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Saturday, 21 May 2016

Battle for Aleppo - the End of Erdogan’s Ottoman Dream in Syria

Catherine Shakdam
New Eastern Outlook

Forget Damascus and forget President Bashar al-Assad’s seat of power – the real battle for Syria is being played out in the northern city of Aleppo, where Turkey dared dream it would revive its empire of old. Ankara here, is in for a rude awakening!

So rude in fact that Turkish President Recep Erdogan is contemplating a military incursion into Syria – a move fraught with dangers, as it could potentially send Turkey in a collision course with not just Damascus, but two military superpowers; Iran and Russia. Needless to say that while both Moscow and Tehran have exercised restraint and measure when dealing with Ankara’s political folly, for the sake of regional stability; a direct military move against Syria would likely send ripples across the region that no amount of diplomacy will quiet.

Turkey of course argues that its position is legitimate and true … how could it not, when Turkey has proven such a true NATO ally, such a bulwark against terror? President Erdogan’s main line of defense – or rather, attack is that he needs to absolutely protect Turkey’s national sovereignty against dangerous radical militants. Turkey’s right to self-defence is so imperious in fact that its expression justifies its trampling over the territorial integrity of another sovereign nation: Syria.

In this exceptional narrative Syria has been relegated to a military theatre where nation-states have come to play war, and empire-building. Syria, Mr Erdogan has implied, stands but a dwarf before Turkey’s political and military needs … who cares for international law when one towers a strategic chokepoint in between the EU and a flood of migrants?


Wednesday, 26 March 2014

What Separatism Means

Lew Rockwell

Ivan Daraktchiev sent me several of his papers in appreciation of my work which he views as expressing many ideas similar to his. There’s good thinking and insights in his work. Naturally, one may not agree with all of his ideas. There are ideas of my own that I’ve expressed over the years that I may now disagree with.

The strength of his analysis is to take a broad view across many countries in order to understand events. Having lived through Communism in Bulgaria before leaving for Belgium, he is familiar with the devastation caused by a bureaucratic class of parasites, the nomenklatura, that destroys a society, both morally and economically. This idea aligns with the Austrian analysis. After years in Belgium, he realized that the EU was similar to the Communist system in being taken over by a nomenklatura. In fact, many western democracies are in the same position. He calls this parasitic and destructive political system “nomenklaturocracy” and says Orwell was right about it. So have been Mises and Rothbard and Rockwell and many others in the intellectual movement toward freedom, better societies and better political arrangements.

With this idea in mind, that all governments are controlled by ruling classes that attempt to insulate themselves from their subjects, the differences between communism, fascism, and representative democracy become only matters of degree. Lengthy disputes between democrats and republicans become trivial. Notions that a republic will outdo a democracy become off target since both involve constitutions and representatives, and these lead to party control and nomenklaturae. The key question is always the extent to which a nomenklatura has turned government into a nomenklaturoracy. The key question is the extent to which a government has been captured by those in the government so that the people have lost control of it.

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Monday, 3 February 2014

Corruption across EU 'breathtaking' - EU Commission

Comment: "breathtakingly" obvious?

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BBC News

The extent of corruption in Europe is "breathtaking" and it costs the EU economy about 120bn euros (£99bn) annually, the European Commission says. EU Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem will present a full report on the problem at 11:30 GMT. 

Writing in Sweden's Goeteborgs-Posten daily, she said corruption was eroding trust in democracy and draining resources from the legal economy. For the report the Commission studied corruption in all 28 EU member states. 

"The extent of the problem in Europe is breathtaking, although Sweden is among the countries with the least problems," Ms Malmstroem wrote. 

The Commission says it is the first time it has produced such a report. It also makes recommendations on how to tackle corruption. National governments, rather than EU institutions, are chiefly responsible for fighting corruption in the EU.

The EU has an anti-fraud agency, Olaf, which focuses on fraud and corruption affecting the EU budget, but it has limited resources. In 2011 its budget was just 23.5m euros.

Ms Malmstroem said that in some countries public procurement procedures were vulnerable to fraud, while in others party financing was the main problem, or municipal bodies were badly affected. And in some countries patients have to pay bribes in order to get adequate medical care, she wrote.

The EU study includes two major opinion polls, which indicated that three-quarters of EU citizens consider corruption to be widespread in their country. Four out of 10 of the businesses surveyed described corruption as an obstacle to doing business in Europe. 

In Sweden, 18% of people surveyed said they knew someone who had received a bribe, compared with a European average of 12%, Ms Malmstroem said. Despite that finding, she said Sweden "is undoubtedly one of the countries with the least problems with corruption, and other EU countries should learn from Sweden's solutions for dealing with the problem", pointing to the role of laws on transparency and openness.

Organised crime groups have sophisticated networks across Europe and the EU police agency Europol says there are at least 3,000 of them. Bulgaria, Romania and Italy are particular hotspots for organised crime gangs in the EU, but white-collar crimes like bribery and VAT (sales tax) fraud plague many EU countries. 

Last year Europol director Rob Wainwright said VAT fraud in the carbon credits market had cost the EU about 5bn euros.

Sunday, 11 December 2011

Demise of the Euro: Part of a Long-term Plan for a Global "Super-currency" controlled by the Banksters


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RT
Adrian Salbuchi

Efforts by European leaders to shoe-horn a range of diverse countries into a rigid financial cage are doomed to fail. But that’s all part of a long-term plan for a global super-currency which can only bring more hardship to ordinary working people.

A question that more and more people are asking nowadays is, “What on Earth were the Europeans thinking when they agreed to have just one currency for all of Europe?” 

In Greek mythology, Procrustes was the son of Poseidon, God of the deep blue seas. He built an iron bed of a size that suited him, and then forced everybody who passed by his abode to lie on it. If the passerby was shorter than his bed, then Procrustes would stretch him, breaking bones, tendons and sinews until the victim fitted; if he was taller, then Procrustes would chop off feet and limbs until the victim was the “right” size…

This ancient story of “one size fits all” seems to have made its 21st Century comeback when Europeans were coaxed into imposing upon themselves an oxymoron; a blatant and conceptual contradiction they call “the euro”.

This common supranational currency invented by the French and Germans, boycotted by the UK, ignored by the Swiss, managed by the Germans and accepted by the rest of Europe in blissful ignorance, has finally dropped its mask to reveal its ugly face: an impossible mechanism that only serves the elite bankers but not the working people. 

