[…] naked Mafia shit that he is. Take the rest of the Mafia and cancer with him. A truly American service. As his Mafia brother stated (as the Pope leaped into the ‘Holy Crusade’ of Vietnam) — ‘Ask not what your country can do for you – but what you can do for your country.’ […]
One of many reasons why the lobbying industry attracts opprobrium is because Britain’s political system offers only limited public sector facility to those who wish to influence it but lack the funding and/or patronage to do so. ‘The lobbyists’ did not cause the injustice. It is up to government to come up with the solutions. […]
[…] US State of the Union speeches. President Bush gave his this year as climate change dominated British media, a subject he ignored. The President seemed unaware that Pope Benedict, the week before – doubtless with the upcoming Presidential speech in mind – gave his first as pontiff, priming global audiences about love, which coincides […]
[…] of Soviet Analysis at the CIA said: ‘There was very good, sensitive DO evidence that suggested the Soviets were not linked to the assassination attempt on the Pope.’ The CIA, said Goodman in the early 1980s ‘had very good penetration of the Bulgarian secret services’ and that these clandestine CIA sources had found no […]
[…] of Christ is one of the finest ‘Mission Accomplished’ statements to be found. () The image is uncluttered, the victim/hero takes centre stage, and there is no pope emoting over Christ’s shoulder. (Real power is when you do not even need to be in the picture.()) Contrast this to President Bush’s busy, visually over-detailed […]
[…] has turned out to be. The item that struck me is the authors’ reproduction of an early interview on the subject of the assassination attempt on the Pope given by Claire Sterling, in which the ‘Bulgarian connection’ is described as ‘crazy’. Getting CAIB isn’t easy in the UK. It used to be stocked by […]
[…] made by Seldon for Blair being a moral individual. His relationship with God, though, is totally personal rather like Ian Paisley without the bombast. Neither the Pope nor the Archbishop of Canterbury have been able to make much headway against Blair’s certainty in his own judgement. The real PM Seldon investigates at some […]
[…] (April 1982) transferred to Sardinia. A month later Agca made his first statements on the role of the Bulgarian secret service in the attempted assassination of the Pope. But what of Musumeci’s role in this? In October 1984 General Pietro Musumeci, former vice-director of SISMI, was arrested on charges of embezzlement, conspiracy and alleged […]
[…] the assassination. The Western press were energetic proponents of the idea that the Soviets, working through their Bulgarian allies, were behind the 1981 assassination attempt on the Pope, even though the assassin himself belonged to a far-right group from Turkey, the Grey Wolves, and there was no evidence for a Soviet connection. In other […]
[…] alleged British ‘secret war’ activities from assassinations down can’t just print ‘fuck’ says quite a lot about the cultural climate in the Republic of Ireland, does it not? Reading ‘feck off’ my sympathy for those in Northern Ireland who don’t want a united Ireland went up a notch. Feck the Pope! (Especially this one) RR
