Thursday, August 6, 2009

HOODEELAAR! makes available the n’th advice to BOJo, to the effect that he, BoJo, should concentrate his mind and get to know the facts logically

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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KHOODEELAAR! on SURREY COMET website continuing the evidential updater and commentary on the failures of UK parliament


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London

Thursday 06 August 2009 

KHOODEELAAR!  on the SURREY COMET website continuing the evidential updater and commentary on the failures of UK parliament to hold the UK executive to account, as seen in the brazen passage of the Crossrail scam “Bill” a year ago,in July 2008].   KHOODEELAAR! holds the tory and the lib dems opposition responsible for that failure of democratic accountability in the UK



MP Susan Kramer: 'Kingston's Crossrail contributors should be recompensed'

7:20am Wednesday 5th August 2009

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    Nearly 700 businesses in Kingston who are likely to be asked to pay for Crossrail should be repaid with more investment in transport locally, an MP has said.

    Firms from across London will be asked to pay from their business rates from next April, to pay for the high-speed east to west route which will link Heathrow with the City and Canary Wharf.

    Kingston companies above a rateable value of £50,000 would be asked to contribute £2.57m in total - 1.4 per cent of the total cost.

    Susan Kramer, MP for Richmond Park and north Kingston said: “In return, we must get real investment to solve some of the transport problems we have locally.

    “While extensive works are going on at weekends to improve the Tube network, we are seeing very little gain locally.

    “The quid pro quo for the support from our area must be more investment to reduce overcrowding, increase train capacity and mitigate the effects of Airtrack on level crossings.”

    Last week the Liberal Democrats who controlKingston Council said they were “angered” by the funding proposals, despite a report saying Kingston could reap up to £18.3m from benefits as “better paid” Londoners spend their money in the borough.

    In 2004, an official report said the potential cost of the Kingston extension was close to £1bn, effectively ruling out the link.

    To comment on the proposals visit london.gov.uk/crossrail-brs/survey/index.htm.

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    Tony from Surbiton, Surbiton says... 
    11:34am Wed 5 Aug 09

    'Last week the Liberal Democrats who control Kingston Council said they were “angered” by the funding proposals, despite a report saying Kingston could reap up to £18.3m from benefits as “better paid” Londoners spend their money in the borough.'

    WELL I AM "ANGERED" BY THE LIB DEM FUNDING PROPOSALS - GIVE ME MY COUNCIL TAX BACK!!!


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    khoodeelaar!NotoCrossrail, london says... 
    1:35am Thu 6 Aug 09

    Muhammad Haque 
    1247 Hrs UK 
    Wednesday 
    05 August 2009 
    Dear Louise , 
    This is further to our telephone conversation in the past 
    20 minutes. 
    Lib Dem MPs Susan Kramer is full of contradictions. 
    As a publicly claiming economics-conscious career- 
    carrying person with almost acceptable ‘international’ 
    links, she is being irresponsible with her latest stunt for 
    Crossrail. ..she has not shown why her so-called quid 
    pro quo demand is realistic, let alone fundable. I put a 
    series of costs and priority related questions to her 
    office in the past hour. There was no evidence from her 
    office justifying Ms Kramer’s stunt. Nor is there any 
    sign that she has done any study of the transport needs 
    of london as a whole. It s additionally irresponsible that 
    she should repeatedly confuse her constituents by 
    talking and 'moving' in every direction about transport. 
    Crossrail is wasteful, diversionary scam. There is no 
    need for it. What the people of London need is an 
    improved standard of hardware and manners by 
    transport personnel...and accountable, honest set of MPs 
    and local and regional political decision makers. Not 
    another debts-causing scam...Susan Kramer should 
    support the call for the scrapping of Crossrail. Not add 
    to the list of subsidiary wasteful indulgences to fund the 
    main scam.. 

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    Fred1, Surbiton says... 
    10:32am Thu 6 Aug 09

    Thanks for that khoodeelar, I don't think there's any danger of anyone believing anything that an MP says, though. At least not unless they show that it's thoroughly well-researched, which MP's rarely if ever do.

