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Saturday, February 7, 2009
How CRASS they were even in July 2008 as they bragged of Crossrail Canary Wharf Heathrow!
How CRASS they were even in July 2008 as they bragged of Crossrail Canary Wharf Heathrow!
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update: ‘London EVENING nostandards STANDARD’ backing Crossrail hole agenda against East End of London
1705 Hrs GMT
London Saturday 7 February 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on naked racist role of the London EVENING STANDARD carrying out the Crossrail agenda against the EAST END of LONDON
Part 2 of Update Saturday 7 February 2009
The first point to make about the London ‘EVENING nostandards STANDARD’s flotation [=a joke more like] of the idea [see the DAVID SEXTON comment] about dropping the 2012 Olympic Games hosting extravaganza is that it is spurious.
The SEXTON piece is ignorant and is unlikely to be realised because he says so. If the 2012 Olympic Games Hosting stunt ISD aborted or abandoned or undersized or downsized at all, it will be due to the fact that it was beyond even Gordon Brown’s twisted definition of ‘affordability of public debt’.
Not because of David Sexton’s by-lined appearance of ‘reservations’ in February 2009.
If Sexton was sober and thinking in 2003, 2004, 2005 [up to the end of June 2005 when Blair staged his own stunt in Singapore for the first week of July 2005 when the ‘bid’ was ‘successful’ ‘in the name of London’] he should have pointed out the follies and the flaws. Had Sexton done that in 2005 or before that crucial stage then he could reasonably expect to be given credit for being honest and having some integrity now that he is appearing to be calling for the scrapping of the wasteful venture.
Secondly, the ‘culture’ of the Veronica Wadley and Anne McElvoy-‘edited’ ‘The London EVENING nostandards STANDARD’ has been and remains one of permanent prejudice towards the truth and ignorance about the society that the title supposedly exists in, so sunk in the depth of historic and universally verifiable darkness that any reasonable and ethical assessment of it must be undertaken by stating the key points and values that are at the centre of the war on rights that the publication and medium [‘The London EVENING nostandards STANDARD’ ] typifies and carries out.
This also entails a related undertaking concerning the identical and a comparable role played in the promotion of the same ‘Crossrail scam agenda’ by the other titles that are the alleged rivals and contemporaries of the ‘nostandards STANDARD’ in the field of the ‘mainstream media’ in - and about - Britain.
Those media will without a doubt include the Rupert Murdoch-controlled London Times [that includes the Sunday Times, of which more later in this updater KHOODEELAAR! commentary] and all its various sub-titles and outputs.
What do they have in common?
For a start, they operate on the assumption that there is no right to any say by anyone they identified to be among the voters who ousted Oona King - the MP since May 1997 - at the 2005 General election held in the UK Parliamentary constituency of ‘Bethnal Green and Bow’.
Those notional voters also fit the stereotype that gernerauons of racists have constructed over the past few hundred years.
London Saturday 7 February 2009
KHOODEELAAR! evidential update on naked racist role of the London EVENING STANDARD carrying out the Crossrail agenda against the EAST END of LONDON
Part 2 of Update Saturday 7 February 2009
The first point to make about the London ‘EVENING nostandards STANDARD’s flotation [=a joke more like] of the idea [see the DAVID SEXTON comment] about dropping the 2012 Olympic Games hosting extravaganza is that it is spurious.
The SEXTON piece is ignorant and is unlikely to be realised because he says so. If the 2012 Olympic Games Hosting stunt ISD aborted or abandoned or undersized or downsized at all, it will be due to the fact that it was beyond even Gordon Brown’s twisted definition of ‘affordability of public debt’.
Not because of David Sexton’s by-lined appearance of ‘reservations’ in February 2009.
If Sexton was sober and thinking in 2003, 2004, 2005 [up to the end of June 2005 when Blair staged his own stunt in Singapore for the first week of July 2005 when the ‘bid’ was ‘successful’ ‘in the name of London’] he should have pointed out the follies and the flaws. Had Sexton done that in 2005 or before that crucial stage then he could reasonably expect to be given credit for being honest and having some integrity now that he is appearing to be calling for the scrapping of the wasteful venture.
