The version on the BBC website mentions both meetings

a meeting between Dr Fox and Matthew Gould, the then UK Ambassador Designate to Israel in September 2010.

6 February in Tel Aviv. This was a general discussion of international , affairs over a private dinner with senior Israelis. The UK Ambassador was present.

Keep digging Craig. There is a much bigger picture here..

Its also deeply insulting, especially to those who have some degree of perception and political nous. Its as if they’re saying, ‘Right, there it is, a flimsy paper-thin farrago of quarter-truths which, of course, our friends and vassals in the media will take as gospel. So what ya gonna do about it?’

Remember, record, and bear witness, at the very least.

Yes. I fell into the temptation of the very same bad language the other day. What’s being protected from mainstream TV-headline view surely has to be the issue of those borderline treasonable offences you raised the other day. And I’m really not sure that Atlantic Bridge and its fifth column-like activities shouldn’t also come under the same umbrella. How far can a serving British politician engage with organisations which are funded from abroad and aim to entirely gut the way we do politics in the UK? Especially when people like the Koch brothers also fund political movements like the Tea Party. Where does one’s loyalties really lie? It sounds so 19th century to be asking these questions. But all of a sudden, it seems the Tories – of all people – are the ones who least care about national sovereignty.

Unbelievable.

I’m surprised they didn’t managed to slip in a couple of ‘this page intentionally left blank’s.

Shameful collusion and complicity.

Yet another “enquiry” that enquires about almost nothing. All along, this charade of an enquiry, and the mainstream media, let alone government PR, has concentrated on anything but the relevant issue which STILL has not been addressed: Why is this man acting in ANY capacity at all outside of the MOD remit, and what on earth was he, and Fox, doing bypassing official channels in order to foster highly dubious meetings on an agenda driven by people completely outside any accountable framework.

Yet again, following the footsteps of Hutton, then Chilcot, and now the Cabinet Office, enquiries are utterly worthless, mendacious in intent and a cynical betrayal of anything remotely connected with truth or proper investigation. The majority of the press needs also to hang its head in shame for failing to focus on what it should be reporting on.

So , who’s driving the bus ? It certainly doesn’t seem to be Cameron.
The making things so transparent they’re invisible means that the behaviour has been approved. By whom ? MI6 ? If it isn’t our Government, who is driving the bus ?

“Democracy” is nothing but a fig leaf to hide the fact of really calls the shots. Corporate powers don’t need to vote in elections or even be UK citizens, yet they have influence right at the top table!!

Remember Laxsi Mittal and Blair? All parties are pimps for big business. Lets hope the the Arab spring wind blows this way

Don’t you get the feeling though, that this kind of whitewashing, has reached the end of its life.

We’ve always been fed this rubbish, and taken it, shaking our heads and tutting and then moving on.

“What can you do?”, we’ve asked hopelessly.

Well now we can blog, we can research like never before and we can spill beans.

We can laugh at them, and they will know they are being laughed at and that we are undermining them.

Can Cameron really expect us to take him seriously when he continues to tell us that Liam Fox was an “excellent Defence Secretary”? Surely he must know that the majority of thinking people are saying “My arse he was.”

Don’t be too eager buster. I’ve been on the receiving end and so have you. The boy’s fucked and their network exposed; time to light a charoot and watch them eat themselves. This is Tories @ Work – calm the fuck down.

Tris: Yes whitewashing should have reached the end of its life, but perhaps the reason it continues is because parliament has been neutered and marginalised, and what power it does have is constantly hijacked by ministers, whitehall officials and the closed circle of spinners and unelected thugs in suits who control, censor and obstruct process. It has to be said that the average back bench MP is now as out of touch as the readers of mainstream press, and through various pressures to toe the party line are ever more supine. Add to the mix the fact that the electorate is still hooked on the BBC and is unwilling to intelligently absorb the kind of info that this and other blogs contain.

There are many blogs which get to the crux of issues like these bad sadly they are subscribed to by a depressingly low proportion of the population. The majority of the electorate is fed, and willingly consumes, a vast amount of anodyne reporting which it accepts without much questioning.

Why would Israel want to influence the UK? Is it because the Arab Spring scares the shit out of them?
Very possibly. All the old certainties are crumbling, among them Israel’s right to permanently subjugate the Palestinian people.
These are dangerous times for Israel. Which means dangerous times for us all.
Let’s hope they realise one simple truth: violence never wins. Not in the long run.

