CIA's UK Defence Secretary Is In (Not Enough) Trouble

[AhabsOtherLeg]

The Atlantic Bridge, as we all know, is having it's site updated, and will no doubt continue that way for the rest of recorded time. But it was not always thus. There was a time, long ago, in 2003, when it was just a site like any other, that you could go on and read words and look at pictures. Thanks to the Wayback Machine, we can still recall those happier times.





"Together America and Britain have helped re-make much of the world in the image of themselves. The rule of law, rights of property, respect for human rights -( ) - these formative ideas have transformed the prospects of nations who lived in the darkness, fear, and despair of not being British or American, or even white.."





"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Also, ignorance is strength."





Defence Secretary Liam Fox: "The world is in turmoil, our enemies are within the gates, the stupid Left refuses to acknowledge the clear and present danger which is all around us, and I'm going down the pub to see if there's anybody needs a place to sleep, as the spare room is empty."





Is this fellow familiar to anyone?



Eagle-eyed readers will note that Pfizer were supporters of the Atlantic Bridge, as is the Galen Institute, a neocon medical body specially set up to lie about medicine. Their main plank is that if a medical system has a socialized element then it will kill you stone dead, possibly instantly.

Half the Tory party attended these shindigs.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Not sure what this signifies exactly, but Oliver Letwin, David Cameron's chief policy adviser, has now been caught dumping sensitive documents into the bins in St. James' Park. Fucking ridiculous.

Pictures are from The Mirror, text is from The Telegraph, in order to be fair and balanced:







Apparently he's been doing this for a while. Because that's how serious the threat of terror and espionage is.

One document was said to describe how intelligence chiefs "failed to get the truth" on Britain's involvement in controversial terrorist interrogations.

Others reportedly refer to the activities of the secret services MI5 and MI6.

David Cameron, the Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, his deputy, and George Osborne, the Chancellor, are all said to be mentioned in the dumped papers, as are organisations including the Ministry of Defence, the Home Office, the NHS, the Treasury and the Metropolitan Police.

The papers are said to date from July 27 2010 to September 30 2011, and include five Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) letters.

In one, MP Andrew Tyrie reportedly tells ISC chairman Sir Malcolm Rifkind the committee “failed to get to the truth on UK involvement” in rendition, which is the secret transportation of suspected terrorists for clandestine interrogation.

The letter is said to contain the phrase: “Your letter is marked ‘Personal and Confidential’ which, of course, I shall fully respect.”

Another discarded document is a printed email which refers to al Qaida links to Pakistan, the newspaper claimed.

Yet more documents contained the private details of constituents’ problems, the paper said.

One such letter exposed the details of a patient’s experience with the NHS.

Mr Letwin, the MP for West Dorset, tore up the letters but did not shred them, meaning they could be relatively easily repaired and read.

Some were simply handed to a cleaner walking the park with a bin bag.

A spokesman for the minister said: “Mr Letwin does some of his Parliamentary and constituency correspondence in the park before going in to work and sometimes disposes of copies of letters there.

“None of these are documents of a sensitive nature.”

Git. Tae. Fuck!

Sorry, it's late/early here, and I apologise for my intemperate language, but the merriment and rage had to be shared.

Letwin had a burglary himself back in the day, just like Oor Liam -

Shortly before dawn last Thursday, the shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin let a man into his London flat to use the toilet. The stranger promptly snatched his wallet, mobile phone and other items and sprinted off.

Naïve Mr Letwin may have been, but the incident served as a convenient example when he unveiled his plans to tackle crime with kindness on Tuesday.

In a major shift on Tory thinking on law and order, he dreams of a "neighbourly society" in which we respect each other and our surroundings too much to be nasty. "It is a sad reflection on our society if you cannot sensibly let someone go to the loo," he has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1748626.stm

Well, I agree with his idea of a neighbourly society, but it's a shame he can't understand that it was (most likely) a direct product of his own economic ideology who ran off with his wallet in the first place. A young up and coming entrepreneur.

...Is this all real, btw? I always knew British politics was ridiculous - but this is ridiculous.

[gnosticheresy_2]

Aaand:

4.12pm: The defence secretary, Liam Fox, has resigned after increasing pressure over his links to his unofficial adviser and best man, Adam Werrity. His office has just confirmed the news.

