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Police forces hand £470,000 to group dubbed the ‘left-wing Freemasons’ for training courses
•Common Purpose offers training courses to police for £5,000 per week
•Organisation described as ‘left-wing Freemasons’ by Tory MP
•Trustee is co-founder of group behind Hacked Off Press campaign
•Met police, who are leading phone hacking probe, spent £60,00 on training

By Vanessa Allen for the Daily Mail

see http://www.theeuroprobe.org/2015-074-common-purpose/

Published: 00:02, 7 July 2014 | Updated: 14:35, 7 July 2014 Please forward this blog on to all your email contacts.

Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick, the Met’s most senior female police officer, attended one of the training courses while at Thames Valley Police, which spent £28,000 on them over six years. She is now lined up to be head of the Met Police.

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From Killing the “3 Million Jobs” Whopper for Good

Luke Stanley Research Assistant Get Britain Out On 18 August 2014 12:41

We’ve heard it a hundred times or more. The myth our exit from the EU will cost Britain 3 million jobs is repeated over and over again. The claim’s supporters range from deceitful Europhile politicians such as Nick Clegg to the ordinary members of the Great British Public they succeed in duping. At long last, however, the Treasury has spoken out and put this lie to bed once and for all.

Civil servants at the Treasury have now dismissed the 3 million jobs claim by arguing the methodology was 10 years old and imprecise, rendering its conclusions entirely inaccurate. In fact, the myth is based entirely on a 1999 report by the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) that 3.2 million jobs were “associated” with exports to goods and services to the EU.

There is also the Rotterdam effect. If a UK company has an order for say Brazil it is packed into a transit container, loaded onto a container ship. If that ship stops off in Rotterdam to collect more containers for Brazil the UK gov counts that as exports to the EU.

It should be noted that “after 40years of membership, less than – 5%of UK companies directly export to the EU yet all are forced to bear burden of its regulations,”

In other words this invention is based on the assumption that the £269 billion the rest of the EU exports to Britain would drop to zero overnight if we left the EU! This is something a GCSE Economics student – although clearly not a Lib Dem Cabinet Minister – could tell you is wrong. The Director of the NIESER at the time, Martin Weale, himself has dismissed the 3 million job loss propaganda as “pure Goebbels”.

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First of all it must be realised that asylum seekers are no longer asylum seekers when the leave the first safe country they arrive in.

There are two groups of migrants.

1. Those who come here with a job, accommodation and health insurance arranged before they come.

2. Those who arrive needing accommodation provided by the Council, no health insurance and no job to come to.

Brits working and living in the EU have jobs, health insurance, accommodation, do not demand benefits from the country they are working in and pay their way.

Most migrants in the UK do not have health insurance and overload many schools with children who cannot speak English and so hold back the education of native English Children. It would seem that this report excludes families of migrants, money sent abroad and children living in their home country but getting benefits.

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EU’s biggest foreign mission in turmoil over corruption row
Allegations of cover-up as UK prosecutor is dismissed after finding evidence of possible bribe-taking in Kosovo mission
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The EU’s new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said she would urgently despatch an independent legal expert to oversee the Eulex inquiry.
The EU’s new foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, said she would urgently despatch an independent legal expert to oversee the Eulex inquiry. Photograph: AFP/AFP/Getty Images

The EU is struggling to contain its worst foreign policy crisis in recent years after a whistleblower claimed that evidence of corruption in its biggest foreign mission – which is intended to strengthen the rule of law in Kosovo – was covered up.

The whistleblower, Maria Bamieh, learned in August that she would be made redundant from the Eulex mission, despite an impressive record of convictions, after revealing evidence of possible bribe-taking at top levels in the mission.

Bamieh, a British prosecutor, claimed her dismissal followed two years of unfair treatment, including full-scale investigations into her conduct for petty misdemeanours such as parking infringements.

Eulex has cost more than €1bn (£753m) since it was established in 2009 with a promise of pursuing the “big fish” among Kosovo politicians who are alleged to be involved in graft and organised crime.

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Massive Transfer of Powers to the European Union: 1st November 2014. Please forward this blog on to all your email contacts.
Gerard Batten. Member of the European Parliament for London. 31st October 2014
In 2005 The European Constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch people
in their referenda.
The European Union dealt with this setback by re-drafting the Constitution as the Lisbon Treaty, and ensuring that the governments of EU member states would not put it to referenda of their people.
The Labour Government at that time had promised a referendum on the Constitution, but reneged on that promise by using the semantic argument that its promise applied to the ‘Constitution’ and not the ‘Lisbon Treaty’, despite the fact that the contents are 99% identical to the contents of the Constitution.
The Conservative Party under David Cameron in the run-up the 2010 general election gave us a “cast-iron guarantee” that if elected he would give us a referendum on Lisbon. After the formation of the Coalition Government in May 2010 William Hague, the new Foreign Secretary, said that the referendum could not be held because ‘Lisbon had already become European law’.
Had Mr Hague understood the basics of the English Constitution he would have realised that Lisbon had been enacted into law by means of an Act of Parliament; then a referendum could have been held and if Lisbon had been rejected by the people then that Act could have been repealed. But he clearly showed his and his Government’s acceptance that EU law is supreme – even over Parliaments of the future.
The Lisbon Treaty, came into force on 1st December 2009 and did many things. It made the EU (henceforward to be known as ‘The Union’) a political entity with the power to enter into Treaties and international agreements in its own right which would bind its Member States, and conferred powers on the Union which are normally the prerogative of sovereign nation states.
One of the things Lisbon did was to confer powers in numerous policy areas to be decided by the European Council (Heads of Government) by a Qualified Majority
Vote. In addition, Prime Ministers of member states can extend the Union’s legislative authority by a unanimous decision among themselves.

What Qualified Majority Voting Means

The Lisbon Treaty (Article 16) introduces a new definition for the rule of Qualified Majority Voting which shall be applicable in three stages:
1. From 1st December 2009 until 31st October 2014 for policies decided by QMV the weighting of votes system from the Nice Treaty continue
to apply. A blocking minority may be established by gathering together a coalition of 91 votes out of 352 or 38% of the population of the Union.
2. From the 1st November 2014 the QMV rule of a ‘double majority’ applies: The Council adopts a decision when it is approved by at least 55% of Council members comprising of at least 15 of them and representing Member States which include at least 65% of the population of the European Union. From 1st November 2014 until 31st March 2017 Member States can ‘demand’ the application of the previous weighting rules and the so-called ‘Ionnina Compromise’, but this is only allowed at the ‘discretion’ of other Member States and the rules allowing this compromise are vague.
3. From 1 April 2017 the rule of ‘double majority’
is obligatory; henceforward a blocking minority can be made up of at least four Member States representing at least 35% of the EU population.
What this means is that a British Government no longer has control over forty-four areas of policy that affect every area of life for the British people. A full list of the powers surrendered are given in the table below
Gerard Batten MEP
Despite David Cameron’s promise of a ‘renegotiation of our relationship with
the EU’ and the return of powers to the UK Government, the very opposite is
actually happening. Even more powers will be automatically transferred on
1st November 2014.

