INTRODUCTION: -

Well for starters, what is the 'East Riding'?.  Well here's how Wikipedia.org describes it:  "The East Riding of Yorkshire is a local government district in the United Kingdom. It borders on the ceremonial counties of North Yorkshire (including the City of York), South Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (North Lincolnshire unitary), and surrounds on three sides the City of Kingston-upon-Hull (commonly known as Hull), which is a separate unitary district. For ceremonial purposes, the East Riding includes Hull."  CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION FROM WIKIPEDIA ON THE EAST RIDING.

The Globalist takeover of the UK according to Bertelsmann's own website: -

"The Public Private Partnership in East Riding is a pilot project for us and a milestone in two respects: First, it expands our range of services in the U.K., and second it is an important step into the market of public administration services, which we hope will serve as a beacon, in Germany as in other places. The PPP in East Riding offers great potential for the future of the municipality, and such collaboration is certainly conceivable and doable in Germany as well. The project in Yorkshire will become a “showcase” for Arvato, where the entire spectrum of services that interested institutions can opt for will be on view. Talks are already underway with other potential clients in the U.K. Of course Arvato has set its sights on Central Europe and especially Germany in the medium term. But it’s bound to be another two or three years before initial model projects can be launched here in Germany".    (ORIGINAL LINK)

Text from http://www.regionalassemblies.co.uk: -

WILL LOCAL GOVERNMENT BE PRIVATISED?:  "East Riding of Yorkshire has given the go-ahead for a Public Private Partnership (PPP) with Arvato AG for them to administer the Council’s services and duties.  The 8 year contract includes a regional business centre built for the provision of services to the public and private sectors and is expected to create 1,000 new jobs.  Salaries and pensions are expected to fall on Council Taxpayers.  The German firm Arvato AG is a totally owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG.  The firm regards the plan as a “pilot project of strategic importance” for its expansion into a multi billion euro market (estimated at £6.7bn in GB).  All of the European Member States now have regions, with Germany retaining those set up after WWII, and  privatisation of local services has proved to be a disaster for nations where enforced".   (ORIGINAL LINK)

MORE BACKGROUND INFO:  In a nut-shell, who/what is Bertelsmann? - According to text from a 28th January 2006 London Guardian report, "Bertelsmann's (the German media group behind the Da Vinci Code and Pop Idol) assets include: RTL Group, the pan-European TV broadcaster and owner of Five; Random House, the book publisher; Arvato, a services company; Direct Group, a book and music club operation; and 50% of Sony BMG, the world's second largest record group." (ORIGINAL LINK)

MAINSTREAM MEDIA REPORTS: - 

THE TAKEOVER ITSELF: -

We - the research team behind cremationofcare.com - have seen little mainstream media coverage of this takeover of the East Riding Council.  If you have any newstips to send to us, please do so via the e-mail link further below.

The best that we have been able to manage is the following: -

• A LETTER FROM A CONCERNED MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC, TO THE WHITEHAVEN-NEWS - ENTITLED 'EUROPEAN UNION WARNING':  Part of this Reads "...But just to really encourage you, the East Riding of Yorkshire, that former bastion of common sense, will be taken over in July. By whom? A large German company called Arvato, a subsidiary of another German firm, Bertelsmann AG. What will they be doing? They will be taking over the majority of public administration in the local authority. The pilot project is, I am told “of strategic importance for Bertelsmann’s expansion into a multi-billion pound market.” Local staff will be transferred to this new organisation which will carry out “full public and statutory duties”. This means they will pay wages, dish out social benefits as well as collecting council taxes and controlling the present council’s total information technology requirement.  So when some hefty guns in the UK trade union movement, namely Bob Crow (RMT), Doug Nicholls (CYWU) and Joe Marino (BFAWU) make a statement, maybe many more people will want to listen. “Ultimately, any government that hands over power to a degree envisaged in this EU Constitution is, in effect, no longer a government.”

BERTELSMANN'S NWO/NAZI SUPPORTING PAST: -

• Bertelsmann addresses Napster Nazi charges - Just weeks after forming an alliance with Napster, German media giant Bertelsmann found itself answering charges from German law-enforcement authorities that the online music exchange enables the spread of right-wing extremist music.

• Europe ought to be ashamed - One of the largest media conglomerates in the world is Bertelsmann, headquartered in Germany, just as it was during Adolph Hitler's reign as fuehrer. In fact, Bertlesmann was the biggest publisher of Nazi texts, even bigger than the National Socialist Party's own printing business. It produced more than 20 million books to spread the hate gospel of fascism.

