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Perth's Business Leader-Leonard Buckeridge

Len Buckeridge's Buckeridge Group spans bricks and cement to plasterboard and timber window frames, but he's keen to add a port to the empire. Domestic politics and poor health, however, are working against a possible deal that is 15 years in the making. Meantime, weak demand for building materials--especially in his home state of Western Australia, heavily exposed to the depressed mining sector--has pulled down his fortune. Trained as an architect, he first built high-rise apartment blocks in Perth, his hometown, and won awards for low-cost housing designs. He became a home builder on an industrial scale, supplying most building products from his own factories. He opposes organized labor and says he prefers private ownership to public investment.

The Buckeridge Family who were originally from
 New Zealand,

Current Country of residence : Australia

Biography

Leonard Walter 'Len' Buckeridge is an Australian businessman.

Early life
Buckeridge was born in Australia. He was trained as an architect.

Career
He has built high-rise buildings in Perth and elsewhere through his company, Buckeridge Group of Companies. He also owns James Point Pty Ltd. Premier Colin Barnett counselled him to drop the lawsuit. Buckeridge also sued about a delay in the construction of the Perth Arena.

Personal life
He is married, and has six children. He lives in the Mosman Park neighbourhood of Perth. As of January 2013, he is worth an estimated US$1.4 billion.

 

http://www.peopleneedpeople.org.au/Files/West-Australian-opinion-9-August2.aspx

 

We Must Fix the Homeless Plight- West Australian Newspaper 9th August 2012

“,,Tanya and her border collie-cross Spot wer eliving under a trapaulan hidden in bush just metres from houses or and off for eight months…unable to find affordasble rent accommodation, let alone a rental that would accept a pet, Tanya too to sleeping in parks…among those to put their hand up was billionaire construction magnate Len Buckeridge, who came forward with the offer of a newly vacated flat at an affordable rent…by Tuesday night Tanya and Spot were out of the weather and in secure and stable accommodation. Mr Buckeridge seems to be working in making sure that Spot had a safe run out side the flat so that he doesn’t wander onto the road. Tanya is just one of 14,000 West Australians that are homeless… he case highlights the compassion in the community and the desire to help the homeless…”

 

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Billionaire sues forklift driver

GLENN CORDINGLEY - THE SUNDAY TIMES SEPTEMBER 01, 2012

 

Mark McGuire (pictured) is being sued by Perth construction tycoon Len Buckeridge for defamation in relation to postings Mr McGuire made about his ex-boss on Facebook. Picture: Justin Benson-Cooper Source: The Sunday Times

PERTH construction tycoon Len Buckeridge is suing a sacked fork-lift driver for allegedly defaming him on Facebook.

The 76-year-old Mosman Park billionaire launched a civil lawsuit in the Supreme Court this week against Mark McGuire, 34, who he sacked in December.

Mr Buckeridge, who owns building supply and construction empire the Buckeridge Group of Companies (BGC), alleges false and defamatory statements concerning him were posted on Mr McGuire's personal Facebook page in or around October last year.

The writ says the statements described his employment details under the heading "BGC".

The second part of the action involves a post made on the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship Facebook page at about the same time.

Lawyers for Mr Buckeridge allege both postings were "an imputation of and concerning the plaintiff".

The posts have since been deleted.

Mr Buckeridge is claiming damages and costs, and wants an injunction placed on the statements.

The writ was served on Mr McGuire on Tuesday at his parents' home in Meadow Springs, near Mandurah.

"What is the point of this?" Mr McGuire said. "I have no money, I have no assets, I have no job and I live with my parents."

Mr McGuire said he had worked at the BGC fibro-cement warehouse in Canning Vale for five years when he challenged a written warning in June 2011, which was not actioned.

He said Mr Buckeridge, Australia's 17th richest person with an estimated $2.01 billion fortune, personally dismissed him at work in December, claiming he was not doing his job.

Mr McGuire is taking BGC to Fair Work Australia, claiming unfair dismissal. He is being backed by union United Voice.

"The postings were up three months before I was sacked," Mr McGuire said.

"They were taken totally out of context and I immediately removed them once his lawyers threatened me with legal action.

"None of them had links to BGC or Mr Buckeridge, but I deleted them anyway and left a message saying that, with an apology for the inconvenience they may have caused.

"I will be fighting these allegations against me."

Mr Buckeridge's claim includes compensatory and aggravated damages, interest from the date of publication to judgment and any further orders made by the justice presiding over the matter.

United Voice union secretary Dave Kelly said it was outrageous that a billionaire was using the court to sue an "ordinary worker".

Mr Buckeridge said the comments posted by Mr McGuire on Facebook were untruthful and defamatory of him.

"This is of great concern to me and I am entitled to vindicate my reputation through the court process," he said.



Rich 200 veterans Harry Triguboff and Len Buckeridge top building starts list

Published 25 September 2013

http://www.brw.com.au/p/business/rich_veterans_harry_triguboff_list_m1MGixGYLucHxdeYbd2xVJ

Harry Triguboff remains Australia’s biggest apartment builder. Photo: Louie Douvis

BRW Rich 200 list members Len Buckeridge and Harry Triguboff have dominated the list of Australia’s biggest builders, further underlying the recovery of the housing sector.

According to data from the Housing Industry Association, Buckeridge’s BGC (Australia) started 3443 dwellings in 2012-13, all in its home state of Western Australia, well ahead of the 2692 it started last year.

BCG also owns a substantial chunk of JWH Group, which is the nation’s seventh biggest builder.

Triguboff’s Sydney-based apartment behemoth, Meriton Apartments, was the nation’s largest apartment builder, starting 2573 units. That figure also propelled Meriton from 10th to fourth on the overall list of the top 20 builders.

Former Rich 200 member Dale Alcock, who is behind the Alcock/Brown-Neaves Group, was the nation’s second biggest builder, with 3199 starts during the financial year, up from 2736.

Overall, the 100 companies in the HIA’s Housing 100 started 40,214 detached houses (up 12.0 per cent from 35,909) and 10,888 units and townhouses (down 5.7 per cent from 11,551).

It was the first time in three years that starts increased, but HIA chief economist Harley Dale isn’t holding his breath for further increases.

“The key question for the industry, the Housing 100, and the overall Australian economy, is whether a rise in national and Housing 100 starts in 2012-13 can be repeated,” Dale says.

“Current policy settings lack the extent of focus on the residential construction industry that Australia’s economy and population require. It looks likely that disparities across regions and dwelling types will net out to a renewed decline in national housing starts in 2013-14.

“That would hardly be a tick in the box for a successful transitioning of growth in the Australian Economy.”

Source: HIA

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MUA dtermined ot turn back scabs by Jane Kelly

Freemantle- On Friday night, may 26, the Maritime Union of Australia  (MUA) won its first round in its battle against the WA Liberal State Government and stevedoring company BAAC, which tried to use scab labour in the Port of Freemantle. State transport minister Eric Charlton, who gave newly formed BAAC the controversial stevedoring contract, reversed his earlier refusal that afternoon in the Industrial Relations Commission to accept the deal put up by MUA, and recommended by the commission.

Western Australian Government-owned Stateships will now use unionises stevedores to work the Sina, the ship at the centre of the dispute. This would allow WA ports to repopen while the martitime dispute is further dealt with in the IRC.

The industrial dispute, which closed every unionises port, oil and gas platform in WA, is seen by the MUA not only as a fight to keep conditions for its members, but for the rights of all workers to be represented by unions if they chose to be, and to keep their jobs.

Building magnate and BAAC owner Len Buckeridge is well known for his refusal to employ union labour on his building sites, and is on record in the IRC as saying that he will not employ MUA workers, despite years if tough maritime reforms and the 60% increased productivity those reforms have brought to the waterfront.

Attack on Unionism

MUA WA deputy branch secretary Dean Summers told Green Left Weekly that the situation on the wharves was an “outright attack on unionism”. He said, “ I have not seen any other picket line where the police come and ask our advice on things. It just encapsulates the hatred everybody’s got for Lne Buckeridhe, right down to the police and expects them to he at his beck and call. I understand that it, he has told them they are ‘big, fat, lazy such and suchs’ because they are dougn their job as they see it.”

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Grow Bunbury port - BGC chief : "Industrial magnate Len Buckeridge has thrown his support behind a proposal to expand the Bunbury port, saying that it would promote much-needed competition with port services in Fremantle. Mr Buckeridge, the founder of construction and building products empire BGC whose personal wealth is estimated to nudge $2 billion, said that although he had not been formally approached by representatives of the Bunbury Port Authority, he was prepared to sell part of his key port landholding in Bunbury to accommodate the plan.It comes as the BPA works on a proposal to almost treble the size of the port's inner harbour from five to 14 berths as part of its multi-billion-dollar expansion ambitions. Under the plan, the harbour would be extended south to accommodate the new berths and bulk commodity exports such as coal, bauxite and fertiliser. Mr Buckeridge's 24ha landholding in the path of the expansion had been seen as a potential hurdle."

"Mr Buckeridge said that so long as the Government was willing to pay a fair and reasonable price for his land, he would not stand in the way of the project. He argued an expanded Bunbury port would act as a counterpoint to the Port of Fremantle, which he said was monopolistic and plagued by congestion. The Fremantle Port Authority is an absolute disgrace, the septuagenarian said. It's important to the State that Bunbury develops a capacity that provides a measure of competition to the Fremantle Port Authority. I wish the Bunbury Port Authority well - I think it should happen. Mr Buckeridge's apparent willingness to deal with the BPA comes in contrast to his strident opposition to Main Roads WA resuming part of his Bunbury land in 2008. The resumption issue is the subject of a dispute between the two parties in the State Administrative Tribunal. Mr Buckeridge said that the difference this time was that he would expect the (Barnett) Government to negotiate in good faith."

"The Fremantle Port Authority declined to comment on Mr Buckeridge's comments. Transport Minister Simon O'Brien would also not be drawn on the matter or on the BPA's expansion plans. He said the plans were preliminary and it was premature to discuss their prospects. Opposition infrastructure spokeswoman Alannah MacTiernan said Mr Buckeridge's criticism of the FPA was self-interested because he wanted to establish his own port at Point James, near Kwinana. Ms MacTiernan said that although some aspects of the FPA were monopolistic, the organisation enjoyed overwhelming support from business. She agreed that Bunbury should be developed to accommodate bulk commodity exports but argued it could never compete with Fremantle in its own right because handling containers through the South-West city was unviable."

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Only this week, Len Buckeridge, the head of BGC, one of Western Australia's leading builders and a long-time supporter of the Liberals, spoke out against the reforms.

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Maritime Union determined to turn back scabs

Wednesday, May 31, 1995 - 10:00

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/9148

"Congratulations once again to Green Left Weekly. As I've often said to people all over the world when they ask what the press is like in Australia, 'Mostly owned by Murdoch and mostly unfree'.

But I always add quickly, 'There is one newspaper that is independent of powerful interests and that's Green Left Weekly'."  John Pilger

Story and photos by Jane Kelly

FREMANTLE — On Friday night, May 26, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) won the first round in its battle against the Liberal state government and stevedoring company BAAC, which tried to use scab labour in the port.

State transport minister Eric Charleton, who gave newly formed BAAC the controversial stevedoring contract, reversed his earlier refusal that afternoon in the Industrial Relations Commission to accept the deal put up by the MUA, and recommended by the commission.

Government-owned Stateships will now use unionised stevedores to work the Sina, the ship at the centre of the dispute. This would allow WA ports to reopen while the maritime dispute is further dealt with in the IRC.

The industrial dispute, which closed every unionised port, oil and gas platform in WA, is seen by the MUA not only as a fight to keep conditions for its members, but for the rights of all workers to be represented by unions if they choose to be, and keep their jobs.

Building magnate and BAAC owner Len Buckeridge is well known for his refusal to employ union labour on his building sites, and is on record in the IRC as saying that he will not employ MUA workers, despite years of tough maritime reforms and the 60% increased productivity those reforms have brought to the waterfront.

Attack on unionism

MUA WA deputy branch secretary Dean Summers, told Green Left Weekly that the situation on the wharves was an "outright attack on unionism". He said, "It's not about Buckeridge winning a contract legally and making a living out of stevedoring. It's about Buckeridge ... trying to break unionism, and it's a weapon of Richard Court's Liberal government.

"They're not going to win, but if they were to win and beat the Maritime Union, the whole of unionism in Western Australia, and in Australia, would begin to crumble at a rapid pace."

Joint national secretary John Coombs, asked how the MUA wanted the dispute resolved, replied, "The Western Australian government signed a contract with Conaust [stevedores] to look after the bulk jetties; they tore that up, so they can do the same with this one. It seems there is no real problem with the West Australian government in terms of their contracts."

The State Supply Commission is currently investigating the awarding of the contract to Stateships. It is claimed that the contract was not publicly put to tender and that offers were taken over the phone. The commission's report is expected on Wednesday.

On Friday night amidst victory celebrations, GLW asked joint state secretary Terry Buck to comment on the Court government's handling of the dispute. Buck said, "Their decision in front of the commission today, where they were indecisive in respect to the recommendation handed down by Commissioner Laing, clearly shows that Buckeridge was in charge, and Charleton was the puppet".

Asked what he thought Buckeridge's reaction to the temporary freeze on BAAC's contract would be, Buck replied, "He's going to try and find a way to get back at us. He has never been beaten before, and he's been beaten this time. He's been up against trade unions in the past, but he's never been up against the MUA, and at this stage we've won the first round."

Maritime workers, who had maintained their week-long picket in icy gale force winds and rain, were ecstatic Friday night and sang rowdy choruses of a locally written ditty called "Bye bye Buckeridge".

The workers marched to the gangway of the Sina and gave three hearty cheers for the ship's crew and especially for its master, Ron Gabby. John Coombs told the ranks that Gabby had more to lose personally than anyone in the dispute. He had refused to allow the scabs to work his vessel, and had ensured they didn't by turning off power to the ship's cranes.

Ongoing disputes

The MUA has another ongoing dispute over non-union labour up in Carnarvon. Seven of its members lost their jobs earlier this year when Dampier Salt Limited (DSL), a CRA subsidiary, awarded a towage contract to a newly formed non-union company, Carnarvon Towage Services.

A picket line was formed to prevent the non-union workers taking over the men's jobs, some of whom had worked for DSL for 14 years. Dean Summers told GLW that the "situation got to overkill" with an overly large contingent of police being present, and eight security guards being hired by DSL, who tried to intimidate workers and who claimed to be ex-SAS from New Zealand .

All week Richard Court told the press that there would be trouble down on the wharves and that the police were ready for it. However, it was apparent throughout the dispute that police relations couldn't have been better, with most officers openly chatting, joking and sharing food and drinks with workers on the picket line on the wharf, and on board the Sina.

Summers commented, "I have never seen it in any other picket line where the police come and ask our advice on things. It just encapsulates the hatred that everybody's got for Buckeridge, right down to the police, when he abuses police and expects them to be at his beck and call. As I understand it, he has told them they are 'big, fat, lazy' such and suches, because they are doing their job as they see it."

Spirits are high on the waterfront, as members of the union are even more determined to continue the fight to protect the rights of workers.

Lives at risk

On Wednesday BAAC had brought non-union labour and two cranes onto the docks and begun to unload cargo containers from trucks, ready for loading onto the Sina.

Buckeridge's workers (who took half an hour to start one crane) soon showed that they were quite unskilled. One operator tipped his machine onto two wheels and dropped his container. One machine was overloaded. Another, smaller overloaded crane dropped a container when the brakes couldn't hold its weight, with several workers standing within a metre of it.

A barrage of boos and catcalls from the picket line quickly died out. Although many people were saying good luck if they dropped a container onto a scab's head, the men, who know the dangers of the work, could clearly see the possibility of a serious accident.

Stories were being exchanged about crushed men and even beheaded workers through unskilled labour and lax safety procedures.

Dean Summers said that when non-union labour is employed you get people on the wharves who are not adequately trained. "They are a danger to themselves, they are a danger to the ships and to the industry. Also, their wages and conditions go down, and it's just a master and serf relationship after an extended period. It's just a basic matter of union principle to preserve rights and working conditions for workers."

If no union is present to ensure that safety standards are maintained, safety checks are left up to the Department of Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare, which many unions feel is not adequately doing the job.

Members of the MUA are wondering just how long it will take before one of Buckeridge's inexperienced workers is seriously injured.

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Dean Buckeridge Architecture - New Zealand

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Energy Efficient Passive Solar Design

Dean Buckeridge Architecture prides itself on the design and overseeing of the construction of energy efficient and sustainable homes.

Passive solar design is always incorporated as a first principle. Then, subject to a client’s wishes, the brief may expand to include thermal mass, natural ventilation, solar water heating, PV, wind or micro hydro generation systems, both grid-tied and off-grid.

While energy efficiency is a key consideration, Dean does not allow it to dictate or override the other key elements that make a house a home. The look, the feel, whatever makes it ‘your place’.

Passive solar design and energy efficiency are extremely simple and straightforward design principles. Any home or building can make use of them without requiring special, expensive or uncommon materials. It is just a matter of common sense – the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. At DBA we simply arrange the building so the sun gets into the right rooms, at the right time of day, and in the right amounts for the time of year.

Thermal mass is used for heat storage – this could be a concrete floor slab thickened on the north side of the house and adjacent to full-height windows for maximum benefit. Using this method, the effective thermal mass of your home could be doubled for as little as the cost of 2 extra cubic metres of concrete.

Effective insulation is used to slow heat losses or excessive gains in summer, with particular attention paid to how it is used. The greatest insulation sin committed by most people is using recessed downlights. Imagine taking a sleeping bag and cutting holes in it before sleeping outside in the winter night. It doesn’t matter how good the insulation of the sleeping bag is, the holes will always let out the heat. Also, the better insulated your home becomes the more impact air tightness will have, so this too is an important consideration and again reasons why we are so enthusiastic about Structural Insulated Panels where their solid construction makes them supremely air tight and insulation values start at around R4.0 for walls and floors, and roofs can exceed R9.0.

‘Environmentally sustainable building’ has become a popular phrase in the building industry and everybody is attempting to position their product to appear green, and to use the clients desire for a more sustainable home as an opportunity to up-sell. At Dean Buckeridge Architecture we believe a client’s desire to create a more energy efficient and sustainable home does not necessarily equate to spending larger sums of money to add a greater number of products to your home.

The Dean Buckeridge Architecture message is simple in this regard – you can build an energy efficient home for a similar cost to an ordinary house.

Dean Buckeridge Architecture is committed to the best possible outcome of your dream home or commercial project. Our preference is always to be fully involved in all aspects of the design and documentation of each project. This ensures the finished home is in tune with your brief, and the design integrity maintained.

Additionally, the company is able to operate in an observational role during construction to ensure the home is built correctly. This is especially important with energy efficient design, as while industry awareness is increasing, there is still a significant lack of understanding of key principles and critical mistakes can be made during construction and a good idea poorly executed will inevitably produce disappointing results.

Earthquake Resistant Homes

Dean Buckeridge Architecture prides itself on the design and overseeing of the construction of energy efficient and sustainable homes.

Passive solar design is always incorporated as a first principle. Then, subject to a client’s wishes, the brief may expand to include thermal mass, natural ventilation, solar water heating, PV, wind or micro hydro generation systems, both grid-tied and off-grid.

While energy efficiency is a key consideration, Dean does not allow it to dictate or override the other key elements that make a house a home. The look, the feel, whatever makes it ‘your place’.

Passive solar design and energy efficiency are extremely simple and straightforward design principles. Any home or building can make use of them without requiring special, expensive or uncommon materials. It is just a matter of common sense – the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. At DBA we simply arrange the building so the sun gets into the right rooms, at the right time of day, and in the right amounts for the time of year.

Thermal mass is used for heat storage – this could be a concrete floor slab thickened on the north side of the house and adjacent to full-height windows for maximum benefit. Using this method, the effective thermal mass of your home could be doubled for as little as the cost of 2 extra cubic metres of concrete.

Effective insulation is used to slow heat losses or excessive gains in summer, with particular attention paid to how it is used. The greatest insulation sin committed by most people is using recessed downlights. Imagine taking a sleeping bag and cutting holes in it before sleeping outside in the winter night. It doesn’t matter how good the insulation of the sleeping bag is, the holes will always let out the heat. Also, the better insulated your home becomes the more impact air tightness will have, so this too is an important consideration and again reasons why we are so enthusiastic about Structural Insulated Panels where their solid construction makes them supremely air tight and insulation values start at around R4.0 for walls and floors, and roofs can exceed R9.0.

‘Environmentally sustainable building’ has become a popular phrase in the building industry and everybody is attempting to position their product to appear green, and to use the clients desire for a more sustainable home as an opportunity to up-sell. At Dean Buckeridge Architecture we believe a client’s desire to create a more energy efficient and sustainable home does not necessarily equate to spending larger sums of money to add a greater number of products to your home.

The Dean Buckeridge Architecture message is simple in this regard – you can build an energy efficient home for a similar cost to an ordinary house.

Dean Buckeridge Architecture is committed to the best possible outcome of your dream home or commercial project. Our preference is always to be fully involved in all aspects of the design and documentation of each project. This ensures the finished home is in tune with your brief, and the design integrity maintained.

Additionally, the company is able to operate in an observational role during construction to ensure the home is built correctly. This is especially important with energy efficient design, as while industry awareness is increasing, there is still a significant lack of understanding of key principles and critical mistakes can be made during construction and a good idea poorly executed will inevitably produce disappointing results.

Dean Buckeridge Architecture

 
Dean Buckeridge Architecture - New Zealand
Dean Buckeridge Architecture • 1 Stonehaven Tce, Christchurch • (03) 337 1713 or 027 227 7637 • dean@dbarc.co.nz
 

Energy Efficient Passive Solar Design

Dean Buckeridge Architecture prides itself on the design and overseeing of the construction of energy efficient and sustainable homes.

Passive solar design is always incorporated as a first principle. Then, subject to a client’s wishes, the brief may expand to include thermal mass, natural ventilation, solar water heating, PV, wind or micro hydro generation systems, both grid-tied and off-grid.
While energy efficiency is a key consideration, Dean does not allow it to dictate or override the other key elements that make a house a home. The look, the feel, whatever makes it ‘your place’.
Passive solar design and energy efficiency are extremely simple and straightforward design principles. Any home or building can make use of them without requiring special, expensive or uncommon materials. It is just a matter of common sense – the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. At DBA we simply arrange the building so the sun gets into the right rooms, at the right time of day, and in the right amounts for the time of year.
Thermal mass is used for heat storage – this could be a concrete floor slab thickened on the north side of the house and adjacent to full-height windows for maximum benefit. Using this method, the effective thermal mass of your home could be doubled for as little as the cost of 2 extra cubic metres of concrete.
Effective insulation is used to slow heat losses or excessive gains in summer, with particular attention paid to how it is used. The greatest insulation sin committed by most people is using recessed downlights. Imagine taking a sleeping bag and cutting holes in it before sleeping outside in the winter night. It doesn’t matter how good the insulation of the sleeping bag is, the holes will always let out the heat. Also, the better insulated your home becomes the more impact air tightness will have, so this too is an important consideration and again reasons why we are so enthusiastic about Structural Insulated Panels where their solid construction makes them supremely air tight and insulation values start at around R4.0 for walls and floors, and roofs can exceed R9.0.
‘Environmentally sustainable building’ has become a popular phrase in the building industry and everybody is attempting to position their product to appear green, and to use the clients desire for a more sustainable home as an opportunity to up-sell. At Dean Buckeridge Architecture we believe a client’s desire to create a more energy efficient and sustainable home does not necessarily equate to spending larger sums of money to add a greater number of products to your home.
The Dean Buckeridge Architecture message is simple in this regard – you can build an energy efficient home for a similar cost to an ordinary house.
Dean Buckeridge Architecture is committed to the best possible outcome of your dream home or commercial project. Our preference is always to be fully involved in all aspects of the design and documentation of each project. This ensures the finished home is in tune with your brief, and the design integrity maintained.
Additionally, the company is able to operate in an observational role during construction to ensure the home is built correctly. This is especially important with energy efficient design, as while industry awareness is increasing, there is still a significant lack of understanding of key principles and critical mistakes can be made during construction and a good idea poorly executed will inevitably produce disappointing results.

Earthquake Resistant Homes

Dean Buckeridge Architecture prides itself on the design and overseeing of the construction of energy efficient and sustainable homes.

Passive solar design is always incorporated as a first principle. Then, subject to a client’s wishes, the brief may expand to include thermal mass, natural ventilation, solar water heating, PV, wind or micro hydro generation systems, both grid-tied and off-grid.
While energy efficiency is a key consideration, Dean does not allow it to dictate or override the other key elements that make a house a home. The look, the feel, whatever makes it ‘your place’.
Passive solar design and energy efficiency are extremely simple and straightforward design principles. Any home or building can make use of them without requiring special, expensive or uncommon materials. It is just a matter of common sense – the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. At DBA we simply arrange the building so the sun gets into the right rooms, at the right time of day, and in the right amounts for the time of year.
Thermal mass is used for heat storage – this could be a concrete floor slab thickened on the north side of the house and adjacent to full-height windows for maximum benefit. Using this method, the effective thermal mass of your home could be doubled for as little as the cost of 2 extra cubic metres of concrete.
Effective insulation is used to slow heat losses or excessive gains in summer, with particular attention paid to how it is used. The greatest insulation sin committed by most people is using recessed downlights. Imagine taking a sleeping bag and cutting holes in it before sleeping outside in the winter night. It doesn’t matter how good the insulation of the sleeping bag is, the holes will always let out the heat. Also, the better insulated your home becomes the more impact air tightness will have, so this too is an important consideration and again reasons why we are so enthusiastic about Structural Insulated Panels where their solid construction makes them supremely air tight and insulation values start at around R4.0 for walls and floors, and roofs can exceed R9.0.
‘Environmentally sustainable building’ has become a popular phrase in the building industry and everybody is attempting to position their product to appear green, and to use the clients desire for a more sustainable home as an opportunity to up-sell. At Dean Buckeridge Architecture we believe a client’s desire to create a more energy efficient and sustainable home does not necessarily equate to spending larger sums of money to add a greater number of products to your home.
The Dean Buckeridge Architecture message is simple in this regard – you can build an energy efficient home for a similar cost to an ordinary house.
Dean Buckeridge Architecture is committed to the best possible outcome of your dream home or commercial project. Our preference is always to be fully involved in all aspects of the design and documentation of each project. This ensures the finished home is in tune with your brief, and the design integrity maintained.
Additionally, the company is able to operate in an observational role during construction to ensure the home is built correctly. This is especially important with energy efficient design, as while industry awareness is increasing, there is still a significant lack of understanding of key principles and critical mistakes can be made during construction and a good idea poorly executed will inevitably produce disappointing results.
Dean Buckeridge Architecture
175 Montreal St
Christchurch Central
Christchurch 8011
New Zealandp: +64 (0)3 337 1713
m: +64 (0)27 227 7637
e: dean@dbarc.co.nz



AUSTRALIA: BIKIES, TRIADS, OFFICIALS LINKED IN DRUG SMUGGLING RING
by 
ABC News -September 8th, 2010

…The Triads, are headquartered in Hong Kong, and control a $200 billion-a-year heroin trade, operate brothels into which children as young as 6 are abducted or sold by their parents….”
“.. the Triads  fear the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and have begun to establish new bases…in other countries like Australia and America …and have chosen Perth, Western Australia a safe haven to launder a lot of their ill-begotten gains.,, the Triads used local established business companies owned by local business people to front for them, so that no one knows that it is really triad money backing and financing their business expansion”


“….The Triads are already reported in WikiPedia and other major reliable news and information organizations as being involved with illegal activities such as illegal gambling, loan sharking, money laundering, murder, heroin and opium, arms trafficking, prostitution, people smuggling, extortion, counterfeiting and, to a lesser extent, home invasion robberies.. etc…”
“..Senior criminal intelligence officers in the Hong Kong police believe that the biggest of the Triad gangs, the Sun Yee On, which is thought to have more than 30,000 members in the British colony, now has a stranglehold on the government of Guangdong Province [in mainland China] which boasts one of the world's fastest growing economies…. The Triads are doing the same with Perth and the Western Australian economy and now through BGC have a stranglehold on Perth
 
Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies: The New...
“…The triads headquartered in Hong Kong, control a $200 billion-a-year heroin trade, operate brothels into which children as young as 6 are abducted or sold by their parents and have tentacles in Thailand, Burma and Laos, and they are all but untouchable, Posner writes. But…
….. the Triads  fear the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and have begun to establish new bases…in other countries like Australia and America …”
 
Business Leader
Leonard Buckeridge
Len Buckeridge's Buckeridge Group spans bricks and cement to plasterboard and timber window frames, but he's keen to add a port to the empire. Domestic politics and poor health, however, are working against a possible deal that is 15 years in the making. Meantime, weak demand for building materials--especially in his home state of Western Australia, heavily exposed to the depressed mining sector--has pulled down his fortune. Trained as an architect, he first built high-rise apartment blocks in Perth, his hometown, and won awards for low-cost housing designs. He became a home builder on an industrial scale, supplying most building products from his own factories. He opposes organized labor and says he prefers private ownership to public investment.

The Buckeridge Family who were originally from
New Zealand,
Current Country of residence : Australia
Biography
Leonard Walter 'Len' Buckeridge is an Australian businessman.
Early life
Buckeridge was born in Australia. He was trained as an architect.
Career
He has built high-rise buildings in Perth and elsewhere through his company, Buckeridge Group of Companies. He also owns James Point Pty Ltd. Premier Colin Barnett counselled him to drop the lawsuit. Buckeridge also sued about a delay in the construction of the Perth Arena.
Personal life
He is married, and has six children. He lives in the Mosman Park neighbourhood of Perth. As of January 2013, he is worth an estimated US$1.4 billion.
 
 
We Must Fix the Homeless Plight- West Australian Newspaper 9th August 2012
“,,Tanya and her border collie-cross Spot wer eliving under a trapaulan hidden in bush just metres from houses or and off for eight months…unable to find affordasble rent accommodation, let alone a rental that would accept a pet, Tanya too to sleeping in parks…among those to put their hand up was billionaire construction magnate Len Buckeridge, who came forward with the offer of a newly vacated flat at an affordable rent…by Tuesday night Tanya and Spot were out of the weather and in secure and stable accommodation. Mr Buckeridge seems to be working in making sure that Spot had a safe run out side the flat so that he doesn’t wander onto the road. Tanya is just one of 14,000 West Australians that are homeless… he case highlights the compassion in the community and the desire to help the homeless…”
 
 
Billionaire sues forklift driver
GLENN CORDINGLEY - THE SUNDAY TIMES SEPTEMBER 01, 2012
 
Mark McGuire (pictured) is being sued by Perth construction tycoon Len Buckeridge for defamation in relation to postings Mr McGuire made about his ex-boss on Facebook. Picture: Justin Benson-Cooper Source: The Sunday Times
PERTH construction tycoon Len Buckeridge is suing a sacked fork-lift driver for allegedly defaming him on Facebook.
The 76-year-old Mosman Park billionaire launched a civil lawsuit in the Supreme Court this week against Mark McGuire, 34, who he sacked in December.
Mr Buckeridge, who owns building supply and construction empire the Buckeridge Group of Companies (BGC), alleges false and defamatory statements concerning him were posted on Mr McGuire's personal Facebook page in or around October last year.
The writ says the statements described his employment details under the heading "BGC".
The second part of the action involves a post made on the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship Facebook page at about the same time.
Lawyers for Mr Buckeridge allege both postings were "an imputation of and concerning the plaintiff".
The posts have since been deleted.
Mr Buckeridge is claiming damages and costs, and wants an injunction placed on the statements.
The writ was served on Mr McGuire on Tuesday at his parents' home in Meadow Springs, near Mandurah.
"What is the point of this?" Mr McGuire said. "I have no money, I have no assets, I have no job and I live with my parents."
Mr McGuire said he had worked at the BGC fibro-cement warehouse in Canning Vale for five years when he challenged a written warning in June 2011, which was not actioned.
He said Mr Buckeridge, Australia's 17th richest person with an estimated $2.01 billion fortune, personally dismissed him at work in December, claiming he was not doing his job.
Mr McGuire is taking BGC to Fair Work Australia, claiming unfair dismissal. He is being backed by union United Voice.
"The postings were up three months before I was sacked," Mr McGuire said.
"They were taken totally out of context and I immediately removed them once his lawyers threatened me with legal action.
"None of them had links to BGC or Mr Buckeridge, but I deleted them anyway and left a message saying that, with an apology for the inconvenience they may have caused.
"I will be fighting these allegations against me."
Mr Buckeridge's claim includes compensatory and aggravated damages, interest from the date of publication to judgment and any further orders made by the justice presiding over the matter.
United Voice union secretary Dave Kelly said it was outrageous that a billionaire was using the court to sue an "ordinary worker".
Mr Buckeridge said the comments posted by Mr McGuire on Facebook were untruthful and defamatory of him.
"This is of great concern to me and I am entitled to vindicate my reputation through the court process," he said.
 
 
Julian Walter:
This year marked the end of a very public seven-year battle between building magnate Julian Walter and his former business partner Len Buckeridge. While the break-up with Mr Len Buckeridge after 20 years together building J-Corp was bitter, it also let to Mr Julian Walter starting one of the biggest home builders. His JWH Group covers some of the best known home building brands in the building industry, which include the Rural Building Company, Oswald Homes and WA Country Builders. Mr Julian Walters acquired one-time employer Plunkett homes
 
February 04, 1990|By Clarence Petersen.
Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies: The New Mafia, by Gerald L. Posner (Penguin, $8.95). It is Posner`s point that in the so-called War on Drugs, we ain`t seen nuthin` yet. We certainly have not read or heard much about the Chinese secret societies called ``triads,`` who are headquartered in Hong Kong, control a $200 billion-a-year heroin trade, operate brothels into which children as young as 6 are abducted or sold by their parents.
The triads have tentacles in Thailand, Burma and Laos, and they are all but untouchable, Posner writes. But they fear the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and have begun to establish new bases in America. Posner, best known as the coauthor of ``Mengele: The Complete Story`` (1986), is persuasive for the facts he gathered, all the more so because his narrative is largely the story of how he got the story, what he was told by the criminals and by law enforcement agents here and abroad and, most persuasive of all, what he saw with his own eyes. He does not dramatize; he doesn`t have to. The chilling story he unearthed speaks for itself.
 
The other frightening thing is that there believed form research undertaken that there is a strong link between Freemasonry and the Triads, and that Freemasons who want a murder carried out, who do not want to get their hands dirty, will use the Triads to do this work. After all, many senior Freemasons are senior judges, magistrates, barristers, police, politicians and so-called respectable businessmen like Len Buckeridge, who would never want to risk their reputations and/or the reputation of Freemasonry being links to a murder investigation, so their Triad connection is ideal. The Triads are already report in WikiPedia and other major reliable news and information organizations as being involved with illegal activities such as illegal gambling, loan sharking, money laundering, murder, heroin and opium, arms trafficking, prostitution, people smuggling, extortion, counterfeiting and, to a lesser extent, home invasion robberies.. etc, so another murder allegation against the Triads would bee seen as the Triads just going about their normal business activities.
 
Triads-Warlords of Crime:
Chinese Secret Societies: The New...
“…The triads headquartered in Hong Kong, control a $200 billion-a-year heroin trade, operate brothels into which children as young as 6 are abducted or sold by their parents and have tentacles in Thailand, Burma and Laos, and they are all but untouchable, Posner writes. But they fear the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and have begun to establish new bases…in other countries like Australia and America …”
 
Business Leader
Leonard Buckeridge
Len Buckeridge's Buckeridge Group spans bricks and cement to plasterboard and timber window frames, but he's keen to add a port to the empire. Domestic politics and poor health, however, are working against a possible deal that is 15 years in the making. Meantime, weak demand for building materials--especially in his home state of Western Australia, heavily exposed to the depressed mining sector--has pulled down his fortune. Trained as an architect, he first built high-rise apartment blocks in Perth, his hometown, and won awards for low-cost housing designs. He became a home builder on an industrial scale, supplying most building products from his own factories. He opposes organized labor and says he prefers private ownership to public investment.

The Buckeridge Family who were originally from
New Zealand,
Current Country of residence : Australia
Biography
Leonard Walter 'Len' Buckeridge is an Australian businessman.
Early life
Buckeridge was born in Australia. He was trained as an architect.
Career
He has built high-rise buildings in Perth and elsewhere through his company, Buckeridge Group of Companies. He also owns James Point Pty Ltd. Premier Colin Barnett counselled him to drop the lawsuit. Buckeridge also sued about a delay in the construction of the Perth Arena.
Personal life
He is married, and has six children. He lives in the Mosman Park neighbourhood of Perth. As of January 2013, he is worth an estimated US$1.4 billion.
 
 
We Must Fix the Homeless Plight- West Australian Newspaper 9th August 2012
“,,Tanya and her border collie-cross Spot wer eliving under a trapaulan hidden in bush just metres from houses or and off for eight months…unable to find affordasble rent accommodation, let alone a rental that would accept a pet, Tanya too to sleeping in parks…among those to put their hand up was billionaire construction magnate Len Buckeridge, who came forward with the offer of a newly vacated flat at an affordable rent…by Tuesday night Tanya and Spot were out of the weather and in secure and stable accommodation. Mr Buckeridge seems to be working in making sure that Spot had a safe run out side the flat so that he doesn’t wander onto the road. Tanya is just one of 14,000 West Australians that are homeless… he case highlights the compassion in the community and the desire to help the homeless…”
 
 
Billionaire sues forklift driver
GLENN CORDINGLEY - THE SUNDAY TIMES SEPTEMBER 01, 2012
 
Mark McGuire (pictured) is being sued by Perth construction tycoon Len Buckeridge for defamation in relation to postings Mr McGuire made about his ex-boss on Facebook. Picture: Justin Benson-Cooper Source: The Sunday Times
PERTH construction tycoon Len Buckeridge is suing a sacked fork-lift driver for allegedly defaming him on Facebook.
The 76-year-old Mosman Park billionaire launched a civil lawsuit in the Supreme Court this week against Mark McGuire, 34, who he sacked in December.
Mr Buckeridge, who owns building supply and construction empire the Buckeridge Group of Companies (BGC), alleges false and defamatory statements concerning him were posted on Mr McGuire's personal Facebook page in or around October last year.
The writ says the statements described his employment details under the heading "BGC".
The second part of the action involves a post made on the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship Facebook page at about the same time.
Lawyers for Mr Buckeridge allege both postings were "an imputation of and concerning the plaintiff".
The posts have since been deleted.
Mr Buckeridge is claiming damages and costs, and wants an injunction placed on the statements.
The writ was served on Mr McGuire on Tuesday at his parents' home in Meadow Springs, near Mandurah.
"What is the point of this?" Mr McGuire said. "I have no money, I have no assets, I have no job and I live with my parents."
Mr McGuire said he had worked at the BGC fibro-cement warehouse in Canning Vale for five years when he challenged a written warning in June 2011, which was not actioned.
He said Mr Buckeridge, Australia's 17th richest person with an estimated $2.01 billion fortune, personally dismissed him at work in December, claiming he was not doing his job.
Mr McGuire is taking BGC to Fair Work Australia, claiming unfair dismissal. He is being backed by union United Voice.
"The postings were up three months before I was sacked," Mr McGuire said.
"They were taken totally out of context and I immediately removed them once his lawyers threatened me with legal action.
"None of them had links to BGC or Mr Buckeridge, but I deleted them anyway and left a message saying that, with an apology for the inconvenience they may have caused.
"I will be fighting these allegations against me."
Mr Buckeridge's claim includes compensatory and aggravated damages, interest from the date of publication to judgment and any further orders made by the justice presiding over the matter.
United Voice union secretary Dave Kelly said it was outrageous that a billionaire was using the court to sue an "ordinary worker".
Mr Buckeridge said the comments posted by Mr McGuire on Facebook were untruthful and defamatory of him.
"This is of great concern to me and I am entitled to vindicate my reputation through the court process," he said.

Rich 200 veterans Harry Triguboff and Len Buckeridge top building starts list

Published 25 September 2013

http://www.brw.com.au/p/business/rich_veterans_harry_triguboff_list_m1MGixGYLucHxdeYbd2xVJ

Rich 200 veterans Harry Triguboff and Len Buckeridge top building starts list

Harry Triguboff remains Australia’s biggest apartment builder. Photo: Louie Douvis

BRW Rich 200 list members Len Buckeridge and Harry Triguboff have dominated the list of Australia’s biggest builders, further underlying the recovery of the housing sector.

According to data from the Housing Industry Association, Buckeridge’s BGC (Australia) started 3443 dwellings in 2012-13, all in its home state of Western Australia, well ahead of the 2692 it started last year.

BCG also owns a substantial chunk of JWH Group, which is the nation’s seventh biggest builder.

Triguboff’s Sydney-based apartment behemoth, Meriton Apartments, was the nation’s largest apartment builder, starting 2573 units. That figure also propelled Meriton from 10th to fourth on the overall list of the top 20 builders.

Former Rich 200 member Dale Alcock, who is behind the Alcock/Brown-Neaves Group, was the nation’s second biggest builder, with 3199 starts during the financial year, up from 2736.

Overall, the 100 companies in the HIA’s Housing 100 started 40,214 detached houses (up 12.0 per cent from 35,909) and 10,888 units and townhouses (down 5.7 per cent from 11,551).

It was the first time in three years that starts increased, but HIA chief economist Harley Dale isn’t holding his breath for further increases.

“The key question for the industry, the Housing 100, and the overall Australian economy, is whether a rise in national and Housing 100 starts in 2012-13 can be repeated,” Dale says.

“Current policy settings lack the extent of focus on the residential construction industry that Australia’s economy and population require. It looks likely that disparities across regions and dwelling types will net out to a renewed decline in national housing starts in 2013-14.

“That would hardly be a tick in the box for a successful transitioning of growth in the Australian Economy.”

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Source: HIA

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MUA dtermined ot turn back scabs by Jane Kelly

Freemantle- On Friday night, may 26, the Maritime Union of Australia  (MUA) won its first round in its battle against the WA Liberal State Government and stevedoring company BAAC, which tried to use scab labour in the Port of Freemantle. State transport minister Eric Charlton, who gave newly formed BAAC the controversial stevedoring contract, reversed his earlier refusal that afternoon in the Industrial Relations Commission to accept the deal put up by MUA, and recommended by the commission.

Western Australian Government-owned Stateships will now use unionises stevedores to work the Sina, the ship at the centre of the dispute. This would allow WA ports to repopen while the martitime dispute is further dealt with in the IRC.

The industrial dispute, which closed every unionises port, oil and gas platform in WA, is seen by the MUA not only as a fight to keep conditions for its members, but for the rights of all workers to be represented by unions if they chose to be, and to keep their jobs.

Building magnate and BAAC owner Len Buckeridge is well known for his refusal to employ union labour on his building sites, and is on record in the IRC as saying that he will not employ MUA workers, despite years if tough maritime reforms and the 60% increased productivity those reforms have brought to the waterfront.

Attack on Unionism

MUA WA deputy branch secretary Dean Summers told Green Left Weekly that the situation on the wharves was an “outright attack on unionism”. He said, “ I have not seen any other picket line where the police come and ask our advice on things. It just encapsulates the hatred everybody’s got for Lne Buckeridhe, right down to the police and expects them to he at his beck and call. I understand that it, he has told them they are ‘big, fat, lazy such and suchs’ because they are dougn their job as they see it.”

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Grow Bunbury port - BGC chief : "Industrial magnate Len Buckeridge has thrown his support behind a proposal to expand the Bunbury port, saying that it would promote much-needed competition with port services in Fremantle. Mr Buckeridge, the founder of construction and building products empire BGC whose personal wealth is estimated to nudge $2 billion, said that although he had not been formally approached by representatives of the Bunbury Port Authority, he was prepared to sell part of his key port landholding in Bunbury to accommodate the plan.It comes as the BPA works on a proposal to almost treble the size of the port's inner harbour from five to 14 berths as part of its multi-billion-dollar expansion ambitions. Under the plan, the harbour would be extended south to accommodate the new berths and bulk commodity exports such as coal, bauxite and fertiliser. Mr Buckeridge's 24ha landholding in the path of the expansion had been seen as a potential hurdle."

"Mr Buckeridge said that so long as the Government was willing to pay a fair and reasonable price for his land, he would not stand in the way of the project. He argued an expanded Bunbury port would act as a counterpoint to the Port of Fremantle, which he said was monopolistic and plagued by congestion. The Fremantle Port Authority is an absolute disgrace, the septuagenarian said. It's important to the State that Bunbury develops a capacity that provides a measure of competition to the Fremantle Port Authority. I wish the Bunbury Port Authority well - I think it should happen. Mr Buckeridge's apparent willingness to deal with the BPA comes in contrast to his strident opposition to Main Roads WA resuming part of his Bunbury land in 2008. The resumption issue is the subject of a dispute between the two parties in the State Administrative Tribunal. Mr Buckeridge said that the difference this time was that he would expect the (Barnett) Government to negotiate in good faith."

"The Fremantle Port Authority declined to comment on Mr Buckeridge's comments. Transport Minister Simon O'Brien would also not be drawn on the matter or on the BPA's expansion plans. He said the plans were preliminary and it was premature to discuss their prospects. Opposition infrastructure spokeswoman Alannah MacTiernan said Mr Buckeridge's criticism of the FPA was self-interested because he wanted to establish his own port at Point James, near Kwinana. Ms MacTiernan said that although some aspects of the FPA were monopolistic, the organisation enjoyed overwhelming support from business. She agreed that Bunbury should be developed to accommodate bulk commodity exports but argued it could never compete with Fremantle in its own right because handling containers through the South-West city was unviable."

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Only this week, Len Buckeridge, the head of BGC, one of Western Australia's leading builders and a long-time supporter of the Liberals, spoke out against the reforms.

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Maritime Union determined to turn back scabs

Wednesday, May 31, 1995 - 10:00

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"Congratulations once again to Green Left Weekly. As I've often said to people all over the world when they ask what the press is like in Australia, 'Mostly owned by Murdoch and mostly unfree'.

But I always add quickly, 'There is one newspaper that is independent of powerful interests and that's Green Left Weekly'."  John Pilger

Story and photos by Jane Kelly

FREMANTLE — On Friday night, May 26, the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) won the first round in its battle against the Liberal state government and stevedoring company BAAC, which tried to use scab labour in the port.

State transport minister Eric Charleton, who gave newly formed BAAC the controversial stevedoring contract, reversed his earlier refusal that afternoon in the Industrial Relations Commission to accept the deal put up by the MUA, and recommended by the commission.

Government-owned Stateships will now use unionised stevedores to work the Sina, the ship at the centre of the dispute. This would allow WA ports to reopen while the maritime dispute is further dealt with in the IRC.

The industrial dispute, which closed every unionised port, oil and gas platform in WA, is seen by the MUA not only as a fight to keep conditions for its members, but for the rights of all workers to be represented by unions if they choose to be, and keep their jobs.

Building magnate and BAAC owner Len Buckeridge is well known for his refusal to employ union labour on his building sites, and is on record in the IRC as saying that he will not employ MUA workers, despite years of tough maritime reforms and the 60% increased productivity those reforms have brought to the waterfront.

Attack on unionism

MUA WA deputy branch secretary Dean Summers, told Green Left Weekly that the situation on the wharves was an "outright attack on unionism". He said, "It's not about Buckeridge winning a contract legally and making a living out of stevedoring. It's about Buckeridge ... trying to break unionism, and it's a weapon of Richard Court's Liberal government.

"They're not going to win, but if they were to win and beat the Maritime Union, the whole of unionism in Western Australia, and in Australia, would begin to crumble at a rapid pace."

Joint national secretary John Coombs, asked how the MUA wanted the dispute resolved, replied, "The Western Australian government signed a contract with Conaust [stevedores] to look after the bulk jetties; they tore that up, so they can do the same with this one. It seems there is no real problem with the West Australian government in terms of their contracts."

The State Supply Commission is currently investigating the awarding of the contract to Stateships. It is claimed that the contract was not publicly put to tender and that offers were taken over the phone. The commission's report is expected on Wednesday.

On Friday night amidst victory celebrations, GLW asked joint state secretary Terry Buck to comment on the Court government's handling of the dispute. Buck said, "Their decision in front of the commission today, where they were indecisive in respect to the recommendation handed down by Commissioner Laing, clearly shows that Buckeridge was in charge, and Charleton was the puppet".

Asked what he thought Buckeridge's reaction to the temporary freeze on BAAC's contract would be, Buck replied, "He's going to try and find a way to get back at us. He has never been beaten before, and he's been beaten this time. He's been up against trade unions in the past, but he's never been up against the MUA, and at this stage we've won the first round."

Maritime workers, who had maintained their week-long picket in icy gale force winds and rain, were ecstatic Friday night and sang rowdy choruses of a locally written ditty called "Bye bye Buckeridge".

The workers marched to the gangway of the Sina and gave three hearty cheers for the ship's crew and especially for its master, Ron Gabby. John Coombs told the ranks that Gabby had more to lose personally than anyone in the dispute. He had refused to allow the scabs to work his vessel, and had ensured they didn't by turning off power to the ship's cranes.

Ongoing disputes

The MUA has another ongoing dispute over non-union labour up in Carnarvon. Seven of its members lost their jobs earlier this year when Dampier Salt Limited (DSL), a CRA subsidiary, awarded a towage contract to a newly formed non-union company, Carnarvon Towage Services.

A picket line was formed to prevent the non-union workers taking over the men's jobs, some of whom had worked for DSL for 14 years. Dean Summers told GLW that the "situation got to overkill" with an overly large contingent of police being present, and eight security guards being hired by DSL, who tried to intimidate workers and who claimed to be ex-SAS from New Zealand .

All week Richard Court told the press that there would be trouble down on the wharves and that the police were ready for it. However, it was apparent throughout the dispute that police relations couldn't have been better, with most officers openly chatting, joking and sharing food and drinks with workers on the picket line on the wharf, and on board the Sina.

Summers commented, "I have never seen it in any other picket line where the police come and ask our advice on things. It just encapsulates the hatred that everybody's got for Buckeridge, right down to the police, when he abuses police and expects them to be at his beck and call. As I understand it, he has told them they are 'big, fat, lazy' such and suches, because they are doing their job as they see it."

Spirits are high on the waterfront, as members of the union are even more determined to continue the fight to protect the rights of workers.

Lives at risk

On Wednesday BAAC had brought non-union labour and two cranes onto the docks and begun to unload cargo containers from trucks, ready for loading onto the Sina.

Buckeridge's workers (who took half an hour to start one crane) soon showed that they were quite unskilled. One operator tipped his machine onto two wheels and dropped his container. One machine was overloaded. Another, smaller overloaded crane dropped a container when the brakes couldn't hold its weight, with several workers standing within a metre of it.

A barrage of boos and catcalls from the picket line quickly died out. Although many people were saying good luck if they dropped a container onto a scab's head, the men, who know the dangers of the work, could clearly see the possibility of a serious accident.

Stories were being exchanged about crushed men and even beheaded workers through unskilled labour and lax safety procedures.

Dean Summers said that when non-union labour is employed you get people on the wharves who are not adequately trained. "They are a danger to themselves, they are a danger to the ships and to the industry. Also, their wages and conditions go down, and it's just a master and serf relationship after an extended period. It's just a basic matter of union principle to preserve rights and working conditions for workers."

If no union is present to ensure that safety standards are maintained, safety checks are left up to the Department of Occupational Health, Safety and Welfare, which many unions feel is not adequately doing the job.

Members of the MUA are wondering just how long it will take before one of Buckeridge's inexperienced workers is seriously injured.

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Dean Buckeridge Architecture - New Zealand

Dean Buckeridge Architecture • 1 Stonehaven Tce, Christchurch • (03) 337 1713 or 027 227 7637 • dean@dbarc.co.nz

Energy Efficient Passive Solar Design

Dean Buckeridge Architecture prides itself on the design and overseeing of the construction of energy efficient and sustainable homes.

Passive solar design is always incorporated as a first principle. Then, subject to a client’s wishes, the brief may expand to include thermal mass, natural ventilation, solar water heating, PV, wind or micro hydro generation systems, both grid-tied and off-grid.

While energy efficiency is a key consideration, Dean does not allow it to dictate or override the other key elements that make a house a home. The look, the feel, whatever makes it ‘your place’.

Passive solar design and energy efficiency are extremely simple and straightforward design principles. Any home or building can make use of them without requiring special, expensive or uncommon materials. It is just a matter of common sense – the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. At DBA we simply arrange the building so the sun gets into the right rooms, at the right time of day, and in the right amounts for the time of year.

Thermal mass is used for heat storage – this could be a concrete floor slab thickened on the north side of the house and adjacent to full-height windows for maximum benefit. Using this method, the effective thermal mass of your home could be doubled for as little as the cost of 2 extra cubic metres of concrete.

Effective insulation is used to slow heat losses or excessive gains in summer, with particular attention paid to how it is used. The greatest insulation sin committed by most people is using recessed downlights. Imagine taking a sleeping bag and cutting holes in it before sleeping outside in the winter night. It doesn’t matter how good the insulation of the sleeping bag is, the holes will always let out the heat. Also, the better insulated your home becomes the more impact air tightness will have, so this too is an important consideration and again reasons why we are so enthusiastic about Structural Insulated Panels where their solid construction makes them supremely air tight and insulation values start at around R4.0 for walls and floors, and roofs can exceed R9.0.

‘Environmentally sustainable building’ has become a popular phrase in the building industry and everybody is attempting to position their product to appear green, and to use the clients desire for a more sustainable home as an opportunity to up-sell. At Dean Buckeridge Architecture we believe a client’s desire to create a more energy efficient and sustainable home does not necessarily equate to spending larger sums of money to add a greater number of products to your home.

The Dean Buckeridge Architecture message is simple in this regard – you can build an energy efficient home for a similar cost to an ordinary house.

Dean Buckeridge Architecture is committed to the best possible outcome of your dream home or commercial project. Our preference is always to be fully involved in all aspects of the design and documentation of each project. This ensures the finished home is in tune with your brief, and the design integrity maintained.

Additionally, the company is able to operate in an observational role during construction to ensure the home is built correctly. This is especially important with energy efficient design, as while industry awareness is increasing, there is still a significant lack of understanding of key principles and critical mistakes can be made during construction and a good idea poorly executed will inevitably produce disappointing results.

Earthquake Resistant Homes

Dean Buckeridge Architecture prides itself on the design and overseeing of the construction of energy efficient and sustainable homes.

Passive solar design is always incorporated as a first principle. Then, subject to a client’s wishes, the brief may expand to include thermal mass, natural ventilation, solar water heating, PV, wind or micro hydro generation systems, both grid-tied and off-grid.

While energy efficiency is a key consideration, Dean does not allow it to dictate or override the other key elements that make a house a home. The look, the feel, whatever makes it ‘your place’.

Passive solar design and energy efficiency are extremely simple and straightforward design principles. Any home or building can make use of them without requiring special, expensive or uncommon materials. It is just a matter of common sense – the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. At DBA we simply arrange the building so the sun gets into the right rooms, at the right time of day, and in the right amounts for the time of year.

Thermal mass is used for heat storage – this could be a concrete floor slab thickened on the north side of the house and adjacent to full-height windows for maximum benefit. Using this method, the effective thermal mass of your home could be doubled for as little as the cost of 2 extra cubic metres of concrete.

Effective insulation is used to slow heat losses or excessive gains in summer, with particular attention paid to how it is used. The greatest insulation sin committed by most people is using recessed downlights. Imagine taking a sleeping bag and cutting holes in it before sleeping outside in the winter night. It doesn’t matter how good the insulation of the sleeping bag is, the holes will always let out the heat. Also, the better insulated your home becomes the more impact air tightness will have, so this too is an important consideration and again reasons why we are so enthusiastic about Structural Insulated Panels where their solid construction makes them supremely air tight and insulation values start at around R4.0 for walls and floors, and roofs can exceed R9.0.

‘Environmentally sustainable building’ has become a popular phrase in the building industry and everybody is attempting to position their product to appear green, and to use the clients desire for a more sustainable home as an opportunity to up-sell. At Dean Buckeridge Architecture we believe a client’s desire to create a more energy efficient and sustainable home does not necessarily equate to spending larger sums of money to add a greater number of products to your home.

The Dean Buckeridge Architecture message is simple in this regard – you can build an energy efficient home for a similar cost to an ordinary house.

Dean Buckeridge Architecture is committed to the best possible outcome of your dream home or commercial project. Our preference is always to be fully involved in all aspects of the design and documentation of each project. This ensures the finished home is in tune with your brief, and the design integrity maintained.

Additionally, the company is able to operate in an observational role during construction to ensure the home is built correctly. This is especially important with energy efficient design, as while industry awareness is increasing, there is still a significant lack of understanding of key principles and critical mistakes can be made during construction and a good idea poorly executed will inevitably produce disappointing results.

Dean Buckeridge Architecture

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Christchurch 8011
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RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS

In this major renovation and alteration to an existing house, the interior was re-planned to maximise the views to the north and east by opening the house out to a cantilevered balcony while providing a sunny afternoon family area and outdoor living sheltered from the easterly wind. A tall house, it was visually anchored to the ground using stone from the Staveley River topped off with black painted Titan panel.

