[…] was the last book which supported the Warren Commission. You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with stupid conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]
[…] to be excited about: a secondhand allegation. Then there was a second ‘SAS-killed-Diana’ story. In this one – in the Daily Express, which has run many Di conspiracy stories – Alan Power, author of The Princess Diana Conspiracy4 8 writes that a former member of the SAS unit called ‘the Increment’ claims that Diana […]
[…] was the last book which supported the Warren Commission. You can see why the piece was written. In the current climate, awash as we are with stupid conspiracy theories, if you knew nothing about the Dallas events, it could seem a good wheeze to debunk conspiracy theories about the JFK killing. And so Danny […]
[PDF file]: […] relationships with women) by molesting and abusing teenage boys. His homely man-of-the-people act had a darker, bullying side. But was he part of a broader, overarching paedophile conspiracy? The evidence for that is not clear at all. Casting himself as a vigilante exposing perverts in high places, and with his wife building up an […]
A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000
[PDF file]: […] #16 Autumn 2000 Lobster #39 Summer 2000 214 Westbourne Avenue, Hull HU5 3JB Lobster is the near legendary brainchild of Robin Ramsey, which deals with cover-ups and conspiracy theories within the corridors ofpower. Previous editions have dealt with such issues as American and Tory intervention in British unions, New Labour and the spooks, JFK, […]
[PDF file]: […] chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.3 Though Sir Desmond de Silva’s review into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane4 found no evidence of an ‘overarching state conspiracy’, he did find plenty of evidence of ‘shocking state collusion’. Quite where ‘collusion’ shades into ‘overarching conspiracy’ was not specified, but enough was revealed about the […]
[…] a very odd – very odd – story about Chinese and US drones using ‘gravitic propulsion systems’.7 Reading that I was reminded of the first law of conspiracy: if you can imagine it, it’s been tried already.8 *new* All together now . . . In this column in Lobster 87, apropos the then developing […]
[…] Israel connection. I came across the so-called Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a or 1 1 corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).2 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea. His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to […]
[PDF file]: […] Heathfield’s then wife, the late Betty Heathfield, had been a member of the CPGB; it wasn’t hard for the secret state to present this as a communist conspiracy. In charge of MI5’s operation against the NUM, then the head of its F2 branch, Stella Rimington, wrote later: ‘The 1984 miners’ strike was supported by […]
[PDF file]: […] there isn’t enough evidence to believe or disbelieve much of it; but let us consider it. The most complete account in English by Estes of the assassination conspiracy is in his 2005 book, Billie Sol Estes: a Texas Legend.3 This book appeared after a French book about Estes, Le Dernier Temoin (The Last Witness) […]
