Nergal and Mammon

Sunday, 8 February 2009

PETER OBORNE: Rich men, dodgy money and the banana skin that could stop Cameron reaching No. 10

Last updated at 11:54 PM on 06th February 2009

Dances and balls are normally very showy affairs and the guests are expected to dress up and enjoy being on public display.
But not so at the Conservative Black and White Ball in Central London this week. Instead, the Tories treated the occasion like some secret meeting. Police and security guards patrolled outside to stop intruders.
Photographers were banned, and David Cameron himself arrived in a dark suit rather than the traditional dinner jacket and bow tie.
The reason for this furtiveness was simple - the ball was held to raise funds for the Tory Party. Of course, the issue of party donations is potentially explosive after the scandal of Tony Blair's cash-for-honours and the embarrassment over Shadow Chancellor George Osborne being accused of attempting to procure money from a Russian billionaire

Expenses row: 'Lodger' deal earns Jacqui Smith £100,000 as she claims sister's house is main home

By Simon Walters and Martin Delgado, Daily Mail
Last updated at 5:27 PM on 08th February 2009

Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has claimed more than £116,000 in Commons expenses for a 'second home' while effectively lodging with her sister.
Ms Smith claims the maximum parliamentary second-home allowance, currently a tax-free £24,006 a year, on the detached house in her West Midlands constituency, where her husband and two young children live and which she bought for £300,000 five years ago.
She is able to do so because she has told the Commons authorities that her 'main home' is a house in London owned solely by her sister, Sara, where she stays on some weekdays

Friday, 6 February 2009

Tax exile peer halts donations to Tories to spare Cameron's blushes

By Ian Drury, Daily Mail
Last updated at 10:27 PM on 05th February 2009

A tax exile peer has stopped bankrolling the Tories to spare David Cameron embarrassment.

Lord Laidlaw of Rothiemay has lent or donated around £5million to the party, even though he is based in Monaco to avoid paying tax in Britain.
Now the 66-year-old peer - caught taking part in an orgy with prostitutes last year - has decided to end his financial backing 'until he has sorted out his tax issues'.

The multi-millionaire tycoon has been rebuked by the watchdog Lords Appointments Commission for failing to keep his promise when he was ennobled in 2004 to register as a UK resident.
Faced with an estimated tax bill of £50million, he chose to suspend his membership of the Lords in 2007

Tories have a ball as Labour donor bankrolls their night at Annabel’s

Nicholas Cecil, Evening Standard
06.02.09

Restaurant millionaire Richard Caring, who has financed the Labour Party, has started donating to the Conservatives

£150m payout for the dynasty that owns Marylebone

Party time: Camilla, Louisa, and Alice Currey, grandchildren of Baroness Howard de Walden and Count Joseph Czernin. The Howard de Walden estate covers 92 acres of the Marylebone area

Friday, 30 January 2009

Straw faces quiz on Saudi-backed firm's £2,000 gift

Paul Waugh, Deputy Political Editor
Evening Standard
29.01.09

CABINET minister Jack Straw faced questions today over a donation from a Saudi-backed firm.

The Electoral Commission was urged to investigate whether the £2,000 gift to his 2005 general election campaign was lawful.

The money from Westminster International Consultants was accepted by Blackburn constituency Labour party on the same day as it received a £3,000 sum from Lord Taylor of Blackburn - the peer at the centre of the "Lords for Hire" allegations.

Wednesday, 28 January 2009

Six held over 'biggest fraud in history of stock market'

Martin Bentham, Home Affairs Editor, Evening Standard
28.01.09

SIX men suspected of involvement in one of the biggest frauds in British stock market history were arrested today in a joint operation by UK and Spanish police.

The five Spaniards and an Argentinian were held during raids in Madrid, Barcelona and the eastern Spanish town of Elche over their alleged role in a £365 million fraud at a bogus company listed on London's AIM market.

Spain's Interior Ministry said today: "The National Police have arrested six people in relation to a $600 million fraud on the UK stock market. Through complex stock market operations and through fraud, the suspects succeeded in increasing the values of shares in a company which did not have the capital to back it up. They later made themselves rich by the fraudulent sale of those shares."

