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The Guardian - 30/12/12

Energy company staff working at climate ministry

Employees from firms including British Gas and npower being paid to work at Department of Energy, documents reveal.

Almost two dozen employees from companies including the energy giants British Gas and npower are working at the Department of Energy and, in most cases, are being paid by the government to do so, documents released under freedom of information rules reveal.

Oil companies such as Shell and ConocoPhillips also have staff inside the department, and civil servants have travelled in the opposite direction to work for the companies.

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“Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations.

At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.”

Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy

New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent
It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves –was coordinated with the big banks themselves.

nexus wrote:.
Now I'm going to sit back and wait for the usual suspects on here to tell us why the authorities were entirely justified in working with the banks to repress legitimate and peaceful protest at the corporate looting and illegal banking practices that have been going on.........

A spokeswoman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change said: "Secondees bring with them knowledge and expertise which are vital to helping Decc do its job effectively. Likewise, seconding Decc staff into industry – be that oil, gas, renewables or other areas – provides insight into the challenges faced by those sectors. It is normal for secondees to be paid directly by Decc or for their company to be refunded for their time; this is standard practice across government."

nexus wrote: Now I'm going to sit back and wait for the usual suspects on here to tell us why the authorities were entirely justified in working with the banks to repress legitimate and peaceful protest at the corporate looting and illegal banking practices that have been going on.........

biffvernon wrote: Clearly the Occupy movement is a threat to the world order, demanding that we live in harmony with Nature and at peace with each other.

nexus wrote:Wow, I love the way writing about occupy stirs up all the trolls.They really DID have an effect.

I have got far too many important things to do to go hunting for the pix, but suffice to say, halfbreed et al there are scary images all over the net of peaceful occupy protesters sitting down being pepper sprayed in the face etc etc.

Life's too short.

Stupid non arguments/straw man arguments from the usual trolly troll trolls.

As usual the good people leave the forums- so well done the trolls and shills have won again.

<insert Jarvis song here>

JavaScriptDonkey wrote: who else do you think are the experts on power station pollution other than the engineers who run it?

nexus wrote: As usual the good people leave the forums- so well done the trolls and shills have won again.

biffvernon wrote:

JavaScriptDonkey wrote: who else do you think are the experts on power station pollution other than the engineers who run it?

Engineers whose salaries depend on believing that power stations don't pollute are certainly not the sort of experts to rely on.

biffvernon wrote:Pretty much all of them. I got a degree in geology and realised that it was pretty much impossible to work in the obvious industries without causing pollution. So I didn't.