The FBI had somebody wearing a wire at the London Olympics to capture the FIFA corruption taking place in the margins. What were the British authorities doing? Nothing.
Britain prides itself as having in London the world’s leading financial centre. Substantial assets, both financial and real estate, from FIFA corruption are located in London. But Britain has taken over the crown from Switzerland as the major financial destination which will always protect ill-gotten wealth.
Alisher Usmanov played a major role as bagman for the corrupt Russian World Cup bid, particularly with delegates from FIFA’s Asian Confederation. His place as Britain’s third richest resident is very obviously based on extreme Russian corruption and he rose to power and wealth solely with the use of gangster muscle and contacts he gained and expanded while serving a prison sentence for blackmail. But he is a billionaire and beloved by the City of London so there is no danger of him ever being investigated in the UK.
That a key figure in FIFA corruption over Russia’s World Cup bid, is undisturbed in his large shareholding in Arsenal FC, says everything about the complicity of the British establishment.
Usmanov’s friend Gulnara Karimova is a startling example. She is now under formal investigation in Switzerland, France, Sweden and the Netherlands over the glaringly corrupt origins of her billions. Only a fake house arrest by her father has prevented her real arrest. Yet in the UK, where she has three homes including one in the No.1 Hyde Park criminals’ hangout, where she shops regularly and her son is at university, there is no move against her whatsoever.
I am delighted to see the moves against FIFA. But to me they illustrate very plainly what a corrupt stinking hole London has become.
Talking of Mr Kim Dotcom we had somebody on here yesterday calling itself Kim John Gross. The comment left was in support of Resident Dissident’s Putin poisoned one of our US-funded opposition leaders and amounted to the kind of sycophantic sniffing that Noddy has been guilty of in the past. So I can only assume that it is another of Habbabkuk’s personas. Having been hoist on the same petard as RD this toady disappeared and has not been seen or heard from since.
Bankrupt Ukraine has made Evgueni’s day by being appointed Mikheil Saakashvili governor of the Odessa region of Ukraine. Mr Saakashvili is former Georgian prime minister wanted for embezzlement and other crooked acts in his own country. He will fit in well with the Kiev-run Nazi hit-squads.
http://en.hunternews.ru/?p=1335
Finally a positive news-story about SIGINT (signals intelligence) where the Mossad managed to follow a (probable) terrorist, allegedly a Canadian-Lebanese hizbullah follower, who had filled his basement in Cyprus with several tons of fertilizer.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4663612,00.html
That’s cross-border proportional & targeted surveillance, leading to a judicially effected arrest, and no big-bang in Larnaca, congratulations.
Thank you BrianFujisan
Mr Goss
“So I can only assume that it is another of Habbabkuk’s personas.”
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You assume wrong. Par for the course, Mr Goss.
Your tactic of telling outright lies and smearing people is truly Stalinist.
If it’s not you Noddy it must be Anon1, one of the trolls! You all have a reputation for it. 🙂
Mr Goss
As you have given your name to the expression “a John Goss moment” – your post about the (non-existent) indigenous inhabitants of the Falkland Islands refers.
Tell us – why do you see fascists under every bed? 🙂
Same words, different order.
My comment at 2.14 pm should have read:
Bankrupt Ukraine has made Evgueni’s day by Mikheil Saakashvili being appointed governor of the Odessa region of Ukraine. Mr Saakashvili is former Georgian prime minister wanted for embezzlement and other crooked acts in his own country. He will fit in well with the Kiev-run Nazi hit-squads.
http://en.hunternews.ru/?p=1335
“I trust that with the weekend almost behind us, our Irish-American Greatsman (MA Oxon), holder of several “higher degrees” including a PhD, retired US Navy officer who worked a few doors down the corridor from the Secretary of Defence and Neues Deutschland reader-in-Berlin will soon be putting in an appearance?
£5 says he’ll have posted by 15h00 Monday with the latest from the Daily Mail on Jannerite paedophilia.”
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I was wrong. Must be taking a long weekend!
Mr Goss
“http://en.hunternews.ru/?p=1335”
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Yet another dubious Russian website.
Mr Goss
Don’t you think it’s bad manners to keep posting your pro-Putin drivel on Craig’s blog, especially after he’s told you several times that your views are garbage?
Why are you – with your own blog – playing the carpet-bagger on here?
Is it because your own blog never seems to attract any comments?
