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?
A Happy New Year to all the good people here !
Thank you John for your kind words, they reminded me of another time I was virtually alone, when I was defending Mary during an intense period when she was under constant gang-pack attacks, not just by the regular trolls, ie Habbu-Clown, Anon1, ResDes, Villager & Jemand, but also by the spitefully jealous Dreoilin, Technicolour & Glenn; funny how some of the present vocal supporters of Mary, who were around at this time, were conspicuous then by their silence.
I’m pleased to be able to advise that Mary is well & busy posting at another Site, which I decline to name so as not to set the troll-pack flocking there to target her again.
I also note with amusement that two posters who cannot stand each other, are at least united in that both cannot stand to acknowledge my presence here ! 😀
Macky thanks for the update on Mary. I wish her well. 🙂
Macky
01/01/2016 4:22am
I miss Mary and I wish she were still posting on here, although I am very glad if she has found a congenial home elsewhere.
Just because I appreciated Mary as a tremendous engine of left resources, does not mean I agreed with everything she said or did. When I agreed with her, I said so; when I did not agree with her, I stayed silent, usually. The reason I stayed silent was that I felt she had enough to contend with without being criticised by people who generally agreed with her.
Others obviously took a different view, feeling that it was their right to disagree with any poster irrespective of what else was going on at the time. I do not criticise that position, but I did not share it.
Sometimes I disagreed with Mary on here and she was very civilised about it, giving the lie to people who opine that she always identified people who disagreed with her as an enemy. However.
I do not clearly remember the circumstances which you are talking about, and I don’t think it would be productive to re-engage in old disputes. I do remember thinking sometimes that Glenn, for instance, was clearly in the right and Mary was not, but refraining from saying so, because I had no desire to kick someone who was already being kicked by a lot of people who I did not agree with in the slightest. Possibly one of those situations is what you are thinking of, because I am certain I am not alone in what I did. Incidentally, I have also publicly supported Mary at times when I was subject to the most vicious criticism for doing so. I didn’t feel the need to pat myself on the back for it under everybody’s eyes, nor to jeer at almost everybody else on the forum on New Year’s Day. Your comments are divisive and inappropriate for the day.
Happy New Year, in any case. I wish you well for 2016.
John
BBC World Service welcomes in 2016 in the early hours with a crocodile teared Syrian doctor despairing for Syria. The BBC World Service is the mouthpiece for MI6, so what’s their take on Syria?
Choking back his tears for being separated from his children while he was treating the injured in his home country the doctor complained that Russia, for business which in Middle-East speak means tijara/ profiteering/ mercenary gain, was attacking the Syrian rebels, who we all know have uprooted 11 million people with their obscene violence, shooting them up and killing them by takfiri justifications so they can use their homes as a war-zone.
Well it’s true that Iraq is paying Russia for its defence against the USUKIS nutcases of Al Qaida and Daesh, who are one and the same organisation. But I hardly think it’s mercenary of Russia to charge for finally bringing the crack=heads in Riyadh London Paris and Washington to the negotiating table. Russia and China know that the crack;heads will be targeting them next, as they did in Chechnya. Indeed, US helicopters rescued Daesh leaders from Ramidi before they would allow Iraqi troops to take the city back into their own control.
I think we’ve had enough Arab crocodile tears over white-gunge covered children in films that have tried to accuse Assad of using chemical weapons, to dismiss this vile propaganda from the BBC. It’s just shocking that they start so early into the NEW Year.
Nevermind
Mr Elliott, as in Shimon Elliott, alias friend of US senator John McCain, alias Baghdadi?
@John Spencer-Davis, the period that I reffered to, was well before your time, and only those here at the time know what a horrendous period it was for Mary, and she has often reffered to the terrible toll & effect it has had on her; it was one of the original reasons why I started to question the moderation here.
Nobody as ever stated that Mary was above criticism, especially as I myself disagreed with her more than once, and told her so, so put that straw-man away.
As to my comments being divisive and inappropriate for the day, sorry but I can’t abide stomach churning hypocrisy at any time of the year, and wiill not stand back when it comes to the truth being told.
“Judging from his contributions Anon1 is hardly capable of reading anything but what he’s fed from his race masters of the master race, Kempe has…” etc, etc
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Not sure how you justify that tone of intellectual superiority, Mr Goss; to me you’ve always seemed one of the dimmer commenters on here.