In his resignation statement, Fox said he "mistakenly allowed the distinction between my personal interest and my government activities to become blurred".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog ... gu#block-2

Phew! So that's alright then! Ok everyone, nothing more to see here, move along now....

[Byrne]

How did Werritty fund his trips? The truth emerges
Liam Fox
Corporate intelligence firm among those bankrolling Werrity’s trips through a not-for-profit company
By Nigel Horne
LAST UPDATED 7:45 AM, OCTOBER 14, 2011

DEFENCE Secretary Liam Fox's friend Adam Werritty has funded his jet-set lifestyle through a not-for-profit company, Pargav, into which various wealthy individuals and companies have ploughed cash, according a report in The Times today.

Over the past year, £147,000 has been paid into Pargav's bank account and almost the same amount has left the account to pay for 34-year-old Werritty's first class travel and five-star hotel accommodation on foreign trips, on which he almost inevitably meets Liam Fox.

As The Times put it, the details of Werritty's arrangements raise questions not "only about Dr Fox's reliance on his old friend as a foreign policy adviser, but also the use of a not-for-profit company to fund a lavish private lifestyle".

Those who have funded Pargav, The Times discovered, include:

• G3 Good Governance Group, corporate security and risk management specialists. G3 has longstanding links with Liam Fox because of his attempts to get private business to back the reconstruction of Sri Lanka following the end of the long civil war with the Tamil Tigers;

• Tamares Real Estate, owned by Poju Zabludowicz, the property investor also known for his lobbying of the British government on behalf of Israel;

• Jon Moulton, a venture capitalist, keen to establish strong ties to Washington.

"I'm not commenting on this at all, this has nothing to do with anybody," Moulton told The Times.

The paper also tracked down the sole director of Pargav. He is Oliver Hylton, who told the paper: "He [Werritty] came into my office and said I want to set up a new company. It sounds ridiculously naive in hindsight, but I agreed. I signed the documents and nothing more."

Hylton was unclear about the nature of Werritty's work with Pargav, but thought it was related to "geopolitics".

Asked about Pargav, a spokesman for Liam Fox told The Times: "Adam Werritty does not work for the Defence Secretary as an official or unofficial adviser."

• THE UNDECLARED WASHINGTON DINNER

Liam Fox and Adam Werrity both attended a $500-a-head fund-raising dinner in Washington last year which has not been declared in the list of their 22 overseas meetings released by the Ministry of Defence earlier this week, according to

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8825889/Liam-Fox-Adam-Werritty-and-the-500-bash-that-went-undeclared.html

The dinner at the Mandarin Oriental hotel allowed the two men to network with defence industry lobbyists and leading US military officials, including General James Mattis, commander of US Central Command, who hosted the bash.

The Telegraph believes that because this meeting was not included in the MoD's list of 22 there will be allegations that there has not been full disclosure. Fox claims the meeting was not on the MoD list because he was on holiday at the time

Werritty is today due to be grilled again today by Cabinet Office officials investigating his working relationship with Fox. According to the Telegraph, the Cabinet Office is now casting its net wider, asking whether any Ministries other than the MoD might have had meetings with Werritty.

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http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/85903,news-comment,news-politics,
how-did-adam-werritty-fund-his-trips-to-meet-liam-fox-the-truth-emerges

Paddy Ashdown is an adviser to Good Governance Group (G3) (advice on security and governance issues world-wide)

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http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/jeremy-ashdown/26670

Ashdown is renowned to have been/be Mi6 (Geneva)

Andre Pienaar
Kroll’s former managing director in charge of Africa and natural resources, Andre Pienaar created the Good Governance Group (G3) in 2004 together with Hugh Petre. (...)

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http://www.africaintelligence.com/ION/who-s-who/2006/07/29/andre-pienaar,21097511-ART

[vanlose kid]

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Git. Tae. Fuck!

Sorry, it's late/early here, and I apologise for my intemperate language, but the merriment and rage had to be shared.

Letwin had a burglary himself back in the day, just like Oor Liam -

Shortly before dawn last Thursday, the shadow home secretary Oliver Letwin let a man into his London flat to use the toilet. The stranger promptly snatched his wallet, mobile phone and other items and sprinted off.

