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?
Herbie
29/12/2015 12:04am
“What’s it for, JSD, your Freemasonry, and why is it so secret?”
Pleased to discuss, since you have asked. But let’s just step back and look at what’s happened to me over the past couple of days, shall we?
My original posting on this matter pointed out that Freemasonry forbade the discussion of either religion or politics at its meetings. That is a matter of
public record, you don’t have to take my word for it. I became interested in making people aware of that due to two postings which I did not quote. One
stated that Freemasonry co-opted established religion for reasons which are secret. The other, which I think has been deleted, as far as I can remember
talked about Freemasons murdering Moslems, or something of the sort.
I have no idea whether either of those allegations are true or not, although
I hardly think them very likely. But I wanted to offer the forum the simple fact that Freemasons, now, could not care less what each other’s religious or political beliefs
are. They are in fact enjoined not to do so. And I doubt that they ever did, to be honest.
The result of this frankness for me is that I now have at least three people to engage with: one’s called me a liar so I have to deal with that, you’ve given me
five questions which I have to deal with in some detail, and some other chap wants to know my backstory. That’s okay, but you can see, surely, that
I couldn’t be blamed if next time I kept my mouth shut while I and my fellows were publicly condemned as a gang of murderers. And I’m just an ordinary
common or garden Freemason, and this is what I get, every time almost without exception, no matter where I am posting, when I speak up about it. In fact, this is mild, compared to some stuff I have received. I hold
no public office.
Can you imagine what a policeman would get in my position? Or a judge? Or a politician? Have a think about it.
This freemason stuff has been a distraction on at least two of Craig’s recent threads.
For feck’s sake, Craig, make another post. It’s not like there’s nothing happening in the world at the moment.
But for comment posters, please feel free to discus freemasons, and Syria and WW3, like it matters…
RobG
29/12/2015 10:54pm
I know, RobG, and I’m sorry about it. I’d much rather not be discussing it. I am just responding to allegations that Freemasonry is this extraordinary cabalistic evil in the world. On and on. Every thread. I don’t particularly want to be shot for being a Freemason: and I would not put that past some people on this forum, or their friends, if they ever got into power.
It’s my duty to offer a different perspective, and I’m going to do it.
Kind regards,
John
I have skimmed the column. I will read Craig’s forensic analysis of the sports shoe salesman later. I have assumed the silence of our ‘media’ regarding his footwork might be based on an ill founded ethnic identity.
I note lwtc247 The establishment leans (quite heavily) towards Zionism ………
There is no place for euphemisms here. The political ‘movement’ is murderous and worse. I can testify to this both as an observer and as a subject.
Those above who defend the indefensible should first view this. Just a speck. Just a boy. Just a native – his land. Ahmad Manasra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNBjBNZd4A4
Then read this piece I wrote on Christ Mass day – appropriately
http://dhalpin.infoaction.org.uk/7-articles/political/205-a-baby-is-born-but-bombsrus-cameron-s-christmas-is-mercy-mild
READ THERE THE WORDS OF DAMNED BALFOUR – IN PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. AND NOTE YINON
Shame on your inhumanity if you follow in his footsteps. ‘Universalism’ is the only way. We are specks in time and with the farming adage in mind, we must leave this world better than we found it.
David Halpin… Ya Wee Hero… Thank you
Space aliens controlling the world — and in particular the British governmment — is the plot of the very frightening Quatermass II. I suspect that what Nigel Kneale really was thinking of was the control even then being exercised over the British government by the U.S. Or perhaps he was only thinking of control by the Establishment. Since he was writing for the BBC, he couldn’t be too explicit about what he was thinking, even in the 1950’s.
The Abbé Barruel blamed the French Revolution on a conspiracy by Freemasons.
Herbie
29/12/2015 12:04am
Please scroll past this posting if you have no interest in Freemasonry. Sorry it has to be so long.
“What’s it for, JSD, your Freemasonry,”
You don’t have to ask me what it’s for. You can go to the website of the United Grand Lodge of England, which explains what Freemasonry is “for”. However, I will summarise it for you, and I will also tell you two things about what it’s “for” that are not explained on the website. Nothing sinister about that, though – I am just offering an inside perspective.
You said in an earlier posting that you have been told that Freemasonry is a charitable body. That’s quite true. I would not myself have emphasized it as the most important aspect, though.
UGLE describes it as “an enjoyable hobby”. That is correct, and is what most people now get out of being a Freemason. The meetings are wonderful and beautiful. It is a highly social hub, like a church. It can include spouses and families in certain ways, if desired. Meetings are highly structured and ritualized, and the formal meals afterwards are also very structured, and exceedingly enjoyable.
