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.
I noticed earlier that the assassination of Olof Palme was brought to our attention by Trowbridge. My understanding is, however late in the day, there is to be an investigation. But nobody asks about Bernt Carlsson. Why is that then? Patrick Haseldine states:
“There is reason to believe that the following individuals either conspired to murder, or were complicit in targeting, Bernt Carlsson in the Lockerbie bombing of 21 December 1988:
South African President P. W. Botha (deceased)[55],
General Magnus Malan (deceased)[56],
Foreign Minister Pik Botha[57],
Head of SADF Military Intelligence Major-General Neels van Tonder, who controlled the dirty tricks operation “Longreach”,
South African Superspy Craig Williamson[58],
South African mercenary Lt-Col Eeben Barlow[59],
Former President of Finland Martti Ahtisaari, who attended the December 1988 negotiations in Brazzaville where the Bernt Carlsson murder plot was hatched,
Former US Assistant Secretary of State Chester Crocker, whose ‘linkage policy’ delayed Namibia’s independence for 10 years,
French not-so-secret agent Jean-Yves Ollivier.”
So why is this not being investigated alongside the Olaf Palme investigations?
@John Goss
“Provide a link and I’ll take a look.” (Re: Putin)
You can start here but you will need to brush up on your Russian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJOBq2fFrXg
“However I can warn you that it is increasingly looking like Litvinenko poisoned himself.”
You are laughable. Even if so, how does that affect the document that Litvinenko held in his hand, attesting to the fact that Putin stole state funds? A very clumsy attempt at misdirection, comrade!
“.. Eric Draitser …pointed out the removal of opposition journalists by the fascists in Ukraine. I have responded to this.”
I have evaluated your response. It is up to the usual standard – that of a useful idiot who is unable to verify the quality of the “sources”.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/05/my-friend-alistair-carmichael/comment-page-3/#comment-528589
Our “Villager” appears to be the same bit part Indian actor Godbole who was last seen in the porn hit “The Black Hole of Calcutta”, serving drinks to the main jew pornster. Here at this blog he seems to relish serving the chosen too, judging by his calls for Mary,Really,Anon1,etc to be banned.
Above I indicated that Alisher Uzimov is a cannibal or worse, but that turns out to have been an error on my part due to a confusion of identities. I guess I was thinking of the rather similarly named Uzbek, Islam Karimov. Actually, Uzimov is just a very rich Russian soccer nut, so even if he is an injun or a wog, to use Giyane’s terminology, he seems a perfectly decent one, so my apologies Mr. Uzimov.
Is it catching? Habbabugger’s verbal gonorrhea?…
Dunno. I use ‘Habbabreak’. But, reading between the lines, there seems to be a fair amount of unprotected *anal1* intercourse going on and maybe that has something to do with the exudations on the page?
@Villager 21:33pm
Apparently in the bloody shootings in the Bombay hotels, the FBI worked very closely with the Indian Govt in sharing intelligence and identifying the miscreants.. So they aren’t all bad either. True, the FBI, since the alleged retirement of the dodgy-dossiers of the cross-dressing J.Edgar, is a very good organisation, run by honest guys.
You have some facts slightly wrong about the deadly Mumbai 2008 attacks, according to the Indian Foreign Secretary at the time.
read the NYT story of how the Intelligence Community knew all about the planned ‘Bombay’ attacks, but only did something afterwards. Very similar to the tragic Omagh bombing in 1998 – where the world & his dog had everything from double agents and ‘full-take’ COMINT/ELINT from the car that was delivering the ordinance, but seemed to do llareggub about it
Mumbai, a lesson of no data fusion: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/22/world/asia/in-2008-mumbai-attacks-piles-of-spy-data-but-an-uncompleted-puzzle.html
This repeated ability of the blind-monkey-like Intelligence Community to not-see-terror is of course relevant to the revived Snoopers Charter. HM Gov will soon have such a mountain of data/metadata that they cannot ever hope to preemptively find the (non-permitted) crooks, (non-protected) pedos, (not-sponsored) terrorists, even with part-automatic machine-learning technology. In fact, if we could just look at the list of people that mustn’t be followed by the UK Spooks plc, then we’d solve a lot of Craig’s ‘corruption in the UK’ at a stroke
Blind, Partial, Disproportionate Snooping will obviously be fully targeted at the citizen, at correspondents to journalists (not the journos themselves – just anyone they communicate with), at the correspondents to lawyers (not the briefs themselves – just anyone they communicate with) and basically at any form of correspondence described in this new draft report by a Professor at the University of California, Irvine.
