Olympics delivery Authority has been gagging suppliers with draconian (and probably illegal) contracts which last 6 years -

Now here's some fascinating questions on a fascinating topic that were published today as Questions to the Minister for the Olympics (Tessa Jowell, married (2nd time) to crooked accountant Mr David Mills and now her only job and has lost her seat in Cabinet) in The House of Commons.
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N Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what her assessment is of the extent to which Aggregate Industries Ltd is meeting the contractually stipulated target of delivering 99 % of aggregate materials to the Olympic Park by sustainable means. (250419)
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N Alan Simpson (Nottingham South): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what proportion of materials delivered to the Olympic Park have adhered to the Olympic Delivery Authority's target of 95 % to be transported by sustainable methods. (250420)
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N Bob Spink (Castle Point): To ask the Minister for the Olympics, what her plans are for Hadleigh's fishing lakes and ponds in the context of preparation of the facilities for the Olympic mountain bike events. (251062)

The first two questions relate to the contract to supply materials by Aggregate Industries Ltd., the details of which can be found in the official announcement in May - http://www.london2012.com/news/media-releases/2008-05/key-materials-contract-boosts-sustainability-for-olympic-park.php

On bringng this to Stef's attention he kindly sent this http://www.nowpublic.com/sports/london-2012-olympic-authority-enforce-gagging-order

Further and better particulars have also appeared on the BBC "impartial" Online website today with the headline "Games firms sign 'gagging orders' ".

Apparently an investigation by BBC London has discovered that for at least 6 months companies building facilities for the £ 9.6 Bn. 2012 London Olympics are being forced to sign "draconian" gagging orders (which the BBC has seen) prevent suppliers talking publicly about all details of the work to anybody for any reason for six years.

The document also warns firms they must "reimburse the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) for any costs or liabilities" arising from any breach of contract including all legal costs.

Should the ODA suspect a leak they can search a firm's premises and emails.

Read Adrian's Olympic blog where he reminds us that when he was one of the squillions of BBC staff swanning about Beijing at taxpayers expense with the Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell in November 2007, he heard her telling the Chinese about the importance of freedom of speech around their Games last summer.

Those further interested about contract law and onerous and unusual terms might usefully read Case: Cubitt Building and Interiors Limited v Richardson Roofing (Industrial) Limited [2008] EWHC 1020 (TCC)

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited is a company registered in England and Wales, with its registered office at One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5LN and registered number 05267819.

This just is a seamless follow up to ..." Blair's bribing of IOC voting members - Deeper, darker, dirtier deeds are the subject that swell around what Tony Blair got up to sequestered in his Raffles City convention complex in Singapore as the IOC members (64 of the 100 IOC members met and jollied with Tony and Cherie in those 48 hours) relentlessly filed in and wreathed in smiles and bonhomie, filed out." see post Tuesday, April 08, 2008 Olympic Scandals - Andrew Jennings and the secrets of the IOC - Amazing Pictures !!!

Government funding of over £840,000 written off to charity which contributed £7,500 twice to Labour Party

Charity Commissioners - Regulatory Case report - Catz Club Reg. Charity No 1112772 5/9/2008. ( Beware Catzclub.uk.org is an adults only site)


1. Catz club (a a non profit organisation Ho.Ho.Ho.) was registered in 2004 by Amanda and Stephen Argent and operates as Schoolfriends etc. and runs about 150 breakfast clubs in schools nationwide (case study) for some 25,000 children. Ending September 2006 (last Accounts available) they received £853 K (including £200,000 of lottery funding ) and and expenditure was £4.257 Mn. 2008 accounts are overdue.


2. An MP unnamed in the report but it was Greg Clark, then the shadow charities minister, on Friday 29th August 2008 disclosed that the Charity had donated £7,500 cash donation to the Labour Party in breach of Commmission's guidance.


3. The payment was initially explained as an "administrative error" by trading subsidiary Catz Club Care Services Ltd.,


4. A further and identical sum had been paid to the Labour Party to cover the costs of attending an even to lobby senor politicians for funds for after school care. It has relied on the generosity of Tony Mitchell, its chairman, who is based in Florida and had outstanding loans to the charity of £13.1m in the year to September 2007.

At the Wembley event in 2007, Mitchell chatted with Ed Balls, the children’s secretary. He said Catz Club paid £15,000 for just three people to attend the function.

Mitchell runs the Warburg Investment Corporation, (No connection with UBS Warburg bankers) a factoring company which buys invoices from organisations at less than their face value, then collects the full sum.


5. The "misapplied" funds have been repaid by the Labour Party.


More information (and if you have any more pease let us know) ;


Catz Club has revealed that it failed to pay back approximately £570,000 out of £1.3m it borrowed from Futurebuilders. Futurebuilders has written off part of the £1.8m loan it made to the after-school childcare charity Catz Club. (Now known to be £840,000).


New Cabinet Office minister Liam Byrne has agreed to make inquiries about the roles played by two people with Labour Party connections in the funding of childcare charity Catz Club by Futurebuilders England.


