Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Labour Party, still seeking to recover from UKIP May local election successes following the jailing of the town’s former MP Denis MacShane. Ahead of his sentence for fraud at the Old Bailey, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman was one of a cavalcade of friends attesting to MacShane’s good character. Another old pal of the […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] managed effectively — profitably — measurement and reporting systems were borrowed from the leading edge of management and organisational theory. General William Westmoreland was discredited for ‘accounting fraud’ while waging the military side of the campaign.24 However such fraud was inherent in the overall strategy, both covert and overt. As there were not two […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the privatisers: 1. The public service ethos did exist and was most valuable in maintaining standards, continuity and honesty within public provision. 2. Multiplying the opportunities for fraud inevitably results in more fraud. The Wiki entry on him is incomplete but conveys something of this. He contributed ‘Laissez faire as religion’ to Lobster 58. […]

Secret Life of Uri Geller:CIA masterspy? by Jonathan Margolis

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Geller by Margolis. The first, in 1998, was a biography, Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic? Writing that, Margolis began as a sceptic – assuming Geller was a fraud, essentially – and ended up accepting that he wasn’t. This is in part a rehash of that with some new material added, the intelligence stuff – […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] read: regulators from the European Union are a threat to the City. Bottom line: to preserve the City as a world centre of money-laundering, gambling and financial fraud the UK may have to leave the Union. Huh? Did someone say the world of politics is getting complicated? This appeared in the Daily Telegraph. ‘Iraq […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was jailed in 1996 for laundering £400,000 for Nadir but freed on appeal a year later. Nadir had fled to northern Cyprus in 1993 after a Serious Fraud Office raid on Polly Peck in 1990 collapsed its share price. He lived in exile for 17 years before returning to Britain in 2010 to ‘clear […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] dictum becomes this: There is one and only one social responsibility of business — to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits. Fraud and deception are entirely acceptable. Just don’t get caught. To cite the obvious recent examples: car-making companies fabricating their exhaust figures,108 Boeing trying to influence The […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] dictum becomes this: There is one and only one social responsibility of business — to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits. Fraud and deception are entirely acceptable. Just don’t get caught. To cite the obvious recent examples: car-making companies fabricating their exhaust figures,108 Boeing trying to influence The […]

Spandau blood

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] medical facility? 9. Whose name was given as the attending physician under the Coulter ‘The Coulter Counter security system was designed to prevent misuse and criminal identity fraud. The system limited the use of degraded blood specimens to avoid misdiagnosis from excessive haemolysis and cell damage. A dark colour in the supernatant during the […]

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