I (Merel) have just sent a message to Liberty. Ive not had time to edit it or to work on it much, but hope they will pay attention to what Ive written and perhaps assist us. Here is what it says:Hi! Im a resident of Newport, South Wales and would have contacted you much sooner had it not been for my involvement in NoNatoNewport, which as you can imagine has kept me extremely busy for the last few months. Im really concerned about the future of our city, having done a bit of research and am desperate for help in raising awareness of what is happening here. Having been one of the delegates who was allowed behind the Steel Wall down the road from the Celtic Manor protecting NATO warmongers, and having made citizens arrests on two men there (one from the home office, one from the foreign office) who were afraid to give their names and then effecively been silenced by one Kate Hudson in charge of the megaphone, I felt useless and unable to warn people of what I saw behind that wall: literally hundreds of police, protected with helmets, full body armour and shields, armed with guns, obviously well trained and ready to fire on civilians, on peace campaigners. Sorry, I digress (still in a state of shock, I never thought Id see a sight like that in the UK). Here is the information I have gleaned so far, excuse the way its presented, it gets a little complicated. Sir Terry Matthews, now a Canadian citizen, owns the Celtic Manor where the NATO summit is taking place. He is also chairman of Wesley Clover his investment management firm (wesleyclover/about-us/) with Simon Gibson as his CEO. Simon Gibson chaired the ReNewport Report and heads the Alacrity Foundation which also has Terry Matthews connection. Ive not looked into the Waterloo Foundation at all, but that is also connected to Terry Matthews and Simon Gibson and might be worth a glance. A bit about Simon Gibsons businesses here: investing.businessweek/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=246714&privcapId=1432264 ReNewport Report Commissioned by Welsh Assembly Government, it seems this has been given the green light by WAG, Newport City Council and the local newspaper (South Wales Argus). Most of what is recommended by this report directly benefits Simon Gibson and most of the team who worked on it. Please take the time to read it, it shouldnt take long, mostly large photos anyway! It can be found here: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws/renewport/NewportReport_121213_1341_FINAL2.pdf I am particularly concerned about the living lab City observatory and about making Newport a digital ecosystem by the city positioning itself as a test bed for digital public services, supposedly to make Newport a safer city. Note that EADS/Cassidian have a base in Newport, Im told there are about 900 employees there, and Cassidian have used other cities as test beds and living labs. (EADS and Cassidian are now Airbus I believe). The committee working on the ReNewport Report: Prof. Simon J. Gibson, OBE - Chair Mark Barry – Transport Consultant Ian Edwards – CEO, Celtic Manor Resort Prof. Julie Lydon – Vice-chancellor University of South Wales Benjamin Milsom – Alacrity Graduate Simon Powell - CEO, Eysys Sian Wilton - Head of Boots UK Wales and West division Notes: I) Mark Barry has previously worked on a couple of other reports with Simon Gibson for WGA, no idea what makes him an expert on transport though. ii) University of South Wales was mainly arts based, also strong teacher training department. Arts courses there have been slashed, now Gibson and his side-kicks want, and are probably going to get, a software university. I have heard that Terry Matthews is buying Caerleon Campus, but have not read anything official about this. iii) Simon Powell spoke at the Newport City Summit, where the ReNewport Report was launched. He started off by showing the youtube video of the Amazon drone and praising Amazon. He went on to speak about RFID chips, how they are the way forward, how amazing they were and that they should soon be incorporated into everything we buy, even clothing, so that everything could be tracked from the moment it left the factory to the moment it went into recycling, that it would help with recycling. He also said that he had bought his son a toy similar to Action Man and that had an RFID chip in it. This, to me, will be a complete invasion of privacy for everyone, that invasion of privacy will not just take place outside, but also in our homes. Alacrity Foundation Run by Simon Gibson. Provides seed capital funding for graduate entrepreneurship training programmes. Based in Newport, the programme is working with promising young engineering and business graduates. Airbus is among their list of strategic partners (alacrityfoundation.co.uk/graduates/partners/) The Project Space Here is the facebook link to a kids drones workshop that was run by Nick Theodorou of Alacrity https://facebook/events/401224363350133/ , they also did 3-d printing. The workshop was run at The Project Space, funded by Arts Council Wales with match funding from elsewhere, more-or-less managed by Newport City Council community arts team. NCC Community arts team are based at the Riverfront Theatre. Last year they had large adverts for Cassidian defending world security in the lobby, this was because they had taken £1000 sponsorship from them for workshops, I believe some of them were childrens workshops. The previous year Cassidian had provided £1000 prize money for a kids dance competition at the Big Splash in Newport (run by NCC arts development). They dont have the luxury of being able to claim ignorance as an excuse for what they are doing as both me and and a close friend of mine have spoken to them re Cassidian, and spread the word in the arts community, which seems to have upset a few people! Looking forward to hearing from you, All the best, Merel
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 11:37:08 +0000
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