    I'm not quite convinced that "improved standard" of hardware and transport staff manners is one of the things that the people of London needs - after all, how much would this cost?

    Accountable and honest MPs would be nice, though, but where would you get them from? I'm not sure that such a being exists. Personally I think that elections and "democracy" is nothing but a facade.

    If you want something done, you can't rely on the government to do it; no, you've got to do it yourself. That's the way it is, and no posturing about how our so-called "democracy" is supposedly better than the system they have in Iran or the People's Republic of China is going to make the slightest bit of difference to that.

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    khoodeelaar!NotoCrossrail, london says... 
    4:21pm Thu 6 Aug 09

    Thanks for your comments, Fred. The KHOODEELAAR! Campaign is against Crossrail for the obvious reason that it is uneconomic. We are also against Crossrail because the scam has been blatantly and quite corruptly pushed through the UK Parliament by the Executive defying the authority of Parliament. Or at least by defying the democratic authority that ought to have been asserted by the ordinary members of Parliament.
    KHOODEELAAR! has sought in the past nearly six years since we began the campaign against the Crossrail scam, to tell the two Houses of parliament, we lodged formal objections to the ‘Crossrail Bill Select Committee’ in the House of Lords and before that, a number of our affiliated groups, including the Spitalfields Small Business Association plus several thousand local traders, residents and tenants from across the East End of London signed our communications and formal letters of objections via a listed number of objectors. We wanted Parliament to hear the evidence that Crossrail was not only NOT wanted by the people of the East End or by the people across London but that there was no economic let alone environmental justification for the scam.. Neither House of the UK ‘Parliament’ would allow our evidence to be put to them! Besides, the House of Commons version of the ‘Select Committee’, as chaired by Alan Meale MP , stopped one MP from raising questions about a Crossrail Whitechapel station. That station ‘scheme’ was a direct bribe made to appease and recruit the controlling clique on the local Tower Hamlets Council fore the purpose of the Big Business scam. The reason, as given by Alan Meale –if it can be treated as reason – was that on 19 July 2005 the House of Commons had barred any real examination of the Crossrail scam to be done by the ‘Select Committee’. So what was the point of the Select Committee? The public did not know in June 2006 what they came to know in June 2009, three years later. That the Houses of ‘Parliament’ have been reduced to Houses of Stooges and touts. There is no evidence of any democratic, independent. Objective and rigorous and consistent challenge on any issue that matters to the public in this country by either Houses to the Executive. This is far worse than anything has been associated with Guy Fawkes and his over-recited plans to physically do away with the Palace now worthy of being called Ghostsminster. Any examination of the Crossrail ‘negotiations’ along the original stated route will confirm the pattern of corruption as the key feature of the process. That so much of the Crossrail scam peddling is done by MPs and peers and not by any recognised ordinary public more than proves the diagnosis that it has been a ploy by unaccountable forces that are bent on looting £Billions of UK public money. Khoodeelaar! has been seeking to draw attention to the one thing the ordinary people still can do in this country. SAY NO. It will save £Billions if more people start to say No like we have been saying. It will be most prudent to say No now than after the ‘horse has bolted’. Unlike Gordon Brown, we remain ordinarily committed to the virtue of prudence in public finance and public decision-making. Despite the hype, neither the Conservatives nor the Lib Dems as the two numerically major parties of Opposition have done its work of holding the Executive to account at all on this.
    Thank you.
    Muhammad Haque
    Organiser
    Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail scam
    1615 Hrs
    London
    Thursday 06 August 2009


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      0850 Hrs GMT London Thursday 06 August 2009: KHOODEELAAR! telling confused Crassrail-peddling Susan Kramer that she has got herself in a muddle again. The answer is to scrap CrAssrail  ....Nearly 700 businesses in Kingston who are likely to be asked to pay for Crossrail should be repaid with more investment in transport locally, an MP has said.

      Firms from across London will be asked to pay from their business rates from next April, to pay for the high-speed east to west route which will link Heathrow with the City and Canary Wharf.

      Kingston companies above a rateable value of £50,000 would be asked to contribute £2.57m in total - 1.4 per cent of the total cost.

