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?
Nevermind, Happy New Year. I had a ‘phone call from Iain Orr last night; he wishes you and your family Happy New Year too and sends his best wishes.
Andy 7 Jan, 2016 – 12:03 am
“Resident Dissident, why is there a clause that effectively gives the countries involved with the MH17 investigation a veto on what will be published in the final conclusions?”
Good question. Ignore the digression of Kempe.
“Meanwhile, several members of bereft families have stressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that no independently testable evidence has been made available to them as well as to media. Families express that they are the playing-ball of geopolitical and economic games, having to rely on either the DSB or a non-transparent criminal investigation. Among the demands families utter is the release of the flight data recorder data, the recordings from the cockpit voice recorder, recordings from air traffic controllers, radar data and other independently testable evidence.
nsnbc international has since the downing of the Boeing 777-200 on July 17, 2014 attempted to acquire access to such data. The investigation resulted in a statement from the Dutch Safety Board that implied that all those countries that delegated investigators to the DSB-led investigation, that is Australia, The Netherlands, The United Kingdom, The United States, Malaysia, Ukraine and Russia implicitly have agreed to the terms of the Dutch Kingdom Act that exempts DSB investigation evidence other than a final report from the Dutch Open Government Act.
In other words, the bereft families and investigative journalists will continue to be held in the dark unless the respective governments begin to do what would be ethically correct – release certified copies of independently testable evidence including flight data recorder data, cockpit voice reorder data, radar data, air traffic control data and more to the bereft families and media. Alternatively, one can only appeal to the integrity of those who have access to the data to do what would be ethically correct, even though it may be in violation of the law – to blow the whistle.”
http://nsnbc.me/2015/10/18/mh17-dutch-rolls-muddy-waters-and-no-disclosure/
Is the issue of which side downed flight MH-17 really the most important? No matter who precisely did what, MH-17 was downed because Ukraine had become a war zone, and various nations including both the US and Russia had a hand in that.
Escalation of conflict itself seems to be the underlying problem.
Saudi Arabia strikes Iranian Embassy in Yemen:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3388499/Saudi-jets-hit-Iranian-embassy-Yemen.html
On 21 January the inquiry reports on the death of Litvinenko. (As with Dr David Kelly it should have been an inquest). But we don’t do things that way anymore.
“. . . It certainly looks like the public is being conditioned to swallow a whopper about Litvinenko’s death.
So what should we make of the forthcoming UK official report?
Here’s my recommendation:
–If the report exonerates Russia and Putin, don’t believe it.
–If it squarely places blame on Putin and Russia, don’t believe that either.
The British proceedings have been so bereft of integrity that they don’t deserve any sort of serious consideration, one way or another.”
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/ground-laid-con-job-litvinenko-verdict/ri12076
“Is the issue of which side downed flight MH-17 really the most important? No matter who precisely did what, MH-17 was downed because Ukraine had become a war zone, and various nations including both the US and Russia had a hand in that.”
If you were a realtive you would want to get at the truth. I believe it is immensely important. All war crimes are important.
No Clark, Russia did not have a hand in it. It only had a hand in bringing it to a relative ceasefire with Minsk and Minsk 2 initiated by Putin.
Thinking about the Saudi rape story John Goss linked to yesterday, the most logical explanation is that the Saudis are monitoring Shi’a mobile phones and discovered some liaison taking place, then proceeded to arrange for the couple to be hijacked, the Shi’a lady raped by 7 possibly specially-released criminals.
This is state-rape, not spontaneous crime. The Saudis think because of their wealth, they are above the law. There are now 2 places no Muslim should never take his female relatives, Istanbul and Saudi Arabia. Both have shown by their actions towards women that they have abandoned traditional respect for women.
Russia is squeezing their Daesh and their diseased minds take it out on females.
Clark, thank you for kindly sharing that news of Craig!
Re your cough may I suggest steam inhalations (with 2-3 drops of Olbas oil), 2-3 times a day. If it’s more cough than cold inhale through the mouth into the chest and exhale through the nose. If you also have a cold, reverse the process and alternate. Should help heal and give you relief.
Also, a hot infusion of ginger, turmeric, cinnamon and cloves should be helpful. You can also have turmeric powder straight, 1/4 teaspoon 3 times a day. It acts as an anti-infective. Hope this helps!
On the screen name, answer of the original trigger in ‘thought’ was where I first heard of that name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Feet_of_the_Master
The identity of Alcyone remains ambiguous and is wholly unimportant.
More importantly, I like the ring of the name and in my mind can see it also pronounced as ‘All See One’. That phonetic angle holds a strong appeal to me, given the massive impact of all the conflict in the World, both outwardly and inwardly. The dialogue I linked earlier, incorporates the hard rigour of Science and rationality and explores all this over many long hours of a profound exchange between two great minds.
All probably is One, but can we see it, leave aside experience it?