It masked gross contradictions as large, far-reaching and varied as the relative sizes, strengths, profiles, styles, histories, econometrics, labor policies, pension plans, industries, and human and natural resources of the 17 eurozone nations, ranging from Germany and France at one end of the scale, to Greece, Portugal and Ireland at the other.

As we said in a recent article, the euro carries an expiry date; perhaps the eurocrats who were its midwives a decade ago expected that it would live a little longer, maybe even come of age… But they certainly knew that, sooner or later, the euro would die; that it was meant to die. 




Friday, 9 December 2011

CIA 'Secret Prison' Found in Romania


The Orniss building in Bucharest identified as a CIA secret prison in a German media investigation (8 December 2011)  
Former CIA operatives said the building 
was used to interrogate terrorism suspects, 
including Khaled Sheikh Mohammed


The CIA operated a secret prison in the Romanian capital Bucharest where terrorism suspects were interrogated, an investigation by the Associated Press and German media has found.

Former CIA operatives identified the building where, they said, detainees were held and tortured.

The building belongs to a Romanian agency, Orniss, which stores classified information from the EU and Nato.

Orniss has denied hosting a CIA prison and the CIA has refused to comment.

The investigation, by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and the German TV network ARD, said those held in the secret prison included Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, who has admitted organising the 9/11 attacks.

He was seized in Pakistan in March 2003 under the US programme known as "extraordinary rendition" - the extra-judicial detention and transfer of terrorism suspects.

He has been in the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay since 2006, where he is awaiting trial. 





Thursday, 8 December 2011

War on Iran has already begun. Act before it threatens all of us


Great article. What the author doesn't know or realise is that these guys WANT a third world war. The crazies at the top of the pile from coporatists to religious fundamentialists to the Zionist mafia all want this war for different but very much aligned reasons. This is not geo-political myopia or bravado. At certain top level tiers of the pathocratic pyramid: this is part of a long-term strategy.

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Guardian

Escalation of the covert US-Israeli campaign against Tehran risks a global storm. Opposition has to get more serious

Iranians honour dead Revolutionary Guards commander
Iranians carry honorary coffins and pictures of a Revolutionary Guards 
commander killed in an explosion at the Alghadir missile base. 
Photograph: Reuters
They don't give up. After a decade of blood-drenched failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, violent destabilisation of Pakistan and Yemen, the devastation of Lebanon and slaughter in Libya, you might hope the US and its friends had had their fill of invasion and intervention in the Muslim world.

It seems not. For months the evidence has been growing that a US-Israeli stealth war against Iran has already begun, backed by Britain and France. Covert support for armed opposition groups has spread into a campaign of assassinations of Iranian scientists, cyber warfare, attacks on military and missile installations, and the killing of an Iranian general, among others.

The attacks are not directly acknowledged, but accompanied by intelligence-steered nods and winks as the media are fed a stream of hostile tales – the most outlandish so far being an alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the US – and the western powers ratchet up pressure for yet more sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme.

The British government's decision to take the lead in imposing sanctions on all Iranian banks and pressing for an EU boycott of Iranian oil triggered the trashing of its embassy in Tehran by demonstrators last week and subsequent expulsion of Iranian diplomats from London.

It's a taste of how the conflict can quickly escalate, as was the downing of a US spyplane over Iranian territory at the weekend. What one Israeli official has called a "new kind of war" has the potential to become a much more old-fashioned one that would threaten us all.


Friday, 28 October 2011

Breaking Free from Subservience

Activist Post

When in Poland I gain a certain perspective on England; and when in England, a certain perspective on Poland. In Poland many grapple from day to day with the nitty gritty of survival, easing their load with a cheery cynicism concerning anything and everything 'political'. Whereas in England, it seems somehow disreputable to be struggling with the basics of life, and there remains a naively wishful trust that the political regime of one's choice will eventually deliver some appropriate solution to the problems of the day.

Which leads one to recognise that different cultures have different perspectives on the same basic problems and different ways of dealing with them. So let us be wary of a “European Union” that tries to bring about a standardised European super state in which all countries involved are expected to conform to the same (largely financial) goals. It doesn't work. But that doesn't mean that those at the top end of the power pyramid aren't determined to make it work; just as 'The United States of America' is projected as a unified entity ruled by a caring President, when just under the surface a very different reality is easily visible. The 'United' States and the European 'Union' are covert tools for the acquisition of power for those at the top of the pyramid. They are global trading blocks that operate as cartels for big business and corporate enrichment while maintaining a veneer of cultural cosmopolitanism and commonality.

How is this grand subterfuge brought about?

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Tuesday, 25 October 2011

European Union chiefs are drawing up plans for a single “Treasury”

Telegraph

The proposal, put forward by Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president, would be the clearest sign yet of a new “United States of Europe” — with Britain left on the sidelines.

The plan comes as European governments desperately trying to save the euro from collapse last night faced a new bombshell, with sources at the International Monetary Fund saying it would not pay for a second Greek bail-out.

It was also disclosed last night that British businesses are turning their back on Brussels regulations to give temporary workers full employment rights, with supermarket chain Tesco leading the charge.

Meanwhile, David Cameron is attempting to face down a rebellion tomorrow by Tory MPs in a vote over staging a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU.

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Sunday, 25 September 2011

Multi-Trillion Plan to Save the Eurozone Being Prepared


Telegraph

'German and French authorities have begun work on a three-pronged strategy behind the scenes amid escalating fears that the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis is spiralling out of control.

Their aim is to build a “firebreak” around Greece, Portugal and Ireland to prevent the crisis spreading to Italy and Spain, countries considered “too big to bail”.

According to sources, progress has been made at the G20 meeting in Washington, where global leaders piled pressure on the eurozone to fix its problems before plunging the world back into recession. In a G20 communique issued on Friday, the world’s leading economies set themselves a six-week deadline to resolve the crisis – to unveil a solution by the G20 summit in Cannes on November 4.'

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European Parliament Opens £15.5 Million Temple to MEPs




'The European Parliament has been accused of "self-glorification" after defying national austerity cuts by opening a £15.5 million high-technology "parlamentarium" to showcase the work of MEPs.'



Monday, 25 July 2011

'Germany feeding off debt-ridden zones'



Germany's export market is parasitically benefitting from fragile, debt-stricken economies and would therefore prefer to sustain the status-quo, an analyst says. 

