This page was last edited at 2112 GMT 2212 Hrs UK Time London Friday 5 September 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! No to "uneconomic, untested, unwanted, publicly-costly, publicly-paid-for Big Business-greed-filling Crossrail scam" CAMPAIGn is VINDICATED, again... In the 'reasons' stated in a RAILNEWS web site item about a [admittedly smaller] 'Crossrail' scam in Scotland being unsupported, the KHOODEELAAR! principled analysis as we had been making against the London CROPSSRAIL, has become relevant.....
[To be continued]
33rd year AADHIKAR
0225 GMT Thursday 06 June 2013
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Friday, September 5, 2008
KHOODEELAAR! No "to 'mainstream' 'media' lies in the UK" campaign UPDATING the evidence [93]
This AADHIKARonline web page was last edited at 2035 Hrs GMT London Friday 5 September 2008
By©Muhammad Haque
1930 GMT 2030 Hrs UK Time London Friday 5 September 2008
[Apart from the Daily Telegraph web site, the only other site that has ‘carried’ the news ‘broken exclusively by Channel 4 news’ has been Tele text in the past 12 minutes. I shall examine that in a later part of this] This piece is an updated evidential piece on how the so-called mainstream media in Britain LIE. And to show that GOOGLE does not LOOK FOR information beyond what the set mainstream [!!!!!!] [=controlling] outlets ‘offer’. Or rather DECIDE to put on their web sites. KHOODEELAAR! has established over the past 4 years and 8 months the empirical foundation on how the mainstream media [ !!] have lied for Big Business Crossrail.
Just so that there is no room for any doubt that the mainstream media lie on all types of issues and events, we look at the case of Halima Aziz
The Daily telegraph web site posted the item on the former CPS lawyer Halima Aziz at 1835 GMT, a good 5 minutes after the Channel 4 News programme ended at 1830 GMT.It was on Channel 4 News, the editon broadcast at 1800 Hrs GMt that carried the item they described as ‘exclusive’. AADHIKARonline looked at the Google search system which returned NIL results for the claimant and the CPS.
It was only after 1835 that the London daily Telegraph web site item was posted. But it was not captured by the Google system until after another 20 good minutes
How do we know THAT ?
Because we have been testing the GOOGLE search system for all that time and it was returning NIL results on the relevant key words that applied.
So what does this tell us about the media a and what they are doing as far as the actual conduct of Govt, of public bodies and of corporations?
It says that the MEDIA is and are lying.
As they have been doing for Crossrail.
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1930 GMT 2030 Hrs UK Time London Friday 5 September 2008
[Apart from the Daily Telegraph web site, the only other site that has ‘carried’ the news ‘broken exclusively by Channel 4 news’ has been Tele text in the past 12 minutes. I shall examine that in a later part of this] This piece is an updated evidential piece on how the so-called mainstream media in Britain LIE. And to show that GOOGLE does not LOOK FOR information beyond what the set mainstream [!!!!!!] [=controlling] outlets ‘offer’. Or rather DECIDE to put on their web sites. KHOODEELAAR! has established over the past 4 years and 8 months the empirical foundation on how the mainstream media [ !!] have lied for Big Business Crossrail.
Just so that there is no room for any doubt that the mainstream media lie on all types of issues and events, we look at the case of Halima Aziz
The Daily telegraph web site posted the item on the former CPS lawyer Halima Aziz at 1835 GMT, a good 5 minutes after the Channel 4 News programme ended at 1830 GMT.It was on Channel 4 News, the editon broadcast at 1800 Hrs GMt that carried the item they described as ‘exclusive’. AADHIKARonline looked at the Google search system which returned NIL results for the claimant and the CPS.
It was only after 1835 that the London daily Telegraph web site item was posted. But it was not captured by the Google system until after another 20 good minutes
How do we know THAT ?
Because we have been testing the GOOGLE search system for all that time and it was returning NIL results on the relevant key words that applied.
So what does this tell us about the media a and what they are doing as far as the actual conduct of Govt, of public bodies and of corporations?
It says that the MEDIA is and are lying.
