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?
Meanwhile Putin’s USA counterpart President Barack Obama has moved to tighten gun laws. Obama wants all gun sellers to register as dealers, even those who sell at gun shows and online.
President Obama also wants background checks to be run on all prospective buyers. Obama has been desperately searching for a way around a Republican led Congress that has blocked his previous efforts to tighten gun laws in America.
In my opinion Obama is flogging a dead horse, Americans love their guns the right to bear arms is even written in the constitution. The powerful NRA will never agree to Obama’s terms either.
On a darker note, a disarmed American public would be further coerced and abused by its government. The American public are constantly duped by successive governments on foreign policy, at least for now they can defend themselves at home.
Tony_0pmoc 6 Jan, 2016 – 5:42 pm
And it’s not just Lockerbie. This sick world has leaders which think it is sound politics to kill all the passengers on a plane to achieve a political goal. There is no doubt in my mind that Kiev-led Ukraine shot down MH17 on 17 July 2014. My reasons for that conclusion are:
1) The investigation has not made public air traffic control recordings between Ukraine, which diverted the MH17, or the Ukrainian fighter jets that ‘escorted’ it.
2) Ukraine insisted before the investigation that if it was found guilty that those details could not be made public (so much for justice). A legally-binding non-disclosure document was signed by all parties (including Malaysia which was allowed to join the investigation later).
3) The US claimed initially to have satellite images proving that separatists were responsible. These images have never been made public.
4) The inquest in Australia is hiding something by not letting the relatives know the full extent of details released so far. And the Murdoch-owned Australian media is aiding and abetting this by claiming without a shred of evidence that the separatists shot it down. (What do you expect?)
Eighteen months into the inquiry and the public knows naff all.
http://journal-neo.org/2016/01/06/mh17-coroner-s-inquest-more-questions-than-answers/
“Exactly. He’s not referring to workforce unemployment as you misleadingly claimed yesterday. Finally you admit it. Bye again.”
Mr Robertson has admitted he could have expressed himself better and apologised.
Refreshing he has the guts to admit he was wrong.
Eighteen months into the inquiry = Eighteen months into the investigation
Republicofscotland, if you haven’t already seen it here’s Paul Craig Roberts latest piece. It sort of touches upon some of the things you are saying…
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/01/05/the-rule-of-law-no-longer-exists-in-western-civilization-paul-craig-roberts/
It also touches upon what John Goss is saying.
Republicofscotland,
Being arrested for 15 days for protesting against the re-election of Russian President Vladimir Putin seems a bit tough. However far longer periods of imprisonment have happened and may be happening now in the UK for much the same thing or even less. Our media does not report these things – so how would we know?
There was for example a few years ago the case of Anthony John Hill which was totally unreported in the Mainstream media. All he did was make a DVD – from mainstream sources re the events of the London Bombings – together with his own analysis of the events. He also published it on the internet – and sent copies of the DVD direct to a judge and the court authorities in a related case.
He was traced by the BBC, extradited from Ireland, arrested and then released on bail for a pre-trial hearing – and then detained for 157 days in Wandsworth jail (incidentally at the same time as Julian Assange) awaiting trial.
Amazingly the jury refused to follow the judges direction, and found him not guilty and he was released.
None of this was published in any British Newspaper so far as I am aware. Julian Assange got all the publicity. Hill virtually none.
http://thetruthnews.info/Anthony_John_Hill.html
I can understand people in the UK, being heavily critical of events in Russia, but that is largely because we are continuously subjected to anti-Russian propaganda from all our press and TV.
They lie. They make stuff up, and mix it with some real news…and because its on all channels and in all newspapers the vast majority of people believe it. We are more like Soviet Russia of 50 years ago, than Russia is today. Our mainstream media is almost totally controlled (largely by the CIA – as is our Government). Even Craig Murray can rarely get an interview.
Tony
If the UK government has been telling the truth about what happened in the London Bombings, why on earth would they have subjected Anthony John Hill to such treatment? And why would the media have ignored the story?
Lysias,
It’s to make people afraid to tell the truth – a very effective and powerful control mechanism. In a just world, whistleblowers are encouraged to reveal wrong doing, and to bring evidence to the highest authorities such that evil and corruption is taking place. It is my personal experience that at least in the UK until around the late 1990’s that whistleblowers were encouraged and treated fairly and justice would be done.
