Lord Mandelson, Prince of Darkness, returns from EU grave

[TonyGosling]

More reward for fraud at the top.
Mandelson, of course, is a high priest of the laissez faire, free market capitalism which has so spectacularly failed. Yet no news media put this point to either him or the public.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7651134.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7465325.stm
"Suprised but proud"
As if this was a bombshell for him. The very first sentence he utters before he even takes up a new job is a lie.
Peter Mandelson is a close personal friend of Lord Rothschild

Guardian slavishly adherant to the Rothschild Doctrine
Mandelson's return: this is a bold and shrewd move
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/oct/03/mandelson.labour1

[acrobat74]

[Linda]

Once Twice Three times a Mandy. Will he resign a third time? How Low can this Labour government sink? And Margaret Becket, will she be touring in her caravan?

[TonyGosling]

The very faction Mandelson represents.

[TonyGosling]

OMG what a disaster for the nation - if the lowest of the low can become a peer hope is draining away - luckily nobody will give two hoots for Lord Mandy's weasel opinions

The day the House of Lords died of shame
While Gordon was going through his 'we shall fight them in the hedge funds' routine, stage left his new best friend was slithering into the House of Lords.
On any normal Monday, the elevation to the peerage of the obnoxious Peter Mandelson would be dominating every newscast.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1077335/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-The y-day-House-Lords-died-shame.html

[wepmob2000]

Mandelson is a perfect example of a political confidence trickster at work. Have met the guy many times when he was our local MP, he only lived round a couple of streets away, used to 'bump' into him at the local corner shop quite often. Going by talking to him first hand you would swear he was one of the nicest people you'd ever met, my old mother still thinks he's the greatest politician ever.

Just shows how these people work....

[Linda]

Yuck pass the sick bag, Mandelson makes me want to vomit. He looks like SATAN getting ready to deliver xmas presents.

[TonyGosling]

Here here!
And here he is today exposed as in bed with Berezovsky gangster-oligarchs of the world.
Everybody in the press dislikes him and nobody trusts him.
In a way it's a positive sign to see just how thin on the ground shysters like him are and how utterly desperate the NWO must be to roll this loser out again. Unless the idea is to entirely poison the Labour brand........

[mr nice]

The times reported this slightly differently and included some interesting info regarding Deripaska and Mr Mandelson's relationship to the Rothschild family.






http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4926572.ece

[Cromwell]

Sir, Since your paper - along with your sister publication The Sunday Times - has made much out of what may or may not have happened at a private gathering of my friends this summer in Corfu, I thought I should make the following observations. I am surprised that you focus on the fact that one of my guests, Peter Mandelson, is a friend of another, Oleg Deripaska. Not once in the acres of coverage did you mention that George Osborne, who also accepted my hospitality, found the opportunity of meeting with Mr Deripaska so good that he invited the Conservatives’ fundraiser Andrew Feldman, who was staying nearby, to accompany him on to Mr Deripaska’s boat to solicit a donation. Since Mr Deripaska is not a British citizen, it was suggested by Mr Feldman, in a subsequent conversation at which Mr Deripaska was not present, that the donation was “channelled” through one of Mr Deripaska’s British companies. Mr Deripaska declined to make any donation. I mention this because it turns out that your obsession with Mr Mandelson is trivial in light of Mr Osborne’s actions. I also think it ill behoves all political parties to try and make capital at the expense of another in such circumstances. Perhaps in future it would be better if all involved accepted the age-old adage that private parties are just that.

NATHANIEL ROTHSCHILD Klosters, Switzerland


[An earlier draft of this letter was briefly published on Times Online. It was subsequently amended by Mr Rothschild for clarity.]


