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?
Mods, I’ve got 14 young people in the main house at the moment, which means that my internet connection is strained, to say the least.
Mary, fuck ’em. Civil society does not apply to these people. They are total vermin and total scum.
And they are all going to be held to account.
The silence from the trolls is deafening…
The Saudis (Royal family) are allegedly our friends. David Cameron loves them. He does not speak for me. Yes, they have a lot of racehorses in our stables, and a lot of oil, with petro-dollars they can buy and sell almost anything and almost anybody.
Japan has produced a hydrogen-car that sells now for about £60,000. Hydrogen stations to run it can be produced using alternative technologies (sun and wind). Emissions amount to water (H2O). This is the future. Oil is the past.
The Saudis (Royal family) are stamping out the opposition in much the same way as the Cheka did in Stalinist Russia. Now a lot of people here have criticised Stalinist Russia and the purges of opposition figures including Habbabkuk, Resident Dissident (I think all those affectionately known as the trolls).
Criticism of the Saudi Royals’ purges does not seem to be forthcoming from these same critics. Perhaps they only criticise dead tyrants. (And before they start Putin is not a tyrant except to the handful of people who read such disgraceful rags as The Interpreter.) Is it cowardice? Fear the Saudis might get them? Or what?
More Saudi purges here.
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/analysis-saudi-mass-executions-about-survival-more-anything-82067822
John Goss And Lady friend Hits Paris…in Style… Enjoy –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyUp2zOwy70
A few weeks ago, when I posted something critical of Saudi Arabia here, one of the trolls said I only did so because I was anti-Western.
Waste of time waiting for any of the trolls to apologize for anything. It’s just not in their DNA.
Brian it’s not me but sure as hell he’s copied my style! 🙂
More DOS attacks here? Any indication of where they’re coming from?
Brian it’s not me but sure as hell he’s copied my style! 🙂 My last rock ‘n’ roll dancing partner was only sweet sixteen in 2001. There’s a video somewhere. She got married last year (2015).
As an aside, I see that crazed conspiracy theorist holocaust denier Chris Spivey is in hospital with a bad hand – and on his birthday too..aww:). I wonder if that’s the one he used to type that offensive but totally ridiculous rubbish out about Craig being some kind of MI6 agent? 2funny LOL:)
UN Supports Sovereignty for Palestine and Slams Israel
Resolution severely criticises the “Occupying Power”
by Stuart Littlewood / January 1st, 2016
Too long to copy. These are the concluding paras.
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‘This is strong stuff. But given the UN’s record will the action ever suit the words?
Astonishingly, the Israel-adoring UK government voted for it. Let us make a mental note of those 5 countries – Canada, Israel, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, United States – which claim to be freedom loving but are evidently bent on denying the poor Palestinians theirs. And the birdbrained 10 – Australia, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Honduras, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, South Sudan, Togo, Tonga, Vanuatu – which are so lackadaisically uncommitted to the principle of universal human rights that they sat on the fence. Maybe international civil society would like to prod them with a sharp BDS stick to concentrate their minds.
At least one country, happily, is taking a tough line – Brazil, which, says the BBC, has yet to approve the appointment four months ago of Israel’s new ambassador. Not only is the new man, Dani Dayan, a former chairman of the Yesha Council which promotes illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian lands, but Israeli prime minister Netanyahu broke the news of the appointment on Twitter before telling Brazil, according to reports.
As even Netanyahu must know, the transfer by an occupier of part of its own population into territory it occupies is considered a war crime, so why should Brazil play host to a foreigner with such a vile record? Israel is threatening to downgrade relations to “secondary level” if Brazil does not give approval to the appointment. And Israeli deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely says that Dayan would not be replaced if his appointment isn’t accepted.
