Wednesday 27 February 2008

The Lincoln Assassination





A lot of time has passed since Lincoln's assassination happened, coming up to 143 years; almost 100 years before John F Kennedy suffered the same fate. Time may be a healer, but it does not answer questions.



Abraham Lincoln is the most famous and revered US president in history. He is revered for being "the president who saved America", probably correctly. He was born in 1809 into a farming family and his mother Nancy Hanks was a psychic medium. She is also the great-great-great grandmother of the actor Tom Hanks who’s famous for being in films like Forrest Gump and Castaway (I wonder if her psychic abilities have passed on to her thespian descendant! If so, he’s keeping quiet about it!). She died when Abraham was just 9 years old and his father remarried. Lincoln got into politics at a young age and was elected to the Illinois Assembly. He stood for the Republicans in 1860 and was elected the 16th US president in November. Like Winston Churchill in the century after, he won his greatest acclaim for being a wartime leader. He crushed the rebel south and disbanded the Confederate States of America. If he hadn’t then the USA would have probably fallen apart forever, making the future world a very different place. This polarized people’s feelings towards President Lincoln; you either loved him or you hated him. But Lincoln needed one more thing to achieve historical and political immortality:



There are no known photographs of the attack. That's not surprising because in those days cameras were rather large and unwieldy devices that you couldn't fit neatly into your pocket like you can today; not the kind of thing you could carry to the theatre with you; but I include an artists impression of the incident above. On a Good Friday, the 14th of April 1865, at just after 10PM, the actor and Confederate supporter John Wilkes Booth calmly walked into the Ford Theatre in Washington DC. He went up some stairs and approached the private box where Lincoln was sitting with his wife and two friends. He waited until Act 3 Scene 2 of the play, Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor, when a funny line made the audience laugh, which it is thought he hoped would smother the sound of the gunshot (although his subsequent behavior calls that into question); then he entered the box and shot the president in the back of the head with a small pistol. One of the friends, Major Henry Rathbone, tackled Booth and Booth stabbed him in the arm with a dagger and jumped out of the box into the auditorium. In doing so he broke his leg, but still stood up to shout out the Latin motto of Virginia: Sic Semper Tyrannis, "This is what always happens to tyrants" (Some eyewitnesses claim he shouted other things. Reported are phrases such as Australe Revince "the South is avenged" or, most intriguingly of all, Ewige Blumenkraft which is German for "eternal flower-power", one of the mottoes of the Bavarian Illuminati.). Then he fled from the theatre and the audience and staff were too stunned to stop him. Actually the Lincoln assassination is just as dodgy as the Kennedy assassination. Use Prouty’s Law: John Wilkes Booth arrived at the Ford Theatre and got in through the stage door. Not a problem you might think seeing as he was a famous actor and a familiar face around the theatre, known to all the staff; but then also so were known his staunch political views, surely making him a "prime security risk". What's more: strangely none of the presidential bodyguards were stationed on the small entrances so beloved of assassins, like that stage door. Booth also managed to go to the staircase behind the auditorium and get to the private box unhindered and found it unguarded and unlocked. This was just after the Civil War, a president whom half the country hated and whom every former Confederate citizen wanted dead. The security response to the incident was also suspicious. Although Booth was arrested and shot dead a few days later, he did manage to easily escape from Washington DC because only one of the roads leading out of the city didn't have a roadblock; coincidentally it was the very road Booth used. The way Booth was killed during his capture is reminiscent of how Lee Harvey Oswald was similarly killed, in the following century, by Jack Ruby just after his arrest. A dead man cannot talk! A dead man cannot reveal any underlying conspiracies! Kennedy was killed instantly by a high-powered snipers' rifle which is very apparent on the gruesome Zapruder film. Lincoln was shot from point-blank range in the head, but Booth used a low-calibre pistol which caused less injury, even from so close. If the president had been rushed to hospital it's possible that his life could have been saved, although he would probably have been seriously brain-damaged. Strangely enough, Lincoln was not taken to hospital. He was taken to a nearby house and was declared dead the following morning. There's no record of anyone even sending for a doctor!



Why was he killed? Well on the surface it looks obvious: He was taken out by Booth, a staunch Confederate sympathizer, in revenge for the Civil War. But then why did Booth have such an easy time of it? As NORAD was confused and ineffectual on 9/11, a man managed to get from the open street to the theatre's private box without so much as passing a security guard. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Lincoln was introducing a state money policy, breaking the hold of the banking system by printing “Greenback” dollars… just like Kennedy tried to do almost 100 years later.


