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Caz Last Chance Saloon
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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:40 am Post subject: |
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We have Tony Mackay, chair of ‘The Innovation Unit Board’, and a Demos International Associate.
From http://www.innovation-unit.co.uk/about-us/about-us/the-innovation-team .html:
Quote: | He is an OECD Senior Consultant for the Schooling For Tomorrow Project and a Demos International Associate. He is currently working on a number of 'Next Practice Projects' on School Leadership and School Improvement and Reform in Australia, UK, Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Tony is a Board Member of the International Council for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI). |
According to wikipedia, Julia Middleton, a trustee of Demos, is also CEO of the ‘influential’ Common Purpose, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demos_%28UK_think_tank%29
Quote: | Demos is an influential think tank based in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1993 by journalists from Marxism Today, the theoretical journal of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). In the run up to the 1997 UK general election it was seen as being close to the Labour Party, in particular ex-prime minister Tony Blair… Julia Middleton is a trustee of Demos, and also CEO of the influential Common Purpose.
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Note that ‘The Innovation Unit Board’, of which Tony Mackay is the chair, is one of the three prime sponsors of the Westminster Education Forum: http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/educationforum/publications. aspx
Quote: | Core Sponsors
Capita Children's Services
The Innovation Unit
Nelson Thornes |
The MPs who support the Westminster Education Forum (although not necessarily aware of The Innovation Unit's staff and connections) are:
Quote: | David Amess MP
Rt Hon the Lord Baker of Dorking
Tim Boswell MP
Annette Brooke MP
Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP
The Baroness Buscombe
Rt Hon David Cameron MP
David Chaytor MP
Christopher Chope MP
Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC MP
Janet Dean MP
Nadine Dorries MP
Jeff Ennis MP
David Evennett MP
Tim Farron MP
Professor the Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
Dr Ian Gibson MP
Chris Grayling MP
John Grogan MP
John Hayes MP
David Heath CBE MP
Charles Hendry MP
Mark Hoban MP
Paul Holmes MP
Dr Brian Iddon MP
Helen Jones MP
Eric Joyce MP
Paul Keetch MP
Bob Laxton MP
Ian Lucas MP
Baroness Maddock
Gordon Marsden MP
Greg Mulholland MP
Meg Munn MP
Dr Doug Naysmith MP
Lord Newby
Stephen O'Brien MP
Dr Nick Palmer MP
Baroness Perry of Southwark
Lord Puttnam CBE
Christine Russell MP
Baroness Seccombe DBE
Baroness Sharp of Guildford
Ian Stewart MP
Andrew Turner MP
Baroness Walmsley
Dr Alan Whitehead MP
Mark Williams MP
Stephen Williams MP
Phil Willis MP
Rob Wilson MP
Tim Yeo MP |
Brian Gerrish’s comment on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBE_0-1v_34
Quote: | ‘people …..are being drawn into a new socialist regime for the United Kingdom……I believe from what I have seen … that sustainability is being used as an agenda to distract people from what is happening politically’. |
Refer to the following:
http://www.demos.co.uk/people/tonymackay
http://www.icsei.net/board/mackay.html
Adogs (Australian Defense of Government Schools) makes specific mention of their concern about Tony Mackay's association with Demos:
http://www.adogs.info/pr155.htm |
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xmasdale Angel - now passed away
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The latest on the autistic teenager is that without notice either to him or his mother, he was locked up for the day on Tuesday Feb 5th in the punishment unit. The school are saying that it is automatic that if they get four reports of bad behaviour from staff they get a day in the unit. Apparently one of his bad behaviour reports was that he said to a teacher: "I wanna go for a piss."
His mother is finding it increasingly difficult to get him out of the house and off to school in the morning. She reckons he's depressed at the situation at school. He tells me there's a boy called Gary who invariably makes trouble for him and they get into fights.
Today, Thursday, I have just collected him from school because they say he has nits. I think he does, but his mother can't get him to co-operate in treatment for them. They wouldn't send him home without someone coming to collect him because they say that would be illegal. The legality of locking children up does not seem to bother them. |
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Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:51 am Post subject: Common Purpose, a criminal organisation |
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Common Purpose, a criminal organisation that abuses government posts for gain.
Although it has 80,000 trainees in 36 cities, 30,000 graduate members and enormous power, Common Purpose (CP) is largely unknown to the general public. It recruits and trains its leaders to work "beyond authority," to abuse their posts and serve Common Purpose, instead of their own departments, which they then undermine. Its members control the NHS, where it wastes £60 billion, much of it going into private pockets; and controls most of Britains 8,500 quangos which spend £167 billion annually, according to the Cabinet Office. Most of that is waste.
Business rates and tax go up, services go down, the difference is spent on yet more CP quangos.
CP 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 era.” They are learning to rule without democracy, and will bring the EU police state home to every one of us.
Common Purpose is a criminal organisation 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 8,500 quangos, local councils, schools, social services, 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 former Chief Executive Officer.
