From WikiLeaks

ARK and the 'orphans' in eastern Europe

‘Ark also has in interest in all those ‘orphans’ in eastern Europe.’

The following is the truth about what is happening with the ‘orphans’ in eastern Europe, from the book For Export Only: The untold story of the Romanian ‘orphans’. Link here: http://www.romania-forexportonly.blogspot.com

Extracts from this book, in three sections, showing that 1) the Romanian ‘orphans’ are not ‘orphans’ at all, 2) how the public have been misled by the manipulation of photographs and media reports, and 3) that brain research in these institutions uses some of these children as subjects.

1) Romanian ‘Orphans’ are not orphans

(p. 50) I remembered our field visit in July 1999….the leagans we had visited looked like baby shops. Had Mariela not told me, a while ago, that in the maternity wards mothers were often ‘advised’ to leave their babies behind, because they were considered too poor?

(p. 77) We asked about the mothers of these abandoned babies. Their identities were all known. Some mothers could not take their children home immediately after birth, for reasons of health or housing, and claimed the children later. But the nurse said she would make sure they would not have their children back. And almost always she was able to convince the mother to sign the abandonment papers.

(p. 130) a Roma mother….recently found back her daughter…she told on camera how her first daughter, mid-eighties, had been born underweight. When leaving the maternity she had wanted the child home, but the doctors opposed saying the child still needed medical care. Each time she came to visit, the doctors repeated the message. From the maternity, the child was eventually moved into the child protection system….and nobody bothered informing the mother. End 2000 she received a letter from the DCP informing her about her child’s whereabouts.

(p. 132) to demonstrate the reform was being done with responsibility and professionalism, he [Michael Leigh] suggested the Romanians to communicate widely elementary facts about the children, for example that most children were not orphans.

(p. 133) the story of a young mother…..Alexandra had just given birth, but she had no Romanian citizenship and therefore could not register her child…..a neighbour convinced Alexandra’s mother it would be better for Alexandra and her younger brother to be brought up by a richer family abroad….Five months later…Alexandra was sent back to her mother, alone on a plane, a sticker ‘unaccompanied minor’ on her chest. ……This ‘orphan’ had been returned to her mother.

(p. 134) MEP Gil-Robles is in Bucharest. He met with the Delegation’s Deputy. Mariela had opposed the children were not orphans, and that the conditions were not as dreadful as he might have been told. [ie. Mariela is saying that the children are not orphans, poorly translated]

(p. 135) The Edelweiss winners [singing competition for children in care] told the audience about their experiences in child protection. One girl said how she remembered a foreign journalist come to her children’s home, who threw hands full of sweets on the floor and took pictures when the children were crawling over each other enthusiastically picking up the sweets. ….After the meeting we showed some of the children websites of adoption agencies with pictures of Romanian ‘orphans’. Full of disbelief they watched. One of the girls recognized some girls that had left her children’s home about a year ago. She did not know why the girls had left or where to. They simply had not been there any more. In general there was a lot of coming and going in children’s homes.

(p. 150) This morning’s bi-annual EP Petition Committee dealt with no less than three petitions from EU citizens on the subject of Romania’s children.....I gave an outline of the events..and called for the EP’s understanding of Romania’s situation: the orphans were no orphans.

(p. 188) Some journalists have been looking into some of the adoption cases….. a girl adopted by a Spanish couple…the girl’s mother declared she had not given up her child voluntarily, but she had been obliged because she was single and poor. She was now married with the girl’s father and had no other children……also tracked the case of the Romanian twins…Ann found the Romanian mother. She was not aware of the adoption. The authorities had taken her twins when she had asked them for milk powder…..

(p. 190) The other fairy tale is that people are made to believe that there are abundant children that need to be adopted….The children are often taken by force; rarely parents voluntarily abandon their children. They either do not have a choice or others take the decision for them.

(p. 193) Three year old ‘rescued’ from Romania…..her story of being rescued from a country where no-one seems to care is a fiction….she is not even an orphan….Her real mother never consented to her adoption…..that was decided by a court ruling…without her mother’s knowledge.

2) Misleading the Public

(p. 18) The Sera report was full of dramatic black and white pictures and the description of the Romanian orphanages was horrific. The Unicef report made clear there were many children in residential care throughout Eastern Europe. This was a matter of concern the more because the conditions in these homes were rather bleak. But the descriptions were not as tragic as in the Sera report.

(p. 31) A week off. One morning I read the most recent Sera report. The same pamphlet-like texts and dramatic black and white pictures as in previous reports.

(p. 43) The first letter of the year was from De Combret. This time addressed to President Prodi asking for more EU money to close ‘death houses’. Attached to the letter was another Sera report… on De Combret’s most recent visit to Romania, including dramatic black and white pictures. Strategically planned as usual, as Prodi was about to embark on a visit to Romania. I quickly checked the briefing our team had prepared to Prodi to see if the part on children was sufficiently clear: Emergency aid underway, and 25 million euros available to continue the reform…..

(p. 44) I realized that what De Combret was writing was often exaggerated. He described some camin spital in dramatic terms, calling them death houses and concentration camps.

(p. 55) After the break, it was Sera’s turn. When Braunsteffer started his complaints about Romania’s camin spital and the failed Commission actions, I saw someone of the EP distributing yellow folders….In it there were A4-format black and white pictures with awful images of disabled children. I walked over to someone from a French NGO who worked in Romania since early nineties. I asked her if she thought these were recent pictures. She said she could not judge on the spot. What she did now know is the horrible images, showing naked disabled children, widely distributed to the media in 1990, had been taken while these children were going to have their weekly bath. But the public was left with the impression these children had no clothing. Braunsteffer, in his speech, accused the Commission of having wasting 100 million euros……Braunsteffer’s words did not have much effect. The black and white pictures did. The Romanian side was enraged and denied the images were recent.

(p. 59) We knew this camin spital from the Sera reports, where it often was presented with the picture of a cemetery, implying this was a ‘mouroir’ (death house). We asked several people about the cemetery and were told there had been a fire in that institution many years ago in which some children had died. Not quite what Sera’s fund raising report had suggested.

(p. 69) Indeed, Landaburu and De Combret had their informal lunch….two more letters with drama stories on Romania’s children, including a video cassette with images from 1990. Well that was 100 million euros ago.

(p. 141) Sera is once more fundraising for its new model orphanage….a camin spital was filmed at night, with lights off, the only light came from the camera focusing on the disabled children with black and white images as result.

(p. 144) De Combret has organized a postcard action….On the card a black-and-white picture of a baby, ‘behind bars’, in a crib. I recognized the pictures from one of De Combret’s reports from years ago.

