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... to dump the stock, while also cashing-in stock options worth millions. There were also self-awarded bonuses of millions. The other shareholders are left with one cent on the dollar. (2) The seventh largest company in the US, supposedly dominating its market and generating handsome returns, in reality had generated a debt mountain. The debt was hidden in 2000-3000 offshore partnerships set up and managed with thousands of as yet unknown partners. Fastow and Skilling made yet more millions from this. The more money Enron lost, the more its executives earned. A more telling illustration of Adam Smith's point would be hard to find. Given that the Houston office of Andersen, Enron's accountants, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-03.htm
... of the University of London on 29 May 2014. The conference was titled 'The Secret Archive. What is the significance of the FCO's "Migrated Archives" and "Special 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 we could and should do about it. After all it is not only the 600,000 Foreign Office files, there are also between 66,000 and 600,000 Ministry of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 03 Jun 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-secrecy-britain.pdf
... were they mainly serving? Were they, as Boyer assumes, devoted followers of Moon who were using their military and intelligence positions to proselytize and increase his influence? Were they promoting both Moon's and Kim's purposes, which may have been perfectly complementary? Or were they sent by counterintelligence expert Kim to infiltrate the UC and manipulate it for his hidden purposes? This will probably remain a mystery, as there is circumstantial evidence to suggest all three interpretations and not enough hard data to conclusively resolve the issue. For example, Pak has been a described as a 'model Moonie'-- obedient and absolutely loyal to Moon. (77) Yet his intelligence background cannot be lightly dismissed ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 01 May 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue21/lob21-01.htm
... Parliament and politicians than they do at home'. The group was firmly convinced that Winston Churchill and his son Randolph (along with Anthony Eden) were 'the abject slaves of Bernie Baruch'. The LEL shared the DAC's obsession with the 'hidden hand'. One 1950s LEL pamphlet, The Menace of World Government, claimed 'There is a hidden power, which only to close students of international politics is a revealed power, wielded by a known group of international financial interests, who brought into existence the UN and the International Bank as instruments to secure its further advance to world domination. It has openly declared war on nationhood and racial pride. It approves of every approach, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 19 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-26.htm
... <http://jap.physiology.org/content/17/4/ 689.abstract?sid=7c073ad2-6324-4b47-94e1-124dc0a5f1 54>. These 'coded' references in A Clockwork Orange seem designed to mislead, to lure their intended readers into a maze of dead-ends and false connections. And what on earth would have been the reason for jumbling all this information together, hidden in the text of a popular novel, rather than relaying it via normal espionage routes? Unless Lewis's intelligence contact was playing some obscure game for his own amusement, wasting the biographer's time with pointless riddles, he was obliquely drawing attention to the fact that the information encrypted in Burgess's novel is actually disinformation; and – in as much ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 19 - 05 Sep 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-clockwork-orange.pdf
... television into a form of entertainment (this statement would be huffily rejected by the sanctimonious blind men who administer the news). In selecting what is newsworthy and deciding on how to treat it, the media operate with an array of moral and political assumptions, roughly speaking those of the liberal-individualist ideology of Western culture with its emotivist ethics and hidden dependence on existing power structures. After Dark broke all these rules from the beginning, built as it was by the Viennese to reflect the polygon of views that is real life, rather than the binary fallacy of yes/no, pro/contra stylised debates. Somehow we still managed to make the news, broke many stories of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 19 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-03.htm
... by an unofficial organisation of trade unionists rather than by the TUC itself since an official TUC newsletter could not be such a flexible and hard hitting propaganda instrument.' (22) Did anything emerge from these discussions between Tracey and Mayhew? We are unaware of any international organisation formed in this period fitting this description. Is there a still hidden organisation? This seems unlikely. However an anti-communist organisation, not unlike 'an unofficial organisation of trade unionists' was created. This was Common Cause, but its focus was primarily domestic. From Common Wealth to Common Cause Common Cause has not been taken seriously by the left in this country and has been completely ignored by contemporary historians. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-01.htm
... of government. It should, however, be pointed out that even if the 'umbrella man' was wholly innocent of any involvement in a plot, as he almost certainly was, this does not mean that the Warren Commission's reconstruction of the assassination is accurate. Real covert politics However that may be, real covert politics, although by definition hidden or disguised and often deleterious in their impact, simply do not correspond to the bleak, simplistic image propounded by conspiracy theorists. Far from embodying metaphysical evil, they are perfectly and recognizably human, with all the positive and negative characteristics and potentialities which that implies. At the most basic level, all the efforts of individuals privately to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-05.htm
... , "We were asked if we wanted to come down to the protests. We were paid £30 each, given a free bus ride down and provided with a packed lunch."' Love the bit about the packed lunch.... I'm old enough to remember when the Sunday Times was a credible paper. Timor docs hidden Under the headline, 'Britain keeps lid on MI6 role in ousting Sukarno', Paul Lashmar in The Independent on 5 October reported:'...documents which would reveal Britain's secret role in Indonesian politics in the Sixties that led to one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century and Jakarta's eventual annexation of East Timor are being kept ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-06.htm
... flight Andrew Rosthorn Evidence that the Royal Air Force colluded with their German enemies in the most secret air mission of the Second World War has been discovered in the Czech Republic. The personal log books of some of the 87 Czechoslovak fighter pilots who escaped the 1939 German occupation of their country to fly RAF planes in the Battle of Britain were hidden behind the Iron Curtain for over forty years. Two of the pilots who survived the war, Sgt Vaclav 'Felix' Bauman and Sgt Leopold 'Polda' Srom, have left personal log books recording a flight in the early evening of May 10, 1941, when they were scrambled in a pair of Hurricanes to attack a single German plane ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-04.htm
