[…] The only source he can trace is too scared to talk to him. His archive searches turn up electrical anti-gravity experiments in the US by Thomas T. Brown in the 1920s, and a secret 1947 memorandum on disc-shaped UFOs by Lt. General Twining. This states that ‘it is within the present US knowledge…..to construct […]
[…] Spain and Portugal during the late summer and early autumn of 1940 although most of this is familiar, having not long ago been aired by Anthony Cave Brown in C (1988), the biography of Stewart Menzies. And was it really necessary to give a blow-by-blow account of the military campaign in northern France during […]
[…] to benefit from contracts awarded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Halliburton was the largest single contractor in Iraq in 2004 and its former subsidiary, KBR Inc. (a.k.a. Kellogg, Brown and Root), has carried on the tradition by topping the new list with over $16 billion in US government contracts from 2004 to 2006. Not bad, […]
[…] Notes 1 The Joint Chiefs plan document is at http://www.majesticdocuments.com/documents/archives/nationalarchives.html Such plans continued to be drawn up throughout the 1950s. Operation:World War III, edited by Anthony Cave Brown (London: Arms and Armour Press, 1978) is about another such plan, Operation Dropshot, from 1957. 2 And much better fakes in my opinion – ed. 3 […]
[…] man was Irwin Stelzer (once again not mentioned in either the Rentoul or Rawnsley books). Stelzer, a right-wing economist, had privileged access to both Blair and Gordon Brown before and after the 1997 general election, assuming the role of go-between that had been Wyatt’s under the Tories. (5) Wyatt himself complained of how Stelzer […]
George Orwel London, John Wiley, 2006, £18.99, h/b Having reviewed Matt Simmons’ Twilight In the Desert for the last issue of Lobster I looked forward to reading George Orwel’s book as Simmons’ appreciation appears on its cover. Orwel provides a good analysis of the peak oil debate concluding that the truth lies somewhere in … Read more
[…] doing the City’s bidding, handed over the interest rate to the Bank of England, which promptly put the base rate up, and with it sterling’s international value. Brown and Blair have never understood the basics of the British economy. British manufacturing is so defeated it appears to have even given up appealing for a […]
[…] “One Boggis-Rolfe or two?” in Lobster 38 Lynn Picknett, Clive Prince and Stephen Pryor with assistance from Robert Brydon, Double Standards: the Rudolf Hess Cover-Up, (London: Little, Brown and Co, 2001.) Its advocacy of Operation Robot, the plan to make the pound convertible at a floating rate, is rooted in this conjuncture John Fforde, […]
Introduction: Lee Harvey Oswald and New Orleans Lee Harvey Oswald, like his mother Marguerite Oswald (née Claverie), was born in New Orleans, on 18th October 1939, and spent his first five years in the Crescent City. In early 1944 Mrs Oswald moved to Dallas with Lee and his half-brother, John Pic. She changed addresses frequently … Read more
[…] (US and other), conspiracy and health. Site broken up into 1995 and 1996, and gives monthly list of items published. 1996 includes Oklahoma City bombings, Waco, Ron Brown, Nazi gold, Marilyn, Kennedy and the Mob, the buying of the President, bovine growth hormone, Gulf War syndrome and aspartame (widely used artificial sweetener thought to […]
