[…] being a conflict between radical Islam and ‘the enlightenment’. (12) Some of this came from former members of the Left (Christopher Hitchens and John Lloyd spring to mind) who have become cheerleaders for American imperialism. ‘Politicians most often define the Enlightenment in terms of its opposition to forces of unreason, whether they be jihadis, […]
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke I.B.Tauris, London, 1992, £9.95. In his last paragraph the author concludes: ‘Books written about Nazi occultism between 1960 and 1975 were typically sensational and under-researched. A complete ignorance of the primary sources was common to most authors and inaccuracies and wild claims were repeated by each newcomer to the genre until an abundant … Read more
[…] capability or it had some advance inkling of what was about to happen. Two sleepless British government ministers next morning clearly did not. You make your own mind up. Washington’s objective What was more important was the message. The subtext of coverage from the US was that Europeans should be more aggressive about their […]
[…] closures. No reference is made to bringing company or country down. In the intervening twenty years Edwardes’ memory has gilded the lily. Spook think The Security Service mind is a wonderful thing. To it a potential risk is the same as an actual risk. Thus we discover that Lord Bethell, a Conservative Whip in […]
[…] that the authorities in Nottingham would use their own police officers to resolve what was a civil law situation, but that’s Thatcher for you.’(24) All in the mind? A series of experiments ‘tested whether lacking control increases illusory pattern perception… …as the identification of a coherent and meaningful interrelationship among a set of random […]
[…] by circling sharks. The Politicisation of Polly Peck ‘Certain values in life are higher than commerce, profits or personal benefits. The issue of northern Cyprus in my mind should be valued that high’ – Ail Nadir. (4) From 1987 onwards, Polly Peck became increasingly a political entity, as well as a commercial one: in […]
[…] here on 6 November – and the Democrats will do what they did last time: nothing. Which means the Republicans can steal the next one. Change of mind? Colin Challen MP reports that the index of Bill Clinton’s autobiography lists ‘Bilderberg conference’ at p. 376, where it does not appear; nor on adjoining pages; […]
[…] the mid 1990s, going to 66 countries. Given that we know of a great deal of research by the US military into means of influencing the human mind using electronics, microwaves and ultrasound, for example, it thus possible in my view that the experience of being abducted reported by thousands of Americans (and others […]
[…] distinct from one another.’ And, if we grant that ‘the American mindset’ means something, his proposition simply isn’t true. On p. 11 we are told: ‘The American mind is crude and blunt, incapable of observing subtleties or perceiving shades of grey.’ But what is ‘the American mind?’ Corfe hates America and its imperialism, and […]
[…] appeared this year on the CBS News website(2) and in The Times.(3) Has the Bilderberg meeting stopped asking for media silence? That would be my guess. Never mind that the CBS story inevitably framed the subject matter – Bilderbergers in the Obama administration – as the ‘crazy’ concerns of ‘conspiracy theorists’,(4) this is a […]
