Mandy’s place in things
On 12 June 1999 The News, Portugal’s weekly English-language paper, ran this comment on the Bilderberg meeting which had then just taken place in Portugal.
The 47th Bilderberg Conference has come to an end. Members and one-off participants have departed as discreetly as they arrived. Lines of black limousines, unmarked except for a ‘B’ on the windscreen, swept into Penha Longa, sometimes accompanied by police escorts, and sometimes not. Even the Bilderbergers have a pecking order. Britain’s Peter Mandelson arrived in a bus (emphasis added). (1)
What a coincidence!
The day before the government’s new Bill to increase its anti-terrorism powers came into force the Sunday Telegraph (18 February) carried a story headed, ‘Police foil terror plot to use sarin gas in London’. Said story contained not a single verifiable fact, suspect’s name, terror group’s name, nor reference to any action by prosecuting authorities.
Related to which…..an ad appeared in the Sunday Times of 3 December 2000 for people to serve on the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission. Among the criteria suggested for applicants was that they should have experience in ‘……the armed forces, police or national security services‘ – a phrase whose time is a-coming, I think; a little hint of the amalgamation of the security and intelligence services now being talked of. (See Corinne Souza’s piece in Lobster 40.)
Things reptilian
Despite my best efforts to avoid David Icke’s nonsensical ravings a dollop duly arrived by e-mail. It was some kind of introduction to visitors to his Web site. It begins thus:
‘I reveal how a global secret society called the Illuminati (the ‘Illuminated Ones’ as they call themselves) have been holding the reins of power in the world since ancient times, expanding their power out of the Middle and Near East (and other centres) to control first Europe and then, thanks to the British Empire and other European empires, to take over in the Americas, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and elsewhere.
When those empires appeared to withdraw from these regions, the Illuminati left behind the secret society networks and the Illuminati bloodlines and these have continued to control and orchestrate events ever since. (2)
I am grateful to whomever sent me this nonsense because it produced the following thought. The published records, for what they are worth, show that the Illuminati first appeared as a kind of Masonic off-shoot in the late 18th century. Yet Icke dates them back to ‘ancient times’, whatever that means. However, even if we go back only as far as the 18th century, how would such a ramified conspiracy communicate when the fastest transport was horse which could do what, 20-30 miles a day at most? What did the messages sent between members of the inner core say: Next meeting in Vienna in three months?
Book lovers?
Something we hear occasionally is the idea that, faced with the publication of a book whose contents they don’t like, the spooks rush round buying up all the copies after it has been published. Gordon Winter’s Inside BOSS is said to be an example of this. (It is certainly very hard to find second-hand, though the blizzard of writs which followed its publication may have something to do with that.) In January the American researcher Mike Ruppert suggested that ‘………. the CIA bought all 50,000 copies of [Peter Dale] Scott’s book [The War Conspiracy] in 1972.’
Since I had read a library copy of Scott’s book many years ago, this seemed unlikely to me. So I e-mailed Scott who replied thus:
‘Mike got my case all wrong…..ITT (close to CIA) owned Bobbs-Merrill, and simply suppressed the book. A friend of mine went to the big annual book fair and noticed my book missing from the Bobbs-Merrill display. He raised the issue with the B-M sales rep, whom he knew. The sales rep had never heard of my book and insisted (wrongly) that it was impossible that B-M had brought it out. He later apologised and sent my friend a copy.'(3)
Like a circle that you find….
In the previous issue Lobster I repeated material about the appearance of Jonathan Aitken and Lord Cranborne at a (then) recent meeting of the Pinay Circle (or the Circle) which had first appeared in the Sunday Telegraph. A member of the Circle rang to tell me that neither Jonathan Aitken nor Lord Cranborne were at the June Lisbon meeting of the Circle as reported in the Telegraph; but it had been mooted there that Aitken should be allowed back in. Current chair of the Circle, I was informed, is former Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, now Lord Lamont.
LM = loads of money
The Living Marxism, Last Magazine, LM mystery continues. (See the piece in Lobster 40.) Mick Hume and co. have now transmogrified into a Website, Spiked-online.com. In a piece in Media Guardian 12 February 2001, p. 50, it was reported that setting-up Spiked
‘…..took the relatively small amount (sic) of £100,000 to cobble together the venture, thanks to the brains and sweat of volunteers. Hume is cagey about the identity of investors, saying only that it came from people who made money early in the internet boom.’
Me? I still don’t believe the story; not for a minute.
How the City operates
Lord Spens died. He became briefly well known for his role in the Guinness share-ramp scheme in 1986 in which he was given money to spend on Guinness shares, thus helping to drive them up, during the take-over struggle between Guinness and Distillers. His obituarist in The Independent 15 January 2001, commented that this was ‘on the margins of City practice’.
A basic fraud, but on the margins, eh?
Ever wonder why private capital wants to get involved with the Private Finance Initiative (PFI)? The Guardian story ‘Billions lost in contracts failure’ (28 December 2000), explained one reason:
‘the Treasury “failed to negotiate clawback clauses in which the tax-payer could share the extra profit if the private sector refinances loan deals…….private sector firms find it easy to refinance loans at cheaper interest rates and longer repayment times once the initial construction is completed to budget…….”‘
It’s a racket, in short; and one the much vaunted razor-sharp minds at the Treasury didn’t see.
