Tony Blair's secret dealings with South Korean oil firm UI Energy Corp | Mail Online
"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."
When are more people going to wake up to the fact that these leaders on the 'word stage/altar' are just well paid yes-sir men for elitist bankers?
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so what does 20m work out per each life this war mongerer destroyed
Approx 17.50 Stg per human life?
I wonder does he worry about going to heaven, him being so devout. Maybe he converted to Catholicism so he could go ahead with his illegal war and confess his sins after. He is one serious malevolent a-hole.
I hope people are not going to try and simplify what this man is by implying that 'oh right yeah he's horribly corrupt, but, um, he's Catholic so that explains it...' This is a Labour guy we're talking about here! I'm not saying that the (mainstream) right are any better or worse than the (mainstream) left, but what is patently obvious is that there is no difference between the two.
The article cited in the OP also makes reference to a complex network of financial dealings, transactions, arrangements... the banksters are rewarding him for a job well done, they set all this up for him!
When are more people going to get it (or even get around to wanting to get it): society is not being run by 'respectable' suit and tie ethicists, like the people are being watched over and protected by 'experts' of one sort or another, our 'daddies' who we can look to for explanations and protection from the big bad world.
The British people have always more or less accepted that this is how the world is run, there is a show democracy (Punch and Judy) and then there is the parallel government. Many people find it very difficult to articulate exactly what this parallel government is, or what it implies for freedom/equality, but the term 'establishment' carries meaning for a lot of us... the 'Anglo-american establishment' (cf. Carroll Quigley). These 'governors' only care about money and power (greed, selfishness, and self-promotion). They do not give a flying fvck (one way or the other) about equality, human rights, the polar bears, or anything. They play these issues, move them around the 'grand chessboard' (cf. Zbigniew Brzezinski), but a world that is carefully shaped and guided by elitists is only good for themselves, and to varying lesser degrees, for those who inhabit the hierarchy that comprises the 'establishment'.
So unless you are unusually talented and useful, willing to do anything to get ahead, and ideally have already gotten your hands on some really serious money (the kind of money that is accumulated over generations), you need to reconsider your world view. It really doesn't matter whether it's a religious or a scientific world view, from the left, right or center. All diversionary. No one wants to accept it, but the world is simply that corrupt.
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It's from the Daily Mail, so it must be true!
However, Michael White, in his Guardian blog, had a rather different take. So, for the sake of balance, try this:
A word of fatherly warning to the political parties as the election campaign gathers pace. Mutually assured destruction – or MAD – was a very unattractive doctrine when applied by the nuclear superpowers during the cold war. It is even more shortsighted in domestic politics.
I was prompted to this thought by today's Daily Mail's front page. "Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret" looked like a classic bit of retaliation/distraction for the continuing potency of the Lord Ashcroft tax saga, probably planted by Tory HQ, I thought.
Wrong. In the course of a busy yesterday I had simply missed it in – where else ? – the Guardian, tucked away on page nine, which is probably what the story was worth.
Basically it says that the ex-PM was paid an unspecified fee for advising the South Korean UI Energy Corporation, which has extensive interests in the US and Iraq – and that the deal was kept secret because of "market sensitivities" at the instigation of UI. The advice was nothing to do with Iraq, Blair's office said.
Anything to do with Blair and money is slightly interesting, especially to the prurient, much as anything to do with Elizabeth Hurley (who shares today's Mail front page with Blair) and sex is slightly interesting – or Sir Alex Ferguson and temper tantrums.
On what I've read in the Guardian, FT and Mail there's probably less than meets the eye to this one. Blair works hard to make a lot of money, which matters to him more than it probably should. The rest of us can and do regret that. 'Nuff said.
So this is a Mail retaliatory story which gets Ashcroft's problems – set out at length in today's Guardian and elsewhere – out of the firing line, much as Charlie Whelan's war at Unite did earlier in the week.
The Mail seems to have lifted the Guardian story without attribution – unlike the FT – and not added anything to it except a quote from Tory MP Douglas "Kamikaze" Carswell and a well-designed package that reminds readers how much money Blair has made since handing over to Gordon Brown in 2007.
The "at least £20m," it claims is likely to be badly wrong, albeit in either direction. Never mind: it's a detail. We all know the Blairs like money and have demonstrated an impressive capacity to acquire it. They're smart people whom foreigners – and many Brits – still rate. I do myself.
So for the record, here's what Blair's spokesman says: "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 advisory committee on business appointments before undertaking this project.
"UI Energy requested of the committee that they delay public announcement for reasons of market sensitivity, which the committee agreed to do. The project of UI Energy is not the one you are referring to and had nothing to do with Iraq, nor any of the issues you have raised."
But the tit-for-tat impulse is dangerous for politics, which has damaged itself quite enough over the MPs' expenses affair. It's OK to ask questions about Ashcroft's tax status because it was directly tied to his elevation to the lordly half of the legislature – and must also have helped him finance efforts to elect Tory candidates to the other half.
It's also OK to ask questions about Unite's funding of Labour – and Charlie Whelan, a slightly comic, sinister figure – though people who know about these things and remember the past know that murky foreign funding of UK political parties is the more significant issue.
Oddly enough, those most incensed about private citizen Blair's foreign fees and retainers are often those most keen to make light of Ashcroft and other funding foibles. The human capacity for selective indignation is amazing, as we never tire of agreeing around here.
People get paid according to their productivity in a capitalist society; Blair is no exception. Bertie Ahern is also a man of extraordinary productivity. Any figures on his earnings?
Hard to believe this is the same Labour party once run by
Neil Kinnock. Blair and Clinton pulled both parties into the
centre so far they overshot. However the warmonger in question
was bettter known as Saddam Hussein.
Oh right, with his WMD's and all. Of course, oil had nothing whatsoever to do with and after all nobody wins or profits massively from war... gosh no!
STOP making excuses. This thread is about Blair and the fact that the banksters are looking after there little lap dog.
Labour are about as left as they come on every imaginable policy... oh except for little things like looking after banksters, maintaining colonies, and taxing ordinary people into the ground. Other than that though...
Get over it --there is no left, there never was, anywhere on the planet. Same basic order, a few uber-rich/powerful scum bags and their lap dogs.... and the deluded and very easily manipulated masses.
Twenty million! That we know of! It's probably more like twice that.
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Rappers make much more then that on deals.
Those who would sacrifice essential liberties for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
This is just one more reason why a horribly corrupt warmonger should not be within an asses roar of the "Middle East Peace Envoy" role. What a joke - the man who was instrumental in bringing one war to the Middle East, and who has condoned other wars in the region, is a 'Peace Envoy". Well into 'couldn't make it up' territory.
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