(p. 146)…these eight pages were full of dramatic black-and-white pictures: a sad mother holding her newborn subtitled ‘This child would be abandoned.’ Children in a worn down ‘camin spital’. That could not be a recent picture, as I knew that institution had been closed quite some time ago…

(p. 152-153) Landrieu and Craig visited a private children’s home just outside Bucharest…..They found just a few ‘abandoned’ babies instead of the dozens they expected, and thus this part of the visit was left out of the press.

(p. 162) In a six-page letter De Combret lamented that still thousands of children are in orphanages….De Combret asked for donations, if 10,000 people would give 50 euros each,, the children could be saved and placed in small homes of ten beds each. Monthly donations were also welcome….But, Sera Romania already received 1.2 million euros from the Authority, from their National Interest Programme to close the described institution…….

(p. 165) De Combret sent his mission report….Again a disastrous description of camin spitals, with dramatic black-and-white pictures. Most camin spitals that are described have agreed closure plans, either with funding from the Development Bank of the Council of Europe, by Children First or by Sera. But that was not mentioned.

(p. 172) There is lately again a lot of negative media on the children issue. …the UK press…the articles did not attack the Baroness, but reported on how bad things are fro children in Romania. Perhaps they were to influence the Baroness. As for me, I have read and seen so much over the years that I do not even pay attention any more.



3) Medical Research and the ‘orphans’

(p.58) ….we visited the family-type homes built by the European Children Trust in the early nineties with the funds raised by ‘Blue Peter’, that had been shown in the recent BBC documentary. One of the three houses was locked and unused. It was not clear why. Next door was the Sera HIV centre where 24 children lived who had been transferred from the camin spital. This home was quite luxurious, beautiful wall paintings, individually packed cookies with tea. But there were still some eight children in one room. All costs were paid by Sera. I was puzzled about this project. It was beautiful, but posh. Not a Romanian homely environment.

(p. 70) Apparently Dr. Federici was constantly criticizing USAID for not giving him millions of dollars to medically assess the disabled children in the camin spital. He kept USAID and the Embassy quite busy.

(p. 76) Towards the end of the meeting the Director proudly announced a future experimental brain research, to be done by some American Universities. A laboratory had already been installed at the premises. (Saint Ecaterina, the biggest Romanian baby home).

(p. 77) Conditions in the maternity clinic were rudimentary. The mothers were ten in a room and the babies were kept separate, some thirty of them swaddled in cotton, all in one room. We then asked to see the abandoned babies and were brought to a room with ten babies. So sad…..We continue to ask questions. ‘Yes, all those babies are abandoned and they will be adopted. This one will got to Italy, this one to Switzerland, this one to the US….’ The nurse ……showed us the oldest child, eighteen months, proudly saying it had played a role in an American movie filmed here in Bucharest. We asked about the mothers of theses abandoned babies. Their identities were all known. Some mothers could not take their children’s home immediately after birth, for reasons of health or housing, and claimed the children later. But the nurse said she would make sure they would not have the children back. And almost always she was able to convince the mother to sign the abandonment papers. We had seen enough, but the enthusiastic nurse insisted to show us the neo-natal ward and the fertility treatment laboratory. What a contrast. What a luxury and high tech. Premature born babies less than one kilo, were pulled through. Some of these children were also abandoned. But the most incredible was yet to come. The next door held a fertility clinic where over 300 women per year could benefit from IVF treatment. My mouth fell open. I found it almost cynical to have in the same building babies, held in a backroom with a minimum of care, were adopted abroad, while at the same time Romanian infertile women got costly fertilization treatment.

(p. 79) Six emails from Dr. Federici. ‘My name is Dr. Ronald Steven Federici, Neuropsychiatrist in Washington DC area and specialist in the neuropsychiatric evaluation and treatment of post-institutionalized children. They tell me I am regarded as one of the world’s experts in the most complicated cases for children who have been institutionalized, and I lecture all over the world with many of my medical team from my international charity entitled Care for Children International Inc. I am also Director of a large group medical-psychiatric practice and Professor of Child Development.’ …….’We are actively working with one of our very close colleagues….who would be the ideal US Ambassador to Romania and would be dedicated to working with the EU in implementing the proper changes while also working with our medical team to serve as principal consultants.’

(p. 86) The BBC had a programme on children. It did not take long before I realized it was a documentary about Federici’s treatment of de-institutionalized children. ‘Taming the Problem Child’ was its telling title. I watched with growing amazement. De-institutionalized appeared synonym for adopted. Apparently many children adopted from Eastern Europe showed a sort of autistic behaviour that was thought to be the result of having been raised in orphanages. Federici’s treatment meant that for at least a month, but if needed longer, the child must stay within its adoptive parents reach, for 24 hours a day. The child had to fully obey, if not the adopters needed to force it down to the floor until the child would give up its resistance. The child would not be allowed to play or meet friends. Federici claimed through process most children would have an 80% rate of improvement. His critics believed this process could be damaging…..’

(p. 87) In private many people admitted it was not easy for Romanians to adopt and the healthy children were ‘saved’ for abroad. The selection of children by foreigners was sometimes very thorough. The Israeli, for example, were nicknamed ‘the vampires’ as they took blood samples of adoptable children, which were analyzed in Israel before they were accepted.

(p. 97, 98) I am back in Bucharest. The awareness campaign was not an easy task. Mariela told them (Romanian staff) to visit the Saint Ecaterina leagan (baby home). I had asked Mariela to wait until I would be back, as I wanted to know more about the American research project……We asked to see the laboratory, and this time we were lucky. The American leader of the research, probably alerted to our visit, arrived within minutes and presented himself as Dr. Koga. This was indeed a state of the art project. The laboratory was in stark contrast with the rest of the ‘leagan’. Ultra modern, with high-tech equipment, almost surreal. Dr. Koga explained for this project, at random, three research groups had been created. Children who remained in the leagan, children who were placed in foster care and children who had always lived with their parents. The study would have to provide the scientific proof that institutionalization had a negative effect on brain development. Therefore the brains of all children, referred to as subjects by Dr. Koga, would be scanned regularly during the three years the programme would run….He also explained one of the basic underlying ideas of the research; the assumption that moving children to another room in an orphanage, or to another family for national adoption, or international adoption, means the same for a child, as until the age of fourteen, language changes would be no problem for a child. The brain would still be flexible and could easily adapt to new languages…..But that was not all. We were then shown a room where children and their carers would be tested. Koga explained the child’s skull would be covered with a cap with electrodes registering brain activity. As a sort of ‘affection detector’ it could scientifically show if a child had a positive attachment to an adult, or not. I asked if this was like a lie detector and indeed this was the case. According to Koga, this could be a useful tool when matching children with adoptive parents. Also, it could be used as evidence in legal proceedings to terminate parental rights. In the US this sort of tests were accepted as legal evidence. This knowledge/practice would now be transferred to Romania, which could keep the laboratories/equipment after finalization of the research. … ‘Was perhaps the well-known Dr. Federici involved?’ I asked. ‘Oh yes, he visited the project not so long ago.’