Margaret McDonagh, former general secretary of the Labour Party , is a former trustee of the childcare charity, which trades under the name Schoolfriendetc . Amanda Delew, who fundraises for the charity (and of course has worked hand in glove with cash for coronets crook Lord Levy) , is an ex-Labour fundraiser. Futurebuilders , is a £215m government fund to help charities deliver public services.


Curiously ,Futurebuilders England has deleted from its website , references to its £1.8m loan and £200,000 grant to Catz Club.

PS : Man to watch - ex Christ Church, Oxford . Stephen Bubb is Chief Executive of the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) – a dynamic and high profile UK body - where his work on leadership, sector funding and public service reform has radically shifted attitudes and policies. In 2007 he became Secretary General of EUCLID, the European Third Sector Leaders Network.

Where are they now ? No 435. Boeing 787 Dreamliner . Is it a bird ? Is it a non - conforming plane ....

The Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner is noe expected to fly for the first time in Q2 2009 - but don't hold your breath. )Maiden commercial flight was originally planned August / September 2007)

If it does fly , it will incorporate the novel (and probably unique) engineering feature that (by design ) some pieces of this elaborate composite flying sandwich will by held together with ;

1. Er ....temporary fasteners.
2. Er .... improperly installed fasteners.

Boeing announced yesterday that hunting down, finding, replacing, checking nonconforming fasteners (Boeing are giving no numbers) in the six flight test planes will introduce even further delays that they cannot accept.

They assure customers and future pasengers , "will be replaced, however, before the six planes are eventually refurbished and turned over to customers to carry passengers".

Yvonne Leach, Boeing 787 chief spokeswoman told Lord Patel ona c rackly line out of Seattle yestedray... "The small number of fasteners that won't be replaced are not easy to reach and don't represent a safety of flight issue,"

Apparently they will be able to withstand the cycle of loads for testin, and Boeing is confident the nonconforming fasteners will not be a safety problem during flight tests. ... so that's alright then.

Chairman and Chief Executive Jim McNerney will be announcing Q4 2008 results tommorrow and may make some encouraging noises after the dead silence since early December.

It is known 4 planes are production in Everett and final assembly might begin on No 5 this week - followed later by No 6 . After testing they will all go to San Antonio (well out of the way) , where they will be refurbished and turned over to customers that have ordered them.

The fastener problems were only identified during a key pressurization test on one of the first 787s in Everett, when Boeing engineers discovered that some of the permanent fasteners had been correctly installed improperly by Boeing's partners. Those partners were working with drawings from Boeing engineers, and Boeing has acknowledged the mistake was the result of ambiguous or incomprehensible instructions.

The FAA are fully aware of these problems and have approved the steps that Boeing have taken in deciding to speed up flight testing by using non-conforming bodies.

Fascinating law suits beckon should tests result in problems which involve damage etc to staff, third parties, etc.,

Kinnochio's long term mistress, hand jobber and unelectable ginger minger is handed House of Lords scandal to sift through

Flame haired temptress, ginger minger Janet "Jan" Anne Royall, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, Privy Counsellor 53, has NEVER been elected to any office and is now in the spotlight as Leader of the House of Lords because her (and Lord Patel's ) colleagues have been lining their pockets to produce user friendly legislation for fee paying industry and commerce

In the 80's this gentle soul was very, very, very, very close to Lord Kinnochio of Bedwetting - another pale faced , (but hideously Weslh) ginger minger and whinger and she would often be found riffling through his drawers (and vice versa) Billed as a "special advisor" she found a perch for her pretty but ever so pale bottom as head of the EU's office in Wales.

Created a Baroness 4 and half years ago after having her beavering rewarded as Lord Kinnochios "chef de cabinet" in Brusels she was also made a Government whip, as well as being Government Spokesperson for Health, for International Development and for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

When Lord Patel's old chum, acne ridden Bruce Grocott (PPS for many years to Tony Blair) resigned almost exactly a year ago as HOL Chief Whip, she took over and was made Privy Councillor. As recently as 3rd October 2008, Baroness Royall was promoted to the cabinet and made Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

She was handed this post (succeeding Baron Amos (more on her scandals , exotic body piercings, foreign travel and unexpected bumps in the night here Wednesday, April 27, 2005 Lady Amos Fast risen Blair "babe" at Straw's FO and here Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Chagos Islanders give the fucking lying bitch at the The Foreign Office a Bloody Nose) - because selection is based entirely on the size of the areola - largest wins - although Baroness Amos, a very very close friend of Ex Prime Minister and Zionist tub thumper Tony Blair, was said to have cheated as she included the size of her excessively long nipples "like chapel hat pegs "John Prescott was heard to remark on one occasion from the depths of his office shag pile carpet).

Not famed originally for her nipple quotient their later enlargement is due entirely to their use to stop (and very effectively) Lord Kinnochio whinging on and on in the privacy of his EU eyrie.

Mysteriously her recent job evaluation included first Forester in the Government , whatever that may be.