“Germany benefits from having these weaker economies stay weak because it keeps the Euro relatively cheap and helps their export market,” said Paris-based financial journalist and broadcaster Max Keiser in an interview with Press TV.

He likened EU efforts to prevent the collapse of the European Monetary Union (EMU) in an emergency meeting in Brussels to continuing to “kick the can down the road.”

“None of these policies are addressing the actual problem here, which is that the growth can't possibly be robust enough to pay down these debts.”

“They [EU leaders] will continue to impose austerity measures on the peripheral countries and this is just going to perpetuate the current environment of unsustainable debts, failed policies and a bankrupt central government in the ECB (European Central Bank),” he added.


Keiser dubbed the current economic crisis as a “charade” tracing its roots to US banks in particular which are merely in pursuit of gold.

“That's what this whole charade is about. Stage a fake financial crisis and give us your gold. In my opinion that's really the dimension of what we're talking about.”


Keiser advised financially-stricken countries to follow Iceland's suit in divorcing themselves from these “corrupt banking institutions.”

“Obviously these countries like Greece and others would do much better if they had their own currency and were in control of their own destiny.”

 


Tuesday, 19 July 2011

Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho discovers 'colossal' budget hole

Telegraph

 

Yields on two-year Portuguese debt rose to a fresh record of 20.3pc on Monday, reflecting fears by investors that the country would struggle to pull itself out of downward spiral without some form of debt restructuring. 

Mr Passos Coelho also appeared to caution the European authorities that his government will not tolerate heavy-handed interference in the country. 

"We want to take part in an ambitious European project and make our contribution so Europe can confront its problems in the most ambitious way, but as prime minister I will not stand by and let Europe govern Portugal," he told a party gathering. 

There is growing rancor in Lisbon over the term of the €78bn rescue by the EU and the International Monetary Fund, and the sweeping powers of the inspectors as they impose a "structural adjustment" on the economy. 

The penal rate of interest charged by the EU is expected to top 5.5pc and risks trapping the country in debt-deflation. At the same time fiscal austerity, without offsetting monetary stimulus or devaluation, may tip the economy into an even deeper downturn. 

EU officials are pushing hard for a 100 basis points reduction in rates on rescue loans, hoping to win backing from a reluctant Germany at an EU summit on Thursday. 

The revelation of a budget hole in Portugal has echoes of what occurred in Greece in late 2009, when an audit by the new Pasok government exposed a budget deficit twice the level previously declared to the European Commission. 

Portugal's government will have to cover the gap with another round of spending cuts, mostly in the civil service and state-owned industries. The sacrosanct Christmas Bonus is already being slashed, effectively cutting salaries. 

Portugal is obliged to cut the budget deficit to 5.9pc of GDP this year under its rescue terms. This looks like a Sisyphean task since the deficit was still 8.7pc in the first quarter, and further austerity will have the side-effect of choking tax revenue. The experience of Greece is that the country can find itself chasing its tail, with the deficit remaining stubbornly high in a shrinking economy. Portugal's central bank said the economy will contract a further 1.8pc next year. 

"There are limits to cutting: you can't just cut blindly," said Mr Passos Coelho. 

 

Thursday, 14 July 2011

“For the revolution from Tunisia to Siberia!”


Though the globalization and the current financial and economic crisis look true-to life it is not ruled out that they were created artificially  and  that everything which is going on now is not without a purpose (no matter how indecent it is considered to speak about “global conspiracy”  in a decent society).

The current situation in the world is an intermediate stage of the project, the representatives of global elite started almost 50 years ago in order to create the global technotronic network society.

Back in 1996, almost 25 years after the globalization project was launched (around 1969-1971) and 15 years before the current financial economic crisis, which is now tearing the world into pieces, the editors of a trustworthy German weekly “Spiegel” H.P. Martin and H. Schumann published a study, in which they illustrated with the help of numerous empirical the negative sides of the “global restructuring”, which did not fit the rosy picture which flew out of the economic models. In other words, even back then the old economic paradigm produced false results and in the critical moments it cried for replacement.

The trends, defined in the study by Martin and Schumann, have fully developed in the modern globalized world. 

 Except for the first and the most important observation made by the German authors who said that the globalization leads to the change of the social system in compliance with “Pareto distribution”. On speaking with the fathers of globalization Spiegel’s editors stated that the current trend is not a coincidental but targeted and expected result.

The term “Pareto distribution” used in sociology and economics implies the situation when the changes accumulated in the system lead to the redistribution of resources between its components in a certain geometrical progression for example 20:80. Applied to the society this terms means the following - no matter how rich/poor the society gets, how its population grows or declines - 20 % of members always own 80% of the common wealth. The same applies to the distribution of power, passionarity, capacity and everything which relates to self-organization.

Knowing this it becomes clear why the public discussion of the globalization as a “20:80” project was tabooed. The unification of world into the single financial-economic system on the one hand has turned it into a closed system leaving no free niches for losers. Outsiders do not have any free areas they can move to and to start the life from scratch. 

On the other hand, in a “big economic game” the open principle has been preserved: the sources of its energy remained external (and at least on the current stage) inexhaustible. The final prize for the winners is total monopolization of all segments they control in social and economic life and laying hand on all the wealth on the planet. Of course, it is not reasonable to declare such things openly to those, who can stay without resources due to such a global swindle.

Those, who were pushed by the global swindle to the “backyards of the existence”, are described simply as “almost the whole human race”. Among the data, which leaked from the last year session of the Bilderberg club, was a statement that “according to their estimations’ the number of successful people in the world is about 150 million (with family members it is 250-280 millions), which is 4% of almost 7-billion population of Earth. What about the rest? They are automatically regarded as “defeated”, “spare”, “redundant” and are subject if not to direct reduction but at least to being pushed to the level of social degradation. The entire geographic regions are destined for desolation, and the institute of statehood as such is threatened, as it becomes unnecessary in the world, divided into the spheres of influence of global financial groups (GFG) and transnational companies (TNC).

The last session of the Bilderberg, which was held on June 9-12, 2011, in Saint Moritz in Switzerland besides the topics announced earlier (the Fukushima disaster, the shutdown of the nuclear plants in Germany, the Arab revolutions, cyberspace problems), also focused at the “liquidation of Europe”(as it was claimed by the General Director of Deutsche Bank J. Akkerman) and artificial prolongation of the global financial crisis in order to weaken the national economies and to create the transnational management system…

Indeed, Europe was in focus of the roaring spring of 2011. Europe’s main “fault” in terms of the global project, is an “extremely” high level of living of its 400-million population, protected by serious social guarantees. These social guarantees are financed from the profits TNC and GFG, (registered in Europe) made on the exports of technologies and saving money on cheap labor force in China and South Eastern Asia.

