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The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] Cold War there have been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a […]
Undercover killers at the BBC
[PDF file]: […] dead four years later on a ridge 700 metres below the summit of Mount Snowdon. A coroner found that he died of exposure when his state of mind was affected by alcohol, sleeping pills and confusion due to his personal situation. Paul Atkinson has now revealed how nine months before the Burnt House Farm […]
Donald Trump and the Christian Right
[PDF file]: […] by God. Yet many still don’t see it’. (p. 13). Wow indeed! It is tempting to just dismiss all this as the inconsequential ravings of a disturbed mind, but, as an incredulous Jon Sopel observes, the story of Hillary Clinton being involved with a Washington DC paedophile ring, the so-called ‘Pizzagate’ affair, actually got […]
View from Bridge 89
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Check this I am not a lover of faction. I prefer my facts and my fiction distinct. I didn’t even read Chris Mullin’s A Very British Coup. However I received an email from […]
The Conspiracy and Democracy Project
Laissez faire as religion
[PDF file]: […] terms) irrational and damaging to the individual who engages in it. If you want an example of one of Richard Dawkins’ memes (mental viruses which capture the mind) at its most virulent, you cannot do better than the addiction to unbridled Page 83 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 laissez faire displayed in the face of […]
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
[PDF file]: […] the powers-that-be. According to Greenwald’s somewhat hysterical formulation, the citizen understands that if they ‘. . . pose no challenge and you have nothing to worry about. Mind your own business, and support or at least tolerate what we do, and you’ll be fine. Put differently, you must refrain from provoking the authority that […]
The ‘Intentional Fallacy’ revisited
[PDF file]: […] opponents of rewards and not have them killed. (Although sometimes they are killed, too. Inter alia the deaths of Trotsky,9 Petra Kelly and Gerd Bastian10 come to mind.) Intent T o return to the issue of intent: whether one examines the historical debates in the International Workingmen’s Association or even those 9 The exact […]