KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Morality has GOT TO BE at the heart of any responsible political policy - and practice

from the web site of the london daily telegraph


Bishops deliver damning verdict on Britain under Labour rule
Leading bishops in the Church of England have launched a withering attack on the Government questioning the morality of its policies.

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 12:54AM GMT 28 Dec 2008
Five of the Church’s most senior figures said the Government now presided over a country suffering from family breakdown, an unhealthy reliance on debt and a growing divide between rich and poor.
The Bishop of Manchester accused Labour of being “beguiled by money” and “morally corrupt”.
The Bishop of Hulme said they were “morally suspect” and the Bishop of Durham said they had reneged on their promises.
They were joined by the bishops of Winchester and Carlisle who claimed ministers had squandered their opportunity to transform society and run out of steam.
The bishops said Labour sacrificed principled politics and long-term solutions for policies designed to win votes. One described the Government as “tired” and another said its policies were “scandalous”.
Meanwhile, in an article for The Sunday Telegraph, David Cameron accused Gordon Brown of leading Britain to the “brink of bankruptcy”.
The Conservative leader said the “debt crisis”, which he claimed was the Government’s responsibility alone, would serve as the Prime Minister’s “political epitaph”.
Although they were speaking independently in a series of interviews with The Sunday Telegraph, the bishops’ common criticisms reflect the deepening rift between the Government and the Church on social and moral issues. Relations have become increasingly fractious following condemnation of Mr Brown’s spending plans by Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the publication of a report that accused the Government of marginalising the Church.
In February, the General Synod, the Church’s parliament, will hold a debate on the implications of the financial crisis that is expected to lead to heavy criticism of the Government. The Rt Rev Tom Wright, the Bishop of Durham, said ministers had not done enough to help the poor.
“Labour made a lot of promises, but a lot of them have vanished into thin air,” he said. “We have not seen a raising of aspirations in the last 13 years, but instead there is a sense of hopelessness.
“While the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. When a big bank or car company goes bankrupt, it gets bailed out, but no one seems to be bailing out the ordinary people who are losing their jobs and seeing their savings diminished.”
The Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, the Bishop of Manchester, condemned Labour for encouraging people to get further into debt. “The Government has acted scandalously. This is not just an economic issue, but a moral one. It’s about what we value,” he said.
“The Government believes that money can answer all of the problems and has encouraged greed and a love of money that the Bible says is the root of all evil. It is morally corrupt because it encourages people to get into a lifestyle of believing they can always get what they want.”
Bishop McCulloch said New Labour was guilty of pursuing the policies championed by Margaret Thatcher, which the Church condemned in its landmark 1985 report, Faith in the City. It blamed Thatcherite policies for the growth of spiritual and economic poverty in Britain’s inner cities.
“Both administrations have been beguiled by money,” said Bishop McCulloch.
“It is ironic that under a Labour government we have the poor feeling they have been betrayed and the gap is getting ever greater. Any government of integrity would have exercised restraint, but this has been sadly lacking.”
The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Church’s Bishop for Urban Life and Faith and also the Bishop of Hulme, said: “The Government isn’t telling people who are already deep in debt to stop overextending themselves, but instead is urging us to spend more.
“That is morally suspect and morally feeble. It is unfair and irresponsible of the Government to put pressure on the public to spend in order to revive the economy.”
Bishop Lowe suggested that it was a cynical ploy to improve the economy in time for the next general election.
“They are trying to take the credit for this, but are playing with people’s livelihoods in the process.” The bishop commissioned a Church report, Moral, But No Compass, published earlier this year, which said Labour had failed society and marginalised the Church.
It revealed the level of unease felt among senior clerical figures over the direction being taken by the Government.
The Rt Rev Graham Dow, the Bishop of Carlisle, and the Rt Rev Michael Scott-Joynt, the Bishop of Winchester, said Labour deserved credit for some past achievements but it was struggling to balance its conscience with the pressure to win the next election.
“I agree with the Conservatives that the breakdown of the family is a crucial element in the difficulties of our present society,” said Bishop Dow.
“The Government hasn’t given sufficient support to that because it is scared of losing votes.” He argued that Labour’s failure to back marriage and its “insistence on supporting every choice of lifestyle” had had a negative effect on society. “I think Labour has got tired,” he said. Bishop Scott-Joynt said: “The Government hasn’t done anything like enough to help those less well off, particularly in terms of tax redistribution. There also has been the disaster of the 10p tax.
“It is imperative that this Government help the poorer people and hold the hard-hit communities in its sights, but it seems to have its eye on re-election instead.”
A senior ministerial source said: “The Government has a proud record on promoting fairness and opportunity for all, combating poverty and in tackling Third World debt and promoting international development.
“We also believe it is morally right to provide real help and resources to people facing unemployment or worried about losing their homes.”
*Gordon Brown will use his New Year message to pledge to work with Barack Obama, the US President-Elect, to end the economic crisis and get to grips with climate change. The Prime Minister will say that the main challenge of 2009 will be to build a “better tomorrow, today”.