Transfer of Powers under the Lisbon Treaty. 1st November 2014
Policy Area Nice Treaty Lisbon Treaty
1. Administrative Co-operation Unanimity QMV
2. Armaments Agency, Rules Concerning Unanimity QMV
3. Asylum QMV QMV
4. Border Controls Unanimity QMV
5. Citizens’ Initiative Regulations Unanimity QMV
6. Civil Protection Unanimity QMV
7. Committee of the Regions Unanimity QMV
8. Common Defence Policy Unanimity QMV
9. Crime Prevention Initiatives Unanimity QMV
10. Criminal Justice Co-operation Unanimity QMV
11. Criminal Law Unanimity QMV
12. Culture Unanimity QMV
13. Diplomatic & Consular Protection Unanimity QMV
14. Economic & Social Committee QMV QMV
15. Emergency International Aid Unanimity QMV
16. Energy Unanimity QMV
17. EU Budget Unanimity QMV
18. Eurojust Unanimity QMV
19. European Central Bank Unanimity QMV
20. European Court of Justice Unanimity QMV
21. Europol Unanimity QMV
22. Eurozone External Representation Unanimity QMV
23. Foreign Affairs, High Representative Election N/A QMV
24. Foreign Affairs, Initiative of the High Representative Unanimity QMV
25. Freedom of Movement for Workers Unanimity QMV
26. Freedom to Establish a Business Unanimity QMV
27. Freedom, Security & Justice – Co-operation & Evaluation Unanimity QMV
28. Funding the Common Foreign & Security Policy Unanimity QMV
29. General Economic Interest Services Unanimity QMV
30. Humanitarian Aid Unanimity QMV
31. Immigration QMV QMV
32. Intellectual Property Unanimity QMV
33. Organisation of the Council of the EU Unanimity QMV
34. Police Co-operation Unanimity QMV
35. President of the European Council Election N/A QMV
36. Response to Natural Disasters & Terrorism N/A QMV
37. Self-Employment Access Rights Unanimity QMV
38. Social Security QMV QMV
39. Space Unanimity QMV
40. Sport Unanimity QMV
41. Structural & Cohesion Funds Unanimity QMV
42. Tourism Unanimity QMV
43. Transport Unanimity QMV
44. Withdrawal of a Member State from EU N/A QMV
Sources: Eurofacts 25th July 2014.
From The European Constitution to Lisbon Treaty. By Jens-Peter Bonde. Foundation for Democracy. Website of the European Union.

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Botham hits RSPB ‘dictators’ for SIX! Cricket legend savages charity for spending donated millions on TV ads and a £56m pension deficit while ‘forgetting the birds’
• RSPB forced to siphon off £5m from charitable income each year to fill a black hole in pension fund
• Charity lobbies for measures to tackle global warming, and supports wind turbines – which kill thousands of birds every year
• Hides fact that to protect birds on its 206 reserves, the charity shoots hundreds of foxes and deer every year
BBC to be renamed the Brussels Broadcasting Corproration-BBC has a pro EU pro immigration pro multiculturalism agenda

see also 2014 -017 From the Somerset Levels to the EU to the UN to the Club of Rome
and 2013 – 040 Comic Relief and most other Charities need thoroughly re-assessing.
The RSPB also gets considerable funding from the EU but it is conditional that they always fully support the EU.

By David Rose for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 22:01, 1 November 2014 | Updated: 08:37, 2 November 2014
Sir Ian Botham has launched a sweeping attack on the leadership of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, saying it is a ‘dictatorship’ that has ‘messed up its finances’ and betrayed bird lovers and the species that it is meant to save.
The England cricket legend’s attack, in an open letter published exclusively in today’s Mail on Sunday, is a key element of You Forgot The Birds, a new campaign by farmers and conservationists who want to force RSPB reform.
Sir Ian points out that the RSPB is one of Britain’s biggest charities, with more than one million members. His accusations include the following:
• The RSPB is forced to siphon off £5 million from charitable income each year to fill a black hole in the pension fund – a deficit that will take 17 years to pay off. ‘The RSPB is a pension fund with a charity attached,’ writes Sir Ian.
• ‘Misleading marketing’ downplays the vast cost of fundraising and exaggerates the amount the RSPB spends on conservation: ‘Your donations pay for its 405 fundraisers to ask you for more money so they can employ more fundraisers to ask you for still more money,’ claims Sir Ian.
• The charity lobbies for measures to tackle global warming, and supports wind turbines – which kill thousands of birds every year.
• It hides the fact that to protect birds on its 206 reserves, the charity shoots hundreds of foxes and deer every year.
Lack of democracy: at last weekend’s annual general meeting there were only three candidates for three vacant posts on the RSPB council.
‘I have a dream that the RSPB will one day represent all who care about bird life,’ says Sir Ian.
The RSPB has been misleading donors and competing unfairly with other charities
He adds that next year he will be ‘offering competition by putting together a list of reform-minded candidates’.
Sir Ian’s campaign has already scored one notable success. Following a complaint to the Charity Commission, the RSPB has been ordered to stop claiming that 90 per cent of its £128 million income ‘goes directly to conservation work’.
The commission says it must make clear that the 90 per cent claim did not take account of the cost of fundraising, on which the RSPB spends £21 million a year.
A commission spokeswoman said it could not rule on other complaints from Sir Ian and his colleagues, including that money earmarked for ‘conservation’ had in fact been spent on lobbying the Government over issues such as climate change. It was for the RSPB to decide how best to allocate its funds, she added.
Last night, RSPB chief spokesman Grahame Madge mounted a passionate defence of the organisation, claiming Sir Ian and his campaign had a ‘hidden agenda’ representing ‘shooting interests’.
Some rare species were vanishing, he said, because they were being ‘persecuted by the shooting community’ – such as some of Sir Ian’s campaign backers.
Mr Madge said the way the organisation reported its income and expenditure was ‘standard’ among similar charities. He admitted there was a large pensions deficit but said this was ‘common’ among charities.
‘Because we are so well run, this is not as much a concern for us as it is for others. If interest rates rise, the deficit will go down,’ he said.
As for shooting foxes and deer, he said: ‘We have made public the fact that we have to undertake a certain amount of predator control. But the difference between the RSPB and others is that we do it as a matter of last resort.’
The RSPB has a commercial tie-up with green energy supplier Ecotricity, which builds wind turbines.
Mr Madge defended the RSPB’s support for wind farms, saying: ‘We have a policy of favouring renewable energy only when its siting doesn’t cause problems to wildlife.’
It was true that only three people had stood for the three council posts, he added, but that was because no more individuals had come forward.

