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Buncefield did worst-hit building house a "secure data centre"

banana | 14.12.2005 13:29

Did the worst-hit building at Buncefield (the HQ of a company with a former head of MI5 on its board) house a "secure data centre"?

Northgate, the company whose HQ was the worst damaged building at Buncefield, and which has a former head of MI5 on its board, also:

a) works with all police forces in the UK

b) runs a "secure data centre" somewhere.

It refers to this in its annual report and elsewhere:

 http://www.northgate-is.com/download/annual_reports/annual_report_2002-
2003.pdf

I don't know where this secure data centre is.

But about 200 cars are shown outside its Buncefield HQ in the large photo at Cryptome. And might the stripy rectangles on the central "towers" of the building possibly be air vents for underground facilities?

banana

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brunswick group

14.12.2005 15:33

a cartel running terror ops index linked to energy markets?


Donald Evans, a close friend of president George W. Bush and the former commerce secretary, met president Vladimir Putin of Russia last week but refused to be drawn on growing speculation that he had been offered the chairmanship of Rosneft, Russia's state-controlled oil company.

Rosneft has emerged alongside Gazprom as one of two state-controlled Russian energy champions. But it has a controversial reputation abroad following its acquisition of Yuganskneftegaz, the main production arm of Yukos, the oil company built up by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for $9.35bn (â,¬7.8bn, £6.5bn) in a forced auction last December. Yuganskneftegaz was sold in part-payment of a $28bn back tax claim against Yukos, widely seen in Russia as part of a broader, politically motivated attack on Mr Khodorkovsky, who is serving a jail sentence in Siberia.

The appointment of Mr Evans would be a coup for Rosneft, which has hired advisers, including the UK's Brunswick Group, to help it improve its profile in the US and Europe ahead of an expected flotation in London

 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e4c849c0-6c87-11da-90c2-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=9d5b9ebe-c8bc-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html


below from page:
 http://cryptome.org/hemel-eyeball.htm

Northgate's financial exposure is limited by its insurance policies that provide sufficient cover for the building and its contents as well as for any business interruption. This allows the Board to be confident that the long-term impact of this incident is unlikely to be material.

For further media enquiries, please contact:
Brunswick Group LLP 0207 404 5959
Tom Buchanan/ Craig Breheny/ Phoebe Buckland
Note to Editors

Northgate Information Solutions (www.northgate-is.com), listed on the London Stock Exchange, is the UK's leading supplier of specialist software and IT services for the human resource and public service markets.
The Group has three divisions - Human Resources, Public Service Applications and Managed Services - each with market leading positions. With 25 major UK offices, Northgate employs approximately 3,300 staff, has more than 2,700 large/medium customers and in excess of 6,000 small/medium customers in the UK and Ireland. It works with approximately 90% of UK local authorities, all UK police forces and is moving into the education market.

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Blairs deals on Russian Kremiln owned corporate cartel???
remember the news a couple of weeks ago?
the cold snap will lead to an energy crisis...

why? for Blairs Nuclear ambitions
Power as an excuse for weapons
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


how best to bring the public onside as worldwide protests
against climate change and UK Nuclear energy protests
than to profit from a managed disaster???

cw


Hate to break up a chance for the conspiracy theorists

14.12.2005 19:36

Hate to break you potential state busting news. They provide outsourced payroll management, the company I work for use them along with many others. Perhaps this is were the term 'secure' comes from. Incidently this mean that my pay and thousands of others may be delayed

Overlord


so

14.12.2005 21:11

sure

its not hard to see why the ex-head of MI5 - Sir Stephen Lander
[who is also the head of SOCA - serious organinsed crime agency]
would be involved in the data security for the entire police force

what other kind of data does this firm deal with?

there is mention of involvement of data used
under the electoral commision on the Northgate webpage

what are they doing on a major fuel depot site?

they are not in the industrial estate
they are inside the depot itself by the look of the photos

what's that all about?

why do they have a public relations firm [brunswick]
which has a track record of dirty tricks
intelligence activity against protestors
and represent oil & gas corporate interests?

