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    Boos and disbelief as Tony Blair is handed ‘jaw-dropping’ philanthropist of the year title at GQ awards ceremony

    Wednesday 3rd September 2014 at 07:21 By david-icke








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    Boos and disbelief as Tony Blair is handed ‘jaw-dropping’ philanthropist of the year
    title at GQ awards ceremony

    On the day more of his chickens came home to roost in the Middle East, disbelief as
    Tony Blair is handed 'jaw-dropping' philanthropist of the year title at GQ awards
    ceremony

    Award drew immediate criticism including from Labour MP John Mann
    Tory MP Charlie Elphicke slammed the decision alongside Gary Lineker
    Mr Blair, 61, was honoured for his work establishing charities in Africa
    But his reputation has been tarnished by the invasion of Iraq in 2003
    PM is worth millions and can command £250,000 for private speeches

    By Tamara Cohen and Jim Norton for the Daily Mail

    Published: 23:24, 2 September 2014 | Updated: 12:03, 3 September 2014





    Disbelief: Tony Blair accepted GQ's philanthropist of the year award at a glitzy
    ceremony in central London

    ‘Tony Blair was last night improbably named philanthropist of the year by a leading
    magazine.

    The former prime minister was handed the award to a ‘muted’ response at a
    celebrity-packed gathering in central London. It was in recognition of
    his ‘philanthropy, establishing three charities’.

    GQ magazine’s decision drew immediate criticism, with Labour MP John Mann
    saying last night: ‘It sends the wrong message. This sort of award should go to an
    unsung hero who has given up their time for charity.’’

    Tory MP Charlie Elphicke pointed out that Mr Blair has advised Kazakh leader
    Nursultan Nazarbayev, including on how to improve his image after his police killed
    14 unarmed protesters.

    He said: ‘It is jaw dropping that he should be given this award given his
    involvement in spinning the alleged brutal massacre in Kazakhstan.

    People will be greatly concerned and wonder if this was the right decision.’ Gary
    Lineker tweeted: ‘Apparently, Tony Blair has won GQ’s philanthropist of the year
    award. Finally these awards have grasped irony!’

    The GQ Men of the Year awards are popular among celebrities with many A-listers
    attending last night, including Kate Middleton’s sister Pippa and the model Cara
    Delevingne.

    Legacy: The decision to honour the former Prime Minister provoked immediate
    reaction on Twitter

    On receiving his award at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, Mr Blair, 61,
    said: ‘I would like to dedicate this award to the people that work with and for my
    organisations.’

    He and his wife Cherie have a property empire worth an estimated £30million,
    having bought homes for their children.

    Earlier this year, Mr Blair, who earns millions of pounds a year from his consultancy
    roles and charges fees of £250,000 for public speaking, was forced to deny being
    motivated by money.

    He insisted: ‘In respect to my new life, first of all, I have to say that reports of my
    wealth are greatly exaggerated. Just for the record, I read I’m supposed to be
    worth £100million – Cherie’s kind of asking where it is. I’m not worth that, half of
    that, a third of that, a quarter of that, a fifth of that ... I could go on.’

    Sherlock Holmes actor Benedict Cumberbatch, Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi and Love
    Actually star Colin Firth all won gongs.

    Former Beatle Ringo Starr picked up an award for his humanitarian work and
    Pirates Of The Caribbean actor Johnny Depp presented punk pioneer Iggy Pop with
    the ‘icon’ trophy.

    The tribute to Mr Blair on the GQ website read: ‘In 2007 Tony Blair stepped down
    as prime minister, but his surging momentum’s shown no signs of slowing.

    ‘Alongside his role as a Middle East peace envoy, Blair’s channelled his energy into
    philanthropy, establishing three charities.

    ‘The Tony Blair Sports Foundation pairs volunteer sport coaches with children in
    Britain’s North East and his Faith Foundation aims to reconcile the three Abrahamic
    faiths, but his most ambitious is the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative.