Since Brazil is Israel’s largest trading partner in South America you’d think the Israelis would watch their manners. The Brazilians, hopefully, won’t allow themselves to pushed around by Tel Aviv’s insufferable thugs.’
http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/01/un-supports-sovereignty-for-palestine-and-slams-israel/
amazing Dancing John … It’s Amazing to see how Cyber friends can Move….Nevermind at Doune Springs to mind..That Man Can Move some… Peace
Macky is correct –
http://www.redressonline.com/2015/12/un-supports-sovereignty-for-palestine-and-slams-israel/
@John Goss, I presume you know that you have a page on Wikispooks, complete with a rather nice photo ! 🙂
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/John_Goss_%28UK%29
Yes, thanks Macky. Made me smile. The photo was taken by my friend Aurel in a pizza bar in Targoviste a few years back. Targoviste was then not like Bucharest. The roads and pavements were good. Sadly it was the seat of a kangaroo court which had Ceausescu and his wife murdered (on Christmas Day in a supposedly Christian country). It had been hard for the Romanian populace but Ceausescu had managed to clear all foreign debt. That meant Romania could not be manipulated. The west found another route to subservience. They funded the opposition to remove his government from power.
Let’s enjoy some more rock ‘n’ roll from the good old days. The art, as I’m sure everybody knows, is to catch the off-beat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTh406JSLPg
RobG
“Habba, whilst I’d be delighted to take government/tax payer’s money for you to have a jolly in France (money that will be used to put you lot on trial), you’ll find that people in my neck of the woods will be straining to have a ‘little chat’ with the likes of you”
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Happy to run that risk, Rob. And I’d pay out of my own pocket of course.
So tell me – what are the rates for staying at your gite around Easter time (per day per person)?
Please advise.
RobG
“The silence from the trolls is deafening…”
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Perhaps, but I’ve not been silent because I asked you to be kind enough to let me have your daily rates, per person, for staying at your gite around Easter time.
Hope you’ll let me know soon. Other readers or commenters might be interested as well for that matter.
Thanks in advance.
Becky Cohen
“As an aside, I see that crazed conspiracy theorist holocaust denier Chris Spivey is in hospital with a bad hand…”
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That’s nothing, Becky, you should see the state of that other part of his anatomy his hand was engaging with.
“The lie:
Resident Dissident
2 Jan, 2016 – 10:14 pm
I don’t think Habba or others enjoy genocide of anyone by anyone. Quite frankly I have heard all the insults before and they don’t even register as flea bites – something that you would realise if you were smart enough. And Mary left in a huff because a rather sensible moderator decided not to publish some of her abuse.”
I resent being called a liar – the rest of the post makes it quite clear that she left because her posts were being deleted. As to whether they contained abuse that is something that only the moderators can now confirm – but what I recall before they were deleted is that they did – and the first line of the quoted post about Villager knowing about bushes is a pretty strong indication that Madame was giving as well as taking abuse.
Macky
Well, far from panicking and squirming I’s still here and will continue to be; Mary isn’t and won’t be; and you’re still not posting anything of any substance.
Looks like a good outcome to me 🙂
Even one of the warmongers’ scribblers is puzzled by Cameron’s perceived lack of action in Syria. Not enough bombing is taking place. Cameron must stick to his promises!
Helpful graphics and photos are provided for we poor fools who cannot work things out for ourselves.
Are UK bombs making a difference in Syria?
By Jonathan Beale
Defence correspondent, BBC News
2 January 2016
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35166971
Later in the piece read the words of a madman.
‘On 19 December the US-led coalition carried out its largest ever pre-planned attack on oil installations near Raqqa, dropping 140 bombs and missiles in a single day (in the coalition daily update this was listed as just one air strike as it involved one target).
The US has also been going after senior figures: 10 so-called “high-value targets” have been killed over the past month alone.
The coalition spokesman, US Colonel Steve Warren, said: “We are striking at the head of this snake, but we haven’t severed it yet, and it’s still got fangs.”‘
So ordinary looking too.
http://theeagleonline.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Colonel-Steve-Warren-of-Pentagon.jpg
Habba
You need to appreciate that you will have to pay a little extra to get death threats with your croissants!
“It had been hard for the Romanian populace but Ceausescu had managed to clear all foreign debt.”
More ends justify the means stuff from the friend of Ceausecu, Saddam, Ghadaffi and convicted terrorists – pass the puke bucket.
