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1. Bilderberger new President of European Parliament
2. Warning! What Will The Nice Treaty Do?
3. Paddy Ashdown's Diaries: '50 people who run the world and 20 hangers on'
4. David Shayler: The Class War Files (continued)
5. Labour MPs protest as CIA gets power to snoop on any house in Britain
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1. 15Jan02 - Bilderberger Pat Cox voted head of European Parliament
http://www.bilderberg.org/2002.htm
20Jan01 - Grattan Healy
Pat Cox, Irish MEP, former RTE journalist, and attendee at the 2001 Bilderberg meeting
in Gothenberg, Sweden has just been voted President of the European Parliament.
The President of the European Parliament is in many ways a figure head role, like a
President. He or she presides over the Parliament sessions in Strasbourg and
Bruxelles.
The President has an important political role in representing the Parliament to the
other Institutions, the Governments, the European Commission, and in particular the
Council of Ministers. He or she gets to participate in some Ministerial meetings, and
can influence the course of Intergovernmental Conferences, who's task it is to
negotiate or change treaties. Given that Parliament has, at least theoretically,
equal power with Council in many areas of legislation, including the EU Budget, the
role of European Parliamentary President should not be underestimated.
Pat Cox is a very polished performer, and a media friendly personality. He will be
quite influential in the development of European political life, as we move towards
the Enlargement to the East, and the Constitutional Convention. His next crucial role
will be to poke his nose into Irish national affairs, and try to get the Irish to
approve the Nice treaty. This is strictly speaking out of order, but Pat being the
cutee he is, says he will do this in his private capacity. Sorry Pat, but if you want
to do that, resign.
Ireland's Cox elected European Parliament chief.
UPDATE 1 - 15Jan2002 FRANCE: 17:27 GMT
By Lisa Jucca STRASBOURG, France, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Irish Liberal Pat Cox was elected
president of the European Parliament on Tuesday and pledged to give the European
Union's only directly elected body a stronger voice. The outspoken former television
journalist, backed by the centre-right European People's Party and his own Liberal
Democrats, won 298 out of 586 votes cast in the third round. In his acceptance speech,
some of which he delivered in Irish, not a recognised EU language, Cox said the bloc's
eastward enlargement would be his top priority. He pledged to bring political debate
back into the parliament and to put the assembly at centre stage as a democratic
counterweight to the unelected European Commission. "I make a political commitment to
political leadership," Cox told the assembly. "We are building the democratic part of
Europe's future. We are the check and the balance - the counterpart of Europe's
technocracy. We are indispensable to enrich Europe's future."!
Cox beat Scottish Labour deputy David Martin who secured 237 votes and Danish
eurosceptic Jens Peter Bonde with 33. There were 18 invalid ballots. Communist Francis
Wurtz and Green Gerard Onesta, both from France, withdraw after the first round.
Martin pledged to support Cox and voiced hopes the election, more lively than many in
the past, would help make parliament more visible.
ENLARGEMENT CRUCIAL
Cox said EU expansion to ex-communist countries was crucial. Up to 10 east European
and Mediterranean states are due to conclude negotiations by the end of this year and
join in 2004. "We are on the brink of the most important event of recent European
history - the enlargement of the European Union. The successful completion of
enlargement negotiations is the overarching political priority," he said in Irish. The
election came as the 626-member assembly struggles for greater acceptance among voters
often apathetic on EU affairs. "We have been bad at telling our story," Cox said in a
television interview just before the vote. "One of the jobs of the newly elected
president would be to get this story and tell it to the European public in simple
terms." He faces an uphill struggle since EU parliamentarians enjoy less media
coverage than their domestic counterparts and the assembly's growing powers are little
known to the public. Turnout at European Parliament elections has fall!
en consistently, with less than 50 percent of the electorate bothering to turn out to
vote at the last European election. Yet with the 1991 Maastricht and 1997 Amsterdam
treaties, parliament gained power as a co-legislator - sharing policy-making powers
with national governments in a wide range of areas affecting business and the
environment. Many parliamentarians consider their finest hour was in 1999, when they
forced the Commission led by Jacques Santer to resign over allegations of corruption
and mismanagement. Cox played a key role in the Commission's downfall and is
remembered for having told the EU executive: "Go or be pushed." In more recent times,
parliament demonstrated its muscle by killing long-awaited draft legislation on common
EU rules for takeovers last year, even though the law had been agreed by all but one
EU member states. Reuters 2002.
