The following quotes are from: "Hidden
Agendas" by John Pilger; Vintage; ISBN 0 099 74151 2:
"Five senior members of the Blair
government - Peter Mandelson, George Roberts, Marjorie Mowlam, Chris Smith and
Elizabeth Symons - along with Blairs chief of staff Jonathan Powell, have been
members of the BRITISH-AMERICAN PROJECT for the SUCCESSOR GENERATION, an
ambitious, highly structured and little-known transatlantic network of 'chosen'
politicians, journalists and academics. 'By virtue of their present
accomplishments,' says BAP literature, '[the chosen few] have given indication
that, in the succeeding generation, they would be leaders in their country and
perhaps internationally.' ..."
"The Successor Generation is funded
by the Pew Charitable Trust of Philadelphia, established by the billionaire J.
Howard Pew, chairman of the Sun Oil Company,..."
"the idea for a 'successor generation' was
put forward at a meeting in the White House in March 1983. Attended by Rupert
Murdoch and Sir James Goldsmith,..."
"The Blair governments ban on handguns is
not so dissimilar. Following the massacre at Dunblane, the Shadow Home
Secretary, Jack Straw, declared, 'We cannot take risks with public safety in the
interests of sport. Allowing .22 calibre weapons to remain legal would be
fraught with difficulty ... What he did not say was that, under Labour, it would
be perfectly all right to continue sending British guns to 'decent societies'
abroad. The British American Security Information Council has monitored an
extraordinary rise in the number of export licences for
handguns..."
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