Why was Britain not in Vietnam?
In a Sunday Times article of 29 October 2000 Labour MP Tam Dalyell wrote:
‘I can now reveal that in 1967, I talked at some length to the head of MI6, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, who helped to persuade [Prime Minister] Wilson not to accede to Lyndon Johnson’s request to send a battalion of bagpipers (sic) to Vietnam. (Johnson wanted a token presence in Vietnam…)’
Anthony Cavendish, former MI6 officer and friend of Oldfield’s, has something to say on this. Mr Cavendish?
The best money can buy
Below are ‘Contributions From Selected Industries to Federal Candidates and Parties, 1990-2000’ in the U.S.:
- $117,711,747 – Oil and Gas
- $58,426,889 – Automotive
- $51,070,027 – Electric Utilities
- $35,242,032 – Chemical and Related Manufacturing
- $24,756,971 – Forestry and Forestry Products
- $17,945,784 – Mining
- $6,950,843 – Total Environmental Contributions(4)
Given which it was hard to be astonished when, at the end of March, the Bush regime pulled the plug on the Kyoto agreement on reducing the world’s carbon emissions and signalled his intention to open Alaska and/or the Rockies to American oil companies.
The world’s future is quite simple: the United States will use its military/financial/ economic/diplomatic power to continue to acquire and consume the world’s resources. The Anti-American Alliance (A3) is just waiting to be launched.
Cock-up and conspiracy
Sender: Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2001
Subject: Press Release: Bay of Pigs Conference – Day 1, March 22, 2001.In its final online release of material related to the conference, the National Security Archive has also posted audio recordings of two telephone conversations between President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on March 2, 1963, in which they discuss concerns that a Senate investigating committee might reveal that the President had authorized jets from the U.S. aircraft carrier Essex to provide one hour of air cover for the brigade’s B-26 bombers on the morning of April 19. The unmarked jets failed to rendezvous with the bombers, however, because the CIA and the Pentagon were unaware of a time zone difference between Nicaragua and Cuba. Two B-26s were shot down and four Americans lost (emphasis added).
OK bomb
In early March there were several reports from the U.S. quoting Timothy McVeigh’s then contemporary confession to doing the Oklahoma bombing – and essentially doing it alone. Yet J. Orlin Grabbe described the existence of a secret Pentagon report:
‘…. The Pentagon commissioned nine explosive experts to write independent reports on the bombing, and adopted two of the nine reports as the “official” report. I spoke to both experts, but they declined to be interviewed, citing confidentiality agreements with the Pentagon.
‘Sources familiar with the Pentagon report, however, have confirmed that the conclusions were similar in nature to those of a private report prepared by General Benton K. Partin, dated July 30, 1995, except that the Pentagon report concludes there were demolition charges placed on five columns, not four as concluded by General Partin.'(5)
General Partin is a former U.S. Army explosives expert and he showed that a fertilizer bomb of the kind made by McVeigh could not do the damage attributed to it.(6) (C.f. the much smaller damage done by the IRA bombs in the Ciy of London.)
And if these surmises are true it means what? Someone was running McVeigh – or had a line into him – and augmented McVeigh’s bomb? Is that what they are thinking?
Who are the questioners?
On the publication of its annual report, the activities of the Intelligence and Security Committee are debated in the House of Commons.(7) Much self-congratulation is the order of the day. The 2001 version is about par for the course and contains 45,000 words, of which a couple of thousand were worth recording. Among the dross was this curious statement from retiring committee member, Dale Campbell-Savours, who, in the late 1980s, was one of the Labour MPs asking questions about MI5:
‘We could never allow a system whereby someone could be appointed without great consideration. Ultimately, the whole system survives because of the relationship between the services and the Committee. The problem is that one Committee member could completely destroy the Committee’s integrity and credibility. Even so I am in favour of having on the Committee people who are questioners‘. (emphasis added)
Questioners? (‘Are you one of them questioners, boy?’) As opposed to what? People who believe any old nonsense told them by the Men from the Ministry?
As to ‘the relationship between the services and the Committee’, it doesn’t take much to figure out who’s pitching and who’s catching in that relationship.
Notes
- www.thenews.net/bildeberg/index.htm
- An interview with a ‘former Illuminati programmer/trainer’ (sic) is at http://www.centrexnews.com/columnists/svali/2001/04/Q_A2.html
- Three articles by Peter Dale Scott on the Cuban parapolitical dimension to the vote-scam stuff in Florida are on his Web site at http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott
- Source: Center for Responsive Politics as printed in Sierra Club Magazine, March/April 2001 issue, page 19.
- Orline Grabbe’s Web site is at http://www.aci.net/KALLISTE/
- Partin’s report on the bombing is at http://www.myplanet.net/jeffhead/dadmisc/okbomb.htm The U.S. major media’s lack of interest in someone of Partin’s status is most striking.
- The 2001 version is at http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200001/cmhansrd/cm010329/debtext/10329-10.htm#10329-10_head2