tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post1689894103328935642..comments2023-09-24T01:25:13.638-07:00Comments on Witterings from Witney: A Guest PostWitteringsfromWitneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16026875251366365154noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-15372265304062469752011-02-26T01:40:43.833-08:002011-02-26T01:40:43.833-08:00I quite agree, Tom Tom.
However, these organisat...I quite agree, Tom Tom. <br /><br />However, these organisations exist. They are well-funded and influential. It is most unlikely that they will refrain from using their influence in (for instance) a referendum on the EU. Government and European Movement manipulation of the media in the Seventies was successful in converting a 66% majority in favour of independence into a a 66% majority in favour of EEC membership. Eurofacts did an excellent short report back in 2000, "How they swung it in the early Seventies" There is also a website called A Case for Treason which carries the complete text of the Royle report, which shows how it was done from the inside of government. It was released under the Thirty Year rule. With far more of these strange quasi-charitable, public/private bodies around, the scope for manipulation of public opinion is vastly increased.Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-25979815893272754962011-02-25T23:37:14.478-08:002011-02-25T23:37:14.478-08:00the Bertelsmann Stiftung,
Yes, but these are tax ...<i>the Bertelsmann Stiftung,</i><br /><br />Yes, but these are tax dodges to circumvent inheritance taxes rather than pure charities. The kicker is this phrase:<br /><br /><i>Initial projects focus on political and corporate leadership, the media, culture, education, social welfare and healthcare sectors.</i><br /><br />Clearly not interested in bottom-up helpTomTomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-83516057159503848892011-02-25T13:16:48.930-08:002011-02-25T13:16:48.930-08:00New Labour redefined "Charity" and put o...New Labour redefined "Charity" and put one of its own, Dame Suzi Leather, in charge of the Charity Commission. She is out of much the same stable as Catherine Ashton, a "Quango Queen" who has been in politically influential organisations all her life - always selected and never elected. Much the same goes for the Electoral Commission. The first chap in charge was a former BBC man. Now there is another Quango Queen.<br /><br />Germany has many institutions, like the Bertelsmann Stiftung, which enjoy status equivalent to charities under British law. This one owns most of the shares in the huge Bertelsmann group of media companies and draws the income from them which it uses to spread its own ideas of good governance all over Europe .The Bertelsmann group has companies which specialise in providing administrative services for public authorities. One of them, Arvato, provides all the administration for the East Riding of Yorkshire. Presumably it makes a profit from this which flows back eventually to the Bertelsmann Stiftung (tax free) which can then spread its net wider. The principal trustees of the Stiftung (Foundation/Institute) include members of Bertelsmann's original owners, the Mohn family, who were amongst the earliest supporters of Hitler.<br /><br />There many more similar organisations plus those sponsored by political parties with taxpayers' money which qualify as "Gemeinnutz" (Community use or benefit).<br /><br />Some of them are distinctly creepy - like the Foederalistische Union Europaeischer Volksgruppen (Federal Union of European Ethnic Groups), originally founded by convicted Nazis but now funded by German and Austrian public authorities and officially recognised by the EU and UN. <br /><br />Such groups are frequently used by the German government as deniable instruments of foreign policy in places like Eastern Europe and the Balkans.Edward Spaltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168350315689612490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861279106331108648.post-74113187609523014282011-02-25T08:36:50.278-08:002011-02-25T08:36:50.278-08:00Germany once had lots of charities but under Gleic...Germany once had lots of charities but under Gleichschaltung all became incorporated into The State. Today the ONLY charitable purposes recognised in German tax law pertain to Education and Scientitic Research.<br /><br />It may be that Charitable Status will need to be drawn very tightly in future and most Charities incorporated into the Government Department.....it is not just those mentioned currently living on taxpayer largesse - try Stonewall, Asylum Groups, and don't forget the Lottery slush fundTomTomnoreply@blogger.com