Secondly, the ‘culture’ of the Veronica Wadley and Anne McElvoy-‘edited’ ‘The London EVENING nostandards STANDARD’ has been and remains one of permanent prejudice towards the truth and ignorance about the society that the title supposedly exists in, so sunk in the depth of historic and universally verifiable darkness that any reasonable and ethical assessment of it must be undertaken by stating the key points and values that are at the centre of the war on rights that the publication and medium [‘The London EVENING nostandards STANDARD’ ] typifies and carries out.
This also entails a related undertaking concerning the identical and a comparable role played in the promotion of the same ‘Crossrail scam agenda’ by the other titles that are the alleged rivals and contemporaries of the ‘nostandards STANDARD’ in the field of the ‘mainstream media’ in - and about - Britain.
Those media will without a doubt include the Rupert Murdoch-controlled London Times [that includes the Sunday Times, of which more later in this updater KHOODEELAAR! commentary] and all its various sub-titles and outputs.
What do they have in common?
For a start, they operate on the assumption that there is no right to any say by anyone they identified to be among the voters who ousted Oona King - the MP since May 1997 - at the 2005 General election held in the UK Parliamentary constituency of ‘Bethnal Green and Bow’.
Those notional voters also fit the stereotype that gernerauons of racists have constructed over the past few hundred years.
KHOODEELAAR! Updating the evidence of the multiple stupidities of the CRASSrail-peddling London EVENING STANDARD..
By © Muhammad Haque
1038 [1000] Hrs GMT
London Saturday 7 February 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Updating the evidence of the multiple stupidities of the CRASSrail-peddling London EVENING STANDARD..
Question: What has the ‘newspaper’ done wrong?
What is the ‘Standard’ doing wrong?
Answer: It has now published a piece about the 2012 Olympic Games Hosting costs. But the piece is not by an economics or a finance correspondent or writer. Nor is it by any of its apparently political ones either. It is by one of its listed ‘columnists’. With the sole exception of Andrew Gilligan, who is also listed, the ‘columnists’ who currently appear most often, lack the necessary substance to be treated seriously. And one of the least credible ones, David Sexton, is now given space by the ‘‘the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD” to opine on the exorbitant, almost runaway costs of the 2012 Games hosting irresponsibility…
On all key aspects of the matter of the Crassrail and the 2012 Olympic Games Hosting misadventures, the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD has misled the people of London.
And it has carried contradictory items.
The London EVENING nostandards STANDARD has suppressed the evidence that would have saved a lot of waste. And it has denied space to evidence that would have changed the circumstances in the lives of many people and would have in fact improved the quality and the standard of life for millions of people…
The same ‘editorial’ policy has been pursued by the DAILY MAIL. The owners of the DAILY MAIL have owned the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD until the last week.
The least credible ‘columnists’ David Sexton is also one of the worst ‘observers’ of society. And nowhere is more relevant in this context than the ‘East End of London’.
Sexton was allowed to publish in 2006 one of the most corrupt and untruthful ‘opinion’ pieces that has ever been published even by the dishonestly and the racistly-edited London EVENING nostandards STANDARD.
As the ‘stadium’ for the 2012 Games Hosting is sited in a spot that is just outside the boundaries of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and inside the adjacent borough of Newham, Khoodeelaar! will look at the David Sexton piece about the costs of the 2012 Games Hosting, in some detail.
In the course of that, we shall also examine the licensed role as the resident racist and crusader that Sexton has been playing.
