But in as much as you can describe it, it can adhere to communicative principles, for instance:
This article appears in the Sun.
Pay Fury is efficient signalling. Pay is a short word and Fury is highly emotionally loaded. It’s words like this which earn tabloids their money. Fury is a brilliant word for a tabloid style article on anything you wish to highlight.
Pay Fury is a category, a genre in itself.
You can trot this out forever and it will always work.
Health Killjoys pocket £100k
Killjoy is loaded – it means meanspirited, no fun.
Pocket when used as a verb is like trouser – it means took home or earned but is more evocative of securing funds without really working for them, ie stealing.
More than 350 nanny state killjoys pocketed x for y.
The language is of sensation and excess. The emotion, morality, direction, size, certainty, outrage are all embedded in just a few words. That is what words can do. And if you know how to get words to do these things, then you can achieve big things. The tabloid press exist for agenda setting.
“For telling us what to do”
What do the top managers at the Sun earn?
They tell their readers what to think about. They don’t mention what they don’t want anyone to know.
They obviously underpay the underlings.
But the overall goal is to undermines public services and promote post-Brexit private healthcare.
All communicators should be monitoring this paper.
For uncut real time agenda setting you need to stick your head in The Sun.
Few call out how similar the line the Daily Mail trots out is to Labour’s.
Alex Brummer, the Mail’s City Editor, is forever warning about foreign takeovers.
So’s Larry Elliott of the Guardian.
Mail Business Editor Ruth Sunderland who, like Brummer, is ex Guardian, can’t stand Corbyn and McDonnell.
Despite holding identical views on the fleecing of the worker, the consumer, and the shareholder.
So is this country’s progressive opposition actually just an occasional alliance between the few business journos that manage to get genuine stories into the press, and a few backbench & opposition MPs who then put them in front of Select Committees?
Does the non-binding scrutiny of select committees lead to consistent meaningful progressive change?
The very few people who own newspapers, tv stations and silicon valley social media platforms can, of course, run their own campaigns.
And of course there may be some autonomy in the News Room.
For the rest of us, the shop is closed.
Progressive change is slow and often torpedoed by lobbyists.
But how else to allow the “growth” of the economy while allowing for a bit of social justice?
This appears to be as far as Press Barons would stretch — they are the ones who matter — guardians of public opinion — controllers of dissent.
And they prefer their ad revenue, tax avoidance, financial portfolios and blackmail rackets to acknowledging their readers’ views thirst for community, opportunity and genuine political change.
So real change, at scale, never happens.
Foreign Takeovers
British Steel and Cobham are traditional UK Industrial and Defence firms. If they are to be key to the UK’s future strategy then they ought to be saved. But if the UK plans to be the farm on tax competition and financialisation at the cost of everything else then these industries as well as many others will be let go of sharpish.
Let’s see if central government cross subsidises loss making industries and regions in return for precious votes. I hope it does.
It’s quid pro quo in the devolved political market place.
But what about the people who have been losing out down south, particularly in cities like London?
And will UK Small & Medium Size Enterprises get any help exporting abroad?
Or will Big Capital rule the day and allow the UK to become a hedge fund only environment with all industries sold off?
But politics is a dirty game and you didn’t create the conflict — just amplified what was already there.
It would be unfair to pretend you aren’t a shrewd operator.
That your recent partnership with Tory PR Queen Carrie Symonds wasn’t a master stroke.
I think it important at this stage that the nation gets behind you, at least for a moment, as leader.
We all want the best for the country.
The fact that you are totally corrupt, and turn a blind eye to everything from child abuse to full scale corporate criminality is an absolute disgrace — but also a fact of life in modern Britain.
I’m not saying we should give up on exposing bad practice — but the media does a brilliant job of covering it up.
Now is the time for reading small print and holding power to account.
Never Mind the Backstop
This is my first musical adventure on this website.
Big thanks are due to John Ford Blagger for coaxing me out of Accapella and to Ｉ．Ｋ．Ｂｏｎｚｕｍｐｆｅｒｌ for all the fabulous production pointers.
This one’s called “Nevermind the Backstop” by Obstakula Vernakula.
England’s Dreamin’
Versailles — The Remix
I don’t believe Frau Von Der Leyen has yet been subjected to much critique on these pages.
She was crowned President of the European Commission a little later than planned.
This was due to some of her proposed Commissioners being turned down.
The original French nominee, Sylvie Goulard, was rejected due to ongoing fraud / corruption charges at EU level.
Of course this didn’t stop Christine Lagarde becoming head of the IMF and subsequently becoming the Chair of the European Central Bank.
For those of you who do not self-identify as Bank-Watchers here is a picture of Ms Lagarde on one of her first days in office, check out the ratio:
I was pleased to invite my new Governing Council colleagues to join me at an off-site retreat yesterday. We discussed in an open and informal setting the running of the Governing Council. pic.twitter.com/ifMxiNh7uh
Twas pointed out that there are more painted women on the walls than real women around the table.
The reason why it is only white men in the ECB offices in this photo is that they are the sitting Chairmen of the various national European Central Banks.
They just happen to all be middle aged white guys.
Which makes perfect sense to me – but doesn’t stop the photo being a PR disaster.
The ECB and the rest of the EU institutions seem indifferent to even the notion of the real time PR disaster.
And why should they care?
They are all civil servants on pukka pensions and it is their organisation that has all the authority.
The media can dance to their tune.
But it is civil society’s ire they should do be doing more to assuage.
Which they never do.
Apparently there was a €1 trillion Green EU stimulus launched this week.
Which I’m guessing will have some impact on some bond market somewhere.
Either creating a new market and more places for pension funds to invest or cannibalising another market that would have been trying to achieve the same goal organically before the influx of EU capital.
Green finance isn’t new.
Former UK Chancellor Philip Hammond championed London as a global centre of Green Finance even as he was voting to expand Heathrow Airport.
He did this with no sense of awkwardness and no platform of note so much as batted an eyelid.
The other Phil, Phil Hogan is the new Irish Commissioner for trade.
He will be replacing Michel Barnier and has a tough reputation.
Hogan used to be Commissioner for agriculture.
How is this going to work?
Border in the Irish Sea and corporation tax competition.
Surely this will herald a race to the bottom.
Thierry Breton is the French Commissioner for the Single Market.
This means that among other things he is in charge of Defence.
Till last month Breton was head of ATOS, the firm that sent long term sick people to work, in the UK, and cut their benefits.
Breton has already therefore had a hand in killing hundreds of innocent disabled Brits.
This list of deaths can be added to the bodycount from his time at France Telecom / Orange, the company with one of the highest suicide rates in the world.
So Breton has killed the public and killed his staff.
Which makes him EU Corporate Criminal Aristocracy.
Apparently the EU Single Army and ECB QE will keep Britain entangled in EU affairs for a long time to come.
The EU stitch up is worth returning to at some stage. . .
Patronic Relationship
There is a puff piece in the FT about MBS, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. It touches on the killing of Jamal Kashoggi but praises MBS for “ripping up the rule book” and liberalising the country.
The re-opening of the old town Diriyah, Anthony Joshua’s recent fight there, the opening of cinemas and allowing women to drive are all seen as sign that MBS is liberalising.
But feminism itself is not welcome in Saudi Arabia. MBS has arrested many women’s rights activists despite recently bringing an end to the country’s ban on gender segregation in restaurants.
But the real news in Saudi from a business perspective has been the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the Saudi State oil firm ARAMCO on the Saudi Stock Exchange.
Interesting to compare the EU Climate Stimulus and the Aramco Float.
They supposedly stand for the exact opposite. One to transition us away from the other.
The EU refer to being Climate Neutral. Does this mean Saudi Oil will not be penetrating fortress Europe? Likewise for Russian Gas?
Or does it instead mean that the same EU / US banks and energy trading firms are right behind both strategies which, rather than reducing emissions and consequently pollution, will instead have a net effect that approximates to somewhere around zero.
Dodgy Derivatives
Richard Sandor must be licking his lips at the chance to develop new climate futures markets. The contradiction at the heart of these ponzi schemes appears to simply go without saying. There used to be organisations called Carbon Trade Watch and CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) Watch that tracked the fraud that is Carbon Finance.
Energy-Based Currency
My friend Roger Lewis in Sweden is very good on this stuff.
He blogs prolifically.
Though I often can’t keep up with his writing, his source material is brilliant.
In conversation he always explains what he really means, which for newbies like me is useful.
Roger and I speak on Skype quite frequently and strands of his thinking often appear on this website.
We sometimes upload the chats to Bitchute or YouTube.
Roger has read a lot more than me on many different topics and will helpfully quote relevant poets and philosophers to help get me over the line.
If you like any of what I write about, do check out his work.
A friend has patiently trained me up (online) to do this using IMAGEMAGICK on the command line.
My father was a mainframe programmer (for ARAMCO) so it is nice for me to suddenly be writing out code for something i find meaningful.
That’s the thing about learning. If it isn’t useful, why would you remember?
The Toxic Sludge is Good for You line is taken from a 1994 book by John Stauber (and others). It is a study of the PR industry. I thoroughly recommend it.
John Stauber is still around and tweeted this a few hours ago.
It took me a bit longer than I would have liked to do the speech bubbling yesterday, but I enjoyed it and feel my new image policy has already given my output, and specifically my writing, a new lease of life.
British politics is simply dominated by Paedophiles. Twas ever thus.
Today’s General Election proves that.
Winners by a clear margin were Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Mandelson, Harvey Proctor, Enoch Powell, & arch-enabler Theresa Villiers.
Villiers as pointed out here three weeks ago in Gagged in Golders was the Northern Ireland Secretary in 2015 who shut down the Child Sex Abuse Inquiry into high level Military & state backed paedophila at Northern Irish Kincora childrens home involving paedophile Lord Mountbatten, who himself introduced prolific establishment paedophile Jimmy Savile to that esteemed friend of paedophiles — Prince Charles.
Scotland and Northern Ireland have been completely excluded from the current Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in which Prince Charles’ name has been mentioned and whose own letters supporting and vouching for prolific paedophiles appear in evidence.
Kincora documents are off limits till 2085.
It’s no wonder the Tories poured many of their efforts into getting Theresa Villiers re-elected in Barnet. She has all the dirt. Whenever you see her on TV it is crucial to remind yourself of the VIP paedophile kompromat game.
Mrs Thatcher herself helped cover-up Kincora when the information was first published in the newspapers in 1983. But even she would be a stranger to today’s Tory Party.
Sam Tarry won in Ilford for Labour against Mike Gapes. I’ve had some indirect contact with Tarry in the past — not a nice man.
Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch, Guido Fawkes, Tommy Robinson, Steve Bannon, Katy Hopkins all got what they wanted.
The enormous dissent tracking psychological operation that is Twitter certainly delivered for the Tories.
Twitter’s head of strategy and policy Nick Pickles was once a member of the Hard-Right Young Briton’s Foundation, flatmates with Conservative Home Editor & thug Mark Wallace, and a Conservative Candidate in 2010.
What will the EU & ECB do to UK now? Will Britain be included in EU Single Army via the Backdoor and will the ECB QE multi trillion debt somehow get parcelled up and held by the UK?
As Keynes said at the beginning of The Economic Consequences of the Peace from 1919:
Brexit negotiations are a completely different stitch-up to what happened in Versailles in 1919. The Germans then limped off feeling hard done by. Not possible today. The outcome of the Second World War and years of EU integration has left transnational capital perfectly placed to reimpose restrictions on movement, thought, behaviour, & free expression.
Brits and Yanks act like ‘we won the war’ .
But now that the state and its public services are being dismantled to drive profits, patronage and financialisation, things are starting to look a little different to how they once may have seemed.
For me the hope was that Labour won the election, Britain leave the EU and set an example for how to invest in a country and its people. Will the Tory investment plans ever materialise?
Or is the transnational power game still the only game in town?
“Boris” Kemal “Johnson” is a Brussels man. And whatever plan he is handed he will execute. The newspapers yesterday gave clear instructions that their readers should all vote Tory. So this is what happened.
Anyone who points this out signs an oath to a life at the margins.
I’m being introduced to the world of code — and loving it.
ImageMagick can be used to produce / manipulate images & generate text.
Once installed, & with a few images generated, the power of computing feels more transparent thanks to ImageMagick.
There is something satisfying about typing a command into a computer and then almost instantly seeing it done. It is a feeling of power. Knowing it will do what you want it to.
All depends on what you ask.
And it is so different to photoshop, which is nice and very powerful too, but all the work is done for you.
With the code, you don’t use your mouse and it feels more brutal, more agile, more old school.
This website is helpful. I only came it across it for the ImageMagick stuff but the other things that are being discussed look very useful indeed.
Andrew still claims not to have known @VRSVirginia. But she certainly worked at Trump's Mar a Lago because that's where she met Ghislaine Maxwell around the time this photo was taken with Donald Trump in New York. pic.twitter.com/ZDjUqlXkkr
A former Remainer, Mike Freer, used to run Barnet Council, is staunchly pro-Israel, and has turned his back on his liberal views to become one of Boris Johnson’s Whips (hardline enforcer of party discipline).
The North London Pinochet
Full disclosure: This author frequently refers to Mike Freer as the Augusto Pinochet of North London due to the shock therapy neo-liberal economic experiments Freer has subjected the residents of Barnet to, particularly the outsourcing of many of the Council’s Functions to Capita in what became known as the One Barnet / Easy Council policy.
The Anti-Female Female
With Conservative Synagogues behind him, Mike Freer is happy for Berger to be denounced as anti-female due to her signing up to the Lib Dem manifesto which includes pledges about Trans Rights.
The Logic
For truth lovers this strategy is wrongheaded in many ways.
He’s not Anti-Trans
First of all Freer is an openly gay man who is not known for his anti-trans views.
Tories love Paedos
The Tory record on paedophilia in general and Westminster VIP sex abuse in particular is hardly one in which they have covered themselves in glory.
Thatcher & Savile
Margaret Thatcher, who represented the Finchley and Golders Green constituency from 1959 to 1992, was on very good terms with BBC stalwart Jimmy Savile who is now known to have been easily as prolific and organised in his approach to blackmail, influence, & paedophilia as that other friend of the British Establishment – Jeffrey Epstein.
Establishment Paedophilia
That Savile operated with impunity throughout his life is testament to the protection he received.
Savile’s connections to the establishment ran deep – including the Royal Family, The Military, The NHS and Northern Ireland.
Savile was introduced to Prince Charles by Prince Phillip’s favourite Uncle — Lord Louis Mountbatten.
In 1966 Lord Mountbatten, then Commandant General, arranged for Jimmy Savile to be the first civilian to be awarded a Royal Marines’ green beret.
Mountbatten was murdered off the coast of Ireland by the IRA in 1974.
Kincora Children’s Home
He was known to frequent Kincora, a Northern Irish children’s home, where he habitually raped vulnerable teenage boys.
Theresa May ensured Kincora would not be investigated in the ongoing Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse because she was unwilling for the truth about rampant MI6, Military and Royal Family paedophilia to surface on her watch.
Thus the shadow of establishment paedophilia & anti-semitism has fallen upon this campaign.
Mike Freer
Mike Freer like everyone else in this story claims to be a huge Thatcher fan.
In the following 2013 video following her death Freer claims Mrs Thatcher’s views on international diplomacy were an influence.
