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So what is the answer? Replacing the current set of agents of the forces of greed with another set of agents of the forces of greed?
Social upheaval is part of the tools that the greed merchants rely on. Time to get rid of system that rewards greed. At all levels.
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33rd year AADHIKAR
0225 GMT Thursday 06 June 2013
AADHIKAR Media Foundation Editor © Muhammad Haque
Founding News Editor
Shah M Azizul Haque
AADHIKAR Media Foundation established with the publication of AADHIKAR the weekly on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK.
Monday, August 25, 2008
kHOODEELAAR! constitutional law action against Crossrail hole plot-peddling holders of public office: Boris Johnson in Beijing : update [66]
kHOODEELAAR! constitutional law action against Crossrail hole plot-peddling holders of public office: Boris Johnson in Beijing : update [66]
KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law action against Crossrail hole peddling 'benefit' propaganda - evidence of Big Business 'media' PR : update [64]
This page was last edited at 1610 GMT London 'Bank Holiday' Monday 25 ASugust 2008
Is the Times, in this headline, 'inadvertently' giving the game away, already? That far from the London 2012 Games hosting being a 'world class' 'event', it may be the opposite, financially speaking to begin with? That the same financial mismanagement and economic incompetence, short-sightedness may also expose the very closely 2012-linked promoted CRASSRAIL scam too.../ [To be continued]
Is the Times, in this headline, 'inadvertently' giving the game away, already? That far from the London 2012 Games hosting being a 'world class' 'event', it may be the opposite, financially speaking to begin with? That the same financial mismanagement and economic incompetence, short-sightedness may also expose the very closely 2012-linked promoted CRASSRAIL scam too.../ [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law action against Crossrail hole peddling 'benefit' propaganda - evidence of Big Business 'media' PR : update [63]
KHOODEELAAR! will continue the examination of Roger Alton's role in twisting the INDEPENDET even furtherinto becoming a stooge outfit for Big Business.. [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law action against Crossrail hole peddling 'benefit' propaganda - FT's lies during CROSSRAIL BILL : update [62]
This page was last edited at 1540 GMT 'Bank Holiday' Monday 25 August 2008
The London 'financial newspaper' the FT, dubbed Fraduence Times, is a regular promoter of Big Business lies.... Its web site version of the FT piece about the 2012 London Olmypics hosting and the Crossrail hole plot-'regeneration' scam confidence tricks in the context of the East End of London, has already been published by AADHIKARonline aready today.... Our analysis and examination of the FT's fraudulent, pro-Big Business CROSSRAIL hole plot-backing role continues... [To be continued]
The London 'financial newspaper' the FT, dubbed Fraduence Times, is a regular promoter of Big Business lies.... Its web site version of the FT piece about the 2012 London Olmypics hosting and the Crossrail hole plot-'regeneration' scam confidence tricks in the context of the East End of London, has already been published by AADHIKARonline aready today.... Our analysis and examination of the FT's fraudulent, pro-Big Business CROSSRAIL hole plot-backing role continues... [To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law action against Crossrail hole peddling 'benefit' propaganda - FT's lies during CROSSRAIL BILL : update [61] [b]
The FT dares to tell part of the truth now, on the 'Bank holiday' Monday 25 August 2008 a month after the lying CRASSRAIL BILL was stamped with the routine Royal Assent with the help of the lying propaganda likes of the FT....
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The bigger prize is to revive east London's fortunes. A three-week festival of sport, even of Olympian proportions, will do nothing to help. East London needs better transport links, for which the Olympics are a convenient excuse - although it is depressing to think that the Olympic bid was necessary to rejuvenate plans for Crossrail, and more so to reflect that the east-west rail link is still years away.
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The bigger prize is to revive east London's fortunes. A three-week festival of sport, even of Olympian proportions, will do nothing to help. East London needs better transport links, for which the Olympics are a convenient excuse - although it is depressing to think that the Olympic bid was necessary to rejuvenate plans for Crossrail, and more so to reflect that the east-west rail link is still years away.
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[To be continued]
KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law action against Crossrail hole peddling 'benefit' propaganda - FT's lies during CROSSRAIL BILL : update [61]
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The myths around London's Olympics
Published: August 25 2008 03:00 | Last updated: August 25 2008 03:00
The last gold medal has been won, the last world record broken, and the Olympic flag is now in the care of London's mayor, Boris Johnson. What now?
As far as the games themselves are concerned, China delivered the good, the bad, and the odd. The opening and closing ceremonies and the sporting venues were astonishing; if London's experience with Picketts Lock, the Millennium Bridge, the Dome, Wembley Stadium and Terminal Five is representative, then the UK will be hard-pressed to match them.
In other respects it will be easy to surpass China's benchmark: filling empty seats and allowing journalists access to the internet should do the trick, as will not jailing citizens who respond to an invitation to apply for a protest permit.
It was reassuring to discover that China's sensational opening ceremony relied on some computer wizardry. The British opening ceremony should probably be more modest - bonfires, union-flag bowler hats, and lots and lots of bunting should do the trick - even if there is a precedent for using performance-enhancing techniques. The 2012 organising committee may even decide to take up an idea first aired in these columns: to organise a dance-off between thousands of computer-generated Morris dancers and Scottish pipers.