Her involvement with the greedy and venal, Lords Truscott, Taylor, et al means she is also now the Government's Shit shifter in residence and police's the comical Code of Conduct. The full and official register of declaration of interest of members of HOL (and their staffs) can be consulted here up to and including 27th Jan 2009. See example below

PS : Lord Patel's political truffle hounds have been handed an unsavoury pile of information about other members of the HOL who have extensively lined their pockets ... Watch this unsavoury space. Lord Mogg of the East Pier Brighton and comedian in residence at OfGEM is of course blameless but hugely incompetent and prize wanker to boot.

Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean is of course another blameless and charming Lady with a lengthy and fascinating list of interests ....see here.

An example of declaration of interest would be (simply as an example)

WADE OF CHORLTON, Lord (ennobled 1990)AKA Sir William Oulton Wade of Chester.
*12(d) Non-parliamentary consultant
Davies Wallis Foyster King Sturge President, Combined Heat and Power Association ,Access Partnership
*12(e) Remunerated directorships
William Wild & Son Ltd, Choulton Services Ltd, NIMTECH Murray Vernon (Holdings) Ltd, RisingStars Growth Fund Ltd, Country Pubs Ltd, Midas Capital Partners Ltd
*12(g) Controlling shareholdings
Choulton Services Ltd (consultancy and investment) William Wild & Son Ltd (farming and property)
*13(a) Significant shareholdings
Midas Capital Partners Ltd

He is a busy member asking 13 questions (They work for you) last year which is above average including (1 Jul 2008) - Lord Wade of Chorlton: asked Her Majesty's Government: What areas have been identified as suitable for the establishment of eco-towns.

"Science" pays a dividend for O'Bomber - Farmed and aborted foetuses to yield up their rich stores for pharma to plunder.

A little bit of recent history.

Obama Executive Orders Will Force Abortion, Embryonic Stem Cell Funding - by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor November 9, 2008

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- "Members of the team Barack Obama has put together confirmed over the weekend that the incoming president will immediately overturn executive orders President Bush put in place as soon as possible after he takes office. The Bush orders have protected taxpayers on key pro-life issues."

The White House website on the section devoted to women - Supporting Stem Cell Research - explained immediately after O'Bombers election ""Obama is a co-sponsor of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007, (twice vetoed by President Bush,) which will allow research of human embryonic stem cells derived from embryos donated (with consent) from in vitro fertilization clinics. These embryos must be deemed in excess and created based solely for the purpose of fertility treatment,"

TheStockAdvisors.com asked financial experts to name their top stock pick if Obama won the election. Oct 7th 2008

"If Barack Obama wins the presidency, one under-the-radar play would be embryonic stem cell research; Geron (NASDAQ: GERN) is the current leader in embryonic stem cell research among publicly traded companies."

It is commonly believed that embryonic stem cell research in the U.S. is restricted - it is not. The real issue at is federal funding, and whether federal taxpayer dollars should be used to help fund the research - which President Bush had stopped. (In fact US institutions lead the world in this research)

As at the time of the Presidential election , federal funding was only available to firms that won't create embryos for use in scientific research or clone them for any reason, and that are working with stem cell lines derived from embryos destroyed before August 9th, 2001.

Menlo Park. CA. Geron (US based pioneers in the field since 1999) was the only publicly traded company of the more than a dozen institutions listed with stem cell lines that qualified for federal funding , who have been a pioneer in the field since 1999.

Geron has a large number of related stem cell patents. Some of its major areas of focus include spinal cord injuries, heart disease, and diabetes.

"If Obama takes office, there is a pretty good chance (said the Stock Advisers) that he and the Democrat controlled Congress will offer government funding for embryonic stem cell research. If this happens, expect Geron to head higher."

Today Geron issued a statement saying the US Food and Drug Administration had given permission to a Phase I trial. 10 paraplegic Patients will be injected in their spinal cords with GRNOPC1, a Geron- patented product containing embryonic stem cell-derived progenitor cells that have already been shown to repair nerves in animals with spinal damage. The "progenitor" cells were grown in the laboratory from stem cells taken from human embryos.(Bus Journal)

Geron shares rose 53.5% on the news.

Executive Order signed by O'Bomber in secret.

The ever impartial BBC report that President O'Bomber signed an Executive Order on Friday afternoon 23rd January , rescinding President Bush's ban without asking for coverage by the media .

It is apparently a complete coincidence that O'Bomber signed the EO, and the FDA gave the green light to Geron's experiments with government funded embryonic stem cells and the stratospheric rise in Geron share price - over a single weekend.

This is of course what big pharma (whose funds no doubt helped O'Bomber into office) wants, as they see embryonic stem cells, from live, farmed or aborted foetuses as the next magic (and hugely profitable) bullet intheir ailing (and increasingly unprofitable) drugs pipeline.

This is of course the sub text, the hidden coda in his inaugural speech last week when he said ..."We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality... (APPLAUSE) ... and lower its costs."

PS : The common and oft repeated claim that the UK is a "world leader" in stem-cell research is challenged in a confidential report (Benchmarking: Academic, Clinical and Commercialisation Activities in Nesci, August 2008.) that lists only one UK research centre - London - in the global top 20.(TLS Friday 23rd Jan 2009)

UPDATE Geron shares ended Monday up US$ 1.05 = 15% @ US$ 8.15.