As Blair said recently - anyone who represents things other
than the national interests of this country is a threat

so - anyone who protests at
these spookish activities threatens the corporate state interests -
of an energy cartel which is a Multi-national collusion in anti democratic
corporatist processes

which

have the sole aim of
of eliminating all competition and all opposition
to its continuance - it's ability to carry on
being a dehumanisation machine








cw


BACS it's not

14.12.2005 21:15

"Hate to break you potential state busting news. They provide outsourced payroll management, the company I work for use them along with many others."

Amongst many other systems, primarily HR. And just because they are a major firm no way impinges of the implications of a major explosion damaging the HQ of a former security service head, so no apologies needed. HR is how THEY sift us ( excuse me for coming over all Twilight there).

"Perhaps this is were the term 'secure' comes from. "
Nah.

"Incidently this mean that my pay and thousands of others may be delayed."
Not secure then eh ? And serves you right, I hope you lose your entire wage just before Christmas you tax-paying, security-service supporting fellow you.

Danny


strange

14.12.2005 21:38

Reduce administration costs, improve customer relations and boost office efficiency, by using Northgate DMS to carry out the scanning, processing and storage of a variety of documents such as:

HR and Payroll Files
Starters & Leavers
Timesheets
Expenses
Accounts Payable Invoices
Delivery notes
Commercial contracts, Insurance, etc
Pension Files

 http://www.rebusdms.co.uk/


Northgate HR to manage payroll for Electoral Commission
 http://www.northgate-is.com/press_centre/item.php?item_id=648

[so - if there is some integrity involved in the electoral process
does someone lose their pension/wages? er..]


In March 2004, the controversy over the exaggeration of the oil and gas reserves of Shell Oil resulted in the resignation of the then chairman, Philip Watts, and Walter van de Vijver, who was responsible for exploration and production. In an attempt to manage the crisis Shell hired the Brunswick Group to help it manage the crisis. "Brunswick has recently come on board, but we don't really say much more about what they do,"
 http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brunswick_Group


Kremlin owned Rosneft, has hired advisers, including the UK's Brunswick Group, to help it improve its profile in the US and Europe ahead of an expected flotation in London - Financial Times
 http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e4c849c0-6c87-11da-90c2-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=9d5b9ebe-c8bc-11d7-81c6-0820abe49a01.html

-----------------------------------------------------------
"...our Business Intelligence team enables customers to make timely, fact-based decisions that optimise their company's performance and unlock the value of their collective information for competitive advantage." Northgate
-----------------------------------------------------------


You would never guess it from your average Newsnight or Today programme, but security is a business like any other. Big business. Take Kroll, "the worldwide (and Nasdaq) leader in risk consulting".
It expects revenues touching $602m in 2004, up 32% on 2003, which was itself a record year.

"We're the global leader in risk mitigation, with a premier brand, personnel and clientele," says its CEO.
We can be pretty sure that terrorism will increase "for the foreseeable future", says its head of security.

Al-Qaida has been good for Kroll and British competitors like the Control Risk groups. It has been good for the appointment of media "security correspondents" and the growth of a trade press serving this burgeoning industry. It has been good for university departments surveying the field and hi-tech surveillance manufacturers. It has been tremendous at finding well paid jobs for ex-SAS, Scotland Yard, CIA and sundry "expert" chaps. It has given the accumulated budgets of homeland security, here as in America, a supersonic spending charge.

But how good has it been for any of us, the people who pay at the end of the line?

Peter Preston
 http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-12-2004-49353.asp

cw


Hey!

15.12.2005 10:27

The pub across the road from me burnt down. Perhaps you could knit me a nice garish conspiracy theory for Xmas?

M


OK here goes

15.12.2005 13:39

the landlord of the pub doesn't want to upgrade
to be a 'fun pub' draped in neon
or a fake Irish/Aussy theme pub

they also
can't afford the 24 hour license
and wont fit in to the surrounding ethos being socially
engineered into the area

so the major entertainment corporation that own 80%
of all the pubs in your area plants a
worker in the bar to generally bring down the place

by psychically destroying the atmosphere

and stealing, any old dirty tricks
tainting the beer
forgetting to clean pipes properly

eventually it gets too much and the place is
burnt down for the insurance and
leaves a nice big burnt out shell that enrages the public
who call for action to be taken

the solution is presented to build a great big
theme pub entertainment complex

the contract is given to that great big corporation
who planted the disruptor/usurper