Today Lincoln's memory is celebrated in a way no other US president's ever has or probably ever will: The Lincoln Memorial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Memorial , a huge Neoclassical mausoleum in the very heart of Washington DC. I think a valuable area of research is to study the Lincoln Memorial to find any tell-tale signs that all is not what it seems. The Illuminati have a fixation with owning up to their crimes in code! They place their secret signatures on everything they do, like putting an "eternal flame" on Kennedy's grave and a black Pentagram on the Pont de l'Alma tunnel where Diana died. Both are very powerful occult symbols. I wonder, did they put a similar "We did it and we're telling you, but you're too ignorant to see it! Ha ha ha!" confession on Lincoln's mausoleum? I'll have to look into it. Lincoln's is also one of the four faces carved onto Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. Mount Rushmore was originally a sacred Indian site and may well have been chosen to be defaced into the famous megasculpture for that very reason: An exercise in power, the triumph and dominance of the White Man over the Indian.

Sunday 24 February 2008

UFO Handbook for Firemen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRP8kP_a8DU

I'd like to read the book, even though I'm not a fireman. Jim Mann is right; you can't write UFO's off as crackpot or fringe when official organizations like fire brigades are taking it seriously. The statement at the end sounds like a "fallback" to me. The brief reading given shows that it is the actual threat that the book deals with, not just the perceived one, otherwise it would just contain tips on how to drive a fire engine past over-zealous skywatchers etc.

(BTW: Sorry there's been no new material on HPANWO for a few days. I've been shivering in my sickbed. I'm a bit better now. I've got plenty more posts lined up!)

Sunday 17 February 2008

David Shayler- The Messiah?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3aWF_oLhhg

David Shayler is a man I've come to admire a lot over the years. He started out as an MI5 officer who became a rogue whistle-blower with a conscience stronger than his misplaced loyalty to the Blair regime. He revealed that the UK govt was funding and training anti-government terrorists in Lybia, in the same way the USA did in South America a generation earlier. For this he was exiled and imprisoned. After that he joined the 9/11 Truth Movement for which I've worked too. Then came the bombshell: last year at the Glastonbury Symposium, he announced that he was the Messiah. For this a lot of his fans deserted and denounced him. This is a shame because the saying of strange things is often the first sign of a spiritual awakening. It echoes the experience of David Icke in the early 90's. This film is actually encouraging because Shayler looks very well in it and that's good to see. His theology may be rather dodgy, but I respect him for speaking out. People say he's crazy? They say he's lost his credibility? Well I think that, in this world, it's a far bigger insult to be called "sane" "normal" or a "good citizen". Shine on, David!

Saturday 16 February 2008

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman


I've bought the book Northern Lights by Philip Pullman. I've only read the first bit and I'm not going to say anything more until I've finished it, but I bought it because of the magnificent movie I saw based on it: The Golden Compass. Here's my review of that movie: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/01/golden-compass.html


Friday 15 February 2008

The Night of Broken Glass 2008

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19347.htm

Your kids will ask you: "What did the world used to be like?" Will you remember? Or has Oceania always been at war with Eastasia?

For their sakes, don't let it happen!

Thursday 14 February 2008

New GCHQ Building




This is the new headquarters of GCHQ, part of the UK's secret government intelligence services. The domain of GCHQ is "Elint"- electronic intelligence. MI5 and MI6 deal with "humint"- human intelligence, spies, assassins etc. GCHQ deals with intercepting and decoding communication; everything from diverting letters to decrypting military computers to reading your emails. It is part of a huge international network that includes the US National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland. When a phone rings anywhere in the world, GCHQ can listen in on it!

The architecture of their new headquarters in Cheltenham is a bit sinister. It is a barred circle, a bit like a Ferris wheel. This is especially interesting when you consider Matt Delooze's last article which analyses the symbolism of this fairground attraction: http://www.matthewdelooze.co.uk/readarticle.php?article_id=33 . Some galaxies are also shaped this way. We're seeing more and more buildings in this shape I've found; they're called "rotundas". The plans for new Oxford Science Park features a rotunda: http://www.oxfordsp.com/property_future_plans.html Ben Fairhall of the Battling the Behemoth site (see links) has written several articles on the mystery of Madeline McCann. He's noticed that she has a birthmark or a scar on her iris that makes her eye into a barred circle too.

