British Aid for the Kurds (BAFK as it became known), was the largest organisation in the country by the time we finished. It had sent nearly 1,000 tonnes of relief aid and no one else was anywhere near that. At the time, we had no idea of assessing the worth of what had been achieved. A guesstimate was put on it of £20-30million. I thought that was too much and that it was an overestimation.
I had a private meeting with Lynda Chalker who was then the Minister of the ODA (Overseas Development Administration)in London. She was very much decrying all of the things we had done and had done so throughout. I have letters from her that are so derogatory it is unbelievable. The lies they made up about our work and yet the Government actually broke into one of our warehouses and stole a warehouse full of goods. They then transported those goods and said they were from the British government! A Whitehall spokesman said we had given our permission. No we hadn't.
Lynda Chalker, later made a Baroness by her friend John Major, tried to intimidate me at the meeting. She walked into the boardroom with about a dozen chaps in their obligatory suits all carrying notepads and pens. They circled the boardroom table and sat facing us prepared to take notes. Silly woman. Not being immodest, but what was she doing? Having run 2 major national/international organisations that dealt with some of the top people in the country, did she really think a lot of young boys with notepads was going to worry me!! (See how cocky I had become. This was the same woman (me)who 3 months earlier was lying on her floor screaming in a haze of madness. Now you see why I say it must have been Divine Help that was given to me).
Anyway, I was at the meeting to get the truth out of her about why she, the Prime Minister and the government had hidden all of our work. We wanted to know what the point was. Why had they lied about the types of things we were sending? It was only later I would learn why. The meeting was a total waste of time. She had no intention of telling the truth. I never obliged her by begging or moaning. I sat and just stared at her and let her spout a load of rubbish at me. It was obvious the woman was an incredible liar. Question was why? What was the point?
Moving swiftly along, in the following year the Honour's list was published and Jeffrey Archer's name was on it. He was being awarded a peerage for his amazing achievement of raising £57 million for the Kurds!!!!!! Lynda Chalker for her part was later made a Baroness. For our American friends reading this, that meant she would now be addressed as Lady Chalker. Suddenly, all started to fall in place. We still didn't know why though. We knew he had taken glory for something he didn't do, but the full extent of the deception never became clear until the year 2000.
Good old Jeff went to prison. Hurrah I hear you shout. At least I hope I hear you do that! Whilst in there, the Kurdish people had started asking where the money was that he had alleged to have raised. Baroness Emma Nicholson had much to do with the Kurds and, I believe, still does. On their behalf she asked where it was and why hadn't anyone seen any of it. After all, this was 9 years later. An investigation was launched by the Red Cross. KPMG Forensic Accountants were to look into it to see where it had gone.
Archer was put into a higher category prison due to the seriousness of suggested allegations about the missing money. I knew he hadn't stolen any because I knew there hadn't been as much as he had claimed. I was probably the only one of 2-3 of us who knew that outside John Major's government. Suddenly, my telephone was red hot. Someone from Radio 4's Today programme telephoned me. He asked if I was the lady who had run BAFK. On confirmation, he sighed with relief and said that everyone in the media was looking for me. (We had moved house). Now he had found me he said everyone else would be in touch and to be prepared.
He said it was to do with Jeffrey Archer. Everywhere they looked to get details about his alleged fund raising, all they could find was my name. He asked why that was. I told him. Now the story gets even more peculiar. Remember, this is 9 years later and a different Government. No John Major to help out and hide him or their secrets. Maybe now the truth would be exposed. At last all of those poor people who did everything I asked of them would get the recognition they deserved. For years I felt guilty (and still do) that because they only had me as their head and not a celebrity, their work was unrecognised. If you knew the extent of what some of them did, you would know why I feel that way.
It was set up that Radio 4 would interview, Smelly old Mary Archer - whoops, sorry, I think the word used at the time was fragrant - oh well,same thing. No one said what the fragrance was, I just assumed married to him... Anyway, things were set up that Mon. Tues. and I think Wednesday interviews would be held and unbeknown to them all, after they had told their lies, I was to be produced on the Thursday to shock them all with the truth exposed. All of the interviews took place and the chap concerned rang me daily. He was to call me at a set time for my interview and then.....nothing.