But since then, our entire culture and all our institutions have become corrupted to such an extent, that it is the whistleblowers who are persecuted, prosecuted, fired, imprisoned or even assassinated.
You have to have one hell of a lot of courage to do it now. Yet some people still do.
They are our heroes. Without them, what was out civilisation stands absolutely no chance of survival.
Many have already given up hope, and I sure as hell have come close. It’s all highly depressing. I never thought it could happen here in the UK in my lifetime – but it has.
Tony
Republicofscotland; “On a darker note, a disarmed American public would be further coerced and abused by its government. The American public are constantly duped by successive governments on foreign policy, at least for now they can defend themselves at home.”
Problem a lot, if not the majority of these gun-nuts, might be these sort of Rednecks;
http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/42/51/46/9083294/3/727×0.jpg
Republicofscotland; “The European Court has ordered Russia to pay damages to Yevgeni Frumkin, a Russian who demonstrated against the re-election of Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
Missing from the narrative is that Mr Frumkin is not just anybody, but the founder of a Russian pro-democracy movement; it would be interesting to find out more about his group, especially the funding part;
http://www.jta.org/2016/01/06/news-opinion/world/human-rights-court-orders-russia-to-pay-jewish-activist-from-moscow
“Republicofscotland, if you haven’t already seen it here’s Paul Craig Roberts latest piece. It sort of touches upon some of the things you are saying…”
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Rob-G
Thanks for that interesting link.
It’s also interesting to note that America has 5% of the worlds population, but it also has a quarter of the worlds prisoners as well.
Indeed the United States leads the world in producing prisoners. In a distinctively American style of crime and punishment approach, that sees individuals locked up for long period for using drugs or writing bad checks, amongst other minor crimes.
Crimes that other nations often have shorter sentences for. According to prison studies at Kings College London, the USA has over 2.3 million prisoners behind bars more than any other nation.
China the most densely populated nation on earth trails the USA with 1.6 million prisoners. Though to give the USA some credit, China is thought execute thousands of citizens every year. Executions in China are classed as state secrets, so the real figure could be higher or lower.
The only other industrialised nation to come close to America and China regarding prison populus is Russia, which has 627 prisoner per 100,000 population.
England has 151 prisoners per 100,000 of the populus, Germany 88 prisoners per 100,000 and Japan with 63 prisoners per 100,000, though Japan still practices capital punishment.
“Missing from the narrative is that Mr Frumkin is not just anybody, but the founder of a Russian pro-democracy movement; it would be interesting to find out more about his group, especially the funding part;”
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Thank you Macky for that link, suspiciously certain reports failed to mention that Mr Frumkin is a J**ish activist. Of course I hesitate to to condemn Mr Frumkin due to his ethinicity, as Russia could well do with a more open a democratic approach.
Or I could be completely off course, and Mr Frumkin could be a agitator stirring up opposition to Putin’s regime.
Either way Putin’s Russia could be far more democratic than it is today.
“There was for example a few years ago the case of Anthony John Hill which was totally unreported in the Mainstream media. All he did was make a DVD – from mainstream sources re the events of the London Bombings – together with his own analysis of the events. He also published it on the internet – and sent copies of the DVD direct to a judge and the court authorities in a related case.
He was traced by the BBC, extradited from Ireland, arrested and then released on bail for a pre-trial hearing – and then detained for 157 days in Wandsworth jail (incidentally at the same time as Julian Assange) awaiting trial.
Amazingly the jury refused to follow the judges direction, and found him not guilty and he was released.”
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Thanks Tony for the above info, I’m afraid to say I didn’t know that.
For those who recall the London Bombing or 7/7 as it’s come to be known, there has been much controversy over the event. I won’t go into details in here as most of you will have your own opinions on the matter.
But cases like the one above which Tony mentions, do get one thinking that all is not what it seems.
Republicofscotland; “In a distinctively American style of crime and punishment approach, that sees individuals locked up for long period for using drugs or writing bad checks, amongst other minor crimes”
Very distinctively American, because like many things there, the prison system is racket, private prison fleece the US tax-payers, and keeping prisoners in mind-destroyng solitary confinement reduces costs & therefore increases the profit line; there were even cases of corrupt Judges giving unnecessary custodial sentences & longer than usual sentences, because they will getting a kick-back from the companies running the prison.