Macky, if you were available at the time to stick up for Mary, Thanks be to God. Surely it’s obvious that people are earning their livings and cannot monitor the total garbage output of the GCHQ trolling machine. It is also obvious that the opinions of commenters here come from a plurality of beliefs. For example me you Alcyone and Clark value religion and everyone else thinks it is the source of all our problems. I don’t know why Mary took things personally at this particular time. Trolls will be trolls. If I gave up on the religion haters agreeing with me, I’d have to wait for judgement day before posting here.
XmasHumbug
dimmer
Everything revolves around for or against Israel in your mind.
Do you not see that a dimmer switch is much more sophisticated than an ON/OFF one?
Don’t worry, go back to sleep.
“Our gite business here in France has been totally decimated…”
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I sympathise. You wouldn’t be the first Brit who’s come a cropper after cashing in on his overpriced property in the UK, using part of the proceeds to buy a cheapo property in rural France and then setting up a gite or estate agent business catering to other Brits with more money than sense. The great anti-capitalist environmentalist! LOL
Hope you don’t tell your British guests what you think of the UK!
@Giyanne, it was not a question of not having time for those I’m thinking of, as they found time to post about other stuff at this same time, rather it was moral cowardice & fear of upsetting & falling-out with both virtual & actual “pals”, whereas if they had any sort of moral integrity it would have been an honour to part company with anybody displaying such disgusting behaviour & malice. I rather leave it there as I’ll only have JSD going on about being “divisive” again ! 🙂
“I could afford to go out to restaurants in Oxford (some of the time, most of the time I had to eat college food) because the U.S. government was paying me a generous allowance as a veteran after my time in Berlin.”
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The legend is padded out – I was wondering how the son of a New York Irish-American bus driver was able to afford the fees and living costs of studying at Oxford. All clear now – or perhaps not.
At the time, to read Greats (clssical studies), one needed to have Greek and Latin to a high standard. I wonder if he picked them up while serving in Berlin? 🙂
“Not sure how you justify that tone of intellectual superiority, Mr Goss; to me you’ve always seemed one of the dimmer commenters on here.”
I justify it by not supporting cowardly Israeli army acts such as those in the link in this comment. I suspect that is really what got your goat and made me seem ‘dimmer’ to you bright sparks. 😀
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/12/coe-better-protected-than-blatter-by-corrupt-national-authorities/comment-page-10/#comment-571471
” Macky has stood out almost alone in opposing the illegal regime in Kiev”
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I second that, Mr Goss. I would venture that Macky’s occasional posts on here were instrumental in bringing the Kiev fascists to the negotiating table.
“I’m pleased to be able to advise that Mary is well & busy posting at another Site, which I decline to name so as not to set the troll-pack flocking there to target her again.”
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Every silver lining has its cloud.
Indeed John Goss, that list could never be complete and thanks for that hint Macky, good to hear she’s is still battling away, she is much missed.
JSD, Mary never asked anybody to agree with her, her postings were mainly informative and quiet benign, principled stances, mainly on human rights and on ‘follow the money’ issues.
We all, at times, don’t agree with everything that’s proffered here, not by Craig or other posters, that is the whole idea behind a blog, to comment on the issue at hand and bring opposing views to bear, however wrong or right they might be.
out of it, sometimes, a third or fourth position emerges, what I regard as synthesis.
@Giyanne, its not the Baghdadi Elliot, but Elliott Johnson who was bullied over a period of time, reported it to various people high up, incl. Grant Shapps, who resigned over it, and Lord Feldmann, allegedly, who denies any knowledge or having received any emails informing him of the bullying.
Elliott Johnson threw himself in front of a train, so desperate and unsupported he was. I’m no Tory supporter, but unless this issue is sorted by an open Independent inquiry, this issue will grace my header. There is more to come out then meets the eye imho.
Why, because it goes to the heart of a heartless nasty party who’d rather employ some ‘friendly lawyers’, allegedly, in a back room inquiry, then to come out and deal with it throughout the whole party. The Tories are riddled with bullies and back-stabbers.
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-12-13/parents-of-tory-activist-elliot-johnson-to-boycott-inquiry-into-bullying-claims/
Mr Goss
““Not sure how you justify that tone of intellectual superiority, Mr Goss; to me you’ve always seemed one of the dimmer commenters on here.”
I justify it by not supporting cowardly Israeli army acts such as those in the link in this comment.”
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I think your “response” backs up my opinion of you rather well, doesn’t it??