It was happening again. A silence. The television interviews that were recorded never were shown, the newspaper articles went unpublished and the radio interviews too were silenced. Why? This is a different government - what's more a different party. Things were getting even more puzzling. Then I heard about a Panorama documentary due to be televised about Archer. THAT was to be a real eye opener.
Baroness Nicholson was now in touch with me regularly and we had many discussions about what was going on. I had by now been asked By Sir Nicholas Young CEO of the Red Cross in London to take part in the KPMG investigation. I was delighted and of course accepted. I could go armed with all of my letters and documents etc. and could have the truth told. I could show he didn't raise as much as he had claimed. What I didn't bank on was finding out, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he hadn't actually raised a penny. My second shock was to be the estimated value of what we had achieved which far exceeded the amount I had at first thought too large!!
The Panorama interview and what I learned from it, the KPMG investigation and its report and the outcome of it all will be in the next and final part. So too will be the fact that the Metropolitan Police investigating the loans for peerages scandal were also informed of all of this.
Thanks once again for your time and PLEASE remember to get as many people as you can to read this and get them to pass on the link to it also. Justice I hope will be seen to be done and that phoney title removed forthwith. That's all I want now.
Much love, Lorraine.
Thursday, 28 May 2009
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
PSYCHOMETRY PART 2
Sorry this has taken so long but other things got in the way! Hopefully you will have something to try this with. Two or three things would be good. If you are doing it alone, then I suggest you have a pen and paper to hand in order to write down any information you may receive.
Once you are prepared - sitting comfortably and without a chance of being disturbed - then clear your mind with the usual three deep breaths and hold your chosen object in your hand. It doesn't matter which one. Just sit and wait to see what you feel. Don't try to force it or you will only imagine you are feeling things you aren't. I shall give you an example of what may happen by recounting the first time I tried psychometry.
I was given someone's watch to hold and asked to say what I felt. Nothing was the answer. I was waiting for a flash of instant knowledge and was concentrating hard on getting it. The harder I tried to get something, the more blank my mind went. There was someone watching and he asked what I was getting. 'Nothing', I replied. He assured me I was and said to stop trying so hard. He asked me to tell him what I was feeling. It was a tingling in my hand that was holding the watch. As soon as I said that it started to spread up my arm. I told him that was happening.
It turned out that this was what I was meant to be saying. I had been waiting for startling revelations which weren't forthcoming. Instead, I was getting very faint and subtle feelings which it turned out I should have been telling the owner of the watch about. Once I had said the first thing, then other things followed. I eventually, albeit very slowly, gave out that it felt like a woman was with me and what she had wrong. there were several more things and then it stopped. I knew then to stop before I started adding bits of my imagination to it.
So you see, when you do it for the first time, don't expect big things to happen or startling revelations of any kind. It is usually quite subtle feelings or a 'knowing'. There may only be a couple of things and even these you may not be sure of at first. In time you will learn to tell the difference between what you are picking up and what are your own thoughts.
Write down what you got and say what item you were holding at the time. Do this with each item until you have finished. If you want to, you can go back to the first one and try again. Do not over do it though. Ask the people who you have done this for to be honest about what you tell them. If you were wrong, then they must say. If you were accurate then excellent. Without people being honest, you won't learn if you are doing it correctly and relaying all the information in the right way.
Getting it wrong doesn't matter at first. It is something that may take a little time until you are used to doing it and have learned how to understand the feelings you are getting. It is so easy to think you have a pain in the knee or arm or wherever you're being shown. It is not always obvious at first that this is being given to you and is not actually YOUR pain. If at any time the feeling stays or is too intense, then just calmly but firmly in your mind tell them to take it away from you again. This should be done immediately you ask. You will feel it leaving you. If it doesn't then tell them again and if necessary, put down the object and get up and do something else. They need to know that YOU are in charge.
I always thank them for letting me feel, hear,smell or know what it is they are trying to show me. You must do the same. At the end of any exercise always say a thank you. Even if you feel nothing happened, you can be assured that someone is there listening. Just because you aren't aware doesn't mean they are not with you. So say thank you each time. It is the same with prayer. Each time you pray and ask for something, remember to always say a prayer of thanks later on. It may not always be obvious your prayer has been answered, but it shall have been. Maybe not how you wanted, but be assured, it will be in the best way for you although you may not know that is the case.