A new house with majestic views sweeping from Shag Rock all the way up the coast to the Kaikouras and west across Christchurch City to the Southern Alps. The floor plan is set out to capture views from every room and to keep sun in the living areas all day. The main challenge with this project was to create sheltered outdoor areas on a site exposed to wind from almost every direction. The house is heavily insulated and features a butterfly roof shape with angled balconies to match.

A long house running east to west across the slope with the hallway partly buried into the hill allowed for a classic passive solar design while giving full access to the views across the bay to the Marlborough Sounds. Mike and Barb Guillemot wanted a home that reflected their heritage and which had a link to their previous property, which was a vineyard in the Brancott Valley. The house has five bedrooms which they use for regular family gatherings and as a B&B.

Our own home built on a challenging site, it is something of a test bed for testing ideas around solar and spatial design.  The site is steeply sloping running north-south with street access only possible from one point which necessitated positioning the garaging right in the centre of the site.  Cantilevering the floor to the living area over the garage meant that it became difficult to incorporate thermal mass in typical fashion, so the plan is to use water storage as active thermal mass that we can bring into the house or exclude as necessary.

A 4 bedroom family home with the added twist that the clients wished to have it in the form of a castle. After a fair amount of research due to our castle design skills being a wee bit rusty we hit on the idea of a building based on a Norman keep with Gothic renovations. This gave us the massive heavy closed forms at either end plus the turret but allowed us to integrate large open Gothic style windows to give a sunny and warm family home.

Internal alterations to a 2 storey family home that centred around relocating the stairwell and main entry to provide better connection between the Kitchen and Family living areas.

A substantial country home featuring extensive use of Oamaru Stone. The clients daughter is an artist and they have a collection of her work displayed in a south lit gallery area.

Commercial office and warehouse units.

Strowan House


17. Len Buckeridge
Leonard Walter "Len" Buckeridge

Kwinana port offer to Buckeridge
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Buckeridge

JULY 04, 2011
perth arena
BATTLE: The builder of the Perth Arena will dispute penalty fees of $45,000 a day after it missed a deadline last week. Picture: Theo Fakos Source: PerthNow
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Perth Arena under construction. Picture: Kerris Berrington Source: PerthNo


Len Buckeridge.

Len Buckeridge.
Len Buckeridge




 reportedly now worth over $3 billion and his BGC Companies turnover in excess of $160 billion a year, mainly in Perth, Western Australia.
Question have been raised as to how Len Buckeridge
was able to increase the yearly turnover of his
 BGC Group of companies from being in the millions in the 1980's to being over $160 billion in 2014....
Where did Len Buckeridge's working capital come from?



Colin Barnet - Premier of Western Australia
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Colin Barnett. WA Premier Colin Barnett wants a $1 billion lawsuit against ...

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/barnett-wants-1-billion-lawsuit-dropped/story-e6frf7kf-1226512515705
Colin Barnet, the Premier of Western Australia wants len Buckeridge's $1 billion law suit dropped against the State of Western Australia

orker death an unmitigated disaster: Buckeridge

The Western Australian October 21 ,
2012
The owner of building and mining company BGC, Len Buckeridge, has offered his condolences over the death of a Perth man buried alive in a sand silo at one of his company's sites.
The man was moving sand from a pile when it collapsed on him at BGC Precast Concrete in Naval Base about 12.15pm on Saturday. Emergency services were unable to save the man. Mr Buckeridge told the ABC the incident was an "unmitigated disaster" and was the first fatality at his group of companies in more than 50 years. WorkSafe is now investigating the incident.
http://kisah-orangsukses.blogspot.ie/2011/06/daftar-10-orang-terkaya-di-australia.html


10. Len Buckeridge, $1.95 billion, Buckeridge Group of Companies



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Len Buckeridge- Forbes

Marital Status: Married. Children: 6. Len Buckeridge on Forbes Lists. #19 Australia's

http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/bgc-nations-largest-builder/story-e6frg2ru-1225923845007


Leonard Walter "Len" Buckeridge

Buckeridge
Len Buckeridge's BGC is Australia's largest builder for 2009-10. Picture: Neil Eliot

BGC nation's largest builder


PERTH-based BGC has been named Australia's largest builder as housing starts from the country's top 100 builders rose 22.8 per cent in 2009-10.
In the latest Housing Industry Association (HIA) – Colorbond Steel Housing 100 report, BGC was topped the list with 4392 starts – 3836 detached houses and 556 units - up by 548 on the previous year.
Another Perth builder, Alcock/Brown-Neaves Group, was ranked second with 3526 starts while Victorian-based Metricon Homes was ranked third with 3214 starts.
Hickory Developments Pty Ltd was the nation’s largest multi-unit builder with 1275 starts.
The top 100 builders accounted for an estimated 38 per cent share of the country’s housing starts in 2009-10, unchanged from the previous year.
“The tripling of the federal First Home Owner’s Grant for new homes, low interest rates and social housing programs saw a relatively strong recovery in housing starts in 2009/10,” HIA chief economist Harley Dale said.
“However, as the positive impact from past stimulus programs unwinds it’s unlikely that we will see further growth in HOUSING 100 and aggregate housing starts in 2010/11.
“While there were 11,230 more homes built by the largest 100 than the previous year, the number of multi-units being built actually fell.
“In 2009/10 there were 51,602 detached house starts (up from 39,947) and 8,988 starts for flats, units and townhouses (down from 9,413).”
“The restriction of finance for residential development presents a big constraint, while the stimulus measures masked the insufficient progress made so far in reducing supply-side obstacles related to land, labour, planning, taxation, and regulation.”
Today’s release of the HIA-Colorbond report also coincides with data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that show that housing starts increased slightly by 0.8 per cent in the June quarter to 44,899 units, seasonally adjusted.
In WA, housing starts dropped 5.1 per cent to 6937 units in the June quarter.
During the 2009-10 year, housing starts nationally rose 43.8 per cent.
Economists say that the six interest rate rises between October 2009 and May this year was a prime factor in the slow down in housing starts in the June quarter.
Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) data showed the median house price nation wide rose 3.2 per cent in the quarter to $553,243.
With the exception of Perth and Hobart, all Australian capital cities recorded increases in median house prices over the quarter, Mortgage Choice senior corporate affairs manager, Kristy Sheppard, said.
Sydney, Melbourne and Darwin recorded the highest increases in prices while the lowest were recorded in Hobart, Adelaide and Brisbane.
- with AAP



Buckeridge and Barnett slug it out





THE conflict between building magnate Len Buckeridge and WA Premier Colin Barnett is reaching new highs.
The public battle between one of Australia's richest men and the leader of Australia's largest State, over the building of a new private port, James Point Pty Ltd (JPPL), in Cockburn Sound, has now gone to a whole new level with Mr Buckeridge reportedly attempting to claim $1 billion from the State Government.
Last week Mr Barnett told ABC radio that a potential claim would cost the State millions of dollars in legal fees.
Potentially at the expense of education, health and services for disabilities.
"What is Len Buckeridge really saying, that he wants to take a billion dollars off the WA community?" Mr Barnett asked.
"Where would that billion dollars come from?
"In reality, if he was successful, it would come out of education, health, services for disabilities.
"I don't think for a moment Len Buckeridge wants to do that."
Mr Buckeridge is arguing the State Government has repeatedly failed to honour an agreement signed in 2000 to build and operate a private bulk shipping and container port.
The port is also expected to handle live exports which Mr Barnett has said previously he wants out of Fremantle.
Mr Barnett also later told State Parliament he supported the construction of the berth but not the offshore container facility.
"There is a need for a bulk cargo facility on the coast and we would work with him to try to achieve that," he said.
"As to the other project, that's another matter.
"I would think there would be massive environmental impediments to that, not least of which would be the view of the government that we don't want to see Cockburn Sound turned into basically a parking area for bulk cart containers."
Following the comments, JPPL issued a statement saying the Premier's comments were wrong, misleading and offensive.
"James Point Pty Ltd (JPPL) still wishes to proceed with its port development at James Point, but has been prevented from doing so by the State Government which has failed to honour the contract it signed in 2000," the statement said.
"As a result and as a last resort after 12 years of extreme frustration, JPPL is seeking restitution through the courts.
"Statements suggesting that Len Buckeridge wants to take a billion dollars off the WA community are as offensive as they are untrue.
"The company, of which Len Buckeridge is a director, wants to build a port in a manner consistent with the 2000 contract.
"No more, no less."
JPPL attacked the Premier saying he continued to mislead the community by saying the government was prepared to sell land for port purposes adjacent to the area to be reclaimed.
"His government is only prepared to entertain inadequate leases and refuses to even talk about the actual sale of land," the statement said. "The Premier was factually very wrong when he told parliament last week that JPPL wanted to build an island in the middle of Cockburn Sound for a container facility.
"JPPL does not.
"It is his own statutory authority, Fremantle Ports, that does.
"JPPL believes its 100ha land-backed proposal for an International Container Facility has very significant environmental advantages compared with Fremantle Ports' island proposal.
"Furthermore, the Premier's apparent opposition to new container facilities in Cockburn Sound totally contradicts his government's media release of June 29 this year which stated: 'Extensive research has identified the coastal area from Naval Base to James Point in Cockburn Sound as the most suitable location for additional container-handling port facilities.'
"The WA Planning Commission is currently undertaking a major planning study to this end."
JPPL said the need for additional port facilities is well known and the provision long overdue.
"Exporters and importers are extremely frustrated by the government's inability to allow the privately-funded James Point Port to proceed," JPPL said.
"As a result, there are often long queues of ships waiting for a berth, which incur significant additional costs which impact on the WA economy.
"The easiest way to get rid of the $1 billion claim is for the State to let the port be built.
"There would be no need for legal fees or for court resources to be taken up if Mr Barnett simply accepted that the container facility which he agreed to in Cabinet in 2000 should be allowed.
"Why has he changed his mind about that?
"Why was it a good idea in 2000, but not now?
"If it wasn't a good idea then, why didn't he say so?
"He was the Minister for Resources and he had an obligation to object if he thought it was bad for the State.
"The simple fact is that he is the lone voice of objection now and is placing the interests of the State at risk for his own personal agenda, which he never revealed in 2000 and which he has failed to explain.
"Unless the government changes its position and intransigence on the matter, then additional privately-funded port facilities will not be built and the matter will be concluded in the courts.
"In contrast, if the government is prepared to honour its contract, the WA economy, and West Australians generally, will benefit.
"It's up to the Premier which course he takes."
JPPL's comments are the latest installment in the public feud which continued on from Mr Barnett's comments at a Pastoralists and Graziers Association function in Broome, where he doubted Mr Buckeridge's commitment to having live exports out of the potential port.
It also comes after JPPL launched an advertising campaign against Mr Barnett in November last year.
Mr Buckeridge is also a major Liberal party donor.

Robert Buckeridge - UK to New Zealand

http://boards.ancestry.com/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=9&p=surnames.buckeridge

We are descendants of Robert Buckeridge & his wife Ann Cording. Robert and family arrived in New Zealand aboard the ship the "Clifton" in 1842.
I am seeking info re Robert's ancestors. They only information I have is that his parents were John Buckeridge & Lucy Thompson (married @ St Giles Cripplegate, London in 1815. John & Lucy had four children: Robert, Rachel, Lucy & Jane. John died in London and Lucy remarried, she & her new husband followed Robert to New Zealand.

Hi, My husband is descended also from Robert and Ann, through Robert born 14 Jan 1855 in Wellington he died Napier 1 Jul 1944. Robert married Zealandia Louisa Worth in 1885.
Note that this post was in 2002 so you probably have the info you want, if not contact me as I have photos of Lucy and her daughter.
My email is jbbuckeridge@xtra.co.nz
Regards Brenda

Hi
My Grand father was Clarence Buckeridge do you know if they are the same family.
Brian

Hi, Just looked Clarence on the electoral roll found him in Raglan 1919, his father was Edward William and no parents are noted on his birth certificate, I havn't at this stage found Clarence or Edward in any part of our family tree. Noticed on an earlier post someone had another Buckeridge coming from Ireland in late 1800's. I am still researching and I think I have a long way to go Good luck Brenda

My Gr gr grandfather was george Buckeridge b1831 who arrived in New Zealand in 1855 and resided at Nelson. He married Elizabeth Sarah Canavan b1835 Dublin. His son was Edward William(survryor) and then Clarence & his sisters.
Brian

BUCKERIDGE Byron B 1886-1935

BUCKERIDGE Byron B 1886-1935

I photographed this gravestone in the (Shannon) Rose Hill Cemetery, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 204,210 cemetery photos free at http://teafor2.com .

BUCKERIDGE Anna Mae 1887-1942

BUCKERIDGE Anna Mae 1887-1942

I photographed this gravestone in the (Shannon) Rose Hill Cemetery, Tarrant Co., Texas. Feel free to use this picture for your personal records. This is one of the 204,210 cemetery photos free at
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If you know more about this person please reply here,instead of contacting me because this is most likely not my family.

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This is a portion of one of the many Buckeridge families in New-Zealand in the Ancestry Archive™.

Click the links below to search for the family group record and ancestry of the Buckeridge family in New-Zealand

  Husband:    Richard Welch Buckeridge Birth/Chris:     ... 1884 at ... Death/Burial:    ... 1956 at ...   Wife:    Mabel Lily Farmer Birth/Chris:     ... 1888 at ... Death/Burial:    ... 1956 at ...   Married:    ... 1911 at ...

Children:

1. Buckeridge, Daphne Lyviet - Birth/Chris: ... 1911 at ...
2. Buckeridge, Alice Irene -
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Barnett wants $1 billion lawsuit dropped

“From what started off as an estimated $150 million dollar project, ended up costing $550 million. Plans have changed, time was extended, making it 3 years ...


Back in 2009, Colin Barnett won an election with a glad-handed promise to build a rail line to the big new outer Metro suburb of Ellenbrook.

He broke that promise. He substituted “improved” bus access.
In 2013 he made the same promise because WA is a boom state. It deserves these bright shiny toys and Mark McGowan had made a fully costed proposal for bigger and better railways which cost less than Barnett was able to offer.
About 48 hours before the election he explained that his plan would be financed by the Commonwealth. A Commonwealth Government everyone expects to be run by his mate Tony Abbott.
It seems that his ability to run a Government successfully is dependent, not on the business success of the State but on the generosity of a Commonwealth Government.
Today, in Melbourne, Tony explained clearly, to another mate, that his Government does not “do” railway infrastructure.
It does roads.
So Colin Barnett is just going to have to break the same election promise two electoral cycles in a row! More fool us for thinking any other outcome was likely.
Breaking promises. It’s in his DNA!
After watching “Check-out” tonight, on the ABC, I’m wondering if it is possible to return the Barnett Government to the Electoral Commission and get our votes back.
If that fails, should we take Barnett and his lying mouth to Consumer Affairs?
Len Buckeridge's Buckeridge Group spans bricks and cement to plasterboard and timber window frames, but he's keen to add a port to the empire. Domestic politics and poor health, however, are working against a possible deal that is 15 years in the making. Meantime, weak demand for building materials--especially in his home state of Western Australia, heavily exposed to the depressed mining sector--has pulled down his fortune. Trained as an architect, he first built high-rise apartment blocks in Perth, his hometown, and won awards for low-cost housing designs. He became a home builder on an industrial scale, supplying most building products from his own factories. He opposes organized labor and says he prefers private ownership to public investment.

Mould attacks Perth Arena - union


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  • SEPTEMBER 06, 2011

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CLAIM: CFMEU's Joe McDonald says workers at the Perth Arena have been exposed to mould following a wet winter. Picture: Richard Polden Source: PerthNow

CLAIMS of a mould outbreak at the construction site of Perth Arena are threatening to cause further delays to the project.
Union boss Joe McDonald claims workers on the site of Perth's new indoor stadium have been exposed to mould after ceilings and walls inside the arena became wet over winter.
He said BGC staff on the site were using ``Exit Mould'' to clean affected panels.
``We want the health department to investigate this and we don't care how long it holds the job up. We want full answers,'' Mr McDonald said.
``I'm told there is wheat growing on some of these panels.
``The Arena is alleged to have has problems with water leakage and seepage from its underground car park- which may have contributed to this problem.''
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union has questioned how long BGC knew about the workers concerns and called on the Health Department and WorkSafe to Investigate.
But a spokesperson from WorkSafe said they would not investigate the matter until the union provided evidence of an alleged mould outbreak.
The completion date for the $500 million arena has been pushed back to April 2012 three years after the original completion date.
BGC declined to comment on the union's claims.

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Article – US Bank Approves Loan to Rinehart’s Roy Hill Project

by 23 December 2013
19 December 2013
Stephen Bell
Dow Jones News
PERTH, Australia–Roy Hill Holdings, majority owned by Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting unit, has won the backing of a U.S. credit agency for its proposed US$10 billion iron ore mine in Western Australia state’s Pilbara region.
The Export-Import Bank of the United States approved a US$694.4 million loan to Roy Hill, which has started early construction work for its proposed mine producing 55 million metric tons of iron ore a year.
The credit deal is contingent upon the purchase of U.S. mining and rail equipment from companies like Caterpillar Inc. and General Electric Co., the U.S. bank said in a statement.
It is the first confirmed loan in Roy Hill’s year-long efforts to secure approximately US$4 billion from export credit agencies and a further US$3 billion from commercial banks to develop the mine.
Roy Hill is pushing ahead with what would be Australia’s biggest iron ore mine in decades as other major producers like BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto choose to expand or squeeze more from existing mines.
“Roy Hill continues to make good progress with both its financing and on-ground works,” a Roy Hill spokesman said in relation to the U.S. deal, which was provisionally approved last month.
Separately, a report this week in the Korea Economic Daily said that Korea EximBank would provide a US$1 billion project finance loan to Roy Hill. The state-run bank will provide US$550 million in loans and US$450 million in loan guarantees to the project, the newspaper said.
Although Roy Hill declined to comment, the report has been posted on Hancock Prospecting’s website.
Roy Hill is 70% owned by Hancock Prospecting alongside Asian investors including South Korea’s Posco and Japan’s Marubeni Corp.
Courtesy of Dow Jones News

Article – US Export-Import Bank kicks in $790m to Rinehart’s Roy Hill project

by 23 December 2013
21 December 2013
Andrew Burrell
The Australian
AS the clock ticks towards Gina Rinehart’s end-of-year deadline to win debt funding for her huge $10 billion Roy Hill iron ore project in the Pilbara, the US Export-Import Bank has delivered her a major boost by kicking in almost $US700 million ($790m) in loans.
The bank’s decision came two days after the Korea Export-Import Bank agreed to provide $US1bn in debt and as other Asian institutions reportedly edged closer to formally joining one of the world’s biggest project financing deals.
It also came after Treasurer Joe Hockey this week singled out Roy Hill as a project that Australia needed to proceed, as he signalled he wanted to clear any potential roadblocks from new projects.
Roy Hill Holdings, which is 70 per cent owned by Mrs Rinehart, had set December 31 as its target date for raising around $7bn in debt.
However, even if that deadline passes the project now appears highly likely to go ahead.
The company yesterday refused to confirm or deny that it had finalised any loan deals.
“Roy Hill continues to make good progress with both its financing and on-ground works,” a spokesman said.
The US Ex-Im Bank said it had authorised a $US694m loan to Roy Hill Holdings in exchange for the purchase of American mining and rail equipment from companies such as Caterpillar, GE and Atlas Copco.
The deal will become the US government-backed bank’s second biggest loan in Australia after it authorised a $US2.95bn loan last year for the Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas project in Queensland.
In a statement, the bank said the Roy Hill loan would support 3400 US jobs.
“After a comprehensive review, the bank determined that this transaction represents a significant opportunity for American exporters to create and sustain American jobs,” Ex-Im Bank chairman Fred Hochberg said.
“Our financing positions American companies on a level playing field so they can close the sales and expand their homegrown workforces.
Other agencies believed to be involved in Roy Hill financing are Japan’s Nippon Export and Investment Insurance, the Japan Bank for International Co-operation and the Korea Trade Insurance Corporation.
Roy Hill has also sought support from the big four Australian banks.
The project involves a new mine capable of producing 55 million tonnes per annum of iron ore, a 344km railway and a new port at Port Hedland.
Courtesy of The Australian

Article – Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill project gets backing from US government agency

by 20 December 2013
20 December 2013
Peter Ker
Sydney Morning Herald
A US government agency is helping to fund Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill project. Photo: Bloomberg
Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill joint venture is a step closer to reality this morning after a US government agency agreed to lend $US694.4 million ($784 million) to the giant iron ore mine, port and rail project in Western Australia.
In its final decision on the matter, the Export Import Bank of the United States found the loan could support up to 3400 US jobs by stoking demand for US products, such as Caterpillar trucks or trains built by GE.
Despite being opposed by some North American miners, the Exim Bank decided the loan represented “a significant opportunity for American exporters to create and sustain American jobs”.
The loan is a symbolic win for the $US10 billion Roy Hill project, which has taken longer than expected to secure the $US7 billion worth of finance it needs.
More than half that amount has been expected to come from export credit agencies, and Fairfax Media believes the Korean EximBank may have also approved about $US1 billion worth of loans on Monday.
The Japanese Bank for International Cooperation is also understood to have loaned just over $US1 billion to Roy Hill in March on the grounds that Japanese company Marubeni is one of the joint venture partners.
“Export credit agencies from several other countries have obtained preliminary or final approvals for the Roy Hill transaction as well,” said the US Exim Bank this morning, after a board meeting in Washington.
Commercial banks like ANZ and NAB are expected to help fund about $US3 billion from commercial banks. China Steel Corporation, POSCO and Ms Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting are the other partners with Marubeni, and are funding the roughly $US3 billion that will not come from debt.
Roy Hill had hoped to finalise its debt this year, and while the puzzle may not be fully complete, it has taken a big step forward this week.
The project is forecast to be exporting iron ore from Port Hedland by the latter months of 2015, and hopes to eventually export about 55 million tonnes of iron ore each year.
The long-running effort to secure funding would not have been hurt by the strong iron ore prices witnessed during 2013, with the benchmark price averaging close to $US135 per tonne for the calendar year so far. Calendar 2012 saw the commodity average closer to $US128 per tonne.
Courtesy of the Sydney Morning Herald

Article by Mrs. Rinehart in Australian Resources & Investment Magazine:Seeking Debt-defying Change

by 19 December 2013
Mrs. Gina Rinehart
Australian Resources and Investment, vol.7 no.4
Mrs. Gina Rinehart
While Australia’s new political leadership and a few from our business community were working at APEC CEO Summit, recently held in nearby Bali, the country’s media was obsessed with what seems trivial when compared to our extraordinary debt challenges.
You can’t help but think there’s almost a sense of denial that we may have a problem. Instead, our country is being focused on the diminutive rather than the monthly millions of dollars in interest payments alone owed on Government’s debt, for which we need to borrow more money and incur more debt to even meet such interest bills.
As I write this, Joe Hockey has just announced he’ll raise the debt ceiling, up an incredible 66% to $500 billion or half a trillion. There is talk of a target to deliver a surplus of 1 per cent of GDP before 2024 – 11 years away. The story struggled to make it to the evening TV news yet it affects every person in this country, including our next generations.
Barnaby Joyce was once criticised for stating what is obvious to most in business; “if you don’t manage debt, debt manages you”. For some reason, this didn’t register with many in Canberra. Keeping the debt ceiling lower at least imposes more expenditure discipline on Government. With this move, we are into the unknown with our country’s finances. Or, perhaps I should say, emulating the paths of various countries in Europe.
In fairness, Joe Hockey didn’t cause this extraordinary financial dilemma but it is primarily his duty to fix it, for which he needs to be serious about quickly cutting Government expenditure. In seven years, from 2007, we’ve gone from hardly any reliance on debt to borrowing to make the interest payments. When is the time right for planning and action in our country about Government over expenditure? But back to APEC in October: As national leaders mixed in front of the cameras, or away from the spotlight, there were also many speeches – virtual sales pitches – from member countries. I was privileged to be there at APEC CEO Summit, listening to stories about the economies of our trading partners, critical for the ambitions and futures of their people. These are Australia’s neighours, our customers and trading partners. Their stories from the highest of their representatives are subjects of great importance – yet their messages and the opportunities were barely reported back here.
With little exception, nearly all that Australians heard about APEC from their media was that Tony Abbott attended; and met a few world leaders. What dominated the news attention while APEC had leaders on our doorstep from 21 countries was what the new Prime Minister had to say about the very minor travel bills of some of his now-Ministers.
In part, the “scandal” was this: I had given The Hon. Julie Bishop, then Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, a free one way trip to India in a friend’s plane which I’d chartered, wrongly called my private jet (I don’t have a private jet). I thought it was beneficial and important for her Foreign Affairs role that she meet important business friends all conveniently together from the top of the Indian political and business communities for this important Indian family wedding.
The media figured that was outrageous when she had charged the taxpayers for her flight back home. Barnaby Joyce was also lined up for acres of abuse, not actually for the India trip at all, which taxpayers didn’t pay for at all, but for his return journey from Kuala Lumpur, where he’d also been working.
Isn’t it time we dealt with economic matters more seriously in Australia instead of allowing them to be dwarfed in significance against a cranked up story about a couple of return flights? We know or at least, should know, the truth is paying our debt down relies on our overseas customers buying our goods and resources and our businesses expanding.
I am a constant target for many of the political left including in the media for daring to suggest we, as a Nation, need to lower our costs and get more competitive, even more urgent when our Aussie dollar is high. I say often what is on the mind of many in the business community – be they family operations or larger, and am frequently asked to speak on these critical matters. It is simply fundamental; we need to lower our costs to be competitive. There’s an urgent need for a reduction of regulations and their expensive compliance. In these times of the high Aussie dollar when we have to compete with the world, but have some of the highest costs in the world, we can’t afford our Governments providing added drag and extra expense.
Exploration and investment should be encouraged. Instead the message Australia has for years sent to the world is almost the opposite. We are overdue for some tough decisions and it’s not 3 helpful that every time such issues are raised its invariably misrepresented and politicised, without considering our future.
In an international market place, we are judged on price and reliability. Competitors whose costs are lower and whose Governments don’t over burden to enable things to happen, they see the results in their economies! If our miners miss out, so do the related industries that rely upon them, (even the offices in Sydney and Melbourne they help to support), Australia misses out and we are back watching the debt clock increase and increase.
It was apparent at APEC that leaders in our region know that their economies matter for their own people’s future. Plenty of entrepreneurs from Indonesia, Japan, China, Russia and elsewhere were actively seeking opportunities. And their leaders were strongly declaring their countries were open for business and welcoming it. Sadly, Americans and Australians were scarcely present. We in business need to better spread the word that with a change in the national Government, our country has re-opened for business, and impress upon our political leaders, that with Australia’s high dollar, now is the time for urgent tough decisions, and, serious reductions in regulations and approvals and permits.
Mining is an industry that sees less than 1% of prospects becoming a mine, too many believe, that without any work, or investment, a tenement then gushes money to the greedy few! The related industries dependent on such mines and nearby communities are forgotten. Every day we have to take on the Brazilians and Indonesians. We should be far more aware of the developing African nations with their giant reserves, low costs, and little regulation. In the Australian equation of some of the highest wages in the world, high taxes, high Aussie dollar, and too much expensive regulation, approvals and permits – something has to give.
On 22 November this year, a very special date for Australia, we will celebrate the inaugural National Day for Mining and Related Industries. It seems extraordinary in a country so economically reliant on this sector including tis related industries that it’s never happened before. We are perhaps one of the most misrepresented industry groups in the country, yet, essential for our economy. We have a veritable industry of critics matched with a political movement that seemingly exists to envy us, or at least not appreciate us, and with departments expanding to cause more approvals, permits, and regulations in their interests, – yet, a country that is openly 4 reliant on us doing well so our children and grandchildren have opportunities and aren’t having to be burdened with the onerous responsibility to pay off our recent years excesses. I hope you will join me on our inaugural day and stand proud. Please join us at any functions held for this day, including the launch at lunch in Brisbane, at the Hilton, with our Resources Minister. I also hope you will support the Small Business Association’s launch for their small business weekend forum with a Gala Dinner at Bond University on 22nd November and continuing 23rd November at Bond University also. Small business is our country’s biggest employer, very important for our future so they also should be supported and listened to.
Nearly 110 years ago, while campaigning for re-election in Britain, a young Winston Churchill won over a town-hall meeting with perhaps one of the wisest observations ever made of the relationship between business and government. He said in response to a heckler, “I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle”. Here we are at the end of 2013 and that wisdom still stands as strongly as ever. And even earlier Voltaire said: “In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other”. Isn’t it time we learned from this? On the positive front, it is exciting to see that both major parties and the National Party are supporting policies for a special economic zone for our north, with reduced taxation and regulation. I’m delighted to be an Ambassador to the Northern Territory, and look forward to seeing such policies implemented sooner rather than later, and look forward to seeing exciting opportunities result for our north, which also helps Australia!
Courtesy of Mrs. Gina Rinehart & Australian Resources and Investment


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Dispute could stop airport extension





Ben Harvey Political Editor, the West Australian, May 17, 2011


Plans to expand Perth Airport have hit turbulence, with building magnate Len Buckeridge, who owns a brick factory on airport land, trying to stop a runway extension.
Westralia Airports Corporation wants to put navigation lights on land that Mr Buckeridge leases from it and has earmarked for a factory to make prefabricated houses.
Mr Buckeridge, who owns builder BGC and is estimated to be worth $2.7 billion, lodged a Federal Court writ last week claiming the airports corporation had no right to stop him building the 300m by 90m factory. If the writ is successful, the corporation will need an alternative plan to ease congestion at the airport. Airport operators say a longer second runway will allow more flights.
Mr Buckeridge said the cost of homes was constantly news, so it beggared belief that a new business to build prefabricated homes for country WA was in jeopardy.
It could produce a home up to 180sqm with up to four bedrooms and two bathrooms every couple of days on a production line.
"The shed is 270,000sqm. It is as big as Perth Airport," Mr Buckeridge said. "They are 55,000 houses short in WA, and you are going to have to compromise in some way, whether you like it or not."
The writ alleges the corporation had no right to install the lights anywhere on the 32ha which BGC leases. Westralia Airports Corporation declined to comment.

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Worker death an unmitigated disaster: Buckeridge

The Western Australian October 21 ,
2012
The owner of building and mining company BGC, Len Buckeridge, has offered his condolences over the death of a Perth man buried alive in a sand silo at one of his company's sites.
The man was moving sand from a pile when it collapsed on him at BGC Precast Concrete in Naval Base about 12.15pm on Saturday. Emergency services were unable to save the man. Mr Buckeridge told the ABC the incident was an "unmitigated disaster" and was the first fatality at his group of companies in more than 50 years. WorkSafe is now investigating the incident.
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10. Len Buckeridge, $1.95 billion, Buckeridge Group of Companies



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Marital Status: Married. Children: 6. Len Buckeridge on Forbes Lists. #19 Australia's

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Leonard Walter "Len" Buckeridge

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Len Buckeridge's BGC is Australia's largest builder for 2009-10. Picture: Neil Eliot

BGC nation's largest builder


PERTH-based BGC has been named Australia's largest builder as housing starts from the country's top 100 builders rose 22.8 per cent in 2009-10.
In the latest Housing Industry Association (HIA) – Colorbond Steel Housing 100 report, BGC was topped the list with 4392 starts – 3836 detached houses and 556 units - up by 548 on the previous year.
Another Perth builder, Alcock/Brown-Neaves Group, was ranked second with 3526 starts while Victorian-based Metricon Homes was ranked third with 3214 starts.
Hickory Developments Pty Ltd was the nation’s largest multi-unit builder with 1275 starts.
The top 100 builders accounted for an estimated 38 per cent share of the country’s housing starts in 2009-10, unchanged from the previous year.
“The tripling of the federal First Home Owner’s Grant for new homes, low interest rates and social housing programs saw a relatively strong recovery in housing starts in 2009/10,” HIA chief economist Harley Dale said.
“However, as the positive impact from past stimulus programs unwinds it’s unlikely that we will see further growth in HOUSING 100 and aggregate housing starts in 2010/11.
“While there were 11,230 more homes built by the largest 100 than the previous year, the number of multi-units being built actually fell.
“In 2009/10 there were 51,602 detached house starts (up from 39,947) and 8,988 starts for flats, units and townhouses (down from 9,413).”
“The restriction of finance for residential development presents a big constraint, while the stimulus measures masked the insufficient progress made so far in reducing supply-side obstacles related to land, labour, planning, taxation, and regulation.”
Today’s release of the HIA-Colorbond report also coincides with data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that show that housing starts increased slightly by 0.8 per cent in the June quarter to 44,899 units, seasonally adjusted.
In WA, housing starts dropped 5.1 per cent to 6937 units in the June quarter.
During the 2009-10 year, housing starts nationally rose 43.8 per cent.
Economists say that the six interest rate rises between October 2009 and May this year was a prime factor in the slow down in housing starts in the June quarter.
Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) data showed the median house price nation wide rose 3.2 per cent in the quarter to $553,243.
With the exception of Perth and Hobart, all Australian capital cities recorded increases in median house prices over the quarter, Mortgage Choice senior corporate affairs manager, Kristy Sheppard, said.
Sydney, Melbourne and Darwin recorded the highest increases in prices while the lowest were recorded in Hobart, Adelaide and Brisbane.
- with AAP



Buckeridge and Barnett slug it out





THE conflict between building magnate Len Buckeridge and WA Premier Colin Barnett is reaching new highs.
The public battle between one of Australia's richest men and the leader of Australia's largest State, over the building of a new private port, James Point Pty Ltd (JPPL), in Cockburn Sound, has now gone to a whole new level with Mr Buckeridge reportedly attempting to claim $1 billion from the State Government.
Last week Mr Barnett told ABC radio that a potential claim would cost the State millions of dollars in legal fees.
Potentially at the expense of education, health and services for disabilities.
"What is Len Buckeridge really saying, that he wants to take a billion dollars off the WA community?" Mr Barnett asked.
"Where would that billion dollars come from?
"In reality, if he was successful, it would come out of education, health, services for disabilities.
"I don't think for a moment Len Buckeridge wants to do that."
Mr Buckeridge is arguing the State Government has repeatedly failed to honour an agreement signed in 2000 to build and operate a private bulk shipping and container port.
The port is also expected to handle live exports which Mr Barnett has said previously he wants out of Fremantle.
Mr Barnett also later told State Parliament he supported the construction of the berth but not the offshore container facility.
"There is a need for a bulk cargo facility on the coast and we would work with him to try to achieve that," he said.
"As to the other project, that's another matter.
"I would think there would be massive environmental impediments to that, not least of which would be the view of the government that we don't want to see Cockburn Sound turned into basically a parking area for bulk cart containers."
Following the comments, JPPL issued a statement saying the Premier's comments were wrong, misleading and offensive.
"James Point Pty Ltd (JPPL) still wishes to proceed with its port development at James Point, but has been prevented from doing so by the State Government which has failed to honour the contract it signed in 2000," the statement said.
"As a result and as a last resort after 12 years of extreme frustration, JPPL is seeking restitution through the courts.
"Statements suggesting that Len Buckeridge wants to take a billion dollars off the WA community are as offensive as they are untrue.
"The company, of which Len Buckeridge is a director, wants to build a port in a manner consistent with the 2000 contract.
"No more, no less."
JPPL attacked the Premier saying he continued to mislead the community by saying the government was prepared to sell land for port purposes adjacent to the area to be reclaimed.
"His government is only prepared to entertain inadequate leases and refuses to even talk about the actual sale of land," the statement said. "The Premier was factually very wrong when he told parliament last week that JPPL wanted to build an island in the middle of Cockburn Sound for a container facility.
"JPPL does not.
"It is his own statutory authority, Fremantle Ports, that does.
"JPPL believes its 100ha land-backed proposal for an International Container Facility has very significant environmental advantages compared with Fremantle Ports' island proposal.
"Furthermore, the Premier's apparent opposition to new container facilities in Cockburn Sound totally contradicts his government's media release of June 29 this year which stated: 'Extensive research has identified the coastal area from Naval Base to James Point in Cockburn Sound as the most suitable location for additional container-handling port facilities.'
"The WA Planning Commission is currently undertaking a major planning study to this end."
JPPL said the need for additional port facilities is well known and the provision long overdue.
"Exporters and importers are extremely frustrated by the government's inability to allow the privately-funded James Point Port to proceed," JPPL said.
"As a result, there are often long queues of ships waiting for a berth, which incur significant additional costs which impact on the WA economy.
"The easiest way to get rid of the $1 billion claim is for the State to let the port be built.
"There would be no need for legal fees or for court resources to be taken up if Mr Barnett simply accepted that the container facility which he agreed to in Cabinet in 2000 should be allowed.
"Why has he changed his mind about that?
"Why was it a good idea in 2000, but not now?
"If it wasn't a good idea then, why didn't he say so?
"He was the Minister for Resources and he had an obligation to object if he thought it was bad for the State.
"The simple fact is that he is the lone voice of objection now and is placing the interests of the State at risk for his own personal agenda, which he never revealed in 2000 and which he has failed to explain.
"Unless the government changes its position and intransigence on the matter, then additional privately-funded port facilities will not be built and the matter will be concluded in the courts.
"In contrast, if the government is prepared to honour its contract, the WA economy, and West Australians generally, will benefit.
"It's up to the Premier which course he takes."
JPPL's comments are the latest installment in the public feud which continued on from Mr Barnett's comments at a Pastoralists and Graziers Association function in Broome, where he doubted Mr Buckeridge's commitment to having live exports out of the potential port.
It also comes after JPPL launched an advertising campaign against Mr Barnett in November last year.
Mr Buckeridge is also a major Liberal party donor.

BGC's Len Buckeridge baulks at Perth Arena penalty fees

JULY 04, 2011
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BATTLE: The builder of the Perth Arena will dispute penalty fees of $45,000 a day after it missed a deadline last week. Picture: Theo Fakos Source: PerthNow
Perth Arena
Perth Arena under construction. Picture: Kerris Berrington Source: PerthNow

IF the WA government ends up in a legal battle with building tycoon Len Buckeridge over the disastrous Perth Arena project, it will be thanks to the Labor government, Premier Colin Barnett says.
Mr Buckeridge is refusing to pay penalties of $45,000 a day after the Perth Arena project, which is being built by his company BGC, failed to meet a completion deadline on Friday.

Meanwhile, the billionaire is preparing a counterclaim of $53 million for repeated changes to the project which he has described as the most disgraceful building he has worked on, likening it to a "squashed beer can''.

Mr Barnett said the project, which was originally slated to cost $160 million but is now estimated at more than $500 million, "has been very poorly handled''.

It was also due to be completed in January 2009 when it was announced in 2005, however it is yet to finish.

"This project is an example of how not to build a major piece of infrastructure,'' he said of the undertaking, which began under the previous Labor Government.

"This state government, the Liberal National government, has to deal with the mess.''

Last year the auditor general found the initial cost estimate and construction schedule was "unrealistic'' and criticised the major changes that were made to the project during contract negotiations.

However Mr Barnett said BGC were not pressured into signing the contract for the project and must bear some of the blame.
"If it ends up in litigation, I think that's a pity,'' he said.

"The project is now finally progressing, I think everyone looks forward to it being completed.

"They signed the contract in their own free will ... Len Buckeridge is a very experienced business person, I don't think I need to apologise to him.''
Due to delays in the project BGC is now facing penalties of $45,000 a day payable to the state government until it is finished.

Mr Buckeridge has called for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the building's design.

Opposition leader Eric Ripper said while his party does accept some responsibility for the cost blow-outs and delays, the Liberal Party should also shoulder some of the blame.

"Mr Barnett has to take responsibility for his management of the project as we do for ours,'' Mr Ripper said.

"I think the government should stand up to Mr Buckeridge, a well known supporter of the Liberal Party, because it would be all too easy for the government to give in to Mr Buckeridge and try and blame the Labor Party.''

Mr Ripper, who was WA treasurer when BGC was awarded the contract, said most of the construction of the project has occurred under the watch of the Liberal government.






Kwinana port offer to Buckeridge

Gareth Parker State Political Editor, The West AustralianUpdated November 8, 2013, 2:40 am
Kwinana port offer to Buckeridge
First option: Len Buckeridge. Picture: Ben Crabtree/The West Australian
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Government will try to sell the Kwinana Bulk Terminal to Len Buckeridge as part of a settlement of the building magnate's $1 billion lawsuit against the State.
Mr Buckeridge, who wants to build a private port at James Point, is suing the Government for costs and lost profits flowing from a deal he struck in the dying days of the Court government in 2000.
He alleges successive Labor and Liberal-National governments failed to honour the agreement.
The terminal, adjacent to James Point, handles cement clinker, gypsum, iron ore and coal.
Transport Minister Troy Buswell said the decision to sell the terminal was consistent with the Government's policy to attract private investment to WA ports.
But it will be offered only to James Point Proprietary Limited in the first instance, sparking fears taxpayers may not get the highest price for the State-owned asset.
The Buckeridge camp is anxious to quickly finalise negotiations on the project, which Mr Buckeridge sees as the final piece in the puzzle of his business empire, because 

The Buckeridge camp is anxious to quickly finalise negotiations on the project, which Mr Buckeridge sees as the final piece in the puzzle of his business empire, because of his faltering health.
"After 15 years of stuffing around with endless indecision, Len is keen to see the final part of his vision realised before he passes on," his lawyer Michael Hotchkin said.
"It is very frustrating that the process has taken so long to get to this point.
"If a deal is done, the State will be better off. It can get rid of a massive claim against it and have additional port infrastructure built and run by the private sector."
It is not known how much the Kwinana Bulk Terminal could be expected to fetch on the open market.
One source suggested it was worth as much as $300 million, given valuations of other port assets in WA's north, but the Buckeridge camp and Mr Buswell refused to put a price on it.
"Respected and independent advice has been sought by the Government in determining a valuation of the KBT business," Mr Buswell said.
If a deal could not be struck with JPPL, it would be offered through a competitive expressions of interest process, he said.
Maritime Union WA branch secretary Christy Cain said the plan was collusion.
"It's not gone out to a proper tender process. Buckeridge is suing them (the Government) for millions of dollars . . . and it's being done behind closed doors between Buckeridge and the Government," he said.
Fremantle Ports bought the terminal from BHP Billiton in 2002 and spent $39 million upgrading the infrastructure.
A further $44 million - most of that from Mineral Resources - was spent from 2011 so the company could export 4.4 million tonnes of iron ore a year from its Carina mine in the Yilgarn.
Negotiations between the Government and Mr Buckeridge will centre on the bulk terminal and adjacent land, which adjoins land Mr Buckeridge would use to develop his port but is presently isolated from Cockburn Sound.
That land could be leased or sold, but it is understood the Government and Mr Buckeridge are still hundreds of millions of dollars apart on a deal to settle the lawsuit.
It is understood the State has been advised Mr Buckeridge has some prospect of winning.
Mr Buckeridge lodged his $1 billion Supreme Court writ last November for costs incurred and lost profits from delays to his plan to build a private port.
A framework agreement to build the bulk commodity, live animal export berth and second-stage offshore container port in Cockburn Sound was signed in the last days of the Court government in 2000.
But finalisation of the deal was delayed amid ideological battles with the Gallop and Carpenter Labor governments.
Mr Buckeridge, a big Liberal donor, then argued with Premier Colin Barnett and the Government refused to sell him the land needed to build the port as envisaged in the initial 2000 agreement.
Mr Barnett also opposed the consortium building an offshore container facility.
Shadow transport minister Ken Travers said the public had a right to know what benefits taxpayers would get from the proposed sale.
He said the sale should be open to competition.

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    Nov 7, 2012 - PERTH businessman Len Buckeridge should drop his billion-dollar lawsuit against the ... port development and get on with the project, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says. ... decision to abandon the private bulk shipping and container port near Kwinana, in Perth's south. ..... Greater Building Society.
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  • Barnett wants $1 billion lawsuit dropped

    Date
    November 7, 2012
    Perth businessman Len Buckeridge should drop his billion-dollar lawsuit against the state government over a private port development and get on with the project, West Australian Premier Colin Barnett says.

    Lawyers for Mr Buckeridge have lodged a claim in the WA Supreme Court, blaming the government for his consortium's decision to abandon the private bulk shipping and container port near Kwinana, in Perth's south.

    Mr Barnett told ABC radio on Wednesday that it would cost the state millions of dollars in legal fees if it were sued for $1 billion.

    "Where would that billion dollars come from?" he said.

    "In reality, if he was successful, it would come out of education, health (and) services for disabilities.

    "I don't think for a moment Len Buckeridge wants to do that."

    Mr Buckeridge claimed several state governments had failed to honour a 2000 agreement allowing a consortium led by the Buckeridge Group of Companies (BGC) to build and operate the port at James Point.

    His lawyers say the government's decision to prevent construction of a container-handling facility makes the project unviable.

    Mr Barnett said he supported the construction of the berth but not the offshore container facility.

    He said he did not want a "huge chunk" of Cockburn Sound turning into a parking area for ships and containers.

    "I would hope Len would drop all this nonsense and get on and build his bulk products port, or berth, because it is needed," Mr Barnett said.

    The Premier said his government had offered Mr Buckeridge land to buy, as well as some of the transport, road access and rail access.

    "But I'm not going to be giving Len Buckeridge land at zero price or heavily discounted prices," he said.

    "He'll pay a proper price for land and that offer has been on the table for quite some time."

    James Point spokesman Michael Hotchkin said the premier's comments on the radio were as offensive as they were untrue.

    "(The company) wants to build a port in a manner consistent with the 2000 contract. No more, no less," he said.

    Mr Hotchkin said if the government did not change its position, the matter would be concluded in the courts.

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    17. Len Buckeridge
    Len Buckeridge. Photo: John Mokrzycki

    17. Len Buckeridge

    Published 22 May 2013 16:01, Updated 22 May 2013 16:18

    $2.1 billion

    • LAST YEAR: $2.01 BILLION
    • MANUFACTURING (BUILDING MATERIALS),
    • CONSTRUCTION. PERTH
    • 76. MARRIED TWICE, SIX CHILDREN
    Len Buckeridge has been a commanding presence in Western Australia’s business community for decades, but his relationship with an incumbent state government has rarely been so tense.
    A long-time donor to the Liberal Party, the founder of the Buckeridge Group of Companies has been at loggerheads with WA Premier Colin Barnett on two fronts.
    A 12-year feud over Buckeridge’s stalled James Point cargo port development in Fremantle intensified last year when he accused the government of failing to honour its commitment to the project and sought $1 billion in compensation for lost income.
    Barnett said any payment to BGC would be at the expense of government spending on education and health.
    Buckeridge also refused to pay daily $45,000 penalties for time overruns on BGC’s construction contract for the recently opened $550 million Perth Arena stadium, blaming government-initiated design changes for the delays.
    With all the recent stoushes, it’s hard to know where he finds the time to run his empire, which turned over more than $2.2 billion last year. An architect by training, Buckeridge started out 50 years ago building low-cost housing before diversifying into industrial and commercial construction and manufacturing.
    BGC’s vertically integrated business has a hand in just about every stage of the building process, from quarrying and concreting to making cement, bricks, roof tiles, insulation, windows and other building materials.
    Last year, the company’s home building division was ranked Australia’s third biggest, with 2700 housing starts. After surviving near-fatal health scares in 2009, Buckeridge has become a paragon of healthy living, giving up his long-time chain smoking habit and swearing off beer.

    Premier's potentially costly Len Buckeridge gaffe

    Date
    November 6, 2012

    Courtney Trenwith


    Premier Colin Barnett has made a potentially expensive legal gaffe during parliamentary question time, mixing up two port development proposals while attempting to defend the government's dealings with WA building tycoon Len Buckeridge.
    The James Point Pty Ltd consortium, led by Mr Buckeridge, is reportedly suing the state government for $1 billion in lost income and wasted costs because it says government delays have caused it to cancel plans to build a private port at Cockburn Sound, south of Fremantle.
    The consortium had intended to build a land-backed port at Cockburn Sound for bulk containers including livestock exports as well as an offshore container facility, but it requires some state government-owned land.
    The development is viewed as essential as Fremantle Port nears capacity, expected as early as 2017.

    The Court government agreed to the development in 2000 but subsequent governments, including the Barnett Government, have refused to sell the land under the original proposed conditions.
    Mr Barnett told state parliament on Tuesday the government supported the land-backed port but was concerned the consortium also planned to create a man-made island in the middle of the Sound.
    "Do you think that was a good idea? I don't think that was a good idea," he said.

    But the Premier did not recognise his mistake: James Point did not make the island proposal; the Fremantle Port Authority did.
    With James Point seeking $1 billion from taxpayers in relation to the Cockburn Sound development, Mr Barnett's comment could prove costly.
    The Fremantle Port Authority's idea was mooted in 2006 and included dredging 10 million cubic meters of seabed and seagrass and filling the area with 1.8 million tonnes of earth.
    It was supported by then-Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan.
    Yet the Premier continued his parliamentary speech claiming he told Mr Buckeridge during a meeting at the businessman's home in 2009 that he supported the land-backed project but not the man-made island.
    "I made it very clear to him that the government was supportive of developing the initial project but we didn't say that we'd support the other one," Mr Barnett said.
    "I don't want to see Cockburn Sound turned into a car park ... for bulk containers."
    Mr Barnett also denied the 2009 meeting was a secret and said he was visiting Mr Buckeridge because he was ill.
    The Premier said the government was willing to negotiate land and transport access for the port to go ahead but it would not be freely handed over.
    "The state government is not going to give land away at a highly discounted price," he said.
    The civil case, initiated in December last year, is before the WA Supreme Court.
    Mr Buckeridge's relationship with the government also was strained over delays in his company BGC's building of the Perth Arena, with costs blowing out to triple the original budget to nearly $550 million.




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    Starwood Hotels is set to plant its second flag in Western Australia by 2017, ... West Australian construction magnate Len Buckeridge alleges the operators of ... People, Len Buckeridge, Colin Barnett .... Len Buckeridge brought himself up so he thinks he does everything better than anyone else, including the WA Premier.
     
    Leonard Walter "Len" Buckeridge is an Australian businessman
    an old friend of Western Australian Premier Colin Barnet, who is the Liberal Party Meber for Cottesloe, which is near Mosmans Park where Len Buckidge lives. Len Buckeridge has long time been a financial supporter of the Liberal Party in WA.
    Len Buckeridge
    Net Worth - $1.2 Billion - As of March 2014
    Source Of Wealth: construction, Self Made with the help of Triad backing through the family connection of his defacto Wife Siok Pauy Koh, who he moved in with after divorsing his ex-wife, who was made ot clean house during the day for extra money while married ot Len Buckeridge, even thouygh Len Buckeridge at the tiem was a multi millionaire in real estate investements form building cheap low budget flars in Balle Street, Mosmands Park anbd renting them out to barrlers who had trouble paying the rent, and paid the bond by borrowing the bond money from the State Housing Commisison in Western Australia, and when. Then when they wer late paying the rent, Len Bukeridge would quickly thrown them out by force a, keep their bond and quickly move another battle into the flat who would beforwe long do the same thing, Len Buckeridge did very well out of this type of tenant. Len Buckeridge quickly learnt that that this type hoigh tenant turiver effectively doubled the cash flow from his cheap flats. This also created a high rise low income battlers geto in Battle Street, Mosman Park where many suicides took place and it became in the 1960's a very dangerous street to live in, with a loty of crime and violence in the street.
    Then when he was going through the divorce proceedings with the ex-wife, Len Buckeridge's brother in law was threatening to expose Len Buckridhe for rapoing his sister-in-law, and Len Buckeridge said to him that if he wants to make this public then he will have his legs broken and his familie slegs brokes as well. It is qwell known arounf old time Mosmand Park Residents that Lem Buckeridghe is a very powerful and dangoerous man to take on and every one fears Len Buyckridge in well off section of Mosman Park which iover looks the river.
    Len Buckeridge is also knw to eb a well respected Freemson and helps other freemoasn obtain jobs in hios BGC Building Group of companies which turn have an estaimated turnover of in excess on $160 billion in 2014.
    Len Buckeridhe has along close association and greidnship with Western Australian Liberal Premier who is the Liberal member for Cottesloe, which is Len Buckeridge's stomping ground, living on the Rover of nearby Mosman Park.
    It has also been well publicised that Len Buckeridge has for years controled the Cotteslowe Police and even the whole fo the W A Pol;cie force and was proetced by the WA Polce in th 1990 form purjury and assault charges where there was a mass of evidence to confirm their was no doubt that Len Buckeridge commited the crimes as part of a conspiurtacy with the WA Public Truistee to defraud the Carew-Reid family home at 135 Glyde Street, Mosman Park from the Carew-Reid family.
    Len Buckeridge's Buckeridge Group spans bricks and cement to plasterboard and timber window frames, but he's keen to add a port to the empire. Domestic politics and poor health, however, are working against a possible deal that is 15 years in the making. Meantime, weak demand for building materials--especially in his home state of Western Australia, heavily exposed to the depressed mining sector--has pulled down his fortune. Trained as an architect, he first built high-rise apartment blocks in Perth, his hometown, and won awards for low-cost housing designs. He became a home builder on an industrial scale, supplying most building products from his own factories. He opposes organized labor and says he prefers private ownership to public investment.
    He attended Perth Modern School then trained as an architect at Perth Technical College
    In his final year of Architecture he won the James Hardie Prize for his thesis "The Economical House".
    Career
    He has built high-rise buildings in Perth and elsewhere through his company, Buckeridge Group of Companies. He also owns James Point Pty Ltd.
    In September 2012, he sued a former fork-lift driver who allegedly posted defamatory comments on Facebook about him. The former employee is backed by the labour union United Voice.
    In November 2012, he sued the Government of Western Australia for A$1 billion regarding a delay in construction on Cockburn Sound.[2][6] Premier Colin Barnett counselled him to drop the lawsuit.Buckeridge also sued about a delay in the construction of the Perth Arena.
    Personal life
    He is married, and has six children. He lives in the Mosman Park neighbourhood of Perth. As of January 2013, he is worth an estimated US$1.4 billion.
     
     

    Rabu, 22 Juni 2011

    Daftar 10 Orang Terkaya di Australia

    Australia merupakan benua yan gada di dunia, di negara ini juga banyak para milyader yang sama dengan di negara kita, meeka terkenal di negara mereka, di sini saya memberi tahu siapa saja orang tersebut yan gberada di jajaran teratas,,,




    1. Anthony Pratt, $4.3 billion, Visy Industries



    2. Frank Lowy, $4.2 billion, Westfield Shopping Centers




    3. Harry Triguboff, $3.66 billion, Meriton Apartments




    4. Gina Rinehart , $3.47 billion, Hancock Prospecting




    5. Clive Palmer, $3.42 billion, Resource Development International





    6. James Packer ,$3 billion, Consolidated Media and Crown Casinos




    7. John Gandel, $2.7 billion, Property 7. John Gandel, $2,7 milyar, Properti





    8. Andrew Forrest, $2.38 billion, Fortescue Metals Group



    9. David Hains and Family, $2.01 billion, Portland House Group




    10. Len Buckeridge, $1.95 billion, Buckeridge Group of Companies



                                                              BGC

    Buckeridge Group of Companies,

     usually abbreviated as BGC, is a corporate group of construction and building-related companies operating primarily in Western Australia. It is one of the largest privately owned companies in Australia, and is owned entirely by the founder, Leonard Buckeridge

    BGC

    Type

    Private

    Industry

    Building

    Founded

    Founded in 1960

    Headquarters

    Perth, Western Australia

    Key people

    Len Buckeridge

    Operating income

    $163,218,319,402 AUD

    Website

    www.bgc.com.au


    BGC Companies

    The companies that make up BGC are the following:

    Each company provides the product that is suggested by its name. The varied nature of the companies that make up BGC mean that the company is largely self-sufficient, able to carry out building projects without needing to purchase materials or labour from other companies. They were the biggest home builders in Australia for six straight years, through their subsidiary companies including National Homes, Designer Homes, JCP Construction, Impressions the Home Builder, Commodore Homes, Perceptions - The Two-Storey Builder, Stratawise, HomeStart, WA Housing Centre and BGC Modular.

     

    http://www.bgc.com.au/s_02/02_builders_supplies.html

    BGC BUILDERS SUPPLIES

    A quality accredited plant, the division produces 25% of the state's asphalt requirement, which is the feedstock for the construction and maintenance of highways, freeways and suburban roads. It also services the civil and defence aviation industry.

    BGC Builders Supplies is unique in Western Australia in supplying just about every hardware/steel or plumbing product required for construction. We have developed the revolutionary Durabeam/Durapost building system, a first for Western Australia. We are major suppliers of the polybutylene plumbing system, the superior internal piping system for residential construction.

    Our staff have a wealth of experience and thoroughly understand the needs of the residential building industry.




    At our warehouse in Canning Vale, BGC Builders Supplies carries a large range of products including:

    • Door frames
    • Bricklayers hardware
    • Steel lintels and beams
    • Roofers hardware
    • Fixing hardware
    • Doors
    • Timber mouldings
    • Plumbing products
    • European kitchen appliances
    • Hotwater units

    We deliver to sites daily with our fleet of custom designed trucks. From the time of order we are able to supply most materials to site in less than 24 hours.

