190 results found.
... capital should be allowed to go abroad: capital exports were seen to be linked with Britain's relative decline.14 But by 1971 Susan Strange noted that 'none of the three main political parties in Britain has ever engaged in recent years in a serious debate on the ends or means of policy towards overseas investment'. This she attributed to 'a hidden bias in the political, economic and indeed social system, towards overseas investment'. 1 5 In the 1950s and 60s the British state clung to the pretensions of world power status, with all that entailed by way of overseas capital investment and expenditure on diplomatic, military and intelligence activities. The 'bias' in favour of the overseas ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-062.pdf
... well being of society. But no defender of Adam Smith would argue that the system of ersatz capitalism to which the United States has evolved is either efficient or fair, or is leading to the well-being of society. ' (p . 200). What Stiglitz is complaining about here is both the amount of taxpayer subsidy, hidden and overt which American business receives, from agricultural subsidies to the present gigantic banking bailout, and the general ability of corporate America to reduce competition through political lobbying. The problem with his complaint is it does not address the question of what constitutes a free market and how the concept of a free market is aligned with politics. A ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-170.pdf
... damage: Wall Street lost 2% of its value after Enron collapsed. But often one large failure will signal others. There is a good reason for this: such failures almost invariably occur in difficult economic times, either at the very end of overheated boom or on the downturn. In boom times, incompetence and even fraud can be hidden by a company because confidence is high, money is plentiful and cheap and customers easy to find; legal regulation becomes lax and self-regulation next to non- existent. Financial castles in the air can be and are happily and rapidly constructed. Come recession, the fruits of incompetence and fraud rapidly ripen to the point of collapse ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-061.pdf
... members of the anti-subversion lobby, and they used his surprise resignation as the basis of some disinformation about his (non-existent) links with the KGB. Meanwhile the Daily Mail revealed the bit which the Cabinet Office, not MI5 (says the Mail) had insisted Christopher Andrew omit from his history of MI5: 'MI5 used hidden electronic surveillance equipment to secretly monitor 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet and at least five Prime Ministers....for nearly 15 years, all Cabinet meetings, the offices of senior officials and all visitors to the Prime Minister – including foreign leaders 14 'Obama and the Steady Drift to the Right', Z Magazine, March 2010 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-094.pdf
... by Christmas 1944. Both, in different ways, paid a heavy price for their questioning foresight. It is through their eyes – Urquhart through his book and Sosabowski, who died in 1967, from interviews used by Cornelius Ryan – that I will briefly recount a little of what still largely remains to the British public a part of our hidden history. Urquhart recounts that in 1941 'Boy' Browning, the youthful, ambitious and well-connected husband of novelist Daphne du Maurier (their daughter was later to marry Montgomery's son), asked him to join his newly conceived British Airborne Forces as intelligence officer. He served in that capacity until shortly before that force took off for ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-092.pdf
... amount of intimate and personal detail so meticulously gathered, ' he said. 'At the same time some of the files were hopelessly inconsistent. '1 9 The files were card indexes, sometimes with newspaper clippings or photos attached. Each person had their National Insurance number and other personal data to identify them. The source of the information was hidden by code numbers although Kerr has given a list of these to the ICO. 20 Steve Kelly, 43, from Essex, was one who received a copy of his file. The 18 page document runs from 1998-2007 and includes minutes from a union branch meeting along with allegations that Kelly was a 'trouble maker', involved ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-042.pdf
... ; he rang BBC Radio 5 Live on the afternoon of 7/7 to report this creepy coincidence. I was listening at the time. The author is offering a 'hidden hand' conspiracy theory about post-war European history. He has history X-ray specs on which enable him to see through the veil of falsehoods. The hidden hand was Gladio. In some areas it has been documented as true; in some of those he discusses here there is little or no evidence; and in the British section, about which I know enough to comment, he has neither the evidence to sustain his thesis nor the basic attention to detail required to do so even if ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster64/lob64-gladio.pdf
... converged with ideological affinities to make the alliance even stronger. Many of the leaders of the Likud Party shared with South Africa's leaders an ideology of minority survivalism that presented the two countries as threatened outposts of European civilisation defending their existence against barbarians at the gate. ' Sasha Polakow-Suransky is well placed to throw light on this still largely hidden history. With family roots in both South Africa and Israel, he worked up the book in what reads like a labour of love from his Oxford doctorate. His investigative methods are a model combination of historical perspective, extensive archival research in an area 'where information and disinformation are equally important' and interviewing many of the key players in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-unspoken-alliance.pdf
... ca>, 4 July 2004. 15 Nicholas Hagger, The Syndicate: The Story of the Coming World Government , (O Books, 2004) pp. 180, 185, 252-253. The Lion Sleeps No More (2010), David Icke claims 'the invasion of Iraq in 2003 … was ordered (on behalf of their hidden masters) by the Rothschild assets, George W. Bush and Tony Blair. '16 According to Icke, the Bush Administration was in fact, 'controlled by the so-called "neo-con" or neoconservative network that included Rothschild Zionist "think tanks" like the Project for the New American Century and the American Enterprise Institute ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 09 May 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster63/lob63-rothschild.pdf
... pathways to guide particle beams which could then deposit large amounts of energy anywhere on the globe' – just as Cohen said.7 9 It is possible that the 'geomagnetic pathways' are those generated by HAARP's ability to deposit extremely low frequency waves into a given area for the purpose of tomography, or 'x-raying' the Earth for hidden bunkers and mineral resources. According to the Air Force Materiel Command's Geophysical Directive, HAARP could do this as far back as 1996. In 1999, the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence Policy drafted a Motion for a Resolution, which was adopted with only one abstention. The Resolution states that the Parliament: 'Considers ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 05 Nov 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster62/lob62-weather-wars.pdf