Keep up the brilliant work, Craig. Even Jim Murphy was beginning to sound vaguely belligerent on R4 at 10 pm.

Hintze funding Osborne:

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/10/17/george-osborne-gets-almost-twice-that-of-liam-fox-from-michael-hintze/

Oh, and.

“William Hague received over £25,000 in non-cash donations from the CQS hedge fund.”

DonnyDarko,
This is who’s driving the bus:

‘… a vast apparatus of permanent unelected Government exists. This permanent Government consists of senior civil servants, intelligence and security officers, key figures in certain city and financial institutions (including Lloyds of London), key industrialists and directors of major monopolistic companies, senior politicians.’ Gerald James.

If we take the hypothesis that Jack Straw is a liar, then even he confirms this in,
‘Unless we all start to believe in conspiracy theories and that the officials are lying, that I am lying, that behind this there is some kind of secret state which is in league with some dark forces in the United States, and also let me say, we believe that Secretary Rice is lying, there simply is no truth in the claims that the United Kingdom has been involved in rendition full stop, because we have not been, ……’

I don’t really think hypothesis is necessary in view of

‘MI6 rewarded Libyan intelligence for their co-operation after ties between the countries were restored with the “rendition” of the leader of an opposition group who later claimed he was tortured in custody, documents found in Tripoli show.’ Telegraph

This in-your-face article in the JC is saying ‘Look how clever our lot are at getting to the connections’. The Fox Werrity farrago of lies has been twisted round to say that it was just a fund raising drive for the Tories.
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http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/56577/tories-solicited-cash-werritty

I do think public awareness that western governments aren’t serving those that elected them is reaching a tipping point. After fox, there a lot of new information in the public domain concerning the Israel backed british political system, which is going to help further that awareness.

What is needed is to convert this awareness into action and keep the pressure firmly on those doing the bidding of the unseen elites. Email them, talk to them; ask questions of our representatives.

Who is driving the bus? Try the Rothschilds who effectively founded Israel, the Rockerfellers, tHe Warburgs, and other super-rich dynasty’s with connections to each other, with their cohorts and lackeys in positions of power throughout history. They are the kingmakers and manipulate people into key positions in government such as leader or chancellor or defence minister. They own the big banks, the multinationals, big pharma , monsanto, orchestrate wars, play one country off another whilst profiting from the conflicts. They operate loose networks of inluence whereby those lower down the chain such as politicians are selected, co-opted, duped, persuaded into promoting certain policies or agendas. Many politicians are unaware that they are being used as a means to an end.

National sovereignty and self reliance of nations has been systematically undermined by creation of debt and unscrupulous globalisation. And distinct national identities diluted by mass immigration and unfettered consumerism. Modus operandi for this stealthy centralisation of power into the hands of a few? Lies and deception in myriad forms.

Our ally, our answer, our power? Truth. Its breaking out bigtime at last. We grow it, spread it, nurture it and protect it. It is bringing us together and exposing the divide and rule- ers

To me it’s quite clear Werrity is a member of MI6 charged with looking after the economic security of the country and his role as Fox’s side kick was to be positioned to get in as much business as possible to support the permanent government.

“To me it’s quite clear Werrity is a member of MI6 charged with looking after the economic security of the country and his role as Fox’s side kick was to be positioned to get in as much business as possible to support the permanent government.”
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If this is correct, what’s to be excited about?*

According to this interpretation, Werrity was undertaking a public service and Fox was cooperating with him, as was in the public interest.
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Well done Mr. Werrity and Mr. Fox.
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As for the ideas that Werrity was an Israeli agent, so what? We know Cameroon, as a member in good standing of Con Friends of Israel, is an Israeli agent, just like Clogg and Minibandit. So why not have a Mossad man attending Fox’s meetings with representatives of Israel?
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To accept that Werrity or Fox committed treason, we need to know what they did that harmed the British interest and what evidence there is that such action was undertaken with treasonous intent.

“My investigation continues…” – More power to your elbow.
May I suggest at the end you publish a BS free “Citizens Report” into the latest Westmonster sleaze?

“The Cabinet Office was not aware of Mr Werritty.”

Nobody saw anything.

http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/allegations-fox.pdf

Anybody noticed the section numbering?

…25, 26, 27, 23

Must have been in a rush to get it typed up, eh? Or got mixed up chopping sections out…

Well done.