This was obviously when he was still a Remainer.
Freer appears to also be a huge pragmatist
Rather than sticking to his principles and falling on his sword following Remain’s failure to win the referendum, Freer has shown himself willing to get in bed with anyone, from Boris Johnson to the bigoted racist, homophobic, misogynist DUP.
Misogyny without Borders
In the following image, prolific left wing Broken Barnet Blogger aka Mrs Angry revealed that in June this year Mike Freer invited the racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-abortion, anti-Trans, far-right Arlene Foster to Margaret Thatcher’s former constituency office.
In the photo is Conservative Female Councillor Jennifer Grocock whose Brexit credentials and taste in bedfellows couldn’t be clearer.
So it wasn't a dream: this happened – Finchley Tories invited Arlene Foster to Margaret Thatcher House, and Cllr Grocock dressed up in a union jack dress to greet her: pic.twitter.com/bx4L94Q1M8
Liberal Jews in Finchley and Golders Green are leaving the Tory Party and campaigning for Luciana Berger to become their MP.
But will the Conservative narrative, that Gay Male Flip-Flopper Mike Freer is the one whom Jews can trust really defeat the homecoming of a Finchley Girl and (unwilling) national antisemitism spokesperson?
Ring My Bell
One thing’s for sure in all this — the Conservatives are looking pretty jittery next door:
Conservatives pour 'considerable resources' into Chipping Barnet to defend Theresa Villier's marginal https://t.co/CRYgQR6eu7 via @jewishchron
Facebook, as with British Justice, is open to all — just like the Ritz.
The Big Bang in the City of London Financial Sector happened in the Eighties and permitted US banks to massively expand their operations.
Stuffy old British banking gave way to a more openly money grabbing approach which meant people from varied backgrounds were allowed in to make their fortunes.
The Masons and the City establishment still ran the place but the lower orders were allowed in and, to a certain degree, their loyalty could be relied on.
This is what Thatcher, Blair, and Cameron represented.
As Rees-Mogg is in cahoots with Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, his own sister joined the Brexit Party and became an MEP, it should not come as such a surprise that yesterday Nigel Farage withdrew every Brexit Party candidate from any seat in which the current MP is a Tory.
This strategy would be nothing if Boris Johnson hadn’t already performed a purge of the party and guaranteed 100% loyalty to the Hard Brexit cause.
Personally I believe the EU and the ECB are awful corporatist militarist vehicles that UK should have nothing to do with.
So now Trump, Bannon, Farage, Rees-Mogg, Cummings, & Johnson are a more immediate threat.
They have to be dealt with but not by staying in the corporatist EU.
Ad Libraries
If you look at Facebook’s arguments for profiteering from political BS, the rôle of the Ad Library takes centre stage.
Facebook lets politicians scam its users by citing free expression and increased transparency about who is buying adverts and how much they are spending.
Here is today’s UK Ad Library (link above). It shows information about Sunday 9th November, as I write this post it is 0438 on the morning of Tuesday 12th November (GMT )
You can click on any of the entries for more details.
The openness with which politicians now lie is not something we are going to be able to do much about as gatekeepers and intermediaries, ie press barons and their digital counterparts, now allow all sorts of untruth to go unchallenged.
It’s a great time to be blogging about the truth, sadly a little too great.
Following yesterday’s post about Aadhaar the Movie, Irumbuthurai is a 2018 Indian Cyber Thriller in Malayalam in which someone steals the entire country’s personal data by using the Security Minister’s fingerprint.
When crime goes Meta.
Apparently the film has led to increased public concern about the security of the Aadhaar Biometric ID Card System.
All Governments are at War with their own People
This piece came out on Indian News website Livemint.com last week.
ISO / Pegasus
Indian government agencies use Pegasus, which can be used to spy via WhatsApp, from ISO, an Israeli firm currently being sued by Facebook.
All governments are at war with their own people especially those who don't have the funds to contest elections so conduct a soft war through humanitarianism. As technology advances, governments become increasingly sophisticated snoopers. My latest: https://t.co/srYtiKVL1k
Edward Snowden told an Israeli conference in late 2018 that ISO had been helping the Saudi Government spy on Jamal Kashoggi’s associates, as reported below by Whitney Webb of Mint Press.
Snowden: Israeli Spyware Used By Governments to Pursue Journalists Targeted for Assassination https://t.co/TGzBrZexSL
In June this year the Guardian reported that the head of the Serpentine Gallery Yana Peel was forced to resign because it had reported that she and her husband were co-owners of Novalpina Capital, a private equity firm that was the major shareholder in NSO.
The Serpentine Gallery accepts big donations from the Sackler Family who have made billions from Opioid addiction which kills thousands each year in the US alone.
In May, following reports of the Pegasus security threat the Guardian even published an editorial on it:
And completing the circle, Julia Carrie Wong just published this from HBO and the people over at Axios.
The CEO of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, who is also a board member of the New York Times Company, is trying to have his cake and eat it.
Pretending to be outraged by the murder of Jamal Kashoggi while at the same time being completely relaxed about the Saudi Government’s role in murdering Kashoggi.
Are we already in hell when we allow CEOs of enormous private loss making, industry destroying, market share grabbing foreign funded unicorn firms like Uber and Babylon, whose main expertise is borrowing money from Saudi Arabia and causing mass underemployment, to start making pronouncements in praise of political murder and compare it, favourably, with its own unnecessary death rate?
The things that are happening in India, Silicon Valley, Turkey and Saudi Arabia affect people in the UK as well as everywhere else. But as a good friend said to me the other day, all this info that is coming at us, much of it meaningful, then very often goes nowhere.
It is a golden age for PR and strategic comms in that sense.
The powerful can now simply get away with anything.
And as there is nothing yet that will stop them, they will go on and on.
The Economist and other papers have been talking about billionaires recently and how useful they are. They don’t get to stay billionaires unless they are complicit in all the spying and all the killing.
We are at the point where truth has given way to conjecture.
Facts can be reported but will never be acted upon.
Aaadhaar is India’s massive biometric ID Card system. And it’s flawed.
It takes it’s name from Hindi for Foundation or Base.
Aadhaar is run by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) under the Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016 (“Aadhaar Act 2016”).
The Indian Government referred to it as being voluntary when it started in 2014 but quickly made it compulsory.
People would be denied access to basic services if they couldn’t produce an Aadhaar card.
Quantify, Qualify
The age old urge to measure life for tax & regulatory purposes means Aadhaar is entering surveillance’s pantheon of legends.
Even passengers for Noah’s Ark were grouped in twos.
Gender may have been a unique identifier, but don’t quote me.
Genocide makes me Nervous
Hippopotami
Have you heard the one about the late Drug Lord Pablo Escobar’s Hippos?
The Garden of Eden
Back to Codex, the apple symbolises rather more than man’s biblical quest for perfect information.
Apparently the original Apple logo was a pen and ink drawing of Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree.
For years it has been rumoured that Apple’s iconic logo, a stylized apple missing a bite on one side, was inspired by the circumstances surrounding the death of Alan Turing.
The groundbreaking mathematician and computer scientist committed suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple in 1954.
British Intelligence agencies were making him take oestrogen to suppress his homosexual tendencies. He couldn’t take it any more.
One is reminded of the state-backed torture of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.
The Apple of Discord
Mālum Discordiae meaning the Apple of Discord plays with the spelling and pronunciation of malum which means apple with a long a and evil with a short one.
Paris was asked to judge a beauty contest between three goddesses because Zeus was too chicken.
Eris had turned up to a party she wasn’t invited to on account of her always starting trouble.
She brought with her the Apple of Discord.
It was Golden and would be given to the most beautiful woman at the party.
Zeus was asked to judge. He let Paris do it.
The next day, after bathing, the three goddesses each attempted to bribe Paris. Aphrodite, the Patron Goddess of Prostitutes, offered him the most beautiful woman in the world — Helena of Sparta.
He accepted and in return gave Aphrodite the Golden Apple, on which Eris is said to have inscribed: Kallistei meaning “to the most beautiful one”.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre this week with the photoPrince Andrew, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, Ghislaine MaxwellPrince Andrew at a Trade Event in Bankgok las weekPrince Andrew, Boris Johnson, & Carrie Symonds last nightPrince Andrew and Peter Mandelson’s friend Jeffrey EpsteinRoger Hallam of Extinction RebellionCarrie Symonds and Chris Packham CBE at 2019’s Birdfair in RutlandChris Packham at Extinction Rebellion London in 2019Chris Packham picking up CBE at Buckingham Palace with Extinction Rebellion tieVivienne Westwood honoured at Buckingham Palace
Paris was handed Helen which rather irritated her husband and sparked the Trojan War.
Apparently Zeus’ sister / wife Hera who had also been in the running for Most Beautiful Girl in the World was not best pleased with Paris either.
Gluck’s Chinese Women finishes with a ballet scene dedicated to Eris’s Apple of Discord.
Chinese Surveillance
Where China have their Social Credit system like Baidu, Ali Baba, and Tencent (BAT), the UK has Facebook / HMRC / Universal Credit, and India have Aadhaar.
Aadhaar Trailer
This film looks brilliant.
Vandana Shiva & Linsey McGoey
One shouldn’t talk about measuring life without mentioning Vandana Shiva and Linsey McGoey’s various projects with regard to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Whereas Vandana Shiva is very concerned about patenting food and other data issues, McGoey goes for the Gates Foundation as a whole and measuring its effect on Global Health and Education Policy.
The Economist says the place where reform is needed is in intellectual property.
They cite George Lucas selling Lucas Film for $4 billion 40 years after Star Wars as the most compelling flaw in the economic system.
Osborne’s name appears in the credits for the Star Wars Film Force Awakens – he gave it tax relief.
But no mention of Industrial Scale Tax Avoidance, Lobbying, Rise of Political Lying, Censorship, Competition Policy, Billionaire Owned-Press or Highly Securitised Social Media.
Billionaires are better CEOs, according to the latest figures.
The FT’s Wealth Correspondent Stefan Wagstyl quotes the head of the ultra high net worth unit at UBS:
ELECTION POLLS: when the denialism had to stop @Wiki_Ballot Introduction to the 4 Pamphleteers by Roger Lewis ( Porthos) @GrubStreetJorno @Survation @wiki_ballot @financialeyes @DavidGolemXIV @JoeBlob20 #IABATO #TheSlog #GrubStreetJournal
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey got to play good cop last week, publicly shunning paid political ads just as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg promoted them.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's decision to ban political ads puts one bad-faith move out of bounds https://t.co/gD23v2EKne
Sandberg said paid political ads are worth only one percent of their revenue so not normally worth the hassle, but they’re sticking with it because Mark believes in free expression.
"We believe in free expression, we believe in political speech and ads can be an important part of that," said Sheryl Sandberg when asked why Facebook decided not to ban political ads pic.twitter.com/1RcW3D01Sz
Why would Twitter need to take paid political ads if its USP is real time dissidence surveillance?
Its the short term attention market. Futures in info. The less friction the better.
All about volatility.
And Jack ain’t no Punter. He’s the House.
we know far more than what we know we know, and far less than what we don’t know we don’t know
Dorsey greets MBS in Silicon Valley
This story has been doing the rounds. I believe one of the Twitter staff arrested by the FBI is a US citizen and the other two are Saudis.
Interesting how the FBI are upset with the Saudis for using a US firm to spy on Saudi dissidents.
Of course in the UK we had a Saudi / Scottish Tory / DUP connection making significant contributions to the Brexit ad campaigns.
And Evening Standard and Independent owning Russian Oligarchs Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev sold 30% of their company Lebedev Holdings to the Saudis in 2017.
This was “investigated” under a public interest intervention by the then Media Secretary Jeremy Wright and by Ofcom, the media regulator, which is still run by Sharon White who has attended Bilderberg meetings with Evening Standard Editor, George Osborne.
Osborne was often in agreement with White’s husband Robert Chote who ran the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) which George Osborne created to supposedly police his budgets when he was Chancellor but then became known as the Treasury’s poodle.
Surpise surprise OFCOM found the Lebedevs innocent of allowing foreign influence. Even though it is plain to see. The reason given was that the government were too slow to act.
Editorial integrity of The Evening Standard and The Independent completely vindicated by OFCOM, as we knew it would be. Poor judgement and errors by DCMS exposed, as we predicted. What a waste of public money, and ours.
Businesses want to make money. I get that. They have a duty to their shareholders. To maximise shareholder returns. It’s part of company law.
When Sir Christopher Chope (he of upskirting fame) became the leader of Wandsworth, one of London’s Flagship Tory Councils, in the late seventies, he outsourced the collecting of the rubbish.
Not long after, he sold off council-owned properties to developers and to residents.
Young people in Wandsworth’s children’s homes were moved out to Kent and elsewhere.
Some were drugged and raped, and used as guinea pigs for Big Pharma.
Much of this was reported on in the papers, tv and even spoken about in Parliament.
But it carried on.
The Purse
Capita, meanwhile, were formed and grew into a global government outsourcing firm. G4S, SERCO & Atos have also got into the government contract business.
These are all private, publicly quoted, companies.
With shareholders and a duty to maximise profit and returns.
That is their stated duty.
So while certain journalists, particularly one at the FT, start talking about purpose as opposed to profit, one has to ask if they’ve gone native, or whether they mean what they are saying.
The Moral Bank Account
The FT’s Gillian Tett, for whom I have always had time, has started a new section of the FT called Moral Money.
Though I haven’t delved deep into it, on first glance, the people operating in it were unregulated asset-stripping, venture capitalist, private equity, buy-out people who were essentially hedge fund, vulture fund, disaster capitalists styling themselves as people who suddenly cared.
The whole thing seem to be a marketing scam for that other new buzzword “impact investing”.
I couldn’t believe Ms Tett was lending them her time, platform, trust and all round credibility.
Times must be tough. Did Gillian Tett and Editor Lionel Barber convince their bosses at Nikkei that this would fly?
A nice Green market to tap into?
Green Bonds. To save the rainforest. Seeing as the other bonds are making their money from deforestation. A contrarian play.
Frontier investing.
The Hedge Fund money at Extinction Rebellion doesn’t just pay attention.
The pump and dump school of ecological & political marketing.
From Clickbait to Jailbait
Starring Gail Bradbrook, Carrie Symonds, and co-starring Roger Hallam & Boris Johnson.
Increasingly hard to tell them apart.
Except the types of activist Boris usually hangs around with are of the Oligarch variety, Crispin Odey, Evgeny Lebedev, even Mandelson, Blair and Osborne have far more in common with Johnson — hang on a second..
Equal Ops depopulation to facilitate austerity on steroids and no-one will clock?
Psychologically Eugenicising the youth by conditioning them to perpetuate cycles of conflict over ever diminishing availability of opportunity.
And let the few bits of political attention they have left be distracted by no-platforming and non-binary micro-aggressions.
This is what FT, EU, BBC, the Tory Party, Lib Dems, Greens, Extinction Rebellion and significant Labour Party operatives still offer.
And where does it go?
Given the revolution in Local Government started by Sir Christopher Chope and pushed through in Bradford and from Central Government by his Financial Terrorist chums Eric Pickles, George Osborne, & Sajid Javid, one might have thought there would have been a plethora of stories coming out from all over the UK on this stuff.
But there hasn’t.
