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[PDF file]: […] time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until the day he died. Johnson would see to it that Hoover never had […]
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[PDF file]: […] be his successor. In the end Harold Wilson won the contest when his rivals could not agree upon a single candidate to challenge him and the anti-Wilson vote was split. During the build-up to the 2016 Conservative party leadership election, Boris Johnson was seen as the front runner, with Michael Gove as his ‘dream […]
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The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne
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[…] time. A bit of quick research33 and, lo-and-behold, I found a significant connection between LBJ and Hoover that pre-dated the 1960s: LBJ won a quick and uncontested vote from Congress granting Hoover his salary in perpetuity, from July 1958 onward, until the day he died. Johnson would see to it that Hoover never had […]
Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland
[PDF file]: […] and social system, and dominated political institutions and public discourse to such an extent that democracy and freedom of speech were empty phrases. The public had a vote, but it did not matter what party they elected, as they were all controlled by ‘the unseen, non representative power Finance’. The final stage of liberalism’s […]
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[PDF file]: […] following: ‘etting Brexit done and avoiding a second referendum’ – I presume from this that he has no confidence that a ‘leave’ campaign would win a second vote – and, ‘upport me in trying to change how Whitehall works and the Cabinet Office works’ (emphasis added) – look out, folks . . . he’s […]
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[…] Weisburd, ‘How Russia Dominates Your Twitter Feed to Promote Lies (And, Trump, Too)’, August 2016, at or . 7 4 The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext of ensuring “election integrity”. It is no coincidence that the war against disinformation […]