Saturday, January 24, 2009

TOLD YOU SO! Crossrail-peddling City of London BANKERS and the place men and women in sleazy Parliament were pushing society down a hole....

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article5581568.ece

From The Sunday Times
January 25, 2009
£5m bonuses at rescued banks
Jon Ungoed-Thomas and Robert Watts
THE BOSSES of banks bailed out with taxpayers’ cash are to receive bonuses and shares worth up to £5m each.

Gordon Brown pledged last year that the “days of the big bonuses” were over as the government bailed out the crippled banking industry. Yet it has now emerged that many executives are getting the same bonus deals and free shares that were on offer before the credit crisis.

This weekend Lord Myners, the City minister, said some financiers had been “grossly overrewarded”. Opposition MPs, however, pointed out that Myners himself had been paid handsomely for his boardroom roles, including a directorship with a hedge fund that made money – legally – by short-selling Bradford & Bingley shares, now a nationalised bank.

Among the directors who have agreed new contracts to run companies propped up with public funds is Eric Daniels, who heads the new Lloyds Banking Group. The group is a merger of Lloyds TSB and HBOS, which is 43% owned by the government.

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Daniels has agreed a new contract this month with almost the same terms he previously enjoyed as head of Lloyds TSB: a bonus worth up to 225% of his £1.03m salary and an annual allocation of free shares worth up to three times his salary.

Daniels will now have his bonus payable in shares rather than cash, to comply with the demands of ministers that no cash bonus be paid in the wake of the £5.5 billion state bailout. Lloyds says some other directors may be in line for bonuses this year, also in shares.

Defending the perks, the bank said: “Bonuses are only paid when [targets] are met. We are very confident that our executive remuneration scheme is very much in line with guidelines.”

At Bradford & Bingley, Richard Pym, the chief executive, is in line for a £187,000 bonus this year. About 1,100 staff will also receive a cash bonus of 9% of their salary in March, at a total cost of about £3.5m.

Additional reporting: Georgia Warren and Brendan Montague

Tribune, the 'British Left' magazine, aids and abets violations and letdowns by inner city Council

AADHIKAROnline analysis of the Ed balls/Tribune assault on the truth about Tower Hamlets Council’s violations against the community and its failures of education duties will be appearing here at the weekend...

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London: Demo against Tower Hamlets Council 28 Feb 2007

AADHIKARonline The 3rd Edn 0930 Hrs GMT Tuesday 27 February 2007



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The 3rd Edn 0930 Hrs GMT Tuesday 27 February 2007
Khoodeelaar! The Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole plot, scheme, scam, project Bill [UK House of Commons, 2007]
Crassrail is one of a 3-piece megalomaniac mega plots at the expense of the communities across East London – what the ‘papers’ say’ about the disastrous Olympics lies and the Thames Gitsway lies -
CRASSrail hole plotter Ken Livingstone’s latest lunatic plot to waste public money while exposing his latent idiocies and craving for monuments to his idiotic roles – Is there room in London to accommodate the insane cravings of Ken Livingstone for self-publicity?
Just how small is John Biggs [‘member’ in the name of and at the expense of the East End of London on the Ghastly Lying Aspirants’ publicly-paid-for facade called the GLA] when it comes to recognising the truth about the Crassness of the Crossrail hole plot?
Cumbria rail crash! So what do the pluggers of Crossrail do? Do they pause and reflect on the need to MAINTAIN EXISTING railway stock? Do they urge on all concerned to ensure that EXISTING stock and infrastructure is property maintained, checked and inspected? No they use the incident – and the tragedy for those injured and for the bereaved family of the one passenger killed – to bray insanely for Government funding to construct the Crassrail! [To be continued]
Crossrail hole-inviting Tower Hamlets Council – So what are the ’Opposition’ councillors on Tower Hamlets Council doing to ‘oppose’ CrossRail hole attacks on the East End of London?
Why is Tower Hamlets Council silent on the real cause of the high incidence of Tuberculosis in Tower Hamlets? What has the ‘Tower Hamlets Primary care Trust’ have to say about the matter? Is it waiting for Michael Keith’s ‘re instatement;’ somewhere soon so it can invite him as the ‘chief guest’ again so we can hear about what, if anything, the PCT has been doing top address the issue of the high incidence of the TB among so many young people as well as in older people in the Borough?
Further Details of the Khoodeelaar! Demonstration against CrossRail hole-inviter Tower Hamlets Council – 6.30 PM on Wednesday 28 February 2007 outside ‘Mulberry Place’, 5 Clove Crescent, London E14 2 BG
What councillor said what a year ago this week about the CrossRail hole-inviting role by Tower Hamlets Council
Khoodeelaar! legal action programme against CrossRail hole Bill and other camapgn against Crossrail hole plot news
Breaking stories and announcements

