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One year old Oxford Union mystery solved!



 http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/12/05/in-video-bell-pottinger-exposed/

Bell Pottinger Scum

Well Done OxfordWatch
 http://oxford.indymedia.org.uk/2010/12/470885.html?c=on
Who is in charge: the Foreign office, Defence ministry or the Oxford Union ? -- 17.12.2010

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Localis think tank event before the elections predicted this

08.12.2011 03:31

Bell Pottinger and the Tories have revolving doors not just in global politics.

In early 2010 as the campaigns for the general elections were heating up Tim Bell had it all planned on Local politics for little boy Cameron.
At a Localis think tank event Localism Bill , which is now almost completely in place (no real consultation was really done) was pushed forward as what the incoming tories will do.
Simple as that,
Timothy Bell puts Maggie in power decades ago. Criminal Justice Bill heralded in.
Transition Tony makes him Baron Bell and the PR projects continue overseas,
Lord Bell draws up executes a local come back Localism Bill.

Aye. Neat

Timothy Leander


Bell Pottinger - Nivard Cabraal Connection

09.12.2011 11:41

With the Wikipedia bust of Bell Pottinger agent with user profile Diginerd84 we now know Central Bank of Sri Lanka´s PR was managed by Lord Bell.

Lot of information that was pure mystery to be inferred from these links and attachments

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/22/ambassadors-relations-diplomacy-cameron

 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&diff=prev&oldid=346473219



Inspector Colombo


Bell Pottinger - Nivard Cabraal Connection II

09.12.2011 14:21

The associated posts in Oxford - what a rant?!

One would think Oxford is in Sri Lanka!
Thank for some great information hidden in there though,

Cabraal the IFI plant no 2 (plant no 1 being Sarath Amunugama) says it all in this BBC video and article.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8505351.stm

Date: Early February 2010

@ 00:30 : ¨We will be projecting the confidence of the IMF being with us plus the new features of the Sri Lankan economy that are emerging´

References that are related:

1.  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/01/sri-lanka-imf-loan
Date: May Day 2009
[Note: Current Head of MI6 John Sawers, then in the UN taking his own position. Foreign Secretary David Miliband was condemned as a joker]
[Note: The number of civilians that is reported as waiting to escape : 50 000!! In the following days up to 300 000 were allegedly rescued in to world´s biggest concentration camps; See attachment ]
[Note: The Swedish arms dealer cum finance minister Carl Bildt being refused entry - what is that all about?!]

2.  http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2009/int073009a.htm
Date: End of July 2009
[Note: IMF gave 400% of quota in stages - the total is 2.6 bn USD!!
0.7 bn USD more than what was asked for by Sri Lanka!!]


@ 00:45: Clearly the question is a set up when the crack down on the media is mentioned as if it is a new phenomenon
@ 01:00 Cabraal: (Despite all the stories that have come out!!) Sri Lanka has had a very Free Media; We have 32 Television Stations er which are completely Free; We have 40 Radio stations; 35 Newspapers which are published daily in **Our** country; If you call up a press conference more than 150 journalists come and they y question they want; Internet facilities with more than 2 million Internet users with access to any part of the world

@ 01:45 Cabraal: 15 mn people have mobile phones where they can talk to anyone
[Note: Sri Lankan population is barely 20 mn not taking in to account the massacres and international refugees. Huawei systems´ main playground for internal espionage is widely believed to be not any province in China but the
digital network in Sri Lanka and the South of India!!]

Surely this interview must be a Bell Pottinger job!

The question that must be asked is if the interviewer was holding up placards or not to help the Governor whenever the camera was focused on the liar.