    For more information about BGC Builders Supplies products and services, contact:

    Tony DiStefano

    Tel: +61 8 93344666

    Fax: +61 8 94422389

    Email: hardware@bgc.com.au

     

    Street Address:

    BGC Builders Supplies
    87 Vulcan Rd, Canning Vale
    WA 6155, Australia

    Postal Address:

    BGC Builders Supplies
    PO Box 1407, Canning Vale
    WA 6970, Australia

     

    http://www.bgc.com.au/s_02/02_cement.html


    BGC CEMENT

    A major supplier of Western Australia's cement needs, BGC Cement supplies the "glue" upon which many residential, commercial and engineering projects are built. BGC Cement has established its position in the WA market by innovatively alligning its products and services to the needs of cement and lime users.

    BGC Cement's modern, flexible manufacturing plant produces a wide range of cements which can be delivered in bulk using BGC's reliable road tanker fleet.

    Under its Builders Choice brand name, BGC Cement offers an extensive range of bagged products that includes cements, lime, blended cements and dry mix products to suit most building and construction applications.

    BGC Cement can provide a wide range of bulk cement types suitable for general concrete applications, road stabilisation, cemented aggregate fill (CAF), cemented paste fill (CPF), controlled low strength material (CLSM) and shotcrete. Cement types included General Purpose (GP), General Blended (GB), Low Heat (LH), High Early Strength (HE), and Sulphate Resistant (SR). Other blended bulk cements, custom designed for specific technical performance, can also be provided.

    All cements can be supplied in bulk tankers, in bulker bags and in paper sacks.

    As well as being a large volume supplier of cement to the premixed concrete and concrete products industries, BGC Cement also supplies cement to the mining industry. Significant quantities of cement supplied for intensive filling campaigns can be accommodated. Please feel free to contact BGC Cement to discuss any bulk cement delivery requirements such as purchase of, or long-term hire of, mobile or fixed cement storage silos; short-term hire of on-site mobile storage tankers; high volume round-the-clock campaign deliveries; etc.

    Material Safety Data Sheet

    BGC Cement Purchase Order Terms and Conditions

     

     

     

    For more information about BGC Cement's products and services, contact:

     

    The Sales and Marketing Manager

     


    Tel: (08) 9334 4555

    Fax: (08) 9334 4544

    Email: cement@bgc.com.au

    Street Address:

    BGC Cement
    77 Vulcan Rd, Canning Vale
    WA 6155, Australia

    Postal Address:

    BGC Cement
    PO Box 1408, Canning Vale
    WA 6970, Australia

     

    http://www.bgc.com.au/s_02/02_cemtech.html

    BGC CEMTECH

    BGC Cemtech safeguards the high quality standards of BGC's cement, concrete, paving, tile and brick products. Cemtech's nationally accredited laboratory conducts exhaustive chemical and physical tests to ensure the group's manufacturing products continue to exceed the stringent demands of the Australian Standards Code.

    For more information about BGC Cemtech's products and services, contact:

     

    Michael G Remias

     

    Tel: +61 8 93344548


    Fax: +61 8 93344544

    Email: cemtech@bgc.com.au

    Street Address:

    BGC Cemtech
    77 Vulcan Road, Canning Vale
    WA 6155, Australia

    Postal Address:

    BGC Cemtech
    PO Box 1408, Canning Vale
    WA 6970, Australia

    http://www.bgc.com.au/s_02/02_comm_windows.html


    BGC COMMERCIAL WINDOWS

    BGC Commercial Windows is an independent company. Its specialty is the design, fabrication and installation of commercial and custom designed windows and enjoys the substantial resources and backing of a large corporation, giving builders and architects great flexibility.

    No matter what the job, high quality design, competitive pricing and the appropriate materials are always present, from small jobs right through to the demanding standards of large projects.

    The quality of a building project stands on its finishing trades. BGC Commercial Windows employs only experienced teams to ensure work is always of the best quality. Strong supervision and control are always maintained over all aspects of the work. Being on site on time, finishing on time and meeting all specifications and standards are just the obvious part of our commitment to quality. Ensuring windows seal properly, using correct glazing and tidying a site on completion are less obvious, but they are the hallmarks of a BGC job.

    BGC Commercial Window's highly skilled team of people can contribute valuable expertise and advice. They can confidently help design and specify windows for unusual facings, difficult installations, or special light and heat control.

    BGC Commercial Windows are members of The Australian Window Association. Therefore, new developments in technology and materials, and issues of Standards and quality supervision are consistent and present in every job.

    BGC COMMERCIAL WINDOWS SITE SAFETY MANUAL

    Click here to download an Adobe PDF version of our Site Safety Manual (1.2 MB).

    The Site Safety Manual is designed for use by BGC employees, subcontractors and contract labour visiting or working on a commercial or residential building site in the business of BGC Commercial Windows.

    For more information about BGC Commercial Windows's products and services, contact our Canning Vale office:

    Tel: +61 8 93344600


    Fax: +61 8 93344507

    Email:commwin@bgc.com.au

    Street Address:

    BGC Commercial Windows
    85 Vulcan Road, Canning Vale
    WA 6155, Australia

    Postal Address:

    BGC Commercial Windows
    PO Box 1408, Canning Vale
    WA 6970, Australia

    http://www.bgcinnovadesign.com.au/index.html

    AT BGC'S PLASTERBOARD AND FIBRE CEMENT DIVISION, WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON AN INSTINCTIVE FLAIR FOR BOTH INNOVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT. THIS DIVISION MANUFACTURES EXTERNAL CLADDING SYSTEMS INCLUDING THE INNOVA RANGE, INTERIOR LINING AND FLOORING PRODUCTS. WE HAVE TWO BGC FACTORIES IN PERTH AND DISTRIBUTION CENTRES THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. AND OUR TECHNICAL EXPERTS HAVE THE DESIGN AND SPECIFICATION SKILLS TO INFUSE EVEN YOUR MOST CHALLENGING PROJECT WITH AN EXCITING NEW ZEST.

    BGC is among Australia's largest domestic and commercial builders. Besides our renowned Plasterboard and Fibre Cement products, we manufacture insulation, windows, bricks, roof tiles, steel fabrication, insulated wall panels, plumbing materials and metal roofing.

     

     

    http://www.celltherm.com.au/

     

    INVEST IN A COMFORTABLE HOME

     

    Tired of struggling to keep your home cooler in summer and warmer in the winter.?

    More to the point, are your energy bills leaving you cold? If so, there's a good chance that your ceiling is not effectively insulated.

    No matter how well designed or how well appointed, without effective ceiling insulation, keeping your home comfortable is a constant and costly battle.

    By investing in properly and carefully installed ceiling insulation, you will create a barrier designed to prevent heat from both entering or leaving your home. This means that maintaining a comfortable temperature for you and your family becomes much easier and far less expensive - in both winter and summer.

    The many benefits afforded by installing effective ceiling insulation are not the kind your eye can see, except on those energy bills - but they are certainly ones that you and your family will feel.

    BGC Celltherm insulation will:

    • Keep you cooler in summer and warmer in winter
    • Significantly improve the energy efficiency of your home
    • Pay for itself
    • Reduce noise within your home
    • Add real estate value to your property
    • Improve the lifestyle of your whole family

    COMFORTABLE IN SUMMER AND WINTER

    During the summer the roof cavity of your home is exposed to the extreme heat of direct sunlight. BGC Celltherm ceiling insulation will limit the amount of heat transferred downwards from your roof.

     

    In winter, much of the heat generated in your home escapes through the ceiling. Installing BGC Celltherm is like placing a blanket over your home. As the warmth from your heating system rises it is prevented from escaping.


    BGC INSULATION SITE SAFETY MANUAL

    Click here to download an Adobe PDF version of our Site Safety Manual (2.2 MB).

    The Site Safety Manual is designed for use by BGC employees, subcontractors and contract labour visiting or working on a commercial or residential building site in the business of BGC Insulation.


    SUPERSEDED JSAS

    All previous versions of BGC Insulation Site Safety Manual JSAs have been superseded by JSA numbers:


    BGC INSULATION WARRANTY INFORMATION

    Click here to download an Adobe PDF version of our Warranty Information.

    http://www.bgc.com.au/s_02/02_metal_roofing.html

    BGC METAL ROOFING

     

    BGC Metal Roofing fixes more metal roofs to homes in Western Australia than any other company and enjoys the benefits of steady volumes and consistently lower prices than its competitors.

    With over 20 years experience, the team of professionals at BGC Metal Roofing have the skills and expertise you expect.

    BGC Metal Roofings' complete service to the building industry includes accurate measuring amd quoting, overseeing all stages of roof fixing, including a quality check on completion and advice on construction and design considerations.

    Our commitment to using only high grade steel ensures a consistent and guaranteed quality product in roof sheeting, gutters and downpipes. All fixed and installed to rigorous Australian Standards.

    BGC Metal Roofing materials are available in a range of COLORBOND®steel colours - refer to the BGC Steel Colour Options page for more details.

     

     

     

    BGC METAL ROOFING SITE SAFETY MANUAL

    Click here to download an Adobe PDF version of our Site Safety Manual (2.3 MB).

    The Site Safety Manual is designed for use by BGC employees, subcontractors and contract labour visiting or working on a commercial or residential building site in the business of BGC Metal Roofing.

    NOTE: This manual is not applicable to South Australia. Please see below for the BGC Metal Roofing (South Australia) Site Safety Manual.

    Job Safety Analysis Documents - New Versions

    NOTE: The JSAs provided below supersede those shown in the current version of the BGC Metal Roofing Site Safety Manual.

    Measuring a Roof

    Installation of Gutters and Downpipes

    Roof Sheeting

    Installation of Flume Vents and Whirlybirds

    Job Assessment

    Roof Maintenance

     

     

     

    BGC METAL ROOFING (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) SITE SAFETY MANUAL

    Click here to download an Adobe PDF version of our Site Safety Manual (920 KB).

    The Site Safety Manual is designed for use by BGC employees, subcontractors and contract labour visiting or working on a commercial or residential building site in the business of BGC Metal Roofing in South Australia.

     

     

     

    "QUOTATION AND SUPPLY OF METAL ROOFING" LETTER

    Click here to download an Adobe PDF version of the "Quotation and Supply of Metal Roofing" Letter.

     

     

     

    PRODUCT WARRANTY DOCUMENT

    Click here to download an Adobe PDF version of the Product Warranty.

     

     

     

     

    Please contact us for more information about BGC Metal Roofing's products and services:

     

     

     

    Tel: +61 8 93344688

     

     

    Street Address:

    BGC Metal Roofing
    131 Cnr Cook Street and 
    Bannister Road, Canning Vale
    WA 6155, Australia

     

    Fax: +61 8 93344554

     

     

    Email:roofing@bgc.com.au

     

     

    Postal Address:

    BGC Metal Roofing
    PO Box 1452, Canning Vale
    WA 6970, Australia

     

     

     

    Contact information for our South West branch:

     

     

    Tel: +61 8 97262049

     

     

    Street Address:

    BGC Metal Roofing (South West)
    No. 13 Allnut Crt, Bunbury
    WA 6230, Australia

     

    Fax: +61 8 97262046

     

     

     

    Postal Address:

    BGC Metal Roofing (South West)
    PO Box 1928, Bunbury
    WA 6231, Australia

     

     

     

    Contact information for our South Australian branch:

     

     

    Tel: +61 8 82813644

     

     

    Street Address:

    BGC Metal Roofing (South Australia)
    100 Brown Terrace, Salisbury
    SA 5108, Australia

     

    Fax: +61 8 82812833

     

     

    Email: agb@bgc.com.au

     

     

    Postal Address:

    BGC Metal Roofing (South Australia)
    PO Box 50, Salisbury
    SA 5108, Australia

     

    http://www.bgc.com.au/plasterboard/

    Welcome to BGC Plasterboard

    BGC Plasterboard products are manufactured in Perth, Western Australia. Our state-of-the-art complex comprises a 56,000m2 parcel of land, incorporating a 32,000m2 building to house the production, warehousing and dispatch facilities.

    Recently BGC Plasterboard has received GECA certification by Good Environmental Choice Australia and are now proud to announce the following products are GECA certified:

    • Plasterboard
    • Ceilingboard
    • Water Resistant Plasterboard
    • Soundboard
    • Fireboard
    • Water Resistance Fireboard
    • Impactboard
    • Curveboard

    BGC Plasterboard offers a range of gypsum based products with individual properties for various specific applications. The product range includes:

    BGC Plasterboard takes pride in supplying purpose designed products, suited to all residential and commercial wall and ceiling applications.

    BGC Plasterboard products are manufactured to the Australian Standard AS/NZS 2588 - 1998: Gypsum Plasterboard, and tested to determine their level of compliance. The company's perseverance of manufacturing excellence ensures its products are of a premium quality.

    For information on safe handling and safe delivery of BGC products please refer to the Gypsum Board Manufactures of Australia (GMBA) Safe Site Guidelines.

     

     

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    BGC ASPHALT AND STABILISATION

    A quality accredited plant, the division produces 25% of the state's asphalt requirement, which is the feedstock for the construction and maintenance of highways, freeways and suburban roads. It also services the civil and defence aviation industry.

    For more information about BGC Asphalt's products and services, contact:

     

    Craig Hollingsworth

    Tel: +61 8 94422388

    Fax: +61 8 94422389

    Email: asphalt@bgc.com.au

    Street Address:

    BGC Asphalt
    Lot 4 Stirling Cr., Hazelmere
    WA 6055, Australia

    Postal Address:

    BGC Asphalt
    PO Box 1257, Midland
    WA 6936, Australia

     

     

     

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    In partnership with you, our valued customer, we strive to provide cost effective and innovative solutions within the scope of our business.

    Through careful planning, responsible business ethics and hard work to become the market leader across the entire scope of our operation. This will ensure that the benefits of our success are shared with our clients and staff.

     

     

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    Welcome to AGI Australia

     

    http://www.bgcresidential.com

    The BGC Group

    The Buckeridge Group of Companies (BGC) has been a major force in the building and construction arena in Western Australia for over 50 years. A private family company started and still owned by Len Buckeridge, BGC has grown to become Australia's largest home builder and one of the most respected companies in Western Australia.

    One of the most important differences between BGC and other builders is that over five decades of building, the company has invested heavily in 'vertical integration' – ensuring that its building companies are supplied with only the very best by creating companies at every stage of the supply chain. The supply side of BGC has grown to include operations across Australia and a distribution network throughout South East Asia and New Zealand.

    Today there are over 30 BGC companies involved in every aspect of building and construction, from property investment and management, to transport, metal fabrication, plasterboard manufacture, insulation and even bricks and cement. The latest BGC company to come online is Brikmakers – a $110 million state of the art brick and block factory that will supply about 100 million bricks per year to the WA market.

    BGC is a family business that's also ranks as one of Australia's largest and WA's largest privately owned company (source: BRW). As Australia's largest home builder, BGC builds more homes than any other Australian company. As we continue to grow, our success helps the whole community prosper.

     

    Home Building

    Take a closer look at our nation leading family of housing brands, with home designs and budget options to satisfy every conceivable need. Whether it's your very first home, or the home you've always wanted, or even an investment property, there's a family member here ready to assist you.


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    BGC Modular


    Grouplex

     

     

     

    BGC Contracting's

     two operational business units (Mining and Civil) deliver a wide range of mining and construction services across the resources, government infrastructure, building and manufacturing sectors.

    With offices in Perth, Brisbane and Whyalla, and depots in key regional areas, the company has extensive experience on major mining and civil construction projects nationwide.

    BGC Contracting is part of BGC (Australia) Pty Ltd, a privately Australian owned and diversified industrial group. The BGC Group is one of Australia's largest privately owned companies, which presently employs more than 4,000 people.

     


    Building Products & Services

    The real strength of BGC is in its capacity to supply so many of the elements in your home from within the Group. When you build with one of its home building divisions, BGC companies provide interior and exterior roofing, bricks, pavers, cement, concrete, insulation, windows and door frames, all manufactured in Western Australia. A wide range of other home components are sourced and provided by BGC Builders Supplies, which delivers fixing hardware, electric appliances, hot water systems, timber mouldings and much more.

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    Automated Surveys
    BGC Asphalt
    BGC Builders Supplies
    BGC Cement
    BGC Cemtech
    BGC Commercial Windows
    BGC Concrete

    BGC Fibre Cement
    BGC Insulation
    BGC Metal Roofing
    BGC Plasterboard
    BGC Plumbing
    BGC Quarries
    BGC Steel
    Brikmakers
    Harmony Roof Tiles

     

    Commercial Construction

    BGC Construction is the Group's commercial and civil construction specialist. Established in 1994, this award-winning company has created some of Western Australia's landmark constructions, including:

    • The WA Basketball Centre
    • The WA Athletics Stadium
    • TVW Institute for Child Health Research, Subiaco
    • Armadale Health Campus
    • Curtin Business School and School of Physiotherapy
    • Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) Ground, Redevelopment
    • University Of Western Australia's Innovation Precinct, incorporating the Motorola Software Centre
    • Cambrai Village- RAAFA Retirement Community, Merriwa
    • Success Retirement Community for Southern Cross Care

    BGC Construction has won numerous industry awards for the continual high standard of its buildings and its ability to surmount construction challenges.

    The company carries out work in three main areas:

    • Commercial construction, including hospitals, schools, universities, offices, factories, court houses and police stations.
    • Large scale unit developments for the Ministry of Housing and private clients.
    • Nursing homes and retirement villages.

    The company has established new benchmarks in the West Australian building industry through its ability to provide the highest quality design, products and services, while meeting cost-effective budgets.

    BGC Contracting

    A big, resource based state like Western Australia needs the services of a big, reliable company like BGC Contracting. Operating two separate business units – Civil and Mining – BGC Contracting provides civil infrastructure for both the public and private sectors, as well as a range of services specific to the oil, gas and land-based resource industries.

    The Civil business is all about meeting the challenges posed by great distances and harsh conditions in delivering earthworks and site preparation, piping, dams, roads, bridges, rail systems and major concrete works to government and industry clients across the state.

    The Mining unit provides an array of services directly to mining industry clients, including drilling and blasting, loading and haulage both on- and off-road, train loading, and crushing and screening.

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    BGC Contracting

     

     

    Transportation

    The Group operates a large fleet of transport vehicles, which are used for haulage by BGC companies and clients all over the state. In addition to servicing the building and construction industries, BGC Transport has clients in agriculture, mining and the service industries.

    Links

    BGC Transport

     

    Property Investment

    Directly employing some 3000 Western Australians, BGC occupies a lot of office, manufacturing and production space throughout Western Australia, and in most cases the land and building our people work in are owned and managed by BGC Property Investment.

    The BGC portfolio of building assets includes the 20-storey BGC Centre and two eight-storey buildings in the Perth CBD, a four-storey office block in West Perth, offices and warehouses at Kewdale, and major manufacturing and distribution complexes at Hazelmere, Canning Vale and Armadale.




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    BGC PROPERTY

     

     

     

    The company has investments in major CBD city buildings, residential apartment blocks and

    commercial properties. Its substantial cash flow and significant asset base enables BGC

    to move quickly on investment opportunities.

    The company's property investment division includes a portfolio of substantial building assets

     including the 20-storey BGC Centre and two eight-storey buildings, all in the Perth CBD.

    Other major components are a four-storey office block in West Perth, 24,000 m2 of offices and

    warehouses at Kewdale, and the group's major manufacturing and distribution complexes at

    Hazelmere, Canning Vale and Armadale.

    The property division has the financial capability and property management expertise for

     substantial property investments.

    For more information about BGC Property's products and services, contact:

     

    Anne Tindale

     

     

    Tel: +61 8 92611840

     

     

    Street Address:

    BGC Property
    6th Floor, 18 Mount St
    Perth WA 6000
    Australia

     

    Fax: +61 8 92611801

     

     

    Email: commercial@bgc.com.au

     

     

    Postal Address:

    BGC Property
    PO Box 7223
    Cloisters Sq, WA 6850
    Australia

     

     

     

     


    APARTMENTS (WA)

    Founded in the 1960s, Apartments (WA) manages more than 800 BGC-

    owned residential properties, including flats, townhouses and home units,

    located in the following Perth suburbs:

     

    Alfred Cove
    Applecross
    Claremont
    Daglish
    Doubleview
    Glendalough
    Inglewood

    Jolimont
    Maylands
    Mosman Park
    Swanbourne
    South Perth
    Trigg
    Wembley Downs

     

     

     

     

    For more information about Apartments (WA), contact:

     

    Glenda Farrell

     

     

    Tel: +61 8 92611849

     

     

    Street Address:

    Apartments WA
    5th Floor, 22 Mount St
    Perth WA 6000
    Australia

     

    Fax: +61 8 92611799

     

     

    Email: apartments@bgc.com.au

     

     

    Postal Address:

    Apartments WA
    PO Box 7223
    Cloisters Sq, WA 6850
    Australia

     


    BGC Transport's exponential growth has seen the company become one of the most capable delivery

    systems in Australia's Transport Industry.

     

     

    The company's large, fully serviced fleet of haulage vehicles operates around the clock,

    transporting millions of tonnes of cargo throughout Western Australia every year.

     

     

    In addition to being an integral component of the BGC network,

    the haulage operations also transport materials for external

    companies. The fleet of long and short haul vehicles caters to

    the transport needs of the building, construction agricultural,

     mining and service industries and contributes substantially

     to BGCs vertical integration and immunity from industrial disputes.

     

    BGC TRANSPORT

    The bulk of BGCs transport fleet is based at Hazelmere, providing the group with easy access into and

    out of the Perth metropolitan area, from the major regional and mining regions, and as a transfer hub

    from long haul to short haul contracts.

    Occupational safety is a key determinant in the way BGC Transport operates, and the company has proudly

    stayed at the forefront of safety technology for the Transport Industry.

    BGC Transport designed and patented the innovative "Tipsafe" technology, which has proved popular

     throughout Australia's Transport Industry.

     

    For more information about BGC Transport's products and services, contact:

     

    Geoff Conway (Operations Manager)

     

     

    Tel: +61 8 94422333

     

     

    Street Address:

    BGC Transport
    Lot 4, Stirling Cr, Hazelmere
    WA 6055, Australia

     

    Fax: +61 8 94422334

     

     

    Email: transport@bgc.com.au

     

    Postal Address:

    BGC Transport
    PO Box 1257, Midland
    WA 6936, Australia

     

     

    Contact information for our Moora branch:

     

    Joe Fitzpatrick (Manager)

     

     

    Tel: +61 8 96511134

     

     

    Street Address:

    BGC Transport (Moora)
    226 Riley Road, Moora
    WA 6510, Australia

     

    Fax: +61 8 96511562

     

     

     

    Postal Address:

    BGC Transport (Moora)
    PO Box 363, Moora
    WA 6510, Australia





    Also see:

    http://inlnews.com/Freemasonry__History.html

    http://inlnews.com/BilderbergGroupHistory.html

    http://inlnews.com/Give_Peace_a_Chance.html

    http://www.inlnews.com/CIASellDrugs_MediaLiesP1.html

    http://www.inlnews.com/INLNewsCIAKGBSpyPhotosP1.php

    http://www.inlnews.com/WhyWasSeanHoareMurdered.html

    http://www.inlnews.com/WhoMurderedThomasAllwood.html

    http://www.inlnews.com/CIAMI6ControlDrugDealing.html

    http://www.inlnews.com/ChippingAwayTheBullSh_t.html

    http://www.inlnews.com/Assange_FearsMurderInUSA.html

    http://www.inlnews.com/RothschildWorldControl1.html

    http://www.inlnews.com/BilderbergGroupHistoryP3.html

    http://www.inlnews.com/Leo_Zagami_Illuminati_P2.html

    http://www.inlnews.com/MI6_GlobalDrugTradeLords.php

    http://www.inlnews.com/HitlerWasABritishAgent.html




     

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    Tony Blair's IIlluminati Freemason Connection Part Four

     
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    Tony Blair's IIlluminati Freemason Connection Part Six







    Stephen Knight the author of the Brotherhood who died aged 33 ......18 months after publishing his book


    In this highly allegotical and symbol-laden painting,the spirit of Freemasonry is shown dispensing wisdom and informnation to the people

    The pillars on this Scottish Rite Masonic Apron are meant to represent the two mighty pillars that were alledged to have stood at the entrance to Solomon’s temple.




    Illuminated above the Mason's head, the equilateral triangle - all sides and angles the same - 
    symbolizes the strength and unity of the parts that make the whole complete


             A dramatic moment during Freemason third degree ceremony, After the ritual, the candidate is a fully fledged Freemason




    US founding father and president George Washington was a dedicated Freemason, and is shown here is his regalia as the Worshipful Master of his lodge


    Beehives are an important Masonic symbol referring to industry, dedication, productivity, good works and the power of all pulling together....


    In this highly allegotical and symbol-laden painting,the spirit of Freemasonry is shown dispensing wisdom and informnation to the people



    The pillars on this Scottish Rite Masonic Apron are meant to represent the two mighty pillars that were alledged to have stood at the entrance to Solomon’s temple.



    The left- and right-hand " pillars" on the Tree of Life corresponded closely to the pillars that stood outside Solomon's temple



    A German lodge carpet, c.1760, called an “Arbeitsteppich”, shows the magnificant symbolism of the Crafy. Freemasonry’s rich mysteries need defending and re-expressing in the modern world



    This painting is claiming to show stonemasons of all grades hard at work buiding Solomon’s temple, while Solomon himself consults with Hiram Abiff.



    This highly allegorical and symbolic illustration is meant to depict the interior of the perfect lodge room, as constructed within the soul of each true Freemason

     
    Was Hitler really an Illuminati and/or Freemason funded by the world bankers and the Rothschilds and Was Hitler as Rothschild...


     
    Adolph Rothschild? or Adolf Hitler? _ Was Hitler really an Illuminati and/or Freemason funded by the world bankers


     
    Secret Societies Part 1A

     

    One Family- One Bloodline- One Rule

     

    The Great American Novel (The Dream That Never Happened) The INL News Film- Promo A


     
    Michael Jackson speaks out about his fears of the coming New World Order -
    Was Michael Jackson murdered for speaking out?

     
    Secret Societies Part 1B


     
    Secret Societies Part 1C

     
    Secret Societies Part 2

     
    Secret Societies Part 2A

     
    Secret Societies Part 2B



     
    Secret Societies Part 3

     
    Secret Societies Part 3A

     

    Secret Societies Part 3B


     

    Secret Societies Part 4


    Stephen Knight the author of

    the Brotherhood who died aged 33 ......18 months after publishing his book


                                
    A dramatic moment during Freemason third degree ceremony

    Christopher added...' Masonic doctors can also be used..'

    Christopher continue for about half an hour to list examples of the ways in which corrupt members of the Brotherhood could defeat opposition..'  ... those in power in Freemasons Hall knew something of what went on, but they felt defeated by it and preferred to look the other way rather than take steps to eradicate it...' ... Christopher said... if Christopher and his group failed for force the issue into the open, the organization would become so morally polluted that it would simply cease to exist...' Christopher also said ..we are not solely concerned with the Brotherhood .. it was the victims of those who used masonry as a source of personal power who has to be helped as well...

    Christopher also said ..'..only the fighters have a hope of beating the system once it's at work against them' ..'Most people, fighters or not, are beaten in the end, though ,,It's..you see... you finish up not knowing who you can trust..you can get no help because your story sounds so paranoid that you are thought a crank, one of those nuts who think the whole world is a 'conspiracy' against 'them'. It is a strange phenomenon...Bt setting up a situation that most people will think of as fantasy, these people can poison every part of a person's life... if they give in they go under... if they don't give in... it is only putting off the day they go under...because if they fight, so much unhappiness will be brought to the people around them that there will likely come a time when even their own families and close friends turn against them out of desperation.... when that happens ..... and they are without friends where ever they look...they become easy meat... the newspaper will not touch them or their story...

    '...There is not defense against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists..'

     

    Acknowledgements:

     I am free to name only a small number of the many hundreds of people who have helped me with advice and information for this book.. Most of those who helped did only on the understanding that I would say nothing that could lead to their identification. among there were Freemasons who feared recrimination from other members of the Brotherhood. . Others included government official, politicians, judges, policemen of all ranks, lawyers, churchmen, past and present officers of MI6 and MI6, and people from every sector of society touched on in this book...Without such people a book of this kind could not be contemplated.

      Two men must be singled out: Simon Scott, managing editor of New English Library whose idea this books was an who supported me with unflagging enthusiasm all through the research and writing only to have the project snatched from him at the last moment; and my friend and agent Andrew Hewson who has never, even at the busiest moments, been unavailable.

    Thank you Simon and I thank everyone else...all names fully listed in the book..

    Proloque;

    Freemasonry. although its leaders strenuously deny it, is a secret society. And few of its members- judges, police, politicians and royalty among them - realize that every time they attend a meeting they break the law, and (at least technically) lay themselves open to minimum of two year's imprisonment. Under the Unlawful Societies Ac of 1799 - unlikely, of course, ever to be enforced - Freemasons are permitted to hold meetings if yearly returns providing names, addresses and descriptions of brethren are submitted to local Clerks of the Peace .his is rarely done, so most gatherings in `Masonic Lodges are held in breach of the law.

      In England and Wales alone Freemasonry has more than 600,000 initiates, with a further 100,000 in Scotland and between 50,000 and 70,000 in Ireland..(1984 estimated Figures... Paul Jeffries in his book Freemasons-Inside the World's Oldest Secret Society published in 2005 he states the following Freemason membership: Over 5.9 million Freemasons worldwide; consisting of: England and Wales- over 550,000. Scotland-over 400,000; Ireland over 47,000; Canada and USA- over 4.1 million; Europe-over 80,000; Australasia-over 375,000; `Latin America-over 50,000; Philippines-over 10,000 and other areas (India, Japan, Formosa, Africa, Israel etc)-over 288,000

    All the members of this extraordinary Brotherhood are male. All except those who are second-, third-, or fourth-generation Freemasons, who may join at eighteen, are over the age of twenty-one. All have sworn on pain of death and ghastly mutilation No 5 to reveal Masonic secrets to outsiders, who are known

     

    The Brotherhood

    by Stephen Knight –published 1984

    The Dissidents – Chapter 16 _ages 140 to  149

    One of my major sources of information was a former Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander of the Thirty-First degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite who has withdrawn form masonry in 1968 for religious reasons.. her agreed to be interviewed by me through a third party concerning his conviction that no active Christian could in all conscience remain a Freemason…

    When I met him I learned he was a judge, and a particularly quick-tempered one .. I asked him about the Ancient and Accepted Rite of the Thirty-Third degree, he answered quickly: ‘Nom I dare not go into that’, her said ….’we’d better stick to religion… I thought immediately afterwards how strange it was he had used the words ‘dare not’, Most people said, ‘I’d better not’, or ‘I’d rather not’… I remarked on his used of the world. He said, ‘Anyone in public life has to be cautious.’ ..’Cautious’.. I repeated. “That’s a Masonic word of recognition.”..

    He then said, ‘You’ve obviously delved into the ritual, so you know…..’

    … ‘Mr Knight, I don’t like this line of questioning. I agreed to speak to you in general terms about why my commitment to Jesus is incompatible with Masonic religion …. I do not wish to be drawn into discussion of matters covered by whatever undertakings I have … taken…

    I went on to tell the judge ..’I have heard form quite a lot of contacts about organized action groups of Freemasons that have resulted in the financial or social ruin of certain people, ‘ I said..

    The judge replied.. ‘So have I’…’ ..still looking me st5raight in the eye as if telling me this was an important issue and point of fact…’ So have I Mr Knight… No of such happenings which had the backing of official Freemasonry, but of actions which were unofficial, in other words, Masons abusing the Craft for their own ends..’…’You know the answer to that form what I have said.. ‘I have also heard about people who have .crossed’ certain masons and finished up in prison…’ He then stopped me in mid-sentence by placing a finger on his lips ... ’if I told you everything about Freemasonry, being betrayed by its members, it would surprise you… it would make your hair stand on end … I can’t tell you any more..’ he said…then he said.. Give me your phone number, you might hear from someone in a few days…’… His finger went back to his lips and he went to fetch my coat .. as he left he said, ‘God Bless’…

    A few days later received as phone call from a man calling himself Christopher whom I ended up having along meeting at his private club and he showed me his papers to show him bona fide ID and Freemason membership… I asked him what a person might have to fear from a group of influential Freemason if circumstances made him, for instance, a threat to them in the business world; or if he discovered they were using masonry for corrupt purposes; or had fallen victim of their misuse of Freemasonry and would not heed warnings not to oppose them…

    He replied..’.. It is not difficult to ruin a man,’ he said, ‘And I will tell you how it is done time and time again.. there are more than half a million Freemasonry Craft Brethren (In 1883) just in England and Wales and over 400,000 in Scotland (in 1983) under the jurisdiction of Grand Lodge.. Standards have been falling for twenty or thirty years, it is now too easy to enter the Craft, so many men of dubious moral have now joined the Craft… about 12-13% abuse the Craft for selfish and/or corrupt ends.. (that is about 60,000 in England and Wales and about 40,000 in Scotland)..

    Note: Christopher was one of a small and unpopular group within Masonry who sometime in the early 1970’s had decided that either they had to get out of the Brotherhood or they had to do something ‘to stop the rot’, which the ‘blinkered officers of Great Queen Street refuse to admit was there..’

    This group wanted pressure brought to bear on those in positions of responsibility within the Brotherhood to put Freemasonry’s house in order.. to instate proper policing, to close down Lodges used for shady dealings and to root out corrupt brethren and expel them, they also wanted the whole business of Masonic secrecy looked into by Grand Lodge, most of them believing that secrecy was more harmful than helpful to Masonry..

     Christopher explained that Masonry’s nationwide organization of men from all walks of life provided one of the most efficient private intelligence networks imaginable, private information on anybody in the country could be accessed very rapidly through endless permutations of Masonic contacts in the police, magistrates, solicitors, bank managers, Post Office staff (‘very useful is supplying copies of a man’s mail’), doctors, government employees, bosses of firms and nationalized industries etc. etc. …. A dossier of personal data could be built up on anybody very quickly.. when the major facts of an individual’s life were known, areas of vulnerability would become apparent…

    I asked what action might be taken?..

    “ Solicitors are very good at it…Get your name involved in something legal it need not be serious and you have him,, Solicitors are past masters a causing endless delays, generating useless paperwork, ignoring instructions, running up immense bills, misleading client into taking decisions damaging to themselves etc..

    ‘Masonic police can harass, arrest on false charges, and plant evidence.. ‘ A business man in a small community or a person in public office arrested for dealing in child pornography, for indent exposure, or for trafficking drugs is at the end of the line..’

    ‘Masons can bring about the situation where credit companies and band withdraw credit facilities form individual clients and tradesmen, said my informant..Banks can foreclose ...

    People who rely on their telephone for work can have it cut off for long periods ... Masonic employees of councils can arrange for a person's drains to be inspected and extensive damage reported etc ..this burdening the person with huge repair bills; workmen carrying out the job can 'find' - very conveniently- further damage ..a fair legal hearing is lard to get when a man in ordinary circumstances is in financial difficulties .. legal aid applications can be delayed endlessly...Employers can be given private information about a man who had made himself an enemy of Masonry ... at worst he will be dismissed and/or consistently passed over for promotion....

    Christopher added...' Masonic doctors can also be used..'

    Christopher continue for about half an hour to list examples of the ways in which corrupt members of the Brotherhood could defeat opposition..'  ... those in power in Freemasons Hall knew something of what went on, but they felt defeated by it and preferred to look the other way rather than take steps to eradicate it...' ... Christopher said... if Christopher and his group failed for force the issue into the open, the organization would become so morally polluted that it would simply cease to exist...'  Christopher also said ..we are not solely concerned with the Brotherhood .. it was the victims of those who used masonry as a source of personal power who has to be helped as well...

    Christopher also said ..'..only the fighters have a hope of beating the system once it's at work against them' ..'Most people, fighters or not, are beaten in the end, though ,,It's..you see... you finish up not knowing who you can trust..you can get no help because your story sounds so paranoid that you are thought a crank, one of those nuts who think the whole world is a 'conspiracy' against 'them'. It is a strange phenomenon...Bt setting up a situation that most people will think of as fantasy, these people can poison every part of a person's life... if they give in they go under... if they don't give in... it is only putting off the day they go under...because if they fight, so much unhappiness will be brought to the people around them that there will likely come a time when even their own families and close friends turn against them out of desperation.... when that happens ..... and they are without friends where ever they look...they become easy meat... the newspaper will not touch them or their story...

    '...There is not defense against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists..'

     

     

    Chapter 28

    The Threat To Britain P 297 to 303

      The "Chinaman Report" goes further than drawing attention t the KBG's almost certain use of Freemasonry for placing operatives in positions of authority, most damagingly achieved, so far as we know, such as in the case of Sir Roger Hollis, who was the director-general of the M!% service in the critical years 1956 to 1965 (as convincingly demonstrated by Chapman Pincher in his controversial study of Russia's infiltration of the West's secret services and defenses in his book 'Their Trade is Treachery)'. few people in MI5 now doubt that Hollis was a Russian spy for nearly 30 years and a respected Freemason having joined when he was in Shanghai, China in the 1930's working an international tobacco company along with then spending time in Russia..

    (From Chap 27)..Of the many mysteries surrounding Sire Roger Hollis, one of the most baffling is how Hollis  was ever accepted into M!% in the first place, Hollis was quite the opposite of what was required. In MI5, as opposed to MI6, which operates abroad, there is a great reluctance to accept candidates who have travelled widely out of the U,K. In the 1930’s when Hollis was recruited this stipulation was more easily met than it is today. For this reason and other reasons. Hollis was most unlikely candidate to be allowed to join the MI5 organization...Hollis did badly at university, having thrown in the towel in 1926 after only two years, then worked in London for a while and set off for China, Hollis then became stranded with only $10 in his pocket in Malaya, where he got a job with an international tobacco company in Penang and was later transferred to the company's offices in Shanghai. Hollis moved around China for the next nine years, working at Peking, Hangchow and Dairen. After this, Hollis contracted tuberculosis, and travelled to a Swiss sanatorium by way of the Trans-Siberian Railway from Vladivostok. spending some time in Russia All this, especially his time in Russia, should have been an insuperable obstacle to any hopes he had of joining MI5... So it proved.. at first ....Even after Hollis's treatment that his health was not strong enough for Hollis to continue working the tobacco company, so early in 1936 Hollis went back to England....''Even Hollis's friend agreed that Hollis was not particularly talented', wrote Chapman Pincher, who describes Hollis at the time of his return to England as 'basically a broken man': 'Though surprisingly athletic, Hollis was to retain the look of someone who had had contracted tuberculosis and Hollis became progressively round-shouldered that he looked almost hunched...he had no degree, his health was suspect and his experience in China was not likely to be helpful in securing a post in England...the only work Hollis could find at the time was as a clerk-typist. .... However, through an army major Hollis met, Hollis secured an interview with MI5.. Hollis was turned down and told that his experience abroad might be useful to MI6, so Hollis then applied to join MI6, but Hollis was turned down for health reasons from the MI6 service. Then when Hollis applied to join MI5 for the second time later that year nothing had changed as far as Hollis' ability, background and health ,,except the mind of MI5... miraculously....completely against any sort of normality given Hollis had already been turned down by MI5 and MI6 on previous occasions.. Hollis was hired by MI%... it is noted that the director-general of MI5 at the time was Major General Sir Vernon Kell, who happened to be a Freemason ..almost everything against him, Hollis had got into MI5... What is even more remarkable? was the rate in which Hollis was promoted within the MI5 service once Hollis got in... this astonished his colleagues them and still cannot be explained by any of the MI5 officers, current and retired, with whom I (Stephen Knight) have had contact either directly or through intermediaries. this is one of the great mysteries of Sir Roger Hollis.. Even though it was against regulations for any MI5 or MI6 officer to be a Freemason - and this, incidentally, must presumably indicate that membership of Freemasonry was regarded as a threat to security- several MI5 officers were in the Freemasonry Brotherhood - Among them was man called Potter, who was in charge of the huge MI5 card index, which is now computerized... such a man would be good to have as a friend... But is was Freemasonry that got Hollis against all odds into the MI5 service and took Hollis, the unlikeliest of all its officers, to the very top of MI5 .. the likeliest key to the mystery of Hollis is Shanghai and the time Hollis spent there for the British American Tobacco Company in the 1930's... the European community in Shanghai was small.. the English-speaking community was of course smaller and very tight-knit; virtually every Englishman arriving in Shanghai gravitated to the Masonic Hall at 1623, Avenue Road, Shanghai .. Freemasonry had flourished among the British expatriates here and at the previous Masonic Hall at 30 The Bund, Shanghai, since the mid-1800's .. In the 1930's, when Hollis was in Shanghai, the tradition of Freemasonry there was at its zenith.. A man who was not a Mason was at a grave disadvantage in achieving whatever social or professional ambitions he had...Almost everyone I have contacted who knew Hollis, including MI5 officers past and present, has reacted similarly to the suggestion that the former director-general Sir Roger Hollis was a member of the Freemason Brotherhood. - that was just the kind of man, extremely secretive by nature, with few friendships and with small prospect of advancement - who would join Masonry in order to exploit its covert advantages ...Freemasonry, said the contacts, offered the first explanation to the Hollis mystery, his otherwise inexplicable acceptance and his phenomenal rate of promotion.....it is understood that Hollis's immediate predecessor as director-general of the MI5 security service, Sir Dick Goldsmith White, was also a Freemason, who was the only man to have ever been both the head of MI5 and MI6, having moved from MI^ to MI5 in 1956 to take over the MI5 secret service from Sir John 'Sinbad' Sinclair...  Despite his impressive record and qualifications, the unprecedented transfer was viewed by many within MI6 as dangerous and as something which, once again breaking all the traditional rules governing the secure operation of the two services, should never have been allowed. It was Sir Dick Goldsmith White. who on his appointment as MI5 Secret Service Chief, recommended Hollis as his successor to premier Anthony Eden....Hollis' treachery should have come to light in the late 1940's when Sir Percy Sillitoe was director-general of MI5..As A.W. Cockerill, Sillitoe's biographer, points out, 'practically the entire effort of the MI5 Service form 1946 on, and until long after Sillitoe's retirement, was directed at identifying and weeding out Communists from positions in which they posed a threat to national security'. Cockerill states that one of Sillitoe's first actions after getting settled into the job as MI5 chief was to carry out a purge, for which he had something of a reputation in his former career in the police..

    '" In the case of MI5m he was primarily interested in the political reliability of his staff, and a number of employees were forced to leave for one reason or another.... Beginning with those whose credentials were 'impeccable', he carried out a systematic security check of the entire establishment, This was a programme in which the internal security officers combed through each personal file as though the person concerned was a newcomer; the individual's history was checked and rechecked, membership in clubs, societies and social organizations was investigated anew to ensure that the service itself was 'clean'..."

      But Sillitoe, without knowing it, was fighting an impossible battle,,, with the man in charge of all the personal records being a member of the Freemasonry Brotherhood, Sillitoe would never be allowed to learn that Hollis's mans of entry to the MI5 Service had been by way of a Masonic Lodge in China and a Masonic Director-General of MI5.. In is an interesting fact that the Freemason Lodge membership lists of the Shanghair Lodges between the wards are among the lost closely guarded secrets of the United Grand Lodge.. Several attempts by concerned Freemason members of the Brotherhood to get try and hold of these files through the ordinary channels have been always blocked ... it is evident that those lists of names contain something so explosive, so potentially damaging to the Brotherhood, that it will not permit them to be examined even by senior Masons,,

    Whose name is being concealed???

     If not...Sir Roger Hollis????

    Chapter 28: The Threat To Britain continued

    The Chinaman Report also expresses concern that British Freemasonry as a whole is, quite unknown to its members, a major target for so-called 'Special Political action' for the KGB, The Chinaman Report states among other things"

    " ...sheer prudence demands that the lessons of the P2 affair receive the attention of all who have the interests of the UK and the West at heart, masons and no-masons alike... The affair has so far been to the considerable advantage of the Soviet Union and the Communists, which alone of the political parties ( conveniently) has no known members among the listed names published by order of the Prime Minister,, Has P2 continued its secret growth and unacceptable activities, the inevitable scandal could have brought down with it non-Communist government in Italy ... Yet Italian Freemasonry has been estimated as of the order of under 100,000 - a mere tenth of the supposed UK total for roughly similar population,..."

    In the UK he Brotherhood enjoys the inestimable advantage of royal patronage... The Chinaman Report suggested that 'the Italian affair is a serious warning form which important lessons can be drawn ..The UK could well prove very much more vulnerable to exposure of improper activities by a group of Freemasons than is Italy...'

    According to the Chinaman Report There are two reasons for this:

    ",,,First, Masonry so permeates so many revered British institutions form the Crown downwards, that a grave Masonic scandal could in modern circumstances involved popular revulsion against the whole established order ...Government and Business ...

    Second, the proportion of Masons to non-Masons in some professions and other walks of life, including areas of Government, appears to have reached a critical point: the point at which people believe themselves obliged to join Freemasonry, no longer voluntarily, but from a feeling of compulsion...."

    ..This statement is certainly accurate, as my own enquiries have revealed..

    .."Masons and non-Masons alike seem increasingly to fear the potential of the fraternity (Freemason) to ruin them (if they in any way upset the Freemason Fraternity or try to take them on in any way)...At such a point it becomes hard to find in certain areas vital to the state an adequate numbers of competent persons who are non-masons to prevent such a vacuum as now threaten Italy were al the officers of the armed forces of General rank named in the P2 documents to be required to retire (because of being exposed and named as members of the P2..

    Third, there is much circumstantial evidence that more ruthless elements have joined Freemasonry and are using up the find of respectability that Royal patronage confers to indulge in activities which reputable members would find quite unacceptable were they aware of the extent of the abuse (of Freemasonry)..This of course, is a danger inherent in all secretive societies for their cellular from devised by the founders for the security of the movement, can as readily be used to 'hoodwink" the leadership, who thus become unwitting 'front men' for activities they would never countenance,..."

    ..The Chinaman Report alludes to the argument that there has not been a Masonic scandal of major proportions in modern times and the contention that should one occur, it could readily be contained by the Brotherhood by mean of both public expulsions and cover-ups. the Chinaman Report continues:

    "...This may possibly be so... But British society as a whole is changing rapidly..The established order of things developed over the past thousand years in no longer so widely and so automatically accepted as in even recent past ....Many, of all political hues, consider some of our institutions archaic and in need of reform.. this view is fueled by the loss of national self-confidence and national pride following from the loss of Empire and our very poor showing in the list of advanced industrial societies,, Disrespect for those in authority is already considerable and is increasing at an accelerating rate: such rife dissatisfaction soon comes to seek a scapegoat, such as 'the Establishment' provides... But out institutions - both public and private - seem incapable of reforming themselves and performing the 'aggiornamento' the thoughtful of all moderate persuasions are increasingly coming to expect...

    ...Against this worsening background it would be rash to suppose that the methods of the pas to contain scandals and irregularities in Masonry ( or indeed in anything else) will still be adequate by, say, the end of the decade. And this is to count without the intentions of the KBG...

    The possibility that the KGB has along-term interest in British Freemasonry must be taken seriously..For to any trained intelligence officer, Freemasonry offers an ideal vehicle for the destabilization of the United Kingdom. to make two points:

    (1) there has for some time been practically no mention of Freemasonry in the media: for widespread and important a movement this almost amounts to a taboo- any serious, well documented exposure of substantial malpractices could be expected to have a disproportionate shock effect. We are not yet so cynical and so inured to scandal as the Italians.

    (2) Second, the KBG - itself growing out of a clandestine movement's seizure of state power, well understands the organization, motivation and other problems of secret societies (particularly of Communication records, and the use of a reputable ''front'') and is thus ideally qualified to exploit Freemasonry for its own ends,,"

      ..here the Chinaman Report constructs, form its thirty-year knowledge of the KGB's political methods and of the inner workings of British Freemasonry -with the P2 conspiracy forming a bridge between the two - a scenario which to my certain knowledge senior official of both MI5 and MI6 regard with utmost gravity. ..the man code-names Chinaman suggest that the most likely method of attack would follow the pattern of P2 - in other words, the KGB, doubtless through Czech intelligence, would attempt to hive off a promising area of Freemasonry and encourage its growth...

    "....The more prominent those unwittingly involved, the greater the ultimate effect - provided the top echelon (of Freemasonry) were carefully preserved untainted.. Another phase would be deliberately to encourage and exacerbate existing abuses for personal advancement at the expense of non-Masons.. Arrogance would be inflated to a point where the Masons concerned would become over-confident and incautious ..... the KGB would then obtain and collate documentary and circumstantial evidence in as many spheres of activity as possible ...

    ...Once sufficient material has been gathered, the KGB would be prepared to wait years if required until directed to mount an exposure at a politically appropriate juncture.. Then the 'fuse' would be lit for example by arranging for a blackmail operation to fail, or a 'Soviet 'defector' to arrive perhaps in the US, and point conclusively to KBG involvement in Masonry ..Media and Government enquiries could then be fed with supplementary evidence garnered for the purpose over the years... Names would be called....Confusion would be sown by including the righteous (chosen for their effectiveness in opposition to Soviet designs) with the guilty (chosen for their publicity value) : in such circumstances lies mixed with incontrovertible truths would be hard to winnow.

      If the right moment for 'ignition' were chosen the disaster could be very great. ...One only need only to remember the effect on each occasion of the news of Fuchs's espionage (Klaus Emil Julian Fuchs, was convicted in 1950 of passing British American atomic research secrets tot eh Soviet Union), the Maclean and Burgess defections, the Philby case, the Blunt exposure and the recent public allegations regarding the late Sir Roger Hollis, to appreciate the effect of well documented exposures at one time of even fifty prominent persons - let alone nearly a thousand as in the Italian P2 case.."

      Chinaman makes it plain that short of information from some formerly well-placed genuine defector, there is no certain means of knowing whether the Soviet Union is operating such a plan..

    "..I simply suggest that it is self-evident that the possibility should be taken seriously and appropriate defensive action taken if this has not already been done adequately.."

    ..I can reveal that no such defensive action has yet been taken because prior to the submission of the Chinaman Report, no one had considered the possible exploitation of Freemasonry. No one knew enough about the Brotherhood for it to present itself as a possibility. Chinaman suggests measures to minimize the effects of any KGB-promoted exposure in two main ways:

     "..(1) First, by ensuring that we are not 'caught' with persons holding certain key delicate positions being Masons ... From my own experience (as well as reports of the P2 case) I would hope for example that the heads of both the MI5 Secret Intelligence Service and the MI6 Security Service are not (again) permitted to be Freemasons, and that  the regulations of these two services now provide for any Masons to declare their adherence to the head of the service concerned personally (as already stated, MI5 officers are banned from joining the Brotherhood, but this has not prevented several MI5 officer from being members of the Freemasonry Brotherhood).. I believe that the same should apply o MI6 Special Branch. Masons who are already members of MI5 and/or MI6 branches of Government could provide a valuable link to Freemasonry in the MI5 and MI6 services, in the service of the State, if they are not so acting already.. In other Government Departments, arrangements could ensure that heads of personnel sections be non-Masons, and that they have a right of access to the Director-General of the Security Service, ..The legal professions- presently the object of increasing public disquiet because of its alleged tendency to protect its own - is a particular problem given the large number of Freemasons (in the legal profession in the United Kingdom)

    (2) The Second direction I would concentrate upon would be legislation. It seems to me, for instance, far less likely that any deliberate organized exposure would cause serious and lasting damage to the benefit of the pro-Communist left and the Soviet Union, if all citizens had the legal right, if the elected, to a written assurance that any professional person they consulted is not a member of any secret society, including Freemason and similar or related groupings:  an untrue denial rendering the professional person liable to criminal proceedings.. I appreciate the very great difficulties, but possibly in the not too far distant future in the wake if the P2 affair, some measure along these lines might be passed ... In the Government service Masons in delicate areas would come to know that for security reasons a few positions were closed to the: this too would help shift the balance of advantage..

    ...Such measures could, I believe, also incidentally lead to a significant improvement in Britain's performance in many places, lessening the possibility that the more dynamic, more forward-looking and better qualified may be passed over to the detriment of government and industrial efficiency ... I repeat, though, that I am well aware that I have not the qualifications for suggesting counter-measures, that I have for setting out the dangers,,,'

    ..I have discussed the Chinaman Report in general terms and off the record with several high; placed officials and with three former Cabinet Ministers, all of whom told me that if such a report came into their hands when they were in office hey would have initiated an enquiry, IN March 1982, having contacted Foreign ~Secretary Lord Carrington and been assured by him that he was not a Freemason Brotherhood, I was on the point of raising it with him.. The Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands and Britain lost on of its most able ministers.

      And here another link is forged between Licio Gelli (P2 founder and controller), his Overt Masters, and the important task P2 had been created to perform in the continuing programme to destabilize the West, After Licio Gelli's flight from Italy. Licio Gelli did not go hiding beyond the Iron Curtain as suggested by the perspicacious Peter Hebblethwaithe...Most informed sources believed Licio Gelli was in Argentina, where he had exercised so much influence in the past and where, I suggest. Geberal Galtieri was Licio Gelli's new Peron, It cannot be a coincidence that Admiral Emilo Massera, the commander of the Argentine Navy and one of the three-man junta that launched the Falkland invasion, and the commander of the Argentine Fits Army, General Calos Suarez Mason, we`re both secret members of Lodge P2.

    Chapter One: Origins

    Some Freemasons claim great antiquity for Freemasonry. This is reflected in the Masonic calendar which is based on Archbishop Ussher's seventh-century calculation that the Creation must have taken place in the year 4004 BC/ For convenience, the off four years are ignored and Anno Lucis (in the Year of Light, when Freemasonry is deemed to have begun) is four thousand years ahead of Anno Domini - so a Masonic certificate of initiation bearing the date A.L. 5983 was issued in A.D. 1983. The implication is that Freemasonry is as old as Adam. \ Throughout the eighteen and nineteenth centuries, Masonic writers produced vast numbers of books seeking to show that their movement has a continuous history of many hundreds, even thousands of years. Some claimed that the ancestors of the Brotherhood were the Druid or Culdees; some claimed they were the pre-Christian Jewish Monks, the Essenes, Others insisted that Freemasonry had its origins in the religion of ancient Egypt - an amalgam of the briefly held momotheism of Ikhnaton (c.1375 B.C.) and the Isis-Osiris cult.

     Modern Masonic historians are fare more cautious. It is now accepted that Freemasonry as practiced today goes back no more than three centuries. What is true, though, is that the philosophic, religious and ritualistic concoction that makes up the speculative element of Freemasonry is drawn from many sources - some of them, like the Isis-Osiris myth, dating back to the dawn of history. Rosicrucianism, Gnosticism, the Kabbala, Hinduism, Theosophy and traditional notions of the occult all play a part; but despite the exhaustive literature - one scholar estimates that some 50,000 items of Masonry had been published by the 1950's - it is impossible to determine what comes from where and when, if only because Freemasonry on its lower and more accessible levels is opposed to dogma. There is therefore no alternative statement of what Masons believe or what the Brotherhood stands for in the first, second and third degrees, to which the vast majority of members restrict themselves. Even a 33 degree Mason who has persevered to attain all the enlightenment that Freemasonry claims to offer could not - even if he were freed from his oath of secrecy - provide more than a purely personal view of the Masonic message and the meaning to be attached to Masonic symbolism, since thus remains essentially subjective.

      The comparatively short documented history of Freemasonry as an institution is nevertheless quite extraordinary. It is the story of how a Roman Catholic trade guild for a few thousand building workers in Britain came to be taken over by the aristocracy, the gentry and members of mainly non-productive professions, and how it was turned into a non-Christian secret society enjoying association with offshoot fraternal societies with millions of adherents throughout most of the non-Communist world.

      In many cultures and at many times humankind has been drawn to the esoteric - the conception that the great truths about life and how to control social and natural phenomena are secrets and can only be known to initiates, who pass on their privileged knowledge to the elect from generation to generation. Ad one highly placed Mason told me: ' Truth, to the initiate, is not for everyone, pearls must not be thrown before swine.'

    Equally. throughout history men have joined together in secret groups to further purely worldly ambitions. All such groups also involve initiation - the initiation ceremony involving fearful oaths of secrecy. For secrets to remain secrets there must be certain and effective sanctions. Secret societies formed for essentially practical ends have commonly had religious and moral elements. The religious element creates awe and so adds to the effectiveness of the oath of secrecy. The moral element determines the fraternal way that the organization's members threat each other, which might bear small resemblance to the way they treat outsiders.

     Freemasonry is both speculative, philosophic - even religious and mystical -system, and a fraternity of those organized to help each other in material matters. For some Masons it is entirely the former, for other the latter. but for most it is a mixture of the two.

      Masonic historians seem as uncertain as non-Masons about who first saw in the obsolescent mediaeval Christian Masonic guild as organization that could be taken over and converted into a quasi-religious, quasi-secular secret society. What evidence there is indicates that this evolution began very slowly and almost by chance, and that it was only later that the potential of the Masonic guild as a clandestine power base was perceived. In other words, it appears that the original interest of the gentry in the Masonic lodges stemmed from curiosity, antiquarian interest, and a kind of fashionable search for an unconventional, exclusive social milieu - rather like a jet-set fad for frequenting working men's pubs.

    ..There are a number of reasons why the Masonic guild should have attracted this general interest....

    ...First, the working (or 'operative') mason's craft guild was ripe for takeover: structured in the heyday of Gothic architecture in the thirteenth century, the craft was dying.. King's College Chapel at Cambridge, perhaps the last truly great English Gothic building, had been completed about 1512...