      Susan Kramer, MP for Richmond Park and north Kingston said: “In return, we must get real investment to solve some of the transport problems we have locally.

      “While extensive works are going on at weekends to improve the Tube network, we are seeing very little gain locally.

      “The quid pro quo for the support from our area must be more investment to reduce overcrowding, increase train capacity and mitigate the effects of Airtrack on level crossings.”

      Last week the Liberal Democrats who control Kingston Council said they were “angered” by the funding proposals, despite a report saying Kingston could reap up to £18.3m from benefits as “better paid” Londoners spend their money in the borough.

      In 2004, an official report said the potential cost of the Kingston extension was close to £1bn, effectively ruling out the link.

      To comment on the proposals visit london.gov.uk/crossrail-brs/survey/index.htm.

      • What do you think? Let us know by email here, phone the newsdesk on 020 8330 9555 or leave a comment below.

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      Tony from Surbiton, Surbiton says...
      11:34am Wed 5 Aug 09

      'Last week the Liberal Democrats who control Kingston Council said they were “angered” by the funding proposals, despite a report saying Kingston could reap up to £18.3m from benefits as “better paid” Londoners spend their money in the borough.'


      WELL I AM "ANGERED" BY THE LIB DEM FUNDING PROPOSALS - GIVE ME MY COUNCIL TAX BACK!!!





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      khoodeelaar!NotoCrossrail, london says...
      1:35am Thu 6 Aug 09

      Muhammad Haque 

      1247 Hrs UK 

      Wednesday 

      05 August 2009 

      Dear Louise , 

      This is further to our telephone conversation in the past 

      20 minutes. 

      Lib Dem MP Susan Kramer is full of contradictions. 

      As a publicly claiming economics-conscious career- 

      carrying person with almost acceptable ‘international’ 

      links, she is being irresponsible with her latest stunt for 

      Crossrail. ..she has not shown why her so-called quid 

      pro quo demand is realistic, let alone fundable. I put a 

      series of costs and priority related questions to her 

      office in the past hour. There was no evidence from her 

      office justifying Ms Kramer’s stunt. Nor is there any 

      sign that she has done any study of the transport needs 

      of london as a whole. It s additionally irresponsible that 

      she should repeatedly confuse her constituents by 

      talking and 'moving' in every direction about transport. 

      Crossrail is wasteful, diversionary scam. There is no 

      need for it. What the people of London need is an 

      improved standard of hardware and manners by 

      transport personnel...and accountable, honest set of MPs 

      and local and regional political decision makers. Not 

      another debts-causing scam...Susan Kramer should 

      support the call for the scrapping of Crossrail. Not add 

      to the list of subsidiary wasteful indulgences to fund the 

      main scam..

      http://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/kingston/4528596.MP_Susan_Kramer___Kingston_s_Crossrail_contributors_should_be_recompensed_/


      Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail, london says...
      1:35am Thu 6 Aug 09

      Muhammad Haque 

      1247 Hrs UK 

      Wednesday 

      05 August 2009 

      Dear Louise , 

      This is further to our telephone conversation in the past 

      20 minutes. 

      Lib Dem MP Susan Kramer is full of contradictions. 

      As a publicly claiming economics-conscious career- 

      carrying person with almost acceptable ‘international’ 

      links, she is being irresponsible with her latest stunt for 

      Crossrail. ..she has not shown why her so-called quid 

      pro quo demand is realistic, let alone fundable. I put a 

      series of costs and priority related questions to her 

      office in the past hour. There was no evidence from her 

      office justifying Ms Kramer’s stunt. Nor is there any 

      sign that she has done any study of the transport needs 

      of london as a whole. It s additionally irresponsible that 

      she should repeatedly confuse her constituents by 

      talking and 'moving' in every direction about transport. 

      Crossrail is wasteful, diversionary scam. There is no 

      need for it. What the people of London need is an 

      improved standard of hardware and manners by 

      transport personnel...and accountable, honest set of MPs 

      and local and regional political decision makers. Not 

      another debts-causing scam...Susan Kramer should 

      support the call for the scrapping of Crossrail. Not add 

      to the list of subsidiary wasteful indulgences to fund the 

      main scam..




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