Is it catching? Habbabugger’s verbal gonorrhea?…
Is that supposed to be a quote, Ba’al? And if so, from whom?
Giyane, further up, Dre.
Anyhow, here’s an OT thought I liked:
Slavoj Žižek
In our permissive times, a new form of the unsayable is more and more acquiring a central role: it is not only that certain things are prohibited to say – the prohibition itself is prohibited: we are not allowed to say openly what is prohibited.
Already in Stalinism, it was not only prohibited to criticise Stalin and the party publicly, it was even more prohibited to announce this prohibition publicly. If someone were to shout back at a critic of Stalin, “Are you crazy? Don’t you know that we are not allowed to do this?” he would have disappeared into the Gulag even faster than the open critic of Stalin. Unexpectedly, the same holds for the relations of domination in our permissive post-patriarchal societies: a modern boss is tolerant, he behaves like a colleague of ours, sharing dirty jokes, inviting us for a drink, openly displaying his weaknesses, admitting that he is “merely human like us”. He is deeply offended if we remind him that he is our boss – however, it is this very rejection of explicit authority that guarantees his de facto power.
This is why the first gesture of liberation is to force the master to act as one: our only defence is to reject his “warm human” approach and to insist that he should treat us with cold distance. We live in weird times in which we are compelled to behave as if we are free, so that the unsayable is not our freedom but the very fact of our servitude.
Ponder.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/05/what-can-t-you-say-stephen-fry-slavoj-i-ek-elif-shafak-and-more-say-unsayable
Ba’al
Sorry to lower the tone. It’s just sometimes Habba behaves like an over-testosteroned,wet dog that has just came back from a walk in the rain and wants to dry off by rolling on the furniture.
“it was even more prohibited to announce this prohibition publicly.”
A vicious proxy war has been raging in Syria for five years. The UK started it with UK sniper fire on peaceful demonstrations. The Muslim Brotherhood creed which sets Muslim against Muslim by Takfirism is a Divide and Rule logbook created by the British Colonial Rule in Egypt.
The whole Al Qaida and Islamic State Hotch potch has been created by the US to render a civilisation through terror, as individuals were previously rendered through torture.
The purpose to destroy the Muslim world. For whom???
The one who stands up and states : for Israel/ is chastised even on CM’s blog. But the one who stands up and says ‘Don’t you know we are not allowed to talk like this ‘ is universally ignored on this blog.
If the purpose of a blog is to communicate, being ignored is zero.
Youknowmyname.
” In fact, if we could just look at the list of people that mustn’t be followed by the UK Spooks plc, then we’d solve a lot of Craig’s ‘corruption in the UK’ at a stroke”
I like it. Correct me if I’m wrong, but was it not heavy criticism by Craig of you firtly protesting against Zionism and then protesting against having to remain silent, as in Ba’al and my exchange above, that led you to go underground as Youknowmyname?
Assange ends his interesting inside story on grounding of Evo Morales’ plane during the Edward Snowden manhunt, with these words about Police-State Britain;
“It is introducing new legislation to say that it’s not enough anymore to follow the law. This is the incredible rhetoric coming out of the prime minister’s mouth, and the home secretary, who’s responsible for policing, police, that it’s not enough anymore to follow the law, it’s not a matter of introducing new laws to make new crimes, but people who make statements, which are perfectly lawful, need to be stopped; otherwise, criticism against the U.K.’s foreign policy could lead people into—it’s a stepping stone to domestic extremism. And so, once people are named as someone who is leading to domestic extremism, a gag can be put on them, where everything they say has to have pre-publication review by the government. Meetings and meeting places can similarly be banned. You have to submit your agenda to what you’re going to do at that meeting and so on. This is not a matter of incitement. There’s already laws about incitement: You can incite one—someone to commit murder, incite someone to commit terrorism—these are already offenses. But it’s speaking about matters which are not offenses, and they have no intention to make offenses, so that’s a very strange thing. That is—you know, it’s not rhetoric that we expect to hear post-World War II in northern Europe. But we’re hearing it now.”
