[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 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 […]
[…] of President Jimmy Carter found himself entangled with Libyan leader Ghadaffi. After working for Haig – and helping Claire Sterling promote the KGB plot to kill the Pope story – Ledeen became a consultant to Reagan’s National Security Council. There he figured importantly in the Iran-Contra scandal through his association with Manucher Ghorbanifar and […]
[…] view is (reluctantly) confirmed by the studiedly anti-Soviet journal Survey (Autumn/Winter 1983). In a detailed run-through Soviet assassinations/covert actions etc. the only significant act they can find that took place recently and involved someone who was not a defector, is the attempt on the Pope, and the evidence on Soviet/Bulgarian involvement is thin, at best.
NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on […]
[…] nobility, royalty. While the Knights of Columbus are associated with lodge meetings and bingo, the Knights of Malta can pick up a telephone and chat with the Pope.” A total of forty countries recognise SMOM’s sovereignty and accredit its ambassadors. (The Vatican recently upgraded its relationship with SMOM to ambassadorial level. AP 11 January […]
