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  British Prime Ministers: Wilson, Harold (1916-1995)
Wilson was first elected to the House of Commons in 1945 and was appointed president of the Board of Trade in 1947, becoming, at age 31, Britain's youngest cabinet minister since William Pitt the Younger in 1792.
In 1965 Wilson was unable to avert an illegal declaration of independence by the white minority government of the British colony of Rhodesia, and his subsequent efforts to topple the rebel government by the use of economic sanctions rather than by military force failed.
Wilson had widened his party's voting majority in the general election of 1966, but his popularity declined in the late 1960s, partly because of his assumption of direct responsibility for the economy shortly before the pound was devalued (Nov. 18, 1967).
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 Encyclopedia: Liberal Party (UK)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The UK general election on Tuesday 27 October 1931 was the last in the United Kingdom not held on a Thursday.
The UK general election, 1979 was held on May 3, 1979 and is regarded as a pivotal point in 20th century British politics.
The UK general election, 1987 was held on June 11, 1987 and was the third victory in a row for Margaret Thatcher and the Conservatives.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Liberal-Party-(UK)   (9476 words)

  
 [A-List] Wilson plot: Leigh review, part 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
One of these was Harold Wilson, appointed as a junior trade minister under Sir Stafford Cripps (who had been wartime UK ambassador to Moscow), and later his successor as President of the Board of Trade.
Wilson was cleared of any wrong-doing, but was subjected to intense scrutiny by Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, who later resigned his Labour Party membership and became a longstanding enemy of Wilson, as we have already seen.
Wilson's consultancy work for Montague Meyer, timber importers with whom he had had dealings as a trade minister, during the 1950s added to the mistrust among security agents concerned at the level of Soviet penetration of British society.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2003-June/026772.html   (8102 words)

  
 » Outside The Beltway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
James Joyner at November 14, 2005 22:35 Permalink
James Joyner at November 14, 2005 22:27 Permalink
The next president to call for war with a large contingent of liberal politicians in office, will, I’m afraid, have to bring a flattened city to congress as evidence of that need, in order to overcome the rhetoric and propaganda that is the talent of the left.
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 The Washington Monthly
Wilson could be correct in saying he found little or no evidence, but he only looked at a small part of African uranium mining.
Tim is always talking to Wilson about whatever home improvement fiasco he is involved with, but all we hear is Wilson's voice and see his eyes over the fence.
Wilson said there was NO evidence, that it was false, that it was a lie, that it never happened...
www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2004_07/004347.php   (15148 words)

  
 CBS News | Former UK PM James Callaghan Dies | March 26, 2005 19:00:15
Callaghan succeeded Prime Minister Harold Wilson in April 1976, in the dying days of Britain's post-World War II consensus politics, and governed until May 1979, when strikes, financial crises and party divisions cost him the election against Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party.
Callaghan, who entered Parliament as a Labour Party lawmaker in 1945, was the only British politician to hold, at different times, the four posts of prime minister, Treasury chief, foreign secretary and home secretary.
Leonard James Callaghan was born March 27, 1912, in the southern port city of Portsmouth to a Catholic father and Baptist mother.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/03/26/world/main683319.shtml   (754 words)

  
 A very British coup | Samizdata.net
I think the last time this was threatened was when Wilson wanted a third election in 1974 and the Queen made it known discreetly that she was not minded to agree.
But in typical politician style, it has been drafted from the principle "when you need and inch, take a mile - you never know when it might come in useful".
James Hammerton: "The rate at which this government has issued legislation that undermines civil liberties or otherwise removes restraints on government power has made it difficult to keep up with what's happening."
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 JustOneMinute: Joe Wilson - They ALL Misquoted Me!
On the other hand, if they seek the truth and, Joe Wilson is the source, they owe it to their readers to come clean.
Wilson almost certainly was not cleared to see CIA internal memos -- including those from his wife to her bosses.
Wilson also noted that the attempt (if it was that) went nowhere and was not likely to go anywhere in the future.
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 News
Comingsoon.net and Zap2It both report that James will be in the new film George and the Dragon, with Patrick Swayze and Piper Perabo (Coyote Ugly) both in talks to co-star.
James is currently appearing on stage in London in The Relapse, which opened on July 12th and runs until August 28th.
James will be in the play Relapse at the National Theatre in England sometime during July.
www.angelfire.com /celeb/prideofbritain/jpnews2001.html   (1123 words)

  
 codshit.com: conspiracy theories and a search for the truth
He is a smooth, upwardly mobile Republican senator who is making a name for himself at the helm of the Permanent Sub-Committee for Investigations, not least because of his call for Kofi Annan to step down as United Nations secretary general over the scandal.
But on Tuesday, to UK and US observers alike, he looked way out of his depth, manifestly unprepared for what was coming when Mr Galloway began to testify.
Perhaps he believed that a smooth ride would be ensured by the traditional deference accorded the Senate (which is fond of referring to itself, with barely a trace of irony, as "the world's greatest deliberative body").
codshit.blogspot.com /2005_05_15_codshit_archive.html   (8461 words)

