Friday 1 May 2009

KHOODEELAAR! telling Boris J and Simon Jenkins and assorted Crossrail touts: CROSSRAIL is crass. Wasteful and debts-causer...

khoodeelaar! ADVISING Simon Jenkins at 1612GMT1May2009: Publish the details of the expressions on Boris J face when Crossrail is mentioned! Evidence!
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 1610GMT1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! will publish an updated & detailed analysis of all touts & stooges still peddling CRASS rail
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khoodeelaar! pointing out at 1608GMT1May2009: All blogs allegedly referring to Jenkins call to Boris, are either Boris allies or residual time servers
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khoodeelaar! pointing out 1605GMT1May2009: All 'posts' pro-Crossrail on ES website and on Guardian site re S Jenkins, are empty. No evidence. Touting
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khoodeelaar! pointing out at1604GMT1May9:KHOODEELAAR! has been TELLING London EVENING STANDARD over 5 years: Crossrail is CRASS!
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khoodeelaar! pointing out at1604GMT1May9:Truth on S Jenkins call to Boris to 'Kill Crossrail' is: Jenkins should have said it YEARS earlier
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khoodeelaarpointing out at 1558 Hrs GMT 1May9: ALL the internet comments allegedly critical of S. Jenkins, have FAILED to show evidence for Crossrail
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khoodeelaarupdating at 1554 Hrs GMT 1May9: KHOODEELAAR! analysis of web posts by pro-CROSSRAIL touts replying to Simon Jenkins: they are wrong again
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khoodeelaarpointing out at 1554 Hrs GMT 1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! commentary and analysis of UK economy worth £Billions of AVOIDED losses, wastes...
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khoodeelaarupdating at 1550 Hrs GMT 1May2009 evidence of KHOODEELAAR! having given unique accurate advice on UK economy over 5 years.. More follows
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khoodeelaar! inviting ALL those who have taken part in KHOODEELAAR! campaign against “Crossrail hole scam agenda” in the past 5 years and 4 months...
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khoodeelaarconfirming at 0758GMTFRi1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! setting up a campaign meeting on Crossrail and related issues in next one week..Details >>>
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 0756GMT Fri1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! action against Crossrail agenda will include the Q: Must Tower Hamlets behave so poorly?
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 0755GMT Fri1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! action against Crossrail agenda will include focus on low standard of T Hamlets Council
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khoodeelaar! announcing the NEW programme of action against Crossrail hole agenda and in defence of the community in the East End of London..shortly
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khoodeelaar! at 0748GMT1May2009: KHOODEELAAR! spoke to TH Council chief exe office this morning summarizing the latest demands RE Crossrail
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khoodeelaarconfirming at 0745GMT1May2009 that 17DEc2008, TH Council allowed Marc Francis to stand up in full Council, LOUDLY BACKING CROSSRAIL,
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 0740GMT1May2009 latest legal email blocked by Crossrail hole-inviter TH Council concerns Council's pack of lies dated 8April
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 0732GMT Fri1May9 KHOODEELAAR! has begun to alert local constituency MP on this violation by Crossrail scam-inviter clique
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 0730GMT Fri1May2009 that KHOODEELAAR! legal communication to T Hamlets Council about Crossrail is being blocked by Council
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khoodeelaar! Observing the entire 7 days starting today Friday 1 May 2009 as moment to remember the dedication and selflessness of all campaigners
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 0048GMTFri1May2009: a new summary of the KHOODEELAAR! movement is due to be accessible on povertyuk.wordpress.com
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khoodeelaar! Noting [2] at 2328GMT30Apr2009: Same Guardian website has over 1000 alleged words of same Simon Jenkins praising the same Boris J
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khoodeelaar! Noting at 2325GMT30Apr9: London Guardian website has 26 alleged words by Simon Jenkins criticising Boris J for not killing off Crossrail
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khoodeelaar! confirming at 1626GMT30Apr2009: Khoodeelaar! item by item comment here soon on Simon Jenkins echoing our call for SCRAPPING of Crossrail
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khoodeelaar! 1st comments [3] 1201GMT30Apr2009 re ‘news’ 2012 London Games hosting 'legacy' post-holder has left 'job'. Degenerating the East End....
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khoodeelaar! 1st comments [2] 1200GMT30Apr2009 re ‘news’ 2012 London Games hosting 'legacy' post-holder has left 'job'. Robbing the East End
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khoodeelaar! first comment 1156GMT30Apr2009 re ‘news’ 2012 London Games hosting 'legacy' post-holder has left 'job'. What legacy? Of Degeneration!
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khoodeelaar! pointing out at 1058GMT30Apr2009: KHoodeelaar! No to Crossrail agenda totally ‘approves’ of latest call for the sacking of G BUFF Hoon!
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khoodeelaar! referring at 1055GMT30Apr2009 to KHOODEELAAR! evidential comment http://tinyurl.com/cnef9u
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KHOODEELAAR! told you so! In 2004, in 2005, in 2006, 2007 and in 2008 we said accurately that the UK economy was going down.. advice worth £Billions