• Nazi past claims prompt Bertelsmann review - German media giant Bertelsmann's corporate history is down for engineering, following claims by a Swiss magazine that the company had been less than honest about its business during the 1930s and 1940s. The Nazis closed the company down in 1943, but Die Weltwoche claims that Bertelsmann was the largest supplier of books for the Wehrmacht and SS. Bertelsmann has evolved into a global media giant in recent years, owning Random House and RCA, and partnering with Barnes & Noble and AOL, among others. With the latter it's a 50-50 owner of AOL Bertelsmann Online Europa.

• German media giant grew fat on Nazi propaganda - BERTELSMANN, one of the world’s largest media groups, deliberately misled researchers in an attempt to conceal its Nazi past, according to a report released yesterday by independent historians.

• Channel 5 Owner Admits Profiting From Nazi Era - The media giant Bertelsmann rose to become one of the world's most influential corporations with the help of a big lie, the company has admitted. For more than half a century, Bertelsmann, which controls Britain's Channel 5, claimed that it had been a victim of the Nazi regime. But an investigation by the company has found that it worked hand-in-glove with the Third Reich, made profits from publishing anti-Semitic works and used Jewish slave labourers.

OTHER / ALTERNATIVE MEDIA REPORTS: -

• TAKEN FROM THE UKIP WEBSITE:  Will Local Government be privatised? - East Riding of Yorkshire has given the go-ahead for a Public Private Partnership (PPP) with Arvato AG for them to administer the Council's services and duties. The 8 year contract includes a regional business centre built for the provision of services to the public and private sectors and is expected to create 1,000 new jobs. Salaries and pensions are expected to fall on Council Taxpayers. The German firm Arvato AG is a totally owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG. The firm regards the plan as a "pilot project of strategic importance" for its expansion into a multi billion euro market (estimated at £6.7bn in GB). All of the European Member States now have regions, with Germany retaining those set up after WWII, and privatisation of local services has proved to be a disaster for nations where enforced.

• One Thousand Jobs for the East Riding - Up to 1,000 new jobs will be coming to the East Riding within four years after councillors gave the go-ahead to plans to set up a Public Private Partnership between arvato AG and East Riding of Yorkshire Council.

• Britons Under German Administration: Notorious Publisher of Nazi Propaganda takes over administration of 350,000 Britons in Yorkshire - Bertelsmann, both a loyal propagandist for the Nazis in their rampage across Europe in the 1940s and a loyal propagandist for the European Union, the European Constitution and the Euro today. In the 1940s they published propaganda for the German armed services. An introduction to one book reads: "In these personal reports of our fighters in Norway the immortal Viking raid of German destroyers on Narvik is told in exciting pictures. After a reckless stormy journey the mountain troops struggle in self sacrifice against English superiority. The survivors cling on after the death of their Commander Bonte until German ships force the withdrawal of the enemy from Narvik". Today, as this translation by Edward Spalton from our German friends at german-foreign-policy.com relates,they are taking over the administration of a large part of Britain. Has anyone told anyone about the implications?

• How does the Government square this circle with access to the proposed Identity Card database?. - Well Mr big Ears, from July the German firm Arvato AG, a totally owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, will take over the majority of the administration of the British local authority, the East Riding of Yorkshire, which has around 350,000 inhabitants. About five hundred local authority employees will switch to Bertelsmann. So a German firm will be entrusted with carrying out public duties which were previously under the authority of the British state. These include public and statutory duties ( such as are carried out by a state, local authority or public corporation) to fulfil requirements under public law. The exercise of these powers of government is normally the preserve of responsible local government officials who have a special duty to the local authority and bear allegiance to the state. In a few months Arvato will become responsible for paying wages and social benefits as well as collecting council tax, fees and charges. It will provide a citizens' bureau and the Council's total information technology requirement.

LOCAL PUBLIC OPINION OF THE TAKEOVER -

FURTHER IMPORTANT RESEARCH: -

• The East Riding of Yorkshire Council

• Bertelsmann - Media Worldwide

• Common Purpose

• BT DOSSIER: Bertelsmann - "Bertelsmann Service Group has now put into practice its "global but local" strategy and, with the support of BTeLocations, look forward to continued investment in the North West for many years to come".

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