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... per cent knave. Terry Hanstock: I underestimated Blair. His first interviews after the Tories were ejected in 1997 revealed little depth and even less in the way of intellectual argument a veritable hollow man who would be replaced within a year or two. Or so I assumed. However, instead of realising that the electorate at large would have voted in a monkey up a stick as Prime Minister if it meant ridding Downing Street of Major, the Labour Party made a fatal error. Believing that its 187 seat majority was entirely due to Blair, it stood back as its ideals, beliefs and principles were relentlessly whittled away by the deadly combination of Blairism, modernisation and reform. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-13.htm
... '.4 7 This looked to secure support to halt Communism, stating that Communist infiltration of any country would call for 'appropriate action in accordance with existing treaties.’ 4 8 After much protest, the resolution passed with a large majority, which pleased the United States and the corresponding dictatorships, but left most of the Latin American delegates feeling fearful, only voting for it out of worries the US would cut off aid to them.4 9 Regardless, the US had got what it came for, and with hemispheric support in place the US felt everything was going to plan. Arbenz, however, fearful of impending invasion, made a mistake that would secure a US pretext beyond anything that occurred in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-015.pdf
... Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has an Overseas Police Adviser, the present incumbent being a Mr Bryan OBE, ex Indian Army and a former Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police. His task is to co-ordinate foreign police training although day-to-day operations are carried out under the auspices of the British Council. Unlike military aid there is no separate vote for police training in the Overseas section of the budget so it is impossible to ascertain how much money is devoted to this activity other than through Parliamentary questions. There is little money to be made in training other countries' cops: the motivation for the training programs is political and ideological. This is particularly so in the Third World ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Sep 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue09/lob09-06.htm
... TUC.... a lot of trade union leaders and two Russian trade union people.... The meeting solemnly agreed to.... destroy the British motor industry with a campaign of strikes.' You can just see it, can't you? Presumably it went something like this. Voice from floor: 'Move the vote'. Chair: 'Those in favour of destroying the British car industry please show.' Fairly typically, Wright doesn't bother to date this meeting, though from the context it is meant to be the late 1950s. (Jack Jones didn't join the TUC General Council until 1968.) This fantasy was picked up and recycled by Robert ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue23/lob23-12.htm
... view of the differing attitudes and experiences of their nations, there is a continuous, clear need to develop an understanding in which these concerns can be accommodated, and the privacy of the meetings, which have no purpose other than to allow participants to speak their minds openly and freely. At the meetings, no resolutions are proposed, no votes taken, and no policy statements issued. In short, Bilderberg is a flexible and informal international leadership-forum in which different viewpoints can be expressed and mutual understanding enhanced. To ensure full discussion, individuals representing a wide range of political and economic points of view are invited. Two-thirds of the participants come from Europe and the remainder from the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-10.htm
... in Urban Terrain', 'Psychological Operations', and 'Close Quarters Combat'- suggest that the Pentagon has been improving the ability of Kopassus to use violence against Indonesian civilians. There were least 41 such exercises between 1992 and 1997, and 20 more scheduled for 1998.(1) On repeated occasions in the last four decades, the votes of the Congressional majority to limit military aid have been similarly thwarted. (Only in the case of aid to Vietnam in 1974 was the limit respected, but that was because the Saigon regime fell before the limit was reached.) Congressional bans on aid to the death squads of the contras in the mid-1980s were secretly and illegally subverted ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-01.htm
57. Feedback [Lobster #55 (Summer 2008)]
... previously published on Consortiumnews.com mail out, that over the period of George 'Woodentop' Bush's presidency the republic of America was being lost. The 'war on terror' has lead to the loss of many fundamental freedoms, which the Parrys detail. They also detail the de facto rule by oil company influences. And the refusal to correctly count the votes in the Florida fiasco, where five Republican judges let Bush in, is feared heralds the loss of what democracy was left. We shall shortly see how deep the damage is. From Peter Dale Scott Thank you for the generous and well crafted review of my book the first one in print from anywhere, except for one Internet review ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-36.htm
... for the Metropolitan Police only, was: 1968- 410 1987- 567 But in Scotland, with information only from 1978 to 87, and for officers only, not civilians and officers, the figures were: 1978 -72 1987 -164 This doubling over the period of the Thatcher years is very interesting. For while the South and Midlands has voted Tory, Scotland has been moving leftwards throughout the Thatcher period- the Tories now have only slightly more than 10% of the Parliamentary seats in Scotland. And- surprise, surprise- as Scotland has moved against the Tory government, the secret state in Scotland has doubled in size. That such a relationship should exist is obvious enough ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Jun 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue16/lob16-11.htm
... leadership of the Tory Party in 1975: 'The emergence of Fraser a war-time SAS colleague of Clermont member David Stirling was curious, as neither prior to this event nor subsequently, did he demonstrate any interest in being leader of the Conservative Party. His candidacy, which allowed Thatcher to look more 'centrist' than she actually was, attracted 16 votes and damaged Heath, who lost to Thatcher by 119 to 130. Was Fraser a spoiling candidate put up to enable a Thatcher victory?' Well, now.... It's a funny old world.......when the Director of Public Prosecutions attacks 'the relentless pressure of a security state' and describes the government's ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-26.htm
... three Lopez's"- Lopez Rodo, Franco's Minister of Economic Planning, Lopez Bravo, Minister of Industry and later Foreign Minister, and Lopez Letona, Minister of Commerce and later of Finance- all belonged to Opus Dei. In 1969 a total of 18 government ministers belonged to or sympathised with the order. Today, Opus Dei controls the votes of about one-fifth of Spain's parliamentary deputies, as well as the capital of numerous banks, conglomerates and construction firms. Its influence has spread to the Vatican, where Pope John Paul 2 recently recognised it as a "personal prelature"; to Latin America generally, where Archbishop Lopez Trujillo, an Opus Dei ally, is now President ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-02.htm