Furthermore, every Lodge welcomes guests. I could go anywhere in the UK (or the world, for that matter) and be assured of a welcome. That doesn’t interest me a great deal, because I am something of a stay-at-home, but it is very important to gregarious Freemasons.
Two things the website does not say, but I will, because I believe they explain very well the strong attraction that Freemasonry has for people.
The first is that it is a way in which – in my experience – men, who are “men’s men”, who are most comfortable socially in the company and society of other men, are able to have fun and associate with each other in reasonably large numbers without the need for heavy drinking, antler-banging, or bitter argument about religion, politics, class resentment, status, career, money, or the million and one other things that people get fucked up about in their inner lives. All Freemasons are equal. That’s a very important aspect of Freemasonry – probably the most important aspect in terms of cohesiveness. Obviously I am unable to speak reliably about what goes on in women-only Lodges, but I imagine that much the same is true there.
The second is that if you have not experienced it then it is hardly possible to communicate what a tremendous bloody lark it all is. To give an analogy, at my degree ceremony in 1988, the Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of my university dressed in these silly bloody costumes, with coloured mortar boards and tassels, and every time the Vice-Chancellor addressed the Chancellor directly, they both stopped talking for five seconds and raised their hats to each other. It was hugely solemn, and absolutely ludicrous, at one and the same time. Freemasonry is hours and hours of that. Most Freemasons I know have a very highly developed sense of the ridiculous – paunchy, balding, middle-aged men buying and dressing up in these extraordinary costumes, and learning this beautiful ritualized language that sounds like something out of the medieval Assizes, and delivering it to each other in this solemn way. It’s FUN. We are all perfectly aware of that. It’s like a giant game. We’re all aware that it’s childish. But we are all in it together, and believe me, it’s hysterical. It creates a camaraderie in an extremely effective way, because it’s so interesting.
UGLE also describes it as a way of making new friends and acquaintances, which I have touched on. It is also, as you say, a charitable body. I will show you two links which are of immediate interest to me, because of the nature of the work that I myself do. The first is Masonic care homes for infirm Freemasons and their families: https://www.rmbi.org.uk/ The second is Masonic advice and support workers: http://www.freemasonrycares.org/pages/advice_support_team.html Both have been of practical assistance to me in my job.
I’ll have to pick the rest up later.
Kind regards,
John
Dear Dr David Halpin, thank you for the video of the young Palestinian child forced under torture to make a confession to a stabbing crime he clearly has no recollection of and quite obviously wants to go home. Like you say he is one of many Muslim victims of the wars of psychopaths Tony Blair and George W Bush. It is a good blog.
As to the Christian leaders who are only concerned about Christian victims of this war I have mixed feelings. Syrian Christians are being forced to convert to Islam or die. It is a fact. I think they are even more persecuted than the Kurds. I agree however that the Christian church is largely oblivious to the sufferings of non-Christians.
When Talha Ahsan was in solitary confinement in a superprison in Connecticut I sent a number of emails concerning his plight (the work of Theresa May, a supposed Christian) to Lambeth Palace. All were ignored. It was only after I button-holed a bishop, who was officiating at my church’s patronal festival, that I was able to get a response. I gave him in the process of my plea on behalf of Talha, a hurriedly-written letter on disc. I asked him to make the A of C aware of this injustice. The response from his office, not him, amounted to it is all right to campaign at a local level in conjunction with my vicar – most unsatisfactory from my point of view. The next time I saw this bishop (a man who looks you straight in the eye as though searching your soul) I thanked him for provoking a response and told him that Talha was now home.
We must continue, as George Fox said, to speak truth to power.
Here is some more truth. When I started contributing to this blog I was a donor to Amnesty International. Thanks to contributors here (Mary and I think Mark Golding) I learnt that it was not the great charitable NGO it had been bigged up to be by our media. This regards AI Sweden.
http://theindicter.com/swedish-doctors-for-human-rights-on-the-allegations-of-war-crimes-put-forward-by-amnesty-international-against-russia/
JSD
Just scrolled past as invited. Freemasonry is bbooorriiinnngg!
My point to you is that freemasonry may be a charitable institution but what to you looks like belonging, looks to me like being owned.
erdogan belongs to Nato, and is therefore owned by Nato, in terms of his freedom of decision. Nobody’s interested in the activities or opinions of tiddlywink members of secret societies, but we have to be very interested in people who smuggle arms, drugs and weapons to terrorists, and smuggle oil, terrorism and savage un Christian and un Muslim actions back the other way. Freemasonry is a harmless stooge for social connecting one way but a cover for powerful people to secretly harm us the other way.
If you don’t like the connection being made between yourself as a freemason and David cameron the war criminal inserter into pigs, i suggest you resign. Why portray yourself as a victim when it’s perfectly obvious that the target of our rage is the author of war, homelessness, rape, usurped property and illegal smuggling and arms sales?
