SMOM Tony "Catholic" Blair

[craig-oxley]

SMOM Blair ARCHIVE
http://z13.invisionfree.com/THE_UNHIVED_MI...showtopic=34371

[craig-oxley]

[craig-oxley]

Tony Blair gets soft treatment at Yale University

Instead of the usual grilling, Tony Blair was subjected to rather soothing treatment during his debut appearance at Yale University.

By Melissa Whitworth in New Haven, Connecticut
Last Updated: 10:33AM BST 20 Sep 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3021365/To...University.html


Mr Blair is teaching a 13-week course on 'Faith and Globalisation' Photo: AP

Organ music played while the crowd waited for the former Prime Minister to appear at Yale’s historic Woolsey Hall, giving the whole affair a faint religious air.

The university’s president, Professor Richard C. Levin welcomed his guest on stage by saying, “It is such a thrill to have you here, it’s very exciting for our community, Mr Prime Minister,” perhaps the most polite welcome Mr Blair has received in months.

Prof Levin then peppered him with considerably tame questions about Northern Ireland, Iraq, education and, in conclusion, whether Mr Blair was a Beatles or Rolling Stones fan.

Mr Blair appeared in front of 2,600 faculty, staff and students after teaching a three-hour course for the Ivy League school’s undergraduates.

Moments before he entered, the university’s vice president and secretary, Linda Koch Lorimer, told the audience not to get up from their seats during the question-and-answer session. There were members of Scotland Yard present and “we do not want them to mistake an interested audience member for a bad guy”, she said.

The former Prime Minister will co-teach a 13-week course this autumn on “Faith and Globalisation”. Week seven’s topic is “religious persons who are publicly engaged”.

He said: “Globalisation is a force that pulls people together and if religion is a force that pulls people apart then it’s a threat to the 21st century.”

Mr Blair told the audience about his own university experiences and said that he had been a terrible student, prone to skip lectures for months on end.

On the topic of Iraq, Mr Blair said he did not judge anyone who had a different perspective on the war and asked that in return he not be “condemned for taking a different view than the peaceniks”.

He said he did not want to be viewed as a person who “wanted war for the sake of war. I believed I was doing the right thing. People think, ‘Well, he would say that wouldn’t he?’”.

He added, “Did I have any doubt and hesitation? Of course I did.” This confession drew applause from the audience.

Of his success in Northern Ireland he said, “We almost stumbled into the Good Friday agreement. By the end of the fourth day of meetings it became embarrassing not to do the deal.

Prof Levin left it to an undergraduate student to ask the question about Iraq: “Would you have done anything different in 2003?”

“This is where I am going to end up dividing the audience,” Mr Blair said before a long pause. “There were enormous consequences in terms of life, death and cost. When you are a decision maker you have to make a decision.”

Mr Blair was asked about how America should conduct itself come January when the country has a new president. “The most important thing now for America – especially as it learns to share power with countries like China and India – is that if we want the value system, the universal values of the human spirit, America has to learn to listen.

"Those values can’t be won in the old way: ‘We are America and this is what we want.’ If America learns to lead and listen and get that balance right, it will get keep value system it believes in.”

On the subject of The Beatles versus The Rolling Stones he said, “If you didn’t say you preferred the Stones the girlfriends just disappeared. But the truth is that really it was The Beatles.”

Yale University is partnering with The Tony Blair Foundation to launch a three-year Faith and Globalisation Initiative exploring a variety of topics in the classroom and through lectures and seminars.

Mr Blair said of his new students: “They were rather smart, I must say. I got my humility in first before my inadequacy became evident.”

[craig-oxley]

Catholic and Maltese Knight, Blair always in the mix -Craig

Blair advised Mandelson on return

Sunday, 5 October 2008 14:37 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7653134.stm


Peter Mandelson consulted Tony Blair before accepting a job in Gordon Brown's cabinet, he has revealed.

The new business secretary, whose return has caused controversy within Labour, said the former PM told him it was "a no-brainer" to take the job.

Mr Mandelson told Sky News he was "surprised" about the offer but thought it was the "right thing to do".

He sought to allay concerns from some within the party about the move, saying "we are all part of the same team now".

And he praised Gordon Brown, saying he had "changed", and had a "very steady hand on the tiller".

'Family'

Speaking of his surprise appointment. Mr Mandelson said: "When times get tough, families pull together and that is what we are doing. It is all hands on deck."

He sought to play down reports that at least one cabinet minister, thought to be Schools Secretary Ed Balls, had tried to block his appointment. He said he had no problem at all with Mr Balls.

"We are all part of the same team now," he said. "It is what the party wants and what the country needs."

Asked about the mutterings about Gordon Brown's leadership in recent months, he said he did not believe there had been a "plot or conspiracy" against the prime minister.

However, he said people were "concerned" about the direction of the party and whether it had the capacity to renew itself.

Looking ahead, he said Labour had to show it had the strength to steer the country through the economic downturn and then come up with "new, imaginative ideas" to take the country forward.

"If I can play my part and make a contribution, that is what I want to do," he said.

'Desperate move'

Mr Mandelson has acknowledged that he and Mr Brown have had a difficult relationship in the past but he told the Observer that they had never completely neglected their friendship.

Conservative leader David Cameron told BBC One's The Politics Show that the appointment was a "pretty desperate move".

"We've got a government that is divided and dysfunctional, and I think this will make it more divided and more dysfunctional.

"For me, this is about trying to shore up the Labour Party; it's not trying to serve the country."

The Sunday Times reported that Mr Mandelson had recently "dripped pure poison" about the prime minister to a senior Tory.

Shadow chancellor George Osborne admitted twice dining with Mr Mandelson recently but refused to confirm whether he was the Conservative in question or what had been said.

"I don't think what he told me was any different from what he's been telling anyone who's been having dinner with him in recent months."

Mr Mandelson told Sky News he had met Mr Osborne "completely by chance" in a Greek restaurant but had not criticised the prime minister.

Chancellor Alistair Darling defended Mr Mandelson's appointment, saying it strengthened the government at a difficult time.

"People tend to get into a lather on this subject really quite unnecessarily," he told the BBC.

Mr Mandelson, an EU trade commissioner since 2004, said he was surprised but "proud" when his new role was announced on Friday.

His return has not been welcomed by some backbenchers on Labour's left, with one describing him as the most "divisive" figure in the party's recent history.

Mr Mandelson resigned from cabinet posts under Tony Blair's leadership - once over a loan from ministerial colleague Geoffrey Robinson and once over allegations of misconduct regarding a passport application for the Hinduja brothers.

He was later cleared of any wrongdoing.

Reshuffle continues

Mr Brown is due to confirm further ministerial changes later, but Leader of the Commons Harriet Harman did reveal that Development Secretary Douglas Alexander would be election co-ordinator.

In the most recent changes announced, Shahid Malik was named a justice minister while Jon Trickett becomes Gordon Brown's parliamentary private secretary.

The BBC's political correspondent Jo Coburn said the latter move would "go some way to placating those on the left of the party".

The reshuffle could force Mr Cameron to follow suit, as he will need to appoint someone to shadow the new Department for Energy and Climate Change, led by Ed Miliband.

Meanwhile, a poll carried out in marginal constituencies before the reshuffle suggests the Tory leader is heading for victory.

The survey by ICM for the News of the World estimates Labour could lose 164 seats, giving the Tories a 78-seat majority.

[craig-oxley]

Speaker to investigate Tony Blair over Bernie Ecclestone affair

Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons, has said that he will investigate whether Tony Blair "deliberately misled" Parliament over the Bernie Ecclestone scandal.

By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 1:11AM BST 14 Oct 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3190831/Sp...one-affair.html


Documents obtained at the weekend under the Freedom of Information Act appear to suggest that the former Prime Minister personally intervened to secure Formula One's exemption from a tobacco advertising ban just hours after meeting Mr Ecclestone, who ran the sport.

The Government has always maintained that the meeting did not influence the final decision over the exemption - even though Mr Ecclestone was a major party donor at the time.

Mr Martin promised to intervene after the matter was raised by John Maples and Peter Luff, two Conservative MPs who told the House the evidence proved that Mr Blair had "lied" to Parliament.

In the House, Mr Maples told Mr Martin: "I urge you to give us a lead in this so that we can insist on full and truthful answers from ministers and a sanction against those who deceive us.''

Mr Martin asked Mr Maples and Mr Luff to write to him so that his officials could look into the matter.

He said: ``I am deeply concerned that two Honourable Members have said they were deliberately misled.

``And albeit that the person concerned is out of the House, I am deeply concerned about that matter.''

The previously secret documents were briefing notes prepared by officials and obtained by the Sunday Telegraph under FOI laws.

They reportedly show that Mr Blair instructed his chief of staff, Jonathan Powell, to signal his support for a derogation just hours after meeting Mr Ecclestone on October 16 1997.

[craig-oxley]

Both Maltese Knights, Murdoch is a Roman Catholic and now Blair is too. -Craig

Memo shows how Blair aided Murdoch

David Hencke and Rob Evans The Guardian, Saturday November 1 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/no...a-rupertmurdoch


A newly disclosed Downing Street memo has revealed how Tony Blair helped Rupert Murdoch overcome an official investigation which was jeopardising one of his big investments. It shows that Blair, while prime minister, immediately ordered his top officials to help the tycoon who was frustrated that a potentially lucrative scheme was being blocked by a long-running European commission investigation.

Blair told the media magnate that "he was instinctively sympathetic to what Murdoch was aiming to achieve". The tycoon eventually won approval for the plan. BSkyB had teamed up with other big companies to develop an interactive scheme in which people could shop and manage their finances through their televisions.

The memo is the first to be disclosed under freedom of information legislation documenting the contents of meetings between Murdoch and Blair. Blair has been accused of granting political favours to Murdoch in return for support from his newspapers; Lance Price, a former Downing Street spin doctor, said Murdoch seemed to be one of the four most influential people in the administration.