    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3CH8wd8B0
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    Blair must go! Ex-diplomats lead calls for PM who went to war on a lie to be axed
    as Middle East peace envoy

    Three former UK ambassadors to Middle East sign open letter against Blair
    Other signatories include Ken Livingstone and former minister Crispin Blunt
    Letter organised by makers of George Galloway's 'The Killing of Tony Blair'

    By James Chapman, Political Editor

    Published: 19:21, 23 June 2014 | Updated: 13:19, 24 June 2014




    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz3CHAk6jbe
    Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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    ‘He should be in the Middle East, not the UK’: Peace envoy Tony Blair blasted for
    throwing surprise birthday party for wife Cherie’s 60th at their £6million mansion –
    as Gaza death toll passes 1,050

    Monday 28 July 2014
    By david-icke
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    Tagged:
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    ‘Tony Blair – the Middle East Peace Envoy – threw a lavish birthday party for his
    wife on Friday night at their country bolthole in Buckinghamshire, while the grim
    death toll from the Gaza conflict passed the 1,050 mark.

    Mr Blair, whose role is to hammer out a ceasefire in times of conflict between the
    Israelis and Palestinians, spent most of last week in the UK before hosting the
    couple’s friends at the party, estimated to have cost about £50,000.

    He held the surprise 60th birthday party for Cherie at their £6million country
    mansion South Pavilions, formerly the home of Sir John Gielgud, inviting 150 of
    their closest friends, which included former New Labour ministers, as well as wealthy businessmen and TV celebrities.’

    Read more: 'He should be in the Middle East, not the UK': Peace envoy Tony Blair
    blasted for throwing surprise birthday party for wife Cherie's 60th at their £6million mansion – as Gaza death toll passes 1,050

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    “Dodgy Dossier” to Newspaper “Editor”: War Criminal Tony Blair Re-invents Himself.
    By Felicity Arbuthnot

    Global Research, July 06, 2012

    6 July 2012




    We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees. And still we dare to
    slander and malign them, to besmirch their name. Instead of being deeply ashamed
    of what we did and trying to undo some of the evil we committed … we justify our
    terrible acts and even attempt to glorify them…”

    (Erskine Childers, 1870-1922.)

    Even by the standards of a seemingly increasingly partisan British media, the
    decision to invite Tony Blair to Guest Edit the London Evening Standard on 27th
    June, the fifth anniversary of his leaving office was, well, bizarre.

    The Standard (established 1827) gained early eminence for its detailed foreign
    news. Within little over forty years of its founding, reporters had covered the
    American Civil War, the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War.

    Fast forward to the turn of this century when well grounded fact checking had
    apparently become less relevant. The last time Blair “edited” The Standard (or
    apparently detonated all editorial scrutiny and detachment) was on 24th September
    2002, when the newspaper’s bannered page one (i) read: “45 Minutes from Attack”
    with a picture of Saddam Hussein and: “Dossier reveals Saddam is ready to launch
    chemical war strikes.” The full front page was taken up by the then Prime
    Minister’s “revelations” of the (first) “Dodgy Dossier.”

    Blair’s current editing foray was heralded by a breathless interview with him by
    Sarah Sands, the actual Editor, in his offices: “with a view of the American Embassy
    from the window”, the room adorned with photographs of him including with: “…
    Arnie Schwarzenegger, and crowds of laughing African children.”

    Tony Blair’s stated global vision includes his “Africa Governance Initiative.”

    Further: “Whether in the Middle East, faith, Africa, climate change … my focus is on
    devising long term solutions to some of the world’s most difficult problems”, he
    states modestly. (ii)

    The mass graves and apocalyptic destruction in the Balkans and Iraq, the near
    world beating corruption in Kosovo – where streets and children are named after
    him – Iraq’s despotic, nepotistic US-UK choice “Prime Minister” – whose improbity
    and inability to restore or to halt the collapse of even basic services, burdens under
    which the population stagger daily -hardly reflect beacons of hope for his
    messianic, megalomanic, planetary “long term solutions.”

    Back to the Standard interview. Incredibly, he cites Iraq’s growing economy and
    falling infant mortality rate: “It will end up with a happy ending but it has to go
    through what the whole region has to go through which is to put religion in its
    proper place and to realise democracy isn’t just a technical system but an attitude
    of mind”, opined the man of whom George W. Bush said: “We pray together” and
    who, of course joined that chilling “Crusade.”