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He is known and admired by millions for his titanic exploits on the cricket field. But these days Sir Ian Botham gets his sporting pleasure in a rather different way – as a committed countryman. Here, in a passionate open letter, he launches a scathing attack on the august Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds and details a devastating catalogue of failings which, he says, are betraying the countryside – and the wildlife – that he loves…
£6m of donations spent on TV ads. £56m pledged to pension deficit. A mania for bird mangling turbines – why country-loving SIR IAN BOTHAM’s got a beef with… The Bird Brains
Sometimes in cricket you don’t see a ball coming. The RSPB’s top brass have been taken aback with the idea that anyone could criticise them. Word has it that they hope the You Forgot The Birds campaign that I have helped launch will disappear. They are in for a disappointment, because a wave of farmers, landowners and conservationists are joining. We are very different. But we all love birds with a passion and we all agree that the RSPB is a national treasure that is being badly mismanaged.
Scandal 1
It has royally messed up its finances. For 125 years people have been leaving money to the RSPB in their wills. That’s helped it buy 200 nature reserves. Yet today’s RSPB leadership has wasted this legacy.
The RSPB’s pension deficit has become so out of control that last week it was forced to pledge £56million – that’s almost half of those nature reserves – as security to ensure pensions get paid. The generosity of generations is being treated with contempt.
It gets worse. Last year £5 million of donations which should have been going on bird welfare got diverted into paying down the pension deficit. That’s going to continue for the next 17 years. The RSPB is a pension fund with a charity attached.
Scandal 2
Misleading marketing. The RSPB is so hungry for money that it has been gratuitously misleading donors. When potential donors have seen the promise on its home page to spend ‘90p in every pound’ on conservation they have assumed that it means 90p in every pound they give goes on conservation.
Not so. The Charity Commission website shows that only 68p has gone on these charitable purposes. Now, following discussions between You Forgot The Birds and the Charity Commission, the regulator has told the RSPB to ‘correct its statement’. The RSPB has been misleading donors and competing unfairly with other charities.
Of the 68p left for charitable purposes, only 24p went on its nature reserves – the bit where birds actually get looked after. The RSPB’s focus has instead been on its ever growing fundraising army. Your donations pay for its 405 fundraisers to ask you for more money so that they can employ more fundraisers to ask you for still more money.
Even the RSPB’s remaining friends are disturbed by its obsession with money. The editor of Birdwatch magazine was brave enough last month to suggest that £6 million spent on TV advertising would have been better devoted to nature reserves.
Scandal 3
At least in its core activity of running its nature reserves the RSPB must be very good? Well, not if you ask the birds. Time and again Britain’s endangered birds give a thumbs down to hanging out at RSPB reserves. There’s a great farmer down in Kent called Philip Merricks. His land is lapwing heaven. They breed away merrily. Next door at the RSPB reserve it’s lapwing hell. For every 100 lapwing chicks that successfully fledge on the farmer’s land, the RSPB manages only eight.
Why does the RSPB fail in places like Kent? It’s simple. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds doesn’t do enough to protect birds.
Everyone in the countryside knows that ground nesting birds have no chance if their homes are shared with foxes and crows. These predators steal eggs and eat baby chicks. If you don’t protect birds from predators they don’t survive. That leads to:

RSPB: ‘If there’s no home for nature there will be no nature’

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EU should ‘undermine national homogeneity’ says UN migration chief
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Political reporter, BBC News
Peter Sutherland
Peter Sutherland’s global migration forum brings together 160 nations to discuss policy
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UK ‘won’t fiddle migrant stats’
The EU should “do its best to undermine” the “homogeneity” of its member states, the UN’s special representative for migration has said.

Peter Sutherland told peers the future prosperity of many EU states depended on them becoming multicultural.

He also suggested the UK government’s immigration policy had no basis in international law.

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Idris Francis

Others may have seen Nigel on a late night discussion show on Sunday or Monday, when a lefty journalist – anyone know who he was? – claimed that because “immigrants pay more in income tax than they take as benefits” they benefit this country.

He was quoting a recent asinine analysis from University College London that was so incompetent that an Emeritus Professor of the same University took the highly unusual step of issuing a vehement rebuttal within days, criticising the authors and calling their assessment “juvenile” amongst other things.

Here are the facts of economic life.

1/ A job becomes available.

2/ If a British resident gets it

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EXPOSED: How a shadowy network funded by foreign millions is making our household energy bills soar – for a low-carbon Britain
Shadowy pro-green lobbyists working at every level of the Establishment
Organisations are channelling tens of millions of pounds into green policies
Elite lobby group linked to Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the WWF
Current energy policies shaped by the Green Blob will cost up to £400billion
If continued, there will be further eye-watering energy bill rises for Britons
By DAVID ROSE FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
PUBLISHED: 22:02, 25 October 2014 | UPDATED: 00:41, 26 October 2014

The ‘Green Blob’, a phrase first coined by former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, is a group of pro-green lobbyists working at every level of the British Establishment
The Mail on Sunday today exposes how a ‘Green Blob’ financed by a shadowy group of hugely wealthy foreign donors is driving Britain towards economically ruinous eco targets.
The phrase the ‘Green Blob’ was coined by former Environment Secretary Owen Paterson after he was sacked from the Cabinet in July.
He was referring to a network of pro-green lobbyists working at every level of the British Establishment, who have helped shape the eco policies sending household energy bills soaring.
But investigations by this newspaper reveal the Blob is not just an abstract concept.
We have found that innocuous-sounding bodies such as the Dutch National Postcode Lottery, the American William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Swiss Oak Foundation are channelling tens of millions of pounds each year to climate change lobbyists in Britain, including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth.
They have publicly congratulated themselves on their ability to create green Government policy in the UK – most notably after Ed Miliband steered through aggressive CO2 reduction targets in his 2008 Climate Change Act, and announced there would be no more coal power stations.
Yet the consequences of their continuing success are certain: further eye-watering rises in energy costs for millions of Britons and an increasing risk of blackouts.
According to leading energy analyst Peter Atherton of Liberum Capital, current UK energy policies shaped by the Blob will cost between £360 billion and £400 billion to implement by 2030. He said this will see bills rise by at least a third in real terms – on top of the increases already seen over the past ten years.
This bill dwarfs the EU’s £1.7 billion demand from Britain last week.
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Lobbying by the Blob helped lead to a new European Union emissions deal announced on Friday, when EU leaders including the Prime Minister agreed to triple the current pace of emissions cuts.
Following earlier deals, EU-wide emissions of CO2 are supposed to fall 20 per cent over the 30-year period 1990 to 2020.
Under the new agreement, this reduction must be doubled in just a decade, reaching ‘at least’ 40 per cent by 2030 – a goal that could only be accomplished through further massive investment in wind and nuclear energy.
At the heart of the Blob is a single institution – the European Climate Foundation (ECF) – which has offices in London, Brussels, The Hague, Berlin and Warsaw.
Every year it receives about £20 million from ‘philanthropic’ foundations in America, Holland and Switzerland, and channels most of it to green campaign and lobby groups.
Overview of the EU’s climate and energy policy architecture