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KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Morality has GOT TO BE at the heart of responsible political policy

0128 Hrs GMT LONDON Sunday 28 December 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Morality has GOT TO BE at the heart of any responsible political policy - and practice… without morality, there is no fairness, no chance of justice…

KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Morality has GOT TO BE at the heart of any responsible political policy - and p

0128 Hrs GMT LONDON Sunday 28 December 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO! Morality has GOT TO BE at the heart of any responsible political policy - and practice… without morality, there is no fairness, no chance of justice…

So who took the money and made the 'economy' so vulnerable? Surely the Big Banks know...

KHOODEELAAR! 1228 Hrs GMT London Saturday 27 December 2008: So who took the money and made the 'economy' so vulnerable? Surely the Big Banks know... Alistair Darling, the officially described finance minister of the UK Government gave a banal interview to the BBC.. The interview as published din the last 48 hours, contains nothing.. Northing of the truth.... In any event that interview was a re-statement of what the BBC man doing the interviewing, had been saying all along. That the banks were not lending to each other...It must have been a personal 'achievement' [to be added to Peston's over-hyped and fake CV on the whole matter of his having broken so many of the 'downturn' 'stories' in the past 3 months, as incredibly suggested by the Daily Mail group of UK media] on Robert Peston's part to hear Darling repeat what Peston had said.... The clue is to be found in the answer to the question - which one of the two had been pocketed first by the propaganda lobby for Big Business? Peston or Alistair Darling?

Crossrail corrupts and every Crossrail tout corrupts completely...as it is doing in Scotland. [431]

http://iclanarkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/tm_headline=msp-slams-missing-link-in-network&method=full&objectid=22540483&siteid=63227-name_page.html



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MSP slams missing link in network
Dec 24 2008


by Leona Greenan, Rutherglen Reformer


MSP Robert Brown has attacked the lack of any commitment to bridging the gap between the South/West and North/East railway lines feeding into Glasgow Central and Queen Street stations.

The Glasgow Liberal Democrat MSP gave his frank account following a statement made in the Scottish Parliament by the SNP Government on the Strategic Transport Projects Review.

Mr Brown, a long-time campaigner for the Glasgow Crossrail project, said the Transport Minister appeared to be living in a “transport dreamland” where he had failed to tackle the biggest challenges, and the transport projects announced had neither proper costings nor timescales attached to them.

Mr Brown said: “Rail travellers from Rutherglen and Cambuslang, and from the south of Glasgow – to say nothing of Ayrshire and Renfrewshire – have to put up with the 15 minute hike from Central Station to Queen Street, if they are travelling to Edinburgh, Aberdeen or the North.

“The Crossrail project would deal with the problem and boost the Scottish economy by attracting many new passengers from road to rail and cutting travel times and inconvenience. There is a very favourable report on Crossrail from as recently as this year and I do hope it won’t simply end up as another dusty report in a file.

“It is quite incredible that the SNP Government have missed this opportunity to make a substantial difference to the network in the Greater Glasgow area.”



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Crossrail corrupts and every Crossrail tout corrupts completely...as it is doing in Scotland. [431]

Crossrail corrupts and every Crossrail tout corrupts completely...as it is doing in Scotland. [431]

KHOODEELAAR! review of campaigning 2008 against Crossrail hole scam [428]

By © Muhammad Haque
2125 Hrs GMT
London Thursday 25 December 2008

In this review of the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign against Crossrail in 2008 and the evaluation and assessment of the UK media in promoting the ‘case’ of Big Business craving even more £Billions from the ordinary UK population, I am taking a look at some of the persistent symbols of the ailment that afflicts the over-hyped ‘British media’..