  
 THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
We're not there yet, and the mainstream politicians cannot yet be relegated to the dustbin (indeed, we'll have more on the nuances as between the de Villepinian versus Sarkozyian view of the riots soon).
While French politicians say the violence now circling and even entering the capital of France and spreading to towns across the country is the work of organized criminal gangs, the residents of Le Blanc-Mesnil know better.
But I must say, it is a testament to the insecurity of this Administration and their vindictiveness and win at all costs mentality that they would have created a mini-Valerie Plame war-room in the Office of the Vice President--with someone of Libby's import ringing up journalists to impugn his credibility via his wife.
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 Iraq Solidarity News (al-Thawra)
While the results of most of the offences have failed to locate those militants, the common denominator in most of those military attacks was the rise in the number of dead civilians.
Iraqi politicians particularly from the Sunni ranks were enraged by Al-Duliemi's remarks warned that the latest military attack in Anbar was "going to shed the blood of more innocent civilians".
Saddam and seven others are facing trial on charges of crimes against humanity but his defence lawyers, fearful for their lives, called on Monday for his trial to be moved abroad.
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 Amazon.co.uk: In Retrospect: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The book is easy to read, laced with personal insight, but I am not convinced he has been completely truthful with us about the leadership.
Then again, as a refined politician to the end, he elicited the polish that JFK saw in him at the outset.
The author is a decent person and took the chance to redeem himself, but as noted before it was just too late....way late.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679767495   (1049 words)

  
 Whiskey Bar: The Looking Glass War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Plame leak, as Wilson has indicated, was a shot to all the CIA analysts with cozy relations with reporters.
So they talked up everything but the real reason for the war, including Iraq's nuclear program; and Wilson blew the whistle on that aspect, since he was out of the loop on the big picture.
Although Tony Blair is an extremely talented politician and also has some good principles, he is also, in some very important ways, a shallow and foolish man with a rather superstitious reverence for things USA and a defective understanding of history.
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 James Wilson (UK politician)
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James Wilson was born in 1805 in Hawick in the Scottish Borders.
He left Scotland and moved to London where he was an opponent of the Corn Laws, and entered the Westminster parliament as a Liberal member of the Commons in 1847.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/james_wilson__uk_politician_   (169 words)

  
 Troppo Armadillo
Here are the US, Australian and UK diagrams (along with what was the worst labour market in the developed world at the time which had had unemployment of around 20% for over a decade - Spain).
Sally Cameron suffered under UK anti-terrorism laws when she walked on a bicycle path in the harbour area of Dundee in northern UK.
A third incident, reported in September by the UK Guardian, concerned the arrest, detention and charge, again under the UK anti-terrorism act, of David Mery, a 39 year old French citizen who wanted to catch a London train.
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 portland imc - 2005.08.25 - Utah, Mormon Masonic Merovingians,Broken Posse Commutatus; Religious Manchurian Candidates
The Stuarts were in turn entitled to this distinction because they, and their related Counts of Brittany, were descended from Clodion's brother Fredemundus--thus (akin to the Merovingians) they were equally in descent from the Fisher Kings through Faramund.
How many people know that in 1955 and 1956 Billy Graham announced that he had a policy of sending people who come forward at his crusades to the church of their choice whether that church or synagogue is Catholic, Protestant or Jewish.
The introduction to Erwin Wilson's book which is written by Dr. Bob Jones (Chancellor of Bob Jones University) provides an introduction to the concerns Christians have about the man who has been set up by the media and the money elite to be their greatest leader.
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 t r u t h o u t || Disinformation Day
We ought to be all over the phone and internet with a hughe NO, and the clear warning that any Democrat that votes for Miers will be removed from office next election.
It just goes to show that politicians on both sides are not doing their job.
I didn't hear a single politician up there ask a question abouut his personal religious beliefs.
forum.truthout.org /blog/story/2005/10/3/171053/930   (7428 words)

  
 DILBLOG : Dilly's Weblog
Wasn't planning on continuing with the environmental theme, but since I heard from no less an authority than "savage nation" that Global Warming is a myth "actually it's getting colder" (isn't that also admitting climate change?) Here, for the record, is the Joint Science Academies Statement "Global Response to Climate Change" (in pdf form).
The fact that the “land” being grabbed is under water means that it is also under the control of bureaucratic government agencies.
The bureaucrats that make up these agencies are supposed to protect our interests but they are not elected by us; they are appointed to their positions by politicians, and too often their loyalty is to the politicians (and the politician’s friends) who appointed them.
blog.sun.com /roller/page/dilly/20051014   (7155 words)

  
 James
1974 James Hamilton, linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars
1971 James Logan, WLAF linebacker for the Scotland Claymores
1968 James Francis, linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals
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 Amazon.com: Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For all his gonzo journalism, Thompson has a very keen eye for politics, even if he backed McGovern in '72.
Filled with tangled webs of deception and corrupt politicians, this composition startles the reader into understanding the true policies of what it takes to be president and trust me, its not as it seems.
Despite the fact that this drug-addled, stream of conscienceness sheds light to the lowest, dirtiest and most raw side of politics it will truly open your eyes to the fact that it has always been done this way, even from the very beginning.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446313645?v=glance   (2568 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There is nothing unique about Bush as a politician being a liar; in that respect he is in good company.
Also, as one of the key figures in covering the current (as I write this) story of two White House senior aides blowing the cover of Joseph Wilson's CIA agent wife, I am grateful to his superb journalist efforts over the years.
In this mendacious ploy, Porn can never be double-checked, infiltrating his ungrounded malignity however manipulatively he wants.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400050669?v=glance   (3620 words)

  
 PressThink: "We Have Been Bull-Dozed Aside." Orville Schell Says J-Schools Have to Get More Involved.
Journalists are experiencing the same diffusion of power that politicians did with the rise of democracy and free markets.
Just as ordinary people became their own soveriegns, they are becoming their own journalists.
I'd say that a broad understanding of life would help a doctor, or an architect, or a politician too.
journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2005/07/21/schl_jsc.html   (16467 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Price of Loyalty: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies; Hardcover ~ James Bamford
For left wingers like myself its intriguing and rewarding to see how a hardnosed experienced politician and businessman like O'Neill can by sheer intelligence and hard work make sense out of intractable problems like global warming, budget deficits and providing real help in Africa.
Secondly as most reviewers say, at the end of the book we still don't fully understand where Bush is coming from.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0743255453   (1546 words)

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