[…] Armstrong’s ‘Microwave Wars’ in the now defunct City Limits, August 1990. The background was detailed by Armen Victorian in his ‘The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology’ in Lobster 34. 79 24 there’s only a few of us who can pull old cuttings from our filing cabinets. My guess is that […]
[PDF file]: […] involvement of Gade. Why did Gibbs stay with the US naval attaché for a week? Wasn’t there somewhere inconspicuous in Brussels he could have waited? Bearing in mind Gade’s Norwegian connections, and friendship with Roosevelt, this points to a desire by the US to try and prevent an extension of the war to Norway. […]
[PDF file]: […] I don’t know what she is talking about but we get the picture: like Ussher, Smith thinks she knows which butts need to be kissed and doesn’t mind saying so. If you copy America, you get . . . America Will Hutton described Prime Minister Cameron’s December vetoing of the proposed revision of the […]
[…] involvement of Gade. Why did Gibbs stay with the US naval attaché for a week? Wasn’t there somewhere inconspicuous in Brussels he could have waited? Bearing in mind Gade’s Norwegian connections, and friendship with Roosevelt, this points to a desire by the US to try and prevent an extension of the war to Norway. […]
[PDF file]: […] that the assault on US constitutional democracy that Trump was carrying out while in office is going to continue regardless. Inevitably comparisons with Weimar Germany come to mind. There are neo-Nazi militias (thankfully few in number at the moment) openly parading in the US; the Republican Party seems wholeheartedly committed to a racist voter […]
[PDF file]: […] The sinecure is alive and well in boardrooms. Non-executive directors are meant to bring some particular benefit, for example contacts or expertise, and a certain independence of mind to a board. In practice, and especially with large companies, non-execs have a pretty dismal record of bringing neither particular benefit nor independence of mind to […]
[PDF file]: […] the February 2000 press release, mentioned above. The old mantra, ‘If you stick to the truth you won’t have to remember whatever lie you’ve told’ comes to mind. 9 have not done. My disagreement with him is that I don’t believe he could possibly now remember an unredacted name on an MI6 intelligence document […]
[PDF file]: […] . 10 8 chaired the Jewish Leadership Council, a key body in promoting the ‘Labour anti-semitism’ scare?11 This is just one of many questions that come to mind reading this tour d’horizon of the much-travelled diarist. But first he must be thanked for telling us so much about the workings of UK government and […]
[PDF file]: […] reliably turning up at remote scenes of crime with a pair of open minds, gathering evidence of conspiracies which may well prove too sketchy for the procedural mind of a civil service solicitor at the Crown Prosecution Service. Richard J. Evans has himself explained the problem. Historians bring a whole variety of ideas, theories, […]
[PDF file]: […] to tell the Chiefs of Staff in early 1948 that ‘there was no one to fight’, but eventually capitulated after pressure from Ernest Bevin, who changed his mind and accepted the line coming out of the Foreign Office,16 and a 13 There is now a large and growing – At last! It only took […]