QUOTE
“The allegations made in Mr Rothschild’s letter are completely untrue. Both Andrew Feldman and George Osborne deny absolutely that they attempted to solicit a donation from Oleg Deripaska. Nor did they suggest a method by which he could conceal a donation via a British company. They spent a short period of time on Mr Deripaska’s boat at the invitation of Mr Rothschild. Donations to the Conservative Party were not discussed with Mr Deripaska. In a conversation on September 18, Mr Rothschild suggested to Andrew Feldman that Mr Deripaska wanted to make a donation to the party through one of his British companies. The offer was not taken up. For clarity - the Conservative Party has neither sought or received any donations from Mr Deripaska nor any of his companies.”

Conservative Party statement

[mr nice]

Cheers for that Cromwell!
Further to the article I posted a link to above,here is the article from the sunday times that is referred to In the snotty letter from Nat R'child..
The secret world of Lord Freebie (nice )
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4969452.ece

I saw this in the print version of the sunday times and find it encouraging that they are seemingly doing their job of keeping tabs on this snake in the grass and his high level contacts/management (delete as appropriate )

[Cromwell]

Yes very interesting.

Seperating the he said she said I guess the press will not be allowed to ask the $64,000 question why were these people there and why was Mandy staying there ?

Something going on here for Nat to go public for such a small fry we will not know what is going on.

They are all bIldereberg chums and Nat was in the same club as Osborne.

Mandy to ursurp Brown ?

The real test for a politician is would you let them babysit your children?

[TonyGosling]

For Mandelson read Rothschild

Ho ho ho! A Bullingdon Club fallout after Osbourne's 'moment of honesty' makes international news.

Nat. Rothschild, son of Britain's Jacob Rothschild who lives in the Vale of Pewsey near Avebury, swoops into the fray. He can't bear to see Mandelson, his protégé spawn, exposed as an Aluminium tariff 'fixer' for his Oligarch mate Oleg Deripaska by Osbourne.


Oleg Deripaska

The attack on Osbourne is a non-story since Osbourne may have been offered a donation but turned it down, an incredible 'storm in a teacup'.

Between the lines of this story is the fact that when a Rothschild says jump, the British media, particularly the BBC, says 'How high?'.
Tebbit jumping in with his idiotic quote bout dogs and fleas also indicates he's a Rothschild pawn.

The real story is the entrapment strategies of the Rothschilds, sordid use of super-rich Russian Oligarchs, their absolute anonymity, and what happens when you break the Rothschilds' 'Chatham House rules'.

[illeagalhunter]

The Rev Ian Paisley refused to speak to Mandy because he "was a sodomite "

[TonyGosling]

This Mandelson character is even closer to the top than Blair


Mandelson, Osborne, and ... McCain? The Republican nominee has his own ties to Oleg Deripaska
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2008/oct/24/uselections200 8-johnmccain

Mandelson faces new tycoon claims
The Queen K
Controversy surrounds what was said on Mr Deripaska's yacht the Queen K
Lord Mandelson's contacts with the Russian tycoon at the heart of the Corfu yacht row date back earlier than previously acknowledged, reports say.
The Guardian says he met Oleg Deripaska in 2004, shortly before he began work as EU trade commissioner.
EU officials previously said the two had met socially in 2006 and 2007.
A spokesman for Lord Mandelson said his contacts with Mr Deripaska had been "well rehearsed" and he was focusing on his new job of business secretary....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7688502.stm

http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb01?_MANDELSON_PETER_
http://www.namebase.org/cgi-bin/nb06?_MANDELSON_PETER_
http://www.namebase.org/sources/fC.html

[TonyGosling]

The Bullingdon Club of 1992: pictured are (1) George Osborne, (2) Harry Mount, (3) Chris Coleridge, (4) Lupus von Maltzahn, (5) Mark Petre (6) Peter Holmes a Court, (7) Nat Rothschild, ( Jason Gissing


Cast list of The Corfu Connection reads like an Agatha Christie novel. Now enter Hercule Poirot
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1080087/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-The -cast-list-The-Corfu-Connection-reads-like-Agatha-Christie-novel-Now-e nter-Hercule-Poirot--.html

Worth a whole new thread on this nest of vipers, The Bullingdon Club.