Scottish BBC HQ is occupied by Gaza protestors

Hundreds of demonstrators human rights groups and the Stop the War Coalition occupied the BBC's Scottish HQ yesterday at Glasgow's Pacific Quay.

Keith Boyd, from the Stop the War Coalition, said they demanded ;

1.The DEC Gaza humanitarian relief appeal to be broadcast on the BBC.
2. The director(s) who made the decision not to show it to resign.
3. The BBC to show news coverage of the protest to show the depth of feeling their decision has provoked."

By last night the BBC said they received "approximately" 1,000 phone complaints and 10,000 by e-mail on the issue.

Douglas Alexander, the International Development Secretary, and Alex Salmond, the First Minister, said the BBC should reconsider their decision.

Director General of the BBC Mark Thompson (AKA Mr Jane Blumberg), evidently under instruction from the Metropolitan Zionist / Israeli cabal , made it clear he did not intend to back down. He maintains the polite but absurd fiction that broadcasting the appeal might endanger the BBC's impartiality on the ground in the Middle East. The BBC also claim there was no guarantee that all the money raised would reach those in genuine need.

Sir Michael Lyons, the chairman of the BBC Trust since May 2007 has written to DG Mark Thompson, defending Mr Thompson's right not to broadcast the appeal.

Sir David Agius, married to Katherine (born 1949), daughter of Edmund de Rothschild is also a Director of the BBC Trustees.

Complain to BBC by e-mail here http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/ or call 03700 100 222

Shake up at BBC - new Director General in Charge

The Disasters Emergency Committee is composed of well known rabid Hams loving, islamofascist, Al Quaeda sympathisers which inlides : Action Aid, British Red Cross, Cafod, Care International, Christian Aid, Concern Worldwide, Help the Aged, Islamic Relief, Merlin, Oxfam, Save the Children, Tearfund, World Vision

The BBC are not alone (Sky and ITV also refuse to air their appeal ads for humantirian aid to gaza) but the instructions came from the newly appointed DG (Tzipi Livni " There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza" - she told President Sarkozy), her instructions were conveyed ina an urgent telephone call from President O'Bomber in a call to "I am a Zionist" Brown.

David "I am a Zionist" Cameron and his pals have remained curiously silent on the issue.

Friday, December 26, 2008 Obama "the first Jewish president" - has a deep understanding of issues that confront Israel and the Jewish community - Alan Solow .. Alan Solow, is an attorney (Goldberg ,Cohn) from Chicago. He is a widely respected leader of the Jewish community. He was inaugurated as Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations early this month .. At a democratic forum In Cleveland , Ohio , in October 2008, 700 people heard Alan Solow and Denis Ross, Middle East advisor to Obama, and previously director for policy planning in the State Department under President George H. W. Bush and special Middle East coordinator under President Bill Clinton as well a co- founder of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) reassured Jewish voters that Obama would not only strengthen Israel’s security but also do a far better job of it than his rival Sen. John McCain.

President O'Bomber - seamlessly follows the Bush plot for aerial bombing of Pakistan / Afghanistan / Iraq - more children killed in colonial bonfire.

Two missile attacks launched from a US drone(s/) killed at least 15 people n pakistan 2 days after O'Bombers inauguration.Both of the eported missile strikes hit Waziristan, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

The first hit a village, Mir Ali in North Waziristan. Pakistani government officials issued a statement saying the attack destroyed the house of a man identified as Khalil Dawar and killed 8 people that were retreived by "militants".

A senior Pakistani security official told the New York Times that four of those killed were Arabs—taken - this is supposed to indication a connection with al-Qaeda's presence. (Wapo - U.S. continues hitting al Qaeda in Pakistan)
The first missile struck a village known as Mir Ali in North Waziristan. Pakistani government officials issued a statement saying the attack destroyed the house of a man identified as Khalil Dawar and killed eight people. The statement said that militants surrounded the area and retrieved the bodies. One senior Pakistani security official told the New York Times that four of those killed were Arabs—taken as an indication of al-Qaeda's presence.

In the second attack, missiles struck a house near the village of Wana, South Waziristan, killing seven, according to local accounts. The reports said 3 of the dead were children.

Thos is of course no surprise to those who listened on August 1st 2007 whe (the then Senatar) Obama the bomber delivered a speech to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars - (full text here but access forbiden) review by Sourcewatch with links here

Back in 2004, while running for the U.S. Senate, he declared that while "launching some missile strikes into Iran is not the optimal position for us to be in, having a radical Muslim theocracy in possession of nuclear weapons is worse."He added, "There are elements within Pakistan right now - if Musharraf is overthrown and they took over, I think we would have to consider going in and taking those bombs out."In a sabre rattling speech the Senator warned that he would use American forces to invade U.S. ally Pakistan if its leaders weren't doing enough to catch terrorists on their soil.