     ... Secondly, the highly skilled stonemasons of the Gothic age were peculiar in that many were itinerant workers, moving from church site to cathedral site as work was to be found. They had no regular headquarters like other trades, gathering in temporary lodges on site to discuss affairs ...and, as they often did not know each other as did permanent residents of mediaeval towns, they needed some method of recognition, some way of maintaining a closed shop to protect their demanding and highly esteemed profession against interlopers who had not undergone the rigorous apprenticeship necessary to acquire the mason's skills. These, as Professor Jacob Bronowski termed them, were the 'industrial aristocrats'.....

    .... There was thus cosmopolitan romance, exclusivity and an organized secretiveness about the mason's guild, which became increasingly moribound as baroque replaced Gothic architecture ... all of this had potential fascination for men of education.......

     Modern Freemasonry probably originated in Scotland... The earliest known instance of a non-stonemason, a gentleman, joining a mason's lodge is John Boswell. Laid of Auchinlech, who was a member of the Lodge in Edinburgh in 1600. Apparently the first English gentleman to join an English Lodge was Elian Ashmore, founder of Oxford' Ashmlean Museum. An antiquarian deeply interested in Rosicrucinism, he joined in 1646, Masonry became so fashionable that as the seventeenth century progressed the 'acceptance' (the collective term for non-stonemasons) became the majority in the Masonic Lodges.

     

    For example, in 1670 the Aberdeen Lodge had thirty-none 'accepted' members while only ten remained 'operative' masons. But it was not long before the novelty in participating in the Quaint and venerable doings of artisans wore thin. Men of fashion saw no reason to prolong association with working men, and they began to form their own gentlemen' Lodges.... Freemasonry was launched...

     

    ... The 'speculative' Masons inherited seven main fundamental points from their 'operative' predecessors:

    (1) an organization with the three grades of membership: (a) Apprentice, (b) Fellow or Journeyman, and (c) Master Mason;

    (2) A unit termed a Lodge;

    (3) Legendary histories of the origins of the Masonic craft set out in the 100-odd manuscripts containing the so-called 'Old Charges', the oldest being the Regius manuscripts of 1390, which was in verse;

    (4) A tradition o fraternal and benevolent relations between members;

    (5) A rule of secrecy about Lodge doings, although the Old Charges themselves were simply lists of quite ordinary rules for the guild, which members were enjoined to keep 'so help you God'. as befitted a Christian grouping there were no blood-curdling oaths;

    (6) A method of recognition, notably the Scottish 'mason word' traced back to 1550: unwritten but variously remembered as Mahabyn, Mahabone, or even Matchpin;

    (7) A thoroughly Christian foundation - the Old Charges are permeated with mediaeval Roman Catholicism;

     

    With the demise of the original 'trade union' purpose of organization and the eclipse not only of Roman Catholicism due to the Reformation, but also the waning of Christianity with the rise of science, what was left towards the end of the seventeenth century was the framework of a secretive association, likened by authority to a peasant's cottage ripe for extensive development as a luxury weekend home for the well-to-do.

    ... Serious Masonic historians themselves deplore the lack of documentation about the three or four critical decades before the foundation of the Grand Lodge of England in 1717 ,,but is was during these years that the course of Freemasonry was to follow set.. it was evidently then that feww men among the small number (possibly only a few hundred in all) of 'accepted' masons must have come to see the potential of a secret society cutting across class divisions to embrace aristocrats, gentry, professional men and elements of the expanding middle class... It was to be a 'brotherhood' which would put a string to pull into the hand of every members, and strings enough in the hands of its shadowy controllers to manipulate events - like puppet masters behind the scenes ..But who these people were and just how consciously they planned or, as some have said, even plotted, is shrouded in mystery ,,, One thing united a majority of politically conscious people at this time: the need to preserve the gain of the Civil War of 1642-1651 - the limitation of the power of the King.. The 'accepted'  Masons of the last quarter of the seventeenth century would appear to have been largely drawn from the type of people most anxious to preserve and to increase the steadily growing influence in society and government if men of quite moderate wealth and standing...

    .... William of Orange and his consort Mary in 1688 were invited to become joint sovereigns..

    .... When Grand Lodge was founded, George I had been on the throne only three years ..the prominent in Masonry were poised to have a hand in the manipulation of the new Hanoverian dynasty...

    ...Before the foundation of Grand Lodge in 1717, moves to transform the old guild into a true secret society were well on the way. As the normal trade union business of operative Masonic Lodges dwindled and eventually ceased, so the element of ritual based on the readings of the Old Charges - their legendary stories about the origins of the 'Mason's Craft; and their injunctions to members to obey the traditional rules - was transformed. Lodge ritual, initiations and speculative dissertations became the mail business of actual lodge meetings ... at the same time fraternal conviviality  - which in the old days of operative masonry had probably been confined to a tankard or two after meetings in a local ale house - soon became a major feature of Masonic society... much was eaten, much was drunk, and much was discussed in the privacy of Masonic meeting places (usually taverns) after the rather dry formal doings in Lodge were over... the 'better' the `lodge - in the sense of social class - the 'better' the conversation and the more lavish and expensive the entertainment ,,,Masonry was already on its way to mirroring and reinforcing the class system and the emerging social order based on strictly constitutional monarchy... whatever it was to become overseas, where no Civil War, no Glorious Revolution had yet taken place, Masonry in England was already headed towards a conservative future...The sights of its prime movers were already set on a movement underpinning a type of society admirably suited to its purposes: a stable society with limited social mobility in which a secret inner 'Old Boy' association could provide an environment where considerable benefit could be gained by members who knew how to 'play the Masonic organ'.

    ,, Formal oaths of secrecy to be sworn by individual initiates appear in a number of Old charges containing 'new orders', but as these were published five years after the establishment of Grand Lodge they are possibly spurious. ,,,either way, no horrific sanctions are mentioned.. even so, the inclusion of an oath in the initiation rituals can be regarded as a crucial step in the creation of a secret society from the old guild...

     

    The headquarters of the Brotherhood ( as Freemasonry is generally called) in England and Wales is in London, where the massive bulk of Freemasons Hall squats at the corner of Great Queen Street and Wild Street, like a gigantic elephant's footstool... This is the seat of the United Grand Lodge of England, the governing body of the 8,000 plus lodges in England and Wales, These Lodges, of which there are another 1,200 odd under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Scotland and about 750 under the Grand Lodge of Ireland, carry out their secret business and ritual in a deliberately cultivated atmosphere of mystery in Masonic Temples. Masonic Temples might be purpose built, or might be rooms in hotels or private buildings temporarily converted for Masonic use. Many town halls up and down Britain have private function room, used for Masonic rituals, as does New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police...

    .... The Grand Lodges control what is known as ''Craft" Freemasonry, and brethren often refer to the Brotherhood as "the Craft". Craft Freemasonry covers the three degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason..The vast majority of Masons rise no higher than Master Mason, and most are under the impression that there are no higher degrees... Even many masons who go on to become Royal Arch Masons, governed by Grand Chapter, have no idea that the Masonic ladder extends a further thirty rungs above those on the third who believe they had already reached the top of Freemasonry....( it is note that other researchers such as Glen Kealy believe that the ladder goes even higher to a 90 degree mason..however a 33 degree mason can not request to become and/or would not know about the 90 degree mason levels unless selected and told about them......

    .... There is an important distinction to be made between 'Freemasonry', which is the Freemason movement as a whole, and 'Freemasons', which describes any number of individual masons .... it has been claimed that Captain William Morgan in American in 1826,Mozart and the Jack the Ripper murders were committed by Freemasons and/or the Brotherhood.. some people today look upon Freemasonry as an underground movement devoted to murder, terrorism and revolution ... and is a worldwide conspiracy and watch.... however... Freemasonry is not a worldwide secret society ..however is a secret society that, originating in Britain, now has independent offshoots  in most of the non-Communist world ...while the British Grand Lodge recognize more than a hundred Grand Lodges ( forty-nine in the USA), they have no control over them, and most reflect the political complexion of the country in which they operate. Far from being revolutionary, there is no organization more reactionary, more Establishment-based, that British Freemasonry. Its members derive benefit from the Brotherhood only so long as the status quo is maintained ... nevertheless, Freemasonry has a potent influence on life in Britain - for both good and ill... the Brotherhood's publicly stated aims are: morality, fraternity and charity ... the average member of the Brotherhood will be eloquent on the generous donations made by United Grand Lodge to charity ...which are quite substantial ... on the other hand, there can be no doubt that many others have suffered because of Freemasonry entering into areas of life where, according to all its publicly proclaimed principles, it should never intrude .... the abuse of Freemasonry caused alarming miscarriages of justice.. it is one of the aims of this book to look at some of the effects of this abuse .... I am free to name only a small number of the many hundreds of people who have helped me with advice and information ...  (for the writing of this book) .... most of those who helped did so only on the understanding that I would say nothing that could lead to their identification... among these were Freemasons, who feared recrimination from members of the Brotherhood ... other included government officials, politicians, judges, policemen of all ranks, lawyers, churchmen, past and present officers of MI5 and MI6, and people from every sector of society touched by this book.....

     

    Edited from: The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies Intro: Elias Ashmore:

    Elias Ashmore was an English historian, astrologer, alchemist, in 1644, where he became a member of Brasenose

    College and studied astrology and mathematics, His studies were interrupted by the final phase of the English Civil War , and he served with distinction in the Royalist cause, helping defend Oxford and Worcester against Parliamentary armies. After the final collapse of the Royalty cause in 1646, Ashmore went to live with relatives in Cheshire, While there in October 16th, 1646, he was initiated into Freemasonry, becoming one of the first two "accepted (speculative) Masons (Masons not employed in the building trades) in England, the other, initiated on the same evening, was his brother-in-law Henry Mainwaring. He remained active in Masonry for the rest of his life and appears to have placed a significant role in its spread in seventeenth-century England...

     

     

     

    The Brotherhood

    by Stephen Knight –published 1984

    The Dissidents – Chapter 16 _ages 140 to  149

    One of my major sources of information was a former Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander of the Thirty-First degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite who has withdrawn form masonry in 1968 for religious reasons.. her agreed to be interviewed by me  through a third party concerning his conviction that no active Christian could in all conscience remain a Freemason…

    When I met him I learned he was a judge, and a particularly quick-tempered one .. I asked him about the Ancient and Accepted Rite of the Thirty-Third degree, he answered quickly: ‘Nom I dare not go into that’, her said ….’we’d better stick to religion… I thought immediately afterwards how strange it was he had used the words ‘dare not’, Most people said, ‘I’d better not’, or ‘I’d rather not’… I remarked on his used of the world. He said, ‘Anyone in public life has to be cautious.’ ..’Cautious’.. I repeated. “That’s a Masonic word of recognition.”..

    He then said, ‘You’ve obviously delved into the ritual, so you know…..’

    … ‘Mr Knight, I don’t like this line of questioning. I agreed to speak to you in general terms about why my commitment to Jesus is incompatible with Masonic religion …. I do not wish to be drawn into discussion of matters covered by whatever undertakings I have … taken…

    I went on to tell the judge ..’I have heard form quite a lot of contacts about organized action groups of Freemasons that have resulted in the financial or social ruin of certain people, ‘ I said..

    The judge replied.. ‘So have I’…’ ..still looking me st5raight in the eye as if telling me this was an important issue and point of fact…’ So have I Mr Knight… No of such happenings which had the backing of official Freemasonry, but of actions which were unofficial, in other words, Masons abusing the Craft for their own ends..’…’You know the answer to that form what I have said.. ‘I have also heard about people who have .crossed’ certain masons and finished up in prison…’ He then stopped me in mid-sentence by placing a finger on his lips ... ’if I told you everything about Freemasonry, being betrayed by its members, it would surprise you… it would make your hair stand on end … I can’t tell you any more..’ he said…then he said.. Give me your phone number,, you might hear from someone in a few days…’… His finger went back to his lips and he went to fetch my coat .. as he left he said, ‘God Bless’…

    A few days later received as phone call from a man calling himself Christopher whom I ended up having along meeting at his private club and he showed me his papers to show him bona fide ID and Freemason membership… I asked him what a person might have to fear from a group of influential Freemason if circumstances made him, for instance, a threat to them in the business world; or if he discovered they were using masonry for corrupt purposes; or had fallen victim of their misuse of Freemasonry and would not heed warnings not to oppose them…

    He replied..’.. It is not difficult to s=ruin a man,’ he said, ‘And I will tell you how it is done time and time again.. there are more than half a million Freemasonry Craft Brethren (In 1883) just in England and Wales and over 400,000 in Scotland ( in 1983) under the jurisdiction of Grand Lodge.. Standards have been falling for twenty or thirty years , it is now too easy to enter the Craft, so many men of dubious moral have now joined the Craft… about 12-13% abuse the Craft for selfish and/or corrupt ends.. (that is about 60,000 in England and Wales and about 40,000 in Scotland)..

    Note: Christopher was one of a small and unpopular group within Masonry who sometime in the early 1970’s had decided that either they had to get out of the Brotherhood or they had to do something ‘to stop the rot’, which the ‘blinkered officers of Great Queen Street refuse to admit was there..’

    This group wanted pressure brought to bear on those in positions of responsibility  within the Brotherhood to put Freemasonry’s house in order.. to instate proper policing, to close down Lodges used for shady dealings and to root out corrupt brethren and expel them, they also wanted the whole business of Masonic secrecy looked into by Grand Lodge, most of them believing that secrecy was more harmful than helpful to Masonry..

     Christopher explained that Masonry’s nationwide organization of men from all walks of life provided one of the most efficient private intelligence networks imaginable, private information on anybody in the country could be accessed very rapidly through endless permutations of Masonic contacts in the police, magistrates, solicitors, bank managers, Post Office staff (‘very useful is supplying copies of a man’s mail’), doctors, government employees, bosses of firms and nationalized industries etc. etc. …. A dossier of personal data could be built up on anybody very quickly.. when the major facts of an individual’s life were known, areas of vulnerability would become apparent…

    I asked what action might be taken?..

    “ Solicitors are very good at it…Get your name involved in something legal it need not be serious and you have him,, Solicitors are past masters a causing endless delays, generating useless paperwork, ignoring instructions, running up immense bills, misleading client into taking decisions damaging to themselves etc etc..

    ‘ Masonic police can harass, arrest on false charges, and plant evidence.. ‘ A business man in a small community or a person in public office arrested for dealing in child pornography, for indent exposure, or for trafficking drugs is at the end of the line..’

    ‘ Masons can bring about the situation where credit companies and band withdraw credit facilities form individual clients and tradesmen, said my informant..

    People who rely on their telephone for work can have it cut off for long periods, Masonic employees of councils can arrange for a persons drains to be inspected and extensive damage reported etc etc..

     

    Chapter 3- Schism and  Reunion

     .... In 1717 Freemasonry enters properly into history,, Four London Lodges alone formed Grand Lodge and owed allegiance to it. What is interesting is that a none too well-off gentleman, Anthony Sayer, was installed as Grand Master, In the beginning the upper classed kept a low profile.. they backed the creation of a central organization welding individual lodges together, but eventually wanted this done before they assumed official public control... Of the four original London Lodges, the first three contained not one 'Esquire' between them, where as Lodge Original No.4 was made up of seventy-one members of whom, in 1724, ten were nobles, three were honourable, four were baronets or knights, and two were generals. .. in 1718, Sayer was replaced after barely a year by George Payne, a 'man of more substance', being a member of Original No 4. But he too had only one year in office  another interim while the upper-class moved in on the small gentry just as the small gentry moved in on the 'operative' artisans a century earlier...

    ... The third Grand Master was the Reverend John Theophilus Desaguliers, a Doctor of Law, a Fellow of the Royal society and chaplain to Frederick, Prince of Wales, whom he admitted to the Brotherhood in 1737. He was of French extraction. ,, A head hunter for Freemasonry.... he not only visited Edinburgh to encourage the Scots along the organizational path the London Masons were following , but visited The Hague in 1731, where he admitted the Duke of Lorraine to the Brotherhood. The Duke married Mara Theresa in 1736 and become co-Regent when she acceded to the Austrian throne in 1738... under Joseph II Mozart, Haydn and a host of other notables became Freemasons ...Dr Desaguliers, certainly appears to have sparked the missionary zeal of British Freemasonry which eventually carried the Freemasonry movement to almost every country in the world....Desaguliers too only held office a short time, In 1721 he gave way to the long awaited first noble Grand master, the Duke of Montague, But, unlike his predecessors, Desaguliers was not usurped: the evidence suggests that he was the prototype of the long line of powerful Masonic figures who preferred the shade to the limelight, the reality of power to mere appearances.

     

     

    Chapter: 4 Across The Seas and Down the Centuries

    The Irish Grand Lodge was formed in 1725 and the Scottish Grand Lodge was formed the following year in 1726. the Scots proved at least as fervent missionaries as the English, As already mentioned. the movement had spread to the Continent at least by the third decade of the eighteenth century, often in very high society. Frederick the Great of Prussia is claimed to have been initiated in 1738, although one must be careful of accepting Masonic claims of membership by the illustrious. There is no proof, for example Christopher Wren, often hailed as one of the brethren, was ever a member. Masonry, its undefined Deism so close to that of Voltairean rationalism, was soon the rage among the pre-revolutionary freethinkers in France: ironically, it may have been planted there by Jacobite exiles around 1725.

      Freemasonry remains a power t be reckoned with in many European countries, France and Germany in particular. The French Grand Master today is Air Force general Jacques Mitterand, the President's brother, and Freemasonry's influence in politics is profound. Francois Mitterand owes much of his success in the 1981 election to influential Freemasons. Masonry has been closely identified with the Socialists for most of the last seventy years. According to Fred Zeller, Grand master of the Grand Orient of France in 1971 and 1973, the 1974 presidential election would have been won by the Socialists had Valery Giscard d'Estang not  become a Freemason and colluded with sympathetic forces in the Brotherhood, which eventually persuaded French Freemasons that it  was  in their best interests to vote for Giscard. He was initiated into the Franklin Rossevelt Lodge in paris the year of the election.

     Italian Freemasonry, later to pay significant role in the unification of the country ( Garibaldi was a Freemason). was established in Rome by Jacobite exiles in 1735 and was already a force by 1750. Masonry among Roman Catholics relates was one reason for the repeated papal condemnations.

     No country was too small for attention: Holland, Switzerland and Sweden all had keen and influential memberships in the eighteen century.  Continental Masonry reached as far as Russia: Tolstoy in War and Peace describes the different motivations of upper-class masons during the Napolionic Wars.

     

    Freemasonry crossed the Atlantic to the colonies of the old empire very early on: George Washington's initiation was in 1752, Today, the dollar bill bears not only Washington's likeness, but also the all-seeing-eye symbol of Freemasonry.  washington refused to become head of masonry for the whole of the newly formed United States, and US Freemasonry came to be organized on a state-by-state basis. Today, each US state has its own Grand Lodge, Royal Arch Chapters come under state Grand Chapters, the first mention of Royal Arch appearing in Virginia records of 1753. A few states followed the British lead and spread the Brotherhood abroad, For example, before the Second World War there were Lodges in China under Massachusetts jurisdiction, and it was Massachusetts that warranted the first Canadian Lodge in 1749, The oldest Masonic Lodge room in the USA dates from 1760 and is at Prentiss House, Marblehead, Massachusetts. No fewer than none Canadian Grand Lodges were eventually formed. The United States proved a home form home for the Brotherhood. Eight signatories to the Declaration of Independence- Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, Robert Treat Payne, Richard Stockton, George Walton and william Whipple - were proven Masons, while twenty-four others, on less that certain evidence, have been claimed by the Brotherhood. Seventeen presidents have been Masons: Washington, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Polk, Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Garfield. McKinley, both Roosevelts, Taft, Harding, Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford and Ronald Regan, Seventeen Vice-Presidents including Hubert Humphrey and Adlai Stevenson have also been brethren,

     But the British - the founders of masonry - remained throughout the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries the chief propagandists for the movement. Undaunted by the loss of the first empire and with it direct control over American Masonry, the British took masonry with the flag as they created their second empire- the one on which the sun never set.

     For some years membership of the Lodges set up in the empire (grouped in 'Provinces' under English, Scottish or Irish jurisdiction) as confined to Europeans, apart from a handful of Indian princely exceptions. But after 1860. a first Parsees, then other Indians were brought into the Brotherhood. In British West Africa and the West Indies there were 'black' lodges (likely to be where Barrack Obama's relations came from as a long term plan to raise a Mason family dark president of the USA) as well as 'white' Lodges (as in the US), and eventually mixed Lodges were formed.

      Associating the native upper and middle classes on a peculiar, profitable and clandestine basis with their while rulers, some historians believe, did much to defuse resentment of imperial domination. Despite his colour, any man rather better off than the mass of people - who were not sought as members - could, by being a Freemason, feel that he belonged in however humble a way to the Establishment. Just how far masonry reached is shown by the fact that on the small island of Jamaca there were no fewer than twelve Lodges, some in townships of little more than a couple of streets.

     Freemasonry of itself is simply a secret environment tended by its various Grand Lodges, as exclusive society within society, there to be used by its members largely as they wish. Hence its influence, political and social, can be quite different at times and places, In the eighteen masons were thin on the ground, but enough aristocrats, men of fashion and influence, were Masons to give the top masons influence disproportionate to their numbers. And of course royal involvement ensured, as it does today, the impression of total reputability. because of this, Freemasonry has been able to ignore all legislation dating form 1797 concerning secret societies and illegal oaths. Although regarded as subversive in some countries where the environment was less amenable, in eighteenth-century Britain the Brotherhood had the effect already alluded to - of reinforcing the development of constitutional monarchy under which its own establishment could thrive....

    The advantages of `masonry, in terms of cult, diversified friendships and straight worldly interest, had become evident to many. with the Union of 1813 the movement began to snowball for the more Masons there are in any area or profession the more important it is to be a Mason f one is not to risk losing out, as a non-member of the 'club', in one's business, one's profession and one's preferment.

     another factor was important: with the Industrial Revolution, social mobility began to increase. And masonry, providing a ladder extending from the lower middle class to the Royal Family itself, offered great advantages to those who could learn how to climb it. There was also the loneliness of the new urban way of life: Freemasonry provided an enormous circle of instant acquaintances in most walks of life.  Then too, the English public schoolboy could continue to be public schoolboy in the intimacy of the Craft.

      At the end of the eighteen century only about 320 English Lodges had been warranted. About twice as many more were formed in the next half of the century, No 1000 in 1864. This number was doubled in the next twenty year, No 2000 being warranted in 1883. The next twenty years maintained tis rate of growth with Lodge no 3000 opening in 1903, in which year Winton Leonard Spencer Churchill, the MP for Oldham, was initiated to a Masonic career that was to last more than sixty years. All this nineteenth explosions resulted essentially from recruitment form the middle and professional classes.

      With the First World War, which led to so many of quite humble background seeking better status, the rate of growth speeded dramatically. Lodge No 4000 was formed in 1919, and No 5000 only seven years later in 1926. The Second World War, for similar reasons, led to another such period of extraordinary rapid growth - Lodge No 6000  being formed in 1944 and Lodge No 7000 in 1950.

      In 1981, Lodge No 9003 was warranted. Even allowing for Lodges that have been discontinued, taking average Lodge membership at around sixty men, a membership of at least half a million can reasonably reliably be estimated for England alone. Official Masonic estimates, as already stated put the total for England and Wales at around 600,000. ( plus according to H. Paul Jeffers around 400,000 in Scotland as well taking the total to over one million Freemasons in England, Wales and Scotland).

        As the recruiting ground for ~Freemasons is primarily the not directly productive middle and professional classes, it is clear that a very high proportion of these people, occupying managers and so on - are Freemasons. In many fields nowadays the disadvantages of being left out of the 'club' are perceived as being too serious for a great many people to contemplate, whatever hey may feel personally about the morality of joining a secret society, or about the misty tenets of speculative Freemasonry.

     

    Chapter 5

    The Thirty-Third Degree

     

    There is an elite group of Freemasons in England over whom the United Grand Lodge has no jurisdiction. These are the brethren of the so-called Higher Degrees, and even the majority of Freemasons have no idea of their existence.

      Most Freemasons who have been raised to the 3rd Degree to become Master Masons believe they are the top of the Masonic Ladder. As novices they were Entered Apprentices. They were the '[assed' as Fellow Craft Masons and finally 'raised' as Masters. The very name Master has connotations of supremity. It Master Masons have ambition it will usually be to achieve office within their Lodge - eventually, with good fortune and the passing of yeas, to become Worshipful master of their mother Lodge ( the Lodge to which they were first initiated into Masonry). Those who have their eyes fixed on higher office will aim for rank in their Provincial Grand Lodge or in the United Grand Lodge itself. But even the Grand Master of all England is only a Freemasons of the 3rd Degree. The three Craft:

    3rd Degree -Master Mason

    2nd Degree - Fellow Craft

    1st Degree - Entered Apprentice

    degrees form the entire picture of masonry for most of the 600,000 ' uninitiated initiates' of the Brotherhood in England and Wales.

       The 'Masters', who form the largest proportion of Freemasons, are inmost cases quite unaware of the thirty superior degrees to which they will never be admitted, nor even be mentioned. This is the real picture, with the three lowly degrees governed by a Supreme Council.

     

     These thirty degrees, beginning with the 4th (that of Secret Master) and culminating in the 33rd (Grand Inspector General), are controlled by a Supreme Council whose headquarters are at 10 Duke Street, St James's London SW1. Nobody walking down Duke Street form Piccadilly is likely to suspect the true nature of what goes on inside the building, even if he or she happens to notice the small plate to the right of the entrance which says,

                ' The Supreme Council..... Ring once'

     Built in 1910-11, this imposing Edwardian mansion with fine neo-classical features might easily be taken for a consulate of the headquarters of some private institute.

    Nor do people thumbing through the S-Z section of the London `telephone Directory get any clue form the entry sandwiched between Supreme Cleaners and Supreme Die Cutters: 'Supreme Council 33rd Degree ...01 930 1606'

      Nobody looking at that fine but anonymous house from outside could suspect that behind its pleasing facade, beyond the two sets of study double doors and up the stairs, there is a Black Room, a Red Room and a Chamber of Death. To high masons, the house is Duke Street is known as the Grand East.

      members of Craft Freemasonry - that is, all but a few thousand of England's Masons - often argue that Freemasonry is not a secret society but ' a society with secrets'. Although argument is is the end unconvincing, it has its merits. But no such case can be made out for the wealthy society-within-a society based at 10 Duke Street, London.

     

    The Thirty-Three Degrees of Freemaosonry

     

     

    1st   Degree -      Entered Apprentice

    2nd  Degree -     Fellow Craft

    3rd   Degree -     Master Mason

    4th   Degree -     Secret Master

    5th   Degree -     Perfect Master

    6th   Degree -     Intimate Secretary

    7th   Degree -      Provost and Judge

    8th   Degree -      Intendant of the Building

    9th   Degree -      Elect of Nine

    10th Degree-     Elect of Fifteen

    11th Degree-     Sublime Elect

    12th Degree-    Grand Master Architect

    13th Degree-     Royal Arch of (Enoch)

    14th Degree-     Scottish Knight of Perfection

    15th Degree-     Knight of the Sword, or of the East

    16th Degree-     Prince of Jerusalem

    17th Degree-      Knight of the East and West

    18th Degree-     

             Knight of the Pelican and Eagle & Sovereign Prince Roe Croix of Heredom

    19th Degree-      Grand Pontiff

    20th Degree-       Venerable Grand Master

    21st Degree-        Patriarch Noachite

    22nd Degree-       Prince of Libanus

    23rd Degree-             Chief of the Tabernacle

    24th Degree-              Prince of the Tabernacle

    25th Degree-             Knight of the Brazen Serpent

    26th Degree-              Prince of Mercy

    27th Degree-              Commander of the Temple

    28th Degree-               Knight of the Sun

    29th Degree-              Knight of St Andrew

    30th Degree-             

                           Grand Elected Knight Kadosh, Knight of the Black and White Eagle

    31st Degree-                Grand Inspector inquisitor Commander

    32nd Degree               Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret

    33rd Degree                Grand Inspector General

     

    One of the regulations of ordinary Craft masonry is that no Mason may invite an outsider to join.  Anyone wishing to become a Freemason must take the initiative and seek two sponsors from within the Brotherhood

    (This at least is the theory - and United Grand Lodge staunchly maintains that it is the practice. In reality entered apprentices are recruited by existing Masons they know personally- we know this to be a fact).                                                    The position is reversed to the Higher Degrees. Initiation into Scottish Rite Freemasonry is open only to those Master Masons who are 'selected' by the Supreme Council. If a representative of the Supreme Council establishes contact with a Master Mason and concluded that he is suitable, the Candidate will be offered the chance of being 'perfected' and setting the first foot on the ladder to the 33rd Degree. But only a very small proportion, even of the limited  number of Freemasons who take the first step. progress beyond the 18th Degree, that of Knight of the Pelican and Eagle and Sovereign Prince Rose Croix of Heredom. With each Degree the number of initiates diminishes. the 31st Degree (Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander) is restricted to 400 members; the 32nd Degree ( Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret) to 180; and the 33rd Degree - the re-eminent Grand Inspectors General - to only 75 members.

        While Armed Forces are strongly represented in ordinary Freemasonry, the 'Antient and Accepted Rite of the Thirty-Third Degree' is particularly attractive to military men, Grand Inspectors General (I.e. members of the Supreme Council) have included Commander-in-Chief in the Middle east and allied supreme Commander in the Mediterranean in the Second World War; Major-General Sir Leonard Henry Atkinson; Brigadier E,W,C. Flavell; Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Williams; Brigadier General Edward Charles Walthall Delves Walthall; scores more in the last two decades. Before his retirement in 1982 the Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander (the most senior Freemason of the 33rd Degree in England and Wales and head of the Supreme Council) was Major-General sir (Herbert) Ralph Hone, KCMG, KBE, MC, TD, and so on. There is no mention of Freemasonry in his entry in Who's -Who, which lists every other decoration, award and distinction he has earned in his eighty-seven years, although becoming Britain's highest Freemason can have been of no little consequence to him. In Masonic matter he would dispense with all the other abbreviations and simply sign himself, Ralph Hone, 33 Degree. Born in 1896, he is also a Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St John of Jerusalem.

    Major-General sir (Herbert) Ralph Hone, was wounded during the First World War while serving with the British Expeditionary Force, went on to practice as a barrister-at-law in Uganda and Zanzibar in the 1920's becoming Resident Magistrate in Zanzibar in 1928 and Crown Counsel of Tanganyika Territory two years later. In the thirties he was Attorney-General  and Acting  Chief Justice of Gibraltar, and Attorney-General of Uganda between 1937 and 1943. after serving as Chief Legal adviser, Political Branch, and then Chief Political officer, GHQ Middle East, he was appointed to the General staff of the War Office in 1943. After the war he was Chief Civil Affairs Officer in Malaya for a year before becoming Secretary-General to the Governor-General of Malaya and then Deputy Commissioner-General in South-East Asia. In 1949 he was appointed Governor and Commander-in-chief of North Borneo. At the end of five years there he spent seven years as Head of the Legal Division of the Commonwealth Relations Office. This took him into 1961 when he returned to the Bar. Among other posts at home and abroad in the next fourteen years he was a constitutional advisor to R.A, Butler's Advisers on Central Africa,to the South Arabian Government and the Bermuda Government. He was standing Counsel

     to the Grand Bahama Port Authority until hi retirement on 1975 at the age of seventy-five, He succeeded Most Puissant Brother Sir Eric Studd, Bt, OBE, 33 Degree, as sovereign Grand Commander.

     This, then was the man who - at the time 'The Brotherhood' was completed for New English Library - was truly Britain's highest Freemason. whatever might be said of the Duke of Kent, the current Grand Master of Craft Masonry. Page 39 shows the hierarchy over which the Most Puissant Sovereign Grant Commander presides, with the Duke of Kent's sub-hierachy way down low.

    Although in 1936, 1947 and 1967 Major-General Sir Ralph Hone held grand rank in the United Grand Lodge, and has achieved distinction in many fields, he is one of that brand of men who attain power without the notoriety or fame. Few of the many hundreds of Freemasons I have interviewed had ever heard of Sir Ralph Hone, and of those few only five knew of him in his secret role as the Highest  Mason of the Highest Degree. These five were all initiates of the Ancient and Accepted Rite: Two Sovereign Princes Rose Croix of Heredom (18th Degree); one of the 180 Sublime Princess of the Royal secret (32nd degree); a 33rd Degree Grand Inspector General; and a former Grand Inspector Inquisitor of the 31st Degree who had renounced Freemasonry in order, he said, to become 'a true and living Christian', But beyond the fact that Major-General Sir Ralph Hone was the preminent member of the Supreme Council, none of them would say any more either about the man himself or about the rituals, the degrees or the administration of the Rite.

     Sir Ralph's successor is Harold Devereux Still, former Grand Treasurer and Junior Grand warden of the United Grand Lodge of England, and Grand Treasurer and Grand Scribe Nehemiah of the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal arch Masons of England. He also attained the rank of Grand Master of the United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta.

       The Brotherhood attracts men of distinction in the judiciary and legal profession, as will be seen later. One such man is His Honour Judge Alan Stewart Trapnell, who was appointed to the Circuit Bench in 1972. he is a Craft Freemason of grand rank, having been Assistant Grand Registrar in 1963. n 1969 he became Assistant Grand Sojourner of the Supreme Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Freemasons. All these details are listed in the 'Masons Year Book', which is now very difficult for non-Masons to come by, What is not mentioned is that he is a Freemason of the 33rd degree and Grand Inspector General for Middlesex.

       Although Craft Freemasonry is worldwide in the sense that it exists in most parts of the non-Communist world, and even underground in parts of the eastern bloc, it has no international organization. The  Ancient and Accepted Rite of the `thirty-Third Degree is the only cohesive Masonic group run on truly international lines. The Supreme Council in London is one of many Supreme Councils in various parts of the globe, of which the senior is the Supreme Council of Charleston, USA, which effectively operated a worldwide network of Freemasonry in the most powerful positions in the executive, legislature, judiciary and armed forces as well as the industry, commerce and professions of many nations.

      The English working of the Rite - sometimes known by the code name Rose Croix from the title of the initiate to the 18th Degree - differs from the American in one basic respect. In England and Wales only a few of the 33 Degrees are conferred by special ritual, while in the USA each Degree has its own initiation ceremony, In this country, the 4th to §7th Degrees are conferred at once and in name only during initiation of the selected Freemason to the 18th Degree. To the few who rise higher than the 18th Degree, the 19th to 29th Degrees are conferred nominally during the ritual of initiation to the 30th Degree - that of Grand Elected Knight Kadosh or Knight of the Black and White Eagle. Degrees above the 30th Degree are conferred singly, No initiate can rise higher than the 18th Degree without the unanimous agreement of the entire Supreme Council.

     

     

    Chapter 6

    The Great Debate

    'The insidious effect of Freemansonry among the police has to be experienced to be believed'

    With these words, David Thomas, a former head of Monmouthshire CID, created a storm of protest in 1969 and re-opend a debate that had started nearly a century before, when a conspiracy involving 'Masonic Police' and 'Masonic Criminals' brought the destruction of the original Detective Department of Scotland Yard,,, Since then allegations of 'Masonic Corruption' (within the UK Police Force) have been rife, the Jack the Ripper murders in the East End of London in 1988 were perpetrated according on 'Masonic Ritual' and a subsequent police cover-up was led by the Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, both Freemasons... There have been allegations of charges being dropped against criminal Masons by police Masons; of unfair promotions; of on-masons being hounded out of the police service; of livelihoods ruined; of blackmail and violence; of discipline eroded by a system in which a Chief Superintendent, Commanded or even on occasion as Assistant Chief Constable or Chief Constable can be made to Kneel in submissions before one of his own constables; and, in recent times, of robery and murder planned between police and criminals at Lodge Meetings'

     

    Chapter 7

    Men at the Top

    There are fifty-two police forced in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Island....The consensus among my most reliable, highly-ranking informants is that of the fifty Chief Constables and London Commissioners..no fewer that thirty-three are of the Freemasonry Brotherhood ..

     

    Chapter 8

    Worshipful masters of Conspiracy

    Corruption among Scotland Yard detectives, always a problem, grew enormously during the 1960's. One cause of the trouble was the conventional methods of detection were being less and less effective in the face of the burgeoning crime rate......between 1969 and the setting-up of the famous Operation Countryman in 1978 there were three big investigations into corruption in the Metropolitan Police These were:

    (1) An enquiry into allegations of corruption and extortion by police, first published by the Times newspaper. This resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of two London detectives in 1972

    (2) An enquiry by Lancashire Police into members of the Metropolitan Police Drug Squad. this led to the trial of six detectives, and the imprisonment in 1973 of three of them.

    (3) An enquiry into allegations of corruption among CID officers responsible for coping with vice and pornography in London's West End. Over twenty detectives were sacked from the police force during the three-year investigation in the early 1970's, which led eventually to the notorious Porn Squad trials ...

    There were corrupt Masonic Police involved in all these cases....

    Chapter 9

    Operation Countryman

    Operation Countryman, the biggest investigation ever conducted into police corruption in Britain, would never have come about if the Commissioner of the City of London Police between 1971 and 1877 had not been corrupted and unduly influenced by Freemasonry...Indeed there seems little doubt that if James Page had refused to join the Brotherhood, he would not have been appointed Commissioner in the first place...

    Chapter 11

    Birmingham City Police

    What I really needed at the outset of my investigation into Masonry in the police was a 'Masonic mole' who was a policeman of rank and integrity..Eventually, as has been shown, I built up a large network of such men, None was so earnest or more scathing than those contacts, masons and otherwise, who spoke to me about Birmingham City Police... One informant spoke of his experiences in Birmingham dating back many years, he was on the point of entering the first of the three chairs of his Holy Royal Arch Chaptwer. he had, he told me, been considering a Knights Templar, the branch of Freemaosnry which admits only Christians, but was becoming increasingly disillusioned to realize that he had to resign from one or the other...he said...'Chief |Constable. Sir Derrick Capper, was an officer of the Warickshire Provincial Grand Lodge, and he saw to it as far as possible that non-Masons were kept to the lower and middle ranks...it was impossible to be a civilian employee at higher level unless you were Mason..'

     

    Chapter 12

    Conclusion (Regarding the Debate about Masons and the effect of  Masons in the Police Force)

    An independent enquiry into Freemasonry in the police should be initiated at the earliest possible moment,, Even thought the majority of police, including Masonic officers, are not corrupt, it is clear that corrupt police can and do use Freemasonry to effect and further corruption.....In September 1981 and again in April 1982 there were claims in court of criminal conduct on the part of Freemason police...At Knightsbridge Crown Court on Tuesday, 22nd September 1981 an ex-Metropolitan Police Detective accused of trying to bribe a senior Drugs Squad officer said they were both members of the same Masonic Lodge.. the detective told the court that he had - seconded the application of the Drugs Squad man - a Superintendant - to join the Lodge when they were both stationed at King's Cross Road -The Superintendant admitted that he was a  member of the Brotherhood and that he had visited the Lodge when the detective was there....In the later case, a police informer named Michael Gervaise claimed as the Old Bailey that policemen in the same Masonic Lodge as criminals involved in a multi-million-pound silver bullion robbery had warned them that they were about to be arrested ....As a result of this 'Masonic Act', one of the men involved in the £3.5 million robbery fled and has never been traced. Gervaise, who had been involved in the robbery himself, told the court, 'certain officer were Freemasons, and certain criminals belonged to the same Lodge .. there were eight or none officers in the same Lodge as the people involved in the silver bullion robbery.'

      Unrest about the undoubted misuse of Freemasonry by policemen is spreading and demands for an enquiry will continue to grow...Many people want to see masonry banned in the police... a compulsory register on which police officer have to list their affiliation to secret societies, and their status within such societies, is the minimum requirement if a grave situation is to be improved.....

    Part Three: Inside Information

    Chapter 13: The Rabbi's Tale

    Despite the ban on speaking to outsiders, many Freemasons allowed me to interview them...Some were extraordinary frank, some going so far ... as confiding the most secret workings of the Brotherhood...among these honourable men was an eminent Freemason of long standing and grad rank: The Rev Saul Amias, MBE, a London rabbi who was Assistant  Grand Chaplain to the United Grand Lodge in 1973 . I interviewed him at his home in Edgware in 1981..

    Chapter 14

    Five Masters and a Lewis

    Chapter 15: Jobs For the Brethren?

    Although a new initiate to Freemasonry declares on his honour that he offers himself as a candidate 'uninfluenced by mercenary or other unworthy motives'... there can be no doubt that the majority of businessmen who become Masons do so because they believe it will assist them in business... - as it frequently does...

    On the local level, there is much cross-fertilization between masonry and other groups of business people such as Round Table, Lions Clubs, and Rotary Clubs as well as Chambers of Commerce - Men in business on their own account - for example, accountant, architects, builders, estate agents, restaurateurs, taxi firm proprietors, travel agents, commercial travelers, Insurance agents and shop keepers of all kinds - are strongly represented in Lodges up and down the country (UK)

    ... if you are applying for a job it can make a big difference whether you get the job or not id you give the employer a Freemason sign and the employer is also a Freemason...

    One sign by which a masons may secretly make himself known to other in the room involves a particular arrangement of the feet .. the arrangement is outlined in the ceremony of initiation to the First Degree....'..you are expected to stand perfectly erect your feet formed in a square, your body being thus considered an emblem of your mind, and your feet of the rectitude of your actions..' if he is in a position to shake hands with the person to whom he wished to identify himself, recognition becomes much easier...the Entered Apprentice applies distinct pressure with his right thumb on the knuckle of the other man's forefinger.. the Fellow Craft does the same thing with the second knuckle ... The Master Mason applied distinct pressure with his right thumb between the knuckles of the other man's middle and third finger...

    Ron, an Insurance Agent price explained... '.. I have got business from two people as a result of being a Mason ...'

    A Past Master of Eden Park Lodge No 5379 in Croydon told me... ' I was a consultant for Taylor Woodrow. ...quite a few times I know I got contracts because I gave the Masonic Grip...the whole of the board of directors of Taylor Woodrow were Freemasons at the time...

    '..You'll find none out of ten architects are Masons ... went I put in a tender I'd shake the architect by the hand...oh, he'd say, .."You're a Mason.. The contract is yours..."...that is how masonry works ... if there is a contract going from an architect,, the chances are he is a mason..so the chances are a Mason will get it...'

    John Poulson, the notoriously corrupt architect whose activities in bribing local government officer, councilors, Civil Servants, officials of nationalized industries and other created a scandal which was described by more than one commentator as the 'British Watergate', was an avid Freemason... read 'The Web of Corruption.. the definitive story of Poulson and his infamous PT man T. Dan Smith ...

    I have been told by several informants how details of their bank accounts have been obtained by parties with no right to the information by 'Masonic Contacts'.. the high proportion of bank managers and bank staff who are Freemasons can make the acquisition of this kind of confidential information relatively easy for a Mason,, having as he does the right access to every Lodge in the country ...

    In industry, Masonry is far stronger among while collar workers and management up to the higher echelons... the medical profession has a high proportion of Freemasons...most main hospitals, including all the London teaching hospitals have their own Lodges. ... According to Sir Edward Tuckwell, former Serjeant-Surgeon to the Queen, and Lord Porritt, Chairman of the African Medical and Research Foundation, both Freemasons and bother consultants to the Royal Masonic Hospital, the Lodges of the teaching hospitals draw their members from hospital staff and GP's connected with the hospital in question.. Most senior members of the profession are Freemasons, especially those involved with the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons....Masonry dopes seem to have an influence over certain appointments..

    Freemasonry plays a significant role in the field of education...

    |The ambulance and fire serviced are strongly represented in Masonry..

     

     

     

     

    Epiloque of The Brotherhood

    by Stephen Knight –published 1984 Pages 304 to 308:

    On the 18th June 1982 the dead body of a middle-aged man was found hanging by the neck from a rope suspended from Scaffolding beneath Blackfriars Bridge, London. The pockets of his black suit contained nearly £23,000 in various currencies and were weighted with 12 pounds of builder's blocks. He was Rpberto Clvi, president of Italy's Banco Ambrosiano. who in 1981 had been named a member of Licio Gelli's illegal Freemasonic Lodge Propaganda Due (P2). Calvi was later found guilty by an Italian court of illegally exporting $26.4 million to Switzerland and received a four year suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay a fine of equivalent to £7.3 million, A week later he was confirmed as chairman of Banco Ambrosiano. In April 1982 Calvi's deputy at the bank was wounded by a would-be assassin. Known as 'God's banker', Calvi had been closely linked with Instituto per le Opere di Religione (IOP), the Vatican Bank, for years. A number of highly questionable transactions involving the Vatican Bank, Calvi and Banco Ambrosiano subsidiaries in Latin America and elsewhere led the Bank of Italy to launch an investigation. On the last day of May 1982 the Bank of Italy demanded an explanation for loans of $1,400 million ( $1.4 billion) made by Banco Ambrosiano subsidiaries to several companies registered in Panama owned directly or indirectly by the Vatican Bank. This precipitated a run on Ambrosiano's shares, and eleven days later Calvis disappeared in Rome. Using a false passport. Calvi fled to Austria and then to England. arriving at Gatwick on the 15th June. 1982 and travelled straight to London where he remained for several days in an apartment in Chelsea Cloisters. On the 17th June, 1982 the Bank of Italy seized control of Banco Ambrosiano and trading in its shares was suspended after they had dropped twenty percent in value in one day. Ambrosiano's directors resigned and Calvi's secretary- Graziela Corrocher - who kept the books of Lodge P2 - jumped, or was pushed, to her death from, a fourth-floor window at the bank, Graziela Corrocher left behind her what was obviously intended to be taken as a suicide note, although there is more tan a small doubt that this was genuine.. The note said: 'May Calvi be double cursed for the damage he has caused to the bank and its employees,'

    The following night Calvi's body was found hanging from the scaffolding beneath Blackfriars Bridge, four miles from the apartment in Chelsea Cloisters. Even as the Daily Express postal clerk who found the body was hastening to call the police, Italian police were busy chartering a plane ..and a party of high officials arrived at Gatwick a few hours later..

     There were many rumours: The Mafia, with whom Calvi had connections, had murdered him; frightened and despairing, he had committed suicide; he had been ritually done the death by Freemasons. a Masonic 'cable-tow' around his neck and his pockets filled symbolically with chunks of masonry, the location of the murder being chosen for its name - i Italy, the logo of the Brotherhood is the figure of a Blackfriar.

    ....But a City of London inquest later decided that Calvi had committed suicide, a verdict the banker's family immediately announced its intention to challenge... Italian police, and a number of City of London police associated with the case, are convinced it was murder...a further inquest in 1983, the jury returned an open verdict....as for the reason for the death of Calvi

      The mystery of Calvi's death deepens rather than clarifies with time. It is inextricably bound up with the riddle of P2, the KGB penetration of Freemasonry, and Freemasonry's penetration not only of the Roman Catholic Church, but also of the Vatican itself... At the time this book goes to press, investigations are continuing into Banco Ambrosianos link with the enigmatic president of the Vatican bank, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, and into the continuing international reverberations of the P2 lodge conspiracy.

     Meanwhile, Licio Gelli has since been arrested in Switzerland where he was attempting to withdraw nearly $100 million from several numbered accounts at Genva's Union Bank - money belonging to Banco Ambrosiano.. Gelli awaits the outcome of extradition proceedings,,,

    Meanwhile, too, Andropov, had of the KGB when the P2 plot was hatched, now sits at the pinnacle of Soviet power and diverts ever more funds towards the KGB's activities in the West, the exploitation of Freemasonry included

     

     

     



    The Secret World of the Freemasons 

    by Tim Sedoulous

    Freemasonry is the World's most famous and successful fraternity

    With millions of members spread right across the globe, the organization is well known for tis veilf of secrecy as for its impressive roster of historical members.

      The Secret World of the Freemasons takes a fascinating look inside this enigmatic institytion and the trial facing te ancient order as it approaches the challenges of the twenty-first century. With a detailed examination of the visible structure of International Freemasonry ans the myths and legends that surround it, the book examines the true meaning of Freemasonry -its mythological and real history, its context, and the symbolism and philosophy that illuminate every aspect of the Freemasonry Craft. Tracking the conditions, symbolism, relics and rituals from the Knights Templar to today's Freemasons who pledge to abide by the time -honoured tenets of morality, charit and loyalty. The Secret World of the Freemasons reveals the true purposes of this ancient secret society... Tim Dedopulos is an anthropoligist, esoteric reseacher and historian, with well over a score of books to his name, including Kabbalah amd wizards (Carlton Books). He has been studying the subject of Freemasonry ever since discovering that his grandfather was a 33=degree Master Mason and former Worshipful Master of the island of Corfu in Greece....

    What is Freemasonry?

    Rumours and legends have dogged Freemasonry since its inception. Everyonr uoi talk to seems to have a dificult take,,,

    Itsa secret conspiracy of power that rules the world...

    No, it's the inheritor of the wealth amd mysteries of the Knights Templar..

    A club to gove harmless old men something to do during the week..

    A satanic conspiracy to destroy mankind for ever...

    A hugh... corrupt... old boy's network...

    The guardian of great ocult secrets ...

    A blasphemous religion..

    One big charity fund-raising group..

    A blasphemous religion....

    .The guardian of great occult secrets...

    There are a thousand theories, but the truth is something altogether stranger and more wonrous...

    The official traditional answer- the one you will probably get if you go and ask a Grand Lodge about the Craft - is that Freemasonry is " a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illuminated symbols". There is no deying that the answer sounds evocative, but what does it mean and, more importantly, what does it imply? At its simplest level, reemasonry is one of the wrold's oldest surviving secular farernal societies. Although it is specifically not religious, its members are concerned with developing themselves morally and spiritually in order to become better people... Over the course of their time as members, they are taught the society's plays, These are ancient words, actions and settings, and are exlained through allegorical reference to the trappings of stonemasons' craft, particularly its tools and customs.. The single most crucial qualification required to become a Freemason is that you have to beleive in God, or some other supreme being deity... It doesn't matter what religion you follow, or how dedicated you are to it.. Allbeleif systems are welcome into Freemasonry, even home-brewed ones, and how strictly you follow your religion's dictates is left entirely up to your own conscience...The important thing is that you have faith is a supreme being. The reason should be obvious - if you don't believe that there is a spiritual side of life, you can't genuinely claim to be interested in your spiritual development, and so the whole thing would be a bit pointless for you.... Apart from that, what you believe absolutely doesn't matter. Freemasonry never pries into a member's religion - in fact , all religios discussion is utterly forbidden during Masonic meetings, as it political debate,,Such matters are deeply held personal issues and are likely to prove divisive. In an organizattion that seeks members of good repute from all races, religions and creeds, avoiding political and religious clashes in vital....There is, of c ourse, far more to Freemasonry than just a series of moral and spiritual teachings... There are a number of other "sides' to Freemasonry that arise from its core purpose... One of the most important of these is that Freemasonry is a very charitable organization. For in 1994, it is estimated that the collective Grand Lodges and their constituent memebers across the USA donated a sum of $625 million to national and local charitable caused alone, with perhaps as much as an additional $400 mllion going to international funds.. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as great many Masons volunteer their time.. The masonic Service Association, for example, ensures that every Veteran's Administration Hospital in A merica has a Masonic volunteer working with patients - half a million hours worth of work a year...By comparison in Detroit a smany as athousand local masons regularily turn out as part of the efforts to help patrol the city on "Devils Night". 30th October, to try and prevent the annual epidemic of fires and looting associated with tha night... Their efforts have kept their assigned territory of the city entirely clear of damage for several years... InBritain, the Craft;s members contribute more than £3 million annually to national and international - non-Masonic - charitable causes, ranging from the hospice movement and the Prince's Trust to Alzheim r;s research and housing for disadvantaged innrcity chidren.. In addition each lodge contributes toward local non-Masonic charities...

    Stephen Knight the author of the Brotherhood who died aged 33 ......18 months after publishing his book

    ..... Had Stephen Knight lived, Stephen Knight would have written his own sequel. Instead Martin Short stepped, almost literally, into a dead ma's shoes..  Martin Short's tracked down many of Stephen Knight's sources and read hundreds of letters sent in response to Stephen Knight's book, which were never pursued because of illness. More than three years after Stephen Knight's death, fan mail still pours in for Stephen ... Knight from all over the world...

             A dramatic moment during Freemason third degree ceremony

                                Inside The Brotherhood –

                                                                                                Explosive Secrets of the Freemasons

                                                                         by Martin Short

    Contents:

    Acknowledgemtns                                                                         P 7

    Foreward                                                                                 P 9

    Intorduction: The Brotherhood and Its Aftermath                                          P18

            Part One: Ritual or Religion?

    1. Ritual Poison                                                                          P 45

    2. Whatever Happened to Jsus?                                                          P 60

    3. Cloth and Apron, Cross and Square                                                    P81

    4. Jahbulon - the sacred Word to Keep                                                   P90

    5. Masonic Light, resurrection and Gnosis                                                P 106

    6. Obelisks and Egypt                                                                    P 115

    7. Sorcery, Sex, Satan and Skills                                                          P 124

    8. St Peter's Squared                                                                     P 149

     . PART TWO: Who are the Masons?

    9. Figuring the Facts                                                                    P 169

    10. A Mechanism of Social Control?                                                      P 149

      PART THREE: Freemasons and the Police

    11. The Manor of St James Mason Lodge                                                 P 195

    12. The Fall and Fall of Brian Woolard                                                    P 205

    13. The meaning of the Manor                                                             P 236

    14. The Phoenix                                                                         P 258

    15. A Criminal Intelligence                                                                P 261

    16. A Firm in a Firm: Freemasonry and Police Corruption                                  P 268

    17. Master of the City                                                                      P 291

    18. A column of Mutual Defence                                                           P 300

    19. The Encompassing of John Stalker                                                     P 312

    20. Parrish's Council                                                                      P 351

    21. Tough at the Top                                                                      P 361

        PART FOUR: Masonic Activities

    22. Judging by Results                                                                    P 369

    23. Masonic Justicea                                                                        P 381

     The Isle of  Wight has sixteen or more Freemason Lodges which clian over 1,500 members.. of a total population of about 110,000 in 1993 and if we discount unlikely Masonic recruiting material (men under 25, the poor, dericts and most inamtes in Albany and Parkhurst jails) the ratio comes down to one in ten being Freemasons on the Isle of Wight...most are in business, local government, the police and the law, so it follows that a very large percentag of all island business goes through Masonic hands....a local nightclub owner who was not a Freemason, one Derek Smith was forced to sut down, lost his license and had to sell his nightclub closed after fighting a powerful Freemason police inspector Gerald Marsh and a powerful Freemason Justice...other people had been battling with Isle of Wight masons for years, especially over widespread abise of licensing laws by masonic publicans... one of them were doing a roaring after-hours trade, damaging the legitimate bisoness of a neighbouring landlord who had no Masonic Protection and thus had to operate within the law....There is no doubt that throughout Britain Freemasonr is very strong on 'the Bench' ( the collective term for magistrates and licensing justices)...in 1973 a survey in one provincal city discovered that 29 out of 43 magistrates were Freemasons or Rotarians.. Anyone's chance of appearing before a Mason-free slate of three magisrates are almost nil - unless all of them are women...For almost 25 years Ian Morton worked as an adminisrator in Derbyshire magistrates' courts .. his father was a mason and Morton was perfect Mason material...he never joined because what he saw going on at t˙e corts wa smore than enough to put im off joining Freemasonry... he states :..'.. All this stuff about Masonic signals may well be true, but in my experience Masons aren't let off in court.. They don't even get into court!.... We used to see all the police files and we could never understand why some people were prosecuted and others were not; why working-class men under thirty were breahalysed, but not proessional people; why boys on 125 Yamaha bikes were done for speeding but older men driving rolls-Royces or Jaguars..Over many years we found out who the Freemasons were, and that's when all these decisions made sense...' Morton's wife, Rae, used to be married to a Mason and came to understand how the Freemason Craft justified its  covert control of so much of British society, ..'I was always told Freemasonry ws "the Benevolent Mafia" and that "we know best". When I showed the couple a Derbyshire Masonic Yearbook, they identified not only a lare number of JP's, but also many justice's clerks, councillors, policemen, solicitors and estate agents..This only reinforced Ian Morton's opinions which had been expressed two years earlier ina letter published in a local newspaper...'...it is high time that Freemaons were obliged to state their interests and the mere fact that they are reluctant to do so is more than adequate reason to demand that they do... Anyone in or standing for public office should be prepared to be open, as to their interests and affiliations..That is all that is being asked..ifa list is successfully completed, it must be published..anything less would be an insult..'

    Futher evidence of how Freemasonry operates in magistrastes's courts come from the far north of England. A Justice of the Peace had read The Brotherhood and wrote to offer his onw expereinces about life on the Bench..In later conversations he asked me not to name him in this book, for obvious reasons...' There are some sixy JP's on our bench and vacancies come up most years.. They are filled on the advice of a small group of magistrates who are known as the `lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for the area. To my surprise I was asked to go on this committee - I was the first Catholic chosen for many years...waht I saw going on in the committe astonished me..For a start, no one wa smeant to serve on it for more than six years, but on eman had been there for more than twelve years...I also noticed the same tow men were constantly nominating people to fill the vacancies. I was amazed at their range of acquaintances, people from all walks of life, and all of them thoroughly competant. They were OK in themselves. It was the way they came to out attention which was obnoxious.. I soon found out that the two men who nominated them all, and the man who had served more than 12 years on the committee, were all Freemasons..Their whole operation was subtle and well-planned. ven the women they nominated turned out to be wives of Freemasons!..Although our Bench was very efficient, the `lord Chancellor's representative came to tell us that out appointments were getting out of balance..There were too many teachers and too many conservatives..this encouraged me to use my power of vito..All you have to do to stop the appointment of a new JP is to say you object...No one may ask why - you simply say so. Whenever the two Masons pushed hir luck by putting up too many of their freinds I would say, ' I cannot support this nomination.' They got the message after a while and cut down on their offers..

