1650 Hrs GMT London
Thursday 06 August 2009:
KHOODEELAAR! Continuing to show generosity to Boris Johnson for the sake of the ordinary people of London. KHOODEELAAR! makes available the n’th advice to BOJo, to the effect that he, BoJo, should concentrate his mind and get to know the facts in the logical order. Khoodeelaar! Would ideally back any genuine bid to hold the bureaucracy of the USA to account. But on this occasion, Boris has got his facts upside down. Instead of making politically prancing pronouncements [like his latest one that he will withhold planning permission to the USA mission encampment on a new south London site in Wandsworth borough] that are devoid of any weight, BoJo should learn about CRASSrail and what actually propelled the UK Parliament - or rather, the ‘main residents in it” to rubber stamp the ‘Crossrail Bill’ into the ‘CrossRail Act’ in July 2008. If BoJo does that then he will find that it was the USA Military Industrial Complex component, very much part of the USA Empire Mode, BECHTEL that exercised the real influence over the UK Parliament… So, if Boris Johnson wants to get the USA mission personnel to pay him [BoJo], he can get it more efficiently by calling on the power of BECHTEL and all that BECHTEL conveys…But Boris won’t do that. Lest he offends BECHTEL.. And as Boris has displayed so far in his consistently craven peddling of the City of London and the Bankers, he knows where he gets his huge sized ‘chicken feed’… He will behave exactly and in effect persistently as a loyal peddler of those interests as his predecessor Ken Livingstone had done…. There is no difference between crass-role Ken and crass-role Boris. First names or last names. They are insignificant ‘differences’. They are as one when it comes to backing Big Business and benefiting from the exercise and the role…
[To be continued]
http://www.nce.co.uk/news/structures/thumbs-down-for-new-us-embassy/5206322.article
“Thumbs down for new US
embassy
6 August, 2009
London mayor Boris Johnson has threatened to refuse plans for the
£275M US embassy because they do not include a contribution to
London’s £16bn Crossrail link, a condition that applies to all major
developments in central London.
In addition, Government watchdog, the Commission for Architecture and the
Built Environment, has rejected draft designs for the site near the south bank of
the Thames.
The commissioners - including architects Piers Gough and Jason Prior, who drew
up the London 2012 masterplan and Olympic Park — are likely to have
considerable influence with Wandsworth Council.
They write in a letter to planners: “We call into question several key urban design
principles of the site layout: the relationship of the development to Nine Elms
Lane, the nature and deliverability of the proposed public-realm elements outside
the site boundary and the form of the site footprint in relation to new road
layouts and adjacent sites.”
The embassy website reports that four architectural firms have been shortlisted:
Kieran Timberlake, Morphosis, PEI Cobb Freed and Richard
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