The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] all here is due to one man’s action; Cameron’s obsessive arse kissing over the years of Rupert Murdoch. Tony Blair was pretty good, as was Brown. But Cameron was the Daddy. . . Cameron wanted Rupert onside as he believed, quite wrongly in my view, that The Sun’s endorsement would help him to victory […]

The News Machine: Hacking,The Untold Story by James Hanning with Glenn Mulcaire

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[PDF file]: […] left prison early on the morning of 21 November. Whether the timing of Andy Coulson’s release was coincidental or evidence that his former boss, Prime Minister David Cameron, was pulling all the strings he could to avoid a UKIP victory, we may never know. But we do know that Coulson’s earlier employer, News International […]

Show Me The Bodies by Peter Apps

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[PDF file]: […] the 24-storey West London apartment block occurred and includes the broader political ‘bonfire of regulation’ framework in which this took place. Under the Conservative premiership of David Cameron, writes Apps: the government was bound to an ideology that said it should not regulate the private sector, but should instead reduce any restrictions to allow […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

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[PDF file]: […] or Small Potatoes’, Forbes Magazine, 8 April 2010. 23 Spencer Andrai’s Danger Room, ‘New US Commando Team Operating near Iran’, Wired, 19 January 2012. By contrast, David Cameron must have known in advance of the plans to seize Iran’s oil and public industries that have been developed (in the public domain) by the US […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] come. Mind games of the rich and famous The recent excursions of US President Obama had some interesting symbolism. On visiting the UK, Mr Obama presented David Cameron with a leather duffel-bag, an eyewateringly expensive designer watch, and some tennis gear, including a tube of three tennis balls. Why choose these specific items? It’s […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

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[PDF file]: […] he believed ‘could blow the case wide open.’ Gordon Thomas was no stranger to the government-sponsored ‘mind control’ experiments and had authored a book about Dr Ewen Cameron and the appalling MKULTRA experiments he had conducted in Montreal.1 0 Eric Olson immediately passed on the affidavit to Morgenthau’s office. Thomas’ affidavit recounts a series […]

All In It Together: England in the early 21st Century by Alwyn Turner

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[PDF file]: […] decade and a half; and the parallel reversal of fortune for those ‘plausible young men’ who rose to the top of that society – Nick Clegg, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, David Miliband and the primus inter plausibiles, Tony Blair. ‘This was very much the modern trend: educated, metropolitan, 1 middle-class young men with a […]

Beyond Business by John Browne

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[PDF file]: […] at McKinsey for consultancy contracts ‘from the NHS to the defence ministry’, the total amount a closely guarded secret. 7 McKinsey’s relationship with government has continued under Cameron: William Hague used to work for them and was welcomed by the Economist as ‘the McKinsey Foreign Secretary’.8 Another McKinsey man is Nat Wei, a Baron, […]

Paedo Files: a look at the UK Establishment child abuse network

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[PDF file]: […] at the UK Establishment child abuse network Tim Wilkinson 1: Conserving the Conservatives O n 24 October 2012, the Labour MP Tom Watson asked Prime Minister David Cameron about a paedophile ring centred on the Prime Minister’s office at Number 10 Downing Street. Visibly discomfited, Cameron first affected not to know which former prime […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] released so far was the US Embassy in London’s account of a 2010 conversation with Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, about messieurs Osborne and Cameron. The cable says: ‘Both Cameron and Osborne have a tendency to think about issues only in terms of politics, and how they might affect Tory electorability. […]

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