The memo reveals an episode in 1998 - a year after the Sun's conversion to Labour - in which Murdoch appears to call in one of those favours. Murdoch had privately approached Blair when he feared that the European commission investigation was hindering his business opportunities.

Blair gathered members of his inner circle to see the tycoon - his chief of staff, Jonathan Powell; James Purnell, then a Downing Street special adviser on the media and now a cabinet minister; and his press secretary, Alastair Campbell.

Murdoch complained that the investigation by the European competition commissioner into one of his planned television schemes was costing him money. He told Blair: "The competition commissioner, [Karel] Van Miert, had come up a long list of complaints and the project was being delayed at huge cost. Sky's own investment was very significant (£800m so far) and the success of the venture was crucial to their overall plans for developing digital services."

According to the memo of the meeting in January 1998, Blair backed Murdoch, saying "it was important that the UK remained at the cutting edge of developing this kind of media product". The prime minister envisaged Europe being dominated by four or five big media groups - with Sky as one - competing against each other, adding "that meant genuine cross- border competition, not a heavy regulatory approach from the commission".

The memo was released after a lengthy battle to Michael McCarthy, a retired further education teacher, who said yesterday he had wanted to know how an unelected businessman was influencing policy in return for the support of the Sun.

The year after the meeting, Van Miert gave the television project the go-ahead with some restrictions.

Initially the service, known as British Interactive Broadcasting, performed well but by 2001 it collapsed as people found it easier to shop on the internet.

[craig-oxley]

Tony Blair earns £12m since leaving Downing Street

Telegraph.co.uk – October 29, 2008

The former Prime Minister travels around the world on speaking engagements, and can command up to $250,000 (£157,000) for a 90 minute speech. He works exclusively through the blue-chip Washington Speakers Bureau.

Mr Blair has made £4.6 million from his memoirs, around £2 million from his role with investment bank JP Morgan, £500,000 from Zurich Financial Services asw ell as £84,000 of taxpayers money to run a private office and an annual pension of £63,468.

He has earned more money from speeches than Bill Clinton, the former US president, did in his first year after leaving office, The Times reported.

The paper said there is fear at the United Nations that Mr Blair's focus on commercial interests is jeopardising his unpaif role as Middle East envoy.

Such is the demand for Mr Blair, that he has a two-year waiting list for bookings, with clients prepared to pay $250,000 (£157,000) for a typical speech of roughly 90 minutes.

"He is one of the biggest stars in the world. Who else is there?" said Max Markson, the public relations organiser who has taken Mr Clinton, Cherie Blair and Nelson Mandela to Australia.

Mr Blair has become a particular favourite with the Washington-based Carlyle Group. Next month he will address a conference of its European investors in Paris about "geopolitics". He addressed a similar conference for Carlyle in Dubai in February.

Carlyle Group is a leading private equity investor in the military. Its board has been graced by both Presidents Bush and its former European chairman was Sir John Major.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3276585/Tony-Blair-earns-12m-since-leaving-Downing-Street.html

[craig-oxley]

Polijtical Chaos in Europe As Tony Blair Turns Queen's Evidence Against Co-Conspirators

Alcuin Bramerton
Oct. 31, 2008
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/go...hp?q=1225471947


On the afternoon of Wednesday 29th October 2008, President George Bush Jnr and his key White House staff were informed that the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, had changed sides in the global financial criminal nexus. Blair had divulged everything to the international investigating authorities. He had been confronted with unequivocal evidence of his own corrupt involvement in geopolitical affairs and had decided to come clean in an attempt to avoid personal arrest and life imprisonment.

In particular, Blair gave the authorities details of covert international money-laundering accounts, including those at Deutsche Bank and the Vatican Bank, and in other key covert centres in Switzerland, Hungary, Abu Dhabi, the British Virgin Islands and Malaysia. He made plain the criminal and treasonous roles played in the manipulation of these accounts by the Pope, the Bush White House, the Bush family, the Clintons, Angela Merkel, Alan Greenspan and many others. Source here (31.10.08).

Deutsche Bank serves as the money-laundering arm of the secret German BlackOps and intelligence organisation called the Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst (DVD) based at Dachau. Through Deutsche Bank, the DVD finances mind-control programmes used to subvert and control British interests within the UK police, banking sector, industry and government. This subversion programme is called 'Common Purpose' and is run from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet Office, Whitehall, London. Source here (31.10.08).

http://www.worldreports.org/news/179_blair...arrest_and_jail

http://alcuinbramerton.blogspot.com/2007/0...-in-run-up.html

[craig-oxley]

Blair is controlled by the DVD Pope for godsake not the Queen whos merely his local navigator for the Maltese crew. So we see disinfo with possible info to eat meat and spit bones. -Craig

CONFRONTED WITH HIS COMPLICITY, BLAIR 'ROLLED OVER' AND EXPOSED THE OTHER RATS

London, 30th October 2008:


It can now be revealed that former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has 'shopped' the world-class financial criminals in order to avoid being arrested and sent to jail for the rest of his life. Fellow world-class criminal George W. Bush Jr. and his key White House staff were informed in the afternoon of 29th October that Blair had divulged EVERYTHING – identities of those involved and of bank accounts and coordinates – and that, accordingly, the present phase of the geocriminal gangland operation to hold the whole world to ransom has been DEFEATED.

Specifically, Blair, confronted with proof of his own involvement in these crimes, 'rolled over' on his comrades-in-crime and informed those tasked on the command of Her Majesty The Queen with procuring the Settlements releases and getting to the bottom of the global epidemic of gangland conspiracy to seize the assets of the whole world, that the following parties were engaged in these massive criminal operations:

• The German Pope and the Vatican Bank, headed by the former President of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Dr Hans Tietmeyer.

• Chancellor Angela Merkel [see preceding report].

• Dr Alan Greenspan [see most preceding reports].

• Deutsche Bank, the primary German bank/criminal enterprise working for DVD (Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst, Dachau [see most preceding reports]), which in recent days has been identified as being in very severe trouble, with a huge ‘black hole’ in its falsified accounts.
The reason for the huge ‘black hole’ is identified in this report.

• FACT: Deutsche Bank finances the revolutionary mind-control operation which has severely subverted many strata of the official structures, the police, the banking sector, industry and local government cadres in the United Kingdom, calling itself Common Purpose. This operation was run out of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, formerly John Prescott, the revolting creature who was caught fornicating with his secretary in his office with the doors open so that his staff could hear what was going on. It is believed still to be run out of that office. It should be closed down.

• Hungary [details not yet available: but recall the prominent activity, partially exposed via this website, of ‘Baroness’ Eva Teleki, 'former' STASI [= Gestapo/DVD] operative interacting with the CIA [CIA-1, Frankfurt], whom this service fingered in 2006 as being thought to have financed the Underground and 7/7 bus explosion abominations in London using stolen funds].

Please refer also to our report dated 26th October 2008, specifically the segment on the 'Wolfowitz moment' problems facing the former French Finance Minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, current Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, in connection with his relationship with a Ms. Piroska Nagy, the Hungarian-born former senior official in the IMF’s Africa Department, who is now working for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.

• It appears that this was a ‘honey trap’ operation that is now believed to have relevance in this context, similar to the 'honey trap' used against Wolfowitz.

• In addition, 'Blair shopped lots of others' according to our sources, providing comprehensive information on the personnel and banks involved, the illicit banking transactions, bank coordinates and related information which has provided the relevant authorities with a detailed picture of the global spider's web of financial stealing, fraud and criminality, starting at the White House.

BLAIR'S CAPITULATION TRIGGERS SIMILAR RESPONSES ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES
Following Blair's capitulation when faced with the evidence of his crimes, we understand that a large number of bankers and others have likewise been 'rolling over' and providing a wealth of detailed information on the financial corruption to investigators, identifying colleagues and others involved in these scams and revealing banking coordinates and related pertinent information.

In other words, the pace of the unravelling has accelerated sharply since Blair capitulated, so that the 'takedown' of these corrupt snakes has, we believe, reached a 'tipping point' beyond which no cover-up is feasible. At the same time, this is a very dangerous environment given that, with their backs to the wall, the criminal cabal is tempted to take matters into its own hands in order to hold on to power, in order in turn to retain control of the funds they have stolen and generated.

Any such development would be considered a TERRORIST ACT against inter alia The Queen, given that her funds are held hostage in lockdown in the face of the cabal's intransigence.

Powerful countries share the view that under Bush II, the United States became a bandit country, a pariah state buttressed by a corrupt Intelligence Power and bribed segments of the military class.

BLAIR CONFESSION + THE 'LOCK BOX' RAIDS + PROBES = CALAMITY FOR THE OCTOPUS
As a consequence of this long-awaited breakthrough due to the petrified Tony Blair divulging all these 'Black' secrets, what is known as ‘a paradigm shift’ has occurred, which will eventually result in the takedown of the entire global criminalist network and will most certainly deliver some of the most prominent organised criminal operatives, including those holding high office, to jail. Back-up for this ‘paradigm shift’ is being contributed by certain ongoing judicial processes that have been functioning in the background concerning which no information is known or can be divulged.

The findings from Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner John Yates' heavily armed raids of the London 'safety lock boxes' had of course been made available to the appropriate authorities in this context [see our report dated 2nd June, et seq.].

A segment on the Blair connection was included in the draft of the Editor’s report dated the 26th October, but was removed ‘on request’, pending formal developments. Specifically, Mr Blair was to have been supoenaed to appear before a special House of Commons Committee, ostensibly to face questioning over some dirty business in 1997 (ELEVEN years ago) involving the dubious character Bernie Ecclestone, boss of Formula One, and Blair’s exemption of the sport from a ban on tobacco advertising after Ecclestone had given £1.0 million to the Labour Party.