Surprising numbers of lawyers are CP members. It is no coincidence that justice is more expensive, more flawed and more corrupt. Lawyers in secret family courts routinely commit perjury to pervert the course of justice, knowing CP judges will protect them; a fair trial is now rare. When a challenge was made to the signing of the five EU treaties, which illegally abolish Britain's sovereignty, it was no surprise the courts refused to uphold the law.
Common Purpose was backed by John Prescott's Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), and its 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.
The power of councillors is being usurped nationally by council executives, as CP substitutes “expert officers” and swamps councillors with paperwork and directives. The ODPM’s councillor monitoring officers can remove councillors who don’t comply, or try to stand up for democracy.
CP was formed in 1970 by Ted Heath's Conservative Party as part of joining the European Union Dictatorship. In the 1990’s, with its members' cross departmental influence, it was involved with what then became the disastrous 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 spent on CP courses alone, and its been hidden from the public. No published accounts, 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 International (Ltd by guarantee No. 2832875) is registered as an educational charity, No 1023384. Given it targets the powerful with expensive fees, 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? The local Common Purpose Advisory Board then decides if they can do the course.
While on the courses candidates are assessed; are they corruptible; will they abuse their positions, commit fraud and lie for Common Purpose? If so they are selected for the inner sanctum; but half are not, and can honestly say they've seen nothing wrong.
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 award large sums of public money to these 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 change, 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 an EU plant, uses the language and techniques of Common Purpose against the Conservative Party. By changing, with nothing to change to, he is paralyzing the Conservative party.
Common Purpose specifically targets children from the age of 13, and more recently age 4, for sex or 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, NLP, or the application of group psychology such as Cognitive Dissonance or brainwashing.
If you suspect Common Purpose is active in your organisation, 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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outsider Trustworthy Freedom Fighter
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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Just been sent this email from one of our Northern stalwarts:
An old friend of ours who is a retired copper has sent me his letter to Northampton Borough Council re obtaining info. about Common Purpose. If you good people are unfamiliar with this semi-secret society which has been set up to help the EU take over our country (which won't happen I hasten to add if we do something about it,) and it has been steadily eating away at the heart of England since 1985, then please do your own research.
www.eutruth.org.uk is a good place to begin and if you can, please make time to watch the film of Brian Gerrish's presentation which gives hard evidence that this is not just (as my MEP thinks) another conspiracy theory.
Let me know how you get on,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST :- COMMON PURPOSE
Dear Sir,
I wish to ask if you can kindly provide information pertaining to the following questions please?
1. What amount of funding has Cumbria County Council invested relating to the training of the council officers, administration staff, council members, affiliated contractors, or any other individuals engaged in business relationships or consultancies with Cumbria County Council in Common Purpose training ? The monetary figure I am requesting would include : costs relating to all courses attended, and hospitality and all benefits in kind over the period of the past five years.
2. Can you please supply all correspondence, by letter and E-Mail, between the Council, Councillors and Council Officers and persons or organisations which are external to Council pertaining to Common Purpose?
3. How many council officers and councillors have participated in training and courses offered by Common Purpose?
4. How does Common Purpose benefit the county of Cumbria?
5. How is Common Purpose promoted by Cumbria County Council ?
6. Where is the information referring to Common Purpose located within available council literature?
Thank you for attending to my request. I look forward to receiving a response from you at your earliest convenience,
Yours faithfully, _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7. |
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Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2008 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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I had the same email but who is the best person to target it with at your Local Authority? _________________ JO911B.
"for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places " Eph.6 v 12 |
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Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 18335 Location: St. Pauls, Bristol, England
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject: Common Purpose - rhetoric of the quisling |
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Common Purpose - rhetoric of the quisling
Quote: | You are the Chosen, the voice of the New Age, the Leader of the Future. The Rules are not for such as you...
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Though not directly concerning our North American and Antipodaean friends, this actually does concern them very much because they are very much part of the thrust for:
Common Purpose
And what exactly is this common purpose? They state it themselves:
'Leading beyond Authority'
As Parker-Joseph says:
Quote: | It began in the UK in 1988, where it has some 45 offices, but has now taken its sun symbol logo into many countries as Common Purpose International. |
Now unless you really are a bit left field [and I plead guilty], you wouldn't have read the kook literature about illumined places in the leadership of the world, the ancient 1000 points of light and all that guff. I steer clear of it on my site because I don't wish the lunacy I'm railing against to be subtly shifted onto me as if I myself am on about it.
I shy away from that insanity, those things but these people are right into it and therefore it needs to be confronted. All my talk of cabals in the last year is only the surface issue. The real issue is the craziness coming out of Bavaria, Zurich, Paris and New York, not to mention London.
Very easy to spot - diffuse light blues blending into diffuse yellows in their headers, sun symbols, meaningless drivel as taglines, e.g. securing the future today and other balderdash like that. Their pages are slick and businesslike and they use feelgood terminology about "bringing people together" and so on. Second Life, the U.N. and Common Purpose are examples.