The new GCHQ building is currently under construction by this company, Carillion PLC, a building and civil engineering firm turned health service, airport, military and local government provider: http://www.carillionplc.com/default.asp This company was established specially to bid for the government's Private Finance Initiative contracts. They built the new extension of the hospital where I serve. I'm seconded to this company and the head porter is a Carillion employee.

Wednesday 13 February 2008

New Child Databse

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7242326.stm

As usual this is being peddled to the public as something more convenient and secure than the conventional system. I'm glad No2ID are on to this.

Tuesday 12 February 2008

Valentine's Day

It’s coming to that time of year again which is special to anyone in love. Gifts and cards will exchange hands and restaurants will fill up with couples sitting opposite gazing into each other’s eyes. Or, as Joel Barrish, Jim Carrey’s character in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind said: “Valentine’s Day is a holiday invented by greeting cards manufacturers to make people feel like crap!” Many share Joel’s cynicism. The author of a magazine article I once read saw it as just another corporate profiteering coup, like the Christmas industry, and thought that it should be renamed “Hallmark Day” or “Clintons Day” and seethed over the sight of couples expressing hypocritical sentiments to each other which they then conveniently forget for the rest of the year. I think that’s a big assumption to make about the feelings of total strangers and an unfair judgment in most cases. In my experience, couples with an unhappy relationship tend to ignore Valentine’s Day altogether. However I’ve personally always seen Valentine’s Day more as a festival for singletons like me rather than established lovers. It’s an opportunity to send an anonymous gift to your secret crush.

The origins of the Valentine’s Day tradition are quite obscure. It falls on February the 14th, the day before the Roman feast of Lupercalia. In pagan Rome this was a time for the celebration of fertility, romance and sexuality. It included the prevailing tradition of sending a gift to someone you secretly favour. The Christian world probably adopted the practice and changed it to fit its regime, as it did many pagan rites, and put it on St Valentine’s Day because that was the closest day to Lupercalia. However it wasn't mentioned in its modern sense until the medieval English writer Geoffrey Chaucer did. The character known as St Valentine is not connected in any other way to this rite. Valentine himself is a very mysterious individual; or individuals plural as some claim he represents several people. He lived in the fourth century and was born in Britain, probably in the area of modern Newcastle. He became a Christian and was punished by the pagan authorities. He was buried in Via Flamminia north of Rome. The exact whereabouts of his grave is not known, but two churches in Ireland and the Czech Republic possess bones supposedly from Valentine’s body as holy relics.

I will not be sending any Valentine cards this year. I’m single and not infatuated with anyone; and I’ve learned to enjoy that. I like being my own man in charge of my own emotions. I know a few attractive ladies, but nobody “special” if you know what I mean. There used to be though. From 2000, for four years, I sent a card every year to a girl at work called Vicky. She immediately guessed that I had sent the first one which disturbed me because I’d always kept my feelings for her secret. I must be more transparent than I thought I was! Unfortunately Vicky didn’t feel the same way about me, but never mind. She was very understanding towards me and didn't spit in my face. She left a couple of years ago. I was upset at first, but in the long run it was for the best and I can look back to that time without regrets. This experience has helped me see how much I’ve changed in the last few years; even in just the last two. I’m no longer the kind of person who gets hung up on people. As I said above, I thought the magazine article writer was far too cynical, but a part of me knows where she's coming from. I know many people who get involved with other people because they're motivated by conformist pressure or material gain. This is summed up by the Pet Shop Boys song Rent:

You dress me up, I'm your puppet
You buy me things, I love it
You bring me food, I need it
You give me love, I feed it
And look at the two of us in sympathy
With everything we see
I never want anything, its easy
You buy whatever I need
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, oh, you pay my rent
I love you, oh, you pay my rent

You phone me in the evening on hearsay
And bought me caviar
You took me to a restaurant off Broadway
To tell me who you are
We never ever argue, we never calculate
The currency we've spent
I love you, oh, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, oh, you pay my rent

Im your puppet
I love it

And look at the two of us in sympathy
And sometimes ecstasy
Words mean so little, and money less
When youre lying next to me
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, oh, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent

Look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, oh, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent

Other people become obessed with people who treat them badly; mostly women but some men too. This infuriates me. It's as if these people are addicted to abuse! I'm definitely better off being independant! I’m a single father and I live quite a solitary life, but rarely feel lonely. I have few friends, but nevertheless feel like I’m in lots of good company. I don’t know why that is, but I’m not sure I want to; I’d rather just enjoy it!