As they have been doing for Crossrail.
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! No "to 'mainstream' 'media' lies in the UK" campiagn. The media toes the Govt line, the Big Business line [92]
This AADHIKARonline web page was last edited at 1922 Hrs GMT London Friday 5 September 2008
By©Muhammad Haque
1915 Hrs GMT London Friday 5 September 2008
This piece is an updated evidential piece on how the so-called mainstream media in Britain LIE. And to show that GOOGLE does not LOOK FOR information beyond what the set mainstream [!!!!!!] [=controlling] outlets ‘offer’. Or rather DECIDE to put on their web sites.
KHOODEELAAR! has established over the past 4 years and 8 months the empirical foundation on how the mainstream media [ !!] have lied for Big Business Crossrail.
Just so that there is no room for any doubt that the mainstream media lie on all types of issues and events, we look at the case of Halima Aziz
The Daily telegraph web site posted the item on the former CPS lawyer Halima Aziz at 1835 GMT, a good 5 minutes after the Channel 4 News programme ended at 1830 GMT.
It was on Channel 4 News, the editon broadcast at 1800 Hrs GMt that carried the item they described as ‘exclusive’.
AADHIKARonline looked at the Google search system which returned NIL results for the claimant and the CPS.
It was only after 1835 that the London daily Telegraph web site item was posted. But it was not captured by the Google system until after another 20 good minutes
How do we know THAT ?
Because we have been testing the GOOGLE search system for all that time and it was returning NIL results on the relevant key words that applied.
So what does this tell us about the media a and what they are doing as far as the actual conduct of Govt, of public bodies and of corporations?
It says that the MEDIA is and are lying.
As they have been doing for Crossrail.
[To be continued]
By©Muhammad Haque
1915 Hrs GMT London Friday 5 September 2008
This piece is an updated evidential piece on how the so-called mainstream media in Britain LIE. And to show that GOOGLE does not LOOK FOR information beyond what the set mainstream [!!!!!!] [=controlling] outlets ‘offer’. Or rather DECIDE to put on their web sites.
KHOODEELAAR! has established over the past 4 years and 8 months the empirical foundation on how the mainstream media [ !!] have lied for Big Business Crossrail.
Just so that there is no room for any doubt that the mainstream media lie on all types of issues and events, we look at the case of Halima Aziz
The Daily telegraph web site posted the item on the former CPS lawyer Halima Aziz at 1835 GMT, a good 5 minutes after the Channel 4 News programme ended at 1830 GMT.
It was on Channel 4 News, the editon broadcast at 1800 Hrs GMt that carried the item they described as ‘exclusive’.
AADHIKARonline looked at the Google search system which returned NIL results for the claimant and the CPS.
It was only after 1835 that the London daily Telegraph web site item was posted. But it was not captured by the Google system until after another 20 good minutes
How do we know THAT ?
Because we have been testing the GOOGLE search system for all that time and it was returning NIL results on the relevant key words that applied.
So what does this tell us about the media a and what they are doing as far as the actual conduct of Govt, of public bodies and of corporations?
It says that the MEDIA is and are lying.
As they have been doing for Crossrail.
[To be continued]
Khoodeelaar! No to "Crossrail hole plot ..." campaign updates due here in the next 90 minutes
This page was last edited at 1830 GMT London Friday 5 September 2008
KHOODEELAAR! fingers the CRASSrail hole plot-peddling London Financial Times as yet another purveyor of lies....
