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?
Herbie: You have no interest in the discussion you weighed in on? All you wanted to do was indulge in some patronising, and argue the toss. Fair enough.
No, Glenn.
We’d been down this road before.
You had a habit of vaunting official policy over independent investigation.
I thought it important to point out that official policy is often as compromised as those you call cranks.
Republicofscotland
5 Jan, 2016 – 3:34 pm
“So it’s come to light that since David Cameron has been prime minister arms deals with Saudi Arabia have amounted to £5.6 billion pounds.”
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Yes RoS. As I mentioned earlier:
“The sale of UK arms to countries like Saudi Arabia has gone without scrutiny for almost nine months after a key parliamentary oversight committee mysteriously disappeared.
MPs and human rights campaigners say they have become increasingly concerned that the committee on arms export controls (CAEC) was not reinstated when the Tory government was elected in May 2015.”
“You had a habit of vaunting official policy over independent investigation.”
Actually, I was objecting to the highlighting of a single study with inappropriate methodology, and undue conclusions being drawn from it on an extremely general basis. That’s where these “Scientists Say!” headlines come from.
I suggested this other study by the NHS would be more appropriate, since it actually studied the matter at hand – mass fluoridation. That’s when you weighed in, telling me off for having undue trust in authority.
No Happy New Year for Palestine. No let-up in the genocide.
While most of the world celebrates and focuses on friendship, Israel continues to kill, maim and terrorise.
Here is a summary of their cowardly brutality for the last two days of 2015:
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31th December:
Palestinian refugee dies from wounds
Young Palestinian man shot and killed by Israel troops
Israeli soldiers beat up and hospitalise 15-year-old boy
Israeli soldiers terrorise 2 young shepherds and 2 village boys
Israeli troops raid West Bank school
Israeli Army orders destruction of 2 Palestinian homes
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in 4 towns and villages
12 raids including home invasions
2 beaten – 2 dead – 1 abducted (aged 17)
3 acts of agricultural/economic sabotage
10 taken prisoner – 11 detained – 94 restrictions of movement
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30th December:
Jerusalem: Israeli soldiers terrorise 4 boys aged 12 to 13
Israeli Army forces children out of West Bank village school
Israeli Army orders destruction of West Bank home
Night peace disruption and/or home invasions in refugee camp and 9 towns and villages
19 raids including home invasions 2 injured – 4 abducted (all aged 17)
Economic sabotage 26 taken prisoner – 10 detained – *95 restrictions of movement
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http://palestine.org.nz/phrc/index.php
That’s fair enough.
Though your initial 8.18pm response set a rather different tone.
This won’t please Fred at all, I don’t know what it will do to him, knowing his beloved Labour campaigned with the Neo-Nazi’s and NF.
Then again Fred probably won’t be up nor down about.
http://wingsoverscotland.com/the-sewer-press/#more-80292
Ok Herbie, fair enough from my perspective too 🙂
Looks as though the NHS study and the many other studies can be read together.
They’re complementary.
None of them are fully conclusive.
And all have methodological limitations.
It’s not an either/or:
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/fluoride/documents/crdreport18.pdf
Above. Just for info.
Cheers!
“This won’t please Fred at all, I don’t know what it will do to him, knowing his beloved Labour campaigned with the Neo-Nazi’s and NF.”
It’s got sod all to do with me shit for brains.
I am not a member of the Labour party and don’t even vote for them. I was not aware of the incident in your link so have never commented on it. Fuck all to do with me so take your insinuations and character assassinations and stick them where the sun don’t shine.
Now fuck off.
Meanwhile allies of the Saudi Arabia are falling in line behind it and scaling down on diplomatic ties with Iran.
The (UAE) United Arab Emirates, have down graded its ties with Iran to business only, whilst the British backed dictatorship of Bahrain, announced it would sever ties completely with Iran.
Unsurprisingly Bahrain enjoys particular close ties with Saudi Arabia, and in 2011, Saudi Arabia along with the UAE sent tanks and troops to Bahrain to quell civil unrest brought about by the often persecuted Shiite minority.
Bahrain, which host the American 5th Fleet, blamed Iran for the civil unrest. The annaul Haji pilgrimage from Iran to Mecca or Medina could be affected this year, if tensions and fears aren’t allayed.
