London
Capital city of the UK |
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London' is the capital city of the United Kingdom.
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Headquarters
London hosts a lot of organisations' headquarters, as well as private meetings such as Le Cercle.
Pollution
Pollution is London is estimated to kill perhaps 9,000 people/year.[1]
Militarization
After the 2016 Berlin Truck Attack, plans were announced to spend £5 million on a "ring of steel" around a section of the City of London, featuring bollards and checkpoints.[2]
In August 2016, Bernard Hogan-Howe announced an expansion of "counter terrorist" police - which the Daily Mail described as "awesomely armed (and masked)". Hogan-Howe said that "In some of our big iconic locations, we've already got armed patrols - if you look at Parliament, Downing Street - so it's not entirely new. I think people understand that where you are going to have people as enemies who've got guns, we've got to have guns."[3]
Events
Event | Description |
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1984 Libyan Embassy Siege | |
1994 London Israeli Embassy attack | Two car bombs in London, one in front of the Israeli embassy; one next to a building occupied by Jewish organisations. It was blamed on Palestinians, but MI5 whistleblowers have claimed an MI5 investigation concluded that Mossad were behind the attacks. |
2005 London bombings | A series of coordinated attacks on London's public transport system during the morning rush hour, allegedly carried out by four Muslim suicide bombers. |
2006 Counter Terror World Summit | |
2017 Westminster attack | A combined vehicle assault and stabbing at an iconic London location |
Cold War Then and Now? | A free conference that appears to have been part of a broader campaign by the Institute for Statecraft to promote Cold War 2.0. |
Diana Spencer/Inquest | The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales |
Grenfell Tower fire | |
Gunpowder Plot | |
Hyde Park bombing | |
Iraq Inquiry | "The point of the delay is to give the impression Chilcot has been absolutely painstaking and therefore the bucket of whitewash he will throw cannot be hiding anything. Do not be fooled." (Craig Murray) |
June 2017 London attack | |
Le Cercle/1999 (London) | |
Le Cercle/2013 (London) | |
Le Cercle/2014 (London) | Dates include June 20 but are uncertain |
Leytonstone tube station attack | |
Operation Crevice | A raid launched in the UK on the so-called "fertiliser bomb plotters". |
Regent's Park bombing | A 1982 London bombing ascribed but never proved to be the work of the Provisional IRA. |
Tackling Tools of Malign Influence | Integrity Initiative conference about "Russian Propaganda" |
Groups Headquartered Here
A Group Headquartered Here | Description |
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Airwars | |
Amnesty International | |
Anti-Slavery International | |
ArmorGroup | One of the largest private security firms operating in Iraq |
Association of Chief Police Officers | |
Astutus Intelligence | A UK limited company started in 2015 by two Institute for Statecraft directors and a third man. Dissolved in 2019. |
BAE Systems | A global arms company, with interests also in civilian avionics and engineering. Its subsidiaries are also involved in providing intelligence, personnel and logistics support to US/UK military. |
BBC | A state propaganda apparatus disguised as a quasi-autonomous public service corporation. |
BP | Multinational oil company implicated in the 1953 Iran Coup. |
Balli Group Plc | A privately held company with a subsidiary, Balli Aviation that in 2010 pleaded guilty to charges of illegally exporting Boeing aircraft to Iran, in breach of sanctions. |
Bank of Credit and Commerce International | The "Bank of Crooks and Criminals International", as some nicknamed it, was a bank set up to facilitate large scale, global money laundering, mainly to support a range of black operations by intelligence agencies. |
Bank of England | |
Barclays Bank | |
Behavioural Insights Team | UK government propaganda and manipulation outfit |
Bell Pottinger | Received $500 million from the US DOD to create a range of propaganda, including fake Al-Qaeda videos |
Big Brother Watch | |
Black Cube | Spooky Israeli business intelligence agency |
Board of Deputies of British Jews | |
British Council | The British government's cultural propaganda body. |
British Petroleum | |
British Satellite Broadcasting | A London based satellite television company |
British-American Tobacco | |
Cabinet Office | |
Cambridge Analytica | A big data mining company |
Campaign Against Antisemitism | |
Carlton Club | |
Carlton Television | |
Centre for Policy Studies | |
Centre for Research into Post-Communist Economies | |
Chartered Management Institute | |
Chatham House | A key organ of the UK Deep state |
Civitas | Group which has a high intersection, in at least some activities, with the Institute for Statecraft |
Coalition for Peace Through Security | A spooky UK front group to try to oppose CND. |
Commonwealth of Nations | |
Conservative Party | |
Control Risks | A British private security company. |
Council of Foreign Bondholders | |
Crown Prosecution Service | The principal public prosecuting authority, a non-ministerial UK government department that conducts (almost) all criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. |
De Beers | |
Department for Communities and Local Government | |
Department for Transport | |
Department of Trade and Industry | |
ESCP Europe | Private business school |
Equilibrium Gulf Limited | |
FIPRA | |
Fabian Society | |
Foreign Desk Ltd | |
Forum World Features | A London based CIA propaganda operation which operated as a professional news service from 1965 to 1975. |
Frontline Club | A venue used by the Institute for Statecraft/Integrity Initiative |
Future Of Russia Foundation | Largely UK company with a remarkable assortment of directors |
... further results |
Jobs here
Event | Job | Appointed | End | Description |
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Josh Arnold-Foster | Senior Adviser | 2007 | "Provide advice on political and governmental defence and security policy development to a range of clients in the defence and aerospace sector" | |
Hamzah Behbehani | Banker | 1992 | 1992 | Middle East Sales |
Jeremy Newmark | Chairman | January 2006 | October 2013 | |
Ella Rose | Public Affairs Officer | September 2015 | August 2016 | |
Ella Rose | President | June 2014 | June 2015 | |
Elaine Birch Ruffell | Senior Investigative Officer | December 1991 | June 2001 | "Responsible for identifying & containing threats to sources, staff & operations; and assessment of security clearances" |
Elaine Birch Ruffell | Senior Operational Officer & Analyst | June 2001 | July 2003 | "Led assessment & disruption of narcotic trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe." |
Elaine Birch Ruffell | Head of Staff Development & Training | July 2003 | May 2006 | |
Stephen Silverman | Director of Investigations and Enforcement | June 2015 | Trawling social, printed and broadcast media for evidence of Antisemitism and coordinating 'enforcement' action against those deemed guilty of it. |
References
- ↑ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/10/london-toxic-air-pollution-killing-thousands-every-year/100304958/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycomworld-topstories
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38418877
- ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3721270/Extra-armed-police-patrol-London-TODAY-attacks-Europe-amid-warnings-two-YEARS-train-officers-outside-capital.html