This page was last edited at 0155 GMT London Friday 5 September 2008
KHOODEELAAR! will comment in the next 60 minutes [by 0225 GMT 5 September 2008] on the FT's being exposed as having suppressed the truth and promoted the lies for CROSSRAIL during ken Livingstone's time at XXXXty Hall London SE1
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14e32470-7a10-11dd-bb93-000077b07658.html
KHOODEELAAR! will comment in the next 60 minutes [by 0225 GMT 5 September 2008] on the FT's being exposed as having suppressed the truth and promoted the lies for CROSSRAIL during ken Livingstone's time at XXXXty Hall London SE1
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/14e32470-7a10-11dd-bb93-000077b07658.html
KHOODEELAAR! No "to Crossrail hole plot WASTE" and KHOODEELAAR! analysis is VINDICATED in Boris Johnson's piece in the EVENING STANDARD [3]
This page was last edited at 0015 GMT London Friday 5 September 2008
The NEXT part, 4, of the KHOODEELAAR!analysis of Boris Johnson's disclosures of the CORRUPTION FOR CROSSRAIL of the office and the powers that Ken Livingstone held in 2007 - in the next 90 minutes on this site
KHOODEELAAR! No to “Big Business LYING agenda-Crossrail hole plot scam in London...” CAMPAIGN commentary at 0015 Hrs GMT London Friday 5 September 2008: Roger Alton's CRASSly-edited INDEPENDENT is NOT written by 'the best journalists around' [contrary to the crass claim that Alton was allowed to make by the BBC when Alton was given an undeserved platform on HARDTALK slot in the past two weeks]. How so? Because ALTON is a dimly unenlightened ignorant man who did the bidding of Blair and took part in lying for Blair via the Guardian-ed ‘Observer’ which Alton was then mis-editing [2003]. Alton’s ‘INDEPENDENT’ [what a contradiction in terms!] has now done another very crass thing. Allowing Heather Rabbats [who she!!!] to plug Crassrail ina piece that is dressed up as a platform for feminism.... Rabbats is not a feminist. Rabbats is a woman who has taken advantage of the struggles of women and then abused and depressed thousands of women in Lambeth..... Rabbats drops the sentence in about ‘Crossrail’ and can not even get the size of the scam accurate.... [To be continued]
2350 Hrs GMT London Thursday 4 September 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! has emphatically said for years that Ken LYINGSTILL Livingstone had been lying for Crassrail hole plot.... Although Boris Johnson’s piece in the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD is NOT connected in any way with the KHOODEELAAR! campaign, as such, the facts that Johnson discloses, in particular those about the deals between Livingstone and the Department for Transport [=DfTand the abuse by Livingstone of his position as the holder of the office of mayor in the name of the people of London and Livingstone's unreliability and treachery even against the agreement he had with TfL [Transport for London] staff...... leave no room for any doubt whatever that the KHOODEELAAR! diagnosis of CRASSrail has been utterly founded on fact....
[To be continued]
The NEXT part, 4, of the KHOODEELAAR!analysis of Boris Johnson's disclosures of the CORRUPTION FOR CROSSRAIL of the office and the powers that Ken Livingstone held in 2007 - in the next 90 minutes on this site
KHOODEELAAR! No to “Big Business LYING agenda-Crossrail hole plot scam in London...” CAMPAIGN commentary at 0015 Hrs GMT London Friday 5 September 2008: Roger Alton's CRASSly-edited INDEPENDENT is NOT written by 'the best journalists around' [contrary to the crass claim that Alton was allowed to make by the BBC when Alton was given an undeserved platform on HARDTALK slot in the past two weeks]. How so? Because ALTON is a dimly unenlightened ignorant man who did the bidding of Blair and took part in lying for Blair via the Guardian-ed ‘Observer’ which Alton was then mis-editing [2003]. Alton’s ‘INDEPENDENT’ [what a contradiction in terms!] has now done another very crass thing. Allowing Heather Rabbats [who she!!!] to plug Crassrail ina piece that is dressed up as a platform for feminism.... Rabbats is not a feminist. Rabbats is a woman who has taken advantage of the struggles of women and then abused and depressed thousands of women in Lambeth..... Rabbats drops the sentence in about ‘Crossrail’ and can not even get the size of the scam accurate.... [To be continued]
2350 Hrs GMT London Thursday 4 September 2008:
KHOODEELAAR! has emphatically said for years that Ken LYINGSTILL Livingstone had been lying for Crassrail hole plot.... Although Boris Johnson’s piece in the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD is NOT connected in any way with the KHOODEELAAR! campaign, as such, the facts that Johnson discloses, in particular those about the deals between Livingstone and the Department for Transport [=DfTand the abuse by Livingstone of his position as the holder of the office of mayor in the name of the people of London and Livingstone's unreliability and treachery even against the agreement he had with TfL [Transport for London] staff...... leave no room for any doubt whatever that the KHOODEELAAR! diagnosis of CRASSrail has been utterly founded on fact....