New Apollohoax Book


A new book has recently been published on the Apollohoax; an area of research that has been pretty much left stagnant for a decade or so since the work of Bart Sibrel, Bennett and Percy and a few others. I'd started to see the subject as fairly done to death, but now Gerhard Wisniewski has dusted it off. Whether he has anything new to reveal on the subject remains to be seen! You can order it here: http://www.clairviewbooks.com/pages/onesmallstep.html

Apart from the late moonhoax Godfather Bill Kaysing, nobody has produced a continuous narrative of the alternative history of the moon landings, but the basis of the theory is that the moon landing pictures were filmed at a secret studio on Earth and Neil Armstrong and the others never went there. I've written my own take on the matter here: http://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2008/01/moon.html

(BTW, the Bill Kaysing tribute site which I'd posted on the links column has been taken down, so I've relinked it to Bennett and Percy's Aulis site.)

Monday 11 February 2008

The Protocols of Zion


The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a document that was first published about 100 years ago by a Russian secret agent called Sergei Nilus. It is basically a do-it-yourself guide to taking over the world, creating the New World Order, giving instructions on how a tiny elite can dominate a planet of billions. The Elite are named as the global Jewish elders and they describe the masses as Goyim, the Hebrew for "cattle" and a racist term for a Gentile. It is one of the most inflammatory and controversial documents ever written and simply to mention its name will no doubt court charges from the leftist radicals of being "Antee-Suh-mittick!"

It is said to have been quickly debunked as a fake. Much of it was copied from the novel Biarritz by the anti-Semitic Prussian postman Herman Goedsche, in which the words of the Jews sound like the ones spoken in one scene by the shadowy, cowled figures who meet in a graveyard (This scene was parodied by Robert Shea and RAW in my favorite book The Illuminatus! Trilogy). Parts of it also echo other works of fiction: Dialogue in Hell by Maurice Joly and the Simonini Letter. But I was wondering whether the story runs even deeper than that. What's odd about the Protocols is that they sound just like an old-fashioned edition of far more recent documents on world domination that are also alleged to come from the secret vaults of the Illuminati. Silent Weapons for a Quiet War is the most famous; and also Report From Iron Mountain. Here's another one: http://unveilingthem.com/SecretCovenant.htm The Protocols, in the form we know it, may be fake, but could it have been based on a real unpublished document? Or to be precise, could the original authors who created the works which Nilus plagiarized have had access to an original document from which they transcribed their forgery? This original unknown document will have been written by the real Illuminati. Now before gangs of chanting, yelling students surround my house waving placards and throwing stones at my windows, let me just say that if you care to read on I will provide evidence that indicates that the Protocols are both real and not Jewish. I do not think the Loomies are all Jews. Their membership consists of a number of elite families that are made up of all races, colours and creeds.

One thing that's interesting about the Protocols is that for a Jewish document it contains no reference to Jews or Judaism except for the word "Jew". There is no mention of Jewish rites, traditions, holy places or holidays etc. Take away the word "Jew" and replace it with something else and what will it sound like? Well, I decided to do an experiment: I changed the words “Jews” and “Zion” into “The Olympians” (The Illuminati probably don’t call themselves "the Illuminati"; “Olympians” is one of the words it’s been suggested is their real name). I then changed the words “Goyim” into “Sheeple” (This is just a guess, the Illuminati probably have some other derogatory word for we, the profane masses). The results were amazing! With just a bit of find-and-replace editing on Microsoft Word, the document had totally lost its Jewish flavour. This raises the question of whether the original Illuminati document ever had such a flavour; or did Goedsche, Joly and Nilus etc simply do the opposite of what I had done? Maybe they took the real document they had accessed and turned "Olympians" into "Jews" and "Sheeple" into "Goyim" to falsely-vindicate their own bigotry.

