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?
” inhabited by shills like JSD.”
And now because he has had the temerity to disagree the bullying starts – led by an overt anti-Semite (and that is a matter of record as well) who the cowardly pack have never had the temerity to challenge.
“I have never posted under more than one name. Who else can say that?”
So you only started posting on political blogs a few years back when you reached retirement age?
Hasn’t she done well given that her Dad is struggling along on US$120k a year – who have thought that rock and roll dancing could make you a billionaire.
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/what-its-like-to-be-putins-billionaire-daughter-185157989.html
“Habbabkuk, and others, should apologise to Mary, and not let it happen again.” Quite right. They should. But they won’t. One needs to understand why these people come here, and to similar places. It is not to engage in reasoned debate, it is to subvert, attack, intimidate, bore, distract, divert. In any way they can, they wish to prevent a positive, progressive consensus emerging. That is their job. And of course they succeed. After decades of irrefutable proof that climate change is happening, proof that was discovered and acknowledged by the fossil fuel companies themselves decades ago, the majority still think the issue is open and that scientists (that’s the overwhelming majority of scientists, by the way) have fudged or distorted the evidence, for various devious reasons perfectly understandable to anyone whose only idea of value is monetary. Which is just about the only idea of value now taught in our culture. So of course these people aren’t going to apologise. They are going to sit back and congratulate themselves on having sown so much dissension and distortion and distraction and successfully averted the growth of a real alternative to “liberal democracy” or whatever it is the capitalist elite now label the state most likely to protect their profits and further their ambitions.
Don’t credit them with good intentions. If they had them, they wouldn’t be doing what they are doing.
Briar
I have long accepted that climate change is happening – I think you will find not a few deniers among those who you seek to defend. As for the baseless accusation that we defend liberal democracy for money perhaps you might wish to provide some evidence rather than hyperbole. Of course the opposite of liberal democracy would be a totalitarian dictatorship which is perhaps why some of your friends are so keen on those who oppose the West.
“so popular with people engaging in the mind forged manacles of marriage”
Says so much about you I’m afraid.
William Blake’s belief in free love is a matter of record
Nimr Baqir al-Nimr PBUH
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/saudi-arabia-has-executed-151-people-so-far-year-highest-two-decades
Giyane, you are clearly a man who cannot distinguish between grey and platinum blonde. 🙂 Strange image but you are welcome to it.
“Hasn’t she done well given that her Dad is struggling along on US$120k a year – who have thought that rock and roll dancing could make you a billionaire.”
Here again you can see precisely where RD’s loathsome hatred of Putin and all things Russian (except his wife) is exclusive. It excludes all the sprogs of western leaders and presidential candidates who are rolling in it. Yet he does not talk about her wealth in rubles. If you read the article it is clear that Katerina’s wealth had little to do with rock-n-roll, a fine form of exercise to which I am not averse. Pity RD is so partisan.
Briar; “Don’t credit them with good intentions. If they had them, they wouldn’t be doing what they are doing.”
That’s the basic bottom line definition for a troll; I would also add that they are aided by others who a) support them in order to justify their own perjudices/agenda, b) by those who are not particularly bright or perceptive, c) by those who do credit them with good intentions, by getting into “debates” with them ,which of course plays into their hands; if you are going to engage with a troll, it should only be to call them out, to highlight their hypocrisy/stupidity/irationality, or when needs must, to response to lying abuse.
How the British State deals with the consequences of its own criminality; never-endings inqueries, the passing of decades;
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35211336
In his eighth and final year in office, he proposes action against ‘gun violence’, ie the killing of American citizens by other American citizens.
He omits all mention of the killing under his watch of other human beings, mainly with brown skins and living in other continents, by American drone, bomb, missile and bullet.
‘Which brings us to Barack “Kill List” Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize and the direct, personal overseer of the CIA targeted assassination and drone war programs. He has always been a big fan of the elder Bush’s Persian Gulf War. After taking his opening “dovish” shots at Bush Junior, Obama kept the U.S. military “machine set on kill” (Alan Nairn). Under his administration, Washington has killed thousands of civilians in drone, bomb, and Special Forces attacks in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. When his forces of “humility and restraint” killed 140 civilians, including 93 children (many of the literally blown to pieces) in early May of 2009 in the western Afghanistan village of Bola Boluk, Obama refused to apologize.