The death of local journalism and the rise of property-obsessed Commercial Council PR operations means you are now more likely to get a report on the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza than see anything on the various forms of torture and abuse that the London Borough of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea systematically inflict on all too many of their residents on a daily basis right here in London.
It’s the psychopathic business model.
No Guilt, No Shame. No Self-Respect. No respect for others’ dignity.
Just business. Pound signs. The bottom line.
If you involve agency staff to run essential services then their mentality will take over. Which is one of economic survival and not public service.
I’ve started asking some questions – and the picture I am receiving is not good.
More in depth analysis to come.
These scribblings were sparked by my reaction to the following piece by Jim Waterson. I suspect I disagree with Mr Waterson’s politics but he’s been very helpful when I’ve interacted with him, does great reports (for the Guardian) and is good on TV.
There is such a thing in the UK as the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, who do do some great work. But the money behind them is not Moral Money and the staff are mainly made up of pre-institutionalised journalists who have been recruited from the mainstream media. They’re prone to stealing ideas, recruit in their own mould and lack diversity to such an extent as would make even Steve Bannon cringe.
You may have noticed the rise of Corporate NDA culture, mainly comprising of gagging orders, confidentiality agreements, non-compete clauses, injunctions and even superinjunctions.
This matters. Especially in a so-called free society.
Trade Secrets
If you see something at work that your company relies on to make its money, this could be defined as a trade secret.
That is what Non Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) are supposed to be for.
If you sign one, you can’t talk about what you know.
E.g. the formula for Coca Cola or a design for a building or a new piece of technology.
There are supposed to be exceptions – if something criminal is going on, then technically you can break the NDA.
But in reality, few people do.
For fear of reprisals.
Having to pay back the money.
Being made homeless or losing one’s family.
Corporate Criminality is very hard to prove and few whistleblowers tend to know their rights, so large scale corporate criminality often goes unchecked.
In America victims of fracking have complained that flammable gas comes through their taps due to changes in the water table.
Many were gagged.
But these aren’t trade secrets. This is inconvenient truth.
For large corporates, it’s reputational risk.
The risk that fewer people will do business with you because you’ve taken short cuts on health and safety.
They’re effectively defrauding investors, consumers, the general public, the press, regulators, the government, and other people and entities with whom they do business.
News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead.
Evelyn Waugh
“News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.”
Randolph Hearst
I Never Argue with a Man Who Buys Ink by the Barrel
Anon.
In the banking industry, victims of bank fraud are frequently gagged by the bank after having been defrauded.
They typically accept such conditions to be allowed to access a sum equal to just a small fraction of the amount of money that the bank will have stolen.
(I’m not using any names here so I think I am on safe ground!)
Here is the Mail piece on Tumble Dryer NDAs.
Note the use of “Stay silent or” in the box on the right.
Engineering of Consent
Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein famously gagged many of his victims and his own secretary (using London-based law firms) to protect his reputation.
Was the delivery of sexual assault, in pure business terms, an essential part of the business model?
How else could you justify covering up rape as a trade secret?
If a film producer’s reputation is treated as non-tangible “Good Will”, “Intellectual Property” or even a “tradeable asset” then it follows that an organisation will want to leverage its assets and trade on its perceived value.
I am not saying that NDAs for sexual violence are morally acceptable, but under the guilt-free, shame-free, profit-maximising psychopathic conventions that govern corporations, such behaviour makes perfect sense.
By protecting the “Brand” you protect the shareholders, which you are legally obliged to..
Using the idea of information as a tangible, legal, biological unit that can be deployed to one’s favour or detriment, the metaphor takes on a new potency.
What motivates UK-based “healthcare entrepreneur”, ex-Goldman Sachs investment banker, Ali Parsa to attend the Butchers without Borders investment conference in Saudi Arabia?
Since then the event itself has started and a full line-up has been published.
For some reason the Guardian hasn’t mentioned that Babylon Health CEO Ali Parsa was at the conference yesterday:
In Brief
Babylon Health is defunding GPs practices, cherry picking younger patients, handing over confidential medical data to Google Health, operating with an inevitable significant error rate (machine learning isn’t perfect), taking Saudi Money, Google money, US health insurance (Centene) money, Swedish venture capitalist money which specialised in 1990’s Russian disaster capitalism (New Vostok Ventures), doing deals with surveillance capitalists Tencent in repressive China, and in Rwanda thanks to Tony Blair and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dr Murphy
Ali Parsa discusses the 'silly' unrealistic expectations that the public have regarding the safety of & accuracy of AI technology in healthcare.
— Lords Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee (@HLDemoDigital) October 28, 2019
More puff from Ali, this time at KPMG.
KPMG, the Big Four, and PFI
KPMG, PWC, Deloitte, Accenture are management accounting firms that are also known as the Big Four.
They offer more than just accounting services and, although they are referred to as mere Bean Counters, their work is often laden with conflicts of interest.
IPPR backed the part-privatisation of many of Britain’s hospitals in the 1990s and early 2000s. But the conflicts of interest in their promotion are now much clearer than they were then. The so-called left wing think tanks were funded by large private companies to push their privatising agenda.
IPPR has had a bit of a makeover in the last couple of years, since the 2017 election. Grace Blakeley, one of their economists, is on the TV a lot and Tom Kibasi, the soon to depart CEO, has become very close to the top of the Labour Party. But although Blakeley has written a book about Financialisation, I understand that she rarely takes on her former employers – like KPMG.
On the subject of PFI, IPPR now say that it was a disaster — conveniently forgetting their own role promoting it.
They say that the Government should bail out the hospitals by buying the debt and issuing (cheaper) government bonds to pay it off.
It goes without saying that the hospitals should have been funded using general taxation in the first place.
Apparently EU accounting rules forbade UK from running the type of deficits that such programmes would have required.
But the actual solution, going after the fraudsters that pushed PFI in the first place, doesn’t seem to get mentioned even in the Labour Party.
Why do you think that is? Maybe because IPPR have infiltrated Labour Party thinking and are doing the bidding of their friends, (some of) the fraudsters over at the City of London.
More on the NHS Privatisation from Dr Bob Gill, GP and producer of the Great NHS Heist.
Sell-Off
This film was made in 2014
Awareness
If we don’t have a proper media, the only way any good decision making will happen for this country is if we take back control of internal communication.
Lobbyists, Public Affairs and Public Relations execs will always be paid to serve the rich. But they need to be called out more frequently, if not they will carry on winning the war. The stakes are high. Please share this information, if you can.
On the bright side, the BBC’s output helps identify the latest asset-stripping fascist corporatist genocidal strategies employed by faceless global government and its multi-headed parasites.
On Tuesday 29th October 2019, Ali Parsa, CEO of Babylon Health, the firm that competes with the NHS for GP business, will be speaking at “What’s next for Life and Health?” , a plenary at Future Investment Initiative, also known as the Davos in the Desert, hosted by the Public Investment Fund in Saudi Arabia.
The Chairman of the PIF is Mohammad Bin Salman the controversial Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia who ruthlessly tortured and asset stripped many of his cousins in November 2017 in a move that was compared to the way Putin often chases Russian oligarchs, before ordering the extraterritorial killing of US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi.
White House Chief of Staff Jared Kushner will attend.
Homosexuality is banned in Saudi Arabia and there are many rules that prevent even a semblance of equality for women.
Hypocrisy is order of the day as liberal Kushner’s father Charlie, though feigning to be a devout practiser of the Jewish faith, also happens to be a practising homosexual.
Ali Parsadoust of Babylon Health is marked as representing the United States!
PIF own stakes in Babylon Health, which is currently undermining the NHS, expanding massively in Britain, and has been praised to the heavens by British Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism recently identified that PM Boris Johnson’s Chief of Staff Dominic Cummings has been paid for consultancy work for Babylon.
Other conference attendees include Jared Kushner, former UK PM David Cameron, Bilderberg man Martin Sorrell, Trade Minister Graham Stuart, Manchester United Managing Director Richard Arnold, Head of HSBC sustainable finance Zoe Knight, PWC’s Health Partner Hamish Clark, London Stock Exchange’s David Schwimmer, Indian PM Narendra Modi, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, and more.
In December the World Heavyweight Championship Boxing champion will be decided in Saudi.
BBC Sport – Joshua v Ruiz: Fighters meet in Saudi Arabia for first time on press tour https://t.co/xdE3TcElXR
I’m British, so I simply don’t believe a word the BBC says.
Deflection Inflection
It’s all spin — every word, every image, the disempowering tone & natural submission to authority that automatically flows from the presenters’ subjugated speech patterns.
Subjugated by their salaries. The Principle Agent Problem. Conflicts of interest. They’re maximising what is good for themselves, at no small cost to the country.
Lying on the Couch
Run an emotional audit on the facial expressions and tone of voice on the BBC Breakfast couch.
Look out for what’s not said.
The Unknowers
They have mood managers instructing them through their ear pieces. Who are they? What is their agenda? It’s all secret. Hotly guarded stuff. Strategic Ignorance.
So who are the knowers and who are the unknowners?
We can’t say exactly but we live inside their work. They call real journalists “The reality-based community” They engineer our perceptions of reality. This used to be called Public Opinion. It is also referred to as Agenda Setting. The Former Soviets have a natural advantage in this field as they researched it and applied the principles during the seventy year duration of the USSR.
But they do it in the trusting tone. They’re salespeople. Selling Corporatism. Human rights violations. Fake empathy. Corruption. Fascism. Everyday fascism.
Patronage. Oligarchy. Finance “Capitalism”.
Pretending to adhere to a set of principles. But permanently happy to go outside every code in order to get the job done ie preventing truth & justice from ever getting to the places that need it most.
“You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I dont want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction…I can get all that at home.” Peter Cook
There is an idea that the BBC may be trustworthy. But its propaganda is so transparently infantilising that trust levels appear to be eroding at an accelerating rate.
Speaking of corruption:
Trump Biden Ukraine Corruption
I wanted to know what the latest was in relation to the Trump / Biden / Ukraine story.
After having seen the following image at 5am UK time:
Taken from Today’s New York Times.
The Trump Biden ‘Backstory’
Democrat Leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, recently decided to impeach Trump over a telephone call he made the new President of Ukraine, former TV star, Zelensky.
A whistleblower claimed that during this telephone call Trump threatened to withhold funds from Ukraine unless it launched full investigations into the sacking of a Ukrainian former prosecutor who was investigating corruption at a pro-Putin Ukrainian gas company — one of whose directors happened to be Hunter Biden, son of former US Vice President Joe Biden.
Ivanka
This tweet speaks for itself. Vicky Ward is leading the charge. Check out Kushner Inc and the video she did with Democracy Now earlier this year.
“Occasionally, while on the phone with foreign heads of state, Trump has handed the receiver to his daughter, Ivanka Trump, so she can talk with the leader, according to this individual.” https://t.co/qjk7jyZLg8
Joe Biden was filmed, as shown in the following BBC clip, showing off about getting the Ukrainian prosecutor sacked in exchange for aid money.
Questions about Biden
But why did Biden get the official sacked?
Is that even legal?
The US exerts its power in so many ways.
Lolz at Play
Just as the European Union doesn’t want to admit how powerful it is and how much corruption it enables, is this example of Biden using the US to feather his own nest just another one of those normal things that the powerful do that we aren’t supposed to talk about or frame as everyday corruption?
Do US rules require further proof of the link between the sacking of the official and the investigation into Biden’s son’s firm?
And should Biden even be visiting Ukraine when his son is a director in a pro-Putin gas firm?
Although this might have been legal at the time in Ukraine, it looks very bad in America and elsewhere.
#CrookedHillary, anyone?
Pragmatism Vs Principle
Having a dad who is able to pull strings on a geo strategic level would be regarded, in some industries, as a game changing business asset.
Though this may look like prima facie nepotism to any normal person, to someone who wants to win a gas concession it is just getting things done.
Quicker.
And therefore cheaper.
Get it Done
In Britain, Boris Johnson and his cabinet keep going around saying “Get Brexit done”. Using force and bullying tones to hope that their Brexit deal is not scrutinised.
The EU does much of its work completely under the radar too.
So what are the rules around nepotism?
The noises I have heard coming out of the US say there are rules for nepotism in the US but that they don’t apply to the White House.
Though Trump is credited with helping people discover this, the Bidens may also have been well aware.
Have the Bidens been playing a regulatory arbitrage game?
US influence via Ukrainian Loopholes. Ewwww!
Ça pue!
En français on dit “ça pue!”
Huele Mal
Y en Castellano digamos “Huele Mal!”
El Olor de la Corrupción
Transformation from Illegal to Legal Corruption
What was legal in Ukraine, and practical for the Bidens in terms of US influence, despite looking like nepotism, allows corrupt practices to shift from being obviously corrupt to business as usual.
How is this politically possible? Is it Alchemy? Or is everything permitted?
David Whyte of University of Liverpool on the transition from Illegal to legal Corruption:
Just because it’s Biden this time, that’s not to say that Trump wouldn’t try something like this.
Maybe some of his kids are signed up to help steer US policy in various countries to suit foreign interests.
The names Ivanka and Chief of Staff Jared spring to mind!
Thinking back to the BBC video, I can’t help but think the report is a bit rushed.
The turning points are merely touched on and Mr Biden is given a fairly easy ride.
No questions are asked about whether any of what Biden has done is legal. And the fact that it is Pelosi who is impeaching Trump for looking into Biden’s corruption rather lets Biden and the Democrats off the hook.
The whole thing stinks and could backfire on the Democrats but I guess they were already in a desperate situation or they wouldn’t have picked this to be the issue with which to beat the President.
There is so much else going on, it looks like the Democrats only care about protecting Biden.
How many people spoke in the BBC news clip?
How long did each clip or person get?
Did anyone offer deep explanations? Or was much of the thrust basically conjecture? Was there a tone of powerlessness from the presenter? Is that not the usual British disgust at that which it doesn’t understand?
What the BBC expects its producers and presenters to tap into is their perceived primeval fear of the other.
Must have been very useful in the early days of the BBC and the final days of the empire.
But now it is merely a series of tricks that revolve around who is in power at any one place and time, and whatever the broadcasters’ Military Intelligence copywriters (script writers) happen to have been told about the latest short term objective.
Which is why only BBC employees and certain academics are allowed full access to iPlayer.
They don’t want people going through old issues of the 6 O’clock News. Or especially breaking news. The propaganda would be too transparent.
Here’s a relevant news item that has been systematically suppressed, but contains some clues about the draconian surveillance powers being exercised over iPlayer access. The Unknowers Spreading Amnesia.
Amol Rajan
Amol Rajan is back from paternity leave. Congratulations, old chap.
1/ The betrayal of children with special educational needs 2/ Latest on the unconscionable death of 39 in a lorry in Essex 3/ Peter Oborne, @OborneTweets, on the crisis in political journalism 4/ 8m wasted pumpkins! pic.twitter.com/r4pcdO7xYK
Rajan is incredibly incisive but equally distorting.
The BBC Media Editor job didn’t exist before and he appears to have been given it because he is super charismatic and a loyal part of the apparatus.
Having a decent address book and being a spook probably also helps.
From Phone Hacking and press intrusion to Big Tech, he has quite a wide beat.
And he manages to always steer things away from election rigging, patronage, and finance capitalism.