(p. 102, 103) The Baroness was glad Saint Ecaterina would be closed, but she did want to see the brain research project for herself…..Koga and an American researcher explained the project, but this time just about the effect of institutionalization on the brain development. Not about measuring attachment. Koga was enthusiastic and tried to engage the Baroness, but she was as cold as ice….Later at the Baroness’ hotel a report about another research project of the Mac Arthur Foundation, of which this Bucharest research was part. When Mariela and I read it, we could not believe what we saw: this research network studied attachment and development of social behaviour of monkeys, rats and autistic Romanian orphans. The most favorite guinea pigs?

(p. 132) The Baroness…..expressed her dismay about how Romanian children were used for research and how their image was often abused. She gave as example the American brain research project…..Mariela had told he American doctors that no matter how ethical they considered their research methodology, the fact was their project had prevented the closure of Saint Ecaterina (children’s home)….The American doctors had claimed they were not aware foster care was available in Romania and that institutions were being closed. Surprising, one would assume that USAID, accompanying them to this meeting, would have told them about Romania’s progress. The doctors denied their research had anything to do with intercountry adoptions.

(p. 134) MEP Gil-Robles is in Bucharest. He met with the Delegation’s Deputy. Mariela had opposed the children were not orphans, and that the conditions were not as dreadful as he might have been told….At the end of the meeting MEP Gil-Robles made a startling statement: ‘But what are we going to do to keep childless couples happy? If there will be no adoptions from here, there will be cloning. And that is not what we want.’

(p. 156)…a fresh report of the Rapporteur of the Council of Europe’s Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee says….worldwide, the issue of organ trafficking is not so new. IN the 1980s experts began to notice what was to become known as ‘transplant tourism’ when prosperous Asians began traveling to India and other parts of Southeast Asia to receive organs from poor donors…..It is most likely not without reason that Europol’s definition of child abuse refers not only to sexual abuse, prostitution, forced labour, kidnapping, parental abduction, ritual killing and illegal adoption, but also to the trade in abandoned children and the trade in organs. That probably means such abuses exist. So why would Romania’s abandoned children not have been victims of such crimes?.... I discussed all this over lunch with my secretary. Not long afterwards she sent me an article from a Belgian newspaper, just a few months old. It reported police had halted a Romanian truck coming from Brasov at the Hungarian border. In it, hidden behind a false interception, were two Romanian women with two babies, not their children. The children were destined for organ transplants in the UK. The Belgium Federal Police had sent out a notice to all local police to be attentive to Romanian trucks, as the normal route from Romania to the UK is through Belgium. Chilling.

(p. 205)…the issue of adoption was raised. Especially the recent statement made by Nastase had made in Washington about the possibility of intercountry adoption of special needs children. Jonathan explained that adoption should not be mixed up with medical treatment……

(p. 216) Romania was making it into the international media again: a 66-year-old woman had given birth after IVF treatment, the oldest mother in the world. The treatment, with donor eggs and sperm, had been done in the clinic that Mariela and I had visited end of 2000, where babies were sent for intercountry adoption and infertile women received IVF treatment at the same time. IVF treatment of women that had passed the normal fertility age was forbidden in most EU Member States.

(p. 224) Katja was dealing with another practice that seemed not to be in line with other European standards: Romania’s trade in human egg cells. The European Parliament had adopted a resolution to call for the Commission’s full investigation of this. A US/Israeli company was harvesting the eggs of students for a financial ‘compensation’. These eggs could be ordered via the Internet, and shipped to New York of London for fertilization.

(p. 247) I still follow all adoption news closely…..guess who advised Angelina Jolie when she adopted from Cambodia and Ethiopia? Dr. Ron Federici……Federici announced that the actress was considering taking on a Russian orphan now. In June last year [2004], the Hawaii based adoption facilitator that Angelina Jolie had used for her first adoption had admitted to be part of an adoption ring that paid poor women 100 dollars for their children. The US adopters paid at least 10,000 dollars. Her second adoption had been troubled because the mother of Jolie’s adopted child apparently had not given consent according to the rules. _____________________________________________________________________

It is worth noting that Romania has now reformed child protection sufficiently to become an EU Member State.

However, ARK is involved in helping the Romanian children: http://www.arkonline.org/?p=54

Arpad Busson, chairman of charity ARK, wants to raise money for the ‘orphans’: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a4xra0CjmAAw&refer=uk Busson said his biggest hope is for multiple attendees to pledge 100,000 pounds to help orphans in Romania and Bulgaria...

ARK and Psychosynthesis

ARK funds Teens and Toddlers, part of ‘Children Our Ultimate Investment’ (COUI, founded by Laura Huxley), and senior staff at Teens and Toddlers are heavily involved in Psychosynthesis:

‘The Psychosynthesis and Education Trust’ as described on the Charity Commission website: http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/ShowCharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=1077365&SubsidiaryNumber=0

TO FOSTER PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH INTO THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF THE HUMAN PSYCHE INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BODY, MIND, EMOTIONS AND SPIRIT AND THE SYNTHESIS THEREOF (KNOWN AS BIO-PSYCHOSYNTHESIS) AND ITS DISSEMINATION TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES.

Teens and Toddlers, funded by ARK. Senior staff: Diana Whitmore (writes books on psychosynthesis), Stacy Millichamp, training therapist and supervisor for the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust, (has worked at the Findhorn Foundation, a United Nations training centre), Peter Hein, Director of COUI UK (founded by Laura Huxley) since 2002. He was a lecturer in Psychosynthesis at Waltham Forest College for 6 years.

Main stream media report in the US about ‘Children Our Ultimate Investment’ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121401997.html "Children are our ultimate investment and also very much the ultimate investment of the tobacco companies, the ultimate investment of the liquor companies and, for sure, of the gun companies," she told an interviewer. …….In practice, the organization featured programs uniting the elderly with babies, based on the belief that both were emotionally needy and could benefit from a healing touch. Liability issues later ended this effort.

ARK's architects (studioearchitects) and 'euthenics'

More on: ARK’s architects Studio E Architects, associated with ‘euthenics’; 'Building Schools for the Future' programme and relationship with FEMA via Parsons Brinckerhoff; National College of School Leadership (NCSL), associated with Kissinger; Teaching Leaders, associated with Tavistock, at this location: http://www.lifeinthemix.org.uk/ark_academies_school.html

ARK Schools not 'non-selective'

Schillings letter states: 'The ARK Schools project has set up a network of.......non-selective inner city schools.'