Resident Dissident
“Habba
You need to appreciate that you will have to pay a little extra to get death threats with your croissants!”
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A discount, surely? 🙂
But actually, my question to RobG was a perfectly serious one and I hope he will take a minute to let me know. I can’t think of any reason why he wouldn’t.
Mr Goss
I read your theory about how and why President Ceausescu was overthrown.
I’m less interested in Romania than Poland (as you know…and might find out in a personal and practical way some time in the future).
So I wonder if you could just remind me whether you supported the aims of the Polish Solidarity movement and whether you were pleased with its success.
Thanks.
I do wish the press and other pro-establishment organisations, such as the BBC, would stop referring to the conflict in Syria as civil war.
It is of course no such thing, and it gives the false impression that the FSA, and IS are fighting for freedom and democracy.
It would be nice to read or watch a report, not RT or Al Jazzeera tv, that actually said.
“The West and its allies Israel and Saudi Arabia, are finding it difficult to usurp the non compliant dictator Bashir al-Assad, a Nato spokespetson added “we want to change the regime in Syria to suit our needs.”
In international news today, and according to the African union, the less well know African nation Burundi, is edging ever closer to committing genocide on one section of its society.
The Burundi crisis has been long in the making, but the event that propelled it to world attention came in April last year when President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to prolong his two-term, ten-year rule by removing the prohibition in the constitution against the head of state running for a third term.
Nkurunziza then survived an attempted military coup before winning an election in July that was boycotted by the opposition and declared “not credible” by international observers.
There was a gigantic massacre in Burundi in the 1970s. J
ROS
Might I kindly suggest that you go back to the accounts of the Arab Spring in Damascus if you want evidence that ordinary people in Syria actually want freedom and democracy. Or perhaps you are so stupid to believe that the Assad monarchy actually support freedom and democracy or just racist in believing that the Syrian people are capable of demanding freedom and democracy in their own name.
:…those glory days at British Leyland and the BMC when a handful of Communist or Trotskyite unofficial shop stewards were running riot and doing their best to bring British car-building to its knees…”
It took Thatcher and the Free Traders to ‘bring the car industry to its knees.” The Trade Unionists were simply trying to drive out incompetent and greedy management, increase investment in plant and design and enhance the living standards of the families which depended on the industry for their livelihoods. The notion that the shop stewards were bent on crippling the industry makes about as much sense as its companion myth that the Miners were responsible for shutting down the mines by striking against mine shutdowns.
It was the British ruling class which closed down British industry and switched its investment off shore- a strategy which it had been pursuing since the 1870s- in order to take advantage of cheap biddable labour and the authoritarian regimes which it favoured, and favours yet.
The world view of Lord Haw Haw of Cheltenham and his ilk is that of a narrow selfish class which despises the British people for allowing it to cheat them so comprehensively and longs to treat them as the US treats its poor. Their admiration for Israel is a reflection of their yearnings to turn swathes of the British Isles into Gazas and Chicagos where thugs in uniforms kill with impunity and fascist lynch mobs terrorise communities showing signs of resistance.
A continuatio from my previous post.
Rwanda is a neighbour of Burundi in which one million people died in 100 days, on 1994, when Tutsi’s were murdered by Hutu’s daily in there 1000’s.
Prior to the genocide the UN had stationed 5000 UN soldiers to prevent the carnage. But US president Bill Clinton and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, (a compliant US puppet in my opinion) slashed UN forces in Rwanda by 90%.
That indignant decison by the UN to remove the peace keeping force, led to mass murder throughout Rwanda.
Will the UN with its American based headquarters in New York (one must ask why?) Take heed of the African Unions concerns? or will Obama and his obedient minion Ban Ki-moon turn another blind eye to Burundi’s plight?
We watch in anticipation.
Of course clearing up messes like Burundi is what the UN should be doing – but somehow I doubt this will happen given China’s involvement there.
Strangely enough I didn’t hear our anti-western coalition bleating too much when China sent in its trops last September
https://africanvoicess.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/burundi-breaking-news-china-sent-300-special-forces-soldiers-to-help-president-nkurunziza/