Full disclosure: I may be rather green eyed about this as he is younger and more successful than me. (enough of that, ed)
Lebedev
In 2013 when he was appointed editor of the Lebedev-owned Independent newspaper I sent him a congratulatory email and told him that Genetically Modified was back in the news and that I knew people who were influential and politically active on the topic.
His reply:
Everyday Corruption
A deal has clearly been struck between Lebedev and Putin, and between Lebedev and the UK state, in whatever form.
Russian, Israeli, UK Military intelligence control our media. ‘Tis clear.
Luke Harding’s recent review of Alexander Lebedev’s biography revealed that he said NOTHING about Putin.
Hunt the Banker: The Confessions of a Russian Ex-Oligarch by Alexander Lebedev – review https://t.co/ASWNSB3T6h
Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend and alleged procurer Ghislaine Maxwell’s father Robert owned Pergamon Press and did plenty of business with the Soviets and Israel.
He released this book in the early 80s.
Alexander Lebedev’s father was a KGB agent in London before going onto become a banking, energy, and airlines billionaire.
Maybe he read it. Maybe he knew Maxwell. Who knows.
Epstein did business with Maxwell, Trump met him too.
Did Lebedev pick up the pieces in the oligarch’s orgy that followed Maxwell’s demise?
Maxwell was a go between between Soviet and western engineers and Israeli military intelligence in the construction and sales of databases with backdoors and of military technology.
Epstein travelled to Saudi using a fake Austrian passport.
Russians Land a Big One; F.A.A. Gives Stamp of Approval to Ilyusian Cargo Plane https://t.co/YXNB5rAOL1
I composed this a few weeks ago – it includes a sample from Facebook at a congressional hearing on social media and mass shootings before going into Whitney Webb who shines many lights on the mass shooting business model of big tech as well as Epstein and Israeli military intelligence.
You won’t hear pro-GM gatekeeper Amol Rajan saying that!
Capital without Borders
The big people have their money stashed away in Cayman, Panama, Luxembourg etc and they like shareholder value and Bilderberg style unscrutinised decision making.
So though we have this all pervading fascistic self-policing façade of equal ops and meritocracy, the only thing that counts is still patronage, influence and who you know.
The Guardian is obviously pro-GM like Lebedev.
But this is all part of the omertà code.
Nothing written down but everyone that matters knows the rules.
Clearly the EU would be doing the same if they could get away with it.
Look at the deregulatory deal they just gave the UK.
This permanently unfolding coup, in which the power to discuss things openly is repeatedly taken away from us and so heavily policed, deplatformed, and infiltrated as to become meaningless, creates a strong feeling of mistrust but also the need to rebel.
And if that need is not met using the means that our imaginations find least adventurous, then people will become more creative in their descriptions of their own powerlessness and in their attempts at structural change.
The Emperor’s New Clothes
I used to feel sorry for the Saudi Princes that have all this wealth and no power. But now that Saudi are buying stakes in Goldman-backed Babylon Health which is gobbling up NHS Business along with UnitedHealth and Google Health formerly known as Deep Mind, I can see that the holes in Saudi’s deep pockets are gutting the UK Welfare state in order to pay for a new suit.
I used to live in Spain and everywhere I went I would hear people say “My Tailor is Rich”. I began to realise that this may have had something to do with the way in which people were taught english back then.
Eddie Izzard used to do a great sketch about how he could never use the language he was taught at school in his everyday life. “The Monkey is in the Tree” didn’t really work that well at the airport.
It turns out the audio-lingual approach to language learning that emphasises rote learning was favoured by the Assimil method of Learning English without difficulty.
If my tailor is rich and my english poor then maybe my tailor is my banker and my media and he is prospering from rinsing my mind as well as my wallet.
Babylon / PIF / Google Health / NHS / Tencent / Russians
The web of financialised influence which allows international finance capital to bob in and out of our public services like a yo-yo is really something to behold.
Rather than going into it now, let me deposit some primary source documentation.
This piece is explosive from Amol Rajan. He is an insider to all this stuff so you have to wonder about conflicts of interest and revolving door.
So the Government court case against a Tory press baron was timed to fail.
Financial Adviser and Bank Confidential whistleblower protection campaigner Steve Middleton has spoken about the way banks “buy precedent” by choosing which fraud cases to lose in order to control the law and set precedents that suit their long term interests.
I call this “falling with style”.
More Lebedev links:
He must be tight with Jared Kushner. Jared owned the New York Observer and used it to conduct Agenda Setting operations, like his father in law’s mentor Roy Cohn.
The whole Epstein / MBS / Weinsten / Prince Andrew thing is in play.
Back to Babylon / Palantir
Babylon is doing business with chinese surveillance capitalists Tencent
I’m guessing these documents show that Babylon, like WeWork and Uber is a loss making Private Equity unicorn vehicle designed to grab market share while Goldman and Morgan Stanley let their mates at Vostok capital fill their boots.
Look at Vostok’s ownership. It’s Russian with a Swedish CEO.
Look at the interview with Ali Parsa on page 6 of the pdf above. He is talking to his biggest investors. He says Babylon is available in Saudi, Rwanda, Malaysia, China and UK. Think about the repressive nature of some of those regimes. Rwanda is run by Tony Blair Associates using their deliverology model. Bill and Melinda Gates are involved. Philanthrocapitalism replacing the World Bank and private banks.
The NHS is being torn to shreds by a Goldman & Google backed Russian Saudi Chinese surveillance capitalist private equity vampire and the BBC say hardly a word.
Hasta Luego
Although I’ve been blogging on and off for four years now, I think I’m finally hitting my stride. It’s nice to draw on previous wanderings and to channel an automatic structuring of unstructured information. If you are going to share this, please share it outside the UK as much as possible!
Thank You for your Time and Attention, and please do come back for more!
This was on page twenty of the Murdoch-owned Times:
Page 20 of today’s Times (Murdoch Press)
The Guardian put this on page 17.
Daily Security Services Bulletin
No mention of the paper’s collaboration with Assange and its later cosying back up with Security Services.
Guardian's deputy editor @paul__johnson joined state censorship D-Notice committee (run by MOD) after Snowden revelations in sop to British spooks. In board minutes, they thank him for being "instrumental in re-establishing links" between UK mil/intel and Guardian. Explains a lot pic.twitter.com/kN27T0QoMm
If you ever needed evidence that the BBC and the Press Barons work together to silence dissenting voices, this is it.
Man who publishes evidence of war crimes, including the killing of Reuters journalists by US helicopters in Iraq, is on trial with next to no coverage but the news cycle dictates that former soldier and member of the Royal Household’s relationship with his brother, the heir to the throne, is of more significance than the extradition to a country with the death penalty of by far the most significant publisher in recent history.
Donald Trump famously praised WikiLeaks all the way to the White House in 2016:
Channel Four News covered 7 stories including quite a few minutes on the diseases caused by repeatedly heading footballs, but no mention of Julian Assange’s extradition trial.
Yesterday four firms settled out of court with local governments in Ohio to avoid facing trial over their role in the Opioid epidemic in America that costs thousands of lives each year.
Why do “western values” allow too big to jail corporate criminals to openly deal death on the streets while persecuting people who expose war crimes and the slaughter of innocents?
HSBC are well known for making their money selling Opium in China in the 19th Century. But now in the 21st Century US corporations are openly selling death on the streets of America — and getting away with it. I’m not talking guns.
We’re talking painkillers.
Four firms just settled for hundreds of millions of dollars out of court in Ohio today to avoid facing a public hearing .
Here is what the FT are saying:
And this from the Wall Street journal:
Too Big to Jail cases in banking usually end with a Deferred Prosection Agreement (DPA) in which the defendant avoids the taint of criminality but is officially on probation for a few years.
According to Brandon Garrett, author of Too Big to Jail, the Deferred Prosecution Agreement has its origins in regular street drug dealers.
Funny how drugs and money go together so well.
UK Serious Fraud Office boss is Lisa Osofsky. She just closed an investigation into LIBOR rigging. In her year in charge so far they haven’t really gone after the banks.
Osofsky was once lead counsel for Goldman Sachs and did several years at UK-based mercenary firm Control Risks before moving onto Exiger the “Compliance Monitoring” firm born of the 2012 DPA with HSBC.
So she knows a thing or two about White Collar Crime.
Bloomberg were very honest about the dilemma facing the SFO a year and a half ago, before Osofsky was appointed.
With Brexit happening, UK needs to show that its “open for business” and not that it’s Serious about Fraud.
Lord Letwin DeRegulator ((Dominator)) ((Der is no Udder))
Wanna Kiss Myself
It’s quite something to see Arch-Remainers parachute Arch-Thatcherite Oliver Letwin into his new emergency-stylerole as Lord Liberal of Remain.
But does this not slightly give the game away?
That we’re in for a Mandelsonian Blairite Johnson Miller Faragiste Zero Regulation Putin Trump Murdoch Roy Cohn-style Apocalyptic #TINA-style Brexit.
A fool & his attention are soon hacked.
Photo du Jour: Oliver Letwin MP is congratulated by People’s Vote supporters after forcing the government to delay it’s Brexit plans. By Stefan Rousseau/PA pic.twitter.com/Q5dchn4JxN
On the BBC yesterday he was made to look as though he was attempting to thwart Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal:
But on Andrew Marr today he said he would happily vote for it.
Propaganda-as-a-service
It is testament to the Billionaire BBC and Press Baron propaganda machine that Letwin was lauded by thousands in Central London for appearing to block Boris’ Brexit and all the deregulation that will come with it, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Crypto-Marxist
In June 2017 Letwin wrote this piece for Evening Standard Editor George Osborne. Note the use of the term Crypto-Marxist. Yesterday he relied on John McDonnell’s vote. I smell shenanigans.
Oliver Letwin: This is no time to be getting bogged down with new laws https://t.co/rzqDw7ADRb
The new EU / Boris withdrawal agreement is stuffed with deregulation. No wonder Letwin says he’ll vote for it. Interesting that they put a border around Ireland.
Drift to Union
In 1989 Oliver Letwin wrote Drift to Union: Wiser Way to a Wider Community.
This was one of the early Eurosceptic works and is said to have radicalised Brexit Headbanger and all round swivel-eyed loon Bernard Jenkin.
In his autobiography, Hearts and Minds, Oliver Letwin admits to being hoist by his own petard in regard to Jenkin and the rest of the “bastards”.
Letwin of course didn’t invent Euroscepticism.
Paedo-Sceptics
Paedo Harvey Proctor was a eurosceptic long before Letwin came on the scene. He was an Enoch Powell fan. Powell, though a genius in the linguistic realm, was also said variously to be a racist, a eurosceptic, a monetarist and a paedophile. Proctor is well known to have been all of the above.
Tony Benn was a Eurosceptic too and bonded with Powell over their mutual disdain for the EU. Just as Corbyn has always been against the Bosses Union. God knows why he and John McDonnell have U-turned now!
Deregulate This!
Deregulation is the thing which has been the only political topic for the last forty years but which the BBC and other channels of course pretend isn’t actually happening.
Racist though they are, the executives at the BBC would prefer to talk about racism than deregulation!
“This isn’t about race, this is about impartiality. The BBC very clearly is against racism… What it can’t do is cross the line into opinion… & I think the two presenters did actually put a toe over that line”
The gargantuan effort of miseducating the nation would take years of deprogramming to eventually be remedied.
The BBC are happy to refer to unregulated sectors as being bad, but never to deregulation as a political choice.
Deregulation-as-a-service
Check out the spike from 2015 in the graph below. They pretend the stats over the decade are bad, but the inflection point is the deregulation bill of 2015. There was a clause in the bill about privatising and outsourcing children’s homes. I called the Children’s Society, who did this research, at the time, but they couldn’t care less. The graph appears in the video below it.
Again the stat below is for 2012 to 2019 but I suspect the bulk of the rise is from 2015. Some Tory donors will have made big money from the Deregulation Bill.
Deregulation Bill
The Deregulation Bill of 2015 passed almost without mention. Sponsored by Ken Clarke and Oliver Letwin. Both of whom featured in Iain Duncan Smith’s speech yesterday.
So Johnson, Clarke, Letwin, and Duncan Smith are all pimping vulnerable kids into prostitution, trafficking, drug addiction and misery for the sake of a couple of quid. And the BBC say nothing.
Matt Hancock signed off on the Deregulation Bill at the same time as he was talking up TTIP.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, a Labour Lord, represented Labour for the Deregulation Bill in the Lords against the coalition’s Lib Dem Lord Saltaire.
I watched Hancock and Hunt in Parliament on the same day in January 2015.
Little did I know that Britain would leave the EU and Trump torpedo TTIP.
Or that Hancock would become Health Minister.
Revolving Door
But weirdest of all was when I found out that Lord Hunt was on the books of Tory former health Minister Baroness Cumberlege’s lobbying firm : Cumberlege Connections.
How transparently fucked up is that? A leading Labour Lord being on a Tory’s lobby outfit’s payroll. And guess who else is on Cumberlege’s books?
Only Baroness Browning, the chair of ACOBA, the body that is supposed to police the revolving door. Browning is literally doing the thing she is supposed to be guarding against. Fox in charge of chicken house on a meta-fucking-level.
Speaking of meta, that is what the deregulation bill was. It took bits from pre-existing laws. Same as Brexit is doing to workers rights. Snipping them away in one go.
Post-Deregulation
After the Deregulation bill was passed Sajid Javid became Business Secretary and said he wanted to cut even more Red Tape. The Cameron One in Two Out and One in Three Out Deregulation policies were eventually copied in Brussels and by Donald Trump.
We are the kings of below the radar human rights violations.
And the BBC is key in disarming, disinforming, destroying modern Britain.
Paedo Protection Unit
Concealing deregulation debates from its audience has been as big a con trick as the VIP sex scandal it pulled with Jimmy Savile. It’s tried to pretend Westminster doesn’t have a paedo / rent boy / VIP sex ring problem but, again, it’s plain as day that the BBC is protecting paedos like Harvey Proctor.
Proctor’s winning the Paedo PR war with help from the likes of Stephen Fry, Craig Dillon, and Tarsh Consulting.
The associates on Daniel Janner’s Paedo pressure group FAIR look like they’re almost all evil. I would say Liam Allan has been utterly duped into joining.
Teresa Cooper
For the link between privatisation, profit and paedophilia listen to this podcast from 2018 that connects upskirting scandal MP Sir Christopher Chope who used to run Wandsworth Council with the drugging and raping of Teresa Cooper and other women as part of the Big Pharma experiments that were conducted at Kendall House in the early eighties.
Teresa is an inspiration – do find out more about her. Amazing Woman.
Oliver Letwin is the the author of Privatising the World and Britain’s Biggest Enterprise.
Letwin’s wife, Isabel, was head of Legal Services at the Department of Work and Pensions and the Department of Health during the Health and Social Care Act of 2012.
The Act did more to open up the NHS to the Private Sector than any other.
Pushed through by Letwin’s wife and Lib Dem peer Tim Clement Jones while Letwin himself was the eminence grise of the then coalition cabinet.
Cameron had put Letwin in every Cabinet Committee and let him run the Country via the Cabinet Office.
Señora Clegg
Clement Jones was Miriam Gonzalez Durantez’s boss at DLA Piper as well as being the Lib Dems’ Treasurer & Health spokesman in the Lords.