However, the following indicates otherwise:

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR COUNCILLORS

Things that Officers and the DfES won’t tell you about ARK

Now the tax-exile Rosenfeld, repeatedly supported and promoted by Officers as suitable, has pulled out Brent Officers are desperately seeking a replacement and have proposed ARK to be the ‘sponsor’.

Contrary to spin, there is only one academy sponsored by ARK currently functioning. It is Burlington Danes Academy in White City, opened in September 2006. Already they have changed the key selection criteria from the original 10% Christian to 25% Christian for this September’s intake.

The charity was set up by and is chaired by multi-millionaire City trader Arpad “Arki” Busson. Arpad Busson is senior partner of EIM fund management company (with assets reported as ranging from £5 billion to £10 billion). He describes education as “in crisis” and “the biggest issue government face today” and argues that “charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders” (Observer, 29 May 2005). The charity has appointed Jay Altman as director of education. Mr Altman was the founding principal of the New Orleans charter middle schools in Louisiana. The source of some of ARK’s funds is believed to be the City hedge fund business in which some of its donors work. ARK’s website provides details of ARK’s management team and trustees. It also provides details of ARK executives. As well as Busson, other Ark ‘trustees’ include multi-millionaire Paul Marshall, one half of the fund managers Marshall Wace.

Paul Marshall is the largest individual contributor in the country to the funds of the Liberal Democats. Mr Marshall is a director of six companies, three belonging to the ARK empire and one being the Liberal Democrat Business Forum. Marshall Wace Asset Management, which he jointly owns with his fellow director Ian Wace, paid its directors £17.6M in 2005 with the highest paid receiving £5.6M.

ARK, as the sole proposed sponsor, is proposing a specialism in maths. It has been revealed that one proposal considered by ARK is to develop a maths curriculum and sell it to others. The other specialism proposed is citizenship. According to Elle Macpherson, his ex partner, Busson is so devout a Catholic he decided that he couldn’t marry a divorcee, despite having two children with her out of wedlock and despite Macpherson herself being a Catholic.

Paul Dunning of HSBC is a director and trustee of ARK. HSBC scandals include bank charges which the Office of Fair Trading found to be unlawful, excessive and disproportionate, charging excessive insurance on loans and the latest one, only talking to rich customers at a local bank. Among ARK millionaire trustees is Jennifer Moses. Jennifer Moses was until recently a senior director of the investment bank Goldman Sachs, which was recently fined $110 million by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for being involved in “the worst financial scandal for a generation”. Lord Levy, Tony Blair’s chief fundraiser, twice arrested in the ‘cash for honours’ scandal and subject of an ongoing criminal investigation, introduced Andrew Rosenfeld to Brent. He also supports ARK and at one of their fund raising events he auctioned a tennis match with Tony Blair. ARK withdrew from proposals to sponsor an Academy in Islington after a strong campaign by the NUT, parents and teachers.

When ARK visited the Islington school this was the impression they gave. Peter Hyman, key strategist to Tony Blair for more than 6 years, wrote in his book ‘1 out of 10’ that when former Goldman Sachs director Ron Beller (Ben) and a group from ARK visited the Islington Green school ‘the culture clash was immediate. Ben was loudly finishing a conversation on his mobile as he entered Trevor’s (the Head’s) office. Janice and Robyn, Trevor’s PAs, found this rude and disconcerting’. And so would we all. Ron Beller’s high regard for Islington Green’s then current employees was also manifest in his view that ‘Trevor could and should get rid of most of the staff and start again’! He is ‘a businessman in a hurry’ whose ‘every sentence’ is ‘laden with frustration that people weren’t moving fast enough to satisfy his needs’. Ron and his ARK friends would have been in charge of the school. However, they withdrew.

In conclusion, ARK is an American and British educational charity sponsored and run by a group of millionaire merchant bankers and currency speculators. There website claims they have a ‘wealth of experience’. What they do have is an experience of wealth. Last year, when they were senior directors at investment bank Goldman Sachs, Ron Beller and his wife Jennifer Moses were robbed of £2 million by their secretary Joyti DeLaurey - without noticing it was missing! Beller’s yearly wine bill, according to the Guardian, amounts to £18,000. To repeat, Goldman Sachs itself was recently fined $110 million by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for being involved in ‘the worst financial scandal for a generation’. They were also the bank which allowed Robert Maxwell to fleece the Mirror pension fund in the early 1990s. First on the list of ARK corporate sponsors is Aspect Capital. Aspect Funds are (according to their website) ‘organised as exempted companies incorporated with limited liability in the Cayman Islands, the investment activities of the Funds are not regulated or otherwise overseen by the Caymans Islands’ government or any other financial regulator’.

Information provided by Labour Research Department, National Union of Teachers Academies and Privatisation Unit, and Islington Teachers Association.

Printed and Published by Brent Teachers Association

ARK School at Wembley and underground constructions

Link at this location, indicating anomalies in the plans for the Wembley Sports Ground site in London: http://www.sendspace.com/file/j01np8.

More on ARK's insidious associations here:

ARK's connection to EIM Group and surf trip here:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/EIMConsult_censored_video

Previous legal threats here: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Schillings_legal_demands_to_EUTruth.Org_over_EIM_Chair_Arpad_Busson

Nitin Parshotam at Brent

Nitin Parshotam, promoting ARK at Wembley.

Nitin Parshotam is currently Head of Asset Management Service at Brent Council and also involved in Education Asset Management Plan. He supports the building of the ARK school on the Wembley Sports Ground site.

http://www.brent.gov.uk/consultation.nsf/24878f4b00d4f0f68025663c006c7944/b3bf647df4cf875b8025739a003bb1fa!OpenDocument Concern was also expressed about the impact of the Wembley Park Academy on local traffic and recreational facilities of the current site…….Nitin Parshotam stated that traffic impact assessment (TIA) had confirmed that Bridge Road was the site best suited for the Academy.

At Lambeth Borough, as Head of Property, Nitin Parshotam, involved in similar:

From: http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/1AE3304F-C947-4976-A1AF-72618D7FD538/0/EducationQuarterlyPerformanceReport.pdf Acceptance of a tender from Fennel and King Ltd in the sum of £19, 498.00, excluding VAT, to carry out the refurbishment works at Hill Mead School.

The acceptance of a tender from Bromley Demolition in the sum of £32,140.00, excluding VAT, to carry out the demolition of 21 and 22 Clarewood Walk, Brixton

Lilian Baylis PFI School Project/Land Swap with Diocese of Southwark/St. Mark's Church of England Primary School.

