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?
Re my last comment, I should’ve said China is and has been for a while now undermining Western economies. By creating goods at a fraction of the price than the West could produced them.
That in turn saw many jobs lost not just in Britain but in the West as a whole, as businesses farmed out contracts to cheaper Eastern contractors.
In turn this had led to higher unemployed and poorer prospects for Western nations citizens, only corporations have profited, as they move their assets and workforce around the globe.
The EU on this occasion has poorly protected EU citizens by allowing Chinese investments, and goods infiltrate European nations.
Cheaper isn’t always necessarily better.
BTW, anyone know if RobG’s around, I wouldn’t mind getting an idea of the rates he’ll charge for staying at his gite around the Easter perio (per night per person).
Perhaps some reader or commenter has already stayed there and could advise pending up-to-date information from mine (potential) host?
“It’s called “The Lifeboat News” and its url is “www.members5.boardhost.com”.
You need to be registered to post but not to read.”
_________________
Sorry Habb old boy, call me a sceptical old goat if you like, but registering at a website you recommend is well….a bit like giving the keys to my home to a burglar and saying, watch my home whilst I’m out.
One dictatorship, that really does need changing, or better still united with South Korea, to form a open and prosperous nation.
The only fly in the ointment is of course China.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said he is ready for war if provoked by invasive outsiders, but avoided past threats centring on the country’s nuclear weapons and long-range missile ambitions.
Kim’s New Year comments, broadcast by North Korea’s state TV, largely stuck to the well-worn propaganda meant to glorify him and his leadership for the residents of one of the world’s poorest, most closed countries.
The UN released a comprehensive report on the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea, DPRK), which gave details on the systematic violation of almost the entire range of human rights.
Hundreds of thousands of people continued to be detained in prison camps and other detention facilities, many of them without being charged or tried for any internationally recognizable crime. Freedoms of expression, religion and movement, both within and outside the country, remained severely restricted.
The fate of people forcibly disappeared was still unknown, despite the government admitting the involvement of state agents in the abduction of some individuals.
Having seen that other forum I actually wonder why she ever chose to squat on this blog; the other one sounds much more up her street as she doesn’t like to be reprimanded or even contradicted.
Perhaps some others from the Dirty Dozen should take the hint and do likewise?
I have the impression that some of the Dirty Dozen (eg Tony_M) have fallen curiously silent since they appeared on the List I publicised a little while ago. Not that it’ll help them 🙂
Couldn’t agree more Habba – I don’t think I’ll even given them the pleasure of banning me – less debate there than the old Politburo.
ROS 6:39pm for once we can agree.
Yawn @”Why be ordinary”, yet another transparent sock-puppet of the Habby-Clown Troll ! 😀
Yes you have to register @Lifeboat, so you troll clowns will be banned the moment you try your post your bile there ! 😀
“Couldn’t agree more Habba”.
That statement really caught me off-guard. You’ve always been so antagonistic towards one another! 😀
Maybe you should watch this. It is unusually accurate from what appears to be a Mainstream American journalist. If he still lives in the USA he is very brave. Some American journalists (even girls) are no longer alive for far less than this..
Some Americans are Very Brave. They just tell the truth – as close as they can find regardless of the consequences to themselves.
“Ben Swann Tracks the Origin of ISIS”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORYL8jPtpQU
Tony
Is it morally justifiable to medicate people without their informed consent?
Is it safe to administer medication without having control over the dosage?
Is it dangerously irresponsible to promote medication with proven harmful effects and unproven beneficial effects?
Why do our governments do all of the above when they add a chemical which impairs intelligence to our tap water?
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/25/fluoride-water-supply-benefit-unproved-tooth-decay
Macky
Wouldn’t you be happier if you were with Mary on a blog where you won’t be contradicted and corrected and whose owner(s) won’t tell you you’re a dingbat?
Think about it, you know it makes sense.
Goodbye.