However the real purpose of the hearing would have been to ambush Blair with evidence derived from the aforementioned sources concerning his massive corruption, a development that would have at once implicated the financial criminalism gang and the Bush-Clinton Crime spider's web.

In order for such an ambush to be feasible, the UK House of Commons authorities would need a platform for its investigations, since they will only deal with matters that are very strictly relevant to parliamentary business, standards and procedures. This explains why the geriatric matter of Bernie Ecclestone was to have been used as the platform for this exposure operation.

Faced with this situation (the background to which had been discussed on open telephone lines, including in conversations featuring the Editor of this service), Blair decided that he had no option but finally to come clean. In such circumstances, a financial and war criminal caught like this MUST reveal EVERYTHING, because if he holds anything back, he will ‘go down’ anyway.

In this connection, we understand that there is considerable concern in several quarters that this crook has not yet (evidently) been arrested and indicted.

THE SEGMENT ON BLAIR THAT WAS REMOVED FROM OUR REPORT DATED 26TH OCTOBER
Before continuing with further details on the current situation, we need to elaborate further about the segment on Blair which had to be removed from our report dated 26th October 2008.

The Editor‘s intention had been to 'hang' this crucial component of the report on an article by Sue Cameron that appeared in The Financial Times of 15th October. Since then a number of 'pointed' articles on Blair and 'his money' have appeared in the UK 'mainstream' media, including an article in The Times on 29th October 2008 talking about £12 million accumulated by Mr Blair, which journalists seem to think of as a large sum of money.

In reality, some of the illicit funds received or handled by or via Blair were, AS WE REPORTED AGES AGO, placed with bank accounts in Abu Dhabi. Blair’s corrupt money, or some of it, may be held in the name of (a) family member(s) in the British Virgin Islands. Malaysia is also an issue.

However the 15th October 2008 article in The Financial Times dealt exclusively with the 'Bernie Ecclestone' dimension, i.e. with the platform that was to be used for the purpose of ambushing Blair: which was as far as the newspaper could go, assuming it possessed further information, as seemed probable given the first sentence of The Financial Times’ article, as well as other highly pointed references therein:

'Is the prison cell beckoning for Tony Blair?' the article began ominously. 'A glance through my copy of Erskine May, the parliamentary procedure bible that dates back to 1832, suggests that the former Prime Minister’s future could be dire'. What COULD the author if this piece be talking about?

'This tome is a page turner when it comes to "misleading the House", "penal jurisdiction". The rules could be crucial because Michael Martin, the Commons Speaker, has ordered an inquiry into claims that Blair "deliberately misled" Parliament'.

Let us pause here for a brief moment. Equipped with the kind of explosive indications, if not actual intelligence, alluded to above, the Speaker of the House of Commons would have been left with no option but to exercise his latent powers to call for an inquiry, even in respect of what superficially appears to be the 'lesser' matter of the Bernie Ecclestone issue: otherwise he, with knowledge of the monumental crimes in question, would of course become a co-conspirator and would be liable to be impeached or otherwise 'dealt with' himself.

The FT article continued, citing documents released under the Freedom of Information Act (implying intensive investigative activity along these lines by the London financial paper):

'Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act reportedly show that he ordered Formula One to be exempted from a ban on tobacco advertising hours after he met the sport's boss, Bernie Ecclestone, who had given £1 million to Labour. Mr Blair told Parliament the decision was not made right after the meeting'.

Erskine May says "the acceptance by any Member of either House of a bribe to influence him in his conduct… or of any fee, compensation or reward in connection with the promotion of or opposition to any bill, resolution, matter or thing submitted or intended to be submitted to the House or any committee thereof, is a breach of privilege. Members of the House who have been found guilty of such an offence have been expelled or committed"'.

'The word "committed" means the slammer (prison). Offenders committed by order of either House are either detained in one of HM prisons or in the custody of Black Rod or the Serjeant-at-Arms"'.

‘The Commons can treat the making of a deliberately misleading statement as a contempt. Mr Blair must be hoping they do not. The rules also say (you will like this bit): "Those who are committed for contempt may not be admitted to bail"'.

It should be understood that certain articles appear in the 'mainstream' media by deliberate design.

This was one such article. Reading between the pointed lines, and taking due account of such comments as '(you will like this bit)' it is concluded that, contrary to appearances, The Financial Times may, in respect of at least this dimension of the crisis, be 'up to speed', or at least that the writer of this article was briefed by a faction of British intelligence.

SARKOZY MADE AWARE OF GROSS FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES ON 27TH OCTOBER
To continue the narrative: It will be recalled that Gordon Brown and President Sarkozy had to rush to China for the EU-Asia meeting, as reported in our 26th October presentation ('If it’s Friday 17th October, it‘s Camp David. If it‘s Friday 24th October, it's Beijing').

As a consequence of that meeting, Sarkozy is believed to have obtained access to a separate (and new) 'piggy bank' worth $4.0 trillion, according to a Bloomberg report which surfaced briefly, before the subject was never mentioned again.

• But the Asian markets appear to have known about this, accounting for the sudden 14-point rise on the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index and such related phenomena as the extraordinary spike of nearly 1,000 points on the destabilised Dow Jones Industrial Average on Tuesday 28th October.

But on Monday 27th October, after it had been made evident to 'the interested' that the Settlement releases were to have started before midnight Paris time on the Sunday 26th October, M. Sarkozy‘s advisers identified gross irregularities associated with the fact that colossal sums of money had been removed from where they should have been (almost certainly accounting for subsequent reports of an immense 'black hole' within the DVD‘s criminal enterprise, Deutsche Bank).

FRANCE AND GERMANY AT LOGGERHEADS OVER THE SETTLEMENTS
Against this background, it can be revealed that behind-the-scenes tensions at the heart of the fragile and artificial New World Order Collective known as the European Union have risen sharply since we first reported on Sunday 26th October that the President of the European Union, Nicolas Sarkozy, was refusing to take calls from the White House and from President Bush’s aides.

According to our sources, Sarkozy blocked all calls from Bush 43 and his staff throughout Monday 27th October 2008, the day when these reportedly colossal irregularities were identified.

It was separately reported to us that the President of the United States worked himself up into a frenzy of anger, and that he was being verbally ‘beaten up’ by the malevolent forces inside and outside the US structures that have been seeking to block the Settlements in perpetuity – starting with his furious father, who has been complaining that his son ‘dropped the ball’ when he gave M. Sarkozy the power he needed at Camp David on 18th October to mastermind and to complete the Settlements payouts, for fear that President Sarkozy would arrest his father's 26 most prominent Europe-based criminalist collaborators.

The waves of arrests reported earlier have therefore continued on both sides of the Atlantic, as more and more 'sleepers' working for Bush Sr. (and therefore the DVD) are picked up by Interpol, MI6, special agents and other law enforcement cadres, working in collaboration with the special representatives of The Queen, the Saudi Prince and the wronged Chinese authorities.

SARKOZY WOULDN’T PICK UP THE PHONE, SO BUSH HARASSED MERKEL INSTEAD
We speculate that, unable to reach the French President, therefore, Bush 43 called his corrupt client, Chancellor Angela Merkel, and used his blackmail powers against her to ‘require’ her to block the Settlements on his behalf and on behalf of his angry father.

He demanded his father’s pound of flesh. As previously reported, Merkel has been bribed by Bush 41 for the past four years, in exchange for which she was required to 'look after' his holdings of stolen, untaxed and otherwise illicit cash in accounts held at Germany’s largest financial institution.

After President Sarkozy called Chancellor Merkel on 18th October, as described in our report dated 26th October, and warned her against blocking the Settlements contrary to his 'instructions', Frau Merkel responded with arrogant disdain, and proceeded to do just the opposite of what M. Sarkozy required her to do – i.e., she ensured that at least two attempts at completing the Settlements were blocked (on Sunday night and Monday night, following the return of the leaders from the Beijing EU-Asia summit meeting. However the discovery of the immense 'irregularities' on Monday may have been the reason for the releases failing on that date).

• Actually, it is believed that Merkel immediately ordered Deutsche Bank to transfer the Bush Sr. funds over which she was de facto custodian, to (see below) the supposedly 'safe hands' of her fellow wily hun, Dr Hans Tietmeyer, head of the Vatican Bank, former President of the Bundesbank.

As previously reported, Sarkozy is under extreme pressure from the furious Heads of State and Government of the other 26 EU ‘Member States’ (excluding Germany) to procure the Settlements, having been given a deadline of 20 days in which to fulfill this requirement: or he will be removed from office, they say (or said, prior to the discovery of the 'irregularities', and Blair's confession, which of course has 'changed everything').

Enquiries as to whether this threat is ‘reliable’ have been met by several of our sources with a vehement insistence that the other EU Governments mean what they say.

GORDON BROWN RUSHES BACK TO PARIS ON 28TH OCTOBER
The overall situation by Tuesday 28th October was therefore as follows:

(1) President Sarkozy’s intelligence services and aides had discovered gross irregularities while attempting to effect the Settlements on 26th/27th October.

(2) Sarkozy was refusing to answer desperate phone calls from the White House, given that Bush 43 had realised he had lost control andhis father could no longer micro-manage the deception.

(3) Sarkozy had cornered Chancellor Merkel and found her to be defiant, arrogant, rude and non-cooperative, so that a massive split had opened up at the core of 'Europe' (see below).

(4) Former Prime Minister Blair, who had been cornered thanks to a combination of evidence from the lock boxes and ‘background’ judicial process, and faced the prospect of being ambushed by the enquiry ordered by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Michael Martin, had meanwhile decided that he had no option but to do what didn't come naturally, viz. to 'come clean', spilling the beans on an unprecedented scale, so that the spider's web of financial corruption has collapsed.