Best laugh of the year so far,
NewNews : “Goss described as ‘dimmer’ by Janner apologist; Murkyn reveals all”.
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Meanwhile in the real world, settlers continue the slow genocide – only quicker.
In one of my ‘dim’ comments a couple of days back I referred to an epetition urging the government to plant trees to help soak up some of the excess water to alleviate flooding. One of the bright sparks thought this was a bad idea. At that time the petition had less than 10,000 signatures. Since then a lot more ‘dim’ people, more than twice the revious tally, have added their names to the petition and I suspect that by tomorrow there will be more than 20,000 signatures.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/117136
According to this UN security council ruling, all annexation of East Jerusalem territory, judgements made by Israel’s ‘rubber judges’ are null and void, illegitimate.
https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/0a2a053971ccb56885256cef0073c6d4/dde590c6ff232007852560df0065fddb?OpenDocument
many thanks to Bodour Yousef Hassan for his informative EI article, keeping us informed during the festive period. Looks like the genocide is joined by ethnic cleansing of those who speak out against this lawlessness.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/jerusalem-expulsions-target-activists-and-community-leaders/15097
Nevermind, I don’t think the party whose leader gets his kicks out of abusing the orifice of a dead pig could be accused of bullying. 😀
“I think your “response” backs up my opinion of you rather well, doesn’t it??”
Are you condoning the actions of those cowardly Israeli army thugs with guns who beat an unarmed man to death?
Happy New Year to all, long may your lum reek.
Meanwhile David Cameron has been criticised for only visiting posh estates to see the aftermath of storm Frank. Cameron’s apologists countered by saying that Jeremy Corbyn only visited poor estates after storm Frank.
Tim Farron’s apologists could only say Mr Farron is in a state.
Happy New Year to All.
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Third rate salesman, Cameron, is now conflating loyalty to Britain with support for the disastrous policies of his govt and his thieving banking friends.
Let me be the first to tell the cheeky little shit that the interests of the British people are best served by reigning in the bankers and increasing British productive capacity and infrastructure.
It’s trading with people that will increase British wealth, Mr Cameron, not bombing the shit out of everyone, and stealing from them.
If the challenges of the emerging world are too difficult for you, fuck off back to your inheritance and leave it to those who have a clue.
Cameron’s way and May’s way, is the way of all third rate cowards.
A retreat to Fascism is all Cameron has to offer.
Treat this imbecile with the contempt he deserves.
Alcyone (End the Cliches 😉
30 Dec, 2015 – 9:51 pm
Why are the Palestinians not being helped by their rich and powerful Arab brethren?
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Basically because most of them are corrupt dictatorship puppets of the west.
“Are you condoning the actions of those cowardly Israeli army thugs with guns who beat an unarmed man to death?”
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I’m afraid John they programme them from childhood, though surprisingly some Israeli teachers are trying to change that perspective.
Some school teachers in Israel wanted to introduce books into the curriculum regarding relationships between Palestinians and Israelis, or J**s, such as Borderlife set in New York.
Alas Minister for Education in Israel (A right wing hardliner) Naftali Bennett has cracked down on such ground breaking forward moves, claiming it would undermine the distinct identity of Israeli J**s.
Bennett recently banned the ex-soldiers group Breaking the Silence, speaking to school pupils, which seeks to educate for an end to Israel’s 48 year occupation of the West Bank.
Looking on from the outside, it would appear the cracks are showing in Israeli society, this particular can of worms looks like it may open from the inside.
Habbabkuk, happy new year and lang may yer bum leak (hic!)
Yesterday David Cameron and Nigel Farage, could be seen in one of the many niches in Westminster, both had earphones plugged into their ears, and both looked as though they were timidly dancing.
Coincidently the far right and anti-immigration organisation Pediga, saw their new Christmas song shoot up the Amazon charts to number two.
Doug, thank you. At least one person has given this a little thought and come up with an answer.
Now, what will you do about it?
One fool here going by the name Aidworker, hid a bunch of Israeli dates at Tesco’s under a pile of undies and was pleased as punch with himself.
JSD, consciously or more likely at 4h22, subconsciously, Macky was responding to my following question:
“2 Poor Macky excluded again from the Club? what does she need to do to be counted, I wonder.”
So, she played the Mary card.
I also note, as I suspect you did quite readily, that she didn’t feel the need to return your compliments for the New Year. She is not one given to finer sensibilities I’m afraid.