Wikileaks UK Memo's Expose Iraq Invasion Links to Oil Firms

Daily Reckoning: 04/22/11 Stockholm, Sweden – Open acknowledgment has yet to surface quite the same way in the US, but the UK has now readily exposed — in over 1,000 Freedom of Information documents — that, at a minimum, five meetings between UK public officials and BP and Shell representatives took place in 2002. In a series of post-invasion contracts, 50 percent of Iraq’s 120 billion barrels of oil reserves were snapped up by industry participants including China National Petroleum Company and BP.

Despite indications to the contrary throughout the build up to the Iraq war, the UK was clearly making a concerted effort “to get a fair slice of the action for UK companies in a post-Saddam Iraq.”

How Wikileaks exposes Cult of Secrecy Political Parasites Honesty Incompetence!

Andrea Muhrrteyn
Why We Are White Refugees

Many eon's ago, the father of modern warfare, Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War, “Know thine enemy better than one knows thyself”.

It appears clear to me that the conspiratorial parasitic Political Class, frothing at the mouth like dogs with rabies by Assange/Wikileaks disclosure of their gutless cowardly ecosystem of corruption not only don't know their enemy, but they don't know themselves.

For a start it is totally clear that most do not share Assange's intentions about how leaking and transparency can benefit honest businessmen and companies; which is probably one of the greatest factors that contribute to the job of a statesman: to nurture an ecosystem of peaceful sustainability.

In Andy Greenberg's Forbes Interview of Assange, he asks Assange: What do you think WikiLeaks mean for business? How do businesses need to adjust to a world where WikiLeaks exists?

WikiLeaks means it’s easier to run a good business and harder to run a bad business, and all CEOs should be encouraged by this. I think about the case in China where milk powder companies started cutting the protein in milk powder with plastics. That happened at a number of separate manufacturers.

Let’s say you want to run a good company. It’s nice to have an ethical workplace. Your employees are much less likely to screw you over if they’re not screwing other people over.

Wikileaks: CableGate: ANC avoid defining "one-man one vote"; & need direct confrontation to mobilize their followers

WHEN HE MET SEVERAL WEEKS AGO WITH MANDELA, DE KLERK PROVIDED A SET OF PROPOSALS AND ASKED FOR THE ANC'S RESPONSE. [..] THE PROPOSALS RELATED PRINCIPALLY TO THE NEED TO ALLAY WHITE FEARS. SPECIFICALLY, HE THINKS ONE ISSUE WAS THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE ANC TO THE SACP (SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY) AND ANOTHER WAS THE DEFINITION OF ONE MAN ONE VOTE.

[..] THOUGH AN ABSENCE OF DIRECT CONFRONTATION IS "DEMOBILIZING FOR THE MASSES," ....

Bravo for WikiLeaks!! -- Finally Some Transparency & Honesty from Politics! Time to ditch Lying / Bullshit / Diplomacy for Brutal Honesty!

It is now possible to view many political developments around the world through the lens of those who participated in those events. As such, our understanding of those events is deeply enriched. That alone is often enough to place transparency ahead of national regulations regarding confidentiality.

US embassy cables leak sparks global diplomacy crisis

• More than 250,000 dispatches reveal US foreign strategies
  
• Diplomats ordered to spy on allies as well as enemies
  
• Hillary Clinton leads frantic 'damage limitation'

David Leigh guardian.co.uk,
Sunday 28 November 2010 18.13 GMT

The United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.

At the start of a series of daily extracts from the US embassy cables – many designated "secret" – the Guardian can disclose that Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran and that US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN leadership. These two revelations alone would be likely to reverberate around the world. But the secret dispatches which were obtained by WikiLeaks, the whistleblowers' website, also reveal Washington's evaluation of many other highly sensitive international issues.

UK Audit firm launches new arms deal probe - TimesLive

UK Audit firm launches new arms deal probe

Politicians, business leaders set to be named


Nov 7, 2010 12:00 AM, TimesLive
Subashni Naidoo & Monica Laganparsad

South African politicians and businessmen who pocketed R1-billion from the arms deal are set to be named in a new investigation by Britain's auditing watchdog.

The Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board (AADB) is to investigate KPMG, which advised BAE Systems on offshore companies that were used to pay "commissions" to influence the awarding of lucrative contracts in South Africa's R47.4-billion defence procurement package.