[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! No "to Crossrail hole plot WASTE" and KHOODEELAAR! analysis is VINDICATED in Boris Johnson's piece in the EVENING STANDARD, London
This page was last edited at 2340 GMT London Thursday 4 September 2008
THE FOLLOWING is Boris Johnson's piece in the London EVENING STANDARD Thursday 4 September 2008
"
Today's fare package is designed to
be as bearable as possible for the
London travelling public.
We are extending the Freedom Pass to
make it a 24-hour service, so that over-
sixties will travel free round the clock on
the buses, Tube, trams and Docklands
Light Railway. We are actually cutting
some Oyster fares to bring them in line
with national rail, so that off-peak
travellers to and from the outer boroughs
will benefit.
We are delivering a new and sustainable
half-price deal for those on income
support so that the poorest can travel
cheaply on the buses and trams. We are
making £1.6 billion savings in Transport
for London's budget to reduce our
demands on the fare box.
And in so far as we now have to put up
fares, the increase - at inflation as
measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI)
plus one per cent - is much less than in
the rest of the UK and many national rail
fares. But as I look at the finances of TfL,
I know that it is the only responsible
course.
We face soaring fuel bills. We must
finance investments in infrastructure
projects vital for London's long-term
future. Above all, we must repair the
damage left by the last Mayor, who
flagrantly and cynically manipulated fares
for electoral purposes - and it is time to
expose the truth.
With his characteristic braggadocio, Ken
Livingstone has left a £2.25 billion black
hole in TfL's finances - and all because he
didn't have the guts to be straight with
the voters.
Our story begins in early June last year
when TfL was called to the Treasury to
discuss the funding of Crossrail. Ever
since Gordon Brown became Prime
Minister, he identified Crossrail as an
important way in which he could signal his
commitment to London and dispel the
impression that he was a skinflint Scot
with no interest in Southern England.
Livingstone was also determined to
ensure the scheme went ahead - as an
important plank of his re-election platform
- and so he readily agreed a huge chunk
of Crossrail funding should come from
TfL. How would TfL finance the
borrowing? It was obvious from that very
first meeting that fares on London
transport would have to go up by RPI plus
one per cent. That is the usual rate of
fare increases in London, and at a TfL
board meeting in October, chaired by the
last Mayor, it was agreed that RPI plus
one was the way to go.
TfL officials went ahead and produced a
business plan for Crossrail and other
projects, based on RPI plus one. Imagine
their consternation, therefore, when the
election started to draw nearer, and the
Mayor departed radically from the script.
They could hardly believe their ears.
Was this the same Mayor who had
chaired the very meeting that had agreed
RPI plus one? Here he was, assuring the
Greater London Assembly that he would
enact a fares increase of only RPI.
Protracted over 10 years from 2007 to
2017, that was a financial nightmare for
TfL. It meant a cut in funding of £2.25
billion, and placed a question mark over
the financing of Crossrail. "We were
struggling with a business plan saying one
thing, and the Mayor was saying
another," one senior TfL official said.
In other words, Livingstone was up to the
oldest trick in his book: recklessly
promising to hold down fares in the run-
up to an election, when he knew full well
that it was not a promise he could
conceivably keep. He had done it before,
of course - promising to cut fares before
the 2004 elections, and then ruthlessly
whacking them up when the electorate
had fallen for his bait.
TfL officials sent emails to the Mayor,
pointing out the discrepancy and
expressing the hope that he might
remember the meeting he had himself
chaired. Their interventions were in vain.
Livingstone's political team was already in
a state of panic about the polls. In
September they had even insisted on a
cut in bus fares, placing yet more strain
on TfL's finances. That was why he
insisted on RPI - or at least he would
insist on it in the run-up to the election -
and that is the Livingstone legacy I now
inherit.
