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Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] their fixation on international neo-con economics can take a running jump. And how likely is that? 7 Even in defence procurement. New regulations from the EU came into force last year. They are summarised by the MOD at Reporting on this, the Financial Times article was headed ‘MoD will no longer favour UK companies’. 8

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] article in the New Statesman in November 1984 and amplified by Tam Dalyell MP. Pursuing the Belgrano issue, and prompted by leaks from Clive Ponting at the MoD, Dalyell was misinformed by one of his sources (unidentified) about Green’s actual role during the Falklands War and suggested in the Commons that Murrell had been […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] notional, in exchange for contracts. Occasional attempts by MPs to interfere with this particular gravy train are simply brushed off. At the end of last year, the MoD simply refused to or 2 Unison haș done of survey of the field at . 3 2 release – even to MPs – a report from […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] s often happens, Craig Murray whacked the nail on the head. ‘A mainstream media source has finally plucked up the courage to publish the widespread concern among MOD, Cabinet Office and FCO officials and military that the Werritty operation was linked to, and perhaps controlled by, Mossad – something which agitated officials have been […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] The author has been briefed by someone – I would guess not a million miles from outgoing Defence Secretary Wallace – knowledgeable about the bizarre goings-on at MOD procurement and gives a couple of barely believable examples. 32 8 inflation. They have to create uncertainty and frailty, because it’s only when companies feel nervous […]

War on Terror Inc

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[…] better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc. etc., boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a load of money in […]

Lob86 View from Bridge

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[…] The author has been briefed by someone – I would guess not a million miles from outgoing Defence Secretary Wallace – knowledgeable about the bizarre goings-on at MOD procurement and gives a couple of barely believable examples. 32 8 inflation. They have to create uncertainty and frailty, because it’s only when companies feel nervous […]

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[…] The author has been briefed by someone – I would guess not a million miles from outgoing Defence Secretary Wallace – knowledgeable about the bizarre goings-on at MOD procurement and gives a couple of barely believable examples. 19 5 Mastercard, whose ads are on YouTube. Its APR (annual percentage rate) was 34.9% when I […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] forbid the sales of Pegasus to governments that regularly violated human rights, but the petition was waved away. The Supreme Court in Israel refused to interfere with MOD decision-making, or to air the suit in public, or to even release the full text of the judgement to the public. The judges agreed with the […]

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