Macky re your redneck link here are some statistics on gun incidents in 2013.
Every year in the U.S., an average of more than 100,000 people are shot, according to The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence.
Every day in the U.S., an average of 289 people are shot. Eighty-six of them die: 30 are murdered, 53 kill themselves, two die accidentally, and one is shot in a police intervention, the Brady Campaign reports.
Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 335,609 people died from guns — more than the population of St. Louis, Mo. (318,069), Pittsburgh (307,484), Cincinnati, Ohio (296,223), Newark, N.J. (277,540), and Orlando, Fla. (243,195) (sources: CDF, U.S. Census; CDC)
One person is killed by a firearm every 17 minutes, 87 people are killed during an average day, and 609 are killed every week. (source: CDC)
Homicides by weapon:
Handguns comprised 72.5 percent of the firearms used in murder and non-negligent manslaughter incidents in 2011; 4.1 percent were with shotguns; 3.8 percent were with rifles; 18.5 percent were with unspecified firearms.
13.3 percent of homicides were done with knives or other cutting instruments.
5.8 percent of homicides were from the use of hands, fists, feet, etc. (source: FBI)
These figure do make for grim reading, and a restriction on firearms in the US would save lives.
A restriction on firearms here in the U.S. probably would save lives, but it would also remove a check on the power of the government.
“Very distinctively American, because like many things there, the prison system is racket, private prison fleece the US tax-payers, and keeping prisoners in mind-destroyng solitary confinement reduces costs & therefore increases the profit line; there were even cases of corrupt Judges giving unnecessary custodial sentences & longer than usual sentences, because they will getting a kick-back from the companies running the prison.”
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Yes Macky I agree with you there, I recall myself a documentary the name of which evades me for now, in which American juveniles were sent to a detention centre on very petty charges.
It later emerged the judge was receiving a cash sums for every juvenile sent to the institution. Needless to say the detention centre was thriving.
That kind of financial incentive in my opinion has spread into mainstream imprisonment, as you say, they’re run by private corporations. The financial gains are many and the who’s who, on the board members of the private incarceration system would in my opinion made interesting reading.
Well there ain’t no hill-billy Habba to kick around today, so looks like Lysias gonna have to fill his place for a time:
“A restriction on firearms here in the U.S. probably would save lives, but it would also remove a check on the power of the government – to save lives. “.
“A restriction on firearms here in the U.S. probably would save lives, but it would also remove a check on the power of the government.”
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Yes Lysais, that is indeed the crux of the matter.
“Bad checks”? Curious American spelling you use there, RoS.
Coincidentally, this reference has appeared elsewhere on the ‘net, which includes the same:
Yours:
and…
http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/2008_04.html
And so on. Wouldn’t it be nice to know where these little vignettes of yours come from, so the reader can look into them further on occasion? I’m sure you’re not trying to pass off all this as your personal widespread expertise all the time!
Just another one from the same section:
RoS:
And here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/world/americas/23iht-23prison.12253738.html?_r=0
RoS:
And the NY Times again (same article):
Wording slightly changed, the order of quotes jumbled around a little, bit of mix-and-matching of sources, but anyone interested can find virtually every sentence you write lifted from somewhere. Never attributed, though. Why is that? If a student submitted this, or indeed most of the stuff you reproduce here, they would be thrown out of college for plagiarism.
Didn’t Hill also send copies to members of the jury? My memory is vague on this, but I thought he continued sending to the jury despite being told to desist by the court, and was charged with contempt of court and related matters. So far as I know, no action was taken against him for publishing on the Internet, but do feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.
Macky,
I am well aware that many people of the highest integrity still work for human rights organizations, major & minor charities – and that these organizations still do good work – often in extremely difficult circumstances.
I have the utmost respect for people who do so voluntarily – particularly if they are doing it for little or no financial reward. The world is full of caring people who do what they can for others – cos well – they are just like that. My wife is like that and does.
However, I am also aware, that virtually all these institutions have been infiltrated and corrupted at the highest levels. Some of the people may well be genuine, but they are being paid enormous salaries by mostly poor people who donate to them.
Many including Amnesty International are now infiltrated and controlled by the CIA.