Source: REUTERS NEWS SERVICE REUTERS NEWS SERVICE WESTERN EUROPE REUTERS NEWS SERVICE
15/01/2002
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2. Warning: What Will The Nice Treaty Do?
http://www.bilderberg.org/2002.htm
1. Integrate British Defence Forces within EU Command Structures.
2. Create an EU Police force empowered to enter the UK and arrest its citizens.
3. Institute an EU legal system which dispenses with trial by jury.
4. Allow the EU to set UK tax levels.
5. Override the (unwritten) British Constitution with an EU superstate constitution.
Sign along the dotted line to give up our national sovereignty
Why have we neither been told nor offered a referendum??????
Maybe because - we the people - wouldn't answer correctly
See the excellent Irish anti-Nice website
http://www.nationalplatform.org/
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3. "50 people who run the world and 20 hangers on"
from http://www.bilderberg.org/bilder.htm#Paddy
Paddy Ashdown was leader of the UK's Liberal Democrat Party from 1988 to 1999. The
LibDems are Britain's third biggest party with 53 MP's in the House of Commons.
The Ashdown Diaries - Volume One 1988-1997
Penguin - 2000 - ISBN 0 14 029775 8 - pp.42-44
Thursday 11 May, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Bilderberg Conference
At 2 o�clock to Heathrow to catch a flight to Santiago de Compostela for the
Bilderberg Conference � described to me as �fifty people who run the world and twenty
hangers on�. No doubt which category I am in!
I discovered that the people here include Henry Kissinger, Lord Carrington (1), The
King and Queen of Spain, The Queen of Holland, Phillipe Gonzalez the prime minister of
Spain, Wilfried Martens the Prime Minister of Belgium, Dr. Franz Vranitzky the
Chancellor of Austria, John Smith (2) and too many Tory Government Ministers to name.
Dinner was excellent. I ate a dozen oysters and a load of shellfish. This could be fun.
Afterwards, Cecil Parkinson (3), John Smith and I sat in armchairs drinking brandy.
Cecil turned out to be rather engaging and astonishingly frank about the Government's
position. He left for bed early and John and I continued for another hour or so,
accompanied by considerably more brandy.
Smith believes that the Labour Party can do it by themselves and are well on their way
to just this. He rejects the idea of pacts. I got the impression of somebody who has a
very quick but narrow mind. I am not sure whether this is his natural way or comes
from belonging to the Labour party since birth. He is an engaging talker, but there
seems to be something missing. Everything seems to be politics.
Friday, 12 May, Santiago de Compostela
Bilderberg Conference
A bit of a thick head following John Smith and the brandy last night. A brief
breakfast then into the meeting. We sat in a glass-panelled room overlooking the sea,
slightly crowded together, Nevertheless very congenial. The first discussion was on
recent developments in Eastern Europe. Tim Garton Ash (4) gave an exceptionally good
talk.
In the afternoon a discussion on arms control, chaired by Carrington, in which Henry
Kissinger and Teo Sommer (the editor of Die Zeit) gave an inside view. Fascinating
stuff. Kissinger was a bit hesitant to start with but his summing-up was brilliant.
In the afternoon we talked about Europe, Giovanni Agnelli (5) and Lloyd Bentsen (6)
giving their versions. The show was stolen, however, by Peter Sutherland, (7) who is
very very bright. The general view is that the Soviet Union�s economy is in the most
wretched state and bound to fail, along with those of most of the Eastern Bloc
countries. The West should not encourage the break-up of the Warsaw Pact, but should
help the process of rapprochment as far as it can.
Saturday 13 May, Santiago de Compostela
Bilderberg Conference
US/Soviet relations in the morning. This was by far and away our best session, with
Rosanne Ridgeway, the Chief of the Disarmament Staff in the White House, giving us her
view. She is a remarkable lady with seemingly a firm grip on everything around her.
However, I found her attitude to modernization quite chilling. Apparently the Soviets
are about to offer deep cuts in conventional forces down to parity. She didn�t think
this made any difference to the question of stationing modernized nuclear weapons in
Germany. She must be mad!
In afternoon a long discussion on monetary union in Europe. Nearly everybody attacked
Mrs. Thatcher, even her closest admirers. The only exception was Cecil Parkinson, who
put up a spirited loyal defence, but didn�t make any sense and had his leg pulled by
everyone else.
