[…] naked Mafia shit that he is. Take the rest of the Mafia and cancer with him. A truly American service. As his Mafia brother stated (as the Pope leaped into the ‘Holy Crusade’ of Vietnam) — ‘Ask not what your country can do for you – but what you can do for your country.’ […]
One of many reasons why the lobbying industry attracts opprobrium is because Britain’s political system offers only limited public sector facility to those who wish to influence it but lack the funding and/or patronage to do so. ‘The lobbyists’ did not cause the injustice. It is up to government to come up with the solutions. […]
[…] US State of the Union speeches. President Bush gave his this year as climate change dominated British media, a subject he ignored. The President seemed unaware that Pope Benedict, the week before – doubtless with the upcoming Presidential speech in mind – gave his first as pontiff, priming global audiences about love, which coincides […]
[…] of Soviet Analysis at the CIA said: ‘There was very good, sensitive DO evidence that suggested the Soviets were not linked to the assassination attempt on the Pope.’ The CIA, said Goodman in the early 1980s ‘had very good penetration of the Bulgarian secret services’ and that these clandestine CIA sources had found no […]
[…] of Christ is one of the finest ‘Mission Accomplished’ statements to be found. () The image is uncluttered, the victim/hero takes centre stage, and there is no pope emoting over Christ’s shoulder. (Real power is when you do not even need to be in the picture.()) Contrast this to President Bush’s busy, visually over-detailed […]
[…] has turned out to be. The item that struck me is the authors’ reproduction of an early interview on the subject of the assassination attempt on the Pope given by Claire Sterling, in which the ‘Bulgarian connection’ is described as ‘crazy’. Getting CAIB isn’t easy in the UK. It used to be stocked by […]
[…] revised edition of Manufacturing Consent). I have even discussed its application to conspiracy theories, some the media treating as legitimate (the alleged KGB plot to murder the Pope in 1981), others dismissed as mere ‘conspiracy theories’ (the assassination of John F. Kennedy), according to political criteria easy to understand in our framework. Edwards doesn’t […]
[…] of about one-fifth of Spain’s parliamentary deputies, as well as the capital of numerous banks, conglomerates and construction firms. Its influence has spread to the Vatican, where Pope John Paul 2 recently recognised it as a “personal prelature”; to Latin America generally, where Archbishop Lopez Trujillo, an Opus Dei ally, is now President of […]
[…] Goodman was one of those in the Agency who did not believe that the KGB – or its Bulgarian allies – had run Ali Agca at the Pope. (9) Notes 1 – this ceased in October owing to the illness of its moderator, John McCartney. 2 See also, for example, Daily Telegraph, 12 […]
[…] anti-semitism. (Incidentally, his close friend and co-founder of the Coalition For Peace Through Security, Julian Lewis, is Jewish.)” From Ace R. Hayes, Oregon, USA. “Re: Shooting the Pope. I have fired thousands of rounds through all sorts of hand guns. A 9mm Browning Hi-power (used by Agca) is not fired with any intent of […]
