STEEL CRISIS CAMERON HIDES BEHIND EU Updated 7 April, 2016

The UK requested from the EU an emergency meeting with the European economic ministers to discuss the crises in the steel industry. This should have been done weeks ago but at the height of the crisis PM David Cameron was busy entertaining the Chinese resident. What kind of Prime Minister is he?

The request is for a tougher action on cheap import from China which later on turned out to be a pretence because the same PM refused to vote for the EU's higher Import Tariff on Chinese Steel.

A demonstration is planned in Brussels by the workers. There was a job loss of 4,000 in October.

The US, Germany, Italy and other countries have already put in laws to prevent cheap steel from Chinese flooding their markets. Why can PM David Cameron not do the same? Instead he signed a contract with China for two nuclear Power Stations to be build which nobody wants after the recent disasters. They most probably will be building with Chinese steel.

Gareth Stace, director of the industry body UK steel, said: “The UK must seize the moment and encourage a rapid response from Brussels if we’re to prevent large scale problems for steel makers spread in Britain and across the continent.”

Axel Eggert, director general of the European steel trade body EUROFUR, called for a level playing field. He said: “We do not want to block imports, but we would like to see fair trade, and if fair trade is not provided by our partners, than EU needs to act and it needs to act immediately.  We hope this will not be one of the outcome, today.”

Unite union agreed and Unite officer Harish Patel said: “Hiding behind the EU as an excuse to do nothing will not wash with tens of thousands of workers whose livelihood depend on steelmaking in the UK. Nothing should be off the table, including a refusal to grant Chinese market economical status while it fails to abide by EU rules on fair trade. Business Secretary Sajid Javid also needs to use the opportunity to learn from his country-partners in countries such as Germany and Italy and follow their lead in developing an industrial strategy with steel at its hearts.”

TURKISH FIGHTER JETS BOMBED ISIS

On Friday Turkish fighter jets attacked ISIS targets in Syria for the first time.

They also rounded up hundreds of suspects in a coordinated crackdown.

The bombing had been a major move by Turkey which was hesitant for a long time to follow the US-led coalition.

According to the acting Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish F-16 warplane were based in Diyaebarik had attacked three IS targets with guided bombs at dawn on Friday.  It also attacked the group headquarter and assembly point.  Nine ISIS fighters were killed and 12 injured.

Turkey is also willing to led US-led coalition to use its Incirlik airbase and other airbase in the south of the country to enable them to fly strikes against ISIS, according to the foreign minister.

This remarkable change of policy followed an attack on a Turkish soldier who was killed and a suicide bombing which killed 12 people in the southern province of Sunic which is as few miles from Syrian border.

It has not been officially announced when the Inairlit would be available to the US but Turkish media predicted it would August when the first allied attack will be flown from the airbase.

Additional airbases in the nearby cities of Diyarbak and Batman will be open to the planes for emergencies.

A report from the Turkish media that a deal was made including a no-fly zone in the northern Syria, which Turkey demanded for a long time, was denied by the US.

This change of Turkish policies could mean an attack on the Syria leader, Bashar al Assad, which the US and the Syria rebels were hoping for.

That leaves us with the question: “Why is the US so bent over backward to replace any leader in the Middle East? It would be far wiser to join the President Assad’s forces and destroy ISIS from that side. It would mean peace and not spreading the crisis which could easily escalate now.

Why has the US always to have their leader and country under the US control?

PM Davutoglu confirmed on Friday that they detained around 300 people with suspected linked ISIS and the Kurdish Worker Party (PKK) was just the beginning of a wider operation. 

A statement was given that the raids were without distinction against all terrorist groups in 13 provinces.

It read: “The state of the Turkish republic is adamant on fighting all terrorists without distinction as it has always done, be it the terrorist organisation of Daesh (ISIS), the terrorist organisation of the PKK or any other international terrorist organisation.”

Late Friday night, unconfirmed by Turkey, the Turkish media reported that warplanes had attacked PKK camps in Northern Iraq.

Those air strikes come as a deadly warning bringing Turkey into the Syria crisis.

Tension rises not only in Turkey but across the world since also PM David Cameron of the UK gave permission, without the MPs consent, to enter the crisis.  It was discovered that RAF pilots flew bombing raids under the US command.  That action of the Prime Minister brought the UK into the conflict of which the people were and the majority of MPs voted against it but as always it will the people who will get the revenge.

BLATTER INVESTIGATED FOR CORRUPTION AT FIFA -- Updated: 6 June, 2016

UPDATE: 6 June, 2016 -- Blatter and two of his top officials are accused of receiving £55million. The head office in Geneva had been raided by the police.