[gruts]

this is an amazing story. I wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/georg eosborne/3259441/Art-politics-and-money-Peter-Mandelson-and-Nat-Rothsc hilds-long-lasting-friendship.html

Art, politics and money: Peter Mandelson and Nat Rothschild's long-lasting friendship

Louise Armitstead, Deputy City Editor
Last Updated: 8:28PM BST 25 Oct 2008

Stepping on the yacht in Corfu for the now-notorious drinks party, George Osborne failed to notice the intricate bond that united his fellow holiday-makers.

Rather than the eclectic group of rich at play, the Shadow Chancellor was unwittingly made privy to a closely guarded relationship between Mandelson and the Rothschild family that spanned nearly two decades. During this time, their business and personal lives had become entwined many times including, on this occasion, with their mutual friend the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, and had forged a far stronger bond than Osborne could claim with his university chum and host, Nathaniel Rothschild.

Mandelson was first introduced to Lord (Jacob) Rothschild over 15 years ago when he was just gaining influence as an architect of the emerging New Labour. As an important patron of the arts, Rothschild already had plenty of contacts across the political parties. As well as being chairman of the National Gallery and the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Rothschild was put in charge of distributing the proceeds of the National Lottery to the heritage sector, an influential post which oversaw the distribution of £1.2 billion.

At the time, Rothchild’s only son Nat, was struggling. After Eton and Oxford, where he’d been a member of the Bullingdon Club with Osborne, Nat decided to travel. He met model and socialite Annabelle Neilson on a beach in India and eloped to Las Vegas to marry. In the mid-1990s, Rothschild appeared in New York, apparently recovering from drug addition.

Friends ensured he was invited to all the parties but the ‘set’ remember him as a loner who sat in the corner who was “not at all Rothschild.”

But within a few years this had changed. Nat had not only developed his own financial career but had also struck up many contacts with the new breed of Russian oligarchs with his father.

Nat also met David Slager, a financial genius, with whom he helped set up the hedge fund Atticus Capital: Nat used his charm to secure money from investors which Slager then managed. It proved a winning formula, catapulting Atticus into one of the most powerful funds in the world and Nat into new riches.

Throughout this time a firm bond was formed between Nat and Mandelson, to whom had been introduced by Lady Rothschild in the early 1990s.

The politician, the arts patron and hedge fund manager have remained firm friend for years, united by ambition, a gift for networking and a passion for rich and famous people.

It was into this circle that Osborne was invited in Corfu in the summer – and to which his mind turned back when seeking political gain weeks later. Mandelson’s triumphant return to the Government as Business Secretary grated with Osborne who was under attack for his low-profile during the financial crisis: tipping off a newspaper about Mandelson’s friendship with Deripaska seemed the perfect way to steal his thunder.

The ferocity with which Nat came out with a counter-attack on Osborne shocked his former Oxford friend as much as it baffled everyone else.

Speculation raged that Nat’s finances were under pressure. With the Russian stock market collapse, some of the oligarchs whom Nat advised were struggling financially while Atticus was also performing badly. Rumours had been swirling in the markets that the fund, which is down 45% this year, was close to collapse because Nat’s Russian contacts were brutally withdrawing their money. But Atticus has said that it does not rely on Russian investors and is not threatened by redemptions but rather has distanced itself from its co-chairman.

Instead, the attention has reverted to Mandelson’s relationship with Deripaska. A focus has been Mandelson’s decision to remove a punitive 14.9 per cent import tariff on aluminium foil damaging Deripaska’s aluminium company Rusal. As EU Trade Commissioner he signed off a deal in December 2005 to remove it. He has always maintained that he made no intervention on behalf of Deripaska

Earlier this month, Mandelson’s spokesman said Deripaska had met Mandelson in 2006 and 2007, well after these decisions. But yesterday Mr Mandelson said he had in fact met him before.

