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?
“because the Soviet Union had been asked to try and protect the legitimate pluralist government in Kabul against the Mujahadeen”
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/12/coe-better-protected-than-blatter-by-corrupt-national-authorities/comment-page-15/#comment-572006
Just in case Mr Goss thought that in all the kerfuffle he had managed to smuggle another rewrite of history past us – might I suggest he think again. What can be stated without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Before long I suspect he will be arguing that the Soviet intervention in Prague in 1968 was to prevent a foreign invasion – although he might find the object of his current hero worship got there first.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/340a086c-09df-11e5-b6bd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3wPjT7cL0
Habba’s direct question to Mr Goss on whether he welcomed the triumph of Solidarnosc in Poland does of course remain unanswered.
Macky
You seem to be managing very well in throwing around insults even when Habba is not present – Mods please note.
@Villager, I’ll just posted it at Squonk to be enjoyed ! 😀
Yes JSD is so subtle that his reply to this morning is invisible !
“Habba’s direct question to Mr Goss on whether he welcomed the triumph of Solidarnosc in Poland does of course remain unanswered.”
Because I already answered it when you asked the same question. Have you forgotten.
Alcyone
“Habby’s … lateral-thinking”
His great skill was diverting the thread while rigidly holding onto the Hasbara, Tory, monarchist, neo-con, reactionary, racist, and misogynist line.
Unfortunately that is not lateral thinking, it’s trolling. Don’t speak ill of the dead. He’s not dead, he’s banned.
Bababadoodooobabadoodoodooooh. Parabarapadoodoodoo doodlydooodly doood ooo do/ pchiaoooowww. Transposition of a Jazz cadenza. Hurray. Why didn’t he just apologise?
“Rational comprehension skills are known not to be your strong point, as you prove yet again !”
You really haven’t got a clue have you? Do you understand that your viewpoint is not the only logical one in the world – even if it were to pass the test of being logical in the first place? People are bound to disagree on politics and all sorts of matters – and civil and intelligent people are able to handle that without resort to abuse and bullying.
“Because I already answered it when you asked the same question. Have you forgotten.”
No, because you answered a slightly different question – look it up!
Resident Dissident; “Do you understand that your viewpoint is not the only logical one in the world – even if it were to pass the test of being logical in the first place?”
LOL!! Comedy Gold tonight ! 😀
Sorry habby, you were like an old Rover car, parked up in someone’s yard; too good to scrap, too dodgy mechanically to drive. You should have gone when scrap prices were high.
Unfortunately that is not lateral thinking, it’s trolling.
I don’t think you understand what lateral thinking is – Habba’s position which I don’t think you have got right in all respects, was very much upholding a mainstream centre-right/Christian Democrat position – which he has every right to do. Your problem is that you are unable to engage and debate with such a position hence you resort to insults. This of course just demonstrates you contempt for democratic models of discourse. If you throw insults please be assured that your targets are more than capable of throwing them back.
“Do you understand that your viewpoint is not the only logical one in the world – even if it were to pass the test of being logical in the first place?”
Clearly not – hence the sarcastic response.
I’m not crying because he’s gone. Austin leyland cars always make me cry.. Boohhooohhooo.
Macky and Giyane
Since I am going to bed now – why don’t you talk to yourself and employ your reasoning and lateral thinking skills to come with a solution to the problem of low pay and equality that is workable and has a chance of gaining popular democratic acceptance. On the other hand you could just blame the usual scapegoats and carrying on calling anyone who disagrees a troll.
I look forward to seeing you efforts as I am sure others here will as well.
Remember what Marx and Weber said about using dialectics.
Macky
05/01/2016 11:08pm
I will be responding, but it won’t be tonight. I’m busy and tired.
J
@Resident Dissident, No one sane will understand your oxymoronic gobbledygook, try Villager ! 😀
War Criminals All Together Now ( Mind and Wear yir Poppy )
http://normanfinkelstein.com/2016/01/05/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-cameron/
“The Co-op is a British bank and we in this country cannot allow foreign governments to determine who can and cannot operate freely in Britain.” Peter Oborne.
Also it used to belong to its members as a co-operative until it was accused of being unsafe (a load of codwash) and taken over by Americans. It is because it would have been strong with real money behind it had it stayed in its members hands. This is the same reason the big banking families do everything to destroy countries without a Rothschild bank, for example, Romania under Ceausescu, Libya under Gaddafi, Iran, North Korea. They need to be able to control us. This is really worrying. Moazzam Begg’s bank account was stopped together with Cage’s when he was arrested on trumped-up charges from our security services. Remember?
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/britain-seeking-silence-palestinian-solidarity-campaign-2145278818
😀
Notice to any responsible adults close to Villager
Over the last two or three years you will have noticed a complete polar-opposite change in Villager’s personality, whereas before he was relatively normal & rational, but now he has seemingly regressed back to the mindset of an infant. You should be aware that this is because he has been carefully & successfully groomed during this period of time over the Internet, by a sinister Poster under the moniker of “Habbabkuk”; the evidence will be found at the political blog of a certain Craig Murray.
Save him while you can, before he goes over the point of No Return, and is claimed forever by the DARK SIDE !! 😀
“No, because you answered a slightly different question – look it up!”
Lech Walesa, Solidarnosc, the answer’s the same. You look it up! 🙂
Again – speaking of officially appointed and approved British corruption – so – here:-
http://www.tciaffairs.net/articles/letter-to-the-secretary-of-state-london-re-judge-shuster/
Fred:
7.25pm last night ~ you posted an untrue statement about SNP MSP Dennis Robertson.
7.51pm ~ I suggested it was untrue and said your post was misleading.