More here Tuesday, January 13, 2009 President Elect Obama - cooking kids to a crisp as a foreign policy initiative

Just to reassure readers the aerial bombing is faithfully reported for 22nd January in Air Force Link that 61 close-air-support missions were flown in support of the ISAF and Afghan security forces and in In Iraq, coalition aircraft flew 42 close-air-support missions for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

"New" 7/7 Bomber mastermind, organiser, muslimofascsist, Al -Quaeda senior operative captured

CIA front "The Long war" report that "A Saudi al Qaeda operative believed to have been involved with the July 2005 London bombings was detained by Pakistani security forces during a raid on a village near the northwestern city of Peshawar. Six other al Qaeda operatives were also detained."

The Saudi was identified as Zabi ul Taifi and was described as a senior operative (some reports say he is a Saudi national from Taifi) in the July 7, 2005, bombings in London. Taifi and his cohorts were captured in a "militant den," Geo News reported based on a tip from Pakistani intelligence sources. The al Qaeda operatives were holed up in the village of Bara Qadeem.

AP report that "the swoop was in response to a tip-off from U. S. intelligence agents who watched the capture from a nearby car",

What you see is definitely not what you get

To anyone familiar with physics and the nature of string instruments elegaic John Williams piece (who also provided music for Obama's election night rally in Chicago 's Grant Park) which appeared to be created by Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and Anthony McGill, a principal clarinetist of the Metropolitan Opera, and the pianist Gabriela Montero seemed to defy reason.

It did.

The piece the listening millions heard was pre-recorded the previous Sunday at the Marine Barracks in Washington.

Resisting the idea of using their priceless string instruments ,Ma and Perlman used new instruments that looked as though they came straight out of the box at Macy's. Their earpieces were a dead giveaway as well.

Is this what O'Bomber means by the "transparency - the new touchstone" ?

Killing Kids - a story of Biblical proportions !!! A land fit for Heroes !!

Ken Clarke, the former chancellor, replaces Alan Duncan as Trade Secretary

Gay groovy, oh so sensitive sensitive, and oh-so chic, giggly Alan Duncan whose office was so kindly funded by oil traders Vitol , was employed be them. Duncan, is of course, a former Tory vice-chairman and a supporter and close friend of Michael Portillo, and was a paid consultant to Vitol in the early 1990s.

He worked with Vitol's president, Ian Taylor, at Shell and was at one time a very close friend.
Duncan, a millionaire, made part of his fortune by brokering a deal between Vitol and Pakistan during the Gulf war. Duncan's company, Harcourt Consultants, continued to do work for Vitol in Pakistan for many years.

He was /is also a close friend of millionaire oil trader Bob Finch, who paid Arkan the Serbian terrorist US$1 Mn to settle a payment "problem" by "persuading" Zveto Dragovic to settle a "misunderstanding" over some oil, US$2 mn and who had rights to sell oil to what was then called Yugoslavia.(Guradian 2001)

This list of events may also help those anxious to follow the exciting career of the now Ex Conservative Trade Shadow Boxer.

1997 onwardsOmani government invites Alan Duncan MP on series of visits to Oman as an official guest. Over fifteen visits are declared over the next decade.

Alan Duncan registers ownership of Harcourt consultants, described as “trading as oil broker and adviser on energy matters.”

Prior to 1999Jonathan Aitken introduces Kevin Maxwell to Shiekh Ahmed Farid al-Aulaqi, a successful businessman operating in Oman.

November 1999Kevin Maxwell’s company Telemonde, purchases a 49% share in Ahmed Farid al-Aulaki’s Desertel in exchange for shares in Telemonde. Desertel has a license to sell calling cards in Oman, via a relationship with the state owned telesoms provider, Omantel. Telemonde later takes a controlling interest in Desertel for an extra $3million.

1999Alan Duncan changes his register of interests in House of Commons. It now describes him as “Owner of Harcourt Consultants, adviser on energy and privatisation matters to foreign companies operating outside the UK, including the Desertel/Desertline group.”

Early 2002Desertel ceases trading. Kevin Maxwell’s Telemonde collapses.

May 2001 - May 2002Alan Duncan changes registration of Harcourt Consultants, removing the mention of Desertel.

2005Alan Duncan’s Harcourt Consultants is registered with the House of Commons as “dormant for the last six years”

March 2005:Vitol Oil revealed to be in negotiations to create an Oil trading joint venture with the Omani government. Vitol is said to be on “shortlist of two”

September 2005:Vitol Oil signs a multi-million dollar joint venture deal with the state owned Oman Oil company, creating Oman Trading International to market oil and related products from a planned refinery in Oman.

December 2005:Alan Duncan becomes shadow Secretary of State for Trade, Industry and Energy.

May 2006:Ian Taylor, CEO/President of Vitol, donates £100,000 to the Conservative Party. In October 2006 he donates another £8,000 and another £50,000 in February 2008.

March/April 2007:Production begins at Oman’s Sohar refinery. Oman Trading International markets Oman’s oil and liquefied natural gas.

March 2007Harcourt Consultants is re-registered with the House of Commons as “advisers on oil and gas matters for non-UK business projects.”

November 2007Vitol pleads guilty to Oil for Food trade in Iraq, agrees to pay $17.5 million restitution

April 2008Alan Duncan becomes director of Arawak energy, an oil company specialising in eastern europe, Arawak energy is 41.5% owned by Vitol.