Now there is speculation among Mandelson’s opponents that the aluminium tariffs is a smoke screen hiding other bigger controversies. Chief of these is a complex court case over the disputed sale of Russia’s second biggest insurance firm, Ingosstrakh. Mandelson’s office became involved via MEPs who were supporting EU shareholders who blamed Deripaska when the value of their stake in Ingosstrakh was reduced.

Mandelson’s spokesperson has strongly denied anything irregular in the case but it remains the case that the Tories were about to put down Parliamentary questions on the matter when Osborne’s involvement in the Corfu drama broke.

With his third political life under threat almost as soon as it had begun, insiders say Mandelson turned to Nat, the man responsible for Osborne’s presence in Corfu in the first place.

[acrobat74]

Good piece.

The world is a business. Anything else is for the naive.


Link

[TonyGosling]

Ho ho ho,
Watch out Mr Rothschild!

Ireland seizes 500 million euro of cocaine on yacht
Thu Nov 6, 2008 8:29pm GMT

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish authorities have seized what they believe is cocaine with a street value of about 500 million euros (413 million pounds) on a yacht off the southwest coast of Ireland, the army and police said on Thursday.



Irish navy and police, with British and international assistance, found the suspect packages on a 60-foot yacht, Ireland's Defence Forces said.

"Three males between the ages of 44 and 52 are currently in Garda (police) custody," it said in a statement.

The drug haul appeared to exceed last year's record 440 million euro seizure in County Cork, public broadcaster RTE said.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKTRE4A58DF20081106

[Pikey]

David telling us how it is:-

[QuitTheirClogs]

[TonyGosling]

Lord Mandelson is desperately trying to crank up pressure on left-wing Labour MPs to support his plans for the part-privatisation of Royal Mail.

His latest weapon is a leaked letter from the chairman of the trustees of Royal Mail's pension fund, briefed out by officials at the Business department last night.

In the letter to Lord Mandelson, the chairman Jane Newall warns of "devastating consequences" if the Government does not take on responsibility for the fund. (The Goverment taking on direct responsibility for the £7billion deficit is part of the deal to sell a minority stake in Royal Mail to a foreign competitor like TNT) .

Yet experts are questioning why Miss Newall has agreed to write a such a nakedly political letter now. It could have been written at any point in the past few years.

The timing, ahead of the publication of the part-privatisation plans on Thursday, cannot be accidental.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/christopher_hope/blog/2009/02/24/lord_man delsons_latest_weapon_in_the_battle_to_partprivatise_royal_mail

[TonyGosling]

Art, politics and money: Peter Mandelson and Nat Rothschild's long-lasting friendship
Stepping on the yacht in Corfu for the now-notorious drinks party, George Osborne failed to notice the intricate bond that united his fellow holiday-makers.

..........Throughout this time a firm bond was formed between Nat and Mandelson, to whom had been introduced by Lady Rothschild in the early 1990s.
The politician, the arts patron and hedge fund manager have remained firm friend for years, united by ambition, a gift for networking and a passion for rich and famous people.
It was into this circle that Osborne was invited in Corfu in the summer – and to which his mind turned back when seeking political gain weeks later. Mandelson’s triumphant return to the Government as Business Secretary grated with Osborne who was under attack for his low-profile during the financial crisis: tipping off a newspaper about Mandelson’s friendship with Deripaska seemed the perfect way to steal his thunder.
The ferocity with which Nat came out with a counter-attack on Osborne shocked his former Oxford friend as much as it baffled everyone else.
Speculation raged that Nat’s finances were under pressure. With the Russian stock market collapse, some of the oligarchs whom Nat advised were struggling financially while Atticus was also performing badly. Rumours had been swirling in the markets that the fund, which is down 45% this year, was close to collapse because Nat’s Russian contacts were brutally withdrawing their money. But Atticus has said that it does not rely on Russian investors and is not threatened by redemptions but rather has distanced itself from its co-chairman.
Instead, the attention has reverted to Mandelson’s relationship with Deripaska. A focus has been Mandelson’s decision to remove a punitive 14.9 per cent import tariff on aluminium foil damaging Deripaska’s aluminium company Rusal. As EU Trade Commissioner he signed off a deal in December 2005 to remove it. He has always maintained that he made no intervention on behalf of Deripaska
Earlier this month, Mandelson’s spokesman said Deripaska had met Mandelson in 2006 and 2007, well after these decisions. But yesterday Mr Mandelson said he had in fact met him before.......