This hasn't been a long exercise as it is only really practice that makes perfect. Not everyone will be able to work in this way so do not be dismayed if it doesn't work for you. There are many gifts and each has their own. Some have one or two and others may have many more. Some people may not be able to do any of these things ever because this is not their time. Even if you can master psychometry, do not expect results each time you try it. It is not possible to always be able to do things when you try them. There are many reasons for this. Sometimes the energy is too low - theirs or yours. It could be that the person concerned you read for is not to know anything at that time. There are various reasons so do not be overly concerned if one day you excel and another you achieve nothing. There is also the fact that the gifts we have been given can be changed to others at any given moment.
I hope you get on with this and achieve some results. Do let me know if you do. Good luck and I wish you many happy hours of practice.
God's Blessing's
Lorraine.
Once you are prepared - sitting comfortably and without a chance of being disturbed - then clear your mind with the usual three deep breaths and hold your chosen object in your hand. It doesn't matter which one. Just sit and wait to see what you feel. Don't try to force it or you will only imagine you are feeling things you aren't. I shall give you an example of what may happen by recounting the first time I tried psychometry.
I was given someone's watch to hold and asked to say what I felt. Nothing was the answer. I was waiting for a flash of instant knowledge and was concentrating hard on getting it. The harder I tried to get something, the more blank my mind went. There was someone watching and he asked what I was getting. 'Nothing', I replied. He assured me I was and said to stop trying so hard. He asked me to tell him what I was feeling. It was a tingling in my hand that was holding the watch. As soon as I said that it started to spread up my arm. I told him that was happening.
It turned out that this was what I was meant to be saying. I had been waiting for startling revelations which weren't forthcoming. Instead, I was getting very faint and subtle feelings which it turned out I should have been telling the owner of the watch about. Once I had said the first thing, then other things followed. I eventually, albeit very slowly, gave out that it felt like a woman was with me and what she had wrong. there were several more things and then it stopped. I knew then to stop before I started adding bits of my imagination to it.
So you see, when you do it for the first time, don't expect big things to happen or startling revelations of any kind. It is usually quite subtle feelings or a 'knowing'. There may only be a couple of things and even these you may not be sure of at first. In time you will learn to tell the difference between what you are picking up and what are your own thoughts.
Write down what you got and say what item you were holding at the time. Do this with each item until you have finished. If you want to, you can go back to the first one and try again. Do not over do it though. Ask the people who you have done this for to be honest about what you tell them. If you were wrong, then they must say. If you were accurate then excellent. Without people being honest, you won't learn if you are doing it correctly and relaying all the information in the right way.
Getting it wrong doesn't matter at first. It is something that may take a little time until you are used to doing it and have learned how to understand the feelings you are getting. It is so easy to think you have a pain in the knee or arm or wherever you're being shown. It is not always obvious at first that this is being given to you and is not actually YOUR pain. If at any time the feeling stays or is too intense, then just calmly but firmly in your mind tell them to take it away from you again. This should be done immediately you ask. You will feel it leaving you. If it doesn't then tell them again and if necessary, put down the object and get up and do something else. They need to know that YOU are in charge.
I always thank them for letting me feel, hear,smell or know what it is they are trying to show me. You must do the same. At the end of any exercise always say a thank you. Even if you feel nothing happened, you can be assured that someone is there listening. Just because you aren't aware doesn't mean they are not with you. So say thank you each time. It is the same with prayer. Each time you pray and ask for something, remember to always say a prayer of thanks later on. It may not always be obvious your prayer has been answered, but it shall have been. Maybe not how you wanted, but be assured, it will be in the best way for you although you may not know that is the case.
This hasn't been a long exercise as it is only really practice that makes perfect. Not everyone will be able to work in this way so do not be dismayed if it doesn't work for you. There are many gifts and each has their own. Some have one or two and others may have many more. Some people may not be able to do any of these things ever because this is not their time. Even if you can master psychometry, do not expect results each time you try it. It is not possible to always be able to do things when you try them. There are many reasons for this. Sometimes the energy is too low - theirs or yours. It could be that the person concerned you read for is not to know anything at that time. There are various reasons so do not be overly concerned if one day you excel and another you achieve nothing. There is also the fact that the gifts we have been given can be changed to others at any given moment.