On the surface, it's all about management, leadership and the new technological revolution but the rhetoric behind it is exactly the same which Agatha Christie wrote of in N or M [Dodd, Mead & Co., 1941] .
It's the same old story - pinpointing likely people in positions of authority or who are likely to be, tweaking their egos by showing them and by associating them with snippets of the elite which controls the government of the nations, how they'll be part of the crack leadership group sweeping away mismanagement and inefficiency and so on and so on. An example of one of these Brave New Worlders:
Quote: | Common Purpose graduate Cressida Dick issued the 'shoot-to-kill' order to police officers that led to an innocent Brazilian electrician, Jean Charles de Menezes [being shot]. |
It is eugenics and Nietzsche and Zarathustra and things the average pub drinker knows next to nothing of. But I know of it because I was once a possible bright light in the firmament until I showed myself to be "unfit" for purpose and I'm proud of it. But my ego's still there for all to see.
Do read the whole post and follow the links if you were still in any doubt of the common purpose for which this group is simply one small tentacle. That's the end of this post but here, if you're interested, is the text from N or M, by Agatha Christie, Chapter 14:
Quote: | Do believe me when I say I really admire both you and your husband immensely. You've got grit and pluck. It's people like you who will be needed in the new State — the State that will arise in this country when your present imbecile Government is vanquished. We want to turn some of our enemies into friends — those that are worth while.
Let me impress upon you what so few people in this country seem to understand. Our Leader does not intend to conquer this country in the sense that you all think.
He aims at creating a new Britain — a Britain strong in its own power — ruled over, not by Germans, but by Englishmen. And the best type of Englishmen — Englishmen with brains and breeding and courage. A brave new world, as Shakespeare puts it.
We want to do away with muddle and inefficiency. With bribery and corruption. With self-seeking and money-grubbing — and in this new state we want people like you and your husband — brave and resourceful — enemies that that have been, friends to be. You would be surprised if you knew how many there are in this country, as in others, who have sympathy with and belief in our aims.
Among us all we will create a new Europe — a Europe of peace and progress. Try and see it that way — because, I assure you — it is that way...
His voice was compelling, magnetic.
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Later, in Chapter 15, the investigating officer concludes;
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"Amongst them were two chief Constables, an Air Vice-Marshal, two Generals, the Head of an Armaments Works, a Cabinet Minister, many Police Superintendents, Commanders of Local Volunteer Defense Organizations, and various military and naval lesser fry, as well as members of our own Intelligence Force."
Tommy and Tuppence stared. "Incredible!" said the former. Grant shook his head.
"You do not know the force of the ... propaganda. It appeals to something in man, some desire or lust for power. These people were ready to betray their country not for money, but in a kind of megalomaniacal pride in what they, they themselves, were going to achieve for that country. In every land it has been the same. It is the Cult of Lucifer — Lucifer, Son of the Morning. Pride and a desire for personal glory!"
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Anyone with any knowledge of the 5th Column in WWII would understand that the leopard might have changed its spots but the snarl is still the same.
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Written by Bretwalda Edwin-Higham at 09:11
Justin wrote: | Common Purpose is the equivalent to the Quislings in Norway who undermined from within that country's will to effectively resist the Nazi invasion of their country in the Spring of 1940. |
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject: Charities Commission Public Schools and Common Purpose |
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and there's much much more where this came from
Justin wrote: | Common Purpose is the equivalent to the Quislings in Norway who undermined from within that country's will to effectively resist the Nazi invasion of their country in the Spring of 1940. |
Charities Commission Public Schools and Common Purpose
Fri 02 Nov 2007
Dame Suzi Leather has achieved the impossible in her career: she has made quangos almost interesting, says the Telegraph.
The Charities Commission, which Dame Suzi heads up, which oversees the activities of some 170,000 organisations in England and Wales, is to shine a light on the charitable status that allows independent schools to escape an estimated £100 million in tax.
Under the Charities Act 2006, schools such as Eton, which charges £26,500 per pupil per year plus extras, must show that they offer a "public benefit" not confined to an elite few in order to retain their charitable status.
We wonder whether Dame Suzi has included the 'Educational' charities such as the fee charging secretive training 'charity' Common Purpose in her portfolio of establishments to investigate.
Why is a company that charges fees registered as a charity. Common Purpose now runs programmes in over 70 locations across the world. Where is the 'public benefit' of a secret organisation that operates under the Chatham House rules, funded with public money but will not disclose its participants, its methods or training literature. Where is the public benefit of a charity that secretly 'selects' who it trains and is therefore not open to all.
Dame Suzi's marriage to Iain Hampsher-Monk, a politics lecturer at Exeter, was followed by three children and a 10-year break from full-time work. That ended in 1997 with her appointment to the chairmanship of the Exeter and District NHS Trust, one of the first areas of England to receive the 'Common Purpose' treatment.