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/conservative/georg eosborne/3259441/Art-politics-and-money-Peter-Mandelson-and-Nat-Rothsc hilds-long-lasting-friendship.html

[TonyGosling]

British minister pushes Iraq investment amid bombs
British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson urged British firms on Monday to invest in Iraq, saying a spate of bombings in the Iraqi capital that killed 34 people did not belie the country's recent security gains.


Nice handshake brethren

Accompanying what he said was the first group of British businessmen to visit Iraq in 20 years, the minister said Iraq had laid out a large welcome mat on its doorstep.
"This delegation marks the fact that Iraq has turned from a place of conflict to a land of opportunity," Mandelson said after meeting Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other officials.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL672796720090406

[TonyGosling]

[TonyGosling]

Deripaska gets 'dressing down' by Putin




Prime Minister’s personal handling of the business conflict in the town of Pikalevo has set a precedent in the public dressing-down of the country’s top businessmen for neglecting their social responsibility.

Interestingly, one of the people receiving the dressing-down was one of Russia’s most famous businessmen, Oleg Deripaska, who used to be the richest man in the country until the global financial crisis left him heavily in debt. The high-point of the show was Putin virtually arm-twisting him into signing a contract, which was needed for the troubled factory to start working again. During the meeting, chaired by Putin, Deripaska was obviously unnerved, with cameras catching his every move and facial expression. Never before has a person of his caliber been publicly humiliated this way in modern Russia.

The experts are now confused over what this may mean. Was it the government’s signal to big business that they are not allowed to put their economic interests before social considerations? Will workers of the many troubled companies throughout Russia now be encouraged to take to the streets, expecting Putin to personally micromanage every labor conflict in the country? The situation resembles that of Dmitry Medvedev’s personal blog, which people now use, with a moderate degree of success, to report on injustices and the faults of local authorities.

Vladimir Putin is well known for his heavy temper and the ability to lash out with his angry words. However, previously his involvement in conflicts between business-owners hasn’t become public news, with all the hard talking done behind closed doors.

Lately this has changed. Among the latest examples of the economic stand-offs solved by the prime minister – in the style of Alexander the Great dissecting the Gordian knot, and with painful consequences to the people involved – are the price-fixing scandal with aircraft fuel and the case of Mechel last year..................

http://russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-06-06/Top_businessmen_not_immune_ to_Putin_s_wrath.html

[Contrarian]

I must admit this puzzles me as I had Putin down as a fake patriot secretly in tow with the Oligarchs. The ties being Freemasonry.

Convincing performance though.

Stalin was another enigma. Bolshevism/communism was the most brutal and vengeful operation of the 20th century and entirely a Jewish production, yet here we have a despot whose name translates Joseph David Jew's Son who had 3 Jewish wives actually turning on and executing Jews in power in the Soviet Union. Eventually they had him poisoned

Come to think of it Hitler is another enigma. Financed by Jews and US MIC. Without him there would be no Israel.

Then you have to think about Jewish-controlled USA turning away shiploads of Jews around time of WW2.

Obviously the crime of 'Holocaust Denial' has been created for a reason.

There is a history where all this makes sense. There must be a single unifying truth. No-one has unravelled it all yet

[Contrarian]

[Contrarian]

[TonyGosling]

Isn't that the entire point?
Just like George Bush.
Future pawns.