Commented on the RICHMOND AND TWICKENHAM Times, London


http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/richmondnews/3830271.Anti_Heathrow_campaigners_suspicious_of_BAA___s_Crossrail_cash/

In that comment, KHOODEELAAR! Organizer Muhammad Haque set out the key arguments against Crossrail. Arguments that Simon Jenkins in his piece this week in the EVENING STANDARD has only partly covered. In fact the Muhammad Haque comments published in December 2006 on the Eddington Report remain the most accurate, detailed and valid ones to this day. And those comments, made TWO years before the ‘City of London’ became widely identified as containing “the greediest and the most corrupt and the wasteful elements in and of the UK economy”, were spot on as economic analysis. It is therefore important to point out again that the KHOODEELAAR! analysis of the UK economy as made in 2004 was unique in all key respects. It was accurate 5 years ahead of the events. It was responsible , contrary to the callous JOBBING comments on the economy contributed by all the ‘mainstream’ ‘economic commentators’ as employed, promoted, showcased and platformed by the UK ‘mainstream media’. And the Khoodeelaar! analysis is worth £Billions of savings in terms of avoided economic and financial peril and losses...
[To be continued]


By © Muhammad Haque 2005 Hrs GMT

London Saturday 8 November 2008

http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/richmondnews/3830271.Anti_Heathrow_campaigners_suspicious_of_BAA___s_Crossrail_cash/

“Your report confirms the analysis that KHOODEELAAR! the campaign against Crossrail scam has been publishing for the past almost 5 years. That Crossrail is not the main transport priority in and around London. That the EXISTING transport infrastructure and services warrant urgent attention. That there has been NO evidence of public demand for any of it. That EVEN Gordon Brown’s own expert reported in the Eddington Study on the future of the railway ‘service’s NO evidence for Crossrail. Indeed, as Channel 4 news expressly pointed out at the beginning of October 2007...Eddington had ADVISED AGAINST Crossrail. So what is the £16 Billion plus being spent on Crossrail for? Ken Livingstone acted as the propagandist in chief for the Big Business lobby pressing the UK Govt to fork out £ Billions under covers of transport. But even Livingstone failed to find ANY mentionable support in the UK public for Crossrail..In their reports on the formal publication of the Eddington Study, ALL of ‘Fleet Street’ and the BBC carried unfounded hype for Crossrail. The only major media organisation that got the EDDINGTON REPORT right on the facts and published the substance accordingly was the US media group Forbes. They accurately reported that Eddington HAD not endorsed Crossrail. Now, around the alleged £230 contribution by BAA, ALL of Fleet Street has again been publishing untruths and hypes. The question is: do these media, as typified by the London EVENING STANDARD and the Guardian as among the most zealous spinners for Crossrail, have any senses of editorial responsibility at all? We are beginning to get used to the BBC publishing more than one apology for the blunders that the Corporation indulges in at the expense of the licence-payers. But the newspapers who claim that they are against the greedy bankers who have brought about the current financial crisis, must show that THEY are not in hock to the lobby that wants £16 Billion of UK public money to be wasted. The same media outfits have an even bigger duty to ask why the Crossrail Bill was not allowed to be debated by the ‘Select Committees’ in BOTH Houses. Who had pulled the strings and when will the truth be ‘conceded’ by the ‘free thinking’ democracy-backing British media? After the looters who are poised to pocket £Billions under Contracts in the name of Crossrail have bolted?


