Tony Blair's and Peter Mandelson's friend, Murdoch's son-in-law, is Geldof's spin doctor: corporate public relations consultant Matthew Freud in charge of Live8 Ltd. adds more weight to the accusations that Live8 is a mere publicity stunt by the rich and powerful to distract from the real issues of global capitalism and the extreme poverty it increasingly causes.
Tony Blair's good friend, Mr Matthew Freud, is heading Bob Geldof's middle-aged attempt to regain pop-stardom. Matthew 
http://www.red-star-research.org.uk/subframe5.html is Sigmund Freud´s grandson and runs "Freud Communications PR Consultants" ( http://www.freudcommunications.com/), which works with with popstars and celebrities like Britney Spears and has corporate customers like AOL, Nestlé, KFC, Pepsi, Sony and the British Central Office of Intelligence (COI) http://www.coi.gov.uk/aboutcoi.php. The COI is the successor of the WWII wartime Ministry of Information.
Freud also ran Labour´s Millenium Dome project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Dome, and in 2001 he married
Elisabeth Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch´s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch daughter. Another close
friend, The Right Honourable Peter Benjamin Mandelson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ attended their wedding. Mandelson -one of the first people in Britain to whom the term "spin doctor" was
applied- became Britain's European Commissioner for Trade in 2004.,
Adam Jones and Kay Summer, both involved with the Dissent! Network, fear that genuine protest against the G8 might be hijacked by the Live8 and White Band campaigns and with the revelation that Rupert Murdoch's son-in-law is in charge of Geldof's pop-distraction, their article seems to might be right on the money. Read their article, which was printed in The Guardian: http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0618-22.htm. The article is about the G8 Bikeride / Cycle Caravan https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/06/315001.html
Wear a white band - make poverty history (the amazing illusion).
For weeks Tony Blair and even George Bush have been spouting hot air
about their debt relief campaign for Africa. Critics say that their debt relief packages ("help for Africa") are too small to really make a difference and that they are bound to economical and structural
adjustments of the IMF/World Bank kind that have caused the emergence of a global resistance movement. This might be the reason for massive corporate support towards the Live8 / Make Poverty History http://www.whiteband.org/ campaign. Large sums will flow back into the G8´s (private industry's) economies. This is well illustrated in an embarrissing example The New Scottsman exposed: The white anti-poverty wristbands for the campaign were actually produced in Chinese sweatshops http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/resistg8/media/0530wristbands.htm
Tony Blair and other celebreties had themselves photographed with these sweatbands.
Germany and Japan are reluctant about their "Help for Africa". It is
said they want more influence on how the money is spent. This is directly reflected in the attitude the German government takes towards the local frontend for the Live8 Campaign. Marek Lieberberg, who manages the German Live8 event in Berlin says that German companies "have not lifted a finger" to help sponsor the concert and that the Bundestag lower house of parliament had failed to make the Republic Square in front of its Reichstag building available for the event. He
further accused Mayor Klaus Wowereit, German authorities and industry of "stinginess, ignorance and Wilhelminian absurd bureaucracy" (source:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1627961,00.html)
http://www.red-star-research.org.uk/subframe5.html is Sigmund Freud´s grandson and runs "Freud Communications PR Consultants" ( http://www.freudcommunications.com/), which works with with popstars and celebrities like Britney Spears and has corporate customers like AOL, Nestlé, KFC, Pepsi, Sony and the British Central Office of Intelligence (COI) http://www.coi.gov.uk/aboutcoi.php. The COI is the successor of the WWII wartime Ministry of Information. Freud also ran Labour´s Millenium Dome project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Dome, and in 2001 he married Elisabeth Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch´s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch daughter. Another close friend, The Right Honourable Peter Benjamin Mandelson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ attended their wedding. Mandelson -one of the first people in Britain to whom the term "spin doctor" was applied- became Britain's European Commissioner for Trade in 2004.,
Adam Jones and Kay Summer, both involved with the Dissent! Network, fear that genuine protest against the G8 might be hijacked by the Live8 and White Band campaigns and with the revelation that Rupert Murdoch's son-in-law is in charge of Geldof's pop-distraction, their article seems to might be right on the money. Read their article, which was printed in The Guardian:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0618-22.htm. The article is about the G8 Bikeride / Cycle Caravan https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/06/315001.html Wear a white band - make poverty history (the amazing illusion).