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/F4395F13-7A20-413B-A3FA-3126FFFEC1D2/0/EducationPerformanceReport200001.pdf New Clapham School Building Works – letter of intent re: acceptance of tender

Acceptance of tender for building works at Kingswood Primary School

Acceptance of tender for building works at Stockwell Primary School

Improvement works to Norwood Park School

At Brent, Nitin Parshotam advises on the repairs and building of schools across the borough:

http://www2.brent.gov.uk/cmin.nsf/files/LBBA-178/$file/ForPlan10myj.pdf Nitin Parshotam advised Members of the Select Committee that priority projects had been identified for the first year of the Capital Budget Programme and that Members would consider the balance of remaining capital spend over the next 3-4 years. At this point the Chair requested clarification as to how the £8.3m 2004/05 budget would be allocated to particular projects. Mr Parshotam confirmed that an asset management scheme and a replacement programme for huts and temporary buildings would provide the majority of planned works for the 2004/05 period. ….Members noted that £6m would be spent on asset management schemes during the first year, whilst a further £1.7m would be allocated for the hut replacement programme……Mr Parshotam advised the Select Committee that there was a backlog in repairs and maintenance issues for a number of schools across the Borough but that the AMP Statutory Plan categorised the nature and level of repairs and building conditions in schools across the Borough and provided the Council with an objective criteria. A ranking system enabled the Council to prioritise the repairs that were necessary in schools across the Borough and draft a list of priority repairs.

Nitin Parshotam and son Kishan:

With respect to the ARK Academy School plans:

Although there is only one named attendee from the Brent Youth Parliament (BYP) at the BYP meeting, Nitin Parshotam, along with Bruce Sounes (from Studioearchitects, with an interest in ‘euthenics’) and Robert Lanwarne, attend: http://www.brent.gov.uk/servlet/ep.ext?extId=126153&other1=338063&other2=24

Kishan Parshotam (son of Nitin Parshotam) is a member of the Brent Youth Parliament and also represents Brent on the UK Youth Parliament: http://www.brentbrain.org.uk/brain/brainzones.nsf/0/B9FBE11FD95FBBFD802575430038D73F?opendocument&Z=3 Kishan Parshotam, 16, from Northwick Park Youth Club ….. will also represent Brent on the UK Youth Parliament.

Also mentioned here: http://wembley.harrowobserver.co.uk/local-authority/

A group of five bright teenagers have been elected as the leaders of this year's Brent Youth Parliament…….Usman Mirza, 15, from John Kelly Boys will be secretary and Kishan Parshotam, 16, from Northwick Park Youth Club and Rizwaan Malik, 13, from Kenton will represent Brent on the UK Youth Parliament.

the charity ‘Shishukunj’:

On the ‘Just Giving’ website Kishan Parshotam raises money for Shishukunj: http://www.justgiving.com/kparshotam

About my charity : Shishukunj Shishukunj is an organisation with over 30 years in UK (& 60 yrs Internationally) of working with and for children making difference in their development. Value based environment & education at Shishukunj promotes all to help to relieve poverty, distress

The charity he raises for is this: http://www.shishukunj.org.uk/index.php

Shishukunj is a registered charity (No. 284206) established in August 1976. 'Shishukunj' (a Sanskrit word meaning a garden of children) is primarily an institute dedicated to the welfare and cultural development of children. It is run entirely by volunteers for the benefit of the children.

According to the Charity Commission website:

PROVIDES ACTIVITIES AIMED AT 6-14 YEAR OLDS, PRIMARILY ON SUNDAY MORNINGS FOR 4 HOURS. ENCOMPASSES HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT - PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SOCIAL, CULTURAL, SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT IN AN ENVIRONMENT RICH IN POSITIVE VALUES AND FAMILY ENVIRONMENT. ACTIVITIES ARE RUN ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY BY YOUTH VOLUNTEERS.

Under Charitable Objects:

(A) TO ADVANCE INDIAN CULTURES AND RELIGIONS AMONGST CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. (B) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE. (C) TO INSTRUCT CHILDREN AND YOUGN PEOPLE IN THE PRINCIPLES OF DISCIPLINE LOYALTY AND GOOD CITIZENSHIP. (D) TO RELIEVE POVERTY DISTRESS AND SICKNESS.

It also states the contact details and official address as being in Brent:

SHISHUKUNJ 98 CHAPLIN ROAD LONDON NW2 5PR

Parshotam’s son Kishanbhai goes to India with Shishukunj Charity, from the website’s blog: http://shishukunj.blogspot.com/2007/12/monday-17th-december.html

nitin parshotam said...

To all the Shishukunj Family I am extremely overjoyed at reading of the experiences and comments from you guys out there. Kishanbhai Parshotam - I am also proud to be your dad. Keep enjoyinmg and keep going. Nitin Parshotam

Founder of Shishukunj worked at Netherlands bank: http://www.shishukunj.org.uk/founder.php?curpage=3 Rameshbhai informed Devchandbhai of a vacancy at Netherlands Bank and he was duly emplyed.

http://www.shishukunj.org.uk/ This demonstrates that Shishukunj has an ethos of ‘Baal Devo Bhava”; according to the following, this translates as ‘Honour Baal as God’.

Translation: http://freetranslationblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/englishtranslation-of-sanskrit-verses.html

Pronounciation: maatru devo bhava pitru devo bhava Translation: Honour thy mother as God. Honour thy father as God.

Hence, ‘Baal Devo Bhava’: ‘Honour Baal as God’

Also here: http://www.shishukunj.org.uk/upload/Brent%20Kendra%20-%20Spring%202008%20Letter%202.pdf here: http://www.dileshharia.co.uk/baaldeen/baaldeen06_letter.pdf here: http://www.shishukunj.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=53&Itemid=2

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I. Velikovsky, a contemporary of Einstein’s:

‘Immanuel Velikovsky…..edited, with Albert Einstein, the Scripta Universitatis atque Bibliothecae Hierosolymitarum…..’

Wrote ‘Worlds in Collision’, in which he states:

p. 182: ‘ Baal Zevuv (Beelzebub) The beautiful morning star was related to Ahriman, Seth, Lucifer, name equivalents of Satan. It was also Baal of the Canaanites and of the Northern Kingdom of the Ten Tribes, the god hated by the biblical prophets, also Beelzebub or Baal Zevuv, or Baal of the fly.

ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) and their eugenics agenda

More information on the connection between ARK and the Lucifer Trust and the Huxley's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxQpft5F_k

ARK, Ron Beller, and subprime mortgages

Schillings law firm state that:

'The EIM Group has absolutely nothing to do with subprime mortgages and never has done. Further, Arpad Busson, the Chairman of EIM Group also has nothing to do with, and never has had anything to do with, subprime mortgages. The Posting links to a pdf document prepared by EIM concerning subprime mortgages. The document is an information only document which would be clear from any detailed consideration of its contents.'