    The coroners' court is another place where Masons often preside..This merely reflects Masonic dominance in the professions from which coroners are selected: the law and medicine..

    24. The Cotton Inheritance                                                               P 391

    25. Masonic Light in Town Halls                                                          P 406

    26. London Belongs to Them (Masons)                                                   P 432

    No where in Britain has the battle over Freemasonry been fought more bitterly than on London;s local councils.. It is not always Labour versus Conservative, the roughest fights have broke out between rival factions with the Labour parties which have rulles moat inner London Boroughs for most of the century... For Generations Freemsonry was not an issue in London's town halls..Nobody dared raise it because of on strak truth: the power-brokers in both main parties were Masons and usually belonged to the same lodge..Many London Lodges were created especially do elected councillors and full-time officia`ls could socialize togther off-duty..The Masonic Lodges were often named after the boroughs themselves....The Wandsworth Borough Council Lodge (no. 2979). Founded in 1903 survived a 1970 corruption scandal which revealed long-standing Masinic bonds between Labour Sydney sporle and Ronald ash, his Conservative opposite number. ash was not implicated in any crime but Sporle was later jailed for six years for corruption in the firs of the 'Poulson trials.... Undaunted, the Wandsworth Borough Council Lodge (no. 2979) continued to bridge Wandsworth's party divide, as an underground newspaper Lower Down proved in October 1976, whne it surreptionsly potographed numerous male personages arriving at a `masonic suite in Clapham Junction, clad in Dinner jackets, bow ties and carrying regalia cases.. That evenimg they were installing the new lodge master:...'...Included in their number were Norman B, white, the Chief Executive; Clir Dennis Mallam, Leader of the Tory Minority; Councillor Maurice Heaster, Tory Whip; Tory Councillor Michael Chartres; ex-mayor, Councillor Jimmy Hill, ex-council solicitor Harry Sargent; plus a number of other Council officers and ocal notables...Freemasonry attempts to be a secret society..members of Masonic Lodges are sworn to give primary allegiance to their Masonic brethren, and to eep secret all the doings of their order.. It is right that officers and elected members of our Council, whose first duty should be to the public, should belong to an organization that requires this of them? ..There are a number of ex-emplyees of the Council who reeived the cold shoulder from their colleagues for refusing to join the Lodge; they are only too ready to identify those who are 'on the square', and tell some hair-raising stories of what 'they' get up to.. And they don't mean performing silly rites and ceremonies or rolling on te carpet in silly aprons... They allude to much more siniser goings-on..The implicaion is that the Freemasons constitute a significant, mainly non-elected elite within our Corporation...'

    Powerful stuff!!! .... Yet Lower Down never published the lowdown because it was shut down soon afterwards...At the time `i was making a television programme about Freemasonry, so I tried ot find these folk who were 'only too ready' to tell 'hair-rasing stories'....

    27. Every Breath You Take                                                                   P 449

    28. A Masonic Education                                                                    P 462

    29. What's Up Doc?                                                                          P 480

    30. Squaring te Square Mile                                                                  P 486

    31. The Regimental Square                                                                   P 502

    32. Yor Masonic Public Servant                                                               P 517

    33. Spooks in Aprons                                                                        P 532

    34. The Tory Party in Aprons?                                                                P 564

       PART FIVE: Masonic Troubles

    35. Plain Tales of the `Lodge                                                                 P 589

    36. Falling Masonry                                                                          P 595

    37. Charity Begins at Home                                                                 P 607

    38. The Destruction of arthur Edmonds                                                      P 627

    39. The Ladies - God Bless Them!                                                             P641

    Conclusion: The emedy                                                                       P 658

    Notes                                                                                         P 674

    Index                                                                                         P 689

    In the Midland Bank the Lodge seemed composed entirely of senior managers.. I have spotted no lower level staff, no messengers or maintenance men  and of course no women in the Midland Bank being Freemasons and have generally discovered that (a) most bank mangers are Freemasons, ( b) a non-Mason bank manger may feel must join Freemasonry so as to not to lose business (c) Masonic Bank manager meet at functions, no doubt must talk about their customers over wine...

    Freemasonry in Banking In London; Pages 495-499 : Bank of England (lodge No. 263) Lloyds Bank Lodge (Blackhorse of Lombard Street, London -Lodge No. 4155) Midland Bank Lodge ( lodge no. 2946)

    Judging by Results: Page 385  and pages 379 to 380-Judges and Masters who are Freemasons....

    Bill Rugman in the 1970's  accused a High Court Official in his affidavit of acting in a hostile manner owards him:he twice passed his right hand across his right eyebrow as if wiping away some drops of perspiration, butostentatiously ( a well known Freemason sign) Moreover, he did this in the judges vision ( judge Murray-band)..this thought Rugman, was the masonic sign of Grief and Distress. according to the ritual, this has compelling significance: ..' When adversity has visited our Brother, and his calamities call for out aide, we should cheerfully and liberally stretch forth the hand of kindness, to save him from sinking and to releive his necessities...' ... Rugman took his case to the Court of Appeal where three judge re-looks at the case... Lord Hustice Sir Francis Purchas observed, ' If only one or more of these allegaions were to be substantiated they would amount to a serious miscariage of justice and misconduct of the part of the judge.' ,,The Appeal judges had alrady been forced to pay attention to Rugman's Masonic claims because at the outset he had applied for his Appeal to be heard by non-Masonic judges.. He even cited the Royal Masonic Hospital case as a precedent where it was successfully organised for non-Masonic judges to hear the case...Lord Purchas responded that Rugman was in some difficulty because Freemasons swaer an oath not to reveal their membership..This was an extraordinary statemen coming from a Lord Justcie of appel, for Puchas seemed to be saying that soe of his colleages would rather lie than reveal they were Masons..They would place their Masonic oath above thir oath as a judge!....                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

    Spooks in Aprons( Freemason Apron): Chapter 33...

    ... There seems no doubt that there are many Freemasons working for the Spook- secret service organizations such as MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc ,which according to many investigators, past members of MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc and in particular Leroy Flecture Prouty ex-CIA officer in his book, The Secret Team .. MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc is not run and financed by the various governments they purport to represent but are run and financed by a cabal of powerful bankers, financiers, and industrialists like the Rothschild Family, the Rockefella Family and their associates ..however the worrying and scary thing is that the governments which they purport to represent gave give these organization like MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc the full 'Green Light' to commit what every criminal offenses and be involved in any criminal activities which include murder (they call it a license to kill) and the growing, manufacture and supply of most of the illegal drugs around the world which is a muli-trillion pound business with the only people prosecuted for selling, manufacturing and growing illegal drugs being people that are not in their gang or were in their gang and have decided to go their own way...outside the laws on any country that they like without fear of any investigation, prosecution, and/or punishment... all covered up under the secrecy acts and all declared as 'official secret government security business ..members of MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc can simply appear at the scene of a murder or a big drug bust in any country in the world and simply tell the local police that they are in charge of the investigation and stop the local police from doing their normal police work and inquiries.. which seems to often also include telling witnesses what lies to tell to the local police and the courts and what evidence and information to to tell the local police and the courts... so that the final outcome of any court trial and investigation and public media releases that are allowed are completely controlled by MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc.. if MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc do not want certain information being publicized world wide in main stream media outlets such as mainstream  newspapers, magazine, TV Net works and Internet web sites..MI5, MI6, CIA, Massad, KGB, ASIO etc simply issue what is called a "D Notice" to all mainstream  newspapers, magazine, TV Net works and Internet web sites telling them not to publish a certain story.. this has happened recently with the murder of `scottish and Australian INL News undercover journalist, Thomas Allwood, who was conveniently murdered on the 21st June, 2012 in Broxburn Scotland ...one month before he was due in London's High Court of Justice for a hearing on the 24th July, 2012. before Justice Vos (a well known and well respected Freemason) to have a criminal contempt application Thomas Allwood had issued against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, UK Treasury Solicitors, for deliberately and knowingly preparing and presenting a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document to Master Bowles (well known and respected Freemason) London's High Court of Justice that falsely stated that USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty had stated the UK Border Agency Officers that Thomas Allwood had paid him $2,000 to appear in the filming of the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show being filmed in April-May 2011..when Ronnie Prouty did not say this and in fact told UK Border Agency Officers on the 27th April, 2011 that he was not getting paid to be in the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show filming.. when he was wrongly and falsely arrested for no sensible and/or valid reason by UK Border Agency Officers on the 27th April, 2011 at Heathrow Airport while traveling from Los Angeles-London-Edinburgh for a five day say in Edinburgh before he was due to fly back to Los Angeles.. and held for about 24 hours in detention at Heathrow Airport and the next day placed in hand cuffs and flow back to Los Angeles in hand cuffs on his own return air ticket... the reason why David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, UK Treasury Solicitors deliberately and knowingly prepared and presented a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document to Master Bowles (well known and respected Freemason) London's High Court of Justice  was to convince Master Bowles to strike out a £500 million damages claim against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, in his Masters Chambers, without any hearing for the parties to discuss the letter of request by UK Treasury Solicitors to Master Bowles requesting that he strike out Thomas Allwood's £500 million damages claim against David Cameron, the UK prime minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor, UK Home Office and Government, UK Border Agency, in his Masters Chambers, for the damages caused to the filming of the pilot of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show which was due to be used to present to TV Networks in Australia, Europe, UK and the USA to sell the rights to air the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show world wide with an expected yearly income of over £1 billion a year to Thomas Allwood and the INL News Group and their various financiers and investors have financed the development of the Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show over the last 10 years....it is understood from investigations made that USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty was wrongly arrested BY UK Border Agency Staff on the 27th April, 2011 at Heathrow Airport as a favour done for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media ground News Corporation and News International who wanted the UK Government to help sabotage the INL News Group's filling of their media opposition .... the INL News Group ... because of the INL News Groups Fringe Shows Have Talent was financially successful this would have assured the INL News Group's financial strength to be a major media competitor to Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International .. which as has been shown by all the information that was made public with the Parliamentary inquiry into Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking done by staff of  Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors .. it had been fairly standard practice for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group.. News Corporation and News International ... to Hack Phone, Bribe Police  and hack computers for to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors .. and with all the evidence the Freemason Police involved in illegal activities in the police force there seems no doubt that Freemason police were up to their neck in  Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking at least prior to the major publicity in 2012 caused by the the Parliamentary inquiry into Phone Hacking, Police Bribes and computer hacking done by staff of  Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild's all powerful media group News Corporation and News International to gain commercial advantage and for commercial sabotage against its competitors...

     Retired Metropolitan police officer, John Thompson says he received at least six approaches to become a Freemason, varying from the subtle to the obvious....'... The fact that I was a known  atheist did not seem to concern my would-be proposes who advised me to lie b professing a belief...I never made any attempt to become a Freemason because, I hope, I did not possess the necessary hypocrisy...'

    One Mason told me that his lodge always checks if any candidate for membership has a criminal record..

    ..'.... That's why we've got a copper in the lodge; to check candidates out on the computer!...If they have a record, their applications are withdrawn or they are blackballed - unless senior lodge members are nominating them, in which case nothing is said... of course nowadays, if a policemen is caught using the computer for non=police purposes, he could be charged with a criminal offense himself.. All this is strictly illegal, but you can be sure it still goes on...'

     “ ...We very soon gathered that our past Freemason friends and their wives no longer desired our company. After learning the good points of Freemasonry, and believing in its foundations, having enjoyed so much the company of the brethren and their families, this sudden treatment came as a shock. We were obviously being treated with the alternative treatment to murder, as laid down in the rituals. Instead of having our throats cut across, we were branded as 'wilfully perjured individuals, void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful lodge...'.....”

    "...Among the hundreds of letters which Stephen Knight received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...

    From Chapter 14 : The Phoenix

    ".... it might be wondered how men (Policemen) whose work requires brain as well as brawn, a sense of truth and reality, and considerable courage, can allow themselves to be drawn into fraternity whose ritual requires a total suspension of disbelief and a taste for the occult... The outsider might be concerned  that men that must take so many crucial decision sin their careers - concerning life and death, imprisonment or liberty, kidnaps and sieges, as well as helping old ladies across the road... can subject themselves to such a welter of gobbledegook concocted in the eighteen century by men who were, in part, superstitious fantasists....Let us look at the other side of the coin.. Instead of caning cops all the time for rushing into the Craft, se should pause to consider why the Freemasonry Craft wants these policemen in the Craft...My masonic informer Badger explained it this way: whatever policemen may get out of Freemasonry, Freemasonry gets even more out of the police...

    ....... ' Why do nearly all masonic lodges like to have a copper in their midst? Because Freemasonry is a vehicle for bringing together the various threads of a general view... Its a form of social cement.. a pyramid erected on the class system,,,, It should go without saying that the police are a vital part of the pyramid, or rather the strongest shied the status quo possesses ... That is why policemen have to be continually sucked into Freemasonry: to maintain the deferential structure of society and to ensure that Freemasons and Freemasonry is perpetually favoured by those who enforce the law...'

    Evidence appearing to support Badger's view came in a letter in the Independent in 1988. It was from M.E. Rowe, a retired policeman with thirty years' service. In 1980, while a senior officer in the West Midlands:

    '..I was approached by a local businessman I knew personally who at the time was lobbying on behalf of a group of businesses who were concerned with the effect of proposals in which the police and local authority were involved. I declined to discuss the matter...  This refusal was followed by the offer of a membership of his lodge...I was told that he was in a position to ensure my acceptance as a member, and he would regard it as a personal favour if I would accept his offer.... I refused, saying that it was not consistent with the independence I thought was essential in my position..However, I did indicate that in the next eighteen months I would be retiring and then I might consider his offer - I was told with some favour that the 'offer' would not be open to me when I retired...'

    If policemen pursue the Craft of Freemasonry as an amusing hobby or an antiquarian game which they leave behind at the temple.. it may be harmless as masonic spokesmen claim,, The public need to be convinced .... In the meantime there is evidence to suggest that some Mason cops go on duty still mentally wearing their regalia and are not as impartial as their Constable's Oath requires....

     From Chapter 15: A Criminal Intelligence: 

    Masons usually claim such stories are invented by embittered non-Masons who cannot accept that their careers have failed because of their lack of ability; instead it is claimed by Masons, that they ;fantasize about malicious wrongdoing by Masonic colleagues.  Retired Metropolitan  Policeman John Thompson ( a non-Mason) rejects this argument as itself a canard..

    ..'....I admit we non Masons were resentful at our lowly rank. Yet most of us were not bitter. On the contrary, the men who were bitter were those Freemasons who had expected patronage and preferment but never got it. What non-Masons such as I did resent was entering a five-furlong sprint race but being forced to start at the mile and three quarter gate...We also resented that our Masonic colleagues were likely to have their errors, omissions, in adequacies, incompetencies and indiscipline covered up, sometimes at the expense of non-Masons..I concede that many Masonic policemen had an aura if greater competence and many became more able because they had less pressure and could acquit themselves better on boards..I put my hands up to being bitter in one respect..I object when masons dismiss their victims as jealous and vindictive, I am neither neither but what do they expect us to be? They expect us to act like the three wise monkeys: seeing no evil, speaking no evil and hearing no evil - of Freemasonry of course    ....'

    One on-Masonic sergeant knows to his cost the Brotherhood's power in Oxfordshire...

    ..'... In 1983 I had some building work done on my house..When it was finished I was not entirely satisfied and paid the builder only part of the money..He put most of the faults right but I was still not completely happy and we had quite a disagreement.. He then told me he was a Freemason and he knew various people that I also knew, one of them being a chief superintendent..Not long afterwards the builder had a car accident and  he finished up in hospital.. When he was there he received a visit from the chief superintendent who asked if there was anything he could do for him.. A few days later I was summoned to headquarters to see this chief superintendent. He 'advised' me to hurry up and sort out my dispute with the builder because his being in hospital gave him quite enough to worry about. Now whilst no threats were made,  there was undoubtedly some moral pressure and I came away from headquarters feeling decidedly uneasy..  The obvious difference in our ranks made it a very simple task for him to 'put the screws on'.... As a result I felt bound to pay the builder the remaining money... I find membership of this organization quite odious and not compatible with being a police officer. ... Incidents happen - internal politics you understand- whic defy rational explanation and can only be put to the influence of these people.. They are unknown, unseen, but seem to pull strings behind the scenes and get things done...

    Freemason Michael Richardson: Chairman of the Board of Management of The  Royal Masonic Hospital (RMH) in Hammersmith and also managing director of merchant bankers N. M. Rothschild..who represents and personifies everything about Grand Lodge which many Freemasons resent: wealth, power, connections and the City of London and is also seen as the front man to the aristocrats who had given him the job ...who dominate Grand Lodge's committees and are still held responsible for the earlier 'betrayal' of masonic charity: closing and selling the School for Boys in 1977... the previous chairman of RMH was an eminent surgeon Lord Porritt ... the fact that a merchant banker, rather than a medical man, had taken over from the saintly Porritt was now seen as proof that the scheme to sell the RMH two years before was planned years before and felt that Richardson had been chosen because 'privatization' was a Rothschild speciality...

    Comment: it is noted that researches come to the clear conclusion that the Rothschild family  and their partners, who appear to own and/or control over 60% of the world's wealth and valuable resources .. appear to have profited well out most wars in the last 300 years and in particular the 1st and 2nd Word Wars by encouraging them to happen and lending money to all sides of these wars ... and effectively bankrupting both Britain and Germany who had to pay back their large war debts to the Rochschilds in gold at the end of the wars .. with it also claimed that Adolph Hitler was a grandson of a Rothschild (see Mark Hallet's book 'Hitler was a British Agent and other researchers) and it claimed that the Nazi Consentration Camps and Death Squads first focus was to murder senior Freemasons and this way re-organise the world wide control of Freemasonry into the Rothschild family hands .. the quiet shipment of hundreds of millions worth of gold from Heathrow Airport to Switzerland  on pallets, wrapped in black plastic without any security with the late Thomas Allwood senior, transport engineer, on board to repay the Rothschild war debt, was brought to public light by INL News undercover journalist Thomas Allwood, who was murdered in Broxburn Scotland on the 21st June, 2013 a month before he was due to attend the High Court in London to have his application for Criminal Contempt against the Rothschild sponsored politicians..the UK Prime Minister- David Cameron, the UK Chancellor- George Osborne, the UK Home Office, the UK Border Agency and their Treasury Solicitors for deliberately preparing and presenting a false and fraudulent UK Border Agency Document 'falsely stating that USA Comedian had told the UK Border Agency Officers that he was paid $2,000 to be involved in introducing Fringe Entertainers in the making of a pilot of the INL News Group's and Thomas Allwood's 'Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show' due to be filmed over five days in April-May 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland'... as an illegal way of having Freemason Master Bowles at the London's High Court of Justice strike out a £500 million damages claim against ... the UK Prime Minister- David Cameron, the UK Chancellor- George Osborne, the UK Home Office, the UK Border Agency for the wrongful and illegal arrest of USA Comedian Ronnie Prouty at Heathrow Airport on the 27th April, 2011 and holding him custody for 24 hours and putting him in handcuffs the next day on a plane back to Los Angeles as a favour for Rupert and James Murdoch and the Rothschild family and their all powerful News Corporation and News International Media Group, as a way of commercially sabotaging the expensive fiming of a pilot of the INL News Group's and Thomas Allwood's 'Fringe Shows Have Talent TV Show' due to be filmed over five days in April-May 2011 in Edinburgh, Scotland'... there is mounting proof that leads to the involvement of Freemasons, MI5 and UK Special Branch in the planning and carrying out of the murder of Thomas Allwood on the 21st June, 2012 and the coverup of a lot of the known evidence and investigations by Scottish Police and Prosecution in the arrest and trial of Kyle Montgomery in November, 2012 for the murder of INL News undercover journalist Thomas Allwood ...

    Conclusion by Martin Short at the end of his book 'Inside the Brotherhood

    In my book I have tried where possible third hand evidence..not third-hand rumour... I have tried to provide sober deduction, not exaggeration... it should go without saying that anyone investigating a secret society - or even a 'private' one - as Grand Lodge now characterizes Freemasonry  - will always find evidence hard to come by...therefore 'rumour and speculation'. although unsatisfactory, become legitimate .. if the investigator 'exaggerates; what little evidence he or she gets, the 'private society should hold itself to blame...Freemasonry gives rise to genuine public concern, which Masons ignore at their peril...

     'What Public, Legal and Political Action Should be Taken regarding Freemasonry?

    .... I suggest that  the action taken about Freemasonry should be more than would appeal to the Tory MP who says, 'if people wish to belong to secret societies, that is their own business' , but probably less than is required by the Labour man who feels that 'Freemasonry should be made illegal'....

    ...Most MP's who completed my 1986 questionnaire said than councillors, local government officers, civil servants, policemen, judges and MP's should all be required to disclose their Masonic membership....the only proper way to test political opinion would be to put a 'disclosure' bill to the vote. There is no chance that the present Tory Government in the UK would sponsor it, so an MP should introduce a private member's bill and a free vote should follow...this bill also should give the public access to full and up-to-date membership lists of all masonic lodges...as I suggested on Chapter 21, these should be available at reference libraries in the localities where the lodges meet, and a town and country halls...

    ... thus us Bromyard one Craft Lodge List would be open for inspection..

    ... In Truro six ... in Cambridge eleven ..... in Sunderland twenty-nine....

    .... in Croydon eighty-nine ,, in Manchester 129 ... in the city of London over 200 ....

    ..... in Greater London another 1,450 or more...

    ..The degree of 'publication' might also be required of all other Masonic bodies: from the Royal Arch .. right the way through to the Society of  Rose Croix Order..

    ..The list of any lodge affiliated to a particular workplace, or recruiting mainly from within a specific organization, should be open for scrutiny by everyone who works at that place or in that organization. Thus the list for a town hall-lodge, such as the Borough of Newman, should be available at Newman Town Hall; the Holden Lodge list at Midland Bank; he London Hospital Lodge list at London Hopsital; the lis for the Union Lodge of Norwich should be given on demand to any emplyee of Norwich Union; the Lutine, Lloyd's and Fidentia lodge lists should be viewable at Lloyds of London; likewise lists of all military lodges (including the 21st Territorial SAS) at regimental HQ's; lists of barristers', Masters, Court Clerks' lodges should be displayed in the Inns of Court, at the Bar Council and the High Court, and the Manor of St James's list at New Scotland Yard, and at Bow Street, Vine Street and West End Central police stations...

     ...Most Masons would argue against these measures...

    ..They would say that although they have nothing to hide, why should their lists be publicly available if the same is not required for the MCC, the Athenaem, the Labour Party, the Transport and General Worker's Union, the Royal and Ancient Order of Foresters, the Sons of Temperance, the Druids, Rotary, the Round Table, the Elks, the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos, the Lions, the Kiwanis, the Baker Street Irregulars, the Sovereign and Military Oder of Malta, the Catholic Police Guild, BUPA, the AA, the Women's Institute, the Mother's Union or the subscription department of Readers Digest...

    ... The answer is simple. It is for Masons to demonstrate that any other organization has all these features:

    1. A code of mutual aid, sworn by all members, to assist each other beyond the aid they swear to perform for all other people in society...

    2. Oaths (however watered-dwon in recent years) which threaten that some physical, economic or social penalty - or negative moral judgement - will be applied to those who reveal the organization's secrets..

    3. Rituals which make use of blindfolds, nooses, daggers  or similar menacing objects or disorienting devices ...

    4. Secret passwords, signs, grips or handshakes ...

    5. Widespread public concern about the organization's activities or those of its members ...

    I know of no golf club which has any of these features and no political party, trade union, friendly society, insurance company, businessmen's club, social group, or mainstream religious fraternity which has more than two of the above... If it can be shown that any other group manifests all of these elements, it should be subject to the same curbs as may be imposed on Freemasonry ..Some Masons claim that three Catholic organizations - the Knights of Columbus, the Catenians and Opus Dei - are quasi-Masonic ...If their rituals and oaths do resemble Freemasonry's, if genuine texts can be produced to prove it, and if there is widespread pubic concern, they too should be subject to any obligations imposed on the Craft..

    ..If Masons have nothing to hide, none of this should cause them great disquiet.... Just as their secretiveness breeds paranoia among the 'profane'. so a new openness would help dispel it, If the Freemasonry Craft is primarily a charitable organization, a movement or moral regeneration or just a load of men pursuing an arcane hobby, the have nothing to fear...`personal anxieties could be accommodated... such as that they maybe do not want their home addresses disclosed ..However, all voters' addresses are on view at public libraries on electoral roles... at Companies House, the home addresses of all company directors are available to anyone who pays a small fee ...As it happens, Freemason's home addresses might not be required, provided every lodge discloses the full named of all members..

    ..It is noted that today's MP's should bear in mind that any law to curb Freemasonry will face widespread evasion, as the history of the 1799 Unlawful Societies Act shows. Brought in 'for the more effectual Suppression of Societies established for Seditious and Treasonable Purposes', this was passed when there were fears of French plots to overthrow the Government of Great Britain and to achieve Irish independence. The Act claimed that societies such as United Englishmen, United Scotsmen, United Britons and  United Irishmen were plotting seditious ends, and that their members swore oaths and secret vows, used secret signs and operated a cell-like structure across the country, However, a blanket ban on such organizations would also have banned Freemasonry, which shared all offending characteristics. To gain exemption, England's rival Grand Lodges (the 'Moderns' and the 'Ancients') jointly lobbied politicians will skill which would do credit to today's ruthless 'political action committees' in the USA. Their respective leaders, the Earl of Moirs and the Duke of Atholl, pressured Prime Minister William Pitt. According to 1799 Grand Lodge minues, the Masonic delegation reported that Pitt:

    '... expressed his good opinion of the Society and said he was willing to recommend any Clause to prevent the New Act from affecting the Society, provided that the Name of the Society could be prevented from being made use o as a Cover by evilly disposed persons for Seditious purposes..'

    The pressure worked ... Prime Minister William Pitt duly introduced a clause stating the Act did not apply to ' Lodges of FreeMasons, the meetings whereof have been in great measure directed to charitable purposes'...

    ...Pitt must have been beguiled by the smooth talking aristocrats, particularly Moira... According to one Masonic Historian, Moira's 'timely intervention had saved Freemasonry from extinction'....

    ...'Presumably Moira and Atholl had told Pitt that no British Masonic Lodge was likely to contain plotters bent on ' overturning the laws, constitution and government. and every existing establishment, civil and ecclesiastical' in Great Britain or `Ireland...Yet even 'regular' Freemasonry (as opposed to the truly seditious continental variety) had harboured traitors... Many American Revolutionaries were 'regular' Masons, notably George Washington, Ben Franklin and Admiral Paul Jones who had been initiated in Scotland. One Boston Lodge, St Andrews , was full of rebels, including Paul Revere, General Joseph Warren, John Hancock and John Rowe... It was John Rowe who inspired the Boston Tea Party, according to one of the 'Indian' raiders who belonged to the lodge, was planned within St Andrew's itself...

     ...The American Revolution had begun only twenty-four years before the Unlawful Societies Act became Law... It is extremely unlikely that Briton's Prime Minister, William Pitt, had any idea of Freemasonry's  strength among the Revolutionaries - for sure Moira would have not told him! - but, had be known. he would have had good reason to suspect that the Freemasonry Craft might 'again be made use of as a Cover by evilly disposed persons for Seditious purposes'. Pitt wold also have had grounds for believing that not all brethren subscribed to their second Antient Charge: ' A mason is a peaceable subject to the civil powers, wherever he resides or works, and is never to be concerned in plots and conspiracies against the peace and welfare of the nation.'...

    ..Of course, even if Pitt had known about the Masonics of Washington and hi brother rebels, he may not have pressed the point because the Craft's leading petitioner, the Earl of Moira, had himself been a hero on England's side in the Revolutionary Wars. Pitt would have been 'snowballed' by Moira's revelation that no less than six of George III's sons were 'on the square', for how could a fraternity boasting 'so many of His Majesty's illustrious Family' possibly be seditious?...

    ...Nevertheless, the Act did impose major restrictions on Freemasonry. The 'names and descriptions' of all members of each lodge had to be registered with the local clerk of the peace.... By the time the Act was repealed in 1967, it had long been widely ignored .. Many lodges did not make returns..One pre-1967 lodge secretary told me: 'I never bothered and many other secretaries never knew this law existed..besides, who was going to make you do it... In out town most law enforcers - the Clerk of Peace, half the JP's and the police chief --were all in the lodge...!'

    ...Even more restrictive, the 1979 Act had exempted only meetings of 'regular Lodges of Free Masons held (before) the passing of this Act...for some years the Masonic orders subverted this clause by reissuing the warrants of dominant or dead lodges, thus back-dating the foundation of many lodges. Not only were these Freemasons breaking the  criminal law, their stealth and deceit show they knew their actions were illegal..

    ... On the rolls of United Grand Lodge today there are fewer than 300 lodges which were founded before 1799, yet by 1967 another 6,000 had been 'consecrated'. Abroad view of the 1799 Act might have encouraged Masons to feel the exemption applied to any future lodges formed under both Modern and Antient Grand Lodges (united in 1813) and two more Grand Lodges in Scotland.. The terms of another Act in 1817 may have supported that view... However, neither Act legalized other Masonic Orders such as the Knights Templar (which had barely got going by 1799), the Rose Croix (founded in 1845), the Mark (organized about 1845), the Red Cross of Constantine (whose earliest lodge was founded in 1865) and the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (founded in 1866) ...... All these orders are self governing and have never come under the authority of the various Grand Lodges, which regulate only the CRaft and Royal Arch degrees. so they could never have been exempted from the ban on other societies imposed by the 1799 Act....

    ... The illegality of the `masonic Knights Templar is confirmed by the fact that their Grand Master, Lord Rancliffe, 'was personally concerned with the bill in the Lords' and neglected the Order thereafter. Masonic historians differ over whether the revival of the Masonic Templars some years later indicates that 'any question of illegality was over' or whether it suggests that 'the authorities were turning a blind eye'. My onw view is that all these 'higher' or ' sides' degrees ( from Knights Templar on wards) met illegally for more than a century until 1967.... Nobody would have dared enforce the 1799 Act (even had they known about it) because many magistrates, Court Masters, Court Lords, judges, policemen belonged to these same degrees... Through vested interests. Masonic law-breaking has been constantly connived at by the forces of law and order....

    Today, any Parliamentary moves requiring public disclosure by masons should be matched by legislation creating an Ombudsman for the public servant and the police,as advocated by Brain Woollard ( see Chapter 13)... This is necessary to prevent the kind of career abuse which 4 million other State employees may suffer at the hands of Masons.. or... indeed..non-Masons..There must me many Masons in pub lic service who feel that hey too have had a raw deal at work ...In future they should have a mean of redress against anti-Masonic prejudice, especially if they are to be obliged to disclose Masonic Membership...

    The former British ambassador featured in Chapter 32 has further suggestions:

    ...'..It should not be too difficult to procure form civil and public servants who belong to secret societies some written declaration and assurances about their activities..I also suggest that something should be done about the confidential personal reporting systems...It seems that any officer who believes he may be the subject victimization through the reporting system (as I was) should be entitles to state that the reporting officer as a Freemason and that this should be taken into account in assessing the report..Ideally, in my view, Freemasons should be excluded from the reporting process, but that is too much to hope for...

    ...I also suggest that the numerous voluntary organizations and charities which serve this country and have been one of its great strengths, should be required by law to keep an indication of any secret society membership by its officers..Members of any society - or indeed contributors to a charity - should, as a matter of routine, be able to obtain a statement of its officer's affiliations...This is not an unreasonable request, but a simple reassurance that the society is being run for the benefit of all members and not primarily for `masons perpetuating themselves in office...

    In the present diminished and dangerous situation of our country, a very real danger exists from organizations, such as the Freemason Brotherhood - partly through infiltration, partly from the  illusionment and frustration which arises when our meritocratic system is deliberately and consistently distorted....'...

    ..In the House of Commons in June 1988 Labour MP Dale Campbell-Savours introduced a bill to compel police recruits to swear they would not join any organization such as Freemasonry....he also demanded that officers who are already Masons should resign from their lodges or leave the police force.. On first reading the bill was passed by 117 votes to sixteen, but it had no chance of becoming law because of the shortage of Parliamentary time...

    ..If any future bill along these lines looks as if it might become law, it will encounter fierce lobbying just like the 1799 bill did ,,,,  It will infuriate Masonic cops... It it ever reached the statute book, it could provoke mass resignation from the police force...

    ..This might not be a bad thing, but it seems unlikely that policemen could be banned from joining Freemasonry unless this 'private, voluntary organization' is itself made illegal....In the present political climate (of near perpetual Conservative rule) there is no chance of this happening,....

    ...However, beacsue an action is otherwise legal,,, it does not mean that public servants have an in alienable right to perform it...

    ..In many respects the civil liberties of public servants and already severely curtailed....Millions of public servants (including the police) sign the Official Secrets Act which curbs their right to discuss, publish or otherwise disseminate information which they may learn in the course of their work... Also no civil servant, member of the armed forces or policeman may stand as a candidate in local or national elections without first resigning his or her employment. Since 1984 no employees of GCHO may belong to a trade union. The armed forces and the police have long been deprived of that right, just as they have surrendered their civil liberty to withdraw their labour and go on strike...Thus, imposing a similar curb on policemen in respect of Freemasonry has undeniable precedents.. They would retain the right to remain a Mason..but they would lose their right to remain a copper.. a judge. a Master of the Court .... a Lord of the Court .,, or any other job which has the power and/or authority in any way over the public in general..so that the same rule might well be applied to all other public servants..

    ...All this is for Parliament and the public to decide and debate... In the meantime Dale Campbell-Savours says: 'If Freemasonry were to shed itself of its secrecy, its exclusiveness and its oath of allegiance, I would have no objection to police officers being members....'

    ..However.. if it were to do all that, it would not longer be Freemasonry!....

    ..Even some senior Freemasons such as Former Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Peter Neivens ( an honorary Manor of St James Lodge)  has been concerned about excessive 'tears of sympathy' for Freemason Brothers who have been convicted of serious crime stares...'As for lodges which have allowed major criminals to remain as members for years after conviction... if that were proven to me, then if the authority rested with me, I would seriously think of disbanding that lodge...'

    ..If this policy were to be rigorously applied throughout Britain, not only would Freemasonry be far healthier : its opponents would have far less meat to feed on....Yet is must be doubted if the hierarchy as a whole would want to apply such discipline..As things now stand, Grand Lodge only acts against lodges like Waterways many years after they have become a haven for criminals, and only then after embarrassing media exposure.. It is therefore no wonder that in the meantime other lodges like the Queenswood contain cells of public corruption and the entire institution of Freemasonry is brought into disrepute as a result..

    ....however, Freemasons will argue that the merits of an institution as vast as Freemasonry do not turn on the vice or virtue of individual Masons... and that it does not change its esense because one Grand Officer, his Honour Judge Joseph Butler-Sloss, was exposed in the News of the World in July 1988 as a regular patron of Nairobi prostitutes while serving as a High Court judge on Kenya.. Freemasons argue that the private quirks of prominent men who happen to be a FreeMason should not be held against the Brotherhood... as Masons have said... this would be like condemning Christianity because quite a few vicars over the years have been caught molesting choirboys...

    ...As I write these final pages in December 1988 I am still being sent evidence of Freemasonry's reluctance to punish those who transgress its own moral code.. the evidence come not form outsiders..but from men who are themselves staunch Masons...One such source is leonard Acklam, a well-to-do self-made Yorkshire businessman who fought for years to win redress for a Masonic Grand Officer's outrageous attempt to interfere with justice...A Mason for 33 years, a Past Master of Brighouse Lodge (no. 1301) and a 30th degree member of the Rose Croix, Acklam is worth hearing...

    ...Leonard Acklam a Freemason, had employed a Freemason Solicitor to collect a £10,000 debt he was owed.. however his own solicitor lied to him about the case  and when appointing a new non Mason Solicitor who threatened to report the Mason Solicitor to the Law Society and sue for negligence, a senior well respected Mason, Sir Herbert Redfearn told Acklam that he 'would lose a lot of friends' and that Acklam should 'look on it in a true Masonic manner and forget it..  a  senior well respected Mason, Sir Herbert Redfern was not only interfering with Acklam's legal action against a Mason solicitor, but was also telling Acklams to forget the £10,000 he is owed...An in initial letter of complaint in 1981 sent to the local Yorkshire Ws Riding grand secretary did not go down well,,, for Redfearn was not only a Grand Officer of English Freemasonry, but also a leading industrialist, a deputy lieutenant of the county, a knight of the realm, a one time chairman of the National Union of Conservative Associations and the local Tory KIng-maker (future Tory MP Gary Waller was initiated in his lodge in 1971)..also he was photographed at Conservative Party occasions alongside Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, It was extremely unlikely. therefore. that any Yorkshire masonic body would dare condemn him...

    From Chapter 14

     The Phoenix "....

    .. If the Manor Lodge of St James was formed in defiance of the anti-Masonic views of a Metropolitan Commissioner, it would not be the first time the Brotherhood has waved two fingers at the most important police chief in Britain...

    ...Back in 1958 the new commissioner was Joseph Simpson. He was the first man ever to reach the top job after starting as an ordinary bobby...He was public school educated and a university graduate but, unlike his gentleman predecessors, he had done three years on the beat and had the deserved respect of most London coppers..In short, He was a policeman's policeman...

    .... One shaft of light which Sir Joseph Simpson brought to the job was a distinct hostility to Freemasonry, or at lease a dislike of its most arrogant manifestations...During his early years in office he was greatly irritated by an organization calling itself the Metropolitan Police Masonic Association (MPMA),  The title gave it an official air, but its founders had no authority for using the words 'Metropolitan Police',... They might have had the unofficial 'non' from a previous commissioner, but Sir Joseph took a dim view and demanded its abolition....

    ... The MPMA;s members were not prepared to disband on the say-so of a mere commissioner - especially as earlier commissioners, such as Charles Warren, had themselves been Freemasons. Rather than abolish their fraternity in a fraternity, they decided just to change its name. They also decided to keep the initials MPMA. The were determined to keep 'Masonic' in the title, and 'Association' was harmless enough, also they would have to substitute another word for either Metropolitan or Police.... some wag in the leadership had a little education.... As this new body was going to rise from the ashes of the old, he thought, it could have no more appropriate name than  'Metropolitan Phoenix Masonic Association'.  This would get round Sir Joseph Simpson's vexatious objections, but it would still be the MPMA and the same old bird...

    ....Simpson died in office, from a heart attach three days after the batt;e of Grosvenor Square in 1969, but the Phoenix lived on..IN 1971 it had 288 members..Its rule book reveals that the inclusion of Metropolitan in its title was gratuitous and misleading, for its members only needed to be 'Master Masons who are regular, serving and retired officers of any police force'...

    The rule book makes it clear this was no Masonic Lodge..Ritual was forbidden at its gatherings..Instead its objects were:

    1. To introduce Master Masons of the Police Force who would otherwise have no opportunity of meeting as Brother Masons.

    2. To promote fraternal intercourse by arranging social functions.

    3. To render assistance to those who may be distressed by sickness or adversity.

    4. Loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen and the Craft in General,

    ..Aside from the genuflection to the Crown, these aims might strike an anti-Msonic as a sugar-coated code of mutual aide, arousing fears in the outsider that the Phoenix as a means of achieving a kind of Masonic apartheid in the Police Service...Could it have acted as a wedge between Masons and non-Masons, or a jungle telegraph, or a 'firm in a firm'? .. Its members would doubtless deny it, but the club does seem like a collective support system: ideal for help up t˙e promotion ladder, or saving skins...

    ....The 1971 list contains one man still serving at Scotland Yard: a deputy assistant commissioner ..Another is a detective chief superintendent...Most members left the service long ago,,, Many held humble rank, so either the mutual aid principle never helped them gain promotion or they never sought to use it.... Perhaps the Phoenix was just a social club for men with a common hobby ... If so, one brother was such an enthusiast ha he took the hobby with him to a Mediterranean retirement,, In 1971 Brother A,J, Fookes was running a pub in Gibraltar called the Mason Arms...

    The phoenix list shows that in the early 1970's there was a network of police Masons, in lodges all over south-east England, who were doubly committed to mutual aid. Today, it seems, the Phoenix may not be the bird it was. I have been unable to find out if it is still flying,,It may now be in one of its 'ashes' periods: about ti burst forth in full plumage ,, Perhaps the Manor of St James's Lodge is its latest incarnation... AS it happens, no 1971 Phoenix people show up as masons members..Perhaps this is only because there is a fifteen-year gap between the lists, but it seems to confirm that there must be thousands of London police Masons, otherwise there would be names in common....

    Another indicator of the Crafts strength in the police force emerged when barrister Andrew Arden presented his 1987 report on the running of the London Borough of Hackney (see Chapter 6) ..During his research mr Arden was assisted by Grand Secretary Michael Higham,,He gave the 'profane' Arden forty-four lodge lists to help him identity Masons working for Hackney Council but. in performing this unprecedented favour, he knowingly divulged the identities of over 3,500 Masons who had no connection with Hackney and whose individual permission he did not seek..

    .... Higham aslo divulged the occupation of 2,534 named Masons...Of these ninety-eight were policemen .... amounting to 3.9% of Ardens sample.. or slightly less than one Mason ^n every twenty five... if this were typical of thew the whole country..and if ( according to Commander Higham) there a re between 250,000 and 500,000 Masons under GRand Lodge, then between 9.700 and 19,400 policemen in England and Wales are Freemasons... However if my total figure of 600,000 living Masons, whether active or lapsed, is correct (see Chapter 9), then some 23,400 serving and retired policemen are Freemasons .... In December 1985 there were slightly fewer than 108,000 serving make police officers in England and Wales...  Even if we exclude my highest estimate and stick to the Higham figures ....it would seem that  between 9 and 18 percent of all policemen may be Masons : one in eleven or one in six of all men in English and Wales police forces...yet, as ever, when it comes to calculating Masonic strength, huge statistical crevasses have to be vaulter ....The records at Freemasons' Hall are always out-of-date because they show only the occupations declared when men become Master Masons .. Should they change t heir jobs or retire, these records stay the same... Yet even if 20% of men who said they were policemen have since retired, it seems that between 8,000 and 16,000 policemen are 'on the square'.. In addition, however, young policemen are being drawn into Freemasonry all the time, which may bring the total back to around 20,000... There a re thousands more in Scotland and Northern Island, where they probably form an even higher proportion of the police service, for reasons explained in Chapter 19..

    ... Higham supplied Arden with the names and occupations of men in fourteen individual lodges,,One lode had fifty-two members, of which eleven policemen out of eighty-eight members, another had five out of fifty four. Of course these high numbers are outdone by the Manor Lodge of St James , but the manor is not Britain's only all-police lodge... According to the Grand Secretary of East Lancashire, three lodges are composed entirely of ex-police officers: in Wales, Kent and Liverpool..The Kent lodge meets in Sittingbourne and is called the Watch and Ward,,, It was founded as recently as 1977, yet it has already won a place in Freemasons' Hall Museum by presenting a masonic gavel made in the form of a police truncheon,,,In the early 1980's  the Watch and Ward could muster only twenty-five members, but this is no proof of ill-health..Indeed, Masonic consciousness among policemen, both serving and retired, is growing stronger..The Liverpool lode, Sovereign;s Peace, was founded in 1979..

    .... Most policemen belong to general lodges where they get to know men form other walks of life - that is one of the main benefits of Freemasonry - yet they are usually proposed by other policemen... A random sample of lodge summonses reveals that policemen are valued candidates for admission into almost any lodge..

    .. In 1976 the Derby Allcroft Lodge of London initiated a Scotland Yard detective sergeant and a builder on the same day...It already contained several policemen, including one future member of the Manor of St James's, In 1982 Gateway Lodge of Witney initiated a Thames Valley officer along with an electrical engineer, a British Telecom warden and an Oxfordshire fireman... These lodges  contain a mix of employees, public servants and the self-emplyed.. Whatever a Mason's job, on lodge days he must be able to sop work early enough to arrive for the meeting at three or four o'clock,,Policemen can almost always manage this because they work shifts, or because senior officers are also Masons and will turn a blind eye if brothers slip off during working hours...

    ...Thus it was that is january 1972 a thirty-teo-year-old detective sergeant took a half-day off from West  Hampstead police station in north London to be initiated in the Fryent Lodge alongside a C-op produce controller.. The Fryent is a general lodge but, over dinner, brethren proposed several toasts to the 'Blue Lamp', in honour of the Metropolitan Police....This may have something to do with the fact that the lodge meets at Hendon Hall Hotel, close to Hendon Police College from which it recruits some of its members...

    it might be wondered how men (Policemen) whose work requires brain as well as brawn, a sense of truth and reality, and considerable courage, can allow themselves to be drawn into fraternity whose ritual requires a total suspension of disbelief and a taste for the occult... The outsider might be concerned  that men that must take so many crucial decision sin their careers - concerning life and death, imprisonment or liberty, kidnaps and sieges, as well as helping old ladies across the road... can subject themselves to such a welter of gobbledegook concocted in the eighteen century by men who were, in part, superstitious fantasists....Let us look at the other side of the coin.. Instead of caning cops all the time for rushing into the Craft, se should pause to consider why the Freemasonry Craft wants these policemen in the Craft...My masonic informer Badger explained it this way: whatever policemen may get out of Freemasonry, Freemasonry gets even more out of the police...

     ' Why do nearly all masonic lodges like to have a copper in their midst?

     Because Freemasonry is a vehicle for bringing together the various threads of a general view... Its a form of social cement.. a pyramid erected on the class system...

    ... It should go without saying that the police are a vital part of the pyramid, or rather the strongest shied the status quo possesses ...

    ....That is why policemen have to be continually sucked into Freemasonry: to maintain the deferential structure of society and to ensure that Freemasons and Freemasonry is perpetually favoured by those who enforce the law...'

    Evidence appearing to support Badger's view came in a letter in the Independent in 1988. It was from M.E. Rowe, a retired policeman with thirty years' service. In 1980, while a senior officer in the West Midlands:

    '..I was approached by a local businessman I knew personally who at the time was lobbying on behalf of a group of businesses who were concerned with the effect of proposals in which the police and local authority were involved. I declined to discuss the matter...  This refusal was followed by the offer of a membership of his lodge...I was told that he was in a position to ensure my acceptance as a member, and he would regard it as a personal favour if I would accept his offer.... I refused, saying that it was not consistent with the independence I thought was essential in my position..However, I did indicate that in the next eighteen months I would be retiring and then I might consider his offer - I was told with some favour that the 'offer' would not be open to me when I retired...'

    If policemen pursue the Craft of Freemasonry as an amusing hobby or an antiquarian game which they leave behind at the temple.. it may be harmless as masonic spokesmen claim...

    ....The public need to be convinced ....

    ... In the meantime there is evidence to suggest that some Mason cops go on duty still mentally wearing their regalia and are not as impartial as their Constable's Oath requires....

    Chapter 15 A Criminal Intelligence

    .... Many masons tell stories of favo¨ra by policemen whom they have come to know through the craft..One brother told me how his Masonic connections cam in handy in unforeseen circumstances....

    "..A friend and I were  developing and industrial heating system in our spare time... We  used to do research in a workshop at the back of his house..On one occasion, while he and his wife were away on holiday, I was working there as usual when suddenly the police turned up... They'd been called to the house by a neighbour who thought I was an intruder..I promptly explained who I was and produced my key, but I had no identification  on me so they were not satisfied... They took me to the police station and told me that, unless I could prove my bona fides, I'd be spending the night in the cells..,, I was trying to think my way out of this mess when I remembered that on several Masonic occasions I'd met a chief superintendent who was based at the station... After one lodge function he had invited us back to that very station's social club where we had a few drinks... Now I fond myself in this jam ... I naturally asked the arresting officers to let me talk to him...He came into the charge room, immediately recognized me and then took my captors into another room.. A few seconds later they cam out again and told me, lost civilly, I was free to go... I'm sure if i hadn't been 'on the square' I would have been kept in the clink all night, maybe longer..My masonic brother, the police chief, had done me a favour: a small one perhaps, but a favour nevertheless..Freemasonry had worked like a magic wand..

    ...Such interventions look less benign to non-Masons inside the force who see them as inextricably intertwined with Masonic manipulation of the police service as a whole...

    ....Among the hundreds of letter which Stephen Knight received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...

    .... John Thompson retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1970,...Among the hundreds of letter which Stephen Knigt received from readers of The Brotherhood, several came policemen who felt they had spent most of heir careers battling against a Masonic Mafia ...

    .... John Thompson retired from the Metropolitan Police in 1970, having reached the rank of inspector.. When he joined the force in the later 1940's he was aware that many senior officers were 'on the square' , but like most constables he pooh-poohed the power of the Craft with what he calls 'childish flippancy'. .. he only became concerned in January 1953 when he was about to take the competitive examination for promotion to the rank of sergeant...

    ' ... Rumours were rife that masonic candidates had been given the questions in advance..I also heard that they were going to identify themselves as masons on their exam papers to masonic examiners... I sat the exam with all the other candidates -- you guessed it!!.. it had to be cancelled and re-arranged...throughout my police career I was aware of too many incidents involving patronage and favouritism to dismiss them with the same ease as masonic policemen are always able to do...Some were so trivial I was amazed high-ranking officers deigned to involve themselves, but some were so serious that they bordered on criminal conspiracies.. As a young sergeant at Notting Hill I began to note the very effective influence if freemasonry, One night I was on duty as the station;s officer when at one o'clock in the morning I had to charge a man with being 'drunk and indecent'. He was a mason and was on his way home from a Ladies' Night, accompanied by his wife and others, when a constable arrested jim for urinating in a shop doorway. t about 3 A.M the chief superintendent (now Commander rank) suddenly turned up at the station. Such a visit was unknown and he had obviously been dragged from his bed. He sat a round for a long time, reading and re-reading the charge, but when he realized there was nothing he could do, he left. The general consensus at the station was this visit had masonic overtones. It seems nothing was too trivial for Masonic interference...Later, as an inspector at Marylebourne, I was called out by two PC's who had arrested a nineteen-year-old youth for stealing a drivers license and using it with intent to deceive. He had managed to escape and reach his home a block of luxury flats where his father was refusing to let the constables in to re-arrest him. When I arrived the father allowed me in and took me into his study, where photographs were prominently displayed of him in masonic dress. I noted that he had been master of his lodge and he clearly expected me to direct the PC's to forget the matter,,,, I told him he was 'not on' and left him in no doubt he was backing a loser... We took the son to the station. His father followed soon after, staying in the waiting room. As I was preparing the charge sheet the station sergeant told me that a Commander (Now DAC rank) wished to speak to me on the phone.. I had never met this man, so I told the sergeant to tell him I was not prepared to discuss the matter. You see, I had learned to face Freemasonry in the force head-on without fear... Before the father left he asked if the Commander had spoken to me. I replied he had not. He then told me they were in the same Masonic Lodge and then asked me if I was 'on the square'. He had clearly assumed  was, so I had to disappoint him. As it happens, the incident did me some good. I had not hit it off with my PC's beforehand, but this broke the ice...

    ..Masons usually claim such stories are invented by embittered non-Masons who cannot accept that their careers have failed because of their lack of ability; instead it is claimed by Masons, that they ;fantasize about malicious wrongdoing by Masonic colleagues.  Retired Metropolitan  Policeman John Thompson ( a non-Mason) rejects this argument as itself a canard..

    ..'....I admit we non Masons were resentful at our lowly rank. Yet most of us were not bitter. On the contrary, the men who were bitter were those Freemasons who had expected patronage and preferment but never got it. What non-Masons such as I did resent was entering a five-furlong sprint race but being forced to start at the mile and three quarter gate...We also resented that our Masonic colleagues were likely to have their errors, omissions, in adequacies, incompetencies and indiscipline covered up, sometimes at the expense of non-Masons..I concede that many Masonic policemen had an aura if greater competence and many became more able because they had less pressure and could acquit themselves better on boards..I put my hands up to being bitter in one respect..I object when masons dismiss their victims as jealous and vindictive, I am neither neither but what do they expect us to be? They expect us to act like the three wise monkeys: seeing no evil, speaking no evil and hearing no evil - of Freemasonry of course    ....'

     Retired Metropolitan police officer, John Thompson says he received at least six approaches to become a Freemason, varying from the subtle to the obvious....'... The fact that I was a known  atheist did not seem to concern my would-be proposes who advised me to lie b professing a belief...I never made any attempt to become a Freemason because, I hope, I did not possess the necessary hypocrisy...'

    ..... Some readers may feel that John Thompson's recollections can now be dismissed because he retired in 1970, but other police correspondents bemoan present-day Masonic goings-on...Thames Valley Police was formed in 196, through the merger of five forces in Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire.Recent lodge summonses from these countries show that today Freemasonry is recruiting just as strongly among policemen in this force as it is in London..

    One on-Masonic sergeant knows to his cost the Brotherhood's power in Oxfordshire...

    ..'... In 1983 I had some building work done on my house..When it was finished I was not entirely satisfied and paid the builder only part of the money..He put most of the faults right but I was still not completely happy and we had quite a disagreement.. He then told me he was a Freemason and he knew various people that I also knew, one of them being a chief superintendent..Not long afterwards the builder had a car accident and  he finished up in hospital.. When he was there he received a visit from the chief superintendent who asked if there was anything he could do for him.. A few days later I was summoned to headquarters to see this chief superintendent. He 'advised' me to hurry up and sort out my dispute with the builder because his being in hospital gave him quite enough to worry about. Now whilst no threats were made,  there was undoubtedly some moral pressure and I came away from headquarters feeling decidedly uneasy..  The obvious difference in our ranks made it a very simple task for him to 'put the screws on'.... As a result I felt bound to pay the builder the remaining money... I find membership of this organization quite odious and not compatible with being a police officer. ... Incidents happen - internal politics you understand- whic defy rational explanation and can only be put to the influence of these people.. They are unknown, unseen, but seem to pull strings behind the scenes and get things done...

    ..Even back in the 1960's John Thompson saw the beginnings of what he regards as the most  sinister phenomenon involving Freemasonry and the police force in Britain.. he had just moved to the north London area known as "Y" division..He soon learned that the divisional commander and his deputy were Roman Catholics but that all the other senior officers were Masons...

    ...'... It was on 'Y' Division that I first noticed how former high ranking officers - both uniform and CID - were making new careers as security agents for solicitors, finance houses and other organizations hungry for confidential information ...This has now become a huge industry and Freemasonry is an important constituent in this web of intrigue. Now that more and more information is stored on computer (and its dissemination is subject to serious legal curbs under the Data Protection Act), so employers have realized that the only people that can get round the regulations are high-ranking policemen - especially Freemasons who are particularly well-placed to obtain confidential information with no chance of exposure, because they can get it all from their colleagues in the Brotherhood..Thoroughly illegal..of course,,,'

    Recently police computers have been criminally abused for the purpose of keeping criminal out of Masonic employment. In 1983 the Warwickshire Grand Lodge dismissed the catering manager at its Birmingham Temple because of the way he had disciplined a member of the staff. The brethren alleged that the manager, veteran Masons Derek Yeomans, had shouted at a junior employee, but Yeoman says he was fired for 'telling off' his own boss at the Temple..He took revenge on the ungrateful brethren by squealing about their criminal wrongdoings..He disclosed that one of the province's top Masons habitually checked whether applicants for senior jobs at the `temple had criminal records logged on the West Midlands Police computer, According to Yeomans, this wholly illegal service was performed through a retired chief inspector, himself a leading FreeMason, who used to pass the applicants' names and dates of birth to an officer who worked for the local force and had access to the computer...

    ...Such abuse of police intelligence systems is now taken very seriously  all forces, so a local superintendent was appointed to investigate the allegation..He later reported that Yeoman's only specific claim - that certain applicant's name had been fed into the computer on a certain day --was not true...Yeoman responded that the name might well have been fed in on the day before or the day after but, in any case, it cannot be satisfactory when a policeman is appointed to investigate abuses of his own force's computer by another member of the same force..  Whether or not that inquiry was performed by checking computer records or searching old-fashioned criminal record fils, it seems Warwickshire's Mason's did call on police connections for such a service..As Provincial Grand Master Thomas Wood told the Birmingham Post..

    ...' I believe that on one occasion when someone was needed for a very responsible position I was told that person had been vetted....'

    One Mason told me that his lodge always checks if any candidate for membership has a criminal record..

    ..'.... That's why we've got a copper in the lodge; to check candidates out on the computer!...If they have a record, their applications are withdrawn or they are blackballed - unless senior lodge members are nominating them, in which case nothing is said... of course nowadays, if a policemen is caught using the computer for non-police purposes, he could be charged with a criminal offense himself.. All this is strictly illegal, but you can be sure it still goes on...'

    Chapter 21 Tough at the Top

    ..Many police chiefs are mistaken when the claim the issue has never come up in public complaints against their police forces... I have a pile of letters from citizens who have enclosed copies of formal complaints they have sent to police forces alleging Masonic wrongdoing by policemen... ....In the future chief constables may have to act on increasing public. press and political concern about the role of Freemasonry in the police service...