There are several sectors for the attacks in order to demolish the European stronghold: 1) financial-economic sector (undermining European countries’ economies), 2) political sector (the break up of the European Union), 3) social sector (the launch of the “manageable chaos” by exporting revolutions, migration of Muslim refugees and drug addiction).

The first sector does not imply only undermining of the Euro. The default should not concern only European countries. Default is the direct consequence of the financial crisis, which started four years ago, and to some extend it concerns all participants of the currency pyramid, created by the owners of such irresponsible private enterprise as the Federal Reserve System. At the same time, the producer of the main monetary chips on the planet has also reached the level when it can declare its non-creditworthiness. The collapse of the FRS which burden will lay on the shoulders of the US population, will be the logical ending of the 40 years-long global swindle, which was profitable for its organizers and burglarious for the rest.

Greece and other European outsiders have become “the scapegoats” only because they failed to withstand the competition when they lost their domestic resources in this global “casino” (“Pareto distribution”). It also turned out that political solidarity of the EU confederation does not ensure the integrity of the EU.

It is an “everyman for himself” situation when everyone prefers to die alone. If on the early stage of problems in Greece one could hear statements about the “domino effect” and that Greece’s withdrawal from the EU, would be a catastrophe, by the end of June the collapse of the single European economy became a short-term forecast and direct demands to expel the bankrupts from the European confederation were voiced.

The economy, which is sliding into poverty and leads to the disintegration of the EU, on the one hand and the scaling down of social programs and the wealth divide in European countries on the other hand create the first wave of the chaos, which is hanging over Europe.

The worsening of the global climate due to man-triggered disaster in the Atlantic, the oil crisis, caused by the “managed crisis” in the Arab world, the nuclear disaster in Japan, which undermined trust in nuclear energy and made hydrocarbon issues even tenser, the crowds of immigrants from North Africa - all these factors together mean a serious economic burden for European nations. As for the biological sabotage aimed at undermining the European agriculture its has an unprecedented character.  Whatever virulent strain of E Coli Bacteria is, it cannot develop into the epidemics and lead to numerous victims among the population. But it can cause panic, undermine the demand for agricultural products and lead to the devastation of the entire sector of the economy. This is what is really happening now.

Here is the second wave of the chaos Europeans are facing. The worse the economy is, the greater the number of people who are discontent with the scaling down of social programs, the higher people’s readiness to walk out with the slogans of social protests. So far there have been precedents only in Greece and Spain. But you know – it never rains but it pours. The mechanism of the revolution similar to the revolutions in the Arab world has been launched under the slogans “For real democracy!”, “For the revolution from Tunisia to Siberia!”

No doubts that the fuel of the revolutions will flame once the situation reaches a dangerous critical point and the young people and the Afro-Arab lumpen proletariat imported to Europe will contribute to the spreading of the fire all over the continent.

Here we have managed chaos, the reduction of population on Earth to the targeted hundreds of millions and the conditions to legalize the appropriation of national wealth. The summer and autumn of 2011 won’t be boring for Europe.

See also:

Is another European empire collapsing before our eyes? By Wayne Madsen

 


Monday, 14 March 2011

THE EUROPEAN UNION - Whatever happened to democracy?


By Richard Greaves, October 2001
 


The E.U. has seven major institutions.... yet only one has its members directly elected, and even its role is secondary to the most powerful of the unelected institutions. Now read on.....


COUNCIL OF MINISTERS - meets behind closed doors.

Although its individual members are generally, as in the case of Britain, elected members of national parliaments, as a body, it is not answerable to any elected institution.

It is the policy making institution of the EU, backed by the powerful and influential Committee of Permanent Representatives - a body of appointed paid EU civil servants. The make up of the Council depends on what is being discussed – foreign ministers discuss foreign policy, agriculture ministers farming, the Common Agricultural Policy etc. Decisions are made unanimously, or by "qualified majority", which has been extended to new areas in place of unanimity by the Maastricht Treaty and the Amsterdam Treaty, thus removing the power of national veto, and is being extended still further by the Nice Treaty. 

The Maastricht Treaty introduced and made mandatory, co-operation between member states in criminal and civil justice and home affairs. Common positions and joint actions in this area are implemented by the Council acting alone, the other institutions at best are "associated" with the work as in the case of the Commission, or just make recommendations, as in the case of the European Parliament.
(This process of reaching agreements at meetings, and then what has been agreed being implemented by legislation or otherwise across the EU by governments of member states, is a very important method of developing the EU and its policy. It is also employed at the six monthly EU summits attended by the heads of governments of member states.) 

EUROPEAN COMMISSION - meets behind closed doors.
Appointed - 20 members, 1 to 2 per state.
It alone initiates legislation by turning the policy decisions of the Council of Ministers into legislative "proposals" which eventually become "Community acts" binding on member states. It is backed by about 13000 appointed paid civil servants (excluding translators). Commissioners are forbidden by the Treaty of Rome to represent their national interests – they must promote and represent the interests of the Union. 
(whatever they may be – their own and those of big business perhaps which in practice has easy access to the Commission, not readily granted to anyone else.) 

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
626 elected members of which Britain returns 87.
It is an assembly rather than a parliament, because it cannot initiate legislation, (it can only "ask" the Commission to do so) and it has no control over money supply or taxation.

It gives opinions on some matters, can be "consulted" on others but only in certain cases can it amend or reject a legislative proposal with the "co-decision procedure", a very complex procedure involving strict time limits which favours legislative proposals going through unchallenged, especially in view of the very large numbers of proposals that are put forward. The Amsterdam Treaty extended the areas in which the "co-decision" procedure applies, but it did not simplify the procedure itself or affect the Commission’s sole power to initiate legislation.

In fact the number of legislative proposals in the form of regulations and directives is so enormous that MEPs have to vote on large numbers of them at a time with little or no knowledge as to what the proposals involve. Furthermore, for those few proposals which do get debated, strict time limits of just a few minutes are imposed on how long an individual MEP can speak. The parliament is thus often regarded as no more than a rubber stamp. 