Here are some quotes from my revised version of the Protocols:

PROTOCOLS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE OLYMPIAN COUNCIL OF THREE HUNDRED

PROTOCOL No. 1
1. ....Putting aside fine phrases we shall speak of the significance of each thought: by comparisons and deductions we shall throw light upon surrounding facts.
2. What I am about to set forth, then, is our system from the two points of view, that of ourselves and that of the SHEEPLE............


..................The political has nothing in common with the moral. The ruler who is governed by the moral is not a skilled politician, and is therefore unstable on his throne. He who wishes to rule must have recourse both to cunning and to make-believe. Great national qualities, like frankness and honesty, are vices in politics, for they bring down rulers from their thrones more effectively and more certainly than the most powerful enemy. Such qualities must be the attributes of the kingdoms of the SHEEPLE, but we must in no wise be guided by them: Might is Right.......

................ The SHEEPLE are bemused with alcoholic liquors; their youth has grown stupid on classicism and from early immorality, into which it has been inducted by our special agents - by tutors, lackeys, governesses in the houses of the wealthy, by clerks and others, by our women in the places of dissipation frequented by the SHEEPLE. In the number of these last I count also the so-called "society ladies," voluntary followers of the others in corruption and luxury..............

....................The true knowledge of the structure of society, into the secrets of which we do not admit the SHEEPLE, would demonstrate to all men that the positions and work must be kept within a certain circle, that they may not become a source of human suffering, arising from an education which does not correspond with the work which individuals are called upon to do. After a thorough study of this knowledge, the peoples will voluntarily submit to authority and accept such position as is appointed them in the State. In the present state of knowledge and the direction we have given to its development of the people, blindly believing things in print - cherishes - thanks to promptings intended to mislead and to its own ignorance - a blind hatred towards all conditions which it considers above itself, for it has no understanding of the meaning of class and condition.
THE OLYMPIANS WILL BE SAFE..............


..................... For a time, until there will no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible posts in our State to our brother-Olympians, we shall put them in the hands of persons whose past and reputation are such that between them and the people lies an abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear - this in order to make them defend our interests to their last gasp...................

...............Ever since that time we have been leading the peoples from one disenchantment to another, so that in the end they should turn also from us in favor of that KING-DESPOT OF THE BLOOD OF OLYMPIA, WHOM WE ARE PREPARING FOR THE WORLD...............
THE KING OF THE OLYMPIANS WILL BE THE REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE PATRIARCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH..............

Friday 8 February 2008

Immigration and Saving Petrol

Yesterday I received the following email from a person on a list of which I'm a member:

So simple a cave man should have thought of it!!

The British Solution to Save Petrol

Brown wants us to cut the amount of petrol we use......

The best way to stop using so much petrol is to deport 3 million illegal immigrants!

That would be 3 million less people using our petrol. The price of petrol would come down.....

Bring our troops home from Iraq to guard the Channel....

When they catch an illegal immigrant crossing the Channel, hand him a canteen, rifle and some ammo and ship him to Iraq ....
Tell him if he wants to come to Britain then he must serve a tour in the military....
Give him a soldier's pay while he's there and tax him on it.....

After his tour, he will be allowed to become a citizen since he defended this country.....
He will also be registered to be taxed and be a legal resident..... .

This option will probably deter illegal immigration and provide a solution for the troops in Iraq and the aliens trying to make a better life for themselves.. .....

If they refuse to serve, ship them to Iraq anyway, without the canteen, rifle or ammo.....
Problem solved..... If you think this is a good solution to both the problems, forward it to your friends. .........I just did.........


Here is my reply:

To all members on this list who received this email, I think a cave man probably did think of it! Hope he discovers fire and the wheel and gets his head out of the clouds soon!

Do you want to hear my solution to save petrol? If so, read on:

In the first place there are NOT 3 million illegal immigrants in this country? "How do you know that, Ben?" I know that because people who travel from one part of their home planet to another are not "immigrants" because in reality nation states and borders are a totally artificial creation designed by the Powers-that-be to divide and rule us and are a complete delusion, so can you say it's illegal to move between them? It's like saying it's illegal to steal a handful of fresh air from a shop!

There are too many people moving to this island we live on that is known as "Britain" at the moment so it is becoming overcrowded and the native culture is being undermined, but can you blame people for moving here? Life in this country is so much better than life in their own lands. If we were in their shoes we'd do exactly the same! Deny it and be a hypocrite! The way to solve this problem is to make life better in their own countries so that they won't want to leave. And don't tell me "Oh, that's an ideal world, Ben. I wish we lived in a world like that but we don't." The world is what we make it. If the world is not ideal it's because of what we've done, or failed to do.

