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Like many of you, I was very concerned about Melanie's safety and wellbeing, but it was a great relief to be able to sit down and talk with her for just over two hours in a relaxed atmosphere.Following the very brief report on Melanie Shaw in the UKColumn news on Friday 19th July 2019, we have been contacted by several people seeking further information about Melanie and her current situation. I am very happy to have had the opportunity to visit Melanie. Rampton Hospital I was reunited with Melanie last Thursday, 18 July. It was a very happy and emotional…
The recent hack of the National Governance Institute's Integrity Initiative program provided a rare glimpse into a part of the propaganda machine the government doesn't want anyone to see, which raises the question: what else is there?The Integrity Initiative was set up to deliver on the work of the Foreign Office's Counter-Disinformation and Media Development Programme, led by Andy Price. To carry out its agenda, the National Governance Institute, the “charitable” think tank behind the Integrity Initiative, received £1,233,711 from the Foreign Office throughout 2018. Other organisations funded by the Foreign Office include BBC Media Action (£6,165,469 in 2018); Thomson…
The great 20th century political philosopher Marvin Gaye once said, “Two are enough to make a dream come true.” Will the Treaty of Aachen, signed by Chancellor Merkel and Chancellor Markon, be a dream come true for those who want to unite a European superstate? With the German Federal Government admitting that the treaty contains “designs for a European defense union,” and many other indications, we will be keeping our eyes peeled for the signing of the new Treaty of Aachen on January 22nd.Symbolism First, symbolism is important. The EU parliament is modelled on the Tower of Babel, so symbolism…
Britain's corporate media are in a desperate situation: with revenues plummeting, they are begging the government to act.In March, Matt Hancock, then Secretary of State for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport, spoke at the Oxford Media Convention. Mr Hancock expressed concern about the rise of “fake news” and its impact on corporate media, and society as a whole. He highlighted that the lack of regulation of individuals making YouTube videos in their bedrooms meant that they were in an unfair competition for stories with corporate media. But his main concern was the commercial side of media, its “sustainability”, and he…
Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry made a major statement yesterday opposing Western enthusiasm for attacking Syria.Speaking during a debate on an urgent question posed in Parliament, she demanded that there must be a full and proper independent investigation into any alleged use of chemical weapons by Syria and that there must be a vote in Parliament on any UK involvement in attacks on Syria. Below is the full transcript of Mr Thornberry's remarks in the House of Commons. “Thank you, Mr Speaker, for allowing this urgent question, and I congratulate my friend the Member for Cardiff South and Penarth for…
Canada and the European Union Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement In late 2016, a new type of court was adopted to resolve investor-state disputes: the Investment Court System (ICS), the same court system previously adopted by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). But CETA is up and running while TTIP, the proposed agreement between the US and EU, is stalled and not yet implemented. The key takeaway for now, though, is that the ICS is likely to soon become the universal model for all trade treaties. It is therefore important to examine the nature and background of the…
The Global Covenant of Mayors on Climate and Energy, created by the European Commission in 2008, was thrown into uncertainty last June when U.S. President Donald Trump took a cold shoulder on “global warming” and announced he would pull the U.S. out of the 2015 Paris climate accord.Coincidentally or not, Trump made the announcement in early June 2017, just as the 65th Bilderberg Conference was taking place in Chantilly, Virginia, not far from Washington. The Washington Postdelivered a scathing critique of President Trump's stance on Paris over the weekend, at the end of the elite's secretive Bilderberg meeting. Well-funded thanks…
What exactly was the '90s? This is an important question that GR Wilson answers on many levels in “Outsourced World,” the first volume of his adventure novel.The subtitle of this first volume is WanderlustIt eloquently portrays the depression Wilson felt during that decade as an engineer entering middle age, exiled from an ossified Britain. Wilson entered the 1990s as an optimistic man who had every reason to expect that he would be held in the same high regard as generations of treasured British expatriates before him, and he left it as a wiser man, heartbroken but with seeds of analysis…
It's amazing how often ordinary people who have been the victims of shocking injustice turn to poetry to express themselves. Chances are, there's a poet next to you. I want to publish these stories whenever I find them, because they say more than I can say about our fight for truth and justice. So here's the first of the British column poets: Social Welfare Anne Murray In modern times, Compliance is rife in our health and social care services. And if you tell them that the system is not right, Be prepared for a fight, for you will fight. They…
Men are generally lazy. It has been said that humans can reason like cats can swim. We can reason, but we tend to avoid it if we can. So am I. Only the stimulation of an event, an unpleasant event, frees my thinking from its hidden constraints. A few weeks ago I was racing down the motorway towards Edinburgh. My aim was to find a new venue for a talk by Gilad Atzmon, which had been cancelled. This was before he died. Assaulted On the streets of Edinburgh. But even then we already knew what kind of opposition was gathering…