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Nov192012
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Bishop Hill
Bishop Hill Without limitations
Nov 19, 2012 Climate: CRU Martin Rosenbaum notes in a tweet that the statute of limitations relating to Climategate has now passed.
Come out RC, wherever you are!
Reader Comments (57)
Pharos - you might be onto something. The police is already on record saying they changed their ways due to political considerations.
"...But, as the saying goes, you can lead a Mann to water but you can't make him drink it." --TerryS
The saying does not involve a man, but a horse. An entire horse, it should be noted.
nice overlap between BBC's Neville-Jones, FCO, QinetiQ & Centre for European Reform:
Wikipedia: Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
BBC
She was appointed a BBC governor in January 1998. Her final post was as the Chairman of the Governors' World Service Consultative Group. Neville-Jones was Chairman of the Audit Committee from 1998: she stood down from that position in September 2004. She left the BBC on 31 December 2004
Defence
From 2002 to 2005, Lady Neville-Jones was also non-executive chairman of the part Government-owned defence technology company QinetiQ, which was privatised for £1.3 billion in February 2006...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Neville-Jones,_Baroness_Neville-Jones
Powerbase: Pauline Neville-Jones Role at BBC and QinetiQ
In 2004 Neville-Jones came under fire for her role as chair of Qinetiq, the privatised research arm of the MoD with lucrative contracts in Iraq. The Observer reported:
"The BBC chief who played a pivotal role in how the corporation covered the Iraq war and the David Kelly affair, stands to profit out of a firm with lucrative military contracts in Iraq."...
The Centre for European Reform
***Neville-Jones was an Advisory Board member between 2002-09, along with other elite decision-makers of Atlanticist tendencies of the Centre for European Reform (CER) with a penchant for adopting the fashionable US ‘soft power’ approach with support for more conventional forms of power. The CER say they make a point of “bringing together people from the world of politics and business”. Their meetings and seminars are described as “invitation-only events, to ensure a high level of debate...
Many of the CER’s small group of people have later joined ‘governments or EU institutions.’
But why do ‘senior officials, ministers and commissioners’ get something for nothing and the more important question is why is the CER utterly dependent on the ‘donations’ of its funders: Accenture, APCO, AstraZeneca, BAE Systems, BAT, BP, British Bankers’ Association, BT, Chubb Investment Services, Daily Mail and General Trust, Deutsche Bank, Diageo, EADS, EDS, The Economist, Express Dairies, German Marshall Fund of the US, GKN, GlaxoSmithKline, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Northern Foods, Pearson, Portland Place Capital, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Telecom Italia, Tesco, Thales, Unilever, United Utilities, UPS, Weber Shandwick Adamson and WPP Group. What do they get for their money?
So we could argue that Neville-Jones is part of a lobby front...
http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Pauline_Neville-Jones#Role_at_BBC_and_Qinetiq
Wikipedia: Centre for European Reform
They also think that the EU should take on more responsibilities globally, on issues ranging from climate change to security...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_European_Reform
June 2012: CER: Policy Brief: Saving emissions trading from irrelevance
by Stephen Tindale
(Stephen Tindale is an associate fellow at the Centre for European Reform)
As a first step, the cap on the volume of emissions should be lowered, to reflect the fact that the economic recession has led to lower emission levels than expected when the cap was set. A lower cap should be combined with a price floor and a price ceiling...
http://www.cer.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/attachments/pdf/2012/pb_ets_29june12-5344.pdf
15 May 2011: Telegraph: Melissa Kite: How clashes with Theresa May led Dame Pauline Neville Jones to quit
But when the Home Secretary turned to her security minister for an update on counter-terrorism not long into the coalition government, she could hardly believe her ears.
"I'm sorry, Home Secretary," said Lady Neville-Jones, "but I'm afraid I can't talk to you about that, because you don't have the security clearance."
Mrs May sat in stunned silence, according to insiders. "May never loses her temper," said a senior source, "but if looks could kill…"...
Those who have worked with Lady Neville-Jones say she is often confrontational to the point of being rude. Her abrupt manner would seem an unlikely attribute for a career diplomat who served throughout the world for over thirty years before coming to rest in Whitehall in the 1990s.
She was Director of the Joint Intelligence Committee until 1994 and then political director of the Foreign Office.
"It is hard to imagine a person less suited to being in the business of diplomacy. She is the least diplomatic person you could ever meet," was how one senior Tory who has worked with her put it.
She was nicknamed Pauline Neville Chamberlain by FCO mandarins, owing to her views on the Balkans. A cheap shot, maybe.
It is said that she had her eye on the job of ambassador to Paris but was offered the lesser post of Bonn instead. She resigned and went to work for NatWest, became a BBC governor and then chairman of Qinetiq in 2002...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8513906/How-clashes-with-Theresa-May-led-Dame-Pauline-Neville-Jones-to-quit.html
pat...look up what happened to Qinetiq after her arrival there...
I, for one, do not think RC was a CRU insider- at least not one of the "big names".
As we know their technical skill with emails is not "top-drawer" by any stretch of the imagination.
Don Keiller: PhD students did not belong to the big names but were CRU insiders.
...or at least give us the key to your encrypted archive...