This page was last edited at 0945 Hrs GMT London Saturday 9 August 2008
By©Muhammad Haque
0920 Hrs GMT
London Saturday 9 August 2008
The following item taken from the 'Financial Times [=FT] web site at approximately 0910 GMT today Saturday 9 August 2008, is a typical example of mainstream UK media lies for Big Business CRASSrail.
The piece is typical in that unlike a truthful factual and impartial news item giving all the key facts without bias, it is loaded, overloaded with bias in favour of the discredited and the untenable scam. This is the lie. The lie by the FT in order to keep up the appearance of ‘Crossrail’ being credible. It is not credible for the simple;e reason that even the key propagandists who had brayed for years for it to be given the ‘go ahead’, are now finding that THEY have to make financial contradictions before it can be ‘constructed’. It is evident from their a ’surprise’ that when they plugged for CRASSrail across London and in the name of London they had NOT ‘thought’ that THEY would have to make any contribution to the cost of its construction... THEY thought that they would benefit in the main while lumbering ordinary, little people in London and in the rest of the UK, with the costs of the CRASSly conceived rail ‘link’. They contrived, typically as they do, that the ordinary people would carry on paying through their nose for the costs of Crossrail which would be paid for in the shape of the UK Govt putting into it the £Billions..... And as the main construction conglomerates would get the huge profits, the fact that the ordinary people would be left losing out did not matter to the CRASSrail promoters... In fact it never matters to Big Business robbing the public. And keeping income disparity going across sectors and sections of society in the UK.
CRASSrail therefore was an openly poverty-creating scheme. Hence the KHOODEELAAR name for it: a scam.
The surprise expressed in the FT item on the BAA [British Airports Authority] hesitating about making £250 Million contribution to the crassrail costs is representative of the equation.
From the brazen Thatcherisation of the formerly ‘nationalised’ industries and facilities to the Blairing destruction of them all, the ideology and the ‘business plan’ [=robbery plan] has always been that while their parliamentary agents and touts would claim to be critical of anything that even remotely sounds like nationalisation, the big Business in fact LOVED nationalised assets. Because when it is pushed into points of crisis, which is what they keep doing every 10 years or so, they can then move in and take it over At next to nothing costs. . And pocket the loot...Under pretexts of emergency rescue and so forth...See the latest financial reports from Northern Rock this week.... The so-called mixed economy experiment in the UK has never been so. It has always been one side, corrupt capitalists never cease plotting to loot the public. With the cover of ‘semi-nationalisation’ serving as the shield from accusations of daylight robbery, Big Business loots the UK public just perfectly. ..... This is the reality. On scrutiny., On evidence. Every day this is discovered, noticed and found... And this continues because there is no real parliament. That there is a fantasy parliament is again proved today [Saturday 9 August 2008] by the same FT doing yet another strange plug for OONA KING! [see the AADHIKARonline file : ‘FT peddles FOUL TUNES for Oona King career’, that follows THIS file during the day today]
The FT’s false and untruthful item about CRASSrail funding deadlock is another illustration of the Big Business Corruption Syndrome which KHOODEELAAR identified and analysed first in 2004 in the context of our emanation daily of the evidence of the mainstream media plugs for and on behalf of Big Business interests plotting forever to rob the public of even bigger chunks of the money and the resource that belonged to the public but was never ever availoable to be applied to meeting the needs of the ordianary public...
This FT piece and behaviour is included in the list of items to be cited by KHOODEELAAR! in the constitutional law acton via UK courts against the unconstitutional behaviour by the promoter in the stooged UK parliament of the crassly conceived 'Crossrail Bill' [given the routine, rubber stamp called 'Royal Assent' dated 22 July 2008. [The rubber stamping of it called 'Royal Assent' takes the package into the list of UK 'Acts of Parliament', also called the 'Statute Book'.]
[To be continued]
The FT item about CRASSrail quoted below from the FT web site:
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BAA talks on Crossrail in 'final stages'
By Jim Pickard and Bob Sherwood
Published: August 8 2008 03:00 | Last updated: August 8 2008 03:00
Talks aimed at pursuading BAA, the airport operator, to put up an estimated £250m towards the new rail link between Heathrow and the City are in their "final stages", according to sources close to the negotiations.
The news emerged as ministers were yesterday forced to deny claims that Crossrail's funding was in doubt, insisting the scheme was proceeding to the planned timetable.
The government is under pressure to finalise a deal with BAA to contribute towards the £16bn project. Agreement was reached in principle last October but now, nearly a year later, the Spanish-owned airport group is still in talks with officials.
"BAA agreed to contribute financially to the Crossrail project in late 2007 as part of our commitment to improving public transport access to Heathrow Airport," the airport operator said yesterday. "We are working with the Department for Transport and Crossrail about our contribution and the final amount will be subject to regulatory approval."
A source close to the discussions said the talks were in their "final stages" and it was a matter of "crossing the Ts and dotting the Is". But another said that BAA's lack of clarification was "unhelpful".
There are also questions over the ability of the City of London Corporation to raise its £350m share of the project, nearly half from companies, in the face of an impending recession. The corporation said yesterday it was still confident of collecting the full sum because it had until 2016 to do so.
The department also needs to finalise a deal with Canary Wharf for its contribution, agreed last year.
The project moved closer last month when the Crossrail Bill won Royal Assent. Its funding includes £5.1bn from the Department for Transport, a further £2.7bn raised as debt and £3.5bn will be raised through a levy on London's businesses. Further billions will come from passenger fares.
Steven Norris, former transport minister and former London mayoral candidate for the Tories, warned yesterday that the project could "slip" given the broader economic downturn. "Don't let anybody believe that there are not some serious question marks over the project," he said.
Theresa Villiers, shadow transport secretary, added that the Crossrail budget only "limped" past the post at the end of last year. "As the economy slows it is up to Gordon Brown to ensure that big firms do not abandon ship as the credit crunch hardens," she said.
Last night the Department for Transport refused to comment on specific negotiations but said there were "absolutely no plans to revise the funding package".
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
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