An investigation has found the ‘Green Blob’ is working at every level of the British Establishment and Westminster (pictured)
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An investigation has found the ‘Green Blob’ is working at every level of the British Establishment and Westminster (pictured)
It refuses to disclose how much it gives to each recipient, and does not publish its accounts. But it admits that the purpose of these grants is to influence British and EU climate and energy policy across a broad front.
Many more millions are fed directly to British and European lobby groups from the same overseas foundations which also fund ECF.
In its last annual report, ECF said working towards a 2030 deal was ‘a big focus area for ECF as a whole’.
ECF managing director Tom Brookes told The Mail on Sunday he provides ‘a fact-base’ to help policy-makers make the ‘many complex decisions that are necessary to move towards a high-innovation, prosperous and low-carbon future’. He added: ‘The UK is a leader in many of these fields.’
The Blob and Red Ed
Friday’s EU deal contains a get-out clause: if the rest of the world fails to agree a binding global emissions treaty at a UN conference in Paris next year, then Europe’s targets can be ‘reviewed’ – or in other words, abandoned.
Giants such as China, India and Australia have insisted they will not sign such a treaty. It is also unlikely to be approved by the US Congress, which is Republican-controlled.
However, thanks to Ed Miliband and his 2008 Climate Change Act, the get-out will make no difference for Britain. The UK is the only country which already has a binding target for 2050. By then, the law says, UK emissions must be 80 per cent down on 1990.
Mr Miliband’s Act also created a mechanism for ensuring the country sticks to a path that achieves this target – the so-called ‘carbon budget’. The scale of the challenge that its latest version poses is not widely realised.
Over the next 15 years, the electricity industry has to cut the CO2 it emits for every kilowatt it generates by 90 per cent – an unprecedented transformation.
An EU deal contains a climate change get-out clause – but thanks to Miliband’s 2008 Climate Change Act – this makes no difference to Britain
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An EU deal contains a climate change get-out clause – but thanks to Miliband’s 2008 Climate Change Act – this makes no difference to Britain
But the carbon budget also means the total amount of power generating capacity has to more than double. In order to meet the 2050 target, there has to be a massive shift towards electric vehicles and heating. While fossil fuel power plants will close, both their replacements and this vast additional capacity will have to be wind or nuclear – by far the most expensive types of power.
Remarkably, green lobby group Friends of the Earth not only conceived the Climate Change Act, but Bryony Worthington, the FoE official who came up with the idea and lobbied MPs to support it, later actually drafted it.
‘When you’re on the outside lobbying, you kind of hope that you are going to have an impact, [but] you’re never really very sure,’ she told a green seminar three years ago.
But she hit the jackpot. Her proposal was taken up first by the new Tory leader, David Cameron, and followed by the then-Labour Government. Worthington, who was seconded into the civil service, was asked to rewrite her lobbyist’s memo, this time as a law.
Once it was safely on the statute book, she left the civil service to form a new green campaign group, Sandbag, which presses the Government to adopt more stringent forms of carbon taxes. Like her previous employer FoE, it is now funded by ECF. Ed Miliband made her a Labour peer in 2011.
While the Act was going through Parliament, the ECF, which was launched in 2007-8, was giving money to Greenpeace UK, FoE, Christian Aid and the WWF to mount a campaign against coal-fired power plants. Also funded was Client Earth, a group of lawyers who secured court acquittals for ‘direct action’ protesters who broke into the Kingsnorth plant in Kent, climbed its chimneys and occupied it.
The campaign persuaded Mr Miliband to announce the cancellation of a planned new generating unit at Kingsnorth – and that there would be no new coal plants built in Britain.
Afterwards, the ECF president, Jules Kortenhorst, boasted that Miliband had acted in response to ‘a complex, multifaceted effort over a year and a half, with grass-roots mobilisation campaigns [and] behind the scenes lobbying’.
He added: ‘All of this work, backed by substantial philanthropic investment, resulted in UK Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband announcing that no new coal-fired power plants would be built… This is an example of a policy that can be replicated, increasing its impact.’
Follow the money
The most significant source for the ECF’s millions is a body called Climate Works – a private foundation which channels colossal sums to climate campaigners worldwide.
The Climate Works manifesto was set out in 2007 in a document entitled ‘Design to Win: Philanthropy’s Role in the Fight Against Global Warming’. It said that to be effective, a campaign to change government policies on energy and emissions would need at least $600 million from donors.
Generous grants have been given to campaigners in countries such as Britain who have detailed knowledge of their local political systems. Their brief is to ‘promote renewables and low emission alternatives’. Pictured is Drax Power Station near Selby
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Generous grants have been given to campaigners in countries such as Britain who have detailed knowledge of their local political systems. Their brief is to ‘promote renewables and low emission alternatives’. Pictured is Drax Power Station near Selby
It was driven by the belief that without radical action, ‘we could lose the fight against global warming over the next ten years’.
It advocated the giving of generous grants to local campaigners in countries such as Britain who had detailed knowledge of the way their political systems operated.
As well as better energy efficiency, carbon taxes and emissions caps, they must ‘promote renewables and low emission alternatives’. Utility companies must be given ‘financial incentives’ – in other words, enormous subsidies from tax and bill payers – to make this happen.
Climate Works soon achieved its ambitious fundraising target, with a grant in 2008 of $500 million from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which spends the fortune amassed by the co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard computer firm. This was followed by further grants of up to $100 million, and donations of $60 million from the sister Packard foundation. In July, a report by a US Senate committee named the Hewlett foundation as a key element in a ‘billionaires’ club’ which effectively controlled the environmental movement, pumping more than half a billion dollars a year into green groups around the world.
It claimed these ‘wealthy liberals fully exploit the benefits of a generous tax code meant to promote genuine philanthropy and charitable acts’, but instead were transferring money to ‘activists’ to ‘promote shared political goals’.
One of the US-based Climate Works’s first acts was to set up and fund ECF as its European regional office. All ECF’s main funders are represented on ECF’s board, including Charlotte Pera, who is also Climate Works’s CEO. Susan Bell, ECF’s vice-chairman, was formerly the Hewlett foundation’s vice-president.
Another director is Kate Hampton, an executive director at the Children’s Investment Fund, a UK charity with assets worth £324 million.Others come from finance and business. ECF’s chairman is Caio Koch-Weser, vice-chairman of Deutsche Bank, whose contacts in Brussels could not be better: from 2003–5, he chaired the EU’s Economic and Financial committee. Yet another director is Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland.
No transparency
It is hard to assess the ECF’s full impact for a simple reason – although it publishes the names of some of the organisations it funds, it does not state how much it gives, nor exactly how this money is used.
The ECF’s Tom Brookes said: ‘The projects we fund all fall within the overall mission of the Foundation to support the development of a prosperous low-carbon economy in Europe.’
He would not explain why no amounts were stated, saying only that ECF’s annual report ‘describes the objectives of each ECF programme area and its significant grantees.
‘We are confident that this is a sufficient level of detail to provide insight into the work of the Foundation… Our policy on the information we publish reflects our responsibilities to our grantees and donors.’
Nevertheless, it is clear from the information that is available that the list of ECF funding recipients is a Who’s Who of the green movement, including Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, the WWF, Client Earth, Carbon Brief, the Green Alliance, and E3G, the elite lobby group that persuaded the Government to set up the £3 billion Green Investment Bank.
The 2013 ECF report sets out its priorities for Britain, praising its ‘leadership on the climate front’ – thanks to the Climate Change Act.
It also boasts that its grants had an impact on this year’s Energy Act: ‘ECF grantees such as Green Alliance, E3G, and Greenpeace helped secure important milestones such as an emissions performance standard for new power stations.’
The 2013 ECF report boasts of gains made in emissions performance standards for new power stations. File image used
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The 2013 ECF report boasts of gains made in emissions performance standards for new power stations. File image used
To ECF’s dismay, however, the supposed UK ‘consensus’ on climate and energy is now in jeopardy: ‘Household energy bills have shot to the top of the political agenda, and progress on decarbonisation is tangled in competing visions of the country’s energy future… A growing number of media and political voices are casting doubt on the climate science and the economic case for action.’
Against this opposition, ECF’s 2013 report says it intends to work with British greens to ‘rebuild confidence in the low-carbon transition’, by ‘fact-checking the UK media’s coverage of climate and energy issues’.
It says it will ‘establish a new unit that will promote evidence-based discussions in the media and mobilise authoritative voices on the low-carbon economy’.
Since the report was published, this unit has come into being, run by former BBC environment correspondent Richard Black. How effective it will be remains to be seen.
Meanwhile, it is clear that the sheer scale of this lavishly funded lobbying effort dwarfs that of its opponents.
The Global Warming Policy Forum in London, Europe’s only think-tank which is sceptical about climate science and energy policy, has an annual budget of £300,000 and employs just three people.
Its director, Dr Benny Peiser, said yesterday: ‘At the end of the day, someone will have to be held accountable for us committing economic suicide. We are the only organisation that does what we do – against hundreds on the other side, all saying the same thing.’

