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?
Bevin
“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.”
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If that’s the case they had a very strange way of going about it.
(BTW don’t use the expression “Trade Unionists” to describe that collection of Communist wreckers, the real Bevin would spin in his grave if he read you).
And thanks for getting Israel in to your narrative at the very end, much appreciated. 🙂
You extreme left-wing dog.
Bevin
The management at Leyland got the trade unions they deserved. You seem to have forgotten the little episode where Tony Benn got rather heavily involved.
“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.”
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RD, The Arab Spring, that’s good one, care to actually admit who’s actually behind the uprisings? Of course you don’t.
Some in here may buy into Arabs rising all over the Middle East against their government in search of democracy.
I am however not one of them, in my opinion most if not all are Western/Israel/ Saudi backed dissident groups funded by the above nations. At first they cause destabilisation hoping the current government will committ atrocities.
Those atrocities real or fabricated are then reported by the propaganda machine the press, public opinion is then sought to allow intervention then regime change.
The so called Arab Spring in my opinion, is a front to enable change in the region to suit the usual suspects.
Please don’t start on British Leyland. Too may drivers have had nervous breakdowns from them. I’ve just discovered my VW van has got a Maestro/ Montego gearbox.
Bwaaaaaah!!!
I’m seriously considering elevating “Bevin” to the status of Eminence and perhaps even including him in my list of the Dirty Dozen.
It’s true he doesn’t post often but when he does, my goodness, it’s a whole cartful of horse manure.
What do the current Dirty Dozen think – should he be in on my List?
Giyane
Did your Daddy buy you a Mini as a reward for getting to Oxford?
“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”
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RD, both Rwanda and Burundi were European colonies first German and then Belgian, until the 1960’s.
As per usual European colonial masters tend to leave their colonies in a bit of a mess, Belgium in particular I might add has form when it comes to plulling the rug from under their feet.
It was the Belgians who divided Rwandan society by declaring the Tutsi’s as the elite and the Hutu’s as the commoners. The logic behind this was decided by how many cows a man owned.
If you owned 10 cows or more you were classed as a Tutsi, less than 10 cows and you were classed as a Hutu.
No, Humbug, I’m a man. Did yours buy you one? That explains a lot
It’s genocide.
Summary of Israeli barbarities for 25 December 2015:
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Israeli Navy opens fire on Palestinian fishing boats
Israeli Army attacks on Gaza: 2 dead, 25 wounded
Israeli soldiers terrorise 8 youngsters aged 15 to 17
Raiding Israeli troops injure and hospitalise boy (15)
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 3 towns and villages
6 attacks (4 Israeli ceasefire violations)
13 raids including home invasions
1 beaten – 2 dead – 56 injured
Economic sabotage
3 taken prisoner – 13 detained – 99 restrictions of movement
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http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php
It’s genocide.
Summary of Israeli savagery for 26 December 2015:
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Israeli Navy opens fire on Palestinian fishing boats
Israeli Army position opens fire on Gaza district
Occupation settlers assault and hospitalise Palestinian woman
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 11 towns and villages
3 attacks (2 Israeli ceasefire violations)
18 raids including home invasions
1 beaten – 2 dead – 6 injured
2 abducted (aged 14 and 16) – economic sabotage
10 taken prisoner – 17 detained – 96 restrictions of movement
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http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php
Ganglion
“Economic sabotage” – no magic number 4 this time? 🙂
It’s genocide.
Summary of Israeli atrocities for 27 December 2015:
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Israeli Navy opens fire on Palestinian fishing boats
2 wounded in Israeli Army attack on West Bank village
Israeli soldiers terrorise 2 boys (both aged 16)
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 11 towns and villages
2 attacks (1 Israeli ceasefire violation)
16 raids including home invasions
3 dead – 4 injured – 1 abducted (aged 17)
Economic sabotage
13 taken prisoner – 11 detained – *99 restrictions of movement
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http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php
“Did your Daddy buy you a Mini as a reward for getting to Oxford?”
“No, Humbug, I’m a man.”
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But you weren’t really a man when you went up to Oxford, were you – a young man perhaps, but not a man.
Anyway, I’m disappointed to hear of your father’s meanness; after all he must have had some spare dinars or dirhams left over after paying your expensive public school fees!
It’s genocide.
Summary of Israeli bestiality for 28 December 2015:
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Occupation settler beats up and hospitalises 7-year-old girl (with Israeli Army complicity)
Israeli soldiers beat up and hospitalise 3 children aged 10 to 14
Israeli soldiers terrorise 2 children aged 10 and 12
5 wounded in Israeli Army attack on West Bank village
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 2 refugee camps and 14 towns and villages
1 attack – 23 raids including home invasions
2 beaten – 11 injured
4 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage
15 taken prisoner – 15 detained – *98 restrictions of movement
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http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php
It’s genocide.
Summary of Israeli abominations for 29 December 2015:
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Israeli Army positions open fire on Gaza farms
Israeli soldiers terrorise 12-year-old boy
Israeli Army grabs Palestinian farmland near Occupation settlement
Israeli Army issues 15 home demolition orders
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 10 towns and villages
3 attacks (2 Israeli ceasefire violations)
17 raids including home invasions
2 beaten – 12 injured – 1 abducted (aged 14)
4 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage
21 taken prisoner – 14 detained – 108 restrictions of movement
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http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php
BBC Scotland chiefs have been accused of being “disconnected from reality” after proposing to give Ukip as much coverage as the Scottish Greens at the Holyrood election.