AN UNPARALLELED DISASTER FOR THE GLOBALIST CRIMINAL SNAKES
To describe this as a cataclysmic disaster for the 'criminal classes' would be like saying that Hitler was basically a good man beneath a misleading exterior. The weight of evidence delivered as a consequence of the raids on the ‘safety lock boxes’, holding the stolen and other collateral and assets used to underpin the use of Britain as the 'Master Platform' for the financial corruption [see report dated 26th October] was bad enough.

But for Blair – a central criminalist operative 'player' in this Grandfather of all Financial Scandals, the biggest financial scandal in world history, who knows where the bodies are buried – to have fessed up to everything he knows to the special investigators who are looking into these ongoing terrorist acts committed against Her Majesty The Queen, is way beyond beyond what the arrogant criminal gangsters could ever have imagined in their worst cocaine-delusional dreams.

As noted above, the Bush 43 White House was advised of what information Blair has divulged, during the afternoon of 29th October. As a consequence of all this, matters are now completely out of the hands of the criminals, and people like the notorious veteran criminalist operative Mr Henry M. ‘Paulson’, ‘Treasury Secretary’, Michael Chertoff and many well-known names on the decadent Washington, D.C. scene, now have their hands tied as never before, as the situation unravels.

SNOW AND GREENSPAN FIRST ARRESTED BACK IN 2006 FOR STEALING $5.0TRILLION
This, by the way, is perhaps the place to reveal a further piece of the unravelling process. We now understand that John Snow, the former US Treasury Secretary, and Dr Alan Greenspan, were both ARRESTED in 2006 after they had stolen $5.0 trillion. They were then PARDONED by the criminalist occupant of this White House. This information has been supplied by a source located very deep inside the relevant US structures.

It illuminates the quite extraordinary double-deception that ensued when the Editor of this service, having parted with his own loan funds of $35,000, campaigned for the proper disposition of the $4.5 trillion brought over from the People‘s Bank of China in May 2006 [see Archive for details].

Why was the Editor able to continue the damning reports in question?

Here is the proximate answer to that question:

• Because they served, perfectly, the purposes of the Bush Crime Family – redirecting attention to the apparent misapplication of the $4.5 trillion by Paulson, and his conflict-of-interest in retaining sole signatory power over the funds – and AWAY from the fact that Messrs Snow and Greenspan had stolen $5.0 trillion, within which the $4.5 trillion resided, had been arrested, and then pardoned by the criminal President of the United States.

• The Editor never understood why he was 'left alone' during those months: now he does.

• It should be understood that our straightforward policy all along has been to 'walk in a straight line', which disconcerts and eventually destabilises all the surrounding and ongoing deception operations, in accordance with Story‘s Third Law: 'Sooner or later, all covers and operations are blown'. The reason deception can typically be exposed by this very straightforward method is that manipulation of the messenger eventually falls foul of the demands of hidden deception strategy, especially when the time comes to make a tactical or a strategic change.

• Therefore, by 'hanging in there' for long enough, the deception operations in question eventually become unhinged, which is what has occurred in this classic case.

• BECAUSE, when the LOAN funds from HM The Queen and Prince Al-Aweed al-Talal were made available in June 2007, it became 'hazardous' for this 'line' to be allowed to continue. See previous reports to enable you to reach your own conclusions on this score.
[The Editor will not respond to related questions].

FROM PARIS, BROWN AND SARKOZY CONFRONT MERKEL WITH HER CORRUPTION
Against this background, Gordon Brown arrived in Paris, as noted, on Tuesday the 28th October. Whereupon Chancellor Merkel was confronted with the disturbing news that the former UK Prime Minister, Blair, had 'rolled over' on her, as well as on other corrupt figures such as the Pope (who is NOT the Vicar of Christ, but the lackey of His opposite; here is the contemporary proof: see the Editor‘s work 'The New Underworld Order' for further and better particulars).

This time, Merkel changed her tune, since Brown and Sarkozy possessed all the evidence and information they needed, arising from the lethal combination of the 'safety lock box' disclosures, the judicial processes in the background, the information in the hands of the Speaker of the House of Commons, and the devastating confession of Britain’s criminal former Prime Minister, who has probably lost everything in the process, but may have just managed to escape jail (uncertain).

Instead, this duplicitous German Frau BLAMED Deutsche Bank, which has alienated vast funds, inter alia to the corrupt Vatican Bank, under the control of the former President of the Bundesbank, Dr Hans Tietmeyer, who faithfully serves his German False Priest Master (standing in the room of Christ and thereby blocking the faithful from access to Jesus), and the DVD, Dachau, by this means.

• She had the brazen chutzpah to blame Deutsche Bank when SHE HERSELF had exercised her powers to order Deustche Bank to send Bush Sr.'s secret corrupt funds to the Vatican Bank!

Naturally, Brown and Sarkozy were having none of this. Chancellor Merkel has been severely cut down to size, with unconfirmed rumours that both she and the Pope were arrested: there can be no point in speculating further about this, because at these stratospheric levels, such 'arrests' may often be 'momentary' affairs and are NEVER reported to the 'mainstream' unless such a report is deemed necessary by the controlling intelligence cadres involved.

After what appears to have been a joint confrontation with Frau Merkel, Brown and Sarkozy made arrangements to travel to the Middle East, armed with the 'hot' banking coordinates and details supplied via Blair's confession, stopping we believe in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh, and then back to China, where they will either be serving arrest warrants and demands for execution on behalf of The Queen, ordering the immediate repatriation of funds, or both of the above.

It should be added here that, for the time being, pre-Settlement, the Rule of Law and the ongoing strategic and tactical deception activities are IN ALIGNMENT. However AFTER the Settlement, it should NOT be assumed that this will remain the case. After all, M. Sarkozy’s half-brother, Olivier (Oliver in the United States), is a Director of the Carlyle Group, a candidate for being described as the head (if not the heart) of the Octopus, and G. Bush Sr.’s slush fund operation, which is involved in intelligence, industrial and military operations on a huge scale (even though we were advised some time ago that it had been forced to close down its trading platform operations).

In other words, right now, it is in M. Sarkozy’s interests to be pressing RUTHLESSLY for the re-establishment of the Rule of Law in the lawless intergovernmental sphere.

And make no mistake: as his underworld face reveals, this man is indeed RUTHLESS. The position, so far as he is concerned, is: either people cooperate, OR THEY GET KILLED. That’s the way it is.

But AFTERWARDS, when DARKozy emerges covered in glory, it will probably be a different matter. So relaxation after the Settlements would be a VERY BAD IDEA. Remember: the modus operandi is duplicity and open-ended DOUBLE-MINDEDNESS.

EUROPEAN UNION COULD BREAK UP OVER THIS CRISIS
This overall situation is dynamite, threatening to smash the European Union at its very core, given that a house divided against itself cannot stand, and illustrating the following:

• When it comes to money, the rats don’t just bite each other, they engage in bitter and ruthless, ongoing warfare inside their filthy sack.

• Chancellor Merkel was, until cornered, even prepared to allow the EU pan-German construct, the plaything of generations of the pan-German secret continuing Nazi élite, to be smashed up rather than to concede what has to be done to complete the Settlements, just in order to protect Bush Sr., who blackmails her, and to cover up her own crimes.

This of course is ironic in the extreme in view of the our elaboration here that:

• Merkel was being being bribed, and now blackmailed, by the Bush Crime Family to block the Settlements, thereby threatening to pull the European Union apart – given Sarkozy’s obligation to procure the payout, so that the EU political hegemony mechanism established by the Nazis’ long-range strategic Continuum, Deutsche Verteidigungs Dienst (DVD), Dachau, the extension of the Nazi Abwehr (counterintelligence) and the contemporary manifestation of the Nazis’ Madrid-based postwar German Geopolitical Centre, is in immediate jeopardy and could very easily be destroyed by the rivalry and vituperative hatred that has erupted between Sarkozy and Frau Merkel over the German Chancellor’s intransigence in blocking the Settlements.

• Since George Bush Sr. has represented and basically controlled the operations of the DVD, Dachau, in the Western Hemisphere for decades, ever since he replaced the ageing Admiral Canaris (Samuel Randall Pittman) after the DVD 'seat' had been kept warm for him in 1974-76 by triple agent Dr Henry Kissinger, we now have the amusing spectacle of the controller of the EU long-range strategic deception programme engaged in a de facto sabotage operation against his clandestine German colleagues’ sacred project.

• FACTS: Kissinger persuaded President Ford to sack William Colby (who was later 'suicided' while boating on the Potomac River) as Director of Central Intelligence and to instal instead George H. W. Bush Sr., of German extraction, who has been positively identified as the long-term supremo of the DVD, concentrating on the destruction of 'the Main Enemy', Britain and America, in revenge for Germany's terrible defeats in two Illuminati World Wars.

• It will be recalled that when the Editor of this service identified Eva Teleki and Marc Rich (a.k.a. Hans Brand) in a transatlantic telephone call in 2006 as DVD operatives, and fingered the DVD as the central enemy of 'the Main Enemy', there were THREE SEPARATE GASPS from the assorted eavesdroppers during the telephone call in question.

• Canaris (Samuel Randall Pittman) made his North American HQ in Oklahoma City. The Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, blown up during the era of President Clinton, an operative 'working for' George Bush Sr., was the location of the files on the German and Zionazi penetration operatives buried inside the US intelligence community and elsewhere within the US structures.

BUSH SR., DVD CHIEF, WILLING TO SACRIFICE GERMAN EUROPE FOR ‘HIS’ MONEY
What all this has demonstrated is that Bush Sr., and his maddened son, have been prepared to sacrifice the product of 7+ decades of surreptitious long-range strategic European hegemony operations by the heirs of the Nazis’ Abwehr which Bush Sr. has spent his life promoting (as an unchecked traitor to the United States and the American people), all in order to retain control over the Bush Crime Family's illicit hoard of stolen and scammed funds and assets, a good proportion of which was being guarded by Chancellor Angela Merkel, bribed by Mr Bush Sr. for the purpose.

