Mr Cmore Sweeny, picture by courtesy of Christmyhero website. Mr Sweeny may like the colour "blue" judging by this picture.
1 Foolish son + 1 Cunning Property Developer = The end of 1 political career.
Hopefully photos will be added later. This is the only photo I have available of Mr Cmore Sweeny, TumbleDown Dick and Ian Paisley who seems to be doing an impression of a Marlon Brando scene from "The Godfather", maybe it should be termed "The FraudFather."
Hopefully photos will be added later. This is the only photo I have available of Mr Cmore Sweeny, TumbleDown Dick and Ian Paisley who seems to be doing an impression of a Marlon Brando scene from "The Godfather", maybe it should be termed "The FraudFather."
Photos of Mr Sweeny are available in the same quantity as those of John "Bunter" Graham! very few!
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Now Sam...if we stepback from the blackboard and re look at this problem,should not we factor in let's see here ...ah yes
i lady foster + i elder statesman
+perhaps the wife of the cunning developer + i right hand man to the elder statesman a ( gopher ) perhaps or one may call him a yes man.Now Sam what is your simplified formula for this.
if one put a book title to this could it be called "ending political careers for "DUMMIES" ?
OTOB ANONYMOUS
I am afraid the week I spent in the IOM has left me a bit behind regarding this story. Mr. Sweeny reminds me of a Mr. JBG who is known to stroll about the Shankhill and frequent an Eastwoods bookies in Castle st, Belfast.
Why does this story keep on growing? CAUSE IT'S THE WAY "
Is something troubling you, First Minister?
H"mmmmmmmmmm
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Paisley lauds open government and now wants revise freedom of information access
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
By David Gordon
First Minister Ian Paisley is coming under fire after threatening to curtail freedom of information rights in Northern Ireland.
The Stormont supremo claimed in the Assembly that legislation designed to promote openness was being used "by lazy journalists who will not do any work".
And he predicted that "reform" of the provisions will have to be introduced.
His comments have been criticised by two of the UK's leading freedom of information (FoI) experts.
Mr Paisley's outburst came just four days after an FoI disclosure to the Belfast Telegraph exposed controversial lobbying by him on the Giant's Causeway visitor centre issue.
It was discovered that the DUP leader had lambasted the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2003 for turning down a grant application by would-be centre developer Seymour Sweeney, who is a DUP member.
Mr Paisley stated in a letter that Mr Sweeney's plans had the approval of world heritage body UNESCO. That has been firmly denied by UNESCO.
The First Minister's salvo on Freedom of Information was made in the Assembly.
He said: "There is no doubt that the evidence thus far already suggests that dealing with FoI requests takes up a considerable amount of staff time.
"On occasions, the requests are of a wide-ranging and detailed nature that requires many hours of research, and are sent in by lazy journalists, who will not do any work, but who think that we should pay them and give them the information that they want.
"That, inevitably, adds time and resource pressures onto the Departments.
"If, in collating evidence on how the current procedures are working, the Departments discover that reform is needed - and I think they will - it will have to take place."
The Freedom of Information Act, which took effect in 2005, gives civil servants the right to reject requests on the grounds that they would involve excessive costs.
Mr Paisley and his Stormont Executive colleagues do not have the power to alter this legislation, as it applies to England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
To restrict its provisions, they would have to either lobby Westminster for action or table new legislation in the Assembly.
The Director of the UK-wide Campaign for Freedom of Information, Maurice Frankel, warned against any weakening of the Act.
He said it already struck a balance between cost and time issues for officials and public access to information.
"To introduce additional restrictions would really balance the whole Act against disclosure and in favour of administrative convenience and protecting politicians from scrutiny," Mr Frankel said.
"That's the last thing Northern Ireland needs. Above everything else, it needs openness and higher standards of scrutiny to demonstrate that the political system is functioning in an open and accountable way and is doing the job that people expect of it.
"For it to go in the opposite direction would undermine public confidence in what politicians were doing - at a time when they most need public confidence."
Leading FoI campaigner Heather Brooke, who has written an acclaimed book on the subject, said: "Let's be clear, we are talking about information created and maintained at public expense in the name of the public.
"In a democracy, it shouldn't be too much to ask that the public be able to access the fruits of their labour. Politicians aren't some special elite who get to fund their own secret libraries at taxpayers' expense.
"Public servants can refuse requests that are too broad already. If they want less work for themselves there is a simple solution - publish all the information they've released proactively and speak to requesters directly to help narrow down excessive requests."
The Stormont First Minister issued a glowing press release on Government FoI disclosures in July, in which he stated: "In response to requests concerning a wide range of issues of public interest, our departments have disclosed significant amounts of information never released previously.
"They are making considerable strides towards achieving our goal of more open government."