By © Muhammad Haque 2005 Hrs GMT London Saturday 8 November 2008

Thursday 30 April 2009

KHOODEELAAR! evidential note saying NO to Brown's wasting more public funds for 'planning’, just as they did for Crossrail

http://www.cnplus.co.uk/sectors/transport/govt-to-spend-£7m-on-high-speed-two-plans/5201223.article


he Government is set to spend more than £7 million on plans for High Speed Two in the financial year 2009/10.

In January transport secretary Geoff Hoon announced the creation of a new company – High Speed Two, chaired by Sir David Rowlands – to help consider the case for new high speed rail services between London and Scotland.

Staff costs for the year will total £2.65 million, according to a question answered by the parliamentary under secretary of state for transport Paul Clark in the House of Commons last week.

Project costs and consultancy costs stand at £3.94 million, while board costs and facility costs total £209,226 and £175,393 respectively.

Initially the company was tasked with developing a proposal for an entirely new line between London and the West Midlands, which could link to Heathrow and Crossrail through a new international interchange station.

It will need to assess the likely environmental impact and business case of different routes, with work on the case for High Speed Two expected to be completed by the end of the year.

The Government will then assess the options, enabling them to choose a proposed route for development.

KHOODEELAAR! action flashback [2]: Simon Jenkins, ex-editor of EVENING STANDARD, calls on Boris to 'Kill' Crossrail

Crossrail will eat money. Kill it, Boris, and save the bankrupt Tube instead
Simon Jenkins
28.04.09
Kill Crossrail. Kill it now. Offer it up as London's gift to public sector sanity, while there is still time to avoid millions of pounds climbing into billions on a project that London does not need. What London needs is a fully working, modernised Tube. So kill Crossrail to save the Tube.

Crossrail, with a completely new rail tunnel from Paddington to Liverpool Street, has few friends. It has been stopped and restarted too many times to count over the past quarter-century. When Gordon Brown said in 2007 that "it will definitely proceed", sceptics sensed the cold hand of death grip its throat.

When Whitehall set out a tripartite funding package for the line in 2008, the caveats and qualifications grew in number. In an interview in February the transport minister, Lord Adonis, warned the world that, if Londoners do not raise their two-thirds share, "the Mayor understands that Crossrail will collapse ... ".

Mention Crossrail to Boris Johnson and his normally open, cheerful visage changes to that of a parent just told his kids are on drugs. He starts to shake. When reminded that he once said Crossrail was "one of those times you have to say, get in that hole and keep digging" the look becomes a rictus.

At a farewell dinner at City Hall earlier this month, the outgoing head of Transport for London, Tim O'Toole, hinted at his known private view that Crossrail is capital madness. He pleaded with his colleagues to fight instead for the existing Tube, now teetering on the brink of insolvency. TfL executives know that continuing with Crossrail will eat money and distract management for a decade.

It would yield nothing but bad news stories, while severely disrupting traffic in central London just when it will be recovering from the water mains chaos. Test drilling is already upheaving St Giles.

Crossrail is no longer a railway that makes sense. Back in the Eighties it was way behind the Jubilee line and the then (and now) top priority, a new northeast/southwest line from Hackney to Chelsea and beyond. Lines were needed to fill the Tube-less no-man's-lands of Greenwich and Chelsea/Fulham.

It took Margaret Thatcher to force through the Jubilee line to help the Reichman brothers build Canary Wharf. Chelsea/Hackney has no such power backers.

This project's only real friends have been in the City, eager to fend off the "threat" from Docklands and garner the bulk of the 900,000 extra office jobs predicted for London a decade ago. Nobody expects that need now. The Central line's parallel capacity can easily be increased by station improvements and better management.

Crossrail's backers have duly fallen back on that catch-all for any extravagant project, "urban regeneration". But that involves taking the line far out to the east, at further cost. For all the efforts of consultants to prove otherwise, this line is neither profitable nor a priority for economic renewal.

Boris Johnson now has a golden chance. He knows the capital must tighten its belt somehow - especially after he failed to curb the gargantuan appetite of the Olympics (costing more than half the £16billion total for Crossrail).

Johnson has already had to end his predecessor's costly fantasies, the Thames Gateway bridge, the Cross-river tram and the Dagenham light railway extension.