CONTINUED BELOW>>>>>>

[craig-oxley]

Put another way, the Bush Crime Family was quite prepared to smash up the European Union in order to hold on to its illicit funds in accounts that Merkel had not frozen in Germany (and probably Switzerland as well, given that arrests have been reported from both countries, as noted in the preceding report). Arrests have also just been reported from London.

As indicated, we speculate that when Chancellor Angela Merkel realised that we had exposed her operation and her links with Bush Sr., and that these links were proven by the 'lock box' evidence and Tony Blair's confession, she ordered Deutsche Bank to transfer Bush Sr.'s illicit funds, which were doubtless propping up Deutsche Bank, to inter alia the now German-controlled Vatican Bank, where she imagined, given that the Vatican is an 'offshore state' located in the centre of Rome, that they would be safe and from where they could not possibly be extracted.

Unfortunately for Frau Merkel, she failed to reckon with the fact that her duplicity and her bovine stupidity had meanwhile been uncovered as a consequence of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's comprehensive confession, in exchange for which he was not arrested on the spot and may (although this is very far from certain) avoid spending the rest of his life at Her Majesty‘s Pleasure.

As for the Pope, we would expect that he will be the first Pope in history to resign in disgrace.

WHAT WE SEE THROUGH THE KEYHOLE...
Since the parasitical European Union Collective is a massive albatross around the necks of the British, and is hated almost everywhere, an E.U. 'train wreck' would be greeted (other than among the Great Brainwashed) with unfettered joy and laughter: and a good day would be had by all.

Furthermore, not a single Europhile pundit has ever considered the possibility that there might come a time when the two conspiring central ‘builders of Europe’, France and Germany, might cease their cohabitation and start throwing pillows at each other, followed by chucking furniture around the bedroom and breaking all the ornaments on the mantelpiece.

But that is precisely what we see through the keyhole as we snoop into their fetid bedroom to find out what is going on. Mind you, the hotel staff have all heard the crashing of the furniture and the splintering of the ornaments on the mantelpiece, and have just called the police, in the guise of Inspector Gordon Brown, who had rushed yet again to Paris on 28th October 2008, probably after learning that Blair had 'shopped' everyone and in order to find out what had been going on the other side of the Channel. Here, on the face of it, was the answer to that question:

• Frau Merkel, who had told Sarkozy 'you're full of …', when told by the EU President that he had the power to have her arrested, had initially become so angry with President N. Sarkozy that she would'nt speak to him. After all, the ruthless Sarkozy had hardly minced his words, as we reported on 26th October. But this arrogant German Frau had other ideas...

• In blocking the Settlements (and ordering Deutsche Bank to remove tell-tale funds to the Vatican Bank), Frau Merkel, especially given that she was warned not to do any of this by the President of the European Union, was of course engaged in a wilful act of terrorism (as defined by the EU’s own legislation) against The Queen: so she placed herself indeed in grave danger of being arrested, since the EU legislation, funnily enough, is no respecter of persons.

• So it has fallen to Inspector Gordon Brown to act as intermediary to smooth things over, a task to which he is eminently unsuited.

• In an extraordinary twist, Chancellor Merkel was originally scheduled to appear in London on Thursday 30th October, where she was to meet Brown, who initially appeared to be cast in the rôle of go-between, until the Tony Blair confession changed everything for the much worse, so far as Chancellor Merkel was concerned.

Although logic would suggest that there wouldn’t have been much point in Merkel visiting London given the background, The Financial Times of Friday 31st October displayed a staged photograph of Brown embracing Chancellor Merkel on the steps of Number Ten Downing Street, illustrating once again that images of these people frequently belie the reality (another manifestation of the familiar scourge of dualism and double-mindedness).

After all, according to our information, matters have been wrenched well and truly out of the hands of the criminal gangsters, of which she is one, who have all completely lost control of the situation. The staged picture of Brown embracing Frau Merkel suggests, however, that Mr Brown really has been tasked with acting as intermediary. Brown and M. Sarkozy have to travel to the Middle East and China next, doubtless accompanied by a cadre of special 'retired' MI6 and Interpol agents, and equipped with appropriate documentation, no doubt, also from the World Court/ICJ.

It may be assumed that the staged picture on the front page of The Financial Times is to be taken, by 'the interested', as a clear signal that an accommodation and resolution of these matters is to be expected. As an alternative to the breakup of the European Union, that seems unavoidable.

Brown, of course, remains under intense pressure from Her Majesty the Queen to procure the Settlements, given that her LOAN funds plus those of Prince Al-Aweed Al-Talal (the $6.2 trillion) and the LOAN funds of $7.8 trillion provided by the Chinese parties, for the total of $14.0 trillion, were being held hostage as a consequence of Chancellor Merkel’s intransigence on behalf of Bush Sr., and because she is bribed and blackmailed by the Bush Crime Family as described.

WORST FINANCIAL CORRUPTION CRISIS IN HUMAN HISTORY
Need we repeat that this is unquestionably the biggest ongoing financial corruption scandal in world history, with the potential to wreak absolute havoc with the entire structure of civilisation and to plunge the world into open warfare. The upside here, however, is that this corruption is being systematically exposed, will continue to be systematically exposed, and that the criminal cadres have lost control, with matters having been taken completely out of their hands.

This accounts for the fact that President George Bush Jr. was reported to us to be beside himself on Sunday and Monday 26th-27th October, when M. Sarkozy was refusing to take his calls.

• Imagine, therefore, how much madder he must have been after he was advised in the afternoon of Wednesday 29th October 2008 of chapter and verse concerning the damning details that Mr Blair had finally disgorged, as described above. One imagines that the US President may have needed restraining by means of a straightjacket.

THE $14 TRILLION SETTLEMENT LOAN FUNDS IN U.S. LOCKDOWN
As previously reported, the $14.0 trillion Settlement funds are supposedly still held in LOCKDOWN with the custodial group accounts at large US financial institutions, following the measures taken in September to put a drastic stop to this nonsense by The Queen, in cooperation with the Prince and the Chinese parties. This statement must now assume (because we have no further information) that they have not, DESPITE THE LOCKDOWN, been compromised and subjected to removal, and that they are not co-mingled with the funds alienated on Merkel's orders from Deutsche Bank.

• The loaned funds were originally transferred from Britain, Europe and China to the US Treasury custodial group accounts specifically to finance the 'real money' restitution payments payable in US dollars under the hijacked Settlements.

When the LOCKDOWN orders and constraints were imposed, the $14.0 trillion could, on the face of it (but see above) no longer be exploited illegally as base to sustain the financing of the carousel which was keeping both the stock market and many huge institutions afloat: so the crash started in earnest in mid-September, as a consequence.

Imposition of the LOCKDOWN orders with respect to the said LOAN funds had become absolutely necessary in order to signal to the criminalist cadres that further interference and blocking tactics would have the most drastic consequences. And so it has turned out.

LENINIST BUSH CHANGED HIS MIND AT ONCE, AND HAS BEEN MAD EVER SINCE
Looking back, it is self-evident that the moment that Sarkozy had escaped from Camp David on 18th October armed with the documents signed by Bush 43 that M. Sarkozy needed (to be reinforced by World Court papers obtained on the following Monday, 20th October), the United States’ Leninist President, George W. Bush Jr., changed his mind, as usual.

• But it was too late. He was then verbally ‘beaten up’ by his father and other malevolent forces and was already hurting badly enough, well before the news and detail of the Blair 'confession' hit the White House in the afternoon of 29th October.

And Sarkozy couldn’t have cared less, which was why he wasn’t answering the telephone. As for Gordon Brown, he had exited Camp David abruptly, we were told, or else was given the boot by 43, as neither man can stand being in the presence of the other.

So now, by late October, the European performance of this Punch and Judy Show had reached the battering stage. Punch (Sarkozy) had landed several massive blows onto the nose of Judy (Merkel), who responded by sulking in a corner and refusing to play any more. Up popped the Joker (Brown), who darted backy forthy between Punch and Judy, winding up bashing Judy on the cranium so that she has disappeared below the floor boards.

To deploy one last metaphor here: Merkel stood in front of the Settlements train careering towards her at 100mph, thinking she could order it to stop, only to discover too late that she was mistaken.

New telephone hot lines will probably need to be installed at Number 10 Downing Street, the Elysée Palace and the German Chancellery, since the wires are believed to be overheating as these three representatives of the Illuminati insult each other in a lethal fight that allows of NO COMPROMISE.

MURKY MERKEL HAS ALL BUT DESTROYED GERMANY’S TOWER OF BABEL
This explains why Frau Merkel’s behaviour is beyond irrational. Of course, she is cornered: for not only had she been taking bribes from Bush Sr., but as a consequence, the filthy Bush Crime snakes were preparing to deploy certain assets based in Germany (CIA-1, Frankfurt) to blackmail the lady.

Because of her unenviable situation, this one-time Secretary of the Agitation and Propaganda Department of the Young Communists at East Berlin’s Marx-Lenin University faced the choice of caving in, or risking the destruction of the ‘indelible’ ties linking France and Germany in perpetuity.

She chose the path of destruction, ordering Deutsche Bank to remove Bush Sr.'s corrupt funds (which she needed out of the way anyway, to hide the evidence) and then, when confronted with damning evidence obtained inter alia from Blair's 'confession', blaming Deutsche Bank for the chaos, on the assumption that it wouldn‘t become known that she herself, as custodian of Bush Sr.'s illicit funds in Germany, had instructed Deutsche Bank (presumably as she has Bush Sr.'s Power of Attorney) that the funds be transferred into the 'safe hands' of her fellow DVD agent, Dr Hans Tietmeyer, former President of Deutsche Bundesbank, appointed to head that notoriously corrupt institution, the Vatican Bank, by the German Pope.

