The IAAF Olympics Committee is worse than Adolf Hitler

Follow @JohnPlatinumG At the time of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow for political reasons, purportedly over the USSR's involvement in Afghanistan, Margaret Thatcher urged athletes not to compete in the Moscow Olympics and supporters to boycott the Games. One of the athletes who defied this advice was Sebastian Coe, who won a gold medal in the 1500 metres. I defied the advice too and went to Moscow where I was treated extremely well. Thatcher did not ban athletes from competing, she just advised them not to go.

The same Sebastian Coe who defied Thatcher has now, as President of the IAAF, spoiled the dreams of athletes, who like him in 1980, have been training for life for this opportunity. It is clearly a political decision and has nothing to do with the few athletes of all nations who choose to cheat by using performance-enhancing drugs. Sadly politics has ruined sport and sportsmanship as I demonstrated in my last post.

Ever since the west set up a puppet-government in Ukraine and imposed sanctions against Russia for following the wishes of the population of Crimea and its alleged military involvement in the civil-war started by Poroshenko, the west has not missed an opportunity to try to punish Russia. Blame Russia. Blame Putin. These are the slogans on the lips of every MSM mouthpiece.

It disturbs me that my country, and other western countries, have gone down the same road as Adolf Hitler in his attitude towads black and non-Aryan people including non-Aryan athletes. Thankfully Hitler was put in his place and Jesse Owens returned to the US with four gold medals only to be snubbed by President Roosevelt. Racism against blacks was the bigotry of the day replaced today by persecution of Muslims. The west in its xenophobic hatred of Russians is no different from Hitler in his belief that Aryans were superior, except he did not ban Jesse Owens from competing.

Sebastian Coe, no angel himself and in the middle of several corruption scandals, should be ashamed of himself for toadying to the US/UK attempts to discredit Russia. The US economy is on its last legs and this is a cynical diversionary tactic. As a lad I used to run, I was never any good, at the various clubs in the West Riding including Hallamshire (where Coe ran). Coe should think back to those days and all the work he put in building up the speed and stamina that made his dream come true. Then he should consider what this stupid decision of the IAAF has done to crush the dreams of good honest Russian athletes. Nobody from Russia will compete under any flag but Russian.

Can somebody with the knowledge please start a petition to support Russian athletes? I'll link it here and spread it. Thanks.

Torture is in fashion

Follow @JohnPlatinumG At a time when the tortured chickens of UN and CIA rendition are coming home to roost Gulnara Karimova flaunts herself as a dedicated follower of fashion and yoga exponent. She is also described as a diplomat, executing the duties of a UN envoy, a screenwriter, oh, and a jewellery designer. Keeping active is an important feature in the life of a dictator's daughter. She has always been conscious about her image even though two years back she was described, thanks to Wikileaks cables, as the most despised woman in Uzbekistan.

Her father is the notorious Islam Karimov, who has pretty well set himself up as permanent president of Uzbekistan and all the speculation suggests she is most likely to follow in his footsteps if he retires, being labelled in one Russian blog as the Mafia Princess. Karimov became president in 1990 and has no opposition, since serious opponents tend to disappear without trace. He is friends with US power-mongers and feels as comfortable in the presence of George W. Bush as Hilary Clinton appears in Karimov's company.


Photo courtesy of Dominic Streatfeild's, A History of the World since 9/11, published in February 2011 (UK) by Atlantic Books, August 2011 (US) by Bloomsbury Press.

The issue of torture in Uzbekistan was raised by Craig Murray when he was ambassador there but because of our transatlantic allegiance it was thought better to get rid of Murray than bring Karimov to international justice. Karimov's human rights record is even worse than that of the United States. As well as the disappearances of his opponents he has been criticised for his regime's widespread use of torture and the exploitation of children in the cotton fields.

Yesterday, both in Strasbourg and the UK, two torture victims were compensated for their ordeals.£2.2 million pounds of taxpayers money was paid in compensation to Libyan dissident, Sami al Saadi, for being illegally rendered back to Libya to face torture under the Gadaffi regime when Tony Blair was still friends with Gadaffi, while from Germany, Khaled el Masri, was rendered by the CIA to Macedonia where in front of Macedonian police, who witnessed the scene, CIA operatives buggered, shackled and beat him. The European Court of Human Rights ordered Macedonia to pay him €60,000 (£49,000) in compensation and requested that the US must apologise and make a voluntary contribution to Mr el Masri. Anybody see a connection that two cases are concluded at the same time? It is not a coincidence. The vast sums are paid to keep names like Jack Straw, and his culpability, off the record. It is hush money!

Today I co-wrote with editorial input an article concerned with Sweden's rendition programme at the behest of the CIA, concentrating mainly on the cases of Ahmed Agiza and Muhammad al Zery, who were extradited to Egypt where they were both imprisoned and tortured. In both cases the men were paid compensation of 3 million Kronors. Mr. Agiza spent 10 years in prison. We have British citizens, Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan, for whom this blog tried to prevent extradition, suffering in US supermax prisons because Theresa May extradited them to the US even though they had already spent unreasonable times in UK prisons without even being charged. They have done nothing wrong but in the US 98% of prisoners confess in plea bargains just to get a shorter sentence because of the harshness of conditions. It too is torture.

Back to Gulnara Karimov and her repressive regime backed by the US and UK. Thankfully not everybody is as complacent as the UK and US governments in seeking to end this human rights abuse. While Gulnara has been posting pictures of herself in suggestive Yoga postures on Twitter, and telling the world how she does not eat meat, only chicken and fish, Andrew Stroehlein has been questioning her country's record, as Uzbekistan's envoy to the UN, on torture, the Andijan massacre of April 2005, child labour, lack of freedom of expression and a whole host of other serious abuses that are not going to go away. So perhaps when she's meditating after her next Yoga session, she can meditate on some of those issues.

