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John Adams House - 9 Grosvenor Square - the lair of Tony Blair

By
Memetic Engineer
on November 14, 2008 2:59 AM |

Controversial former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is now an international Peace Envoy, philanthropist and £12 million a year public speaker.

The Office of Tony Blair is based at 9 Grosvenor Square. This was once the first US Embassy, back in the 18th century, and is situated at the north east corner of Grosvenor Square and the corner of Brook Street and Duke Street.

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Latitude: N51:30:45 ( 51.512602 )
Longitude: W0:09:01 ( -0.150239 )

The Office of Tony Blair - John Adams House - 9 Grosvenor Square from the Canadian High Commission side

 

9 Grosvenor Square from the park in the middle of Grosvenor Square

Property Week reports that the rent on these offices is over half a million pounds a year. This is all paid for by the Quartet on the Middle East - the United States of America, the Russian Federation, the United Nations and the European Union, for whom Tony Blair acts as a Special Envoy mostly to Israel and Palestine, as well as a base for his Faith and Sports Charitable Foundations, and Corporate Directorships etc.

Canadian High Commission

By
Memetic Engineer
on August 12, 2007 9:30 PM |

Canadian High Commission

Macdonald House
1 Grosvenor Square
London W1K 4AB

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Cuban Embassy

By
Memetic Engineer
on August 12, 2007 9:16 PM | | Comments (1)

Embassy of the Republic of Cuba

167 High Holborn
London WC1 6PA

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GPS grid coordinates:
Latitude: (WGS84) N51:30:59 ( 51.516372 )
Longitude: (WGS84) W0:07:31 ( -0.125411 )

See also the semi-live BBC Jam Cam image, (these are updated every few minutes, unless there is some interesting incident, when the feeds are censored), from the Shaftesbury Avenue / Princes Circus / High Holborn camera.

The Cuban Embassy is on the corner of High Holborn with Grape Street, very close to the two William Gibson Spook Country book promotion venues

USA Embassy

By
Memetic Engineer
on August 12, 2007 9:07 PM |

Embassy of the United States

24 Grosvenor Square
London

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GPS grid coordinates:
Latitude: (WGS84) N51:30:40 ( 51.511138 )
Longitude: (WGS84) W0:09:12 ( -0.153195 )

The planned new US Embassy will be built (with a moat and landscaped defences) on the south bank of the river Thames, at Nine Elms, Battersea, between Battersea Power Station and the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 HQ at Vauxhall Cross.

See: New US Embassy design in Battersea - a fortress like the Tower of London ?

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Russian Embassy

By
Memetic Engineer
on August 12, 2007 8:48 PM |

Embassy of the Russian Federation
6 - 7 Kensington Palace Gardens
London
W8 4QP

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GPS grid coordinates:
Latitude: (WGS84) N51:30:25 ( 51.506992 )
Longitude: (WGS84) W0:11:26 ( -0.190685 )

The refusal by the Russian government to allow the extradition or prosecution of the chief suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, namely Andrei Lugovoi, has resulted in a Cold War style declaration of 4 Russian diplomats and / or spies fromthe Russian Embassy in London, with equivalent retaliation against 4 British diplomats / spies in Moscow.

Chinese Embassy

By
Memetic Engineer
on August 12, 2007 8:11 PM |

Embassy of the People's Republic of China
49-51 Portland Place (western corner with Weymouth Street)
London,
W1B 1JL

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GPS grid coordinates:
Latitude: (WGS84) N51:31:16 ( 51.521120 )
Longitude: (WGS84) W0:08:45 ( -0.145800 )

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Note the large array of various types of radio antennas on the roof.

There is a permanent Free Tibet demonstration in support of the occupied and oppressed country of Tibet (which was invaded by Communist China in 1950) , on the other side of Portland Place, outside the the Royal Institute of British Architects.

The Free Tibet campaign has been subjected to Chinese "cyber warfare" over the years.

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