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By © Muhammad Haque 2150 Hrs GMT London Thursday 5 February 2009 Khoodeelaar! is part of the movement against poverty. Primarily sited in the inner cities in the UK and in principle including all of the ‘same’ society. Khoodeelaar! has said every day for five years now that the London Crossrail scam is a Big Business scam, contrived to facilitate the further impoverishment of the ordinary public and the simultaneous enriching of the already over-rich.. Construction conglomerates Military Industrial Complex agencies. Khoodeelaar! has said, with continuous daily updated evidence that Crossrail as a project is the perpetuation of the same wrongs that had been done before . That CRASSrail would come apart and be exposed as such… Khoodeelaar! has cited the contemporary instance/s of wasting public resource and of the mass-media hype and fabrication towards zombifying the already zombified population into accepting the wastes as ‘acceptable’. One ‘arena’ [‘pun’ ‘is intended’] has been VERY adjacent to the field of the Khoodeelaar”! battle against Crossrail hole scam… The ‘site’ and the related parts of the 2012 Olympic Games Hosting promotions… There is confirmation that the Stratford, ‘East London’ [Newham London borough] site is suffering multi million £ costs overruns. This is the case every day…. Today is no exception. Thursday 5 February 2009. The ‘NEWS EXRA’ edition [in fact the ONLY edition] Of the EVENING nostandards STANDARD that has been in circulation in the Brick Lane, Whitechapel, Bethnal Green ‘south’ ad Stepney London E1 area, has the front-page ‘news’ saying as follows:





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2012 stadium bill goes through roof
Matthew Beard
05.02.09

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The cost of the 2012 Olympic stadium has soared again — by almost £50 million, the Government admitted today.

The bill for the centrepiece of the Games in Stratford has increased by nearly 10 per cent and other venues will also cost more to build.

In a major embarrassment for Olympics bosses, the stadium, aquatics centre, velodrome and other venues have gone up in price by nearly £100 million in the last year. Olympics minister Tessa Jowell was admitting the scale of the budget increases to MPs today. Games chiefs will blame various complications for the cost increases, ranging from engineering difficulties and changes of design.

They also say that suppliers are holding the Games to ransom because of a lack of competition when contracts were put out to tender. The annual report took a snapshot of the budget at September last year and calculated likely increases by 2012. These include:

● The cost of the main stadium to rise by £43 million to £547 million.

● Aquatics centre to go up by £5 million to £251 million.

● “Other Park venues” to rise by £25 million to £446 million. The cost of the velodrome, the cycling stadium, has risen from £80 million to £105 million because of land contamination.

● “Non Park venues” to rise by £24 million to £123 million. The increase is thought to include the rising cost of the artificial white water canoe venue in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.

The total construction budget stood at £1.27 billion but is now £1.36 billion, an increase of £97 million.

The report blamed the stadium rises on “the development of the design, and the lack of competitive tension in therisen from £80 million to £105 million because of land contamination.

● “Non Park venues” to rise by £24 million to £123 million. The increase is thought to include the rising cost of the artificial whitewater canoe venue in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.

The total construction budget stood at £1.27 billion but is now £1.36 billion, an increase of £97 million.

The report blamed the stadium rises on “the development of the design, and the lack of competitive tension in the procurement”. It added that there were additional costs from “structural amendments” to the roof to meet the requirements of the opening and closing ceremonies, and provision of a temporary fabric wrap that will serve as the stadium wall.

The lack of competition is thought to have been caused by a booming construction sector when the contracts were awarded. Builders could find work easily so did not place bids. They also feared getting involved in a major government project after the Wembley stadium fiasco, in which construction firms lost out on profits because of penalty clauses.

The cost of the aquatics centre has risen in cost partly because of the “potential scope changes, such as additional athlete facilities, and increases in scope to allow for enhanced community use”.

The Government Olympic Executive carries out quarterly assessments of the 2012 budget and the latest is included in today’s annual report.

Today’s report stresses that savings have been made elsewhere, saying: “In a programme of this size, it is inevitable that there will be upwards and downwards movements within the funding package over the life of the programme.”

The budget for site preparation and infrastructure is expected to rise by £16 million to £1,881 million while the transport budget will fall by £47 million to £817 million. Other major budgetary pressures have affected the Olympic village and the media centre, which failed to attract private investment during the recession.

Last month the 2012 chiefs made a £496 million raid on the Olympic contingency fund to keep these two projects on track. Games chiefs have now spent around 40 per cent of their emergency fund but insist they will remain within the overall £9.3 billion budget.