Naïve Mr Letwin may have been, but the incident served as a convenient example when he unveiled his plans to tackle crime with kindness on Tuesday.

In a major shift on Tory thinking on law and order, he dreams of a "neighbourly society" in which we respect each other and our surroundings too much to be nasty. "It is a sad reflection on our society if you cannot sensibly let someone go to the loo," he has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1748626.stm

Well, I agree with his idea of a neighbourly society, but it's a shame he can't understand that it was (most likely) a direct product of his own economic ideology who ran off with his wallet in the first place. A young up and coming entrepreneur.

...Is this all real, btw? I always knew British politics was ridiculous - but this is ridiculous.

hmmm, makes you wonder what "other items" of an inconvenient nature this unprepossessing young entrepreneur made away with? a couple of plastic bin bags full of "stuff" maybe?

great thread by the way Ahab, although i suspect nothing much will come of it.

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[Stephen Morgan]

Not sure what this signifies exactly, but Oliver Letwin, David Cameron's chief policy adviser, has now been caught dumping sensitive documents into the bins in St. James' Park. Fucking ridiculous.

Perhaps you are familiar with what is known, in spy parlance, as a "dead drop"? Could be an agent of a foreign power. Or could be, like Foxy Liamy, leaving them to be retrieved by his gay lover to sell on to the highest bidder in a roundabout form of bribery/blackmail payment/patronage pederastical/so forth. Or could just be an inbred cunt who was too stupid to land a job in PR so was put in charge of Eton's coup, perhaps.

hmmm, makes you wonder what "other items" of an inconvenient nature this unprepossessing young entrepreneur made away with? a couple of plastic bin bags full of "stuff" maybe?

Probably nothing more than a few dildos. Just normal stuff a Tory MP would have lying around his pied a terre.

[semper occultus]

...and so in a puff of sulphorous yellow smoke the evil dwarf disappears leaving a pungent aroma of sleaze & all of us shrugging our shoulders & wondering what just happened & what the hell was it all about.... everything cited as a cause must have been known about for years....

hope you’re pleased with yourself Ahab…going about stirring-up the impression of wrong-doing on the part of our much maligned & hard-working Minister…..

occasionally he even did some work for the Government…sacking a few thousand servicemen & scrapping the planes off our air-craft carriers….an absolutely sterling effort for which we should all be thoroughly grateful….

...not lacking in ego this Fox - his charity / think-tank effort seems like a more grandiose version of Werrity's mocked-up official looking calling-cards from the local Prontaprint....a way of hanging off the coat-tails of a political "name" ( Thatcher in Fox's case ) in the hope some of the influence & opportunities to earn a slice of some dirty-money will rub-off in the process…what a bunch of mediocre little shits….

This govt. is proving to be a bit of a disaster…this from the very informative Peter Oborne

“Though only 18 months old, his Coalition government is already beset by the kind of problems that normally emerge at the very end of a premiership.”

On the “alarming” emergence of Jeremy Heywood – a Blairite apparatchik - as the replacement for Sir Gus O’Donnell as cabinet secretary :-

No, Prime Minister, Jeremy Heywood is not the man to lead our great Civil Service

blogs.telegraph.co.uk / peter oborne

To understand why Heywood’s appointment is so alarming, and why it sends out such bewildering messages about the future trajectory of the Cameron administration, it is necessary to cast a glance backwards.
<snip>
Ordinary procedures, such as minute taking, appear to have partly ceased. This became embarrassingly apparent when the Hutton inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly sought to reconstruct the process which had led to the Ministry of Defence scientist’s name appearing in a national newspaper. Lord Hutton heard how some four meetings, each involving senior officials and cabinet ministers, had taken place in the 48 hours before Dr Kelly’s name was released. In an extraordinary breach of traditional Whitehall procedure, it emerged that not one of these meetings was minuted. This was Heywood’s job, and it was not carried out.
<snip>
Tony Blair, naturally, adored his private secretary and, in another blatant abuse of Civil Service rules, sought to rocket him to permanent secretary level. When this move was resisted, Heywood just vanished. Granted “unpaid leave” from the Civil Service, he suddenly emerged as co-head of the Morgan Stanley investment banking division, only returning four years later to help sort out Gordon Brown’s chaotic Downing Street machine

[gnosticheresy_2]

Some follow up is being undertaken it seems. Nice as this is to see I'm reserving judgement as I doubt they'll be able / won't have the ability / won't have the inclination to pursue this too deeply.