I hope you get on with this and achieve some results. Do let me know if you do. Good luck and I wish you many happy hours of practice.
God's Blessing's
Lorraine.
ARCHER'S PEERAGE PART 2
You'll have no doubt noticed that the link I gave you isn't working. It was when I first did it and did for a while afterwards. Suddenly it stopped. I wonder why. Sounds very dramatic I know, but would you have believed anyone if you had been told practically all MP's in our country were crooked as hell? No, quite. I shall carry on with the story and you can come to your own conclusions at the end. Suffice to say, all I tell you can be checked out in Hansard. The Parliamentary records of all debates etc. in the House of Commons.
I told you about Parcels for the Gulf and now I shall come to the follow up. Due to the Network of helpers, organisers in various counties and storage facilities the group had, I decided to put it to good use. We had stopped the Gulf parcels due to the ceasefire and so I decided to set up an Organisation Nationally to help the Kurdish people. This was done on 4th April 1991. Archer says he became aware (in his own words) of the plight of the Kurds for the first time on 25th April after celebrating his birthday with his family. Where on earth had he been before then. It was all that was on the news.
This time my work was much harder as people from before didn't all want to help with this as they were exhausted from the last thing we had done. I then had to find more district organisers, storage facilities, collection points for donations etc. Logistical nightmare. I needed new transport for long and short haul collection/delivery and worst of all I now had no aeroplanes to fly anything out! Cut a long story relatively short again. I got all I needed including 747's free of charge for our use.
I had daily contact with UNHCR and British Foreign Office in order to check what was needed and where. In all we raised approximately £200 million of relief aid. Yes, Two Hundred Million pounds worth. This is what the British public did and the government hid. We got no recognition for £200million, he got a peerage for £57 million that's now been proved wan't raised at all by him. I also started the ball rolling for a concert. My son was at school with Peter Gabriel's 2 daughters. He was the founder member of the group Genesis if you remember. He was known for doing charity concerts and so I telephoned his ex wife who gave me his number. I spoke with Annie Parsons ( his PA). After a couple of conversations, Peter agreed to do the concert, he got Sting on board and they gave me Harvey Goldsmith's number and told me to contact him. He was and is THE man to arrange these concerts.
At this point I got the British Red Cross on board. I didn't mind handling relief aid, but as I wasn't a registered charity had no intention of handling any money if I could help it. The Red Cross (Iranian Red Crescent) were distributing our goods when they arrived at Tehran and so who better to handle the money side of it. In all this time, by now 4 weeks in which our first plane had left filled with all manner of things, there was NO national publicity at all. Odd mentions would be made and announced that the story would be on News at Ten etc. you would tune in and - nothing!
I would get telephone calls from their news desks just before going live on air asking what planes I had going out that day and what was on them. They would then go on air and ask why the British who were usually so good were doing nothing. I was horrified. They all knew exactly what we were doing and just didn't report it. Something was going on and none of us knew what. We even sent a pre fabricated building with 40 hospital beds, lockers and bedding with a portable operating table, 50 tons of medical equipment and a team of doctors, surgeon and nurses out. All BEFORE good old Jeff came on the scene.
One day, suddenly, none of my calls to Harvey Goldsmith were being taken. The same happened with the British Red Cross. Remember, these were the ones with the concert? A couple of days later things started to drop into place. I had a telephone call from a leading journalist at the Telegraph Newspaper. She asked me what Jeffrey Archer had to do with my concert. I replied that he had nothing to do with anything least of all the concert. She then told me that all of them now knew why none of our work had been allowed to be talked of or publicised. They ALL, every single person in the media who mattered, had received a press release that morning saying that Jeffrey Archer had launched an appeal to help the Kurds and that he was arranging a concert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From then on, our work continued behind the scenes as usual and he went on T.V. saying how wonderful he was and saying how much money he had flooding in. Still our work went unmentioned. I'm talking about the whole of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales here. Not some small group. Imagine how much covering up that took. I can't start to tell you all that was going on. Suffice to say, I collapsed after it was all over and was very ill with blood pressure for a year before they could regulate it properly. I'm still on high medication for it daily now 17 years later. My job as the main organiser was hard enough, but without any publicity it was a logistical nightmare. My telephone bills were a regular £1,800 with no help from anywhere. I also had phones set up in our warehouse at Heathrow airport.