Miriam Gonzalez Durantez is a trade and competition lawyer who worked for Chris Patten in Brussels. After working at DLA Piper she moved to the London office of US law firm Dechert. She is currently Vice Chair of UBS Europe and at the beginning of the year she moved to California with her family and joined Cohen Grasser.
Vicebook
Miriam Gonzalez Durantez is married to former UK Deputy Prime Minister and current Facebook Vice President for Global Affairs and Comms, Nick Clegg.
Clegg of course worked for reputed paedo Leon Brittan in Brussels.
Will Facebook’s new currency Libra be linked to UK DWP benefits payments?
AI & Govt Welfare Contracts
Tata Consulting Services have a contract to supply platforms for Aadhaar, the Indian biometric welfare system,
But they are still trying to make it look glam to attract “talent” to its Newcastle offices. Offering Datajams, Dojos, and hackathons. When in actual fact they are just persecuting, traumatising and often killing people who they should be helping.
Keir Starmer was the lawyer for the McLibel case that was so embarrassing for McDonalds. He went on to become Director of Public Prosecutions. A super political job. They say he’s a proper deep state man.
How funny that John McDonnell, Jeremy Corbyn, Tom Watson, Keir Starmer and OLIVER LETWIN all voted, against Boris, for the same bill.
Were they really all voting against a crash-out?
I am of the opinion that no deal would be better than the one that Boris has agreed.
The Meaning of Meaning
Here’s my mate Roger Lewis and I trying to make sense of events.
Great NHS Heist
If you liked the themes in this blog you would probably like the upcoming film by Dr Bob Gill and Drew McFadyen, The Great NHS Heist.
Combine Felicity Lawrence’s article on Chinese antibiotics in today’s Guardian
with her talk at the Museum of Comedy last week,
and you get a decent prism through which to interpret Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.
What’s the Deal?
If Northern Ireland is to officially remain in the Customs Union and follow the EU’s food safety regulation, this is proof that they have already started to flout it.
Concerned Brexiteers have spoken of Brexit in name only (BRINO) – but this deal, masquerading as Remain, retains the familiar Rees Mogg whiff of droit du seigneur, sans noblesse oblige.
Why all the enthusiasm from Macron, Merkel, Varadkar and even Xavier Bettel of Luxembourg?
I suppose that as the EU has painted itself as a moral organisation which exists to protect peace within and outside its borders, it is very hard for it to make noise about anything that resembles specific features from its own system of exceptions, caveats, favouritism and outright hypocrisy.
The BBC had a legal and trade academic from Cambridge University on yesterday talking about how the EU is afraid of a Singapore on Thames on its doorstep.
But what about Ireland and Luxembourg — what are they?
This is UK pitching to be a rogue state that gets to compete with everyone else in a race to the bottom taking every possible advantage it can whilst pretending to respect the rule of law and do deals with the equally hypocritical but harder to control EU.
Is there a way out of this mess? I don’t know.
The fact that nobody in the UK is made aware of the confirmation hearings for EU commissioners, let alone that at least three proposed commissioners have had their candidatures voted down by the European Parliament, indicates the outsize ignorance levels in which this country bathes.
Ignorance as a Weapon
Speaking of ignorance – I picked up Linsey McGoey’s new book The Unknowers last week.
I’ve been looking forward to this for about two years and the first few pages do not disappoint. This is looking like it’s going to be book of the year and recommended reading for anyone who doesn’t like being lied to.
The field of ignorance studies is also known as agnotology and strategic ignorance — one way of describing the tactics of those who have done so much to create our almost total lack of political awareness.
The axioms upon which the foundations of classical economics are built include perfect access to information and logical rational decision-making. One doesn’t have to be Kurt Gödel to disprove either.
As the saying goes, We are not so much Dr Spock as Homer Simpson.
Pedagogy of the Digitally Oppressed
Instead of discussing whether or not we are being lied to, McGoey gets us comfortable with the idea that being surrounded by lies and omissions is just the norm.
A good place to start. I’m not yet familiar with the principles and schools of thought in the science of agnotology, but I feel quite sure that, whatever they are, they are being deployed by and upon us every minute of every day.
Censorship, Profits, Health Claims
The book has a section on Big Pharma whistleblowers, and relates to the whole world of non-disclosure and gagging clauses:
It is also of huge relevance now that facebook is setting up a “supreme court” to decide what can be posted and shared or not — despite bizarrely allowing lies in the world of political advertising.
I heard the EU Health Claims rules mean you cannot refer to the health benefits of any product without having done tests and having a licence to do so.
The degree to which these communication rules are enforced on social media, i don’t know. I suspect it’s one rule for large corporates and another for small companies.
UK PM Boris Johnson has proposed an EU border in the Irish sea. However, this was a red lineunder the previous administration, and goes against the stated principles of treating Northern Ireland just like the rest of the UK, so it is obvious this cannot be accepted by hardline Brexiteers.
Bloomberg report that the Chinese Finance Ministry have reacted to the US Congress motions in support of Hong Kong protestors.
Meanwhile Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is expected to deliver her proposals tonight.
The facemask ban that was recently passed in Hong Kong is a curious mix of colonial laws being used to help identify protestors using facial recognition – a technology that is used by facebook, amazon and ali baba.
Hong Kong changeover from Britain included “backstops too”.
The information architecture was beginning to ossify. It had been two years since the installation of the last theme.
Increased Output
The 2019 uptick is to be celebrated. However activity remains minimal compared to objectives.
Creative Approach
As we embrace new approaches to creativity – levels, and quality, of output should increase.
Consumable Format
Various concurrent stories to now be reflected in website format. With the aim of giving readers more of an idea of what is going on than having to take in one story at a time.
Social Media
No share buttons on here for now, but I shouldn’t think that will be a problem for long.
I must have seen it millions of times, but never really thought about it.
But how long have BP been sponsoring the FT Brussels Briefing?
And what does that mean for FT journos reporting on EU lobbying?
Let’s say a reporter moves over from the FT to BBC, Sky, Channel for or ITV.
Will she bring the same unwillingness to run anti-BP stories that would have served her well at the FT?
Extinction Rebellion were outside the BBC this weekend reporting on the BBC’s deathly silence around climate change.
The BBC has given far more attention to the Ineos-sponsored unregulated breaking of the 2 hour marathon barrier than it has to the murder by Syrian and Turkish troops of a Kurdish political leader.
The same attention hackers that take the money from BP and propagandise for Ineos are the ones who want to deny equality to women in the Middle East and remain silent when the Turkish President orders the murder of the same Kurdish fighters that had defeated ISIS.
Where is Hillary Benn now, who as Shadow Foreign Secretary rebelled against his own leader, Jeremy Corbyn in order to passionately argue that Britain bomb Syria particularly to take out ISIS?
He has moved on to Brexit and has no time for the Kurds.
Pro-European Margaret Thatcher famously said There is No Alternative (TINA) — that austerity, deregulation, liberalisation, and privatisation, i.e. the magic of the marketplace was the way to go.
This approach paved the way for the financialised, paedophilic, tech-centric, attention deficit, political war machine society in which we all currently reside.
As PM Thatcher effectively ran a Cabinet in which the culture of rampant paedophilia we now take for granted became very much the norm.
As her plan for denationalisation took shape, there was supposed to be at least a semblance of audit and regulation of the soon to be deregulated institutions.
Hundreds of regulatory bodies sprung up overnight. One for every sector and subsector. Some public, some private, some in between. But who was overseeing them? Anybody?
Some say in the UK the National Health Service (NHS) is akin to religion.
But so is Thatcherism, in which privatisation, profits & paedophiles go hand in hand.
And of the paedophiles and their accomplices operating with quasi-impunity one need look no further than Thatcher’s own cabinet whose message to the victims of paedophilia about the suffering that they had experienced really couldn’t have been clearer:
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE
Klaus Töpfer, former executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, speaking of efficiency and equity at the 2001 UNFCC Meeting in Marrakesh said that the Climate Change Convention was not simply about “Conservation and Pollution Abatement” but also:
the transformations that will bring about greater efficiency in the use of resources and greater equity in access to them. The market is a guide to efficiency. But governmental intervention and corporate responsibility are necessary to promote equity. Without equity, the fruits of efficiency will not endure. This is not just a convention on the global environment. It is a convention on the sustainable development of the global economy.
When Thatcher and her profit-seeking, privatising, paedophilic chums set about “fixing” the economy claiming that there was no alternative they adopted the language of religion, power, academia and the military and yet offered no protection to the children whom they and their friends so frequently impoverished, drugged and raped.
When allegations of paedophilia at Kincora, a children’s home in Northern Ireland, surfaced in 1983, a cabinet meeting was called and many of the people we now know to have been involved in various sex scandals, including paedophilic ones were sat around the table, what do you think their attitude was to the victims?
Did they call for immediate inquiries and for heads to roll?
Or did they call for business as usual and let’s keep this all hush hush?
The following story which appears in today’s Times implies the Vatican is not co-operating with the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse —but Kincora will not be discussed either.
The entire operation has been stage managed so as to allow the paedophiles, many of who are still alive, to escape, and in some cases to continue to claim their innocence with full Tory support.
The language of the market and of religion have long been pointed out as being very similar.
When it comes to paedophilic cover-ups and sinners and escaping unscathed, this parallel remains very real.
Worshipping the Market or the Nation can only lead to this type of psychopathy.
There no coups in the UK. We just adapt. Some people might call it switching sides. Collaborating. Sleeping with the Enemy. Hypocrisy. Spinelessness. Disloyalty. Dishonesty. But that is to be kind. One has to survive. And if one accepts that that is the goal, then all else is up for grabs. So Rule No.1: Throw anyone under the bus. Rule No.2: Let there be no limitations. ie throw lots of people under the bus including family, friends, and especially the innocent. Rule No.3: There are no Rules.
I see someone has commented. Do you think numbers are low because no-one is interested, everyone is lazy, or because people are too scared of being surveilled.
Here is the story in the Guardian on Tuesday evening – six hours after the original Buzzfeed piece. Strange that it didn’t make the actual paper. Interesting that, for a story with the word alarm in it, there has been no follow up. Comments disabled, of course.
Is this like what happened when Hervé Falciani handed new ECB head Christine Lagarde a bunch of confidential HSBC tax files (Swiss Leaks) when she was the French Finance Minister?
She managed to get them to the Greek Government but quite cleverly didn’t get too involved.
Lagarde list whistleblower faces nervous wait for extradition verdict https://t.co/znUKOIZIWH
Needless to say BBC have completely ignored this story. Not a trace. Channel Four haven’t mentioned it either. Maybe they lack the resources? Maybe they lack the desire. Even UK Column haven’t touched it. Oversight? Or are they too controlled opposition?
The book Ratfucked springs to mind. It’s about gerrymandering. Except this time it’s cognitive. Neuro-rigging. With Maps. These are the people behind Cambridge Analytica, aren’t, they?
All that Ernst Rohm-style libertarian fudge packing at Guido must blind it to the optics of backing far right BS artist Alexander “Boris” “de Pfeffel” “Johnson” Kemal.
Kemal is the son of a fellow BS artist who goes by the name of Stanley Johnson.
Stanley Johnson should really be called Stanley Kemal as his own father was called Osman Kemal.
The Kemal, taken from Osman’s father Ali Kemal, was dropped in favour of Osman’s grandmother’s maiden name, Johnson.
All somewhat ironic given the penile note “Boris Johnson” etched onto the leaving book on his last day at Eton College.
That his main goal in life was “to secure more notches on my phallocratic phallus”
For such a great white patriarchy hype figure who puts so much emphasis on his phallus, it is quite telling that he is in such profound denial about his 100% patrineal Muslim bloodline.
Osman Kemal’s grandmother raised Osman as Wilfred and gave him her maiden name so not to appear too Ottoman during WWI.
The Ottomans happened to side with the Germans at that time.
So it’s even funnier still that Stanley Johnson has passed down the “de Pfeffel” onto his son, because that comes from his maternal grandmother’s maiden name — which just happens to be German.
So the PM is not just a shape shifter, he is drawn from a line of multigenerational duplicitous pragmatism.
It was during this period that Lord Mountbatten’s family changed its name from Battenberg to seem less German, the Royal Family too switched from Saxe Coburg & Gotha to Windsor due to anti-German sentiment.
Incest and paedophilia go hand in hand with modern Royalty.
The Queen and Prince Phillip are cousins and The Queen’s husband’s Uncle Louis Mountbatten is alleged to have been a notorious paedophile but who got away with it as he was a top military man.
Mountbatten was also apparently involved in a coup to overthrow the Labour Government in the 1960s.
For now we have Fake News in elections and Boris working to defend the right of Establishment Paedophiles.
I asked the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse if it would look into the Mountbatten allegations re: Kincora, a boys care home in Northern Ireland where many Top Government adults came to rape the boys.
They refused, saying Northern Ireland and Scotland are outside their remit. Who decided that, I wonder?
Boris said on LBC that money spent investigating “Historic Sex Abuse” is money “spaffed against a wall”.
It turns out his Digital PR man Craig Dillon has made videos defending Cliff Richard, Paul Gambacinni, and the notorious alleged paeedophile and convicted sex offender, the Tory Harvey Proctor.
In The Boris Show US writer Michael Wolff got Johnson to say he was “ready to be Vichy-like” in the case that a foreign billionaire bought the Spectator magazine where he worked.
For more evidence of his sycophancy, he referred to his own voice as sheep-like when speaking with President Trump at the G7.
This is deeply humiliating but makes perfect sense when contextualised by his great grandfather’s murder.
Ali Kemal was chopped into bits because he wanted to turn the Ottoman Empire into a British protectorate.
Till now I feared Brexit might mean we become Puerto Rico – a 51st state of the United States of America.
But now I can see that Russia, Iran, Algeria are all way ahead of us.
Yannick Jadot reckons he’s in with a shot for the Presidential Elections come 2022.
Will it be a run-off between him and Macron or will Marine Le Pen make it through to the deuxieme tour?
Either way, he is on form in this video in which he accuses President Macron of ignoring the fact that France is engaging in deforestation in Guyana, Malaysia and Indonesia while also importing Palm Oil in violation of EU law.
This is the type of platform that is simply not made available to UK Green or “Left wing” politicians.
BBC would not dream of allowing criticism of the Conservative Party.
When Laura Kuenssberg was accused of bias against the Labour Party, the complaint was rejected by her direct superior, hard Brexiteer Robbie Gibb, who then went on to become Theresa May’s head of communications.
Before, during and after Robbie Gibb’s time with Theresa May his brother, Nick Gibb, was Schools Minister.
Are there not supposed to be rules against this sort of thing?
As for the Greens in England, just a few weeks ago, Caroline Lucas proposed an all white all female cabinet as a solution to Brexit.
Upfront identity politics!
For the link between Environmentalism and Conservatism one doesn’t have to travel very far.
This piece came out recently on New York Times:
One can only speculate as to whether Boris Johnson’s father, Stanley Kemal-Johnson, crossed paths with Mrs Cordelia Scaife May when he worked on population at the World Bank in New York.
That other famous philanthropist David Koch died last week. He who made his money from oil from land he and his family stole from indigenous Indians.
The Kochs have funded the resurgence in Tea Party-style “nativist” US and UK Conservatism and it is to them that Boris Johnson owes much of his popularity.