Evening Standard Londoner’s Diary 18 October 2011:
http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/2011/10/think-tanks-night-saved.html
‘As for Adam Werritty, [Nick] Harvey [Armed Forces minster, Lib-Dem] told me he had never seen him. “I was looking forward to seeing the photos to see if I recognised this man but no, I’d never seen him at the MoD. Ever.”‘

To whitewash is a metaphor meaning to gloss over or cover up vices, crimes or scandals or to exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data. It is especially used in the context of corporations, governments or other organizations.

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Many dictatorships and authoritarian states, as well as democratic countries, have used the method of whitewash in order to glorify the results.
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Quite.
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http://www.vectis.co.uk/AuctionImages/382/2182_l.jpg

Cameron intends to slide out of this by getting Sir George Young, government stooge, to make the statement.
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‘Sir George Young, Leader of the House, has been pencilled in by Downing Street to make a statement on behalf of the government following prime minister’s questions.
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But Labour is considering attempting to force Prime Minister David Cameron into making the address instead by triggering an urgent question in the House.’
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15360827

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James Landale
Deputy Political Editor, BBC News and government stooge –

The language of Whitehall is often opaque, but, on this occasion, Sir Gus O’Donnell’s words are anything but.

Off topic. Have just heard a radio report from Dale Farm. The police in riot gear and varrying shields have broken through the barriers. Two of the people at the site have been tazered.

Lebedev’s Evening Standard are giving Werritty a new ‘persona’ here. Wonder why that should be? It’s like a soap.
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‘Mr Werritty also lived rent-free in Dr Fox’s taxpayer-funded flat in Southwark between 2002 and 2003 and was best man at his wedding to Jesme Baird in 2005.
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After leaving that flat, he began a brief relationship with Ann Dahl Nielsen, a secretary at Danscotia Consulting, one of the companies run by Mr Werritty.
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Within a year of Dr Fox’s move to the Tory shadow defence portfolio in late 2005, Mr Werritty was made a director of a company known as Security Futures and used his mentor’s London address as his point of contact. The company has since been dissolved.
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According to the electoral roll, he now lives in a £700,000 Westminster flat with Sarita Bingeman, 33, a campaigner on international development, who also has links to Dr Fox. She is a committee member of The Poppy Ball, a £500-a-head fundraiser for the Royal British Legion. Dr Fox is a patron of the event.’
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http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23996479-chance-meeting-at-university-led-to-long-term-friendship.do

If the pols weren’t in bed with each other and their rich friends (and do check out “Lord” Fink, ennobled for services to parasitism, and Tory treasurer…he’s an Israel fan, too), one of them might be asking a little more distinctly why the alleged functions of Werrity’s shell companies track Fox’s progress through the departments.

@ForkIt “Who is driving the bus? Try the Rothschilds who effectively founded Israel, the Rockerfellers, the Warburgs, and other super-rich dynasty’s with connections to each other, with their cohorts and lackeys in positions of power throughout history.”
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Thank you. These people also own the Federal Reserve. It is them that are the Puppetmaster.

Lord Fink (and Howard Leigh, peripherally)

Nothing against the guys, but they’re running the governing party…
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http://www.thejc.com/business/business-features/interview-stanley-fink

I’ve been trying to get information on the Atlantic Bridge and its dealings. It’s own website is down, presumably because of findings from the Charity Commission, and it is not possible to get an earlier snapshot of any of its pages. I was able to find this on Director of Operations Kara Watts from an annual exhibitors (ALEC) website:
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The Atlantic Bridge is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Liam Fox MP, current British Conservative Shadow Secretary for Defense. The Atlantic Bridge seeks to nurture, strengthen and promote the special partnership that exists between the UK and U.S. by reinvigorating the network of conservative links that underpinned the Thatcher-Reagan relationship of the 1980’s.
Booth Number: 318
Kara Watt – Director of Operations
The Atlantic Bridge
Room 341, Portcullis House
The House of Commons
Westminster, London
SW1A 0AA
Mobile Phone: (0)75 2590 1643
Business Phone: (0)20 7219 2617
E-mail: kara.watt@theatlanticbridge.com
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Even the findings of the Charity Commission’s report is not available.
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http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/RSS/News/pr_atlanticb.aspx
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There is a link to the Atlantic Bridge Education and Research Team which has been removed. By whom? To what ends? Surely this information should be available! Somebody is hiding something and hopefully it will bring down other members of the shady Atlantic Bridge ‘charity’, like William Hague, George Osboren, Michael Gove, et al. They should all be asked a simple question: “What do you understand about the meaning of charity?”

