[…] that this has more to do with reducing current public debt, perhaps with an eye on Euro membership, than it has with a few sleazy donations. Gordon Brown would argue that it means getting an immediate surge in public investment without a return to ‘boom and bust’. But specific one-off cases, like the Ecclestone […]
[…] Prince of Darkness. American imperialism is the agency of God’s salvation. George W. Bush is the Angel of the Lord. And so on. It sounds crazy. Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) could never have got away with it. Northcott nonetheless believes that it is a ‘powerful cultural and religious force in modern America’. […]
[…] Front at one point, seeing the far-Right party as a possible vehicle for organicist ideas. (The British National Party today continues what is sometimes called the ‘ Brown/ Green’ alliance.)(21) We shall return to the Goldsmiths below. There are one or two other indicators of the Soil Association’s political attitudes at this time which […]
George Gregory Korkala was the ‘soldier’ in the activities of ‘lieutenant’ Frank Terpil and ‘leader’ Edwin Wilson. Wilson and Terpil are both ex-CIA, though when their relationships with the ‘company’ ended is not known. Korkala was arrested in February 1982 at a trade fair on security devices in Madrid. Spanish police carried out the arrest […]
[…] voted at each, as the computer records showed. Sir Ken was praised by Tony Blair in a video distributed to the union, and was endorsed by Gordon Brown over lunch at an Amicus AEEU conference in Blackpool. Under Sir Ken, lest we forget, Amicus had donated £2m to Labour’s 2001 election fund. (3) Meanwhile, […]
Following the initial investigation by the West Mercia Police, there have been over a dozen reviews of this extraordinary case. Reviewers include Robert Green, (1) Tam Dalyell MP, (2) Graham Smith,(3) World in Action,(4) BBC Crimewatch,(5) John Osborne,(6) Amanda Mitchison, (7) Bob Parker (8); and more recently, David Cole and Peter Acland, (9) Nick Davies,(10) … Read more
[…] more than 6 million. See ‘A Study of the History of US Intelligence Community Human Rights Violations & Continuing Research in Electromagnetic Weapons’ by Peter Phillips, Lew Brown and Bridget Thornton at for a general introduction to this the subject. See for example the account – one of many similar – at The symptoms […]
[…] history. Can we also assume that whereas he once regarded its atrocities as ‘bad’, he now regards them as ‘good’? He, along with the likes of Gordon Brown, Peter Hain, Hilary Benn and others, certainly cannot plead ignorance. Thomas Powers, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York 2002) p. 189. […]
[…] and in the service of the State, Cuckney is currently chairman of the Thomas Cooke group and of Brook Bond, and also of the engineering group John Brown. He has been a director of the Midland Bank since 1978 and of the Royal Insurance since 1979. His most interesting State appointment is as chairman […]
Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984 Policing The Miners Up to May 30th. These are only brief references to the major elements. Magistrates setting restrictive bail conditions. Guardian 5th April Police trying to buy NUM badges Guardian 19th May Police changing their ID numbers for picket duty Tribune 25th May Pickets charged with conspiracy for … Read more