    However, infant mortality in Iraq “dropping” from the death-dealing embargo
    years? Iraq, with the second largest oil reserves, is now a shocking nine places
    below Zimbabwe in neo-natal deaths on the world scale.

    Moreover, Doctors in the 2004 bombarded city of Falluja have been “overwhelmed”
    by birth defects including: babies with two heads, Cyclops eyes, no eyes, no brain,
    no limbs, paralysis and a cancer epidemic.

    “Iraqi children being born with birth defects has been devastating families for
    years. A July 2010 study showed that increases in infant mortality, cancer and
    leukaemia in Falluja surpass those of the atomic bomb devastated cities of
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.”(iii)

    In fact, Fallujah’s nightmare has been mirrored across Iraq, near ignored by the
    world, since the 1991 attacks and years of US-UK subsequent bombings.

    Meticulous country-wide surveys, succour, remedial action, de-contamination –
    mobilized by the relevant international bodies – and compensation from the
    countries responsible, should be a priority of Blair’s vaunted “global community.”

    Iraq’s victims certainly qualify as being amongst “the world’s most difficult
    problems.” From 1997 when Blair became Prime Minister, culminating in the 2003
    assault and consequent additional contamination, Blair’s Whitehall with Washington
    were allies in creating Iraqis Hadean plight. .

    Afghanistan, also invaded by the US and UK under Blair’s premiership has the
    world’s highest infant mortality.

    Seemingly though, he has long forgotten Afghanistan and moved on from Iraq,
    apparently unaware or uncaring that since the latter’s 2010 “free and democratic
    elections”, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has controlled all security Ministries in the
    country, thus presiding over summary executions, secret prisons, with allegations
    of near industrial scale torture rampant.


    “Today Tony Blair takes my place as editor of the Evening Standard. He has
    embraced the role but I am confident that it is not the big job he is looking for.
    Anyone interested in politics will witness his return open-mouthed”, concluded Ms
    Sands fawning article (iv.)

    In “open mouthed” she had a point. In his “Editorial” (v) Blair opines:


    “…where there has not been revolution, we should actively promote evolution.
    People often say: learn the lesson of Iraq. Actually, I have …”

    So unimaginable bloodshed now becomes “evolution.”

    What a way the jobbing, stand-in “Editor” has with words. Facts, as we know, are
    anyway a “far away place of which (he seemingly) knows nothing.”

    This from a man who, after a terrible bombing of shoppers in Omagh, Northern
    Ireland, on a sunny weekend in August 1998, killed thirty one people, including
    nine children and an eighteen month old baby, he rightly condemned: “an appalling
    act of savagery and evil.”

    He continued:


    “I have seen sights here today which will haunt me for the rest of my life. If
    anything happened to one of my children, I would go mad with grief.” But his
    enjoined “savagery and evil” silently killing Iraq’s children day after day, year after
    year, resultant from the embargo’s denial of medicines – of parts and chemicals to
    purify the water – of imports resulting in death by malnutrition – even when they
    were not actually being routinely, illegally, bombed.

    And: “learned the lesson of Iraq”? In March 2006, asked on Sky News if he would
    have taken the Iraq action if he knew then what he knew now, he replied: “I most
    certainly would, yes.” In December 2009 he was again asked if he would
    have “gone on” if he had known there were no weapons of mass destruction, he
    replied: “I would still have thought it right to remove him”, said the Attorney,
    married to a Judge, who has seemingly forgotten the law. (vi)

    At the Chilcot Inquiry on 29th January 2010, perhaps one and a half million
    resultant dead later, he repeated that he had: “ No regrets” and said Iraqis were
    now better off and he would take the same decisions again.(vii)

    The Evening Standard was taken over by Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev in
    2009, as the major shareholder, with a commitment to make the paper more
    progressive, to reconnect with Londoners.

    Tony Blair’s Big Day seems to have fallen short of “reconnection”. Out of 123
    speedy responses on one site, 119 were less than polite, some were of the: ”If he
    wants a voice it should be in Court from the Dock” sort of genre.

    A “binblair” Twitter page speedily sprung up (viii) with a vociferous and succinct
    Bianca Jagger amongst those weighing instantly in.

