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 […]

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 […]

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 rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] trouble from a Labour government. In some of these dining rooms John Smith was already known: at this point he was on the steering committee of the Bilderberg group, some of whose regular attenders are bankers. But this ass-kissing was to no avail: Labour lost again in 1992. Neil Kinnock resigned and John Smith […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] this journal in 1983 I tried to assess his claims.1 To my knowledge there is still no academic work on this subject, possibly because – as with Bilderberg – the interest of the conspiracy theorists in America has contaminated the material. Nonetheless the (non-academic) interest in Quigley remains and at there is a collection […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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 […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

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 […]

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