Related info that suggests Nivard Cabraal was to turn up at Oxford a year ago after being rushed to Glasgow by PMP Legacy:
 http://oxford.indymedia.org.uk/2011/11/488865.html


Inspector Colombo


Bell Pottinger & Liam Fox

11.12.2011 01:09

Liam Fox faces fresh questions on Sri Lanka links

Defence secretary accused of running 'maverick foreign policy' in Sri Lankan Development Trust dealings involving Adam Werritty

reddit this

Polly Curtis, Jason Burke and Rupert Neate
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 October 2011 21.13 BST
Article history


 http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/13/liam-fox-fresh-questions-over-sri-lanka?newsfeed=true

Liam Fox heads to Paris as Adam Werritty questions mount Link to this video

Liam Fox faced fresh accusations of running a shadow foreign policy after it emerged he was involved in setting up a private investment firm to operate in Sri Lanka in apparent contravention of UK government policy, with his controversial friend Adam Werritty as its key contact.

The defence secretary was intimately involved in negotiations with the Sri Lankan regime as recently as last summer, according to Lord Bell, his friend of 30 years, agreeing a deal that allows the Sri Lankan Development Trust to operate in the country in the same period in which he now says he withdrew his involvement. The trust was a venture designed to rebuild the country's infrastructure using private finance with a sideline in charitable projects for Tamil communities.

Labour urged the government to come clean on Fox's work in Sri Lanka and whether it might have contravened the government's official policy, while a senior Whitehall source said the minister had been operating a "maverick foreign policy" and it is this that will ultimately decide his political fate.

The government has adopted an arm's-length policy on Sri Lanka, calling for an independent inquiry into alleged war crimes. Since 2006 it has also had a policy to limit development work to urgent humanitarian assistance and "de-mining" areas affected by the civil war.

Fox told the Commons on Monday he had worked with "a number" of business, banking and political contacts to establish the trust in Sri Lanka.

He named only Werritty, his close friend who is at the heart of the scandal over his unofficial role as Fox's adviser. "Neither myself, Mr Werritty nor others sought to receive any share of the profits for assisting the trust," he said.

In June 2010, he met the Sri Lankan foreign minister in Singapore, along with Werritty and MoD officials. "The purpose of the meeting was to make it clear that although I would no longer be able to participate in the project, the others involved would continue to do so," he said on Monday. But Bell told the Guardian on Thursday that discussions took place last summer in which Fox agreed with the governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka that the trust would invest in roadbuilding and other infrastructure projects using private investment.

Bell, whose PR firm Bell Pottinger was employed by the Sri Lankan government until last year to improve the country's reputation abroad, said the deal had been struck between Fox and the head of the Sri Lankan bank: "In order for these funds to operate they would need an agreement with the country. The financial interests of Sri Lanka come under the governor of the Central Bank. My understanding is that the infrastructure development fund would be set up and have an agreement with the Sri Lankan government to invest in Tamil communities in Sri Lanka. It's a fine idea with a good sense of purpose."

He added that "of course" part of the strategy was to improve the regime's reputation abroad.

Kevan Jones, shadow defence minister, said: "Liam Fox told the house about the trust on Monday. It's clearly not a full explanation. If he was still striking deals with the Sri Lankans last summer, how does that fit with official UK foreign policy? He has to explain these negotiations. You can't have a situation where a government minister is appearing to run a completely separate foreign policy from that of the government."

Fox's parliamentary and private offices both said last night that Fox ceased to have any involvement with the trust on entering government.

The only activity the Sri Lanka Development Trust appears to have engaged in has been the payment of up to £7,500 of Fox's travel expenses, incurred on three trips to the country in 2009 and 2010.

The trust was originally registered to an address close to the Houses of Parliament in London, 40 George Street, which is also the offices of 3G, the "Good Governance Group", which is chaired by Chester Crocker, a former US politician. He also sits on the board of Bell Pottinger LLC, the US wing of Bell's publicity firm. Bell denied that there was any connection between his firm or its US subsidiary and Fox's Sri Lankan operation.

The trust has since transferred to the Lothian Road in Edinburgh, giving its address as No 50, a substantial granite and glass-fronted office block where a number of firms including the HQ of the Scottish oil exploration firm Cairn Energy and corporate offices for Clydesdale Bank are based. When the Guardian visited the building there was no sign of any physical presence of the organisation.

