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Khoodeelaar! The campaign against "Big Business Agenda scam Crossrail…” and the frontline action programme pf the overall movement in defence of ‘inner city’ ‘deprived’ the East End of London TOLD YOU SO! That Tony Blair was a tout for big business military industrial complex [=Big Biz MIC] in which tout role he made 'policy'. That ‘policy’-making of course included ‘law-making’ that is devising and passing legislation. Such as the ‘CROSSRAIL BILL’ [February 2005 -July 2008 uk houses of commons and ‘peers’ in the palace of ghostsminster]. Blair was of course aided and abetted in his packages of perpetrations by timeserving Mps and peers. Those are still in place.
We told of the OTT-hyped 'RED' [that is, the supposed socialist and by that claim “opponent of Big Business and all that they represent…”] Ken Livingstone being a total and utter hypocrite in his role as a co-tout for the BIG BUSINESS MIC agenda that Bliar career-genetically flaunted and thrived on. We now share with our visitors [of the AADHIKARonline web sites and blogs and of the Khoodeelaar! Web sites and blogs] the information we have found [this morning, Friday 19 March 2010] on the London Daily Mail Group’s web site about Bliar making [by selling wars!] £20million [so far traced, we hasten to add] since he left the official post at No 10 Downing Street London SW1 UK in 2007. We say again that the entirety of the Blair regime and the Blairing agenda is dominated by MIC and is still being dominated by MIC albeit UK G Brown now fronts it. We say that regardless of the so-called ‘changed’ composition of the UK “parliament” after the [at present] scheduled general election [still widely rumoured to be set to be held on 6 May 2010] those who get into offices of political power in the name of the ‘lectors' that is the people of and in the UK will carry on with the same Military industrial Complex agenda. And that agenda is not likely to make any difference for the better for the inner cities people in areas like the East End of London. [To be continued]
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Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret: Former PM's deals are revealed as his earnings since 2007 reach £20million
By JASON GROVES
Last updated at 7:46 AM on 19th March 2010
Last updated at 7:46 AM on 19th March 2010
Tony Blair waged an extraordinary two-year battle to keep secret a lucrative deal with a multinational oil giant which has extensive interests in Iraq.
The former Prime Minister tried to keep the public in the dark over his dealings with South Korean oil firm UI Energy Corporation.
Mr Blair - who has made at least £20million since leaving Downing Street in June 2007 - also went to great efforts to keep hidden a £1million deal advising the ruling royal family in Iraq's neighbour Kuwait.
In an unprecedented move, he persuaded the committee which vets the jobs of former ministers to keep details of both deals from the public for 20 months, claiming it was commercially sensitive. The deals emerged yesterday when the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments finally lost patience with Mr Blair and decided to ignore his objections and publish the details.
News of the secret deals fuelled fresh accusations that Mr Blair is 'cashing in on his contacts' from the controversial Iraq war in what one MP called 'revolving door politics at its worst'.
They will increase concerns that Mr Blair is using his role as the West's Middle East envoy for personal gain.
The revelations also shed fresh light on his astonishing earnings, which include lucrative after-dinner speaking, consultancies with banks and foreign governments, a generous advance for his forthcoming memoirs, as well as the pension and other perks he enjoys as a former Prime Minister.
The full extent of his income is cloaked in secrecy because he has constructed a complex web of shadowy companies and partnerships which let him avoid publishing full accounts detailing all the money from his commercial ventures.
Critics also point out that a large proportion of his earnings comes from patrons in America and the Middle East - a clear benefit from forging a close alliance with George Bush during his invasion of Iraq.
Last night Tory MP Douglas Carswell said of Mr Blair's links to UI Energy Corporation: 'This doesn't just look bad, it stinks.
'It seems that the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has been in the pay of a very big foreign oil corporation and we have been kept in the dark about it.
'Even now we do not know what he was paid or what the company got out of it. We need that information now.
'This is revolving door politics at its worst. It's not as if Mr Blair has even stepped back from politics, because he is still politically active in the Middle East.
'I'm afraid I have no confidence at all in the committee that vets these appointments. It's no good telling us these deals may be commercially sensitive - we are talking about the appointment of our former Prime Minister and the public interest, rather than any commercial interests, must come first.'
Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker said: 'These revelations show that our former Prime Minister is for sale - he is driven by making as much money as possible.
'I think many people will find it deeply insensitive that he is apparently cashing in on his contacts from the Iraq war to make money for himself.'
The committee said yesterday that Mr Blair had taken a paid job advising a consortium of investors led by UI Energy in August 2008. The exact nature of the deal is unknown, but UI Energy is one of the biggest investors in Iraq's oil-rich Kurdistan region, which became semi-autonomous in the wake of the Iraq war.
Mr Blair's fee has not been disclosed but is likely to have run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The secrecy is particularly odd because UI Energy is fond of boasting of its foreign political advisers, who include the former Australian prime minister Bob Hawke and several prominent American politicians.
Mr Blair successfully persuaded the committee that the appointment was 'market sensitive' and could not be made public.
The committee agreed to suspend its normal practice and keep the deals secret for three months. Mr Blair then asked for a further extension.
When this ran out last year the committee repeatedly 'chased' Mr Blair about the issue without hearing anything. Eventually the committee's chairman, former Tory Cabinet minister Lord Lang, reviewed the papers and ordered the deal to be made public, along with a separate deal with Kuwait which had been kept secret at the request of the Kuwaiti government.
The decision to keep the deals secret will fuel concerns about the effectiveness of the committee, which has been repeatedly criticised for its failure to halt the revolving door between politics and industry.
The committee is supposed to ease public concerns about former public servants using their contacts for private gain.
Ministers have to have all jobs vetted within two years of leaving office. But the committee is packed with former politicians and Whitehall grandees and is thought never to have banned a former minister or senior civil servant from taking up a lucrative job in the private sector.
Earlier this month the Government quietly rejected calls for the committee to be beefed up with more figures from outside the world of politics.
Gordon Brown has so far refused to answer questions about whether Mr Blair's arrangements breach his responsibilities under the ministerial code.
A spokesman for Mr Blair said last night: 'Mr Blair gave a one-off piece of advice in respect of a project for UI Energy in August 2008.
'He sought, and received, approval from the Committee on Business Appointments before undertaking this project.
'It was UI Energy who requested of the committee that they delay public announcement, for reasons of market sensitivity.'
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Comments (123)
Some 'kinda straight guy' he turned out to be.
I thought that the 2m salary from the American TARP bank JPMorgan was the price for taking us to war. Obviously he covered a few more bases.
Don't forget that all this happened on Crash Gordon's watch. Didn't he just turn out to be the worst Chancellor and PM this country has ever had?
Look at him -making John Major look good...
Oh, and all the other Nu Lab MP's who have become millionaires SINCE 1997.
When will you wake up!
There is not an honest politician anywhere.
There was :-
The Expenses Scandal.
The Massive Wage increases they want.
There undeclared incomes and now this!
This is what the face of British politics has become,
Thieving lying people that are not out to represent the people, not out to help run the country for the people.
They are out to do one thing and one thing alone
And that is to line their pockets with every penny they can!
And Fleece us of every penny they can
And it's a case of 'Sod US' the PUBLIC they are MENT to Represent!
I don't thing we can ever trust any of the present politicians!
They all need throwing out (and out in jail) and we should seriously think of something that will REALLY work and start again!
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