[…] in April. When the donations scandal erupted last year, in which the LFI was implicated, Temko wrote a defence of the lobby group in The Observer, dismissing conspiracy theories about the extent of its influence. Proceeding with inquiries? At this writing the promised party inquiry by former Labour Party and Blair minister Lord Whitty […]
[…] but by the Defense Secretary. In other words, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had to personally approve any action.(7) These items alone make the case of the 9-11 conspiracy theorists look plausible. On the World Socialist Web site, Patrick Martin concludes that the evidence suggests that the Bush administration was expecting al Qaeda to hijack […]
[…] tends to be factually correct within paragraphs while the conspiratorial connections between paragraphs are mostly pure paranoid fantasy. ….Overall it is extremely right-wing, in the international- Jewish- conspiracy mould.’ Oct., 1983: Brierley takes over NZFP through Watties helped by newly appointed chairman Papps.Papps also chairman NZ Railways and presided over transport deregulation whose major […]
[…] and beliefs of reporters and pundits mirrors that of the political and military establishment. The crucial propaganda function of the press was achieved not through any mass conspiracy to deceive the public but through ‘an ideology of news reporting that incorporates a set of routines, constraint, expectations – and myths.’ (p.200) Let a journalist […]
[…] democracy, that a 1999 investigation by the Home Office’s chief historian found that in the case of the Zinoviev letter affair there was ‘no evidence of a conspiracy in the institutional sense.’ That is to say, MI6 as an organisation hadn’t perverted the course of the election – a coterie of like-minded MI6 officers […]
[…] Wilson could defy the superpower on Vietnam not because he feared mass protests but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party’s Partnership in Power reforms (4) because the State Department […]
[…] contractor to the United States government in numerous projects.’ Even though Halliburton settled out of court, Cheney’s spokeswoman Juleanna Weiss saw it as a different kind of conspiracy altogether, saying, ‘The voters are bound to question the timing of this investigation. The timing is suspicious, given the Clinton-Gore administration’s proclivity to manipulate the Justice […]
[…] research papers in 1941/1942. Bergstresser later worked in the OSS. There is an interesting chapter on the life and work of Puharich in the otherwise unfathomable Stargate Conspiracy by Picknett & Prince (London, 1999). Bouverie (née Astor) was the daughter of William Waldorf Astor, the owner of the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York […]
[…] from scratch. (22) It rarely has either the resources or information to do this. This applies also to groups of individuals tempted to sue for negligence or conspiracy. The AICPA rarely disciplines its members. (23) It is a trade association rather than a disciplinary body, interested in protecting the interests of its members rather […]
[…] railways. Nice example of prudence, eh, Gordon? Where would we be without consultants? I’ve always liked NASA’s definition of a consultant/ expert: ‘An ordinary guy a long way from home.’ A good study of the period from the end of the war to privatisation is David Henshaw’s The Great Railway Conspiracy (Hawes: Leading Edge, 1991).