Subprime Mortgages, pdf document: http://www.eimgroup.com/jahia/webdav/site/eim/shared/Sub%20Prime%20Mortgages%20May%202007%20(4).pdf

So, EIM Group produces a lengthy 'information only' document about subprime mortgages.

Schillings' letter caused a forum outage on the 911Truth website on 17th December:

http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=129255&sid=6fae88b1ea1705d20706cf93b8ae8b09

Due to a threatening legal letter from Schillings lawyers dated 16th December 2008 the site was suspended by Simon at United Hosting. Schillings were acting for Arpad Busson, EIM Group and ARK schools and complaining about allegations entitled ARK, EIM and Subprime Mortgages. now hidden



Ron Beller, trustee of 'Ark Academies', most certainly has been heavily involved in subprime mortgages, from which he made money 'hand over fist' via his hedge-fund Peloton. The supposed collapsed of Peloton is documented here:



http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3465296.ece

The collapsed Peloton fund invested entirely in mortgage-backed securities, bonds created by pooling together home loans taken out all over the world. Peloton’s strategy was considered a relatively safe one. It would buy only the highest quality, AAA-rated mortgage bonds, where there was little chance of the customer falling behind with payments. At the same time, Beller and his team were making bets that the poorest-quality sub-prime mortgages would fall in value by short-selling the securities. The $2 billion or so of equity in the fund was constantly leveraged four or five times over, giving the fund a portfolio of assets worth some $9 billion. The high-quality mortgages in Peloton’s portfolio were used as collateral to back the leveraged positions. It was its bets on the falling value of sub-prime mortgages that led to huge profits last year. Until early last month Beller was sitting pretty in his chic London office. In January the firm celebrated its third anniversary. During this time its flagship Peloton Partners fund returned an annualised 27%. And the partners were prepared to keep betting the ranch on their own success.



According to the following, from 'business.timesonline' in March 2008:

'Peloton Partners, the London-based hedge fund, is liquidating its two funds and shutting up shop.' http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3492287.ece



And again:

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article3465233.ece

'FEARS of a hedge-fund meltdown are rippling through the City, with dozens more funds said to be close to following Peloton into collapse.

Peloton began to liquidate its $9 billion (£4.5 billion) credit portfolio on Friday after coming under pressure from its bankers.'



Strangely, though, Peloton Partners is clearly still in business a year later, and has aquired another office, in the US:

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=25694969

Peloton Partners, LLP is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor. The firm primarily provides its services to pooled investment vehicles. It manages hedge funds for its clients. The firm invests in the public equity, fixed income, commodity, and hedging markets across the globe. Peloton Partners was founded in June 2005 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Peloton Partners' website here: http://www.pelotonpartners.com/

Further to Ron Beller having accumulated vast amounts of money from subprime mortgages, we have EIM rubbing shoulders with Beller at his hedge-fund Peloton:



http://www.technologyinvestor.com/login/2004/May12-08.php

Throughout its first full year, Peloton's flagship Multistrategy Fund struggled with meager returns. Some investors, such as EIM, left. But in late 2006, Mr. Beller expanded on a promising strategy: Bet heavily against the U.S. housing market. That became the focus of the Peloton ABS Fund, which he launched with about $500 million of investor money from the Multistrategy Fund.

The timing was good. By July, the ABS fund was up 34.45% as subprime borrowers began defaulting. At the same time, Mr. Beller was making a counter bet: That highly rated mortgage securities, which were trading at only 90 to 95 cents on the dollar amid the market turmoil, would ultimately pay off in full even amid heavy borrower defaults.

Some investors weren't happy with the shift into mortgage securities. Several withdrew money, including Key Asset Management and Goldman's asset-management arm. In August, Goldman's prime-brokerage unit sharply increased the amount of collateral Peloton had to put up for short-term loans.

The move infuriated Mr. Beller, according to people familiar with the situation.

Jaw-Dropping Gains

He berated some investors who decamped, questioning why they would forgo Peloton's gains, which by November 2007 had reached a stunning 87.6%, largely on the bearish housing bet. In late January, Peloton won two awards at a black-tie ceremony hosted by trade publication EuroHedge. Some attendees gasped when Peloton's returns were announced.



More on subprime mortgages:

William Black, former bank regulator, on mortgage fraud, particularly non-prime mortgages: http://www.youtube.com/user/alexjoneschannel3#p/c/0D01C6963BFCE25A/2/h_g9euABquY 'how did it start...it started with mortgages, particularly non-prime mortgages......this epidemic of mortgage fraud would cause an economic crisis.....80% of the mortgage fraud was being induced by the lenders....the CEOs ...became fabulously wealthy by following a strategy based on fraud,...'

ARK Academies and Hebrew

EIM Group and ARK Academies are connected via chairman Arpad Busson.

Schillings letter states:

'Suggesting that EIM Group have used a Hebrew word for their own gain....is completely false.'

The ARK Academy 'King Solomon Academy' is most certainly Hebrew. http://www.kingsolomonacademy.org/secondary/

This is peculiar considering this is a local state school (not a Jewish school) in inner London where there is a large population of children from families of all religious backgrounds including Hindu, Muslim, and Christian.

Also interesting is that the twin towers of Wembley have been demolished and there are two ventilator towers on the plans for the Ark Academy at Wembley. No-one (aside from the architects) is sure what they are for. 'Twin towers' symbolism has an interesting and lengthy history, mentioned here: http://www.lifeinthemix2.co.uk/galactic_alignment.html

Also peculiar is the Ark Master Funding Agreement, comments here:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/409398.html

Academy Schools; Air Conditioning Units spread viruses.

Academy Schools build new-build schools, which are sealed environments with central control panels, to modify 'weather' conditions within the schools. The windows cannot be opened, which at the moment, is the only justification for schools being built with ventilator towers.

Perhaps they should now close all of these buildings on account of the capacity for air conditioning units to spread these so-called viruses.

http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=645%3Anasal-sprays-are-to-be-first-qswine-fluq-vaccines&catid=41%3Ahighlighted-news&Itemid=105&lang=en

Nasal sprays administered in “vaccination sites” located in supermarkets in the US such as Walmart could result in disease-producing organisms being released into air, which is then put through air conditioning systems and distributed in flows among the crowds shopping in a store.

Not just in shopping centres. Now in the schools. Considering that the nasal spray, in its patent, contains the bird flu virus, we now have schools which are potentially lethal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwP0JvQtRqM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkN-xbvLo-4















Further to the above.....

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/terrorists_atta.html : Terrorists Attacking via Air Conditioners

From the DHS and the FBI, a great movie-plot threat:

It is possible to introduce chemical or biological agents directly into external air-intakes or internal air-circulation systems. Unless the building has carbon filters (or the equivalent), volatile chemical agents would not be stopped and would enter the building untenanted.