“But then I say the cut-n-pastes like the Republicof Retard and I think God what chance do we have, with people like him, devoid of sensibility and thinking he’s ‘where it’s at’. Sorry guys but I can’t suffer fools. Give me the naive as Dylan said “i’ll go where the children go’, but pseudo-intellects. Please Dear God, save us !!!”
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Oh dear the Villageidiot thinks he’s Timothy Leary.
“Turn on,Tune in Drop Out”
I’d give the psychedelics a miss if I were you.
“RobG go get fucked, i wouldn’t touch you or your links with a 10-foot barge-pole you retarded drunk stinking cunt”
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Disgusting language,it bring the blog right down.
Habbabkuk; “As you have given your name to the expression “a John Goss moment” – your post about the (non-existent) indigenous inhabitants of the Falkland Islands refers”
LOL ! Only true idiots repeatedly flaunt their stupidity ; far from being ““a John Goss moment”, it is actually a “Half-Brain Habby & Dopey Dreoilin Moment”, one of very many 😀
I’m sure I’m not the only reader to wonder what the feck you’re going on about?
Head swivelling round? Projectile vomiting?
In one sense you people are too easy to tear apart. In the other sense people who can’t tie their shoelaces will vote for you, and that’s an awful lot of the electorate.
God help democracy.”
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Totally agree RobG.
I wonder if Villagers great friend and useful idiot buddy Habb, will have a word with him regarding his,rather tardy attitude.
Of possible interest.
It would be interesting to know whether this change in behaviour is replicated in other Member States.
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“Crisis changes Greeks’ consumer behavior
By Dimitra Manifava
Once-profligate Greeks have radically changed their consumer habits since the start of the crisis, becoming more frugal in their purchases, even when it comes to basic necessities, and it appears that what started as a response to straitened times may become entrenched in a more permanent pattern.
Indeed, as the crisis drags on, the number of Greeks who are more cautious with their purchases is on the rise, not just as a result of the toll the crisis has taken on their budgets but also to a great degree because they are starting to develop a more mature consumer conscience – albeit as a result of the violent adjustment to austerity.
The data in the latest study of consumer behavior by the Marketing Laboratory of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) are revealing. The study period began in November 2014 and ended on January 31, 2014, and was based on phone interviews with 1,437 consumers.
According to the findings, seven in 10 consumers now restrict their purchases to the bare necessities, slightly more than two years ago, when the figure was six in 10. This trend has had a significant impact on the sales of products that fall into the “spontaneous purchases” category, such as sweets, snacks and chewing gum. Also 74 percent said they purchase fewer items.
Furthermore, 68.6 percent of respondents said they look for cheaper products, compared with 65.8 percent in last year’s study and 47.3 percent in 2013. This trend is also evident in the improved sales of own-brand products, which, however, have been slowing down slightly as household names push their prices down to become more competitive.
The data that are most revealing of a changing consumer mentality pertain to comparing prices between products as well as retailers. In this year’s study, 86.6 percent of respondents said they now do so, compared with 75.9 percent last year and 73.5 percent in 2013.
It is also noted that the number of consumers who shop at just one supermarket, rather than visiting different stores to get the best deals, is dropping. Just over half of respondents (55.4 percent) said they continue to shop at one supermarket, compared with 69 percent in 2014.
This illustrates the increase in bargain wars between different supermarket chains and consumers’ increased tendency to look out for special offers at different retailers.
On the subject of supermarkets, the study found that poorer households with a monthly income of 1,000 euros or less spend more than a quarter of their income on supermarket purchases, explaining the overall change in consumer behavior noted over the past few years. The reason is simple: While prices have gone down, they have done so at a much smaller rate than incomes.
The AUEB study reveals that households with a monthly income of up to 1,000 euros spend an average of 237 euros a month at the supermarket; from 1,001-2,000 euros they spend 328 euros (16.4-32 percent); from 2,001-3,000 euros, 375 euros; from 3,001-4,000 euros, 379 euros; and households bringing in more than 4,000 euros spend about 10 percent on their monthly supermarket purchases, at 421 euros.
“What the data suggest is that the high prices at supermarkets are a much bigger social problem than high prices in other sectors of the economy as purchases there concern basic goods and the burden is heavier on the poorest households,” notes Giorgos Baltas, the coordinator of the study and director of the university’s postgraduate marketing and communication program.
The average monthly expenditure on supermarket purchases is higher this year at 307 euros compared to last year’s 262 euros. This increase, Baltas says, is due to psychological factors such the January 25 general elections and expectations of an economic recovery, cultivated by the previous as well as the current governments.