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AADHIKARonline The 2nd Edn 0930 Hrs GMT on Monday 26 February 2007



Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole-inviter Tower Hamlets Council, 6.30 PM Wednesday 28 February 2007 at ‘Mulberry Place’, 5 Clove Crescent, London E14 2BG organised in support of the continuing demand on the ‘Tower Hamlets Council ’ to pass the Motion Saying No to Crossrail hole Bill
Details of the demand
Texts of the key Khoodeelaar! legal and constitutional documents sent to the Council over the past 3 years asking for the Council to Say No to CrossRail hole
Texts of the Khoodeelaar! Community demand at the No to CrossRail hole public meeting held at the ‘Brady Centre’, Hanbury Street, London E1 on Sunday 22 January 2006 in support of the Khoodeelaar! Movement in defence of the Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 Area campaign against Crossrail hoel Assault


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The 1st Edn 0605 Hrs GMT on Monday 26 February 2007
The AADHIKAR DAILY REVIEW OF THE BRITISH MEDIA.
0550 Hrs GMT London Monday 26 February 2007.
On Sunday 25 February 2007, in one of the sequences shown in a programme apparently fronted by Jeremy Clarkson himself and broadcast on BBC 2, a man was heard to say that he knew Jeremy Clarkson’s mother very well.
Then he was asked if he liked Clarkson himself. The man was evidently shocked to be asked such an obscene question. He clearly protested that he did not have to like Clarkson….Why would a man who a moment earlier in the interview had said that he lived quite close to Clarkson’s mother in the English Midlands and that he knew her very well, find it so gross as to be asked to say if he liked Clarkson himself?
Perhaps it is because Clarkson is so gross….and stupid and because of that it would be quite a liability to admit to liking him…
And no one better than Clarkson himself provides the clue as to why it should be so…
The word ‘crass’ does not begin to adequately represent the extent of stupidity, prejudice, ignorance and gross callousness that Jeremy Clarkson typifies. Generally speaking. But Clarkson’s stupidity and all the other elements that make up that embarrassment of a ‘personality’ become even more indescribable when he PRETENDS to know what he is talking about as he jumps onto the bandwagon of racists referring to ‘Tower Hamlets’ as if the area or the borough [or the what the racists mean] the main parts of it with significant populations from more than one background] Like the other odious racist backer of CRASSrail hole plot [Matthew Parris] who is touting for an assault on the East End of London [and doing the touting via the Rupert Murdoch media while also enjoying regular unwarranted slots at the licence-payers’ expense at the racistly-controlled and corruptly managed BBC], Jeremy Clarkson has decided to launch his own attacks on what he obviously thinks is a place which deserves even more attacks Tower Hamlets [To be continued]



The 5th Edn 1645 Hrs GMT on Sunday 25 February 2007

Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill campaign details for the week starting on Monday 26 February 2007
Editorial, legal and political updater in summary at Sunday 25 February 2007:

By© Muhammad Haque, 1620 Hrs GMT London Sunday 25 February 2007


AADHIKARonline in association with ‘Khoodeelaar! The Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 Area No to Crossrail hole Bill’ campaign, has in the three years and one month since the campaign was begun on 31 January 2004 initiated original research into all relevant economic, legislative, constitutional, political, legal, social, environmental aspects of the ‘Crossrail Bill’, which poses threats to East End of London in specific terms as well as to the public purse.. ..
The individual elements that have been identified as being touts for the greedy, grubby Big Business-dictated Crossrail plot include the ‘London mayor’ Ken Livingstone, the propagandists, apologists, spinmeisters and assorted other packs of liars that are employed at public expense by Livingstone at the ‘mayoralty’ [which Khoodeelaar! has termed as a major casualty at the expense of democracy in London,] the others that again Livingstone has employed in their tens of hundreds in the name of ‘Transport for London’, the still others successive Blairing administrations in the UK Department for Transport [DfT].. Khoodeelaar! The Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 Area No to Crossrail hole Bill’ campaign has created a unique substantial analytical and historical database of references in the defence of the Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 Area in the first place. It has also created an analytical framework for the defences of similar inner city areas in the UK and in comparable metropolitan locations and sett8ngs.
The lessons learnt in the Khoodeelaar! campaign against CrossRail hole plot have included those that relate to all aspects of the operations of the state and their collaboration that exists between the state and Big Business who pursue communities which they target for dislocation, destruction and replacement…
The evidence that Khoodeelaar! has identified and brought out into the public and placed in the public domain about the relevant roles played – or not played - by the so-called democratic local council [ in this case the ‘London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council’], by the equally unrepresentative but publicly paid-for holders of other post and positions in the name of the local people, shows that local communities in the Blaired state cannot expect to be protected by their ‘elected representatives’ from the combined onslaught of Big Business and their agents in the state [whether local, central’ or ‘national’].
The deeply corrupt ‘local press’, as typified by the contents, the bias and the immoral, selfish, servile 'East London Idiotiser’, is as unreliable and unworthy of the people of the East End of London as are the literally dozens of other ‘locally published’ ‘ethnicity-linked’ ‘news publications’.
The extent to which the ‘East London Idiotiser’ publishes LIES every week against the long and the short term interests and rights of the local people may vary from edition to edition. But the fact that the ‘East London Idiotiser’ lies, never ceases. That is one of the other compelling realities which make it utterly necessary for a campaign like Khoodeelaar! to have been founded and maintained.
The same applies to the FUNDED ‘community groups’, especially those that the likes of Christine Gilbert [who is one of the individuals that Khoodeelaar! has long identified as being engaged in the criminal violations of the rights of the community when she, Gilbert, played a key role in bringing into the East End of London the threat of the Crossrail hole plot] . A word about the phrase ‘FUNDED community groups’! These are the democratically unaccountable, unaudited, unrepresentative outfits which are used – or whose ‘project leaders and committees’ are used by the corrupt clique on the local Council and via it by the corrupt units and the corrupting units based within the establishment of the London mayor Ken Livingstone and in the Blairing ‘Government Office for London’ and in similar outfits within other UK Departments – to spy on the local communities in return for the slavish items of ‘grants’ that they are paid. As a result the plethora of such groups does not correspond to the different size, identifies and numbers of people who are actively engaged in the campaign against the CrossRail assault ion the very same community against whom these groups, grouplets and groupings are paid to spy and engage in other miniature but state-agenda operations of political sabotage…. The Khoodeelaar! campaign against Crossrail hole attack has thus of necessity had to be much more comprehensive [extensive, detailed, thorough...] than a mere single issue campaign lasting a few months.. It has been necessary to look at the impact of the Crossrail hole plan, plot, scheme assault on the educational needs and the educational rights of the children that are in the families that are affected by the Crossrail hole attack… [To be continued]


Khoodeelaar! Archive of demands [January 2004 to February 2007] to Crossrail hole –inviter Tower Hamlets Council – selected key texts -
Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Motion – as passed by the No to CrossRail hole public meeting held on Sunday 22 January 2006
Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail hole Bill – key documents as addressed to holders of various decision-making posts [positions, 'titles', 'offices' 'powers'] at relevant times in the LB Tower Hamlets Council -
Khoodeelaar! – the unique role the movement has been playing in mobilising the community against the corrupt Tower Hamlets Council clique – including selected quotes from ‘local MP’ George Galloway
The actual motion against No to Crossrail hole Bill as IN FACT put on the table at a full meeting of Tower Hamlets Council – a review of the year since that manifest political moment – and what other motion, IF ANY, might have been put on the table at the same ‘full Council’ meeting a year since Wednesday 1 March 2006
The 2nd edition at 1210 Hrs GMT on Sunday 25 February 2007



Khoodeelaar! No to CrossRail hole – analysis of the Big Business projects that the poor people will have to pay for! There is no limit to the crassness of the corrupt brigade, abusing the powers available to them [by their occupation of the various public offices in the UK, ‘led’ [!] by Tony Blair, and descending on the ever so compliant-to-racist-imperialism Singapore for a whole week] lying through their teeth about the Olympics staging plot they were hatching for 2012. The endless stupidity, irresponsibility and callousness can be begun to be appreciated only if the costs of the 20112 Olympics are put in the context of the literally millions of people in the Uk who are left with no pensions to speak of. These 'Olympics 2012 ' corruptors who literally robbed the Olympics staging ‘licence’ in the name of ‘London’ are also very much the elements that are behind the equally wasting and wasteful Crossrail hole plot.
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Khoodeelaar! the legal, constitutional, political and community campaign in defence of the Brick Lane and Whitechapel London E1 Area against Tower Hamlets Council’s Crossrail hole-inviter role

Archive of action analysis against Crossrail hole Bill touts, agents and peddlers, as researched, authored and published during the past 3 years and 1 month of campaigning in defence of the Brick Lane and Whitechapel London e1 Area

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Khoodeelaar! demonstration against Crossrail hole Bill Tower Hamlets Council 6.30 PM Wednesday 28 February 2007 outside ‘Mulberry Place’ ‘Town Hall’, London Borough of Tower Hamlets Council, 5 Clove Crescent, London E1 4 2 BG
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Muhammad Haque daily commentary against Crossrail crassness by London 'local councils’ - Just how CRASS does the brain of any Crassrail hole plot Bill -touting ‘council leader’ get? It is an intolerable epidemic on local democracy and against common sense. Wherever there is crass promotion of CrossRail, there must be a ‘council leader’ backing the crassness. No matter how contradictory, how irrational, how illogical. But then that is perhaps the point of the CRASSrail. Spread crassness into all areas of London where there is a willing ‘council leader’ prepared to exhibit ITS idiocy.As is being displayed by the Ealing Council’s ‘leader’ Jason Stacey in his typically stupid ‘argument’ against Transport for London wasting money over trams in West London but well advised in pursing Crossrail instead!
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No to Crossrail!