     ..In the future chief constables may have to act on increasing public, press and political concern about the role of Freemasonry in the police service....

    Early in 1988 Home Office leaks implied Home Secretary Douglas Hurd was thinking of requiring police officers to declare their lodge membership if Freemasonry emerged as a factor in any matter in which they were involved  whether these were internal issued such as promotion and discipline or external investigations...

    ...It is my view that Mason membership should be declared by all police officers and that a regularly updated register of Mason serving in each police force should be kept at every police station and at headquarters of the police force concerned.. this register should be readily available to fellow police officers and to embers of the public..If this is not a service which police forces are willing to give their paymasters, then the register should be on display in all public libraries, just like electoral roles. There will be arguments over whether membership of other secret pr quasi-secret societies, pr fraternal organizations, should be declared. If a convincing case can be made that any other society is an extensive, powerful and cohesive as Freemasonry, then its members should indeed declare themselves.

    If public opinion were to demand this register for policeman, it might even demand the display of entire Masonic Lodge Membership  Rolls at public libraries. This would be stoutly opposed on grounds that it is not the 'British Way' of doing things, but that is for the British people to decide. British people have only just gain access to the Land Registry. For centuries it has been considered an invasion of 'property owners' privacy for other people to know who really owns what in Britain. However this has grossly infringe other people's right to information - especially information which could effect themselves. The same principle applies to membership of secret, or private, mutual aid societies .heir secrecy (about  both what they do and who they are) is a standing invasions of the liberty of all non-members...

    ...The 1964 Police Act forbids policemen from belonging to a trade union. This appears not be formally applied to Freemasonry..despite the Craft's claim to be  descended from a medieval trade union and despite its  continues adherence to the same principles of combination and mutual aid for which policemen are banned from joining union today...

    ,,Ian Oliver, a non-mason a police chief  stated: "... During my sixteen years in the Metropolitan Police until 1977, it was not unknown for officers to join the Masons ^n the hope that it might just help their promotion prospects...

    Chapter 22 Judging by Results

     ... at least eighteen circuit judges, four Queen;s Bench judges, three family division judges, two judges in Chancery, three Lord Justices of Appeal and one Lord Justices of Appeal and one Lord of Appeal in Ordinary....this is some of the known ranks of Freemason's strength as revealed in Masonic reference books to which I have had access... many other sources (such as provincial yearbooks and membership lists of lawyers' lodges) have eluded me, so I am forced to guess that many more judges are 'on the Square' (a well known term to describe a member of FreeMasonry).. certainly many recently retired judges are Masons: fifteen circuit, one Queens Bench, two family division, one Chancery, three Lord Justices of Appeal and one Master of the Royal Court of Protection...

    ..A recent Lord Chief Justice , the late Lord Widgery, was Past Senior Grand Warden of England. The current Chief Justice of Australia, Sir Harry Gibbs, is 'on the square'.  Sir Harry Gibbs, is also the only Australian on the judicial committee of the Privy Council..

    ..The president of the Lands Tribunal is a mason,,

    ...So is England's Chief Registrar in Bankruptcy is 'on the square'...so was his immediate predecessor is 'on the square'..

    ..Beyond the Royal Courts of Justice sit many more Masonic judges, from the current Recorder of Southport to an English Advocate-General in the European Community;s Court of Justice...still more barrister Masons choose to stay where real money can be made: as QC's..

    ...it is also noted that and even higher proportion of lawyers went to public schools and Oxford or Cambridge Universities: networks which are perhaps more powerful than Freemasonry.. however the difference is that those institutions (privileged and self-perpetuating though they are) are dedicated largely to the gaining of open educational qualifications which are essential in a lawyer. What the outsider might wonder is why many of these men, who judge the rest of us, need to belong to a secret (or would -be secret) society; how can these men be trusted to find the truth is court of law...when as Masons they swear belief in - and repeatedly enact - the mythical murder of a bogus historical figure whom they glorify as the stonemason architect of a temple built mainly of wood, even the stonemason architect of a temple built mainly of wood, even though he was neither a stonemason nor an architect! !!!

    ..for some enlightenment of what Freemasonry means to many esteemed dispensers of justice I wrote to Lord Templeman, a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, who sits in the House of Lords...Lord Templeman is England's highest-ranking Mason judge,,,Lord Templeman did not reply to me (Martin Short) or Stephen Knight's letters...

    ..perhaps even non-freemason  judges feel they belong to a greater brotherhood- of judges - which takes precedence over any feelings they may have about their colleagues' Masonic frolics...they may well fear coming out would provoke retribution...One  Court recorder told me, '...I'm not a Mason, but don't quote me or I may end up hanging under Blackfriars Bridge..' .. I reacted as if this reference to the bizarre death of the Italian banker-Mason Roberto Calvi in 1982 was a joke, but the Recorder assured me he was very serious....

    Chapter 19 The Encompassing of John Stalker

    banker MASON WIRCH_HUNT ON TOP COP

    MASON MAFIA FRAMED COP CHIEF

    On the 29th June, 1986 those two deadly rivals  for out Sunday morning favours, the People and the News of the World ran almost identical stories about John Stalker, Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police, Four weeks earlier John Stalker had been suddenly removed from a highly sensitive inquiry into allegations of a shoot-to-kill policy by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC)..

    ..Why was John Stalker removed at the  Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police became a massive media guessing game..Sooner or later someone was bound to blame the FreeMasons...

    ..The Press had already blamed the RUC, its Special Branch, Stalker's Rivals in the Manchester force, the SAS, MI5, the Norther Island Office, the Home Office and. or course.. the British Government...

    The People wrote:

    "... Top cop John Stalker is the victim of a plot by Freemasonry that stretches all the way from Ulster to Whitehall, according to his friends and colleagues.. They are convinced that 'a get Stalker order' originated in Ulster, where he made enemies with his inquires into an alleged police 'shoot-to-kill' policy... the order was taken up in Manchester...

    The News of the World offered a less global but equally sinister scenario:

     ....

    James  Anderton, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, is studying secret information naming eight key officers. They are all members of the same Freemasons l

    Lodge.  Friends of Roman Catholic Mr Stalker believe the eight were asked by their mason colleagues in the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) to 'dish the dirt' on him..

    ..Throughout the 'Stalker Affair I subscribed to a cuttings service which sent me every story linking Stalker and Freemasonry printed anywhere in Britain's press.

    There are 200 such cuttings... such stories  drove East Lancashire's Grand Lodge to hold the only press conference in fifty-seven years to deny the existence of a 'Mason Mafia'. ..Manchester's Masons claimed the witch hunt was on them,,

    ..Masons were active at almost every twist in 'Stalker', Some Masonic involvement was inevitable because Masons are numerically strong in the organizations with which Stalker was bound to clash with if he was doing his job properl...

    the question is...Were masons acting in concert to protect each other, to protect Freemasonry or to protect the establishment in which Masons thrive and prosper...

    ..in my opinion Stalker himself produces evidence in his book about the affair fairly points towards a conspiracy of interests, if not of individuals..

     In May 1984 John Stalker as asked to lead an inquiry into three 1982 incidents in which an undercover RUC 'Mobile Support Unit' had shot dead five suspected Republican terrorists and a seventeen-year-old boy, All six were unarmed so questions were asked as to why they had not been taken alive. The fear was that RUC men had committed multiple murder. The deeper concern was that the 'murders' were not unauthorized acts by police marksmen committed in the heat of the moment, but the product of  cold-blooded policy... ..In 1984 four of the marksmen were tried for murder but were acquitted. This distressed the families of the dead men (all Catholics) and outrages Republican sympathizers.

     The two separate trials had disclosed systematic (if badly co-ordinated)  police lying. One defendant revealed that senior Special Branch officers had told him what false story to tell, allegedly to protect their informers (some south of the border). Stalker's job was to investigate not just he shootings, but the cover stories and also the local CID's limp search for the truth, for it seemed as if RUC marksmen had been acquitted because their CID colleagues had deliberately failed to make a murder case against them...

    ..In his own book John Stalker tells how his Manchester  team found out that shorltly before these killings, an informer had told the RUC that four of the suspects had been involved in an IRA landmine attack which killed three policemen. This incident had occurred just three weeks before he suspect's own deaths so it seemed likely that they were he victims of RUC revenge killings...

    John Stalker asked for the intelligence file on the landmine attack, to check if the dead men had indeed been named as suspects, but RUC Special Branch (SB) repeatedly denied such a file existed... then when he finally

    John Stalker was eventually suspended from the police force on false allegations against him of wrongful association with a local businessman named Kevin Taylor ..which was only activated when John Staler had finally manoeuvered Hermon into handing over the surviving Hayshed material which included a tape of a bug planted by MI and Special Branch which recorded the whole shooting incident..Stalker was granted completed access to March 1986.. he did not get his hands any of the material until 30th April..even then the crucial papers eluded him because on the 29th May, shortly before he was to fly to Belfast to get them he was removed forever from the inquiry...

     

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    Chapter 24 The Cotton Inheretence

    "..Many of Britain's most prominent solicitors are Freemasons. They all appesr in Who's Who, yet none of their entries  contains any reference to their involvement in Freemasonary (known as The Craft) 

    Some examples of past prominent Freemason solicitors are:

    Sir Desmind Heap, President of the Law Society 1972-3, Solicitor for the Corporation of London fpr twenty-six years and  England's  greatest expert o town and country planning law.

    Sir Edmund Liggins, President if the Law Society 1975-6. An eminent Warwickshire solicitor.

    Sir David Napley, President of the Law Society 1976-7. England's leading defence solicitor. A lapsed Mason

    Sir John Stebbings, President of the Law Society 1979. Member of a Derbyshire lodge (deceased December 1988)

    David Sumberg MP, partner in a Manchester legal firm, member of a Staffordshire lodge.

    Bert Millichip, Chairman of the Fotball Association, senior partner in the familty firm in West Bromwich, where he is active in Staffordshire Freemasnary.

    Other prominent Masonic solicitors have included Julius Mermer, Lord Mayor of Cardiff 1987-8; John Evans, for twenty years Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court of Judicature; and Colonel George Kelway, High Court Registrar for Pembroke and Carmarthen from 1940 to 1962.

    These folk are not household names. They do not match singers, sportsman or soap oera stars in public recognition. Yet they have been the backbone of Britain and Britain legal establishment which effectivey runs Britain... they are men of status and respect in the regions where they have built their careers, and nationally influential in the legal profession. Most of these men are Masons of Grand Rank and all are citizens above reproach...

    ..In contast, rank-and-filr Masonic solicitors are regarded as pillagers and looters by many anti-Masons. Stephen Knight's post -Brotherhood files are full of letters alleging all manner of conspiracies against the legal professions with allegations that most of the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff they complain about having done the wrong thing to them....are suspected to be Freemasons and/or closely associated in various solcial, business, political and legal networks and associations they belong to...to the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff that are embers of the CRAFT OF FREEMASONRY...

    .Most of these correspondents of compalint suffer from the same the ame problem: they often do not have enough evidnece that Freemsonry and/or Freemasons and/or their associates and friends have played a part in their troubles.... the ones that do not have the evidence ask for information how to find out if the the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs and court staff that they say have done the wrong thing to them are in any way involved im Fremasonry...

    ...part of the answer to their question is that there should be a legal requirement that all Freemasons and/or anyone else in any sort of close association with Freemason members and/or involved in any way with any other social, political, business and/or legal association and/or network should ne required to openly declare such association on a public registrar before they are allowed to be involved in any appointment to a profession and/or job that involves making decisions about the public and/or acting for the public in any way..such as the solicitors and barristers, advocates, Masters, Magistrates, Judges, Justices, Lords, Sherriffs, court staff , anyone inv0lved in politics, local councils and/or any other puvlic and/or semi-public body and/or organisation....

    ..another part of the answer to their problem is the setting up an independent judicial inquiry body run by a retired judge who is not a Freemason and has declared not to have any possible strong biasn in favour of Freemasony...when anyone can request that they legal cases be reveiwed to see if they have been treate din a far and reasonable way... and such reveiw to be a completely different reveiw from all the normal appeals and reviews available at present in the legal system.. and such reveiw to be free of charge to the person requestion the reveiw...

    ..Their allegations are a shocking litany of businesses being destroyed, bankruptcies precipitated, investments mishandled, trust funds defrauded, tr5ials rigged and murders committed and covered up and who was really behind the murders also covered up so that proper and full investigations are simply not carried out by the relavent bodies...The writer of the allegations all claim Masonic solicitors have conspired with a mermutation of Masonic bank managers, estate agents, business rivals, policemen, judges - and even Masonic relatives.... each tragic tale has dozens of characters with an apparently bottomless capacity for evil... some 'victims' are themselves solicitors, driven out of business by Masonic competitors, or it is claimed....even if 95% of this stuff in fantasy, the rest shows there are a lot of wicked people in the world, be they be Masons or not...

    ..Freemasons however, did pay a large role in one miserable story of an old Lancashire lady who ame to sign anew will only days before she died. In 1980 Mrs Esther Cotton aged ninety-two was sick with cancer. She was living alone at home, taking tablets to kill the pain and slow the cancer's growth..On 9th December 1980 her doctor discovered sge was suffering not just from cancer but from bruses to her face and legs, black eyes and cuts, broke ribs and a collapsed vertebrae, Her doctor promptly put is Ormskirk General Hospital where she complained of leg and neck pains. Mrs Cotton's ankles were swollen and the cancer had completely destroyed her tight breast. Tests also showed she was very deaf and suffering from severe heart trouble and anaemia. Two days later she was sinking fast: nois at times but very drowsy in between. By 12th December, despite fairly heavy sedation, she was in constant pain...

     On this same day Mrs Cotton was the subject of frenzied attention which was far from medical. Shortly after midday a solicitor named Gordon Brown appeared at Mrs Cotton's beside insisting she sign a new will. The soliticitor, Gordon Brown, was not Mrs Cotton's regular solicitor, but was acting on instructions from Mrs Cotton's son, Ernest... Because  of the noise and bustle of the ward, Brown asked for the dying woman to be moved to a private room where, witnessed by two hospital administrators, she scrawled a mark where she was meant to sihn her name on the will document...

    .... Within hours her condition rapidly worsened. Her face turned grey, she suffered a relapse, and had to be treated  for congestive cardiac failure. Her condition further deteriorated ... On the 17th December, 1980, Mrs Cotton slipped into a coma and died. Mrs Cotton's funeral was attended to by her son Ernest and her daughter, Mrs Juneth Pilkington.

    Juneth had ben visiting her mother twice daily but the first she knew of the will was on 29th December when a copy came through her letterbox. Juneth thought it strange that her mother had never told her about this will but stranger still that her mother Mrs Cotton could have made it at all. In hospital her condition had been so bad that she could say nothing, could recognize no one and, says Juneth, had quite lost her mental facilities.

    As Juneth read through the will (in which she and her brother were named as executors) Juneth was stunned. The will said Juneth would get just one-quarter of the value of her mother's house. Each of four grandchildren would get a mere £100, but the rest of the estate would go to her brother, Ernest, 'for his own use and benefit absolutely'. The estate was no pittance. The and was worth some £60,000, much of it was tied up in the family business, a motor coach firm. Yet only five months before she signed this 'hospital will', Mrs Cotton had signed another very different message: she was going to leave each grandchild £1,000, but everything else was to be split between her son and daughter 'in equal shares absolutely'.

    What shocked Juneth was not the loss of so much money, but the clandestine way in which the new will had been concocted. The solicitor Gordon Brown had never acted for her mother before, whereas her solicitor for the past thirty years was not consulted. Indeed, no one had even told Mrs Cotton's previous solicitor that Mrs Cotton was ill.

    In the period between these wills the future of the coach firm had caused great family bitterness. The trouble went back to 1948 when old Mr Cotton had died without a will. The business had been held in trust ever since, with shares divided between Mrs Cotton and the Children. Juneth refused to sell her shares to Ernest, who ran the business and wanted total ownership. The 'hospital will' did not give him that - it could could not take away the shares Juneth already had - but it gave `Ernest his mother's 50 percent share, and thus Ernest had majority control for the first time.

    Juneth herself had been very ill during her mother's last days at home but Juneth had called in to see her mother Mrs Cotton on the 4th December, 1980, when she found Mrs Cotton squatting on a settee in an incoherent state. Juneth called the doctor but does not know if he saw Mrs Cotton before the 9th December, 1980, when he sent her to hospital. However, Juneth was not sure whether Mrs Cotton was not suffering from cuts, bruises, broken ribs or collapsed vertebrae.

    Years later Juneth gained access to previously withheld hospital notes and discovered that on 6 December someone had called the hospital to report that Mrs Cotton's back had 'caved in' and she was covered in bruises because of several falls. Juneth also learned that on the 8th December, 1980, the solicitor Gordon Brown, acing on Juneth brother's instructions, had twice visited  Mrs Cotton so that she could dictate a new will. Nether he nor a colleague could have noticed her caved-in back, or they would have realized she was in no condition to make a will. Instead, Gordon Brown took down the details and later had them typed on the appropriate form. On 12th December, 1980, by which time Mrs Cotton was in hospital, she signed her new will. Two hospital employees initialled a few hand written words saying the contents had been read over to Mrs Cotton, 'she appearing perfectly to understand the same'.

    Re-reading the will with care, Juneth felt her mother could have no idea what Mrs Cotton was signing. Mrs Cotton's signature was illegible, and unlike her normal signature as it appeared on the earlier will. The E(for Esther) was vaguely recognizable, but the A (for Annie)  was like a M. In place of 'Cotton', there were a few gnarled loops with no 't's or an 'n'.

    Juneth did not dispute that her mother made that that scrawl, but felt that maybe her hand had been held, but what was extraordinary about the will was that it contained two gross errors. Mrs Cotton's 'dwellinghouse' is described as '22 Brighouse Close, Ormskirk', whereas she lived at number 33. Even more astonishing, the document is made out in the wrong name: 'Hester Annie Cotton', not Esther Annie Cotton. At no time in her life had Esther ever been called Hester.

    Would anyone in his or her right mind voluntarily sign a will made out in the wrong name and address? Can such a will be valid?

    In succeeding months and years, Juneth tried to find out if her mother could possibly have known what she was doing. in 1981, Mr Cotton's doctor wrote that, on 9th December, 1980: "My patient appeared to be in agony and under a great deal of distress. I therefore did not think it appropriate to assess he metal capacity. I immediately arranged her urgent admission into hospital.'

    On the 10th December, 1980, a hospital physician (whom solicitor Gordon Brown had approached) wrote, 'She is is a fit mental state to sign a will.' Later he explained that on 12th December, 1980, he thought Mrs Cotton capable of understanding and signing a will, and could appreciate the extent of the property, the person who should be considered, and the way her estate should be divided.

    If so, how did Mrs Cotton not protest that her new will made a hast of her name and address? The opinion also clashes with Juneth's experience on 10th December, 1980, when her mother, Mrs Cotton, failed to recognize Juneth and two other familiar visitors. The next day Mrs Cotton did not recognize her own grandchild. The day after, Mrs Cotton failed to recognize Juneth, only one hour before she signed the new will...

     ... was wearing a hearing aid, but I did not check to see it it was working properly, as I had no reason to suspect that it wasn't. When I spoke to Mrs Cotton I did so is aloud voice, bending over the patient. Mrs Cotton did not make any comment regarding mistakes in her name and the address of her property. I asked the patient if she understood what I had read out  and if she agreed with it.  As far as I can recollect Mrs Cotton did not make any comments, Mrs Cotton appeared to be an elderly ill lady...

    Juneth's solicitors sent all available hospital records and statements t a consultant physician in Liverpool. In his Opinion he sated Mrs Cotton had been very ill for six weeks before she died. When Mrs Cotton signed the will, her mind may have been clouded by pain from widespread canerous growth; impairment and  cardiovascular functions through cancer, and toxic absorption; lack of natural sleep; effects of drugs against pain and for sedation; and difficulty in communication and resulting frustration due to advanced deafness. He went on....

    .....It is indeed quite possible that `Mrs Cotton may have been given the appearance of not only hearing, but also understanding the contents of the will, as read to her, It is, however, more doubtful whether her cerebral functions were sufficiently unimpaired for her to express her own viewpoints on the contents of the will and to use her independent judgement ... I am inclined to believe that not only an extraordinary effort on her part would have enabled her to rise  above her suffering in order to concentrate her mind on the task presented to her by the solicitor on December the 12th, 1980....

     ...... NO INDEPENDENT EVIDENCE EXISTS TO SHOW THAT MRS COTTON HAD EVER WANTED TO MAKE A NEW WILL....

    In a letter to Juneth's solicitors, Gordon Brown said that Ernest Cotton had told him to visit his mother and take instructions. He cannot comment now because he died in 1984, yet the question remains.... for whom was solicitor Gordon Brown really acting for? Even if Mrs Cotton were compos metis, Mrs Cotton would not have known Gordon Brown from Adam. Mrs Cotton's son Ernest only brought Gordon Brown into her ninety two year old life at her last gasp. So what was the relationship between Ernest Cotton and solicitor Gordon Brown?

     Ernest Cotton and solicitor Gordon Brown are both Freemasons- both members of Ormskirk's Pilgrim Lodge (no. 6207). In 1946 Ernest's Cotton's father had been one Ormskirk Pilgrim Lodge's founders.. Ernest Cotton was Master in 1962 and later achieved the mighty provincial rank of Senior Grand Deacon. Ernest Cotton was a big wheel in  West Lancashire Freemasonry, whereas Gordon Brown had only just been initiated. When Brown drew up the 'hospital will' he was a mere Fellow Craft. Just three weeks later he was raised to the third degree and became a Master Mason. The gap in the two men's Masonic status was immense, notwithstanding that, in the wider world, Gordon Brown was a prosperous solicitor  while Cotton ran a modest coach firm. When Cotton asked him to make a will for his mother, it was an offer Solicitor/Freemason Gordon Brown could not refuse. The job had even been arranged in the ledge. On the 3rd of December, 1980, as some brothers stood drinking at the bar in Ormskirk Masonic Hall, Ernest Cotton walked over to Brown and was heard saying he 'had a little job for him'.

     Such deals may well go on all the time in Ormskirk Masonic Hall, which has many Masons, The mid-Lancashire town has a population of about 27,000 of which about 10,000 are men over twenty-one. The Masonic Hall in Park Road caters for eleven lodges with some 700 members. Even if many of them live in other communities nearby, it seems one Ormskirk man in twenty is 'on the square' (the common description of a Freemason). The town's most powerful lodge is Ormskirk Priority (no. 4007). At six o'clock on the  fourth Wednesday of each month from September to April, its members slip into the hall to perform rituals, quaff a gin and tonic and super at the festive board.

     This lodge showed its power one morning in July 1985 by bringing the town to a halt for the funeral of one of its most revered members. By nine o'clock Ormskirk was paralysed by traffic. Everyone was late for work and shops could not open because the assistants had not arrived. Tradesmen, office staff and shoppers sat in their cars  and fumed because, without warning, the main carpark had been closed to the public so mourners would have only a short walk to the parish church.

      The dead man, Howard Ballance, had been a pillar of the community since World War II. A dentist, he had been a councillor for town and country for thirty-eight years, He was chairman of Lancashire Police Authority for thirty-three years, and was still a Justice of Peace (JP) and chairman of the Magistrates Bench when called to the Grand Lodge Above'.

      Nobody begrudged Ballance a good funeral, but giving his mourners sole use of the carpark sent the town wild. The Chamber of Trade was furious and rand the police to complain, The cops said the council had told them to do it. The Chamber's president blasted the the council's 'Kremlin-like attitude' of 'we are equal, but some are more equal than other'. The council blamed the idea on the police, but said that, anyway, 'it was a sensible way out of what could have been a ticklish problem'. The problem may have been how to appease Lodge no. 4007, whose members included several more councillors, and Ormskirk's ten other lodges. In all Freemason members could call on a total of fifteen of the town's fifty-five JP's and quite a few brethren among the local police.

     One policeman belonged to Pilgrim Lodge with Ernest Cotton and his solicitor Gordon Brown. Other members were factory owners, engineers, builders, shopkeepers, estate agents, an accountant, a printer. a farmer and an instrument technician named Derek Pilkington. He was Juneth Cotton's husband, and it was her brother Ernest Cotton who had nominated Derek Pilkington in 1978 at old Mrs Cotton's instance.

      Derek Pilkington was raised to Master Mason in October 1979 and regularly attended lodge meetings until November 1979 and regularly attended ledge meetings until November 1980, when the family was in dispute over the future of the coach business. Until this was sorted out Derek Pilkington decided to 'withdraw' from attend the lodge, thus avoiding a row with his brother-in-law and complying with Freemasonry's Ancient Charge that, 'no private piques or quarrels must be brought within the door of the lodge'.

      However, the Pilkingtons did complain to a lodge elder about what they felt was Ernest Cotton's 'unmasonic behaviour. They said Ernest Cotton had 'quite wrongly' put pressure on his mother to sign a will to his own advantage and the near disinheritance of his sister. Ernest Cotton had also damaged the interests of a brother Mason (Derek Pilkington), breaking the Masonic commandment of brotherly love. The elder was upset and rand Ormskirk's top Mason (another JP) for advice. The Pilkingtons hoped this call would result in a pledge of Masonic justice, but they received none. Far from getting help from Freemasonry, they were soon ostracized by it, in Juneth COTTON'S words:

    ....We very soon gathered that our past Freemason friends and their wives no longer desired our company. After learning the good points of Freemasonry, and believing in its foundations, having enjoyed so much the company of the brethren and their families, this sudden treatment came as a shock. We were obviously being treated with the alternative treatment to murder, as laid down in the rituals. Instead of having our throats cut across, we were branded as 'wilfully perjured individuals, void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful lodge...'.....

      Derek Pilkington was promptly struck off the lodge steward's list, perhaps in retribution for branding Ernest Cotton's conduct 'unmasonic', perhaps because he had stayed away from three meetings rather than clash with his brother-in-law. It was on the advice of her mother's doctor that  Juneth Cotton decoded to fight the 'hospital will', but she ran into widespread obstruction. She wanted to see insurance papers for the coach firm of which she had long being a partner. Swindon Insurance's local manager, George Parr, refused to let her have them, He said, she was 'on dangerous ground' and added, 'my firm has not got enough money to fight this,'..He did not explain these remarks, but Juneth thinks he was referring to the 'secret and silent power of Freemasonry and Rotary9=9 avery much related organisation)'. Parr may not have been a mason but he was definitely in Rotary: 'Many Rotarians are Masons and it seems clear that is Parr was to help me in my troubles he would be working against the interests of his close  professional colleagues.' When Parr died in 1983, many Masons had refused to give Juneth Cotton details of the family firm's accounts. Pilgrim Lodge kept its funds in one of those banks...

      Meantime, Derek Pilkington had been the victim of a forgery which could only have been perpetrated by a FreeMason. According to the constitutions every lodge member should receive a Grand Lodge certificate as soon as he is registered as a third-degree FreeMason. Derek Pilkington's third-degree Freemason certificate arrived twenty-three months late: on the 28th August, 1981 is a dirty crumpled envelope dropped through the letterbox at dinnertime. Derek complained to the Provincial GRand Secretary, who wrote back saying 'Pilgrim Lode had kept the certificate in order to present it to him in person...' and 'when he did not turn up to the lodge, it was sent on by registered post..'

      That letter contained two errors. fed to the writer by some Pilgrim Lodge member. Derek had attended all its meetings for a full twelve months after he became a Master Mason: which was ample time for him to receive the certificate in person. As for 'registered post', he had never signed for the document because it had been stuffed through the door when no one was at home.

      Derek Pilkington got in touch with the local acting post master who referred to the registered mail receipt book. This contained a signature in Derek's name which showed he had received the letter on the 26th August, 1981: a full two days before it landed of Derek's doormat. The official admitted the signature looked new and stood out from the page, but said it must have been made on that date..

      If so, it had not been made by Derek because he and Juneth were on holiday in France on the 26th August, 1981, and did not return until two days later. No one else had been at home to sign on his behalf or in his name. Besides, the letter bore no registration slip. The Pilkingtons called in the police. A CID man confirmed that the signature looked 'fresh' yet nothing came of his inquiries, even though the suspects were obvious. The forgery could have been perpetuated only by a high-ranking Post Office official with access to the registered mail pen, or wit such a person's co-operation.

    This may sound trivial, but it proves Freemasonry can pervert even the Royal Mail. It if interferes with registered letters, what else does Freemasonry contaminate?

    The the incident also shows how far some Masons will go to cover up a breach of their own rules. First forge the signature, then lie to the Provincial Grand Secretary (a former policeman, then get him to regurgitate the lie to the victim. even hough he too is a Mason.

    Handing out certificates on time and in the correct manner is the job of a lodge secretary. In 1981 the secretary of Pilgrim Lodge was Ernest Cotton. In November that year Derek sent a cheque to cover his annual subscriptions and £10 for Masonic charities. He also enclosed a note which he asked the Master to read in open lodge to the assembled brethren:

    Please accept my apologies for my non-attendance at Pilgrim Lodge ... being unable to attend has been a bitter disappointment to me, but, as you know, there is a brother in the lodge with whom I am at variance over matters which have caused deep distress for almost two years to my wife and myself...I regret so few of my Brothers feel able to discuss my problems with me, or are prepared to listen... However, when the time comes, the Great Architect of the Universe will surely as always be on the side of righteousness...

    The letter was not read out and Derek Pilkington never got a reply to his letter...

    ..In 1983 Derek also lost his job...

    The manager who sacked him was also in the brotherhood.. Freemasons are exhorted to give a brother work, not deprive him of a job. yet Derek's dismissal was unfair and unnecessary, as he later proved to an industrial tribunal which found wholly in Derek's favour..

    ..In January 1984 the Masonic solicitor Gordon Brown died aged little more than fifty. His funeral was attended by many Pilgrim brethren, but not by Ernest Cotton. Some Pilgrim men felt Brown's health had declined largely because he had spend three year trying yo defend the indefensible 'hospital will'. The Pilkington's are convinced its 'mistakes' were deliberate.

     For instance, the will says Juneth Pilkington is to get one-quarter of the value of Mrs Cotton's 'dwellinghouse' but then gives the wrong address. This might have been a mistake, but it could have been a deliberate ploy to cut her out of her inheritance altogether. As it is worded, she would have received one-quarter of a property which her mother never owned - in other words, nothing at all.

      The Pilkington's also say the mistake over Mrs Cotton's name is a Masonic sign. Falsely named 'Hester Annie', not 'Esther Annie', her initials become H.A. These also stand for Hiram Abiff (H.A.), the 'architect' of the Temple of Solomon. The 'Widow' is inserted, as word which did not appear in the earlier will. However, if this is a 'Masonic' will, the word 'Widow' is there to show that Ernest is the 'Widow's Son', a phrase FreeMasons use to identify themselves to other Masons.

       Derek Pilkington has often complained to top Masonic officials, but they refuse to get involved, saying his dispute with Cotton is a legal matter in which Freemasonry cannot interfere. Derek retorts that Masonic lawyers have interfered from the start, first by drawing up a 'Masonic will' and then by ensuring no other lawyer is town dare to fight it. When he complained to Freemasons' Hall in London, Commander Michael Higham wrote to suggest he consult another lawyers 'in another town'.

      This is just what the Pilkingtons did, when they eventually found a non-Masonic solicitor in Manchester. In 1987 they were about to fight the will in court, when Ernest Cotton's side made a last-minute offer: half the value of the mother's house and £4,500 for Juneth Pilkington's share in the coach business. This came to £18,000 out of an estate worth some £60,000. Her barrister urged her strongly to accept, to avoid a legal contest which would exhaust the estate and leave her with nothing.

      As a result the will's glaring mistakes ( or Masonic signs) were never tested, nor was the legality of Mrs Cotton's signature nor the issue of her mental state. Instead, a highly suspect will - perhaps made under duress - was laundered and legitimized by the legal process itself. Now the law took its own cut, Juneth had to pay costs of £9,000: half her entire share of the estate.

    ...  Ernest Cotton in the meantime had been Master of Pilgrim Lodge a second time.  

    .... Ernest Cotton has now been awarded the lofty rank of Past Provincial Grand Warden, an honour which goes only to men who embody what the Anchient Charges call 'the benign influence of masonry, as all true masons have done from the beginning of the world, and will do to the end of time'. A former town councillor, Cotton has even had a road named after him.,,

    In contrast, Derek Pilkington has been 'excluded' from Pilgrim Lodge for non-payment of dues but, as he told officials, he could not attend until the anti-Masonic deeds of other members of the lodge had been remedied. Derek's unfair dismissal by another Mason and subsequent unemployment were two more reasons  why he could not pay £35 a year. Yet his Brethren resolved that it was Derek Pilkington, and no one else, who was 'void of all moral worth and totally unfit to be received into this worshipful Lodge or any other warranted Lodge or society of men, who prize honour and virtue above the external advantages of rank and fortune...'.....

      For many years Worshipful Brother Ernest Cotton ran a funeral business from the same premises as the family coach firm. A decade later, on the shelves of the unlocked and deserted garage, a plastic bag was discovered. It contained the remains of a named individual incinerated at Thornton Crematorium on the 15th November, §974. Out of respect for the man and his family, I shall not name him here... However, his crematorium reference number was C9856. Perhaps he too was a Freemason, Even if he was not, his ashes deserved rather better care from a Masonic undertaker...

     

    "..It is an obvious truth, that the privileges of Masonry have long been prostituted for unworthy considerations. and hence their good effects have been less conspicuous.... William Preston, one of Freemason's greatest teachers....written more than 200 years ago by William Preston..

    In 1972 William Preston could see his beloved Brotherhood sinking into a 'general odium, or at least a careless in difference'....

    Today Freemasonry has an even worse public image that in Preston's day ...but does it deserve it?

    In Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood, Martin Short tries to weigh all its good effects against the cost of this enduring prostitution...

     

    Martin Short's Inside the Brotherhood car has its origins in the pioneering work of Stephen Knight who died in July 1985 aged thirty-three, just eighteen months after the publication of his best-selling, controversial and much-despised expose of Freemasonry, The Brotherhood...

     

     ..... Had Stephen Knight lived, Stephen Knight would have written his own sequel. Instead Martin Short stepped, almost literally, into a dead ma's shoes..  Martin Short's tracked down many of Stephen Knight's sources and read hundreds of letters sent in response to Stephen Knight's book, which were never pursued because of illness. More than three years after Stephen Knight's death, fan mail still pours in for Stephen ... Knight from all over the world...

           

    Behind Closed Doors-

    The power and Influence of Secret Societies

    By 

    Michael Streeter

    The Church of Scientology - 

    Fair Game

    Ron Hubbard’s (the founder of the Church of Scientology) approach to anyone who disagreed or criticized Scientology – and thhere have been many- could be summed up by his ‘fair game’ policy…This policy was aimed at those who were called ‘Supressive Persons (SP’s). Hubbard believed that about 2,5 percent of the world’s population was an “SP”, this is, someone who wanted to destroy whatever was good or useful in the world.. However, in practice, this meant anyone who was opposed to of Scientology

    An example of alleged ‘fair game’ used against those regarded as hostile to Scientology was seen in 2007, during a now notorious BBC investigation into Scientology by reporter John Sweeney.. That investigation is best known for the way in which Sweeney – an experienced journalist who has reported form trouble spots throughout the world – lost his temper during an exchange with a Scientologist spokesman…Sweeney said on the BBC website: “While making our BBC Panorama film “Scientology and me”, I have been shouted at, spied on, had my hotel invaded at midnight, been denounced as s “bigot” by star Scientologists and been chased around the streets of Los Angeles by sinister strangers. Back in Britain strangers have called on my neighbours and my mother-in-law, and someone spied on my wedding and fled the moment he was challenged…

    As well as allegedly using such harassment tactics, Scientology has also been accused of trying to curtail freedom of speech on the Internet.  This is a key issue when discussing the impact of the movement on modern society….However, the website run by Andreas Heldal-Lund, in Norway, has continued to publish Scientology material on his website.. He states on his website: ‘After careful consideration I have concluded that these material are being kept secret in order to withhold information form the public, with the sole purpose of deceiving the public as to the true nature of Scientology. I feel it is my moral duty to society to reveal this information to the public in order to alert them as to its nature…Chuck Beatty, who became a Scientologist in 1975 as a young student in Phoenix, Arisona, and stayed for 27 years because he was especially impressed when he learned that, after becom9ing a ‘clear’ and moving on to the higher levels known as ‘Opertating Thetan’ or the ‘OT’ levels, he would learn to ‘zoom around the universe like Falsh Gordon’. He adds: ‘What a perfect idea! Instead of being bound by earth and archaic religions, this was like a space-age religion,’ says Chuck Beatty…’of course, after 27 years you find out that nobody is doing this stuff. It’s a complete fucking scam – it’s outrageous.”

    Organisation and structure of The Church of Scientology

    The Scientology organization operates through a variety of different bodies throughout the world.. For Ron Hubbard, the group’s structure and discipline was no incidental occurrence, but an integral part of Scientology.. Chuck Beatty was a member of what is called the Sea organization (“Sea Org”). this organisation provides the staff members for the upper echelons of  Scientology, and is known as its religious order, or ‘Vatican’. As Beatty refers to it. According to Scientology’s own description: #Sea org members work long hours and live communally with housing, meals, uniforms, medical and dental care provided by the Church. They participate in Scientology training and auditing during a portion of each day, but otherwise dedicate themselves to furthering the objectives of Scientology through particular functions.’

    Long-standing critics of the movement are less kind. ‘Scientology actually has a lot in common with the worst excesses of the Nazis, with the Sea Org playing the role of the Gastapo,’ says Professor Touretzky. ‘It is the  only “church” with its own intelligence branch, called the Office of Special Affairs,” According to Beatty, ‘as well as keeping dossiers on ‘enemies’ of Scientology, this office (where Beatty’s second wife had worked) also circulated the bad press that Hubbard and Scientology attracted in what are called ‘pass arounds’, with the aim of helping them counter negative publicity. Members of the Sea org ( Beatty included) sign ‘billion-year contracts’ as part of their commitment Scientology and the Sea Org…

    The Sea Org started life in 1967, when for a period of seven years Scientology was run by Ron Hubbard form on board a boat…in reality the relocation was probably due to the fact that Scientology had been running into problems with various governments around the world, and the sea was one place where the organization could operate without hindrance, ( Operation from the sea could also have been a way of testing potential safe havens). Scientology’s clashed with various governments, parliaments and legal systems go right to the heart of the concerns about the influence of the Scientology

    Movement. Following an official report in Australia, for example, the Church of Scientology was banned form operating under that name and as a religion in some states form the mid 1960’s..This ban was overturned in 12983, when a court ruled that the organization was entitles to operate as a religion..



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    almighty god
                      The Committee of 300 worships their Almighty G.O.D. which stands for Gold....Oil and Diamonds ..
                      which are all controlled behind the scenes by their agents...
                      The Control of Gold worldwide has been assigned to the the Rothschild Family.....
                      The Control of Oil worldwide has been assigned to the Rockefeller Family....
                       The Control of Diamonds worldwide has been assigned to the Oppenheimer Family..
                       who in turn have spread out other sections of the world's economic, financial, political, social,
                        banking, asset, currency, food, minerals, military etc by setting up silent partnerships with
                        other families and/or simply appoint others to do the jobs they want done with
                        them always control thinks and pulling the strings form behind the scenes.....

                                                         Current Membership List of the Committee of 300
                                  who worship their  Almighty G.O.D. - Gold....Oil and Diamonds


    almighty god

    Abdullah II, King of Jordan
    Abramovich, Roman
    Ackermann, Josef
    Adeane, Edward
    Agius, Marcus
    Ahtisaari, Martti
    Akerson, Daniel
    Albert II, King of Belgium
    Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
    Amato, Giuliano
    Anderson, Carl A.
    Andreotti, Giulio
    Andrew, Duke of York
    Anne, Princess Royal
    Anstee, Nick
    Ash, Timothy Garton
    Astor, William Waldorf
    Aven, Pyotr
    Balkenende, Jan Peter
    Ballmer, Steve
    Balls, Ed
    Barroso, José Manuel
    Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands
    Belka, Marek
    Bergsten, C. Fred
    Berlusconi, Silvio
    Bernake, Ben
    Bernstein, Nils
    Berwick, Donald
    Bildt, Carl
    Bischoff, Sir Winfried
    Blair, Tony
    Blankfein, Lloyd
    Blavatnik, Leonard
    Bloomberg, Michael
    Bolkestein, Frits
    Bolkiah, Hassanal
    Bonello, Michael C
    Bonino, Emma
    Boren, David L.
    Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg
    Bronfman, Charles
    Bronfman, Edgar Jr.
    Bruton, John
    Brzezinski, Zbigniew
    Budenberg, Robin
    Buffet, Warren
    Bush, George HW
    Cameron, David
    Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
    Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
    Carington, Peter
    Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden
    Carlos, Duke of Parma
    Carney, Mark
    Carroll, Cynthia
    Caruana, Jaime
    Castell, Sir William
    Chan, Anson
    Chan, Margaret
    Chan, Norman
    Charles, Prince of Wales
    Chartres, Richard
    Chiaie, Stefano Delle
    Chipman, Dr John
    Chodiev, Patokh
    Christoph, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein
    Cicchitto, Fabrizio
    Clark, Wesley
    Clarke, Kenneth
    Clegg, Nick
    Clinton, Bill
    Cohen, Abby Joseph
    Cohen, Ronald
    Cohn, Gary
    Colonna di Paliano, Marcantonio, Duke of Paliano
    Constantijn, Prince of the Netherlands
    Constantine II, King of Greece
    Cooksey, David
    Cowen, Brian
    Craven, Sir John
    Crockett, Andrew
    Dadush, Uri
    D'Aloisio, Tony
    Darling, Alistair
    Davies, Sir Howard
    Davignon, Étienne
    Davis, David
    de Rothschild, Benjamin
    de Rothschild, David René
    de Rothschild, Evelyn
    de Rothschild, Leopold
    Deiss, Joseph
    Deripaska, Oleg
    Dobson, Michael
    Draghi, Mario
    Du Plessis, Jan
    Dudley, William C.
    Duisenberg, Wim
    Edward, Duke of Kent
    Edward, Earl of Wessex
    Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
    Elkann, John
    Emanuele, Vittorio, Prince of Naples
    Ernst August, Prince of Hanover
    Feldstein, Martin
    Festing, Matthew
    Fillon, François
    Fischer, Heinz
    Fischer, Joschka
    Fischer, Stanley
    FitzGerald, Niall
    Franz, Duke of Bavaria
    Fridman, Mikhail
    Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau
    Gates, Bill
    Geidt, Christopher
    Geithner, Timothy
    Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
    Gibson-Smith, Dr Chris
    Gorbachev, Mikhail
    Gore, Al
    Gotlieb, Allan
    Green, Stephen
    Greenspan, Alan
    Grosvenor, Gerald, 6th Duke of Westminster
    Gurría, José Ángel
    Hague, William
    Hampton, Sir Philip
    Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
    Harald V, King of Norway
    Harper, Stephen
    Heisbourg, François
    Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
    Hildebrand, Philipp
    Hills, Carla Anderson
    Holbrooke, Richard
    Honohan, Patrick
    Howard, Alan
    Ibragimov, Alijan
    Ingves, Stefan
    Isaacson, Walter
    Juan Carlos, King of Spain
    Jacobs, Kenneth M.
    Julius, DeAnne
    Juncker, Jean-Claude
    Kenen, Peter
    Kerry, John
    King, Mervyn
    Kinnock, Glenys
    Kissinger, Henry
    Knight, Malcolm
    Koon, William H. II
    Krugman, Paul
    Kufuor, John
    Lajolo, Giovanni
    Lake, Anthony
    Lambert, Richard
    Lamy, Pascal
    Landau, Jean-Pierre
    Laurence, Timothy
    Leigh-Pemberton, James
    Leka, Crown Prince of Albania
    Leonard, Mark
    Levene, Peter
    Leviev, Lev
    Levitt, Arthur
    Levy, Michael
    Lieberman, Joe
    Livingston, Ian
    Loong, Lee Hsien
    Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
    Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
    Louis-Dreyfus, Gérard
    Mabel, Princess of Orange-Nassau
    Mandelson, Peter
    Manning, Sir David
    Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este
    Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
    Martínez, Guillermo Ortiz
    Mashkevitch, Alexander
    Massimo, Stefano, Prince of Roccasecca dei Volsci
    Massimo-Brancaccio, Fabrizio Prince of Arsoli and Triggiano
    McDonough, William Joseph
    McLarty, Mack
    Mersch, Yves
    Michael, Prince of Kent
    Michael, King of Romania
    Miliband, David
    Miliband, Ed
    Mittal, Lakshmi
    Moreno, Glen
    Moritz, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
    Murdoch, Rupert
    Napoléon, Charles
    Nasser, Jacques
    Niblett, Robin
    Nichols, Vincent
    Nicolás, Adolfo
    Noyer, Christian
    Ofer, Sammy
    Ogilvy, Alexandra, Lady Ogilvy
    Ogilvy, David, 13th Earl of Airlie
    Ollila, Jorma
    Oppenheimer, Nicky
    Osborne, George
    Oudea, Frederic
    Parker, Sir John
    Patten, Chris
    Pébereau, Michel
    Penny, Gareth
    Peres, Shimon
    Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
    Pio, Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza
    Pöhl, Karl Otto
    Powell, Colin
    Prokhorov, Mikhail
    Quaden, Guy
    Rasmussen, Anders Fogh
    Ratzinger, Joseph Alois (Pope Benedict XVI)
    Reuben, David
    Reuben, Simon
    Rhodes, William R.
    Rice, Susan
    Richard, Duke of Gloucester
    Rifkind, Sir Malcolm
    Ritblat, Sir John
    Roach, Stephen S.
    Robinson, Mary
    Rockefeller, David Jr.
    Rockefeller, David Sr.
    Rockefeller, Nicholas
    Rodríguez, Javier Echevarría
    Rogoff, Kenneth
    Roth, Jean-Pierre
    Rothschild, Jacob
    Rubenstein, David
    Rubin, Robert
    Ruspoli, Francesco, 10th Prince of Cerveteri
    Safra, Joseph
    Safra, Moises
    Sands, Peter
    Sarkozy, Nicolas
    Sassoon, Isaac

    Sassoon, James
    Sawers, Sir Robert John
    Scardino, Marjorie
    Schwab, Klaus
    Schwarzenberg, Karel
    Schwarzman, Stephen A.
    Shapiro, Sidney
    Sheinwald, Nigel
    Sigismund, Grand Duke of TuscanyArchduke of Austria
    Simeon of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    Snowe, Olympia
    Sofía, Queen of Spain
    Soros, George
    Specter, Arlen
    Stern, Ernest
    Stevenson, Dennis
    Steyer, Tom
    Stiglitz, Joseph
    Strauss-Kahn, Dominique
    Straw, Jack
    Sutherland, Peter
    Tanner, Mary
    Tedeschi, Ettore Gotti
    Thompson, Mark
    Thomson, Dr. James
    Tietmeyer, Hans
    Trichet, Jean-Claude
    Tucker, Paul
    Van Rompuy, Herman
    Vélez, Álvaro Uribe
    Verplaetse, Alfons
    Villiger, Kaspar
    Vladimirovna, Maria, Grand Duchess of Russia
    Volcker, Paul
    von Habsburg, Otto
    Waddaulah, Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin, Sultan of Brunei
    Walker, Sir David
    Wallenberg, Jacob
    Walsh, John
    Warburg, Max
    Weber, Axel Alfred
    Weill, Michael David
    Wellink, Nout
    Whitman, Marina von Neumann
    Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
    William Prince of Wales
    Williams, Dr Rowan
    Williams, Shirley
    Wilson, David
    Wolfensohn, James
    Wolin, Neal S.
    Woolf, Harry
    Woolsey, R. James Jr.
    Worcester, Sir Robert
    Wu, Sarah
    Zoellick, Robert

    In the Committee of 300, which has a 150-year history, we have some of the most brilliant intellects assembled to form a completely totalitarian, absolutely controlled "new" society only it isn't new, having drawn most of its ideas from the Clubs of Cultus Diabolicus. It strives toward a One World Government rather well described by one of its late members, H. G. Wells, in his work commissioned by the Committee which Wells boldly called: "The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution".
    Most of the Committee of 300's immense wealth arose out of the opium trade with China and India. Obscene profits went straight into the royal coffers, and into the pockets of the nobility, the oligarchs and plutocrats, and made them billionaires. The ordinary people of China, India, and England profited nothing from "opium revenues". In the same way the people of South Africa, black and white, never profited from the gold mining industry, whose revenues were piped directly into the City of London banks and Merchant banks. The Committee of 300 is responsible for the phony drug wars here in the U.S. These phony drug wars were to get us to give away our constitutional rights. Asset forfeiture is a prime example, where huge assets can be seized without trail and no proof of guilt needed. Also the Committee of 300 long ago decreed that there shall be a smaller-much smaller-and better world, that is, their idea of what constitutes a better world. The myriads of useless eaters consuming scarce natural resources were to be culled by up to 99%. Industrial progress supports population growth. Therefore the command to multiply and subdue the earth found in Genesis had to be subverted. This called for an attack upon Christianity; the slow but sure disintegration of industrial nation states; the destruction of billions of people, referred to by the Committee of 300 as "surplus population," and the removal of any leader who dared to stand in the way of the Committee's global planning to reach the foregoing objectives. Not that the U.S. government didn't know, but as it was part of the conspiracy, it helped to keep the lid on information rather than let the truth be known. Queen, Elizabeth II, is the head of the Committee of 300. The Committee of 300 looks to social convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, as a softening-up technique for bigger things to come, as its principal method of creating masses of people all over the world who will become its "welfare" recipients of the future.
    The current criminal agenda of the Committee of 300 is further evidenced by recently leaked Club of Rome documents, as they describe how they will use drugs to help stifle resistance to their New World Order scheme: "…having been failed by Christianity, and with unemployment rife on every hand, those who have been without jobs for five years or more, will turn away from the church and seek solace in drugs. By then, full control of the drug trade must be completed in order that the government of all countries who are under our jurisdiction have a monopoly in place which we will control by controlling supplies reaching the market… Drug bars will take care of the unruly and the discontented. Would-be revolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no will of their own…"The crowned cobras of Europe and their Eastern Liberal Establishment families will not tolerate any true war against drugs. The war on drugs, which the Bush administration was allegedly fighting, was for the legalization of all types and classes of drugs. Such drugs are not solely a social aberration, but a full-scale attempt to gain control of the minds of the people of the United States.At present, this is the principal task of the Committee of 300. Nothing has changed in the opium-heroin-cocaine trade. It is still in the hands of the same "upper class" families in Britain and the United States. It is still a fabulously profitable trade where what appear to be big losses through sometimes seizures of drug shipments are actually small interlopers trying to break into the preserves of the drug trade hierarchy, who sit in paneled board rooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigars and congratulate another success in the eradication of "competitors."
    Included in the Committee of 300 membership are the old families of the European Black Nobility, the American Eastern Liberal Establishment (in Freemason hierarchy and the Order of Skull and Bone), the Illuminati, or as it is known by the Committee "MORIAH CONQUERING WIND," the Mumma Group, The National and World Council of Churches, the Circle of Initiates, the Nine Unknown Men, Lucis Trust, Jesuit Liberation Theologists, The Order of the Elders of Zion, the Nasi Princes, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the United Nations (U.N.), the Central, British Quator Coronati, Italian P2 Masonry-especially those in the Vatican hierarchy-the Central Intelligence Agency, Tavistock Institute selected personnel, various members of leading foundations and insurance companies, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the Milner Group-Round Table, Cini Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Ditchley Foundation, NATO, Club of Rome, Environmentalists, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, One World Government Church, Socialist International, Black Order, Thule Society, Anenherbe-Rosicrucianists, The Great Superior Ones and literally HUNDREDS of other organizations.
    In the case of John F. Kennedy, the assassination was carried out with great attendant publicity and with the utmost brutality to serve as a warning to world leaders not to get out of line. Pope John Paul I was quietly murdered because he was getting close to the Committee of 300 through Freemasons in the Vatican hierarchy. His successor, Pope John Paul II, was publicly humiliated as a warning to cease and desist-which he has done. As we shall see, certain Vatican leaders are today seated on the Committee of 300.
    The Committee of 300 appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle. As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski's controller during the Bolshevik Revolution's formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts. Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus. He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that "Man is of no importance. Look at what happens when you starve him. He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive. Man is only interested in his own survival. That is all that counts. All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish."
    The roots of the East India Company (chartered by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600 and dissolved in 1873) sprout from the European Black Nobility. The Black Nobility are the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th century held the privileged trading rights (monopolies). The first of three crusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the Venetian Black Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy ruling class. The Black Nobility aristocracy achieved complete control over Venice in 1171, when the appointment of the doge was transferred to what was known as the Great Council, which consisted of members of the commercial aristocracy, a complete triumph for them. Venice has remained in their hands ever since, but the power and influence of the Venetian Black Nobility extends far beyond its borders, and today, is felt in every corner of the globe. In 1204 the oligarchic family parceled out feudal enclaves to their members, and from this epoch dates the great building-up of power and pressure until the government became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobility families.
    It is important to note that the European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglements of numerous secret societies, lodges, and organizations, which are backed with high finance and powerful political connections. Such organizations include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group (German version of CFR), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), United Nations (founded by CFR), Illuminati order Skull & Bones (inner circle of the CFR), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Bank of International Settlement, Club of Rome, Chatham House (formally the Royal Institute of International Affairs - RIIA), Round Table, Tavistock Institute for Human Studies (England's psychological warfare think tank), Associated Press, Reuters (Rothschild owned news monopoly used for brainwashing the masses), and many others, all of which, whether they are dupes or adapts, work in favor of Great Britain's aristocracy and their one world government agenda. Although there is a wide cross-section, all roads lead to the Queen of England. The technique for keeping their illicit scheme secret is compartmentalization. Only the people in the inner circle, who are part of the capstone at the top of the pyramid, know the entire extent of the fraud. Adepts are few and dupes many. Typically, the dupes are told lies that their involvement is benevolent; thus, they become unwitting accomplices in crime. This is why it is imperative to expose this diabolical ring of power. Illicit secret societies cannot withstand the light of day. Once exposed, the cabal and their minions will fall like a house of cards.
    The European Black Nobility earned its title through dirty tricks, so when the population revolted against the monopolies in government, as anywhere else, the leaders of the uprising were quickly seized and brutally hanged. They use secret assassinations, murder, the bankrupting of opposing citizens or companies, kidnapping and rape. All the families listed are connected with the House of Guelph, one of the original Black Nobility families of Venice from which the House of Windsor and thus the present Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, descends.
     