Anyway, all was beginning to fall into place. Archer was taking credit for an appeal he didn't launch. He was also taking credit for a concert he didn't start. What's more, he was being very publicly supported by the government and John Major in particular. The real irony is the name he changed the concert to - Simple Truth !!
That's all for now, but you now know what's going on. I shall conclude maybe tomorrow with what happened next. Long winded isn't it? I hope you are beginning to see why I'm so annoyed and determined to get the truth out. There was a man called, Duncan Edwards who ran our warehouse at Heathrow airport. He was magnificent in the work he did and never got credit. Many people I could mention who did real hard work over and above the normal call of things and they were never recognised for any of it because Archer wanted it for himself when he had done NOTHING. We have since heard that that is what he has always done. Whether that's true or not I don't know. I do, however, know about this. Ah well, reliving this is making me hot in the cheeks and under the collar. Off for a cup of tea.
If you want to check this out, the link I posted was for a section taken from a Debate in Hansard. Look up Lorraine Goodrich Parcels on Google U.K and you MAY see a headline. Hansard June 6th 1991. I think that's the one I tried to show you. One of many.
I really hope you're not bored by this, but I want as many to know as possible. Why should the Government get away with hiding what the British people did in order to give a "mate" of theirs glory. It's disgusting. Please get all your friends to read this and spread the word to everyone they know. This way maybe we can get the truth out at how corrupt the government was and is. I do not want my name singled out. When one talks of Red Cross, Oxfam etc. they do not mention one individual, they mention the group name. That is what I want. More than that, I would be satisfied with that ghastly smug man being stripped of the title he didn't earn. He and people like him are what is making our country look stupid.
The government has hidden this truth for 17 years. Strangely, subsequent governments have and are doing the same, WHY? What is it about Archer that they keep hiding the truth from coming out. Why do they keep protecting him no matter what he does. When he went to prison in 2000 an investigation was launched into where the money he claimed to have raised was. That, is what I am going to talk to you of next. I am sick and tired of things like this being hidden because the ordinary man on the street is not given his voice. By spreading the word this way it can be talked of and word can spread all over the country. I want to show the Government that we will not be hidden away as though we were not important. You can help with this if you will.
Thanks for your understanding. Spread the word!!
Lorraine.
I told you about Parcels for the Gulf and now I shall come to the follow up. Due to the Network of helpers, organisers in various counties and storage facilities the group had, I decided to put it to good use. We had stopped the Gulf parcels due to the ceasefire and so I decided to set up an Organisation Nationally to help the Kurdish people. This was done on 4th April 1991. Archer says he became aware (in his own words) of the plight of the Kurds for the first time on 25th April after celebrating his birthday with his family. Where on earth had he been before then. It was all that was on the news.
This time my work was much harder as people from before didn't all want to help with this as they were exhausted from the last thing we had done. I then had to find more district organisers, storage facilities, collection points for donations etc. Logistical nightmare. I needed new transport for long and short haul collection/delivery and worst of all I now had no aeroplanes to fly anything out! Cut a long story relatively short again. I got all I needed including 747's free of charge for our use.
I had daily contact with UNHCR and British Foreign Office in order to check what was needed and where. In all we raised approximately £200 million of relief aid. Yes, Two Hundred Million pounds worth. This is what the British public did and the government hid. We got no recognition for £200million, he got a peerage for £57 million that's now been proved wan't raised at all by him. I also started the ball rolling for a concert. My son was at school with Peter Gabriel's 2 daughters. He was the founder member of the group Genesis if you remember. He was known for doing charity concerts and so I telephoned his ex wife who gave me his number. I spoke with Annie Parsons ( his PA). After a couple of conversations, Peter agreed to do the concert, he got Sting on board and they gave me Harvey Goldsmith's number and told me to contact him. He was and is THE man to arrange these concerts.