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EU-STYLE JUSTICE CORPUS JURIS by David Rowlands, Ret. Magistrate
Posted on February 16, 2012 | 3 Comments
EU-STYLE JUSTICE

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CORPUS JURIS

by David Rowlands, Ret. Magistrate

Mr Rowlands was a Magistrate for thirty years. He lives in Wales.
Corpus Juris is the EU-wide system of criminal justice that you will be living under if the EU gets its way. The EU envisions the territory of the member states of the Union as a single legal area with delegated prosecutors based in all the member states. You will have no say over their selection or how they operate and if you are British the protections you once had from unlawful arrest, detention without trial, and prosecutorial persecution during trial will be lost.

The implications for our legal system and individual rights are immense. The EU’s own official book, Corpus Juris, makes this astoundingly clear: “What we propose is a set of penal rules. . .designed to ensure. . .a more efficient means of repression” (CJ, Page 40). The prosecutorial rules and powers are repressive:

CORPUS JURIS PROSECUTORIAL POWERS

1) “Powers of investigation of the European Public Prosecutor (EPP) “will include g) To make requests for a person’s remand in custody. . .for a period of up to 6 months, renewable for 3 months, where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that the accused has committed one of the offences defined above, or good reasons for believing it necessary to stop him committing such an offence. . .” (Page 90, Article 20).

This means that the EPP can incarcerate someone for months without charge merely because he thinks they might have committed an offence or might commit an offence. It appears that there is no limit to the number of 3-month extensions. This practise was outlawed in Britain more than 300 years ago as part of the Habeus Corpus Act (1689) which is now incorporated into Britain’s Bail Acts.

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From: Bill & Ann Woodhouse
To: Ann Woodhouse
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:22:26 -0400
Subject: Who are the Times journalists trying so desperately to undermine
UKIP?

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Interestingly this is on the UKIP website:

Who are the Times journalists trying so desperately to undermine UKIP?

Who are the Times journalists behind the constant attacks on Nigel Farage and UKIP? Perhaps it will not surprise you to know that most have family or personal connections to the Conservative Party and that the majority are from immensely privileged backgrounds that have enabled them to prosper as part of the “chumocracy” run by David Cameron. Here is our rundown of the main players:

Baron Daniel Finkelstein: Privately educated former senior official at Conservative Central Office. A key columnist on the paper known for his particular closeness to Chancellor George Osborne. Recently made a Lord by Osborne and Cameron. He has in the past been embarrassed by claims that he has written speeches for Osborne while simultaneously working as Times chief leader writer.

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Bob Taylor 15 October 14:00
Vote Labour, get a paedphile for a neighbour.

see also 2015 – 017

Labour25 plus 23 total 48 paedophiles.
1. Labour Councillor & School Governor for child welfare Brian Gate. – http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/n…

2. Labour Lord Mayor School teacher and Nursery School Governor Graham Pearson . – http://www.lancashiretelegraph/…

3. Labour Councillor candidate & School Governor Richard Harris. – http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/…

4. Labour Councillor & School teacher Ben Williams making 10 child porn images. – http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/…

5. Labour Party Councillor Candidate & School Governor Paul Diggert. – http://www.manchestereveningne/…

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UKIP has now released its policies on what a UKIP Government will do.

1. Protecting jobs and increasing prosperity

– We would review all legislation and regulations from the EU (3,600 new laws since 2010) and remove those which hamper British prosperity and competitiveness.

