Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] before ‘Robert’ fesses up and admits he’d lied and was the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I […]

Freefall: Free Markets And The Sinking Of The Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz

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[…] the global warming agenda and his desire to see large transfers of wealth from the first world to the developing world. Yet despite this authoritarian caste of mind, he still fancies himself to be a pro-markets man. One last example of Stiglitz’s divorce from reality. He is still banging the tired old comparative advantage […]

view from bridge

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[…] 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. There is an on-line summary of some of Victorian’s research in this and related fields at 8 or . 3 If […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

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[…] account of the 1974-79 period, perhaps because the material is less complex. When he strays off familiar territory it goes wrong. He has a short chapter on mind control, for example, which in ten pages, citing only three books, one newspaper article and five websites (none of them serious sites on mind control issues), […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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 […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: The Never Trumpers Never Trump: The Revolt of the Conservative Elites Robert P Saldin and Steven M Teles Oxford University Press, 2020, £21.99 (h/b) Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy David Frum New York: Harper, 2020, $28.99 (h/b) Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us Amanda Carpenter New York: HarperCollins (Broadside Books), 2018, […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to blow a million minds simultaneously by pouring pure LSD into the reservoirs serving Birmingham. Detectives were horrified when they heard what the drug barons had in mind. The story, which was police-sourced, was written by Ed Laxton, the ghost writer for Operation Julie undercover officer Martyn Pritchard’s book, Busted! The Sensational Life-Story of […]

The two Goulds

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The two Goulds Robin Ramsay In ‘The crisis’ in issue 62 of Lobster I referred to the economic debate during the Labour Party’s policy review, which produced the Meet the Challenge, Make the Change document in 1989. On page 6 of that are these sentences. ‘The Conservatives are the party for the City. We are […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] issue 28 I have argued that Chauncey Holt 26 Stone’s book is reviewed in Lobster 66 at . 27 ‘Roger Stone vs. the world: inside the conspiracy-filled mind of legendary GOP trickster’ at I pointed out Caro’s omission of Estes in Lobster 65 at the end of 28 probably wasn’t the ‘third tramp’ on […]

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