Ganglion
You might be interested to know that General Jack D. Ripper’s obsession with “bodily fluids” in the film Dr Strangelove is thought by many to be a dig at the fanatical anti-fluoride brigade.
Observers of the scene have also made the point that other extreme right-wing nutters also tend to obsess about fluoridation of the public water supply.
As your usual obsessions are of a left-wing nature I’m somewhat surprised to find you in such company 🙂
“Arms sales from the UK have not been subject to independent scrutiny for more than nine months after the mysterious disappearance of the Commons watchdog on the export of weapons and military equipment.
“MPs have begun to raise concerns about the fate of the committee on arms export controls, which was not re-established at the beginning of this parliament last May.
“The watchdog ceased its work after its chair Sir John Stanley retired in March following 15 years at the helm. The committee had been instrumental in embarrassing the coalition government over its decision to allow the sale of chemicals that could have been used for nerve agent weapons in Syria.”
………………………………………………
Is this a situation acceptable for a so called democratic and accountable country?
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/uk-arms-exports-escape-scrutiny-under-tory-government/ar-BBo9CQF?ocid=spartandhp
Craig,
I think you’re away on a deserved break.
I just want to comment on the Hasbara trolls that are here and forced away Mary who was one of your most interesting posters.
I think your important blog deserves better than this.
@Habba-Clown, isn’t the truth the opposite, that the constant charge that you level at others of “squatting here”, is more applicable to you than anybody else, as you know that your toxic trolling would not be accepted anywhere else;you wouldn’t last one day at any other site, and you know it, you hypocritical squatting dull troll ! 😀
Macky
There are plenty of sites where Habba and I could easily operate and perhaps do – just not those with the totalitarian mindset that you favour.
“That statement really caught me off-guard.”
Keep it going John – irony is something that always needs development among the old comrades.
Macky
Could we hear your defence of free speech – I do need cheering up.
Resident Dissident
3 Jan, 2016 – 7:56 pm
Macky
“There are plenty of sites where Habba and I could easily operate and perhaps do…”
……………………………………………………………..
Interesting choice of words ResDis.
So you two “operate” on this site? Not comment.
I think you’ve inadvertently given the game away.
Which other sites do you two “operate” on?
Resident Dissident; “Could we hear your defence of free speech – I do need cheering up.”
I refer you to your troll soul-mate, the Habba-Clown, as he seems very keen on dissenting voices being encouraged to leave.
BTW about accepting your past misdeeds, denial is a terrible thing, it can cause you to have a surreal twisted take on reality, but I guess you’re past any help if you can’t even be honest about yourself !
Aidworker1
Yes, the trolls are acting like crazy kids at the end of Eid.It’s gong to be smacked bottoms all round. First we have a gonk narratve, stroll past this if you’re not interested in freegoonery,
– why can’t the trolls do that, – troll past this if you’re not interested in USUKIS hegemony uber alles? JSD has bored us into submission to accept that freegoonery rules ok.
Then we have his legal gunk about our absent friend:
“””” “Should a harassment investigation be undertaken by the Police, as many here suggested, this post is evidence that you are facilitating it by maintaining contact.”””””””
It really sticks like dogshit , this kind of legalistic freegoonery.
Craig’s not here to smack bums so the goonitrolls are having a whirl.
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/88/58/f2/8858f2e2f396068f8c97355735c901fd.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.pinterest.com/miporingo/romanesque/&h=176&w=236&tbnid=7HIi_Zh1Zd8yJM:&docid=vEWorel5hxt7iM&ei=94GJVr_HCMisUc2UjsAN&tbm=isch&ved=0ahUKEwj_nvWau47KAhVIVhQKHU2KA9gQMwhGKCIwIg
Dr. Strangelove was made in 1963 and released in 1964, at a time when “liberals” (as the left has been called in the U.S. became sensitive to environmental concerns and before Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring of 1962 had had much of an effect on American opinion. So “liberals” at the time thought concern with fluoridation was a nutty aspect of the extreme right wing.