• The 'black hole' reportedly 'discovered' on Monday 27th October at Deutsche Bank appears to have been related to this sequence of events.

'IRREVOCABLE' 1963 BILATERAL TREATY OF THE ELYSEE IN TERMINAL JEOPARDY?
Recall that the 'indelible' ties between France and Germany were cemented by the Treaty of the Elysée of 23rd January 1963, signed by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, the Hitler-era Mayor of Cologne, and close friend of Hitler's favourite bankers, Drs. Abs and Pferdmenges, and French President Charles de Gaulle. The Treaty, which has no expiry date, requires the parties to reach ‘an analogous position’ in respect of ALL international issues of common concern, and to coordinate their positions at all international meetings, in perpetuity.

Since President Sarkozy informed Chancellor Merkel on 18th October 2008 that he has the power to have her arrested forthwith, implying that the European Presidency is more powerful, by an order of magnitude, than the Chancellor of Germany, this stance manifestly threatened to blow the Treaty of the Elysée apart, WITHOUT RECOURSE.

• And if France and Germany fall out, the main hydraulic jack that holds up the roof of the rotten European Commission and the European Union Collective generally, would be liable to collapse.

In summary, the Treaty of the Elysée is in tatters, which has HUGE implications for the pan-German Abwehr/DVD's subversive, anti-nation state construct, the European Union Collective.

• American readers unfamiliar with all this need to understand that the facts that the European Union is (a) socialist/collectivist and ( a huge long-range pan-German/DVD strategic deception construct, are NOT incompatible. Nazism is National Socialism: Communism and its derivatives are International Socialism, representing, as usual, a false, manipulated thesis/antithesis dialectic.

ITALY STANDS READY WITH NEWLY MINTED LIRE BANKNOTES
Beyond that, the Italian authorities are now fully stocked with newly minted Italian lire, against the increasing likelihood that disillusionment with the Euro will be followed by the re-establishment of their own national currency. A similar tendency is being noted in Greece. Once that happens, the unravelling of the Euro will escalate, and the Danes, who we are told are rethinking their earlier decision to stay outside the Collective Currency, will probably drop the stupid idea of joining it.

The widening of intra-European Union bond yield spreads has heightened continuing uncertainty as to whether Italy and Greece, and others, can possibly continue sharing the same currency as Germany without suffering terminal damage.

BRITAIN SEVERELY ENRONISED, WITH MUCH WORSE TO FOLLOW
As for the hollowed-out British financial and real economies, a general belated realisation that the United Kingdom's finances and real economic prospects are in almost terminal disarray had driven the pound’s dollar rate down to $1.5280 by the close on 28th October, compared with its peak of $2.0457 on 10th December 2007, a decline of nearly 52 cents – and a depreciation of over 25%.

As previously reported, Britain was used as the Master Platform for the perpetration and marketing of the Bush-Clinton-CIA-DVD fraudulent finance orgy, which has now been brutally exposed, and will continue to be exposed, as a gigantic Ponzi operation.

FRAUDULENT DERIVATIVES PONZI SCAMS TO BE EXPOSED IN A NEW STUDY
The study on this subject that we are preparing will reveal and will prove that the derivatives are fraudulent and worthless. Indeed the very notion that an ‘asset’ marketed without recourse has value ‘derived’ from a real asset that lies many stages removed from the holder, is self-evidently glaringly fraudulent, such assets deriving their notional 'values' while the 'party' continued, if at all, from the NAMES of the corrupt financial enterprises marketing them, alone.

This is not a failure of so-called capitalism as such: it represents a combination of the deliberate, premeditated failure of US securities market regulation, plus an associated organised criminal offensive, the ultimate purpose being Fascism on a global scale – to be manifested through the acquisition at fire-sale prices of every asset relevant to power and hegemony in the world.

We submit that the exposures have STOPPED THIS HAPPENING – this being the second time that this attempted global control offensive has been halted at the last minute. The first time round, the consequences of the ransacking of the Savings and Loans by the SAME organised Fascist group of criminals, with the same ultimate objective, were mitigated

If the mortgager defaults, the only party who would know that this had occurred, would of course be the original mortgage lending bank. All the subsequent discount purchasers of the derived and securitised (collectivised) assets would have no clue.

Therefore, the thoroughly dishonest assumption perpetrated by the criminal enterprises marketing these fake assets throughout was always that the ‘derived assets’ obtained their value from the original property holder’s mortgage payments flow, when this assumption might be bogus. In any case, replicating value by this means is nothing less than a variant of the Ponzi or pyramid selling fraud: and that indeed is what will be exposed.

MANDELSON 'TOO CLOSELY INVOLVED WITH RUSSIAN MAFIYA GANGSTERS'
WorldNetDaily reported on 28th October 2008 that UK intelligence sources have revealed that the dangerously controversial Lord Mandelson, yanked out of Brussels and then kicked upstairs to the House of Lords by Gordon Brown shortly after we had exposed that the kidnapped five-year-old Madeleine McCann had been selected by the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, for his own gratification in line with the practice of the paedophile ring operating within the European Commission itself, appears 'repeatedly' in top secret files given his regular contacts with the disintegrating Russian KGB-GRU criminalist oligarch, Oleg Deripaska.

WorldNetDaily says that the files have the highest 'Y-category' security rating, which can be read only by the MI6 intelligence chief and DVD stooge John Scarlett, and by the head of MI5, Jonathan Evans (begging the question, of course, of WHO leaked this information).

According to the American Internet-based service, ‘both services have launched an "intensive investigation" into the Izmailovo Organisation, thought to be the most powerful of the Russian mafia gangs, members of which are identified in these files as having 'contacts' with the Russian intelligence oligarch.

During the week ending on 24th October 2008, a two-day conference at the US State Department reviewed developments in Russia and the former Soviet Union. Asked by the Editor of this service to comment on the general finding from this conference, a source replied that the conclusion was that 'Russia and the 'former' Soviet Union are almost completely in the hands of organised crime'.

One of the MI6 intelligence files reportedly identifies the Izmailovo Organisation as ‘a multi-faceted criminal family. They specialise in money laundering using banks in Bulgaria, Hungary [please see above: Editor] and the Cayman islands. They also deal in prostitution. They have their own in-house security force staffed by former Russian Special Forces'.

The files on the extremely dubious Lord Mandelson are reportedly held on a secure database shared by MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, the British intelligence community‘s huge eavesdropping centre based at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

We comment that while we believe the foregoing intelligence to be accurate, it should be noticed that the entire Deripsaka sequence, enmeshing George (Gideon) Osborne, the Conservative Party Shadow Chancellor and reputed ’handler' of the brainwashed Conservative leader David Cameron, Nathaniel Rothschild, son of Lord (Jacob Rothschild) and the very dangerous 'loose canon' and factotum Peter Mandelson, may also represent a diversionary operation masterminded inter alia by John Scarlett, DVD-serving head of MI6, to 'change the subject' in the face of the knowledge that a trap had been set for Blair which would be bound to lead to the exposure of the dwelling places of all of the putrid arms of the Octopus, leading straight to the Bush White House.

Meanwhile, extensive arrests have now been reported, as noted, from London, as well as from Germany, Switzerland and the United States. There, the corrupted intelligence community 'State within the State' Intelligence Power is targeted for takedown or makeover, with both candidates for the Presidency voicing reform plans and McCain talking about a greatly slimmed-down community much better attuned to decisive operations against America's enemies.

First place to start would be to change the name of the CIA's corrupt Langley establishment from the George Bush Center for Intelligence. The incoming President, or Interim Authority, should DO THIS FIRST. It would send a necessary instantaneous signal to all concerned that their foul reign of terror and their treachery against the American people WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE.


APPENDIX:

The following report by Agence France-Presse dated 28th October 2008 is appended:

It is an interesting example of how the ‘mainstream media’ and its feeds are able to notice very significant shifts in international relationships, while highlighting the WRONG factors by way of explaining what is observed, and drawing the WRONG conclusions because it is being bamboozled by the theatre rather than understanding what is going on behind the curtain:

PARIS (AFP): Prime Minister Gordon Brown was to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy for the third time this month on Tuesday, in a sign of increased cooperation between London and Paris on the economic crisis.

France's traditionally close bond with Germany has been tested by sniping between the offices of Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel, while Brown has become a regular visitor to Paris since the credit crunch hit [CONFIRMATION OF OUR ANALYSIS HERE AND ON 26TH OCTOBER: Ed.].

Sarkozy, the current holder of the European Union Presidency, hopes to build a common European front at a Brussels summit next week, ahead of a meeting of the G-20 group of current and leading emerging powers in Washington on November 15.

The French leader has said he would like to see the world agree to "refound the global financial system", and needs all the support he can get.

Brown has been more cautious on the rôle governments should play in the new order, but has also been keen to show leadership on reforming world finance, with the spectre of recession haunting Europe and the world.

The pair were to meet later Tuesday at La Lanterne, Sarkozy's private residence in the forested park around the Palace of Versailles west of Paris, but first their ministers for Europe met at the French Foreign Ministry.

Afterwards, both ministers agreed on the need to forge a common European stance ahead of November's G-20 summit. "This is not just an EU problem, it's not a Eurozone problem, a UK or a French problem, it's a global problem", said Caroline Flint, Britain's Minister for Europe, after talks with her counterpart Jean-Pierre Jouyet.

"Our discussions at EU level can only help us be prepared and persuasive when it comes to looking at what sort of changes we need at a global level to make sure we can limit the damage", she said. Jouyet said London and Paris had agreed on "the need for tight international cooperation and for Europe to come (to the G-20) united, carrying a common vision of a new economic and financial order". [Note the constant repetition of the Communist word 'common': Ed.].