– We would reoccupy the UK’s vacant seat at the World Trade Organisation, ensuring that we continue to enjoy ‘most favoured nation’ status in trade with the EU, as is required under WTO rules.

2. Repairing the UK Economy

– UKIP will increase personal allowance to the level of full-time minimum wage earnings (approx £13,500 by next election).

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British Justice, the Magna Carta and Corpus Juris
The Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights and Habeas Corpus are the foundation stones of our freedom and system of justice: you are innocent until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. The EU wants to have a common legal system across Europe – and they intend that it will be Corpus Juris. Why should you be concerned?
• BRITISH JUSTICE – derived from the Magna Carta, consists of the following stages:
(i). Suspicion by the police
(ii). Investigation and the collection of evidence
(iii). Arrest when there’s sufficient evidence: you are then told of the charge against you
(iv). Trial – where you have the right of silence so as not to incriminate yourself. The prosecution has to convince a jury of your peers of your guilt: ie: you’re innocent until proven guilty.
• CORPUS JURIS – is a system derived from the Napoleonic Code, the Roman Law of Justinian and Catholic Church (Inquisitorial) Law that concentrated on the persecution and prosecution of heretics and works in the following manner:
(i). Suspicion
(ii). Arrest
(iii). Appointment of a magistrate to deal with your case who will eventually set about seeking evidence for prosecution
(iv). When the prosecution’s case is ready, you’ll then be informed of the charges against you. The prosecution has a huge time advantage while you are at a huge disadvantage to try to convince the magistrate of your innocence. You have no right of silence.
(v). From here on it’s somewhat similar to the UK magistrate system, but there’s no trial by an independent jury and no Habeas Corpus.
(v). The European Arrest Warrant will now force our courts to extradite a British citizen to anywhere in Europe without any evidence whatsoever of wrong doing. It can be on the chance remark of of a bystander of mistaken identity. You have no right of appeal and can be held in custody in a foreign jail for perhaps years
same and officers will apparently be able to:
a). Enter your house without a search warrant, arrest you and confiscate anything they want
b). Extradite you to anywhere in Europe on the basis of an ‘EU arrest warrant’, written by themselves, without producing any evidence against you whatsoever or going through any UK legal process.
c). If they wish, they can remain completely silent on your whereabouts: they are not required to tell anyone in the UK where you are – not the UK police, a UK magistrate or even your family (ref. 2006-4, 2006-68)
d). Hold you in custody – without charge or trial – for ‘any reasonable period’’ … which could be months or even years. The period between arrest and prosecution could be as much as three years in prison – ie: you are guilty until proven innocent. Your whole life can unravel in far less time than that, especially as there’s no requirement to inform anyone where you are or why you are held
• Your children could be taken into care
• Your home, car etc repossessed
• Your job long gone.
Even if you are released without charge, you lose everything except your debts – and could well be financially ruined.
There’s no comeback on Europol: they are not liable, or even answerable, for false arrest or even incompetent arrest. Even members of their household will be immune from prosecution – though no one can explain why…
The UK Police Force has been renamed the Police Service and recruits not longer have to swear an oath of allegiance to the people of the UK.

B). EUROJUST (EJ) is the EU prosecution agency and closely linked to Europol. It apparently has autonomous, non-accountable power to order the surveillance of any person’s letters and emails, to tap phones and to acquire, upon demand, secret intelligence from the British security agencies (MI5 and MI6).
This means that the EJ can watch any Briton it considers to be opposed to the EU.
If there’s a difference of opinion between the UK government and other EU member states, Eurojust has the self-appointed right to spy on our politicians, civil servants, press, members of the armed forces etc. Just how much the UK government co-operates already is not known. Our own security agencies may be compelled to assist them to get information that may well be passed on by EU officials to their own member states (ref. 101 Reasons for Leaving the EU: St. Mathew Publishing).

C). EUROGENDFOR (EGF) – who on earth are they? You may well ask!
It seems that until recently hardly any EU personnel in Brussels had heard of them either and they were only stumbled upon by chance. They are the Euro Gendarmerie, a paramilitary force commanded by brigadier-general Gerard Deanez, and a rather shadowy group with a very sinister potential. The EGF was very quietly formally established on the same day as Gordon Brown signed the Lisbon Treaty. It seems to be modelled almost directly on the French Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS), who were first established in 1944 to suppress any French demonstrations against the Vichy/Nazi authorities as Hitler was, by then, clearly losing the war. The new officers were picked mainly from the prisons and were often very violent people They were reorganised in 1948 and still on active duty today retaining the same ethos (ref. 2006-98). The CRS have established a most unpleasant reputation for the uncompromising and very aggressive manner with which they suppress civil demonstrations and unrest.
Once the Lisbon Treaty is ratified we’ll lose our veto and the Commission can then allow the EGF to be deployed on our streets at some future date… (ref. 2008-12).

Charities such as Multiple Sclerosis Trust are receiving funding from Bayer. They are lobbying NICE to supply drugs such as Sativex which is marketed by Bayer. Many other Health Charities are doing likewise.

However much they require funding for nasty diseases they should declare when their lobbying for funds is linked to a commercial company supplying the drugs.

This is similar to the Charities lobbying for funds while receiving grants from the EU. If they ever do or say anything other than support the EU they would lose that funding. This really political bribery.

