August 19, 2005
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 5 17-19 August 2005
19 August 2005 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB] Information Clearing House Digest 17-19 August 2005 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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The cry now is “treason” or the Star Chamber revisited By William Bowles
Under the Lords Chancellor Cardinal Wolsey and Archbishop Cranmer (1515-1529), the Court of Star Chamber became a political weapon for bringing actions against opponents to the policies of Henry VIII, his Ministers and his Parliament. Then, under James the 1st and Charles the 1st, the Star Chamber Court sessions were held in secret, with no… Continue reading
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Officer, there’s a hole in your bit bucket By William Bowles
On July 30 I wrote a piece on the murder of Mr De Menezes by an undercover assassination squad on the Northern Line train that as the ‘leaks’ that came into the possession of TV News shows, was a pretty accurate summation of the events on that Friday morning. Continue reading