He said the meetings showed that "relations between our countries have never been so intense, and the cooperation never so tight".

Long known as a sceptic towards the European Union, Brown was thrust centre stage this month as the 15 nations in the euro single currency used Britain as the model for a united bank rescue plan.

Throwing out the usual protocol, Sarkozy invited Brown to Paris to brief Eurozone members on his plan, and both won plaudits in their respective national media for taking charge of the situation.

On wider reform of the international financial sector, Brown and Sarkozy have also led calls for far greater global regulation and a new role for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to avert future crises. In contrast, France has clashed repeatedly with its traditional European ally Germany over the response to the crisis, with Chancellor Merkel leading resistance to Mr Sarkozy's proposal to create an "economic government" for the Eurozone.

Sarkozy would also like to see Europe set up national sovereign wealth funds to shelter strategic parts of their economies from global turmoil – moves that are anathema to Merkel's more laissez-faire approach. For Jean-Pierre Maulny, the Deputy Director of the Institute for International and Strategic Research, the ad-hoc cooperation between M. Sarkozy and Brown on the finance crisis could mark the start of a longer-term shift in Europe.

"Given the importance of the issues involved, it could have consequences for the balance of power in Europe. That could weaken and alarm the Germans" [ACCURATE: Ed.].

But [THE NOT-UP-TO-SPEED: Ed.] Philip Whyte, senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, warned not to "read too much" into the thawing of ties.

"When it comes down to long-term considerations of France's interest, Germany remains the primordial relationship," Whyte said. [Editor: sic!!!].


REITERATION OF THE STATUTES, SECURITIES REGULATIONS AND LEGAL PRINCIPLES OF WHICH THE CRIMINALISTS, ASSOCIATES AND KEY FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ARE IN BREACH:

LEGAL TUTORIAL: The Steps of Common Fraud:

Step 1: Fraud in the Inducement: “… is intended to and which does cause one to execute an instrument, or make an agreement… The misrepresentation involved does not mislead one as the paper he signs but rather misleads as to the true facts of a situation, and the false impression it causes is a basis of a decision to sign or render a judgment” Source: Steven H. Gifis, ‘Law Dictionary’, 5th Edition, Happauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: ‘Fraud’.

Step 2: Fraud in Fact by Deceit (Obfuscation and Denial) and Theft:

• “ACTUAL FRAUD. Deceit. Concealing something or making a false representation with an evil intent [scanter] when it causes injury to another…”. Source: Steven H. Gifis, ‘Law Dictionary’, 5th Edition, Happauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: ‘Fraud’.

• “THE TORT OF FRAUDULENT DECEIT… The elements of actionable deceit are: A false representation of a material fact made with knowledge of its falsity, or recklessly, or without reasonable grounds for believing its truth, and with intent to induce reliance thereon, on which plaintiff justifiably relies on his injury…”. Source: Steven H. Gifis, ‘Law Dictionary’, 5th Edition, Happauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2003, s.v.: ‘Deceit’.

Step 3: Theft by Deception and Fraudulent Conveyance:

THEFT BY DECEPTION:

• “FRAUDULENT CONCEALMENT… The hiding or suppression of a material fact or circumstance which the party is legally or morally bound to disclose…”.

• “The test of whether failure to disclose material facts constitutes fraud is the existence of a duty, legal or equitable, arising from the relation of the parties: failure to disclose a material fact with intent to mislead or defraud under such circumstances being equivalent to an actual ‘fraudulent concealment’…”.

• To suspend running of limitations, it means the employment of artifice, planned to prevent inquiry or escape investigation and mislead or hinder acquirement of information disclosing a right of action, and acts relied on must be of an affirmative character and fraudulent…”.

Source: Black, Henry Campbell, M.A., 'Black’s Law Dictionary’, Revised 4th Edition, St Paul: West Publishing Company, 1968, s.v. ‘Fraudulent Concealment’.

FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE:

• “FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE… A conveyance or transfer of property, the object of which is to defraud a creditor, or hinder or delay him, or to put such property beyond his reach…”.

• “Conveyance made with intent to avoid some duty or debt due by or incumbent or person (entity) making transfer…”.

Source: Black, Henry Campbell, M.A., ‘Black’s Law Dictionary', Revised 4th Edition, St Paul: West Publishing Company, 1968, s.v. ‘Fraudulent Conveyance’.

U.S. SECURITIES REGULATIONS OF WHICH INSTITUTIONS
HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO BE IN BREACH [SEE REPORTS]:

• NASD Rule 3120, et al.
• NASD Rule 2330, et al
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and 3040
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and IM-2110-1
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and SEC Rule 15c3-1
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and 3110
• SEC Rules 17a-3 and 17a-4
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and Procedural Rule 8210
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and 2330 and IM-2330
• NASD Conduct Rules 2110 and IM-2110-5
• NASD Systems and Programme Rules 6950 through 6957
• 97-13 Bank Secrecy Act, Recordkeeping Rule for funds transfers and transmittals of funds, et al.

U.S. LAWS ROUTINELY BREACHED BY THE CRIMINAL OPERATIVES AND INSTITUTIONS:

• Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act
• Anti-Drug Abuse Act
• Applicable international money laundering restrictions
• Bank Secrecy Act
• Conspiracy to commit and cover up murder.
• Crimes, General Provisions, Accessory After the Fact [Title 18, USC]
• Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act
• Economic Espionage Act
• Hobbs Act
• Imparting or Conveying False Information [Title 18, USC]
• Maloney Act
• Misprision of Felony [Title 18, USC] (1)
• Money-Laundering Control Act
• Money-Laundering Suppression Act
• Organized Crime Control Act of 1970
• Perpetration of repeated egregious felonies by State and Federal public employees and their Departments and agencies, which are co-responsible with the said employees for ONGOING illegal and criminal actions, to sustain fraudulent operations and crimes in order to cover up criminalist activities and High Crimes and Misdemeanours by present and former holders of high office under the United States
• Provisions pertaining to private business transactions being protected under both private and criminal penalties [H.R. 3723]
• Provisions prohibiting the bribing of foreign officials [F.I.S.A.]
• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act [R.I.C.O.]
• Securities Act 1933
• Securities Act 1934
• Terrorism Prevention Act
• Treason legislation, especially in time of war.


• Please be advised that the Editor of International Currency Review and associated intelligence services cannot enter into email correspondence related to this or to any of the earlier reports.

We are a private intelligence publishing house and have no connections to any outside parties including intelligence agencies. The word ‘intelligence’ on this website and in all our marketing material is used for marketing/sales purposes only and has no other connotations whatsoever: see ‘About Us’ on the red panels under the Notes on the Editor, Christopher Story FRSA, who has been solely and exclusively engaged as an investigative journalist, Editor, Author and private financial and current affairs Publisher since 1963 and is not and never has been an agent for a foreign power, suggestions to the contrary being actionable for libel in the English Court.

[craig-oxley]

Something weird here -Craig

Blair bodyguard 'fires gun accidentally'

AP
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/mi...ly-1011447.html

One of Tony Blair's guards accidentally fired his gun at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport today as the former prime minister was boarding a plane. No one was hurt.

An Israeli police spokesman said the incident happened as the guard was unloading his gun prior to getting on the flight.

And airport spokeswoman said: "One of his bodyguards accidentally fired his gun, and the bullet hit the ground."

Mr Blair is now the envoy of the Quartet of Middle East peacemakers - the US, UN, EU and Russia.

He attended a Quartet meeting in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheik and had a round of meetings with Israeli officials before leaving Israel.

At the same airport in June, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was hustled onto his plane when a police officer shot himself dead.

[craig-oxley]

Blair, His Catholic Assistant… And Their
New Yale Office Near Her Opus Dei Father’s Office

January 4th, 2009
http://cryptogon.com/?p=6023


Tony Blair, who has recently converted to Catholicism, is teaching classes on “Faith and Globalization” at Yale. Meanwhile, the former Nazi Youth member and Sith Lord look-a-like Pope just said that the financial crisis should be seen as a “test-case” about the future of globalization.

What do you guys make of this situation? I mean, do they all show up to the tomb for evening cocktails and to hang out with the Brotherhood of Death folks? You know, for a bit of interfaith fellowship and revelry?

I don’t specialize in the occult side of our… predicament, if you will, but there is an occult side to it. Besides this Tony-Blair-As-Catholic thing being one of the greatest piss takes of all time, I also find it both baffling and interesting.

Anyone who thinks that Tony Blair believes in Heaven and Hell and Jesus and the Trinity—and whatever else Catholics and Christians believe in—is a flat out dip shit. The question is: What does he actually believe? Does he simply think that religion is a convenient way of spreading the globalist mind virus? Or is there something more to it? And why has he now formally associated himself with the oldest mafia organization on the planet, the Catholic Church? Yeah, yeah, his wife is a Catholic, yeah, yeah. I know.

The whole thing about Ruth Turner, Blair’s assistant, who’s dad is a “former” member of Opus Dei and just happens to be “down the hall” (so to speak), at Yale University, from the former Prime Minister of Britain…

This makes Dan Brown seem like an anonymous foilhead over at ATS, or some similar venue.

Seriously, people, what gives?

Some of you know a great deal about religions and especially Illuminism and the Catholic church. If you have something to add, by all means, let it rip.

Via: Daily Mail:

Tony Blair is setting up an American office for his religious charity in a move that sheds new light on his close links with Ruth Turner, his controversial former Downing Street aide.

Ms Turner, 38, who was at the heart of the cash-for-honours inquiry in 2006 and 2007, was chosen by the former Prime Minister last spring to run his new Tony Blair Faith Foundation.