You haven’t done any of those things, but the pig inserter has done all of them. Understand?
“Freemasonry is hours and hours of that. Most Freemasons I know have a very highly developed sense of the ridiculous – paunchy, balding, middle-aged men buying and dressing up in these extraordinary costumes, and learning this beautiful ritualized language that sounds like something out of the medieval Assizes, and delivering it to each other in this solemn way. It’s FUN.”
I can accept that. The social side. But, what say if an outsider wrote a skit on this frivolity, would his/her family be safe? While it is jolly for the brothers it could be fatal for others. I’m not saying it is. Most third-degree masons would not even know about it if it happened. Conversely masons could be blamed for a murder they did not commit. As in all society, and I think you have mentioned this yourself, there are good and bad.
I remember when the BBC (in the days when they were allowed) did a disclosure on Freemasons, with the initiation ceremony, I think they only did entered apprentice, but it was a long time ago, my mother said to my father, you did not do that, did you? My dad’s silence could not be described as dignified but they loved one another, and were lovely people. If my father was a mason, he got out quite quickly. He was a Christian though, in many of his actions, and a good man.
The illegitimate coup government’s armies in Ukraine are still at it.
http://tass.ru/en/politics/847210
” This regards AI Sweden. ”
Thin and blatantly obvious whitewash of Russian war crimes in Syria. There is copious evidence of their use of cluster bombs and the idea that they’ve been able to conduct their extensive bombing campaign without causing any civilian casualties just isn’t credible.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/evidence-mounts-russian-cluster-bomb-syria-151012081654030.html
JSD
We are all agreed , I hope, that we are not going to become extremists, when faced with totally unacceptable decisions by corrupt NATO governments. We are not going to blow up petrol stations i demonstration against the overrunning of Syria by depraved Islamists i order to steal oil, using Iraqi connections with Stratford Tory MP.
So what are we going to do instead? Observe silence like Quakers? remain mum like freemasons? pray behind corrupt imams who collaborate with the neo-cons? Pay £3 to join the Labour party?
I used to have a Tory Muslim boss who had acquired an OBE through steady pandering to Thatcherist principles, which are about the opposite of Islam. he hated me and I hated him. Why at this time in history after colonialism was defeated in WW2 and a generation has been brought up in a welfare state and non-colonialist aggression, why now of all times assist the British Raj to re-open its ravages of its own people and foreign nations?
Why? Why? Why? at a time that the struggles of socialism and blood guts and thunder have brought free speech and an end to bigotry, why? why why would anyone decide to belong to a secretive society that refuses to stand up and speak against what is going on?
John Goss has spoken about his father. My father was a very principled man, but not a freemason. But he might as well have been, because he would not discuss any political or emotional/emotive issue for more than 3 minutes. Then an internal clock made from a brass dial, with perfectly drilled holes for each 10 minutes and a synchronous motor of great exactness, would break the contacts of his brain’s interest in the discussion.
All I can say to you John Spencer Davis, if you want to live your life within the constraints of a gagging machine, and it makes you happy, please feel free to carry on, but why come to a whistle-blowing blog to extol the virtues of remaining dumb?
Piers Corbyn predicted mega-storms would hit the UK and Iceland 28-31 December, 10 weeks ago!
The fecking Met Office can barely get tomorrow’s weather right.
The eminent Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, took counter-GCHQ measures in the 1980s as part of the Anglo-Irish peace process. This included warning the Irish government about the blanket surveillance. Was this one of the factors that led to a successful completion of the talks, eventually?
John Spencer-Davis
I’d like to thank you for your posts on Masons, which , as a non-Mason, found both interesting ad illuminating. I hope that other (silent) regular followers of this blog feel the same.
You will of course have noticed that you will never be able to convince some people. See, for examples, the following reactions:
“But, what say if an outsider wrote a skit on this frivolity, would his/her family be safe?”
(the underlying thought here is: JSD might be a good guy but he is just a dupe, a common garden, low-level mason unaware of what the higher-ups are really about)
and
“This freemason stuff has been a distraction on at least two of Craig’s recent threads.
For feck’s sake, Craig, make another post. It’s not like there’s nothing happening in the world at the moment.”
(in translation: I don’t believe what you say and I don’t want to discuss this topic any further).
But keep on, if required: there’s nothing which upsets some on here more than a commenter who refuses to be brow-beaten and, moreover, addresses them politely and with knowledge of the subject he’s writing about.
Happy New Year to you.
“The illegitimate coup government’s armies in Ukraine are still at it.”
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He,s still at it, flogging the dead horse.
Source for Mr Goss this time – Russia’s TASS.