“Boris”, real name, Alexander Kemal, (his grandfather (Stanley’s dad) was born Osman Wilfred Kemal), has hired plenty of think tankers on his various press teams and many of them will have been funded, albeit indirectly, by the Kochs.
Brendan O Neil of Spiked admits to receiving Koch money and, the contrarian that he is, permanently puts out odes to white nationalists, asset strippers and forest clearing land grabbers (pussy grabbers too).
Meanwhile we have Brendan’s sister in crypto-fascist arms Carrie Symonds (Boris’s latest squeeze) selling herself as an Oceans protector and protector of birds & women’s rights (surely you mean Ghislaine Maxwell).
Lovely Plumage
I missed the Camel fair in Pushkar when I visited India many years ago. Not sure what the difference is between a Camel Fair, a Birdfair, Jeffrey Epstein’s house or a Libyan Slave Auction for that matter.
“Boris” trades off the idea that one of his ancestors manumitted his beautiful slave girl so he could marry her. And we all know Boris is a stickler for tradition.
“Johnson” visited Standard and Independent owner Evgeny Lebedev’s castle unaccompanied when he was Foreign Minister in 2018.
He’s not answering any questions about it. So he could well have fucked a goat and drank the blood a newly defiled child at the altar of Koch / Saud / Kushner for all we know.
Morning after: Boris Johnson recovers from Lebedev’s exotic Italian party https://t.co/LeBtNUXAkD
Yes there are supposed to be rules about this stuff, but if the press are in your pocket…
“Johnson”‘s dad Stanley wrote a book recently called Kompromat.
And in Naked Gun 2 & a half Lt. Leslie Nielsen aka Frank Drebin says, of the boxing, “All I know is never bet on the white guy”.
Similarly, “Never argue with a man who buys his ink by the barrel.”
Still, in 2008, when he wasn’t yet London Mayor, “Boris” Kemal was interviewed by Michael Wolff for Vanity Fair.
Wolff went on to write Fire and Fury, the book that got Steve Bannon ejected from the White House.
In the article, entitled The Boris Show, Johnson muses on the probability that he himself (with investors) would run and own the Spectator Magazine (which he edited at the time).
Smelling a rat, he then accuses Wolff of only interviewing him so he could size him up on behalf of Vanity Fair’s Condé Nast owners so that they themselves could then put in a bid.
Turning on the charm, Johnson goes on to say, of any potential foreign billionaire owner:
“Still if the owner is someone other than myself, I am ready to be Vichy-like. I am prepared to praise and flatter shamelessly.” https://t.co/1QpXBH0BGP via @VanityFair
Boris Johnson’s name is as much Boris Johnson as Stephen Yaxley Lennon is Tommy Robinson.
These people pick show biz masks and masquerade as Super Patriots, based on their fake names.
At least Priti Patel, Sajid Javid and Dominic Raab have kept their names!
But on that topic, and speaking as a first generation immigrant (my parents are from Northern Sri Lanka) I find it interesting that Javid, Patel, Raab and Johnson are first second and third generation immigrants.
And, despite their lip service to tradition, the Royal Family, and Winston Churchill, they regard most Brits as fundamentally workshy.
And they have no qualms about reinforcing Nazi-like eugenic values in the UK welfare and employment structures.
Who would have thought such evil psychopathy could be served up by this dream team of Muslims, Jews and Hindus?
Hahaha.
Machiavellian Political Correctness was the key to backdoor asset strip, and set fire to regulation, meaning human rights.
And all the while Boris’s Girlfriend Carrie Symonds pretends to care about women.
Let them eat cake. Not tonight, Josephine.
Because Boris is too busy packing kiddy fudge in the dungeon of a castle with his secretary for pensions, welfare and the disabled, Amber Rudd.
But seriously, speaking of Boris and Paedophilia, there is a link.
He told Conservative radio host Nick Ferrari that money spent investigating historic child sex abuse was £60m “spaffed” up a wall.
It turns out that Craig Dillon, who runs Westminster Digital, his social media adviser, has the contract to promote Cliff Richard, and the convicted sadistic evil incarnate paedo Harvey Proctor.
Here’s Harriet Harman, herself compromised on the topic of paedophilia.
She ran Liberty when it was called NCCL (National Council for Civil Liberties).
Her Uncle, Lord Longford, wrote a report on pornography and went on a tour of Scandinavia with Jimmy Savile and Cliff Richard in the 70s. Though Harman is asked about Cliff Richard in the interview, which has now been suppressed by the BBC, no mention is made of her Parliamentarian Uncle’s links with paedophiles and murderers, Cliff Richard, or of her own connections with the Paedophile Information Exchange:
All this grooming going on, and so much protection for perpetrators.
Minister: keep suspects anonymous if there is a reputation to protect https://t.co/gueach9qSc
Proctor is campaigning for anonymity for the accused but in reality he is campaigning for compensation. He was the one who not only voluntarily ended his own anonymity, he named other co-accused into the bargain.
Those who were innocent have Proctor to blame for the public undermining of their reputations!
The understanding is that Proctor is into beating rent boys in school uniform. Newspapers ran stories on this and he’s paid fines for it in the UK and has been spotted with young rent boys in Morocco.
None of the recent news reports on Proctor mention any of this stuff.
The Duke of Rutland for who he worked is in Jeffrey Epstein’s address book. Several times. There is a connection between Rutland and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s main procurer and daughter of disgraced publisher and fraudster Robert Maxwell aka the Bouncing Czech.
Maxwell and Epstein are both rumoured to be Israeli intelligence assets.
Proctor appears to think he can do a Boothby:
The Lord & Gangster, (& Rent Boy Cat Burglar)
Lord Boothby (a Tory) was a friend of Churchill’s and the Krays. He was an alcoholic, a gambler and into rent boys. When the Mirror (before Maxwell bought it) published a story about the above photo (without printing it), the then PM Harold Wilson had the story shut down because one of his own MPs Tom Driberg moved in the same circle and Wilson feared blowback (excuse the pun) if Driberg’s name got mentioned.
There was an election coming up and the Profumo affair had already given the press and public a bit of an appetite for scalps and scandals.
So Boothby sued the Mirror and won £40k. More than £500k in today’s money.
Looks like the vile paedo Proctor is doing the same. Wanting to sue the police for calling a paedo a paedo.
But not to worry, Priti Patel and Boris Johnson are trying to ram through facial recognition, GM food, and tasers to all police as if everyone consents and no-one notices.
This is a golden age for propaganda. The BBC is an utterly out of control fascist corporatist machine. It is conducting psy-ops via iPlayer on a gargantuan scale. It has learned much from Savile.
DELETE EVERYTHING!
I am trying to get them to hand over the Future of Farming GM reports that they did on Breakfast tv last week.
You would think I was Julian Assange angling for a Royal Family Incest tape featuring Charles, Andrew, Mountbatten and one of the gardeners.
The GM issue is live and they won’t permit debate.
On Saturday they were getting everyone ready for all Police to have Tasers. Don’t they realise that proper criminals will get tasers too?
I emailed the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) about the FBI allegations that Lord Mountbatten (ex Viceroy of India, Prince Phillip’s uncle, mentor to Charles, member of the Lords and former head of UK Armed Forces) was a paedophile who visited the Northern Irish children’s home Kincora for sex with young boys.
They refused to commit.
I asked them about BBC reports that paedophiles operate with impunity right now because of staff shortages on the Forensics side at Sexual Assault Referral Centres.
They refused to commit.
I asked about Epstein related paedophila.
They refused to commit.
Boris is getting what he wants. Paedophiles operate with impunity and privatisation marches on. The Amazon forest burns, he gaslights with his Tory PR bit of stuff and very soon will have successfully lobbied for Evening Standard Editor and former Tory Chancellor, George Osborne, to be named head of the IMF (with Donald Trump’s help).
Bolsonaro, Netanyahu and Johnson are all friends with Trump.
This country has been subjected to a full on Nazi Coup.
Boris is being openly Vichy-like with no-one better to serve up the medicine that Priti Patel and Sajid Javid.
Bah ouiash, mon gars. Toutes des putes. Tu vois? Et si non? Qui est a l’appareil? Hein? Moi je vois pas du tout pourquoi les résultats de les elections de l’été 2022 seront beaucoup plus mieux que celles de 2017.
Mais bon. Il le faut. Poisoner les concurrents. Normale. Et si non?
The BBC portray Oliver Letwin as a ‘Tory Rebel’ simply because he says he opposes a No Deal Brexit.
The BBC propaganda machine struggles with nuance.
Sir Oliver is an Etonian, just like Kwasi Kwarteng, Rees Mogg, Jo, & Boris (The White Kwasi) Kemal “Johnson”.
A passionately pro-privatisation man — does anyone believe Letwin would prefer Jeremy Corbyn as Prime Minister over a No Deal Brexit?
When I saw Letwin speak at a local Tory meeting in 2016 I got the impression he was actually a very nice man, despite being the Evil Tory mastermind of all things UK NHS Asset Strip.
But evil smiles.
Elvis Costello’s 1979 tune Oliver’s Army is apparently about the troubles in Northern Ireland.
It uses the N word. In a self disempowering sort of way.
In his autobiography Hearts and Minds, Letwin says he wa sin his parents kitchen in his early twenties where he came upon Keith Joseph who asked him if he’d like to work for him.
Letwin said yes and became a Special Adviser to the Department of Education.
Some might call this Nepotism. But it’s standard fare in Crony Capitalist UK where Nepotism and Meritocracy are both the same.
Perhaps it’s because he works for (crime) bosses Rebekah Brooks, John Witherow, & Rupert Murdoch that David Aaronovitch propagates quite as he does.
Maybe it’s just co-incidence that he consistently pushes the same views as Rupert Murdoch.
Or could it be that Aaronovitch is a gun for hire who long ago gave up the right to deviate from the family line?
Today’s opinion piece in The Times is singularly one-sided.
Aaronovitch refers to Proctor as a “former Tory MP who bravely went public about the allegations made against him” .
But makes no mention of the fact that uber racist Proctor admitted to beating up under age rent boys. That’s why he is a former Tory MP. Proctor also boasted of holidaying in Tunisia – notorious for the availability of young boys for sex.
Aaronovitch clearly doesn’t care about the suffering of the Child Sexual Abuse survivors whose information was contained in the missing Dickinson files.
He doesn’t mention Dolphin Square or Elm Guest House which is in Zac Goldsmith’s constituency which might explain why he has a more informed view on the matter.
Keith Vaz of course worked at Richmond Council while the alleged Elm Guest House incidents were reputed to have taken place. He shut down an investigation into Keith Janner in the early 90s and was head of the Home Affairs Select Committee when Mark Sedwill answered, on behalf of Theresa May, the questions that needed to be asked about what happened to the files that were given to Brittan.
Sedwill’s comments were openly indifferent as to what had happened to the files. He said he didn’t suspect foul play. Very different to how he behaved when he arranged for Gavin Williamson to be sacked for supposedly leaking the government’s Huawei stance to the Telegraph.
Aaronovitch never mentioned Cyril Smith or David Steel’s reluctance to kick him out of the party for being a paedophile. The Aaronovitch view, like Boris Johnson, appears to be that money spent on investigating Child Sexual Abuse is money spaffed up a wall.
Does he suppose we all believe Savile acted alone? Savile, who was well connected, close to the Tory Party, and a Special Friend of Israel, like Daddy Murdoch.
Though Aaronovitch has a go at the BBC for broadcasting Beech’s allegations, no mention is made of the Head of News at that time.
It was none other than James Harding, the former editor of . . . The Times.
I smell a stitch-up.
Pick an obviously disturbed individual. Give them lots of attention. Then reveal they are lying. And everyone can forget about the original large scale, systemic establishment paedophilia. The Catholic Church have been doing this for hundreds of years. It isn’t new.
It looks to me as though the police co-operated with Murdoch and other agencies to allow a “witch-hunt” to take place to then let it die down.
Jonathan King, the pop svengali who was done for paedophilia, is having a field day. Tweeting away. His bail by the way was put up by Simon Cowell. He is spoken highly of by Rod Liddle.
The Beech case, which should never have got to court, is being used to discredit real victims. And police and health spending cuts today mean that real victims of paedophila often never get justice.
But no worries for Aaronovitch and Tom Watson. Not their problem.
But what about Jeffrey Epstein? Things get interesting there. Robert Maxwell’s daughter Ghislaine is close to him. Prince Andrew. Trump. God knows who else. Looks like establishment paedophilia again.
They have lots of secrets. And they’re starting to come out. Everyone seems to be blackmailing each other. Things could get interesting.
Roy Cohn (see previous post) worked for Murdoch. And Trump. He died of AIDS in 1986. But they’re both still around. And it looks like they use the same methods. Jared Kushner’s dad does too.
If that means paedophilia, prostitutes, honey traps, kompromat, then that is what it is.
Old school.
And if that is what was used by the Brits in Ireland and elsewhere, then that too.
You can’t change the past. Or the bad habits of today if they’re proven to work.
But for now, we’re being told that all the allegations are false.
Yes, Beech’s allegations may be false.
But that doesn’t mean all these people are innocent.
In this Michael Wolff 2008 Vanity Fair piece, Johnson says of his behaviour toward foreign press barons (click, at the bottom, to page three of the following embedded pdf), “Still, if the owner is someone other than myself, I am ready to be Vichy-like. I am prepared to praise and flatter shamelessly.”
This slavishness to foreign capital will have been honed at Eton — Capital without Borders.
Morgan now rather conveniently oversees George Osborne’s Standard and his employer Lebedev Holdings’s Independent.
No-one seemed to notice at the time. But two years later it is being occasionally reported on because the FT looked into it and Wright felt he had to make it look like he wanted to do something.
Incidentally, Wright was Attorney General when Lisa Osofsky was appointed head of the Serious Fraud Office, another poodle organisation.
The Standard printed a puff piece on her a few months ago.
Standard.
Ofcom Stitch-Up
Ofcom the broadcast regulator is to deliver the verdict on the Saudi owners to Nicky Morgan on August 23rd.
Though Ofcom’s boss, Sharon White, is heading to John Lewis, she will be heading up Ofcom till the end of the year.
White, along with Standard Editor George Osborne & Lord Adonis, attended the Bilderberg Conference in 2017.
Her husband Robert Chote, runs the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), created by George Osborne in 2010 to monitor public spending.
This was originally supposed to be seen as an independent body that signed off on austerity, but was eventually often referred to as the Treasury Poodle.
So it’s all very cosy.
The nepotism is staggering.
And it isn’t concealed, though questions aren’t exactly encouraged.
This morning as I skimmed Canetti’s speech for Hermann Broch’s 50th Birthday in Vienna in 1936, I was struck by the idea that a decent writer ought to be immediate, inexhaustible, universal, in opposition, and to have a special vice.
Could this be the beginning of a Golden Age of journalism?
Or a new McCarthy era in which all signs of socialism or solidarity with all fellow citizens no matter what their age or background is to be frowned upon, and even persecuted?
Keep your eye on developments re: the Kushners and the new film that will be coming out in September about Murdoch and Trump’s old mafia lawyer Roy Cohn.
With the Epstein paedophilia case suddenly coming to light and Tom Watson mainly pushing Labour Anti-Semitism stories while whitewashing all alleged Westminster VIP paedophiles such as Greville Janner, Leon Brittan and the known paedophile Harvey Proctor, the McCarthy Communist witch hunts (which were profoundly anti-semitic) and the Lavender Scare (into homosexuality) seem to be taking place in reverse.
