Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] dodgy balloting put George W. in the White House in 2000, leading many to cry ‘foul!’ As the Financial Times recently observed, the prospect of a Bush/ Clinton race in next year’s presidential will mean that two families have effectively run the USA for just under 40 years (including George Bush Snr’s vice-presidency and […]

Kantor – Bilderbergers – 89

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[…] and the WTO (Renato Ruggiero, Pascal Lamy). The then member of Bilderberg Group’s steering committee, Vernon Jordan, secured an invitation to Bilderberg conference in 1991 for Bill Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas, and introduced him as ‘the next President of the United States’.10 And in 1995, as Jordan wanted, President Clinton installed Wolfensohn into […]

View from Bridge 86 copy

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[…] his relationship with the notorious Roger Stone. According to Morrow, he wrote most of two of Stone’s books, The Clintons’ War on Women, the attack on Hilary Clinton they co-authored, and Stone’s version of the LBJ-dunnit thesis, The Man Who Killed Kennedy. The fact that Stone has apparently stiffed him over royalty payments may […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] in the manifesto would seem much less plausible. *new* Stoned One version of the thesis that the Russians hacked the Democratic Party’s computer and leaked all those Clinton emails is that Wikileaks got the hacked material from the Russians and passed it to the Republicans. This has now been demolished, in a US court, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Even Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] magazine could describe him as the fourth most powerful man in the United States. He was, at this time, a pillar of the neo-con opposition to Bill Clinton. Murdoch established the neo-con Weekly Standard with a start-up cost of $3 million in 1995. Edited by William Kristol, it became ‘the flagship of the neo-cons’, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been the collapse of […]

Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] from an offshore radio station owned by a Swiss-based electronics company later shown to have had a connection to the Lockerbie bombing.6 Following the Suez parallel, if Clinton had won the US Presidency in November 2016, is it possible the UK might have dumped Brexit by now? The ‘centre’ emboldened by numerous US telephone […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] late 2007-early 2008: for example, one could simply read the July 9 2007 issue of Fortune magazine to discover who the major backers of John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama were. One could also have read Business Week (25 February 2008) or the Los Angeles Times of 21 March 2008. Through February 2008 […]

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