[…] Tory Party for over twenty years until 1983, and is now reported to be the largest Tory Party grouping at Westminster, with over 80 MPs. The ‘ New Right’ discovered by the media in the late 1970s (essentially after Thatcher came to power), is little more than an expression of the media’s complete lack […]
[…] were going to have more evidence: advance publicity was appearing for a book by a Texan lawyer, Barr McClellan, Blood Money and Power: How LBJ Killed JFK (New York: Hanover House, 2003). McClellan worked for the law firm which handled Johnson’s affairs and obviously knows quite a lot. But his book is a dud; […]
[…] ringing Turner, checking the cuttings library or his book. Notes The important story about Norwood was ‘Norwood: the spy who ever was’ by Phillip Knightley in the New Statesman 13 December 1999 which showed that whatever it was Norwood gave to the Soviets, it wasn’t nuclear London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1986 Beams and motes […]
[…] to me in a telephone call that he had fully corroborated Black Cat during a month- long trip to the US in late 1998. He also k new that a second mission that he dubbed Black Cat 11 had taken place but remained unable to penetrate it. This was obviously Operation Black Dog. Interestingly, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to the useful account of the ‘birth of the Defense Intelligence Agency’. In between are a number of good essays on American intelligence which are well-serviced with notes and bibliography. It is hardly revisionist, though in an academic environment they obviously would appear to be. By far the most interesting selection is Andrew Lownie’s […]
[…] 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 – […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] have seen, co-author with Peter Dale Scott of Cocaine Politics (University of California Press, 1991). This essay is typically dense parapolitics research, 20 pages, with 107 foot notes. Marshall shows how U.S. forces in the far East, initially in the war against Japan, and then in the desire to secure tungsten, a ‘strategic’ metal, […]