    What are the goals of the secret elite group, the inheritors of Illuminism (Moriah Conquering Wind), the Cult of Dionysius, the Cult of Isis, Catharism, Bogomilism? This elite group that also calls itself the OLYMPIANS (they truly believe they are equal in power and stature to the legendary gods of Olympus, who have, like Lucifer their god, set themselves above our true God) absolutely believe they have been charged with implementing the following by divine right:
     
    21 Goals of the Illuminati and The Committee of 300
     
    1. A One World Government-New World Order with a unified church and monetary system under their direction. Not many people are aware that the One World Government began setting up its "church" in the 1920's/ 1930's, for they realized the need for a religious belief inherent in mankind to have an outlet and, therefore, set up a "church" body to channel that belief in the direction they desired.
    2. The utter destruction of all national identity and national pride.
    3. The destruction of religion and more especially the Christian religion, with the one exception, their own creation mentioned above.
    4. Control of each and every person through means of mind control and what Brzezinski call "technotronics" which would create human-like robots and a system of terror beside which Felix Dzerzinski's Red Terror will look like children at play.
    5. An end to all industrialization and the production of nuclear generated electric power in what they call "the post-industrial zero-growth society." Exempted are the computer and service industries. United States industries that remain will be exported to countries such as Mexico where abundant slave labour is available. Unemployables in the wake of industrial destruction will either become opium-heroin and or cocaine addicts, or become statistics in the elimination process we know today as Global 2000.
    6. Legalization of drugs and pornography.
    7. Depopulation of large cities according to the trial run carried out by the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. It is interesting to note that Pol Pot's genocidal plans were drawn up here in the United States by one of the Club of Rome's research foundations. It is also interesting that the Committee is presently seeking to reinstate the Pol Pot butchers in Cambodia.
    8. Suppression of all scientific development except for those deemed beneficial by the Committee. Especially targeted is nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Particularly hated are the fusion experiments presently being scorned and ridiculed by the Committee and its jackals of the press. Development of the fusion torch would blow the Committee's conception of "limited natural resources" right out of the window. A fusion torch properly used could create unlimited untapped natural resources from the most ordinary substances. Fusion torch uses are legion and would benefit mankind in a manner which is as yet not even remotely comprehended by the public.
    9. Cause by means of limited wars in the advanced countries, and by means of starvation and diseases in Third World countries, the death of 3 billion people by the year 2000, people they call "useless eaters." The Committee of 300 commissioned Cyrus Vance to write a paper on this subject of how best to bring about such genocide. The paper was produced under the title the "Global 2000 Report" and was accepted and approved for action by President Carter, for and on behalf of the U.S. Government, and accepted by Edwin Muskie, then Secretary of State. Under the terms of the Global 2000 Report, the population of the United States is to be reduced by 100 million by the year 2050.
    10. To weaken the moral fibre of the nation and to demoralize workers in the labour class by creating mass unemployment. As jobs dwindle due to the post industrial zero growth policies introduced by the Club of Rome, demoralized and discouraged workers will resort to alcohol and drugs. The youth of the land will be encouraged by means of rock music and drugs to rebel against the status quo, thus undermining and eventually destroying the family unit. In this regard The Committee of 300 commissioned Tavistock Institute to prepare a blueprint as to how this could be achieved. Tavistock directed Stanford Research to undertake the work under the direction of Professor Willis Harmon. This work later became known as "The Aquarian Conspiracy."
    11. To keep people everywhere from deciding their own destinies by means of one created crisis after another and then "managing" such crises. This will confuse and demoralize the population to the extent where faced with too many choices, apathy on a massive scale will result. In the case of the United States, an agency for crisis management is already in place. It is called the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), whose existence I first disclosed in 1980.
    12. To introduce new cults and continue to boost those already functioning which includes rock "music" gangsters such as the filthy, degenerate Mick Jagger's "Rolling Stones" (a gangster group much favoured by European Black Nobility) and all of the Tavistock created "rock" groups which began with "The Beatles."
    13. To continue to build up the cult of Christian fundamentalism begun by the British East India Company's servant, Darby, which will be misused to strengthen the Zionist state of Israel through identifying with the Jews through the myth of "God's Chosen People" and by donating very substantial amounts of money to what they mistakenly believe is a religious cause in the furtherance of Christianity.
    14. To press for the spread of religious cults such as the Moslem Brotherhood, Moslem fundamentalism, the Sikhs, and to carry out experiments of the Jim Jones and "Son of Sam" type of murders. It is worth noting that the late Ayatollah Khomeini was a creation of British Intelligence Military Intelligence Division 6, commonly known as M16, as I reported in my 1985 work, "What Really Happened in Iran."
    15. To export "religious liberation" ideas around the world so as to undermine all existing religions but more especially the Christian religion. This began with "Jesuit Liberation Theology" which brought about the downfall of the Somoza family rule in Nicaragua and which is today destroying EI Salvador, now 25 years into a "civil war," Costa Rica and Honduras. One very active entity engaged in so-called liberation theology is the Communist oriented Mary Knoll Mission. This accounts for the extensive media attention to the murder of four of Mary Knoll's so-called nuns in EI Salvador a few years ago.
    The four nuns were Communist subversive agents and their activities were widely documented by the government of EI Salvador. The United States press and news media refused to give any space or coverage to the mass of documentation in possession of the Salvadorian government, documentation which proves what the Mary Knoll Mission nuns were doing in the country. Mary Knoll is in service in many countries, and played a leading role in bringing Communism to Rhodesia, Mozambique, Angola and South Africa.
    16. To cause a total collapse of the world's economies and engender total political chaos.
    17. To take control of all Foreign and domestic policies of the United States.
    18. To give the fullest support to supranational institutions such as the United Nations (UN), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the World Court and, as far as possible, make local institutions of lesser effect by gradually phasing them out or bringing them under the mantle of the United Nations.
    19. Penetrate and subvert all governments, and work from within them to destroy the sovereign integrity of nations represented by them.
    20. Organize a world-wide terrorist apparatus and negotiate with terrorists whenever terrorist activities take place. It will be recalled that it was Bettino Craxi who persuaded the Italian and U.S. governments to negotiate with the Red Brigades kidnapers of Prime Minister Moro and General Dozier. As an aside, General Dozier is under orders not to talk about what happened to him. Should he break that silence, he will no doubt be made "a horrible example of" in the manner in which Kissinger dealt with Aldo Moro, Ali Bhutto and General Zia ul Haq.
    21. Take control of education in America with the intent and purpose of utterly and completely destroying it.
    Much of these goals, which I first enumerated in 1969, have since been achieved or are well on their way to being achieved. Of special interest in the Committee of 300 program is the core of their economic policy, which is largely based on the teachings of Malthus, the son of an English country parson who was pushed to prominence by the British East India Company upon which the Committee of 300 is modelled.
    Malthus maintained that man's progress is tied to the earth's natural ability to support a given number of people, beyond which point earth's limited resources would rapidly be depleted. Once these natural resources have been consumed, it will be impossible to replace them. Hence, Malthus observed, it is necessary to limit populations within the boundaries of decreasing natural resources. It goes without saying that the elite will not allow themselves to be threatened by a burgeoning population of "useless eaters," hence culling must be practiced. As I have previously stated, "culling" is going on today, using the methods mandated in the "Global 2000 Report." -- Dr. John Coleman, former British Intelligence Officer, The Conspirator's Hierarchy: The Committee of 300, http://www.coleman300.com/

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    The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations

    The Tavistock Institute Of Human Relations 
    by John Colman
    The most influential propaganda institute in the world,
    Tavistock has had a profound effect on the moral, spiritual cultural,
     political and economic policies of the United States dating back to 1914.
    But for Tavistock, the United States would not be rushing down the road
    to dissolution and collapse.

    The Committee of 300

    Undoubtedly the “Bible” of conspiracy books, the completely revised and updated
    Fourth Edition landmark book is filled with information not previously disclosed.
    It names one of the contenders for the White House who is closely related to
    one of the oldest “300” families whose fortune was derived from opium trade
     with China, and no, it is not any of the Bush clan. The origin of
    the Committee of 300 is described; how it has evolved from an opium trading
    company with a Royal Charter to become the de-facto secret upper-level parallel
    government of the United States and the world, with only Russia and China standing
     in opposition to it. A highly organized secret society with tentacles reaching into
     every level of government in the United States and indeed, the world, backed
    by massive financing and run by men of the highest education and intelligence,
    with vast resources at their disposal, manages the thousands of major political
     and economical and contrived situations. In the FOURTH EDITION there is listed
    some very prominent men who came forward to support the existence of the “300.”
    One of them predicted twenty years ago that “The United States will be turned into
    a welfare state” and that “with the exception of Russia all nations would unite in
    a world alliance (The One World Government).”
    Perhaps the most startling admission of the existence
    of the super-secret organization came from President Wilson
     in the last days of his presidency: “Some of the biggest men
    in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacturing,
     are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something.
    They know that there is a power somewhere, so organized, so subtle,
    so watchful, so interlocked, so pervasive, that they had better not speak
    above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
    The “power” Wilson was talking about is the Committee of 300
    and Wilson knew he did not dare to mention it by name.


    The Committee of 300: A Brief History of World Power...
    Venetian  Black Nobility,
    Roots of Today's Ruling Oligarchy
    "Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves."  --Walter Rathenau, 1909, founder of the mammoth German General Electric Corporation
    "....Aristotle asserted that slavery is a necessary institution, because some are born to rule and others to be ruled. He also reduced the question of human knowledge to the crudest sense certainty and perception of “facts.” Aristotle’s formalism is a means of killing human creativity, and therefore represents absolute evil. This evil is expressed by the bestialist view of the oligarchs that human beings are the same as animals...."
    ".. 
    The Committee of 300 is a product of the British East India Company's Council of 300.  The East India Company was chartered by the British Royal Family in 1600.  It made vast fortunes in the opium drug trade with China and became the largest company on earth in its time..."
    ".....
     
    Nothing has changed in the opium-heroin-cocaine trade. It is still in the hands of the same “upper class” families in Britain and the United States. It is still a fabulously profitable trade where what appear to be big losses through sometimes seizures of drug shipments are actually small interlopers trying to break into the preserves of the drug trade hierarchy, who sit in paneled board rooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigars and congratulate another success in the eradication of “competitors.”....."
    ".....
     
    Only the people in the inner circle, who are part of the capstone at the top of the pyramid, know the entire extent of the fraud. Adepts are few and dupes many. Typically, the dupes are told lies that their involvement is benevolent; thus, they become unwitting accomplices in crime. This is why it is imperative to expose this diabolical ring of power. Illicit secret societies cannot withstand the light of day. Once exposed, the cabal and their minions will fall like a house of cards......"
    At the center of oligarchy is the idea that certain families are born to rule as an arbitrary elite, while the vast majority of any given population is condemned to oppression, serfdom, or slavery. During most of the past 2,500 years, oligarchs have been identified by their support for the philosophical writings of Aristotle and their rejection of the epistemology of Plato.
    Aristotle asserted that slavery is a necessary institution, because some are born to rule and others to be ruled. He also reduced the question of human knowledge to the crudest sense certainty and perception of “facts.” Aristotle’s formalism is a means of killing human creativity, and therefore represents absolute evil. This evil is expressed by the bestialist view of the oligarchs that human beings are the same as animals.
    Oligarchs identify wealth purely in money terms, and practice usury, monetarism, and looting at the expense of technological advancement and physical production. Oligarchs have always been associated with the arbitrary rejection of true scientific discovery and scientific method in favor of open anti-science or more subtle obscurantist pseudo-science.
    The oligarchy has believed for millennia that the Earth is overpopulated; the oligarchical commentary on the Trojan War was that this conflict was necessary in order to prevent greater numbers of mankind from oppressing “Mother Earth.” They’ve constantly stressed race and racial characteristics, often as a means for justifying slavery.

    ".. 
    "..
    The Committee of 300 is a product of the British East India Company's Council of 300.  The East India Company was chartered by the British Royal Family in 1600.  It made vast fortunes in the opium drug trade with China and became the 
     
    largest company on earth in its time..."

    The Committee of 300: A Brief History of World Power…Venetian Black Nobility, Roots of Today’s Ruling Oligarchy

    The current criminal  agenda of the Committee of 300 is further evidenced by recently leaked Club of Rome documents, as they describe how they will use drugs to help stifle resistance to their New World Order scheme:  “…having been failed by Christianity, and with unemployment rife on every hand, those who have been without jobs for five years or more, will turn away from the church and seek solace in drugs. By then, full control of the drug trade must be completed in order that the government of all countries who are under our jurisdiction have a monopoly in place which we will control by controlling supplies reaching the market… Drug bars will take care of the unruly and the discontented. Would-be revolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no will of their own…”The crowned cobras of Europe and their Eastern Liberal Establishment families will not tolerate any true war against drugs. The war on drugs, which the Bush administration was allegedly fighting, was for the legalization of all types and classes of drugs. Such drugs are not solely a social aberration, but a full-scale attempt to gain control of the minds of the people of the United  States.At present, this is the principal task of the Committee of 300. Nothing has changed in the opium-heroin-cocaine trade. It is still in the hands of the same “upper class” families in Britain and the United States. It is still a fabulously profitable trade where what appear to be big losses through sometimes seizures of drug shipments are actually small interlopers trying to break into the preserves of the drug trade hierarchy, who sit in paneled board rooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigars and congratulate another success in the eradication of “competitors.”Included in the Committee of 300 membership are the old families of the European Black Nobility, the American Eastern Liberal Establishment (in Freemason hierarchy and the Order of Skull and Bone), the Illuminati, or as it is known by the Committee “MORIAH CONQUERING WIND,” the Mumma Group, The National and World Council of Churches, the Circle of Initiates,  the Nine Unknown Men, Lucis Trust, Jesuit Liberation Theologists, The Order of the Elders of Zion, the Nasi Princes, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the United Nations (U.N.), the Central, British Quator Coronati, Italian P2 Masonry-especially those in the Vatican hierarchy-the Central Intelligence Agency, Tavistock Institute selected personnel, various members of leading foundations and insurance companies, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the Milner Group-Round Table, Cini Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Ditchley Foundation, NATO, Club of Rome, Environmentalists, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, One World Government Church, Socialist International, Black Order, Thule Society, Anenherbe-Rosicrucianists, The Great Superior Ones and literally HUNDREDS of other organizations.In the case of John F. Kennedy, the assassination was carried out with great attendant publicity and with the utmost brutality to  serve as a warning to world leaders not to get out of line. Pope John Paul I was quietly murdered because he was getting close to the Committee of 300 through Freemasons in the Vatican hierarchy. His successor, Pope John Paul II, was publicly humiliated as a warning to cease and desist-which he has done. As we shall see, certain Vatican leaders are today seated on the Committee of 300.The Committee of 300 appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle. As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski’s controller during the Bolshevik Revolution’s formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts. Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus. He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that “Man is of  no importance. Look at what happens when you starve him. He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive. Man is only interested in his own survival. That is all that counts. All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish.”The roots of the East India Company (chartered by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600 and dissolved in 1873) sprout from the European Black Nobility. The Black Nobility are the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th century held the privileged trading rights (monopolies). The first of three crusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the Venetian Black Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy ruling class. The Black Nobility aristocracy achieved complete control over Venice in 1171, when the appointment of the doge was transferred to what was known as the Great Council, which consisted of members of the commercial aristocracy, a complete triumph for them. Venice has remained in their hands ever  since, but the power and influence of the Venetian Black Nobility extends far beyond its borders, and today, is felt in every corner of the globe. In 1204 the oligarchic family parceled out feudal enclaves to their members, and from this epoch dates the great building-up of power and pressure until the government became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobility families.It is important to note that the European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglements of numerous secret societies, lodges, and organizations, which are backed with high finance and powerful political connections. Such organizations include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group (German version of CFR), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), United Nations (founded by CFR), Illuminati order Skull & Bones (inner circle of the CFR), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Bank of International Settlement, Club of Rome, Chatham House (formally the Royal  Institute of International Affairs – RIIA), Round Table, Tavistock Institute for Human Studies (England’s psychological warfare think tank), Associated Press, Reuters (Rothschild owned news monopoly used for brainwashing the masses), and many others, all of which, whether they are dupes or adapts, work in favor of Great Britain’s aristocracy and their one world government agenda. Although there is a wide cross-section, all roads lead to the Queen of England. The technique for keeping their illicit scheme secret is compartmentalization. Only the people in the inner circle, who are part of the capstone at the top of the pyramid, know the entire extent of the fraud. Adepts are few and dupes many. Typically, the dupes are told lies that their involvement is benevolent; thus, they become unwitting accomplices in crime. This is why it is imperative to expose this diabolical ring of power. Illicit secret societies cannot withstand the light of day. Once  exposed, the cabal and their minions will fall like a house of cards.
    Someone posted this on a Facebook page I frequent. Thank you! 

    The Committee of 300: A Brief History of World Power…Venetian Black Nobility,Roots of Today’s Ruling Oligarchy
    “The current criminal agenda of the Committee of 300 is further evidenced by recently leaked Club of Rome documents, as they describe how they will use drugs to help stifle resistance to their New World Order scheme:
    “…having been failed by Christianity, and with unemployment rife on every hand, those who have been without jobs for five years or more, will turn away from the church and seek solace in drugs. By then, full control of the drug trade must be completed in order that the government of all countries who are under our jurisdiction have a monopoly in place which we will control by controlling supplies reaching the market… Drug bars will take care of the unruly and the discontented. Would-be revolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no will of their own…” The crowned cobras of Europe and their Eastern Liberal Establishment families will not tolerate any true war against drugs. The war on drugs, which the Bush administration was allegedly fighting, was for the legalization of all types and classes of drugs. Such drugs are not solely a social aberration, but a full-scale attempt to gain control of the minds of the people of the United States.At present, this is the principal task of the Committee of 300. Nothing has changed in the opium-heroin-cocaine trade. It is still in the hands of the same “upper class” families in Britain and the United States. It is still a fabulously profitable trade where what appear to be big losses through sometimes seizures of drug shipments are actually small interlopers trying to break into the preserves of the drug trade hierarchy, who sit in paneled board rooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigars and congratulate another success in the eradication of “competitors.”
    Included in the Committee of 300 membership are the old families of the European Black Nobility, the American Eastern Liberal Establishment (in Freemason hierarchy and the Order of Skull and Bone), the Illuminati, or as it is known by the Committee “MORIAH CONQUERING WIND,” the Mumma Group, The National and World Council of Churches, the Circle of Initiates, the Nine Unknown Men, Lucis Trust, Jesuit Liberation Theologists, The Order of the Elders of Zion, the Nasi Princes, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the United Nations (U.N.), the Central, British Quator Coronati, Italian P2 Masonry-especially those in the Vatican hierarchy-the Central Intelligence Agency, Tavistock Institute selected personnel, various members of leading foundations and insurance companies, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the Milner Group-Round Table, Cini Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Ditchley Foundation, NATO, Club of Rome, Environmentalists, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, One World Government Church, Socialist International, Black Order, Thule Society, Anenherbe-Rosicrucianists, The Great Superior Ones and literally HUNDREDS of other organizations.
    In the case of John F. Kennedy, the assassination was carried out with great attendant publicity and with the utmost brutality to serve as a warning to world leaders not to get out of line. Pope John Paul I was quietly murdered because he was getting close to the Committee of 300 through Freemasons in the Vatican hierarchy. His successor, Pope John Paul II, was publicly humiliated as a warning to cease and desist-which he has done. As we shall see, certain Vatican leaders are today seated on the Committee of 300.
    The Committee of 300 appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle. As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski’s controller during the Bolshevik Revolution’s formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts. Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus. He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that “Man is of no importance. Look at what happens when you starve him. He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive. Man is only interested in his own survival. That is all that counts. All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish.”
    The roots of the East India Company (chartered by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600 and dissolved in 1873) sprout from the European Black Nobility. The Black Nobility are the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th century held the privileged trading rights (monopolies). The first of three crusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the Venetian Black Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy ruling class. The Black Nobility aristocracy achieved complete control over Venice in 1171, when the appointment of the doge was transferred to what was known as the Great Council, which consisted of members of the commercial aristocracy, a complete triumph for them. Venice has remained in their hands ever since, but the power and influence of the Venetian Black Nobility extends far beyond its borders, and today, is felt in every corner of the globe. In 1204 the oligarchic family parceled out feudal enclaves to their members, and from this epoch dates the great building-up of power and pressure until the government became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobility families.
    It is important to note that the European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglements of numerous secret societies, lodges, and organizations, which are backed with high finance and powerful political connections. Such organizations include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group (German version of CFR), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), United Nations (founded by CFR), Illuminati order Skull & Bones (inner circle of the CFR), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Bank of International Settlement, Club of Rome, Chatham House (formally the Royal Institute of International Affairs – RIIA), Round Table, Tavistock Institute for Human Studies (England’s psychological warfare think tank), Associated Press, Reuters (Rothschild owned news monopoly used for brainwashing the masses), and many others, all of which, whether they are dupes or adapts, work in favor of Great Britain’s aristocracy and their one world government agenda. Although there is a wide cross-section, all roads lead to the Queen of England. The technique for keeping their illicit scheme secret is compartmentalization. Only the people in the inner circle, who are part of the capstone at the top of the pyramid, know the entire extent of the fraud. Adepts are few and dupes many. Typically, the dupes are told lies that their involvement is benevolent; thus, they become unwitting accomplices in crime. This is why it is imperative to expose this diabolical ring of power. Illicit secret societies cannot withstand the light of day. Once exposed, the cabal and their minions will fall like a house of cards.
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    The Committee of 300: A Brief History of World Power...
    Venetian  Black Nobility,
    Roots of Today's Ruling Oligarchy
    "Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves."  --Walter Rathenau, 1909, founder of the mammoth German General Electric Corporation

    The Committee of 300 is a product of the British East India Company's Council of 300.  The East India Company was chartered by the British Royal Family in 1600.  It made vast fortunes in the opium drug trade with China and became the largest company on earth in its time.  Today, through many powerful alliances, the Committee of 300 rules the world and is the driving force behind the criminal agenda to create a "New World Order", under a "Totalitarian Global Government".  There is no need to use "they" or "the enemy" except as shorthand.  We know who "they", the enemy, is.  The Committee of 300 with its "aristocracy", its ownership of the U.S. Federal Reserve banking system, insurance companies, giant corporations, foundations, communications networks, presided over by a hierarchy of conspirators—this is the enemy.  Secret societies exist by deception.  Each is a hierarchy with an inner circle at the top, who deceives those below with lies, such as claiming a noble agenda; thus, duping them into following a web of compartmentalized complicity.  The inner circle of the Committee of 300 is the Order of the Garter, headed by Queen Elizabeth Windsor II.  It is interesting to note that the Windsor's changed their name from the Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha during WWI, because of anti-German sentiment.
    The enemy is clearly identifiable as the Committee of 300 and its front organizations, such as the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), the Club of Rome, NATO, U.N., the Black Nobility, the Tavistock Institute, CFR and all its affiliated organizations, the think tanks and research institutions controlled by Stanford and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and last, but certainly not least, the military establishment.
    The Committee of 300 is the ultimate secret society made up of an untouchable ruling class, which includes the Queen of the United Kingdom (Elizabeth II), the Queen of the Netherlands, the Queen of Denmark and the royal families of Europe.  These aristocrats decided at the death of Queen Victoria, the matriarch of the Venetian Black Guelphs that, in order to gain world-wide control, it would be necessary for its aristocratic members to "go into business" with the non-aristocratic but extremely powerful leaders of corporate business on a global scale, and so the doors to ultimate power were opened to what the Queen of England likes to refer to as "the commoners".  Through their illicit banking cartel, they own the stock of the Federal Reserve, which is a private for profit corporation that violates U.S. Constitution and is a ROOT of the problem.
    The decadent American families of the unholy partnership, thoroughly corrupted and wallowing in tainted opium money, went on to become what we know today as the Eastern Liberal Establishment.  Its members, under the careful guidance and direction of the British Crown, and subsequently, its foreign policy executive arm, the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA), now known as Chatham House, located in England (across St. James's Square from the Astors), ran the United States from top to bottom through their secret upper-level, parallel government, which is tightly meshed with the Committee of 300, the ultimate secret society.  That secret, all-powerful government is more in control of the United States in 2006 than ever before.
    Some notable members of the Committee of 300 include: The British royal family, Dutch royal family, House of Hapsburg, House of Orange, Duke of Alba, Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, Lord Carrington, Lord Halifax, Lord Alfred Milner, John Jacob and Waldorf of the Astor Illuminati bloodline, Winston Churchill, Cecil Rhodes, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Juliana, Queen Beatrix, Queen Magreta, King Haakon of Norway, Colonel Mandel House, Aldous Huxley, John Forbes, Averill Harriman, William and McGeorge Bundy, George Bush, Prescott Bush, Henry Kissinger, J.P. Morgan, Maurice Strong, David Rockefeller, David and Evelyn Rothschild, Paul, Max and Felix Warburg, Ormsby and Al Gore, Bertrand Russell, Sir Earnest and Harry of the Oppenheimer Illuminati bloodline, Warren Buffet, Giuseppe Mazzini, Sir William Hesse, George Schultz, H.G. Wells, and Ted Turner.
    In the Committee of 300, which has a 150-year history, we have some of the most brilliant intellects assembled to form a completely totalitarian, absolutely controlled "new" society only it isn't new, having drawn most of its ideas from the Clubs of Cultus Diabolicus.  It strives toward a One World Government rather well described by one of its late members, H. G. Wells, in his work commissioned by the Committee which Wells boldly called: "The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution".
      Most of the Committee of 300's immense wealth arose out of the opium trade with China and India.  Obscene profits went straight into the royal coffers, and into the pockets of the nobility, the oligarchs and plutocrats, and made them billionaires.  The ordinary people of China, India, and England profited nothing from "opium revenues".  In the same way the people of South Africa, black and white, never profited from the gold mining industry, whose revenues were piped directly into the City of London banks and Merchant banks.  The Committee of 300 is responsible for the phony drug wars here in the U.S.  These phony drug wars were to get us to give away our constitutional rights.  Asset forfeiture is a prime example, where huge assets can be seized without trail and no proof of guilt needed.  Also the Committee of 300 long ago decreed that there shall be a smaller-much smaller-and better world, that is, their idea of what constitutes a better world.  The myriads of useless eaters consuming scarce natural resources were to be culled by up to 99%.  Industrial progress supports population growth.  Therefore the command to multiply and subdue the earth found in Genesis had to be subverted.  This called for an attack upon Christianity; the slow but sure disintegration of industrial nation states; the destruction of billions of people, referred to by the Committee of 300 as "surplus population," and the removal of any leader who dared to stand in the way of the Committee's global planning to reach the foregoing objectives.  Not that the U.S. government didn't know, but as it was part of the conspiracy, it helped to keep the lid on information rather than let the truth be known.  Queen, Elizabeth II, is the head of the Committee of 300.  The Committee of 300 looks to social convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, as a softening-up technique for bigger things to come, as its principal method of creating masses of people all over the world who will become its "welfare" recipients of the future.
    The current criminal agenda of the Committee of 300 is further evidenced by recently leaked Club of Rome documents, as they describe how they will use drugs to help stifle resistance to their New World Order scheme: "…having been failed by Christianity, and with unemployment rife on every hand, those who have been without jobs for five years or more, will turn away from the church and seek solace in drugs.  By then, full control of the drug trade must be completed in order that the government of all countries who are under our jurisdiction have a monopoly in place which we will control by controlling supplies reaching the market…  Drug bars will take care of the unruly and the discontented.  Would-be revolutionaries will be turned into harmless addicts with no will of their own…"  The crowned cobras of Europe and their Eastern Liberal Establishment families will not tolerate any true war against drugs.  The war on drugs, which the Bush administration was allegedly fighting, was for the legalization of all types and classes of drugs.  Such drugs are not solely a social aberration, but a full-scale attempt to gain control of the minds of the people of the United States.  At present, this is the principal task of the Committee of 300.  Nothing has changed in the opium-heroin-cocaine trade.  It is still in the hands of the same "upper class" families in Britain and the United States.  It is still a fabulously profitable trade where what appear to be big losses through sometimes seizures of drug shipments are actually small interlopers trying to break into the preserves of the drug trade hierarchy, who sit in paneled board rooms in New York, Hong Kong and London over port and cigars and congratulate another success in the eradication of "competitors."
    Included in the Committee of 300 membership are the old families of the European Black Nobility, the American Eastern Liberal Establishment (in Freemason hierarchy and the Order of Skull and Bone), the Illuminati, or as it is known by the Committee "MORIAH CONQUERING WIND," the Mumma Group, The National and World Council of Churches, the Circle of Initiates, the Nine Unknown Men, Lucis Trust, Jesuit Liberation Theologists, The Order of the Elders of Zion, the Nasi Princes, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the United Nations (U.N.), the Central, British Quator Coronati, Italian P2 Masonry—especially those in the Vatican hierarchy—the Central Intelligence Agency, Tavistock Institute selected personnel, various members of leading foundations and insurance companies, the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, the Milner Group-Round Table, Cini Foundation, German Marshall Fund, Ditchley Foundation, NATO, Club of Rome, Environmentalists, The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, One World Government Church, Socialist International, Black Order, Thule Society, Anenherbe-Rosicrucianists, The Great Superior Ones and literally HUNDREDS of other organizations.
    In the case of John F. Kennedy, the assassination was carried out with great attendant publicity and with the utmost brutality to serve as a warning to world leaders not to get out of line.  Pope John Paul I was quietly murdered because he was getting close to the Committee of 300 through Freemasons in the Vatican hierarchy.  His successor, Pope John Paul II, was publicly humiliated as a warning to cease and desist—which he has done.  As we shall see, certain Vatican leaders are today seated on the Committee of 300.
    The Committee of 300 appears to base much of its important decisions affecting mankind on the philosophy of Polish aristocrat, Felix Dzerzinski, who regarded mankind as being slightly above the level of cattle.  As a close friend of British intelligence agent Sydney Reilly (Reilly was actually Dzerzinski's controller during the Bolshevik Revolution's formative years), he often confided in Reilly during his drinking bouts.  Dzerzinski was, of course, the beast who ran the Red Terror apparatus.  He once told Reilly, while the two were on a drinking binge, that "Man is of no importance.  Look at what happens when you starve him.  He begins to eat his dead companions to stay alive.  Man is only interested in his own survival.  That is all that counts.  All the Spinoza stuff is a lot of rubbish."
    The roots of the East India Company (chartered by Queen Elizabeth I on December 31, 1600 and dissolved in 1873) sprout from the European Black Nobility.  The Black Nobility are the oligarchic families of Venice and Genoa, who in the 12th century held the privileged trading rights (monopolies).  The first of three crusades, from 1063 to 1123, established the power of the Venetian Black Nobility and solidified the power of the wealthy ruling class.  The Black Nobility aristocracy achieved complete control over Venice in 1171, when the appointment of the doge was transferred to what was known as the Great Council, which consisted of members of the commercial aristocracy, a complete triumph for them. Venice has remained in their hands ever since, but the power and influence of the Venetian Black Nobility extends far beyond its borders, and today, is felt in every corner of the globe.  In 1204 the oligarchic family parceled out feudal enclaves to their members, and from this epoch dates the great building-up of power and pressure until the government became a closed corporation of the leading Black Nobility families.
    It is important to note that the European Black Nobility is responsible for the insidious entanglements of numerous secret societies, lodges, and organizations, which are backed with high finance and powerful political connections.  Such organizations include: Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group (German version of CFR), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), United Nations (founded by CFR), Illuminati order Skull & Bones (inner circle of the CFR), International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, Bank of International Settlement, Club of Rome, Chatham House (formally the Royal Institute of International Affairs - RIIA), Round Table, Tavistock Institute for Human Studies (England's psychological warfare think tank), Associated Press, Reuters (Rothschild owned news monopoly used for brainwashing the masses), and many others, all of which, whether they are dupes or adapts, work in favor of Great Britain's aristocracy and their one world government agenda.  Although there is a wide cross-section, all roads lead to the Queen of England.  The technique for keeping their illicit scheme secret is compartmentalization.  Only the people in the inner circle, who are part of the capstone at the top of the pyramid, know the entire extent of the fraud.  Adepts are few and dupes many.  Typically, the dupes are told lies that their involvement is benevolent; thus, they become unwitting accomplices in crime.  This is why it is imperative to expose this diabolical ring of power.  Illicit secret societies cannot withstand the light of day.  Once exposed, the cabal and their minions will fall like a house of cards.
    The European Black Nobility earned its title through dirty tricks, so when the population revolted against the monopolies in government, as anywhere else, the leaders of the uprising were quickly seized and brutally hanged.  They use secret assassinations, murder, the bankrupting of opposing citizens or companies, kidnapping and rape.  All the families listed are connected with the House of Guelph, one of the original Black Nobility families of Venice from which the House of Windsor and thus the present Queen of the United Kingdom, Elizabeth II, descends.  --Dr. John Coleman, former British Intelligence Officer, The Conspirator's Hierarchy: The Committee of 300
    Please support a true patriot, by purchasing "The Committee of 300", 4th edition, significantly updated and revised, directly from the author at coleman300.com and spread this information virally.  We think this important book is the single best source available to understand the full depth of the Oligarch's criminal "New World Order" agenda, as well as its history.
     
    Known as the "Bible" of accurate conspiratorial history that exposes the criminal New World Order agenda, "The Committee of 300", by Dr. John Coleman.  Support the author and buy this book.
    The Committee of 300 is rated by literary experts as the "best seller of all books of its type." In Japan it was at the top of the Best Seller List for two straight years. Translated into eight foreign languages (including Russian, Japanese and Serbian), it is sought after by readers from all over the world. In order to keep the book to less than 500 pages, some of the subjects, persons and organizations of mentioned in the "300", are expounded on in Monographs and other books by Dr. Coleman, thus providing a wealth of information.
    Undoubtedly the "Bible" of conspiracy books, the completely revised and updated Fourth Edition landmark book is filled with information not previously disclosed. The origin of the Committee of 300 is described; how it has evolved from an opium trading company with a Royal Charter to become the de-facto secret upper-level parallel government of the United States and the world.
    A highly organized secret society with tentacles reaching into every level of government in the United States and indeed, the world, backed by massive financing and run by men of the highest education and intelligence, with vast resources at their disposal, manages the thousands of major political and economical and contrived situations. In the FOURTH EDITION there is listed some very prominent men who came forward to support the existence of the "300." One of them predicted twenty years ago that "The United States will be turned into a welfare state" and that all nations would unite in a world alliance (The One World Government). Perhaps the most startling admission of the existence of the super-secret organization came from President Wilson in the last days of his presidency:
    "Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere, so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
    The "power" Wilson was talking about is the Committee of 300 and Wilson knew he did not dare to mention it by name.
    "We will have a world government whether you like it or not.  The only question is whether that government will be achieved by conquest or consent."  --James Paul Warburg, powerful international investment banker, February 17, 1950, as he testified in hearings before the Committee on Foreign Relations during the Eighty-First Congress, United States Senate Commission on Foreign Policy (U.S. Printing Office, page 494).  His father was Paul Moritz Warburg, who was also a powerful  international investment banker and Rothschild agent, who conspired to create the private for profit Federal Reserve Banking System during a secret meeting on Jekyll Island in 1910.  Paul Warburg became its second Vice Chairman, as well as the Director of the Council on Foreign Relations upon its founding in 1921.
    "I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets.  The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply."  --Nathan Mayer Rothschild, one of the sons (five arrows) of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who was the founder of their family's international banking dynasty and Committee of 300 kingpin




     
    Current membership of the Committee of 300
    Abdullah II, King of Jordan
    Abramovich, Roman
    Ackermann, Josef
    Adeane, Edward
    Agius, Marcus
    Ahtisaari, Martti
    Akerson, Daniel
    Albert II, King of Belgium
    Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia
    Amato, Giuliano
    Anderson, Carl A.
    Andreotti, Giulio
    Andrew, Duke of York
    Anne, Princess Royal
    Anstee, Nick
    Ash, Timothy Garton
    Astor, William Waldorf
    Aven, Pyotr
    Balkenende, Jan Peter
    Ballmer, Steve
    Balls, Ed
    Barroso, José Manuel
    Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands
    Belka, Marek
    Bergsten, C. Fred
    Berlusconi, Silvio
    Bernake, Ben
    Bernstein, Nils
    Berwick, Donald
    Bildt, Carl
    Bischoff, Sir Winfried
    Blair, Tony
    Blankfein, Lloyd
    Blavatnik, Leonard
    Bloomberg, Michael
    Bolkestein, Frits
    Bolkiah, Hassanal
    Bonello, Michael C
    Bonino, Emma
    Boren, David L.
    Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg
    Bronfman, Charles
    Bronfman, Edgar Jr.
    Bruton, John
    Brzezinski, Zbigniew
    Budenberg, Robin
    Buffet, Warren
    Bush, George HW
    Cameron, David
    Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
    Cardoso, Fernando Henrique
    Carington, Peter
    Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden
    Carlos, Duke of Parma
    Carney, Mark
    Carroll, Cynthia
    Caruana, Jaime
    Castell, Sir William
    Chan, Anson
    Chan, Margaret
    Chan, Norman
    Charles, Prince of Wales
    Chartres, Richard
    Chiaie, Stefano Delle
    Chipman, Dr John
    Chodiev, Patokh
    Christoph, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein
    Cicchitto, Fabrizio
    Clark, Wesley
    Clarke, Kenneth
    Clegg, Nick
    Clinton, Bill
    Cohen, Abby Joseph
    Cohen, Ronald
    Cohn, Gary
    Colonna di Paliano, Marcantonio, Duke of Paliano
    Constantijn, Prince of the Netherlands
    Constantine II, King of Greece
    Cooksey, David
    Cowen, Brian
    Craven, Sir John
    Crockett, Andrew
    Dadush, Uri
    D'Aloisio, Tony
    Darling, Alistair
    Davies, Sir Howard
    Davignon, Étienne
    Davis, David
    de Rothschild, Benjamin
    de Rothschild, David René
    de Rothschild, Evelyn
    de Rothschild, Leopold
    Deiss, Joseph
    Deripaska, Oleg
    Dobson, Michael
    Draghi, Mario
    Du Plessis, Jan
    Dudley, William C.
    Duisenberg, Wim
    Edward, Duke of Kent
    Edward, Earl of Wessex
    Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
    Elkann, John
    Emanuele, Vittorio, Prince of Naples
    Ernst August, Prince of Hanover
    Feldstein, Martin
    Festing, Matthew
    Fillon, François
    Fischer, Heinz
    Fischer, Joschka
    Fischer, Stanley
    FitzGerald, Niall
    Franz, Duke of Bavaria
    Fridman, Mikhail
    Friso, Prince of Orange-Nassau
    Gates, Bill
    Geidt, Christopher
    Geithner, Timothy
    Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia
    Gibson-Smith, Dr Chris
    Gorbachev, Mikhail
    Gore, Al
    Gotlieb, Allan
    Green, Stephen
    Greenspan, Alan
    Grosvenor, Gerald, 6th Duke of Westminster
    Gurría, José Ángel
    Hague, William
    Hampton, Sir Philip
    Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
    Harald V, King of Norway
    Harper, Stephen
    Heisbourg, François
    Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
    Hildebrand, Philipp
    Hills, Carla Anderson
    Holbrooke, Richard
    Honohan, Patrick
    Howard, Alan
    Ibragimov, Alijan
    Ingves, Stefan
    Isaacson, Walter
    Juan Carlos, King of Spain
    Jacobs, Kenneth M.
    Julius, DeAnne
    Juncker, Jean-Claude
    Kenen, Peter
    Kerry, John
    King, Mervyn
    Kinnock, Glenys
    Kissinger, Henry
    Knight, Malcolm
    Koon, William H. II
    Krugman, Paul
    Kufuor, John
    Lajolo, Giovanni
    Lake, Anthony
    Lambert, Richard
    Lamy, Pascal
    Landau, Jean-Pierre
    Laurence, Timothy
    Leigh-Pemberton, James
    Leka, Crown Prince of Albania
    Leonard, Mark
    Levene, Peter
    Leviev, Lev
    Levitt, Arthur
    Levy, Michael
    Lieberman, Joe
    Livingston, Ian
    Loong, Lee Hsien
    Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este
    Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
    Louis-Dreyfus, Gérard
    Mabel, Princess of Orange-Nassau
    Mandelson, Peter
    Manning, Sir David
    Margherita, Archduchess of Austria-Este
    Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
    Martínez, Guillermo Ortiz
    Mashkevitch, Alexander
    Massimo, Stefano, Prince of Roccasecca dei Volsci
    Massimo-Brancaccio, Fabrizio Prince of Arsoli and Triggiano
    McDonough, William Joseph
    McLarty, Mack
    Mersch, Yves
    Michael, Prince of Kent
    Michael, King of Romania
    Miliband, David
    Miliband, Ed
    Mittal, Lakshmi
    Moreno, Glen
    Moritz, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
    Murdoch, Rupert
    Napoléon, Charles
    Nasser, Jacques
    Niblett, Robin
    Nichols, Vincent
    Nicolás, Adolfo
    Noyer, Christian
    Ofer, Sammy
    Ogilvy, Alexandra, Lady Ogilvy
    Ogilvy, David, 13th Earl of Airlie
    Ollila, Jorma
    Oppenheimer, Nicky
    Osborne, George
    Oudea, Frederic
    Parker, Sir John
    Patten, Chris
    Pébereau, Michel
    Penny, Gareth
    Peres, Shimon
    Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
    Pio, Dom Duarte, Duke of Braganza
    Pöhl, Karl Otto
    Powell, Colin
    Prokhorov, Mikhail
    Quaden, Guy
    Rasmussen, Anders Fogh
    Ratzinger, Joseph Alois (Pope Benedict XVI)
    Reuben, David
    Reuben, Simon
    Rhodes, William R.
    Rice, Susan
    Richard, Duke of Gloucester
    Rifkind, Sir Malcolm
    Ritblat, Sir John
    Roach, Stephen S.
    Robinson, Mary
    Rockefeller, David Jr.
    Rockefeller, David Sr.
    Rockefeller, Nicholas
    Rodríguez, Javier Echevarría
    Rogoff, Kenneth
    Roth, Jean-Pierre
    Rothschild, Jacob
    Rubenstein, David
    Rubin, Robert
    Ruspoli, Francesco, 10th Prince of Cerveteri
    Safra, Joseph
    Safra, Moises
    Sands, Peter
    Sarkozy, Nicolas
    Sassoon, Isaac

    Sassoon, James
    Sawers, Sir Robert John
    Scardino, Marjorie
    Schwab, Klaus
    Schwarzenberg, Karel
    Schwarzman, Stephen A.
    Shapiro, Sidney
    Sheinwald, Nigel
    Sigismund, Grand Duke of TuscanyArchduke of Austria
    Simeon of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
    Snowe, Olympia
    Sofía, Queen of Spain
    Soros, George
    Specter, Arlen
    Stern, Ernest
    Stevenson, Dennis
    Steyer, Tom
    Stiglitz, Joseph
    Strauss-Kahn, Dominique
    Straw, Jack
    Sutherland, Peter
    Tanner, Mary
    Tedeschi, Ettore Gotti
    Thompson, Mark
    Thomson, Dr. James
    Tietmeyer, Hans
    Trichet, Jean-Claude
    Tucker, Paul
    Van Rompuy, Herman
    Vélez, Álvaro Uribe
    Verplaetse, Alfons
    Villiger, Kaspar
    Vladimirovna, Maria, Grand Duchess of Russia
    Volcker, Paul
    von Habsburg, Otto
    Waddaulah, Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin, Sultan of Brunei
    Walker, Sir David
    Wallenberg, Jacob
    Walsh, John
    Warburg, Max
    Weber, Axel Alfred
    Weill, Michael David
    Wellink, Nout
    Whitman, Marina von Neumann
    Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
    William Prince of Wales
    Williams, Dr Rowan
    Williams, Shirley
    Wilson, David
    Wolfensohn, James
    Wolin, Neal S.
    Woolf, Harry
    Woolsey, R. James Jr.
    Worcester, Sir Robert
    Wu, Sarah
    Zoellick, Robert

    "Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves." --Walter Rathenau, 1909, founder of the mammoth German General Electric Corporation
    The Committee of 300 is a product of the British East India Company's Council of 300. The East India Company was chartered by the British royal family in 1600. It made vast fortunes in the opium drug trade with China and became the largest company on earth in its time. Today, through many powerful alliances, the Committee of 300 rules the world and is the driving force behind the criminal agenda to create a "New World Order", under a "Totalitarian Global Government". There is no need to use "they" or "the enemy" except as shorthand. We know who "they", the enemy, is. The Committee of 300 with its "aristocracy", its ownership of the U.S. Federal Reserve banking system, insurance companies, giant corporations, foundations, communications networks, presided over by a hierarchy of conspirators-this is the enemy. Secret societies exist by deception. Each is a hierarchy with an inner circle at the top, who deceives those below with lies, such as claiming a noble agenda; thus, duping them into following a web of compartmentalized complicity. The inner circle of the Committee of 300 is the Order of the Garter, headed by Queen Elizabeth Windsor II. It is interesting to note that the Windsor's changed their name from the Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha during WWI, because of anti-German sentiment.
    The enemy is clearly identifiable as the Committee of 300 and its front organizations, such as the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), the Club of RomeNATOU.N., the Black Nobility, the Tavistock InstituteCFR and all its affiliated organizations, the think tanks and research institutions controlled by Stanford and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and last, but certainly not least, the military establishment.
    The Committee of 300 is the ultimate secret society made up of an untouchable ruling class, which includes the Queen of the United Kingdom (Elizabeth II), the Queen of the Netherlands, the Queen of Denmark and the royal families of Europe. These aristocrats decided at the death of Queen Victoria, the matriarch of the Venetian Black Guelphs that, in order to gain world-wide control, it would be necessary for its aristocratic members to "go into business" with the non-aristocratic but extremely powerful leaders of corporate business on a global scale, and so the doors to ultimate power were opened to what the Queen of England likes to refer to as "the commoners". Through their illicit banking cartel, they own the stock of the Federal Reserve, which is a private for profit corporation that violates U.S. Constitution and is a root of the problem.
    The decadent American families of the unholy partnership, thoroughly corrupted and wallowing in tainted opium money, went on to become what we know today as the Eastern Liberal Establishment. Its members, under the careful guidance and direction of the British Crown, and subsequently, its foreign policy executive arm, the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA), now known as Chatham House, located in England (across St. James's Square from the Astors), ran the United States from top to bottom through their secret upper-level, parallel government, which is tightly meshed with the Committee of 300, the ultimate secret society. That secret, all-powerful government is now more in control of the United States than ever before.


    The British East India Company
    The Drug Company of the Venetian Black Nobility
    by Eustace Mullins
    It has taken centuries of patient effort for the World Order to attain the power it exercises today. Its origins as an international force go back to the Phoenician slave-traders, continues through the Phnariot families of the Byzantine Empire, then the Venetian and Genoese traders and bankers of the Middle Ages, who moved into Spain and Portugal, and later into England and Scotland. By the 14th century, the Genose controlled the Scottish landlords.

    The Imperial Family of the Byzantine Empire, the Paleologues (meaning 'the Word') were attacked by the Gnostic faction, whose materialistic Aristotelian philosophy was the forerunner of Hegelian dialectic and Marxism. The Paleologues devoutly believed in the Christian faith, as expressed by the Orthodox Rite. The materialistic Venetian and Genoese armies, with the aid of the Turkish "infidels", looted and conquered Constantinople, the legendary "City of God". The Byzantine survivors recreated their culture in Russia, with Moscow as "the third Rome". The plan to destroy the Orthodox Church and its Romanov (new Rome) leader was the hidden goal of the First World War. The victors came away with one billion dollars of the Romanov fortune, after achieving the defeat of their hated enemy, the Orthodox Church.

    During the Middle Ages, European power centers coalesced into two camps: the Ghibellines, those who supported the Emperor's Hohenstaufen family, (an Italian adaptation of Weinblingen, the name of the Hohenstaufen estate); and the Guelphs, from Welf, the German prince who competed with Frederick for control of the Holy Roman Empire. The Pope then allied himself with the Guelphs against the Ghibellines resulting in their victory. All of modern history stems directly from the struggle between these two powers.

    The Guelphs, also called the Neri, or Black Guelphs, and Black Nobility, were the Normans who conquered England in the 11th century; the Genoese who backed Robert Bruce in his conquest of Scotland, and who supported William of Orange in his seizure of the throne of England. William's victory resulted in the formation of the Bank of England and the East India Company, which have ruled the world since the 17th century. Every subsequent coup d'état, revolution and war has centered in the battle of the Guelphs to hold and enhance their power, which is now the World Order.

    The power of the Guelphs grew through their control of banking and international trade. It was extended through the Italian centers to the north of Florence, in Lombardy, which became great financial centers. All Italian bankers, including the Genoese, the Venetians, and Milanese, were referred to as "Lombards" -- Lombard, in German, means "deposit bank" -- the Lombards were bankers to the entire Medieval world. Modern history begins with the transfer of their operations north to Hamburg, Amsterdam, and finally to London.

    The great American fortunes originated with the Guelph slave trade to the colonies. Many of the slave traders doubled in piracy. Trinity Church, whose leading vestryman later was J.P. Morgan, was originally known as "the church of the pirates". Capt. William Kidd provided the material to build it in 1697, and a pew was reserved for him. He was arrested the next year, and hanged in chains at Newgate. In 1711, a slave market was set up on Wall Street near the church, and functioned there for many years.

    Two of the most powerful influences in the world today are the international drug trade, which began with the East India Co., and international espionage, which began with the Bank of England. The East India Co. was granted a charter in 1600 in the closing days of Queen Elizabeth's reign. In 1622, under James I, it became a joint stock company. In 1661, in an attempt to retain his throne, Charles II granted the East India Co. the power to make war. From 1700 to 1830, the East India Co. gained control of all India, and wrested the historic monopoly of opium from the Great Moguls.
    Sir Walter Raleigh, a patriot, saw that the machinations of the international money dealers were bringing ruin to many Englishmen, and tried to stop it. They in turn conspired against him, and had him beheaded. The Order invariably enlists "the law" against its enemies.

    The East India Co. originated as the London Staplers, was later known as the London Mercers Co., merchant guilds which held monopolies over certain avenues of commerce. It was a direct offshoot of the commercial banking establishments of northern Italy, Venice and Genoa. Related firms were the German Hansa, and the Hanse of the Low Countries, which was headquartered in Bruges. It was also allied with the Levant Co. and the Anglo-Muscovy Co.

    Sebastian Cabot, whose descendants are prominent in American banking and intelligence, raised the seed money for Anglo-Muscovy in Italy and London. The company operated northern overland trade routes from the Baltic to India and China. Other related firms were the London Company, chartered in 1606 to establish The Virginian Plantation on a communistic basis, and the Plymouth Company, whose descendants control the New England business world.

    The "City" banks, which dominate American finance and politics (code name for banks for the " City", financial district of London), descend directly from East India and Bank of England operations. The Rockefeller Empire is the most prominent scion of this dynasty.



    The Venetian Black Nobility
    and the Concept of Oligarchy
    by Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley & James Higham
    "Three hundred men, all of whom know one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their successors from among themselves."  --Walter Rathenau, 1909, founder of the mammoth German General Electric Corporation
    "....Aristotle asserted that slavery is a necessary institution, because some are born to rule and others to be ruled. He also reduced the question of human knowledge to the crudest sense certainty and perception of “facts.” Aristotle’s formalism is a means of killing human creativity, and therefore represents absolute evil. This evil is expressed by the bestialist view of the oligarchs that human beings are the same as animals....".


    At the center of oligarchy is the idea that certain families are born to rule as an arbitrary elite, while the vast majority of any given population is condemned to oppression, serfdom, or slavery. During most of the past 2,500 years, oligarchs have been identified by their support for the philosophical writings of Aristotle and their rejection of the epistemology of Plato.
    Aristotle asserted that slavery is a necessary institution, because some are born to rule and others to be ruled. He also reduced the question of human knowledge to the crudest sense certainty and perception of “facts.” Aristotle’s formalism is a means of killing human creativity, and therefore represents absolute evil. This evil is expressed by the bestialist view of the oligarchs that human beings are the same as animals.
    Oligarchs identify wealth purely in money terms, and practice usury, monetarism, and looting at the expense of technological advancement and physical production. Oligarchs have always been associated with the arbitrary rejection of true scientific discovery and scientific method in favor of open anti-science or more subtle obscurantist pseudo-science.
    The oligarchy has believed for millennia that the Earth is overpopulated; the oligarchical commentary on the Trojan War was that this conflict was necessary in order to prevent greater numbers of mankind from oppressing “Mother Earth.” They’ve constantly stressed race and racial characteristics, often as a means for justifying slavery.
    In international affairs, oligarchs recommend such methods as geopolitics, understood as the method of “divide and conquer,” which lets one power prevail by playing its adversaries one against the other. Oligarchical policy strives to maintain a balance of power among such adversaries for its own benefit, but this attempt always fails in the long run and leads to new wars.
    The essence of oligarchism is summed up in the idea of the empire, in which an elite identifying itself as a master race rules over a degraded mass of slaves or other oppressed victims. If oligarchical methods are allowed to dominate human affairs, they always create a breakdown crisis of civilization, with economic depression, war, famine, plague, and pestilence.
    Examples of this are the Fourteenth-century Black Plague and the Thirty Years War (1618-48), both of which have links to Venetian intelligence.
    The post-industrial society and the derivatives crisis in our own time have brought about the potential for a new collapse of civilization. This crisis can only be reversed by repudiating in practice the axioms of the oligarchical mentality.
    A pillar of the oligarchical system is the family fortune, or fondo, as it is called in Italian. The continuity of the family fortune which earns money through usury and looting is often more important than the biological continuity across generations of the family that owns the fortune.
     
    Some history
    The long and tortuous path of peoples through history sees the Khazars in the Holy Land and part of the Canaanites eventually in northern Italy, adopting the name “Sepharvaim” for deceptive purposes. They later became known as Venetians, and by marrying into European royalty and aristocracy, the “black nobility.”
    In the pre-Christian world around the Mediterranean, oligarchical political forces included Babylon in Mesopotamia. The “whore of Babylon” condemned in the Apocalypse of St. John the Divine, is not a mystical construct, but a very specific cartel of oligarchical families. Other oligarchical centers included Hiram of Tyre and the Phoenicians. The Persian Empire was an oligarchy. In the Greek world, the center of oligarchical banking and intelligence was the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, whose agents included Lycurgus of Sparta and, later, Aristotle.
    In Venice, the largest fondo was the endowment of the Basilica of St. Mark, which was closely associated with the Venetian state treasury, and which absorbed the family fortunes of nobles who died without heirs. This fondo was administered by the procurers of St. Mark, whose position was one of the most powerful under the Venetian system.
    Around this central fondo were grouped the individual family fortunes of the great oligarchical families, such as the Mocenigo, the Cornaro, the Dandolo, the Contarini, the Morosini, the Zorzi, and the Tron. When the Venetian oligarchy transferred many of its families and assets to northern Europe, the Venetian fondi provided the nucleus of the great Bank of Amsterdam, which dominated Europe during the Seventeenth century, and of the Bank of England, which became the leading bank of the Eighteenth century.
    Venice was the enemy of Charlemagne. Charlemagne’s son, King Pepin of Italy, tried unsuccessfully to conquer the Venetian lagoon. Charlemagne was forced to recognize Venice as a part of the eastern or Byzantine Empire, under the protection of the Emperor Nicephorus. Venice was never a part of Western Civilization.
    Over the next four centuries, Venice developed as a second capital of the Byzantine Empire through marriage alliances with certain Byzantine dynasties and conflicts with the Holy Roman Empire based in Germany. The Venetian economy grew through usury and slavery. By 1082, the Venetians had tax-free trading rights in the entire Byzantine Empire.
    The Venetians were one of the main factors behind the Crusades against the Muslim power in the eastern Mediterranean. In the Fourth Crusade of A.C.E. 1202, the Venetians used an army of French feudal knights to capture and loot Constantinople, the Orthodox Christian city which was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
    During the 1200’s, the Venetians, now at the apex of their military and naval power, set out to create a new Roman Empire with its center at Venice. They expanded into the Greek islands, the Black Sea, and the Italian mainland. They helped to defeat the Hohenstaufen rulers of Germany and Italy. Venetian intelligence assisted Genghis Khan as he attacked and wiped out powers that had resisted Venice.
    The Venetians caused the death of the poet and political figure Dante Alighieri, who developed the concept of the modern sovereign nation-state in opposition to the Venetian plans for empire. A series of wars with Genoa led later to the de facto merger of Venice and Genoa. The Venetian bankers, often called Lombards, began to loot many parts of Europe with usurious loans.
    Henry III of England in the years after 1255 became insolvent after taking huge Lombard loans to finance foreign wars at 120-180 percent interest. These transactions created the basis for the Venetian Party in England. When the Lombard bankers went bankrupt because the English failed to pay, a breakdown crisis of the European economy ensued. This led to a new collapse of European civilization, including the onset of the Black Plague, which depopulated the continent.
    In the midst of the chaos, the Venetians encouraged their ally Edward III of England, to wage war against France in the conflict that became the Hundred Years War (1339-1453), which hurled France into chaos before St. Joan of Arc defeated the English. This was then followed by the Wars of the Roses in England. As a result of Venetian domination, the Fourteenth century had become a catastrophe for civilization.
    In the midst of the crisis of the 1300’s, the friends of Dante and Petrarch laid the basis for the Italian Golden Renaissance, which reached its culmination with Nicolaus of Cusa, Pope Pius II, and the Medici-sponsored Council of Florence of 1439. The Venetians fought the Renaissance with a policy of expansion on the Italian mainland, or terra firma, which brought them to the outskirts of Milan. More fundamentally, the Venetians promoted the pagan philosophy of Aristotle against the Christian Platonism of the Florentines.
    Around AD1400, European power centers coalesced into two camps: the Ghibellines, who supported the Hohenstaufen family, and the Guelphs, from Welf, the German prince who competed with Frederick for control of the Holy Roman Empire. The Pope allied himself with the Guelphs. All modern European history stems directly from the struggle between these two powers.
    The Guelphs are also called the Neri, Black Guelphs, or Black Nobility, and supported William of Orange in his seizure of the throne of England, which eventually resulted in the formation of the Bank of England and the East India Company.
    When Cusa and his friends succeeded in reuniting the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox and other eastern churches at the Council of Florence, the Venetians tried to sabotage this result.
    The Venetians tried to use the power of the new nation-states, especially France, to crush Milan and allow further Venetian expansion. But ambassadors for the king of France and the Austrian emperor met at Cambrai in December 1508 and agreed to create a European league for the dismemberment of Venice.
    An immediate target of the Venetians had always been Milan and a broader target – the papacy.
     
    The reformation as a ploy
    The leading figure of the Protestant Reformation, the first Protestant in modern Europe, was Venice’s Cardinal Gasparo Contarini, who was also the leader of the Catholic Counter-Reformation. Contarini was a pupil of the Padua Aristotelian Pietro Pomponazzi, who denied the immortality of the human soul. Contarini pioneered the Protestant doctrine of salvation by faith alone, with no regard for good works of charity.
    He organized a group of Italian Protestants called gli spirituali, including oligarchs like Vittoria Colonna and Giulia Gonzaga. Contarini’s networks encouraged and protected Martin Luther and later John Calvin of Geneva. Contarini sent his neighbor and relative Francesco Zorzi to England to support King Henry VIII’s plan to divorce Catherine of Aragon.
    As the Counter-Reformation advanced, the Contarini networks split into two wings - the pro-Protestant spirituali, who later evolved into the giovani and who serviced growing networks in France, Holland, England, and Scotland. The other wing were the zelanti, oriented toward repression and the Inquisition, and typified by Pope Paul IV Caraffa. The zelanti evolved into the oligarchical party called the vecchi, who serviced Venetian networks in the Vatican and the Catholic Hapsburg dominions. The apparent conflict of the two groups was orchestrated to serve Venetian projects.
     
