[…] of an organisation. In carrying out their investigation, the tribunal also has the power to require assistance from a relevant Commissioner (RIPA s68(2)). RIPA sets up a new commissioner system, with the exception of surveillance commissioners, who continue under the Police Act 1997, and who now also have responsibility for overseeing the surveillance powers […]
[…] left, the right and the state. But, boy, some of it is hard work. There is a 26-page article with the subtitle, ‘The Curious Case of the New Communist Party, Searchlight and the Nazi honeytrap….(run by a hermaphrodite)’, which is all but unintelligible to me because, as with his pamphlets, the information is obscured […]
[…] mismanagement. As a result, they are off-loading ever more responsibility onto outside ‘consultants’. This is also what appears to be happening in espionage. It is a relatively new development and, presumably, runs parallel to traditional use of outside contractors for deniable operations. Sarbanes-Oxley is designed to prevent another Enron and maximise shareholder values. (As […]
[…] others did little but rehash these works. It was not until the sixties that Gary Allen of the John Birch Society and a few others added something new. (4) The idea of sinister people meeting in secret to plot the overthrow of religion and society is a very old one, clearly visible in the […]
[…] would key elements in the nuclear military-industrial complex engage in such surveillance activity? It should be remembered that in 1983-84 there was the strong possibility of a new PWR programme in the UK, and the financial and political benefits to the Thatcherites and their US allies are easy to understand. It is certainly feasible […]
[…] Gill and Macmillan, 2006, £22.99, h/b When Fred Holroyd first made his disclosures regarding the activities of SAS Captain Robert Nairac to Duncan Campbell of The New Statesman in 1984, they were credible because Holroyd was a loyal Army Intelligence Captain with absolutely no sympathies for IRA terrorism. (1) Despite efforts on the […]
Greg Grandin New York: Metropolitan books, 2006, $25.00 Reviewing a biography of Harold Laski in 1953,() the historian A. J. P. Taylor remarked on ‘the dilemma of our times’: that ‘no-one who believes in liberty can ever work sincerely with communists, or trust them, yet no-one who has socialism in his bones can […]
[…] industry and included laser systems from TRW and Martin-Merietta and RF weapons from Rockwell and Hughes. In America, as the arms industry gets rolling in a promising new field, it is accompanied by the legitimation process. Harlan Girard sent me a copy of a report of ‘An Independent Task Force’ sponsored by the Council […]
[…] and Gerard Kemp. They report the basics of the piece – the tip-off, the ID on Horn, Horn’s denial (but not Horn’s name) – then add some new pieces. First they report the (unnamed) Horn commenting on a previous visitor asking the same questions (presumably the visit of McKittrick). This visitor, says Horn, asked […]
[…] interest, thereby by-passing democracy. It clarifies how the European Roundtable of Industrialists (ERT) in particular performs an agenda-setting role, resulting in the prioritisation by the EU of new policies benefitting transnational corporations (TNCs). This is evident in plans for ‘completing the internal market’, which will mean deregulating and liberalizing a number of sectors such […]
