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Topic Originator: Bertiesback
Date: Mon 10 Dec 18:18
To-day I came across this organisation "based in Fife" would you believe. Has anyone ever heard of this group (Charity?)
http://powerbase.info/index.php/Institute_for_Statecraft#Contact
This link doesn't conform for some reason to the normal url bracketing.
"Scotland's Sunday Mail newspaper reported this weekend the Integrity Initiative had retweeted a handful of articles by other media outlets critical of the position held by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and his aides, on Russia.
The Institute for Statecraft is a charity registered in Scotland and based in Gateside that is intended to promote good governance.
Sir Alan had confirmed Foreign Office funding for the initiative on 27 November in a written answer to a Parliamentary question from Labour MP Chris Williamson.
He said it received £296,500 in 2017 and £1.96m this financial year as part of the British government's declared campaign to challenge Russian propaganda on social media."
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Topic Originator: Bertiesback
Date: Sun 13 Jan 14:57
Make no mistake these people will be used against Scottish Independence and probably are already - Salmond/SNP/Sturgeon blanket coverage at present.
"A PR guru who helped spread stories of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction is linked to a Government-funded infowars unit exposed by the Sunday Mail.
Fife-based “charity” the Institute for Statecraft have been paid £2million by the Foreign Office to counter Russian fake news through their Integrity Initiative project.
The programme is run by a team of military intelligence specialists who have set up secretive “clusters” of academics, politicians AND JOURNALISTS across Europe in a bid to disseminate anti-Kremlin messages.
It has now emerged that the Integrity Initiative has connections to American military PR guru John Rendon.
His Rendon Group were hired by the CIA in the 90s to run a public relations campaign against Saddam Hussein.
He is understood to have helped set up and publicise the Iraqi National Congress in the Middle East in the run-up to the war.
The organisation – who were later found to have had little support – were behind many of the stories of weapons of mass destruction, which later proved to be unfounded.
Hacked documents reveal Rendon, who calls himself an “information warrior” and “perception manager”, was a speaker at a £45,000 seminar to “educate core team and clusters” for the Integrity Initiative.
Labour MSP Neil Findlay said: “The tale of the Integrity Initiative gets murkier and murkier – now we see it exposed that they have been tutored by someone who was behind some of the worst fake news circulating during the disaster in Iraq.
“The UK Parliament and Scotland’s charity regulator OSCR must now take a serious look at the activities and funding of this so-called charity, who appear to be nothing more than a propaganda front.”
Labour MP Chris Williamson said: “One of the most worrying aspects of the Integrity Initiative’s activities is this seemingly covert effort to move the country on to a war footing.
“The involvement of someone like John Rendon is extremely concerning as this seems to be exactly the sort of thing that he specialises in.
“A lot of the focus has been on Brexit over the last few weeks but this isn’t an issue that the Labour Party are willing to let go of.
“We will be asking for more debate in Parliament and more answers from the Foreign Office in order to find out exactly what has been going on here.”
Institute for Statecraft director Chris Donnelly is an honorary colonel in military intelligence who once headed the British Army’s Soviet Studies Research Centre at Sandhurst.
Fellow board member Dan Lafayeedney was an SAS soldier in 1978, while Stephen Dalziel spent time in the military and working in military intelligence. Another director, Harry Hart, was the inspiration for a secret agent in the hit Kingsman movies.
While the organisation are registered as a charity at the Gateside Mill in Fife, nobody there is aware of their work.
We revealed how the organisation’s official Twitter account was being used to attack the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn, with one piece suggesting he was a “useful idiot” for Vladimir Putin.
There is also evidence that the organisation mounted a social media campaign that saw Spaniard Pedro Banos rejected for a job as his country’s national security director."
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Topic Originator: londonparsfan
Date: Sun 13 Jan 15:12
Thanks Bertie that's an interesting read.
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Topic Originator: Rastapari
Date: Mon 14 Jan 08:08
Government and integrity in the same sentence....yeah....that doesn't work for me.
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Topic Originator: sammer
Date: Mon 14 Jan 15:49
These shadowy groups funded from the USA have been undermining Scottish Independence since at least the 1970s. Their concern revolves around the fear that an independent Scotland would tax oil revenues along Norwegian lines and adopt a military position separate from NATO. In reality an independent Scotland would likely be no more of a threat to their interests than an independent Eire has been, so when the SNP has been led by moderates like John Swinney or Nicola Sturgeon things cool down a bit. However when voices like Willie McCrae’s, who died in a mysterious car crash, or Alex Salmond’s are to the fore then more dirt is thrown. McCrae was rumoured to have links to a Scottish terrorist group, while Salmond is apparently a serial groper.
The main target is naturally enough anything remotely like socialism. To that end any figure of substance on the political ‘Left’ can expect to be blackened by such agencies, with the full support of their UK counterparts. Jack Jones, former TGWU leader was, along with Michael Foot, a KGB spy apparently. As was Harold Wilson, who doubled up as Prime Minister. Jeremy Corbyn was a spy for Czech intelligence back in the 1970s. Arthur Scargill used union funds to pay his mortgage. Tommy Sheridan was a swinger. George Galloway stole aid money for a reason I cannot recall. (When Galloway reduced the US Senate to embarrassed silence this was barely reported in the UK media.) And on it goes.
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Topic Originator: londonparsfan
Date: Mon 14 Jan 16:32
You missed Corbyn being a terrorist sympathiser too when the spy stuff didn't really stick.
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Tue 15 Jan 01:56
... and not forgetting the abuse and sly jibes Jimmy Reid got when fighting for Upper Clyde Shipbuilders.
I rewatched Galloway's testimony to the US Senate not so long ago. It really was a magnificent piece of work. His finest hour.
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Topic Originator: sadindiefreak
Date: Tue 15 Jan 02:14
Willie McRae didn't die in a car crash.
Much more sinister than that.
He was found in his car shot in the head.
When found his arms were folded on his lap, the weapon was found 18m from where the car had been, with no fingerprints on it.
It was ruled as suicide, just how someone shoots themselves in the head. Then manages to get the gun 18m from the car he was in, wipe of any fingerprints and then fold his arms is beyond me.
McRae was rumoured to have information on an alleged paedophile ring in Westminster. I believe a newspaper had uncovered some evidence to support this. The documents McRae had on this and the government's plans to dump nuclear waste at Dounreay were missing from his briefcase which was in the car.
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Topic Originator: GEW35
Date: Thu 24 Jan 21:22
Thanks to Sammer I have just re-watched the George Galloway interview from start to finish. A masterful performance in all ways, I’d forgotten what an excellent orator he was. A joy to watch him in full flow.
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