Kempe 30 Dec, 2015 – 6:52 am
I haven’t looked at your disinformation link. I’m very choosey about what I give my time to and the Saudi mouthpiece Al Jazeera is one of the last places I would go for imparitality.
“I’m very choosey about what I give my time to”
Comment of the year.
Earl Gowrie story: http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/lord-gowrie-told-irish-diplomats-about-british-spying-1.2479834
Thank you very much for your well argued Christ mass message, David Halpin, I hope it reaches the depth of everyone’s cranium here.
Thanks for the links Brian, I wish you a great slide into the new year, no doubt you will be dancing somewhere.
And thanks for your detailed replies JSD.
OTAN spinning the wrong way?
. . . Hesitation due to Poland raiding the joint Polish/Slovak NATO intelligence fusion centre and deposing the commander, who called the Polish police – who ruled that spats between spooks was outside their remit!/?
Don’t look at the Northwest Arkansas report of what their continental intelligence agencies are unwilling to share: (hint:FOIBLE, from archaic French, weakness or feebleness, lacking strength of character)
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2015/dec/30/bid-to-reveal-senior-spies-foibles-bloc/
From YKMN’s link
“The CIA issued a lengthy response that outlined its objections to the Senate report, although CIA Director John Brennan acknowledged problems in the interrogation program and said the agency “fell short when it came to holding individuals accountable for poor performance and management failures.”
thanks for that bit of hilarity, YKMN, so they want to snoop on the world/ everyone’s online habits, but when it comes to performing and being accountable, they don’t like it up them.
@Brian, thanks for the FB link; here’s another good Palestine resource;
http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/home.php
A rapid apology from Letwin following the release in many of today’s papers of his outrageous and racist remarks made at the time of the Broadwater Estate riot.
http://news.sky.com/gallery/1614012/wednesdays-newspaper-front-pages
He has been there advising Thatcher, Howard, Duncan-Smith and he now controls Cameron’s agenda.
This was another of his very telling remarks in 2011.
‘Speaking to consultancy firm KPMG on 27 July 2011, Letwin caused controversy after stating that you cannot have “innovation and excellence” without “real discipline and some fear on the part of the providers” in the public sector. This was widely reported, with The Guardian headline stating Letwin says ‘public sector workers need “discipline and fear”‘.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Letwin
Public sector workers need ‘discipline and fear’, says Oliver Letwin
Coalition’s policy chief on reforms believes excellence would be achieved through fear of losing jobs and real discipline
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/jul/30/public-sector-jobs-oliver-letwin?CMP=twt_gu
When appointed Shadow DEFRA minister in 2005, he worked for Rothschild until 2009. �5k a month. Nice.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?d=2010-09-06#10355
His connection to Rothschild goes back to 2000. He was a director when he was first elected as an MP.
10 November 2000 (first entry we have)
1. Remunerated directorships
�N.M. Rothschild Corporate Finance Ltd.; investment banking subsidiary of the Rothschild Group.
and subsequent throughout the record until 2009.
Note also that KPMG have had an employee in his office from the start. Cosy. Helpful in the privatisations no doubt.
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/regmem/?p=10355
SHAME ON HIM AND THE REST OF THE 1%.
Herbie Redux
28 Dec, 2015 – 8:49 pm
“Yeahbut.
Not all Masons are created equal.
Albert Pike is dodgy, for example.
I mean, what level of Mason are you John.
I don’t exactly blame the teller at my local Santander for the horrific crimes of Banking, the IMF and World Bank.
As JFK said, not a good idea to have secret societies, especially when they’re secreted into govt and state agencies, the police and judiciary etc.”
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Having read JSD’s replies, revisiting Herbie’s ridiculous conspiracy theories, confirms his membership of the Secret Society of Conspiraloons! Flush the Goons out, one at a time.
“Piers Corbyn predicted mega-storms would hit the UK and Iceland 28-31 December, 10 weeks ago!”
No he didn’t. He predicted mega-storms would hit “across the world” and although we are having a moderately strong storm here the rest of the world seems surprisingly calm for the time of year with just storm Ula in the middle of the Pacific. He also predicted the cause of the storm was solar activity which would lead to an extremely strong jet stream and again I’ve just checked and there is nothing exceptional about the jet stream.
He got the “mega” part wrong and he got the “across the world” part wrong so the Met Office win this one.
The GCHQ predictive political prose machine , adapted from publishing software that can write hot sexy novels but with the hotsex vocabulary removed, has been pouring out troll tripe all morning. OK there is so far no shortage of ether, just as there was no shortage of paper for the theologians of the 16th and 17th centuries to make tomes of belligerent discussion. Do those tomes say anything of import? No nothing. Same with the troll machine.