UPDATE: 13 September, 2015 -- Blatter swears that there is no corruption in FIFA nor is he corrupt.

UPDATE: 24 June, 2015 -- Blatter is expected to be in Moscow with all the FIFA officials for the World Cup qualifying draw. Russia cut the budget by £340million. The US demands extradition of the arrested FIFA Officials in Switzerland.

LATEST NEWS: 5 June, 2015 -- Blatter is now busily writing a reform of FIFA even so he is not the president any more. Is he trying to save his neck?


UPDATED: 4 June, 2015 - Jack Warner, ex FIFA Vice President, stated, at a TV interview, that he will reveal all he knows, despite threat to his life. He can name FIFA officials at the general election in 2010 in his home country Trinidad and Tobago. SA already admitted that they bribed to win the World Cup to be played there. The longer is takes the more it comes down like house of cards and will eventually engulf Blatter one way or the other.

There are 14 FIFA officials under allegation of corruption and four have been charged already. As usually they will all start spilling the beans


UPDATED:  Blatter is now under investigation and the US officials hoping that they will get more information from the already arrested ex-FIFA officials to build a case against Blatter.


Sepp Blatter is to resign admits the bribery and corruption scandal. After 17 years and being re-elected for the fifth time he finally resisted all the pressure and resigned.


AVAAZ is now contacting the sponsors to pull out in case Blatter is re-elected. Blatter was re-elected again. Is there another fiddle?

UPDATED: 1 June,2014 --   Sepp Blatter won again and he claims he is all innocent and was not involvedin bribery and corruption. He did not know anything about it.  Mr Blatter claims that it all a smear fron the USA and Britain because they did not win.


UPDATED: 29 May, 2015 - Sepp Blatter as a last attempt to safe his win to be the president again for the fifth promised that he would cut out all bribery and corruption. This man is amazing. After decades of bribery and corruption in the FIFA Blatter emerged as the saviour. It was an open secret and no way Blatter could not have known. At the moment the voting is going on for the next president of FIFA.  Let's hope he'll lose and football will return to the game we all love.

Billions of football fans are delighted that their game is being cleared of corruption.

11 out of 14 people had been accused of corruption but Sepp Blatter. FIFA had been accused of making £150million out of the last World Cup in Brazil.

UEFA, the European body of the FIFA is still deciding whether to boycott the coming vote on Friday for the next president

Sponsors like VISA, Coca Cola and Adidas reassess their sponsorship after the scandal was discovered.

At dawn, Swiss police arrested seven FIFA officials on the authorities of the US.  A mass investigation discovered corruption at Football governing body.

“Too many countries are cowered by FIFA”, said Alexandra Wrage, a former FIFA anti-bribery advisor when resigned under protest from the organisation.  She added further: “As was international bribery more generally, the US Dept of Justice said that they’ll step up to investigate corruption if others won’t.”

FBI Director James Corney explained why the US was able to act.

“If you touch our shores with your corruption enterprise, when there   is through meeting of using our world class finance system, you will be held accountable for the corruption.”

To prosecute cases that involve foreign nationals, US authorities need only prove a minor connection to the US. The charges are referred to “the systematic payment of bribes and kickbacks” they were paid by marketing executives who want to increase their chances at winning contracts for the rights to markets and sell media accounts to tournaments.

The spark which set off US involvement when on Wednesday new confirmed the acting US Attorney for the East District of New York Kelly Currie noted the scale of allegations.

He said: “This sort of bribery and corruption in international soccer has been going on for two decades.”  It is not clear what specific event – if any – prompted the US investigation.

Andrew Zimbakist, author of Circus Maximus, stated: “I know some people who were in the US bidding committee…. They all had really strongly suspected that somebody was getting bought off. The Economic Gambel behind hosting the Olympics and World Cup. He told the BBC that he suspects the justice dept probably got involved following the failed bid.

The choice of Qatar raised many eyebrows because of the extreme high temperature in the summer. FIFA task force recommended playing in November and December.

SEPP BLATTER AT QATAR

Swiss authorities start now a separate investigation relating to the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup tournament.

The Miami office of Concacaf the football federation under FIFA that governs the game in North and Central America and the Caribbean was raided by FBI agents early on Wednesday.

AVAAZ started in the last 24 hours a competition to stop Sepp Blatter, today, to be elected for the fifth time as FIFA president. Hundred of thousands of people signed. It seems that Sepp Blatter so far was not accused of bribery and corruption.  It is a bit surprising that he was not aware of since during the last decades, when he was president, the bribery and corruption at FIFA was blossoming.