The most recent US war crime in the Age of Obama took place a month ago in the Afghan city of Kunduz, where “just” America bombed a hospital, killing 22 people, including patients, three children, and medical personnel from Doctors Without Borders, also known as Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF). U.S. forces consciously, repeatedly, and precisely targeted the MSF hospital, an egregious war crime under the Geneva Convention. MSF provided the American military its exact GPS coordinates on multiple recent occasions, including on September 29th. There was a nine-foot flag on the roof identifying the building as a hospital. After the first strike, MSF contacted U.S. officials and pleaded with them to stop the carnage. Nothing doing: a U.S. AC-130 gunship persisted in pounding the medical facility for more than an hour, burning patients in their beds and butchering doctors and nurses as they worked. The hospital was targeted because it treats all injured persons, including those fighting the U.S.-backed Afghan government and thereby resisting Washington’s crime-boss dictum: “What we say goes.”
There’s nothing like “humility and restraint” in the “prudent use” of U.S. power.’
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/11/05/humility-and-restraint-barack-obama-don-corleone-and-the-ongoing-record-of-u-s-war-criminality/
Giyane
02/01/2016 1:22am 7:47am
Tell you what, Giyane.
If Mary takes her complaint to a competent professional – either a policeman or a solicitor – and receives advice that she has a case and legal proceedings would be worth engaging in – I will undertake to spend sixteen hours – two standard working days – on her behalf, going through these threads and digging out the strongest material that will support her case. Free of charge.
Now, why don’t you match that offer? We could divide the threads up by date, say, that would be easy enough, to avoid duplication of effort.
That offer, incidentally, is made without conditions and stands whether you decide to match it or not.
If you think I would deliberately not do a good job, we could both submit our work to Mary and ask her to say on here what she thought, or we could lay it all out in front of the contributors here and ask them to reach a judgment on the quality of the work, with her agreement, of course.
How about that? We would both have a chance of being of really practical assistance.
John
Here again you can see precisely where RD’s loathsome hatred of Putin and all things Russian (except his wife) is exclusive.
Why don’t you just f*** o** – or perhaps your fellow pack members would like to try and make you apologise.
Yes it is patently clear that her wealth had nothing to do with rock and roll dancing – but then you never did irony. As for western politicians relatives misusing their parents influence there is no denying that and they are rightfully castigated in our free press. But if Putin’s daughter does it on a larger scale with help from her father who is clearly lying about his income on his tax declarations you just engage in deflection.
“it should only be to call them out, to highlight their hypocrisy/stupidity/irationality, or when needs must, to response to lying abuse.”
Which is of course what I did with your lying abuse.
Perhaps Guano, Goss and Macky could also collect very accusation and item of abuse aimed at myself, Habba, Anon1 and other dissenters here – should keep then quiet for a while. Though I suspect they would find the old ends justify the means argument before too long.
Two SAS specialists arrested by Basra police in 2005 and later freed by a British military operation committed war crimes and must be prosecuted.
Hassan Al-Zarqani, a spokesman for Mahdi Army militia described the two British SAS operatives as terrorists. He stated that the Iraq police found weapons, explosives and remote control detonators in their car. He explained “We believe these soldiers were planning an attack on a market or other civilian targets”. The quick fierce action of the British army to release the two SAS operatives before being interrogated tends to support the view that this incident has deeper implications beyond what appears on the surface.
I note the report has been scrubbed from the BBC ME web-page and more.
I will ‘name and shame’ these personnel if the British government fails in its duty to indict for war crimes and command a High Court trial since these operatives are now no longer under military jurisdiction.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/british-terrorism-in-iraq/1024
Resident Dissident; “Which is of course what I did with your lying abuse.”
