[PDF file]: […] was alleged to have escaped with a mere $51 million in cash. And the Taliban claim to have found $6 million in cash, and a stash of gold bricks, in his abandoned palace in the Panjshir Valley. Both men fled to that well-known refuge for freedom fighters, Dubai. What is absolutely clear is that […]
[PDF file]: […] Sandinistas as the new world evil – although viciously pursued by his ‘Contra-Freedom Fighters’ – never made much of an impression in the American consciousness. Reagan struck gold however when he publicly called Libya’s nationalist leader Qaddafi, a ‘mad-dog’. The image was wonderful. A mad-dog cannot be cured, it can only be killed. A […]
[PDF file]: […] navigation, 7 8 See note 7. Oh, and those nuclear weapons? Cummings seems to think they are delightful. The Manhattan Project is repeatedly touted as being the gold standard of a value for money project. But, surely, he is discounting all of the associated negative factors – the horrific deaths suffered by many thousands […]
[PDF file]: […] ordinary morality. In its essence the Noble Lie establishes rigid divisions (an exploitative cuntocracy) by telling us that only certain people can be leaders: the ‘guardians of gold’. So, as a sop, we can always offer the possibility that only certain people can be cunts and that the chances are they will already be […]
[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 […]
