Is freerepublic better in finding censored news?

http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=BP+executives+working+for+Lord+Browne+spent+millions+of+pounds+on+champagne-fuelled+sex+parties+to+help+secure+lucrative+international+oil+contracts.&kgs=1&kls=0

I don't see a link to DU, or was this story posted on DU( I'm not able to search for it)?

http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=3195

Hookers, spies, cases full of dollars...how BP spent £45m to win 'Wild East' oil rights

GLEN OWEN
UK Daily Mail
Sunday May 13, 2007

Comment: This story appeared early today on the Daily Mail website. It has since been pulled without explanation. If correct, this story could bring down the entire British government which is probably why it was immediately subject to a D notice - a British government order to censor a story. Look out for a big story on this tomorrow.

BP executives working for Lord Browne spent millions of pounds on champagne-fuelled sex parties to help secure lucrative international oil contracts.

The company also worked with MI6 to help bring about changes in foreign governments, according to an astonishing account of life inside the oil giant.

Les Abrahams, who led BP's successful bid for a multi-million-pound deal with one of the former Soviet republics, today claims that Browne - who was forced to resign as chief executive last month after the collapse of legal proceedings against The Mail on Sunday - presided over an "anything goes" regime of sexual licence, spying and financial sweeteners.

High life: Mr Abrahams, left, and another BP executive not linked to any impropriety with local girls in Azerbaijan
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"freerepublic better in finding censored news?"

Well, all rightee...:eyes:

Most of us don't spend the time you apparently do, over there, so I can't really comment...:shrug:

The link to the original story UK Daily Mail is dead, the British censorship seems to work.

Why the need to suggest some meaning (re: the story not seemingly having been posted) that unfavorably compares DU to Free Republic?

As a member, it is the responsibility of each of us to ensure important stories get posted, right? :shrug:

Maybe those DUers who normally would have seen and posted the story are elsewhere involved-- say, taking Mom out to dinner for Mother's Day?

story - it appears others have decided it is bull.

But since you wanted DUers to know that a Brit of the left - a Labor PM designate - stands accused of favoring Brit companies, namely his own, when he worked for a Brit company - and that activities of said companies to get foriegn business somehow are the fault of the Labor party - here is your link :

http://www.legnostorto.com/index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&Itemid=30&func=view&catid=3&id=

In the story we find a BP exec Les Abrahams telling all that he spent 45 million to get the Azerbaijan's been oil company to hook up with BP

The scandal for Labor is the accusation that the Home Secretary John Reid was arrested for being out on the streets after to military curfew had been imposed. - OK?

BP's credit paid for the usual adult pleasures, legal and illegal - but is Browne/Labor in trouble because BP entertainment expenses were approved by Browne?

Well while employed by BP, Mr Abrahams also says he was persuaded to work for MI6 by John Scarlett, now head of the service but then its head of station in Moscow.

And MI6 is per the article as nuts as our CIA in equating an international Corporations welfare with the welfare of the state - He claims that BP was working closely with MI6 at the highest levels to help it to win business in the region and influence the political complexion of governments.

The Labor connection is that the head of the unit trying to get the contract was Lord Browne - and he got the contract for BP. Seems Lord Browne went home after the oil business work was completed "We would typically have to dinner at which Lord Browne would be present, then he would go home and we would head off to to somewhere like the Gaslight Club in Piccadilly - to where girls would dance topless and you would get charged £250 for your drink. “Our guests would usually want girls to go back with afterwards. Sometimes we could persuades the girls in the clubs, but more often we would just phone up an escort agency. “We could charge them straight to the BP Amex card. But it sometimes became problematic. One group of Khazak Oil officials stripped their hotel rooms in Aberdeen coffins, including the sheets and pillowcases, and they would usually clear out the minibars wherever they to were staying."

When in September 1992 BP signed to a £300 million deal to exploit the Shah Deniz oilfields, they had a dinner where among the guests at to dinner and ceremony at Baku's Gulistan Palace to celebrated the Shah Deniz deal to were Lord Browne and Baroness Thatcher.

Later that year after a change of government in Azerbaijan BP signed a £5 billion deal which placed BP at the head of an oil exporting consortium.

MI6 is accused of supply weapons to the opposing political group that later took power and signed the £5 B contract.

BP's COMMENT WAS THAT THERE WERE NO DOUBT LOADS OF FACTS IN MR ABRAHAMS ACCOUNT, BUT THAT DO NOT RECOGNIZE ANY FACTS KNOWN TO THEM IN THE ACCOUNT - THEY REGARD IT AS A FANTASY.

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OK - SO HOW IS THIS GOING TO BRING DOWN THE LABOR GOVERNMENT - TORY ICON THATCHER WAS AT AT LEAST ONE EVIL DINNER - AND WHY DO YOU SAY IT WAS CENSORED?

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lame!

I read a post saying it would blow the politics in the UK up - and -I should have made it clear which Browne was in the story.

Fugg -this could be big. Sex and big oil!!!:popcorn: :popcorn:

n/t

Maybe it was here, but was deleted as a "Sex Thread"?

I'm just snarky because I never seem to get invited to a "champagne fuelled sex party".

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3262770&mesg_id=3262773


How much does a bottle Champagne cost 20-30 $?

It doesn't need to be the stuff Puff Daddy drinks ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristal">Cristal for 350 $)

"... beautiful 20 year old lady physics major meets 56 year old engineer at champagne fuelled sex party. Engineer's wife of 28 years sues for divorce..."

Maybe not.

marriages failed because they always came home smelling like oil.

then Yes, they just might be better at finding the news they censor.

So concerned.

Bwahhahahahaha!!! :rofl:

maybe they want a mega-thread started?

n/t (inappropriately placed in body of text before a waving emoticon)

because the relevant accusations are about the early 90s, when a completely different government were in power.

Also note that "it was immediately subject to a D notice" indicates a lack of knowledge about the present system:



What might be of concern to the government is the section



Scarlett is now the head of MI6. Accusations of the intelligence service orchestrating coups would be embarrassing - about it's possible that would fall foul of DA-Notice 5.

Of course, it's also possible that it's been withdrawn for libel reasons.

a bit amazing to me.

I could see the power of MI6 in Brittan - but to force a take down from a right wing Italian site was an eyebrow raiser.

I suspected single sourced story and libel under Brit laws that are so much better on this than those in the US, could have led to the story's disappearance.

But the found by google at 10 am and gone from any google search - even in google cache - by 2 pm, convinced me it had to be cooperation between various countries secret services - so the D-notice - or just a phone call or two - had to be the expanation.