Thank you Clark. I’ll respect craigs wishes. Heres the link for any interested in debunking my post on the nist report 🙂
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2010/01/the_911_post/comment-page-20/#comment-572458
John Goss, I already studied the evidence and the Russian government certainly has contributed to the conflict in Ukraine – I can think of various uncontentious facts without having to search. It may carry more or less responsibility than the neocons, but blameless it certainly is not.
We see this pattern everywhere, that those governments commanding more powerful military resources intervene in smaller conflicts to forward their own agendas, both domestic and geopolitical. We will continue to see it until there is a robust democratic structure with real military power at a global level.
Rule of Law has to grow until it becomes the overarching international authority to which all national governments are answerable.
“If you were a realtive you would want to get at the truth. ”
I don’t think there is any doubt what happened. A Ukrainian BUK missile unit which had defected to or been captured by the rebels shot down what they thought was a Ukrainian Air Force transport plane which turned out to be a civilian airliner. I said this on this blog shortly after the event because it was the most logical explanation and events since have only provided more evidence.
However there have been many attempts to muddy the waters, fake satellite images phoney reports of Ukrainian fighters and air to air missiles and now attempts to discredit the enquiry.
Yes the relatives do deserve the truth, don’t deny it them because it doesn’t fit your political ideology.
Clark, Aldous Huxley once said: “Maybe this World is another planet’s Hell”
It sure feels that way sometimes. If Man were just born would he head down the road he actually has? Surely, we lost our way somewhere? And we can’t find our way ‘home’.
And with 7 billion of us idiots dancing in the dark on a pinhead in the Universe…where are we going?
The crisis is a crisis in Consciousness. Politicians can’t solve it, ‘Society’ can not solve it. So who can?
And if we can’t solve it inwardly, can we solve it outwardly?
Malaysian relatives of the pilot have not been able to see the cockpit evidence (I assume that the pilot was shot by the escorting fighter jet. I’ve seen the photos and put them on here, as others have). But because Malaysia has signed this stupid non-disclosure clause, the families cannot see the evidence.
Whatever you have been saying Fred it is not going to change. I realise once you get a bee in your bonnet you are unmovable. In the real world questions need to be asked.
Macky: “Funny enough Glenn, if you have done the same over the Clinton emails. then I must of missed it, because I am sure you recall that you spent considerable effort in ridiculing the idea that anything imprtant would result from them, and me for suggesting otherwise[…]”
If I actually said there will be nothing of interest in the emails then you’re right, actually, I was wrong. Try not to crow too much, though – it’s not one of your most appealing qualities.
But do note that these emails indicate war crimes that we know about only because of the odd nature of La Clinton’s email habits. The war crimes were there all along. The off-books email server _in itself_ was not and is not such a big deal. The contents would be more or less the same on official sources (or the communications made through other channels).
So I still stand by the position that the fact of having an unofficial email server in itself is no biggie (which was what the right-wing corporate media were frothing about at the time). Thank you for that link.
Alcyone, thanks. My friend and I were both wrong; I was thinking of the brightest star in the Pleiades. Yes, I’ve been doing some inhalation of steam, though I’ve been using Tiger Balm on my chest instead of Olbas Oil in an infusion – same principle, though.
Yes, global unity is the only permanent solution to international conflict. Humans all too easily fall into “us versus them” thinking, picking a “side” and then defending it no matter what, as repeatedly demonstrated on these comment threads.
Poor ladies aside, the astronomical percentage of males getting raped and for fear of getting beheaded keeping quite about it all is another story that the al Saud money has been paying to hush up!!!!
In fact a airport security police was raping the young pilgrims passing through Jeddah airport during the hadj which says it all about the benighted lands of Hijaz!!!!!
John Goss @ 1.32 pm note unmovable = immovable
Clark, knowing your interest in astronomy, I had guessed that the star was on your mind.
Just to avoid confusion, the Olbas oil I suggested was to go into the boiling hot water for inhalation, not to be taken with the other drink infusion. Tiger Balm could work there though easier to measure the drops of oil. I suspect that the inhalation would work faster going directly internally into your chest. Btw the oil is easy to find in pharmacies as also many supermarkets. All the best!
I personally manage my coughs, colds and flus with otc ayurvedic medicines, if anyone is interested.
^ which, if I may add, is infinitely more effective than echinachea, high doses of Vit C so on and so forth. Except when you have a genuine infection, antibiotics are likely necessary.
Where is Suhayl?
Several book publishers in Hong Kong, whose books criticised Beijing and its regime have mysteriously disappeared.
The publishers books were very popular in Hong Kong, and the men were working on an explosive book which laid bare China’s president Jinping and his affairs with women.
One of the men has apparently sent a letter to his wife from mainland China claiming that he wants to remain on the mainland for a while.
Chinese mainland laws are inapplicable in Hong Kong, no mainland officials, including law enforcement agencies, can take the law into their own hands in Hong Kong.
It does look to an outsider that these men have been taken to the mainland under duress. Their crime publishing popular books that question the Beijing hierarchy.
Iran arrests 50 rioters that attacked the Saudi embassy, as president Rouhani urges quick prosecutions of the rioters.