Democracy also requires accessibility – originally, each constituency has an electorate of about half a million people, but these have been replaced now by larger regions having a set number of MEPs, making these people even more distant than they were before. The Parliament sitting in Brussels and Strasbourg is very remote as far as the electors are concerned. Lobbying is much easier for big corporate interests through organisations such as the European Round Table of Industrialists and almost impossible for individuals and small interest groups.

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK – meets behind closed doors. 

Members of the Executive Board are appointed from private banking circles, by agreement of heads of government of member states after "consultation" with the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament.

This is the most powerful institution in the E.U. It has total and independent control over the amount of money and credit in circulation, and thus the general level of economic activity, at a given time throughout those member states who sign up for monetary union. It will also fix interest rates.

What it decides determines levels of direct and indirect taxation, spending in every area of economic and social activity, wage deals, government borrowing, the budgets to be allocated to the newly created regional assemblies etc. National Central Banks become an integral part of the European System of Central Banks and must act in accordance with its instructions. It therefore controls cycles of "boom" and "bust". Its regulations and directives do not require the approval or consent of any of the other institutions, which are obliged to recognise its "independence", by not seeking to influence it. The only control is a judicial one exercised by the European Court of Justice which is limited to deciding whether or not it has acted in accordance with its very wide powers. Any changes to those powers would require a new treaty.

The economies of the various member states of the EU are as diverse and different as the states themselves. Such centralised and uniform control will be totally lacking in flexibility to suit local conditions. There will be winners - probably big corporate interests who seek to locate and sell across the entire EU. There will also be losers – probably smaller businesses who, in total provide many more jobs than big corporations, but who do most of their trade within their home state. They will be burdened with the cost of the changeover and suffer most when centralised policy creates adverse local conditions. In the meantime for states not yet enrolled in monetary union, their economies must always be run in readiness for entry regardless as to when if at all this occurs. In practice this means tight controls on public spending so health and education tend to suffer.

The granting of full independence, and control of monetary policy to the Bank of England by the Labour Government immediately after it was elected in 1997, was done to prepare for the handing over of power to the ECB and the incorporation of the Bank of England into the European System of Central Banks.

EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE

NOT to be confused with the European Court of Human Rights which is quite separate and not an EU institution.

It interprets the rules of the treaties and all community legislative acts, regulations and directives made under them. The courts of member states have no jurisdiction in these areas. The only law it applies is that contained in the treaties which is designed to further European integration, thus it is often more of a political court whose decisions and interpretations are designed to assist in that process. It can fine member states, companies and individuals for non compliance.

ECONOMIC & SOCIAL COMMITTEE (ECOSOC)
222 members (of which Britain has 24) appointed by the Council of Ministers from the ranks of producers, manufacturers, farmers, the professions etc. It has to consulted on legislative proposals in certain areas, but its recommendations are not binding.

COMMITTEE of the REGIONS (COR)
222 members (of which Britain has 24) appointed by the Council of Ministers from the ranks of local government.

It has to be consulted on legislative proposals in certain very limited areas, but its recommendations are not binding.

Devolution, Subsidiarity and the Committee of the Regions 

Under the COR, the EU is divided up into 111 regions, of which the U.K. accounts for 12. Eventually each region is to have an assembly. The assemblies set up for Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are therefore a vital part of this political process, as Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have each been designated a region under this plan. England has been divided into 9 regions, making up the total of 12. The first English region to have an assembly is Greater London – the rest are presently represented by regional development agencies, with assemblies planned to follow in due course. Under the principle of subsidiarity referred to in the Maastricht Treaty, the heads of governments of the member states will agree basically what powers will be devolved to the regions. Although elected, the assemblies play no part in the EU legislative process - they simply decide how a budget (presently allocated to them by national governments) will be spent in areas such as health and education and certain aspects of economic development. Their voice in the EU is confined to the COR - to which each region sends 2 members - and just lobbying the other EU institutions and national representatives in the Council of Ministers.

FINAL REMARKS

Tory MEP Roger Helmer elected in 1999 was told by a fellow MEP that in 10 years Westminster would be gone, and by then, the U.K. would be 12 regions governed from Brussels. This objective was confirmed at an European Movement meeting in Bristol on 16/3/01 by Tory MEP Caroline Jackson. With major constitutional and law making powers being transferred to EU institutions, and limited spending powers being devolved to the regions, elected national parliaments are already becoming just "clearing houses" for passing on EU made policy, rules and regulations – part of a global trend of depriving democratic structures of any real power and substance. The fact that appointments systems are used for many of the EU institutions ensures that only those who support the centralised EU state are appointed. Throughout Europe successive heads of state, prime ministers and other senior ministers have secretly pursued the creation of a single centralised European state. In Britain, the rest of Europe is presented as being united, with dissent very rarely reported in the media. Our 3 major parties have all supported the European Treaties that have led us to where we are now. No real choice has ever been offered to the electorate. Do we get out or try to reform from within? At the moment, the power to change the treaties or even rewrite them completely still rests with national governments. Presently, the European Parliament by a two thirds majority can dismiss the entire European Commission, and nearly did so in 1999 – the Commission did resign, although several Commissioners were re-appointed, and it is now very much a case of "business as usual". However what happened suggests that the rigorous use of such powers as the Parliament has by a majority of MEPs truly committed to representing ordinary people and democratic principles would send shock waves throughout the most powerful institutions. However the greatest difficulty would be to break existing party lines. Generally the major parties throughout the EU select their candidates on the basis of their support for the EU. Once elected, an MEP’s role is to promote the EU, for which they are well paid with lavish expenses. However, the new system of proportional representation does enable small parties to get members elected, but will this be enough to mount a challenge to the power of the other institutions and the corruption and cronyism that we now discovering pervades every EU institution including the Parliament itself?

POSTSCRIPT - FURTHER EU PROPOSALS 

1) The Abolition of the Council of Ministers has been proposed by German Foreign Minster Joschka Fisher to be replaced by a President who should have the power to appoint a cabinet. 2) A Written Constitution for the European state incorporating the existing treaties. These would mean member states’ governments no longer having any involvement in any EU policy making, or being able to amend the treaties or a future constitution of the EU.
Richard Greaves - "The Old Stables", Cusop, Herefordshire, HR3 5RQ E-mail: rgreaves@supanet.com   Updated: October 2001.
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Thursday, 10 March 2011

The Real Face of the European Union (video)

The EU has been sold to Britain as our best hope for the future . . . But behind the scenes, has another, more unsettling agenda been unfolding? The European Economic Community (EEC) began for Britain as a free-trade agreement in 1972. Today's European Union is well on its way to becoming a federal superstate, complete with one currency, one legal system, one military, one police force â even its own national anthem. In this shocking new documentary featuring EU insiders and commentators, independent author Phillip Day covers the history and goals of the European Union, as well as the disturbing, irrevocable implications this new government has for every British citizen. Whether the viewer is for or against Britain's participation, this film asks the troubling questions the mainstream media has refused to confront.  