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/28/assange_on_the_untold_story_of?autostart=true&get_clicky_key=suggested_related
Don’t mind me, Giyane. I thought ‘verbal gonorrhea’ was quite apt…
The purpose to destroy the Muslim world. For whom???
If that’s the purpose, it’s failed. Islam’s always alternated Phase 1 – pretty brutal conquest with Phase 2 – (as the conquests stabilise) fairly benign, settled, organised and culturally aware rule. The West has simple invoked Phase 1. Unnecessarily, obviously.
I’m not sure if this is intentional and planned, or the result of some very bad decisions based on greed, which went wrong. The take-home message from the Middle East, for the West, has to be that a secular strong man is preferable to a sectarian mob. That lesson has yet to be learned. And what, I hear you ask, of the sectarian strong man/assembly?
One line of resistance may be unattainable, but is worth suggesting. Don’t let yourselves be divided. Sunni and Shi’a are not polar opposites, but members of the same faith. It isn’t a true analogy, but the UK went through this (with foreign powers like France stirring it for all it was worth) with Catholic vs Anglican Christianity – the actual differences are negligible, but provided points of leverage. Trouble is, that the politics and the religion are currently inextricable from each other. Unity would have to be a grass-roots movement.
Very much in the original spirit of Islam, as I understand it…
I hate trolls nearly as much as I hate gatekeeper blog-owners who keep trolls.
If it wasn’t for that little flash of rage at the Flunkies dressing up for the Queen, I was beginning to think Craig was growing balcony barrel potatoes and sleep-walking into retirement.
Now he’s not a Liberal anymore, why can’t we have a few more well-aimed shots across the dog-whiskers of the trolls? I’m tired of insulting them for their shilling unequal laws upon a savage race;Come on Che, when are we going to start the revolution?
When are we collectively as a nation name and shame the US for doing the same as it did in South America to Europe and the Middle East?
I suppose with barrel potatoes you don’t even need a spade to call a spade.
going to ..
Those of us around at the time, still laugh at the memory of Villager jumping & down in hysterical excitement because he believed he had “outed” that Sofia had been sock-puppetting, whereas everybody else had recognised that the hardly disguised, very distinctive in fact, over the top parodies as Sofia’s blantant in-jokes the moment they appeared, not weeks after ! 😀
Not the brightest of sparks !
Ba’al
Yes yes phases one and two. First Cultural Revolution and then ruler of the world’s economy.
But Phase 2 in Syria, the clawing back of human decency from the ravages of USUKIS Salafist hate, when the masterminds sit in the nest of spies in London and have invested their ill-gotten gains from the CIA and Saudi in property around the world, will not be quick and not be easy.
The ability of the West to subvert Islam through mercenary miscreants and wrong theology needs to be ended once and for all. Spies will always claim that they were acting as double-agents, having to prove their nastiness to the CIA in order to gain power, while they were really working for Islam.
Bullshit of the highest order, they were working for power, wealth and fame.
Of course the Russian World Cup is the main target of all this.
And as for corruption what were the London Olympics if not the UK’s reward for services rendered in enabling the second Iraq War?
@Giyane, it’s Religion in general that has been marked for destruction; the fire-power is concentrated currently on Islam, because it is the strongest & faster religion.
The exception seems to be Judaism, for some reason.
Bullshit of the highest order, they were working for power, wealth and fame.
Unfortunately, those are the usual motivators for human beings. Difficult to eradicate. Christianity tried, too….now bloody look at it.
250 U.K. Celebs Accused of Child Sex Abuse
British police forces will have to sort through 1,433 suspects in over 100,000 cases of child abuse—almost double the amount of accusations from just three years ago.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/05/20/250-u-k-celebs-accused-of-child-sex-abuse.html
..a corrupt stinking hole London has become. BRICS builds rail-ways to connect cities; London built rail-ways to connect ports to the mines – stealing resources.
Collapse is now sweeping the West, the inevitable result of past greed. The West’s maneuver towards a thermonuclear confrontation with Russia shifts conveniently closer under one’s nose.
Prime Minister Cameron on his whirl-wind non-stop tour of Europe has a high card up his sleeve in that Britain, much to American antipathy, has joined the Asian Infrastructure investment bank ensuring the City of London would become the base for the first clearing house for the yuan outside Asia; Australia and some European countries notable Greece are waiting in the wings.