Doing a tour in the military is NOT serving your country, it's serving the oil companies. It does NOT make you a hero. It certainly doesn't make you a good citizen. I think the bravest soldiers are the ones who mutiny. But if you read on you'll find I've thought of a solution to that too:

The best part of this solution is to campaign to make the government declassify all secret Free Energy technology. For over 100 years they've suppressed a huge secret: That is possible to make energy out of nothing. Energy that is unlimited and doesn't cost a penny. The Powers-that-be have killed or jailed the inventers of machines that generate this energy and burned their papers. "Why did they do that, Ben?" To preserve their power over us! A by product of our dependence on oil is that half the world lives in poverty, and it is from that half of the world that these "immigrants" are coming to Britain. End that poverty and I'm sure they'd be queuing up to catch a plane home! You think they'd want to stay here for the lovely weather!? It also means we won't need any petrol any more and we can build cars that we can drive forever without paying a bean, so no more oil wars too! Problem solved!

If you think that's a good solution to this problem then forward it to your friends.

I'm bound to get a lot of rude replies to this email, but so what! Who was it who said: "A friend to all is a friend to none."?

Monday 4 February 2008

Tavistock Founder Dies


http://www.oxfordmail.net/search/display.var.2006546.0.expert_commanded_respect.php

Isobel Menzies-Lyth has died at the age of 90. She was one of the founders of the Tavistock Institute. She worked in the 1950's with the newly-formed NHS and did a lot of good work; it's mostly due to her that many of the modern children's hospitals were built and she supported the current policy of letting the parents stay at the hospital with their children. She knew the famous Freudian psychoanalyst Melanie Klein.

I'm mentioning this because I knew her; she was one of my mum's best friends, in fact she was like a mother to her. Being her age she had lots of very interesting information; I remember Isobel telling me that she remembers Rudolf Hess landing in Scotland! At the risk of being accused of speaking ill of the dead, I found her quite difficult sometimes due to our very different personalities. She got very angry with me once when I told her that I believed Diana's car crash was murder. She said: "You're views are totally divorced from reality!" At times she was completely unapproachable. She was a Freudian fundamentalist and Skeptic. I never got the chance to discuss my admiration for Wilhelm Reich with her, but I can guess what she would have said! Despite everything though, I respected her.

The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations has become well-known in recent years as an alleged centre for mass mind-control. It was formed out of the Psychological Warfare division of the forces in WWII and has been involved in public and private organizations in a manner that is not altogether clear. Here is their website: http://www.tavinstitute.org/ I doubt if Isobel was an "insider" to any conspiracy going on there; she was too simple and down-to-Earth. If she was I think I'd be able to sense it because I'm quite good at picking up these things. She was a kind lady who was a tower of strength for my mum.

Rest in Peace, Isobel.

Sunday 3 February 2008

JRHPC Update

I've received a reply to my email to the Department of Health:

Dear Mr Emlyn-Jones,

Thank you for your email of 24 January to the Department of Health about Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs).

The Department of Health’s PFI provides a way of funding major capital investments, without immediate recourse to the public purse. Private consortia, usually involving large construction firms, are contracted to design, build, and in some cases manage new projects. Contracts typically last for 30 years, during which time the building is leased by a public authority.

The PFI section of the Department’s site gives guidance to contractors and Departmental staff on contracts, current news and updates, as well as facts, figures and further information. It can be accessed at the following link:
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Procurementandproposals/Publicprivatepartnership/Privatefinanceinitiative/index.htm

I hope this information has been of help.
Yours sincerely,
Thomas McLaughlinDepartment of Health

I just wrote saying that I was doing some personal research; I never mentioned that I was planning to establish a company to bid for a PFI contract. Something told me that that wouldn't be a very good idea; I'm not sure why, but got a strong feeling that we can't completely trust these people yet. This could come from my experience in 1991 when we were sold off to Mediclean. The contract award was blatently rigged!

Well I guess we've got some serious reading to do on the link that Mr McLaughlin has provided. There may be other sources of information. Can anyone think of anyone at the JR who would have the knowlege we need and be able to trust? I can think of plenty of people with one of those qualities, but not many with both!

Please use the thread on the HPANWO Forum for your comments.