Comment on Ealing news website 23.2.2007
If the quoted remarks by Jason Stacey are accurate and complete then Stacey is no better than Ken Livingstone.
How can Stacey say that there is no money to fund the tram route while he goes on to advise Livingstone to concentrate on Crossrail?
Crossrail will cost more than 20 times the costs of the Greenwich Millennium Dome! Where is that money going to come from?
And that is even before examining the alleged merits of Crossrail! Who says that London transport is going to be transformed by having a Crossrail ? Transport for London is itself a waste of money and resource. As is the GLA.
As is the mayor. What we need in London is responsible accountable democratic local policies which should be thoroughly examined and then a reasonable answer found to each need.
The waste of money that Linvs9snge has engaged in - like paying Bob KILEY millions of pounds for intimidating people has got to be the bigger problem.
Scrap Livingstone. Scarp the mayor.
Return the decisions to people whop actually speak for their own communities.
For the past decade Livingstone ahs aped and been aligned with Blair – despite noises to the contrary – in abolishing what remnants of local democracy there still were in the boroughs.
Now Livingstone is brazenly acting as the tout for City of London interests and Big Business interests. Crossrail is a Big Business project. It is not an initiative by and for the local communities. Or by ordinary users of public transport in London.

So think hard and look at the grisly, contradictory, untenable anti-social wasteful contents of the 'Crossrail Bill' and project before jumping on the Big Business propaganda bandwagon and aping the zombies and saying ‘let’s concentrate on CrossRail’.
Say, instead, let’s scrap Crossrail.
Use the public money to address real transport issues and other public needs in London.



The Muhammad Haque economic commentary London 1020 Hrs GMT Friday 23 February 2007

The overwhelmingly, sick-making Crassly conceived and even more crassly plugged Crossrail hole Bill and project is one of three mala fide projects to be being imposed on the East End of London n at the behest of identifiably and identically corrupt and corrupting elements, interest and forces at work at the centre of the Blaring regime in the UK. The other two are the over hyped and corrosive ‘2012 Olympic’ and the Thames GITSway. ALL three monstrosities are being funded by the public. At huge expense to the present generations. And placing in debt several generations to come. All three obscenities are being propelled by the corruptor of London Ken Livingstone. And the others that are behind him are equally corrupt, lacking in basic democratic integrity. Not one of them is even remotely genuinely aware of the concept of fairness for the people who are pushed into and kept in involuntary poverty right across the area – also known s the former ‘Greater London’ [contaminated by the corruptor Ken when he had seized control of it within hours of the then Labour Party in London winning the last valid GLC election in 1981]. The combined cost of the three mega monstrosities will exceed in 2007 prices £100 billion of public money unless sense is allowed to emerge in the thinking of those who are in charge of making the decisions about where the main priorities of the economy are and where the real service needs remain almost starved due to lack of cash. Like key sectors in the NHS. Like key sectors in schooling [Oops! ‘British education’!] . Like key sectors in employment, housing and environmental protection…. And, shock horror, compliance with the UK’s own human rights commitments and obligations…. Instead of addressing and funding those real needs in society, the |Blaring regime has been wasting huge chuck of the public money bin funding mega crooks and criminal enterprises that are making the already hard up and the involuntarily deprived even more deprived and disenfranchised... And then they scream that there is so much lack of respect for life in this society... That there is so much gun crime and so on... What examples do the young ions have to follow? The very man who still occupies the seat at No 10 which by the UK's formal and de facto conventions is the highest public post in the country, has been exposed across London on a daily basis as the most dishonest one to have ever occupied that post in the recorded shortly of such things in these islands... So how odd is it for him to then embark on a series of totally cringe-making sick photo opportunity across south London parading his dishonest image as if anyone attaches any ounce of morality or ethics with him.... With Blair 'leading' the 'nation' there is no chance of accountability coming from those shifty creepy operatives around Blair's enterprise who are given the public money and the public positions... This massive mess that Blair has created in Britain and across the major parts of Asia and in some other strategic locations in the world during the past decade will take a very long time to sort out.... And Gordon Brown is a fool if he fails to read the writings ion the wall... Brown must start to scrap the monstrosities that Blair has for his own petty, selfish and anti-social reasons, foisted on the Treasury... Scarp the Crossrail plot, scrap the Thames Gitsway and scrap the public commitment to fund the Millennium Dome-like extravaganza under the cover of Olympics Glory... It will be anything but.... [To be c continued]. Enterprises that are stealing £Billions from the public purse