Liam Fox resignation exposes Tory links to US radical right

David Cameron has been accused of allowing a secret rightwing agenda to flourish at the heart of the Conservative party, as fallout from the resignation of Liam Fox exposed its close links with a US network of lobbyists, climate change deniers and defence hawks.

In a sign that Fox's decision to fall on his sword will not mark the end of the furore engulfing the Tories, both Liberal Democrat and Labour politicians stepped up their demands for the prime minister to explain why several senior members of his cabinet were involved in an Anglo-American organisation apparently at odds with his party's environmental commitments and pledge to defend free healthcare.

At the heart of the complex web linking Fox and his friend Adam Werritty to a raft of businessmen, lobbyists and US neocons is the former defence secretary's defunct charity, Atlantic Bridge, which was set up with the purported aim of "strengthening the special relationship" but is now mired in controversy.

An Observer investigation reveals that many of those who sat on the Anglo-American charity's board and its executive council, or were employed on its staff, were lobbyists or lawyers with connections to the defence industry and energy interests. Others included powerful businessmen with defence investments and representatives of the gambling industry.

Fox's organisation, which was wound up last year following a critical Charity Commission report into its activities, formed a partnership with an organisation called the American Legislative Exchange Council. The powerful lobbying organisation, which receives funding from pharmaceutical, weapons and oil interests among others, is heavily funded by the Koch Charitable Foundation whose founder, Charles G Koch, is one of the most generous donors to the Tea Party movement in the US. In recent years, the Tea Party has become a potent populist force in American politics, associated with controversial stances on global warming.

Via a series of foundations, Koch and his brother, David, have also given millions of dollars to global warming sceptics, according to Greenpeace.

Labour said it wanted to know how, in 2006, when David Cameron travelled to Norway for his famous photo opportunity with huskies to promote his new-look party's "green" policies, his senior colleagues were cosying up to US groups that were profoundly sceptical about global warming.

Writing in the Observer, the shadow defence secretary, Jim Murphy, said the Tories still had many questions to answer and claimed that "while David Cameron's compassionate conservatism has been undermined by his actions at home, it could be further damaged by connections overseas".

Murphy writes: "With each passing day there have been fresh allegations of money and influence and it appears that much of the source was the Atlantic Bridge network and its US rightwing connections. We need to know just how far and how deep the links into US politics go. This crisis has discovered traces of a stealth neocon agenda. For many on the right, Atlanticism has become synonymous with a self-defeating, virulent Euroscepticism that is bad for Britain."

Fox resigned on Friday after admitting that he had allowed his friendship with Werritty, a lobbyist who portrayed himself as an adviser to the defence secretary, to blur his professional and personal interests. His resignation followed a drip-feed of revelations about the links between Werritty and businessmen and organisations with defence interests.

The revelations over Atlantic Bridge have triggered questions about the role played by Fox, chair of the charity's advisory council, and that of four of its UK members: William Hague, George Osborne, Chris Grayling and Michael Gove. As a UK charity, the organisation enjoyed tax breaks but had to comply with strict rules prohibiting it from promoting business interests.

The charity's political agenda, which it articulated in conferences devoted to issues such as liberalising the health sector and deregulating the energy markets, chimes with the thinking of many on the right of the Conservative party whom Cameron has been keen to check as he holds the Tories to the centre ground of British politics.

Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshot said: "Dr Fox is a spider at the centre of a tangled neocon web. A dubious pattern is emerging of donations through front companies. We need to establish whether the British taxpayer was subsidising Fox and his frontbench colleagues. What steps did they take to ensure Atlantic Bridge didn't abuse its charitable status?"

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

The potentially explosive mix of big business interests and politicians that triggered Fox's demise is the subject of an investigation by the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell. Murphy said it was essential that the government then referred the wider issues to Sir Philip Mawer, the independent adviser on ministers' interests. "He should look at the issues in their entirety to establish precisely how this never happens again," Murphy said.

