[…] client that their vote has been misrepresented.’ Indeed, the astonishing thing about fiddling an election is how many people won’t lift a finger to prevent it. A conspiracy of silence In Lobster 43 I reported on the case of the then breaking electoral fraud case in Birmingham, which has now come to fruition with […]
[…] and though involved in the CIA’s investigation of the assassination, has refused to comment on the Meyer episode. (See Washington Post February 23rd 1976. Bernard Fensterwald, Coincidence or Conspiracy (US 1977). Judith Exner had been introduced to JFK by friend Frank Sinatra, and had an affair with him through 1961 and ’62. She also knew […]
[…] is with individual monitoring.’ They rather miss the whole point. At least some of their colleagues are more honest when they direct their ire at the Anglo-American conspiracy to undermine honest, continental business values. They know where their interests lie. For NSA buffs there is much in Bamford’s book to recommend it, but it […]
[…] they couldn’t persuade a British jury to convict a bunch of foreigners with Arab-sounding names; a plot so feeble the police were reduced to calling it a conspiracy to cause…… panic! (9) The comic highlight for me was the TV pictures of police or army personnel entering the house in full Chemical and Biological […]
[…] has long been a supporter of Lobster – thanks for the plug, Kevin – and in one or two places his discussion of some of the loopier conspiracy theories on the US fringe is relevant to Lobster‘s agenda. Highly enjoyable and entertaining, anyway. There is one conspicuous absentee here. The major British millennial cult […]
[…] yes, indirectly it led to a major movie, Oliver Stone’s JFK. But Holland tries to make the Garrison/Permindex material the kind of inner motor of the JFK conspiracy research activity since 1968; and this is just baloney. Holland cannot resist trying to puff up his thesis: ‘Garrison’s real legacy was not his investigation, but […]
[…] Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar; and that Clinton referred to Quigley in his acceptance speech to the Democratic Party convention. Holy moley! Clinton makes pitch for conspiracy buff vote? Birchers in hog heaven! As Daniel Brandt points out in his essay in this issue, Clinton had been at a Bilderberg meeting in 1991, […]
[…] Friends from Birmingham politics were warning me of this radicalism and its potential for violence in the late 1990s – and added that there was a collusive conspiracy of silence between local media and the authorities to down play incidents for fear of ‘upsetting race relations’. The ‘hawks’ therefore have a point that ‘doves’ […]
[…] Larry O’Hara is the subject of two of the next three paragraphs. Just for a second to look for a quasi-rational defence for what is virtually a conspiracy to get Larry O’Hara assaulted – or worse – Searchlight could be said to have this key position: Nobody is allowed to talk to fascists; those […]
Nicola Calipari’s death If the tragic death of ‘Nicola Calipari’, the international oper-ations chief of Italy’s military intelligence service, in March 2005, was, as has been alleged, a deliberate act rather than misadventure, it is one of the most recent examples of extreme PR ‘message management’ I can think of. ([1]) ‘Public relations’ is about … Read more
