Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] Research Group duo of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Mark Francois! Irony free zone While recently researching the bonkers Q-Anon theory, I discovered that the BBC has a ‘Specialist disinformation reporter’.20 I’m fairly sure that the actual job is not what it might appear to be at first glance. It’s what they don’t say. For an […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] perspective, the casting of the lead roles couldn’t be better.”’ p. 69 ‘Even members of my own family could not understand my anguished outbursts when I watched disinformation being peddled as news on TV. When it came to comprehending the real motives for invading Afghanistan, most Americans were still experiencing the kind of “psychic […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] August 2001, 2 Sally Pook, ‘Deadly flood blamed on RAF rainmakers’, Telegraph, 31 August 2001, 3 BBC News Online, ‘Rain-making link to killer floods’, 30 August 2001, disinformation because BBC radio reports confirm that the gliders were actually spraying over Lynmouth village itself.4 Concerning the seeding operations that caused the Lynmouth disaster, RAF Captain […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] and suggested rebuttals. Taken aback, I mentioned the whistleblower Colin Wallace, who had been one of those PR officers working with Tugwell.’ ‘Wallace had admitted to peddling disinformation, but Tugwell quickly pointed out a major discrepancy between the highly professional man he and others once knew and the teller of lurid tales Wallace became […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] – that is, direct control through ownership and participation, rather than the indirect control it has exerted traditionally via government and the state.’ 37 This was pure disinformation. Nothing in the C&CC proposals could honestly produce this interpretation. To the clearing banks the proposals meant ‘the end to ceilings’, government-imposed quantitative limits on lending.3 […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] idiocies of the 50s and 60s were not its only activity and the author presents accounts of IRD interfering in the local politics of British colonies, spreading disinformation. (Though how effective any of it was is unknown.) If you wonder why so many of the former British colonies turned out to be corrupt once […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] media and political culture’ – is a case in point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, 141 Summer 2010 disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every turn in a long litany of […]