Other scenarios involve the use of helicopters equipped with agricultural spraying equipment to discharge large chemical or biological contaminant clouds near external or roof-mounted air intakes or ventilators.





Terrorists have considered producing a radiological dispersal device (RDD) by burning or exploding a source or sources containing radioactive material. If large quantities of easily dispersed radioactive material were released or exploded near an HVAC intake or circulation system, it is possible that targeted individuals could suffer some adverse health effects.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2867055.stm :

Air-conditioning concerns

But some have questioned whether the virus could have been spread through the hotel's air-conditioning system.

"It would suggest that it spread through the air-conditioning system, but you can't rule out person-to-person contact, since you don't know if they were even in the same room together," president of the American Society of Microbiology Ronald Atlas says.

"Everything suggests that it is airborne."

http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUST184398._CH_.2400 :

TROPICS: BEWARE AIR CONDITIONING

Tang said in the tropical countries, modern comforts, like air-conditioning, may fuel the spread of H1N1.

"With tropical countries using air-conditioning more heavily in hot weather ... outdoor climate factors may become irrelevant when most of influenza (and other respiratory viruses) are transmitted indoors in an air-conditioned environment in tropical countries," he said.

There is no seasonal pattern to influenza in the tropics and outbreaks happen all year round.

"Purely in terms of airborne influenza virus survival, opening the windows so that the hot, humid air comes in, will reduce virus survival - but it will be damn uncomfortable," said a microbiologist in Asia, who declined to be identified

http://dailyreporter.com/blog/2009/09/15/flu-may-spread-via-ventilation-systems/ :

Flu may spread via ventilation systems

Schools, hospitals and clinics are preparing for the upcoming flu season and the unknown impact of the H1N1 swine flu virus. But those plans stop short of equipping ventilation systems with specialized equipment because at this point the potential benefits don’t outweigh the costs.

“There are studies showing that building airflow can be an important mechanism, but in terms of quantifying a change in ventilation systems reducing the transmission rate is tougher,” said Andrew Persily, a former vice president of ASHRAE.

Paul Roderick Clucas Marshall at ARK

The following video on youtube demonstrates Paul Marshall's two different identities at the charity commission. This is clearly deceit on his part. So, lies and deceit at ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) yet again.

Youtube video 'Ark and the Adam's Family':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyqsOBkLWh0

The Killing Fields

From: http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?p=4210&cpage=1#comment-49

I have to say constant reading of documents such as this is not conducive to peace of mind by any measure, cold, detached, robotic, and absolute evil. As if that was not bad enough, one cannot cease to remember that the politicians of all nations, and big business, are all happy to go along with this Eugenicist superdream.

If you want to venture into just exactly what is around the corner, how it will play out, and who are the victims…then take a look through this diatribe of human engineering, I say human only in the sense it is humans carrying out the insanity, as for conception, never would such a piece of work emanate from the human genetic, there has to be something very different from we normal people and the minds which gave birth to this monstrosity.

It is a piece by piece construction of a global death camp, because all this is set to be launched in one day, (see the Illuminati protocols). The Nazis must be proud of what they spawned almost 70 years ago, because looking at this document one can see the Nazi extermination doctrines perfected in the following work.

It covers every angle as far as escaping this net of terror, bringing together every charity, all aspects of the civil service, our supposed political representatives at all levels, in fact every operation launched from 2000 within our democratic system have not only moved in the direction of this document, they are this document, with PC as a weapon, the corporate banking dynasties have brainwashed via NLP, almost everyone operating our whole country, the mass of people are bedazzled with TV and Hollywood to the point, the scripts of the fantasy are more important than their own reality.

Under these circumstances the following plan of action will be child’s play to birth, and implement, regardless of the mass of people, it must be stopped in its tracks, and quick smart. I have to say also, reading this document makes the case for the vaccination as the weapon to create the pandemic in the first instant, everything is so rehearsed, so precise, they know the pandemic is coming, you can feel it in the writing, the vaccination is the pandemic, I doubt this not, take a look and see what games are playing in dark corners of power.

Section 9 gets rather interesting, and as you will see, heads of schools are very big players in this net, also this document and its rules are up for review in December, so everything could change, it would only take the removal of any talk of after the pandemic, and this could go on forever, keep that in mind always

More Killing Fields here:

http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?p=4260

and here:

from: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21798943/Developing-School-Emergency-Plan-1-Deceased-students

Appendix A. Pupil presumed deceased (Day Schools)

Procedures to follow in the case of a pupil presumed deceased on site (Day Schools)

The following procedures are recommended for use in day school provision in the event that a pupil is presumed deceased on the school site.

Please also check that any action taken is in line with the recommendations contained in any Health Care Plan which may have been prepared for the pupil in question.

1. Request police and ambulance presence immediately via a 999 call. 2. Inform the Head Teacher/Deputy Head Teacher/Teacher-in-Charge of the circumstances. The Head Teacher/Deputy Head Teacher/Teacher-in-Charge should aim to be at the school/unit as quickly as possible if they are not already on site. 3. Do not attempt to move the pupil presumed deceased to another location. 4. Remove all other pupils away from the area as quickly as possible. 5. Ensure that the pupil presumed deceased is supervised until the arrival of the emergency services. 6. The emergency services would normally remove the body from the school site in order to have the death confirmed by hospital/based medical staff. 7. The pupil's parents must be informed of the circumstances in person. The police will usually take the lead in contacting parents and arrangements should be made for an appropriate member of staff from the school or unit (usually the Head Teacher or Teacher-in-Charge) to accompany the police on this visit. If the police wish to remove any items from the school, including items of paperwork, a receipt should be obtained.

Search a Child; Pay Cash. International Adoptions

The continual obsession with other people's children. The film which demonstrates the corruption in adoption and the lack of actual 'orphans': 'Search a child, Pay Cash.'

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf2_N0-Hdss

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsDxGX-9ijs

Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGDI2v7_D5U

Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vNCuXkaxew

Part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgo-Pj-OuWQ

Anomalies in the plans for Ark Academy

Brent Council's reply to the following set of questions:

'We acknowledge your views'. (This indicates Common Purpose training and means 'I will not engage with you').

The cement slab is credibly reported to be underground cells.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22488867/Ark-Academy-in-Brent

DNA and Genes.

DNA and genes.

