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... Gladio NATO's dagger at the Heart of Europe; the Pentagon-Nazi-Mafia Terror Axis Richard Cottrell Progressive Press, 2012, $17.00, p/b www.ProgressivePress.com The e-mail pitch was intriguing: a former Conservative MEP and journalist has written a big book about the Gladio network with'....entirely new accounts on the assassination of the ex Italian PM Aldo Moro, the Swedish premier Olof Palme and his star pupil Anna Lindh, and the real motives behind the attack on Pope John Paul II. I also expose the myths behind the killing in London of the Bulgarian émigré Georgi Markov, another fabulous media fest. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-gladio.pdf
... : 'perfect competition in which rational consumers indicate their preferences to profit-seeking producers by means of prices under conditions of perfect information. ' (p . 157) There are two 'perfects' and a 'rational' in that sentence. I have never met a 'perfect' where human arrangements were concerned (and little rationality); nor have conservative thinkers. Theirs is a generally pessimistic view of human potential: that we're flawed and likely to mess things up and the best we can hope for is muddling through and keeping the conflict down to a minimum. How did anyone ever take such idealistic nonsense seriously? Put it another way: anyone who thinks like this has either inaccurately ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 33 - 14 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... Borisconi Just Boris Sonia Purnell London: Aurum, 2012, £8 .99 Boris Johnson is the most popular politician, indeed the only popular politician, in Britain today. He is regarded by many commentators as by far the strongest contender to be the next leader of the Conservative Party, a prospect that most senior Conservatives regard with horror. He might well be our first pantomime prime minister. How has this British Berlusconi, this peculiar amalgam of Benny Hill and Mussolini, achieved such stardom? The Benny Hill aspect of his character has dominated so far, but there is every reason to believe that if he ever gets near real power we will see the Mussolini aspect ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 75 - 01 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-borisconi.pdf
... yet.....how much analysis has there been of either the politics or the economic assumptions that propel our government of national unity? A good account of the political side can be found in Rob Wilson's Five Days to Power (Biteback, 2010) which provides a thorough look at the Cameron-Clegg negotiations. Although a Conservative MP, Wilson's narrative is not noticeably partisan (perhaps because he began his career in the Social Democratic Party [SDP]) and he provides some intriguing background detail on this episode in British history.1 But is there a comparable book on the economic arguments that underpin the Coalition? We might normally expect Her Majesty's Opposition to have ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 152 - 26 Jul 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-running-britain.pdf
... in a position to know differently as 'the Lockerbie bomber'. Ten days after the Maid of the Seas disintegrated early in its flight from London to New York, the Daily Express's front page identified 'The Bomb Carrier' from an FBI source. No mention of al-Megrahi and Libya at that stage. Less than three months later, Conservative Transport Secretary Paul Channon briefed journalists about imminent arrests after brilliant police work by the Dumfries and Galloway force. No mention of al- Megrahi and Libya then either. In those early days there were repeated stories about warnings to passengers – some very specific – being given ahead of Flight 103. No mention then that al-Megrahi and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 07 Jun 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-lockerbie-1988.pdf
... , 9 March 2011. 4 9/11 Commission Report (see note 1) p. 66. 5 <www.iraqbodycount.org/analysis/numbers/2011/> ;and James Hilder, 'Iraq war killed 162,000 people, according to final count', The Times , 3 January 2012. this is a conservative estimate. US military casualties, though not as grim as the Iraqi death toll, are still significant with 4,484 killed and 32,300 wounded as of December 2011, according to iCasualties.6 For the safely retired architects of this bloody enterprise, there are no regrets. In his self-serving memoir George W. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 152 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-rothschild.pdf
... sacrificed the News of the World, although some have argued that this was actually a shrewd commercial decision as the Sun on Sunday is a lot cheaper to produce; and he has turned on Cameron's government with a vengeance. On 25 March the Sunday Times broke the 'cash for access' story with accompanying video, forcing the resignation of the Conservative Party's co- treasurer, the appropriately named Peter Cruddas. This was accompanied by a systematic savaging of George Osborne's budget in the Sun . It was condemned as a budget that looked after millionaires but that clobbered 'ordinary Brits'. And on 9 April, the Sun could proudly boast that 'Labour's Shadow Chancellor writes for the Sun'. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 82 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-murdoch-wounded.pdf
... The two Goulds Robin Ramsay In 'The crisis' in issue 62 of Lobster I referred to the economic debate during the Labour Party's policy review, which produced the Meet the Challenge, Make the Change document in 1989. On page 6 of that are these sentences. 'The Conservatives are the party for the City. We are the party for industry and, like the governments of our competitors, we will form a government that helps industry succeed. ' This is the last time a major British political party suggested opposing the City of London. My treatment in issue 62 was a sketch. Here is some more detail. The back story W ithout seeking to confront the overseas ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 36 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-two-goulds.pdf
... is accused of introducing one of his clients to a notorious private eye who bugged telephones in a defamation case. The Legal Complaints Service has examined the allegations from a retired civil servant, Mrs Pat Middleton, but ruled in 2008 that her complaint about telephone tapping lay outside their jurisdiction. Mrs Middleton, 61, former treasurer of a Manchester Conservative club, has now discovered that the private investigator had previously worked for the News of the World and had just served a prison sentence. After seeing Mark Lewis give evidence to Leveson about the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone messages Mrs Middleton contacted a reporter. 'In 2005, when he was acting for me, Mark Lewis talked about a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 33 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-mark-lewis.pdf
... . That members of the armed forces took her election as their cue to begin operations against the left and peace movement merely confirms another belief of the 'paranoid left' (of which I am a member): the British state was and remains beyond democratic control. Pluralities Political identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at length in Lobster 34). But in 1999 Atkins became a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region; and with that hat on he is the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 61 - 05 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