Contrary to the hype and the marketing, the British media is as corrupt, as ignorant, and as undemocratic and anti-democracy as it ever was…It is because of these reasons that a community or a city or a population cannot rest assured of any assurance that any part of the mainstream British media may proffer about its being vigilant.......

The community, the people must remain alert as much about the role of the position holders in the central state as much as in the local and the regional states… And the people must treat the media for what it is in Britain: an adjunct of the state and the power-holding minority that is allowed to carry on without having to submit to any democratic scrutiny [inside the elected chambers ands halls] or media accountability…….


Crass is not far from corrupt. In fact, the two words and the concepts they denote are very similar.

In the context of ‘Crossrail’, 'crass' and 'corrupt' are easily interchangeable.

The Rupert Murdoch-ed London Times has over the past 14 months or so , published a number of my comments on the Times online web site.

But more often than not those items have been published under conditions of undue resistance by the ‘editors’. employed in the Murdoch organisation. They have resisted the comments and have only published them, in the majority of the cases, following repeated de facto demands for them to justify suppressing them. Or demands made to them to explain what ethics or morality or evidence, IF ANY, they were following in their intention to violate the right to make perfectly valid comments on the item concerned AS PUBLIHSED by them.

Several of those have NOT been directly about CRASSrail. But the ones that the Rupert Murdoch-ed Times online has persisted in suppressing have related to the core of the corruptly contrived Crossrail scam.

The most representative instance has been around the Murdoch Times’ persistent refusal to publish ANY comment whatever from anybody at all about their quite inelegant, embarrassing and low level sales-pitch for and promotion of Michael Snyder.


Now, Snyder is and has been at the very centre of the corrupt Big Business propaganda and operational enterprise based in the City of London peddling the fabrications designed to make Crossrail appear ‘vital for London’.

In the earlier part of 2008, the Times business interests promoter with supplicatory attitude to the City of London, ran a piece that reads like a CV for Michael Snyder..

That piece is an item of evidence for any ethical and even general study of the corruption of the UK media generally and of the Times [to the extent that it could still be corrupted after Murdoch seized control of the Times titles] …

I knew, from the contents of the plug piece for Snyder and from the Times’ persistence in refusing to publish any factual comments about Snyder that that plug was in aid of something …..That it had to be part of something other than just a plug in a newspaper and its web site..,. like a Knighthood for Snyder…

And lo and behold, they did manage to obtain ‘delivery’ of a knighthood for Snyder whom they had painted as an awesome influence for Crossrail….

That Times plug for Snyder was as corrupt, as untrue and untruthful as any plug that the City of London has ever made about itself being in any way socially responsible….

[To be continued]

PUBLISHED

Muhammad Haque, first rejoinder to latest lies for Crossrail as peddled for the Canary Wharf Group via the Times

1120 Hrs GMT London Thursday 25 december 2008

Muhammad Haque, first rejoinder to latest lies [for the London scam created for Big Business agenda setters influencing the Brown regime via Ken Livingstone and assorted touts in posts in London] Crossrail as peddled for the Canary Wharf Group via the Times newspaper in London

The comment has been posted but it may not be published;shed by the Times, which is part of Rupert Murdoch empire and is on the record as having ferociously promoted some of the most illegitimate lobbyists for Big Business Crossrail


http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article5394243.ece

Below is the first response by MUHAMMAD HAQUE:


"CRASS arithmetic indeed. £150 million, EVEN IF ACTUALLY DELIVERED, is NOT a significant amount in a scam that will cost over 16 thousand million pounds at December 2008 prices. Most of the cost will be borne by ordinary people paying extra taxes. Also, the 'local' Tower Hamlets Council has given planning permission in effect for property speculation. And land acquisition. This is NOT wealth creation."

