[…] of this is based on either blind habit or assumption. Because of the Reductionist mindset of scientists (and those in authority), a single cause is always sought for every disease. Having ‘found’ the one cause, positions, careers, resources, whole industries with their lawyers and political muscle, are devoted to maintaining the ‘wisdom’ of this […]
Parish Notices Thanks for material since the last Lobster to, Robin Whittaker (clipper-in-chief), Jane Affleck, Anthony Carew, Harry Irwin, Harlan Girard, Steve Wright and John Booth. Corrections I get surprisingly few anonymous or abusive letters but I got a corker after Lobster 34. The anonymous and abusive author pointed out that in my review […]
[…] publication and (b) that it should get the good reviews it has had to date. Something is going on here but I’ve no idea what. Interesting (just) for pp 68-74 which discuss the South Africa Foundation and the UK-SA Trade Association. Barber, incidentally, is the author of the article on BOSS in Britain (African […]
[…] ideally suited to write a decent account of Kincora and its surrounding scandals. Alas, this book is a complete turkey. It’s got no index, and no sources notes; all too frequently, where Moore does cite another source, a newspaper, for example, he gives no date. Even if it had been adequately documented, this would […]
[…] (personal information). Alan Charles Andrews: MI6 technical side 1965-74 (personal information). Denis Jackson: MI6 under Andrews. Derek Salmon: MI6 under Andrews. John Fawcett: MI5 liaison officer with New Zealand 1985/6 (Information from Owen Wilkes). John Hay: MI6 (C) (Diplomatic List 1990). J.A. Noakes: MI6 (C) (Diplomatic List 1990). R.G. Graham: MI6 (C) (Diplomatic List […]
[…] a Christian, apparently the only honest man with any bottle on the EU staff, didn’t have to look hard to find corruption: it was everywhere he went.(5) Notes London: Little, Brown, 1999 The Tainted Source: the Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea, (London: Little Brown, 1997) which has recently been remaindered and is around […]
[…] decided over the weekend of 23 and 24 November by Lyndon B. Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover. But their ‘crime’ was even worse than this, they k new that they were bolstering a lie. Their job was certainly not to go where the evidence might lead them. On the evening of 22 November President […]
[…] perhaps most surprising, is the way that Israeli governments have collaborated in this. Fernandes’ book is very densely argued and comes with an overwhelming mass of foot notes. He touches on so many issues that he left this reader with a huge number of references to chase up. This is an important book that […]
[…] economic interests have been better or worse served since 1948 had the CIA not come to be dominated by the covert operators? Although topped and tailed with new material, this is otherwise unchanged since the hard-back edition in 1989. The further collapse of the Soviet empire since then has made a page or two […]
[…] was that the UK intelligence services were involved with the CIA. Extraordinary though this now seems, this had never struck me. The links between the US, UK, New Zealand and Australian intelligence services are detailed in the highly recommended Ties That Bind by Jeffrey Richelson and Desmond Ball (Allen and Unwin 1985). On page […]