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

The European Union...A Totalitarian Police State in the Making...?


By Richard Greaves / November 2001
 


 EUROPOL

The Maastricht Treaty introduced little known aspects of EU integration referred to as "co-operation between member states in justice and home affairs". Under these provisions Europol, a Europe wide police force is being created. It has very wide powers but is not answerable to any elected body. It reports to a special committee appointed by the Council of Ministers. It exists ostensibly to fight crime, but it has a much wider function. Not only will it collect and store information on known and suspected criminals, but also on anyone's political and religious beliefs and activities. (The building up of large databases is specifically provided for under the Maastricht Treaty) Europol is now empowered to form its own anti-terrorist squad with access to information held by MI5 and MI6. Europol personnel have immunity from prosecution.

SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS

The same co-operation provisions are also resulting in a massive EU wide increase in the use of surveillance cameras in towns and cities – again supposedly to reduce crime. (Guardian 25/1/99 –" Little known EU proposals could soon lead to massive expansion of surveillance"). This is enthusiastically endorsed by local councils and the public for protection against crime, but for the authorities, these can also be used to identify anyone and monitor their activities and movements. With the introduction of driving licences with photographs and passport photographs, which are duplicated in central computer banks, it will be possible through image comparison to identify anyone in seconds. Speed check cameras, now common on many roads, by reading a number plate can also track the movement of any vehicle across the country.

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING...... AND LISTENING!

If you go on any sort of protest march or demonstration, you will be filmed on video cameras by police or security personnel. Big Brother is watching you more and more... and he can also listen to you via the Echelon communications monitoring system run by the American "National Security Agency" operating out of bases at Morwenstow, Cornwall and Menwith Hills, North Yorkshire. This system monitors telephone, fax and e-mail communications throughout Europe and elsewhere. It is programmed to lock on to a particular communication for analysis if certain "key" words are used in that communication. If you carry a mobile phone, even when switched off it emits a radio signal to the nearest base station. With the co-operation of the mobile phone companies, your movements can be tracked.

The Observer (6/12/98 – "EU hatches plan to tap internet and mobile phones") reported on Enfopol 98, a plan requiring telecommunications companies to build tapping connections into every kind of communications system including mobile phones , the internet, fax machines, pagers and interactive cable TV services. Arising out of this, last year the government rushed through the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, which gives the police and security services the power to monitor internet mailing lists. They are also able to order internet service providers to give them access to peoples’ private E-mail. All this is claimed to be targeted at organised crime such as drug trafficking, paedophilia, terrorism etc., but it takes little imagination to see how this could be applied to any form of dissent or protest movement.

LEGISLATION SUPPRESSING HUMAN RIGHTS?

We are now getting legislation that limits the right of people to gather peaceably, (e.g. the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) and intrudes into privacy with increased powers of bugging and burgling for the security services, and even provides for detention without trial. The first example of this in Britain are detention provisions for those said to be "mentally disturbed" and as a result "a danger to themselves or the public". Who will decide what constitutes being mentally disturbed and a threat to the public..? or perhaps those running the state – especially in view of the fact that Europol keeps files on peoples’ political and religious activities. The 2000 Terrorism Act widened the definition of terrorism enormously to include the threat of "serious violence" against any person or property. How will this definition be interpreted? It could clearly be used against people who tear up genetically modified crops, but might these provisions ever be used against, for example, protesting farmers where scuffles and damage to property has occurred occasionally? The Act goes further - organisations can be "outlawed" - addressing a meeting at which there is a member of such an organisation is an offence. There are additional stop and search powers for the police, and expressing support can be treated as "incitement". All newly created terrorist offences carry very severe penalties, as part of a process which seems set to create a state in which no dissent of any description will be tolerated. The provisions for co-operation in justice and home affairs between member states introduced by the Maastricht Treaty, and made mandatory by the Amsterdam Treaty, are designed to ensure that the same measures are brought into force throughout the EU. A new even wider EU definition of terrorism is now proposed – any act of intimidation by an individual or group with the intention of seriously altering… political economic or social structures. This could cover almost any public order situation. Additionally, there is to be the freezing of assets not just for drug trafficking, money laundering and EU budget fraud, but now also for "terrorism" as defined above. It will be possible for orders to be made on suspicion only and it will be for the individual to prove he acquired his assets lawfully, not for the state to prove he didn’t. 

CORPUS JURIS

As well as this increase in repressive legislation, far reaching changes are planned for our criminal justice system itself, which is fundamentally different to that employed throughout the rest of the EU (except Ireland). As part of the continuing emergence of the single European state, the European Commission and the European Parliament are pressing for the imposition of a uniform system throughout the EU known as Corpus Juris. However, if Corpus Juris were to be fully implemented in Britain, all criminal prosecutions would be heard solely by judges or other professional paid officials appointed by the state.

Trial by jury would have to be phased out, to be replaced by a single judge sitting alone. Jack Straw’s recent attempts to get legislation through Parliament reducing those cases where an accused can demand trial by jury, should be seen as the start of this process. In addition a Home Office report has recommended that lay magistrates should be replaced by stipendiary (i.e. professional paid) magistrates, another measure that clearly fits in with the Corpus Juris plan. In both cases the government claims the measures are simply in the interests of efficiency and cost effectiveness, which is very misleading. The involvement of ordinary people in the judicial process as magistrates and jurors is fundamental to our system and goes back hundreds of years - it is designed to protect the citizen against the risk of arbitrary or malicious prosecution, and is a healthy feature in any democracy. 

