue about what it takes to re-establish the Sunni parts of Iraq.
“I observe that the Dirty Dozen are full of shit, have no idea how to get rid of *their* own shit and as a consequence dwell on it and their “thoughts” are nothing but just that.”
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A bit rich coming from you, one of the “Filthy Few.”
Isn’t it rather shallow, that anyone who opposes Western/Israeli action, in Syria or of late Iraq, is classed as either IS or jihadists.
I say that, as the puppet prime minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi ( a baddy indeed) declares that government forces have recaptured Ramadi from IS.
Another interesting story, or counterbalance, which can be described as tenious at best, is this, and that’s before we take into account the state broadcasters perspective on the matter.
IS leader with links to Paris attack network among 10 militants killed in recent US-led strikes in Syria – Pentagon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35195219
IS leader, Paris attack network, Syria, it’s all there in that one sentence. A sentence that is unclear of course, as how they came to that conclusion,but confirms that IS carried out the dubious Paris attack. Of course any propaganda, I mean’t info coming from the Pentagon, needs to be taken with a huge pinch of salt.
If one were sceptical, they might think, any action carried out in Syria by Nato, Israel and Saudi Arabia, could be construed to fit the Paris, IS Syria narrative.
Once a fierce opponent to Europe, Hague, Sebastian Coe’s Judo sparring partner, has now turned turtle, realising that the services to Europe are in providing China and India with a cheap jump off point into Europe, open access all hours.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-hague-idUKKBN0U60K820151223
I’m swaying between it being ‘too late’ to stop an EU break up, and wanting change of vital functions and institutions. For that we need an EU wide campaign to persuade voters so they persuade and/or choose the right candidates to make it happen.
lets fly a kite.
EU commissioners to be elected by us, a proper competition with TV debate and subsequent referendum, open and clear explanations from day one? would that make them more accountable?
or should they be elected by all EU citizens? making for rather remote judgements and loosing the lowest common democratic denominator, voters.
As for all elected people, accountability should/could be hinged to openness. If Commissioners are not openly accountable to the electorate, then this would be publicised and or made a debating point for MEP’s, the EU is too important as to being high jacked by vested interest to the detriment of voters/consumers democratic resolve.
Accounts have to be audited by ???? anyone has any suggestions
Schengen has abolished itself but some sort of capacity thinking has to be done, anything that does not set us on to or towards a sustainable course in Europe has got to be looked at periodically.
Should we adopt a common energy policy that strives towards providing Europe’s needs from non fossil sources and should we cooperate with countries who can provide this aim?
Or should we adopt a policy for Britain alone, with belittling party politicians tying us into long term dependencies on French and Chinese nuclear plants, as well as Russian gas sources?
Or should we aim to provide our very own tidal, current and wind power alternatives? should we help and empower small energy cooperatives to strengthen the national grid, away from these dependencies?
And what of a peace and defence force, away from NATO’s global ambitions, a balancing power between two large blocs?
just thinkin’ aloud
Not sure about common purpose, Becky, not so common when one looks closer at it, but would not like to guess without much more info.
What is your opinion/experience with them or their proponents?