MM II
Now Sam ...i again need your wisdom
in the above article dr p wants to stop the freedom of info act,but it seems in this article he states that he is doing "great "with it
i can not understand please help .
The following article of Wednesday, August 29, obtained from the now decommissioned blogspot called "What Need of Further Lies", managed by Samuel Morrison. Like the Concerned Free Presbyterian website, it too has been taken down as part of the deal!
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Paisley vs. the Free Presbyterian Church
Remember how Paisley claimed he couldn't comment on the Sexual Orientation Regulations because they were the subject of a judicial review? Well what he didn't tell us was that the judicial review had been brought by the Christian Institute in a court case which was funded by a number of evangelical churches � including the Free Presbyterian Church. Not only that but the Office of the First and Deputy First Minister ( i.e. Ian and Martin's government department) was the defendant in the case. On the 1st August I lodged a Freedom of Information request with Ian and Martin's office.
Here is my reply:
Dear Mr Morrison, Freedom of Information Act 2000 I refer to your request for information about the Sexual Orientation Regulations legal action which was received on 31st July 2007. I am writing to confirm that OFMDFM has now completed its search for this information � please see the responses to each of your questions below.
Q1: Can you confirm that lawyers defended OFMDFM in the action brought by the Christian Institute? Yes.
Q2: How much to date (ie at 31st July 2007) has it cost the OFMDFM to defend this action? To date, internal legal costs amount to approximately �7,000. Costs in such cases are determined at the conclusion of the Judicial Review. Other costs therefore may subsequently be determined by the Judge at the delivery of his final judgement.
Remember � "Costs in such cases are determined at the conclusion of the Judicial Review" - �7,000 is only the very tip of the iceberg. When Ian Paisley said "Allister ought to realise that my staff and I have much more important things to be doing at the present time than responding to his perpetual petty attacks and insults" what he meant was: "My staff are much too busy fighting court cases paid for by the church of which I am moderator to answer principled people like yourself". Although there have been some, honourable exceptions, the vast majority of Free Presbyterian ministers have stayed silent on the issue of government funding for sodomites (just as they have on the issue of terrorists in government � which is just as clearly condemned in Scripture). Will they ignore the fact that their own moderator is fighting them in the courts as well?
(End of Article by Samuel Morrison formerly of 'What Need of Further Lies?')
Well Sam ,i truly hope that yoy can be of help.
MM II
Unless my ears deceived me, I could swear I heard Yvette Shapiro described as "business correspondent" for BBC NI. Perhaps Shapiro could do a busines profile of Mr.Cmore Sweeny.
It would be interesting to know if Mr Sweeny has been doing business with any FP ministers as well as DUP ministers?
Your quote;
"The following article of Wednesday, August 29, obtained from the now decommissioned blogspot called "What Need of Further Lies", managed by Samuel Morrison. Like the Concerned Free Presbyterian website, it too has been taken down as part of the deal!"
Perhaps some enteprisding journalist could take a closer look at the alleged "deal" you describe?
Good Day Mr.Flanagan
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perhaps you have heard of him ?
well in any event i am fresh out of colege and am ready to tackle the tough stories and i just now returned from the USA where i attended the seminar attached and i was highly motivated to get to work ,then i saw your blog ,i live here now you know so i will be checking in with you time to time .
may i call you chief?
jimmy olsen
soon to be
ACE CUB REPORTER
WATERGATE and whatever else comes my way.
ps .the picture looks more like some scene from HARRY POTTER .
don't you think?
FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Carl Bernstein took reporters at a news conference to task for not spending enough time on stories when he found out many weren't staying to listen to his speech.
Bernstein, who along with reporter Bob Woodward broke the Watergate scandal that helped bring down the Nixon administration, spoke to journalists before a speech Wednesday at Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne.
When he asked how many reporters were covering his evening speech, many said they were not, citing early deadlines.
Bernstein then criticized reporters for rushing from event to event and not taking the time to do in depth stories even if they had to work off the clock.
If you're going to do in depth stories, you're going to do them on your own time Bernstein said.
He also urged reporters to be good listeners.
I think it's really the most important lesson of all, Bernstein said.
CHIEF, I WILL BE A LISTENING.\I have my ears on.
Chief,I sure do have a lot to work with.
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hey Chief is this a novel or what?
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Hi Chief......on the story i found this at the belfast telegraph David Gordon is going a great job.
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soon tobe
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Paisley jnr lobbied direct rule Ministers
[Published: Friday 12, October 2007 - 08:02]
By David Gordon
Ian Paisley jnr lobbied the Direct Rule ministerial team on the Giant's Causeway visitors' centre issue in the run-up to the restoration of devolution, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.
And speculation that the subject was even raised at last year's pre-devolution talks in St Andrews has been heightened by the content of an internal Government document obtained by this newspaper.