Two legal firms also based in the building are not believed to be connected. As a legal trust, it does not have to register either with the Charities Commission or on the register of businesses at Companies House. It does not have to publish the names of its trustees, it purpose or its beneficiaries.

Bell said that the trust consisted of two bodies, the Sri Lanka Infrastructure Development Fund, which was intended to raise money abroad from investors who would then share in the profit of ventures on the country, and the Sri Lanka Charitable Fund which would undertake charitable projects in Tamil areas in the north and east.

Inquiries in Colombo could not establish any activity the trust or its subsidiaries have so far carried out. Aid experts, senior politicians and officials in Sri Lanka said they had no knowledge of the trust. Nether the trust nor its subsidiaries are registered by the National Secretariat for Non-Governmental Organisations, a prerequisite for any such project.

On a trip in March 2009, shortly before the end of the bloody but successful government offensive, Fox called for the creation of "a special fund with the help of international partners ... to help the Sri Lankan government in handling the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the war ravaged areas in the north and east [of the country]."

Fox told local journalists he was suggesting "a new, independent, Sri Lanka construction fund". One aim of the fund, he said, would be to divert cash that had been flowing from ethnic Tamils overseas to the LTTE into reconstruction.

No activity on the ground appears to have occurred. "I have my ear pretty close to the ground and I doubt a major new reconstruction project in the north [of Sri Lanka] could get going without my knowledge and I have never heard of this trust," said one senior aid official in Colombo, the commercial capital.

The source of the trust's money for the transport to Sri Lanka for Fox is unknown. Contributions to the cost of the trips were also received from the Sri Lankan government via its London embassy.

Human rights groups have been critical of Fox's outspoken support for the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is now in his second term of office and has been accused by campaigners of repressing the press and opposition.

WikiLeaks cables revealed American diplomats' concerns at alleged government complicity in human rights abuses committed by troops and paramilitaries during the latter stages of the civil war. The United Nations has repeatedly pressed Sri Lanka for greater accountability and transparency.

Additional reporting: Severin Carrell

London Tamil


Some updates brought to my notice

11.12.2011 04:23

The change of address for this illegal trust coincides with the considerable amendments made to Rt Hon Liam Fox's expenses claim, as Wikileaks exposed the rampant scams in UK parliament.

Reference:

The Revolution Will be Digitised: Dispatches from the Information War
by Heather Brooke

Published: 18/08/2011
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
ISBN: 9780434020904

In Tamil there is a saying that goes something like a Guilty Mind is Never At Ease.

London Tamil


Bilderberger Chester A Crocker

11.12.2011 09:57

Guardian articles doesn´t describe the demon Crocker properly>>

The trust was originally registered to an address close to the Houses of Parliament in London, 40 George Street, which is also the offices of 3G, the "Good Governance Group", which is chaired by Chester Crocker, a former US politician. He also sits on the board of Bell Pottinger LLC, the US wing of Bell's publicity firm. Bell denied that there was any connection between his firm or its US subsidiary and Fox's Sri Lankan operation

He is a Bilderberger and thats no secret.
He specializes in mercenary operations (remember Mark Thatcher) and PR to cover it up.




xc


Charter Flight to Sri Lanka Dec 15th

11.12.2011 21:30

 http://www.freemovement.org.uk/2011/12/11/charter-flight-to-sri-lanka-15-december-2011/

Astonishing facts!!

Did Liam Fox charter flights?
What was he planning to do next?

No Deportations


Sri Lankan Development Trust

14.12.2011 02:20

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049584/Liam-Fox-Sri-Lankans-treated-Adam-Werritty-key-contact-office.html

Sri Lankans treated Fox's best man as 'key contact of his office'

Adam Werritty was described as a member of Liam Fox’s private ‘office’ in a confidential written agreement between the former Minister and the Sri Lankan government.