Accountants today put the “anticipated final cost” of building the Olympics at £7.413
billion.

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Khoodeelaar! Told you so! That London CrossRail was crass. Crassly conceived. Crassly peddled. Crassly prioritised over existing/urgent needs: jobs!

By © Muhammad Haque
2020 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 5 February 2009

The following item, from an obscure and Partisan and external web site, is being published here by AADHIKAROnline solely as a reference. The contents and the agenda contained and represented in that item are not endorsed by KHOODEELAAR! But the factual references are contextually relevant to the Khoodeelaar! Campaign and they are being published below in this context and for this reason only.

KHOODEELAAR! has shown, on the facts, over the past five years of campaign against CrossRail hole scam agenda that the 'GLA', which is supposed to be the 'Greater London Assembly' [that is put in place and kept in place at costs of £Millions in the name of the ordinary people of London to show that it represents the people of London!!!!

Nothing could be further from the truth] , has been a mostly undemanding, unrigorous, stooged body.

Its [= GLA] members operate as extensions of the given party or grouping and more importantly as individual time-servers and careerists..

One of the more frequently promoted 'opposition' 'Assembly Members', Val Shawcross [who is also mentioned in the piece we have reproduced below] is overrated and is just as dissembling as Boris Johnson is....

The fact that Shawcross manages to pop up in the media promotion of the Boris Johnson circus must not be read as meaning that Shawcross is in any significant way capable of demonstrating that he5r4 own rdcoir5d has been any more democratic or accountable or representative of the people of London than the conduct of Boris Johnson..

The only difference between Shawcross and her alleged target of her alleged ‘questions’ Boris Johnson is that she typifies a different gender than Johnson does and that she claims to be in a different party than Boris Johnson…

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TfL scraps projects and cuts jobs extension to the London Overground
Several major transport schemes have network. He also promised to
been scrapped and jobs could be lost increase capacity on the Docklands
as Transport for London (TfL) tries Light Railway and a new Routemaster,
to save £2.4bn over the next 10 a jump on jump off, open platform,
years. The Thames Gateway Bridge, double-decker bus Mr Johnson said:
the Docklands Light Railway "London is the engine of the UK
extension to Dagenham Docks and the economy and it is vital that we
cross-river tram are being shelved continue to invest in better
in the savings plan. However, London transport during these tough times.
Mayor Boris Johnson said £39bn "But at the same time, we need to
would be spent on projects like focus on the projects that deliver
Crossrail and Tube improvements. The real benefits for Londoners, and let
London Labour Group said he had made go of those that lack the funding
a "bonfire" of transport projects. for completion. "These projects
Tram scheme Dropped schemes include still require a total of over £3bn
a £1.3bn cross-river tram plan, a in funding from the government or
£500m Thames Gateway Bridge scheme other sources. At a time when
in east London, and a £750m Londoners are struggling it is our
extension of the Docklands Light duty to get maximum bang for their
Railway to Dagenham Dock. Also axed buck Boris Johnson "At a time when
are a £500m Oxford Street tram Londoners are struggling it is our
scheme, a £170m Croydon Tramlink duty to get maximum bang for their
extension and public space proposals buck and invest in fully-funded
for a number of areas including schemes that we know can be
Parliament Square and the Victoria delivered." TfL said it aimed to
Embankment. Over the next decade, avoid redundancies but a spokesman
£39bn will be spent on projects said the organisation was looking at
such as Crossrail and Underground "de-layering of management" and was
improvements, including looking at "reductions in
air-conditioned trains, and headcount", which would include
improving traffic flow and reducing the reliance it had on
congestion, Mr Johnson said. outside consultants. The Rail,
SCRAPPED SCHEMES £1.3bn cross-river Maritime and Transport union said
tram plan which would have connected any job losses resulting from the
Peckham to Camden £500m Thames cutbacks would be resisted. The
Gateway Bridge scheme in east London London Assembly Labour Group
£750m extension of the Docklands criticised the cut-backs, saying
Light Railway to Dagenham Dock in that the Thames Gateway Bridge had
east London £500m Oxford Street the potential to create 42,000 jobs.
tram scheme £170m Croydon Tramlink Val Shawcross, Labour's transport
extension Public space proposals for spokeswoman, said: "The mayor has
a number of areas including said a lot about the need to invest
Parliament Square and the Victoria in major projects for the sake of
Embankment He also pledged to London's economy. "Yet here he is
deliver transport projects for when making a bonfire of much-needed
London hosts the Olympics in 2012 transport schemes vital the economic
and to complete the East London line regeneration of the city."





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