And we shall ask: Has Anne McElvoy, who has been the ‘executive editor’ at the ‘newspaper’ and who recently claimed [incredibly and embarrassingly ignorantly] that SHE had worked our, as far back as 2004, that Barack Obama was the [‘next’] ‘Black Kennedy’ [!!!!!!!!!!] - noticed the insidious, the pernicious the poisonous ignorance and prejudice spouted by David Sexton? Does Sexton owe apologies to so many people whose humanity, whose faiths, whose beliefs he has violated for no reason other than the fact that Sexton is a brainwashed zombie who is given the licence to say things against people who he is also given to believe are NOT ALLOWED A RIGHT TO ANSWER BACK TO RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC attacks carried against them by and in the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD…
[To be continued]
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Let’s call time on London 2012 - a hop, skip and jump jamboree
David Sexton
06.02.09
There's no limit to what we can do when we really try. We put a man on the Moon. We discovered how to transplant hearts. We have decoded the genome. So let us not have any question about it: we could, if we wanted, still cancel the 2012 Olympics. The announcement this week that the cost of the main stadium alone has soared by another £43 million to £547 million has to be the last straw.
This is not a joke or a rhetorical flourish. The planned opening ceremony is still more than three years away. We do not need to accept this vast imposition as a fait accompli.
The event could, at this juncture, be relocated in one of the other cities that have already held the Olympics recently. And where they are broadcast from is a matter of complete indifference to any Londoner I've ever met, even among the minority who actually get something out of the old hop, skip and jump.
As for the zones in Stratford and elsewhere, construction should be halted at once while costings are made for converting the sites into houses and hospitals instead. There may well be a Keynesian argument for supporting major works with public money but they need to be better planned than these single-use stadiums. Unless stopped, the Olympics will leave a “legacy” of structures to be converted afterwards. Do it now.
None of the arguments put forward by the hapless Tessa Jowell make sense. The 2012 Olympics will not inspire young people to take up sport themselves and become more fit and healthy. That can only be done at ground level, not by building a daft “velodrome” at a cost of £105 million.
And we were, of course, deliberately duped about these Olympics all the way. The original estimate used to launch the bid of £2.4 billion was just a con-trick, as Ken Livingstone admitted last year. By the time of the actual bid in 2005, the figure had risen to £4.1 billion, a sum the Public Accounts Committee subsequently dismissed as “entirely unrealistic”.
In March 2007, Jowell announced a revised figure of £9.345 billion and the Games chiefs still insist they will remain within this budget. But a former Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, Jack Lemley, has admitted that they had long been working with an estimate of £12 billion and the real figure might be £20 billion. We do know the figures will only go one way: up.
One result of the crash is that we all have begun to take these vast figures of public debt more seriously. Where before they seemed just too big to have any personal consequences for us, we have begun fearfully to realise we and our children must pay every penny. We may have been tricked into the 2012 Olympics but this is one nightmare we can still change. Can't we?
What I suggest may sound unthinkable. But what's really unthinkable is to continue with this ever more costly monstrosity.
1038 [1000] Hrs GMT
London Saturday 7 February 2009
KHOODEELAAR! Updating the evidence of the multiple stupidities of the CRASSrail-peddling London EVENING STANDARD..
Question: What has the ‘newspaper’ done wrong?
What is the ‘Standard’ doing wrong?
Answer: It has now published a piece about the 2012 Olympic Games Hosting costs. But the piece is not by an economics or a finance correspondent or writer. Nor is it by any of its apparently political ones either. It is by one of its listed ‘columnists’. With the sole exception of Andrew Gilligan, who is also listed, the ‘columnists’ who currently appear most often, lack the necessary substance to be treated seriously. And one of the least credible ones, David Sexton, is now given space by the ‘‘the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD” to opine on the exorbitant, almost runaway costs of the 2012 Games hosting irresponsibility…
On all key aspects of the matter of the Crassrail and the 2012 Olympic Games Hosting misadventures, the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD has misled the people of London.
And it has carried contradictory items.
The London EVENING nostandards STANDARD has suppressed the evidence that would have saved a lot of waste. And it has denied space to evidence that would have changed the circumstances in the lives of many people and would have in fact improved the quality and the standard of life for millions of people…
The same ‘editorial’ policy has been pursued by the DAILY MAIL. The owners of the DAILY MAIL have owned the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD until the last week.
