[…] a mosque as a fixture in her Golden Jubilee Year. Instead, they could have countered with an alternative T-shirt that challenged al-Qaida. One, in particular, comes to mind i.e. one imprinted with the image of a dead Roman Catholic priest, his dog-collar grimy, carried from the wreckage of the Twin Towers by the surviving […]
I met Paul Routledge, the biographer of Gordon Brown, a couple of years ago. ‘Does Brown understand economics?’ I asked him. ‘Well, he reads lots of big books,’ said Routledge. ‘This is not the same thing.’ Of course I asked the wrong question. What I should have asked was: does Gordon Brown understand British economic … Read more
[…] media had been turned off Garrison by the increasingly wilder theories, but it did help plant the idea of CIA involvement in the assassination in the public mind. That could be a mixed blessing – perhaps another part of the cover-up for other intelligence agencies (such as Military Intelligence) which may have played an […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to a box number if they were interested in working for a worthy cause. It was carefully worded to appeal to people of a liberal frame of mind and – to discourage chancers – made it clear that there would be no financial reward. The head of BOSS instructed me to answer this advert, […]
Extracts from the Testimony of Harlan Girard Managing Director, International Committee for the Convention Against Offensive Microwave Weapons, before the Human Subjects Subcommittee, National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Washington DC, 19 October 1997. In 1982 an obscure government office called the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future published a study called ‘Future Agenda’. The obscure chairman of […]
[…] 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; […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] were former members of the Communist Party or members of the Demos think tank. Names like Peter Mandelson, Stuart Hall, Martin Kettle and Martin Jacques spring to mind immediately What particularly interests me about Marshall’s book is its dissection of Christopher and Peter Hitchins’s politics and what it says about the absorption of former […]
[…] right all along!’ Natch. Seductive if you’ve never read anything else on the assassination, and disingenuous if you have. Mark Lane is working on a book-length critique. Mind Closed/Case Opened. Russell, Dick. The Man Who Knew Too Much (Hired to Kill Oswald and Prevent the Assassination of JFK Richard Case Nagell Is –). New […]