see also 2013 – 040 2014 – 043 2013 – 006

EUROPOL, EUROJUST and EUROGENDFOR
As with so much from the EU and their Agenda, it has proved very difficult to get anything definitive out of them of what they intend. It has required much digging to get this information – and it’s often been impossible to get any written confirmation.
As such the following paragraphs can be taken as accurate until such time as the EU issues a formal and unambiguous statement that the eventual circumstance will be different and what safeguards there will be. The most definitive reference is by Gerard Batten MEP. Of considerable alarm now is the EU Arrest Warrant where you can be arrested without evidence and held without charge. You can be extradited to any country in the EU and held for an unlimited time without charge.
A). EUROPOL is the ‘European Police Force’. They answer to Eurojust, the EU prosecution service, and to the EU Council of Ministers – not to the citizens. They’re currently headquartered in The Hague with offices in London and a training school in England. They will eventually have precedence over all police forces in the UK.
At the moment they are a small token force and are keeping a very low profile indeed – until the EU Constitutional Treaty is fully ratified. The reason for this is that the UK still retains a veto (only just) in the Council of Ministers on foreign policy, home affairs and justice. We will eventually lose our vetoes and Europol will then take over.
Interestingly one of the bodies set up under the Tampere EU Council meeting in 1999 was the European Police College. It is now situated in Hampshire and trains senior European law enforcement officers. The new Director of the College is a Hungarian, Mr Ferenc Banfi. Mr Banfi was a member of the Hungarian Communist Party and a policeman under their murderous communist regime. He has claimed that, “It is only a question of time before Europol will have full executive powers; it maybe five or ten years but it will happen”.
Europol officers have a form of diplomatic protection and as such:
t They’ll have absolute immunity from prosecution for just about any misdeed, by word or action, they care to commit in the course of their duties
t If they can carry firearms without reference to UK authorities, what will happen if they shoot an innocent UK citizen (in the light of their immunity from prosecution)?
The powers-that-be will not clarify the latter … and still pretend Europol is not here…
The truth? Europol officers will, apparently, have powers to rival those of Stalin’s secret police (KGB and Stazi) and they seem to be even less accountable. Europol doesn’t yet have the power to arrest anyone directly yet but Mr Banfi thinks they soon will, and he’s an expert so we should pay attention. As said, Europol has no legal status, yet it’s here in the UK just the same and officers will apparently be able to:
a). Enter your house without a search warrant, arrest you and confiscate anything they want
b). Extradite you to anywhere in Europe on the basis of an ‘EU Arrest Warrant’, written by themselves, without producing any evidence against you whatsoever or going through any UK legal process.
c). If they wish, they can remain completely silent on your whereabouts: they are not required to tell anyone in the UK where you are – not the UK police, a UK magistrate or even your family
d). Hold you in custody – without charge or trial – for ‘any reasonable period’’ … which could be months or even years. The period between arrest and prosecution could be as much as three years in prison – ie: you are guilty until proven innocent. Your whole life can unravel in far less time than that, especially as there’s no requirement to inform anyone where you are or why you are held
• Your children could be taken into care
• Your home, car etc repossessed
• Your job long gone.
Even if you are released without charge, you lose everything except your debts – and could well be financially ruined.
There’s no comeback on Europol: they are not liable, or even answerable, for false arrest or even incompetent arrest. Even members of their household will be immune from prosecution – though no one can explain why…
The UK Police Force has been renamed the Police Service and recruits not longer have to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen as representing the people of the UK.

B). EUROJUST (EJ) is the EU prosecution agency and closely linked to Europol. It apparently has autonomous, non-accountable power to order the surveillance of any person’s letters and emails, to tap phones and to acquire, upon demand, secret intelligence from the British security agencies (MI5 and MI6).
This means that the EJ can watch any Briton it considers to be opposed to the EU.
If there’s a difference of opinion between the UK government and other EU member states, Eurojust has the self-appointed right to spy on our politicians, civil servants, press, members of the armed forces etc. Just how much the UK government co-operates already is not known. Our own security agencies may be compelled to assist them to get information that may well be passed on by EU officials to their own member states (ref. 101 Reasons for Leaving the EU: St. Mathew Publishing).

C). EUROGENDFOR (EGF) – who on earth are they? You may well ask!
It seems that until recently hardly any EU personnel in Brussels had heard of them either and they were only stumbled upon by chance. They are the Euro Gendarmerie, a paramilitary force commanded by brigadier-general Gerard Deanez, and a rather shadowy group with a very sinister potential. The EGF was very quietly formally established on the same day as Gordon Brown signed the Lisbon Treaty. It seems to be modelled almost directly on the French Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS), who were first established in 1944, mainly from the prisons, to suppress any French demonstrations against the Vichy/Nazi authorities as Hitler was, by then, clearly losing the war. They were re-organised in 1948 and still on active duty today retaining the same ethos. The CRS have established a most unpleasant reputation for the uncompromising and very aggressive manner with which they suppress civil demonstrations and unrest. They are often mercenaries with no affinity to the local population.
Once the Lisbon Treaty is ratified we’ll lose our veto and the Commission can then allow the EGF to be deployed on our streets at some future date…

The UK NHS is being stitched up by the EU and US corporates.
TTIP is a very sinister trade deal being negotiated in secret by unelected Eurocrats in Brussels and American Government officials. TTIP is a massive danger to British sovereignty over the NHS. It could make the sell-off of our NHS irreversible. UK is not allowed to be at the talks but is represented by EU bureaucrats so UK interests will not be taken into account.

EU Commission says NHS not in TTIP scope weasel words it doesn’t have to be as NHS will be classified as a monopoly and broken up

The Government has confirmed that the NHS is covered by TTIP. This means US companies taking over our health service will get:
The Labour, Tory, Liberal Dems and the Green party are all supporting TTIP. UKIP are not.

· If a US health company wishes to pay below the minimum legal wage they can sue the UK government if we try to stop it. They will have the right to sue the British Government outside British law and British courts;

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“Greenhouse Gases” Have A Profound Effect On The Climate
“Greenhouse gases” have a profound effect on the climate as can be seen in every climate system that has a high concentration of water vapor (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2)—the two “most potent ‘greenhouse gases’”. Here are some photos:
CB1
The climate change that water vapor brings, far from being catastrophic, is quite the opposite. Water vapor brings an otherwise dead biosphere to life and makes it lush and green and, as we will see, even cools it down somewhat. What about carbon dioxide? Take a look:
CB2
It is such a scientific certainty that higher concentrations of carbon dioxide promote robust plant growth that commercial gardeners pump carbon dioxide into their greenhouses up to levels > 3 times higher than is currently present in the open atmosphere.
“In general, carbon dioxide supplementation of 1,000 ppm during the day when vents are closed is recommended [to bring the total concentration up to 1,300.]”Carbon Dioxide In Greenhouses, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
If we were to look at pictures that compare the Arabian Desert to Bangladesh or the Nairobi Desert to the Congo the result would be the same. It is incontrovertible that water vapor and carbon dioxide bring life into a climate system as can be seen in the lush eco-systems of New Zealand, Bangladesh and the Congo compared to the deserts in Nevada, Saudi Arabia and Nairobi and it is no mystery as to why.
Water vapor in high enough concentrations condenses into clouds, which produce rain that drenches the soil. Plants, using the sun’s energy, pull carbon dioxide out of the air and water out of the soil to create carbohydrates and oxygen—the food that animals eat and the air that they breathe.

see also 2014 – 002 The Club of Rome invented Global Warming.
see also 2012 – 015

TYGER Growl
Knowing of Burt Rutan since 2010,
http://cleanenergypundit.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/burt-rutan-new-presentation.html
when I saw this endorsement on the back cover of David Archibald’s new book,

I knew I saw another TYGER MustRead beckoning:

Regnery Publishing, Washington DC, 2014

and so it turned out. I let excerpts from the first two chapters speak for themselves, before giving the wider scope by showing the table of comments:

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“Do we live in a special time in which the laws of physics and nature are suspended?
. No, we do not.
. Can we expect the relationship between the Sun’s activity and climate, which we can see in data going back several hundred years, to continue for at least another twenty years?

