[…] by addressing Ukraine via Facebook. Zelensky warned: ‘On Hallowe’en all the political demons show their faces, and you know who they are.’76 He denounced an imaginary ‘ conspiracy against the President and the country’ which supposedly involved ‘oligarchs and members of the old elite’.77 On 31 October, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, which […]
[PDF file]: […] nonsense Nesta Webster used to write in the early twentieth century – conspiratorial literature that saw the Russian Revolution as part of a longer history of Jewish conspiracy. Winston Churchill was reportedly a fan of this stuff. Indeed, while often presented in an off-hand or even slightly amused way, some of the historical asides […]
[PDF file]: […] circumstances of the death began to seep out. Albarelli writes that ‘The story of his strange death has taken up permanent residence in the modern codex of conspiracy legend and lore’, and, further, his ‘death has become a touchstone for the fear of shadow government, and 4 Summer 2010 a focal point for justified […]
[PDF file]: […] proceeded safely and soundly to a guilty verdict. Appendix 2: The Euromac trial On 12 June 1991 Mr Ali Daghir and Mrs Jeanine Speckman were convicted of conspiracy to export from the United Kingdom to Iraq 40 electrical capacitors alleged to be specially designed for use in a nuclear warhead. They were sentenced to […]
[…] by addressing Ukraine via Facebook. Zelensky warned: ‘On Hallowe’en all the political demons show their faces, and you know who they are.’76 He denounced an imaginary ‘ conspiracy against the President and the country’ which supposedly involved ‘oligarchs and members of the old elite’.77 On 31 October, the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission, which […]
[…] spending,’ he said calmly. Page 144 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 ‘So any excuse they can find for getting spending cut they will. It wasn’t so much a conspiracy against the government so much as an attempt to get the policies they believed in.’ Beckett comments: ‘It seemed rather a fine distinction. Perhaps sensing this, […]
[PDF file]: […] the Al Jazeera videos on ‘the lobby’. This is at . or . 77 78 On his pages at . 26 propounding a version of the big conspiracy theory held by some of the antivaxxers in the USA and Europe. Covert Action has recently published another essay by Ms Ende, ‘U.S. Media Are Lying […]
[PDF file]: […] essay she ran several recognisably Russian state ‘lines’ on the conflict. I looked for other writing of hers and quoted some propounding a version of the big conspiracy theory held by some of the antivaxxers in the USA and Europe. Covert Action has recently published another essay by Ms Ende, ‘U.S. Media Are Lying […]
[PDF file]: […] Rudolf Hess to Scotland in May 1941. Hess’ desperate and bizarre initiative, and his subsequent life incarceration in Spandau prison, have given rise to a host of conspiracy theories. The authors deserve credit for their stamina in going through both older and newer material with the proverbial fine-toothed comb. My only quibble is that […]
[PDF file]: […] and a former banker for Hill Samuel, First National Bank of Chicago and Citibank, she told Theo Panayides of the Cyprus Mail: ‘It was all a great conspiracy. They had no evidence against Asil Nadir, and they wanted me to spill the beans. There’s something else you should know: they put a spy into […]
[PDF file]: […] identities can be complex. Take Sir Robert Atkins: as the Conservative MP for Preston North and South Ribble from 1979 to 1997, he was part of the conspiracy to destroy Labour-supporting, millionaire businessman Owen Oyston (described at length in Lobster 34). But in 1999 Atkins became a Member of the European Parliament for the […]