Sunday 14 May, Santiago de Compostela
Bilderberg Conference
Contacted by ITN at 11.00am, [how interesting that ITN failed to tell the public Paddy
was at Bilderberg - ed.] who told me that Owen had held a meeting the night before and
the SDP had decided they were no longer a national party. To put a brave face on it,
Owen has apparently indicated that he will continue with �guerilla tactics�, whatever
that means. ITN asked me for a comment and I tried not to sound triumphalist. I
deliberately left the door open to the possibility of a merger, though, of course,
this is not in reality a practical option. But we must look as welcoming as possible.
At last! This long wretched period � at least in so far as Owen is concerned � appears
over. I have not felt so cheered in years.
A brilliant cloudless day. I spent the afternoon by the swimming pool, reading through
the proofs of Citizens Britain (8) and making further amendments. The trick will be to
ensure that reviewers see it not just as a motley collection of ideas, but as a
framework for the new shape of progressive politics in Britain.
Footnotes:
1. Lord Carrington had just finished his appointment as Secretary General of NATO,
before this he held various Cabinet positions in Conservative Governments
2. Rt Hon John Smith MP (1938-94). At the time the Shadow Chancellor of the
Exchequer. He subsequently became Leader of the Labour Party until his sudden and
unexpected death. MP (Labour) for Lanarkshire North (1970-83), Monklands East
(1983-94).
3. Secretary of State for Energy. MP (Conservative) for Enfield West (Nov 1970-74),
Hertfordshire South (1974-83), Hertsmere (1983-92). He now sits in the House of Lords.
4. Fellow of St Anthony�s College, Oxford, Author of many books and articles on
international affairs, especially Eastern Europe.
5. International industrialist.
6. The 1988 Democratic Party nominee for US Vice-President. He served in Clinton�s
first Administration as Secretary to the Treasury.
7. Formerly a European Commissioner, now an international businessman.
8. At the beginning of 1989, I had decided to write a book as a part of my plan to
reverse the decline of the Party and start building for the future. The aim was to
mark out a core of ideas which would articulate what we stood for and explain why we
still had a role. The book was completed in the summer and published for our Autumn
Conference.
from:
The Ashdown Diaries - Volume One 1988-1997 - Penguin - 2000 - ISBN 0 14 029775 8
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4. David Shayler: The Class War Files
consisting of
A. David Shayler's Class War revelations
B. Letter from Class War on the above topic
C. If only life were 'Class War' simple - my reply
A. David Shayler's Class War revelations
31Dec01 - Tony Gosling (last pepis in fact)
One thing that has become clear to me through the revelations of MI5 whistleblower
David Shayler is the extent to which, like the police drugs and vice squads and
special branch the Security Services are liable to slip into bed with those they are
supposed to be monitoring and, if in the public interest, arresting.
The Gadaffi Plot and the Bishopsgate bomb revelations appear to show that the Security
Services (MI5 and MI6) have been lying to ministers, failing to stop known terrorist
bombs and even committing terrorist acts themselves. There is a fundamental problem
that any act of terrorism can be and is used to justify the continued massive public
spending on the secret state.
According to ex-MI5 officer turned whistleblower David Shayler, MI5's 'infiltration'
of Class War looks more like a 'propping up' operation. Shayler revealed while in
Bristol recently that a Metropolitan Police officer was recruited specifically to
penetrate Class War. This he did very successfully, getting his hands on the
membership database, one imagines, rather easily. So successful was the spy that he
began taking on many of the administrative tasks at Class War. As the routine jobs
nobody wanted to do started to be done with what was in effect a subsidy to the
organisation, membership figures crept higher and higher and reliability and
efficiency of Class War increased dramatically. When the copper was finally pulled out
of Class War, largely due to Shayler's efforts within MI5, the organisation became a
shadow of its former self.
One wonders if the same would happen to the Socialist Workers Party if MI5 pulled out
of there? The 1999 book 'Defending the Realm, MI5 and the Shayler Affair' (by Mark
Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding) reveals that MI5 recruited 25 agents specifically to
spy on and penetrate the SWP. The tiny party are, after all, Bolsheviks plotting with
the Russians to overthrow the British Government.
Since then the SWP have become almost as intransigent as the labour party when it
comes to insisting members toe the party line. Could it be MI5 have a bigger part to
play than we thought in creating that party line in the first place?
So I courteously request MI5 pull their agents out of the SWP, the sooner the better.
My guess is either it would find it difficult to carry on or else fall into the hands
of true socialists. I imagine the MI5's main reason for not pulling out of the SWP is
to prevent the latter.