She has been occupying chairs ever since, at the HFEA, the Food Standards Agency and the School Food Trust, set up after Jamie Oliver's assault on the Turkey Twizzler. While there, Dame Suzi lobbied for more money per pupil per school meal, accusing the Government of inadequate funding. Her legacy was the ban on schools selling sweets, crisps and fizzy drinks.
She has held 30 public appointments in the past 15 years, a record that failed to endear her to that champion of private enterprise, the Adam Smith Institute. It accused her of pursuing a "political agenda" on private education on behalf of politicians who lacked the "moral courage" to tackle the issue themselves.
So, we ask Dame Suzi. Will you be investigating the Charitable Status of Common Purpose, Company registered number: 3556983, Charity registered number: 1023384. along with other educational facilities.
or will it receive the same Charities Commission treatment as the investigation into The Smith Institute i.e. Nothing.
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Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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"How to contol your local city"
Check this seminal article on 'Common Purpose' from Scottish Arts magazine Variant
Quote: | .........It is amazing just how far the Demos team have 'moved on' from their days 'upholding' Marxism to embrace the ideology of the right, any old post-modern cobblers, big business and the shadowy connianvances of think tanks. Demos has spawned all manner of parasitical children.
Take the example of Common Purpose (CP). This was started by Demos trustee Julia Middleton. It has been around for sometime but gained a great deal of funding with the advent of New Labour and its service towards business elites. Initially money was put in by David Bell, the Chairman of the Financial Times (and the Millennium Bridge Trust). CP is another strange organisation, a kind of secret society for careerists.
Again the board has some mysterious figures presiding including Lord Dahrendorf, the chairman of the right-wing Ditchley Foundation and Prof. Laurence Martin of the like-minded Royal Institute of International Affairs. It could well be a note paper job, but CP is composed of representatives of big business (mostly Labour party donors) including multi-nationals, the police, the MOD, banks and their associates, eyes down for a Full House:
Gillian Ashmore (Cabinet Office), Sir Jeremy Beecham (Association of Metropolitan Authorities), David Bell (Financial Times), Dr Andrew Bird (Zeneca), Dr Kevin Bond (Yorkshire Water), Jeremy Hall (Dean Clough Ltd), Richard Hatfield (Ministry of Defence), John Lee (Halifax plc), Ruth MacKenzie (ex-Scottish Opera), Vincent McGinlay (Marks & Spencer plc), Baroness Genista McIntosh (Royal National Theatre), Tim Melville-Ross (Institute of Directors), Sir Alastair Morton (Shadow Strategic Railway Authority and British Railways Board), Sir Herman Ouseley (Commission for Racial Equality), Janet Paraskeva (National Lottery Charities Board), Graham Prentice (Nestlé UK Ltd), John Rivers (Rolls-Royce plc), Gerry Robinson (Arts Council of England), Richard Sambrook (BBC), Barry Shaw (Cleveland Constabulary), Jan Shawe (Prudential Corporation plc), Vivien Stern (The International Centre for Prison Studies), Peter Stoddart (Nissan UK Ltd), Paul Whitehouse (Sussex Police), Ken Williams (Norfolk Constabulary), Ruth Wishart (Freelance Journalist).
Their list of corporate sponsors is impressive and they say they have offices in every UK city. Put politely CP tries to promote 'corporate community engagement', the synergy between big business and well... it's a bit like the asbestos factory owner's daughter handing out religious tracts to the workers coughing at the factory gates. Relationships between corporate CP funders such as BAe, Royal Ordinance and GEC Marconi and say the work of CP trustee David Grayson of the national Disability Council are ignored however. The idea is to accentuate the positive.
The real value of CP must be measured by its closeness to power - access to which is what is on offer. The board has only one member who is openly employed by government, Gillian Ashmore, her record speaks for itself:
"Gillian Ashmore is currently on secondment from the Department of Transport to the British Railways Board working on railway privatisation. She joined the Civil Service in 1971 and has worked variously in the Departments of the Environment, Transport, Employment and Trade and Industry. On the Transport side, she has worked mainly in the public transport field. In the latter two Departments she was Deputy Director of the Enterprise and Deregulation Unit. Mrs. Ashmore has also been a non-executive director of P & O European Transport."11
Incredibly with a line up like that the CP constitution has the cheek to say the organisation:
"is diverse and non-aligned. It draws on the widest possible variety of sectors, areas, and social groups and recognises only peer level and geographical boundaries as common factors to each group. It is always independent, always balanced and owes no historical or other allegiance to any other organisation. Common Purpose works for the benefit of society as a whole..."12
What a pack of lies. CP creates the illusion that it is for ordinary people, but it is not only run by an elite, its projects cater exclusively for an elite: "the rising generation of decision makers" as they say in their web site. This also states that: "We are looking for applicants who are decision-makers in their city, towns or area", and that "participants are over 30 and already hold a position of considerable responsibility". They say their long-term aim is "educating the next generation of leaders in each city or town". On this basis it is a fraudulent organisation.