For weeks Tony Blair and even George Bush have been spouting hot air
about their debt relief campaign for Africa. Critics say that their debt relief packages ("help for Africa") are too small to really make a difference and that they are bound to economical and structural
adjustments of the IMF/World Bank kind that have caused the emergence of a global resistance movement. This might be the reason for massive corporate support towards the Live8 / Make Poverty History
http://www.whiteband.org/ campaign. Large sums will flow back into the G8´s (private industry's) economies. This is well illustrated in an embarrissing example The New Scottsman exposed: The white anti-poverty wristbands for the campaign were actually produced in Chinese sweatshops http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/agp/resistg8/media/0530wristbands.htm Tony Blair and other celebreties had themselves photographed with these sweatbands.
Germany and Japan are reluctant about their "Help for Africa". It is
said they want more influence on how the money is spent. This is directly reflected in the attitude the German government takes towards the local frontend for the Live8 Campaign. Marek Lieberberg, who manages the German Live8 event in Berlin says that German companies "have not lifted a finger" to help sponsor the concert and that the Bundestag lower house of parliament had failed to make the Republic Square in front of its Reichstag building available for the event. He
further accused Mayor Klaus Wowereit, German authorities and industry of "stinginess, ignorance and Wilhelminian absurd bureaucracy" (source:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1627961,00.html)
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Ah, that explains this...
27.06.2005 22:22
are inviting people to send in photographs of the event.Nothing woring with that, people love to see their pictures published, especially if they're helping those poor kids in Africa by doing so.
As Sir Bob says on the site: "We don't want your money - we want you!"
However, it turns out that once you send your picture, you lose all ownership of it. The T&C (terms and conditions) say:
"You confirm that you own copyright in the photograph, which becomes the property of Charity Projects, and you waive all rights in the photograph".
This is known as a rights grab. It means that those people now own your picture, and when they publish the book 12 months from now they get all the money. And you have no say in the matter whatsoever.
Is Charity Projects a Freud company? Or IPC, or Murdoch? Who knows, who cares, it's just another example of corporate theft.
Thanks, Sir Bob.
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Freud family - Edward Bernays - from whom Goebbels learnt
28.06.2005 01:18
Edward Bernays (November 22, 1891 - March 9, 1995) is regarded by many as the "father of public relations," although some people believe that title properly belongs to some other early PR practitioner, such as Ivy Lee.
Born in Vienna, Bernays was both a blood nephew and a nephew-in-law to Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and Bernays's public relations efforts helped popularize Freud's theories in the United States. Bernays also pioneered the PR industry's use of psychology and other social sciences to design its public persuasion campaigns. "If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it," Bernays argued. He called this scientific technique of opinion molding the "engineering of consent."
no propaganda
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tardis?
28.06.2005 01:27
"The G8 leaders have it within their power to alter history. "
well is time travel now possible then? or what?
good articles links and comments above
great stuff
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paul c
Radicalism in MPH
28.06.2005 10:48
Check out Christian Aid, one of the biggest NGOs. They seem pretty serious about all this.
World Development Movement and War On Want are more radical still - they focus on supporting social movements and leading members of those two NGOs explicitly talk about the illigitimacy of the G8 and how we live in a fake democracy and so on. A lot of the more radical trade unions (and some less radical ones) are involved in MPH.
So there is quite a lot of radicalism within MPH. But you wouldn't think so from the filtered down message that reaches the public. Too much emphasis on wrist bands and celebrities means that it's no surprise a lot of people actually think MPH as about supporting Gordon Brown's marshall plan for Africa.
Next time something like this happens, the majority of these organisations would do better to have their own coalition and led the Geldofs and Bonos and Richard Curtis's and Oxfams of this world have their own tame non-confrontational thing where they don't compromise the more radical agenda of everyone else.
This is actually a problem within all organisations trying to bring about change. The leadership is much less radical than the grassroots. Look at trade unions for example. They'd do better to organise non-hierarchically and by concensus. Autonomous trade unions without leaders would win many more struggles than the standard union model of paid representatives.
As an example of radicalism (ok not exactly anarchism, but relative to people like Geldof) check out this page from the Christian Aid website. This is a list of articles about how "free trade" is damaging Africa.
OK so they're Christians. But billions of people all over the world follow a religion so that's not hold that against them too much. At least they're not missionaries. And they do pretty good development work like giving villages mosquito nets and ploughs and helping them build wells - ie supporting people at the grassroots and rejecting corporate 'solutions'.
hugh
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