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When the Lights Went Out by Andy Beckett and Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen
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The ‘Rothschild connection’ the House of Rothschild and the invasion of Iraq
[PDF file]: […] noted by his wife Senator Hillary Clinton, in her speech to the US Senate in 2002 in support of the so-called Iraq War Resolution. She described her vote for the resolution as saying ‘clearly to Saddam Hussein: This is your last chance; disarm or be disarmed.’136 Hillary ran unsuccessfully for the Democrat presidential nomination […]
The view from the bridge
[…] magazine profile of Brown with the Brown described by Steve Richards in the Times diary (22 March). ‘The Chancellor could be difficult and, days before a big vote on tuition fees, Richards was warned that the chancellor would be “tense”. Surprisingly, when Brown arrived, he started gleefully embracing the entire film crew. “He couldn’t […]
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A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley
[PDF file]: […] the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ […]
The rise of New Labour
End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin
[PDF file]: […] Schuster, 2018). On p. 217 Turchin summarises Carlson’s position as accusing the Democrats of • becoming a party of the rich; • of supporting immigration because immigrants vote Democrat; • of supporting overseas military adventurism; • of attacking free speech; • of not taxing the wealthy or asking why working people are dying younger. […]
Knightley
[…] the hysteria of 1974-5 when a considerable section of the British ruling elites believed that a Labour government which had just received less than 40% of the vote in two elections was a harbinger of a Soviet-style state. Within the intelligence and security services, this myth took the form of the obsession with ‘moles’ […]