Have just posted a comment which vanished into the ether!

Sorry Jon. Just as I posted the comment about previous post vanishing into the ether it appeared as if by magic to make me look a twonk!

AB’s site closed down when the charity did. Look out for something called Transatlantic Bridge, to which I suspect the funds were transferred.

I doubt this will repeat AB’s little slip of displaying the names of its associates ( Hague, Gove, etc), though.

And it will probably be much more closely linked to Atlantic Bridge Inc (US) – at least until their nonprofit regulators complete their investigation of that.

Komodo, it will almost certainly re-emerge under some other name. What bothers me most is why the Charity Commission findings are not available. What happened to freedom of information?

John Goss: re freedom of information, some animals are more equal than others. And the Charity Commission has form, dating back over many years.

Something tells me that a durable whitewash, with a good undercoat isn’t needed to cover this up.

All they need to do is, shout anti-Semitism three times, click their heals and we will all find that we are in Kansas again.
That or they will say this isn’t typical ministerial behaviour. Fox was a bad apple that has been removed. And it will be business as usual when he is replaced by someone else who takes his orders from Israel.

What Havantaclu said. And what Monbiot said yesterday: under FOI (not Friends of Israel…)

“What this case highlights is the asymmetry of information in public life. The public sector is now so transparent that we have a right to read the private emails of climate scientists working for a state-sponsored university. The private sector is so opaque that we have no idea on whose behalf the people who appear every day on the BBC, using arguments that look suspiciously like corporate propaganda, are speaking.”

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Informative piece here:

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http://www.monbiot.com/2011/10/17/show-me-the-money/

PMQ’s (1330) now playing:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15365245

@ Arsalan You are not in Kansas anymore! You are on Pandora! Lol

Havantaclu, for the last 45 years I’ve been telling myself “I must work harder” and I’ve just pulled my tripe out writing to the Charity Commission regarding their link.

Email to Charity Commission (19/10/2011)

When I click on your link ‘Atlantic Bridge Education and Research Team’ on the page which investigated Atlantic Bridge there is no information available, just the following:

Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested URL: /Our_regulatory_activity/Compliance_reports/RC_reports/rcr_atlanticb.aspx

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.4961; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.4955

Under the freedom of information this link should not have been removed and it looks suspicious as to why it has in the wake of the current revelations of Liam Fox and Adam Werritty. Can you explain why please?

I got an electronic response telling me they try to respond within 14 working days. Well I go to Romania on Saturday so when I get back . . .

FWIW Fox’s statement. I could not be bothered to read through this BBC apologia.

Another stone is turned over.
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Second Conservative minister accused of blurring role of adviserClimate change minister Greg Barker under scrutiny after consultant handed out business cards bearing Decc’s name
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Rajeev Syal and James Ball guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 19 October 2011 .
Greg Barker, minister for climate change.
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Another Conservative minister has been accused of blurring the role of a close adviser after an outside consultant with clients including BAA, Sky and Morgan Stanley was given a job in his department and handed out business cards bearing its name.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/oct/19/second-conservative-minister-accused-adviser

FWIW Fox’s statement. I could not be bothered to read through this BBC apologia.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15365245

I watched the first part of the Fox statement. He began by saying a fortnight ago he was in Misrata where a man showed him photographs of his dead children and the next week he had to resign. One was a human tragedy, the other a personal misfortune. And that should put things in proportion. Where he should have gone was Sirte where he could see hundreds of examples of dead children due to his NATO bombing. The man is a creep. He makes my blood boil.

John Goss – I wouldn’t be surprised if the man had no empathy at all – only what suits his sobstory at the time!

The whole document smelt like Dr Fox wrote it himself. Must be from the ealrlier days when he claimed to have commisioned an investigation unto himself.

Havantaclu You are describing yet another psychopath in other words.

It’s good that yet another quisling has been outed, but I doubt whether those who place these people will lose too much sleep. Murdoch’s media will do its bit, as will the BBC and the legions of scurrying minions to bamboozle the public with the next show. Gadaffi’s slaughter has in fact already partly done so.

The danger is that David Cameron and most of the cabinet are also similar foxy creatures. That should give cause for concern to all serving soldiers, and indeed to the rest of us.