Meanwhile more nations fall inline with Saudi Arabia the latest is Djibouti, home to the United States only (known) permanent military base on the African continent, has become the latest country to sever diplomatic ties with Iran.
Rather surprisingly Iraq has offered to act as a mediator to ease tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran, but, Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafar referred to the execution of Al-Nimr as a crime during a news conference in Tehran, raising questions as to whether Saudi Arabia would even consider the offer.
If the US and the UN decide to reinstall sanctions against Iran, (many US politicians would like to Obama’s agreement with Iran fail) then Iran’s plan to add too the deluge of oil already in the market, would send prices tumbling even further.
Could the execution of cleric Nimr al-Nimr been planned to incite such a process? Surely Saudi Arabia would’ve know that executing him would cause outrage in Iran.
Police have shot dead a man who tried to enter a Paris police station brandishing a butcher’s knife and wearing a fake suicide vest on the one-year anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attack.
The man was shot after approaching the police station in the northern 18th arrondissement, close to Gare du Nord train station, just before midday, one year almost to the minute since the attack on the satirical magazine that killed 12.
Bomb disposal teams and anti-terrorism investigators were on the scene. The man was found to have been wearing a pouch under his coat with a wire hanging from it, but the device contained no explosives.
I’m sure there were easier ways for French president Francois Hollande to keep the memory fresh for the French public, on the Charlie Hebdo incident.
Brent crude has fallen below $35 a barrel for the first time in 11 years. The market is over supplied. Increased production means lower prices, less profits, more job losses and less investment in the future of the North Sea.
I see the British FTSE is tanking again, as the swill-guzzlers run for cover.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2016/jan/07/stock-markets-slide-after-china-suspends-trading-again-live-updates
Cf…
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/567573/George-Osborne-economic-recovery-is-getting-stronger
Although it seems someone told him there might be a problem today…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3387881/Complacency-economic-recovery-UK-risk-Chancellor-say-not-mission-accomplished-warns-dangerous-cocktail-issues.html
With predictive powers like that, give me Salmond any day.
UPDATE:
The Dow Jones industrial average has shed almost 300 points, or 1.7%.
Every share is in the red:
(Guardian link, 2.37)
Global equities crumbling. Who’d ‘a thought it? No-one, actually. Or they’d have taken measures to prevent it happening. Economic prediction is voodoo, Fred.
I rely on:
Daffy’s Elixir, hot and spicy,
Made by Sutton, sold by Dicey
“Global equities crumbling. Who’d ‘a thought it? No-one, actually. Or they’d have taken measures to prevent it happening. Economic prediction is voodoo, Fred.”
As how you look at it increased production is a symptom of the crisis in the North Sea oil industry not evidence that there isn’t one.
Talking about health, one more fallacy down the tube:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/12086226/Red-wine-is-bad-for-you-say-experts.html
I can see a few people disappointed here.
Pleiades figure towards the end of the great love duet Già nella notte densa at the end of Act I of Verdi’s Otello:
Right, Alycone.
Never forget when I visited a red wine vineyard in Caldas da Rainha, only to see the recent output returned as white wine as the preservative had not prevented it from turning into vinegar.
About the monitoring of big shots who offend the ruling plutocrats, remember Eliot Spitzer, who as first Attorney General and then Governor of New York State went after the Wall Street criminals for their fraudulent credit default swaps. In return, a federal wiretap revealed that he had been arranging to hire prostitutes, and then, when one last time he met a prostitute at the Mayflower Hotel in D.C., the feds swooped in and arrested him. One must surmise that the wiretap was started because NSA and/or GCHQ snooping had already revealed what he was doing.
Another victim of federal snooping was Gen. David Petraeus, who lost his job as head of the CIA when the FBI, allegedly investigating an entirely different matter, discovered e-mails revealing he was having an affair with a woman who was writing a book about him. This was used as an excuse to fire him. Again, one has to suppose that the feds knew where to look because the NSA and/or GCHQ knew what he was doing. And Petraeus had been trying to defend his agency, the CIA, on the Benghazi matter in ways that annoyed the Obama administration.
Even a crusading governor of New York State and a director of the CIA who has been lionized by the media as a military hero are not immune from the snooping, if they do something that annoys the powers that be.
George Osborne has warned of the risks to the UK from the shaky global economy, saying 2016 has opened with a “dangerous cocktail of new threats”.
The chancellor was using a speech in Cardiff to say that the turmoil in financial markets that saw 5% wiped off oil prices on Wednesday should act as an antidote to the “creeping complacency” that Britain is immune from what is happening in the global economy.
This from a Chancer of the Exchequer whose not met one of his targets. Of course if he stopped cutting jobs in the Treasury that chased corporation tax dodging.
Which runs into billions, and cancelled renewing Trident, another waste of billions of pounds of taxpayers cash, and held back from paying China billions to build one nuclear power station at Hinckley Point, or stopped swanning around the globe spending billions of pounds on illegal invasions and wars to appease the USA.
Then the unrest in the current Eastern market might not make the worst Chancellor in living memory (Alistair Darling aside) release a statement that clearly expresses his sheer and utter incompetence