The real lesson of this Olympics is not to take the myth of the Olympian aura too seriously. Among all the rituals of the modern Olympic movement, the most baffling is the declaration that the Olympics bring some benefit to the hosts that is broad, profound and enduring. The Beijing games were supposed to assist China's economic, environmental or political development. There is little sign of that. The economy needed no help, the environment will not be improved by the emergency shut-down of factories for the duration of the games, and there is no sign of progress on transparency or human rights.
The International Olympic Committee overpromised and failed to hold the Chinese authorities to account. Under self-imposed pressure to make the games run smoothly, Beijing left nothing to chance. The spotlights of the world's cameras often threw its authoritarianism into sharp relief.
The London Olympics come packaged with their own myth: that they will regenerate east London and, if not set the nation jogging, inspire it to more active lifestyles. Both aims are worthy, and both are not beyond reach - but the Olympics themselves will not suffice.
The bigger prize is to revive east London's fortunes. A three-week festival of sport, even of Olympian proportions, will do nothing to help. East London needs better transport links, for which the Olympics are a convenient excuse - although it is depressing to think that the Olympic bid was necessary to rejuvenate plans for Crossrail, and more so to reflect that the east-west rail link is still years away.
Yet east London also needs better schools; the current crop scare off some of the young, ambitious families that the area needs, while those who choose to stay deserve better. Tony Blair's academies have been a modest step in the right direction, if one that Gordon Brown and Ed Balls are trying to reverse.
The singular virtue of the games as a catalyst for regeneration is that they concentrate resources and bureaucratic attention on east London. Those resources, and that attention, are overdue. But they do not guarantee success.
Lord Coe, chairman of the London 2012 organising committee, is on firmer ground in promising that the Olympics will inspire the nation. Naturally, it would help if the Olympics did not cannibalise too much of the lottery funding for grass-roots sport. But on the basic point, Lord Coe is quite right.
And as the past three weeks have reminded us, the greatest inspiration comes from letting the acts of sporting heroics speak for themselves.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
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The myths around London's Olympics
Published: August 25 2008 03:00 | Last updated: August 25 2008 03:00
The last gold medal has been won, the last world record broken, and the Olympic flag is now in the care of London's mayor, Boris Johnson. What now?
As far as the games themselves are concerned, China delivered the good, the bad, and the odd. The opening and closing ceremonies and the sporting venues were astonishing; if London's experience with Picketts Lock, the Millennium Bridge, the Dome, Wembley Stadium and Terminal Five is representative, then the UK will be hard-pressed to match them.
In other respects it will be easy to surpass China's benchmark: filling empty seats and allowing journalists access to the internet should do the trick, as will not jailing citizens who respond to an invitation to apply for a protest permit.
It was reassuring to discover that China's sensational opening ceremony relied on some computer wizardry. The British opening ceremony should probably be more modest - bonfires, union-flag bowler hats, and lots and lots of bunting should do the trick - even if there is a precedent for using performance-enhancing techniques. The 2012 organising committee may even decide to take up an idea first aired in these columns: to organise a dance-off between thousands of computer-generated Morris dancers and Scottish pipers.
The real lesson of this Olympics is not to take the myth of the Olympian aura too seriously. Among all the rituals of the modern Olympic movement, the most baffling is the declaration that the Olympics bring some benefit to the hosts that is broad, profound and enduring. The Beijing games were supposed to assist China's economic, environmental or political development. There is little sign of that. The economy needed no help, the environment will not be improved by the emergency shut-down of factories for the duration of the games, and there is no sign of progress on transparency or human rights.
The International Olympic Committee overpromised and failed to hold the Chinese authorities to account. Under self-imposed pressure to make the games run smoothly, Beijing left nothing to chance. The spotlights of the world's cameras often threw its authoritarianism into sharp relief.
The London Olympics come packaged with their own myth: that they will regenerate east London and, if not set the nation jogging, inspire it to more active lifestyles. Both aims are worthy, and both are not beyond reach - but the Olympics themselves will not suffice.
The bigger prize is to revive east London's fortunes. A three-week festival of sport, even of Olympian proportions, will do nothing to help. East London needs better transport links, for which the Olympics are a convenient excuse - although it is depressing to think that the Olympic bid was necessary to rejuvenate plans for Crossrail, and more so to reflect that the east-west rail link is still years away.
Yet east London also needs better schools; the current crop scare off some of the young, ambitious families that the area needs, while those who choose to stay deserve better. Tony Blair's academies have been a modest step in the right direction, if one that Gordon Brown and Ed Balls are trying to reverse.
The singular virtue of the games as a catalyst for regeneration is that they concentrate resources and bureaucratic attention on east London. Those resources, and that attention, are overdue. But they do not guarantee success.
Lord Coe, chairman of the London 2012 organising committee, is on firmer ground in promising that the Olympics will inspire the nation. Naturally, it would help if the Olympics did not cannibalise too much of the lottery funding for grass-roots sport. But on the basic point, Lord Coe is quite right.
