[PDF file]: […] in the White House. Rich’s Wikipedia entry tells some of the story of Duncan’s former employer . 6 A recommended account is The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich by Daniel Ammann (London: St Martin’s Press, 2009.) The description of Rich’s recruitment criteria given to Ammann seems to fit the young […]
[…] theorists was a triumph: more than half a century later it is still working. The small one is that while the revelation late last year by former Secret Service officer Paul Landis that he found the ‘magic bullet’ in the presidential limousine behind JFK’s body, and thus the Warren Commission verdict must be wrong, […]
[PDF file]: […] 9/11 are the outstanding examples. The other kinds of conspiracy theories, what we might loosely call the mega or meta theories, those blaming our ills on some secret organisation or other, are simply ignored. DeHaven claims that conspiracy theories are essentially ‘faction theories’. This may be true of event theories but not of the […]
[PDF file]: […] false ones, their own purposes…..If antigovernment conspiracy theories get the details wrong – and they often do – they get the basic issue right: it is the secret actions of the government that are the real enemies of democracy.’ But why should I be generous? She has the time, the academic tenure (at the […]
[PDF file]: […] might conclude that simply ‘moving money around creates wealth and jobs.’ Often in the report it is stated that Jersey’s function as a finance conduit is the secret to unlocking all these benefits. Thus any pound (or more accurately, any Asset Under Management – AUM) sat in a Jersey bank, fund or trust has […]
[…] was in MI5 qua enemy of the left. But as the wider left disintegrated in the UK after the fall of the Soviet bloc, and the British secret state more or less gave up surveilling, penetrating and manipulating it, the political point of trying to find out what the spooks were doing diminished. In […]
[PDF file]: A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election Garrick Alder The man who now leads the NHS Confederation failed to tell either Parliament or the public of a 1995 sex scandal at Broadmoor hospital, involving ‘a member of staff’ who – it can now be revealed – was Jimmy Savile. The Rt […]