The Government has offered £5.6billion to the Crossrail budget. The rest must come from a raised London business rate (£3.5billion), borrowing against so-called train access charges (£2.3billion) and £2.7billion from TfL, this time borrowing against future fares.

Given the recent history of Tube finances, these figures are wholly unreal. TfL is close to technical bankruptcy. Borrowing against future revenue is mad, especially when it has already been assigned to meet Crossrail's running costs. Has London learned nothing about dodgy accounting from the past five years of such projects?

Meanwhile the City Corporation is offering a meagre £200million, on top of which is budgeted £150million from City businesses and, once upon a time, £230million from the airports authority, BAA. Lord Adonis claims this amounts to a further £750million, which is inconceivable. The truth is that Crossrail is another financial pig in a poke.

The Government has already poured £2billion in extra guilt money into the Tube to finance its public-private partnership (PPP), the sunk cost of this now largely aborted scheme. No minister or official has ever taken responsibility for it - indeed the official, Shriti Vadera, has been rewarded with both a peerage and a ministry.

In addition, the Government has pledged a huge £39billion to TfL over the next decade, a sum higher than anything conceived during nationalisation. This, it says, will have to embrace the completion of the PPP scheme and Crossrail. But the latter is not formally ring-fenced.

This is the Mayor's great opportunity. He has a £1.4billion hole in his transport budget already and must somehow fund £3billion of debt left over from the Treasury's collapsed Metronet infrastructure company.

Adonis said last November that there was no way he would plug this hole, despite it being one of the Government's own creation. He could hardly have given a more direct indication of his willingness to see Crossrail crash.

Johnson could now argue that the £5.6billion for Crossrail be switched to other Tube projects, such as resignalling the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines and replacing Metropolitan line stock, projects that may anyway have to be postponed to meet the cost of Crossrail. Cancelling the latter would relieve the Tube budget of a tidal wave of uncertain costs now advancing down the track.

This would enable Johnson to declare himself the saviour of London's Underground railway, after a decade of mismanagement and financial chaos.

By liberating himself from Crossrail and demanding that London be allowed to keep its transport grant, he could begin to reconstruct TfL's finances and meet its voracious appetite for new signals, stations and rolling stock. He could declare a clean slate.

Johnson need not fear the Government on this: if ministers wanted Crossrail they would have paid for it. He need not fear the City.

He can use the recession as an excuse to put this white elephant to sleep while garnering the popularity of restoring London's transport system to sanity. But first he must kill Crossrail.

KHOODEELAAR! action flashback: Nigel Nelson, Pol Editor, SUNDAY PEOPLE 22 March 2009 calls for scrapping Crossrail

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22 March 2009
BLACK HOLE COSTS YOU £25,000
EXCLUSIVE Here's how they might claw it back
By Nigel Nelson Political Editor
Every British taxpayer faces a debt of £25,000 to pay for Alistair Darling's borrowing binge.

New forecasts say the Chancellor needs to splash out £704billion on the nation's credit card over the next five years.

That will leave each taxpayer with a bill equal to the current UK average wage, say economists Ernst & Young.

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And it will be FIVE times the amount of debt run up over the last five years, which worked out at just £5,000 per taxpayer.

The predictions from forecasting group the Item Club say Mr Darling will need £180billion this year alone, exceeding his own estimate by £62billion.

They are so significant because the Item Club uses the same forecasting model as the Treasury.

Shadow Chancellor George Osborne said: "This is the worst fiscal mess any British government has created in peacetime.

"Tax receipts have collapsed but there is a great deal of scope for spending restraint."

Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable added: "Spending will rise sharply over the coming months as unemployment surges.

"And the steep fall in output will continue to reduce tax revenues."

Last week the International Monetary Fund said the UK will have to borrow 11 per cent of national income this year, the most of all the world's top G7 industrialised nations. Ernst & Young say it will be 1.6 per cent WORSE.

Item Club chief economist Peter Spencer said: "The outlook is bleak. The Chancellor must present an unambiguous plan for restoring the public finances to health.

"We are all going to find ourselves paying a lot more tax once the recovery begins and our children will be paying that tax for a very long time to come."

The researchers say Mr Darling must now pump more cash into manufacturing to save jobs.