June 2008Alan Duncan employs Carter-Ruck solicitors to obtain an apology from the Sunday Times to clarify that Ian Taylor donated money to the Conservative party, not directly to Alan Duncan.

June 2008Alan Duncan’s register of members interests makes clear his office was funded by donations from Ian Taylor which were made to the Conservative party.

Alan Clarke MP to take over as Conservative Party Trade spokesperson

Simply, beefy, beery, cigar chomping champion of the smokers is the only person they can put up, to dampen down the Knight of Darkness and lead the Conservative Party into any hastily called election.

... or possible gain the support of the rich Tory grandees prepared to fund such an election...

Watch this space.

PS : There may be a brief hiatus in service as Lord Patel has to undertake some major reconstruction surgery and Toni Fabuloso will necesarily be on hand to salve the wounds with restorative and gentle massage, oils, unguents and lotions liberally applied ... in all the right places.

£200 Mn. Giveaway - form an orderly queue, whilst it lasts, shortage of supplies means bankers must be dealt with first (alphabetically)

Taxpayers face years of debt in bank salvage deal

Taxpayers are poised to take on the "toxic" debts of High Street lenders in a new bank rescue deal which will cost taxpayers billions of pounds.

Under the "pay as you go" plan, details of which are secretly being horsetraded between bankers, wankers and the rest of the Threadneedle flapdoodles in their elegant "parlours" , the Government will create a new insurance scheme (like the one that saved Equitable Life shareholders ?) that would see liabilities of up to £200 billion potentially kept on the public books for years. Sunday Telegraph

So we turned to Dean Swift and his exquisite tales of the voyage of Lemuel Gulliver to the Land of Brobdingnag - he spends some time telling the King about how his country is run and the King poses several questions,of which one is .

"What qualifications were necessary in those who are created new Lords: whether the humour of the Prince, a sum of Money to a Court lady, or a Prime Minister, or a design of strengthening a Party oposite to the Public interest , ever happened to be the motives in these advancements."

With all this exciteable talk of a snap election which needs funding ....?

" .. he was still at a loss how a Kingdom could run out of its Estate like a Private person. Who were our Creditors? and where, wwe found money to pay
them? he wondered to hear me talk of such chargeable and extensive wars; that
certainly we must be such a quarrelsome peple ... he was amazed to hear me talk
of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace, and amongst a free
people."

..and he added ...

" You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice are the proper ingredients for qualifying a legislator. That laws are best explained , interpreted, and applied by those whose interests and liabilities lie in perverting , confounding, and eluding them."

All of which caused him to say....

" I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives, to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth."

and to conclude (and repeat) ..

But, if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate, like a private person." He asked me, "who were our creditors; and where we found money to pay them?" He wondered to hear me talk of such chargeable and expensive wars; "that certainly we must be a quarrelsome people, or live among very bad neighbours, and that our generals must needs be richer than our kings."

Gazprom / Ukraine / EU impasse

Now what happens if by some sort of accident a gas pipeline / pumping station / compressor or 3 gets damaged, blown up.

May 7th 2007 90 feet of the Urenhoi-Pomary-Uzhhorod pipeline was blown up - in the same place as one occurred in 2003.

Expecting the Unexpected - Russia’s acute dependence on energy, and its desperate need for higher energy prices makes it very tempting for Putin to stir the pot. To blame Amerikanski plots just as the new US President settles his bottom onto the Presidential perch in the White House would not be a surprise.

It would distract attention from major problems like - "What dog will the O'Bomber kids get ?" ... Gaza, what exactly to do with the TARP 2 funds, Gaza, Israeli war criminals and the upcoming elections, ladling money out to Detroit, Gaza, UK troops pulling out of Iraq, UK Marine sbeing blown up every day, Gaza etc.,

Good Commentary at Streetwise Professor

Zionist central Heating - A Phosphor bomb hits housing area.

Spiegel

White phosphorus results in painful chemical burn injuries. The resultant burn typically appears as a necrotic area with a yellowish color and characteristic garliclike odor. White phosphorus is highly lipid soluble and as such, is believed to have rapid dermal penetration once particles are embedded under the skin. Because of its enhanced lipid solubility, many have believed that these injuries result in delayed wound healing. This has not been well studied; therefore, all that can be stated is that white phosphorus burns represent a small subsegment of chemical burns, all of which typically result in delayed wound healing.

Incandescent particles of WP may produce extensive burns. Phosphorus burns on the skin are deep and painful; a firm eschar is produced and is surrounded by vesiculation. The burns usually are multiple, deep, and variable in size. The solid in the eye produces severe injury. The particles continue to burn unless deprived of atmospheric oxygen. Contact with these particles can cause local burns.

These weapons are particularly nasty because white phosphorus continues to burn until it disappears. If humans (or animals) are hit by pieces of white phosphorus, it could burn right down to the bone. Burns usually are limited to areas of exposed skin (upper extremities, face). Burns frequently are second and third degree because of the rapid ignition and highly lipophilic properties of white phosphorus.