The least credible ‘columnists’ David Sexton is also one of the worst ‘observers’ of society. And nowhere is more relevant in this context than the ‘East End of London’.
Sexton was allowed to publish in 2006 one of the most corrupt and untruthful ‘opinion’ pieces that has ever been published even by the dishonestly and the racistly-edited London EVENING nostandards STANDARD.
As the ‘stadium’ for the 2012 Games Hosting is sited in a spot that is just outside the boundaries of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and inside the adjacent borough of Newham, Khoodeelaar! will look at the David Sexton piece about the costs of the 2012 Games Hosting, in some detail.
In the course of that, we shall also examine the licensed role as the resident racist and crusader that Sexton has been playing.
And we shall ask: Has Anne McElvoy, who has been the ‘executive editor’ at the ‘newspaper’ and who recently claimed [incredibly and embarrassingly ignorantly] that SHE had worked our, as far back as 2004, that Barack Obama was the [‘next’] ‘Black Kennedy’ [!!!!!!!!!!] - noticed the insidious, the pernicious the poisonous ignorance and prejudice spouted by David Sexton? Does Sexton owe apologies to so many people whose humanity, whose faiths, whose beliefs he has violated for no reason other than the fact that Sexton is a brainwashed zombie who is given the licence to say things against people who he is also given to believe are NOT ALLOWED A RIGHT TO ANSWER BACK TO RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC attacks carried against them by and in the London EVENING nostandards STANDARD…
[To be continued]
"
Let’s call time on London 2012 - a hop, skip and jump jamboree
David Sexton
06.02.09
There's no limit to what we can do when we really try. We put a man on the Moon. We discovered how to transplant hearts. We have decoded the genome. So let us not have any question about it: we could, if we wanted, still cancel the 2012 Olympics. The announcement this week that the cost of the main stadium alone has soared by another £43 million to £547 million has to be the last straw.
This is not a joke or a rhetorical flourish. The planned opening ceremony is still more than three years away. We do not need to accept this vast imposition as a fait accompli.
The event could, at this juncture, be relocated in one of the other cities that have already held the Olympics recently. And where they are broadcast from is a matter of complete indifference to any Londoner I've ever met, even among the minority who actually get something out of the old hop, skip and jump.
As for the zones in Stratford and elsewhere, construction should be halted at once while costings are made for converting the sites into houses and hospitals instead. There may well be a Keynesian argument for supporting major works with public money but they need to be better planned than these single-use stadiums. Unless stopped, the Olympics will leave a “legacy” of structures to be converted afterwards. Do it now.
None of the arguments put forward by the hapless Tessa Jowell make sense. The 2012 Olympics will not inspire young people to take up sport themselves and become more fit and healthy. That can only be done at ground level, not by building a daft “velodrome” at a cost of £105 million.
And we were, of course, deliberately duped about these Olympics all the way. The original estimate used to launch the bid of £2.4 billion was just a con-trick, as Ken Livingstone admitted last year. By the time of the actual bid in 2005, the figure had risen to £4.1 billion, a sum the Public Accounts Committee subsequently dismissed as “entirely unrealistic”.
In March 2007, Jowell announced a revised figure of £9.345 billion and the Games chiefs still insist they will remain within this budget. But a former Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, Jack Lemley, has admitted that they had long been working with an estimate of £12 billion and the real figure might be £20 billion. We do know the figures will only go one way: up.
One result of the crash is that we all have begun to take these vast figures of public debt more seriously. Where before they seemed just too big to have any personal consequences for us, we have begun fearfully to realise we and our children must pay every penny. We may have been tricked into the 2012 Olympics but this is one nightmare we can still change. Can't we?
What I suggest may sound unthinkable. But what's really unthinkable is to continue with this ever more costly monstrosity.
