The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] a member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee until 30 June 2021. 27 11 28 Bilderbergers Tony Gosling sent out the list of those attending this year’s Bilderberg meeting. The British participants were: Jeremy Fleming, Director, Government Communications Headquarters Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Cabinet Office Demis Hassabis, CEO and Founder, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading help with Lobster. *new* Bilderbergers Tony Gosling sent out the list of those attending this year’s Bilderberg meeting.1 The British participants are: Jeremy Fleming, Director, Government Communications Headquarters Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Cabinet Office Demis Hassabis, CEO and Founder, […]

View from 93

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[…] Colin Wallace described years before as a double bubble operation: you lead people down a false trail and then pop what you had persuaded them to believe. Bilderberg The essential Carole Cadwalladr had a recent piece pointing out that Peter Thiel, a leading member of what she has christened the broligarchy, has been funding […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 2 *new* Elite management groups An occasional contributor to these columns, Will Banyan is probably the leading writer on the elite management groups, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg et al.4 He has a very good new essay on Bilderberg and the origins of the Trilateral Commission, for those interested in these groups’ history.5 *new* […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] In chapters 1 and 2, for example, we are told that the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Brookings Institution, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Aspen Institute, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and so on are all part of the ‘liberal’ Establishment. But Raso fails to explain why they are ‘liberal’ […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] of drones. Elite management groups An occasional contributor to these columns, Will Banyan is probably the leading writer on the elite management groups, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg et al.8 He has a very good new essay on Bilderberg and the origins or 5 See Oscar Williams, ‘”They will be back”: why attacks like […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] give up all this nonsense about economic independence (let alone socialism).6 1 John Smith, another ‘moderniser’ in the Labour leadership, was on the steering committee of the Bilderberg group, one of the key elite forums promoting globalisation, from 1989 to 1992.6 2 In June 1991 Smith took his then understudy, Gordon Brown, to the […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] and women, both groups being ‘notoriously tough for libertarians’. Instead, he avoids conventional politics, creating his ideal society via cyberspace. Thiel, a German-American and member of the Bilderberg Group Steering Committee, was granted New Zealand citizenship in 2011.8 Collectively, the billionaires and their assorted fellow-travellers justify their ‘mind-set’ via an intellectual – some might […]

Appendices

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] history.) FARI was also reported to be receiving money from the US company Lockheed.37 Chair of FARI in 1978 was Sir Frederick Bennet MP, member of the Bilderberg group and host in 1977 for the Bilderberg’s annual meeting which took place in England that year. In 1978 FARI was co-sponsor with ISC and the […]

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