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The European union is little more than a ingenious way of those in power allowing the free flow of cheap labour throughout Europe, accompanied by plenty of flag waving, plenty of shouting democracy and freedom. Certainly these laboring creatures are free ... free to work at the lowest subsistence level, undercutting the established work force in which ever country they flee too.. creating unrest and endless opportunities for the establishment to mouth platitudes, make promises while putting the proceeds or this plot into their deep pockets, the money to be flaunted in whichever way of displaying this wealth appeals to them … £1 million houses, a long line of horses, mistresses and Bentleys, anything that shows their personal superiority, all with a permanent, smug, contemptuous look on their public faces; knowing also, with almost undisguised satisfaction, that at any moment of every day there are a large number of alien people creeping into the woodwork legally or illegally. At Calais, there is and always will be a mass of the World’s unwanted, simply waiting for the guards to look the other way, they having been given the nod there is a demand for higher wages in England, which is rectified by simply opening the backs of lorries ….The French smile at the English naivety , doing all that is possible to help these people cross the Channel to claim “asylum” “benefits” and their “Human Rights” The French do not make France alluring for England bound beggars

There is nothing new in this situation. Throughout history, conquering nations have used the indigenous population as slaves. The “abolishment of slavery” was nothing more than a piece of paper. People are no longer flogged, branded to make them work, or used for personal gratification... The 21st century has more circumspect ways of intimidation. Watching people has become the first priority. Cameras concealed in every crevice, the police, a vast quasi military force, armed to the very teeth with the power to arrest anyone simply for looking the wrong way. The Establishment is terrified of the slightest uprising of those toiling for them; the slightest impediment which may hinder the accumulation of their wealth. The top 2% of the population now own 98% of the Worlds assets, which is not enough. They want the lot and will not sleep until they get it.

Orwell never saw this side of humanity, the stark greed... rather he saw people wanting “Control”, as with Blair. He never visualizing the dramatic results of his iron fisted grip on England, the deterioration of everything and everyone to the lowest common denominator, anyone, anyone at all, regardless, was not allowed to speak out, punished heavily in the “Courts of Law” with the threat of the word “racist” or refusing to be “politically correct” or for interfering with a person’s “Human Rights” all of these concepts being the manifestations of his wife, a barrister, who doubtlessly seeing the distinct financial gain to be made from these edicts, she, possibly the most dominant, grasping, vitriolic, vociferous woman in recent political history, without any doubt also being heavily backed by the Bush tentacles for whatever deep, political, financial motives that regime had decided on, which would account for her sheer confidence and her acrimonious contempt of everything and anyone who did not see the “situation” her way.

When she realized the deep depths of despair England had sunk into over the crushing of the individual and clearly seeing the impending financial pandemonium, the bureaucratic bludgeon being used indiscriminately at every level of society, the threats, the deliberately created overpopulation with the resulting reaction of the individual as rats in a trap, only then, struck by the stark realization, did she order the person she was married to, to pack his things and make the most impeccably timed discreet exit of any politician, taking with them their accumulated millions. A faint wave, farewell to a few friends, very few, simply leaving the country, no fluttering flags, no speeches, no anything, leaving England in the hands of a Roman Catholic Scotchman, unelected, unwanted .

The greed aspect has never openly manifested itself as in the 21st century ... Hitler had “cheap labour”... he paid nothing… but he, his party, or any other power throughout history, other than the Romans, did not have the open excesses of society now and the “disgusting excesses” as the lady said, of the West Indian sugar plant owners…which may have been the very seeds of 21st cent acceptance of greed as a God, or simply forget God and go for the money, which is about the way The United State and it’s ancillary, England, has gone.

There is the point that no one could do anything about it ... the working class chained in every conceivable way and always will be. In the “office” of the Adelaide Seaman’s Union there is a large beer stained poster showing a “Capitalist” dressed in black, waving a stick; the caption being an old one but the absolute truth.
“Workers of the World unite: you have nothing to lose but your chains”

Perhaps there is now some creeping unease in the Citadels of Brussels, London, Paris, (President Sarkozy, his current penchant for expensive, dominant females) Rome, all the rich European capitals… that as America has now gone Black ... Europe through it’s greed in letting in countless millions of black and coloured workers into Europe and given them the right to vote, there is now enough of them to vote decisively… vote all the other way... This aspect was never considered; never apparently occurred to the upper echelons; they, too busy dinning their secretaries, or their “personal trainers” buying the very latest extravaganza, the largest properties…..the biggest yachts, at the same time, breathlessly on their mobile telephones doing billions of pounds worth of “deals” which have no substance, no foundation, simply numbers on millions of computers. Enron being the first small tip of this grasp of greed. The repercussions of attempting to get a percentage of nothing has devastated the World.

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