Funded by big business and public bodies (everyone from Arms companies, Banks to curiously the Scottish Arts Council - probably through Ruth Wishart's connection) they operate for their benefit while their constitution lies that they seek "the advancement of education for the public benefit... to educate men and women from a broad range of geographical, political, ethnic, institutional, social and economic backgrounds."
We have mourned and you have not wept
With Trustees such as Gerry Robinson, the ex-Coca Cola salesman who is now chairman of the Arts Council of England and Janet Paraskeva, the director of the National Lotteries Charities Board (the 'independent organisation' which distributes National Lottery money supposedly to charities and community groups')13 CP has specialised in channelling money away from genuine charitable causes. Demos is also partially funded directly via the Arts Council/Lottery 'New Opportunities Fund'.
The illusion of independence from funders and government was abandoned with CP's biggest project, 'Citizen's Connection'. Tony Blair's old flat mate Lord Falconer's New Millennium Experience Company (NMEC) said that: "Camelot, NMEC and Common Purpose created...Citizens Connection."14
But the legal position of the Camelot Group plc is that as the operator of the UK National Lottery it is supposed to be "not responsible for the allocation of funds raised". Except when it is.
The NMEC was (is?) an extraordinary concoction. According to their press release the 'NMEC is a non-Departmental Public Body and a company, independent from government with one shareholder, Lord Falconer'. This makes it an Anstalt a finacial vehicle more commonly associated with Swiss Bank accounts and money laundering. The 'off-shore account' was pioneered by the Mafia: their Lotteries ('the numbers racket') were deemed illegal because of the evidence that they preyed upon the poor - the National Lottery magically does the reverse.
NMEC is funded by the National Lottery via the Millennium Commission (who tried to be independent from government but were threatened with a judicial review). NMEC ran the Dome and a National Programme of events across the UK. It is misleading to gather all this up as the problem with 'the Dome'. For instance, Labour MP Robert Marshall-Andrews tabled a Commons question on numerous secret contracts worth some £450 million - awarded by the NMEC, 'a company with no direct lines of information or accountability'.
But with millions pouring down the drain (well into a few people's pockets) an attempted diamond heist and daily financial craziness at the Dome, no one really noticed anything unusual when Camelot, whoever runs Common Purpose and Lord Falconer gave £2 million to Common Purpose to run a web site which links to the governments' sites, which is all Citizen's Connection is.
Amusingly an exactly similar organisation to 'Citizen's Connection' already existed with Lord Young's School for Social Entrepreneurs, which is funded by HSBC, the National Lottery and a peculiar 'charity' the Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust, run by the wife of the former chairman of the SAC, Magnus Linklater.
People have to pay to join up for any CP programme, so who is this money going to? Just about all of CP projects are extensions of PR exercises run by big companies, such as the 'Your Turn' project, which was directly run by BT's PR consultants, so effectively these are being underwritten. Yet - even while CP got millions for their web site - 'Your Turn' was specifically given additional funding by the National Lottery Charities Board, which as we have seen with CP board member, Janet Paraskeva has a conflict of interest, which she regards as a common purpose and her turn for some money........... |
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Quote: | The European superstate is designed to be centrally controlled and managed at lower levels by bland and brain dead 'leaders' who are all programmed to think the same.......... |
Britannia Radio would say that wouldn't it?
Certainly, any trojan organisation of this type requires serious investigation. I, too, find CP's methods very disturbing. I wonder what the masonic connections might be? Sadly, Brian Gerrish can't resist but bring in the Red Menace and Brussels bureacrats under the bed.
So far I haven't seen a scrap of evidence from him or any other of a conspiracy involving CP and the European Union. I'm keeping an open mind. There's enough corruption in Brussels to make such a thing possible. But, at this moment, we're still dealing with conjecture. I await to see what proof that Brian might come up with. _________________ One Planet - One People - One Destiny
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Quote: | Having seen Brians presenatation Rory I can assure you its certainly not conjecture.
I'd be interested to read your opinion when you have attended one of Brian's future "Subversion of Society?" presenatations with an open mind. |
You appreciate that when I say conjecture I don't mean the excellent research that Brian seems to have done into the subversive nature Of CP. I don't dispute that. And I feel equally concerned. It would seem a very unusual way for a huge enterprise like the EU to go about its business,
What I mean by conjecture is that CP is somehow a front organisation for the Commission in Brussels. Without ruling out such a possibility I need to see some pretty solid proof linking the two as a joint conspiracy. So far all I have heard are allegations of guilt-by-association. That's what I mean by conjecture.
If Brian has proof of a joint conspiracy between the CP and the EU why doesn't he make it public? That's what I'm waiting for him to do. _________________ One Planet - One People - One Destiny
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Rory Winter Major Poster
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Quote: | Rory your query concerning proof of the connection between CP and the EU is a fair point.
