[…] systems in the West in the past decade has been the status of the claims made by KGB defector Golitsyn. Until recently all the book-reading public k new about Golitsyn was (a) that he has exposed some (relatively minor) Soviet operations; (b) made a series of quite bizarre sounding claims to the effect that […]
[…] www.statewatch.org/news/2002/aug/05Adataret.htm Confidential Europol document on data retention http://www.radicalparty.org/europol/europol.pdf See also cryptome.org/europol-rape.htm which gives a more readable version of the Europol document. EPIC’s International Data Retention page http://www.epic.org/privacy/intl/data_retention.html Latest news from round the world on data retention; documents; campaigns; EU member states’ implementation of data retention; info and links. Network Against Data Retention http://www.stop1984.com/netzwerk Initiative […]
[…] to emerge which will make the pieces slot into place. I had the feeling again reading the Lammers’ book; but, alas, once again the puzzle remains unsolved. Notes Don’t write and tell me the figures are wrong. It is a while since I read the book and maybe it was 300,000 and 25,000. Confirmation […]
[…] bubble formation is one of the indications of the oil diminishing. The need for horizontal as opposed to vertical wells and the lack of discoveries of any new reserves of substance since the 1960s, combined with some astounding political legerdemain, makes this book a necessary primer for the British government if it is to […]
[…] of North Sea oil and gas – but, hey, there’s always ‘the knowledge economy’. And if that fails, something else will turn up, won’t it? Won’t it? Notes 1 The Sunday Telegraph (Business) August 15 2004. 2 Bootle used to be the chief economist for the Midland Bank, before Midland was taken over. The […]
[…] to by the Privy Council since 1970” produced half an answer. Since 1980, Livingstone was told, the list has included Campaign, Economist, Farmers Weekly, Financial Weekly, Listener, New Scientist, New Society, New Statesman, Now, Private Eye, Spectator, Times Literary Supplement, Tribune and the UK Press Gazette.It is a pity that no information was available […]
Daniel Ellsberg New York: Viking, 2003 Colin Challen MP The timely publication of Ellsberg’s memoir shows that from the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incident to the Arabian Gulf in 2003, little seems to have changed in the United States’ approach to starting war. Ellsberg’s account of secret White House activity in the wake of the […]
[…] and has not yet found a role.’ This is always quoted as being a great profundity. In fact it was just nonsense. In 1945 America became the new school bully and Britain became the school bully’s best friend. That has been this country’s chief international role. Being the bully’s friend has its upside – […]
[…] a first-past-the-post system. This would be an elementary consideration, of course, to anyone who had been a lowly ward organiser or similar. Blair was promoted by the new leader, John Smith, but quickly began intriguing against him. Seldon’s book offers a valuable account of this episode. In the Smith world view basically a […]
[…] prison. Steve met Fred and Colin and we received some of Wallace’s writings about his time in Ireland. These documents were almost unintelligible initially: a blizzard of new organisations, names and events. We headed for our respective university libraries to try and make sense of this material and discovered that, with Wallace’s narratives as […]