“Other than this fact, the other indices do not point to a reversal of the trend or an improvement in the economic fundamentals, which remain dire,” stresses Baltas.
It is worth noting that the average monthly spending of 307 euros on supermarket purchases is lower than in 2012, when it stood at 332 euros.
Average spending per supermarket visit has also risen to 54.5 euros compared with 46.8 euros in 2014, nearly back to 2013 levels of 53.1 euros. However, 67.2 percent of respondents said they rarely spend more than 50 euros per visit, with just 7.3 percent spending double that amount.
Another trend that has emerged is a rise in the frequency of supermarket visits, with consumers breaking up their purchases into smaller amounts depending on what they can afford on that particular day. Therefore, Greeks visit the supermarket 7.1 times a month, compared to 6.9 last year.
Also interesting is the fact that the overwhelming majority, 96.4 percent, decide what they’ll buy before they head to the shops in a bid to avoid making unnecessary purchases. In addition, 60 percent of Greek consumers have already decided which brands they will buy beforehand, compared with 49 percent in 2013. Researchers attribute this to the fact that consumers keep themselves informed of special offers on products or brands through advertising leaflets or the Internet.
ekathimerini.com , Tuesday May 26, 2015 (18:48)”
“Mr Goss
Don’t you think it’s bad manners to keep posting your pro-Putin drivel on Craig’s blog, especially after he’s told you several times that your views are garbage?”
I think it is bad manners to attack people perpetually rather than address the arguments, to misrepresent people’s views and to ascribe views to them they do not hold. Craig addresses the arguments, has often said he enjoys debate with those of a different opinion, and shares many of my views, on torture, extradition, Guantanamo, Assange and many others. There are a few topics on which we do not share the same viewpoint. We would not be normal if that were not the case.
Most people don’t bother with you for the simple reason that you are objectionable, rude and a troll. Others realise how lonely you are. You conjure up a mental picture of ‘Nimrod’ or ‘Misery’ as Mr Hunter was nicknamed in ‘The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’.
If you were to argue facts and present reasonable debate so many people would not use Habbabreak – you know it makes sense!
So in a nutshell. Are you going to reform? Or are you going to be nitpicking, posting nonsense and trying to hurt people’s feelings – as you did so long with Mary?
Israeli submarines and fighter jets are readily observed in the coasts of Saudi Arabia, specially after the start of military strikes against Yemen.
Israeli fighter jets, specially its surveillance and spy aircraft, which are equipped with early warning systems, haven’t left the Saudi coasts since the start of Riyadh-led airstrikes against Yemen a month ago.
Saudi Arabia has been striking Yemen for the last 31 days in a move to restore power to fugitive President Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Riyadh.
The Saudi-led aggression has claimed the lives of around 2,900 Yemenis, including hundreds of women and children. The attacks have also left thousands of people injured.
Israel and Saudi Arabia working hand in hand supported by the west,to keep the Middle East,and Africa destablised.
Not a bad word spoken against them from the UN or NATO.
Just politicians like the other politicians they displaced……
I wonder who they will choose instead – no doubt a SYRIZA loyalist they feel like rewarding?
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itis turns down job as Greek representative at IMF after SYRIZA complaints
Economist Elena Panaritis has revealed that she will not accept an offer to become Greece’s next representative at the International Monetary Fund.
Panaritis issued a brief statement on Monday saying that she would not be taking up the post due to objections from SYRIZA MPs and members.
“I did not ask for this position and given that I accepted it only because I felt that I could help the government with my experience of how the IMF works, it is impossible for me to accept the appointment when there is a negative reaction from SYRIZA MPs and members,» said Panaritis, who has worked at the World Bank in the past.
ekathimerini.com , Monday June 1, 2015 (14:21)”
Even after buying Mahmoud Abbas to kill FIFA suspension, Netanyahu is not happy. On Friday he told his cabinet; BDS = Blood Libel.
http://rehmat1.com/2015/06/01/netanyahu-bds-blood-libel/
There’s not a lot to take note of on here at the moment, especially without Mary’s presence, just a lot of infantile bickering.
When all is said and done, money is the root of all evil and this blog post gives a wonderfully clear and concise explanation of what is wrong with our money system:
http://rjsramblings2015.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/money-untold-story.html
I’m sure a lot of the know-it-alls on this thread won’t want to read but that’s their loss; here’s a special song especially for them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk4ZmItC4dE
Speaking of Putin,I thought it was rather childish of him to ban those 89 people,a case of its my ball I’m not playing,so neither are you.