Perhaps CP can clarify their position on the EU. |
With respect, I think it is up to Brian Gerrish to substantiate his allegations. Anyone can make up a story along the lines he has about CP and the EU. The point is that it's all speculation. And there are a lot of gullible folk around who'll believe any c***-and-bull story about the wicked EU!
I go back to what I said a long time ago. Before making speculations about this and that we should address the problems we have nationally with a feudal government set-up, no real Constitution, a growing police state imported by Blair and Brown from Washington and a dangerous trans-Atlantic alliance which is destroying Britain and killing its young men and women sent out to fight and die as America's mercenaries.
It is totally irresponsible to ignore all that & just to blame everything baselessly on the EU. Not only irresponsible but a very dangerous aspect of our Blame Culture.
Quote: | If not stopped, you won’t be able to work in government without first joining Common Purpose, the EU’s Communist Party |
This is taken from Gerrish's book review. Frankly, I find Gerrish disturbing. The above statement is not only nonsense but it is McCarthyite nonsense. I don't want to see people like Gerrish in charge of Britain. With attitudes like his it truly will be a fascist state! _________________ One Planet - One People - One Destiny
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Rory Winter wrote: | Quote: | The European superstate is designed to be centrally controlled and managed at lower levels by bland and brain dead 'leaders' who are all programmed to think the same.......... |
Britannia Radio would say that wouldn't it?
Certainly, any trojan organisation of this type requires serious investigation. I, too, find CP's methods very disturbing. I wonder what the masonic connections might be? Sadly, Brian Gerrish can't resist but bring in the Red Menace and Brussels bureacrats under the bed.
So far I haven't seen a scrap of evidence from him or any other of a conspiracy involving CP and the European Union. I'm keeping an open mind. There's enough corruption in Brussels to make such a thing possible. But, at this moment, we're still dealing with conjecture. I await to see what proof that Brian might come up with. |
I don't know what the Masonic connections with CP are, but there are certainly Masonic connections to the Dome, Canary Wharf buildings and the Ontario Tower (see Ian Crane's 'Hidden Agenda' video; I don't go along with his Enki and Enlil ideas, but the Dome/Canary Wharf stuff is very convincing). I discovered the Ontario Tower link; particularly at night, the roof clearly gives the outline of an owl (shades of Bohemian Grove). Though visible during the day, the 'owl' stands out strongly when backlit by the surrounding blue light.
The Ontario Tower (pictures on the web) is directly across a narrow stretch of the Thames from the Dome, and faces it, though slightly oriented towards Canary Wharf Tower. _________________ 'And he (the devil) said to him: To thee will I give all this power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whom I will, I give them'. Luke IV 5-7. |
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Quote: | Yes they are sending our troops, (the UKs defense force) off to the Middle East to die so when chaos and anarchy hits the streets who do you think will come in to address the problem? The EU police state?
Pure speculation though Rory Laughing
PRS (Probllem reaction solution) and I have not yet found David Ickes predictions/speculation to be wrong yet.
The EU is a stepping stone to the new world order fascist police state Rory. |
You, like others, are obsessed with the EU, Pikey. At the same time you and they are turning a blind eye on those in this country and in government and other places of power who are the real culprits. This is both sad and alarming because it indicates the parlous state of the British counter-movement.
The radical English historian, the late Edward Thompson, dedicated his life work in order to warn his countrymen about the growing police state. And that was in the 'seventies, long before the EEC had any powers to create such a thing.
Please see Edward Thompson and the Growth of Britain's Police State,
http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=13268&highlight=
Quote: | Thompson was probably Britain’s last radical historian, born in a time when decency and social compassion were still important as political values. It was his generation who fought Hitler and then helped to create the Welfare State, only to see it destroyed forty years later by a peculiarly British form of fascism espoused as ‘the free market’ by the authoritarian Thatcher and later copied and re-labeled as ‘the Third Way’ by her New Labour admirer, Tony Blair.
Were it not for Thatcher’s victory against the labour movement, ‘free market’ monetarism and its successor, Blair/Brown’s ‘neo-liberalism’ could never have gained a political foothold, let alone flourished. And it was for precisely that reason the forces of British capitalism had to take on the labour movement and to destroy it. The growing police authoritarianism, endorsed and promoted by the BBC and mainstream media, that Thompson describes in the ’seventies was simply the public face of the eventual coup d’etat against civil liberties that Britain’s establishment was preparing its public for. |
What you are all doing is while refusing to address or fight against the growth of a domestic police state you are projecting the blame for its growth on foreigners. And that is not only manifestly untrue and dishonest it is a betrayal.
It is a betrayal of our own people whose oppressors we as a group or counter-movement are not fighting. So while the domestic police state grows the public will be distracted by a campaign of xenophobia with Freedom Association-supporting right-wing loonies like Gerrish & Co. blaming it all on 'Reds Under the Bed' and 'Brussels Saboteurs'!
What we need instead is a popular Campaign for Democracy in Europe (including the need of such in Britain as well). Now would be a good time to start such a Campaign, during the window of opportunity provided us by the Irish Referendum.