Despite the Greens having two MSPs and polls suggesting they could get nine in May, the BBC Trust has proposed treating them as a “smaller party”, meaning very limited airtime.
That puts them in the same category as Ukip, who have never had an MSP, and who got less than 1 per cent of the vote at the 2011 Holyrood election.
However the LibDems, who face a potential wipeout, are still classed as a “larger party” under the BBC plans, meaning “broadly similar” coverage to the SNP, Labour and Tories.
The good old state propaganda machine the BBC, can always be relied upon to push the bias agenda.
Node….erm are you trying to get someone’s attention, Habb’s perhaps?
Habbadim
If your dad gave you a miniskirt , it’s not surprising you ended up stalking women for a profession.
Mods have done a good job. Thanks. It’s much faster now.
Node….erm are you trying to get someone’s attention, Habb’s perhaps?
I’m not repeatedly posting the same thing – Israel is repeatedly committing the same atrocities. Day after day, Christmas and New year, no respite, cruel murderous brutality against men women and children, deliberate sustained genocide.
And it’s no more repetitive than the puerile name-calling that this blog has descended to over the past few days.
“The good old state propaganda machine the BBC, can always be relied upon to push the bias agenda.”
I see STV and their all Nationalist cast didn’t do too well in the Hogmanay ratings.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/630792/BBC-Hogmanay-Live-show-Battle-Bells
“If your dad gave you a miniskirt , it’s not surprising you ended up stalking women for a profession.”
Clearly Guano’s Islam did not extend to the concept of “let him who is without sin cast the first stone” as put forward by one of its prophets.
ROS 3:03pm
All that I understand – but the silence of current Chinese colonialism is rather selective don’t you think?
“And it’s no more repetitive than the puerile name-calling that this blog has descended to over the past few days.”
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I’m not questioning your motives Node, post away ☺
So Mz Macky (previous page) at
3 Jan, 2016 – 12:25 am, and 1:55 pm,
is now copying and pasting Mz Mary from her latest “abode” on to here. But without attribution. So Mz Mary will not ‘be’ here, but we’ll be seeing posts from her anyway? And Mz Macky will take credit for the “contributions”.
‘Bombing Syria, or the lack of it’
Posted by Mary on January 2, 2016, 9:03 pm
[Mz Macky has copied every word (except Mz Mary’s title) – right down to the photo and the comment “so ordinary looking too”.]
and
‘UN Supports Sovereignty for Palestine and Slams Israel’
Posted by Mary on January 2, 2016, 9:57 pm
What a farce. Unwise of you to assume, Mz Macky, that you’re the only one who knew where Mz Mary had moved to. Or that you’re the only one here who reads that board, and used to read the previous one.
“I am however not one of them, in my opinion most if not all are Western/Israel/ Saudi backed dissident groups funded by the above nations.”
So you are a racist who doesn’t think that the locals are capable of getting rid of their own despots?
Des Res . You’re so sexy when you’re angry. What’s the scouser spelling for apocrypha?
You have the option to just ignore the above, Giyanne.
you wrote
“The so called Arab Spring in my opinion, is a front to enable change in the region to suit the usual suspects.”
well, it definitely cancelled a massive 300 billion Euro CSP (concentrated solar power) plant development with Libya, Tunesia, Marocco and others, called Desertec.
This project was about sharing modern alternative energy generation knowledge, education in the latter and supplying Europe and beyond with solar generated power. The chaos sown by our complacent allies in the form of IS Daesh and Al Quaeda, the neocon drive to war with the world, has stifled this program due to the powers and the money behind fossil fuel polluters.
Using religion to forward fascists goals of control over fossil fuels, these long term polluters are going to war for the continuation to pollute our children’s future. For that greedy uncompromising reason they are prepared to scupper all that cancels dependencies on fossil fuels for a healthier planet.
Fir that matter, je accuse Germany, one should always wipe one’s own nose before accusing others of sneezing.
Each year its remaining coal fired power stations are belching out 5 metric tons of mercury, a hell of a lot of dangerous materials downwind, bad for anyone who is pregnant, young children, humans at large.
Sort it out, Kraut!
Of course the common view here is that ordinary people (or sheeple as they are sometimes referred to) are not capable of standing up for their own human rights and that they have to be led by a revolutionary elite made up of the likes of Putin, Xi Jinping, Assad, Ghadaffi, Saddam, Ceaucescu, sundry anti western terrorists, and of course the vanguard of British Leyland shop stewards who clearly know what is best for all of us in the fight against the bourgeois evil that is Western capitalism. Some of may beg to differ.
Thanks for carrying on where a very popular poster here left of Node, much appreciated to hear the daily news of the violence meted out by our ME Nazi’s and their rogue state operators.
Oooh, all together now sing ‘ Itsy bitsy teenie weenie, Honolulu Strand Bikini.’
another bridge inhabitant crawling out from under a stone for the troll fest, makes me wonder who took down this site this morning.