[…] she could have gone down fighting. Instead, she gave in and quit — just as she had done in 198081 over Monetary Base Control. Notes A Single Mind, MacMillan, 1989. This distinction is all the more interesting for in Joseph’s case, as Halcrow’s biography is honest enough to point out, Joseph’s conversion to monetarism […]
[…] head of PSYOPS in the Operations Division at NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium, had a think about the ‘perception management operations’ in ‘ Mind Games’ on the NATO Web site. (1) ‘Perception management includes all actions used to influence the attitudes and objective reasoning of foreign audiences and consists of […]
[…] at work. On the perspective I am suggesting, almost before Kennedy’s heart stopped beating the one thing which everyone involved would have agreed upon, without discussion, never mind coercion, was that a ‘lone nut’ verdict had to emerge. The ‘truth’ was not an issue: in politics the ‘truth’ is simply a tool. (4) The […]
[…] the following exchange took place. Turner (presenting book for signing after queuing briefly behind several people, including a woman wearing an Anarchist badge) ‘Hello. Do you mind a lengthy inscription?’ Rimington (smiling, flanked by several suited goons and book shop staff) ‘That depends what it is. If it’s a long one, I’ll put […]
Never mind Peter Wright, he was obviously lying in Spycatcher anyway. Wallace is a vastly more important source: he doesn’t tell lies, for one thing; and he’s got bits of paper, evidence, some of which concerns his dealings with the late Airey Neave after he was thrown out of government service. At the time […]
[…] after Suez is a good time for Britons to reflect on empire. Our military is again deployed in regions of the world more associated in the national mind with the 19th century than the 21st, while the children of the poorer regions of Britain are still losing their lives defending the overseas interests on […]
[…] Steamshovel and shares much of its subject matter with Thomas’ magazine. That subject matter being UFOs; what I would call consciousness politics – drugs, mysticism, the paranormal, mind control, remote viewing; secrecy and conspiracy theories; the secret state; and the interfaces between many of these. As a 52-year old who took acid, read Leary, […]
[…] photographs. All the usual suspects are here: Bracken, Keith, Thomas, Constantine, Martin – and a lot of names unfamiliar to me. Material ranges from Jack Kerouac to mind control and the quality ranges from the poor (though there isn’t much of that) to the seriously good. To give a flavour of all this, the […]
[…] constitution concerning the suspension of Anderson, while such a reading is possible, common sense (and ‘natural justice’) say that Griffin was in the wrong.(17) He did not mind this, for he knew that if matters did come to court, provided the ‘political soldiers’ retained the Directorate majority they had only just acquired, the legal […]
[…] MI5 (after Shayler etc) and the hanky-panky in Leeds over the last few years between the BNP, AFA et al; Robin Whittaker on ‘A Method of Inducing Mind Disturbance in Targets Practicised by the British “Permanent Government”‘, an attempt to systematise what is known about this difficult subject – Whittaker has been dealing with […]
