[PDF file]: […] in the 1983 general election. 11 12 The Independent, 1 October 1992. the Defence of Trade Unions; and that committee was a front for the CPGB.13 Moscow gold In the conclusion of my essay The Clandestine Caucus14 I discussed the fact that MI5 chose to allow the Soviets to fund the Communist Party of […]
[PDF file]: […] the bullshit theories – impossible for financial journalists, none of whom, to my knowledge, have written adequate accounts of the mess we are in. Gillian Tett’s Fool’s Gold is about the best of them but she works for the Financial Times and is unable or unwilling to look this vast set of frauds and […]
[PDF file]: […] businessman Sean Daley who was gunned down in a street in Kyrgyzstan in 2006 when acting as a mediator in a dispute about the ownership of a gold mine. Bakiyev was sentenced, in his absence, to 25 years in prison. Maksim Bakiyev was also tried and convicted in his absence and sentenced on October […]
[PDF file]: […] any third party, might have been possible. slightly more footnotes, appendices and context on the many names, places and background events mentioned in the text. The ‘ gold standard’ for that type of biography – i.e. the life and times of an important but marginal figure (if that definition makes any sense) – might […]
[PDF file]: […] Smith helped furnish West with clients from his clinic. West died in 1999, leaving a horde of uncatalogued papers at UCLA. O’Neill trawled through them and struck gold. The CIA operational files on its MK-Ultra project had been destroyed by project chief Sidney Gottlieb in 1973.1 But O’Neill found crucial correspondence between West and […]
[PDF file]: […] 184 Summer 2010 But it’s not all skulduggery. There are also any number of bits about billionaire lifestyles, especially décor. This reviewer particularly relished the fact that gold bathroom fittings are sneered at nowadays and are being supplanted by platinum (so easy to mistake for chrome until you get close). All this information will […]
[PDF file]: […] Given our fact pattern, however, the perfect DNA match to a family member proves it is an authentic sample and not misattributed. Indeed, DNA genotyping is the gold standard for identifying mislabeled pathology samples and extraneous tissue fragments.98 96 Rosthorn: see note 1. Marberger, M., et al., ‘Biopsy Misidentification Identified by DNA Profiling in […]
[PDF file]: […] plough through. In the end, despite Sorkin’s efforts, in a sea of names I couldn’t keep track of, I gave up half way through. Gillian Tett’s Fool’s Gold (London: Little Brown, 2009) is much better, and not just because it is 200 pages shorter. Tett is a Financial Times journalist who smelled a rat […]
[PDF file]: […] exchange rates in the Bretton Woods agreements – which also created the World Bank and International Monetary Fund – the US dollar had been pegged at a gold price of about $35 per ounce. Following its two far Eastern wars, the US Treasury was convinced that this exchange rate would no longer hold.8 To […]
[PDF file]: […] seen, there is plenty of competition. He looks at Antwerp in 1914, the Gallipoli landings, the post-WW1 intervention in Russia, the Chanak Crisis, the return to the Gold Standard, the Abdication Crisis and Churchill’s attitude towards India in the 1930s. The crass stupidity of this manner of proceeding is best demonstrated regarding Gallipoli. This […]