KHOODEELAAR! wishing a 'merry Christmas' to all campaign supporters against Big Business agenda Crossrail

KHOODEELAAR! wishing a 'merry Christmas' to all campaign supporters against Big Business agenda Crossrail

KHOODEELAAR! Told Brown so! That brazen, boasting indulgence in debt-creation was not sound, nor responsible economics. Nor prudent! [415]

KHOODEELAAR! Told Brown so! That brazen, boasting indulgence in debt-creation was not sound, nor responsible economics. Nor prudent! [415]

By© Muhammad Haque
edited at 2150 Hrs GMT
London Tuesday 23 December 2008


KHOODEELAAR has been telling Brown for years that peddling the Big Business conglomerates’ agenda of Crossrail as a ‘guaranteed way to win votes’ was irresponsible callous and wasteful.

And that when ALL sectors of society are experiencing dire shortage of necessary investments and expenditure, putting £Billions into project like Crossrail that was economically a wasteland, was irresponsibility epitomised

It was also foolish…

And there is no sign anywhere that the people EVER asked for a scam like Crossrail….

Yet the London public will be landed with a significant sum in taxes to fund Crossrail.

Where IS Crossrail journey taking Brown?

More aptly, where are the London travelling public going to on Crossrail in 10 years time?

As I have been pointing out FOR YEARS, there must be a secret society or club in operation where any discussion of the need, justification, costs and implications of Crossrail are concerned...For whenever the scam is mentioned by the ‘mainstream they suspend all criteria of caution, responsibility and prudence and abandon the most basic of rigours of analysis

As is typified in the piece that the Veronica Wadley/Anne McElvoy-fronted London EVENING nostandards STANDARD’ carried on Monday 22 December 2008 with the by-line of Jo Valentine urging Boris Johnson to behave EVEN more irresponsibly....


[To be continued]responsibility

KHOODEELAAR! telling Gordon Brown, for the N'th time, quit being a tool for Big Business Gordon.. Drop them.,. Scrap Crossrail scam

0815 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 16 December 2008


KHOODEELAAR! telling Gordon Brown, for the N'th time, quit being a tool for Big Business Gordon.. Drop them.,. Scrap Crossrail scam..Quit the ’bed’ you have allowed yourself to share with Bechtel....Crossrail is crassly conceived, crassly ‘costed’... It is a scam from start to ‘finish’ !!!!... Scrap it [To be continued]

KHOODEELAAR! told you so! Crossrail scam-linked Canary Wharf Big mythology is unravelling ... fast

KHOODEELAAR! told you so! Crossrail scam-linked Canary Wharf Big mythology is unravelling ... fast


2100 Hrs GMT London Monday 15 December 2008: KHOODEELAAR! TOLD YOU SO!


That Crossrail was a flawed project. Seriously flawed. So seriously that we called it CRASS, as far back as 2004.… We have, in the 4 years between then and now, also showed that the ‘reason’ why the Crossrail hole-inviter clique on Tower Hamlets Council participated in the peddling of the fabrication that ‘Canary Wharf’ was a place where ‘money was to be made, big money, big time’ [!!!!] and thus [for the clique on Tower Hamlets Council] to be able to parade the FURTHER lie that that Canary Wharf BiG money would ‘trickle down’ and reach [at least] some of the ‘most deprived’ in the ordinary parts of Tower Hamlets, was to be found in the corrupt composition and purpose of that unaccountable clique.…...Now, as KHOODEELAAR! has been warning, CANARY WHARF is coming apart in front of our very eyes.…… The mythology of big money is coming apart.……. But are the peddlers of Crossrail taking any notice of this reality? Not really.. They are as frenetic in their indulgence in lying now as they were in June 2003.… They are saying that Crossrail will indeed become reality.. They are defiant... They even sent Owen Whalley to be part of a parade of Crossrail fanatics, staged in central London, where they uttered any amount of irrationality...Like the daily contradictions and crassness about Heathrow, the Canary Wharf Conundrum is at the centre of the crassness of Crossrail.…As the fakers citadel comes down, the fakers get even more insane with their illogical, unsubstantiated defiance against the truth.… The only time and the only pressure they will recognise will be when they are really wholly and truly in the hole that they are wantonly digging with Crossrail.…
[To be continued]

KHOODEELAAR! again advising David Cameron to sort out the Tory Party's ‘alternative’ to Brown's CRASS Keynesian indulgence