Controversial businessman Fana Hlongwane, who was an adviser to then-defence minister Joe Modise when the arms deal was initiated, will be a key figure in the latest probe.

It follows an investigation in the UK and Liechtenstein into alleged payments of more than R200-million by BAE to him.

The company, which has also been under investigation by Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) since 2007 for issuing bribes in South Africa, recently "settled" a £286-million fine for failing to comply with global anti-bribery rules.

The boardhas initiated the latest probe after corruption cases related to the arms deal were mysteriously dropped by South Africa's Hawks unit in September.

The audit, which will involve scrutiny of KPMG's confidential records, is set to reveal substantial financial evidence - and disclose the names of influential individuals - who, in exchange for cash, helped BAE supply Hawk trainer aircraft and Gripen fighter jets to South Africa for $2.1-billion.

Judge Censors Newspaper from Printing Story about Crooks in SAPS Crime Intelligence

South African court tries to mum Sunday Independent newspaper

Tamas S. Kiss, Budapest Report
Saturday, October 30th, 2010

The minister of police, national commissioner and divisional commissioner of crime intelligence of the Republic of South Africa have reportedly convinced the nation’s high court late Friday (29 Oct 2010) to stop the Sunday Independent newspaper from publishing information about dodgy appointments within the crime intelligence division, the periodical announced in a statement late Saturday (30 Oct 2010).

They added that it allegedly took the alleged biased Judge Ephriaim Makgoba “minutes” to rule on the application in the absence of the publication’s legal advisers. Under the censorship ruling the Sunday Independent has been gagged from publishing a follow-up story of alleged nepotism among top South African policemen, under the direct influence of the ruling African National Congress (ANC).

Reportedly the publication was ordered to submit all documents concerning the investigated police discrepancies and pay for the legal costs incurred. Ironically the South African Parliament has not yet passed its planned Protection of Information Bill or Media Censorship Bill, which is currently under discussion by a committee there. However it seems that the committee has not yet defined what “classified information” implies.

Secret Affairs and alleged Illegitimate Children of Nelson Mandela

When reading stuff about Nelson Mandela I keep in the back of my mind his views as expressed in: How to Be a Good Communist, by Nelson Mandela (PDF) and authoritarian communism's number one priority: maximum secrecy (How to Master Secret Work, by ANC & SACP (PDF)).

Authoritarian communists practice secrecy, to hide their true agenda's and motives, corruption and illegal acts, and mostly their violence, so as to put forth a fake untrue image of themselves and their organisation, as 'democratic'.

John Maher of Delancey Street: A Guide to Peaceful Revolution in America, by Grover Sales [*Amazon*]

Democratic communists (i.e. they only accept people who want to join their commune, after having been fully-informed, not lied to behind secrets and fake agenda's. You join voluntary and you can leave anytime.) include John Maher, the founder of Delancy Street Foundation; whose work and practice is totally different than that of the ANC.

Mahatma Gandhi's struggle also favoured transparency and honesty, to keep his movement accountable.

Nelson Mandela was also the founder of Umkomthe We Sizwe, whose military intelligence (security department) was Umbokodo.

This is a poem that former ANC member, Sam Mngqibisa wrote about his education as an Imbokodo officer, as quoted in Women in the ANC and SWAPO: Sexual Abuse of Young Women in the ANC Camps, by Olefile Samuel Mngqibisa (Elty Mhlekazi) (PDF). [This document is included, among many others, as an evidentiary document in Radical Honesty SA Amicus Curiae to Concourt in Citizen v. McBride (PDF), the contents of which are being massively censored by the SA media.]

ANC & State Secrets Political Currency: The secret files that still haunt SA

Secrets, however, are also political currency. Secrets are power.

There will also be compromising information in the files, not only about the nefarious activities of apartheid officials, but about the ambiguous role of some liberation “heroes” as well, possibly even high ranking current politicians.

Speculation about Joe Modise, the deceased former minister of defense, for example, continue to surface, while Peter Makoba, the later former youth leader who made “admissions” during an ANC security investigation, is still treated as a hero in ANC mythology.

The obstruction appears to be a mix of disinterest, incompetence, but above all officialdom's enduring love of secrecy for its own sake.

Concealment is the trademark of secret policemen. Not democracy.