[now just imagine the same for the fuel supply industry]

business intelligence can involve the act of
stealing important day to day running data
such as pension data/ ins & outs/ contracts/plans

disrupting and eliminating the competition is
the aim of all major corporations




cw


intelligence is now representing a corporation

15.12.2005 13:48

all intelligence is a business
a corporation

nickname for the CIA - the company
nickname for the SiS - The Firm


an example of this:

The original document on which this one is based was a sabotage manual produced by the United States Central Intelligence Agency for distribution in Nicaragua in the 1980’s. It was hoped that if enough disenfranchised individuals undertook activities that subverted economic stability, the Leftist government would be more easily overthrown. The manual described itself as “a practical guide to... paralyzing the military-industrial complex... without having to use special tools and with minimal risk for the combatant.”

It continues, “Some might think that today’s armed struggle requires military supplies and economic resources only available to states or terorist bands... There is an essential economic infrastructure that any government needs to function, which can easily be disabled or even paralyzed without the use of armaments or costly and advanced equipment, with the small investment of resources and time.

The folowing pages present a series of useful sabotage techniques, the majority of which can be done with simple household tools such as scissors, empty botles, screwdrivers, matches, etc. These measures are extremely safe and without risk for those who use them, as they do not require equipment, skill or specialized activities that can draw attention to the doer.

One combatant can perform many of them, without having to turn to collaborators or having to make a detailed plan beforehand. These are acts that can be done practically in an improvised way every time an occasion presnts itself. Our sacred cause needs to have more men and women join its ranks in order to perform these sabotage tasks. However, necessary caution should be taken, and only when the task requires it, should another person or persons participate in or have knowledge of a given act.”

While the original document was intended to facilitate subversion of the Nicaraguan government, the techniques may be applied to any other state or ‘military-industrial complex’ with which the individual is aggrieved. NB: not only are some of these activities illegal, but encouraging people to engage in them is also illegal. With this in mind, this text is presented as a snapshot of the cold war mentality of intelligence agencies, and not as a practical guide to acts of sabotage.


 http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Opening/7482/ciaintro.html

 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mickie/44991244/in/set-983397/

these were designed to usurp an entire political system

so now we see these practices being employed
for the benefit of a cartel

anyone who wants to be
legitimate
have integrity
fair trade

is the target



of course i'm not too sure how this applies to Buncefield

but maybe it was a barnburning exercise










cw


Don't you think...

15.12.2005 15:37

you are getting ahead of yourself there cw?

M


perhaps

15.12.2005 16:32

oh yes, indeed...

but i find that examining world events
sometimes leads me to other avenues of
investigation


so although Buncefield might be an accident
eventually i find myself considering the
nature of the society we find ourselves in

corporatism is a dangerous entity, no?

but centralised state power is also dangerous, no?

and as Mussolini's oft quoted definintion of fascism:

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of
state and corporate power."

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Mussolini thought it was unnatural for a government to protect individual rights: "The maxim that society exists only for the well-being and freedom of the individuals composing it does not seem to be in conformity with nature's plans." "If classical liberalism spells individualism," Mussolini continued, "Fascism spells government."

The essence of fascism, therefore, is that government should be the master, not the servant, of the people.
 http://www.banned-books.com/truth-seeker/1994archive/121_3/ts213l.html
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cw


face this political reality

17.12.2005 15:39


Time Magazine published Bobbitt's essay explaining his book -The Shield of Achilles -
on September 9, 2002. He wrote:


"If September 11 is the forerunner of a new world conflict, coping with the conflict could bring a new constitutional order in its wake. In the 21st century, what might be called market states could replace nation-states.

Market states will have the same borders and political systems as nation-states but will shift important responsibilities from government to the private sector; multinational corporations will become surrogate agents of government, filling roles that government can no longer play and blurring the boundaries between political and corporate leadership..."



Philip Bobbitt is a lawyer--professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Texas Law School in Austin , fellow at King's College, London, in the War Studies Department, counselor on international law at the Department of State, the director of intelligence, senior director for critical infrastructure and senior director for strategic planning at the National Security Council (under Clinton). - source

 http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheSwiftAdvanceOfaPlannedCoup.htm

cw


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