I believe today's package is sensible. I will
be looking for more savings from TfL to
prevent unnecessary rises in the future.
But I will not attempt to abuse the system
and pull the wool over the eyes of
Londoners in the hope of short-term
electoral gain.
"
THE FOLLOWING is Boris Johnson's piece in the London EVENING STANDARD Thursday 4 September 2008
"
Today's fare package is designed to
be as bearable as possible for the
London travelling public.
We are extending the Freedom Pass to
make it a 24-hour service, so that over-
sixties will travel free round the clock on
the buses, Tube, trams and Docklands
Light Railway. We are actually cutting
some Oyster fares to bring them in line
with national rail, so that off-peak
travellers to and from the outer boroughs
will benefit.
We are delivering a new and sustainable
half-price deal for those on income
support so that the poorest can travel
cheaply on the buses and trams. We are
making £1.6 billion savings in Transport
for London's budget to reduce our
demands on the fare box.
And in so far as we now have to put up
fares, the increase - at inflation as
measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI)
plus one per cent - is much less than in
the rest of the UK and many national rail
fares. But as I look at the finances of TfL,
I know that it is the only responsible
course.
We face soaring fuel bills. We must
finance investments in infrastructure
projects vital for London's long-term
future. Above all, we must repair the
damage left by the last Mayor, who
flagrantly and cynically manipulated fares
for electoral purposes - and it is time to
expose the truth.
With his characteristic braggadocio, Ken
Livingstone has left a £2.25 billion black
hole in TfL's finances - and all because he
didn't have the guts to be straight with
the voters.
Our story begins in early June last year
when TfL was called to the Treasury to
discuss the funding of Crossrail. Ever
since Gordon Brown became Prime
Minister, he identified Crossrail as an
important way in which he could signal his
commitment to London and dispel the
impression that he was a skinflint Scot
with no interest in Southern England.
Livingstone was also determined to
ensure the scheme went ahead - as an
important plank of his re-election platform
- and so he readily agreed a huge chunk
of Crossrail funding should come from
TfL. How would TfL finance the
borrowing? It was obvious from that very
first meeting that fares on London
transport would have to go up by RPI plus
one per cent. That is the usual rate of
fare increases in London, and at a TfL
board meeting in October, chaired by the
last Mayor, it was agreed that RPI plus
one was the way to go.
TfL officials went ahead and produced a
business plan for Crossrail and other
projects, based on RPI plus one. Imagine
their consternation, therefore, when the
election started to draw nearer, and the
Mayor departed radically from the script.
They could hardly believe their ears.
Was this the same Mayor who had
chaired the very meeting that had agreed
RPI plus one? Here he was, assuring the
Greater London Assembly that he would
enact a fares increase of only RPI.
Protracted over 10 years from 2007 to
2017, that was a financial nightmare for
TfL. It meant a cut in funding of £2.25
billion, and placed a question mark over
the financing of Crossrail. "We were
struggling with a business plan saying one
thing, and the Mayor was saying
another," one senior TfL official said.
In other words, Livingstone was up to the
oldest trick in his book: recklessly
promising to hold down fares in the run-
up to an election, when he knew full well
that it was not a promise he could
conceivably keep. He had done it before,
of course - promising to cut fares before
the 2004 elections, and then ruthlessly
whacking them up when the electorate
had fallen for his bait.
TfL officials sent emails to the Mayor,
pointing out the discrepancy and
expressing the hope that he might
remember the meeting he had himself
chaired. Their interventions were in vain.
Livingstone's political team was already in
a state of panic about the polls. In
September they had even insisted on a
cut in bus fares, placing yet more strain
on TfL's finances. That was why he
insisted on RPI - or at least he would
insist on it in the run-up to the election -
and that is the Livingstone legacy I now
inherit.
I believe today's package is sensible. I will
be looking for more savings from TfL to
prevent unnecessary rises in the future.
But I will not attempt to abuse the system
and pull the wool over the eyes of
Londoners in the hope of short-term
electoral gain.
"