The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth: The New Global Oligarchs and How They’re Taking Over Our World by Stephen Armstrong

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[…] ‘affordable’ colourchanging fibre-optic carpets (currently very ‘in’) become available, although if platinum taps hit Homebase any time soon, the billionaires will have to up their game sharply. Mind you, even with this trend it will probably be a while before any of us mere mortals are shopping for helicopters and submarines, as many of […]

The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016: a political and economic history by Scott Newton

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and economic underperformance spurred a search for more modern tools than public ownership and strong trade unions. That is fair enough, but it should be borne in mind that social democracy, as practised from Macmillan onwards, was to the right of the 1945 settlement. Hence the impatience of Labour romantics such as Michael Foot […]

When freemasons ruled the earth?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] tacit supporter with the substantial caveat that ‘Mentally we are much too far from Europe ever to enter wholeheartedly into its politics’. That is, the UK didn’t mind a united Europe (because it would be less trouble and likely to be anti-communist) but wouldn’t participate fully in it.9 CoudenhoveKalergi spoke at Chatham House in […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] be exercised independent of material ownership through often very complex legal mechanisms intended to conceal such control. 5 simply part of the national security state – never mind what Mr Snowden says about the NSA. It may not be possible in our lifetimes – or ever – to reorganise human society so as to […]

The Strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

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[…] threats to the m-i-c were the attempts by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy to reduce tension with the Soviet bloc and thus cut military expenditure. With this in mind Eisenhower planned a big pow-wow with Khruschev in Paris in 1960. What happened? The authors write: ‘…..against all odds, the worse scenario occurred: the U2 flight […]

The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the great self-promoting, warrior chieftain and third generation mass murderer in the commission of the United States, Douglas MacArthur, are summarised for context.5 This serves to re mind the reader of the difference between the war story for public consumption and the war stories that are suppressed because they neither flatter the mass murdering […]

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