Quote: | so when chaos and anarchy hits the streets who do you think will come in to address the problem? The EU police state? |
Did you know that ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent dissolution of the Warsaw Pact Treaty, NATO policy has switched from fighting an outside force to training its forces in counter insurgency measures, the insurgents being domestic populations in NATO countries?!
If anyone intervenes during a time of social chaos, it won't be an EU force. It'll be the UK Army backed by NATO if necessary. That's not speculation, that's based on current NATO policy, _________________ One Planet - One People - One Destiny
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Quote: | You, like others, are obsessed with the EU, Pikey |
No Rory I'm skeptical about the EU and I suspect that the force behind it/the hidden hand/the ptb is the same as that behind the rise of the Nazis.
History is repeating itself: there are so many similarities between what is occuring now and what happened in the 1930-45 period.
If its proof that you require Rory then I suggest you follow the money trail and look at the key issue of public accountability.
Not giving the public their democratic right to vote on an EU referendum was the final straw for me.
It was the wake up call, and the rising of the ugly head of a fascist state of governance. A system of control were the state does not serve its citizens and which totally disregards public accountability.
You are totally wrong imo Rory, so we will have to agree to disgree on this issue. _________________ Pikey
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Quote: | You are totally wrong imo Rory, so we will have to agree to disgree on this issue. |
Touché, Pikey. Looking at it in a rational, unemotional and unprejudiced way I don't see the EU as different to any other government or nation-state in the capitalist world! I repeat, they are all affected and infiltrated by the fascist forces you describe!
We are already living in a fascist, police-state!
You want to talk seriously about fascism? Ok, let's talk about fascism:
Without a few exceptions given by those such as the leaders of Cuba and Venezuela every single government on this planet by token of its dependence on the IMF, the World Bank and the like, are now implementing 'neo-liberal' economic programmes whose effect is to consolidate fascism in the sense of state-corporate rule, ie that the state is run in symbiosis with big business.
In other words, fascism is the status quo. It's here already. We're living in it!
To continue: the USUK claims to be democratic but has turned Nazi in nature. During the period 1991 (Gulf War I), through Clinton's sanctions to the present, 2008, the USUK Coalition forces have been responsible for the unneccessary deaths of over 8 Million innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan (see figures by Dr Gideon Polya: http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=11670 put there by Tony, all credit to him)
Eight Million!
This is two million deaths more than the popularly accepted figure of 6 Million deaths by Nazis. Naturally, we hear nothing of this from our Government that is led by a War Criminal and by a complicit MSM full of war criminals and a Nation which, by not actively resisting its government's crimes, has become complicit in war crimes!
See the International Court Criminal Act (UK) 2001. It is no longer enough to claim, "We didn't know!". We do know and we're all part of a huge war crime!
That, is how fascist our society has already become! That is what we should be doing everything to fight against!
Never mind what you call a "stepping-stone" to fascism, wake up! You don't need a stepping stone to get somewhere when you're there already!
Compared to the rule-by-terror that the present UK government is implementing (on direct orders from Bushco in Washington, DC) the little offered us by a much-curtailed Charter of Human Rights (curtailed by our Government!) and access to the European courts where we are treated as citizens, not subjects, affords us a modicum of rights.
God help us all if we ever left the Union and became a tiny rump state of the USA under total police-state control. For that's what we'll get if we leave the EU.
And if the level of thinking about the European issue I read in these columns is anything to go by --unlike that I have heard expressed by all sides in the Dublin Castle Forum debate-- if this is to be understood to be the level of thought nationally then we are already in very deep nonsense.
Before one has a referendum it behoves us all to have a thorough, informed, objective debate, not only about the Lisbon Treaty but about our present parlous state of 'democracy' in Britain. Let's not remain blind, prejudiced hypocrites, fooling ourselves that we live in anything but a feudal state run in their interests by respectably dressed Nazis.
Gordon Brown's give-away Promoting Prosperity Nazi logo, now replaced by something less obvious!:
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It may shock certain good folk to wake up to the fact that due to the evolution of capitalism and its take-over by corporate and multi-national interests that we are already living in fascist, police-states.
Fascism is basically about the marriage of big business with the state, Mussolini-style. It's not about Hitler uniforms and goose-stepping soldiers in coal-scuttle helmets (the latter which the USA has adopted curiously enough!). In the early days, Mussolini and even Hitler wore morning suits. It was only after the outbreak of WWII that they regularly wore uniform (and even Churchill began to wear his boiler-suits).
Disturbingly, Common Purpose appear to be adopting fascist attitudes. The fact that it does this by infiltrating various levels of society is extremely disturbing. Brian Gerrish, himself, expresses certain crypto-fascist views when he gets paranoid about what he calls Reds and in attempting to present Common Purpose as a front-organisation for the European Commission! When Gerrish can produce a credible argument with credible proof linking CP with the Commission I'll take him seriously.