At this point I got the British Red Cross on board. I didn't mind handling relief aid, but as I wasn't a registered charity had no intention of handling any money if I could help it. The Red Cross (Iranian Red Crescent) were distributing our goods when they arrived at Tehran and so who better to handle the money side of it. In all this time, by now 4 weeks in which our first plane had left filled with all manner of things, there was NO national publicity at all. Odd mentions would be made and announced that the story would be on News at Ten etc. you would tune in and - nothing!
I would get telephone calls from their news desks just before going live on air asking what planes I had going out that day and what was on them. They would then go on air and ask why the British who were usually so good were doing nothing. I was horrified. They all knew exactly what we were doing and just didn't report it. Something was going on and none of us knew what. We even sent a pre fabricated building with 40 hospital beds, lockers and bedding with a portable operating table, 50 tons of medical equipment and a team of doctors, surgeon and nurses out. All BEFORE good old Jeff came on the scene.
One day, suddenly, none of my calls to Harvey Goldsmith were being taken. The same happened with the British Red Cross. Remember, these were the ones with the concert? A couple of days later things started to drop into place. I had a telephone call from a leading journalist at the Telegraph Newspaper. She asked me what Jeffrey Archer had to do with my concert. I replied that he had nothing to do with anything least of all the concert. She then told me that all of them now knew why none of our work had been allowed to be talked of or publicised. They ALL, every single person in the media who mattered, had received a press release that morning saying that Jeffrey Archer had launched an appeal to help the Kurds and that he was arranging a concert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From then on, our work continued behind the scenes as usual and he went on T.V. saying how wonderful he was and saying how much money he had flooding in. Still our work went unmentioned. I'm talking about the whole of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales here. Not some small group. Imagine how much covering up that took. I can't start to tell you all that was going on. Suffice to say, I collapsed after it was all over and was very ill with blood pressure for a year before they could regulate it properly. I'm still on high medication for it daily now 17 years later. My job as the main organiser was hard enough, but without any publicity it was a logistical nightmare. My telephone bills were a regular £1,800 with no help from anywhere. I also had phones set up in our warehouse at Heathrow airport.
Anyway, all was beginning to fall into place. Archer was taking credit for an appeal he didn't launch. He was also taking credit for a concert he didn't start. What's more, he was being very publicly supported by the government and John Major in particular. The real irony is the name he changed the concert to - Simple Truth !!
That's all for now, but you now know what's going on. I shall conclude maybe tomorrow with what happened next. Long winded isn't it? I hope you are beginning to see why I'm so annoyed and determined to get the truth out. There was a man called, Duncan Edwards who ran our warehouse at Heathrow airport. He was magnificent in the work he did and never got credit. Many people I could mention who did real hard work over and above the normal call of things and they were never recognised for any of it because Archer wanted it for himself when he had done NOTHING. We have since heard that that is what he has always done. Whether that's true or not I don't know. I do, however, know about this. Ah well, reliving this is making me hot in the cheeks and under the collar. Off for a cup of tea.
If you want to check this out, the link I posted was for a section taken from a Debate in Hansard. Look up Lorraine Goodrich Parcels on Google U.K and you MAY see a headline. Hansard June 6th 1991. I think that's the one I tried to show you. One of many.
I really hope you're not bored by this, but I want as many to know as possible. Why should the Government get away with hiding what the British people did in order to give a "mate" of theirs glory. It's disgusting. Please get all your friends to read this and spread the word to everyone they know. This way maybe we can get the truth out at how corrupt the government was and is. I do not want my name singled out. When one talks of Red Cross, Oxfam etc. they do not mention one individual, they mention the group name. That is what I want. More than that, I would be satisfied with that ghastly smug man being stripped of the title he didn't earn. He and people like him are what is making our country look stupid.
The government has hidden this truth for 17 years. Strangely, subsequent governments have and are doing the same, WHY? What is it about Archer that they keep hiding the truth from coming out. Why do they keep protecting him no matter what he does. When he went to prison in 2000 an investigation was launched into where the money he claimed to have raised was. That, is what I am going to talk to you of next. I am sick and tired of things like this being hidden because the ordinary man on the street is not given his voice. By spreading the word this way it can be talked of and word can spread all over the country. I want to show the Government that we will not be hidden away as though we were not important. You can help with this if you will.
Thanks for your understanding. Spread the word!!
Lorraine.
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