30-08-2010, 08:05 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Who are Demos? Who funds them? I checked their financial statements and trustees (KPMG and WWF). There are 3 years behind in their financial statements. Market themselves as unique and independent (of what?) but hardly seems that way. http://www.demos.co.uk/about
And their 'Progressive Conservatism' idea looks just like so much wankery.
"So much wankery" - precisely so. They are so far up the backsides of those in, or aspiring to, political power that they cannot see daylight.
This is about the most thorough analysis of who and what they are that you're likely to find. I must get around to putting it on Wikispooks too:
Spin Profiles Demos page
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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