Meantime, there is a very interesting convergence of opinion amongst us all which I feel is vitally important to look at. We know that we are all united on the 911 Conspiracy issue (together with similar conspiracies relating to Madrid, Bali, 7/7 and Bombay). We may disagree on the EU issue but, of more immediate concern, is the common threat we see in the growth of the British police-state.
In that regard, I think we can all unite in supporting the legal action taken by John Harris. Can I suggest that we all seek to found our own Common Purpose behind this Affidavit & help to start a movement of Peace, Justice and Democracy to oppose the British police-state (while leaving out the EU red herring)?:
See http://www.tpuc.org/node/241
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We, in Britain, are now in a similar situation. It follows that we must now create people's Defence Groups across Britain.Blair: Erstwhile Traitor before his succession by another _________________ One Planet - One People - One Destiny
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Having read John Harris' website in more detail, it appears that this Affidavit refers to the EU Lisbon Treaty, although no mention of such is included in the body of the Affidavit.
If it is the case that the Affidavit is meant as an attack on the EU then that makes it part of a campaign that is not so much against the Treaty but the EU itself. That gives it a divisive nature making it impossible for a considerable section of the population to support.
Certainly in my country, Scotland, a party like UKIP will never achieve much support if for no other reason that it supports a Union whose popularity, north of the border is decreasing inexorably. The latest headlines in the Scottish Daily Mail today indicate a further lead for the SNP.
Reading his articles it appears that Harris is no friend of Scottish independence. That being the case I must sadly retract my support for Mr Harris and his Affidavit. _________________ One Planet - One People - One Destiny
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Reading his articles it appears that Harris is no friend of Scottish independence. That being the case I must sadly retract my support for Mr Harris and his Affidavit. |
I can't see the relevance of that. He lives south of the border. We should welcome his challenge to our government that English common law should be enforced in accordance with Magna Carta. Since Magna Carta was an English statute drawn up hundreds of years before the Act of Union with Scotland, I can't see how his activities could affect the issue of an independent Scotland in any way. |
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It may shock certain good folk to wake up to the fact that due to the evolution of capitalism and its take-over by corporate and multi-national interests that we are already living in fascist, police-states. |
Not so much. If Bill Hicks were alive today, his head would be spinning... _________________ "What about a dance club that only let in deaf people? It would really only need flashing lights, so they'd save a lot of money on music." - Dresden Codak |
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Brian Gerrish showed me a letter on Monday written by Julia Middleton, the CEO of Common Purpose, to Common Purpose supporters condemning the attacks made on her and her organisation and saying her lawyers have advised her not to do anything which would give the critics of Common Purpose 'the oxygen of publicity'.
I'm sorry, but this proves to me that there is something rotten about this organisation. Common Purpose is a Charity. I worked for a leading charity (Macmillan Cancer Relief) and I know for a fact that if any one slurred their excellent name in public they would not hesitate to go legal to clear themselves completely from such an attack. Charities, by their very nature, must be whiter than white - they must be fully accountable, transparent and honest. The attacks on Common Purpose demand that they clear their name through the courts - if Common Purpose refuses to do so then they are hiding something. Their reluctance so far to clear their name in public speaks volumes. _________________ Connect to Infinite Consciousness - enjoy the ride! |
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Quote: | I'm sorry, but this proves to me that there is something rotten about this organisation. |
Justin, I'm inclined to believe you are right in your suspicions. I, too, feel very disturbed by what not only appears to be a scam but one which operates in a very insidious manner through infiltration.
Gerrish is to be commended for having brought Common Purpose under public scrutiny. It's the rest of Gerrish's allegations which I find quite outrageous: all this talk about Communists and the inference --and it's never more than that-- of CP being some sort of front for the EU!
Where is his evidence? Anyone could make up the most outrageous allegations but where they can furnish no proof their allegations remain no more than such. There are people on this Forum who are willing to believe anything that is said about 'the evil EU'. That suggests a dangerous gullibility.
Despite some very underhand attempts to undermine this Forum and to make it into an anti-EU vehicle by those of a gatekeeper-mentality it will never become that. Meantime these mischief-makers must expect not to go unchallenged. I have no doubt of your own integrity and concern in this matter though I cannot say the same of others.
So let me make my position clear: it is not Gerrish's exposé of Common Purpose that I challenge. It is his wildly unfounded accusations claiming that in some way it is part of an EU operation. If he has evidence of this then he must make it public.
You yourself, I know, are rightly a jealous guardian of Magna Carta and Habeas Corpus. Anglo-Saxon law protects one's innocence until proven guilty. If Gerrish and his supporters on this Forum truly care about 'the Golden Thread' of which the above is a part then they must provide the evidence! _________________ One Planet - One People - One Destiny
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Having used the template letter supplied by outsider for a freedom of information request from South Lanarkshire council.
I recieved the reply below,is there really any difference between common purpose and the common purpose fund.
My first thought was that this was just an attempt to avoid the request, but any advice would be appreciated.
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