Questions are being asked over the role played by an organisation called the Sri Lankan Development Trust, whose headquarters were listed at the Good Governance Group. The trust paid for three of Fox's trips to Sri Lanka. In a statement the group said: "Our involvement with the Sri Lankan Development Trust was not done for profit or at the behest of any clients."

Arriving at the Ministry of Defence to take up his new role in charge of the department, Philip Hammond, the new defence secretary, said Fox had "done a great job".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011 ... ses-tories

[AhabsOtherLeg]

The paper also tracked down the sole director of Pargav. He is Oliver Hylton, who told the paper: "He [Werritty] came into my office and said I want to set up a new company. It sounds ridiculously naive in hindsight, but I agreed. I signed the documents and nothing more."

Hylton was unclear about the nature of Werritty's work with Pargav, but thought it was related to "geopolitics".

So he was a non-director director? Director in name only? Reminiscent of the old "Sark lark".

Edwards lists a series of abuses, including Jersey's failure to help foreign authorities investigate tax evasion and other frauds, and the "Sark Lark", whereby islanders are paid to be bogus directors of foreign companies.

One inhabitant of Sark was found to be on the board of as many as 2,400 companies, most of which he knew almost nothing about. Another was a nominee director of the Mil-Tec Corporation, registered in the Isle of Man, which was involved in supplying arms to the Rwandan Hutu militias at the time of the 1994 genocide.
http://www.newstatesman.com/199811130018

Paddy Ashdown is an adviser to Good Governance Group (G3) (advice on security and governance issues world-wide)

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http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/jeremy-ashdown/26670

Ashdown is renowned to have been/be Mi6 (Geneva)

That's new to me Byrne. Thanks very much. despite the (possible silliness) of putting CIA in the thread title, I don't discount the idea that Fox and Werritty were being used/controlled by other groups.

Andre Pienaar
Kroll’s former managing director in charge of Africa and natural resources, Andre Pienaar created the Good Governance Group (G3) in 2004 together with Hugh Petre. (...)

And these men (this group) have financial interests in the natural resources of Libya, correct?

Great post Byrne, much appreciated.

great thread by the way Ahab, although i suspect nothing much will come of it.

Nonsense, I just got the Secretary of Defence sacked! Yeah, me!

No, but has anyone noticed that the link in the OP to the TimesOnline story about Luke Coffey and CENSA is now dead? The Times removed it a few hours after, I guess, tons of people suddenly started looking into Atlantic Bridge and Fox's past in a big way. The headline was "Minister Lets US 'Mole' Wander MOD." It can't be found now, less somebody has it archived. I hope they do. I think the true position of Luke Coffey, and CENSA, might be the real story we'll never hear... though I have a couple of bits and bobs to post.

Here's the link again. It don't work now: http://www.timesplus.co.uk/tto/news/?lo ... olitics%2F

Perhaps you are familiar with what is known, in spy parlance, as a "dead drop"? Could be an agent of a foreign power.

If he is, they must be bloody well ashamed of him. What an amateur. They'll never own up to it for fear of global ridicule. I know the term, though, yeah - learned it from R.E.M's "Dead Letter Office" back in the day, of all strange places.

...and so in a puff of sulphorous yellow smoke the evil dwarf disappears leaving a pungent aroma of sleaze & all of us shrugging our shoulders & wondering what just happened & what the hell was it all about.... everything cited as a cause must have been known about for years....

Yes, that's the real story. The problem is systemic and innate - Fox and co. are just clowns (evidently) who think they are protected and can get away with anything. But it's only the system that fed and nurtured them which is protected and can get away with anything. Literally anything.

hope you’re pleased with yourself Ahab…going about stirring-up the impression of wrong-doing on the part of our much maligned & hard-working Minister…

I never intended to give that impression. Liam Fox is a friend of mine, we worked well together while he was in office, and he had my utmost confidence throughout this difficult time... Oh, sorry, thought I was Jim Murphy for a minute there. Liam Fox's opposition.

occasionally he even did some work for the Government…sacking a few thousand servicemen & scrapping the planes off our air-craft carriers….an absolutely sterling effort for which we should all be thoroughly grateful…

And it is most thoroughly justified.