VIP Paedophiles are getting the upper hand and the idea of anti-semitism is being used to pursue anti-racist lefties.
Boris is a social liberal now, according to The Sun, who completely ignore the comments he’s made about Muslims, and the many other groups he has offended.
So what is this all about?
Murdoch can get away with anything. The only people who say otherwise are in his pay and lying.
Media Ethics
Judge Brian Leveson just retired. The organisation that was set up to support his work Hacked Off said, at its summer party this week, that it would be focused on regulating social media now.
This means the chance to regulate Murdoch has not been taken so the dominance will continue for a few years still.
Check out the bastardised use of “kingmakers” below.
This from Wiki:
This from the Tory Party website. Kofi aptly means Friday in Ghana.
More from Wiki. Maybe the Tories and the Times have point:
From West Africa to the West of England
Arms sales were declared illegal in a UK court yesterday, but look how the Times reports it, no mention of illegality or complicity in war crimes.
In the adjacent story the only reason Saudi are being forced to withdraw from Yemen is British shareholders can no longer profit from killing Yemeni kids.
Explo Nani Kofi
We leave the final word to the Real Kingmaker – Explo – Nani – Kofi
The FCA, the Treasury, and the Treasury Select Committee have all been alerted to conflicts of interest, misselling, and fraud in Fund Management, Pensions, Local Government and Small Business but have repeatedly looked the other way.
Kent have been hit hard by the Iceland Crisis, the LOBO scandal, and now they are losing money at Woodford.
Outsourcing firm Capita’s traces are often to be found near the scene of the crime.
Retail fund manager Hargreaves Lansdown is also caught up.
But it’s Bailey who is instrumental in obstructing justice for small businesses on an industrial scale.
While banks fraudulently missold investment products to business customers which were then used to steal their customers’s assets, Bailey has done all he can to protect the criminals.
Is the top job at the Bank of England his reward?
Slack Journos
Journalists like the BBC’s Andrew Verity & James Hurley of the Times like to make out they are on the side of the defrauded small businesses.
But when it comes down to it, the language they use on social media and in their output downplays the level of fraud coming out of the FCA, the audit firms, and the banks.
To be fair, Verity works for the BBC and Hurley the Times, so there is only so far they can go.
The main work these journalists do is in deciding what to hide from the public as opposed to what to disclose.
No wonder Bailey remains the favourite to take over as Chairman of the Bank of England.
Were our mainstream journalists not so craven, Bailey would be looking at Belmarsh, not Threadneedle Street.
City Apologist
The biggest Bailey cheerleader of them all is Alex Brummer, City Editor at the Daily Mail.
Brummer writes very well on foreign takeovers.
But when it comes to Bailey, Brummer is the most corrupt.
From Secondhand Bookseller to Surveillance Capitalist
In 2013, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the murder of JFK, the filmmaker Alex Cox released a book, The President and the Provocateur, which compared the lives of John F Kennedy and the man commonly referred to as his assassin — Lee Harvey Oswald.
Here it is on Amazon:
Alex Cox in 2013 on the President and the Provocateur
Synchronicity
At 4pm on the day of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, I walked into Housmans, a radical peace bookshop on Caledonian Road, near Kings Cross in London.
Staring at me was a copy of Peter Dale Scott’s Crime and Cover Up.
I picked it up.
The man who sold me the book, Tim Gluckman, told me that the author, Peter Dale Scott, had invented the term parapolitics which wasn’t conspiracy theory but Deep Politics — a theory of how the state really works.
I told Tim about my then plans to write a play about the attempted assassination of Oscar LaFontaine the ex-head of the German Social Democrat Party (SPD) in 1990 in Cologne.
Tim said he was in Cologne that night – recalling the hullaballoo.
A couple of days later, I was reading Crime and Cover-Up on a bus when I remembered that it was Sunday 24th November 2013 — the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald.
I called a friend who had told me about a spoken word event he had tickets for. We attended, thinking the main draw would be the news presenter Jon Snow. It turned out that Alex Cox was speaking – presenting his new book.
The New York Times 2011 Umbrella Man video by award winning director Errol Morris
Alex Cox replies to Errol Morris over the New York Times Umbrella Man video
The New York Times longer 2013 video also by Errol Morris
I have to admit I have a bit of a soft spot for Errol Morris.
I watched his documentary Fog of War about former US Defence Secretary Robert Macnamara several times in the cinema.
I saw it at the London Film Festival with my mum. She had taken me to see Oliver Stone’s JFK at the cinema years earlier.
My mother and Errol Morris both feature in the interview I did with Eric Olsen about how he coped with the CIA murdering his dad, an American biological weapons scientist, in 1955.
Errol Morris had made a six part Netflix docudrama – Wormwood – about it.
Eric fell out with Errol and reporter Seymour Hersh, over compromises he felt they had made.
At one point in our interview Eric referred to his dad’s fateful meeting with brainwashing expert William Sargant.
Eric told me Sargant was MI6 & CIA. Frank Olsen had confided in him but Sargant ratted on him.
Frank Olson was a potential whistleblower. Sargant told the CIA he wasn’t ‘with the programme’.
For many years my mother was a psychiatric clinician at the William Sargant ward in Ealing Hospital in West London. But till I met Eric I had no idea what Sargant did .
The Family, a cult that Julian Assange was exposed to, through a step-father, in the late 70s early 80s, were also said to have used deep sleep techniques.
My own father worked for the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO), as a systems analyst on mainframe computers throughout the eighties and much of the nineties. This was in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
It was against everything he stood for.
I believe my father was a former Marxist.
We would likely have given money to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Was that before or after we knew children were being given guns and cyanide pills?
Either way, he told me the Tories had done him more good economically than Labour had, but he could NEVER VOTE TORY.
On the evening of New Years Eve 1999 / 2000 my dad told me that while everyone got all all excited about the millennium, the thing his mind was on was the fortieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
Forty years previously he and his friends crowded round a radio in Sri Lanka listening to how a tiny island had taken on and were beating the regional superpower.
Back to the chase
After Alex’s talk we went to the pub in Camden somewhere. I asked if he’d chosen to do the event because it was the 50th anniversary of Oswald’s murder. He said this was just a co-incidence. His agent booked everything.
Had JFK managed to stay alive, today, May 29th 2019, would have been his hundredth birthday.
His apparent killer, Oswald, born in October 1939, was only 24 when the President was killed.
I’m only halfway through Cox’s book.
At this stage, as Cox makes clear in the first video, it all seems a bit much for one man to have masterminded.
And Oswald doesn’t appear to have been very stable. Hardly sniper material.
There’s plenty of photo-doctoring happening too. At which Oswald himself appears to excel. Oswald has a Zelig-like ability to pop up in all sorts of places. Occasionally in two places at once.
Cox points out that in Cuba and New Orleans Oswald was said to have attended meetings and made inquiries about hiring cars for Cuba – at exactly the same time as he was getting engaged to his new wife Marina in Minsk, Belarus.
This is a photo if Oswald on a boat with John Wayne (or is it?):
Big tech appear to be deciding what people get to think about.
Bernard Cohen said in 1963:
The Press “may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about. The world will look different to different people,” Cohen continues, “depending on the map that is drawn for them by writers, editors, and publishers of the paper they read.”
Back to Bezos
As the title suggests, my main motivation for writing this article was to do a rudimentary character analysis of Jeff Bezos.
I would also like to compare and contrast with Julian Assange.
The Richest Man in the USA Vs The Most Wanted
Amazon Vs WikiLeaks
Although the thought experiment seemed a bit weird at the start, the more I think about it, the better it feels.
I remembered what Alex Cox had done with JFK and Oswald.
I also thought of Post-Freudian child psychotherapist author Adam Phillips:
What would he make of JFK, Oswald, Bezos and Assange connections?
In particular their obsessions, their families, their patronage?
JFK
Apparently JFK’s dad, Joseph Kennedy, wasn’t the most likeable of chaps. He bankrolled his son’s political career and had strong Mafia, Union and Democrat connections. He was the first Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and US Ambassador to the UK from 1938-1940.
Taken from Phillip Whitehead’s The Bootleg Politician in the Independent – 1992
JFK’s sister Rose was put into a mental home and had part of her brain removed on the understanding she was “retarded”.
Maybe her dad simply feared she would go ‘off-message’ — thus undoing his investments in his sons John and Robert Kennedy.
Oswald
Oswald’s father died before he was born. He and his mother moved many many times during his childhood and adolescence. This mysterious character appears to have been a bisexual left wing double agent of sorts who had backing from various parties, all of whom seem to have eventually deserted him.
His apparent love of communism and hatred of racism was so out of place in early 1960’s Dallas but for some reason his views appear to have been tolerated by all.
Assange
Assange’s father split from his mother before he was born and, like Oswald, he lived in many towns before settling down in Melbourne as a teenager.
This was used as part of his defence when he was prosecuted by Melbourne police for computer hacking as Mendax in the early nineties.
Taken from Julian Assange’s Wikipedia Page
According to wikipedia between 1979 and 1981 Assange’s step-dad was a member of the Australian cult known as The Family which was later revealed to have starved, drugged and sexually abused many of its members – particularly children.
Such exposure to cults might also explain Assange’s perceived Messiah Complex. The need to construct an image of a figure that can really be trusted in a world of government & media BS & PR.
Bezos
Bezos’s step-father Mike (Miguel) left Cuba for Miami in 1962 aged just 16.
This was part of the CIA’s Operation Peter Pan, designed to create a brain drain in Cuba and supposedly to save children from being sent to the Soviet Union where their families were told they would end up in camps.
Though Operation Peter Pan started before Kennedy became President, he knew about it and fully approved. Peter Pan went on throughout America’s failed Bay of Pigs invasion and during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was also around this period that Kennedy set up the NSA surveillance agency.
Mike learned English and became an engineer for Exxon – a company that were very big in Cuba before Castro kicked them out.
Mike Bezos adopted Jeff when Jeff was just three years old.
Jeff’s maternal grandfather Lawrence Preston Gise looked after him on his ranch in Texas every summer from when he was four to when he was sixteen.
Gize had been a senior manager at the Atomic Energy Commission and before that at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) that later became DARPA, frequently referenced as the agency that created the internet.
So Bezos is an extremely well connected creature of the cold war.
It’s funny that Trump hates Amazon and has previously referred to how much he loves WikiLeaks.
At last week’s Amazon Annual General Meeting (AGM) 12 proposals were made by shareholders and employees to improve the way Amazon does business.
Some related to climate change and Amazon’s carbon footprint.
Others were in relation to Facial Recognition.
Amazon have a product called Rekognition which is being marketed to the military, police and border cops.
Proposals were made to have an ethics committee to study the effect of Amazon’s facial recognition on human rights.
Jeff Bezos and the majority of his shareholders, are not particularly bothered about Amazon’s environmental impact or human rights violations.
Although he made that noise earlier in the week about having a dad who is an immigrant / refugee this was just an amazing PR exercise to distract people from the evils of facial recognition.
There is plenty of evidence that the facial recognition algorithms discriminate against non binary, women and people of colour.
This was raised in a committee on facial recognition in the US last week.
Here Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks about gait and voice as well as facial recognition.
She points out that white males are more likely to be correctly identified with this technology – but all other groups are prone to being misidentified.
Amazon defeated the Facial Recognition proposals by a large margin
But the Government is definitely being targeted by Amazon too. This piece appeared in Monday’s Financial Times. It doesn’t seem to have sparked much discussion. Public Procurement policies were one of the main obstacles for the large trade agreements that Trump eventually ripped up such as TTIP and TPP. The Buy America policy insisted that every part of every product bought by US states as well as the federal government had to be sourced from within the US. I think it’s good he got rid of the trade agreements but now Jeff Bezos is going to clean up! :
There are arrows at the bottom of the article above that you have to press to get onto the next page.
Anna by Ella Hickson is on at the National Theatre in London at the moment. It’s about living in a surveillance state and has plenty of Stasi action. Should it have been called Alexa?:
— Ranjan Balakumaran (@financialeyes) May 29, 2019
In conclusion, Assange and Oswald both smart guys, were always on the move as kids and in that sense parts of their emotional “development” may have been affected. Oswald seems a bit more like Chelsea Manning than Assange. Chelsea Manning is current in jail, unlike Hope Hicks, Trump’s former adviser, who is also not co-operating with government enquiries.
Glam Shots for One, Not for the Other: Different Media Standard for Hope Hicks and Chelsea Manning Draws Backlash – https://t.co/10Agwdx1EN via @commondreams
— Ranjan Balakumaran (@financialeyes) May 29, 2019
Assange’s contact with the Family may have prepared him psychologically for anything the rest of the world can throw at him. If many children that he knew, and quite possibly himself, were drugged, hypnotised and sexually abused when growing up that would also explain his need to right wrongs on a global scale. How could the security services shills at the Guardian, Times, New York Times or Washington Post possibly understand such a motivation. All they see is a white guy who hates them. These journalists have historically put more effort into ignoring government and security services sponsored paedophilia than reporting on it.
Check out the latest development in the Inquiry into Historic Child Sexual Abuse.
The little contact I’ve had with them tells me the thing is a joke. They spend a lot of money on media and television adverts but deliver very little by way of communication or interaction. The main priority seems to be on not inquiring into anything.
Earlier this year the BBC reported that paedophiles were escaping with impunity due to staff shortages at sexual assault referral centres. The problem is that the three day window within which forensic evidence has to be collected so that the CPS could secure a conviction is being regularly breached. This is often due to privatisation.
I contacted the Home Office and the Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry about this. I got nowhere. They gave me a press release from the forensic regulator. But nothing from Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, or Victoria Atkins, the Minister for Women, Sexual Violence, and Safeguarding.
Atkins is a nasty piece of work.
As Women’s Minister she blocked full gender pay gap reporting in this country. That’s right, she put her career first and blocked the Treasury Select Committee recommendations to widen the criteria for gender pay gap reporting in financial services.
She gave no reason for this.
Her husband makes his money selling cannabis for Brtish Sugar but she is the drugs Minister. Theresa May’s husband’s firm is involved in all this too. NHS contracts for purchasing medicinal cannabis have all been allocated and May’s husband is invested in the firm with the monopoly. So rival cannabis producers are criminalised while the profiteers are quids in.
We covered some of this here, as well as hacking vs journalism:
Unsurprisingly Surveillance Capitalist Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post is calling Assange a spy today. Bezos’s relationship with the CIA explains everything we need to know about his paper’s idiotic line.
If you want to click on Bezos’s site you are offered a cheaper subscription is you agree to be tracked / targeted. The guy doesn’t miss a trick.
I think Jimmy Dore covered some of this well a couple of days ago.
So happy 100th Birthday JFK. The more I read about you the less I like.
For anyone who is interested in Assange’s case, there is another hearing tomorrow morning at Westminster Magistrates’s Court:
From Secondhand Bookseller to Surveillance Capitalist
In 2013, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the murder of JFK, the filmmaker Alex Cox released a book, The President and the Provocateur, which compared the lives of John F Kennedy and the man commonly referred to as his assassin — Lee Harvey Oswald.