Yet another lie ! How perpetrators love to play the victim ! Poor little RD will never win any Oscars, so he might as well give up now ! 😀
I should also add that if John Goss knew anything about Russia and had perhaps read a little Gogol he would know that love of officials and leaders is far from being universal among ordinary Russians and is not a qualification for being a Russophile as he seems to believe. He will have to try a lot harder if he is to join the lower orders of useful idiots.
So Macky is now calling me a liar – I am truly honoured!
Macky shall of course be producing evidence in due course for his claims and insinuations I frequent Stormfront and made the post by “Mary” rather than finding it through a Google search as I described very clearly at the time. He could of course apologise for his/her lying and bullying.
“How perpetrators love to play the victim !”
A universal line from bullies everywhere.
So this is what the blog of a human rights activist and pacifist looks like.
What chance has world peace got.
Resident Dissident
“Habba
Please don’t be bullied by the current pack – they are all fart and wind”
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Don’t worry, RD, the day the Dirty Dozen scare me will be the day pigs grow wings and start flying.
Actually I would encourage “Mary” to initiate proceedings for “harassment” and “bullying”. That would finally flush her and like-minded posters out, so bring it on! 🙂
@RD, save your “poor victimise me” act for your fellow single digit brain cell sufferers; even the few brain cells that you have, seemed not to be working well lately, so let me help kick-start them; pointing out suspicious circumstances/connections is not the same thing as stating something is a true fact; I pointed out that the handful of pro-Establishment Apologists here, do happen to have a proven record of bringing up connections to Race Hate sites here.
Let’s face it, you ARE rather a dodgy character, a known user of Sock-Puppets, (even one using the same email address !), a known bully of this Site that caused it to shut down for several weeks after threatening legal action over some mysterious Anti-Semitic posts, posts that look like exactly the stuff that would be lifted from a Race Hate site. This is without mentioning your other dodgyness such as shilling for Neocon wars, deflections of Israeli crimes, Russophobic & Islamophobic sentiments, etc, etc
Not just not very bright, but a very, very dodgy character indeed ! 😀
Resident Dissident
“That is probably why I listened to what they were saying on my recent visit – and hence I know that you know even less and have never aired your own opinions directly with the locals.”
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Not only do I suspect that RobG adopts a completely different persona when talking with the locals but I’m also rather sure he doesn’t reveal his views about the UK to his British paying guests.
We musn’t ruin a good living, must we (the outrageous prices charged by British expats for gite accomodation have to be seen to be believed).
I hope people, having read Mr Spence-Davis’s comment at 23h14 yesterday, will see what I meant when I referred to him as this blog’s subtlest commenter 🙂
Although I probably don’t agree with him on much, I hope to see much more from him in 2016.
Nebelmind
“i.e. If said person full well knew Mary was convalescing, knew that his behaviour would cause unnecessary, avoidable distress and psychological pressure? and still persistently carried on?”
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You mean persistently carrying on while the person concerned was herself persistently carrying on despite her alleged distress?
You really are a fool, Ingo.
Whoops!
Two more items on Mr Spencer-Davis’s charge sheet thanks to the ineffable “Herbie”:
“1/.I do hope you’re misremembering, though the rather stark categorical way in which you’ve made these false assertions does raise a concern. (Translation: Herbie’s annoyed)
2/.Anyway, I look forward to you telling me all about these architects and stonemasons, and their craft, and indeed why what you claim to be a “joke” outfit has such a long history, involving very prominent people in many nations”. (Translation: Herbie has a down on Masons).
“Yet another lie ! How perpetrators love to play the victim ! Poor little RD will never win any Oscars, so he might as well give up now ! 😀 ”
He’s trying to win the Nobel prize for literature coming to this blog trawling through comments, like the ghost of Bashmachkin searching Petersburg for his stolen topcoat. When he finds something he can twist like soft dough into an anti-Putin meme he’s away. Not very original but most literature is attributable to others. Gogol was a great writer, distubing but great. For the short story my favourite is Turgenev. “MooMoo” is a very moving read. You should read Turgenev RD. You might find you have a heart.