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From: Clive Easton
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 09:46:41 -0400
Subject: More Powers lost to EU – including Withdrawal
Thread-Topic: More Powers lost to EU – including Withdrawal

You may remember that some time ago I sent out an e-mail detailing all the 43 powers under the
LISBON treaty which are being handed over to the EU this November under”QMV” (including the right
of “withdrawal of a member state”) and over >which Westminster had a VETO under the Nice treaty.
Well, it now seems that the realisation that >this is occurring is beginning, belatedly, to gain traction.
Below is a URL link to the “38Degrees” petition >site, which has started a petition which
requires the Government to implement “Article 50” of the Lisbon Treaty to withdraw from the EU
before the trap door closes in November. I recommend that everyone signs this.
However, it still does not address the fact as to WHY the Conservative Government is allowing
these very important powers to pass away from Westminsters control through the loss of our
Veto and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, why these lost powers include removing the ability of a member
state to unilaterally decide to withdraw from the EU by passing “withdrawal of a member state” to QMV.
Let us be clear, the Conservatives are allowing this whilst, at one and the same time, claiming
to want to RECLAIM lost powers and offer an “in/out” referendum.
It remains up to you to decide whether this “slight of hand” is cleverness or trickery!!!

Here is the URL:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/withrawal-of-the-uk-from-the-eu-using-article-50-of-the-lisbon-treaty-by-1st-nov-2014

And here is my original e-mail:

HOW CAMERON STILL LIES
Under the NICE treaty, any initiative/prospective laws or directives instigated by the European commission in all the
areas listed below, could only be passed by “Unanimity”.
Put another way we could VETO any prospective EU legislation if it was not in our National interests. In other words our Parliament at Westminster retained effective National Sovereignty over these areas.
However, the LibLabCons and, Cameron in particular, have not made this clear to the Nation, WHY??
Because as of the 1st November 2014 under the LISBON TREATY, the right of parliament to >legislate in these listed areas will be removed and the EU can pass its own legislation by “qualified majority voting” (QMV). We will no longer be able to veto anything deemed not to be in our National interests… Sovereignty gone!

However, there will be a mechanism allowing “transitional arrangements” up to March 2017 ONLY.

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38 Degrees Logo
Dear Mick,

Here’s a scary prospect:

The NHS being carved up by more and more private companies. Coke or other mega corporations taking our government to the cleaners because they don’t like how strict our laws are.

Sound far-fetched? A huge new trade deal is being negotiated right now between the US and the EU, that could make that scary prospect a reality. [1] The deal’s called the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) – it’s a fancy name for a sinister trade deal.

Under the deal, US healthcare companies trying to provide NHS services could sue our government for passing a law to put a stop to privatisation. Or big businesses could sue the government for raising the minimum wage – if it hurts their profits. [2]

Business Minister Vince Cable’s department is in charge of TTIP in the UK. He’ll decide what we sign up to – he could make or break the deal. If he hears how important TTIP is to the public, he might do the right thing and fix or scrap TTIP.

A huge petition is the first step in showing Vince that we’re watching him closely. Can you take two minutes to add your name to a petition telling him to fix or scrap TTIP now? Click here:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/petition-ttip

It’d be easy to fix this deal. Vince could take a stand against businesses being able to sue the government, like Germany has done recently. [3] Or he could call for the NHS and public services to be completely removed from the deal, like the French government did when they got some areas excluded. [4]

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The European car manufactures have 10’s of thousands of unsold cars but last year’s models. Buyers of new cars want this year’s model as it is more valuable. The makers cannot reduce the price of last year’s models to clear them as it would have a catastrophic effect on the second hand market. The have been lobbying the EU Commission to make all their components ‘copyright’. This would give them a very lucrative monopoly position in spares and repairs. The EU also want to reduce the number of cars owned by the’Plebs’.
The Right to Repair campaign has temporally stopped this but it is on the EU back burner for future action.

1. After over 3 years warning the motor trade about this reality is at last dawning.

2. Right 2 Repair gathers momentum | Latest
What is the Right 2 Repair campaign? … The website www.r2rc.co.uk has been redesigned with separate areas of trade and the motorist, an online petition …
www.apsw.co.uk/index.php/Latest/r2r-gathers-momentum
.
3. An advance warning for small businesses of some of what is in the pipeline from Brussels. This is a consequence of the Tory Party, the Labour Party and the Lib Dems pushing through the Lisbon Treaty

There is much more to come!

The European Commission are proposing new regulations that will virtually wipe out the restoration of historic vehicles in this country. It will put a vast number of successful small, specialist firms out of business, stop enthusiasts looking after their own vehicles and destroy the pleasure of thousands of people who enjoy classic and historic vehicles. Additionally it will seriously compromise the viability of a great range of community activities and events.

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SCHOOL-1945 vs. 2014

Scenario :
Johnny and Mark get into a fight after school.

1945 – Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends.

2014 – Police called, and they arrest Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it. Both children go to anger management programmes for 3 months. School governors hold meeting to implement bullying prevention programmes.

Scenario :
Robbie won’t be still in class, disrupts other students.

1945 – Robbie sent to the office and given six of the best by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.

2014 – Robbie given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADHD – result deemed to be positive. Robbie’s parents get fortnightly disability payments and school gets extra funding from government because Robbie has a disability.

Scenario :
Billy breaks a window in his neighbour’s car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.

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Global governance: funding the NGO monster

Latest figures reveal it is now BBC to be renamed the Brussels Broadcasting Corproration – BBC has a pro EU pro immigration pro multiculturalism agenda and latest figures give donations from EU to the BBC of £22,382,997

With no fanfare at all, the European Commission has slipped out the 2013 figures for its Financial Transparency System, a searchable database of grant funding to third parties, including NGOs.

The database is a goldmine of information, telling us, for instance, that the EU paid the BBC €6,100,987 last year, Friends of the Earth (in all its incarnations) €4,188,230, WWF €5,344,641 and the RSPB €3,802,544. What is also of very great interest is that the EU subsidised UN institutions to the tune of nearly €140 million.

All this and much will be the subject of further reporting and analysis, but once again it brings to light the huge amount of taxpayer funding going to unaccountable NGOs, and especially (but not exclusively) climate change advocacy groups.

In 2013, though, there is a new entrant to the listings – one which has not appeared before on the EU list of recipients. This is the World Resources Institute (WRI), which has been given €1,500,000 of our money for “designing the 2015 global climate change agreement”.

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