On the other hand PM Cameron is commanded to secure AIIB conditions(IMF/WCO brand) on loans for infrastructure that China and Russia are against. This is the nefarious plan being presented in Europe today by our moronic leader; to undermine the AIIB.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mboS6afaYhU&feature=youtu.be
Evgueni
“I have evaluated your response. It is up to the usual standard – that of a useful idiot who is unable to verify the quality of the “sources”.”
You did not evaluate my response. You used your usual diversionary tactic to which I have responded in a polite and proper manner – without ad hominem.
The link you gave regarding Putin is 1 hour and 40 minutes long. I looked through it to try and find Litvinenko waving a piece of paper but failed to spot it. Give me a credible link please.
I did watch the woman criticising Putin over Chechnya but I see the link was posted before the recent revelations by Putin that the CIA was behind the war in Chechnya.
http://journal-neo.org/2015/05/15/what-if-putin-is-telling-the-truth/
Crucial knowledge for my friends here on Craig’s turf: esp Lyndon LaRouche at 4:31 – thank-you for watching.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hZiGechD2g
@Giyane 9:17am Sorry, not me, I’m neither pro nor against zionism, in fact any ism! (these ‘isms all seem to be eminently Victorian in origin)
I’m mostly an ‘endowed with reason and conscience’ news-junkie and I’m not underground as my superficial pseudonymity is very linkable to even those with modest resources. I like to participate in Craig’s Blog, to learn, to communicate, to develop my opinions and occasionally exercise my freedom of expression without arbitrary and unlawful interference or attack.
I , perhaps erroneously, consider that the UK and many partners are prevalently conspiring to effect an environment of unnecessary passive/active/mass/targeted censorship and attack. I surprisingly do however still trust my government, I’m looking further forward than current 5-year parliamentary periods, but not too-far ahead, and worrying deeply about the “trust” in a technologically based future.
I’d like to see a better balance between privacy & security, and I work to that end.
1. By mistake I started watching Al Jazeera this morning and because it was about FIFA’s disgrace I continued watching. There was a gentleman whose name I did not catch but he looked Morrocan or from that part of the world. He made a rather pertinent comment, which if true rather disgraces the US – as if it could do with further disgrace. He said that the same people are there at FIFA as were there when the US was awarded the 1994 World Cup. 🙂
2. You’re going to love this. Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. Sadat and Begin received the Nobel Peace Prize. Mussolini and Hitler were both proposed. Who are the US nominating now? Please.
http://en.hunternews.ru/?p=1327
Monsewer Goss
“2. You’re going to love this. Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize. Sadat and Begin received the Nobel Peace Prize. Mussolini and Hitler were both proposed. Who are the US nominating now? Please.”
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Did you not learn to read properly when you were at school in Toytown?
Please expand on your “Who are the US nominating now?” in the light of my post of yesterday, which read as follows:
“Quite a while ago I was forced to point out that there are dozens (if not hundreds) of nominations for the Peace Prize every year. Almost anyone or any group or organisation can nominate almost anyone.
It follows that the great majority of the nominations are not made in the expectation that the nominee has a serious chance but, rather, as political statements.
It also follows, therefore, that it does not surprise me that both Mussolini and Hitler were nominated…..”
Macky intones:
“Those of us around at the time, still laugh at the memory of Villager jumping & down in hysterical excitement because he believed he had “outed” that Sofia had been sock-puppetting, whereas everybody else had recognised that the hardly disguised, very distinctive in fact, over the top parodies as Sofia’s blantant in-jokes the moment they appeared, not weeks after ! 😀
Not the brightest of sparks !”
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The first point to make is that Villager’s posts seem a mot more intellignet than yours.
I note you have avoided the expression “Not the sharpest knife in the drawer” – no doubt because Dreoilin used that expression of you some time ago?
Let it also be noted that Villager did in fact out “Sofia” as a sock-puppet.
And even if he had not, was there not something slightly strange about a middle-aged man posing as a teenage girl?
Hope that helps, Macky, you can go back to sleep now. 🙂
intellignet and even intelligent! 🙂
J Galt
“And as for corruption what were the London Olympics if not the UK’s reward for services rendered in enabling the second Iraq War?”
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That’s an interesting comment – but chiefly for its unthinking stupidity.
Funnily enough, your thesis is the exact opposite of another one which was current some time ago, namely that the UK never got anywhere in the Eurovision song contests because of displeasure at its role in the Iraq war.