And as the past three weeks have reminded us, the greatest inspiration comes from letting the acts of sporting heroics speak for themselves.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008
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KHOODEELAAR! constitutional law action against Crossrail hole peddling and related unreliability of the 'Govt' : update [60]
The measure of unreliability
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Home Office has lost 43 laptops and 94 mobiles in three years
The Home Office has admitted losing 43 laptop computers and 94 mobile phones over the past three years, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
By Christopher Hope, Home Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 11:39PM BST 24 Aug 2008
The news comes days after the department lost a memory stick containing the details of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales.
It has emerged that officials lost more than 300,000 people's details a month in the year to April.
That came on top of the loss of two CDs containing the entire child benefit database – containing the details of 25 million families – last November. The discs have still not been found.
Home Office data released in response to a question by the Tory peer Lord Hanningfield show that 43 laptops and 94 mobile phones have been lost or stolen at the department over the past three years – 15 laptops and 47 mobiles in 2007; 14 laptops and 10 mobiles in 2006; and 14 laptops and 37 mobiles in 2005.
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Defence said that almost 600 laptop computers had been stolen in the past decade.
That admission came after Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, had to make a statement to the Commons about the theft of a laptop containing the personal details of 600,000 people from a car in Birmingham.
A Home Office spokesman refused to say what was on the 43 laptops, but added: "We do not believe that any of the lost laptops contained sensitive or classified information."
Lord Hanningfield, the leader of Essex council, demanded an inquiry into what he described as a worrying data lapse. "This is another example of this Government's woeful failure when it comes to data security," he said.
"Given the sensitivity of the Home Office's work, including its lead role in the fight against terrorism, this is all the more worrying.
"This is, of course, also the government department with responsibility for ID cards. There now needs to be an urgent review of what data was lost on these laptops, its sensitivity and possible impact on any work, as well as a wider review of the Home Office's security policy."
Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, added: "If the Home Office cannot safeguard such basic equipment, how can they be trusted to deliver ID cards containing the personal data of millions?"
The Home Office said in a statement yesterday: "The Home Office is determined to learn from earlier security breaches in government and is committed to ensuring that our systems and processes to protect personal data are as good as they can be."
Since the loss of details for 25 million child benefit claimants in November, Whitehall departments have begun including information on personal data losses in their annual financial statements.
Among the losses that emerged earlier this week were the National Insurance numbers of 17,000 people and the theft of a laptop containing encrypted details of 17,000 Sats exam markers.
It was also disclosed that the Foreign Office lost information affecting about 190 people, and that there were six occasions when the Department for Transport misplaced personal data, including the records of three million driving test candidates.
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Home Office has lost 43 laptops and 94 mobiles in three years
The Home Office has admitted losing 43 laptop computers and 94 mobile phones over the past three years, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
By Christopher Hope, Home Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 11:39PM BST 24 Aug 2008
The news comes days after the department lost a memory stick containing the details of all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales.
It has emerged that officials lost more than 300,000 people's details a month in the year to April.
That came on top of the loss of two CDs containing the entire child benefit database – containing the details of 25 million families – last November. The discs have still not been found.
Home Office data released in response to a question by the Tory peer Lord Hanningfield show that 43 laptops and 94 mobile phones have been lost or stolen at the department over the past three years – 15 laptops and 47 mobiles in 2007; 14 laptops and 10 mobiles in 2006; and 14 laptops and 37 mobiles in 2005.
Earlier this year, the Ministry of Defence said that almost 600 laptop computers had been stolen in the past decade.
That admission came after Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, had to make a statement to the Commons about the theft of a laptop containing the personal details of 600,000 people from a car in Birmingham.
A Home Office spokesman refused to say what was on the 43 laptops, but added: "We do not believe that any of the lost laptops contained sensitive or classified information."
Lord Hanningfield, the leader of Essex council, demanded an inquiry into what he described as a worrying data lapse. "This is another example of this Government's woeful failure when it comes to data security," he said.
"Given the sensitivity of the Home Office's work, including its lead role in the fight against terrorism, this is all the more worrying.
"This is, of course, also the government department with responsibility for ID cards. There now needs to be an urgent review of what data was lost on these laptops, its sensitivity and possible impact on any work, as well as a wider review of the Home Office's security policy."
Dominic Grieve, the shadow home secretary, added: "If the Home Office cannot safeguard such basic equipment, how can they be trusted to deliver ID cards containing the personal data of millions?"
The Home Office said in a statement yesterday: "The Home Office is determined to learn from earlier security breaches in government and is committed to ensuring that our systems and processes to protect personal data are as good as they can be."
Since the loss of details for 25 million child benefit claimants in November, Whitehall departments have begun including information on personal data losses in their annual financial statements.
Among the losses that emerged earlier this week were the National Insurance numbers of 17,000 people and the theft of a laptop containing encrypted details of 17,000 Sats exam markers.
It was also disclosed that the Foreign Office lost information affecting about 190 people, and that there were six occasions when the Department for Transport misplaced personal data, including the records of three million driving test candidates.
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