The EU is controlled by The CIA
The British Government is controlled by The CIA
The US Government is controlled by the CIA
The US Military Industrial Complex and the CIA are Partner’s in War Crimes to make Massive Profits for those really in control of the Empire which is now collapsing.
My ultimate quest, before I die is to find out and prove conclusively to myself what is in control of the entire pyramid but I reckon the entire thing will collapse before I get there, yet I will survive (or at least, my as yet as Grandson (due March))
Evil tends to destroy itself.
What we must hope to avoid is a Nuclear Fireworks display.
Read The Saker and cluborlov
I don’t agree with everything on their blogs, but these guys are well worth reading and they are both of Russian origin (though don’t live there – I guess it gets a bit cold).
Very clever and good men – but they both get stuff wrong.
Dmitry Orlov is highly entertaining in a Doomy way
http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/my-prescription-for-2016-collapse-early.html
Tony
Yes Glenn, I’m sure it appears on several sites, and unless you pull your information out of your arse? ( It seems possible) Then I’m pretty sure some of your comment contain info sourced on the web, of course you may just make stuff up it often appears that way Glenn.
Or you could revert to your celestial teapot, which you’ve mentioned in here dozens of times. Im pretty sure it wasnt your theory ergo you’ve outdone yourself on plagiarism and if appropriate royalties.
Tony_0pmoc; “My ultimate quest, before I die is to find out and prove conclusively to myself what is in control of the entire pyramid but I reckon the entire thing will collapse before I get there, yet I will survive (or at least, my as yet as Grandson (due March))”
Yes, I occasionally read both Dmitry Orlov & the Saker, and I think Orlov has already provided the answer to your ultimate quest here;
http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/the-care-and-feeding-of-financial-black.html
@Lysias, is the nightmare that is the US Prison Complex an issue in the US, in that it’s a subject of public concern, and a topic of political debate at all ?
Clark,
He sent it to the Clerk of the Court for the attention of the Jury – but the jury never received it – and neither did the judge. Incidentally, I have served on a jury for 2 weeks. It was surprisingly interesting…especially the discussions in the jury room when trying to reach a verdict…some of the cases were one or two day events. The most interesting one got stopped for reasons not disclosed after a few days…which was rather frustrating. However, everyone took their roles very seriously. We all realised, that ultimately it was our own personal decisions based on the evidence presented re guilt or innocence – and discussed the details of the case in surprising detail and would go back to the court to ask for clarification of fine points. This would be about 1988. It reinforced my belief in British Justice. I hope we have still got it.
Tony
Now, now RoS slow down hurtling the rhetoric.
I’ve only just sat down to catch-up, bottom-up and read as far as Glenn. And he has me convinced of what I and Habby have always suspected, which is your art of plagiarism. Very cute!
Very glad the astute Glenn took the trouble to nail you down!
The US Prison Complex is discussed all the time on Democracy Now!, but that is a far left news program.
More and more politicians are criticizing things like mandatory sentences and draconian prison terms for nonviolent drug crimes. That even includes the odd Republican like Rand Paul.
@Tony_0pmoc, HRW needs to be mentioned too as it truly been debased under Kenneth Roth;
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/05/hrws-kenneth-roth-continues-unfounded-accusations-with-another-false-picture.html
@Lysias, ok thanks for that, but I fear that the interests behind the US Prison Complex will ensure that no meaningful reform or action is ever taken; money is king in the US, and the US has been bought & sold by the Elite.
Macky,
Yeh, I understand the financial black hole, and there was a great guy I used to follow who described it brilliantly till he eventually gave up in disgust. I forget his name – but he was really clever…
However, whilst I get sucked into these things for awhile – they are all different and overlapping stages of my life – and then I go on to something else – or sometimes back to something I did years before.
I could post on orlov’s site about the origins of oil – and yes I did read dieoff.org about 15 years ago, which had me slightly worried for a few days. but orlov has already said before the collapse in the price of oil…that he would not allow any comments on the subject to be posted on his website.
Of course we can’t have exponential growth in anything – money or population – but genocide (and there has been a hell of a lot of that going on – and still is) is not an eloquent solution to the problems the human race and the planet faces.
There are eloquent solutions, and I have a very good idea of what they are…
Do you want me to give a lecture on youtube?
Unfortunately the Americans wouldn’t be able to understand my Oldham Accent – and it would need subtitles in English(US)
Tony