Mr Paisley jnr has been a long-standing supporter of plans by fellow DUP member Seymour Sweeney for a commercial Causeway centre development.
Details of representations made by the politician have slowly emerged in the wake of a preliminary announcement by DUP Environment Minister Arlene Foster in favour of the businessman's scheme.
Mrs Foster has stressed that she was not lobbied by anyone over the Causeway proposals and that she had been unaware that Mr Sweeney was a DUP member.
Supporters of Mr Paisley jnr - a junior Stormont Minister - have defended his right to speak up for a businessman in his north Antrim constituency.
But the DUP MLA is still being challenged to spell out the extent of his lobbying in support of the developer.
The Belfast Telegraph understands from Government sources that he made personal representations to Direct Rule Environment Minister David Cairns on Mr Sweeney's planning application for a visitors' centre at the Causeway.
Mr Paisley jnr is also believed to have raised the subject with Secretary of State Peter Hain's senior team.
There have been suggestions from other political parties that Mr Sweeney's scheme was also raised in and around the St Andrews talks in October 2006 on the restoration of devolution - and that it was part of a "shopping list " that DUP negotiators wanted the NIO to address.
That speculation will be fuelled by the emergence of a high-level Government email dated October 24, 2006.
It was sent by a senior Department of Enterprise official to a civil service colleague in the Department of the Environment's Planning Service.
The memo related to the planning framework under which a decision would be made on Mr Sweeney's visitors' centre application. It asked for confirmation that these ground rules would only permit replacement visitor facilities and not an additional visitors' centre.
The memo added: "Grateful if you would come back to me by cop (close of play) today as this is required for ministerial briefing flowing out of St Andrews."
The email sent by the Planning Service in reply stated that a replacement to the existing visitor facility would be allowed, subject to its meeting planning policy requirements.
It also stated that, "as there is an existing visitor centre, it is unlikely that the department would approve an application for an additional facility".
At the time of this email, the Department of Enterprise was in partnership with the National Trust and Moyle Council on plans to replace their existing visitor facilities with a new publicly- owned centre.
This project was shelved last month by DUP Enterprise Minister Nigel Dodds, Mrs Foster announced she was "of a mind" to approve Mr Sweeney's rival plans.
Critics of Mrs Foster's provisional verdict have argued that it would lead to two visitors' centres at the Causeway - the premises currently operated by the National Trust and Moyle Council and Mr Sweeney's new commercial development.
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SAM...PERHAOS NEXT WEEK START A NEW POST.....
CAUSEWAYGATE AMPLIFIED............
THE SPILLING OF THE BEANS IS ON THE WAY GETTING CLOSER NOW.
MM II
Odds on for a new Unionist party?
[Published: Friday 12, October 2007 - 09:53]
You can't split the unionist vote if you have no support in the first place.
Either some unionists are indeed 'oddities' - as Peter Robinson described them (Belfast Telegraph, October 4) and, ironically, he was speaking in Dublin of all places - in which case they are no threat in terms of splitting the pro-Union vote because no one will vote for them.
Or else they do represent a strand of unionist opinion that has no other political home, now that the DUP have adopted the policies of David Trimble's Ulster Unionist Party. In that case, by standing these 'oddities' will provide an option for unionists who do not want to support a pro-Agreement party.
These people may well be 'oddities', but Mr Robinson didn't describe them in such terms when they were valued party colleagues. The fact is that these people are merely articulating the very policies which the DUP used to believe in until last year's trip to St Andrews.
Just like the Free Presbyterian Church, these so-called 'oddities' haven't changed their tune, but Ian Paisley and the DUP are nearly unrecognisable from a year ago.
We do indeed live in interesting times when Ian Paisley will happily pose for photographs with Martin McGuinness, yet former DUP colleagues, many of whom gave a lifetime of service to the DUP, can be dismissed as 'oddities'.
There was a time, and it's not so long ago, that the DUP leadership were 'oddities' too.
Unionist, Portstewart
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Hey chief, I found a picture of 'Sweeney'. Go to 'Christ my Hero' blogspot, go to 'Older posts', 3rd article down entitled: 'DUP Cronyism'.
Thank-you for you info regarding the photo.
How did the original visitor center come to be burned down in the first place?
Hello Sam and friends..this comment was left on paisley ties
and i thought perhaps someone here may know the answer.
HH II
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Anonymous said...
Does anyone know about the FPC Magherafelt elder, Raymond Linton, who has his membership removed?
Has he been cancelled as amn elder/member? end of comment....
Also does anyone know what happened to the pastor and his family who left in the middle of the night i'm told at the bushmills fpc church also which i am told had a empty collection plate --on going -but i am told that the building is worth some 3 million sits on the property next to ?is there some building going on in the area by some one we all know ???well perhaps some one has a flashlight and can shine it in dark corners and hidden places.
October 13, 2007 3:10 AM
HH II
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