Here it is on Amazon:
Alex Cox in 2013 on the President and the Provocateur
Synchronicity
At 4pm on the day of the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, I walked into Housmans, a radical peace bookshop on Caledonian Road, near Kings Cross in London.
Staring at me was a copy of Peter Dale Scott’s Crime and Cover Up.
I picked it up.
The man who sold me the book, Tim Gluckman, told me that the author, Peter Dale Scott, had invented the term parapolitics which wasn’t conspiracy theory but Deep Politics — a theory of how the state really works.
I told Tim about my then plans to write a play about the attempted assassination of Oscar LaFontaine the ex-head of the German Social Democrat Party (SPD) in 1990 in Cologne.
Tim said he was in Cologne that night – recalling the hullaballoo.
A couple of days later, I was reading Crime and Cover-Up on a bus when I remembered that it was Sunday 24th November 2013 — the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald.
I called a friend who had told me about a spoken word event he had tickets for. We attended, thinking the main draw would be the news presenter Jon Snow. It turned out that Alex Cox was speaking – presenting his new book.
The New York Times 2011 Umbrella Man video by award winning director Errol Morris
Alex Cox replies to Errol Morris over the New York Times Umbrella Man video
The New York Times longer 2013 video also by Errol Morris
I have to admit I have a bit of a soft spot for Errol Morris.
I watched his documentary Fog of War about former US Defence Secretary Robert Macnamara several times in the cinema.
I saw it at the London Film Festival with my mum. She had taken me to see Oliver Stone’s JFK at the cinema years earlier.
My mother and Errol Morris both feature in the interview I did with Eric Olsen about how he coped with the CIA murdering his dad, an American biological weapons scientist, in 1955.
Errol Morris had made a six part Netflix docudrama – Wormwood – about it.
Eric fell out with Errol and reporter Seymour Hersh, over compromises he felt they had made.
At one point in our interview Eric referred to his dad’s fateful meeting with brainwashing expert William Sargant.
Eric told me Sargant was MI6 & CIA. Frank Olsen had confided in him but Sargant ratted on him.
Frank Olson was a potential whistleblower. Sargant told the CIA he wasn’t ‘with the programme’.
For many years my mother was a psychiatric clinician at the William Sargant ward in Ealing Hospital in West London. But till I met Eric I had no idea what Sargant did .
The Family, a cult that Julian Assange was exposed to, through a step-father, in the late 70s early 80s, were also said to have used deep sleep techniques.
My own father worked for the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO), as a systems analyst on mainframe computers throughout the eighties and much of the nineties. This was in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
It was against everything he stood for.
I believe my father was a former Marxist.
We would likely have given money to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Was that before or after we knew children were being given guns and cyanide pills?
Either way, he told me the Tories had done him more good economically than Labour had, but he could NEVER VOTE TORY.
On the evening of New Years Eve 1999 / 2000 my dad told me that while everyone got all all excited about the millennium, the thing his mind was on was the fortieth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
Forty years previously he and his friends crowded round a radio in Sri Lanka listening to how a tiny island had taken on and were beating the regional superpower.
Back to the chase
After Alex’s talk we went to the pub in Camden somewhere. I asked if he’d chosen to do the event because it was the 50th anniversary of Oswald’s murder. He said this was just a co-incidence. His agent booked everything.
Had JFK managed to stay alive, today, May 29th 2019, would have been his hundredth birthday.
His apparent killer, Oswald, born in October 1939, was only 24 when the President was killed.
I’m only halfway through Cox’s book.
At this stage, as Cox makes clear in the first video, it all seems a bit much for one man to have masterminded.
And Oswald doesn’t appear to have been very stable. Hardly sniper material.
There’s plenty of photo-doctoring happening too. At which Oswald himself appears to excel. Oswald has a Zelig-like ability to pop up in all sorts of places. Occasionally in two places at once.
Cox points out that in Cuba and New Orleans Oswald was said to have attended meetings and made inquiries about hiring cars for Cuba – at exactly the same time as he was getting engaged to his new wife Marina in Minsk, Belarus.
This is a photo if Oswald on a boat with John Wayne (or is it?):
Big tech appear to be deciding what people get to think about.
Bernard Cohen said in 1963:
The Press “may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about. The world will look different to different people,” Cohen continues, “depending on the map that is drawn for them by writers, editors, and publishers of the paper they read.”
Back to Bezos
As the title suggests, my main motivation for writing this article was to do a rudimentary character analysis of Jeff Bezos.
I would also like to compare and contrast with Julian Assange.
The Richest Man in the USA Vs The Most Wanted
Amazon Vs WikiLeaks
Although the thought experiment seemed a bit weird at the start, the more I think about it, the better it feels.
I remembered what Alex Cox had done with JFK and Oswald.
I also thought of Post-Freudian child psychotherapist author Adam Phillips:
What would he make of JFK, Oswald, Bezos and Assange connections?
In particular their obsessions, their families, their patronage?
JFK
Apparently JFK’s dad, Joseph Kennedy, wasn’t the most likeable of chaps. He bankrolled his son’s political career and had strong Mafia, Union and Democrat connections. He was the first Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and US Ambassador to the UK from 1938-1940.
Taken from Phillip Whitehead’s The Bootleg Politician in the Independent – 1992
JFK’s sister Rose was put into a mental home and had part of her brain removed on the understanding she was “retarded”.
Maybe her dad simply feared she would go ‘off-message’ — thus undoing his investments in his sons John and Robert Kennedy.
Oswald
Oswald’s father died before he was born. He and his mother moved many many times during his childhood and adolescence. This mysterious character appears to have been a bisexual left wing double agent of sorts who had backing from various parties, all of whom seem to have eventually deserted him.
His apparent love of communism and hatred of racism was so out of place in early 1960’s Dallas but for some reason his views appear to have been tolerated by all.
Assange
Assange’s father split from his mother before he was born and, like Oswald, he lived in many towns before settling down in Melbourne as a teenager.
This was used as part of his defence when he was prosecuted by Melbourne police for computer hacking as Mendax in the early nineties.
Taken from Julian Assange’s Wikipedia Page
According to wikipedia between 1979 and 1981 Assange’s step-dad was a member of the Australian cult known as The Family which was later revealed to have starved, drugged and sexually abused many of its members – particularly children.
Such exposure to cults might also explain Assange’s perceived Messiah Complex. The need to construct an image of a figure that can really be trusted in a world of government & media BS & PR.
Bezos
Bezos’s step-father Mike (Miguel) left Cuba for Miami in 1962 aged just 16.
This was part of the CIA’s Operation Peter Pan, designed to create a brain drain in Cuba and supposedly to save children from being sent to the Soviet Union where their families were told they would end up in camps.
Though Operation Peter Pan started before Kennedy became President, he knew about it and fully approved. Peter Pan went on throughout America’s failed Bay of Pigs invasion and during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was also around this period that Kennedy set up the NSA surveillance agency.
Mike learned English and became an engineer for Exxon – a company that were very big in Cuba before Castro kicked them out.
Mike Bezos adopted Jeff when Jeff was just three years old.
Jeff’s maternal grandfather Lawrence Preston Gise looked after him on his ranch in Texas every summer from when he was four to when he was sixteen.
Gize had been a senior manager at the Atomic Energy Commission and before that at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) that later became DARPA, frequently referenced as the agency that created the internet.
So Bezos is an extremely well connected creature of the cold war.
It’s funny that Trump hates Amazon and has previously referred to how much he loves WikiLeaks.
At last week’s Amazon Annual General Meeting (AGM) 12 proposals were made by shareholders and employees to improve the way Amazon does business.
Some related to climate change and Amazon’s carbon footprint.
Others were in relation to Facial Recognition.
Amazon have a product called Rekognition which is being marketed to the military, police and border cops.
Proposals were made to have an ethics committee to study the effect of Amazon’s facial recognition on human rights.
Jeff Bezos and the majority of his shareholders, are not particularly bothered about Amazon’s environmental impact or human rights violations.
Although he made that noise earlier in the week about having a dad who is an immigrant / refugee this was just an amazing PR exercise to distract people from the evils of facial recognition.
There is plenty of evidence that the facial recognition algorithms discriminate against non binary, women and people of colour.
This was raised in a committee on facial recognition in the US last week.
Here Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks about gait and voice as well as facial recognition.
She points out that white males are more likely to be correctly identified with this technology – but all other groups are prone to being misidentified.
Amazon defeated the Facial Recognition proposals by a large margin
But the Government is definitely being targeted by Amazon too. This piece appeared in Monday’s Financial Times. It doesn’t seem to have sparked much discussion. Public Procurement policies were one of the main obstacles for the large trade agreements that Trump eventually ripped up such as TTIP and TPP. The Buy America policy insisted that every part of every product bought by US states as well as the federal government had to be sourced from within the US. I think it’s good he got rid of the trade agreements but now Jeff Bezos is going to clean up! :
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Anna by Ella Hickson is on at the National Theatre in London at the moment. It’s about living in a surveillance state and has plenty of Stasi action. Should it have been called Alexa?:
— Ranjan Balakumaran (@financialeyes) May 29, 2019
In conclusion, Assange and Oswald both smart guys, were always on the move as kids and in that sense parts of their emotional “development” may have been affected. Oswald seems a bit more like Chelsea Manning than Assange. Chelsea Manning is current in jail, unlike Hope Hicks, Trump’s former adviser, who is also not co-operating with government enquiries.
Glam Shots for One, Not for the Other: Different Media Standard for Hope Hicks and Chelsea Manning Draws Backlash – https://t.co/10Agwdx1EN via @commondreams
— Ranjan Balakumaran (@financialeyes) May 29, 2019
Assange’s contact with the Family may have prepared him psychologically for anything the rest of the world can throw at him. If many children that he knew, and quite possibly himself, were drugged, hypnotised and sexually abused when growing up that would also explain his need to right wrongs on a global scale. How could the security services shills at the Guardian, Times, New York Times or Washington Post possibly understand such a motivation. All they see is a white guy who hates them. These journalists have historically put more effort into ignoring government and security services sponsored paedophilia than reporting on it.
Check out the latest development in the Inquiry into Historic Child Sexual Abuse.
The little contact I’ve had with them tells me the thing is a joke. They spend a lot of money on media and television adverts but deliver very little by way of communication or interaction. The main priority seems to be on not inquiring into anything.
Earlier this year the BBC reported that paedophiles were escaping with impunity due to staff shortages at sexual assault referral centres. The problem is that the three day window within which forensic evidence has to be collected so that the CPS could secure a conviction is being regularly breached. This is often due to privatisation.
I contacted the Home Office and the Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry about this. I got nowhere. They gave me a press release from the forensic regulator. But nothing from Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, or Victoria Atkins, the Minister for Women, Sexual Violence, and Safeguarding.
Atkins is a nasty piece of work.
As Women’s Minister she blocked full gender pay gap reporting in this country. That’s right, she put her career first and blocked the Treasury Select Committee recommendations to widen the criteria for gender pay gap reporting in financial services.
She gave no reason for this.
Her husband makes his money selling cannabis for Brtish Sugar but she is the drugs Minister. Theresa May’s husband’s firm is involved in all this too. NHS contracts for purchasing medicinal cannabis have all been allocated and May’s husband is invested in the firm with the monopoly. So rival cannabis producers are criminalised while the profiteers are quids in.
We covered some of this here, as well as hacking vs journalism:
Unsurprisingly Surveillance Capitalist Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post is calling Assange a spy today. Bezos’s relationship with the CIA explains everything we need to know about his paper’s idiotic line.
If you want to click on Bezos’s site you are offered a cheaper subscription is you agree to be tracked / targeted. The guy doesn’t miss a trick.
I think Jimmy Dore covered some of this well a couple of days ago.
So happy 100th Birthday JFK. The more I read about you the less I like.
For anyone who is interested in Assange’s case, there is another hearing tomorrow morning at Westminster Magistrates’s Court:
If the asset managers have decided to divest of Vale, then what about all the companies that Vale sells to? Are they not also therefore complicit? Surely the thing to do is ask every car company if it is under contract to receive iron from Vale. And if the answer is yes then the next step is to divest or engage. Engage obviously means putting the firms on notice and letting them know that by such and such a date they will have to prove that they are adopting human rights criteria at the heart of their of their business model. If not they will be deemed complicit in multiple human rights violation and ripe not only for divestment but also for prosecution in international courts.
Under Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) arbitration courts, businesses can sue governments. But what about the other way round? The balance of power that populism has afforded doesn’t have to be corporate funded populism. Why not ditch the Tommy Robinson Marine Le Pen Nigel Farage Koch Brothers Korporate Kaliphate in favour of a word in which Vale gets prosecuted, fined and shut down for not respecting the safety and sovereignty of its victims?
I caught a bit of last week’s US Home Affairs Subcommittee on BBC Parliament today.
It covers human rights and journalism from a pro-US stance but is still of interest.
No mention is made of US intelligence agencies & tech firms like Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, themselves rolling out surveillance capitalism throughout the world.
Though lots of surveillance capitalism is carried out to benefit American companies’ shareholders and US military expansion – this particular committee’s ire is only directed at Chinese 5G.
So Huawei 5G rollout is seen as a threat to US interests.
Gavin Williamson was sacked as UK Defence Minister last week because Theresa May thought he was too close to the military.
This sacking served as a distraction from the PM’s decision to go with Huawei 5G.
Her husband works in relationship management for a large US bank. George Osborne, the former Finance Minister was also very keen on bringing Chinese money to the City particularly to help HSBC.
See Marc Roche’s Banksters for more on HSBC’s relationship with China and the way that forces the UK into signing dangerous deals.
Some say politicians are supposed to protect the public from Civil Servants.
Sedwill has form. One we should all be watching.
The UK state’s reliance on paedophilia as a source of kompromat is accepted as one reason Westminster paedophilia is known about but never proven.
Sedwill was the home office civil servant who answered questions about why 114 files that were sent to Leon Brittan about Westminster paedophilia have all disappeared. He said that they may have been shredded but “We shouldn’t assume there is anything sinister.”
Top British civil servant unable to explain missing child abuse files https://t.co/5Ome2dVwCl
Every civil servant in the UK now knows that if asked why files about Tory MPs raping small boys have disappeared from the Home Office ““We shouldn’t assume there is anything sinister.” is the best reply.
Meanwhile another former defence Minister, Liam Fox, who himself is no stranger to corruption, has been caught selling weapons to Saudi Arabia – probably to kill Yemeni children
UK sold £11.5m of arms to Saudi Arabia in months after Khashoggi murder https://t.co/edkLP09RAb
You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.
That must be what audience members thought when they listened to the amazing sound of the last castrato, Alessandro Moreschi.
Britain was castrated by the European Union which emasculated it and then impregnated the remnants of its being with its own ideas.
Such is the horror of the European Union.
John Maynard Keynes wrote the Economic Consequences of the Peace in 1919 after attending the Peace Conference in Versailles.
He realised Brit and French vindictiveness against Germany would all end in tears.
The Peace would lead to another War which would in turn lead to a New World Order.
Now that we’re leaving the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights, politicians in Westminster are free to castrate us on behalf of Beijing instead of Brussels.
Here’s the last known castrato, Alessandro Moreschi, singing Ave Maria:
Deregulation doesn’t stand still.
Paxo blissfully unaware of the media and especially Newsnight’s role in all this. 
Check out Clive’s case. It’s shocking!
