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... gambling license, the committee agreed with him that this didn't really count. He once physically ejected a black, disabled war veteran from one of his casinos, throwing both him and his wheelchair into the street. Las Vegas was as racist as it was corrupt, but the racism wasn't always expressed as crudely as this. It was often hidden beneath a subtle blend of public relations and backstage negotiations. When the black singer, Lena Horn, played Vegas in the fifties, a deal was negotiated whereby, unlike other black performers, she could sleep in the hotel she was singing in. The only condition imposed was that the hotel would burn the sheets from her bed rather ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Dec 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue44/lob44-08.htm
... /0 ,1361,558371,00.html 'The potential use by terrorists of the net and encryption have for years been a major target of intelligence agencies and politicians. They have demanded curbs on privacy and the banning of encryption. ' But there is so far no evidence that encryption or steganography (a technique whereby a message is hidden inside a picture or music file transmitted over the internet) were used in planning the 11 Sept. attacks: 'According to the FBI, the conspirators had not used encryption or concealment methods. ' More articles by Duncan Campbell on this debate at Telepolis: 'How the terror trail went unseen' www.heise.de/tp/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-wb.htm
... damage: Wall Street lost 2% of its value after Enron collapsed. But often one large failure will signal others. There is a good reason for this: such failures almost invariably occur in difficult economic times, either at the very end of overheated boom or on the downturn. In boom times, incompetence and even fraud can be hidden by a company because confidence is high, money is plentiful and cheap and customers easy to find; legal regulation becomes lax and self-regulation next to non- existent. Financial castles in the air can be and are happily and rapidly constructed. Come recession, the fruits of incompetence and fraud rapidly ripen to the point of collapse ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-061.pdf
... capital should be allowed to go abroad: capital exports were seen to be linked with Britain's relative decline.14 But by 1971 Susan Strange noted that 'none of the three main political parties in Britain has ever engaged in recent years in a serious debate on the ends or means of policy towards overseas investment'. This she attributed to 'a hidden bias in the political, economic and indeed social system, towards overseas investment'. 1 5 In the 1950s and 60s the British state clung to the pretensions of world power status, with all that entailed by way of overseas capital investment and expenditure on diplomatic, military and intelligence activities. The 'bias' in favour of the overseas ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-062.pdf
... bloc was established and the 'hot' Cold War of previous decades was over. (Arguably it had been over since the Cuba missile crisis.) In this context IRD was a Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was less visible, it just meant it was better hidden. (This may just have been old men – and they were all men, I think – unable to change their minds . . . .) History tells us that Crozier and the cold warriors were wrong: since the demise of the Soviet Union no evidence has come to light supporting their view of it.6 Detente and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 17 Dec 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster74/lob74-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... Jane's World Armies, was quoted as saying, 'The intelligence services were not involved - I've had two people phoning me today to say, "Look, we had nothing to with it". ' (10) Weapons? Which weapons?The British 'plagiarised' text of February 2002 was prepared to bolster the notion that the Iraqis had hidden weapons of mass destruction. This had been asserted ad nauseam but not proved. Why hadn't it been demonstrated? On 24 February the American magazine Newsday reported that it had been given access to the transcript of the 1995 debriefing by officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and UNSCOM of Iraqi General, and son-in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 12 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-03.htm
... , Virago, London, p. 122. Other left-wing parties in Britain have received foreign funding without amounting to anything. The Workers' Revolutionary Party for example. Shaw, Discipline, p. 59 See Bower, The Perfect English Spy, chapter 4 The Peril In Our Midst, Phoenix House, London, 1956. The Hidden Face of British Communism, Aidan Crawley, Sunday Times, October 28 1962, reprinted as a pamphlet. Middlemas, footnote on p. 414 Beckett p. 109. Like the rest of Beckett's book, this is unsourced but presumably the estimate is from CPGB members or former members. See Roberts pp. 210-216. IRIS ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-09.htm
... belonging-Colonel-Gaddafi-s -son-Hannibal-kidnapped-taken- Lebanon.html> 56 <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3327809/ISIS-s -chilling- new-tactic-Terror-group-tells-British-based-fanatics-stay-hidden-UK- wait-signal-attack.html#ixzz3umMSKc2Z> odd, because as far as anyone understands them at all, ISIS works on a 'franchise' basis similar to al-Qaeda. And in any case, why issue an order to lie low and await orders, if that's what British jihadis supposedly do every day ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 24 May 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster71/lob71-holding-pattern.pdf
... focus of the parliamentarian consequently and rapidly shifted from relative independence in support of his or her party in government to an almost absolute support (with a few noble but excluded exceptions) for the executive led by his or her party. This was a quiet revolution – with echoes of Germany in 1934 – but the accretion of executive power was hidden in the folds of a party reform scarcely noticed by the press or wider public. The next consequence was that the powerful elements in the party directed their attention to the executive at the expense of the weaker elements – local government leaders and trades unions negotiated directly with both party and government executive. Ordinary members lost their voice entirely, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-11.htm
... . Ingo Swann and Uri Geller surprised Nobel laureate Brian Josephson, who first developed the Josephson junction, the basis for measuring biomagnetism. Both of them managed to deflect the SQUID [the needle on the chart recorder] to such a degree that Josephson, like Evan Harris Walker, suggested that physics needs to adopt a new paradigm to incorporate hidden variables and universal intelligence.(36) In the early 1970s Evan Harris Walker tried to incorporate psi phenomena within the framework of quantum mechanics. Walker's theory links consciousness to the hidden variables of quantum theory. He also referred to the psychic deformation of material objects in his work and specifically to the magnetometer tests at SRI with Ingo Swann ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-05.htm