Any spooks reading this who wish to leak info to me which does not jepoardise national
security (as opposed to the security of a New World 'Festung Europa' Order) but they
feel the public should know about...???
You know how to do it and you know where I am ;-)
Read it: MI5 and the Shayler Affair, Mark Hollingsworth and Nick Fielding, Andre
Deutsch, 1999, ISBN
0-233-99667-2 http://www.vci.co.uk
corrected from my PEPIS bulletin #34
B. Letter from Class War after the above message
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CLASS UNITY-CLASS PRIDE
[Skull and Cross Bones logo]
CLASS WAR
Class War
P.O. Box 467
London
E8 3QX
07092 170105
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
10th January 2002
Dear Tony Gosling
As you are aware, we are far from impressed that you chose to distribute allegations
about Class War in your Pepis bulletin [PEPIS#34 ed.]. The fact that these allegations
come from a former MI5 officer (i.e. somebody who was paid by the government to spy on
people like me, and if you are part of the radical movement, people like you) and you
failed to check your facts with us before publication is disappointing to say the
least.
Class War 79 (Spring 2000) covered Shayler in detail, and a copy was posted to him c/o
Punch magazine. Larry O'Hara has also asked some pertinent questions of Shayler and
his partner Annie Machon. Neither appear to have the backbone to flesh out their
allegations, or indeed answer any questions about their own motivations.
Shayler has had every opportunity to give the full facts (as he sees them) about Class
War, be it in Hollingsworth's book or in his Punch article on Class War (Punch, March
22 2000). Notably the smears about Class War "being propped up" or having "dissolved"
appear in neither publication, when it was surely relevant.
Instead the allegations surface two years later in yours. Could you at least do us the
decency of telling us what Shayler has said in Bristol, when and to whom?
As you do not appear to be very well read - about either David Shayler or on the
contemporary Anarchist movement - I enclose the following:
- Class War 79, which covered Shayler at length
- Larry O'Hara's writings on Shayler from issues of his magazine "Notes From The
Borderland"
- The current issue of Class War, along with some leaflets and our London bulletin.
- A leaflet on the case of Anarchist prisoner Mark Barnsley, a victim of the very
state Mr Shayler worked for.
We look forward to hearing from you on these matters.
PAUL MARSH, for Class War.
C. If only life were 'Class War' simple - my reply
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13th January 2002
Dear Paul,
I wouldn't expect Class War to easily admit to having been infiltrated. Your assertion
that because these allegations have not surfaced before they lack credibility is not
reasoning. Shayler feels more confident in exposing wrongdoing by his former bosses as
the secret state's case against him crumbles.
I am, in fact reasonably well read on the Shayler case and consider both your and
Larry O'Hara's pieces biased.
They seem to come from a lack of having actually met the pair. More importantly though
you seem too 'Class Proud' to admit to security breaches. The allegation that the
agent was pulled out because of Class War's lack of effectiveness might also be
difficult for you to take on board.
Shayler's allegations about your agent were fleshed out with substantial background
material and I wouldn't have passed on the allegation if they weren't. He described
the debriefing of this particular agent who bragged about beating up uniformed police
officers as part of his cover and that he was a heavy morning Carlsberg Special Brew
drinker.
Too often radical groups (and governments come to that), when faced with uncomfortable
allegations, fail to question their own motives and weaknesses. We therefore fail to
adapt and grow with the times as we must, if we have the best interests of ordinary
people at heart.
Part of the problem comes from the kind of narrow campaigning group Class War is. The
world would be a duller place without Class War's irreverence and sense of humour (I
was a subscriber for a couple of years round about 1994) but I am far less comfortable
with your underlying premise that everybody in the upper or middle classes are the
enemies of 'the people'. If they were I don't imagine there would be many of 'the
people' left. Your premise owes a lot to a Marxist world view of 'us' and 'them' which
is over simplistic.
If only life were that simple. I imagine the nightmare Class War demonstration where
the local working class NF skinheads turn up to support your campaign against the
Lords and go and beat up Lord Ahmed for you. He is one of the only people in
parliament who is campaigning for monetary reform, an end to private monopoly on our
money. Something absolutely crucial for the destruction of capitalism, something I
have never seen your publications mention.
Anyway, back to Shayler's allegations about Class War's and your penetration by MI5. I
received a circular nearly two years ago now saying that Class War was folding up.
This could have been disinformation but I assumed it was true since it was
corroberated by anarchist friends of mine. Just to check I phoned directory enquiries
and found there was no listing for Class War either.