As the 2006 book The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson reveals, there was indeed good reason to be concerned about fluoridation of water, which, as it turns out, was a convenient way to dispose of the fluoride that was produced during production of nuclear materials.
Should have said “at a time when “liberals” (as … called) had not yet become sensitive”.
“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.”
Most sane adults would consider these activities a joke.
I’ve been told myself that they’re a joke.
I don’t see it as a joke, though, and that’s why it was in inverted commas.
Activities that are under scrutiny often defend themselves by claiming they’re just for fun, a lark, banal, whatever. You get that with Skull and Bones and The Bullingdon Club as well.
The problem with Freemasonry is that it’s deeply connected to the Establishment.
It’s not simply ordinary people coming together in civil society.
Freemasonry is connected to the Monarchy, the Military, the established Church, the Civil Service, the Law, Politics, and Banking through the City of London Corporation and Livery companies.
It ain’t just you, Joe Bloggs and your mates.
It’s deeply entrenched in the British Establishment.
This is not Open Society. Most sensible people understand that.
That’s why Jack Straw sought Freemasonic membership details of those joining the police and judiciary, for example.
Changed his mind in 2009, under pressure I’d imagine.
No. You simply cannot disconnect Freemasonry from the British Establishment, and that’s the problem for those who’d prefer a more democratic and open society.
Lysias
Well if it hardens the tips of bronze shells, why wouldn’t it work on teeth as well.
Could we not get a mechanical digger to appear out of the blue background here and dump the slurry of goontrolls one by one into a skip near the Submit Comment like Android.
Mind you they do keep the peace here by uniting all of us clever people against the stupid gollum trolls.
As in the tale of the Chinese Nung Guama:
https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/88/58/f2/8858f2e2f396068f8c97355735c901fd.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.pinterest.com/miporingo/romanesque/&h=176&w=236&tbnid=7HIi_Zh1Zd8yJM:&docid=vEWorel5hxt7iM&ei=94GJVr_HCMisUc2UjsAN&tbm=isch&ved=0ahUKEwj_nvWau47KAhVIVhQKHU2KA9gQMwhGKCIwIg
Lysias :As the 2006 book The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson reveals, there was indeed good reason to be concerned about fluoridation of water, which, as it turns out, was a convenient way to dispose of the fluoride that was produced during production of nuclear materials.
There are so many question-marks over water fluoridation that alarm bells should be ringing in even the most brainwashed establishment apologist’s brain. Just the fact that it is universally agreed to be harmful if taken to excess makes it crazy or sinister to administer it in uncontrolled dosages.
“Israel’s education ministry has disqualified an acclaimed book depicting a love story between an Israeli and a Palestinian from being taught in schools because of perceptions that mixed relationships are a “threat to a separate identity”.
“Borderlife, a book by Dorit Rabinyan, an Israeli author with Persian roots, tells the story of Liat, a translator from Tel Aviv and Hilmi, a Palestinian artist from the West Bank who meet in New York City and fall in love.
“The book charts their relationship, and its repercussion once both Liat and Hilmi return home to Israel and the West Bank respectively. The book was highly acclaimed in Israel and in 2015 won the Bernstein Prize, a literary award given to Israeli writers under the age of 50.
“The book, which won Israel’s prestigious Bernstein Prize in 2015, was initially recommended to be added to the school curriculum by a committee of academics, following the request of a number of teachers, Israel daily newspaper Haaretz reported.
“Senior education ministry officials disqualified the book, saying that “intimate relations between Jews and non Jews, and certainly the option of formalising them through marriage and having a family – even if it doesn’t come to fruition in the story – is perceived by large segments of society as a threat to a separate identity,”
………………………………………
Perhaps our resident Zionist supporters – Resident Dissident, Habbabkuk, Anon 1 et al could comment?
I await with bated breath.