Books St. Peter’s Banker, Michele Sindona Luigi Di Fonzo (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1984) This is an important publication from a new Scottish publishing house, Mainstream. It runs through Sindona’s life, showing how he came to be in such a strong financial position that he could buy the Franklin National, one of the largest banks in […]
[…] which experienced spectacular post-war growth but then faced increasing difficulties in sustaining it. Japan’s growth rate, which once led to the Japanese economy being proposed as a new model for the older Western economies, has been sluggish throughout the nineties, and is currently virtually zero. Mills’ book traces the patterns of the world’s economies […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 – […]
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 […]
[…] WW2 UFO flap in the United States. Scott Van Wynsberghe locates the Kennedy assassination author Paris Flammonde on the Long John Knebel Show, a radio chat-show in New York, apparently with a reputation of giving space to UFO reports. As far as I am aware Long John Knebel first surfaced in this country in […]
[…] 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 […]
Heather Brooke London: Pluto Press, 2005, £12.99 p/b This book is an invaluable guide for anyone thinking of using the new access laws chiefly the Freedom of Information Act 2000 or the Environmental Information Regulations to obtain information from public authorities. It tells you how to go about obtaining information and appealing, […]
[…] front. The assassin was almost certainly a man called Eugene Thane Cesar, dressed as a security guard, standing just behind Kennedy. Committee For A Community of Democracy New group mentioned in passing in Guardian 17th January 1984. Anyone seen other references, details of membership, aims, funding etc? Smersh Ian Fleming always claimed Smersh was […]