Breaking news on McCormac culpability

Follow @JohnPlatinumG Satire is something that Americans are not so sure about and transatlantic humour is pretty much a hit and miss affair. So I hope my friends in the US are able to separate the satire from the obvious truth of this video. It features Billy McCormac, a PR consultant and advisor to Sweden's Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, and Karl Rove who also advised Reinfeldt but is more famous for rigging George W. Bush's election 'victory'. Without this man we might not have had the war in Iraq and all the other post Bush wars. Karl Rove is the personification of evil. Even today an innocent former governor of Alabama, Don Siegelman, is in prison because Rove, through his former wife's contacts in the US judiciary, got him incarcerated by a 'bent' judge.

I am proud of the research that went into this cartoon. Billy McCormac is quite well-known in Sweden where he has lived since 1995. Nothing was known about him prior to his arrival in Sweden. He is now an executive of Prime PR. This set me thinking. CIA? Something to hide? Shame? All these? What? One thing was certain from the start. He knows all the right people and is probably Sweden's main political commentator on US politics. As well as being an advisor to Reinfeldt he was a senior consultant in a former PR company JKL, the blog of which which closed in 2006. There is a photo of him with Karl Rove and Fredrik Andersson and it is almost certain that he was instrumental in arranging introductions for Rove when Rove went over to Sweden to give Reinfeldt his electorial expertise. While vote-rigging is thought to be the domain of dictatorships in less developed countries Rove rigged the election which got George W. Bush illegally to power. It was the biggest crime of the new century.

What puzzled me was McCormac's ancestry. There appeared to be nothing about his life in the USA.It was not until I discovered that there was a Billy Murray McCormac, a nuclear scientist who died in 1999, and who had left children, one called Billy McCormac II, that things began to make sense. With further checking I discovered that a Billy McCormac II had made donations to the Democratic National Services Corporation, one of $1000 in 2009 and another also $1000 this year. You need to type his name into the appropriate box. This facility no longer works for me. However I photographed the link with stem details before it went down.

I therefore suggest that the reason there is no history for the Prime PR executive is because his father was responsible for creating the massive hole in the ozone layer that sits over Australia and the Pacific with his upper atmosphere nuclear tests in 1962. This was the biggest crime of the old century. It might be noticed that testing took place as far away from the US as geographically possible. What it is the US, and the McCormacs, have against Australia I really don't know. Billy McCormac senior left them with no protection from the sun's deadly rays. Billy McCormac junior is trying to get the best export Australia has given us in decades banged up in a US Supermax prison for exposing US war and torture crimes. And still the Aussies kiss the arse of Uncle Sam. Some things are inexplicable.

Replacing the Stars and Stripes

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Cycling through New Zealand is quite an experience and the people are lovely. In late 1999 I flew to this antipodean paradise, reassembled my bike, and pedalled the north (and half of the south) islands of this exotic wonderland. I remember from the start being impressed by the flora – plants we do not have over here, like the flowering Christmas tree, cabbage trees and any number of subtropical specimens I could not identify. Auckland was the first city on my itinerary and bore some kind of resemblance to how I imagined a large north American town of the fifties might have looked. In truth I was looking for somewhere to settle where the drums of war were not being bashed in my ears.

New Zealand, unlike other developed and so-called civilized economies, has not rushed arbitrarily into war on any concocted pretext. In fact most of its involvement since the Second World War has been in helping with restructuring in war-torn countries. It has a nuclear-free policy and gives a lot of aid to developing countries. It has bought very little, if any, of the US national debt and drifted away from ANZAS loyalty to the US over the Vietnam War. That was one of the things I liked about it.That, and the fact that they love their sport.

Despite becoming more US orientated over the last few years New Zealand's peaceful legacy lives on. This week it manifested itself in some of the more reasonable and responsible residents, mostly from Occupy, showing disgust again at US support for Israel in its bombardment of, and embargoes against, Palestine. As Craig Murray noted yesterday, a reporter in Ashkelon, was standing on what had been Arab soil for 4,000 years before the 12,000 inhabitants were massacred and driven out by Israel in 1948. So these bold New Zealanders lowered the Stars and Stripes at the US embassy in Auckland and raised the Palestinian flag. Well done you Kiwis. Well done!

Another war pending

Follow @JohnPlatinumG Julie Pace in The Huff Post writes: "In a letter to Congress Monday, Obama said the tougher sanctions are warranted "particularly in light of the deceptive practices of the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks." One of four countries in the world without a Rothschild-owned central bank is Iran. What Obama really means is that 'we' cannot control Iran's money supply.

This is what a Nathan Rothschild said about my country in the nineteenth century:

'I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England's empire. The man who controls Britain's money supply, controls the British. And I control the money supply.'

I have resigned myself to the fact that the United States is going to war with Iran. I wish my country would not get involved but fear it will. Sanctions are already being imposed by William Hague and as everyone knows, that is the first stage in waging war on oil-rich countries. Our (US and UK) governments over the last twenty years have had little regard for international law and the fact that Russia and China used their UN veto will have no consequence on the actions of these nation states any more than the League of Nations could control the actions of Japan's occupation of Manchuria (following the Muckden Incident, 1931), Mussolini's Italian excursion into Ethiopia in 1935 or Hitler's German ambitions in the Sudetenland in 1939. Eventually the world passed judgment on these aggressors.

A further confirmation that Israel, the US and the UK are planning war is the removal of staff from the US embassy in Syria. A fleet of warships is already in the area awaiting commands. Aggression never pays in the long term. Today it is the US, UK and Israel who are the aggressors. And they think they are invincible. Judgement day is coming for all. Let this cup pass.