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... into something. But the risks are greater than they know. It would be great if they're right and millions of jobs are created and everything is nirvana... but boy, that's what they said in the US in 1937. If you don't learn from the mistakes of history, you simply repeat them. ' 21 Enter the spooks On 3 February the American magazine Manufacturing and Technology News reported: 'The Director for National Intelligence is undertaking a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the state of American manufacturing. Growing concern over loss of domestic capability and dependence on foreign nations 20 <www.historyandpolicy.org/papers/policy-paper-115.html> ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 05 May 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster61/lob61-economic-crisis.pdf
... Der Zyl Vice President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. ' Akehurst is a former Hackney councillor,42 and like many of the New Labour praetorian guard, was a student politician before joining Mandelson's one-time press deputy at the Labour party, Colin Byrne, at Weber Shandwick, the international PR and lobbying firm.43 Spooks and hacks W ill the time ever come when a British editor comes clean and tells us of his paper's association with foreign intelligence services – or even British ones, come to that? Richard Keeble has surveyed some of what is known about such British links4 4 but nothing has emerged as explicit as the revelations of Udo Ulfkotte. The ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 29 Jul 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-tittle-tattle.pdf
... so gobsmacking that it could eclipse a galaxy.) Less discussed is FOI's little sister, the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR), which are far narrower in scope but much much wider in reach: EIR essentially entitle you to any information you want from just about anyone, so long as it has an environmental connection. Not even the spooks are exempt from EIR and the dear old BBC, whose investigative journalism knows no depths, recently used the regulations to gain information about the energy efficiency of the headquarters of MI5 and MI6, vital information which the public no doubt lapped up hungrily. I decided to use the 'catchall' net of the EIR to winkle out some rather ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 51 - 31 Jul 2015 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster70/lob70-holding-pattern.pdf
... /8 /87/ Morris_Fraser_investigation_ SPINWATCH_31_March_2016_FINAL_smal.pdf> This is so odd, even for those times, that there may be a subtext we are not aware of. There are two obvious possibities here: Fraser threatened to reveal other paedophiles; Fraser was a spook. 7 <https://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/31/dr-morris- fraser-abuse-cover-up-study/> offshore accounts story,8 pointing out its absurd anti-Putin bias. I've said before in these columns and it is worth restating: given what we ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 10 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... , 2016, £19/$28, p/b The first striking thing about this book is that the author survived long enough to write it. Cockburn has spent nearly 20 years years, mostly in the Middle East, reporting in countries where one of the few things the warring parties agree on is that Western journalists are probably spooks, and are thus worth killing. This book (400 plus large, trade format pages) is constructed from Cockburn's original dispatches, plus notes and diary entries from the war zones as he followed the consequences of the American foreign policy in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The chapters follow the chronology: the imposition of sanctions on Iraq ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 10 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-chaos-caliphate.pdf
... Holding pattern Garrick Alder UKIP and the spooks Further to earlier entries (see below) concerning the mysterious car accident that befell UKIP leader Nigel Farage in October 2015, and the apparent background to the incident, I received a very interesting e-mail from David Challice, party administrator at UKIP head office. Mr Challice wrote: 'I can assure you that for years we have been aware of the story concerning UKIP having some members of the Security Services in its ranks. The short answer is that the story was probably true and that it would be surprising if SIS (or whoever) had not put some of their people into the Party in order to monitor and report ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 53 - 24 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-holding-pattern.pdf
... article in the Guardian , 'An offer they couldn't refuse' on this subject. See <https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/nov/14/thriller-ridley-scott>. well done. Researching the Devore story he encounters a striking collection of con-men, dodgy internet 'journalists', spooks, private eyes, actors and a director – plus the dope-smoking widow of Devore – and creates a vivid portrait of the difficulty of researching a subject with Hollywood, the CIA and the Pentagon among the dramatis personae. He does not prove that Devore was murdered (after a year under water the autopsy was inconclusive), ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 24 Jun 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-writer-with-no-hands.pdf
... were given the proverbial 'shot in the arm' with the 2002 publication of Roger Lewis's scurrilous biography, entitled simply Anthony Burgess (published by Faber and Faber).2 Lewis engages in much speculation but the most substantial material concerns what Lewis was told when he made contact with an intelligence officer: ' "You realise,"said the spook, as we sat on a bench in Berkeley Square, opposite Maggs Bros. Ltd, by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, purveyors of rare books and manuscripts, "that the capitalised lines on page twenty-nine of A Clockwork Orange give the HQ location of the psychotronic warfare technology?" ' The lines in question refer ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 05 Sep 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-clockwork-orange.pdf
... org/images/art_ img/news_features/politics_current_affairs/peter_rickerts_letter.jpg>. The letter's author was Peter Ricketts, later knighted, and chair of the Joint Inteligence Committee 2000-01 and the UK's first National Security Adviser 2010-12. After a long career in the spook world, his final diplomatic posting was the most agreeable position as Ambassador to Paris (see <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ uknews/10931316/Too-many-cooks-for-Our-Man-in-Paris-Sir-Peter- Ricketts.html>). He ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 09 Oct 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-team-mercenary.pdf
... New York: W. W. Norton, 1979), pp. 435- 436. 7 Maheu and Hack, Next to Hughes, pp. 22-40. Nixon similarly got his first professional stake from playing poker in World War II. 8 Maheu and Hack, Next to Hughes, p. 71; Jim Hougan, Spooks: The Haunting of America – The Private Use of Secret Agents (New York: William Morrow, 1978); James Rosen, 'Watergate – 40 years later, questions endure about CIA's role in the break-in', Fox News, 15 June 2012, at <http://www.foxnews.com/opinion ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 26 Jan 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster73/lob73-blackmail-deep-state.pdf
