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30 junio, 2013

Mandela was a myth

http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2013/06/mandela-was-myth.html
The Mandela myth was a long time in preparation. The former ANC terrorists spent twenty years in jail where he was trained by MI6 to assume a statesman role on his release. How do I know? Because a classmate of mine had the job of retraining him, who worked for MI6, getting him ready for his role in South African and world political theatre, now nearly over.
The classmate was recruited out of school by the history master, who was an MI5/6 recruiter. He hand-picked boys from his history students to work for MI5, and the trainer of Mandela was one he recommended. Top stream, not the brightest in the bunch, and a chip on his shoulder. Ideal material to do whatever he was bid to acquire status. Creating media myths doesn't take a genius, just someone who can follow the foreign office handy elder statesman instruction guide, enjoys the feeling of being a cut above the others, and talks with an unnecessarily posh accent. Traitors were always so. The history teacher knew how to spot one.
It was interesting to listen to Michael Tellinger on the hidden history of South Africa, going back hundreds of thousands of years. Why did the history teacher never mention such things at school? Even now the media will never touch the real history of mankind. We only get a load of drivel imagined by the MI5/MI6 myth departments, like most of our news. Don't be taken in.
An earlier media impression before the senior statesman was created
Mandela mocks idea he was MI6 man
Such claims show 'a contempt for Africa', says anti-apartheid leader after spy-book allegations

http://rt.com/news/uk-intelligence-spy-budget-increase-252/
UK spy agencies get $154mn bonus amid sweeping cuts

UK intelligence has received the largest budget boost in the latest government review of public spending. The funds increase follows civil rights uproar at UK involvement in the NSA spy scandal.
British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has presented a review of public spending for 2015-16 on Wednesday with a view to cutting the deficit. While, funding for most government bodies have been slashed, MI6, MI5 and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have received a bonus of up to $154 million.
The increase of 3.4 percent in overall funding for intelligence organizations, which already had a budget of $2.9 billion, makes them top of the UK government’s spending agenda, overtaking the health service, education and military.
The institutions that will suffer most at the hands of the $17 billion austerity cuts include the Business department, the Culture department, the Home Office and the Justice department. The Ministry of Defence, meanwhile, faces cuts of around $1.5 billion, with the reassurance that this will not stipulate a decrease in front-line troop numbers.
“While they’re cutting the science research budget, pollution controls, flood controls, closing down libraries, and dispossessing people with fragile lives, they want to put all this money into intelligence agencies and increase the foreign aid budget...Commentators have called it fascism because while they carry out ludicrous austerity, which makes no difference to the public accounts, they beef up security services as if they’re preparing for civil unrest,” RT contributor Afshin Rattansi said.
Recently, UK intelligence has come into the firing line after it was discovered the GCHQ has access to a massive global network of communications, storing calls, Facebook posts and internet histories. GCHQ also shares this data with the NSA.
The extent of the spy program is such that whistleblower Edward Snowden, who originally leaked the information to the Guardian, called it “worse than the US.” Rights groups were up in arms about the sheer scope of the network able to monitor 600 million ‘telephone events’ a day.
“This appears to be dangerously close to, if not exactly, the centralized database of all our internet communications, including some content, that successive Governments have ruled out and parliament has never legislated for,” said Nick Pickles of UK privacy campaign group Big Brother Watch.
GCHQ, for its part, has defended its sweeping eavesdropping network, saying it had always been “scrupulous” in complying with the law.
UK Foreign Minister William Hague (AFP Photo)
‘Nothing but pride’ for US-UK intelligence-sharing In answer to the public uproar to the sweeping surveillance programs, UK Foreign Minister, William Hague spoke out in support of the spy network and data sharing with the US. He said that both the US and the UK had acted in compliance with the law and used information only “to protect citizens’ freedoms.”
"We should have nothing but pride in the unique and indispensable intelligence-sharing relationship between Britain and the United States," Hague said in his speech at the Ronald Reagan Library on Tuesday afternoon. He went on to call the US-UK alliance a “bastion of freedom.”
Moreover, he stressed that such surveillance was “indispensable” to combat the growing threat of terrorism.
Following the brutal murder of 25-year-old soldier Drummer Lee Rigby by Islamist extremist in Woolwich in May, UK intelligence has come under increased scrutiny. There were suggestions that MI5 and MI6 could have done more to prevent the death of Rigby after it was found that one of the alleged killers, Michael Adebolajo, had already been flagged by UK intelligence as a potential threat.

04 junio, 2013

Amazon and Google chiefs join other corporate tax avoiders at annual Bilderberg confab

Ben Quinn
George Osborne and his Labour shadow, Ed Balls, are on a list of those attending this week’s UK summit of the secretive Bilderberg group alongside the heads of Amazon and Google, both of which are under unprecedented political pressure over their companies’ aggressive tax avoidance policies.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, and Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, will rub shoulders with dozens of other figures from the global political and financial elite at the annual four-day meeting of the organisation, this year held near Watford. The group’s lack of transparency has long caused critics to characterise it as a secretive cabal.
A list of about 140 participants, made up almost overwhelmingly of white males but described as “a diverse group of political leaders and experts from industry”, was published on Monday by the organisation. It included only 14 women. The organisation said that those attending the summit at the Grove hotel would discuss topics including “jobs, entitlement and debt”, “how big data is changing almost everything” and “can the US and Europe grow faster and create jobs?”
The list of 12 topics provided in a short press release also included, simply, “current affairs”. It added: “The conference has always been a forum for informal, off-the-record discussions about megatrends and the major issues facing the world.”
“Thanks to the private nature of the conference, the participants are not bound by the conventions of office or by pre-agreed positions. As such, they can take time to listen, reflect and gather insights. There is no detailed agenda, no resolutions are proposed, no votes are taken, and no policy statements are issued.”
Attenders from financial backgrounds include Marcus Agius, the former chairman of Barclays who quit the post in the wake of the Libor interbank lending rate scandal, as well as Douglas J Flint, group chairman of HSBC Holdings plc, which was hit with a $1.9bn (£1.25bn) fine last December over allegations it had acted as banker for rogue states, terrorists and drug lords.
Peter Sutherland, the chairman of Goldman Sachs International, and Michael J Evans, vice-chairman of Goldman Sachs & Co, are the participants from the investment banking giant whose involvement in the sale of high-risk mortgage related investments has borne much of the blame for causing the 2008 global financial crisis.
As well as Balls and Osborne, other Britons attending include the Tory MP and minister Ken Clarke, and the former Labour MP and minister Peter Mandelson, who is listed as attending in his capacity as chairman of his strategic advice consultancy, Global Counsel, and as chairman of Lazard International, an investment bank.
This year’s meeting of the group, which first met 1954 with the aim of shoring up US-European relations in the cold war years, will attract scrutiny from the media along with, as usual, a small army of individuals harbouring a range of theories about what is really discussed behind the event’s closed doors. This year’s summit coincides in the UK with the outbreak of a fresh scandal over lobbying and calls for a statutory register of lobbyists.
A small number of journalists have received precious invitations to go behind the curtain. This year they include Martin Wolff of the Financial Times, the newspaper’s chief economics commentator, John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of the Economist, as well as a number of others including Lilli Gruber, an anchorwoman at the privately owned Italian television channel, La 7 TV, Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, a columnist at Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper
Veteran participants include Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state, and Lord Carrington, the former Conservative politician and foreign secretary.