In April's Budget he is expected to cut taxes to encourage spending, as The People said last week.

But once the recession is over the Government will have to claw the money back. And we have some suggestions, see right, for doing it.

For instance Mr Darling could RAISE tax by 5p, SCRAP the Crossrail plan for new London train links or SUPPLY school meals free to cut obesity in kids.

Total £704 billion

Raise income tax by 5p £100 billion

Put VAT up to 25 per cent £240 billion

Cancel Trident missile defence £25 billion

Nationalise the banks £44 billion

Health screening for over 20s £75 billion

Trim Government waste £170 billion

Abandon Crossrail project £16 billion

Free school meals to save on obesity £18 billion

Cut civil service pay 1 per cent £7 billion

Scrap widening of M25 £5 billion

Cancel our new aircraft carrier order £4 billion
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Wednesday 29 April 2009

KHOODEELAAR! exposed Crass role-playing, CRASS-rail-hole-scam-inviting clique on T hamlets Council

1245 GMT London Wednesday 29 April 2009



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KHOODEELAAR! exposed Crass role-playing, CRASS-rail-hole-scam-inviting clique on T hamlets Council


ACTION ARCHIVE updater at 1240 GMT London Wednesday 29 April 2009

Today's confession by the London FT that CROSSRAIl is crassly conceived and even more crassly peddled in financing terms, is NOTR news. At every stage in the past 5 years and 4 months of our dissection of the crassly conceived Crossrail,w e have pointed this out. With evidence. Of contemporary crass behaviour by each and every one of the relevant peddler of the scam.


Here is how we TOLD the world bout the crassness of the Crassrail-hole-scam backing Tower Hamlets Council clique in 2007:

By Muhammad Haque
1440 Hrs GMT London Saturday 13 October 2007

Khoodeelaar! Examination of the Tower Hamlets Council’s confession that the Council [=the controlling clique and the controlling bureaucracy that in fact makes the ‘policy’ on that Council and the one that has in effect done so for the duration of the main Crossrail hole plot-inviting years, say, going back to 1998-99 onwards] has been a collective, institutional] tout for the Crossrail hole attacks on the East End of London
here shortly
What has been the confession?
Answer
The confession is that Tower Hamlets Council has been used as a willing stooge for the Crossrail hole pt against the East End.
This is how the controlling clique on the Council made the confession in its written answer to my question as put to the ‘Council’ as part of the ‘published agenda ‘ for the ‘full council’ meeting held on Tuesday 11 September 2007
“ Ultimately, Council must respect Crossrail’s overarching duty to have regard to the paramount importance of the health and safety of Crossrail passengers and workers which will dictate the location of such shafts.”
What was my question to which the above dictatorial command statement FOR Crossrail was issued VIA the controlling bureaucracy on Tower Hamlets Council on 11 September 2007? The question was in fact the same as the Khoodeelaar! Campaign had been asking right fro the start. But for clarity and for accountability and for compliance with constitutionality, the Khoodeelaar! Question was as endorsed by the community 2 years into the khoodeelaar! Campaign – and rousingly backed on Sunday 22 January 2006 when I had put it for the community’s endorsement at the meeting held at the Brady Centre in Hanbury Street on that date and against the CrossRail hole Bill attacks upon the community.

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Tuesday 28 April 2009

KHOODEELAAR! HAD TOLD the London FT that it was wrong to plug Big Business scam Crassrail. We are 'pleased' to welcome sense appear on the FT [2]

0430 GMT London Weds 29 April 2009:

KHOODEELAAR! is anticipating newer instances of confessions on CRASSrail during today and later this week.....on the FURTHER vindication of our diagnosis that Crossrail remains crass, wasteful, debts=causing, poverty-aggravating and must be scrapped .. We expect other members of the bureaucracy to confess and add to the list now containing Tim O’Toole, Simon Jenkins, the FT.... all agreeing that Crossrail is crass and is an unfundable, wasteful debts-causing OBSTRUCTION to and a serious diversion and deviation from funding the EXISTING London transport network..

Thus echoing the KHOODEELAAR! original analyses and exclusive diagnoses and dissections carried out and published by ourselves [AADHIKAR MEDia in association with KHOODEELAAR!] on the internet and in print over the past 5 years and 4 months..

[To be continued]