Corpus Juris would also introduce detention without trial, since under this continental system, a person suspected of an offence can be arrested and held in custody for a period of six months or more, pending such further investigations and enquiries as the public prosecutor sees fit, before being brought before a court. This is radically different from our own system of Habeas Corpus (which has its origins as far back as Magna Carta of 1215), whereby an accused person must be brought before a court within a very short period of arrest, and evidence against the arrested person produced. Furthermore, our current system incorporates the rule against double jeopardy, whereby an accused person once acquitted cannot be brought before a court again for the same offence. The government has proposed that this shall be removed – perhaps reasonable in certain very carefully defined instances, but the proposal must be seen as a further part of the introduction of Corpus Juris. The new Anti-terrorism Crime and Security bill presently before parliament, if passed, will give the right to the Home Secretary to make changes like these to our court system by regulation, rather than by a bill requiring full parliamentary debate.

A European public prosecutor has been appointed and will have authority in Britain and throughout the EU, initially only in respect of cases involving fraud against the EU budget (e.g. people who make dishonest claims for EU grants and subsidies etc.) This is now being extended via Eurojust an agency which will have powers of investigation in all member states of the EU. 

EUROPEAN UNION ARMY

Under provisions in the new Nice Treaty signed at the heads of governments conference at the end of last year, an old European defence pact known as Western European Union is to be incorporated into the European Union itself. Previously, at the Helsinki summit in December 1999, agreement was reached for an army of 60,000 soldiers to be set up along with command, planning and intelligence bases. This is claimed to be a "rapid reaction force", but clearly these measures lays the foundation for an EU Army, hailed by German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer as another pillar in the process of European unification. Commission President Romano Prodi has confirmed as much. However, significantly, French PM Lionel Jospin has stated that "by pooling its armies, Europe will be able to maintain internal security as well as prevent conflicts throughout the world..". Indeed, Foreign Office sources indicate that the setting up of a 5000 strong internal emergency reaction force was approved at the EU summit at Feira, Portugal in June last year. In many parts of the EU, riot police with tear gas and water cannon are used as a matter of course to confront even peaceful protests. Will we see the use of such measures here? 

BAN ON POLITICAL PARTIES?

On 13/4/00 the European Parliament approved the Dimitrakopoulos-Leinen Report, article 6 of which provides for the setting up of EU wide political parties. However, this is subject to the proviso that "parties that do not respect human rights and democratic principles as set out in the Treaty of Rome shall be the subject of suspension proceedings in the European Court of Justice". Despite the rhetoric in its preamble, the Treaty of Rome is not in based on democratic principles, but rather on European integration. Could these new provisions therefore be used to "suspend" (i.e. effectively ban) any political party opposed to the EU? The banning of political parties is a dangerous road to go down in a democracy - it is worth noting that the Soviet Union never abolished elections- the ruling Communist party simply outlawed all other parties as "fascist" or "counter revolutionary" and maintained itself in power that way! 

FINAL REMARKS

We would never accept the sudden imposition of a totalitarian police state, so if it is to be done, it has to be done gradually by stealth, one step at a time. These various measures should not be seen in isolation. Many people quite close to the top positions of power may not be aware of the full picture – MPs and others do not have time to become familiar with the whole range of bills and proposals that are put before parliament. The security and intelligence services are not answerable to Parliament and their activities remain hidden from view in the interests of so called "national security". 
You might think … it could never happen here, we live in a democracy, our leaders are good upstanding people fighting for freedom and justice in the world, or so they and the media would have us believe… History shows that all power tends to corrupt, but absolute power corrupts absolutely. Our freedoms are being gradually eroded… what will come next? With real power vested in unelected and unaccountable commissioners, bankers and bureaucrats, democratic principles are already alien to the EU. Are the building blocks being put into place whereby soon we could find ourselves living in a dictatorship in which protest will become increasingly difficult and ultimately will not be tolerated? The horrors of 11/9/01are being used as the excuse to introduce the latest proposals, but it seems clear the measures are designed much more to increase control, surveillance and curtail personal liberties throughout the EU, rather than to protect us all from genuine terrorism. The European Commission Forward Planning Unit said in 1996 "It will be difficult to achieve political union without there being the perception of an external political threat – a terrorist outrage would contribute to a perception of an external threat…

Richard Greaves "The Old Stables", Cusop, Herefordshire, HR3 5RQ Tel: 01497 821406.
E-mail: rgreaves@supanet.com Updated: November 2001
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Thursday, 3 March 2011

Common Purpose (CP) - a hidden virus in our government and schools

 
 

 
Although it has 80,000 
trainees in 36 cities, 18,000 graduate members and enormous power, Common Purpose is largely unknown to the general public. 


It recruits and trains "leaders" to be loyal to the directives of Common Purpose and the EU, instead of to their own departments, which they then undermine or subvert, the NHS being an example.

Common Purpose is identifying leaders in all levels of our government to assume power when our nation is replaced by the European Union, in what they call “the post democratic society.” They are learning to rule without regard to democracy, and will bring the EU police state home to every one of us.

Common Purpose is also the glue that enables fraud to be committed across these government departments to reward pro European local politicians.   Corrupt deals are enabled that put property or cash into their pockets by embezzling public assets.

It has members in the NHS, BBC, the police, the legal profession, the church, many of Britain’s 7,000 quangos, local councils, the Civil Service, government ministries, Parliament, and it controls many RDA's (Regional Development Agencies).

Cressida Dick is the Common Purpose senior police officer who authorised the "Shoot to kill" policy without reference to Parliament, the law or the British Constitution. Jean de Menezes was one of the innocents who died as a result. Her shoot to kill policy still stands today.

Common Purpose trained Janet Paraskeva, the Law Society's Chief Executive Officer. Surprising numbers of lawyers are CP members. It is no coincidence that justice is more expensive, more flawed and more corrupt.  And no surprise the courts refused to uphold the law, when a challenge was made to the signing of the six EU treaties, which illegally abolish Britain's sovereignty.
Common Purpose is backed by John Prescott's "Office of the Deputy Prime Minister" (ODPM), and its notional Chief Executive is Julia Middleton. The Head of the Civil Service Commission is a member.

It is close to controlling Plymouth City Council, where is has subverted the democratic process. Local people cannot get CP's corrupt activities published, because the editors of local papers are in CP, and refuse to let journalists publish the articles.

CP started in 1985; in the 1990’s, with its members' cross departmental influence, it was involved with what then became the disasterous New Millennium Dome Company and the squandering of £800 million; it appears £300m of this was diverted into the web of quangos set up by CP. There is a fraud case over this, stalled in the courts thanks to CP's influence in the legal profession.

