[…] contain.’ David Shayler talks of the existence within MI5 of a thick layer of disgruntled younger officers. Sounds like one of them is having some fun…….. Moscow Gold I have published hundreds of thousands of words and while most of them disappear into the Big Empty, there is an occasional, gratifying echo. I got […]
[PDF file]: […] clear to me – of the programme contained in the ‘British Road to Socialism’ had been written by the Soviet Politburo and approved by Stalin himself.281 Moscow gold? There was ‘Moscow gold’ – bags of used notes, as well as the subsidy by virtue of the Soviet Union’s bulk order of copies of the […]
[PDF file]: […] in Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, as well as being the creative force behind the light shows used by the Grateful Dead. The Committee had devised a film, Gold – a western type farce about some hippies who discover a gold mine and their subsequent tribulations with authority – but had run out of money […]
[PDF file]: […] which it declared a crisis as being imminent. It confirmed that the fault lay in government spending being too high; and, because Sterling was pegged to the Gold Standard, if deposits of gold held by the Bank of England were withdrawn from the UK either due to a ‘lack of confidence in Sterling’ or […]
[PDF file]: […] money delusions Bartholomew Steer Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The inside story of the Treasury since 1976 Aeron Davis Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022, £16.99 (p/b) War and Gold: a five hundred year history of Empires, Adventures and Debt Kwasi Kwarteng London: Bloomsbury, 2015 £9.99 (p/b) The Capital Order: How Economists invented Austerity and paved […]
[PDF file]: […] working on his Treatise on Money, published in 1930.17 The Treatise argued that savings and investment could fall into disequilibrium as a result of over-saving. Under the gold standard system operating in the late 1920s, this could follow from the measures taken by the banking system to prevent gold reserves leaving the country in […]
[PDF file]: […] in search of the files detailing the payments but their plan failed – and he leaves it there. To MI5 in 1958 the proof of the ‘Moscow gold’ must have had something of the status of the Holy Grail and Wright apparently wanted us to believe that, aware that the CPGB were getting actual […]
[PDF file]: […] mirrored wraparounds because Tom Cruise wears them too. This identifies them among young people, especially overseas, as ‘cool’ – the same group SIS is targeting with the gold Kalashnikov photo. Celebrity PR: the reason why so much is expected of Prince William and his wife is because of the potential pulling power of their […]
[PDF file]: […] today’s vested interests no different to the slave owners and slave traders of yesteryear. As a result of the speech, SIS is now able to offer a gold standard choice distinguishing it from others. As a competitor pitch it was a clear, targeted invitation to the honourable and the best to join Britain in […]
[PDF file]: […] latest accusation against China was made by two veteran New York crime fighters, Frank Rogers – city-wide prosecutor of narcotics cases – and Brooklyn District Attorney, Eugene Gold at a press conference. Rogers showed reporters a plastic bag on which the words “Peoples’ Republic of China” were printed in English and Chinese.18 Needless to […]