Article two, Protocol III of the 1980 UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons states: "It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects, the object of attack by incendiary weapons."

Israel is Immune From Criticism By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY Counterpunch January 5, 2009

Wet beavers split rural communities : Amazing pictures !!!

BBC Radio 4 Farming Today this morning reports on sighting of the elusive beavers which have been introduced by "Natural heritage" (?) in their natural native style wet habitats unseen in the UK for millennia.

Naturally the first "wild" beavers first seen were six adults caught in Bavaria who awoke after a lengthy trans - European journey and kept in "carefully controlled" circumstances in Lower Mill Estate near South Cerney, Gloucester in October 2005. Very near the extensive and rolling acres of Prince Charles and, much in the news for beaver sightings - Cirencester Park !

Beavers in Countryside not a new phenomenom

It can now be revealed, earlier attempts were made in Kent (easier channel crossing by tunnelling ?) in 2001. DEFRA have apparently , according to the program started clamping down on this activity - although feral wolves / dogs are said can be found in well monitored but unlicensed "dogging sites" in parts of the UK.

There are also attempts to meet Scottish appetites for access to beavers - more here at Scottish Natural Heritage. (SNH) who also have a range of "Beaver Publications " for a more ...er ... specialised audience.

One news item that escaped our attention over the Christmas break was news of SNH's plans to release "Norwegian" beavers (an albino sub species ?) in the Independent with opposition from an unexpected source.... "Farmers protest at plan to bring beavers back to Britain after 400 years". Alocal landowner whom we will not name is quoted ..."beavers could spread giardiasis, a disease that damages the immune system.." The Indpendent also had a story in July "Viva la beaver: Britain's population is beginning to thrive again" ... more pictures or Google.

So if you are out for a bit of activity in the countryside this weekend, (especially i Royal Gloucestershire) keep your eyes open for some cheeky, slinky, splashing wet beavers.

Wet beavers split rural community : Amazing picturs !!!

Years of fraudulent Accounts by Barclays, overvaluing assets, over stating profits and jolly fine divvies - shares crash - again.

WSJ reports that Barclays said it didn't know of any reason for the fall in its shares shortly before close of business Friday. Ho.Ho.Ho.

Reasons market denizens give include ;

1. The 3 month Financial Services Authorityban on short-selling financial stocks ended.

2. The UK Government will announce new aid / bailout / throwing away taxpayers money measures next week from which Barclays will not benefit unlikr previous recipients of Gordon's helicopter cash - Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS (now including Lloyds) including "softer" terms on preference shares taken up.

3. If (as is wildly rumoured) the UK Government setup a "bad bank " to buy up bad assets (as the original but discarded after 13 days US TARP scam ..er...plan... bright idea) Barclays will not be able to particpate.

Readers might not be up to speed on the way Barclays prepare their financial statements - they might usefully look at Page 167 of Barclays Annual report 2007 which details how asset impairment is handled.

8. Impairment of financial assets

The Group assesses at each balance sheet date whether there is objective evidence that loans and receivables or available for sale financial investments are impaired. These are impaired and impairment losses are incurred if, and only if, there is objective evidence of impairment as a result of one or more loss events that occurred after the initial recognition of the asset and prior to the balance sheet date (‘a loss event’) and that loss event or events has had an impact on the estimated future cash flows of the financial asset or the portfolio that can be reliably estimated. The criteria that the Group uses to determine that there is objective evidence of an impairment loss include: (inter alia)

e) the disappearance of an active market for that financial asset because of financial difficulties; or

f) observable data indicating that there is a measurable decrease in the estimated future cash flows from a portfolio of financial assets since the initial recognition of those assets, although the decrease cannot yet be identified with the individual financial assets in the portfolio, including:

The amount of impairment loss is measured as the difference between the asset’s carrying amount and the present value of estimated future cash flows discounted at the asset’s original effective interest rate. The amount of the loss is recognised using an allowance account and recognised in the income statement (ie as a loss) .

So the rub is , that if Barclays have been lying about the value of their very many assets and refused to take impairments so maintaining the fiction (which they have done for years) that they have made profits - they are, by by refusing to "come clean" , put themeselves in the position that they cannot use the taxpayers money to scrub their balance sheets of all the shit they have been hiding and overvaluing.... for years.

So they persist in reporting after close of trading today that "its 2008 profit before tax, (reports due Feb 17th) after reflecting all costs, impairment and market valuations, would be "well ahead of the GBP5.3 billion consensus estimate of sell-side analysts."

CEO of Barclays (£2.8Mn a year) since 2004 is John Silvester Varley (born 1 April 1956), in 1981 he married Carolyn Thorn Pease, daughter of Sir Richard Thorn Pease, and in so doing married into the fascinating Quaker Pease family, whose bank became part of Barclays in 1902.

Curiously ( Catholic, Downside, Oriel College Oxford (History)) by then trained and working as a solicitor (like his father) , joined the Merchant Banking section of Barclays the following year,1982, with it appears no knowledge, history or experience of banking in any form. He is apparently, unlike any other major bankers and excellent table tennis player.

