Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – derived […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] at the count were immediately briefed, they understood the situation, and did not think it significant to report.’ As shown by the current investigations into Tory expenses fraud during the 2015 election campaign,4 there are legitimate reasons to be sceptical about the results. The stories discussed above, however, are not legitimate reasons for scepticism. […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] corresponded with Chris Fay, formerly a Labour councillor in Greenwich (19861990) who was eventually expelled from the Labour Party and later jailed for being party to a fraud perpetrated against old age pensioners.4 It also appears to be the case that both 3 The press reported that the brother of Danczuk’s ex-partner – who […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] . . nonsense, material that is almost beyond criticism. Here are two examples from the site’s first two screens when I looked. According to this CDC health fraud detection expert the number of vaccine deaths in the U.S. is not 15,386 but somewhere between 80,000 and 160,000.55 (emphasis in the original) One of the […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] the British Empire, and subjugate Western civilisation in general, to a “One World” Jewish super-state’. (p. 219) By now Chesterton was acknowledging that The Protocols were a fraud, but at the same time insisting that the Jewish conspiracy they exposed was undoubtedly real. (p. 222) In February 1967, the League merged with the then […]

Thieves of State by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] but by ‘the perception that the Afghan government was “irrevocably corrupt”’. The 2009 Presidential election gave public notice of the extent of the corruption with the electoral fraud ‘so egregious and widespread as to stun even seasoned election monitors’. Subsequently, Karzai pacified international opinion by promising to curb corruption. When he made the public […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Caribbean and Central and South America (and helping himself to the barely supervised funds). A pilot as well as a kind of accountant, with expertise in stock fraud and money-laundering, Holt ended up in California in the early 1960s, running a CIA unit making fake documentation and an engineering shop which produced modified weaponry […]

Deception in High Places: a history of bribery in Britain’s arms trade by Nicholas Gilby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] bribery which culminated in national legislation and international agreements. Has the legislation worked? The author shows the British dragging their feet at every opportunity until the Serious Fraud Office began digging into the 1985 BAE–Saudi Al Yamamah deal while Blair was in office.4 The author shows the British state in full obstruction and evasion […]

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