I'm amazed to hear myself saying this, or writing it, but you know who has come out of all this nonsense looking pretty half-decent? Tories. Aye, Tories. Not the Tory Cabinet, obviously, or the Tory party as a whole, but the average Tory in the street (or at least, on news comments) and even the right-wing press itself. It is The Times who have had the heaviest and most damning coverage, even more so than the Guardian. The Telegraph has acquitted itself well too, as that Jeremy Heywood piece shows. 'Course, Peter Oborne has always been the coolest and best Tory of all time. I actually like him, though he does talk funny.

Even the loonies who populate ConHome were deeply critical of Fox, and want to know, above all, what Atlantic Bridge was all about. They don't like Neocons much, which I was surprised and happy to discover.

If this had been a Labour politician, doing the same things, The Mirror and many Labour supporters would've stood behind him all the way, without offering much in the way of a coherent excuse for his actions. We saw it (seemingly a dozen times) with Mandelson, though by the end everybody wanted rid of him (and he's pretty much a Tory anyway). But credit where it's due. When the Tories need to get rid of somebody, they do it. And when the Tory press get a story (even if it's about one of their own) they - sometimes - follow it.

'Course, it could just be Murdoch's revenge on Cameron. But I doubt that he'd deliberately drive a real neocon rightist from the top defence role just to annoy Dave.

Christ, long post again. Can't help it.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Some follow up is being undertaken it seems. Nice as this is to see I'm reserving judgement as I doubt they'll be able / won't have the ability / won't have the inclination to pursue this too deeply.

But I want my Coffey!

Does anybody know how to take a screenshoot from a .pdf file in Foxit Reader, btw?

Ta much for the article gnostic, I guess the Guardian are still doing some good work on this too.

[MacCruiskeen]

Jaysus, what a thread! Thanks to Ahab, and to all contributors. This is a perfect supplement to the Occupy [Everywhere] thread.

[gnosticheresy_2]

Some follow up is being undertaken it seems. Nice as this is to see I'm reserving judgement as I doubt they'll be able / won't have the ability / won't have the inclination to pursue this too deeply.

But I want my Coffey!

Does anybody know how to take a screenshoot from a .pdf file in Foxit Reader, btw?

Ta much for the article gnostic, I guess the Guardian are still doing some good work on this too.

np, hope they follow it up, they've certainly got more resources to devote to this than me lol.

Fox resignation exposes Tory links to US right

Labour and Lib Dems demand PM explains ministers' involvement with Atlantic Bridge

As headlines go, it's not exactly bad is it?

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Here's an odd aside, one for the "Paul McCartney as An RI Subject Thread" - the company who produced/hosted The Atlantic Bridge website, MITIE Document Solutions, is a subsidiary of the MITIE Group. The MITIE Group are mighty indeed. They are a "strategic outsourcing and energy services company." One of their biggest shareholders is Fidelity Investments, a multinational financial services company with interests in things like the Magellan Fund and Contrafund (indescribably huge mutual equity, err, funds). http://www.mitiepack.com/file.axd?point ... febd15a4c2

Funnily enough, Paul McCartney made an exclusive limited edition album for Fidelity Investments. Literally a corporate rock album.

Fidelity has experimented with marketing techniques directed to the aging baby boomers, recently releasing Never Stop Doing What You Love, a not-for-resale compilation of songs by Paul McCartney, created for Fidelity's employees and clients. The ex-Beatle became the firm's new spokesman in 2005 in a campaign entitled "This Is Paul." On the day of the disc's release, company employees were treated to a special recorded message by Paul himself informing them that "Fidelity and [he] have a lot in common" and urging them to "never stop doing what you love".[7] During September 2011, Fidelity completed a successful re-brand within the Non-US market. The official name was changed from Fidelity International to Fidelity Worldwide Investment, and a new brand logo was introduced.[8] The new Fidelity branding was based around the fact that two parallel lines are frequently used on Global Currencies, including the US Dollar, Great British Pound, Euro and Yen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelity_I ... #Marketing

Don't know if this is already mentioned on the Paul McCartney thread, but it seems to suggest he's a massive greedy wanker. At least, that's what I took from it.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

Yay, Mac has arisen! That must've been some good whisky man, you were out for weeks.

Glad to see ye hereabouts.

[MacCruiskeen]

Mister Sotherleg, I have had a weird summer. Whisky had nothing to do with it (except once).

I am hoping I will live to see the Mayan Calendar vindicated.