KHOODEELAAR! pointing out for records the further crassness of 'Crossrail' touts at the GLA
0040 Hrs GMT London Saturday 7 February 2009
KHOODEELAAR! pointing out for records the further crassness of 'Crossrail' touts at the GLA
GLA=Greater London Assembly
KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole scam CAMPAIGN
quoting for the records, from the website
transportbriefing.co.uk
Transport panel calls on Mayor to consider Crossrail 2
Filed 05/02/09
Short-term cuts to rail services as the recession bites must not be allowed to jeopardise long-term efforts to reduce overcrowding on trains, according to a London Assembly report published this week.
The Transport Committee report - The big squeeze: rail overcrowding in London - acknowledges that the recent rise in passenger numbers is slowing down, prompting train operating companies to reduce services, but says the slowdown will be temporary and substantial growth is still expected in the long-term. It says if mishandled, reductions in services or failure to secure investment for new rail infrastructure now could mean that overcrowding on trains could be worse than ever when passenger numbers start to rise again.
Figures contained in the report suggest that, on average, trains in London and the south east are carrying around 3.5% more passengers than they should be. But on the most overcrowded trains, this figure is around 40% - equating to five passengers per square metre of standing space on board.
The Transport Committee's report maps the top 20 busiest routes into London and identifies the worst 'pinch point' stations on these routes, where commuters are often unable to board trains that are already overcrowded before they reach the outskirts of the capital. These stations are East Croydon, Surbiton, Tottenham Hale, Forest Hill, Bromley South, Balham, Highbury and Islington, Clapham Junction, Finsbury Park, Sydenham, Streatham Hill and Ealing Broadway.
This week's report acknowledges that there is no single answer to solving overcrowding and calls on Mayor of London Boris Johnson to set out his proposed mix of solutions when he publishes his transport strategy later this year. These may include new infrastructure such as the Crossrail 2 line from Chelsea to Hackney and phase two of the East London Line extension, encouraging people to transfer from using rail to other forms of transport or reducing passenger demand through the development of new economic hubs outside central London.
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KHOODEELAAR! pointing out for records the further crassness of 'Crossrail' touts at the GLA
GLA=Greater London Assembly
KHOODEELAAR! No to Crossrail hole scam CAMPAIGN
quoting for the records, from the website
transportbriefing.co.uk
Transport panel calls on Mayor to consider Crossrail 2
Filed 05/02/09
Short-term cuts to rail services as the recession bites must not be allowed to jeopardise long-term efforts to reduce overcrowding on trains, according to a London Assembly report published this week.
The Transport Committee report - The big squeeze: rail overcrowding in London - acknowledges that the recent rise in passenger numbers is slowing down, prompting train operating companies to reduce services, but says the slowdown will be temporary and substantial growth is still expected in the long-term. It says if mishandled, reductions in services or failure to secure investment for new rail infrastructure now could mean that overcrowding on trains could be worse than ever when passenger numbers start to rise again.
Figures contained in the report suggest that, on average, trains in London and the south east are carrying around 3.5% more passengers than they should be. But on the most overcrowded trains, this figure is around 40% - equating to five passengers per square metre of standing space on board.
The Transport Committee's report maps the top 20 busiest routes into London and identifies the worst 'pinch point' stations on these routes, where commuters are often unable to board trains that are already overcrowded before they reach the outskirts of the capital. These stations are East Croydon, Surbiton, Tottenham Hale, Forest Hill, Bromley South, Balham, Highbury and Islington, Clapham Junction, Finsbury Park, Sydenham, Streatham Hill and Ealing Broadway.
This week's report acknowledges that there is no single answer to solving overcrowding and calls on Mayor of London Boris Johnson to set out his proposed mix of solutions when he publishes his transport strategy later this year. These may include new infrastructure such as the Crossrail 2 line from Chelsea to Hackney and phase two of the East London Line extension, encouraging people to transfer from using rail to other forms of transport or reducing passenger demand through the development of new economic hubs outside central London.
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