    By 4th July, US Independence Day, he may have been looking especially wistfully
    at that neighbouring American Embassy :


    “He feels like an alien in his own country. He feels despised – and that is very
    difficult for him” a “friend” told the Financial Times, quoted by Mark Donne in the
    Guardian (4th July) who added: “and however many feature spots he is offered by
    national newspapers, the message should be clear and demonstrated in any way

    possible by us all: We haven’t forgotten.” Ouch.

    Oh, and the: http://www.arrestblair.org/ site is still offering a reward.


    http://www.globalresearch.ca/dodgy-d...-himself/31776



    Ignored /Sacrificed............




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    Who cares, really. That'll be the last award before he sees bars, and cuffs.

    Just another tabloid stunt...
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    Default Re: JOKE ! Middle East in flames for over a decade and Blair wins philanthropist award by GQ magazine...

    from an earlier thread.....

    'Dodgy Dossier' to Newspaper 'Editor': Tony Blair Re-invents Himself
    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...123#post518123

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    “Dodgy Dossier” to Newspaper “Editor”: Tony Blair Re-invents Himself
    by : Felicity Arbuthnot with additions of pics/vids by me....





    July 6, 2012



    We came and turned the native Arabs into tragic refugees. And still we dare to
    slander and malign them, to besmirch their name. Instead of being deeply ashamed
    of what we did and trying to undo some of the evil we committed … we justify our
    terrible acts and even attempt to glorify them…

    — Erskine Childers, 1870-1922


    Even by the standards of a seemingly increasingly partisan British media, the
    decision to invite Tony Blair to Guest Edit the London Evening Standard on June
    27th, the fifth anniversary of his leaving office, was, well, bizarre.

    The Standard (established1827) gained early eminence for its detailed foreign
    news. Within little over forty years of its founding, reporters had covered the
    American Civil War, the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War.

    Fast forward to the turn of this century when well grounded fact-checking had
    apparently become less relevant. The last time Blair "edited" The Standard (or
    apparently detonated all editorial scrutiny and detachment) was on September
    24th, 2002, when the newspaper’s bannered page one read: "45 Minutes from
    Attack" with a picture of Saddam Hussein and: "Dossier reveals Saddam is ready to
    launch chemical war strikes." The full front page was taken up by the then Prime
    Minister’s "revelations" of the (first) "Dodgy Dossier."



    Blair’s current editing foray was heralded by a breathless interview with him by
    Sarah Sands, the actual Editor, in his offices "with a view of the American Embassy
    from the window", the room adorned with photographs of him including with "…
    Arnie Schwarzenegger, and crowds of laughing African children."




    Tony Blair’s stated global vision includes his "Africa Governance Initiative."

    Further: "Whether in the Middle East, faith, Africa, climate change … my focus is on
    devising long term solutions to some of the world’s most difficult problems", he
    states modestly.

    The mass graves and apocalyptic destruction in the Balkans and Iraq, the near
    world beating corruption in Kosovo – where streets and children are named after
    him – Iraq’s despotic, nepotistic US-UK choice "Prime Minister" — whose improbity
    and inability to restore or to halt the collapse of even basic services, burdens under
    which the population stagger daily — hardly reflect beacons of hope for his
    messianic, megalomanic, planetary "long term solutions."



    Back to The Standard interview. Incredibly, he cites Iraq’s growing economy and
    falling infant mortality rate: "It will end up with a happy ending but it has to go
    through what the whole region has to go through which is to put religion in its
    proper place and to realise democracy isn’t just a technical system but an attitude
    of mind", opined the man of whom George W. Bush said: "We pray together" and
    who, of course, joined that chilling "Crusade".

    However, infant mortality in Iraq "dropping" from the death-dealing embargo
    years? Iraq, with the second largest oil reserves, is now a shocking nine places
    below Zimbabwe in neo-natal deaths on the world scale.

    Moreover, Doctors in the 2004 bombarded city of Falluja have been "overwhelmed"
    by birth defects, including babies with two heads, Cyclops eyes, no eyes, no brain,
    no limbs, paralysis and a cancer epidemic.



    http://bsnews.info/_DepletedUranium.html

    Noam Chomsky on Cancer rates in Fallujah beyond Hiroshima - Depleted Uranium




    Iraqi children being born with birth defects has been devastating families for years.
    A July 2010 study showed that increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia
    in Falluja surpass those of the atomic bomb devastated cities of Hiroshima and
    Nagasaki in 1945.