8.12pm ~ You replied : “Another Nationalist can’t post without attacking other posters and making accusations of misleading.”
8.17pm ~ I proved that your statement was untrue, and that it was accurate to say you were misleading us.
8.30pm ~ You denied being misleading.
8.36pm ~ I offered the alternative word “lying” instead of “misleading”
8.43pm ~ You ranted :“I tell it how it is which is why the nasty Natz can only respond with personal attacks and accusations. Scum.”
8.49pm ~ I quoted your exact words and explained why they were a lie.
9.02 ~ You ignored my explanation and said : “So the nasty little Natz retards are incapable of debate without accusations of lying. Pathetic.”
Fred, this is a political blog. You made an untrue/misleading/lying statement and I am entitled to point that out. If you disagreed with me, you should have argued your case. Instead you realised you’d got it wrong and rather than admit it, or just leave it alone, you tried to divert the conversation into a slanging match.
I made no personal remarks about you – you called me a me a nasty retard scum. I tried to debate a point – you screamed insults. Argue with me, or don’t argue with me, I don’t care, but leave out the petulant child act.
Of interest…
Apparently North Korea just set off a nuke.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-35240012
About 5.2 on Richter scale.
Node: You’re wasting your time. Fred makes good points at times, and I generally enjoy his more constructive posts, but any pretense he has at personal honesty and integrity was lost for me when he insisted (repeatedly, despite numerous requests bordering on pleading for him to desist) that that picture of the royals snapping the right-arm salute was simply them “waving at something in the sky”.
If someone lies to your face, when you know they’re lying, and they know full well _you_ know they’re lying, then it becomes difficult to take that person seriously ever again.
Fred – take it back, if you have it in you. But then, I don’t think I’ve seen you admit to any mistake ever – do you recall stating something here, and then having to retract on it?
I have – for instance, I misjudged Herbie and accused him of not understanding what science meant just yesterday. That was unfair and wrong of me, and I apologise for doing so.
I’ll ask again… have you – Fred – ever had such an occasion to be in error AND admit it? Try it. It’s character building, and nobody will think less of you. On the contrary.
Waiting with abated breath for my FOADRC…
Launching my new campaign to expose the hypocrisy of Highland :sheep farmers like Fred:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2013/06/meet-the-greatest-threat-to-our-countryside-sheep/
A field (heh) of infinite skulduggery and corruption, and populated with Unionists, for obvious reasons.
2022 will fully unveil control of air-space from 0ft to 500ft to enable delivery, broadcast and other SPYING drones to operate safely. Restricted areas will be ‘geofenced’ to prevent entry by drones into the airspace of airports, stadiums, military establishments and other ‘sensitive’ areas where applications for ‘nofly’ zones have been approved by government. The project leader is NASA and having examined the technical details I am convinced many eyes in the sky will monitor the activity of ‘persons of interest’ and update a cloud based government data farm.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/djis-new-software-prevents-drone-flights-in-restricted-airspace/
A totalitarian society for our children and grand-children?
@MODS, thanks for releasing my DARK FORCE post, but the delay has moved it from being posted just before Villager’s missing Habby lamentation, which was Comedy Gold timing ! 😀
Truely mystified why my post addressing a Habba Sock Puppet quoting the moderation rules on sock-puppeting has been deleted ? Yes I know we are not supposed to question moderating decisions, but if it’s not clear why something has not be allowed, it may only be repeated later.
BTW you might want to check that mysterious new Poster “Amused” at 9.04pm, it has a flashing red “Sock Puppet” light !
Fred
5 Jan, 2016 – 8:12 pm
“65,000 jobs lost, that is not booming.”
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Where do you get your figures from Fred?
“Over 5,000 jobs have been lost in the UK’s North Sea oil and gas sector in the past year [2015]due to lower global oil prices and rising costs, a regulatory body has said.”
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-sea-oil-industry-has-lost-5500-jobs-1518696
Squonk, it sure worries me that North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon. It’s like going back to the sixties. Of course we test our less powerful ones (DP) in the Middle East.
(DP) = (DU)
Thanks for that Mark G, maybe now is the time to get into drones….
Great article on why Europe loves the UK and why they need a financial centre outside Frankfurt to launder their ill gotten, minimally taxed receipts.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/eu-seeks-to-avoid-brexit-at-all-costs-a-1070389.html
Cameron will say that the Conservative party wants to stay in Europe, bah humbug, but that he will not interfere with individuals choices.
EU will bend over backwards and agree to his demand, which means that a reciproke action would remove benefits from all expats newly unemployed abroad, and for the next three years.
What it would mean for pension and or medical arrangements has not been mentioned yet.
So, if Spanish and Portuguese workers who have come here during the last two years, get made unemployed they will receive no benefits.
off course this will also apply to UK workers/pensioner/ benefit recipients in both Spain and Portugal, rest assured it will go both ways.
I can see the headline blaming the EU for such cruel arrangements when this will be wholly down to the high finance pressure behind cameron, the City gents who do not want to be controlled and carry on with their illegal activities.
” Banks are operated like Mafia families, they are organised criminal entities, by their very definition. The culture of the banks is entirely criminogenic – they have very strong criminal tendencies and they will purposefully ignore or break any law which gets in the way of their making more and bigger profits.
The truth is that the bankers have got hold of Osborne, (who doesn’t need much persuading) and they have bullied him shamelessly into believing that they would relocate their base of operations elsewhere if the pressure on them to come clean got too strong.
Instead of putting them to their threat, Osborne (who likes bankers and who wants to believe them) has rolled over.”
http://rowans-blog.blogspot.co.uk/