It has become a highly lucrative vehicle for the ex-premier, concentrating its activities at America’s Yale University, where Mr Blair teaches a course on ‘faith and globalisation’ – and where Ms Turner’s British-born father, Denys, is a theology professor.

Yale, which is one of America’s top three universities, has paid the foundation more than £127,000 since it appointed Mr Blair as its Howland Distinguished Fellow.

A recent posting on the foundation’s website announced that ‘a small team of staff’ will be based on the campus to ‘extend the [foundation’s] reach across North America’.

Yale maintains that Mr Blair’s post has nothing to do with Ms Turner’s father. But yesterday the university confirmed that the foundation’s office will be in the picturesque neo-Georgian divinity school complex, where Ms Turner’s father is based.

The foundation insists it wants to promote understanding between world religions. But The Mail on Sunday has been told that several of its key figures are Catholics.

Mr Blair converted to Catholicism in 2007 with his wife Cherie, a Catholic, as his sponsor. It is less well known that it is a faith he shares with Ms Turner and her father. Sources close to the Blairs say that Ms Turner was one of the figures in whom Mr Blair confided as he decided whether to convert to Catholicism.

Professor Turner is a prominent writer and scholar who once described himself as a ‘Marxist Catholic’. And intriguingly he is a former member of Opus Dei, a conservative Catholic lay organisation shrouded in mystery with rituals that include wearing a cilice – a spiked chain strapped around the thigh.

Author Dan Brown is accused of exaggerating its alleged secretive sadomasochistic practices in his best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code. According to Catholic magazine The Tablet, Professor Turner was a member of Opus Dei for eight years and faced threats that he would ‘lose his soul’ when he left.

The magazine said that Professor Turner believed Opus Dei ‘traded on the instinct which Catholics had for obedience, exercised a kind of mind control and cultivated a psychology of dependence’.

The article continued: ‘He des-cribes leaving as a catastrophic experience for him and was told he would lose his soul over it.’

Ms Turner accompanied Mr Blair to Yale last month for his seminars on faith and globalisation. And breaking her silence about her association with him for the first time, she contributed to an article about him in New York magazine.

Speaking warmly about Mr Blair’s devotion to the new charity, she declared: ‘You can make the case extremely convincingly for why religion is an absolutely terrible thing, and you’ll be right in every respect. Except for the fact that it’s not only like that and, anyway, it’s not going to go away.’

She disclosed that she is so close to him she can predict his choice of clothing when he visits his old haunts in the North-East of England. ‘Whenever he goes back, it’s fantastic,’ she said gushingly. ‘He wears a tracksuit all day.’

Ms Turner was born in Dublin in 1970 and spent her childhood moving between university towns as her father’s career took off. He was a professor of theology at Cambridge before his appointment at Yale.

She is a committed socialist and launched the Northern version of Big Issue magazine, where she earned a formidable reputation for using her charm to raise big sums of money from businesses. It was when she joined Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee in 2000 that she caught the eye of Mr Blair, who promptly recruited her to No 10. A former Downing St aide said: ‘Ruth is clever, sexy and has a sparkling personality. Everybody loved her at No 10. Underneath it all, she is very tough, but she has this delicate vulnerable look that makes you want to put your arm round her.’

Ms Turner worked 18-hour days at Downing Street, often reporting directly to Mr Blair.
He displayed fierce loyalty to her when she was arrested and quizzed by police in the cash-for-honours row, and took the unusual step of issuing a statement defending her. ‘Ruth is a person of the highest integrity for whom I have great regard and I continue to have complete confidence in her,’ he said.

After being cleared in the scandal, Ms Turner remained loyal to Mr Blair. When he left No 10 in 2007, she was top of the list of Downing Street staff he wanted to take with him.

Professor Turner told The Mail on Sunday that he had gone to great lengths to avoid any connection to Mr Blair’s activities at Yale. ‘I have been careful to be sure that my relationship with Ruth is kept entirely out of the way of her professional relationship with Tony Blair,’ he said.

Explaining why he left Opus Dei, Professor Turner said: ‘I moved in a pendulum-like way into a rather opposed position politically and eventually the pendulum settled down in the middle somewhere.

‘I am a Catholic, but I wouldn’t describe myself as a Marxist now. I’ve been through that phase and came out of it at the other end.’

A spokesman for Mr Blair said yesterday: ‘Professor Turner is a highly respected member of the [Yale] faculty but he had no role in establishing the partnership between Yale and the foundation.’

Asked about the foundation’s expansion plans and whether Catholicism played a role in it, his spokesman drew attention to an article on its website, which said: ‘As Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair was officially an Anglican. Unofficially, though, he was a practising Roman Catholic.’

It goes on to quote Mr Blair as saying: ‘My wife’s Catholic, my kids are brought up as Catholics, I’ve been going to mass for 25 years,’ and it comments: ‘In a way, Blair’s foundation is the culmination of his life as a double agent.’

[craig-oxley]

Blair to accept top US medal in Bush's last week in office

Stephen Bates
The Guardian, Tuesday 6 January 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/ja...lair-georgebush


Tony Blair in front of the American flag on November 27 2007. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Tony Blair is to receive the United States's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from his friend George Bush next Tuesday, at a White House ceremony during the latter's last week in office.

The medal, a five-pointed white star, was first introduced by President Harry Truman just after the second world war and later revived to reward eminent citizens for distinguished service in peacetime by president John F Kennedy.

Although among its previous 400 recipients there are American figures such as Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Bob Hope, Danny Kaye and Arnold Palmer, it has also been presented to every post-war president and to senior politicians and military men.

The medal is awarded "for especially meritorious contributions to security or the national interests of the United States, world peace or cultural or other significant public or private endeavours". It was not immediately clear last night under which heading the former prime minister had qualified. He is only the second British prime minister to receive the award, following Margaret Thatcher in 1991, though other recipients have included Lord Carrington, the former foreign secretary, and Lord Robertson, former defence secretary and secretary general of Nato.

Blair will find himself among others he will recognise. Donald Rumsfeld received the medal in 1977 for his original period in administration service; vice-president Dick Cheney got his in 1991; and President Bush has previously awarded other prominent figures involved in the Iraq campaign - Paul Bremer, the US's former director in Baghdad, General Tommy Franks, and George Tenet, former director of the CIA.

Blair was previously also awarded the US's other highest civilian honour, the Congressional Gold Medal, in 2003, for his support of the US invasion of Iraq, though he has never collected it.

He will receive next week's award alongside John Howard, the former Australian prime minister, and Álvaro Uribe, the president of Colombia. A White House spokeswoman said the three were being honoured by the president "for their efforts to promote democracy, human rights and peace abroad".

The award was criticised by the Lib Dems, but Blair's spokesman said he regarded the medal as reflecting the courage of the British armed forces.

[craig-oxley]

Blair awarded top medal by Bush



Tuesday, 13 January 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_n...ics/7827020.stm


Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has received the United States' highest civil award - the Medal of Freedom.

A week before he leaves office, President George W Bush bestowed the honour on Mr Blair for his work to "improve the lives of citizens".

The president praised Mr Blair and thanked him for his "staunch" support for the US after the attacks of 9/11.

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and former Australian PM John Howard also received the award.

Mr Blair's spokesman said the medal was a "great honour".

'Special relationship'

The former prime minister and Mr Bush were seen as close allies, particularly over the war in Iraq, until Mr Blair left office last year.

Making the award, Mr Bush described Mr Blair as his "staunch friend" and thanked him for his public support for "freedom and liberty" in the immediate aftermath of the 11 September, 2001 attacks.

"I knew that when either of us gets in a bind, there will be a friend on the other end of the phone," he said.

"My friend was there indeed when America was attacked on 11 September.

"He was there in a moment of trial to affirm the special relationship between the US and UK and he was there to show America and all nations that he understood the stakes on the war on terror."

Before he received the award, Mr Blair dedicated it to "the true courage of the men and women of the British armed forces who have safeguarded freedom, democracy and human rights around the globe, thanks to their heroic service and sacrifice".

Established in 1963, the Medal of Freedom is the highest civil award in the US. President Bush has handed out 78 during his eight years in power.

It has been reported that Mr Blair may also use the Washington visit to collect his long-delayed Congressional Gold Medal of Honour, which was awarded to him in 2003 .

[craig-oxley]

More than he could ever earn as Prime Minister and with less hassle. -Craig

Tony Blair earns £12m since leaving Downing Street

Telegraph.co.uk – January 31, 2009
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/3276585/Tony-Blair-earns-12m-since-leaving-Downing-Street.html


The former Prime Minister travels around the world on speaking engagements, and can command up to $250,000 (£157,000) for a 90 minute speech. He works exclusively through the blue-chip Washington Speakers Bureau.

Mr Blair has made £4.6 million from his memoirs, around £2 million from his role with investment bank JP Morgan, £500,000 from Zurich Financial Services asw ell as £84,000 of taxpayers money to run a private office and an annual pension of £63,468.

He has earned more money from speeches than Bill Clinton, the former US president, did in his first year after leaving office, The Times reported.

The paper said there is fear at the United Nations that Mr Blair's focus on commercial interests is jeopardising his unpaif role as Middle East envoy.

Such is the demand for Mr Blair, that he has a two-year waiting list for bookings, with clients prepared to pay $250,000 (£157,000) for a typical speech of roughly 90 minutes.

"He is one of the biggest stars in the world. Who else is there?" said Max Markson, the public relations organiser who has taken Mr Clinton, Cherie Blair and Nelson Mandela to Australia.

Mr Blair has become a particular favourite with the Washington-based Carlyle Group. Next month he will address a conference of its European investors in Paris about "geopolitics". He addressed a similar conference for Carlyle in Dubai in February.

Carlyle Group is a leading private equity investor in the military. Its board has been graced by both Presidents Bush and its former European chairman was Sir John Major.