    In fact, Falluja’s nightmare has been mirrored across Iraq, near ignored by the
    world, since the 1991 attacks and years of US-UK subsequent bombings.

    Meticulous country-wide surveys, succour, remedial action, de-contamination –
    mobilized by the relevant international bodies – and compensation from the
    countries responsible, should be a priority of Blair’s vaunted "global community."

    Iraq’s victims certainly qualify as being amongst "the world’s most difficult
    problems". From 1997 when Blair became Prime Minister, culminating in the 2003
    assault and consequent additional contamination, Blair’s Whitehall with Washington
    were allies in creating Iraqis’ Hadean plight.

    Afghanistan, also invaded by the US and UK under Blair’s premiership, has the
    world’s highest infant mortality.

    Seemingly, though, he has long forgotten Afghanistan and moved on from Iraq,
    apparently unaware or uncaring that since the latter’s 2010 "free and democratic
    elections", Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has controlled all security Ministries in the
    country, thus presiding over summary executions, secret prisons, with allegations
    of near industrial scale torture rampant.

    "Today Tony Blair takes my place as editor of the Evening Standard. He has
    embraced the role but I am confident that it is not the big job he is looking for.
    Anyone interested in politics will witness his return open-mouthed", concluded Ms
    Sands’ fawning article.

    In "open mouthed" she had a point. In his "Editorial" Blair opines:

    …where there has not been revolution, we should actively promote evolution.
    People often say: learn the lesson of Iraq. Actually, I have …

    So unimaginable bloodshed now becomes "evolution."

    What a way the jobbing, stand-in "Editor" has with words. Facts, as we know, are
    anyway a "far away place of which (he seemingly) knows nothing."

    This from a man who, after a terrible bombing of shoppers in Omagh, Northern
    Ireland, on a sunny weekend in August 1998, killed thirty-one people, including
    nine children and an eighteen month old baby, he rightly condemned "an appalling
    act of savagery and evil."

    He continued:

    I have seen sights here today which will haunt me for the rest of my life. If
    anything happened to one of my children, I would go mad with grief.

    But his enjoined "savagery and evil" silently killing Iraq’s children day after day,
    year after year, resultant from the embargo’s denial of medicines – of parts and
    chemicals to purify the water – of imports resulting in death by malnutrition – even
    when they were not actually being routinely, illegally, bombed.

    And "learned the lesson of Iraq"? In March 2006, asked on Sky News if he would
    have taken the Iraq action if he knew then what he knew now, he replied, "I most
    certainly would, yes." In December 2009 when he was again asked if he would
    have "gone on" if he had known there were no weapons of mass destruction, he
    replied: "I would still have thought it right to remove him", said the Attorney,
    married to a Judge, who has seemingly forgotten the law.

    At the Chilcot Inquiry on January 29th, 2010, perhaps one and a half million
    resultant dead later, he repeated that he had no regrets and said Iraqis were now
    better off and he would take the same decisions again.

    Blair says no regrets for removing Saddam




    The Evening Standard was taken over by Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev in
    2009, as the major shareholder, with a commitment to make the paper more
    progressive, to reconnect with Londoners.

    Tony Blair’s Big Day seems to have fallen short of "reconnection". Out of 123
    speedy responses on one site, 119 were less than polite, some were of the, "If he
    wants a voice, it should be in Court from the Dock" sort of genre.

    A "binblair" Twitter page speedily sprung up with a vociferous and succinct Bianca
    Jagger amongst those weighing instantly in.

    By July 4th, US Independence Day, he may have been looking especially wistfully
    at that neighbouring American Embassy.

    "He feels like an alien in his own country. He feels despised – and that is very
    difficult for him" a "friend" told the Financial Times, quoted by Mark Donne in the
    Guardian (July 4th) who added, "and however many feature spots he is offered by
    national newspapers, the message should be clear and demonstrated in any way
    possible by us all. We haven’t forgotten." Ouch!

    Oh, and the Arrest Blair site is still offering a reward.


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