The five-page document obtained by The Mail on Sunday appears to undermine his claim that his best man never had any official role.

A copy of the five-page agreement concerning a mysterious trust set up by the two men lays bare the extent of Mr Werritty’s work in representing the Minister’s interests in Sri Lanka.

Drafted in 2009, when Dr Fox was Shadow Defence Secretary, it states that ‘Dr Liam Fox’s Office, specifically Adam Werritty’ would be the ‘point of contact’ in a joint project to rebuild the country’s infrastructure using private finance.

Mr Werritty’s counterpart in the agreement is named in the document – The Sri Lanka Development Trust’s memorandum of understanding – as the governor of the country’s Central Bank, Nivard Cabraal.

Despite the high-minded aims of the trust, the only activity it appears to have engaged in has been the payment of up to £7,500 of Dr Fox’s travel expenses, incurred on three trips to the country in 2009 and 2010.

In the capital Colombo, humanitarian agencies and politicians said they had no knowledge of the trust. A former Sri Lankan cabinet minister said: ‘It is a mystery to everyone here. What exactly has it achieved? Who are the investors?’

He said the agreement was signed at a time when the Sri Lankan government was engaged in a ‘concerted attempt to court Mr Werritty’.

He added: ‘He [Werritty] was perceived as a man of great influence. In Sri Lanka, ministers travel with an entourage of advisers. Yet Fox often had just Werritty on his shoulder.’

The former minister added that it was widely assumed in Sri Lankan political circles that Mr Werritty received payment from the government. No evidence has emerged to support this claim, however. Dr Fox insists that neither he nor Mr Werritty ‘sought to receive any share of the profits for assisting the trust’.

Meanwhile, the respected Colombo-based Sunday Leader newspaper claims today that Dr Fox and an unidentified man were once spotted ‘embracing two girls’ in a Colombo nightclub.

The newspaper does not name its source, or offer any evidence to support the claim, but alleges it took place in a club below the Hilton Hotel. It says the story has been circulating among the Sri Lankan community in London.

Sources said both Dr Fox and Mr Werritty have stayed at the hotel overlooking the Indian Ocean. They could not say if either of the two men had visited its nightclub, however.
Last night Dr Fox was unavailable for comment.




Diginerd84


Pelham Bell Pottinger

29.12.2011 20:09

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Private Equity.

Solicitors at EH3 9WJ

Look around there and you will find the pot at the bottom of this bloody rainbow.

May there be light and no more illusions in 2012.

helpingHand


The Azimov Group Sting - Cabraal again

09.01.2012 16:38

To gloss over the extreme repression and large scale organised child labour in Uzhbekiztan Bell Pottinger Group made a presentation to undercover journalists from The Bureau Investigates

 http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/12/05/how-the-bureau-investigated-bell-pottinger/bellpottpresentationtoazimovgp-2/

 http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/12/05/how-the-bureau-investigated-bell-pottinger/

The Bell Pottinger staff who got caught to the sting and who are on record discussing the dark arts including fixing Google and Wikipedia records include David Wilson and former MP Tim Collins. Yet the third character Sir David Richmond is interesting.
A veteran involved in setting up Saddham Hussein, David Richmond ended up serving as Foreign and Commonwealth Office´s twisted intelligence chief of some sort.

See page 50 of the attachment - the presentation made by Bell Pottinger to get a contract to cover up for Uzbek dictator Azimov . This is definitive proof that the interview for Cabraal with BBC's Lesley Curwen in February 2010 was arranged by Bell Pottinger.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8505351.stm

The suspended Wikipedia Account Diginerd84 has been fixing Cabraal´s Wikipedia profile and Bell Pottinger has admitted that it is in fact one of their own staff.

Page 13 of the attachment also clarifies why Alaistair Burt MP was in Sri Lanka early in 2010 promoting the flawed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission.

Inspector Colombo