Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] was around $3 per barrel. By January 1974 the Benchmark price was just under $11.50pb. The background to this – at least in my view – was Nixon taking the dollar off the gold standard in 1971.’ The actual section from the Bilderberg minutes says this: ‘An American speaker pointed out that one official […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] public office is clear evidence of self-denial. But then Agnew lived – and came a cropper – in those simpler, more honest times before Watergate brought down Nixon, whose downfall shortly led to Richard Cheney’s first job at the White House. The renewed shift towards ‘crony capitalism’ which Bush’s leadership of the United States […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] has confused John Major with his father, who did work in a circus for a time. On page 58 we are told that Watergate was an anti- Nixon operation run by ‘the combined forces of Bilderberg/RIIA/Tavistock Institute under the direction of the British MI6.’ Didn’t you just know that Tavistock would be chucked in […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] This may not have been the real reason for his ouster. Angleton was also the liaison between the CIA and Israel and during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Nixon and Kissinger tried to ‘tilt’ American foreign policy away from its unconditional support for Israel. To do so in the longer term they may have felt […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] the Channel. How could they know?……. “They found Cook County”, was the jaundiced comment of one observer, recalling the infamous result that gave Kennedy his victory over Nixon in the 1960 Presidential race.’ Another dumb Clinton On the Fortean Times Website (1) there is the content of two articles from the Fortean Times, conversations […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)
[…] Seifer does not dwell on these aspects, concluding instead with a review of developments in the Tesla area since the ’80s. After Watergate and the demise of Nixon, the US political and military establishment tried to distance itself from some of the wilder aspects of its activities during the Cold War. In 1975 President […]