“It’s got sod all to do with me shit for brains.
I am not a member of the Labour party and don’t even vote for them. I was not aware of the incident in your link so have never commented on it.”
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Is that so Fred, you’re quick enough to jump on anything the SNP do or say that doesn’t please you. You’re also quick off the mark at calling Nationalists Nazi’s.
Yet went given a spoonful of your own medicine Fred, you revert to your natural state of odious expletives.
You’ve been weighed and measured and found wanting.
SNP MSP Dennis Robertson demonstrates his total ignorance of what is happening in his constituency and complete denial of what is happening in the North Sea oil industry by claiming in Holyrood there was no job crisis and North Sea workforce was “booming”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-35235814
Getting rid of an inevitable byproduct of the nuclear industry is not the only “benefit” of fluoridating water. The fact that it prevents tooth decay was a convenient argument that was used to convince health (especially dental) authorities and other governments. But I think the risk that it presents must have been known to the most powerful governments, so the nuclear factor must be what prevailed with them, and led them to use their power to get other governments to go along.
Remember, during the Cold War nuclear weapons were the ultima ratio of national power.
\Matter of fact, they still are.
Some EU nations appear to be closing their borders to migrants from Germany ( not German nationals). Denmark and Sweden have tightened their borders in order to stem the flow of migrants entering Scandinavia.
Over 1 million migrants entered the 28 nation bloc in 2015. Most crossed the Mediterranean to Greece and Italy. It is feared more nations will close their borders to migrants in 2016.
“Is that so Fred, you’re quick enough to jump on anything the SNP do or say that doesn’t please you. You’re also quick off the mark at calling Nationalists Nazi’s.”
Yes that is so retard.
This is a political blog and commenting on political parties is what it is for, not for personal attacks against other posters.
Say what you like about political parties but when you start making it personal against me I start flaming and I keep on flaming for as long as it takes.
Now fuck off and die.
Fred : SNP MSP Dennis Robertson demonstrates his total ignorance of what is happening in his constituency and complete denial of what is happening in the North Sea oil industry by claiming in Holyrood there was no job crisis and North Sea workforce was “booming”.
The BBC have framed Robertson’s words very carefully. I suspect they are deliberately misrepresenting him. What he actually said, apparently, was :
Therefore it seems as though he was referring to the N.Sea industry in general, rather than the workforce specifically and the BBC and Fred are misleading us. Again.
“Therefore it seems as though he was referring to the N.Sea industry in general, rather than the workforce specifically and the BBC and Fred are misleading us. Again.”
65,000 jobs lost, that is not booming.
Another Nationalist can’t post without attacking other posters and making accusations of misleading.
MODS: For Christ sake give them their whipping boy back they don’t seem to be able to manage without one.
In fact, the Scotsman, no friend of the SNP, supplies this quote :
Therefore the BBC deliberately omitted the context of Robertson’s statement, in bold above. And STV distorted his words and meaning even further with :
…. which is a downright lie, but apparently isn’t even misleading if Fred quotes it.
“which is a downright lie, but apparently isn’t even misleading if Fred quotes it.”
65,000 job losses can not be described as “booming”, full stop, end of story.
Oh look ! Fred has turned into a sock-puppet for Villager, begging for his master to be return ! 😀
Fred
You
were misleadinglied at 7.25pm.“You were misleading lied at 7.25pm. ”
I tell it how it is which is why the nasty Natz can only respond with personal attacks and accusations.
Scum.
“Oh look ! Fred has turned into a sock-puppet for Villager, begging for his master to be return ! ”
Fuck off and die retard.
Fred : YOU said at 7.25pm
“Dennis Robertson […..] claim[ed] in Holyrood there was no job crisis ….]
He made no such claim. You lied when you said he did.
End of.
LOL @Fred !
It was a ribbing of Villager, not you, so who’s the real retard ?! 😀
“He made no such claim. You lied when you said he did. ”
So the nasty little Natz retards are incapable of debate without accusations of lying.
Pathetic.
Certain commenters appear to be getting along just fine without any help from Habbabkuk.
“It was a ribbing of Villager, not you, so who’s the real retard ?!”
You are.
You made a personal accusation about me.
You get flamed.
Do you understand yet?