Over £100 million of our money has been spend on CP courses alone, and its been hidden from the public, and members names are a guarded secret. It charges substantial figures for its courses. Matrix for example costs £3,950 plus VAT, and courses for the high flying ‘leader’ can be as much as £9,950 plus VAT.  This money is ours, paid by government departments financing senior staff to become agents for CP, instead of loyal to their own jobs. 

Common Purpose (Ltd by guarantee, No. 2832875) is registered as charity No. 1023384. It describes itself as being involved in Adult education. Given it preys on the rich and powerful, charges expensive fees, and its aims are clearly power and control, its charity status stinks and should be revoked.

Potential Common Purpose subjects are selected for training. Are they susceptible to being converted; are they in the right job, with the right colleagues and friends? Do they have power, influence and the control of money?  If the candidate has some, or all of these key attributes, then the local Common Purpose Advisory Board decides if they can do the course. 

Common Purpose - training our future EU rulers.

Trained leaders are encouraged to act as a network, enable other members' plans, and have meetings under the so called Chatham House rules. This effectively means their statements are not attributable to them, nor can attendees reveal information heard at a Common Purpose meeting.

Council Officers are having secret meetings with, for example, property developer Common Purpose friends. No agendas and no minutes. Common Purpose Graduates from the public quango sectors such as the Regional Development Agencies attend, and have the power to award large sums of public money to projects.

It is the worst national example of cronyism, closed contract bids, fraud and corruption. And unseen to the general public.

Common Purpose undermines traditionally effective and efficient government departments with an overwhelming influx of new language, political correctness and management initiatives. The talk is of empowering communities, vision, worklessness, mainstreaming (sucking EU money into a project to sustain it), community empowerment, working partnership, regeneration and celebrating diversity etc etc. Documents appear about change, and reorganisation.
As CP “leaders” become more senior they employ countless managers and bureaucrats.  In time confusion rules, and things don’t seem to work properly. Management decisions are made that seem stupidly destructive. The organisation’s performance becomes sluggish. Undermining the NHS is Common Purpose’s biggest success so far, with bureaucrats outnumbering hospital staff three to one.

David Cameron, who is pro Europe, uses the language of Common Purpose; he has appointed Ken Clarke, the most committed of the pro Europeans, in charge of his “Democracy Taskforce” - rather like putting the cat in charge of the safety of mice.

Common Purpose specifically targets children from the age of 13, and more recently younger, for special leadership and citizenship training. Yes, it is active in schools, and again the average parent has no idea.

People have contacted us to speak of their experiences with Common Purpose.  A common theme is its all sweetness and light, until you fail to follow the direction set by the CP leadership.

Then interesting things happen. Ladies in particular have been bullied at work, some have lost their jobs, some have become paranoid and depressed at the pressure from people ganging up on them.

A typical story is a husband describing the decline in his wife from the time she becomes a Common Purpose graduate. Loss of sparkle, enthusiasm, anxious and ‘changed’, and she initiated a divorce.

Other Common Purpose people lie when they are challenged as to their involvement.

Common Purpose candidates are given a two day residential course in which they are ‘trained’ in a closed residential environment, such as a small hotel.  They are encouraged to reveal personal information about themselves, such as their likes, dislikes, ambitions and dreams. Discussions are then controlled by the course leaders. Some participants have likened this to Delphi technique or the application of group psychology such as Cognitive Dissonance or brainwashing.

Treason, subversion and deceit at work with a Common Purpose to destroy the UK and establish the EUsoviet.

EU funding is used as the fuel to power the set up of EU government in countries and as the fuel for fraud and corruption. Once a country and businesses 'suck on' EU funds they are effectively bought. By this means the EU can control businesses, regions and Countries.

Take a few UK examples. £2m plus of EU structural funds is sunk into developing a film studio in Cornwall. After 2 years there is found to be no proper studio, no accounts and no funds. Has there been an investigation? Yes but with no visible result. The only local organisation with responsibility and supposedly accountability for the EU funds is the GOSW. And when challenged they hide behind the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, itself the centre for all things EU.

The EU plan has been very simple and very clever. First set up via the traitors within UK national government the Regional Development Agencies. These were designed to be smooth as silk and sweet as honey – to do all things good e.g. regeneration, helping communities, helping business, innovation, entrepreneurship etc etc. Next load the honey trap with large amounts of money so that people, organisations are attracted to the honey pot. As more people are attracted, increase the powers of the RDAs to include planning powers and input. Make it compulsory for City Councils, County Councils and District Councils to consult them, and then their power increases further. And with planning powers they can get their organisational snouts into virtually every walk of life.

Meanwhile 'bring the government to the people' by setting up the Regional Government Offices - (remembering Regional = EU). The Government Offices now get increasing powers to interfere in everything, and especially local and strategic planning, because almost nothing gets done, or built without going through the planning process. Make consultation with the Government Offices compulsory. 

Now the clever bit. In the background the traitors now work to introduce the Regional Assemblies. At first un-elected and informal, so as to allay fears and ease doubts as to their true purpose. Then the ‘behind the scenes traitors’ start to work to make them elected using large amounts of UK public money and EU funds.

The process will use anybody it can to sweeten the pill. The church for instance. What friendly vicar would help set up a devious political con. You can trust us they say. So interesting that the many Bishops, including the then Bishop of Exeter, worked so hard to help set up and implement the SW Regional Assembly for example. 

Since all of these bodies, that is the Government Offices of the Regions, the Regional Assemblies and the Regional Development Agencies are accountable to the ODPM, it is quickly evident that the real plan has been to set up a parallel EU government structure in UK. Set up by deceit and deception. By making sure that these bodies have the ability to use massive amounts of funding and staff, they can now start to run amok over our traditional democratic structure of local government.

The EU grants and funding keeps pouring in. Take the £320m of Objective One in Cornwall. Nobody really knows where that money was spent, except that it was frittered away in remarkably small sums £500,00 and £150,000 here, £60,000 there etc etc. By this means, and particularly with minimal proper accounting and probity checks, the money reaches back pockets, favoured consultants and the dishonest. The breeding ground for fraud and corruption has been created, and not surprisingly fraud and corruption begin to run rife. With it comes the added nastiness of threats, intimidation and bullying of those who hold up their hand and say look this is illegal.

If you suspect Common Purpose is active in your organization, or see a pattern of incredibly bad decisions, money being wasted,  notice bullying, fraud, or threats, note the names of those involved (we've tracked down over a thousand) and please contact us.  And publish the truth about Common Purpose as widely as you can.

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