[…] that it isn’t produced in the USA, but Australia. Somehow — how? why? — the Australian cultural climate has produced the same curious, populist (yes) nexus of hidden history, conspiracy theories, suppressed cures and medicines, and ‘free’ energy devices hitherto only seen in the USA. How real most of it is, I have no […]
[…] so far as I can judge, the author recounts a complete story within the picture she gives. Of course, much of the essential story may remain perpetually hidden, and readers of Lobster may know more of some aspects than is revealed in this book’s 279 pages. What I found most compelling was the growing […]
[PDF file]: […] Nixon’s orders to engage in burglaries, forgery and other crimes to discredit his enemies and protect his most sensitive secrets. Perhaps the most explosive of his own hidden misdeeds was his treasonous intervention with South Vietnam during the 1968 campaign to prevent a bombing halt that might have swung the election to Vice President […]
[PDF file]: […] less visible connections to Prohibition-era liquor and gambling fortunes, which they helped launder into legitimate businesses over the course of the following decades. These businessmen used well- hidden criminal funds as seed capital to build new fortunes in fast-growing industries such as leisure, real estate, 5 media, and entertainment. Some were part of a […]
[PDF file]: […] title is in fact a juxtaposition of two contrary perspectives of his subject. For Valentine’s book to be an exposé it would have to reveal something previously hidden. In fact Valentine concludes his book with the entirely justifiable assertion that what he has described is in fact in plain sight, not hidden at all. […]
[PDF file]: […] Vol. 66, No. 2 (Extracts, June 2022) at . Usowiski’s interpretation is the same as mine. Garrick Alder spotted this. 40 Quoted in David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (London: Simon and Schuster, 2007) p. 275. 41 42 Recorded in 1947. 16 but I’ve never been able to run down […]
[PDF file]: […] No. 2 (Extracts, June 2022) at . Usowiski’s interpretation is the same as mine. Garrick Alder spotted this. 8 Quoted at and in David Talbot, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years (London: Simon and Schuster, 2007) p. 275. 9 10 Recorded in 1947. 5 That is how I’ve always used it or […]
[PDF file]: […] I struggled through to page 12 where I was stopped by these paragraphs. ‘Conspiracy theorists solve or dissolve the paradox of belonging without inclusion by representing the hidden order as a totality (Jameson 2009, 603, 1992, 3, 1991, 38). Indeed, the totality of a multiplicity of elements belongs to the multiplicity without being included […]
[PDF file]: […] Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch D istinguished guests it is a great honour to give this keynote speech. I will use the 600,000 Foreign Office hidden files as a launching pad to examine the history of secrecy in Britain, why it is so persistent and pervasive, attempts to change it and what […]
[PDF file]: […] thesis is about social control, corporations, the mass media and the techniques used by political and commercial PR to keep ‘the sheeple’ quiet on behalf of ‘the hidden elite minority’. Did I say agitprop? Within that, however, there is a decent guide to the techniques deployed. But that thesis is no more important, it […]
[PDF file]: […] 293 See Bower, The Perfect English Spy, chapter 4 294 Wyatt fronting for IRD. 295 The Peril In Our Midst, (London: Phoenix House, 1956) Aidan Crawley, ‘The Hidden Face of British Communism’, Sunday Times, 28 October 1962, reprinted as a pamphlet. Crawley fronting for whom? IRD seems the most likely answer. 296 65 saw […]
