The Mandelson legacy

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South of the Border

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[PDF file]: […] time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until the day he died. Johnson would see to it that Hoover never had […]

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[…] time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until the day he died. Johnson would see to it that Hoover never had […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] be his successor. In the end Harold Wilson won the contest when his rivals could not agree upon a single candidate to challenge him and the anti-Wilson vote was split. During the build-up to the 2016 Conservative party leadership election, Boris Johnson was seen as the front runner, with Michael Gove as his ‘dream […]

Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland

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[PDF file]: […] and social system, and dominated political institutions and public discourse to such an extent that democracy and freedom of speech were empty phrases. The public had a vote, but it did not matter what party they elected, as they were all controlled by ‘the unseen, non representative power Finance’. The final stage of liberalism’s […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

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[PDF file]: […] of the two versions of the complete document I found online this version is the more clearly laid out.) January 2011 Dear Reader: Would it affect your vote if you learned that the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper was a CSIS operative in the late 1980s and early 1990s? This interesting-but-not-scandalous information (as once described […]

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