Machon and Shayler's motivations are clear as a bell to me. They joined the 'reformed'
Secret Service in the good faith that they could help with that reform and have an
exciting job to boot. When they found it was still blundering, incompetent and lying
to press and public they bravely decided they couldn't stomach it.
If I'm right then you and Larry's accusations against Shayler and Machon are playing
into the hands of the ruling hierarchy of what could, in years to come, become this
countries secret police. Some would argue it already is.
The fact that you may never have met Stephen Lander, Michael Pakenham etc. is no
reason to align yourselves with them in their mission to put Shayler behind bars. When
the legal case against a writer or whistleblower is weak the kinds of character
assassinations circulated in your magazine play straight into the hands of the secret
state.
I suggest you meet up with Shayler and Machon while they are still at liberty to
discuss, confidentially and with an open mind, all they know about MI5 action against
Class War then publish the discussions. My fear is that you may have already have done
so much damage through your attacks on the couple that they may not trust you.
Anyway I hope this can all be resolved and the truth come out not behind closed doors
but to the public as a whole. Please be assured I want to get to the truth about the
relationship between MI5 and groups such as Class War and I will do whatever I can to
help you. The implications of the 25 SWP agents are massive and potentially very
damaging to the credibility of the SWP. I am suprised you did not pick up on those.
Oh, and by the way, you may not believe me but I'm actually pleased to hear you're
still going. It's the Landers and the Pakenhams of this country, who I believe to be
bitter enemies of free speech and freedom, that I want to see exposed for what they
are.
Tony Gosling
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5. Labour MPs protest as CIA gets power to snoop on any house in Britain
By Severin Carrell - London Independent - 13 January 2002
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=114243
The CIA has recruited British defence and hi-tech companies in an attempt to acquire
the latest technology for its spying missions and intelligence- gathering.
The British firms, including the mobile-phone company Hutchison 3G and aerospace
contractor BAE Systems, are helping the CIA to develop sophisticated map reading, 3-D
mapping and computer communications techniques.
In conflicts such as the war in Afghanistan, these projects would potentially allow
CIA agents in the war zone to translate an obscure reference to a building, village or
cave into a 3-D photo-realistic map of the area via laptops and satellite phones.
One project funded by the CIA uses raw data provided by the Ordnance Survey based on
its digital maps of the UK, sparking criticism from MPs.
One Labour MP said the projects raised major questions about whether these
relationships were in Britain's interests. Alan Simpson, a senior member of the
left-wing Campaign group of backbenchers, said: "Where does this take the CIA? If
we're giving them the ability to plot grid references to any house in Britain, it
raises fundamental questions about whether this is in the national interest."
The CIA, the world's largest and most powerful intelligence agency, has been under
immense pressure to catch up with the rapid developments and spread of computer and
internet technology over the past decade. Its directors admit that the size and reach
of the internet has left it struggling to catch up. In 1999, it set up a unique
private company called In- Q-Tel to invest about $30m a year in hi-tech companies and
research projects.
"We make investments in companies where we have a strategic interest in the
technology," a spokeswoman said.
Five British firms have become collaborators or contractors for In-Q-Tel through a
US-dominated alliance of more than 220 private companies, government agencies and
universities called the Open GIS Consortium (OGC) to develop common technological
standards for computers.
In one project overseen by OGC, Hutchison 3G is a partner with In-Q-Tel and five US
firms to design a system which allows wireless links between computers. The
mobile-phone company Vodaphone is a contractor and the British companies Laser- Scan
and its owner, Yeoman Group, have become observers in the project.
In another project, In-Q-Tel has hired a division of BAE Systems and Laser-Scan, which
makes digital and internet maps, to develop ways of linking geographical data from
separate sources � a technique known as inter-operability. This project uses Ordnance
Survey data.
Laser-Scan is also involved with the Military Mapping Project, where the CIA and US
Army is developing further sophisticated 3-D mapping techniques, such as sending them
via the internet, in a restricted project also overseen by OGC.
British companies appear to have avoided the most controversial projects funded by
In-Q-Tel. One US firm called SafeWeb had been paid to give the CIA the ability to
snoop on internet web sites without being detected.
All the companies and agencies involved insisted the projects were above board, and
Ordnance Survey stressed that its data was used simply for research purposes.
In-Q-Tel denied that it required its contractors to sign secrecy deals with the CIA,
or expected to control the results of its projects with OGC.
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=114243
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