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[5a]"... No catholic and no one whose close relatives are catholic may be a member." Northern Ireland The Orange State, Michael Farrell;
McGarry, John & O'Leary, Brendan (1995). Explaining Northern Ireland: Broken Images. Blackwell Publishers. pp. 180
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[7] b Orange Parades to be limited in Glasgow City Centre http://www.royalblack.org/
^ http://www.royalblack.org/locations.html#scotland
[9]"Orange Institution Rituals, Secrets and Degrees Revealed." .
[10] "Royal Arch Purple degree exposed." .
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[12] "Paras 'blasted' over Bloody Sunday (From Hereford Times)."
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[13] "Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express .
[14] "UK judges no longer need to declare if the are a Freemason .
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[17] "BBC News | UK Politics | Tally of freemason judges revealed. .
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[19] "Scotland Police Officers to be asked to declare Masonic .
[20] "The First Degree of Freemasonry Watch.".
[21] "Northern Ireland Police to be forced to declare Masonic .
Nepotistic networks
I take my hat off to François Pérol, the adviser whom Nicolas Sarkozy, France‘s president,
controversially appointed to head two merging mutual banks, and of whom it‘s said is not known as a
champion of transparency. But Mr Pérol has let it be known that he intends to reduce the influence of
Freemasons at Caisse d‘Epargne and Banque Populaire, [1] obviously admitting he recognises there is a
major problem with them, and refused an invitation to a ‗tenue blanche ouverte‘, a Masonic meeting that
non-Freemasons may attend. And he does not want senior posts shared among the bank‘s various ―rival
lodges‖. See what I mean; ―rival lodges‖, I hope your getting a clearer picture about the truth of these
banking cables. And this kind of lodge rivalry isn‘t just subject to France or their banking fraternity, as it‘s
the same in the UK, USA, Germany, Canada and many other countries, and in virtually all major
industries. - French business may be particularly full of networks, but every country has its cliques,
whether based on education, social background or spiritual beliefs, ―Ox-bridge‖ is a good example here in
the UK, whereas it refers to that elite group of people whom all seem to have found cushy numbers in
governmental jobs and connected vocations, and whom many seemed to have attended either Oxford and
Cambridge Universities respectively.
America has its Alpha, Delta, Kappa like Greek Fraternities and Ivy League alumni type of groups and
Rotary and Lion clubs etc. Chinese businesspeople often rely on Guanxi [2] , which describes the basic
dynamic in personalised networks of influence, and is a central idea in Chinese society. At the same time,
online professional networks such as LinkedIn, headquartered in California, Viadeo, a French-owned
website, and Xing, a site with a strong presence in German-speaking countries [formerly called the Open-
Business-Club], are surging in popularity thanks in part to the fear of lay-offs during the recent and
continuing recession/s. In 2009, it took LinkedIn a month to win one million new members; in 2010 it was
taking about 15 days to attract this same number, and the site had 60 million members around the world by
February 2011. Online networks, in contrast to the old kinds are open to all and easy to join. Old-style
networks, however, are usually stronger than online ones, and the trust between their members facilitates
transactions of all sorts.
In Spain, Italy and Latin America as well as France, businesspeople speak of the influence of Opus
Dei, who keeps cropping up throughout the book, - there a conservative Catholic lay-order which supports
a number of business schools, and as I‘ve said universities are breeding grounds for all these kinds of
fraternities.
Opus Dei membership is no bar to political office, says Scottish National Party [SNP‘s] David Kerr, the
SNP‘s candidate who ran for office in the July 2009, Glasgow North-East by-election, confirmed he is a
member of the controversial organisation Opus Dei, but argued that his religious beliefs should not be a
factor in the election. Former BBC journalist David Kerr, chosen as the party‘s candidate, said it was
―preposterous and deeply prejudiced to argue that somebody of his religious beliefs should be debarred
from running for public office‖. He said his religious views were now an ―open book‖.