[…] was spent in setting up a Special Forces Club… Apart from the social and benevolent functions of the Club, a secondary objective was never far from his mind. This was the need to maintain a worldwide network which could be activated in the event of a future war and provide the nucleus of national […]
[…] I heard Bower interviewed on Radio 4. He said that he had begun this book as something of an admirer of Brown but had changed his mind while writing it. Change his mind he certainly did: this is a serious assault on the man. Although there is little which is new in this […]
[…] in the capital, he began giving interviews to the press, including the New York Times, ‘explaining’ what had happened. Jim Jones, he said, ‘was a genius of mind control, a master. He knew exactly what he was doing. I have never seen anything like this…..but the jungle, the isolation, gave him absolute control.'(14) Just […]
[…] argued, and had to go. This was the Union for Democratic Control (UDC). And when I first come across the term ‘public diplomacy’ the UDC came to mind. But in the case of ‘public diplomacy’, while public does mean open, diplomacy doesn’t mean diplomacy. ‘Public diplomacy’ is a recent term for a range of […]
[…] independent and critical minds, is unfortunately the smallest. On the right side of the political spectrum, only one article specifically dealing with the papal plot comes to mind, (23) although there are some fine academic studies of terrorism per se with a conservative or rightist bias. (24) On the left, this category is dominated […]
[…] book. Not that it isn’t an interesting read: it is. But you would have to be seriously incompetent to make uninteresting a subject list which includes assassination, mind control, the occult, extraterrestrials, channelling etc. My problems are with the author’s belief in the Jungian notion of synchronicity, in his words: ‘another mechanism in the […]
[…] than the last Big Thing (whatever that was). Here’s what the film’s website has to say: ‘More than 45 million viewers hungry for a glimpse into the mind of their disgraced former commander in chief, and anxious for him to acknowledge the abuses of power that led to his resignation, sat transfixed as Nixon […]
[…] to PO Box 8345, Berkeley, CA 94707, or e-mail should suffice. Spotlight on Girard Harlan Girard, the American who turned me onto the electro-magnetic weaponry and mind control fields, and who has continued to organise and proselytize on these issues ever since, was the subject of an interview published in the American magazine […]
[…] situation because there really isn’t much to say that hasn’t already been said, for example by Larry Elliot in The Guardian every week.’ Well, I changed my mind about that and here are the bits I found most interesting or useful. Only one warning light on the UK economy: inflation The Bank of England’s […]
[…] on the latter ground alone is too often simply irrational, usually made for defensive reasons. (Just about the hardest thing most people can do is change their mind.) The Kennedy assassination and the UFO story are both examples of no-go areas for most respectable intellectuals. (When Scott Newton sent me the review essay on […]