By © Muhammad Haque 1500 Hrs GMT London Sunday 14 December 2008

KHOODEELAAR! again advising David Cameron to sort out the Tory Party's ‘alternative’ to Brown's CRASS Keynesian indulgences... That spiel by cameron staged last week at the opportunistically marketing London School of Economics, was not good enough... Cameron has not reconciled most of the Conservative contradictions.. Unless that happens, no one in their rational, sensible, informed minds can give real credit to Cameron...Cameron has not addressed the crassest case of crass Keynesianism, that is Boris Johnson's’ persistent and very ignorant peddling of Crossrail...Where does Cameron stand on Crossrail? Is he as stupidly for Crossrail as Grayling was... As Boris Johnson has been? If Cameron is for Crossrail then he can say goodbye to being taken seriously as the offerer of an alternative economic policy.…

[To be continued]

KHOODEELAAR! No to "Big Business scam Crossrail..." campaign updating on the unfitness of Boris Johnson to utter on economics...

By©Muhammad Haque 0055 Hrs GMT London Tuesday 9 December 2008…..

KHOODEELAAR! No to Big Business corruption and looting of public resource, updating on Boris Johnson's fitness to make utterances. While Johnson stays linked with. David Ross… The Questions – thus the questionnaire/s- arise directly from the fact that Boris Johnson has been making utterances about the economy, about the suitability of huge public sums of money to be made available to the Big Business scams and here is the news about David Ross. One of Johnson’s ‘advisers’.
Given that Boris Johnson has been behaving exactly as Ken Livingstone did in the words he utters in backing the call for more public money to be wasted on the 2012 Olympics Hosting stunt, given that Johnson has been saying the same things about the City of London despite the very widely known fact of the comprehensive collapse in the past three months of the central myths about the City that had been built over the past century or so [and perpetuated by the vested interests in that myth, those who fed off that myth and fleeced the public of £trillions and trillions by trading in that myth...] the first question is: can Boris Johnson be allowed to make ANY statement about the economy, about the application of huge sums of public resource to fund mega crooks only because Johnson occupies the post of ‘mayor’ ion the name of the people of London? If the answer is yes then the next question is, did Johnson seek election by publishing evidence [and corroborated evidence] of his fitness top make utterances on the economy and on taxation and on the suitability of huge sums of public money to be paid to Big Business? If the answer is yes then the next question is: where did Johnson say that before the 1 May 2008 election for mayor in the name of London. And the answer must be: Nowhere. Because Johnson would not have got in had he made any such statement? What is more, Johnson is as ignorant about the economy as any idiot abusing public resource from a publicly funded position must be…. Now on to the little matter of Johnson’s’ LATEST act of ‘achievement’… His ‘pal’ , his latest pal in financial trouble. Big Time. So big in fact that it affects and has affected at least SEVERAL HUINDRED £Million PIUNDS of trade [all of THAT is here contextually defined and implied to be in the framework of the corrupt trade in the City ands in shares, speculation and so on] as THIS commentary is being authored at 0030 hrs GMT in London on Tuesday 9 December 2008 [To be continued]

STANSTEAD: Daily Telegraph newspaper's Transport Editor David Millward is MORE Stupid than 'Plane Stupid'!

0955 Hrs GMT London Monday 8 December 2008:

KHOODEELAAR! researches into the prejudice, ignorance and the sheer lack of education on the part of the Conrad Blacked London Daily Telegraph’s journo David Millward goes as far back as the middle of the 1980s...

.Millward has not got the education that he badly needs... he is as ignorant in December 2008 as he was in December 1986! He therefore fails to report any of the argument far less the advance justifying the action at Stanstead that the Plane Stupid campaigners took earlier today...The fact that Millward gives a detailed description of the ‘disruption’ to air travellers that the Plane Stupid action causes, he makes no mention of the harm that the campaigners are seeking to draw attention to. The harm to the environment to the health and to the economy.….which are caused by air traffic.……. the fact that Millward is described as ‘Transport Editor’ on the Daily Telegraph is quite worrying... With such a biased and ignorant person being in post as editor of the newspaper’s transport coverage, no wonder that there is such circulated ignorance about transport among Daily Telegraph-dependent ‘readers’…. It is of course the same paper that peddles Boris Johnson and his very antidemocratic and harmful views on transport including his peddling of Crossrail..[To be continued]

KHOODEELAAR! wishing all a very Happy Eid al Azha

KHOODEELAAR! wishing all a very Happy Eid al Azha