    Pause for breath
    The obvious criticism here is that this seems to be giving inordinate credit for influence to the Venetians when there were homegrown oligarchs and tyrants in all the nation states, all pursuing their own dreams of expansion and conquest.
    This is so but three factors have to be born in mind – the Lombards who were financing all European powers at the time against one another, the Papacy which meant [until Henry VIII] that dictums were coming constantly from Italy and the church had had, for centuries, a most powerful grip on the hearts and minds of men and women all over Europe and then there was the intrigue, the intelligence services and the intermarrying into the great families of Europe by the Venetians themselves.
    Henry’s marriage to Catherine illustrates in itself the extent to which the English monarchy was in no way head-in-the-sand and isolationist. Look at how the Reformation came to England.
    Exactly who were and who are these intermarried families connected to the Venetians?
    The old-line ruling families who believe that they have the right to rule the world because they are descended from the emperors of the ancient Roman and so-called ‘holy’ Roman Empires consist of 13-15 ‘blue blood’ families, which include: Rothschild; Kuhn; Loeb; Lehman; Rockefeller; Sach; Warburg; Lazard; Seaf; Goldman; Schiff; Morgan; Schroeder; Bush and Harriman.
    Other names are: the Giustiniani family, of Rome and Venice who trace their lineage to the Emperor Justianian; Sir Jocelyn Hambro of Hambros (Merchant) Bank; Pierpaolo Luzzatti Fequiz, whose lineage dates back six centuries to the most ancient Luzzatos, of Venice, and Umberto Ortolani of the ancient Black Nobility family of the same name.
    Other old Venetian Black Nobility and board members of ASG and RAS are the Doria family, the financiers of the Spanish Hapsburgs, Elie de Rothschild of the French Rothschild family, Baron August von Finck (Finck, the second richest man in Germany now deceased), Franco Orsini Bonacassi of the ancient Orsini that traces its lineage to an ancient Roman senator of the same name, the Alba family whose lineage dates back to the great Duke of Alba, and Baron Pierre Lambert, a cousin of the Belgian Rothschild family.
    Has anyone ever stopped to think what the Holy Roman Empire actually meant?
     
    Back to the story
    The power of the Guelphs would extend through the Italian financial centers to the north of France in Lombardy. Lombard in German means “deposit bank”, and the Lombards were bankers to the entire Medieval world. They would later transfer operations north to Hamburg, then to Amsterdam and finally to London.
    The Guelphs would start the slave trade to the colonies. The Guelphs, in order to aid their control of finance and politics, would perpetuate gnostic cults which eventually developed into the Rosicrucians, Unitarians, Fabian Society and the World Council of Churches. The East India company, together with John Stuart Mill, would finance the University of London. A friend of Mill, historian George Grote, a founder of London University donated £6000 for the study of “mental health”, which began the worldwide “mental health” movement.
    Banca Commerciale d’Italia, Banca Privata, Banco Ambrosiano, the Netherlands Bank, Barclays Bank, Banco del Colombia, Banco de Ibero-America. Of special interest is Banca del la Svizzeria Italiana (BSI) – since it handles flight capital investments to and from the United States – primarily in dollars and US bonds – located and isolated in “neutral” Lugano, the flight capital center for the Venetian Black Nobility. Lugano is not in Italy or in Switzerland, and is a kind of twilight zone for shady flight capital operations. George Ball, who owns a large block of stock in BSI, is a prominent “insider” and the bank’s US representative.
    In the 1822 Treaty of Verona (between Austria, France, Prussia and Russia) the Jesuits agreed to smash the US Constitution and suppress the freedom of the US. Their methods included destroying free speech, destroying and suppressing the press, universal censorship, sustaining the cooperation of the Pope and clergy to use religion to help keep nations in passive obedience and financing wars against countries with representative governments.
    The monarchs who signed this treaty were ultimately deposed. Most of these families are very wealthy and may be more powerful today than when they sat upon thrones. They are known collectively as the Black Nobility. Privately these families refuse to recognize any right to rule except their own. The fact that this treaty was made long ago does not mean it is void. The treaty was placed in the Congressional Record on April 25, 1916 by Senator Owen.
     
    Today
    Italy and in particular, Venice, is very important strategically because 1. it is the closest to the middle-east and 2. it is a gateway for drugs entering Europe from Iran and Lebanon.
    After the Club of Rome was established in 1968, a body which is from this black nobility, all sorts of things began in a socialist manner – the Paris uprising, the Red Brigades, the fall of various regimes and the Aldo Moro case, which investigators found had old families somehow interested in the issue for not entirely clear reasons.
    The Club of Rome’s Peccei headed the Atlantic Institute’s Economic Council for three decades while he was the Chief Executive Officer for Giovanni Agnellis’ Fiat Motor Company. Agnelli, a member of an ancient Italian family, playing a leading role in development projects in the Soviet Union. The Club of Rome is an umbrella organization for Anglo-American financiers and the old families of Europe, particularly in London, Venice and Genoa.
    Hence the reference in a previous post to the Queen sailing near Venice on occasions in the Britannia.
    Their key role, according to the 90s article I got it from, is to create and manage economic recessions and eventual depressions. Social convulsions on a global scale, followed by depressions, are the only real way to create “welfare” recipients of the future and a series of nanny states. That’s the long term function, meanwhile cleaning up in the financial markets as they go along.
    One of their members, Etienne D’Avignon, was assigned the task of collapsing the steel industry in the US and as the Treaty of Verona showed, the European families have quite an interest in the U.S.A. and vice versa – hence the congressional record entry.
    More difficult to establish is Jacques Soustelle, financed by the Swiss Oltramaire family, who ran one of the assassination centres from Confederation Helvetica. Another interesting snippet, to me, was Richard Gardner marrying into the old families in Italy and providing yet more connections between Italy and the States.
    This is not all about money. It’s also about culture and science and this conflict plays a huge role in the major societal movements in modern history.
    All European history since the Fifteenth century within Europe and globally, has been dominated by the cultural conflict between the radiated influence of the Renaissance and the opposing, Venice-launched force of the so-called ‘Enlightenment.’
     
    Finally
    This is the power up against which we, the lowly Davids of the Albion Alliance world are trying to pit ourselves, our power base only the legitimacy of the people themselves.

    The Bilderberg Group
    An Offshoot of the
    Venetian Black Nobility
    by Daniel Estulin
    The Bilderberg Group is Europe’s version of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).  Acting on behalf of The Committee of 300 (Queen of England), specifically the Vatican and the Priory of Sion (French Monarchy), Knight of Malta Dr. Joseph Hieronim Retinger plotted to forge alliances with the European Council of Princes (Dragon Court), the CIA, and Britain’s MI6, by creating another New World Order think-tank to be known as “The Bilderberg Group”.  Interestingly, Dr. Retinger’s middle name is literally translated as “member of the occult”.  Dr. Retinger, founder of the European Movement leading to the founding of the European Union (EU), approached Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in 1952, who agreed to become its co-founder.  Prince Bernhard presided over its first meeting at the Bilderberg Hotel (which it was named after) in Oosterbeek, Holland, from May 29 to May 31, 1954, and remained its Chair until scandal forced him to resign in 1974.  The Bilderberg Group has been meeting secretly behind closed doors at irregular intervals, once or twice each year since its formation.  Its purpose is the same as the CFR—to remove independence from all countries and permit the aristocracies tyrannical rule from behind the military might of the United Nations (U.N.).
    "In the very early 1990s, just as the last vestiges of the Soviet Empire were crumbling into oblivion, a friend, member of the KGB counter intelligence apparatus during an intimate dinner told me of a very powerful and secretive organization known as the Bilderbergers. Behind this secret society is a contemporary network of powerful private merchant-banking interests of medieval Venetian financier oligarchical model known as fondi. British and Dutch East India Companies, the forerunners of the Council of the 300 and the Bilderbergers are examples of these private merchant banks. Their final objective is a post-industrial society. Actually, their real name is Synarchists. "Synarchism" is used to define a new concept of political alliances by an international brotherhood of financiers and industrialists through a unity of the socialists and the anarchists on fascist principles. According to a top secret 18 page French military intelligence report dated July 1941, summarising a 100-page dossier on the French Synarchist groups: “The Synarchist movement’s aim is essentially to overthrow in every country, where they exist the parliamentary regimes which are considered insufficiently devoted to the interests of these groups and, therefore, too difficult to control because of the number of persons required to control them.” Therefore, it is not too difficult to understand that the intention behind each and all of the Bilderberg meetings is about how to create a Synarchist “Aristocracy of purpose” between Europe and the United States, and how to come to agreement on questions of policy, economics, and strategy in jointly ruling the world. The NATO alliance was their crucial base of operation and subversion because it afforded them the backdrop for their plans of [perpetual war], or at least for their [nuclear blackmail] policy."  --Daniel Estulin (source)
    "It is essentially a private criminal enterprise which stretches across the globe, operating through a network of government agencies, private institutions and both publically owned and private corporations and financial institutions. Now this extended network, which is called the fondi, stretches all the way back to the Middle Ages. Again the fondi is the combined wealth of these oligarchical families. It is concentrated in your tangible things: land, oil, raw materials, precious minerals and metals. And by controlling the financial trade of these items, these family fathers set up fondis that are pooled together for maximum effect and deployed through a number of financial institutions, which hide their origins from the unsuspecting public. At the heart of the fondi system, you have the powerful merchant private banks such as the Rothschild banks. And even more powerful than Rothschild is the Lazard bank. One of the reasons that the Bilderbergers have never been able to discredit me is that historically I can show you that what today is called the Bilderberg Club can be traced back in time to the Venetian Black Nobility, 500 years ago. However, the idea behind these people hasn’t changed since the beginning: it’s the wholesale destruction of anything related and affiliated with the idea of a nation-state.
    The first nation-states were created in France under Louis XI and then in England with Henry VII. The idea behind the nation-state was the social welfare constitution; rights given to the people they had never had before. Before that we worked as slaves. For the first time we literally had something which we could call our own. It gave us the idea of the constitution, which is again one of the things that these people have been so virulently fighting against. With nation-states, anything which was created, any technological advance which took place, created a need in other states in Europe to follow suit otherwise they were left behind. That’s called progress and that’s what the Venetians and the Bilderbergers of today have been so virulently against, which is again the whole thing about zero growth and the wholesale destruction of national, international economies, that’s all part of what you’re witnessing right now. Of course, you have the yobbos who live in the world, the great unwashed, they have no idea what any of this stuff means because again their daily needs just are your basic primary, animal-like needs, which is exactly what these people want you to think about: work, procreate, eat and sleep."  --Daniel Estulin (source)
    "Again another thing about the Bilderbergers is that I can trace who these people are today back to the Venetian Black Nobility. We often hear about the influences of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, but these people are merely your typical lackeys when you actually look at it. They are the bottom of the totem pole. If you’re looking at the powerful people, you can talk about the House of Braganza; you talk about the House of Orange and the House of Hapsburg. These people have unimaginable wealth. You measure it not in billions but in trillions of dollars. I have a document from the Krupp family of Germany. One banking statement, just one account on one day, and there’s a 112 trillion dollars on that account. That’s the kind of money that the Bill Gates of this world… well, they’re not even lackeys. They are nothing, because again what they have is just pocket change for these people.
    One of the reasons that the Bilderbergers have never been able to discredit me is that historically I can show you that today what is called the Bilderberg group goes back in time to the Venetian Black nobility – to the royal houses and lineages of the European oligarchical families. For example, talking about your Queen, one such family is the Guelphs [from which Elizabeth II] the Queen of England comes. I found reference to this family by cross referencing with names like Ethico, Henry, Rudolph and Azoll. I found those references after spending more than two and a half years in the national library of Florence - literally living there - going through five-hundred-year-old documents. Queen Victoria, she comes from the house of Este-Guelph. The name Este comes from the name Marquis of Este of Venice, which is also known as the House of Albert Azoll. Now this line is connected to the Welfs and can easily be traced back to the Cunigundas, Prince of Welf. So basically the Queen of England has Venetian roots, but also German roots because the Guelphs are intertwined with the German aristocracy through the House of Hanover, the Hanoverian English King George I, he came from the Duchy of Luneburg , which have been [governed] by the Guelph family since the 12th century. Somewhat interesting [….] Prince Charles, the Queen’s son, and Diana visited Venice on numerous occasions, not on any official business, but rather in a private capacity. I was told by someone very familiar with the British royal family that the Queen told Diana point blank to never ever ever discuss these trips in public and, of course, Diana never did because I think she knew that the Queen meant it and she’d kill her if she ever did. So anyway, again, historically I can show you that what today is called the Bilderberg Group, 500 years ago was called the Venetian Black Nobility, but the idea behind what [all these people put together] hasn't changed, it’s the wholesale destruction of anything related and affiliated with the idea of a nation state."  --Daniel Estulin (source)
    Official attendee list of the first Bilderberg meeting at Prince Bernhard’s Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Holland, May 1954
     
    More on Oligarchy & Venetian Black Nobility at investigate911.org by Eustace Mullins and other extraordinary researchers.


    Ignatius of Loyola
    Father General of the Jesuits
    Ignatius was chosen as the first Superior General of his religious order, invested with the title of Father General by the Jesuits. He sent his companions as missionaries around Europe to create schools, colleges, and seminaries. Juan de Vega, the ambassador of Charles V at Rome had met Ignatius there. Esteeming him and the Jesuits, when Vega was appointed Viceroy of Sicily he brought Jesuits with him. A Jesuit college was opened at Messina; success was marked, and its rules and methods were afterwards copied in other colleges.[22] In 1548 Spiritual Exercises was finally printed, and he was briefly brought before the Roman Inquisition, but was released.
    Ignatius wrote the Jesuit Constitutions, adopted in 1554, which created a monarchical organization and stressed absolute self-abnegation and obedience to pope and superiors (perinde ac [sicadaver [essent],[23] "[well-disciplined] like a corpse" as Ignatius put it).[24] His main principle became the Jesuit motto: Ad maiorem Dei gloriam ("for the greater glory of God"). The Jesuits were a major factor in the Counter-Reformation. During 1553–1555, Ignatius dictated his life's story to his secretary, Father Gonçalves da Câmara. This autobiography is a valuable key for the understanding of his Spiritual Exercises. It was kept in the archives for about 150 years, until the Bollandists published the text in Acta Sanctorum. A critical edition exists in Vol. I (1943) of the Fontes Narrativi of the series Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu. He died in Rome on July 31, 1556, as a result of the Roman Fever, a severe case of malaria that recurred in Rome, Italy, at different points in history.
    Famous Quote of Loyola: " That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself, if she shall have defined anything to be black which appears to our eyes to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black. For we must undoubtingly believe, that the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of the Orthodox Church His Spouse, by which Spirit we are governed and directed to Salvation, is the same; ..."
     
    Canonization and legacy 
    Ignatius was beatified by Pope Paul V on July 27, 1609 and canonized by Pope Gregory XV on March 12, 1622.[26] His feast day is celebrated annually on July 31, the day he died. Saint Ignatius is venerated as the patron saint of Catholic soldiers, the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore,[27] the Basque country and various towns and cities in his native region.
    Of the institutions dedicated to Saint Ignatius, one of the most famous is the Basilica of St Ignatius Loyola, built next to the house where he was born in Azpeitia, the Basque Country, Spain. The house itself, now a museum, is incorporated into the basilica complex.
    His legacy includes many Jesuit schools and educational institutions worldwide. In the United States alone there are 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and more than 50 secondary schools.
    Original shield of Oñaz-Loyola
     
     
    Statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola at Gesù Church, Rome.
     
    Ignatius as Superior General.
     
    Ignatius Loyola
    St Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556) Founder of the Jesuits.jpg
    Portrait by Peter Paul Rubens.
    Born: October 23, 1491-LoyolaGipuzkoaBasque CountryKingdom of Castille (actually Spain)
    Died: July 31, 1556 (aged 65)- RomePapal States Honored in: Roman Catholic ChurchAnglican Communion
    Beatified: July 27, 1609 by Pope Paul V - Canonized - March 12, 1622 by Pope Gregory XV -Feast: July 31
     
    Sanctuary of Loyola, in Azpeitia, built over Ignatius' birthplace.
    Ignatius in armor
     
    Visions of Ignatius.

     
    Ignatius of Loyola (BasqueIñigo LoiolakoaSpanishIgnacio de Loyola) (1491[1] – July 31, 1556) was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family,hermitpriest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and was its first Superior General.[2] Ignatius emerged as a religious leader during the Counter-Reformation. Loyola's devotion to the Catholic Church was characterized by absolute obedience to the Pope.[3]
    After being seriously wounded in the Battle of Pamplona in 1521, he underwent a spiritual conversion while in recovery. De Vita Christi by Ludolph of Saxonyinspired Loyola to abandon his previous military life and devote himself to labour for God, following the example of spiritual leaders such as Francis of Assisi. He experienced a vision of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus while at the shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat in March 1522. Thereafter he went to Manresa, where he began praying for seven hours a day, often in a nearby cave, while formulating the fundamentals of the Spiritual Exercises. In September 1523, Loyola reached the Holy Land to settle there, but was sent back to Europe by the Franciscans.
    Between 1524 and 1537, Ignatius studied theology and Latin in the University of Alcalá and then in Paris. In 1534, he arrived in the latter city during a period of anti-Protestant turmoil which forced John Calvin to flee France. Ignatius and a few followers bound themselves by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. In 1539, they formed the Society of Jesus, approved in 1540 by Pope Paul III, as well as his Spiritual Exercises approved in 1548. Loyola also composed theConstitutions of the Society. He died in July 1556, was beatified by Pope Paul V in 1609, canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622, and declared patron of all spiritual retreats by Pope Pius XI in 1922. Ignatius' feast day is celebrated on July 31. Ignatius is a foremost patron saint of soldiers, the Society of Jesus, theBasque Country, and the provinces of Guipúzcoa and Biscay.[4]
     
    Early life
    Iñigo Loiolakoa (sometimes erroneously called Íñigo López de Recalde)[5] was born in the municipality of Azpeitia at the castle of Loyola in today's Gipuzkoa,Basque Country, Spain, formerly in the Kingdom of Navarra by then absorbed into the Kingdom of Castile soon to be merged with the Kingdom of Aragon [6] He was baptized Íñigo, after St. Enecus (Innicus), Abbot of Oña,[5] a mediaeval Basque name arguably meaning "My little one".[7] It is unclear when he started using Ignatius instead of his baptismal name "Íñigo" (LatinEnecusBasqueEnekoSpanishÍñigo).[8] Ignatius did not intend to change his name but rather adopted for France and Italy a name which he believed was a simple variant of his own, and which was more acceptable among foreigners.[9]
     
    The youngest of 13 children, Íñigo López was brought up by María de Garín, the local blacksmith's wife, after his own mother died soon after his birth.[10] Íñigo adopted the last name "de Loyola" in reference of the Basque village of Loyola where he was born. He later became a page in the service of a relative, Juan Velázquez de Cuéllar, treasurer (contador mayor) of the kingdom of Castile.
    As a young aristocrat Ignatius had a "love of martial exercises and a vainglorious desire for fame."[11] At this period he framed his life around the stories of adventures of El Cid, the knights of Camelot, and The Song of Roland (the tale has Roland slain by Muslims, when historically his death was at the hands of Basques like Ignatius).[11] Joining the army at seventeen he strutted about "with his cape slinging open to reveal his tight-fitting hose and boots; a sword and dagger at his waist."[11] Upon encountering a Moor who denied the divinity of Jesus he challenged him to a duel to the death and ran him through.[11] He dueled others until the events of 1521.[11]
    In 1509, Íñigo took up arms for Antonio Manrique de Lara, Duke of Nájera and Viceroy of Navarre. According to Thomas Rochford, S.J., his diplomacy and leadership qualities made him a gentilhombre[12] very useful to the Duke.[13] Under the Duke's leadership, he participated in many battles without injury. But when the French army, supporting the Navarrese monarchy, expelled in 1512, stormed Pamplona's fortress on May 20, 1521, a cannonball wounded one of his legs and broke the other.[13] Heavily injured, Íñigo was returned to the castle. He was very concerned about the injuries and had several surgical operations, which were very painful in the days before anaesthetics.
    During this time he read the De Vita Christi, by Ludolph of Saxony, in a Catalan edition. This work influenced his whole life. De Vita Christi is the result of forty years of work by Ludolph. It is a commentary on the life of Jesus Christ, a commentary on the Gospels borrowing extracts from the works of over sixty of the Fathers of the Church. Ludolph particularly quotes St Gregory the GreatSt BasilSt Augustine and the Venerable Bede. Ludolph proposes to the reader that he place himself at the scene of the Gospel story; that he visualise the crib at the Nativity etc. etc. This is known as a method of prayer called Simple Contemplation and is the basis of the method that St. Ignatius sets out in his Spiritual Exercises.[14]
     
    Religious Conversion and Religious Life
    During his period of convalescence in 1521, Ignatius read a series of religious texts, on the life of Jesus[15][16] and on the lives of the saints; he became fired with an ambition to lead a life of self-denying labour and to emulate the heroic deeds of Francis of Assisi and other great monastics. He resolved to devote himself to the conversion of non-Christians in the Holy Land. Upon recovery, he visited the Benedictine monastery, Santa Maria de Montserrat (March 25, 1522), where he hung his military vestments before an image of the Virgin. He then traveled to the town of ManresaCatalonia and spent several months in a cave near where he practiced rigorous asceticism. Ignatius also began seeing a series of visions in full daylight while in hospital. These repetitive visions appeared as "a form in the air near him and this form gave him much consolation because it was exceedingly beautiful ... it somehow seemed to have the shape of a serpent and had many things that shone like eyes, but were not eyes. He received much delight and consolation from gazing upon this object ... but when the object vanished he became disconsolate." [17] In 1523, he instituted a pilgrimage to the Holy Land on a path of self-denial and sacrifice. He briefly remained from September 3 to 23 but was not permitted to stay. Twelve years later, standing before the Pope with his companions, he again proposed sending his companions as emissaries to Jerusalem.[18]
     
    Returning to Spain, he and his companions were occupied in the University of Alcalá (the present-day Complutense University of Madrid, not the newerUniversity of Alcalá established in 1977) with the task of making disciples of women called as witnesses by the Inquisition under the direction of magistrate Alonso Mejias. Although the alumbrados [Illuminated; Illuminati; Enlightened Ones] of Spain were linked in their zeal and spirituality to the Franciscan reforms of which Cardinal de Cisneros was a promoter," the administrators of the Inquisition had mounting suspicions. These female disciples, Doña Leo, Doña Maria, and Doña Beatriz were so hysterically zealous that "one fell senseless, another sometimes rolled about on the ground, another had been seen in the grip of convulsions or shuddering and sweating in anguish." This suspicious activity had taken place while Ignatius and his companions were regularly preaching in public. Because of his "street-corner perorations" being identified "with the activities of the alumbrados," Ignatius was naturally singled out for inspection as one of these visionaries; however he was later released.[19] After these adventurous activities, he studied at the ascetic Collège de Montaigu of the University of Paris, where he remained over seven years. In later life, he was often called "Master Ignatius". This title was due to his taking a master's degree from the before-mentioned university at the age of forty-three.[20]
    By 1534 he had gathered six key companions, all of whom he met as fellow students at the University[21]Francis XavierAlfonso SalmeronDiego Laynez, andNicholas Bobadilla, all Spanish; Peter Faber, a Frenchman; and Simão Rodrigues of Portugal. Later he was joined by Saint Francis Borgia, a member of the House of Borgia who was the main aide of Emperor Charles V, and other nobles. "On the morning of the 15th of August, 1534, in the chapel of church of Saint Peter, at Montmartre, Loyola and his six companions, of whom only one was a priest, met and took upon themselves the solemn vows of their lifelong work." [20] Ignatius of Loyola was the main creator and initial Superior General of the Society of Jesus, a religious organization of the Catholic Church whose members, known as Jesuits, served the Pope as missionaries. He is remembered as a talented spiritual director. He was very vigorous in opposing the Protestant Reformation and promoting the following Counter-Reformation. He was beatified and then canonized and received the title of Saint on March 12, 1622. He is the patron saint of the provinces of Guipuscoa and Biscay along with the Society of Jesus. Ignatius Loyola wrote Spiritual Exercises, a simple 200-page set of meditations, prayers, and various other mental exercises, from 1522 to 1524. The exercises of the book were designed to be carried out over a period of 28–30 days.
     
    Father General of the Jesuits
    Ignatius was chosen as the first Superior General of his religious order, invested with the title of Father General by the Jesuits. He sent his companions as missionaries around Europe to create schools, colleges, and seminaries. Juan de Vega, the ambassador of Charles V at Rome had met Ignatius there. Esteeming him and the Jesuits, when Vega was appointed Viceroy of Sicily he brought Jesuits with him. A Jesuit college was opened at Messina; success was marked, and its rules and methods were afterwards copied in other colleges.[22] In 1548 Spiritual Exercises was finally printed, and he was briefly brought before the Roman Inquisition, but was released.
    Ignatius wrote the Jesuit Constitutions, adopted in 1554, which created a monarchical organization and stressed absolute self-abnegation and obedience to pope and superiors (perinde ac [sicadaver [essent],[23] "[well-disciplined] like a corpse" as Ignatius put it).[24] His main principle became the Jesuit motto: Ad maiorem Dei gloriam ("for the greater glory of God"). The Jesuits were a major factor in the Counter-Reformation. During 1553–1555, Ignatius dictated his life's story to his secretary, Father Gonçalves da Câmara. This autobiography is a valuable key for the understanding of his Spiritual Exercises. It was kept in the archives for about 150 years, until the Bollandists published the text in Acta Sanctorum. A critical edition exists in Vol. I (1943) of the Fontes Narrativi of the series Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu. He died in Rome on July 31, 1556, as a result of the Roman Fever, a severe case of malaria that recurred in Rome, Italy, at different points in history.
    Famous Quote of Loyola: " That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself, if she shall have defined anything to be black which appears to our eyes to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it to be black. For we must undoubtingly believe, that the Spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of the Orthodox Church His Spouse, by which Spirit we are governed and directed to Salvation, is the same; ..."
     
    Canonization and legacy 
    Ignatius was beatified by Pope Paul V on July 27, 1609 and canonized by Pope Gregory XV on March 12, 1622.[26] His feast day is celebrated annually on July 31, the day he died. Saint Ignatius is venerated as the patron saint of Catholic soldiers, the Military Ordinariate of the Philippines, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore,[27] the Basque country and various towns and cities in his native region.
    Of the institutions dedicated to Saint Ignatius, one of the most famous is the Basilica of St Ignatius Loyola, built next to the house where he was born in Azpeitia, the Basque Country, Spain. The house itself, now a museum, is incorporated into the basilica complex.
    His legacy includes many Jesuit schools and educational institutions worldwide. In the United States alone there are 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and more than 50 secondary schools.
     
    Genealogy
    Shield of Oñaz-Loyola
    Original shield of Oñaz-Loyola
    The Shield of Oñaz-Loyola is a symbol of St. Ignatius family's Oñaz lineage, and is used by many Jesuit institutions around the world. The Oñaz shield consisted of seven red bars going diagonally from the upper left to the lower right on a gold field. The bands were granted by the King of Spain to each of the Oñaz brothers in recognition of their bravery in battle. The Loyola shield featured a pair of rampant gray wolves flanking each side of a cooking pot. The Loyola name was acontraction of the words Lobo y Olla which literally meant "wolf and pot" in Spanish. The wolf was a symbol of nobility, while the entire design represented the family's generosity towards their military followers. According to legend, wolves had enough to feast on after the soldiers had eaten. Both shields were combined as a result of the intermarriage of the two families in 1261.[28][29]
    The official colors of the Loyola family were maroon and gold.[30]

    Lineage

    Villoslada established the following detailed genealogy of St. Ignatius:[1]
     
    Lope de Oñaz (~1180)
    ├ García López de Oñaz (~1221)
         ├ López García de Oñaz
            wife: Inés, dame of Loyola – unit of families (~1261)
             ├ daughter: Inés de Oñaz y Loyola (~end of the 13th century)
                husband: Juan Pérez (related)
               ├  Jaun (Basque – Lord) Juan Pérez
                ├  Gil López de Oñaz
                ├  other 5 brothers (see – battle of Beotibar)
                     Beltrán Yáñez (el Ibáñez) de Loyola, son of Jaun Juan (+1405)
                     wife: Ochanda Martínez de Leete from Azpeitia
                         ├ Sancha Ibáñez de Loyola
                         |  husband: Lope García de Lazcano
                         |  married: 4 III 1413
                         ├ heir: Juan Pérez de Loyola (d. childless, heirdom for Sancha)
                         ├ Maria Beltranche
                         ├ Elvira
                         ├ Emilia
                         ├ Juanecha
                                 Juan Pérez de Loyola, son of Sancha Ibáñez (+ in Tolosa)
                                  wife: Sancha Pérez de Iraeta (+1473)
                                     ├ Don Beltrán Yáñez (vel Ibáñez) de Oñaz y Loyola (+ 23 X 1507)
                                       wife: Doña Marina Sáenz (vel Sánchez) de Licona (+ < 6 V 1508)
                                       married: 13 VII 1467 r.
    13 children:
    1. Juan Pérez de Loyola (+1503 in Naples)
    2. heir – Don Martín García de Oñaz y Loyola (1477 – 29 XI 1538)
                  wife: Magdalena de Araoz
                  married: 11 IX 1498
        * – order uncertain
    *. Ochoa Pérez de Loyola
    *. Juan Beltrán de Loyola
    *. Beltrán de Loyola (+ < 14 XI 1527)
    *. Hernando de Loyola (+ in Panama, New World)
    *. Pero López de Oñaz y Loyola (priest, + < VII 1529 in Barcelona)
    *. Juaniza (vel Joaneiza) de Loyola, wife of Juan Marínez de Alzaga, notary from Azpeitia
    *. Magdalena de Loyola, wife of Juan López de Gallaiztegui, notary from Anzuola
    *. Sancha Ibáñez de Loyola
    *. Petronila de Loyola, wife of Pedro Ochoa de Arriola
    *. Maria Beltrán de Loyola, wife of Domingo de Arruado
    13. Iñigo López de Loyola (< 23 X 1491 – 31 VII 1556)
     







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    SWNS may well be aware of the reception of a story and wherever possible feedback is provided to the 72 Point team.

    The nationals always liaise with our news team once the copy has been issued, enabling us to field any enquiries and act as liability insurance for the client.

    Research is conducted using our low cost, quick turnaround in-house survey facility www.onepoll.com, which can also be accessed via the 72 Point website and affiliated survey sites. 1000's of different individuals have responded to our surveys over the past years and continue to do so, on a regular basis. OnePoll functionality is constantly evolving and panel membership numbers increase daily.

    Creative sessions are conducted by a diverse team of experienced journalists, news editors, PR professionals and features staff.

    SWNS have an in-house national news picture desk, with trained photographers who provide pictures for the national press every day.

    If the newspapers request photos to accompany a story, we already have a database of over 500,000 images. If the appropriate pictures are not immediately available, one of our national press photographers can often take them within the hour.

    We side-step the admin, and produce relevant newsworthy briefs within short timescales, based on the opinions of the news team

    Provides PR services and support for end user clients and PR agencies.

    We have an 80% success rate of national press coverage.

    72 Point - Contact

    Are your competitors enjoying more frequent or more targeted coverage than you? Curious to find out whether you could be communicating better with your key audiences? Or would you just like to know more about what we do?

    Simply call us on +44 (0)117 9066 555 

    or fill out the contact form below and we will be in touch ASAP.


     


    72 Point - Clients

    Over the years, 72 Point has worked with literally hundreds of clients, working on sustained awareness of huge corporate household names, through to new business start-ups wanting to break into already competitive markets.

    We have also worked with PR Agencies of all sizes to support them with their own clients' activity - either as part of a larger campaign or sometimes simply to help out on a difficult brief or previously unsuccessful project.


     

    72Pooint.com - Client List

    Charity

     

     

    • Meningitis Trust
    • Texas Red
    • Friends of the Earth
    • Rethink Rubbish
    • Unite Group
    • Institute of Cancer Research



    Dating

    • Match.com
    • Solos Matchmaker
    • Three Eyes LTD
    • The IceBreaker
    • Confonia Ltd

     



    Electricals
     

    • Morphy Richards
    • Comet
    • Bosch
    • Kenwood
    • Panasonic
    • Philips
    • Siemens
    • Sharp Electronics
    • JVC
    • Sharp
    • GTech
    • Dixons
    • Hotpoint

     


    Employment Education and Training

    • TSO
    • Conquer Maths
    • Lammore Consulting
    • Middlesborough College
    • Rhodec International
    • Text on Tap
    • Corporate Services Group
    • fish4jobs
    • Jobs2View

    Entertainment

    • Amazon
    • Nandos
    • Wagamama
    • Whitbread - Brewer's Fayre
    • Whitbread - Costa
    • Whitbread - TGI's
    • Greene King
    • Aviation LTD
    • Blockbuster
    • Bloomsbury Publications
    • BSkyB
    • Candu
    • Capital FM
    • Cellcast TV
    • Channel 4
    • Choices
    • Classic Media Group
    • Galaxy 102.2
    • Globus Music
    • GMX Media
    • Heart 106.2
    • Magic Radio 105.4
    • My Ticket Market
    • NorthOne Television
    • Oxygen Interactive
    • Paul Raymond
    • Red Letter Days
    • Remode
    • Sky
    • Taketime LTD
    • Talkback Thames - WAGS Boutique
    • The Canopy Channel Ltd
    • UKTV
    • Warner Home Video
    • Acorn Music
    • Betrescue
    • Wannabet
    • Beefeater
    • KFC
    • Starbucks
    • Splash DVD
    • Butlins
    • Carpe Diem
    • Kidzango

    Fashion

    • Ann Summers
    • Austin Reed
    • BHS
    • Burtons
    • Debenhams
    • Miss Butterfly
    • Freemans - Kaleidoscope
    • Harrods
    • Miss Butterfly
    • TKC Group 1
    • Hi-Tec
    • Aristoc Bodytoners
    • Marks & Spencer
    • Arcadia
    • ASOS.com
    • Harvey Nichols
    • House of Fraser
    • John Lewis
    • Next
    • Selfridges


    Finance

    • SAGA
    • Abbey National
    • AXA Insurance
    • Barclays Bank
    • Bristol & West
    • Britannia Building Society
    • Chelsea Bulding Society
    • Cheltenham and Gloucester
    • Cheshire Building Society
    • Churchill Insurance
    • CIS Insurance
    • Clerical Medical
    • Cornhill Direct
    • CPP
    • CTS Investors
    • Direct Line
    • Egg.com
    • Esure
    • Event Insurance
    • First Direct
    • FirstHips
    • Foreign Currency Direct
    • Friends Provident
    • GE Capital
    • Halifax
    • Insure and Go
    • Ipswich Building Society
    • IRPC
    • Lloyds TSB
    • Lombard Direct
    • Marks & Spencer Finance
    • Marks & Spencer Money
    • MBNA
    • NatWest
    • Norwich Union
    • Penrose Financial Ltd
    • Principality Building Society
    • Rate Changers
    • RBS
    • Rias Insurance
    • Simply Mortgages
    • Skipton Building Society
    • Co-operative Bank - Smile
    • Tesco Personal Finance
    • Virgin Money
    • Woolwich
    • Yorkshire Building Society
    • Brewin Dolphin Securities
    • Domestic and General
    • Mazars
    • Foundem
    • F & C Asset Mgt Ltd
    • Denplan
    • Standard Life Healthcare
    • AA Insurance
    • Green Flag
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    Food and Drink

    • Beefeater
    • KFC
    • Starbucks
    • Marks & Spencer
    • Chocpix
    • Costa Coffee
    • Iceland PLC
    • KwikSave
    • Lidl
    • Morrisons
    • Pataks
    • Sainsburys
    • Somerfield
    • Tesco
    • Tesco Express
    • The Fish Society
    • Waitrose
    • Babycham
    • Blue Dragon
    • Britvic
    • Buitoni Pasta
    • California Prune Board
    • Cardini Salad
    • Carling
    • Cherry Lambrini
    • Coors Brewery
    • Dry Blackthorn
    • Eisberg
    • English Apples
    • Fullers
    • Gaymer's Olde English Cider
    • Glenfiddich Whisky
    • Goodfellas
    • Grolsch
    • Heinz Tomato Ketchup
    • Heinz Tomato Soup
    • Innocent
    • Jonathan Crisp
    • Kronenbourg
    • Malibu
    • Mars
    • Constellation Europe
    • McCain Oven Chips
    • New Zealand Lamb
    • Pimms
    • Quality Street
    • Reef
    • Rent-a-Keg Ltd
    • Rolo
    • Sense
    • Silver Spoon
    • Stowells Ginger Wine
    • Strathmore Water
    • Vimto
    • Worthington
    • Complan
    • Julian Graves
    • Organix

    Health and Beauty

    • Denplan
    • Standard Life Healthcare
    • The Body Shop
    • Boots
    • Buyspecs4less
    • Shuc
    • Tesco Male Grooming
    • Salter Scales
    • Tanita Scales
    • www.beautysleuth.co.uk
    • Alberto Culver
    • Avon Cosmetics
    • Britesmile
    • Charles Worthington
    • Chester Dental Practice
    • Durex
    • GLEE
    • Hans Place Practice
    • James Hull Dental Chain
    • Lemsip
    • L'Oreal UK
    • Lush
    • Tesco Complimentary Health
    • The Eye Care Trust
    • TJA (UK) LTD
    • Toni & Guy
    • Veet
    • Weight Loss Resources
    • WeightWatchers
    • Wella
    • Nivea
    • Quitsmoking.co.uk
    • Complan
    • Pepto Bismol
    • Vicks
    • Wyeth Consumer Healthcare
    • Julian Graves
    • Organix
    • Assured Hair Studios


    • IT and Telecoms
      • Tesco Mobile
      • AOL
      • Mobile Connections
      • Nokia
      • Onetel
      • Toucan
      • Emomentum
      • Vodafone



    Motoring

    • AA Insurance
    • Green Flag
    • Halfords
    • 4alot.com
    • BMW
    • Dixon Motors
    • Ford
    • Honda
    • HSL - National Car Rental
    • Hyundai
    • jamjarcars
    • Mitsubishi Motors
    • Toyota
    • UKI Partnerships

    General Listings

    • Gloucestershire County Council
    • Thebestof.co.uk
    • Daily Star
    • MS George
    • pigeonoff.co.uk
    • Loot
    • Reputation Inc
    • PCP Luton
    • OnePoll

    PR

    • Z PR
    • Seventy Seven
    • Absolute PR
    • Attenborough Saffron
    • Barclay Stratton
    • bgb
    • Biss Lancaster
    • Blue Zebra PR
    • BMA Communications
    • Borkowski
    • Brands2Life
    • Bray Leino
    • The Bright Consultancy
    • Cairns Associates
    • Carrot Communications
    • Chevmond Communications
    • Chrome Consultancy
    • Citigate Dewe Rogerson
    • Clareville Communications
    • Communicate PR
    • Company Care Communications
    • Concept Communications
    • DFPR
    • DRA Communications
    • Energy PR
    • Firefly Communications
    • Fleishman-Hillard
    • GBC Chocolate
    • GCI London
    • The Grove PR Consultancy
    • Harrison Cowley
    • Icas Public Relations
    • Jackie Cooper PR
    • Judy Bennet PR
    • Kaizo
    • Kavanah Communications
    • Keene PR
    • Launch PR
    • Lawson Dodd
    • Lawton PR
    • Lexis PR
    • MTJ Associates
    • Nexus Communications
    • Pegasus PR
    • PFPR
    • Pilot PR
    • Polhill Communications
    • PR4
    • Promote PR
    • Ptarmigan Media
    • Q B O Bell Pottinger
    • Radiator PR
    • Revolver Communications
    • Richmond Towers
    • salt
    • Saltmarsh PR
    • Sculpt PR
    • Seal Communications
    • SPA Way
    • Strategy Consulting
    • Taylor Herring
    • The Viral Factory
    • Tonic Life Communications
    • Trew Relations
    • Warwick Emanuel PR
    • Weber Shandwick
    • Westbury Communications
    • Willoughby PR
    • Brahm PR
    • Killa Communications
    • McCann Erickson
    • Meridian Group
    • Outwrite Public Relations
    • Shine Communications
    • adhoc pr
    • Swallowtail Hill
    • IncrediBull Ideas
    • Counsel Huntsworth
    • Storm Communications
    • Halpern
    • Wyndham-Leigh
    • Good Relations
    • Cirkle Communications
    • Gci Uk
    • Myriad PR
    • Benchmark PR
    • M Consulting
    • Bottle PR
    • Ogilvy PR
    • Eden PR
    • Lornamead
    • Freud Communications
    • Cartmel PR
    • Shire Health
    • August One
    • FML PR
    • Cohn & Wolfe
    • Artisan
    • Manning Selvage and Lee
    • Norton Cowan PR
    • Ash Communications
    • CHA PR
    • ehpr
    • Freshwater
    • Grayling PR
    • Hasliman Taylor PR
    • Henry's House
    • Lansons
    • Lucre Clark
    • Performance PR
    • Phipps PR
    • Porter Novelli
    • Threepipe
    • Vision Group
    • Siren PR
    • Hill and Knowlton
    • Ridley Media
    • Indigo Pearl
    • Neville McCarthy
    • Resonate PR
    • Clarion Communications
    • Beattie Communications
    • Idea Generation
    • HPC
    • The Bright Consultancy
    • Strategic PR
    • Blue Rubicon
    • Starfish Communications
    • Leapfrog Marketing
    • Shone Communications
    • Swallowtail PR
    • Lunch PR
    • Insight Marketing
    • Ketchum
    • Splendid Communications
    • The Cake Group
    • Brando
    • Coverdale Lewis
    • Dig For Fire
    • Four Communications
    • Harrison Sadler
    • Icas PR
    • I-Level
    • Impact Media
    • One Voice Media
    • Target Group
    • Countrywide Porter Novelli
    • OnePoll
    • Trust Fido PR
    • 3 Monkeys Communications

    Property and Construction

    • BuyProperty4Less
    • Eureka 247
    • Sunley
    • Yourpropertyclub.com
    • Kier Western
    • Mears Group
    • Let Check

    • Retail
    • Comet
    • Amazon
    • Ann Summers
    • Austin Reed
    • BHS
    • Burtons
    • Debenhams
    • Miss Butterfly
    • Freemans - Kaleidoscope
    • Harrods
    • Miss Butterfly
    • TKC Group 1
    • Hi-Tec
    • Marks & Spencer
    • Chocpix
    • Costa Coffee
    • Iceland PLC
    • KwikSave
    • Lidl
    • Morrisons
    • Pataks
    • Sainsburys
    • Somerfield
    • Tesco
    • Tesco Express
    • The Fish Society
    • Waitrose
    • The Body Shop
    • Boots
    • Buyspecs4less
    • Shuc
    • Tesco Male Grooming
    • Tesco Mobile
    • Halfords
    • Dixons
    • Splash DVD
    • Arcadia
    • ASOS.com
    • Harvey Nichols
    • House of Fraser
    • John Lewis
    • Next
    • Selfridges
    • Hamleys
    • Ebay
    • iwantoneofthose.com
    • www.books.co.uk
    • www.iwantoneofthose.com
    • Bluewater
    • Argos
    • Brita
    • Confetti
    • Focus DIY
    • Interflora
    • Mothercare
    • Silent Night
    • The Pier
    • Woolworths
    • Husquarva UK
    • MFI
    • Otto UK
    • Mattel
    • Smoby
    • Toys 'R' Us
    • Tesco.com
    • Vodafone


    Toys

    • Hamleys
    • Mattel
    • Smoby
    • Toys 'R' Us
    • Tomy

    Travel and Leisure

    • Nandos
    • Wagamama
    • Whitbread - Brewer's Fayre
    • Whitbread - Costa
    • Whitbread - TGI's
    • Greene King
    • SAGA
    • Beefeater
    • KFC
    • Starbucks
    • Butlins
    • Carpe Diem
    • Kidzango
    • www.football.co.uk
    • WAYN
    • Airtours
    • Sky Travel
    • Ebookers
    • First Choice Holidays
    • Hilton
    • Lastminute.com
    • Metroline Ltd
    • P&O Ferries
    • Premier Travel Inn
    • Sea Containers - Hoverspeed
    • Thomas Cook
    • Travelodge
    • Virgin Holidays
    • Warner Holidays
    • Whitbread - Premier Lodge
    • Railbookers
    • First Choice

    Utilities

    • uSwitch
    • Powergen
     The 72Point.com Team

    Andrew Young

    Job Title: News Editor and Partner - SWNS

    Joined 72 Point: 1984 and again in 1989 (break to work for Today for 3 years)

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    What he does: As News Editor, Andy has played a major role in the development of scores of young journalists' careers. He has also overseen many major stories, including the Fred West story and numerous Royal exclusives.

    Before 72 Point: Andy has ink is his veins, as the son of the great Daily Mirror journalist Syd Young, he became one of the UK's youngest ever staff reporters when he landed a job on Eddy Shah's ground-breaking Today newspaper in the mid-80s. After three years with Today and having turned down a number of lucrative offers within the industry Andrew took up the offer of a partnership with SWNS.

    Likes: Beer, cigarettes and pressure.

    Dislikes: Fluffy PR Bunnies.

     


    John Sewell

    Job Title: Managing Director - 72 Point, 72 Point Broadcast and OnePoll

    Joined 72 Point: Founding Director

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    Clients: Oversees all accounts.

    What he does: Internet, PR, marketing and helping people with problems.

    Before 72 Point: John began his career with ICL, before being headhunted by Siemens to manage new business. After five years with the company he became involved as an Equity Partner with Exepos Software Solutions, a specialist software company.

    Within its first year John negotiated a £500,000 software order with ASDA supermarkets. This was to launch the company towards a successful trade sale in 1996 for £3.6M to Lynx Plc, who were listed on the main London stock market.

    After a two-year Sabbatical during which John helped raise his young family, he formed Phase 8, a company which specialised in investing in internet start-up ventures. Following the acquisition of a small number of internet infrastructure companies and after just 14 months trading, Phase 8 was sold to Namesco Ltd for £3.4M. He then approached SWNS to form 72 Point Ltd.

    Likes: His kids, the internet, coffee, Redbull, Karaoke and George Best.

    Dislikes: Decaffeinated coffee, the tube and museums.

     

    Doug Shields

    Job Title: National News and Creative Manager

    Joined 72 Point: Sept 07

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    Clients: Works on all accounts.

    What he does: Specialises In - Creative idea generation, copywriting, news generation and training.

    Before 72 Point: Doug joined SWNS from college in 1994. During his six years as a reporter with the agency he broke a string of world exclusives including the divorce of Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles. He also worked on huge news stories such as the death of Diana Princess of Wales and the House of Horrors murders in Gloucester.

    He moved to The Sun in January 2001 and in 2002 was head-hunted to run Safeway's Pro-Active PR operation. He later became senior reporter at Closer magazine before taking over as news editor of lad's mag Zoo.

    In May 2005 was made news editor on The National Enquirer in the United States. After a year at the Enquirer and six months as deputy news editor at Splash News and Picture Agency in Los Angeles he returned to England as assistant news editor at The Sun. He left The Sun in September to join 72 Point.

    Likes: The buzz of a big news story, good food, Rioja and my family and friends.

    Dislikes: Taxes, sarcasm, speed cameras and Marmite.

     

    Libby Cottingham

    Job Title: Account Director

    Joined 72 Point: August 2004

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    Clients: Debenhams, Travelodge, WAYN (Where Are You Now?), Cornhill Direct, Cheltenham and Gloucester, Toyota, Green Flag and Thomas Cook. Ad-hoc clients include some of the UK's largest PR agencies such as Weber Shandwick, Taylor Herring, Freud Communications, Ann-Summers, Asda and Fleishman-Hillard.

    What she does: Web based clients, Finance, Health and Beauty and Fashion.

    Before 72 Point: Completed a degree in Public Relations and Media Studies in 2003 before working in the Press Office for a large technology company in Bristol.

    Likes: G & T's, fast food, songs that have a dance routine, anything strangely small and a genuine love of killer heels.

    Dislikes: Sport of any kind, people that call their cars names and queuing for anything.

     

    Emma Elsworthy

    Job Title: Account Director

    Joined 72 Point: September 2002

    Clients: Boots, Imperial Leather, Weight Watchers, Toys'R' Us, Ann Summers, Cheltenham and Gloucester and Coors.

    What she does: Specialises in Health and Beauty, Insurance, Retail and Food and Drink.

    Before 72 Point: 7 years In-house PR experience - having joined Hill House Hammond Press Office after University Emma quickly became responsible for generating coverage in national, regional and trade press.

    She also became the face of the company internally; writing and running a successful internal communications course - teaching more than 3,000 staff members. Emma was head-hunted by 72 Point in 2002 and is now the company's longest serving account manager.

    Likes: Singing, Coronation Street, big men, my children, cake, pyjama bottoms and mascara.

    Dislikes: Coughing, Champagne and snobs.

     

    James Coleman

    Job Title: Account Manager/Business Development

    Joined 72 Point: August 2005

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    Clients: Clerical Medical, Churchill and Travelodge (assisting Account Directors). Ad-hoc clients have included PR agencies such as Kavanagh Communications, Philips, BSkyB, Co-Operative Bank, Biss Lancaster and Seal Communications.

    What he does: New business development, campaign research, data analysis and Account Management.

    Before 72 Point: BA Honours PR degree at Bournemouth University with a placement year at 72 Point and sponsorship for the final year.

    Likes: Current affairs, cycling, running and all things sporty.

    Dislikes: Sitting down for too long, slow walkers and unnecessary noise.

     

    Kevin Smith

    Job Title: Web and Research Manager

    Joined 72 Point: January 2007

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    Specialises in: Survey and web site management

    What he does: Kevin plays a pivotal role in co-coordinating web-based activities and projects for 72Point and OnePoll.

    Before 72 Point: Golf course management, leisure club management and event management.

    Likes: Poker, Hawaii, Apple products and tennis.

    Dislikes: Cheats, white van drivers and Kerry Katona.

     

    Katie Price

    Job Title: Sales & Surveys support

    Joined 72 Point: May 2008

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    Specialises in: Generating new business and providing database support to the sales team.

    Clients: Waitrose, Choices Videos, Halifax, Co-op Financial Services, MBNA, CLS, Skipton Building Society, SKY, Jamjar cars, Weber Shandwick (Manchester), Green Flag, Chelsea Building Society, Airtours,Littlewoods, Asda

    What she does: Initially brought on to develop new accounts, Mary now heads up the company's northern division. She is responsible not only for business development but ensuring ongoing accounts run smoothly. She regularly travels up and down the country in search of new and challenging briefs from small web based companies to large Corporates, Financial Institutions being just one of her favorites!

    Before 72 Point: After completing a BA Hons from London University in History, Mary worked in Sales/ Marketing and PR or KP Foods in London. She was then promoted to HQ United Biscuits working in National Accounts.

    Moving on to Esselte Letraset to work in International Publicity, after 3 years she joined WH Smith Group working in Sales and Marketing where she continued to be successful. After taking time out to have three beautiful boys, Mary resumed her career in 2001 when she joined 72 Point.

    Likes: Jewelry; especially diamonds and pearls (shame she can't afford them) wine, James Bond movies, politics, shoes and handbags.

    Dislikes: Pretentious intellectuals, Big Brother, bad language and bad manners.

     

    Simon Russell

    Job Title: Managing Director - 72 Point Plus

    Joined 72 Point: May 2006

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    Clients: Distell ( South Africa's largest drinks group), National Association of Cider Makers, Constellation Europe (world's biggest wine company) and projects for businesses including NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland and Nokia.

    What he does: Media Relations in specialist sectors including Food and Drink; Financial Services; Sports; Utilities and Science and Technology and also a specialist in Training, Public Affairs and Crisis Management.

    Before 72 Point: In-house Communication Manager for over 12 years.

    Likes: Playing, watching and talking about football; pubs and seeing the kids happy.

    Dislikes: Bad manners and worse bad beer.

     

     

    Kathy De Mattia

    Job Title: PR Account Director

    Joined 72 Point: February 2008

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    Clients: Aston Manor, the National Association of Cider Makers, Distell Wines and Bristol Rugby.

    What she does: Working in the PR department, Kathy manages campaigns for various national clients. Her role is to make her clients famous through both the trade and consumer media.

    Before 72 Point: Kathy worked in London for various high profile brands, including Pepsi, Mars and O2 Mobile.

    Likes: Alan Carr, playing golf, New York and the fall of Kerry Katona!

    Dislikes:Meetings about meetings, people who don't say thank you or sorry and lime chutney.

     

    Paul Walters

    Job Title: Picture Editor and Partner - SWNS

    Joined 72 Point: 1984

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    What he does: As Picture Editor, Paul has overseen this department's phenomenal period of progress and success over the last decade.

    Before 72 Point: Joined the Bath Chronicle in 1988 as a photographer before carrying out shifts for every national newspaper.

    Likes: Checking bank statements.

    Dislikes: Fluffy PR Bunnies.

     

    Jay Williams

    Job Title: Chief Creative Consultant

    Joined 72 Point:2001

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    Clients: Works on all client accounts.

    What he does: Creative idea generation, copywriting, news generation and training.

    Before 72 Point: Jay's career in journalism began in 1981 when he landed the job of assistant news editor on the legendary music magazine Sounds.

    In 1985 he moved into mainstream journalism, running the Newcastle bureau of CNA News Agency where he was one of the first reporters on the scene of the 1988 Lockerbie air disaster.

    Jay joined SWNS in 1990 and was quickly promoted to Chief Reporter. After heading the reporting team which broke the Fred West story amongst numerous others, he was made SWNS Partner in 2000 and later went on to set up 72 Point Ltd with John Sewell.

    Likes: Elvis, and his son Alfie's band Phoenix Cult - "the best unsigned band in the UK".

    Dislikes: Stalkers, surly non-smokers who make him step off the pavement, Richard Gere, wine bars.

     

    Harriet Crosse

    Job Title: Business Development Manager

    Joined 72 Point: May 2001

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    What she does: Harriet manages 72 Point's highly driven business development team. She is responsible for sales, marketing and business relations. As a founding member of 72 Point, Harriet has contributed significantly to the company's growth.

    Before 72 Point: Completed a degree in Media Studies at Edinburgh University.

    Likes: Jon Snow, weird movies and Stella Artois.

    Dislikes: Corporate spiel and Keira Knightly.

     

    Annabel Iles

    Job Title: Account Director

    Joined 72 Point: April 2006

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    Specialises in: Fashion, Travel and Leisure, Health and Beauty and Event Management.

    Clients: La Senza, Toni and Guy, Debenhams, Travelodge, Thomas Cook, Julian Graves Alberto Culver and GE Money. Ad-hoc clients include some of the UK's largest PR agencies such as Trimedia Harrison Cowley, Biss Lancaster, BMA Communications and Bray Leino.

    Before 72 Point: 8 years In-house PR experience. Annabel started working life in the luxury travel industry before re-locating to Bristol in 2001 to join At-Bristol, the city's new Landmark visitor attraction.

    She initially set-up the brand communication for the corporate events division before being appointed PR Manager - achieving continual national, regional and trade coverage for the attraction as well as organising regular high profile film/exhibition launches, royal visits, photo shoots and national TV/radio campaigns.

    Likes: Johnny Wilkinson, champagne, log fires and the great outdoors.

    Dislikes: Baked beans, tequila and Smart cars.

     

    Gemma Francis

    Job Title: Account Manager/Copywriter

    Joined 72 Point: October 2006

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    Specialises in: Copywriting

    Clients: Hi-Tec, Quorn, Jobs2view, Yourpropertyclub, Family Relatives and Legoland Windsor

    Before 72 Point: Gemma worked as a local newspaper reporter where she went on to complete a Diploma in Journalism. As the only reporter on a weekly newspaper in Somerset she was solely responsible for chasing stories and writing page-ready news copy to strict deadlines.

    Likes: Take That, Speedway and vodka and lemonade.

    Dislikes: Flying and multi-storey car parks

     

    Nicky Marks

    Job Title: Business Development Executive

    Joined 72 Point: March 2006

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    Clients: Debenhams, Thomas Cook, HMV and Superdrug.

    What she does: As a senior member of the sales department, Nicky is highly involved in all sales and marketing processes. She is our first point of contact for new business calls.

    Before 72 Point: Managed a small telemarketing company in Bristol.

    Likes: Poker, Reggae and Cosmopolitans.

    Dislikes: Horses and men that wear flip-flops.

     

    Jo Sansom

    Job Title: Office Manager

    Joined 72 Point: October 2006

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    Specialises in: Administration, Accounts and Event Management.

    What he does: Jo deals with financial management, recruitment and HR issues.

    Before 72 Point: Engineering and Management Consultancy background.

    Likes: Thailand, running, wine and her dog.

    Dislikes: Pete Doherty, rude shop staff and people who mumble.

     

    Julia Woda

    Job Title: Business Development Executive

    Joined 72 Point: February 2006

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    Specialises in: Generating new business and providing database support to the sales team

    Clients: Legoland, Lego, Seddons Solicitors, ZPR, Momentum Pictures

    Before 72 Point: Career break to raise children, prior to that worked in executive support functions at Cisco Systems and Psion PLC.

    Likes: Wine, yoga, films of Anthony Minghella, good jokes and wine.

    Dislikes: Big Brother contestants, yob culture, public transport

     

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