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 […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: *reformatted early 2026* Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites Robin Ramsay In footnote 6 in his essay on the Bilderberg group in Lobster 32, Mike Peters noted that the US Left had lost interest in the study of the power elite because the subject had become ‘contaminated’ by the interest in it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.’ It’s a famous quotation, recycled endlessly on-line, something he reportedly said at the 1991 Bilderberg meeting.3 But did he actually say it? At 4 there is what purports to be the audiotape of Rockefeller saying this in 1991. Yet on the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] They meet at global events such as the World Economic Forum at Davos and the Trilateral Commission or – for the crème de la crème – the Bilderberg meetings or the Bohemian Grove seminars that take place every July in California.’ The financial analysts Bloomberg offered its columnist David Reilly’s comments on some of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] less confident about their job, think ‘Oh, I won’t push my boss for that higher pay’. It’s that weakness in activity which eventually gets rid of inflation.33 Bilderberg Does Bilderberg still matter, now that it has been so thoroughly exposed by people like Tony Gosling?34 I don’t know. If you are interested in a […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] (International Bank); Thomas McKittrick (Chase National Bank); and two of Jackson’s fellow Time Inc, executives, John Jessup and Charles Stillman. Given Jackson’s role in establishing the annual Bilderberg conference, one has to wonder about attitudes to psychological warfare among members of the Bilderberg steering committee. 10 4 Luce empire was a harmonious one. ‘I […]

View from Bridge 86 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] less confident about their job, think ‘Oh, I won’t push my boss for that higher pay’. It’s that weakness in activity which eventually gets rid of inflation.33 Bilderberg Does Bilderberg still matter, now that it has been so thoroughly exposed by people like Tony Gosling?34 I don’t know. If you are interested in a […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] and a lefty, though of what particular stripe I’m not sure (tendence Groucho, perhaps.) We only met a handful of times.8 He wrote the seminal article about Bilderberg for Lobster 32. Nothing better has appeared since. That essay is behind our tiny pay wall (which pays for this site) but a version is on-line […]

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