It is of interest to note that Varley's sister in law Nichola Pease is chief executive of JO Hambro Capital Management and was a nonexecutive executive director of what was Northern Rock plc. Her husband is Crispin Odey who founded Odey Asset Management, which made £55 Mn Y/E April 2008 and paid him£23 Mn salary....their especial skills ? Shorting UK bank shares. They were at it again later this year shorting Bradford & Bingley involving the taxpayer in a direct £ 4 Bn write off and the introduction of the FSA ban on shorting financial shares.

What goes around, comes around.

Are Barclays too BIG to fail ?

No.

Expect some remarkable and "unexpected" events as the share shifters get dug in. Again.

Get ready to shortly own a chunk of Barclays along with your other banking assets like RBOS and HBOS.

Military Intelligence ? - 30 years too late

Sir,

Recent speeches made by the Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary and the previous Defence Secretary, and the letter from Douglas Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, David Owen and George Robertson in The Times on June 30, 2008, have placed the issue of a world free of nuclear weapons firmly on the public agenda. But it is difficult to see how the United Kingdom can exert any leadership and influence on this issue if we insist on a costly successor to Trident that would not only preserve our own nuclear-power status well into the second half of this century but might actively encourage others to believe that nuclear weapons were still, somehow, vital to the secure defence of self-respecting nations.

This is a fallacy which can best be illustrated by analysis of the British so-called independent deterrent. This force cannot be seen as independent of the United States in any meaningful sense. It relies on the United States for the provision and regular servicing of the D5 missiles. While this country has, in theory, freedom of action over giving the order to fire, it is unthinkable that, because of the catastrophic consequences for guilty and innocent alike, these weapons would ever be launched, or seriously threatened, without the backing and support of the United States.

Should this country ever become subject to some sort of nuclear blackmail — from a terrorist group for example — it must be asked in what way, and against whom, our nuclear weapons could be used, or even threatened, to deter or punish. Nuclear weapons have shown themselves to be completely useless as a deterrent to the threats and scale of violence we currently, or are likely to, face — particularly international terrorism; and the more you analyse them the more unusable they appear.

The much cited “seat at the top table” no longer has the resonance it once did. Political clout derives much more from economic strength. Even major-player status in the international military scene is more likely to find expression through effective, strategically mobile conventional forces, capable of taking out pinpoint targets, than through the possession of unusable nuclear weapons. Our independent deterrent has become virtually irrelevant except in the context of domestic politics. Rather than perpetuating Trident, the case is much stronger for funding our Armed Forces with what they need to meet the commitments actually laid upon them. In the present economic climate it may well prove impossible to afford both.

Field Marshal Lord Bramall

General Lord Ramsbotham

General Sir Hugh Beach

House of Lords, London SW1

Now let's get rid of those damn aircraft carriers.

Olmert yanks Bush's chain Part 276.

Those rebuttals by White House PR bulshit merchants just really don't seem to ring tru. If not true why not simply deny them and call Olmer ta Liar ? Condi's explanation is even more extreme ..."And I had made very clear that I thought the resolution was premature, and there were also concerns about a resolution that had Israel, a member-state of the United Nations, and Hamas, which is a terrorist organization, you don't ever want there to be any equating those two." ... if this is such a fundamental problem why were you even talking about the resolution ...seems late in the day to bring that up.

Is the Israeli Government isn't a democratically elected terrorist organisation - of course it is.

More about this egregious use of power and influence over the US President.


Defective judgment Ha’aretz, Israel - 2 hours ago - What is clear is that Olmert phoned US President George W. Bush late Thursday night, and in the end the United States abstained in the vote. …
Rice calls Olmert account “fiction” Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY - 9 hours agoBy Eric Fingerhut · January 14, 2009 WASHINGTON (JTA) — Condoleezza Rice called “fiction” Ehud Olmert’s claim that he persuaded President Bush to abstain …

Olmert stands by his version of Rice flap International Herald Tribune, France - 15 hours ago Olmert claimed earlier this week that he humiliated Rice by persuading US President Bushto instruct her not to vote for it. Rice spokesman Sean McCormack …

Olmert’s ill-advised move Ynetnews, Israel - 10 hours ago I’m certain that spitting into the plate he ate out of is not the kind of farewell present Prime Minister Olmert planned on granting Bush and Rice in return …

Olmert hits back in spat with US over remarks on UN Gaza truce vote Ha’aretz, Israel - 17 hours agoThe US State Department on Tuesday flatly rejected Olmert’s assertion that he had convinced the Bush administration to abstain from last week’s United …

... for all this thanks to Culture of Life news

Raja Shehadeh - "Open letter to Barack Obama"

The BBC World Service (paid for by the Foreign and Commenwealth Office) has invited 5 people to send an Open letter to Barak Obama.

The letter by The Palestinian lawyer and writer, Raja Shahadeen (Shehadah) best known for his books on international law and human rights, is exceedingly good on the lethal ambiguities of the Zioniist warmongers.

We canot embed it, but ask you to read it and pass it on to friends, family, politicians.

The most elequoent expression for the Palestinian cause you will find on the BBC.

Meanwhile Uruknet Sitrep on Gaza



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