I was also astonished at some of the people banned,Malcolm Rifkind? a disgraced Tory,and Nick Clegg,the worst Libdem leader in more than a generation.
This petulant act comes at a time when certain German politicians including ex- Chancellor Helmut Schmidt declared that Putin should be included in the next G7 summit.
Mr Goss
“I think it is bad manners to attack people perpetually rather than address the arguments,”
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Attacking their ideas, old chap. It is typical of you that you conflate refuting people’s views with personal attacks. It reveals a Stalinist mindset.
BTW – how many times in the last month have you called Resident Disident a fascist?
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“..to misrepresent people’s views and to ascribe views to them they do not hold.”
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Can you give me some examples of where I’ve done that?
Now, you will of course bluster to hide the fact that you will not be able to do so.
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And now fly back to your own nest, you Putin-loving cuckoo.
More on the Saudi-Israeli attacks on Yemen.
A large cache of Israeli-made weapons have been seized from the Saudi Embassy in Sana’a after security forces guarding the mission surrendered the embassy to Ansarullah forces on Saturday.
Ansarullah sources revealed to the FNA that after they drove all the 40 Saudi embassy guards out of the embassy and captured the compound, it found a large cache of Israeli-made weapons and ammunition.
The Yemeni forces also disclosed that they have discovered documents showing that the US intends to establish a military base on Saudi Arabia’s Myon Island near Bab al-Mandeb Strait to protect their own interests and ensure the security of Israel.
The Riyadh government has also asked Tel Aviv for state-of-the-art weapons to supply the terrorist groups in Yemen and forces loyal to fugitive President Mansour Hadi.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940309001420
It’s almost like war is a business. The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the United States would be sending 2,000 AT-4 anti-tank rockets to Iraq.
While the Department of Defence emphasised that the rockets were being sent to help combat suicide car bombs, there is another target anti-tank rockets might be needed for in Iraq these days – US tanks and other vehicles in the hands of ISIS.
That’s right, while ISIS is mostly made up by local reactionaries living out a fantasy from the 7th century the weapons they now have in their possession are cutting edge tech.
After the Iraqi army first collapsed ISIS gained control of numerous US weapons and vehicles sent to the Iraqi army including modern US tanks. The kind you might need anti-tank rockets for.
Now with the recent fall of Ramadi to ISIS forces the militants have a new cache of US weapons.
If true how ironic that the US,now face the very weapons they once armed,their allies with.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42003.htm
The Libdems couldn’t buy a good headline just now,if their lives depended upon it,and this doesn’t help any either.
A former Liberal Democrat MP yesterday emphatically denied claims he repeatedly raped a child in woods as part of a VIP paedophile ring.
Esther Baker, 32, waived her right to anonymity last week to allege the politician was in a group whose influential members routinely abused young girls at the Cannock Chase beauty spot in Staffordshire as police officers in uniform stood guard.
Yesterday the high-profile Lib-Dem furiously denied the allegations and suggested he could be the victim of a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3105126/I-didn-t-rape-girl-woods-says-Lib-Dem-Former-MP-emphatically-denies-allegation-member-VIP-paedophile-ring.html
“Speaking of Putin,I thought it was rather childish of him to ban those 89 people,a case of its my ball I’m not playing,so neither are you.”
Apparently the Russians gave the west the option of keeping this quiet but probably guessed they would release the list. It is less in number than the EU sanctions list and comprises people who are political has-beens or at death’s door. I would have thought they might have come up with a more significant list or not bothered at all. Perhaps it is to show the west what it might be inclined to do. With the current Ukraine government choking out its death croaks this is perhaps Russia’s way of saying let’s get trade back to normal.
http://tass.ru/en/world/797945
“http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940309001420”
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An Iranian govt website, so eminently believable.
Thanks a bundle, Republicofscotland!
Republicofscotland
“http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3105126/I-didn-t-rape-girl-woods-says-Lib-Dem-Former-MP-emphatically-denies-allegation-member-VIP-paedophile-ring.html”
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Any ideas why the Daily Mail doesn’t identify the alleged former Liberal MP paedophile?
Do you know who it is, RoS?
Mr Goss
Speaking about attacking other posters, rather than dealing with their arguments – do you how many times in the last month you’ve called Resident Dissident a fascist?