* Jean-Pierre Etter from the European Institute of Management:

http://www.whygeneva.ch/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=164&lang=en

A start-up before the word was coined

In his book, Start small, grow big, stay human & conquer the world (ISBN 2-05-101324-1, published by Editions Slatkine, Geneva in 1994. Also available from LEM in Geneva.), Jean-Pierre Etter recalls how he had to make it alone using money from family and friends. When his company became successful, it gave him the greatest pleasure to reward those who had had faith in him early on. In an interview in the book, he remarks ‘Young local entrepreneurs often come to me for advice and, perhaps, help in introduction to bankers willing to invest in their ideas. This is the first, and occasionally the most serious, mistake an entrepreneur can make. I try to encourage them to avoid taking out a bank loan that could be a millstone around their necks for years if things don’t work out as they expect. There are other ways.’





* Parliament Select committee on Work and Pensions; Minutes of Evidence, Wednesday 8th May 2002.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/22523623/Adam-Street-Parliament-on-Adelphi-folk-of-that-nature

Do you feel in your own experience that you are listened to by the people who are developing this policy? The people in Jobcentre Plus, the people in Adelphi House and folk of that nature? ….....

The people in Adelphi House are folk of this nature - see the article on the John Adam Street Gang at this location: http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?p=3305





* Comments on the document Wiltshire and Swindon Local Resilience Forum, Joint Pandemic Influenza response plan.

from: http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?p=4210 If you want to venture into just exactly what is around the corner, how it will play out, and who are the victims…then take a look through this diatribe of human engineering, I say human only in the sense it is humans carrying out the insanity, as for conception, never would such a piece of work emanate from the human genetic, there has to be something very different from we normal people and the minds which gave birth to this monstrosity.

Document here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21747606/Lrf-Influenza-Pandemic-Plan-v3-6





* Comments about 'our genes' and 'the best of the DNA of private schools', and the 'DNA of Wellington College' being deployed elsewhere.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21817010/Academies-Boarding

Academies are injecting the best of the DNA of private schools into the state funded sector, and the engagement of private schools is a key objective of the programme. Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College, describes how the Wellington Academy on Salisbury Plain will replicate the best of Wellington College, without the fees barrier. In particular, the academy will develop a centre of excellence in the education of children from military families, a mission which Wellington Academy has in common with Wellington College. As part of this, the academy will have two boarding houses, developed by boarding staff at the College. As a beneficiary myself of an assisted boarding education, I am keen to see if boarding education could play a larger role in academies, to benefit vulnerable children and those from highly mobile families.

Wellington College, an independent school in Berkshire founded by Queen Victoria and the prime minister in 1859 as a national memorial to the Duke of Wellington, decided in 2006 that it would sponsor an academy. Our governors were attracted by the idea of extending opportunities similar to those available at Wellington to a wider group of students educated in the state system. They were impressed by the argument that the ‘DNA’ of Wellington College could be deployed elsewhere to inform the founding ideals and purpose of a new state school. In our case, that means a commitment to all-round education, our eight aptitudes,1 pupil well-being, outdoor activities and the Combined Cadet Force. The academy would also have a strong house system, with the house names at Wellington College replicated, and boarding. 700 of our 850 pupils are boarders. It is very much in our genes.

Paedophile Liberation Exchange (PIE) and those involved with Ark Academy schools.

Liberty, also known as the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) has been affiliated with the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) and Paedophile Action for Liberation.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/4949555/Harriet-Harman-under-attack-over-bid-to-water-down-child-pornography-law.html

Miss Harman left NCCL in 1982 when she was elected MP for Camberwell and Peckham, by which time several members of PIE had been jailed for conspiracy to corrupt public morals. A spokesman for Miss Harman said: “She has always opposed child pornography and has never supported PIE and to suggest that she did is untrue and misleading. “NCCL’s approach to the protection of children’s bill was to argue for clear definitions in the bill to make sure the law was precise so that it was about child protection and not about censorship.” The spokesman added: “PIE had been excluded from the NCCL before she became legal officer.” However press cuttings from 1983 make it clear that it was still considered an “affiliate group”.



Some of those at ARK Academies who are also involved with Liberty:

John Lyon, husband of Sally Morgan, (an advisor to ARK 'Absolute Return for Kids' and a trustee at 'Future Leaders', funded by ARK) is listed as a director and Vice-Chair at Liberty: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22572059/Ark-Academy-Sally-Morgan-s-husband-John-Lyon-at-Liberty

Lewis Silkin solicitors, involved with the writing of the academies' funding agreements, are signatories to Liberty's statement for justice and security.

Lewis Silkin LLP and the Ark Master Funding Agreement: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22491535/Ark-Academy-Ark-Master-Funding-Agreement

Lewis Silkin and their involvement in academies: http://www.lewissilkin.com/our_services/landscape/Pages/Academies.aspx

Lewis Silkin signatories to Libery's statement for justice and security. http://www.scribd.com/doc/22571140/ARK-Academy-Lewis-Silken-at-Liberty-ULT-Board-Members

Robert Wharton, councillor at Brent Council, who has been instrumental in pushing through the Ark Academy at Brent, is involved with Liberty: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22571130/Ark-Academy-Robert-Wharton-and-Liberty

Robert Lanwarne's interesting history.

Robert Lanwarne, as the Chief Executive of the York based 'Funding Agency for Schools', was instrumental in driving through the 'maintained schools' agenda in the UK.

This 'Funding Agency' was disbanded in 1999, but curiously Robert Lanwarne arrives at Brent Council as a 'project manager' some years later, and promotes the 'Ark Academy'.

It is interesting how often the Ark Master Funding Agreement refers to the 'maintained schools', clearly established as a precursor to the Academy Schools agenda, with Robert Lanwarne having a controlling hand in this.

Robert Lanwarne at the 'Funding Agency for Schools': http://www.scribd.com/doc/22656334/Lanwarne-at-Funding-Agency-for-Schools-York-quango

Robert Lanwarne 'project manager' at Brent Council for the Ark Academy: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22657892/Robert-Lanwarne-Project-Manager-ARK-Academy-Brent

Many references to 'maintaned schools' in the Ark Master Funding Agreement: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22655436/ARK-Academies-Funding-Agreement-and-maintained-schools

Worth remembering that Lewis Silkin law firm was involved in writing up the Academy Schools' Funding Agreements, and are also involved with 'Liberty', linked to the Paedophile Information Exchange. (PIE).

ARK's Master Funding Agreement; no contractual obligation to teach anything at all

Some have been wondering exactly what will be going on in schools since there is no contractual obligation for academies to teach anything at all.

It is now the case that 'Moodle' is being taught to primary school students in the UK. 'Sloodle' is, presumably, not far behind.

Report on 'Moodle' here:

http://www.lifeinthemixtalk.com/?p=5458

The indymedia article which points out the peculiarities in the ARK Master Funding Agreement (based on the 'Model Funding Agreement') at this location:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/409398.html

Quotes from the Ark Master Funding Agreement also on the youtube video 'Ark and the Adam's Family'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyqsOBkLWh0